Invasion of the Heavens from Eternal Life

Chapter 84: The Past Amitabha Sutra

Hearing Fang Han's question, Princess Yuan did not hide anything.

He simply said, "Brother, I believe you understand that your martial arts training has reached this level. There are only two types of cultivation in the world: physical martial arts and spiritual arts. I'm afraid you've already reached the level of a marrow-training Grandmaster. The next step is to comprehend the meaning of boxing, and ultimately reach the realm of a martial arts saint, where marrow is refined like frost and blood is refined like mercury! Once you reach the level of marrow-training blood exchange, your qi and blood will be incredibly powerful. You can directly blast away and kill ordinary 'manifested' ghosts with a single punch!"

After a pause, Princess Yuan continued, "Martial arts focus on cultivating the physical body, causing it to undergo transformation, and there are also levels. Above the Grandmaster is the Martial Saint realm, which is divided into the Primary Martial Saint, Intermediate Martial Saint, Peak Martial Saint, Half-step Human Immortal, Human Immortal, and other realms. I don't know what realms are above that. As for Taoism, it focuses on cultivating the spirit and soul, allowing the spirit and soul to undergo transformation. Its levels are Out-of-body Experience, Night Travel, Day Travel, Exorcism, Manifestation, Possession, Ghost Immortal, Thunder Tribulation, and above Thunder Tribulation is the realm of Yang God reached by the ancient Saint Emperors in legend."

"Sister, can you tell me in detail?"

"My dear brother, this is too much trouble. I have limited time and need to leave soon. Later, follow Master Tu to the library. There are the Martial Classics and the Taoist Classics, compiled by masters from all over the world during the founding of the Daqian Dynasty. Although they are mixed with some useless words, they can also broaden your horizons." Princess Yuan shook her head and asked in confusion, "I really don't know how you have cultivated to this level."

"Sister Yuanfei, how can I learn Taoism from you?" Fang Han asked again. Anyway, he was determined to get the Fragrant Fox King, one of the "Eight Great Demon Immortals in the World."

"In two days, I will buy you a house in Yujing and arrange for you to settle down. Then, I will teach you the Taoism I have learned every day. You can just follow me and learn~"

After thinking about it, this beautiful fox fairy.

Princess Yuan intended to train this "cheap brother" to become her own person, so she naturally did not hesitate to train him.

In her opinion, this "cheap brother"'s physique and blood are almost comparable to those of a junior Martial Saint. With a little training, he might be able to truly break through to the realm of Martial Saint. It is simply incredible.

You must know that in the current Daqian Dynasty, there are only two great martial saints, "Marquis Wuwen" Hong Xuanji and "King Shenwei" Yang Tuo, and both of them are experienced in battles and have great reputations.

However, I don't know where this cheap brother came from, nor the Yuhua Sect he belongs to. I really have no impression of this "Fragrant Fox King". Maybe it was just made up by this cheap brother.

"If I can train my brother Han to become a Martial Saint, then he can help Ziyue share some of the pressure. My life in the royal family should be much better~"

The "Fragrant Fox King" secretly made up his mind.

As for Fang Han, he didn't think too much about it. With his basic potential, as long as he broke through to become a Martial Saint in this world, he would be able to soar to the sky. Even ordinary human immortals would not be his opponents.

Fang Han was extremely happy about this journey to the world of "Yang Shen".

You know, Fang Han also practiced the Heaven Covering Method, and he has already cultivated to the Life Spring realm. He has the chaotic divine power in the Sea of ​​Bitterness and can fly on the rainbow.

The ability to fly independently is something that only peak-level human immortals can achieve with the help of the vital energy within their own acupoints. If they are not peak-level human immortals, they will have to rely on various kinds of magical armor to fly.

In the Yangshen realm, martial arts at the Xiantian Martial Master level require the unification of body and soul, ultimately achieving an inseparable unity of soul and spirit, in order to advance. However, if this happens, the spirit and soul cannot emerge, rendering any Daoist arts ineffective. Without this unity, martial arts cultivation will struggle to advance beyond the initial stages of the Martial Saint realm, essentially halting at the initial stages of the Martial Saint realm. Therefore, masters primarily focused on Daoist techniques typically fail to advance beyond the initial stages of the Martial Saint realm. However, with the aid of "external forces" such as rare treasures, elixirs, and miraculous medicines, breakthroughs are possible. Furthermore, only those who have achieved the "no thought" state of martial arts can achieve further breakthroughs. This state, also known as "Taoism follows nature," is a state in which the body, free from thought, continues to function and even cultivates according to inertia. This is like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, repeating itself daily.

To achieve this state, one needs extremely high comprehension and good fortune. A martial artist can only reach it by chance, one in a hundred thousand; a cultivator can only reach it by chance, one in a million. As far as Fang Han knows, in the original novel, only a handful of people such as Hong Yi and Hong Xuanji have reached this state.

The "Past Amitabha Sutra" can cultivate the soul, strengthen it, and repair the damage to the soul. As long as the soul is not scattered, this scripture can be used to repair the soul. If one comprehends the mind of "true suchness is unmoving, and the original nature is sleepless for thousands of lifetimes", even if the soul is shaken and scattered, it can be slowly condensed and slowly repaired.

In addition to the Past Amitabha Sutra, the Great Zen Temple also has the Present Tathagata Sutra and the Future No-birth Sutra. The Present Tathagata Sutra is hidden in a sealed stone chamber hundreds of feet below the site of the former Great Zen Temple on Taishi Mountain. It is suppressed by the spirit of the dragon vein of Taishi Mountain and is a peerless secret book that can be used to cultivate to the level of martial arts immortals.
The "Future Immortality Sutra" is a supreme text that condenses incense and faith in the gods. Upon completion, it can condense the immortal spirit and refine it into the "Lord of the Future" who can deduce everything. It can even speculate, analyze, evolve, summarize, and generalize billions of thoughts in a blink of an eye, almost equivalent to a super-intelligent computer. However, this scripture is currently in the hands of the current emperor, Yang Qian.

