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Chapter 361 Advancement to the Purple Mansion Realm, The Origin of the Jade Bead [Please Subscribe]

Having decided to attempt to reach the Purple Mansion stage, Zhou Chun naturally began making all the necessary preparations immediately.

He first invited Zhou Mingde to Yang Kingdom, making it clear that independent cultivators like Huo Yang Sanren in Yang Kingdom were indeed protected by someone at the Hongyu Peak stronghold.

He himself went to Cangzhou in Jingguo to visit several cultivation families with which he had cooperated before, and obtained high-quality gold energy from them.

Once the Purple Palace is opened and the broken cauldron is recast, the quality of the metal energy required for the recasting must be higher than that used before.

Therefore, Zhou Chun dared not be careless in this matter and had to do it personally to feel at ease.

Fortunately, he has made two small fortunes in recent years and is now financially well-off, so he has sufficient funds to purchase high-quality gold.

After spending two months in Cangzhou, Zhou Chun finally gathered the high-quality gold energy he needed, which cost him more than 18,000 spirit coins.

Once enough golden energy had been collected, Zhou Chun immediately returned to his family.

At this time, Su Yuzhen, who had been notified, also arrived at the Zhou family. She wanted to personally take Zhou Chun to the Su family's mountain gate for seclusion.

Although both Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Daoquan had successfully opened their Purple Mansions within the Zhou Family Mountain Gate, Zhou Chun, under Zhou Mingde's strong suggestion, still agreed to go to the Su Family Mountain Gate for seclusion.

Zhou Mingde's reason for making such a suggestion was quite simple: the situation in Jingguo was currently unpredictable, and Lanzhou, where the Zhou family was located, could be thrown into chaos at any moment.

If Zhou Chun were to enter seclusion at the Zhou family's mountain gate to cultivate his Purple Mansion, and were to suddenly encounter a major upheaval that disturbs his seclusion, the consequences could be unpredictable.

Therefore, for Zhou Chun's safety, Zhou Mingde strongly urged him to go to the Su family for seclusion.

After returning to his family, Zhou Chun had a conversation with Zhou Mingde, who had already returned from Yangguo, and then went to the Su family in Jiangzhou with his Daoist partner, Su Yuzhen.

Zhou Chun is, after all, the son-in-law of the Su family. Given Su Yuzhen's status in the Su family, the secluded cave that the Su family arranged for him this time is also very good. It is the same cave where Su Yuzhen once secluded herself to open up her Purple Mansion.

Before entering his cave for seclusion, Zhou Chun entrusted his three spiritual pets—the Silver Lightning Python Bai Bai, the Golden Armored Rock Turtle, and the Golden-Winged Tiger—to his Daoist partner, Su Yuzhen, for feeding.

As for the Wood Spirit, it was so rare and precious that Zhou Chun didn't even dare let Su Yuzhen know about it. Before coming to the Su family, he had it slumber in an ancient tree inside the Zhou family's mountain gate.

After arranging everything in this way, Zhou Chun entered his secluded cave and sealed the entrance.

Inside the cave, Zhou Chun slowly meditated to adjust his state while looking at the insights on opening the Purple Mansion left by the senior cultivators of the Zhou family.

The Zhou family was once a Golden Core family, and over the past thousand years, they have produced dozens of Purple Mansion stage cultivators, so they naturally have a lot of insights and experiences to share.

When Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoquan learned that Zhou Chun was going to open up his Purple Mansion, they shared their own experiences with him without reservation.

However, these experiences and insights can only serve as a reference. Every cultivator has different spiritual roots, cultivation methods, and personal circumstances, making their breakthrough processes impossible to be the same.

Zhou Chun does not blindly believe in the experiences of his predecessors.

After about two months, Zhou Chun felt that he had adjusted his state and read through various experiences and insights, so he finally began to prepare.

The process of opening the Purple Palace is actually very simple. First, the soul is awakened, and then magical power is used to rush to the Niwan Palace, opening the Purple Palace, and the soul is moved into it, transforming into a divine soul.

The spirit is the soul, but the soul is not the spirit.

The difference between the two lies in the literal meaning of their names.

The character "神" (shén) in "神魂" (shénhún) and "灵" (líng) in "魂魂" (húnhún) have different interpretations.

"Spirit" generally refers to intelligence and spirituality. Humans are born with intelligence and spirituality, so the human soul can be called the soul.

Animals, plants, and trees, though possessing spirituality, are unable to develop intelligence, thus their souls are incomplete.

Only demonic beasts that have gained sentience can complete their souls and form beast souls.

The character "神" (shén) refers to the spirit within the human body.

Once a cultivator's soul is transferred to the Purple Mansion, it will transform into a divine soul and thus possess all sorts of supernatural abilities.

