Destiny is ashes

Chapter 729 Sustainability: Fishing Out the Pond
"An artificial body for the Taoist fetus? The Tianyuan Realm is indeed researching this."

Although it was indeed a coincidence, An Jing also knew that the Tianyuan Realm, the source of the Yuhua Dao, would definitely develop in this direction.

With An Jing's current status in the Tianyuan Realm, he can already be sure that Yuhua Dao can easily create a body that matches the power of a Purple Mansion True Person. It is almost universal, and almost every Purple Mansion True Person has prepared a "war body" for himself.

And according to the principle that 'if something has been fully popularized, then the next generation has actually been developed, and the next generation is in experimental research and development', the Feathered Battle Body comparable to the Golden Elixir must have been experimentally tested in large companies, and the research and development of the Daotai Battle Body, just like the information in front of him, has already been studied by a Heavenly Monarch.

"Mysterious Sky God Puppet."

Fu Xie still had some memories of the Daoting relics in this document. After thinking about it for a while, the sword spirit suddenly realized: "I remember now, this is the Shinto giant spirit mechanical god used to carry out the Heavenly Dao mission!"

"Xuanqiong means the sky. This thing is a puppet acting on behalf of the Heavenly Dao. Of course, when we say Heavenly Dao, it actually means the giant spirit god directly under the Dao Court at that time, who was responsible for transforming the heaven and earth. It was specialized in moving mountains and seas, turning the four poles upside down, changing the heaven and earth, and reshaping nature... No matter how desolate and corrupt the world is, after being transformed by the Xuanqiong God Puppet, it will become habitable."

"The natural environment of many small caves and small worlds is not suitable for most humans to survive, so cultivators need to use great magical powers to change the world. However, this kind of work is too hard and tiring. Although the pay is high, the standards are also high. You have to leave a name for yourself when you transform the world. If the quality is not up to standard, you will be held accountable if there are problems in the future world. Therefore, many immortals and gods are unwilling to do this kind of work, so this god does it for them."

"I see."

An Jing nodded slightly. It was no wonder that the divine puppet that could change the world could provide inspiration for the Daotai-level Feathered Battle Body. "It seems that the Tianyuan Realm has discovered a lot of good things."

"It doesn't look like there is such a thing in the Tianyuan Realm. I guess it was discovered in the ancient ruins of the Immortal Realm."

Fu Xie suggested another possibility: "The ancient ruins are essentially a shipyard, and that place is also responsible for transforming the world being developed. The divine puppet is called a divine puppet, but in reality it is also a warship in its normal state. It needs to land in the target world before it can transform into a giant spirit god to change the world."

"The Tianyuan Realm has made great progress in the development of the ancient immortal ruins, and even these things can be unearthed."

An Jing bought the paper along with other information about the Ascension Dao. He read it roughly and found that the article written by the Lord of Heaven of Shouyang Mountain was quite easy to understand.

True Man Zifu needs to place his soul in the void, and use the heaven and earth as a furnace to refine his body. At this point, the supernatural power is me, and I am the supernatural power. Then, after seven returns and nine transformations, the supernatural power turns into a "pill" that breeds immortality and indestructibility.

Although this elixir exists, it is illusory, condensed from the will of supernatural power. If one wants to turn the illusion into reality, use the false to cultivate the true, and truly achieve immortality, one must achieve the three truths of 'no decay of the mind', 'no stagnation of the body', and 'no falsehood of the Tao'.

After achieving the Three Truths, one can [obtain the nature from the gold], and become completely immortal and indestructible. From this point on, one’s life will be endless, and one will become an immortal, a fairy in the clouds.

After that, the realm of 'Daotai Yuanying' will achieve a 'Dao body' that is beyond the four symbols and five elements and all causes and conditions.

The key to this realm lies in [using the Dharma to prove all wonders], [severing all causes and conditions with the mind], and [cutting off one's own path with force]. It is to prove the three great achievements of [one Dharma gives rise to all things], [one can still display supernatural powers without relying on other things], and [even if one does not have supernatural powers, one can survive forever just by relying on the 'self-path'].

