The author of the book "The Book of the Dead"

Chapter 114: Six Years of Refining Techniques, Crossing the Era

The pagoda towers into the sky, and from the top you can see the vast expanse of wilderness.

At the top of the Yong'an Pagoda, golden light gathered into a beam and shot down from the hollow hole at the top of the tower.

Liang Yue sat cross-legged on the lotus pedestal, feeling the scorching sunlight falling on his shoulders.

Next to him was a bottle of Third Eye blood and an album recording the methods of cultivating the Third Eye.

The third eye is the divine eye of ancient extraordinary people, which has the ability to "open the third eye and see all directions".

There are three conditions for practicing the Heavenly Eye: one is to have the Heavenly Eye bloodline, the second is a nine-story pagoda, and the third is a lifespan of one hundred years.

"I am now twenty years old, and my life span of a hundred years is to be one hundred and twenty years old. I wonder if the longevity pills I took will be enough."

Liang Yue thought.

Fortunately, the Heavenly Eye does not shorten one’s lifespan, but causes aging, and rapid aging.

If you find that something is not right, stop practicing immediately.

Next, Liang Yue did not immediately practice the Heavenly Eye, but practiced internal strength, quickly cultivating his internal strength to the innate level.

The body in the innate state reaches the peak state of human beings.

The oldest, Li Hongwen, is 87 years old this year, but he is still in good health and shows no signs of physical aging.

This proves that practicing martial arts to a certain level can indeed increase one's lifespan.

Two months later, his martial arts skills were fully developed.

Liang Yue successfully entered the innate realm.

Three days later, Bao Zhao, Li Hongwen, Liang Xin and others came to the Yong'an Pagoda in Jiankang City to practice meditation.

Standing on the edge of the window of the nearly 100-meter-high tower, Liang Yue overlooks the ancient city of Jiankang.

He treated the palace as if it were his own palm and the capital as if it were his family.

Below, the figures of Li Hongwen and others can be vaguely seen.

On the stone tablet in front of the tower, Li Hongwen holds his sword across his knees, closes his eyes and regulates his breathing.

Since his breakthrough to the innate realm, his complexion has obviously improved a lot.

The great-grandson has his own career, and the past affairs have been settled.

This is basically how my life is.

Not far away, Bao Zhao was pacing back and forth. He hadn't written anything for twenty years, but today, when he saw the wonder of the pagoda, he couldn't help but feel inspired to write poetry.

"The pagoda is over a thousand feet high, and it overlooks all directions... Four dimensions... Liang Xin, which word is better?"

Bao Zhao looked at Liang Xin standing aside.

Liang Xin was studying the golden needle method. Hearing this, he said without even looking up, "Fourth Dimension."

The descendants are the predecessors, and the predecessors are the descendants.

"In this life, you will send me off."

Liang Yue turned around and closed the window.

Under the golden light, Liang Yue took a flying crystal pill and pierced his forehead.

Blood was flowing, but he remained unmoved.

He opened the porcelain bottle and purple blood flew out of it.

The flame of the eternal lamp floated in the void, slowly refining the blood until it became pure purple liquid the size of a grain of rice.

The blood enters the center of the eyebrows.

In an instant, a severe burning sensation flowed from the center of the eyebrows.

All over the body, from inside to outside, from soul to body.

Liang Yue's whole body turned red, cold sweat was pouring down, and he gritted his teeth to endure the pain.

If you can't even endure this little bit of pain, how can you transcend history and live forever? How can you achieve perfection in everything?

Relying on willpower, Liang Yue gritted his teeth for a long time and finally persevered.

The wound between the eyebrows healed, forming a faint red line.

This is not the end yet, the next step is to practice the third eye.

Liang Yue took out the blueprint and read the text on it carefully.

The first step in cultivating the third eye is to absorb the sun’s rays and refine them with true Qi.

After saying that, Liang Yue sat cross-legged in front of the stage, absorbing the sun's rays.

Officially started practicing the Heavenly Eye.

Force your way through this era and move on to the next great era.

It is not necessary for a corpse-reincarnated immortal to endure a miserable life. There are treasures in the world that can shorten this process.

