Zhu Tian: Starting from the World of Zongwu

"The feelings of the Supreme Dao are profound and mysterious. See nothing, hear nothing, embrace the mind and be still... Without exhausting your body, without disturbing your spirit, you can achieve eternal life..."

A trace of Song Xuan's soul was left on the copper coin given to Xu Ziling.

Just as the copper coin exploded with power and defeated Yu Wenzhi, the mark of the soul also imprinted the contents of the longevity secret in Kou Zhong's arms.

At the same time, Song Xuan himself, who was dozens of miles away, instantly mastered the contents of the Changsheng Jue.

Song Xuan did not recognize some of the oracle bone inscriptions, but through the deduction of the martial arts spirit, based on the context and the Taoist rhyme left on the oracle bone inscriptions, Song Xuan was able to quickly deduce the meaning.

This is not a martial arts secret book, but a practical method of cultivating immortality and practicing Qi.

This method does not cultivate internal strength, but directly refines essence into qi and cultivates innate true qi. Before the practice is completed, abstinence is required, which will also have a certain impact on fertility.

Before Song Xuan traveled through time, he combined a bunch of unique martial arts skills, which eventually became a heavenly-level boy's skill. This should have been influenced by the miraculous skill of Changsheng Jue.

The secret of longevity is different from the way this world gathers the three flowers of essence, energy and spirit, perceives the power of heaven and earth, and then comprehends the laws. This method belongs to the orthodox Taoist way of practicing qigong.

There are seven cultivation pictures in the Changsheng Jue, with more than 7,000 words recorded. The first five pictures correspond to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and the last two pictures correspond to the yin and yang of heaven and earth.

According to Song Xuan's soul deduction, after practicing the first five pictures, condensing the five elements of true qi, and waiting for the five elements to be perfected, he began to nourish the spirit with qi. There was no need to comprehend the power of heaven and earth, but the realm of cultivation should be at least the master level.

The first five pictures are the foundation. After the five elements are perfected, the sixth and seventh pictures can be practiced. After the yin and yang are perfected, the Taoist spirit can be cultivated.

It is hard to say which one is better, the Taoist spirit or the martial arts spirit, but there is one very obvious advantage, which is that it does not have to be restricted by destiny and does not have to go the way of the three flowers gathering the spirit.

Of course, compared to the martial arts path that Song Xuan is currently taking, the Art of Immortality has both advantages and disadvantages. The most obvious disadvantage is its stability.

Being stable is not a bad thing, but the Art of Immortality is too stable.

Stability means it takes time to endure.

According to Song Xuan's calculations, if there were no fortuitous encounters, it would take him about three hundred years to complete the cultivation of the seven diagrams and develop the Taoist primordial spirit, even with his qualifications.

Simply repairing a picture is not difficult, but the difficulty will increase tenfold with each additional picture you practice.

Three hundred years, this is the time required, considering that Song Xuan himself has a martial arts spirit that can provide powerful calculation assistance capabilities, so there is no need to worry about going astray.

Song Xuan estimated that if someone else were to practice, it would take about a thousand years.

Thousand years~~

Song Xuan nodded silently. In this way, if the longevity secret is cultivated to perfection and the Taoist spirit is condensed, the corresponding level may be the perfect grandmaster or the realm of martial arts heaven.

In the world of cultivation, he may belong to the level of a god-transforming monster.

From this, we can understand why the Great Zhou Taizu led the human warriors to expel other ethnic groups from the martial arts world hundreds of years ago.

For a warrior, a grandmaster in the field of martial arts can be trained within a hundred years, while for other immortal races, the period of training a strong man is too long. If one dies, there will be one less, and they simply cannot afford it!

The speed of massing troops is fast, and this is the advantage of martial arts.

As for the disadvantage of short lifespan of martial artists, it seems insignificant compared to death at the hands of foreign butchers.

Chapter 433 Preparing for the Second Soul

Humans are not immortal. If they want to live forever, they can only rely on practice.

