Trinity Traitor: From One Person to the Other

Chapter 845 The Five Thunder Orthodox Method and the "Heavenly Court"

"real or fake?"

Xia He may be crazy, but she's not so crazy as to dare to look down on Zhang Daoling. Even if she dares to ask He Songling about the specific steps to dismantle the Celestial Master's Degree, she still can't quite believe that He Songling can really unravel it, especially since he can so easily break it from the outside with brute force.

Then you'd become a god.
"I can use the complete Five Thunder Orthodox Method."

As He Songling spoke, he flicked his wrist, and the sky instantly became as dark as midnight, as if it had been soaked in ink.

"This……"

Wang Ye looked out the window in disbelief, then at He Songling's hand. "Did you do this?"

"Of course. Don't believe me?" He Songling chuckled and shouted outside, "Bring the wind!"

Then, with a loud "whoosh," it was as if Pigsy from Journey to the West had caused a disturbance outside. A fierce wind howled, and even the train car, fixed to the rails, swayed uncontrollably from side to side.

"Clouds are coming! Oh, they're here already. Now, let the thunder and lightning come!" He Songling said, and lightning flashed across the sky. A few seconds later, a deafening clap of thunder resounded.

"Rain falls."

After saying this, a torrential downpour began, followed by another sentence: "The clouds disperse and the rain stops," and then the wind died down, the rain ceased, and the sky cleared brightly.

"Ah, this..." The two Taoist priests were dumbfounded.

"No, bro, you really know how?" Wang Ye's mouth dropped open, and he almost dislocated his jaw.

"And what do you think?" He Songling turned around and lectured Zhang Lingyu: "See? The Five Thunder Orthodox Method is a complete divine authority spell, not just using palm lightning to hit people. What are you fussing about with Yin Thunder and Yang Thunder? Don't you find it ridiculous?"

He Songling wasn't bragging; he truly did know the Five Thunderbolts Technique.

As he said, after he became an immortal, he was able to use all the methods of extraordinary people, relying solely on his imagination. As long as he knew the effects of a certain technique, he could work backwards to use it.

However, that was only for himself. He couldn't teach ordinary people, just like the mountain god in the Heavenly Cave back then. He couldn't directly impart "immortal techniques" to ordinary people because they couldn't even understand them. He could only, like Zhang Boduan, pass on a "miraculous skill" to ordinary people as a crutch to ascend to heaven, letting them comprehend it themselves.

The Five Thunder Orthodox Method of the Celestial Master's Mansion is the same as that of Tiger Power Immortal, the national teacher of Chechi Kingdom in "Journey to the West". Although it is called "Five Thunder Method", it is by no means limited to being able to generate lightning with oneself.

This is the ultimate expression of "the interaction between heaven and humanity".

After mastering the Five Thunder Orthodox Method, one's spirit can connect with heaven and earth, influencing nature, and even goes so far as to imagine being able to control the wind and thunder of heaven and earth. In the eyes of thunder magic Taoists, natural phenomena such as wind, clouds, thunder, lightning, sunshine, and rain can be completely created through their own visualization and qigong. Summoning wind and rain, overturning rivers and seas, are all within their grasp.

This is more than just magical power. I've said it many times: the Zhengyi sect doesn't cultivate personal magical power. The one who gathers all power into one's own body is the Quanzhen Golden Elixir Method. The Zhengyi sect cultivates divine power. If a celestial decree descends from above, making you an immortal, then you are an immortal; if I become an immortal, I issue a celestial decree, making you make it rain, and you must make it rain.

In addition to these, the Five Thunder Technique can also cause decapitation and rebirth, disembowelment and heart removal, refine cold dragons, and bathe in boiling oil. In simpler terms, it means the physical body is no longer bound by mortal limitations. Unlike the Golden Elixir Yang Divine Technique of the Quanzhen School, which discards the mortal body, the Zhengyi School directly uses the power of the "Immortal Register" to achieve physical immortality. It's difficult to say which is superior, but the Zhengyi School is a system of interconnected and functionally distinct immortals.

