Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 136: Internal and External Cultivation, Integration of Dharma and Body
Inside the Five Elements Cave in Guizang Mountain, the earth’s energy is dense and rich.

"The Xiantian School's Xiantian Qi Great Capture is indeed a method that has its merits. It is extremely simple and powerful, and can condense magical power... They practice the Xiantian Qi, while you build your foundation with the five Qi. It is not as pure as them, but it is more powerful. In fact, you are more suitable for this method than them..."

The words that Master Chi Shenzi said on Kunlong Peak that year are still fresh in my mind.

But even the True Man Chi Shen Zi probably didn't expect that Lu Cheng could cultivate both inside and outside with just a set of innate qi catching techniques, and reach the level of the Xiantian school or even surpass that of the school.

Lu Cheng was at the Qi training stage. He accidentally gained the innate magical power of Qi sea after a near-death experience of going astray and nearly dying. The magical power cultivated by those at the same stage and with the same technique is 30% more powerful than that of others.

If it had stopped there, it would have been fine and would not have been much of an advantage. However, Lu Cheng practiced the Heaven-Snatching Spirit Transformation Method, tempered his understanding of Qi techniques, and used the Burning Wood Mountain Five Elements Book as a foundation to cultivate the Five Qi Foundation and his innate magical power, "Qi Fire".

Lu Cheng himself didn't care, but in fact, his Qi Hai innate magical power was enhanced and expanded. Lu Cheng thought that the foundation-building magic power he cultivated by swallowing the essence of five third-level monsters was so powerful. But in fact, his magic power was more powerful than others, and his Dantian and meridians were more resilient.

After the condensation of the evil spirit, the innate magical power "essence fire" that was cultivated can also be called human fire. Every step of Lu Cheng's practice is a link between the past and the future, and it falls on the critical point. The innate magical power of the sea of ​​qi has thus gained the potential for expansion. This level of Dantian and meridians is broad and tough, even the true disciples of the Xiantian School cannot achieve it.

The entire practice process is as follows:

The Qi sea in Dantian is used for the fusion and transformation of one's own magic power and the five elements' true evil, and then flows through the meridians and acupoints throughout the body, penetrating the meridians and acupoints and strengthening them.

The Great Five Elements Earth Extreme True Fire dissolves and refines all laws in the world. It is the core in the Dantian, which uses the essence of Qi and fire to refine the five elements of magic power.

The brilliance of the five elements of green, red, white, yellow and black flowed and changed, gradually turning into a ball of white light, and then turned into colorless and gathered in the center, but the qi and light of the five elements were hidden in this colorless light.

The powerful and extremely pure five-element magic power rushes up from three inches below the navel, flows through the Tanzhong point and spreads throughout the body.

At the same time, it also supplies a large amount of his own blood and fire, causing it to leap from time to time and affect the whole body. After the Xiantian school's true skills are successfully passed down, the physical body will be nourished by the magic power and the spiritual consciousness will be greatly enhanced. Lu Cheng practiced both inside and outside through the Xiantian Qi Grabbing, and practiced his kung fu to a level that most Xiantian school elders could not reach. Under the impact and cleansing of the almost endless real evil around him, the strength of his magic body gradually increased to the level of Qi training and foundation building.

However, the Taoist's magic power at this time can almost be said to have penetrated his entire body, but it only stops at the Yuzhen point.

The Yuzhen point is located in the center behind the cervical spine of the human body. If the brain is regarded as the forehead, then the Yuzhen point is the location of the sky gate.

If one can channel the magical power through this acupoint, it will be a crucial step in the practice of Taoism. Therefore, in the terminology of Taoist classics, this place is also called the bridge between heaven and earth, the gate of life and death, meaning that as long as it is penetrated, one can reach the heaven directly.

When Lu Cheng found that his magic power could not break through here, he decided not to break through. He followed the rules and was not impatient, which was the authentic demeanor of Taoism.

Now, if you cultivate your energy well, you will be able to see God in the future. If you don’t cultivate your energy well, you will not be able to see God and can only see the King of Hell if you rush around recklessly.

If the magic power is not cultivated well and is not pure and deep enough, the only result of forcefully attacking the Yuzhen point is rupture of blood vessels in the brain, and even the Six Yang Head will explode directly, spewing out a column of blood into the sky.

The five elements of true evil in the Five Elements Cave were naturally accumulated over countless years, and no one absorbed and refined them, so that there is not even a single earthworm to be seen in the soil.

The deeper you go underground, the denser the five elements of energy become in the soil. It almost condenses like liquid and flows slowly through the soil.

"If it weren't for the special Taoist system of my Ten Thousand Beasts Incarnation Palace, how could a treasure land like this be left for me to enjoy?" Although he had already expected this in his heart, the concentration of the five elements he saw at this moment still made Lu Cheng secretly shocked.