The Art of Immortality is a method of refining Qi and cultivating immortality, and naturally it also has the effect of prolonging life, but between longevity and a rapid burst of combat power, the Great Zhou Taizu chose the latter.

Therefore, martial arts came into being.

In Song Xuan's opinion, martial arts is the most suitable practice method for human beings that he knows of.

There is no way. Although the method of cultivating immortals and practicing Qi is good, the human lifespan is too short. Even if the method of practicing Qi can prolong life, there is almost no time left for humans to trial and error.

The immortal species are different. They are born with a long lifespan. Even if they make a mistake on the path to becoming an immortal, they can start over again. It’s just a matter of wasting hundreds or thousands of years.

What they lack the least is longevity.

The human race chose martial arts, and martial arts also made the human race in this world.

Martial arts don't have much advantage in prolonging life, but they can be practiced quickly and have extremely strong bursts of combat power.

Before reaching the Grandmaster level, it is considered the foundation-laying stage, and the combat power is not obvious. But after reaching the Grandmaster level, after being able to mobilize the power of heaven and earth, the combat power will soar rapidly.

Especially after reaching the level of Grandmaster, the laws and martial arts merged into the realm of martial arts. When the realm came out, everything was silent, which was a bit like the mighty power of a prison. It was not an exaggeration to say that he was a living god.

The later the stage, the more exaggerated the leap in martial arts strength becomes. Inexplicably, Song Xuan thought of the abyss that split the Songzhou continent into two.

It was obvious that it was cut by a sword.

A sentence popped up in Song Xuan's mind.

The martial arts god is so terrifying!

"Husband, is this the secret of longevity?"

Yao Yue curiously pondered the secrets of the technique on the ground. After a long while, she raised her head with a complicated expression, "It truly deserves to be called a miraculous book. Although I still don't understand some of its contents, the fact that practicing it to perfection can condense the Taoist Primordial Spirit is enough to drive the world crazy."

Song Xuan shook his head and said, "Being crazy is useless. This longevity secret requires all seven diagrams to be cultivated to perfection before it can be considered a true master. During this period, if you make a wrong move, you will fall into the abyss of eternal damnation. The human lifespan is too short to tolerate mistakes, and there is no chance to correct mistakes later."

Finally, he added, "Without the trial and error of the martial arts spirit, this technique is a catastrophic failure for the human race!

Of course, if you don't have too big ambitions and just want to be a free and easy Grandmaster, this technique is still very good."

Even in the plot of The Twin Dragons of Tang Dynasty, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, two sons of destiny, could only practice one of the pictures by chance. As for wanting to go a step further and condense the Taoist spirit, forget it.

But even so, he is still one of the top masters in the world, and it is enough for him to live freely in the world.

Yao Yue nodded silently, "Although this technique is good, it is too difficult and time-consuming. It can only serve as a reference for me, but it is not suitable for cultivation.

On the contrary, you and Xiao Qian, both of you possess the spirit of martial arts, so practicing this method is like looking down from a high vantage point, which is much easier."

Song Xuan nodded, "Actually, I'm also very curious about the differences between the martial arts spirit and the orthodox Taoist spirit!"

Yao Yue's eyes lit up, "My husband, are you planning to cultivate a second soul?"

Song Xuan nodded, "Actually, you can practice it too. You have been practicing the Refining Secret Technique for a long time. You can definitely open up the Tanzhong acupoint into the second Dantian and focus on the Longevity Technique.

Although this method takes too long and probably won't be very effective within a hundred or eighty years, it's still another option. At least, it does have some miraculous effects in prolonging life!"

Yao Yue hesitated for a moment. "This method starts with refining essence into qi and cultivating innate true qi. This should have an impact on fertility. How about we wait and practice it later?"

Song Xuan shook his head, "You have to understand one thing, we are different from ordinary people.

