Wet viviparity

Chapter 924 Demonstration of the Technique, Qianyang Ball
After using all the power of the Big Dipper to set up a simple Seven Star Array to block the pursuing enemy, Ji Ming and Qian Shou'er rushed into one of the stars.

This star was not among the 3,682 star chambers, but was one of the seven celestial palaces transformed into a star. As soon as it fell into it, it was surrounded by swirling light, as if it had fallen into a net woven from azure clouds.

When he looked closely, he found himself in a strange and wonderful place—the walls were all made of gnarled roots, with amber-colored liquid flowing between the roots, and three transparent, thin, skin-like buds hanging from the ceiling, opening and closing as if breathing.

"This is the wooden room?"

As Qian Shou'er's hundred arms gently touched the roots on the wall, the warm and smooth sensation coming from his fingertips made him feel extremely comfortable.

"I understand."

Da Tongzi suddenly realized and said, "The seven Zhou Tian Palaces hidden here only appear during the Dragon Palace's great calamity. Just now, the Little Saint Master fought with that demonic bird, which was a deliberate act to create a great disaster in order to force the Zhou Tian Palaces to appear."

Before Ji Ming could speak, Er Tongzi immediately jumped out and said, "That's right, this is a two-pronged approach!"

“We were almost done with it,” Da Tongzi said in frustration. “I had already figured it out. As long as we imitated the old master’s supernatural power of drawing a line across the river with his tail on that altar, we could open the spiritual path leading here.”

As Ji Ming was listening to Tongzi speak, he suddenly stared at a spot in the wooden room. With a wave of his hand, the sun crow flapped its wings and scattered golden light, while the yin rabbit leaped and drew in the moonlight. As the two reflected each other, a beam of unfulfilled auspicious light shone down in that spot.

Ji Ming rarely uses this unfulfilled wish-fulfilling spiritual light anymore. He is trying to minimize the use of such trump cards and killing moves. Before he can develop the next mysterious change of this spiritual light, using it too frequently will only allow potential enemies to calculate his weaknesses and devise targeted countermeasures.

It's me!

A bull's head emerged, its innocent-looking eyes wide, and squeezed into the light emanating from the wooden chamber, saying, "I come from the altar; may I come in and seek refuge?"

Before Ji Ming could speak, the old ox defended himself, saying, "Half of the '之' shape has already been drawn on the altar. I understood what it meant at a glance. In the past, when the Crown Prince Gunlong drew rivers and released floods on the land, he especially liked to use this '之' shape to release floods and slow down the flow."

After a moment's thought, Ji Ming realized that the old ox knew this place inside and out and must have information about the wooden room, so he put away his spiritual light.

"Tell me the secret of this wooden room."

Ji Mingdao.

The old ox raised its six hooves and approached, saying, "There are five wondrous flower buds in the wooden room. Whenever someone comes here, they can pluck one of them to divine their future."

This path could lead to the next stage of refining magical artifacts into spiritual treasures, or to exhausting the transformations of the earthly fiends in supernatural powers and spells, or to reaching the pinnacle of Taoist arts such as alchemy and talismans, and even to comprehending the perfected state of true magic and demonic arts.

"Wonderful!"

Ji Ming gazed at the remaining three buds, pondered for a moment, and then asked, "If it is an incomplete profound technique, or if one wishes to break free from the constraints of a true technique and create a new chapter, can this wondrous flower bud fulfill my small wish?"

"Your wish is quite big."

The old ox murmured, then said seriously, "If that's the case, the effectiveness of a single wondrous flower stamen will probably be greatly diminished."

As Ji Ming's gaze lingered on the three flower stamens, the old ox reminded him, "According to the rules of the wooden chamber, you can only take one flower when you enter here."

Ji Mingchao glanced at the old ox, and the next moment, Yangwu landed on the old ox's head, suppressing its primordial spirit and causing it to fall unconscious to the ground. At this moment, Ji Mingchao looked at the old ox a few more times in surprise. The resistance from the primordial spirit coming from Yangwu was greater than expected, but soon the old ox obediently gave up resisting and fell into a deep sleep.

"They are indeed descendants of the Xuanpu alien species."

Ji Ming thought to himself.

"Go and pick one of them," Ji Ming said to the two Pupil Gods.

The Zhou Tian Palace was, after all, a property of the Dragon Palace. When that great god Gun set it up back then, he must have taken some precautions to prevent outsiders from using it. Fortunately, these two Pupil Gods were former officials of the Dragon Palace, so if they came to pluck it, it wouldn't violate the prohibition. When a wondrous flower stamen was plucked by a Pupil God and presented to Ji Ming, Ji Ming did not use it immediately.