After completion, the essence of the cultivator will transcend the heaven and earth, and completely become an omnipresent "Tao image". Even if the body is destroyed and the soul is gone, as long as the relevant Tao inheritance is still passed down, it can always be restored to the world.

The Yuhua Dao can popularize the combat body in the Zifu Realm because with the technology of the Tianyuan Realm, it is already possible to artificially entrust the void through the Taixu technique, using the Yuhua body as a small world, and then refine the Yuhua soul, and condense a trace of immortal nature in the central soul chip.

An Jing could also see this from the armor of Fengdu Guards - the Fengdu Guards were only used for refining Qi, but they could simulate an artificial small cave heaven. If it was the armor of Zifu Zhenren, simulating the small world would be a piece of cake.

But there are some problems with the Jindan realm, because the "Three Truths" are in a progressive relationship, and the mind and body must be consistent. In other words, the Jindan Zhenjun's immortal body is essentially their Jindan. Everyone has and can only have one. Although they can design and fine-tune it themselves, it is essentially just an extremely powerful external incarnation and cannot be lost at will.

Although the biggest advantage is gone, it can still be created after all. The average person's external incarnation also has a great advantage in the same-level battle, but the Taoist fetus fighting body is more difficult, because the essence of the Taoist fetus is "no need for other things, the supernatural power is self-sufficient, no need for magic, the Tao survives forever."

As a way to achieve external things, it is theoretically impossible to achieve the Tao fetus.

But Lord Changhe raised a question.

What is the definition of self?

Experiments have proven that the Tianyuan people are born with souls, but if we have to talk about the order, the body comes first and then the soul. So, can we say that compared to the body, the soul is an outsider outside the self?

And the spiritual powers of heaven and earth that he absorbed later, the knowledge and techniques he mastered, and the ways of the world that he understood, are they not part of himself, but external, and later, other things that originated from him?
This is not the case. The nature and life of a person complement each other. Although some are stronger or weaker, they are all part of the self. The process of learning and understanding knowledge is also the process of turning others into one's own. All things are not static, but are in a process of constant change and transformation.

As a puppet that can change the world and master the magical power of the Great Dao, why can the Xuanqiong Divine Puppet exert the magical power of heaven and earth that ordinary Daotai Tianjun does not have? The answer is simple, because the Xuanqiong Divine Puppet is a man-made external object. After landing in the target world, it will integrate into the local heavenly way and integrate itself into the local world, becoming a force in the local world, such as a volcanic eruption or a huge storm.

The Xuanqiong Divine Puppet will first 'give up itself', plant the body of the battleship as a seed into the world, and then stimulate the growth and expansion of this world, and then be bred again from the avenue of heaven and earth.

In this way, the power of heaven and earth becomes its power. Although it is the agent of heaven, heaven and earth will be transformed by it.

The principle should be the same for the Daotai-level feathered combat body.

Changhe Tianjun pointed out that at this level, the metamorphosis combat body can no longer be "completed first and then moved in". One should first create the "Tao seed" of the metamorphosis combat body, and then integrate it into the cultivator's Tao, using it as the core to create a "metamorphosis small world", and then take out the required materials from this small world and combine them into a combat body.

In this way, the three standards of [oneself is everything], [do not rely on other things], and [do not borrow supernatural powers] are met!
Moreover, this process of taking matter out of the small world and forming the essence of one's own body is the same as the process of the Tao fetus being reborn from the great Dao of heaven and earth and re-condensing the Tao body!

When he saw this, An Jing was stunned.

"Isn't this the way of martial arts?"

An Jing read it several times again and found that this path to the fetal level of immortality, to put it simply, is to create an inner world, cut off external cause and effect, and create one's own combat body with the materials of one's own world. At this point, the immortal monk is no longer a monk, but the will of the world. His combat body is his agent, a more powerful [Xuanqiong Divine Puppet]!
Changhe Tianjun's idea is indeed feasible, otherwise, Jinyuantian would not have tacitly agreed to sell it, so it is indeed possible to succeed.

but……

This is what martial arts is all about!

