Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 348: One's Intention
"This is……"

Everyone present showed surprised expressions. They could see that the talisman in front of them had undergone a certain degree of essential changes. It changed from an active source of pollution to a controllable product similar to the talisman lineage.

"It's really possible..."

There was also some excitement in the eyes of the man in the jade, but the expressions of the girl and Chu Tai were not quite right.

Under the watchful eyes of the other twelve fellow practitioners, the two of them each withdrew their own true Qi.

Without the support of the two true Qi, a light golden flame rose from the talisman. The golden lines flickered and became very unstable.

The flying flames continued to spread in all directions, rolling up waves, trying to influence and erode the surrounding truth.

Looking at the out-of-control Dao Fruit fragments, Chu Tai stretched out a hand, and with a roll of Miao Dao Zhen Qi, he took them away. Then the [Dao Fruit fragments] had no time to change at all, and were swallowed up by the [Spirit Embryo] in Chu Tai's body, becoming a faint light on its surface.

"Failed again?"

The light in everyone's eyes dimmed, but Chu Tai shook his head and said, "We can't say it's a failure. We should say it has opened up another possibility. And this should be the most likely method to succeed that we have discovered so far."

As he spoke, Chu Tai drew a new talisman in front of everyone, and refined it with his own true energy, refining it step by step from the invisible to the visible.

He stretched out his hand and pushed it forward. The talisman that was completely refined by the true Qi fell in front of the man. He silently moved his magic power and integrated the fragments of the Dao Fruit into it bit by bit.

[Announcement of the Dawn] appeared again, and even steadily changed towards [Morning Light]. Although it failed like the girl when [Morning Light] was about to take shape, the man's eyes became brighter.

He looked at Chu Tai who had taken away the out-of-control Dao Fruit fragments, and said excitedly: "It worked. Although some of my mana was lost, the Dao Fruit fragments did disappear. We succeeded!"

"How many years of cultivation have you lost? Has your origin and the Dharma you have mastered changed?"

Chu Tai looked at the girl beside him and asked, then looked at the man who was gradually calming down.

"About forty years, less than fifty years. There has been a slight loss in the origin and the Dharma I have mastered, but it can be regarded as normal consumption and change."

The girl just walked for a while and gave her answer.

After sensing his own changes, the man whispered, "It has been less than eighty years. My origin and the Dharma I have mastered have been slightly lost, but it does not affect my cultivation. I will be able to recover in about one or two months."

The two seemed to have thought of something, looked at Chu Tai and asked, "Master, how much did you spend, and how much did you get back in the end?"

"Less than ten years and nearly thirty years. But the mana recovered in the end was less than thirty years for one and less than sixty years for the other. The loss is too great... At this rate, let's not talk about how much mana will be left in your bodies, I alone can't handle it."

Chu Tai shook his head, feeling a little emotional. Although he had relatively completely simulated the process of the Donghuang Bell suppressing the Dao Fruit fragments and simulated the patterns of many Dao Fruit fragments, the consumption during the process was far greater than that of the Donghuang Bell, and the conversion ratio was close to two to one.

It takes two years of cultivation to accumulate one year's worth of magic power in the Dao Fruit fragments.

"If you add the missing origin and meaning, this is a huge loss."

When Chu Tai shook his head, the girl and the man also fell into deep thought. However, the old man under the pear tree smiled and said, "Master, we have achieved the results we have today, which is beyond our expectations. Why should we force perfection at the beginning? With new ideas and paths, we can move forward step by step."

"You are comforting me."

Chu Tai smiled, fetched some more materials, combined his true Qi and the Dharma Meaning of [One], condensed a special jade talisman, and continued to experiment with the thirteen people.

Every time, Chu Tai would waste more than ten years of cultivation, while the man’s loss also increased from less than fifty years at the beginning, to forty-five or forty-six years, to early forty years, and then to less than forty years.

By the time the thirteenth cultivator tried it, Chu Tai had lost about nine years of cultivation, while the loss of the cultivator who forced out the Dao Fruit fragments was about thirty-five years, which was much better than before.

Chu Tai, who had wasted nearly 150 years of cultivation at once, looked slightly pale. Under the persuasion of everyone, he swallowed some elixirs to improve his cultivation, regulated his breathing, maintained his cultivation and magic power, and then asked everyone how they felt.

This time, after forcing out the Dao Fruit fragments, everyone maintained them at the level of [Announcement of the Dawn], and did not try to upgrade them to [Morning Light]. Therefore, the jade talismans refined by Chu Tai were safely suspended above everyone's heads without any problems.

Upon hearing this, Chu Tai asked the thirteen cultivators to nurture the talisman bit by bit in the following days to see if they could improve its compatibility with the Dao Fruit fragments, as well as the nature of the talisman, so as to facilitate the subsequent placement of more Dao Fruit fragments.

After doing all this, Chu Tai returned to Dongyuan Palace to hone his magic power.

This place is the center of the cave and the place with the most abundant vitality. It is just suitable for someone like Chu Tai who has consumed a hundred years of Taoism practice.

He observed his body and made sure that there was no problem after resting for a period of time. Then he took out another Canglong Wohai Pill and swallowed it, adding another three hundred years and stabilizing his cultivation at twenty-eight Jiazi, or about one thousand six hundred and eighty years.

This level of cultivation is considered to be on the higher level among the fifth rank cultivators.

"But with this level of cultivation, in the entire Middle Earth, he can only dominate in one place, and still cannot be on the stage. He is still far inferior to the Snow Mountain Sect. He needs to find a way to speed up and improve his cultivation."

Thinking of this, Chu Tai silently sensed his own unique Dharma meaning of [One].

The meaning of this Dharma comes from Chu Tai's understanding of his own nature, and the name is taken from the meaning of "Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things."

But the concept of the Dharma meaning of "one" is a bit special. To summarize, it can be understood as "one is all" and at the same time "all is one".

At first glance, this concept has a little overlap with [Yuanshi], one of the top concepts in the Taoism, but the starting points of the two are different.

[Yuanshi] is created out of nothing, so [Yuanshi] is the cause of all results, the source of all things, and can also be the end.

However, Chu Tai's Dharma of "One" starts from people, or from the "heart", from the "nature", or from the "qi", from the "god", and from the "spirit".

Everything can be one, and one can be everything.

This concept has a little bit of the Buddhist concept of emptiness, that is, [one] itself does not refer to a specific concept and must be qualitatively defined. The core concept of this [one] is the starting point.

(End of this chapter)