Zhang Kui Asks the Way in Investiture of the Gods

Read Chapter 202, "Enlightenment in the Alchemy Furnace, Taiyi Golden Immortal," now to begin today's exciting chapter.

The Five Elements Dao Fruit within Zhang Kui's body spun wildly, and the phantom images of the Five Divine Beasts appeared: Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and Qilin roared in unison, doing their utmost to devour the Yin-Yang power.

However, the medicinal power was simply too strong. The innate Yin and Yang energies contained in a single Yin-Yang Primordial Pill were enough to make a Golden Immortal cultivate for a hundred years. Although Zhang Kui had a solid foundation, he still couldn't handle absorbing so much at once.

"No, we have to speed it up."

Zhang Kui gritted his teeth and pushed the Golden Elixir Dao to its limit, while simultaneously activating the Nine Breaths Breathing Divine Power, using nine breathing techniques to accelerate the absorption and transformation of the medicinal power.

Gradually, the violent yin and yang forces began to calm down and merge into his golden core, physical body, and soul.

……

In the alchemy room.

Golden Horn and Silver Horn have already suppressed the fire in the Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Silver Horn, bored out of his mind, idly asked, "Brother, what do you think Zhang Kui's experience is in there? Is it unbearably hot, or warm and comfortable?"

"Aren't you annoying? You're always so impulsive. You'll suffer a great loss sooner or later if you keep this up." Seeing that the situation was under control, Golden Horn finally spoke up and complained to Silver Horn.

Silver Horn said dismissively, "Brother, the fire has been brought under control. Brother Niu will inform Master Xuandu soon. Now, we just need to wait a little longer."

Jinjiao said irritably, "I hope so!"

"Hey, big brother, as long as Zhang Kui stays safe and sound inside, there won't be any problems." Silver Horn tilted his head back, looking smug.

Suddenly, the flames of the Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Furnace fluctuated, and the Six Ding Divine Fire, which had been suppressed by the two, surged up again.

"What's going on?" Silver Horn was dumbfounded.

Jin Jiao's face darkened, and he said, "You jinx! Your bad luck always comes true. It seems Zhang Kui has mistakenly ingested the pills in the furnace, and now the balance inside the furnace has been disrupted."

"No way, big brother, how can he take medicine like that? What was Zhang Kui thinking?" Although Silver Horn complained, he was actually very impressed.

Zhang Kui is a man of principle and also quite daring.

……

Inside the alchemy furnace.

The Six Ding Divine Fire grew even more intense.

Zhang Kui, who was focused on refining the elixir, was completely unaware of his surroundings. At that moment, he felt like a person who was starving and felt bloated after a hearty meal.

The Yin and Yang energies within his body accelerated his Golden Core cultivation, causing the Five Elements Dao Fruits to spin wildly and the illusory images of the Five Divine Beasts to become increasingly solid. Before long, the first pill was completely absorbed.

Almost instinctively, Zhang Kui reached out and another pill flew into his hand, which he swallowed.

And so, Zhang Kui continued his cultivation and took medicine...

Upon receiving the notification from Qingniu, Grand Master Xuandu rushed to the alchemy room.

Seeing the shifty eyes of Golden Horn and Silver Horn, Xuan Du glared coldly at them before turning his attention to the Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Furnace.

He didn't speak, but the invisible pressure made Golden Horn and Silver Horn afraid to even breathe.

With a flick of his sleeve, the scene inside the furnace appeared in the air.

Seeing Zhang Kui cultivating while taking medicine, Xuan Du grinned. He thought, "Ignorance is bliss. Can you really take pills like that?"

The Two Elements Primordial Pill is extremely potent; even a Golden Immortal cultivator would need to cultivate in seclusion for several months to refine just one pill. Zhang Kui, on the other hand, swallowed dozens of them in one go. Wasn't that just courting death?

But... he's still alive.

Xuandu observed carefully for a while and found that although Zhang Kui's face was flushed and his veins were bulging, his breathing was still relatively stable. The Golden Core Dao was operating properly, and the Nine Breaths Breathing Technique also played a key role.

"This kid... he's got some skills." Xuan Du nodded to himself.

Then, he made a decision that left Golden Horn and Silver Horn speechless.

"Golden horn, silver horn, Heaven and Earth, wind fuels the fire," Xuandu instructed directly.

"Huh?" Gold Horn and Silver Horn were taken aback at first.

"What are you waiting for? Make your move!"

Xuandu shouted sternly.

Jinjiao and Yinjiao dared not delay and quickly adjusted their positions to intensify the fire.

Xuandu continuously directed the two to adjust the fire, sometimes strengthening it, sometimes weakening it, sometimes shifting it to the left, sometimes shifting it to the right, precisely controlling every change in the Six Ding Divine Fire.