Ordinary people have a limited lifespan, so they need to reproduce to pass on their bloodline. But we are different. As our cultivation continues to improve, our lifespan will only get longer and longer, until we eventually live forever and no longer have to worry about our lifespan.

So, as for me, having offspring is great, but if not, it doesn't matter. There's no need to force it."

"Oh, I see!"

Yao Yue's face was somewhat gloomy. "Then my husband, do we still need to have sex in the future?"

"Of course it is necessary!"

"Ah?" Yao Yue was stunned. "Since my husband doesn't care about having children, why would he waste his time on such things?"

Song Xuan said frankly: "I don't care about the result of reproducing offspring, but I like the process! Compared to the result, the process is more important to me!"

Yao Yue blushed and spat coquettishly.

Relaxed, she let out a mischievous smile. "My dear, your trickery isn't working. It's been so long, and that Xu Ziling still hasn't come to this mountain temple to look for you?"

Song Xuan smiled nonchalantly and said, "If you plan for the best, you will get the middle. If you plan for the middle, you will get the worst! Man proposes, God disposes. Sometimes, there's no need to worry too much about the outcome.

As long as the follow-up is done well, the outcome will generally not be too bad."

He pointed at the Longevity Secret on the ground and said, "Even if there were some mistakes in the plan and I failed to trick people, I still have the Longevity Secret I need in my hands. That's enough!"

As he spoke, he sat cross-legged on the ground, "It's a good opportunity to take advantage of this time to open up the second Dantian, learn the Changsheng Jue, and cultivate the Changsheng Zhenqi first."

The martial arts spirit began to deduce.

The obscure lines of the Changsheng Jue were now being peeled off layer by layer under the deduction of the martial arts spirit.

Song Xuan directly chose to start practicing from the first picture.

The first five pictures are the foundation, representing the five elements. In some respects, martial arts and the methods of cultivating immortals and practicing qi have similarities. At least in terms of laying the foundation, both choose the method of building the foundation of the five elements.

Yao Yue did not practice directly, but released the incarnation of the devil and disappeared into the mountains and forests. Then she sat cross-legged beside Song Xuan and began to open up the Tanzhong point on her chest into the second Dantian, preparing to practice the art of immortality.

At this time, Song Xuan's Danzhong point on his chest was being developed into the second Dantian. It seemed silent to outsiders, but at this moment, a rumbling sound was heard inside Song Xuan's body.

In Song Xuan's spiritual observation, the second dantian was in chaos, with no concept of time and space. However, as the Changsheng Jue technique was activated, it seemed as if a divine thunder had descended from the dantian, and the rumbling sound made Song Xuan's spiritual consciousness tremble.

As the sound of divine thunder rang out, yin and yang began to differentiate in the second dantian, and the black and white light balls reflected each other, giving rise to a black and white Tai Chi diagram phantom.

Song Xuan suddenly opened his eyes, only to see Yao Yue also opening her eyes, both of them with inexplicable surprise in their eyes.

The combination of the orifice refining method and the secret of longevity opened up a second dantian, which made the two of them see a chaotic evolution in the dark, where Wuji gave birth to Taiji, and Taiji transformed into Yin and Yang!

Chapter 434: When we become gods, they will also be evil gods

“What a great fortune!”

Song Xuan sighed, "Even if I can't cultivate the Taoist spirit in the future, just what I saw today is definitely a great fortune!"

At this moment, Song Xuan seemed to understand the difference between the martial arts spirit and the Taoist spirit.

Let’s not talk about other aspects for now. They are all souls and have the ability to deduce the secrets of heaven, but the martial arts souls are better at killing and fighting, while the Taoist souls seem to have the power of creation.

Song Xuan had an epiphany that when he condensed his Taoist spirit one day, perhaps he could really build a complete world in his dantian!

The shadow of the black and white Tai Chi diagram disappeared in an instant, and then the second dantian was empty. Soon, a strand of silk thread with a faint dark golden luster emerged in the second dantian.

This is the immortality qi cultivated through the art of immortality.

