From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

At that moment, Suo Chongran roared at Jiang Liu, "Since the founding of the Sanyi Sect, apart from the sect's founder, our sect has once again produced someone who has broken through to the third level. This is a great event for the Sanyi Sect! All irrelevant people, go down the mountain!"

"It seems like a rush!"

Zuo Ruotong looked at him.

"Senior brother!"

Si Chong also looked at Zuo Ruotong, his eyes full of earnestness.

But Zuo Ruotong ignored him, and just sighed, saying, "Jiang Liu has also learned our sect's method of reversing life. He is not a disciple of Sanyi, but he is better than one of our disciples."

After saying that, to everyone's astonishment, Zuo Ruotong finished her work, her youthful appearance vanished, and she transformed into an old man.

Or rather, this is what Zuo Ruotong should look like at this stage, and what he looks like after maintaining a reverse life state for many years and consuming a lot of life force. This is his true appearance!

“You’re right, the triple... it can’t reach the heavens.”

These words caused an uproar throughout the venue, even more shocking than Zuo Ruotong's breakthrough to the third level!

# Chapter 197 It's Difficult to Be a Sage

The process of reversing life involves three stages: the first stage transforms Qi into the skin and flesh, the second stage transforms Qi into the internal organs, and the third stage allows one to reverse the process of refining the primordial Qi, seeking a glimmer of hope and reaching that heaven!

This is the foundation upon which Sanyimen stands!

but!

Now Zuo Ruotong has personally admitted that the Threefold Path to Heaven is impossible, which means that even if one is reborn in the Threefold Path, one cannot cultivate the innate Qi in reverse and cannot find a glimmer of hope!

How can this be?

"Senior brother!"

Tears streaming down his face, he shouted, "What nonsense are you spouting? How could the Triple Heaven not be able to reach the Heavenly Realm?"

"Perhaps my talent is limited, but at least what I demonstrated before did indeed correspond to the fragmentary information left by the founding patriarch regarding the three realms..."

Zuo Ruotong sighed.

At this moment, his state of mind was different from that of the character in the original story who wanted to prove himself again after breaking through three levels.

In the original novel, Zuo Ruotong spent over a decade grinding away before, through a fortuitous encounter, forcibly obtaining Wugensheng's help to break through, realizing that the threefold transformation couldn't fundamentally reverse the innate Qi, and thus decided to prove it again—

Besides the idea of ​​paving a new path for future generations, there was also a sense of hysteria stemming from the disillusionment of dreams.

But now he had already witnessed the Golden Light Mantra, Thunder Magic, and his self-created method of using his body as a talisman from Zhang Zhiwei. He had already realized the gap between the Reverse Rebirth Triple and the true Xuanmen orthodox method. He had already made some predictions in his heart, not to mention that Jiang Liu had also proposed the theory of "Reverse Rebirth Ninefold".

Anyone with nine orifices can become an immortal.

How can one succeed by only cultivating the three elixir pills?

It is nothing more than a place to store essence, energy, and spirit!

Although cultivation ultimately boils down to these three elements—essence, energy, and spirit—the true path to enlightenment may lie in how to cultivate these three.

Indeed, as Jiang Liu said, to make paper, one must first build a paper mill and then understand the papermaking process. He has only built three warehouses so far.

Moreover, these three warehouses were built in sequence, causing the body and mind to be in a strange state of imbalance that cannot be perceived by those cultivating life. If one is not careful, there is a possibility of death and annihilation.

Therefore.

So what if he chooses to get certified again?

Without the foundation of a truly powerful and profound sect, what could he possibly gain from further verification? Even if he did succeed, perhaps only he himself could make it through—

What significance does that have for future generations?

It takes an ordinary person a lifetime to cultivate to the second level, and the breakthrough may even lead to disability or death... Is it necessary to make future generations rush to pursue such a dangerous method?

Other Xuanmen methods always lead to greater and greater success, with more and more disciples and even the ability to expand their branches. However, the methods of the Sanyi Sect become more and more dangerous, until they reach a dead end with no way out!

Compared to the Golden Light Mantra, Zuo Ruotong now truly understood just how brilliant Jiang Liu's Ninefold Reversal of Life truly was!

Truly, the greatest truths are the simplest!

The so-called Great Way can also be compared to a path, which not only needs to be accessible to people, but also needs to be open and flat.

Like the Golden Light Mantra, during its practice, one's life naturally becomes stable and without end. The only thing that limits the cultivation of the Golden Light Mantra is one's lifespan.

The path to rebirth in reverse has only three stages; once you reach the third stage, it ends...

Does Jiang Liu's Ninefold Reversal of Life actually have nine levels?

No.

His theory of reversing the nine levels of life involves cultivating all nine levels simultaneously, using the method of reversing life to cultivate the three gates and nine orifices. This is similar to the Golden Light Mantra, making it a method that allows one to cultivate life and vitality without limit as long as one learns it and is still alive. There is no end to it; even if there is, it only means that the practitioner's lifespan has come to an end, and they can no longer continue cultivating.

