Ziwei Immortal Path

Chapter 78 Knowing Everything
Monk Li was overjoyed when he heard this and hurriedly shouted, "Master Li greets Master Xu!"

"Hmph! Don't be so attentive just yet. I've told you before that I don't intend to kill you, but I won't necessarily save you."

Xu Boyang walked to the stone bed, stared at the two Dharma bodies, looked them up and down, and said,
"How would I know what level of cultivation your Dharmakaya has? What if your Dharmakaya is a high-level cultivator? You're pretending to be a fool now, and once you get your Dharmakaya, you'll turn around and kill me. Isn't that what you've been thinking?"

Monk Li sighed helplessly:
"Master, I, Li Rushi, am truly at the sixth level of Li Qi, and Li Daoren is truly at the ninth level of Ning Yuan. At this moment, you have taken away all my storage bags and magical instruments. I have nothing left. Even if we were to switch places, how could I possibly be your opponent, even if I wanted to kill you?"

"If I don't accept it, should I keep it for you?"

Xu Boyang snorted coldly, "Monk Li, stop talking nonsense! How do you keep your two Dharma bodies alive and your flesh bodies incorruptible? What spiritual artifacts do you use to nourish them?"

Monk Li sighed and said, "As for the Buddhist artifact [Yin Shen Buddha Shrine], the Dharma body only needs to be placed in the shrine, and then it can be placed in the storage bag. Master, the shrine is now in the storage bag, and the storage bag is in your sleeve."

Xu Boyang took out the storage bag and shook it, saying, "You've set up a spiritual restriction on it, how can I open it?"

"Master, if you can trust me, please leave the storage bag with me, Polo, and I will help you open it."

Monk Li lay on the table, motionless. At this time, the blood in his body had already drained out, and his whole body drooped, leaving only a pile of dry bones. Only the face of his head was moving, which was extremely weird and terrifying.

Xu Boyang slowly shook his head and smiled: "Sorry, I still don't trust you. How would I know what's in the storage bag? What if there are some powerful Buddhist artifacts in it?"

Monk Li sighed and said:

"Master, it would be best if you could control my Dharma body, Li Monk, and hold my Polo. If I harbor any evil intentions, you can easily destroy my Bodhi body, so what is there to fear?"

"What's there to be afraid of?"

Xu Boyang smiled and said coldly, "Since your body has already decayed, the worst that can happen to you is that you will become a Taoist priest forever!"

"how is this possible?"

Monk Li said with a bitter face,

"My Dharma body, Taoist Li, may look young, but in reality, it is already over 120 years old. Its time is up. If I don't establish my foundation soon, I will die."

"The reason I've been occupying Monk Li all this time is, firstly, because the exchange of bodies cannot last long, and secondly, because I don't want to waste the lifespans of both of them. After all, Monk Li can always exchange bodies, and I, Taoist Li's Dharma body, can't reach the Huangting, so how can I bear to give up this immortal body that I cultivated with great difficulty?"

"You hold my Pala in your hands and control my Bodhi. How dare I give up so easily?"

"You don't have to think about [Yin Shen Changing Houses], I'm not that stupid, but I want to try something else."

Xu Boyang put away the storage bag and returned to the stone table. He spread out the five fingers of his right hand, grabbed the monk Li's bald head and lifted him up.

In an instant, Monk Li was like a corpse, with his limbs hanging in the air, and blood dripping from his heels.

Xu Boyang looked at him seriously and said:

"Monk Li, the disaster you suffered today has nothing to do with me. It was just a coincidence. Unfortunately, you have a malicious mind and insisted on leading me here. Now you and I are trapped here. I originally planned to abandon you and let you fend for yourself, but some of the things you said today seem to be quite useful to me, so I will spare your life. However, Parabodhi, it is your decision whether it is cause or effect. If you die as a result, it has nothing to do with me."

After saying that, a dazzling silver light flashed from his left hand, and he gently stroked his neck!
"Bang!"

A soft sound!
The broken flesh below the neck fell to the ground in an instant like a puddle of mud!

Xu Boyang now only has a head in his hand!
Li Heshang’s head!

Xu Boyang stared at the head quietly, motionless.

After a long time, Monk Li rolled his eyes, glanced at his own body, and sighed softly:

"The Patriarch still refuses to believe me!"

"I believe it now!"

Xu Boyang grabbed his head and said calmly, "It's hard not to believe that there's only a head left and it can still talk after such a long time."

After saying that, he shook his left hand, took out his storage bag, and placed it between his eyebrows.

"Open!"

Xu Boyang was secretly on guard. With his spiritual sense, he found a flash of red light between Monk Li's eyebrows. The storage bag was indeed opened. He then placed Monk Li, who had only his head left, on the stone table and used his spiritual sense to explore the items in the storage bag.

There are quite a lot of things!

Xu Boyang's mind moved, and the storage bag flew to the ground, and all the items inside jumped out!
When Monk Li saw that all his things were shaken out, his face twitched, his mouth was crooked and his eyes were squinting. He was extremely sad and felt that his heart was bleeding. But then he thought about it and it seemed that something was wrong. At this moment, he only had a head left, so how could he have a heart?
Pills, talismans, magic tools... were scattered all over the ground like a spring.

