From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Jiang Liu cited himself and Wang Yaozu as examples, saying, "He later reformed and is now on the right path... Shouldn't we give those who make mistakes a chance?"

"Okay, okay, I've actually been lectured to myself for a day now." Chen Long resigned himself to his fate and asked, "What's your plan? About capturing the Demon Little Dragon?"

"No."

Jiang Liu shook his head, then added, "However, to break the law of yin-yang balance and make it develop in the direction of yin-yang harmony, one needs to perfectly control one's own qi pattern, and then connect with heaven and earth, using one's own yin and yang to harmonize the yin and yang of heaven and earth."

"Then I'll do it."

Chen Long recommended himself.

But Jiang Liu rejected his suggestion, saying, "To be honest, Uncle Long, although you still have a childlike heart, you are somewhat... inflexible. I need someone with more talent and wisdom than you, and who also has the same unwavering original intentions, to help me."

"Oh ho, it's me!"

Xiaoyu jumped up excitedly.

"No, it's me."

Da Yu corrected her, "You know what? My future is an illusion, a dream, but the me who has come to the present has become real, and you... are too young."

"Aww~ Hmm!"

Immediately, Xiaoyu lowered her chin and let out a strange, disappointed cry.

Chen Long frowned, but he was also unwilling to let Da Yu take the risk, so he asked Jiang Liu, "Jiang Liu, are you not up to it?"

"Uncle Long, harmonizing Yin and Yang and changing the rules is not an easy task; it takes time."

It was Da Yu who spoke, his expression serious as he looked directly at Chen Long. “It will take at least ten years, and at most a hundred years. It’s not enough to just lock the eight demons in hell and obliterate their bodies and demonic energy.”

and also--

This is ultimately our world, and it needs our protection, doesn't it?

I am the Jade Maiden of the Heavenly Palace.

"Xiaoyu, you've really grown up."

Chen Long took a breath and slowly exhaled, looking at the mature, steady, and responsible Dayu. He felt both heartache and relief, but even more so, pride.

Although he is not a Qi cultivator, he has been practicing martial arts for many years, strengthening his physique and honing his skills. In terms of temperament, he is no worse than any Qi cultivator in the Under One Person world who has cultivated for most of his life, and is even far superior to most large-scale family superhumans.

Perhaps Chen Long really doesn't know how to raise a child, and often takes Xiao Yu to participate in "archaeological" activities. But after Xiao Yu comes of age, he will choose to let go. As long as she doesn't stray from the right path, he will let Xiao Yu choose her own path.

Based on this alone.

He was a qualified, even near-perfect, patriarch!

# Chapter 828 Cultivation is not multiplication

"So, what does Da Yu need to do next?"

As a responsible parent, Chen Long respects Dayu's choice because she is an adult. However, precisely because he is a responsible parent, he also needs to understand whether there are any dangers involved.

"Da Yu, in your memory, who was the person who initially harmonized Yin and Yang?" Jiang Liu asked.

"It's you."

Without hesitation, Da Yu said, "Only you have the ability to communicate with the Zhou Qi Qi Ju (a system of celestial bodies) and lay the foundation for the initial harmony of Yin and Yang."

"So, are you confident now?" Jiang Liu asked.

"It certainly exists."

Perhaps the future is a fleeting dream, only gaining a semblance of reality because of its connection to the established past. But when one of Xiaoyu's possible futures arrives in this era, it becomes an undeniably real existence. "The Nine Aperture Seals are on my body, and my spiritual essence resides in the ancestral aperture. All that remains is to connect with the Qi, stimulating the acupoints throughout the body, thus transforming into Pangu and creating heaven and earth—"

As you know, only by constantly transforming inner vision into a mental landscape can one maximize their sensitivity to the outside world.

But I always fall just short...

I didn't understand what I was missing before, but now I do—

Before I arrived in this real present from the illusory future, the nine-aperture talisman you imparted to me, and the bit of spirit I condensed from all my experiences, were all illusions, which is why I was able to succeed.

The mental landscape is essentially the spiritual world.

In theory, before one can unite the mental landscape with the physical landscape, cultivate the Golden Elixir and transform the false into the true, the mental landscape is inherently ethereal and intangible...

Da Yu and her future are themselves a possibility of the present, yet also something elusive and uncertain...

Spiritual practice is not a multiplication method; you can't make a positive result from two negatives.

"So, what Da Yu needs now is cultivation?" Chen Long understood.

"It's not just about breaking through the primordial chaos at the level of the mind and completing the creation of the inner world; it also requires incorporating the energy of the eight great demons into the eight orifices of the human body, excluding the central orifice, corresponding to the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, and comprehending the power of the energy contained within the eight great demons."

Jiang Liu added, "Even though she has opened up a permanent mental landscape with the talisman and combined it with her physical landscape to build a system that integrates body and mind, her cultivation is still far inferior to mine. Therefore, she needs external help to further comprehend the Eight Trigrams and integrate Yin and Yang."

"Won't the demonic energy harm Da Yu?"

Chen Long didn't understand much about concepts like the Three Passes and Nine Apertures, or the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams; he was just worried that Xiao Yu might get hurt in the future.

