Tao and Heaven

Chapter 57: Successive Breakthroughs, Entering Perfection

"Now I have eleven years of Heavenly Marrow, and the Jade Purity Dao Foundation only needs five years to break through or complete, so there are still six years of Heavenly Marrow that need to be distributed."

Previously, the third level of Yuqing Dao Foundation required ten years of heavenly marrow. After Gu Wen saw the vastness of the world, his comprehension of Dao Foundation reached a higher level. Therefore, only five years of heavenly marrow were needed to reach the door of "Perfection Method", or to break through directly.

The Xuan Yu Zi Zai Gong, apart from being able to heal wounds, is only special in that it comes from the same sect as the Ling Yu Hu Ti Jue.

The third school of military strategists is Kunyuan School. It innovates based on the formation and integrates the formation with the military strategists to condense the military spirit. One person can form an army, like a moving formation.

Gu Wen looked into the Qi Hai Gong method and concluded that it would take one year of Tian Sui to complete it. He didn't know if it was because his cultivation level was high, but the energy consumption was half that of the previous Luoyue Step and Lingyu Body Protection Technique.

"This way I can practice one more technique. Considering that I had no way to deal with illusions before, I will practice the Jade Purity Sword Technique."

The Heart Sword can cut through illusions, but he only has the first level of Jade Purity Sword Art, and the time it takes to nurture the sword intent is short, so it is useless. As the Jade Purity Sword Art is mastered, the speed of nurturing the sword intent will naturally become faster.

Tiansui is not an initiation, but it can also grow quickly.

After deciding on his cultivation method, Gu Wen entered a state of meditation and calmed his mind, then after a while he activated his destiny.

The celestial marrow is like flowing fire; once it falls, all things come into being.

One year's celestial marrow instantly melted the "Xuan Yu Zi Zai Gong", entered the first level, and broke through the second level.

The first level of external breathing can heal wounds quickly by sitting cross-legged, while the second level of internal breathing can slowly and autonomously restore injuries.

Five years of celestial marrow nurtured the jade sword, the sword spirit hummed, the sword light was thousands of feet long, and countless sword shadows evolved in the residual light, entering the second level, controlling the sword with mind.

In this way, only three years of Heavenly Marrow were consumed, and the remaining two years of Heavenly Marrow advanced one third of the third level. Another four years of Heavenly Marrow were needed to reach the third level.

His talent in swordsmanship is not as good as his talent in Taoism and spearmanship, so he consumes a lot of energy.

The five years of celestial marrow are injected into the five internal organs, and the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys are emitting a hint of golden light.

The second level of Taoism is to refine the jade body externally and the five internal organs internally. Above the five internal organs there is the divine treasure.

Gu Wen stood on the sacred mountain transformed by the Jade Purity Taoist foundation. In front of him were two roads, one leading to the higher third level of Taoist foundation, and the other leading to the more difficult method of perfection.

A peek into the palace reveals five statues of the deity.

Gu Wen walked into the hall. Of course he needed the most perfect foundation of Taoism and the most ultimate skills, so that he could be unparalleled in the world.

He didn't need to consider whether he could cultivate the perfect method or not. As long as it didn't require time to hone like sword intent and magic power, this kind of method that specifically tested one's comprehension was actually the easiest for Gu Wen.

His destiny allows him to comprehend the skills naturally, and his own talent will also reduce the consumption of his celestial marrow from time to time.

In the hall, five gods coexisted, wisps of Tao rhyme fell, and enlightenment arose in Gu Wen's heart.

The three-fold perfection method of the Tao foundation, the observation of the five spiritual images by the five spirits, can condense the five spiritual images.

The spiritual phase is the prototype of the Dharma phase. It is enough for ordinary geniuses to condense one spiritual phase. Sect geniuses usually condense two spiritual phases, and people like Lu Chan can condense three spiritual phases. This is not only the limit of the Taoism they cultivate, but also their personal limit.

The Yuqing Dao-building method is not secretive, and the Taoist sect's door is open to all. Don't you want to learn the top-level method to become an immortal?
Yu Hua told Gu Wen that apart from the possible hidden genius, the only one who had condensed the Five Spirits was the Three Pure Ones Taoist.

He practiced the Taiqing method, which was also able to condense five spiritual forms.

The Five Spirits Phase requires twenty-five years of Heavenly Marrow.

Gu Wen exhaled a breath of foul air and opened his eyes again. A golden light flashed in his eyes. He took a slight breath and the curtains in the room moved slightly.

Then he took a deep breath, the curtains swung wildly, and the teacup on the table was moved by the airflow.

With a breath, the teacup flew up and hit the wall. Before it broke, Gu Wen raised his hand and grabbed it using the sword-controlling technique.

Inhale to form a vortex, exhale to form wind, and your physique will be extraordinary!

"I will not be afraid of the fox fairy if we walk across the dragon bridge again. She can't survive more than three of my attacks."

This is what Gu Wen judged.

There are two reasons. First, the Dao base provides a higher upper limit of mana and strength. The Dao base is the foundation of the suppression of the number of days. Second, the second level of Yuqing Sword Art has more than doubled its power, and the speed of sword intent condensation has doubled, which is enough to break the illusion.