And the so-called "reaching the heavens" is probably definitely not about reversing the cultivation of primordial Qi, but rather—

Heaven and man are one.

Just like the method Zhang Zhiwei demonstrated with Jiang Liu, using his body as a talisman... Zuo Ruotong and Lu Jin could guess the general application of the Heavenly Master's Mansion's method of connecting with the heavens, which was roughly to use talismans to connect with heaven and earth, and to use the power of heaven and earth to unleash the true power of thunder!

The spell that Jiang Liu had cast before him also had the charm of harmony between heaven and man, perhaps this was the convenience brought to him by his innate superpower - the Conferred God.

"...The three paths have come to an end, and there is no way to reach the heavens. This is the answer I, Zuo Ruotong, have come to."

Zuo Ruotong shifted her gaze from Si Chong to the others, sighed again, and said, "As the sect leader, I have to be responsible for your future, so I'm making this clear."

"Senior brother!"

Seeing that Zuo Ruotong had actually said this in public, he seemed to panic—

This will shake the very foundation of the Trinity!

"How can you be sure that you have attained the third level? Or perhaps you have only just entered the third level. You should first stabilize your realm, and maybe then you will be able to understand the profound truths spoken of by the patriarch?" He still held onto his expectations.

"Why······"

Looking at Si Chong kneeling down, and his fellow disciples who were also kneeling down with broken arms and legs, Zuo Ruotong realized that she really couldn't be a "sage".

But he knew very well that the threefold path could not reach the heavens; it could only transform the Qi throughout the body.

Reverse life?

The method of reverse cultivation is actually a method of reversing the physical body into Qi, rather than a method of reversing acquired Qi into innate Qi.

Being able to transform one's entire body with Qi means that one cannot progress further in cultivating this method of reversing life. After all, one's skin, flesh, bones, internal organs, primordial spirit, and brain have all been transformed with Qi, so what else can be transformed with Qi?

soul?

spirit?

Do these two things, which are formless and intangible, still need to be transformed by Qi? If the soul and spirit are transformed by Qi, the originally formless and intangible things become tangible bodies... then they are probably similar to spirits, and there is an additional risk of being detained by the person who controls the spirits!

"Junior brother, why go through all this?"

"Never mind."

Looking at the elderly people crippled by practicing the Reverse Life Technique, Zuo Ruotong finally softened, but she didn't want to let Jiang Liu down. "The failure to reach the Third Heaven is my incompetence, Zuo Ruotong, but I truly can't find any other path. Perhaps I should try the Ninth Heaven..."

Having said that, Zuo Ruotong walked up to Jiang Liu and sighed, "I'm sorry."

"Understandable."

Jiang Liu shrugged. "Speaking of which, could that alchemy furnace be my reward?"

"You're getting more and more humorous."

Zuo Ruotong smiled, took Jiang Liu's hand, and headed towards the back mountain.

"Senior brother!"

He seemed to be shouting, but Zuo Ruotong ignored him.

Arriving at the back mountain, gazing at the lush green hills, Zuo Ruotong, her body covered in wrinkles, sighed and said, "I have a question."

“Please speak,” Jiang Liu said, supporting his arm.

No need for honorifics.

Zuo Ruotong smiled, "After you first heard the rumor that the Reverse Life Triple Realm could reach the heavens, did you guess it couldn't reach the heavens before you even started cultivating it?"

"Yes."

Jiang Liu nodded.

Why?

Zuo Ruotong maintained her smile, "The name of the Great Ying Immortal is quite well-known in this area, and I, who am in a dual state all year round, also have a youthful and robust appearance."

"There are three reasons. First, before I started practicing, no matter how miraculous the claims were, I would always have some doubts, including about the methods of the Celestial Master's Mansion."

Jiang Liu also spoke his true feelings, "Secondly, the path to heaven has no end. Any cultivation technique, if it has an end, will inevitably not lead to heaven."

Thirdly, I come from the future.

# Chapter 198 Honesty

"From later generations?"

Zuo Ruotong was first surprised, then suddenly realized, "No wonder he can remain untainted by the mud."

As for the theory of possession—

When a spirit possesses a body, it is bound to be incompatible with the physical body, while the river flows naturally, just like the legendary "reincarnation".

When a person dies, their primordial energy dissipates and returns to the universe, where it condenses again to become a living being. However, since the primordial energy is constantly fluctuating, even in reincarnation, the person is not the same one.

The same applies to the soul and consciousness.

But looking at Jiang Liu's appearance, it seems that he has retained his consciousness as a reincarnated person and even reversed back to the past... It's simply amazing!

What does the future hold?

Zuo Ruotong asked curiously.

"Is this something a cultivator should ask?" Jiang Liu asked with a smile.

Shouldn't you ask?