You promised yourself to be a caged bird, but you became the supreme young master?

Chapter 117 Western Regions Buddhism, Bodhi Seed

"Young friend, are you ready?"

There are three days and seven hours left until the end of the secret realm.

If you're prepared, then prepare for divine magic to break through limits.

"I don't intend to delve too deeply into talent," the elder from the Sword Sect said.

"I am ready." For Lu Heng, raising any cultivation technique to the perfect level is equivalent to raising it to its most perfect upper limit.

Even if the method of refining the spirit is perfected in just one hour, there will be no exceptions.

"Don't let your guard down. There's a reason why breaking through the limits of divine techniques is the most difficult of the three techniques. Even I, back then, tried no less than a hundred times and never succeeded," the old man from the Sword Sect said calmly.

They used themselves as a negative example to warn the young people around them.

The fact that he can talk about this calmly already shows that he has let it go.

Compared to the vast majority of people who can't even see their own upper limit and only hover around the lower limit, there are people who can clearly see their own upper limit.

It is both a blessing and a curse.

Human strength has its limits.

His actual talent might only be that of a top-tier prodigy, and even with all his efforts, he could only break through the limits of the Sword Sect's sword technique in the Body Refining Secret Realm.

It was only later, in the Qi Refining Secret Realm, that he truly achieved unparalleled mastery.

And ultimately, they achieve the Void Refinement stage; even with unparalleled talent, not everyone can reach this point.

They either perish halfway through, or they fall before reaching the Void Refining Secret Realm, at that crucial step.

Breaking through the Void Refinement realm is like stepping into heaven or hell.

Failure means death.

Even those who are unparalleled are no exception; there are no exceptions.

To reach the Void Refinement stage in an era that was not a great one, relying solely on the background of a first-rate Sword Sect, the old man of the Sword Sect was already one of the most dazzling people of his time.

Even those with exceptional innate talent and divine favor are no more than this.

Once you reach the Refinement of Emptiness realm, things that seemed impossible before become possible.

There is no turning back in spiritual practice, and there is no regret in attaining enlightenment.

The elder from the Sword Sect wanted to know whether it was possible to overcome the limitations of the Divine Refinement stage.

This is the fundamental reason why, thousands of years ago, besides that destiny, he paid a great price to create the treasure of the secret realm, undergo the trial of the secret realm, and even cut off his own body to leave behind a spiritual body.

"I have a method that can increase your chances of breaking through the limits of your Spirit Refining Technique by 50%."

"But it can only be done once, and only within the secret realm," the elder of the Sword Sect said.

If it weren't for witnessing it firsthand, and even for creating a divine law that breaks through limits, he wouldn't have needed to cut himself in the first place.

"Senior, I'm not lying," Lu Heng replied calmly.

He closed his eyes slightly, and when he opened them again, his blue pupils were exactly the same as before. The divine light in his eyes brought about by the perfection of the basic refining spirit method had quietly disappeared without a trace.

The basic method of refining the spirit is perfect and complete, without any flaws, omissions, or regrets!

This is the theoretical limit of the basic spirit-refining method before breaking through the limits!

The old man from the Sword Sect narrowed his eyes and said helplessly after a long while.

"I'm getting old."

Young friend, someone as young as you really makes me realize how old I am.

If he were younger, the elder of the Sword Sect might have had the idea of ​​catching up.

But now, all we can do is sigh and marvel.

If the difference in talent is not significant, but only a hair's breadth, then most people might still have the idea of ​​catching up.

But when talent reaches a certain level, most people can only look up to it.

"Okay, that's all for now."

"I should be going too." The old man from the Sword Sect sighed with emotion, and finally said this.

"Senior." Lu Heng was a little confused. Didn't the old man from the Sword Sect say that he planned to witness his Spirit Refining Method break through its limits?

"My method to break through the limits lies in the objects that my spiritual body is entrusted to: a piece of ten-thousand-year-old soul-nourishing wood and a Bodhi seed."

The old man from the Sword Sect answered calmly.

Lu Heng immediately ignored the Ten Thousand Year Soul-Nourishing Wood and instead noticed another object entrusted to him: the Bodhi Seed.

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This world has Buddhism, and at the same time, it also has Taoism.

However, due to its origins, Buddhism, Buddhist temples, and Buddhist monasteries stopped in the Western Regions of the Great Qi Dynasty.

Of course, due to the fact that the Western Regions had been managed for tens of thousands of years, even though it had undergone more than one purge.

But now, at least in the Western Regions of the Great Qi Dynasty, Buddhism is one of the few entities that can rival the imperial court and dominate the world.

Other Taoist groups were more scattered, distributed throughout the Great Qi Dynasty either as sects or families, due to the Taoist philosophy of tranquility and non-action.

In terms of cohesion, it is far inferior to Buddhism.

The reason for mentioning Buddhism was that Lu Heng remembered the Bodhi seeds the old man spoke of, having seen them in a book before.

According to legend, there is a tree in the Western Regions Buddhism called the Bodhi tree, which can produce Bodhi seeds and nurture the Bodhi mind.

Bodhi seeds can enhance enlightenment and help practitioners break through bottlenecks in their practice.

Furthermore, the Bodhicitta (the aspiration for enlightenment) can take practitioners a step further, enabling ordinary practitioners to transform into chosen ones, while exceptionally gifted practitioners can advance even further.

But can Bodhi seeds really help divine methods break through limitations?

This step is tantamount to defying the heavens. If one has a Bodhi mind, there is still a sliver of possibility, but if the Bodhi seeds produced by the spiritual plant of heaven and earth, the Bodhi tree, can help overcome this bottleneck.

Even a peerless swordsman like that wouldn't have failed to break through the limits of divine techniques after hundreds of attempts.

Lu Heng reasonably raised his doubts. At the same time, he also realized that if it were just an ordinary Bodhi seed, it would be impossible for it to serve as a vessel for the spiritual body of a Void Refining Great Power.

It should be noted that, according to Lu Heng's knowledge, the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul-Nourishing Wood, which performs the same function, is...

Even for a True Monarch of Spirit Refining, such a long-lasting soul-nourishing item can play a significant role.

"These are certainly not ordinary Bodhi seeds, but rather the seeds from the legendary ancient Bodhi tree," the old man from the Sword Sect patiently explained.

Lu Heng gasped in shock. The reason was simple: he had heard of the Bodhi Tree, of course, from a book of myths and legends.

As the legendary origin of the Bodhi tree, any Bodhi seed planted from the ancient Bodhi tree can grow into a priceless Bodhi tree.

But the reason it is a legend is that the Bodhi tree is a sacred plant of heaven and earth that existed when the world was created.

Even if it is not a naturally divine being, the Bodhi Ancient Tree is said to be no less powerful than a saint after countless years, because the spiritual plants of heaven and earth have an endless lifespan.

The Bodhi tree originally belonged to a Buddhist saint, but due to a major upheaval, it vanished into the void.

Even Buddhism cannot find any trace of it.

The Bodhi seeds of the ancient Bodhi tree are said to be the medium through which one can find the ancient Bodhi tree.

If the elder from the Sword Sect hadn't mentioned it, he would never have made that connection at all.