About two or three breaths later, Ji Ming reached out and took the flower. He merely sniffed its fragrance and immediately understood its usage. He then casually rubbed the Xuanming Star General into a cold, luminous ball and placed it into the flower's stamen. This meant that he was going to calculate the future of the Obstructing Sun God General chapter created by Qian Zu in the "True Method of Taiping Jiabu".

But that's not enough.

An invisible ball of demon-refining true fire gathered in Ji Ming's palm. This fire was formed by Ji Ming sensing the profound mystery of the Wing Constellation Fire Technique and combining it with the Six Ding Divine Fire. At present, this fire represents the Wing Constellation Tribulation Thought.

Ji Ming hopes that during the demonstration of the Obstructing Sun Divine Star Chapter, he can refine the Winged Constellation Tribulation Thoughts and transform them into resources to help the Obstructing Sun Divine Star Chapter advance further.

When the true fire falls into the flower, the stamen seems somewhat fragile and unable to bear the weight. Its petals unfold as if receiving the morning dew, drawing the true fire into the stamen, where it flows among the stamens and surrounds the mysterious cold light placed in the heart of the pistil. They collide and separate with each other.

The flower fell to the ground, its stem embedded in the roots. The flowing amber-colored sap was absorbed by the stem, and then another bud sprouted nearby. When this bud opened, Ji Ming's primordial spirit was deeply attracted by the scene within.

In that scene, deep within the earth's veins, there was a swirling mass of gas that absorbed the foul, turbid energy of the geology.

Its shape resembles a reclining egg, and its color is ochre yellow. When the surrounding earth's turbid energy adheres to it, another layer of earth's crust forms on the surface of the mottled rock shell. As it grows larger and larger, its mass increases continuously, and it gradually sinks into the earth's lungs more than three thousand feet below.

There, it absorbs the earth's fire, wind, and water, forming a thick layer that stretches for thousands of miles. The inner primordial energy of Yin and Yang is never released, making it increasingly turbid and wicked.

At this moment, within this thick, thousand-mile-long shell of calamity, a large serpent with wings was stirring restlessly. It had no specific form, and was curled up in the center of the shell, enveloped and contained by the primordial energy of Qianyang.

"The Sphere of Primordial Chaos Qi".

Ji Ming knew that the demonstration had begun, and that the wondrous flower stamen was demonstrating the correct method. Ji Ming couldn't help but concentrate and watch closely.

Suddenly, nine points of spiritual light fell upon the top of the thousand-mile-long calamity shell, instantly causing the rock shell to crack and reveal nine crystal-clear spiritual apertures, each as large as a hill and as deep as an abyss. The poisonous fire that spewed from the apertures transformed into the shape of fire snakes, hissing and shaking the earth and peaks.

Then eight more points of spiritual light bloomed one after another on the side of the calamity shell, revealing eight vital pores from which yin winds spewed out, transforming into rotting black birds.

These nine orifices and eight openings correspond precisely to the positions of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams. This is also the method that distinguishes the "Obstructing the Sun and Stars Chapter" from the original "Obstructing the Sun and Stars Chapter". These nine orifices and eight openings can communicate with heaven and earth to receive the essence of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon, and can also dispel the turbid and evil substances under the extremely thick shell of disaster.

As time went on, the massive shell of calamity, spanning thousands of miles, transformed into a celestial star. The primordial energy within it was restored to its pure and clear state, causing the massive shell to gradually rise from the earth and ascend among the stars, becoming one of the constellations.

At this moment, another flower bud sprouts, revealing the profound mystery of the next stage of the process.

The fire snakes, formed from poisonous fire, and the black birds, formed from yin wind, emerged from the nine orifices and eight openings, circulating repeatedly within them. Each time they completed a cycle, a wisp of black ash would be expelled from the openings.

"Excellent!"

It turns out that the poisonous fire and yin wind spewing out from the nine orifices and eight openings are the turbid matter in the tribulation thoughts. They circulate among the nine orifices and eight openings, further refining the evil matter in the tribulation and expelling it.

After the joy came doubt.

He knew that the most troublesome obstacles in the tribulations were those of ignorance and evil. These obstacles were not specific laws, but were like the three poisons of greed, anger, and delusion, or like heretical and evil practices. They unknowingly affected the mind and caused people to fall into afflictions and tribulations.

The third flower bud struggled to grow, and the scene changed dramatically.

The calamity has become a divine peak, with nine orifices at the summit and eight holes at the foot. The divine peak spews out poisonous winds and evil spirits day and night.

Inside the Divine Peak, within the sphere of Qianyang Primordial Qi, Ji Ming's primordial spirit infant sat there, reaching out to take the Ruyi scepter in front of him. The handle inside the Ruyi scepter was taken out and transformed into a small carving knife. Ji Ming then held this knife and gently made a cut on his body.

(End of this chapter)