Taoist Master Xuanhuang

He was very satisfied with the three supreme treasures, Xuanhuang.

His gaze then turned to the group of treasures who had established subordinate factions.

The strongest is still the Myriad Spirits Palace, but the Myriad Spirits Palace has never changed. It is still at the level of a mid-grade magic weapon of the fifth rank. It takes a period of time to advance to the fourth rank, let alone the fifth rank.

If Wanling Palace wants to make progress, it will need more time.

Below them are Void Blade, Lady White Bone, and Gate of Time and Dreams.

These are the three strongest treasures among the three great treasures.

His insights have reached the 90,000 mark, and he's in the late 90,000 stage, not far from 100,000.

Once you surpass 100,000, it means there's a possibility of exploring the unknown.

Xuanhuang will also give them a boost when they want to break through to the fourth rank. For example, he will help them condense twelve law inscriptions to reach the level of 129,600 perfections.

Only by reaching the fourth rank can one reach the bottom line of Xuanhuang.

Let them accumulate knowledge gradually; accumulating knowledge on their own is useful and very effective.

Taking new products as another example, his insights, which amounted to less than 10,000, were reshaped to a perfect level.

These three supreme treasures are different when condensed from 100,000 to 120,000.

The more one is refined and enhanced by Xuanhuang, the less one has accumulated, and the more one needs to make up for when entering a higher level.

Once the level reaches 100,000 and is perfected, the Gate of Dreams, the Void Blade, and Lady White Bone will continue to progress smoothly.

Unlike the "Lamp of Light" project, which fell far behind in the early stages and requires a long period of accumulation and development.

In short, the higher one's own understanding, the fewer obstacles one will encounter after being refined to perfection by Xuanhuang and entering a new level.

The Void Blade technique is somewhat ancient, relying on the abilities refined in the early stages of the Martial Arts Alliance.

Every sword cultivator will refine a natal sword, integrating it into their dantian through a process similar to the process Xuanhuang underwent in nurturing the thirty-six lotus seeds.

It is a bit more profound than the cultivation method of cultivators, and it is based on the Xuanhuang cultivation method.

It looks unremarkable, not quite as good as Shi Meng's "The Second Dream" or Lady White Bone's "The Heart and Blood Furnace".

However, the Void Blade should not be underestimated.

As the oldest existence, it was the earliest existence to follow Xuanhuang.

He was the first one, refined by Xuanhuang from the very beginning.

He had a deep understanding of how Xuanhuang was refined, and then he imprinted his understanding onto his own method.

His subordinate swordsmen have always been synonymous with strength.

It's important to understand that among true cultivators, those skilled in swordsmanship are synonymous with being difficult to deal with, which speaks volumes about their skill level.

Moreover, he was the first subordinate monk to be proven to be one.

Whether it's the Second Dream, the Second Dantian, or the White Bone Lady's Heart's Blood Furnace, the subordinate cultivators who are currently practicing these Divine Lord Techniques are still in the process of developing in a lowly manner.

They haven't yet taken it to the world stage to compete.

The sword cultivator was one of the few subordinate cultivators who had fought his way up, and his formidable combat strength and fearless will earned him the recognition of everyone.

When a seemingly ordinary road reaches its limit, it becomes an extraordinary road.

That's how sword cultivators are.

From the very beginning of his cultivation, he nurtured and refined his own personal treasured sword. The sword was like his second life, connected to his mind, and invincible.

To date, this is one of the few cultivation methods that imbue magical artifacts with one's will.

The intent of the sword is equivalent to the will of a true cultivator.

Furthermore, the will is further materialized: first-order will takes shape, second-order will can leave the body, and third-order will enters the law (will can be integrated into essence, energy, and spirit, representing that every move is a fusion of will and magic power).

The Void Cultivator achieved this, integrating his will into his blade, making each strike imbued with his own will.

In a world where first-order true will is prevalent, it is equivalent to the departure of second-order will.

Its effect is equivalent to crushing.

Think about it, every strike is a fusion of will and magic power, how could such an ability not be strong?

As the oldest treasure, the Void Blade also possesses the most fortune and merit.

Summoning the Void Blade Master is no longer the mainstream method.

But the old folks will remember that Void Blade Master saved their lives many times.

Without Lord Void Blade's initial protection, I wouldn't be where I am today.

This gave the Void Blade a monstrous ability: to kill cultivators without incurring any karmic consequences, which is simply outrageous.

This ability was also inherited by sword cultivators. Although it wasn't like the Void Sword, which had absolutely no cause and effect, even if the cause and effect were halved, it was still abnormal enough.

Sword cultivators also have a defensive state: entering the body into a treasured sword.

In this state, defense is increased by more than three times, and one is immune to curses, poisons, and other evil methods.

Its defense is so strong, its output is outrageous, and its internal defenses are even more terrifying.

To expand one's dantian, cultivators typically need to advance in their cultivation level or refine spiritual treasures of heaven and earth.