There's a detail in Journey to the West where the Five Thunder Orthodox Method, besides granting the ability to summon wind and rain and achieve physical immortality, also allows one to command local deities and mountain gods. When Tiger Power Immortal ordered the local deity to hold down Sun Wukong's severed head to prevent it from returning, he was using the Five Thunder Orthodox Method.

If Sun Wukong, who cultivated the Golden Elixir, hadn't possessed the Seventy-Two Transformations and had seventy-two lives, he would have truly died if he hadn't learned transformations.

"That's what you call Thunder Magic."

He Songling said with a mysterious expression, "You're so foolish to think that the Five Thunder Orthodox Method is just about being able to generate electricity with your hands. And you get upset about not being able to generate electricity with your hands. That's very stupid. No wonder your master has always looked down on you for this. Your character and comprehension are too poor. But you can't be entirely blamed."

He Songling withdrew his supernatural powers, glanced at Zhang Lingyu's entire body, and said, "This is because your master set a bad precedent. He, a Taoist priest of the Zhengyi sect and the Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain, actually pioneered the practice of only cultivating one's physical body and spirit, directly leading the Zhengyi sect astray."

"Then what do you think is right?" Although Zhang Lingyu was amazed by He Songling's Five Thunder Orthodox Method, he still subconsciously disagreed when he heard He Songling criticize his master.

"You're still not convinced?" He Songling chuckled, like the Ancient One demonstrating the timeline to Dr. Hulk in Avengers: Endgame, pulling out countless threads in front of him and connecting them together.

"The Zhengyi school emphasizes a 'celestial register,' which emphasizes that people, nature, and the universe each have their own responsibilities and cooperate with each other. Each thing has its own characteristics, and each deity wields different powers. They each perform their duties, just like a finely tuned machine, to operate the principles of the universe. Or, it's like a court governing a human kingdom, which is what is called the 'Heavenly Court.'"

He Songling did not cultivate Taoist practices, nor did he practice the methods of the Daoist sect, so he only understood this principle after he became an immortal. This world indeed does not have a concrete Heavenly Court, but it does have an abstract "Heavenly Court."

Just as Zhang Huaiyi told Zhang Chulan, the Golden Elixir Cultivation Method, with its internal organs representing the five elements, can be abstracted into "Sun Wukong," "Zhu Bajie," and "Sha Wujing."

These so-called immortals are not specific deities, but rather a path of cultivation, or obstacles on that path. Therefore, the "Heavenly Court" could also be one. Just as the Golden Elixir cultivation requires calming the mind and restraining the will, the Zhengyi cultivation also requires coordinating and facilitating cooperation among various parties.

Humans are one with Heaven and Earth. Heaven is a vast universe, and humanity is a microcosm of it. Whatever Heaven and Earth possess, humanity possesses as well. Yin and Yang and the Five Elements are complete, hence the term "Zhou Tian" (the cycle of Heaven).

This is the end of Zhengyi cultivation.

"what……"

Xia He was alright, but the two young Taoist priests, directly subjected to this massive influx of divine secrets, experienced a huge clash and reshaping of their existing values. Their eyes rolled back, their mouths gaped open, and they became like walking corpses, dazed and confused, having lost their minds.

"Awake."

He Songling used his "Word of Power" to urge them on, and a clear stream flowed through their hearts, bringing them back to their senses.

"Isn't this possible?"

He Songling chuckled and said, “These are merely some of the most basic things about becoming an immortal, and they don’t involve any secrets. If it were the things that the successors of the Eight Extraordinary Techniques knew, the things that your Uncle Tian learned from Zhang Huaiyi back then, the things that he would rather let die than let him return to Longhu Mountain to see their master, would be enough to shake the entire history of cultivation among extraordinary people.”

(End of this chapter)