I use my supernatural powers to prove my immortality

Chapter 67 I Wish to Be a Brick and Stone

"If you want to cultivate immortality, I can provide you with a method. Although it is not a top-level secret, it is far more convenient, safer and more effective than your current method."

Since making an exception and accepting Xue Jingliang as his apprentice, Zhong Lixiao has lifted some of the age restrictions.

He could make a lot of money by exchanging a book of martial arts for many recipes of elixirs in the "Classic of Materia Medica".

Moreover, he also has the opportunity to obtain the seed of magical power from Wei Dutou, which is killing three birds with one stone.

Wei Dutou said calmly, "I don't have any spiritual roots."

Zhong Lixiao: “.”

Looking at Wei Dutou's calm demeanor, it was obvious that he was already accustomed to the reactions of cultivators when they found out that he had no spiritual roots.

He has also completely recognized the fact that he cannot practice Taoism without spiritual roots, but he still wants to try it again.

This also reminded Zhong Lixiao of the situation in Taoyuan Valley again -

Although he has spiritual roots, they are only four spiritual roots. When facing the "immortal seedlings" with three or two spiritual roots, the natural barrier called "talent" is like an insurmountable mountain, always pressing in front of him.

At one point, he was almost breathless due to the pressure, until his supernatural powers awakened, the haze gradually dissipated.

Zhong Lixiao deeply sympathized with Wei Dutou!

Therefore, on the one hand, the rational Zhong Lixiao wanted to persuade Wei Dutou to enjoy the present moment, but on the other hand, he couldn't bring himself to express his former eagerness to act.

He knows that in the face of a strong dream, sometimes "difficulties and obstacles", "natural barriers", "impossibilities" and "talent" have to give in.

Seeing that Zhong Lixiao was obviously moved by him but still did not try to persuade him to give up, Wei Dutou couldn't help feeling a little strange in his heart.

He was indeed not mistaken. The Eleventh Master was really different from other cultivators. He could truly empathize with a tiny mortal like him.

Wei Dutou gradually came to this guess when he saw Zhong Lixiao distributing pork to many villagers in Yuliangzhuang.

It also ultimately prompted him to take this crucial step!
Wei Dutou smiled and said, "Please forgive me, Master Eleven. I am being rude."

Zhong Lixiao looked at Wei Dutou in confusion.

He saw Wei Dutou untying the laces on his clothes and taking off his shirt in front of him.

Afterwards, Zhong Lixiao saw the various extremely hideous scars on Wei Dutou's body.

Wei Dutou pointed at one of the hideous scars and said, "I once implanted an immortal jade bone from a long-dead monk here. It was rejected by the doctor and became ulcerated and infected. I had to remove it in the end."

"This patch of black scarred scales is because I once drank the heart blood of a pangolin monster and was eventually assimilated. But in the end, I still cannot rely on absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon to practice."

"In the mortal world, I am actually what everyone calls a martial arts grandmaster. I can even emit the legendary sword light."

"But I am now skinny and my Qi and blood are declining. The core reason is that I have practiced a book called "Hundred Meridians Body Refining Secret". The main idea is to use the body as a furnace to finally open up the Ren and Du meridians, penetrate the bridge between heaven and earth, and absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body."

Zhong Lixiao looked at Wei Dutou, who was skinny and covered with wounds, and felt incredible for a moment. He even wanted to know how he survived.

"You're so messy!"

Wei Dutou put on his clothes and rummaged through a pocket on his sleeve, then found a nearly torn booklet.

"It's not a random act. I'm just verifying the assumptions and guesses of my predecessors. Please read on, Master Eleven."

After Wei Dutou finished speaking, he handed over the booklet.

Zhong Lixiao flipped through it and immediately saw many stories about mortals breaking through the gap between heaven and man, and ultimately going against their innate nature to achieve the goal of practicing Taoism.

The longest part is about the method of taking external elixirs.

That is to use the profound martial arts secrets to refine one's internal organs to the level that can digest gold and iron.

Then on this basis, they take various spiritual materials for a long time, hoping to eventually make up for the lack of spiritual roots through acquired means.

Afterwards, Zhong Lixiao saw all kinds of crazy experiments.

Among them was a warrior named Yue Wendong, who had a terrifying talent for martial arts and had trained his body to be as powerful as a furnace.

In the later period, he took a special mineral called the Tao Stone for a long time. The reason was that he found a large number of Tao traces in this stone. Even those who practiced Taoism regarded it as a treasure.

According to records, he did eventually develop an "acquired spiritual root" in his body that was comparable to a Dao Hen.

It was because this process of acquired nature going against innate nature was too painful, and coupled with Yue Wendong's old age and declining blood, he eventually lost his power and died.

At his request, his disciples dissected and analyzed his body, and eventually they did find a number of suspected acquired spiritual roots from his body.

Zhong Lixiao just looked at each other in bewilderment.

Are these mortals crazy?

The internal organs are like a furnace that can digest gold and iron. But you have eaten a lot of Qiudao Stones, so you might have kidney stones?
In subsequent records, we can see that there are people who followed Yue Wendong and continued to rush on this path.