Seeing this, Qingniu muttered to himself, "They're all ruthless! It's already outrageous enough that their disciple is taking medicine haphazardly, but I never imagined that Master Xuandu would go even further, actually using his disciple as medicine for alchemy. Truly worthy of being master and disciple..."

Xuan Du seemed to hear Qing Niu's thoughts, glanced at him indifferently, and said, "Don't spout nonsense if you don't understand. Although the Six Ding Divine Fire is a gentle fire, it has the effect of 'slow simmering.' Zhang Kui has ingested too many pills, and the medicinal power has accumulated in his body. If he doesn't use external force to refine it, he will explode and die sooner or later. I'm helping him."

The green ox suddenly understood and nodded repeatedly.

And so, forty-nine days later...

Inside the alchemy furnace.

Zhang Kui's magical power was completely saturated.

The eighty-one Yin-Yang Primordial Pills greatly increased his magical power, and he even directly touched the threshold of the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

At this moment, he sat cross-legged in the furnace, surrounded by five-colored light, with three flowers faintly appearing on his head and five streams of energy circulating in his chest. He had cultivated the Golden Core Dao to the peak of the seventh stage, only one step away from breaking through to the eighth stage and becoming a Taiyi Golden Immortal.

Just as Zhang Kui was hesitating about whether to try to break through, he heard his master Xuandu's voice in his ear.

"My disciple, we must press on with all our might and not hesitate any longer."

Upon hearing Xuandu's words, Zhang Kui nodded slightly, then began to circulate the Golden Core Dao, attempting to condense the eighth layer of Dao essence in preparation for breaking through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

With the accumulation of the previous seven layers of Dao essence, Zhang Kui mastered the eighth layer with ease and quickly completed the cultivation.

The eighth stage of the Golden Core has been successfully completed!

Immediately afterwards, he began to adjust his breathing, preparing to undergo the Taiyi Immortal Tribulation.

The Taiyi Immortal Tribulation is a tribulation that a Golden Immortal must undergo when breaking through to become a Taiyi Golden Immortal.

This tribulation is no small matter; it consists of three layers: the Ninefold Thunder Sea, the Inner Demon Tribulation, and the Law Tribulation.

However, Zhang Kui had consumed eighty-one Yin-Yang Primordial Pills, the potency of which far exceeded the norm, and the resulting tribulation was naturally far greater than that faced by ordinary Golden Immortals.

……

As soon as Zhang Kuigang adjusted his breathing, the world changed color.

Inside the Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Furnace, thunderclouds surged like ink in an instant, and the thunder roared like a deep drum.

Upon seeing this, Xuan Du frowned slightly and waved his hand to set up a restriction, confining the power of the lightning tribulation within the alchemy furnace.

The first level is a nine-layered sea of ​​thunder.

An ordinary Golden Immortal undergoing the Taiyi Tribulation would only face nine bolts of heavenly lightning, each stronger than the last. But from the thunderclouds above Zhang Kui's head, a full eighty-one bolts of heavenly lightning descended, divided into nine waves, each wave containing nine bolts, each more terrifying than the last.

The first wave of nine lightning bolts struck, pillars of lightning crashing down upon Zhang Kui's body. Zhang Kui's body was incredibly strong, and he withstood the attack, though his clothes were torn to shreds and his skin charred black.

The second wave of nine lightning bolts followed closely behind, transforming into nine lightning pythons that coiled around his body, burrowed into his meridians, and attempted to destroy his internal organs from the inside.

The third wave, the fourth wave... all the way to the eighth wave, Zhang Kui was covered in blood, his bones were broken and reassembled inch by inch, and he barely managed to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to support himself.

The ninth wave of thunder descended, the nine bolts of heavenly lightning merging into one, transforming into a phantom of a thunder emperor, wielding a thunder halberd and riding a thunder chariot. With a single thrust of the halberd, it pierced through Zhang Kui's chest!

"puff……"

Zhang Kui spat out a mouthful of blood essence, which splashed onto the Six Ding Divine Fire, where it was vaporized into a blood mist by the flames.

When the lightning dissipated, Zhang Kui's body was charred black, and his breath was so weak that it was almost imperceptible, but his blood and qi were still circulating, and he finally managed to pull through.

The second hurdle is the tribulation of inner demons.

The thunder has subsided, but inner demons have arrived.

For ordinary cultivators, the tribulations of the heart are nothing more than a series of illusions, testing the steadfastness of their Dao heart. But Zhang Kui swallowed eighty-one Yin-Yang Primordial Pills. The medicinal power not only strengthened his magical power but also amplified all the obsessions, fears, and regrets deep within his heart, allowing his inner demons to transform into the power of reincarnation.

"I am who I am, the Dao heart is my original heart, and the original heart is my true self." Zhang Kui's original heart roared in the depths of reincarnation.