Master Huang Longzi was aloof and arrogant. Before him, he had only accepted six disciples in his life. Although there were many cultivators in the Northern Sect, none of them were qualified to come to Guizang Mountain to practice magic and condense their evil spirits.

Moreover, the flow of the five elements here is in good order. Apparently, it has become a system after thousands of years of circulation, forming a place where the earth's energy condenses, with the acupoints deep in the earth where the five elements are generated as the center and all the meridians flow back to it, forming a whole.

"The Earthly Evils and Heavenly Powers are the place where the true breath of heaven and earth resides. They give birth to all things and evolve endlessly. But they are so stagnant here. It would be a good deed to eliminate the aura here!"

Deep underground, in the fog, there was a faint flickering glow of fire, in all five colors: blue, red, white, yellow, and black. When it was at its most intense, flames would even condense in the void. Countless such five-colored flames merged into one place, interconnected and integrated with each other, rising and falling. At first glance, it looked like a sea of ​​fire gathering out of thin air, burning fiercely.

In order to obtain the most powerful and profound True Evil, Lu Cheng continued to go deeper into the earth veins. He had two magical instruments to protect him, the third-grade top-grade defensive magic weapon, the Five-Colored Profound Gang Flag, and the fourth-grade intermediate-grade Ten Thousand Souls Banner. Although the Five Elements True Evil flames here were fierce, they could not hurt him.

On the contrary, Lu Cheng found a suitable place and sat among the Five Elements True Evil Fire to practice his skills. As he inhaled and exhaled into his stomach, his magic power increased rapidly.

These almost endless five-element true evil spirits became Lu Cheng's endless nourishment. He used the five-element earth true fire almost lavishly to refine these true evil spirits and increase his magic power. At the same time, he strengthened his body through tempering to avoid absorbing external energy without restraint, which would make his own magic power impure.

He cultivated both inside and outside, and integrated his Dharma and body. Lu Cheng even relied on the improvement of his own realm and the special environment of this place to comprehend some of the unique skills of turning sword light into rainbow hidden in the Jade Dragon Sword Art.

The sword light turns into a rainbow, which can guide the essence of heaven and earth into the sword. When the sword is swung, it is majestic, powerful and vigorous. When it is used to the extreme, it may even be possible to exert sword energy that far exceeds one's own magic power.

Inside the Five Elements Cave, normal heaven and earth energy was almost gone, and it was all filled with the Five Elements' true evil energy. This kind of environment was extremely helpful for Lu Cheng to comprehend the sword light turning into rainbow.

After practicing, when you go outside, there are doors to enter and traces to follow. With Lu Cheng's talent for swordsmanship, he can naturally practice it on himself bit by bit.

In this way, several things are achieved at once, and an endless cycle of balance is reached between Lu Cheng, the sword light turning into rainbow, magic power, and magic body.

It's easy to say, but the time required to actually do it and complete the practice is calculated in years, which is by no means an easy task. Lu Cheng spent nearly half a year just to come up with the idea and plan, but when he really faced the actual situation and started to do it, he still ran into a lot of trouble.

Coordinate and investigate the five elements' true evil energy, find the core position of one's own sitting position, and the pressure of the explosion when the five elements' energy is burned out is far beyond the estimation. In this process, Lu Cheng was almost blown to death. The design of the energy conversion still has flaws, and the circulation of the mana in one's body must resonate with this place, which still needs to be adjusted... This involves the revision and arrangement of the overall plan, as well as more and more complex repeated deductions, etc.

In order to achieve the final effect that satisfies himself, in addition to what he had learned, Lu Cheng even began to study talismans and formations, and purchased talismans and formations to help him control the overall situation within the Five Elements Cave so that there would not be major deviations.

There is no doubt that this is a huge project and requires a lot of effort and financial support. However, when Lu Cheng started to do it, apart from the inevitable mental and physical fatigue, his whole body and mind were filled with extreme concentration and pleasure.

Back then, he could practice sword skills day after day and night after night. Today, all of this practice can fall on himself, and the great power of heaven and earth can be attributed to himself. Lu Cheng burst out with terrifying concentration and enthusiasm.

Discuss Taoism with the master, deduce with senior sisters and brothers, sell all kinds of spiritual resources in hand in exchange for those things that he needs, even if it means losing some value.

Time passed year after year, and most of the world's top disciples could reach the Ningsha realm in five to ten years. However, except for the rapid progress in the beginning, Lu Cheng's Ningsha cultivation level simply stopped and no longer improved.

If Taoist Huang Longzi had not been very fond of this disciple, not to mention Niu Meng, Zhongli Ling and the returning Nangong Jing would cause trouble, even the servants of the Ten Thousand Beasts Palace would probably talk about it in private.

But Lu Cheng no longer cared about these. He only cared about the Taoism in front of him. In the process of deducing his own Taoism, every breakthrough in a difficult problem would bring him great excitement. This kind of satisfaction would also completely suppress the mental and physical fatigue to a minimum.