"If you integrate eight demonic energies at once, they will automatically merge into the other eight energies except for the central energy, corresponding to the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, becoming one. Without my level of attainment, it would be difficult to separate them again."

Jiang Liu said, "But as long as we do it one by one and comprehend it in turn, there won't be any major problems."

"That's good."

Chen Long breathed a sigh of relief.

"So, our next step is to find eight demonic energy sources?"

Bull Warrior scratched his mask. "But Xiaoyu said we're going to teach the demon dragon a lesson?"

"The little demon dragon is also searching for eight demonic energies and using the Monkey King as a vessel to create a ninth demon in order to restrain my teacher."

Da Yu laughed and said, "Therefore, we will definitely encounter the Demon Little Dragon later."

"Has the location of the first demonic energy been determined?" Chen Long asked Jiang Liu.

Not yet, so—

Jiang Liu looked at Xiao Yu and said, "Come on, Xiao Yu, use the method I taught you yesterday to help me find the raw materials for the potion recipe of the eight great demons."

"We're short of raw materials?" the little snake asked in surprise. Logically, if they had been called here, everything should have been almost ready, right?

"Actually, because the little demon dragon attacked Old Man's Antique Shop and stole all the information related to the eight great demons, we don't even have the formula now."

Da Yu revealed a fact that left the little snake and the bull warrior speechless.

"Then we'll help too."

Chen Long was unwilling to waste any more time.

The sooner the recipe is prepared, the faster we can find the immortal god's token and search for demonic energy, so as to prevent it from falling into the hands of the demon dragon.

But Jiang Liu shook his head and said, "Uncle Long, do you remember? Yin and Yang are in balance. It doesn't matter who has the demonic energy. The key is to improve yourself before the 'final battle'."

"What do you mean?"

Chen Long, Niu Zhan Shi, and Xiao She were all at a loss.

"Simply put, of the eight demons, seven can be obtained by the Demon Dragon, as long as we can find the last one."

Da Yu and Jiang Liu shared the same idea and explained to Chen Long, "For the sake of demonic energy, we will definitely have to confront the demon Xiao Long. Therefore, we should just seize the remaining seven demonic energies in the final battle. It's simple, brutal, and effective, and we don't have to spend too much energy fighting them with wits and courage."

During this period, there is only one thing you need to do, and that is to improve your combat power.

In other words, it's about letting you control the refining of Qi.

"Refining Qi?"

Chen Long sighed, "Da Yu, but we know absolutely nothing about magic!"

"Hey, babyface, please say 'I,' not 'we.'"

The little snake reached out and stroked Chen Long's cheek, teasingly saying, "When I first got the snake talisman, I activated its magic, which gave me the ability to become invisible. I think my magical talent is pretty good; maybe I'm even a genius."

The bull warrior said, "I don't know how to chant spells, I only know how to wrestle."

“Uncle Long, there is a difference between Qi cultivation and magic. In fact, it is the ‘qi’ you mentioned when you taught me kung fu. It is a kind of kung fu, but it is more complicated.” Da Yu pushed out a palm, and the wind and air flowed past Chen Long, Little Snake, and Bull Warrior’s faces, hitting the shop door.

boom!

In an instant, the door of Old Man's Antique Shop, along with the door frame and the surrounding walls, shattered.

Chen Long had anticipated Da Yu's abilities, but he was still incredulous to witness the power unleashed by the little snake and bull warriors with just a single palm strike.

Is this really kung fu?

Instead of hiding high-tech guns or magic potions in their sleeves beforehand?

“When Uncle Lung taught me kung fu, he said that I should let the Qi flow throughout my body, but it was just a vague feeling. Refining Qi is about truly controlling this feeling and letting the Qi flow throughout the body to form a cycle.”

As Da Yu raised her hand, Qi flowed through her body—ordinary people couldn't see the unprocessed Qi, but Chen Long, Bull Warrior, and Little Snake were all trained practitioners, possessing a Qi sense that ordinary people didn't have, so they could vaguely perceive the Qi flowing at her fingertips.

Da Yu continued, “I will teach you in the coming days so that you can truly control the flow of Qi within your body.”

At that time, your physical functions will reach an extremely powerful level.

Especially Uncle Jackie Chan—

In the future I remember, you, having mastered Qi cultivation, are practically a superhuman, comparable to an ordinary person who has cultivated Qi for most of their life.

Jiang Liu was also certain of this, after all, Jackie Chan's innate Qi was extremely abundant. If one were to give an example, it would be Zhang Zhiwei.

In terms of cultivation level, at this stage, even a thousand Chen Longs could not defeat Zhang Zhiwei.

In terms of innate talent alone, Chen Long and Zhang Zhiwei are absolutely equal.

In addition, he already knows kung fu. If he can truly open up the Ren and Du meridians and control the use of Qi, his strength will increase significantly, and he may even surpass many extraordinary people who have cultivated for thirty to fifty years.

Just like Haricha Gai in the parallel universe of Under One Person, who was able to defeat his master who taught him cultivation as soon as he mastered Qi—

However, this is only an improvement in combat power.

Cultivation is not about combat strength, but about constantly perfecting the system of circulating Qi in the universe in the process of comprehending nature and realizing one's true nature, in order to achieve the primordial state of infinity.

# Chapter 829 The Nine Demonic Insects Theory (Part 1)