Until night, the golden light between Liang Yue’s eyebrows lingered for a long time.

"not enough."

Haven't officially started yet.

After that, Liang Yue practiced during the day, and occasionally went downstairs at night to study martial arts with everyone and sort out ancient books.

The first floor of Yong'an Tower is a library.

This place houses a collection of ancient books collected by the Liang family over the years, some of which are true and some are false.

"These immortal cultivation techniques will be of great use in the future." Liang Yue said, pointing to a bookshelf not far away.

Most of these techniques are ancient cultivation methods, and their quality varies. After Liang Yue's appraisal, most of these techniques are authentic.

"Will there really be people who can practice cultivation in the future?" Emperor Liang Yan didn't quite believe it.

"Spiritual energy will eventually revive, and these skills may be useful."

"It will take many years for the spiritual energy to revive." Emperor Liang Yan sighed deeply.

Sitting on the highest throne of power in the world and having access to many ancient books, how could Emperor Liang Yan not know about the annihilation of spiritual energy?

Immortality is the dream of every monk.

However, in the past thousand years, there has only been one person, Gaozu.

As descendants of later generations, we should pave the way for our ancestors to achieve immortality.

When my ancestors achieve great perfection in the future, perhaps I will have the opportunity to join the ranks of immortals.

After returning, Emperor Liang Yan ordered the magic method to be moved to the Imperial College Library, where everyone could borrow and copy it.

During the Liang Dynasty, literature flourished.

Afterwards, Liang Yan, in the name of Buddhist monks' pure cultivation, promulgated a decree requiring them to eat vegetarian food and a method for obtaining ordination certificates.

Jiankang City.

This day, there was a banquet for all the ministers.

Li Hongwen was invited to participate, dancing with sword like a dragon, with sword energy running rampant.

hum!
The pure white sword energy flew three meters and extinguished the white candle on the beam.

Everyone was horrified and looked at each other.

"Great swordsmanship!!"

"Could it be a magic technique?"

Even if the children of aristocratic families have never practiced martial arts, they probably know the realm of martial arts.

But they had never seen a sword technique that could kill people by leaving the body.

Li Hongwen said coldly: "I will open a hall in Huairen Pavilion in the capital to accept disciples. Those who are interested can go and become my disciple."

At this time, a person below the seat asked: "May I ask, Senior, at what level of cultivation can one have the ability of a senior?"

“Just practice to the innate level.” “What is innate?” The person asking was no fool. Most of the noble families in the hall had martial arts passed down from generation to generation, or they practiced martial arts themselves.

Li Hongwen took out a thin booklet, threw it to the man, and said, "This is the method of innate breakthrough. You can circulate it among yourselves."

There are only methods and principles, but no innate elixir.

When the human immortal era arrives, they should be able to break through the limitations easily.

In addition to the innate methods, Liang Yue also has some ideas about the methods of becoming a human immortal.

Acquired body training, innate qi training. When you reach the innate stage, it is not that there is no way out, you may still need to return to the path of body training.

Refining the body, refining the Qi, then refining a stronger body, and then generating stronger Qi... repeating this cycle over and over again, may be the path to the human immortal martial arts.

Everyone rushed to pass it around and was amazed.

This idea is extremely rare, but can it really be realized?
Everyone expressed doubts.

In any case, the name Lingbao was deeply remembered by them.

Three days later.

Li Hongwen officially established his own school and began to recruit disciples. The first disciple was Chen Qingzhi, a follower of Liang Yan, followed by several members of the Liang family and descendants of old friends.

Bao Zhao did not accept any disciples, nor did he have the desire to establish his own school. Instead, he called his disciple Tao Hongjing to Jiankang.

If Tao Hongjing was willing to establish his own school, he had no objection.

Time passes slowly.

Ten days later, the sun was scorching.

Liang Yue sat cross-legged on the white lotus throne.

Suddenly, there was a burning sensation between the eyebrows, and the red lines continuously emitted golden light, day and night.

The eye-opening officially begins.

At the shoulders, there is an extra circle of silk thread on the jade silkworm that is invisible to the human eye, and now there are twenty-one circles.