Not inferior to the "Present Tathagata Sutra", "Future Non-Birth Sutra" and "Present Tathagata Sutra" of the Great Zen Temple are the "Creation Book" of the Creation Dao; the "Taishang Dan Sutra" of the Taishang Dao; the "Xuantian Dark Record" of the Xuantian Pavilion; the "Yin and Yang Mixed Cave" Sutra of the Taoshen Dao; the "Juling Gang Dao Book" of the Zhengang Sect; the "Collection of Essence, Blood and Yuan Qi" of the Jingyuan Temple, as well as some inheritances left by various philosophers and saints, etc.

At this moment, the scripture closest to Fang Han is the "Past Amitabha Sutra". The location of the "Past Amitabha Sutra" is hidden inside the "Taoist Sutra" in the scripture library of these Tushan clan foxes, and it is almost within reach for Fang Han.

Fang Han practiced the "Green Lotus Spirit Refining Method" in "Nine Slashes of the Demon Emperor", which can transform the power of circulating qi and blood into spiritual power through the "Shenbian Point".

Although he possessed the Yuhua Sect's "Yuanchen Spiritual Technique," this secret technique couldn't strengthen his spirit. Its purpose was to, through meditation, mobilize the body's vital energy and blood, dispelling the darkness within the Tianmen brain and ultimately discovering and opening the portal to supernatural powers within. Only when the vital energy and blood boiling in the brain nourished and opened countless acupoints and mystical areas of the brain could the portal to supernatural powers be broken open, allowing the spirit to be released, integrating with the vital energy of heaven and earth, and achieving supernatural powers. If Fang Han intended to break through the secret realm of supernatural powers, he could use this secret technique.

In the Yangshen world, even in the ancient past, great supernatural beings were born, guided by the profound principles of the laws of heaven and earth. They left behind numerous visualization methods that embody the essence of these principles and their various characteristics. For example, the Xuantian Daozun, worshipped at the Xuantian Pavilion, represents the darkness before the universe, the pre-historical universe. For example, the Taishang Daozun of the Taishang Dao, with his soul carrying the supreme forgetfulness, offers all things in heaven and earth as sacrifices. The unfathomable nature of heaven and earth, the divine charm of the Dao above the Dao, and so on, is the foundation of all Taoist arts in the world. Later generations, drawing on the divine charm of these great supernatural beings, created numerous specific Taoist arts and cultivated supernatural powers. The activation of these Taoist arts and supernatural powers requires the power of the soul.

If Taoism is cultivated to a high level, the practitioner can use spiritual thoughts to interfere with the real material world, condense the energy of heaven and earth, and cause real lethality. This also makes Taoist masters of the same level much stronger than martial arts masters in the early stages.

Advancing in the Daoist arts of the Yangshen world requires strengthening spiritual power. Deep between a cultivator's eyebrows lies an acupoint known as the "Essence Embryo" or "Brain Spirit," and its function is crucial. It's similar to the "Shenbian Point" in the immortal realm, or perhaps even the "Shenbian Point," the ancestral acupoint between the eyebrows, or the "Valley Spirit." Through this acupoint, physical energy and blood can be transformed into spiritual power. Furthermore, it serves to connect the spirit and the body. If damaged, the spirit cannot return to its proper place, and even if it does, it cannot control the body, resulting in a state of separation between spirit and soul.

If one wants to strengthen the spirit and soul with qi and blood, one must practice "essence and essence on the fetus", and the secret method of cultivating acupoints can be regarded as a secret book of martial arts and immortality, and there are not many of them in the world today.

Neither the immortality technique nor the heaven-shaking technique emphasizes the discovery of acupuncture points. However, theoretically, the human body corresponds to the universe, and the acupuncture points throughout the body can correspond to the stars in the universe, possessing endless potential. In the original novel, "Old Demon Fang" achieved a high level of mastery of the Great Acupuncture Point Technique, where his countless acupuncture points transformed into the universe. Finally, upon achieving perfection in the Great Five Elements Technique, the acupuncture point universe was transformed into a crystal divine kingdom, and his body transformed into the prototype of a divine artifact of creation. This "divine artifact of creation" is a magical tool of the Immortal King level, with power beyond even Fang Han's comprehension. It is a path to the heavens.

In the world of eternal life, emphasis is placed on cultivating supernatural powers and the secret realm of supernatural powers. Only those who have reached the ninth level of supernatural powers, "Dharma of Heaven and Earth", have the ability to possess another's body. Even if one has reached the eighth level of supernatural powers, once the physical body collapses, he will die immediately.

In the Yangshen world, if one's soul cultivates to the Ghost Immortal realm, comparable to a junior Martial Saint, they can transcend life and death, transform into a corpse and reincarnate. Even if they change into a new body, their soul and spirit will gradually harmonize, allowing them to be reborn. However, Ghost Immortals still have a lifespan limit. If they don't survive a thunder tribulation, their lifespan is at least 500 years. Surviving a thunder tribulation can last for a thousand years, and each subsequent thunder tribulation adds 500 years to their original lifespan. A Ghost Immortal who has survived nine thunder tribulations can maintain immortality for 5,000 years!

Although there are souls that can take over other bodies in the world of Shrouding the Sky, because they are too powerful, the physical body repels the "outer gods" and can only merge into one after a long period of rejection. However, even if the soul takes over many bodies, it will still die once the soul's lifespan is over.

Therefore, the method of cultivation in the Yangshen world is extremely important to Fang Han.

(End of this chapter)