Sword cultivators can control their natal sword within their dantian and expand the area of ​​their dantian themselves. As long as their willpower is strong enough, they don't need any resources or special dantian techniques.

He felt like Pangu, creating his own dantian.

This shows that sword cultivators pursue extreme inner cultivation.

This aligns with the early era, when true cultivators, guided by the principles of the universe, focused on inner cultivation and neglected external pursuits.

After all, in the beginning, everything was unsystematic. Only alchemy, artifacts, talismans, and arrays had taken shape; the rest were out of the question.

Is it a competition of a hundred arts or a competition of jokes?

Without supporting tools, our understanding of the world is insufficient, and our exploration of the world's resources is inadequate.

Without the help of global resources, we can only seek solutions internally.

The Void Blade cultivator is like this; the resources they need are not nonexistent, but extremely scarce.

Ninety percent of the core efforts were focused on internal development.

I can expand my dantian area myself, refine and nurture magical artifacts and treasures myself, transform myself for defense, and integrate my will into attack, and so on.

The internal search has reached its limit.

One person and one knife are all that's needed.

So far, there hasn't been a single lineage or sword cultivator like this.

It is precisely because of this uniqueness that sword cultivators are different from others. They have reached the limit of a path, which is also a great road to heaven.

Sword cultivators are a later development; Lü Dongbin's sword cultivation drew heavily on knife cultivation in many aspects.

However, it's impossible to achieve such an extreme level as knife repair.

Sword cultivators value talent and innate ability, while saber cultivators value willpower and moral character.

To put it simply, so far no swordsman has gone mad or lost control because of this.

There are quite a few other cultivators whose lineages have gone out of control and fallen into demonic possession.

This is another aspect of the strength of sword cultivators.

strictly speaking.

The subordinate cultivator who predates the Void Blade is a Destiny cultivator of the Myriad Spirits Palace.

However, the cultivators with destiny are a collective, many cultivators of ordinary talent who fought hard but still died, and their essence was reshaped by the integration of all spirits.

The rise of a cultivator with a specific destiny is inevitably followed by the sacrifice of countless other cultivators with similar destiny.

In an ordinary furnace, an extraordinary destiny is forged.

This is the path of a cultivator with a predetermined destiny; it's a true cannibalistic path.

For example, if ten thousand people with mediocre talents are put into a breeding ground for venomous insects, only one will survive. This one will absorb the essence of nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine ordinary creatures, thus forging his extraordinary destiny.

It's like ten thousand white destinies creating one cyan destiny. Then, ten thousand cyan destinies forge one red, one gold, one purple...

This can't be considered internal cultivation; it's gathering a crowd, a cannibalistic style of the furnace. Back then, Void Blade was taught a lesson by Xuanhuang, went to study at the Myriad Spirits Palace, and opened his own subordinate cultivator lineage.

Now, the student has surpassed the teacher, and when many people think of the first subordinate cultivator, they think of the sword cultivator, not the destiny cultivator.

Of course, this is related to the low profile of Wanling Palace, and also to the fact that the cultivators with destiny are too cruel.

Only a swordsman who is strong enough can deserve such praise.

Xuanhuang was also very satisfied.

"You have the shortest lineage, yet you've proven yourself remarkable. You're even establishing the Nine Netherworld Karmic Fire Domain. Not bad at all."

Xuanhuang was very satisfied with the Void Blade.

My first weapon was a sword I brought up the mountain; that sword is now the Void Blade.

Each time it advances, it is thrown into the Ruins of Return by Xuanhuang for a purification ritual.

Looking at the chaos behind him, the primordial chaotic primordial energy was boiling. Xuanhuang thought about the future path of the Void Blade. Even if the Void Returning to Nothingness in the Great Universe was no longer useful to the Void Blade, there was still chaos.

The path of the Void Blade has been successfully paved.

The Void Blade, with its limited wisdom, shuddered.

He thought to himself: "Who is that blind villain who plotted against me, the Sword Ancestor?"
I'll slay! I'll slay! I'll slay, slay, slay!

Void Blade is used for targeting enemies in the void, but after unleashing a barrage of attacks, there was no reaction.

"Hmm!" Xuanhuang frowned upon seeing this.

Your previous positive feedback will be immediately discounted by half.

The exploration through the membrane of the vast universe indeed resembled the spying of extraterrestrial demons.

Xuanhuang then turned his gaze to the Gate of Dreams and Lady White Bone.

Like the Void Blade, these three were the original elders, and among the three supreme treasures, they were the three most favored by Xuanhuang, in addition to the three natal supreme treasures.

The Gate of Dreams needs no further explanation.

Xuanhuang was very satisfied with Shi Meng's "The Second Dream". Although it has many similarities to "The Great Dream Heart Sutra", it also contains a lot of his own insights.

The path of learning from the fake to the real is more suitable for living beings to begin with.

After all, every living being dreams. Starting with dreams that can be touched and perceived is like having a stable starting point for turning the illusion into reality.