Pain, regret, despair, anger—all sorts of emotions surged forth like a tide, but Zhang Kui remained unmoved in the face of endless annihilation.

The cycle of reincarnation shattered with a crash, and the tribulation of inner demons was overcome.

Zhang Kui opened his eyes, his gaze devoid of sorrow or joy, revealing only the clear, mirror-like light of his Daoist heart.

The third level is the Law Tribulation.

The assimilation of heaven and earth is the most dangerous and the most fatal aspect.

The three flowers on the top of the head and the five energies in the chest sensed the crisis and manifested on their own.

The three flowers of essence, energy, and spirit manifest as the sun, moon, and stars. The three lights rotate, forming a small world of their own, struggling to resist the erosion of the law domain.

The five elements within his chest manifested as five divine beasts: the Azure Dragon of the East, the Vermilion Bird of the South, the White Tiger of the West, the Black Tortoise of the North, and the Qilin of the Center. They roared and howled around Zhang Kui, resisting the power of the laws.

However, the power of the laws is too great.

The Azure Dragon's scales were peeled off, the Vermilion Bird's flames were extinguished, the White Tiger's claws were broken, the Black Tortoise's shell was shattered, and the Qilin's horn was broken off. The phantom images of the five divine beasts gradually weakened.

The sun, moon, and stars dimmed, and the small world began to collapse.

Zhang Kui felt himself being swallowed up by the heavens and earth, and his consciousness gradually blurred.

"No... I can't die here."

After roaring, Zhang Kui made a crazy decision: to actively confront the power of the law.

Just then, Xuandu's voice rang out again: "Disciple, use your body as a furnace and the Dao as fire to refine the laws."

Zhang Kui suddenly realized that he was in the Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Furnace, and his master was using the Six Ding Divine Fire to refine the medicinal power. Why couldn't he use his Dao Heart as a furnace to refine the laws of heaven and earth?

He closed his eyes, no longer resisting the power of the laws, but instead actively drawing it into his body, using the Golden Core Dao as a furnace and the Five Elements Dao Fruits as fuel to begin refining it.

The power of the laws enters the body like a steel knife scraping the bone, like ten thousand ants gnawing at the heart.

Zhang Kui was in so much pain that he almost fainted, but he gritted his teeth and continued to refine it bit by bit.

……

Finally, the power of the laws within Zhang Kui's body was completely refined, transforming into a Taiyi Dao Seed, which took root within his Golden Core.

The three flowers at the top condense into three radiant wheels. The three radiant wheels of essence, energy, and spirit rotate, forming a small world of their own that can encompass the heavens and earth and suppress everything.

The five vital energies in the chest changed from being contained to being manifested, and five-colored divine light appeared behind the back.

The three lights and five elements merged and formed a complete Taiyi Dao Fruit within Zhang Kui's body.

Taiyi Golden Immortal, accomplished!

Zhang Kui opened his eyes, and two beams of divine light shot out, sword intent as tangible as a physical object. His charred skin peeled off inch by inch, revealing new skin as clear as jade.

The Golden Immortal is merely "immortal," with an incorruptible physical body and soul, but ultimately there is a limit.

The Taiyi Golden Immortal is "immortal," with its magical power generated spontaneously and its Dao foundation perfected. It is already capable of creating a small world of its own, forming its own heaven and earth.

At this moment, the Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Furnace opened, and Zhang Kui flew out.

Upon seeing Xuandu, Zhang Kui bowed deeply, his forehead touching the ground: "Thank you, Master, for helping your disciple overcome this tribulation."

Xuan Du looked at Zhang Kui and nodded in satisfaction.

This disciple possesses great perseverance, wisdom, and courage, and is capable of upholding his own path. Excellent!

"Young friend Zhang Kui, you've turned misfortune into a blessing in disguise. Congratulations!" Qingniu stepped forward and said with a smile.

"That's right, that's right, my brother and I have worked so hard." Silver Horn also jumped over at this moment.

"snort……"

Xuan Du looked at the eccentric Silver Horn with displeasure.

Golden Horn quickly grabbed the oblivious Silver Horn, "Young Master, we'll take our leave now!"

After saying that, he grabbed Silverhorn and hurriedly left.

The blue ox tactfully took its leave and departed.

Only Xuandu and Zhang Kui remained in the entire alchemy room.

"Master..." Zhang Kui was about to speak when Xuandu waved his hand.

Xuandu said, "No need to say more. Although your breakthrough this time was a coincidence, it is also inseparable from your usual accumulation."

"Disciple understands." Zhang Kui nodded respectfully.

"Alright, you shall stay at the Eight Trigrams Palace for now, stabilize your cultivation, and comprehend the Great Dao." Xuandu paused, his gaze deep and far-reaching. "The Investiture of the Gods calamity is predetermined; do not force it..."

"Yes."

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