It has to be said that the quality of the Changsheng Qi is extremely high, far surpassing most martial arts in the world, but in Song Xuan's perception, the Changsheng Qi is still weaker than his original Pure Yang Qi.

But Song Xuan didn't care about this, because at the moment when the first strand of immortality qi was condensed, his martial arts soul suddenly stopped the subsequent deduction of the immortality secret, and turned his eyes to look at a certain direction in the void.

There seems to be a space node there, which hides a special space area related to the secret of immortality.

"Is this the spatial node where the War God Atlas is located?"

The Secret of Immortality was originally a Taoist method of Qi training created by Guangchengzi after he entered the Temple of the God of War and viewed the Atlas of the God of War, a strange book that claimed to record all the mysteries of the universe.

I didn't expect that after practicing this method, I would have a vague connection with the Temple of War God. It was a pleasant surprise.

This connection is very weak. If Song Xuan did not possess the spirit of martial arts, he would not be able to detect it at all. But it doesn't matter. It is estimated that when he cultivates the Art of Immortality to a high level, the connection with the Temple of War God will only become more and more obvious.

When one day he becomes a perfect grandmaster, he can try to break that space node, enter the Temple of War God, and comprehend the mysteries of the universe recorded in the Atlas of War God. What a miracle!

The first picture of the Changsheng Jue was very easy to practice, and Song Xuan completed it in just one hour.

The second picture was a little slower, but after one day, the cultivation goal was also achieved.

As for the third picture, Song Xuan spent nine full days to complete it.

As for the fourth picture, the martial arts soul calculated that it would take about a hundred days, and the fifth picture would take three years!

So after completing the third picture, Song Xuan stopped practicing.

He had other things to do on this trip, so it was not suitable for him to stay in seclusion in this mountain temple for too long. On the tenth day, he stopped and slowly stood up.

Yao Yue's eyes were filled with disbelief. "Could it be that, my husband, you have completely mastered the Art of Immortality in just ten days?"

The difficulty of practicing this longevity secret would increase tenfold with each practice. Yao Yue believed that she had great talent in martial arts, but even so, she estimated that it would take at least seven or eight hundred years to fully practice it to the perfect state.

It took seven or eight hundred years, but my husband completed it in just ten days. The difference in cultivation speed is too exaggerated, right?

"What are you thinking about?"

Song Xuan laughed dumbly, "Even if I were a god, I wouldn't dare to think like that. You're flattering me too much!"

Yao Yue's martial arts aptitude has been better than his since childhood. At that time, it seemed that she was only slightly inferior to Song Qian, the girl who did not play by the rules. In terms of aptitude, the Palace Master Yao Yue was rare in the world.

Song Xuan was able to beat Yao Yue as a child because of his own superb martial arts skills. In addition, he was mentally mature and was able to suppress this girl in every aspect.

As for later, as his celestial level skills continued to consolidate the foundation, especially after he advanced to the Xiantian realm, his cultivation aptitude had actually begun to gradually surpass Yao Yue, and even surpassed Song Qian.

Forget it, Song Qian cannot be compared, because this girl has no qualifications at all. Her qualifications are entirely up to fate and cannot be counted.

Although he had surpassed Yao Yue in terms of qualifications, the gap was not so big as to make a world of difference. Yao Yue, who possessed the incarnation of a demon, was not a delicate and weak woman.

Song Xuan would never dream of completing the cultivation journey that would take hundreds of years in just ten days.

Yao Yue breathed a sigh of relief. "I've only just started practicing the third diagram. I estimate it will take another half a month to complete the training. I thought the gap between me and my husband was already so big."

Song Xuan smiled and said, "I have just finished practicing the third diagram. As for the fourth diagram, it will take too long. I have other things to deal with and don't plan to stay here for long."

Yao Yue stood up suddenly and said, "Then I'll walk with my husband."

For her, this was a real honeymoon trip. In addition, she no longer felt the urgency of wanting to have children, so she felt a lot more relaxed.