The gods began by supporting Guo Jing to become emperor

Chapter 370 The Changes in the Extraordinary Powers of the He Shi Bi Jade, Harmonious Dual Cultivation
Various insights surfaced in Su Ming's mind, deepening his understanding of the Great Dao. While they did not have a substantial impact on his combat strength, they enhanced his inner strength, enabling him to go further in the future.

Ultimately, these runes were deeply imprinted in his mind, unforgettable.

Su Ming opened his eyes and let out a long breath.

Time passed slowly, and the people in the hall awoke one by one. Feeling the growing true energy and inner breath within their bodies, they were overjoyed. They were only Grandmasters and could not enter the state of oneness with heaven and man like Great Grandmasters. Their enlightenment just now allowed them to experience this feeling in advance.

In a sense, this can be considered as paving the way for their Grandmaster status ahead of time. As long as nothing unexpected happens, even if they grind it out over time, they will at least become a peak Grandmaster.

The opportunities in the Temple of War are enough to propel them to higher realms, but everyone's foundation and potential are different. Some people's path has already reached its end, while others' path has just begun.

Like Qi Hui, the Old Celestial Master, and other senior masters, as well as younger masters like Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong.

With this trip to the Temple of War Gods, many new masters will surely emerge in the martial arts world, making it even more exciting.

However, at this moment, Su Ming noticed that someone was sitting cross-legged in front of the relief sculpture. His aura suddenly became weak, his face was pale and bloodless, his eyes were unfocused, and he looked like he was about to exhaust his energy.

"puff!"

The man spat out a mouthful of blood and suddenly woke up. Ignoring his injuries, he wanted to look at the relief sculpture again to try to understand it, but he felt a splitting headache and could no longer understand it. He could only watch with regret.

Even worse, some who gained some insight tried to force a breakthrough in their cultivation level here, but failed and died from qi deviation.

Some are happy, and some are sad.

Finally, the remaining people all woke up, and their vital energy surged dramatically.

However, the ones who gained the most were Su Ming, Song Que, and the other two Grandmasters. The War God Record is unfathomable. Those with low cultivation can only comprehend the most superficial aspects and cannot grasp its essence. Only those with high realms or excellent comprehension can obtain its true meaning.

The old Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain gazed at the War God's Manual before him and muttered to himself, "Only today do I understand what the true Great Dao is. The days before were truly wasted. Even if I die now, I will have no regrets."

Su Ming joked, "Old Celestial Master, you're too kind. If you die here, Longhu Mountain will lose its pillar. Besides, someone from Longhu Mountain needs to inherit the insights from the War God's Manual."

The old master smiled nonchalantly, "That's right. If I return to Longhu Mountain to leave behind my legacy before I die, then I'll have no regrets."

At this moment, Shi Zhixuan faced the crowd and said in a deep voice, "Everyone, you have all obtained the opportunity of the War God's Record. Now it's time to leave."

Upon hearing this, everyone exchanged glances, not daring to say anything. Everyone could see that Shi Zhixuan had undergone a very obvious transformation and was stronger than before. Even if they had comprehended the War God's Manual, the transformed Shi Zhixuan was no longer someone they could easily fool.

But faced with this rare opportunity, someone finally couldn't help but speak up, "Senior, this is a rare opportunity. May I stay here to continue my study?"

Shi Zhixuan glanced at him and said meaningfully, "Of course you can stay here, but we will close the passage to the Temple of War after we leave. The Temple of War will reopen in thirty years. If you can live to see that time, or break through the void like Senior Guang Chengzi, then please."

Thirty years?
Upon hearing this timeframe, they couldn't help but shudder. To survive alone in this deserted place for thirty years—how terrifying! Instantly, they all hesitated; the price was too high, and they dared not.

Similarly, no one is confident that by continuing to study the War God's Manual here, they can break through the void. Those who are truly confident will not stay here for long; even if they go to the outside world, they will know how far they can go.

After Shi Zhixuan finished speaking, no one mentioned the matter again.

Everyone left the Temple of War, walked down the steps, and prepared to leave.

Before leaving, Kou Zhong dived to the bottom of the lake and found the corpse of the demonic dragon. He dragged it out of the water and carried it away. During the time they were studying the War God's Manual, the strange fish and crayfish in the lake kept gnawing at the demonic dragon's flesh and blood, but they still couldn't get through its tough scales.

Holding up the dragon's corpse, he said smugly, "Ziling, when we get back, I'll have someone make a suit of armor out of these scales, and I'll give you a set."

Xu Ziling smiled, as always, "Okay, I'll be waiting."

Immediately afterwards, the group left the Temple of War and returned to the ground along the passage.

