Hyper-fusion, I have infinite forms.

Chapter 553: The Fourth Level of Freedom
"Xuan Nu, I need immortal essence."

Zhou Yan felt the girl's desire and felt helpless for a moment.

Xianyuan, Xianyuan, what is Xianyuan?
He actually has a lot of true purple energy.

However, just like the stone slab next to it, the girl in front of him did react to his true purple energy, but not much.

The stone tablet that was judged by [Order] to contain the "Shangqing Dongxuan Ganying Pian" had basically no response to the many tests Zhou Yan made when it first fell into Zhou Yan's hands.

If it weren't for the fact that [Order]'s judgment was never wrong, even he would have thought that this was just a broken stone slab made of a special material.

Fortunately, although this stone slab did not respond to other probes, it only accepted the true essence and purple energy infused by Zhou Yan.

And after absorbing a certain amount of true purple energy, a change finally occurred - it was like the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, and could be taken into Zhou Yan's spiritual world.

At the same time, when in Zhou Yan's spiritual world, this stone tablet would occasionally project two illusory verses similar to "Introduction":

"The secret of the Supreme Purity and Mystery, the Great Void and the Lonely Qi Transformed into the Origin"

"The mind of the six directions is connected to seize the creation, and the gods of all things see the mystery"

Combined with the name "Shangqing Dongxuan Ganying Pian" given by [Order], Zhou Yan became more certain that this was an extremely high-grade practice method.

Unfortunately, the feedback from the stone tablet was limited to this - no matter how much true energy Zhou Yan poured into it afterwards, he could not elicit more content.

The same is true for the Xuannv in front of me.
When Zhou Yan took over the girl from the Emperor Zu, to put it bluntly, she was just a human body with only the most basic instincts.

A puppet that doesn't need to eat or sleep, and can just poop and go.

However, after Zhou Yan injected a certain amount of true energy into it, this Xuannv, like the stone slab, could be taken into his spiritual world.

And this kind of situation that allows entities to enter the world of spirits and souls has so far all been related to the legendary "immortal world".

Therefore, Zhou Yan, who already attached great importance to it, naturally paid more attention to it.

At this moment, looking at the perfect little face of Xuan Nu who was so close to him, Zhou Yan replied with a question somewhat helplessly:
"What is Xian Yuan?"

Xuan Nu remained expressionless, and gave another weak thought: "Refine the essence and transform it into Qi, gather the Qi and return to the truth, cultivate the truth and see the truth"

Cultivation and Enlightenment
Zhou Yan carefully pondered the meaning of this idea and gained some understanding.

If we compare the "Qi" in refining essence into Qi, it is the "true Qi" that he extracted by combining his own spirit and body when he practiced Zhenwu.

Is it possible that the "true" in "gathering Qi and returning to the truth" corresponds to the "true essence" that he transformed from highly condensed Qi by relying on his method of unifying all things?
Doesn’t this also correspond to the situation where both Xuannv and the stone slab can respond to the true energy he infuses?
True energy is a lower-level energy than the "immortal energy" that Xuannv needs, so it can barely make Xuannv have some response, but it is far from enough to make her completely "wake up"?
Thinking of this, Zhou Yan silently drew a wisp of purple energy from the sky, and then slowly merged it into Xuannv's head.

Xuannv still had no expression on her face, like an exquisite porcelain doll.

Zhou Yan was already used to her behavior, so he asked directly: "Is this what you call 'true'?"

Xuannv: “Yes”

Then she said: "Xuan Nu needs immortal essence."

Zhou Yan said helplessly: "I know you need immortal essence, tell me first, what can you do with immortal essence?"

Xuannv was silent for a while, then pointed to the stone slab beside the two people and said, "Interpretation. The technique will help you practice."

Zhou Yan's spirits lifted.

Wow! Are Xuannv and this stone slab a matching set?
What a coincidence! ?
He hurriedly asked: "Then tell me, how do you get the immortal essence?"

Xuannv: "Practice the truth and see the truth."

Zhou Yan:.
He asked several more times, but all he got was Xuan Nu's robotic, repetitive responses. Well, it seemed that Xuan Nu was still a mentally retarded person, so what he said was the same as nothing.

Zhou Yan shook his head helplessly and gave up the intention of continuing to seek advice from Xuannv.

However, after Xuannv's suggestion, he really had an idea.

Most of it depends on his magic skill "Yi Xiaoyao" that made him rich.

According to the description of this magical skill, there are four levels.

——Gathering emptiness, sitting and forgetting, all things are one, the state of Tao.

Zhou Yan is currently in the realm of "all things are one". This realm has no special effects, but it helps him transform the true qi gathered in his dantian qi sea into true essence in his spiritual orifice.

After being converted from true qi to true essence, this extraordinary energy is no longer limited to being used as the energy source of Zhenwu, but becomes an existence similar to magic power that can be used to drive most extraordinary systems.

And if Yi Xiaoyao can be successfully promoted to the fourth level of "Dao Realm", according to Yi Xiaoyao's statement, the true essence can be refined and transformed into new energy.

Is it possible that this new energy is the "immortal essence" that Xuannv needs?
Zhou Yan didn't speculate too much.

Whether there is Xuannv and the stone slab or not, it will not affect his original intention to cultivate and improve the realm of freedom.

Everything will become clear when he successfully cultivates the energy of Daoyuan.

And according to the description of this technique, there are several prerequisites for achieving the Tao realm.

The first is to allow the true purple energy to completely fill the "sky" of this spiritual world.

The second requirement is to use the power of Tao to build a magical furnace of heaven and earth in the world of spirit and soul.

Its name is "Daolu".

After the Taoist furnace is formed, one can use the power of Taoist rhyme as fire and the true essence purple energy as material to refine the golden elixir.

After the golden elixir is achieved, it will circulate on its own and in turn spew out new energy.

Nanhua Taoist, who created the magical skill Cheng Yi Xiaoyao, called this new high-level energy "Daoyuan".

At this point, one has reached the final state described by "free and easy".

Even when Nanhua Daojun wrote the Yixiaoyao Secret Book, he himself had not yet reached this level.

That’s right, according to the description of the exercises, the fourth level written by Nanhua Daojun is a level that even he himself is still trying to figure out.

Nanhua Daojun himself had just built the "Dao furnace" and was still in the stage of using the rhythm of the Dao to provide firewood to refine the true essence purple energy.

The so-called "golden elixir" and "Daoyuan" are both inferences drawn by Nanhua Taoist Lord based on his own observations and summary of the principles of heaven and earth.

Or to put it bluntly, it was just Nanhua Daojun's conjecture.

However, although practicing according to the predecessors' conjectures was somewhat risky, Zhou Yan still decided to follow them.

The reason is very simple - the genius who was able to explore and create this Yi Xiaoyao technique on his own must have incredible wisdom.

To some extent, the wisdom of these predecessors is "divinely gifted" and cannot be considered with common sense.

Anyway, Zhou Yan couldn't find the way out by himself, so he might as well follow the seekers who were ahead of him.

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(End of this chapter)