During these years, Fourth Senior Brother Nangong Jing made some contributions and escaped from the Yinfeng Ghost Cave. Second Senior Sister Wu Lingjun has begun to retreat and study alchemy. Eldest Senior Brother Yuwen Zheng has been in trouble for many years and finally broke through the bottleneck and refined the top-grade golden elixir, and has since become a real person cultivator in the Tongxuan Realm.

At the same time, he is also the second Jindan Zhenren of the Beizong Palace, the incarnation of all beasts, and is famous throughout the world.

Lu Cheng knew all these things, but he didn't care.

He was completely devoted to his work, so that the carving of every array pattern and the placement of every talisman in the Five Elements Cave were imbued with his hard work, connected to the abundant earth energy and integrated with the qi in his body. Later on, every time he came here and every time he sat in seclusion and practiced qi, it would trigger resonance in the entire cave.

Thirteen years later, when Lu Cheng was sitting in the simple stone chamber he had built and looking at the Five Elements Cave which had changed drastically, he smiled slightly, sat upright on the cushion with his eyes closed, and practiced his profound skills.

Rumble, rumble, a low rumbling sound sounded under the honeycomb-like holes, and the powerful Five Elements True Evil Energy that had been calm for millions of years was slowly destroyed.

See the opportunity and seize it.

The true evil in the Five Elements Cave, which had been accumulating for a million years, was discovered by Lu Cheng and swallowed up in one gulp. On that day, blood shot up into the sky from under the earth.

Under the impact of endless true evil, Lu Cheng's innate blood fire was stimulated to the extreme. Lu Cheng's magic power was not improving quickly, but as he sat in the secret cave, he operated the Five Elements Seal with both hands. One by one, the Five Elements characters wandered on his body, and then merged into his blood, skin, meridians, bones and flesh.

Stimulated by his innate blood and fire, and using the Five Elements to refine his body, Lu Cheng can sense his own lifespan because he can measure and control his own life and death. In the process of refining his body, not only his physical strength and potential are improved, but he can also clearly feel that his lifespan is also slowly increasing, from the original two hundred and sixty years, to two hundred and eighty years, three hundred and twenty years, three hundred and sixty years, and three hundred and ninety-four years.

"If I remain at this level of cultivation and do not take any longevity pills, I can normally live to 394 years old, and then die at the end of my lifespan."

During the process of practicing the profound skills, he didn't know how much time had passed. When Lu Cheng gradually regained his consciousness, he found himself still sitting on the cushion, with his hands on his chest and his left hand behind his back.

The fog caused by the overly dense earth energy in all directions had dissipated at some point. The true evil accumulated in the Five Elements Cave for countless years had not been completely swallowed up by Lu Cheng, and there were still unexplored areas deep underground.

Lu Cheng slowly exhaled the foul air in his chest, and starting from the little fingers of both hands, the joints of his body began to make crisp sounds one by one, until the last joint of his bones. It was as if a thunder sounded from deep in the sky. At the same time, the sound also revealed a timbre of metal striking each other, forming a lingering echo in the cave.

Lu Cheng just had the thought of getting up, and the next moment he appeared at the entrance of the cave. He looked at his palms and clenched his fists slightly.

"I have reached the sixth level of Condensed Evil Realm mana, but my physical body has also been cultivated to the ninth level. During this retreat, I poured most of my mana into my physical body, so that I can accumulate more powerful mana. My spiritual consciousness has also grown, but it seems to be a natural growth caused by the nourishment of qi and blood."

He summoned the Qingming Flying Sword, and with a roll of green sword light, Lu Cheng's body was carried away quickly. His mind had already broken away from that state of extreme concentration. A feeling of fatigue from the bottom of his heart made Lu Cheng want to return to the Ten Thousand Beasts Palace to have a good rest for a while, to recuperate his body and mind.

Nothing will happen to you in Guizang Mountain.

Lu Cheng returned to the Thunder and Fire Hall of the Ten Thousand Beasts Palace and hugged Xue Yuzhen intimately for a while. Before he had finished his cup of tea, a visiting card was delivered to him.

"Whose visiting card is it?"

"Reporting to the Palace Master, this is Master Yuwen's visiting card."

In this Heavenly Palace of Ten Thousand Beasts, apart from the master and his wife, there is only one person who can be called a true person, and that is the eldest senior brother Yuwen Zheng who was recently promoted to the Golden Core True Person realm.

"Big Brother, why have you condescended to come here?"

There wouldn't be anything sinister in the Ten Thousand Beasts Palace. After a little thought, Lu Cheng gave an order to let the Thunder and Fire Palace welcome his senior brother Yuwen Zhenren with the highest etiquette. Actually, because Yuwen Zheng was guarding outside under the order of his master, this was the first time Lu Cheng saw his senior brother.

(End of this chapter)