Honghuang Taihuang

Chapter 66 The Great Path of the Golden Core

Taiwei separated a portion of his divine sense to control the refining ceremony of the two golden pills, while the rest of his divine sense was integrated into the three million volumes of alchemy manual in his mind, and he began to devote himself to improving his alchemy realm.

Three million volumes of alchemical manuals may seem like a lot, but in reality, there is a high degree of duplication among these three million volumes. After Taiwei's screening, only about 100,000 volumes remained, which were of considerable help to Taiwei.

As his mind wandered in the vast and boundless true meaning of alchemy, Taiwei began to re-examine his own foundation in alchemy. The 100,000 volumes containing the true meaning of alchemy were enough to allow Taiwei's cultivation level to achieve a qualitative leap.

At this moment, Taiwei was also glad that his first incarnation after the tribulation cultivated the Dao of Alchemy. Otherwise, if he had chosen other Daos such as Water and Fire, Wind and Thunder, or Yin and Yang, it would have been virtually impossible for him to obtain a large book in the White Tiger Royal Court that would be sufficient to support his further advancement.

The White Tiger royal family mainly cultivates the Great Dao of Geng and Xin, Xun Wind, Constellations, Slaughter, Swords and Blades, etc. If Taiwei's incarnation mainly cultivates the Great Dao of Thunder, then judging from the number of books in the Daoist Palace, Taiwei can at most obtain more than 10,000 Thunder Great Books that are useful to him.

The Dao of Alchemy is different. Its importance to living beings and cultivators is self-evident. Among the five royal families, there are a large number of cultivators who specialize in the Dao of Alchemy, the Dao of Weapons, and the Dao of Arrays.

Therefore, whether it is the White Tiger Royal Court or the royal courts of the other four royal families, they are all extremely important to alchemy. If Taiwei encounters a bottleneck in his alchemy cultivation in the future, he can use this method to seek benefits from the other four royal courts, and he will surely gain a lot.

The Secret Instructions of the Three Vehicles, Talks on the Dao Aperture, The Classic of the End of Literature, The Jade Dragon Collection, The Return to the Source Chapter, The Song of the Elixir Marrow, The Four Hundred Characters of the Golden Elixir, The Profound and Mysterious Formulas of the Great Dao of the Innate Golden Elixir, The Emerald Void Chapter...

Various ingenious alchemical manuals flowed slowly through Taiwei's mind, causing his primordial spirit to vibrate as he continuously absorbed the true meaning and essence of these manuals.

As a royal family, the White Tiger Royal Family's understanding and evolution of alchemy is undoubtedly at the pinnacle of the primordial world. Although Taiwei himself is skilled in alchemy, in some aspects he is indeed inferior to the many alchemists in the White Tiger Royal Court who have devoted their entire lives to studying alchemy.

Volumes of alchemical manuals transformed into starlight and merged into Taiwei's heart, matching Yin and Yang, gathering and dispersing water and fire, uniting dragon and tiger, refining elixirs, and the flying golden crystals behind the elbow, the golden elixir returning to the elixir, the golden elixir refining form, the refining of Qi at the origin, the internal observation and exchange, and the transcendence of fractals...

All sorts of profound inner and outer alchemical truths that Taiwei had never heard of before transformed into a monstrous wave that engulfed Taiwei's primordial spirit. Only now did Taiwei realize that his accumulation in alchemy was far from sufficient.

Taiwei's alchemy skills were indeed at the pinnacle of the primordial world, but his own philosophy of alchemy was still incomplete.

He originally thought that internal alchemy and external alchemy were two different paths of alchemy, but now, after absorbing the true meaning of the great books on alchemy, Taiwei has realized that there is no difference between the so-called internal and external alchemy.

The internal alchemy path takes the human body as the universe, while the external alchemy path takes nature as the universe. The two seem very different, but in fact they lead to the same goal. Originally, Taiwei was wondering whether he should focus on the internal alchemy path or the external alchemy path, but now it seems that he doesn't need to worry about this at all.