However, after a series of failures, the recipe of the elixir changed several versions. Some of them were mainly made of plant essences, and then mixed with lead and mercury to make the elixir;

Some are made with monster blood as the main ingredient, mixed with ginseng, ganoderma lucidum, lead, mercury and human milk;

There are even some people who use zombies' heart blood as raw materials to mix lead, mercury, gold, sulfur and cinnabar.
Afterwards, Zhong Lixiao saw various other paths to try.

for example.

Practice secret methods to strengthen the body such as "The Art of Refining the Body by a Hundred Meridians" and eventually use powerful qi and blood to open the Ren and Du meridians, open up the bridge between heaven and earth, and thereby absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body.

Unfortunately, this path also ultimately failed, and many warriors who took this step died miserably.

Zhong Lixiao was speechless.

It would be strange if he didn't die in such a miserable state!
Legend has it that there is a "moon demon" in the moonlight and a "sun demon" in the sunlight.

When absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, it is very easy to have many false thoughts. Once you fail to subdue your mind, not only will you not be able to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, but your own essence may even be scattered throughout the world.

A serious loss of vitality is the least of the problems, and one may even become completely stupid!
For these monks, meditation, visualization, and submission all have strict curriculum standards. When they first start learning, the elders will teach them step by step and may even be there to protect them.

Especially when it comes to visualization, it is very easy for beginners to have many illusions. They take the real as fake and the fake as real. If they lose their mind, there is no recovery.

Therefore, many methods of spiritual practice do not start with visualization, but from simple to difficult, first taking external elixirs to strengthen the body, strengthening the body while strengthening the soul.

Zhong Lixiao didn't know whether to evaluate this group of warriors as brave warriors or fools who would not turn back even if they hit a wall.

Perhaps, all the Yugongs in the world who dare to move mountains are basically the same, and they are all fools with similar temperaments.

Compared to those unlucky predecessors, Wei Dutou was much luckier. After taking this extremely crazy path, he only tortured himself to a point of being emaciated and skinny, but did not become stupid or crazy.

There are even more extreme and crazy people who advocate practicing the art of absorbing power, capturing a low-level cultivator and absorbing their spiritual power into their own dantian.

but.

After the true Qi from the cultivators' bodies is sucked away, it quickly degrades into the Qi of the Nutrients and Guardians within their own bodies, and eventually merges into one with their own internal strength.

There are also warriors who, after sucking the true Qi out of the cultivator, are unable to refine and absorb it, nor are they able to downgrade it into the Qi of the Nutrients and Guardians. It directly turns into a powerful alien kind of true Qi, torturing the cultivator to the point where he is worse off than dead.

But even so, there are still powerful warriors who are deeply engaged in this path.

for example.

Transform the powerful alien true qi of the cultivator into spiritual root seeds, and let them take root and sprout after being subdued.

There are also cases where people use their essence and blood to feed the little ghost, coexist with the little ghost, and intend to use the little ghost as an external spiritual root to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Zhong Lixiao's eyelids twitched wildly as he stared at them one by one.

It feels so crazy!

More extreme ones even advocate giving up the physical body, turning all the essence of flesh and blood into nourishment for the soul, and eventually turning to the path of ghosts.

Zhong Lixiao was speechless for a moment. Why did it feel that everyone he had come into contact with recently, whether they were cultivators or mortal warriors, were so extreme and crazy?
Zhong Lixiao: "It seems like the knowledge in this booklet has been passed down for a long time?"

Wei Dutou also took the risk and admitted directly, "Mortals are like grass, one after another, but there are always a few who cannot cultivate immortality but are unwilling to be confined to mediocrity. This is what I collected from all over the mortal world, and everyone's research results have been passed down from generation to generation."

Zhong Lixiao felt a little uneasy.

Many of the experiments here were extremely cruel, and almost all the warriors who participated in the experiments died miserably.

but.

They continue to move forward one after another, like moths to a flame, and even in death they pass on the torch.

The purpose is just as Wei Dutou said - since we know that there are immortals in the world, we must go and see the scenery that the immortals have seen, and feel the wind that the immortals have blown.

In fact, it is not only these mortal warriors, but also cultivators like Zhong Lixiao who have such thoughts.
The reason for climbing a mountain is simply because the mountain is there.

They are all seekers!
Perhaps after hundreds or thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years, warriors without spiritual roots in the world will finally be able to open up a path of immortal martial arts suitable for warrior practice.

but.

The crueler reality is that many things we don’t have when we are born may never exist again in this lifetime.

For warriors like Wei Dutou who have no spiritual roots, even if they have successfully opened up the path of immortal martial arts for millions or thousands of years, they are only the starting point for cultivators with spiritual roots.

But even so, Zhong Lixiao still couldn't feel any contempt.

"It's a great cause, a great determination, but I want to tell you that the evil spirit in the wild boar king's blood is extremely violent, and there is a 99% chance that you can't resist it. You will die!"

Wei Dutou laughed loudly, "It's just a death, what's the big deal? If mortals like me without spiritual roots really need so many corpses to pave the way for cultivation, I am willing to be a brick and stone for this path."

Looking at the resolute Wei Dutou, Zhong Lixiao suddenly felt that he was taller than ever before.

A warrior does not fear death, so why should he be afraid of it?
The road to immortal martial arts may finally be opened!
(End of this chapter)