After leaving Jingyan Palace, everyone bid farewell and left in a hurry. They were eager to go back and consolidate their cultivation levels, and to record their insights about the War God Record so as not to forget them.

This event may be the greatest opportunity in the martial arts world for the next thirty years. It can only be said that they are fortunate to be born in this era, but they are also unlucky, because this era already has an invincible person, while they can't even touch his back.

……

Luoyang, the City of Purple Myrtle.

In the Zhenguan Hall, Song Que handed the box containing the Imperial Seal of the State to Su Ming, and then instructed him, "The He Shi Bi has extremely powerful abilities. You can use it to begin meditating and refining your spirit and will. Once you enter a meditative state, the He Shi Bi will stop emitting its abilities. You must determine the degree to which you do so."

As soon as Su Ming stepped into the main hall, he felt the powerful supernatural energy permeating the surroundings. A sense of restlessness that went straight to his soul arose spontaneously. Even with his strong mental state, he was affected. The He Shi Bi was indeed worthy of its reputation.

Hearing this, he nodded, "Brother Song, don't worry."

After saying that, Song Que left. As an emperor, even if he was not busy with countless affairs every day, he certainly had many things to deal with. The operation of the country involved many government affairs. He had been in the Temple of the God of War for so long and had accumulated many things to deal with.

Some things can be decided by his ministers, but some things can only be decided by the emperor.

Carrying the He Shi Bi jade, Su Ming found an empty palace in the imperial palace to stay in and began to experience the wonders of the He Shi Bi jade.

When he dispersed his spiritual will and came into contact with the He Shi Bi, in an instant, the He Shi Bi's special power transformed into a cold current that rushed towards him. Su Ming felt a chill rise from the bottom of his heart, and frost appeared on his body.

This coldness did not originate from the outside world, but rather from a projection of supernatural power on a spiritual level. Su Ming calmed his mind and focused his spirit, eliminating the interference of the He Shi Bi jade. In the blink of an eye, his mind entered a state of no thought, no birth, and no death, with only his innate primordial spirit remaining steadfastly guarding his spiritual platform.

At that moment, the Nether Sea Returning to Origin Force naturally began to operate, absorbing the extraordinary power of the He Shi Bi and transforming it into pure innate true energy, which circulated within his body.

This true energy is quite different from ordinary true energy. Influenced by the extraordinary energy fluctuations of the He Shi Bi jade, it operates in an extremely complex and subtle way.

Feeling the changes within his body, Su Ming felt a faint joy. This innate true energy not only helped him avoid the calamity of qi deviation, but also evolved into a kind of true energy he had never felt before. It existed between spiritual power and true energy, harmonizing with the power of the He Shi Bi jade, blending seamlessly like a match made in heaven.

Suddenly, as if sensing his change, the He Shi Bi jade transformed its supernatural energy into a vast, surging heat that penetrated the depths of his spirit and essence.

Even as his mind entered a state of oneness with nature, he still faintly felt an unparalleled, overwhelming heat, as if he were trapped in a sea of ​​fire, or the core of the sun, not in his body, but directly affecting his spirit.

The extraordinary power of the He Shi Bi jade can not only affect the body and true energy of cultivators, but also touch the spirit and mind of Taoist and Buddhist masters. Even a master like Su Ming, who has reached the end of the path to becoming a Grandmaster, cannot escape its influence.

At this moment, the Nether Sea Returning to Origin Force was extremely domineering, forcibly absorbing these supernatural abilities and turning them into its own. Naturally, its attributes changed, aligning with the supernatural abilities emitted by the He Shi Bi.

No matter how turbulent or fiery the inexhaustible flow of supernatural energy from the He Shi Bi was, Su Ming could integrate into it, riding the waves without being affected himself. Just like the tide, he went with the tide, not against it.

However, the extraordinary power of the He Shi Bi jade erupted once again, with waves of energy rising higher and higher, transforming into a magical property that was both cold and hot.

However, the Nether Sea Returning to Origin Force remained incredibly domineering. Under the pull of the Qi, the primordial spirit once again borrowed the power to regulate and transform its supernatural abilities into a wondrous true Qi that was both cold and hot.

In an instant, the treasure's power changed again...

But each time, Su Ming was able to perfectly align himself with the changes, just like light and shadow, complementing each other without being in opposition.

Gradually, Su Ming discovered that the He Shi Bi seemed to possess its own sentience; otherwise, it wouldn't have undergone such targeted changes. In this process, Su Ming and the He Shi Bi's sentience were like evenly matched opponents, each unleashing their own energy to transform in countless ways and evolve infinitely.

Gradually, the frequency of changes in the He Shi Bi's supernatural power increased, and the attributes of the supernatural power it transformed into became more and more mysterious and unpredictable. Before Su Ming could fully unify his evolved true energy with the current supernatural power, the supernatural power would change into the next attribute.