There has never been an internal alchemy path or an external alchemy path, only the Golden Elixir Path. Whether it is internal alchemy or external alchemy, the ultimate pursuit is still eternal immortality and transcendence of heaven and earth.

This is the core essence of the Xuanmen Dao. In the previous era, alchemy was a branch of the Xuanmen Immortal Dao. Taiwei didn't need to care about external alchemy or internal alchemy. He only needed to forge the strongest and purest Dao Golden Core.

Within his body, this golden elixir was a small world encompassing the five internal organs, all the orifices of the body, and all the limbs and bones. In the outside world, this golden elixir was a great world connecting the Great Dao of Heaven and Man, encompassing Yin and Yang, the Three Powers, the Four Symbols, and the Five Elements.

There is no difference between the two. Taiwei only understood a little about the wonders of alchemy and the mystery of the golden elixir at this time, and truly entered the gate of alchemy cultivation.

In that instant, Taiwei's foundation, which he had built in the past, collapsed completely. Purple-gold Dao light rose up, and all of Taiwei's foundation, essence, and divine sense were cleansed and refined by the purple-gold golden elixir Dao light tens of thousands of times.

The Yin and Yang energies, the power of the Three Realms, and the Great Dao of Heaven and Man were all integrated into his own Golden Core Dao at this moment. At this time, Taiwei no longer had any major or minor Dao to cultivate; he only cultivated one Dao, which was the Golden Core Dao.

All of Taiwei's other major cultivation paths were merged into the Golden Core Dao, whose foundation was expanding wildly. At this time, Taiwei's own alchemy foundation, the Heavenly Human Dragon Tiger Great Core, was also tempered again.

The celestial power within the Celestial Dragon-Tiger Great Elixir was directly erased by the Purple-Gold Dao Light, transforming it into the purest form of the Golden Elixir, the foundation of his alchemy. Consequently, Taiwei renamed this Golden Elixir, which represented the foundation of his alchemy, as the Dragon-Tiger Great Elixir.

The golden elixir radiated purple-gold light continuously, and Taiwei's own foundation was constantly reshaped in the process, along with the true dragon essence in the crystal dragon pearl, the phoenix essence in the phoenix feathers, and the Taiyin true water essence in the Taiyin cube.

These top-tier divine objects of heaven and earth, which Taiwei was previously unable to refine, were now easily guided and refined by the purple-gold Dao light emanating from Taiwei's body.

After understanding the true meaning of the Golden Elixir Dao, Taiwei realized how huge a mistake his previous alchemy concepts had been.

The first step in Taiwei alchemy is to suppress the instinctive resistance of the object being refined. In other words, Taiwei cannot control divine objects of heaven and earth that are beyond its own power to handle, let alone refine them into golden pills.

However, Taiwei now understands that the so-called alchemy does not require absolute control over the object being refined. As long as the object is not owned and will not resist Taiwei, Taiwei can refine it by utilizing the different primordial energy structures among various divine objects.

Just like the Sun and Moon Cube, Taiwei itself harnessed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to evolve the fiery energy that stimulated the cube. Then, it split the Taiyin True Water power that burst forth from the cube, evolving into Taiyin Qi and Taiyin Water.

Under Taiwei's control, the two forces shuttled through the Taiyin Cube, constantly decomposing and catalyzing the Taiyin True Water into Taiyin Qi and Taiyin Water. Then, Taiwei stimulated the phoenix feathers to evolve into Nirvana Holy Flame, and used the crystal dragon pearl to generate Azure Dragon Essence.

With the combined might of the dragon and phoenix, the true essence of strength, gentleness, water, and fire has permeated the nature of the Taiyin Cube. The three top-tier divine objects of heaven and earth, which were previously difficult to refine, are now easily refined by Taiwei.

Brilliant rays of solar divine light were drawn by Taiwei and merged into the Taiyin Cube, balancing the yin and yang within it. The Taiyin Cube, the phoenix feather, and the crystal dragon pearl, three top-tier divine objects of heaven and earth, continuously melted and collapsed under Taiwei's refinement.

(End of this chapter)