The spirit is also the god of the human body, governing all tissues and organs, including magical powers.

A simple example is the human nervous system, which is not under human control.

But the soul can control it.

In other words, the soul can command and control certain neural units within itself to turn on or off.

When the soul commands the olfactory nerve unit to shut down, the cultivator will no longer smell any odors, which is fundamentally different from holding one's breath to isolate oneself from external smells.

Therefore, when the transformation of the soul occurs, the cultivator has already become the god of his own body, and his control over his physical body has reached a godlike level.

It is precisely because the soul possesses this ability that cultivators at the Purple Mansion stage are able to separate their souls from their bodies and possess another body.

However, everything is easier said than done.

Everyone knows the process of opening up the Purple Palace, but only one in ten people can actually do it.

Throughout history, countless late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators have fallen before this hurdle.

Inside the secret chamber of the cave, Zhou Chun sat cross-legged, his hands naturally forming a mudra on his knees, his eyes slightly closed, as if he were asleep.

Some mortals have fragile souls, and even in their sleep, their souls may be startled awake, resulting in "fright syndrome," which leads to a gradual weakening of the body and a decline in memory.

However, cultivators meditate and cultivate for many years, and their souls are nourished by the blood, energy, and magical power of their physical bodies, making them very strong and resilient.

However, such a powerful soul is not easy to awaken.

Therefore, many cultivators who have opened up their Purple Mansion will use spiritual objects that help stimulate and awaken their souls in order to make it easier to do so.

But Zhou Chun is now unable to enjoy that convenience.

He had also inquired about the effects of the Snow Soul Pill. It should be used to replenish the soul after it is awakened, and to help the soul transform after it moves into the Purple Mansion.

Therefore, the best time to take this elixir is after the soul has been awakened.

Without any spiritual aids to awaken his soul, Zhou Chun could only use the most traditional method: cultivating the visualization diagram.

Visualization diagrams were originally something every cultivator had to practice when they first started cultivating.

Because cultivators who are new to cultivation find it difficult to calm their minds and meditate, the visualization diagrams can help them to focus their attention and adapt to cultivation.

However, once cultivators are able to meditate and cultivate, they no longer need to practice visualization techniques.

Now, Zhou Chun needs to awaken his soul through the visualization diagram in a deep state of visualization.

Whether he can actually do it or not, nobody knows at this point.

Time slowly passed, one day, two days, three days...

On his first attempt, Zhou Chun persisted for twenty-seven days, but eventually, he was too exhausted to continue.

After resting for three days, Zhou Chun once again entered a state of visualization.

Zhou Chun persisted for thirty-eight days the second time, and then rested for five days before recovering.

On the third attempt, Zhou Chun persisted for forty-eight days, and this time he rested for seven days before recovering.

The fourth time, Zhou Chun persevered for fifty-five days straight.

Just when he thought he was going to fail again, a strange feeling of being suspended in mid-air suddenly surged into his mind, and then he "saw" his own body sitting cross-legged.

This kind of seeing is not the kind of seeing through divine sense scanning, but rather it is truly like seeing with the eyes.

Zhou Chun instantly realized that he had succeeded.

At this moment, he should be looking down at his body from the perspective of his soul.

Having realized this, he didn't dare look any longer and quickly returned his soul to his body.

Sure enough, when his soul returned to his body, a feeling of weakness immediately overwhelmed Zhou Chun, as if he had just fought a great battle.

This is perfectly normal, because his soul was in a semi-out-of-body state and was impacted by external stimuli.

However, this is not a problem; with a period of rest, you will fully recover.

After resting for half a month, Zhou Chun's condition fully recovered.

At this point, the moment for him to open his Purple Mansion will truly arrive.

Once the soul has been awakened once, subsequent awakenings will be very easy.

However, awakening the soul is not a real skill. The real skill is opening up the Purple Palace and transferring the soul to the Purple Palace, and only when the soul is transformed into a divine soul can it be considered a success.

Zhou Chun sat cross-legged, raised his hand and put the Snow Soul Pill into his mouth. Then he focused his mind on his dantian, and his divine sense, along with the golden soup magic power in his dantian, surged up to his mammary gate, forming a long river that rushed straight to his Niwan Palace.

Boom!

Suddenly, a thunderclap resounded from Zhou Chun's Niwan Palace, and the originally tightly closed Niwan Palace was forcibly opened by an immense force.

A golden torrent surged into Niwan, like a rushing river tearing through the earth, creating a riverbed where none existed before.

Immediately afterwards, a pale golden figure stepped into the muddy land, riding the torrent.

He was like a god in mythology, able to change the course of torrents with a wave of his hand and build palaces in the blink of an eye, seemingly omnipotent.