The [Dao Palace Chunyang] of martial arts is the palace of the great Dao evolved from the array world in the body. Pure faith condenses the God of Chunyang. This god enters the Dao Palace and is in charge of the three realms of heaven, earth and man. After completely controlling the Dao Palace, the God of Chunyang can "ascend" from the small world in the body to the big world!
Chen Yinzi failed to break through to Pure Yang because his Pure Yang Spirit was not strong enough to control the three realms of heaven, earth and man, so it collapsed during the ascension, and even his foundation of heart mirror was shattered.

To put it in Yuhuadao's words, it was because the materials of the divine puppet were not strong enough. If there was a big force behind the scenes providing strong enough divine materials, even if it failed, it would not be backlashed.

"If it is a Purple Mansion Feathered Battle Body, the martial arts is a small world within the body, and there is no need to use battle armor to simulate it..."

An Jing muttered to himself: "If the golden elixir is transformed into a battle body, for a warrior, it is nothing more than the Great Heaven manifesting itself, not the cave heaven and spiritual land in the body, but a transformed battle body that can simulate the essence of the cave heaven and contain the true meaning of heaven and earth... If the transformed battle body disintegrates, it will also become a spiritual land, it's just an extra process."

"And the Dao Embryo Battle Body is a different path to the same end. In essence, it is to strengthen the Pure Yang God through various methods. It is an advanced method of martial arts cultivation!"

"Xianwu can really be practiced together, especially Yuhuadao, which is completely complementary!"

An Jing vaguely understood why Tiandao warned him after he talked about the path to enlightenment - if this path was given to those Qi-refining practitioners who practiced Taoism, it would only make them more powerful in combat and less human.

But if it is handed over to warriors who are not very human, it would be really out of the question. It would be difficult for these warriors to die in future battles. In the chaos, everyone would kill the battle body first and then attack the real body. If the martial artists are given enough time and can use the formation in their bodies to repair the battle body, it would be like having one more life.

Warriors can kill with pleasure and cannot die, but how can heaven and earth make up for what is missing from the way of heaven?

As for why Heaven warned but the force was not very strong, it is because it is difficult for warriors to die.

In the final analysis, a war body also requires a large amount of materials and magical powers from the Yuhua Dao monk to produce. For a warrior, it is the essence of the formation world in the body.

The battle body is destroyed, and the spirit returns to heaven and earth, which is essentially equivalent to the death of several warriors. If more people die, the efficiency is not bad either.

The more powerful the warrior, the more difficult it is to cultivate him. Whether it is natural growth or training in a sect, it takes at least several decades to create a Shenzang Zhenren, and it takes even longer to create a Xiansheng Zhenjun.

Their death did indeed bring a lot of nourishment to the Heavenly Dao, but it also meant that it would take dozens or even hundreds of years to train new warriors.

But what if everyone practices the way to immortality?
Not to mention that because no one is in any essential life-and-death crisis, the fighting may be even more brutal - if a warrior loses his fighting body, even if his origin is damaged, he can recover in a few years at most and can continue fighting.

If a battle body is damaged four or five times, it is essentially the same as the death of a real person. However, for warriors, they are still alive and can produce new battle bodies!
It's just like leeks, they grow again after being cut, and they grow again after being cut, seemingly endlessly!

Of course, if a warrior loses too much of his body, he will surely die of exhaustion, but by then, it is time for him to leave the world.

For the Heavenly Dao, among the warriors in the same unit, theoretically, the one who follows the Yuhua Dao will definitely gain more!
This is the difference between exhausting the pond and exhausting the pond sustainably.

As for whether this is really the case... An Jing is too lazy to guess.

In the final analysis, the reaction ability of Heaven is countless times greater than that of ordinary people. If something really happens, He will strike with lightning Himself. We will deal with it when we are really struck by lightning.

(End of this chapter)