The two were like teacher and student; one posed the questions, and the other solved them. Su Ming was always able to keep up with his "teacher's" pace and handle the situation with ease.

During this process, Su Ming's body was constantly ravaged, and the attributes of his innate true qi changed continuously, placing a great burden on his meridians.

In the past, Su Ming would have given up long ago, but now, after being tempered by the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique, his meridian strength far exceeds that of ordinary people, allowing him to persevere through such changes.

Besides his own vigorous blood and bones, Su Ming also possesses the Minghai Guiyuan Jin, which governs all the energies of heaven and earth. With one being internal and the other external, Su Ming dared to respond in this way. If it were anyone else, they would have already gone mad under the impact of this superpower and had to retreat. How could they have persisted until now?

As Su Ming's energy and spirituality clashed more and more with the He Shi Bi, the connection between the two deepened, and Su Ming's spiritual will became stronger, becoming more perfect through the tempering of the He Shi Bi.

Suddenly, his spirit and will entered the He Shi Bi jade. The He Shi Bi jade that appeared before him was no longer in the shape of an imperial seal, but a ball of light that shimmered with five-colored light, seemingly clear yet not clear, seemingly turbid yet not turbid, both real and unreal.

Cold and heat, hardness and softness, stillness and dryness, righteousness and evil, purity and turbidity, life and death... The extraordinary power of the He Shi Bi jade, from its initial extreme attributes, has gradually manifested various Tai Chi primordial attributes such as the convergence of cold and heat, the balance of water and fire, the combination of hardness and softness, the intermingling of emptiness and fullness, the turbid flow of purity and turbidity, and the interdependence of life and death.

Yin gives rise to Yang, Yang gives rise to Yin, fire arises from water, water is born from fire... In the Taiji diagram, one vortex contains the two polarities, the four symbols, and the five elements; the innate eight trigrams are all contained within; how can any phenomenon escape this circle!

This is a manifestation of the Great Dao, far clearer than the War God's Manual. It's like an open-book exam, with the answers laid out before you for you to study.

At this moment, inside the He Shi Bi jade, "it" is like a teacher, presenting the innate changes of all things in the universe to Su Ming's "eyes". Su Ming opens his mind and eagerly absorbs this knowledge, while his spiritual power is constantly being consumed.

During this process, Su Ming, who was originally sitting cross-legged on the mat, did not touch the He Shi Bi, but after their spiritual wills touched, his hand naturally fell on the He Shi Bi.

Suddenly, the He Shi Bi changed for the first time. Its special power stopped spreading outward and rolled back, tightly enveloping Su Ming like an invisible shield, continuously pouring into his body to cleanse his physical form and enhance his potential.

"Am I getting the same treatment as Shuanglong and Bafeng Han?"

A thought suddenly popped into Su Ming's mind.

Without even thinking, Su Ming's innate true energy and supernatural abilities continuously merged and circulated in an unprecedented and miraculous way, transforming into even more wondrous innate true energy.

It can be innate true energy, or it can be transformed into spiritual abilities; the two are seamlessly integrated.
Everything is accomplished naturally, as if it were a preordained evolution, mysterious and unfathomable.

True Qi and supernatural abilities exchanged energy back and forth, gradually becoming perfectly aligned. Eventually, even when Su Ming stopped circulating the Nether Sea Returning to Origin Technique, the essence of heaven and earth surged in, continuously pouring into his body to support their extraordinary cultivation.

Suddenly, Su Ming felt a heat in his Tianmu acupoint between his eyebrows, followed by a coolness. Then, as if a crack had opened, a pure and ethereal energy, seemingly real yet elusive, slowly flowed in and merged with his primordial spirit.

In an instant, the innate spiritual light in his sea of ​​consciousness contracted and expanded, becoming larger and more solid. Although it was only one circle, it would take an ordinary person at least more than ten years of accumulation to achieve this.

While physical skill is easy to cultivate, spiritual realm is difficult to elevate. Unless one encounters a great opportunity, most people can only improve slowly through persistent effort.

Suddenly, the third eye acupoint seemed to close again, and the pure and spiritual energy could no longer be felt at all.

Sensing the changes within himself, Su Ming had a sudden realization: was the He Shi Bi (a legendary jade disc) "cultivating" with him?
This "dual cultivation" is not the same as that "dual cultivation." Rather, it refers to the mutual attraction and fusion between spirit and will. Physical dual cultivation is only of a lower level. The most advanced form is this kind of great harmony at the spiritual level.

At this point, "he" was still unaware that his first time was with the He Shi Bi jade.

(End of this chapter)