Having a tangible starting point is better than starting with something that seems too good to be true.

Even if you try to make something out of a fake, there still needs to be a fake element; a dream is that fake element.

Xuanhuang discovered that the Sweeping Monk had changed his path, switching from the "Great Dream Heart Sutra" to the "Second Dream".

Moreover, his cultivation level is already at the second stage of Dream Cultivation.

According to the division of the Gate of Dreams, the entry level is called the Illusionary Dream Level. Because there is no extraordinary ability, the ability is mainly reflected in the use of illusion and dreams.

The first-tier transcendent level is called Dream Building, which is similar to the opening of the dantian in true cultivation, except that dream cultivators open up a dream dantian world.

The second level is called Yu Meng. This level is about the perception of space. Space is integrated into the dream, which means that the dream can be infinitely large and can be layered.

A dream within a dream, or a third dream, a fourth dream, and so on.

These dreams are not simple nesting dolls; each layer of the dream is a culmination of attack and defense. If you want to attack me, you must first break through several layers of my dream defenses.

Similarly, once you're drawn into a deeper level of Yu Meng, escape becomes difficult.

In short, second-order dream cultivation is the development and utilization of space.

The third stage is called "Zhou Meng," which, as the name suggests, refers to the integration and utilization of time.

The Dream Dantian not only has space, but also time. The addition of time is even more terrifying. The formation of spacetime also means that the dream of the fourth level has come true.

For the enemy, pulling the opponent into a dream can divide the enemy's abilities, splitting their full power into two or even one-tenth through time and space.

Defeating them one by one is far more effective than dealing with a single enemy at full power.

Furthermore, it can even be used in a dreamlike state, allowing you to go back to when the enemy was weak and eliminate them.

This is what makes the second dream so terrifying: everything in the dream will have an impact on reality.

Xuanhuang saw his own reflection in it. Many of them were secret techniques he had come to understand, but he had not revealed them all. For example, time reversal was the original ability of the Ghost Bell.

Shi Meng's true form is the Ghost Bell, and she is very skilled with time.

This is just the ability of "Second Dream"; in times of crisis, it can also hide in the dream world, walk in dreams, and so on.

Avoiding misfortune, karma, and so on.

The Second Dream may not be as powerful as a swordsman in terms of pure attack, but it is definitely more troublesome, extremely troublesome.

"Not bad, not bad, Shi Meng is very good."

Like an old father seeing his child, Xuanhuang was very satisfied with Shimeng.

Hmm, I'm even more satisfied with it than the Void Blade.

Finally, there's Lady White Bone.

"The Heart and Blood Furnace" is a path to spiritual advancement through bloodline techniques.

A path where blood enters the heart.

No, it's not the bloodline inheritance of a demon beast. That would be too simple and would be underestimating Lady White Bone.

Blood is merely a prerequisite, a means to enter the path of the mind.

Just like the dream of turning a fake into a real one, there must at least be a tangible fake.

The mind is the same; it's too profound.

Few cultivators possess the talent to immediately grasp the path of the mind.

With bloodline as the paving stone, things are different. Starting with bloodline, one begins with blood refining, with the heart as the master of blood, and then the heart and blood to the soul.

In short, a more accessible spiritual path for Confucianism.

Unsurprisingly, body refinement cultivators are more suited to this path, and blood refinement is a branch of body refinement derived from Xuanhuang.

The Xuanhuang Body Refining Method encompasses everything from blood, flesh, bones, tendons, and acupoints, while Lady White Bone places greater emphasis on refining blood.

The first stage is a blood transfusion.

A strong bloodline naturally nourishes the heart, and a strong heart condenses even stronger blood, thus creating a mysterious and powerful substitute.

Until the blood refinement is successful, the stages are: first stage: heart refinement; second stage: mind refinement; third stage: willpower refinement; and fourth stage: world of the heart.

The fourth level can be formed by a single thought.

Those who are in the first to third stages do not have a dantian; their mental realm is so abnormal that they cannot form a world below the fourth stage.

The fourth level is the starting point of the world of the heart.

The question is, since there is no dantian world in the first to third stages, how can they fight against the dantian of other systems?

Because it's completely unnecessary; Lady White Bone's lifeblood furnace is itself a world within the Three Realms.

Don't think that your previous blood refining was in vain. Every blood exchange is an improvement of yourself and this world.

That is to say, one's own body is a dantian.

The first stage of refining the heart involves refining not only the physical body, but also the metaphysical heart, which is the heart of heaven and earth.

I am the dantian, the world is the body. I regard myself as a dantian of the world, and my mind connects with the world. The dantian can be myself, or it can be the world that my mind can influence and control.

A form of seeking externally.

Seeking within oneself means cultivating one's own dantian (energy center).

The external dantian means treating the world as one's own dantian.

The stronger one's intention, the greater the range of influence, and thus the larger one's dantian.

This is the dantian of a cultivator who has dedicated their life to spiritual practice.

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