Xu Boyang took a quick look and collected all the pills and talismans, leaving them for later inspection. Only four magical artifacts and a pile of jade slips of different colors were left on the ground.

The first piece was a green and white crystal armor, which looked cold and glowed white.

Xu Boyang took it in his hand, took a closer look, and found that it was actually a defensive magic weapon for the Foundation Establishment Period. He immediately smiled and was secretly happy, thinking that this thing should be worth a lot of money.

Monk Li sighed and said:

"Master, this is a Taoist [Kanshui] foundation-building magic weapon, called [Green Armor]. Wearing this armor will protect you from the spells of the Condensation Stage. It will also protect you from a certain amount of damage from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth drawn in by foundation-building cultivators. However, there is a mutual restraint between them, so the maximum damage will probably not exceed 50%!"

"That's a little strange to me."

Xu Boyang smiled and said, "This item is incompatible with the [Lihuo] that you, the Taoist, have cultivated. I understand why you put it aside and don't use it, but why don't you sell it?"

Monk Li smiled bitterly and said:

"I just got it from a casual cultivator not long ago, and haven't had time to process it yet."

Xu Boyang collected the [Green Armor] and took in the second magic weapon, which were three long black bronze orders. They were of an ancient style, pointed at the top and narrow at the bottom. The first order had the word "fire" written on it, the second had the word "flame" written on it, and the third had the word "flame" written on it. It was obvious that they were not ordinary items!

Before I could ask, I heard Monk Li slowly say, "This is the [Divine Fire Token], a magical tool for building the Lihuo foundation. It can store three [Lihuo] spiritual energies of heaven and earth for your own use. The greatest advantage of this tool is that you can use it even without cultivating Lihuo. You can catch the enemy off guard and achieve a surprise victory. Cultivating Lihuo will give you even more power and make you even better."

Xu Boyang touched his chin, praised it with a sigh, accepted it happily, and looked at the third item, which was a black Buddhist shrine half a person's height. The material was neither gold nor wood, and no one knew what it was made of. However, the shrine was made very exquisitely, with auspicious clouds dotted everywhere. There was also a door in front of the shrine that could be opened.

Xu Boyang waved out [Biyouxian] and twisted it lightly, opening the two doors. He saw that it was pitch black behind the door and he couldn't tell the depth. He explored it with his spiritual sense and found that the inner space was extremely large. There was actually a cave in the stone cliff, and there were five Buddhist shrines carved on the cliff.

Turning back, he asked:

"Is this the Buddhist artifact [Yin Shen Buddha Shrine]?"

Monk Li lowered his brows and replied:
"Yes, the shrine contains Buddhist grottoes that can store five Dharma bodies."

The fourth item was a bronze array plate covered with talismans, flashing red light. Xu Boyang glanced at it and realized that it was the core of the spiritual array of the Lihuo Cave. He asked calmly:
"What formation is this?"

"The Liyangtai Radiant Light Formation is a Foundation Establishment Stage formation. Upon activation, it undergoes two transformations: a fire bird and a molten turtle, one attacking and one defending. Currently, the molten turtle is in its defensive state."

Xu Boyang's face changed slightly. He didn't expect it to be this formation. When he and Fei Wenyu went to Fang Cun Jian, they happened to encounter a cultivator demonstrating this formation. At that time, the cultivator was demonstrating the Fire Bird.

This formation is worth ten thousand spirit stones, it is a foundation-building level mountain protection formation!

In the future, when my family and the Su family have their own territory, won’t we have a mountain protection formation?

It seemed that the old monk had finally begun to speak his mind freely. He was delighted again, recalling the formula he had just taught him. He injected his spiritual consciousness into it, and indeed, he felt that there was a flag on each side of the spiritual formation, emitting red light. The spiritual power on the flags was densely woven up and down, left and right, like strands of blood, constantly circulating in all directions of the cave.

Xu Boyang put away the formation plate and moved his fingers lightly. The jade slips of different colors that passed on the skills bounced into his hands.

After a quick glance, he found that there was indeed a spiritual restriction. He looked at Monk Li with a smile.

Monk Li's face darkened and he said in a hoarse voice:
"Master, this is the [Lihuo] lineage. It has one main lineage and seven branch lines. It is a complete but incomplete Taoist method."

"According to the 'Lihuo Yuqi Xuandao Jing', if the patriarch practices according to this, as long as he has the Lihuo Shenyuan Dan, he should have no problem reaching the early stage of Huangting. However, this book is only halfway through. Logically, there should be a bottleneck in the late stage of foundation building before one can achieve Huangting, but this is not recorded in the book."

"It's a pity that I have been running around all my life, busy collecting things, and in the end I didn't even touch the foundation."

"In fact, from my years of reading the classics of various schools and sects, I see that all Taoist methods are within the scope of the Three Thousand Daoist Canons of the Eight Great Immortal Palaces. However, each school and sect has made improvements based on its own needs and tried to find a complete immortal method that can lead to ascension."