"Sure enough, opening your eyes to age can increase your destiny."

Liang Yue breathed a sigh of relief.

I had already made up my mind before that if opening my eyes did not improve my destiny, I would stop practicing immediately.

"You can take the longevity pill later."

Liang Yue was actually not very sure.

Being one hundred and twenty years old in this life always feels a little unsafe. With my physique and true energy, coupled with my strong soul, aging should come very slowly.

The next life, the third life, will be one hundred and fifty years old.

This lifespan exceeds that of normal humans.

In the third life, there is no spiritual energy for him to practice, so he can only hope that there will be good skills in the human immortal era, or that spiritual creatures will be born in heaven and earth, to ensure that he can live to be 150 years old.

"It's so difficult, the Tao is the most mysterious..."

Liang Yue lamented the difficulty of practicing Taoism.

Every life requires trials and tribulations, and constant struggle to survive.

Just to see the scenery more than a thousand years later.

"It should be soon." Liang Yue couldn't help but be fascinated.

The Tao governs the world, and we should participate in it.

Judging from the clues obtained from research in recent years, the Buddhas, immortals and gods must have a backup plan; but now is a time when all things are not flourishing, so it is possible that they have not yet been put to use.

And in the era of human immortals, the spiritual energy of the earth has loosened slightly, and perhaps their backup plan will emerge from unknown corners.

Of course, it is definitely not the case that the gods and Buddhas suddenly resurrected.

Rather, it means that secret ruins hidden in unknown places are beginning to appear, or there may be some kind of alien bloodline.

For example, an extraordinary person like Li.

Time passes gradually.

In the blink of an eye, three years passed quickly.

The fourth year of Kaiping (513 AD).

At night, the stars are shining brightly, shining silver light through the windowsill.

The Taoist priest was wearing a crane feather cloak and sitting cross-legged, with a golden light flickering between his eyebrows.

The third eye is opening, and the golden light is constantly consuming your lifespan.

His face has become much more mature.

Three years have passed in the outside world, but Liang Yue has actually grown from twenty years old to thirty-five years old.

Although the appearance looks almost the same.

There was no sun at night, so Liang Yue strolled downstairs.

The second floor is the weapon refining room.

Liang Yue picked up a piece of black iron the size of a human head and began to refine it with true fire.

Next to it was a black iron and red copper precious mirror.

The next morning, Emperor Liang Yan personally delivered the ingredients for the elixir.

"Grandfather, the materials have been delivered."

Liang Yue just managed to refine the jade into the shape of a treasure seal.

"This is the Heavenly Master Seal, weighing 1,500 kilograms. This is the Heavenly Master's Treasure Mirror, invulnerable to swords and spears. From now on, it will be the Liang family's treasure to protect the family."

"Yes!"

Liang Yan couldn't let go of the two treasures and took them with difficulty.

At this point, all the pirated six treasures of Tianshi have been taken.

Future generations do not have to search hard for the remains of the tomb.

Emperor Liang Yan was about to leave when he suddenly thought of something and said, "Emperor Gaozu, I plan to expand the scope of the examination. I wonder if it will work?"

“It can be expanded.”

The so-called policy examination is actually the predecessor of the imperial examination. This concept was proposed more than ten years ago, but it has always been implemented on a small scale, and basically only children of aristocratic families can serve as officials.

Now that the Liang Dynasty was peaceful and more people were studying, Liang Yan wanted to expand the number of places.

In the future, even poor children will be able to read and write, and that will be the time when the imperial examination will flourish.

Real reform requires a foundation, not just someone coming up with a reform on a whim; it does not mean that the world will be changed immediately by implementing a policy.

Without a foundation, everything is just castles in the air.

Time passes slowly.

Another three years passed.

This year, Liang Yue was fifty years old and his face was already wrinkled.

Li Hongwen is ninety-three years old.

Liang Yue felt relieved when he saw that Li Hongwen, the oldest innate, was still alive and well.

The aging of innate masters is indeed slower.

"Maybe this kid can send me away again." Liang Yue found that his life was passing faster and faster.

It is rare to send yourself off twice in a row.

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(End of this chapter)