This is also the reason why Gu Wen spent five years of Tiansui to improve his heart sword. Not every time he can do it, his ability will be greatly improved. He has reached the peak of the second level of Daoji, and has completed the Xuanyu Zizai Gong. He has also reached the second level of Yuqing Sword Art, and can control the sword with his mind.

Overnight, the strength increased dramatically!

A hint of murderous intent flashed in Gu Wen's eyes, and waves gradually began to rise in his heart.

"If it was that eunuch, we should be even, but I still have about thirty years of Heavenly Marrow. After condensing the Five Spiritual Phases and breaking through to the third level of Dao Foundation, he will no longer be my opponent."

He remembered that Yu Hua had said that Emperor Daojun would not leave the palace to guard his alchemy furnace. Combined with the rumors that the emperor had been refining elixirs to achieve immortality over the years, and the fact that the Imperial Household Department had collected treasures from all over the world and sent them to the palace, it was not difficult to guess that the dog emperor was really refining the elixir of immortality.

With a sharp weapon in the body, the murderous heart starts from the beginning.

Many times, people's tolerance is just because they have no ability to resist. Once they have the power, they can't suppress the desire to use violence. But Gu Wen knew that it was not the right time yet, at least he was not unprepared to vent.

The last sentence of this sentence is "be cautious and take it seriously".

He took a look at the medicinal fruits in the sack and closed his eyes to refine the medicinal properties.

Being able to eat four hundred medicinal fruits a day does not mean that he can completely digest them in one day. He estimates that it will take about ten days. The most important thing is to completely transform the resources into strength.

If I can perfect the three-fold foundation of the Tao and carry with me the Zhaolie Dharma Image, there will be no place in the world that I cannot go to, and how can I not kill the noble son of the Heavenly Family?
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July is the Lesser Heat month, and the weather is scorching hot.

The servants of the Gu mansion bought crushed ice, chopped up seasonal fruits such as bayberry and peaches and put them in the ice to make cold drinks.

Originally, there was a waterwheel cooling room in the palace. The waterwheel was used to deliver water to the roof. The water would flow along the canal to the four corners of the eaves, and silver streams would pour down from the eaves of the four corners. Then, the rotation of the waterwheel also drove the "fan wheel" to rotate, sending air like an electric fan in the past.

But the maintenance cost was too high, costing thousands of taels a year, which was enough to eat ice cubes every day. So Gu Wen dismantled the thing and sold it, making a few hundred taels of profit.

This was originally a legacy from the previous owner of the mansion, and Gu Wen didn't feel sorry for it at all.

At noon, several merchant 'friends' came to the door. They were all merchants from Longqiao, and now they were borrowing money everywhere because of the door and window tax.

The jade tower in the sky and the dragon bridge on earth, ten thousand gold can be spent at a time, but a thousand gold cannot satisfy the desire.

The big merchants who controlled the Dragon Bridge were not only the legends of the millions of people in Bianjing City, but also the countless common people thousands of miles away. Outsiders said that "a room in the Dragon Bridge could bring in a fortune every day", and they thought that all the money went into their pockets.

If it is true, they really do not need the one thousand taels. Even if the government asks them for ten thousand taels, so what? Who doesn't have hundreds of thousands of taels in and out of their account books?

But at this moment, the real nature of Longqiao merchants' debauchery was revealed, and it turned out that they didn't have much wealth.

Gu Wen lent out three thousand taels to Shopkeeper Xu, one of the dozen or so shopkeepers at Wanbao Money House, Shopkeeper Li at Yutang, which sold jade wares, and Shopkeeper Lu at a large pharmacy that sold medicines.

Jiang Fugui said with a painful look on his face: "The world is so chaotic now, aren't you afraid that you won't be able to take it back?"

"What I want is not money, but favors. Money houses, Jade Halls, and pharmacies all control a large number of resource channels."

Gu Wen took out the account book, added a few small items, and got three thousand taels from the water room bill. He also included the wages of the "temporary workers" he had hired before to balance the account.

In this way, he didn't spend any money, and they, like himself, only needed to exert a little force to leverage a lot of resources.

It's just a matter of risk.

Moreover, the world is not at peace. Although gold and silver will not depreciate as much as copper coins, the things they can buy and their usefulness will inevitably plummet.

In troubled times, fists are of the greatest value.

Qin Mian walked in from outside and whispered a few words in Gu Wen's ear.

Gu Wen's eyes narrowed slightly, and he turned around and said, "Fugui, don't you want to go to the south?"

"Hehehe, I'm not going, I'm not going. You've already been conferred the title of Marquis, why are you still asking me to go to the South?" Jiang Fugui shook his head repeatedly, but Gu Wen said firmly, "You have to go, because Zezhou County may be lost."

The loss of Zezhou County meant that the heartland of Daqian was exposed to the iron hoofs of the Hu people, and it also meant that Daqian lost its largest granary.

Daqian, which has been on the verge of collapse for so long, is finally beginning to slide into the abyss.

(End of this chapter)