"Whether it's Condensing Essence, Li Qi, or even the so-called Polo, at the lower levels, the Dao methods are relatively complete, and the various schools and sects don't keep them to themselves. But after Foundation Establishment, Soul Condensation, and Bodhi, the situation is completely different, and no school is willing to share."

"After all, in this realm, whether it is Huang Ting Yushi, Shen Gong Situ, or Fa Xiang Zen Master, they are all powerful people in this world. No family dares to take such a risk."

Xu Boyang looked at the jade slips of power transmission floating on his chest and listened to the words of Monk Li in his ear. Many doubts arose in his mind, but he could not say them directly.

"According to what Monk Li said, when one cultivates the eight spiritual energies belonging to the Li Palace [Li Fire], they will eventually combine into the [Li Fire] spiritual energy. Finally, with this spiritual energy, one can cultivate spiritual consciousness, guide the spirit into essence, and build the foundation for immortality."

"There's no specific mention of this in the Tianhao Daoqi Changshuo Jingzhu and Tianhao Daoqi Changshuo Shuoshu. They simply say to gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, use it to contain the spirit, guide the spirit to transform into essence, and ultimately build the foundation of immortality."

"Could it be that when the Tianhao Dao Qi Chang Shuo Jing was written, the original spiritual energy of heaven and earth did not disperse, and [Flame Brilliance] is just [Flame Brilliance]? That's right. Just as Ma Lingguan said, one righteous spiritual energy was split into eight parts and scattered all over the place."

"But taking one righteous spiritual energy and seven transformed spiritual energies into the body, and finally fusing them into a [Fire of Separation], is probably too difficult."

"It took me three whole years to gather just one [Shanyin Night Snow]. If I were to gather other spiritual energies, wouldn't it take at least another twenty or so years? Does that mean it will take more than twenty years to build a foundation?"

Xu Boyang was puzzled. He looked at the lonely head of Monk Li on the table with a sad face. He put all the jade slips of power transmission into the storage bag, stretched out his hand and shook the Dharma body of "Li Confucian Scholar" by the scruff of the neck in his hand.

Monk Li was so frightened at the sight that he said in horror, "Master, what are you going to do?"

Xu Boyang asked calmly, "Is this Dharma body stored in the stone niche of the Yin God Buddha Shrine? Do you have the mantra for controlling the weapon?"

"Yes! Yes!"

Monk Li hurriedly recited a string of Sanskrit, and Xu Boyang repeated it. Monk Li then said:

"Not bad! Not bad! But it still needs to be driven by spiritual consciousness. Please be gentle, master, and don't hurt your body."

"That won't happen."

Xu Boyang stretched out his hand again and took "Li Dao Ren" over, holding one in each hand. With a move of his spiritual consciousness, he offered up the [Yin Shen Buddha Shrine] and silently recited the mantra taught by Monk Li in his heart.

The pitch-black Buddhist shrine emitted a golden glow. The two Dharma bodies held by Xu Boyang, "Li Ru Shi" and "Li Dao Ren", suddenly turned into two streams of light, one in front and one behind, and disappeared into the Buddhist shrine.

Xu Boyang used his spiritual sense to explore and found that there were indeed two Dharma bodies sitting upright on the Buddhist shrine on the stone cliff, with their hands clasped together, just like two cliff carvings.

He turned around and looked at Monk Li on the table, and said with a smile: "Senior, in that case, you should go in and rest for a while!"

Monk Li's expression changed, and before he could reply, he instantly turned into a stream of light and flew towards the Yinshen Shrine. Xu Boyang looked again and saw Monk Li's head, with a smile on his face, floating in the shrine.

At this point, the Lihuo Cave finally became silent and quiet, with only the sound of gurgling stream remaining.

Xu Boyang looked around and breathed a sigh of relief. He put the [Yin Shen Buddha Shrine] into the storage bag, came to the stream, took another look at the [Greedy Fish Lantern], and found that it was full. He put it away and sat down cross-legged, holding his breath and concentrating, closing his eyes.

At this moment, he was not going to meditate and practice again, but to enter the [Purple Star Fate Palace]!
After being scolded by Monk Li today, it was like a river bursting its banks, flooding out of control. I have many questions and I should go ask the three spiritual officials!
At this moment, the [Purple Star Fate Palace] was already in chaos, with strange phenomena happening in the heaven and earth, the stars shifting, and a red light shining brightly. The three great spiritual officials stood in front of the palace with their hands behind their backs, looking up at the magnificent starry sky that was about to change with complicated expressions!

Wang Lingguan was slightly surprised: "How could [Flame Shining] actually see the light of day again?"

Ma Lingguan shook his head and said, "Not only that, it looks like, in addition to [Shanyin Night Snow] and [Spring Breeze Yishui], the remaining five transformed spiritual energies in the Li Palace are about to appear!"

Zhao Lingguan stared at the sky for a long while, smacked his lips, and exclaimed:

"[Lihuo] is all here so quickly?"

"What did he do? Kill a Huang Ting Yushi?"

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