Inside the secret room, the Snow Soul Pill that Zhou Chun had been holding in his mouth had been bitten and swallowed at some point.

Inside his Niwan Palace, the god-like pale golden figure had appeared in a magnificent palace, sitting high on a throne.

Wisps of golden clouds rose from the void and were absorbed into the body of the pale golden figure.

With each wisp of hair incorporated, his figure appeared more solid.

It is unknown how much time has passed, but when the golden clouds in the void ceased to gather, the pale golden figure had solidified into a physical form.

Without a doubt, that was Zhou Chun's appearance, exactly the same as his physical appearance.

The difference is that this "he" is full of majesty and holiness, just like a high and mighty god.

This is the soul, Zhou Chun's soul!

When the Purple Palace opens, the divine soul manifests.

Unbeknownst to him, Zhou Chun had completed the opening of his Purple Mansion and successfully broke through to the Purple Mansion stage.

At this moment, his upper and lower dantian were connected, and his soul resided high in the Purple Mansion, governing his entire body.

The magical power that could no longer be increased was able to grow and be purified again due to the breakthrough of the realm shackles.

"Is this the wondrous function of the soul?"

In the secret room, Zhou Chun activated his consciousness and shut down all the neurons in his left hand. Then, his right fingernail flashed with golden light as he drew a line of blood on his left wrist.

But he did not feel any pain.

The pain only reached his soul and was received after he reactivated the neurons in his left hand.

Of course, the wondrous uses of the soul go far beyond these.

In terms of divine sense, Zhou Chun's divine sense coverage expanded to about 24 miles, nearly 4,000 feet!

Although this growth rate is not as large as the breakthrough from the Qi Refining stage to the Foundation Establishment stage, it is still almost three times.

The key point is that the divine sense is now much more accurate in scanning and detecting.

Previously, divine sense scanning could only detect things as thin as a hair, but now it can see things as thin as one-tenth of a hair clearly.

Moreover, now that his soul has returned to its place and is residing in the Purple Mansion, all those low-level illusions, the disguise talents of certain demonic beasts, and the secret techniques for concealing one's cultivation aura and appearance will be exposed to Zhou Chun at a glance, allowing him to distinguish the real from the fake.

After briefly testing the wonders of his divine sense, Zhou Chun suddenly focused his divine sense inward, directing it towards the jade bead in his dantian.

As before, when the divine sense surged toward the jade bead, it encountered great resistance.

But this time, it wasn't bounced off as it had before.

There is a play!

Zhou Chun was overjoyed and immediately channeled his divine sense towards the jade bead with all his might.

boom!

Suddenly, a deafening roar resounded deep within Zhou Chun's soul, followed by a surge of immense information flowing into it.

Fortunately, he has already reached the Purple Mansion stage of cultivation, and his divine soul has been condensed and manifested. Otherwise, if he were to be infused with so much information at once, he would either be turned into an idiot or faint immediately.

At this moment, he only felt a slight swelling in his soul, and then quickly returned to normal.

Then he began to sort through the information that had flooded into his soul and consciousness.

After sorting through the information, Zhou Chun discovered that it was divided into two parts. One part was a refining technique, specifically used to refine and activate a spiritual treasure called the [Moon Toad Pearl].

The other part is a secret technique called "Nine Transformations of the Holy Spirit: The Moon Toad Chapter".

First, let's talk about the refining technique mentioned earlier. It is undoubtedly the technique for refining the jade bead inside Zhou Chun's body.

Its appearance finally resolved a question in Zhou Chun's mind, confirmed the grade of the jade bead, and revealed its name.

Unfortunately, this method for refining the Moon Toad Pearl is extremely profound, requiring cultivators to be at least at the Golden Core stage.

So Zhou Chun can only look at it now; it's completely unusable.

The secret technique titled "Nine Transformations of the Holy Spirit: The Moon Toad Chapter" truly astonished Zhou Chun.

This secret technique is very similar to the "Dragon Transformation Secret Manual" he cultivates, which also requires cultivators to integrate the spiritual blood of a powerful demon beast, the Taiyin Moon Toad, into their bodies in order to cultivate this secret technique.

According to the above, as long as this secret technique is successfully cultivated, and with the spiritual treasure [Moon Toad Pearl] as a support, one can activate the secret technique to transform oneself into a Moon Toad and master the powerful supernatural abilities possessed by this kind of demon beast.

Furthermore, transforming into a demon beast will not affect a cultivator's ability to use magical artifacts.

Naturally, to cultivate this secret technique, "Nine Transformations of the Holy Spirit: Moon Toad Chapter," one needs at least the cultivation level of the Golden Core stage, and must obtain the spiritual blood of the Moon Toad, or the essence blood of a demon beast possessing the bloodline of the Moon Toad.

The second update is here!

(End of this chapter)