Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin: I Set Taboos in the Heavens

Chapter 67: Refining the Spirit and Returning to the Void! (th update)
In the Tang Dynasty world, Fang Qing had been searching for the Temple of the God of War for more than three months, and he finally found it today.

Mysterious light emanated from his body, and the terrifying mysterious light broke through the many obstacles in front of it.

At an extremely fast speed, Fang Qing entered the underground hall.

The first thing you see is a huge circular wall with a diameter of at least five meters. It turns out to be a star map. The stars on it are densely covered with dots. Among them, more than a dozen are particularly large, which are the sun, moon, and five planets.

In addition, there are the Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions, as well as countless other constellations, many of which are not recorded in ancient books.

On the edge of this star map, different degrees and strange names are recorded, which seem to be the coordinates of one galaxy after another.

This scene alone shows the incredibleness of the Temple of War. It seems that those who once left behind the Temple of War could travel the universe in the flesh, so they were able to leave behind such star map coordinates.

Of course, it is also possible that this person could see so many star fields just by observing the stars, which sounds a little difficult to achieve.

Fang Qing memorized those star maps one by one in his mind. If he had time in the future and broke through the void, maybe he could break through and ascend to those star fields, but he was not in a hurry to ascend at the moment.

Fang Qing continued to explore the secrets of the Temple of War.

Flying along the passage in the distance, Fang Qing passed through a waterfall, which seemed to be the same waterfall before Huaguo Mountain, and arrived at a new and strange world.

He was in mid-air at this time. Below him was a large lake with shimmering water and many living creatures in it. Looking up, there was a cave. The distance from the lake surface to the top of the cave was sixty feet.

The surrounding rock walls are covered with exotic flowers and plants in brilliant colors.

In addition, large holes appear on some rock walls from time to time, and streams flow out, forming forty or fifty splashing waterfalls, making the space here full of sound and movement.

In addition to the water flow, some underground fire also escapes from the cracks in the rock wall, making this place not only have waterfalls, but also underground fire. The combination of water and fire, and the harmony of yin and yang make this place look extremely magical.

And in the center of the large lake on the ground, there is a lonely rocky island, and the entire island is covered by a huge building.

This seems to be the main body of the Temple of War as rumored.

For ordinary people who arrive here, there is no way to reach the main body of the Temple of War from high altitude. They must swim through the lake, which is very dangerous because there are many strange fish in this lake, and even a magic dragon. Although it looks ugly, it is still a dragon.

The presence of these creatures in the lake is enough to stop many martial arts masters in their tracks.

As for Fang Qing, he flew directly over and landed in front of the gate of the Temple of War God on the rocky island in the middle of the lake.

There were three large characters engraved on the gate: "Temple of the God of War". Each character was about ten feet in size.

Fang Qing's mind entered a state of calmness, like a clear spring that could reflect everything around it.

He slowly entered the Temple of War God and suddenly felt as if he had entered a hall built by a giant.

The Temple of the God of War was extremely vast. The front of the huge hall and the walls on both sides were at least forty feet away from him, making him look very small in such a huge hall.

It was as if the inheritance that originally belonged to the giants had now been inherited by an ordinary human.

Fang Qing looked forward and saw a famous quote from the Tao Te Ching, which was also a famous quote in the bronze coffin in the Heaven-Chugging Realm:

Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are dogs.

This sentence is so famous that it seems that these few words contain unimaginable truths. However, Fang Qing had read this sentence many times before, and still had not discovered what kind of profound mystery this sentence contained, nor had he comprehended any supreme magical powers from it.

It's really a pity.

Fang Qing continued to look at the huge hall. There was a round object embedded in the center of the roof of the hall, emitting a green and yellow light. It seemed to be a small sun, bathing the entire hall in green light.

With this light source as the center, there is a large circle with a diameter of more than 20 feet on the top of the hall, the same as the previous star map, but much larger, making this huge hall always within the coverage of the star map, as if it can fly up at any time.

This makes the hall even more mysterious.

There are no pillars inside the entire hall. There is a relief about two meters square on the ground in the center of the hall. There are also some reliefs on the walls on both sides, twenty-four on each side. Together with the relief in the center of the hall, there are a total of forty-nine reliefs.

Forty-nine reliefs are all the inheritance in the Temple of War God. The most crucial thing is whether one can comprehend these forty-nine reliefs.

Fang Qing's mind was immersed in the eternal and unchanging calm of an ancient well, and he carefully sensed the reliefs one by one.

The relief sculpture on the center of the hall depicts a god sitting on a mythical beast that looks like a dragon but is not. The god is wearing gorgeous armor and has a mask on his face. Even though his face cannot be seen, one can still feel his aura.

He flew down from nine pieces of cracked thick cloud and pounced directly towards a huge blood-red fireball in the lower corner.

Next to the nine broken thick clouds, from top to bottom were written the Nine Heavens, the Eight Heavens, and finally the Lowest Heaven.

When Fang Qing saw such a picture, it was difficult to comprehend the theme of the relief. The first picture seemed to be just describing things in myths and legends, as if the god of war was chasing some criminals. However, it was indeed too difficult to comprehend the terrifying magical powers from this picture.

Fang Qing temporarily passed over the first relief and looked at the other reliefs in the God of War Atlas. On the 49th relief, there was only one line of words and nothing else.

The line of words read: Atlas of the God of War Forty-Nine, Shattered Void.

It seems difficult to understand anything from this picture.

Fang Qing looked at the 48th picture, on which was written "War God Atlas 48 Return to the Ninth Heaven", and on the picture was the God of War, riding on a mythical beast that looked like a dragon but was not a dragon, flying upward from the lower right corner, passing through the first heaven, the second heaven, until the ninth heaven, and returned to the legendary ninth heaven.

Whether it is picture one, forty-eight, or forty-nine, they all seem to be just descriptions, recording mythological stories that may have happened in the past. It is very difficult to comprehend some truths from them.

Fang Qing looked at the relief in the middle.

One of the reliefs showed a person sitting in the center of a large circle, and a small circle was also drawn at the position of the person's heart.

There are a few words written below this picture.

The universe is one Tai Chi, and the human body is one Tai Chi.

Tai Chi is originally one, and becomes inside and outside due to intention.

If you get rid of the mind, then the distinction between inside and outside, between you and me, is false. When heaven and earth are endless, the human body itself will also be endless.

Written on this relief of the God of War Atlas are some principles about spiritual practice and enlightenment.

Fang Qing's mind was sizing up the relief, savoring the content on it, and he felt the difference between the realm of cultivation here and the Heaven-Covering Method.

The method of covering the sky says that the human body is a world in itself. One only needs to open the portals everywhere in the body, and the strength will naturally continue to increase, and the power will become so great that it can change the world.

The relief on the God of War Atlas means that there is actually not much difference between the human body and everything outside the human body. It is just because the human mind has not reached a high level. If one can figure out the mystery of the mind, then one can use the "heart" to remove the inner and outer walls of the physical body, so that the Tai Chi of the human body will return to the Tai Chi of the universe.

Then every move you make can mobilize the endless power of the universe.

This state, in the context of Taoist practice, is no longer about refining essence into qi, or refining qi into spirit, but rather it is about refining spirit into emptiness, and refining emptiness into harmony with Tao.

The artistic conception above the God of War Atlas points directly to the state of refining the void and merging with the Tao!

However, it is not so easy to achieve such a level. One must cultivate the mind to an extremely mysterious level. One must first "guard the mind", guard the mind to the extreme, and when things reach their limit, they must change. Only by releasing can one advance into the level where the human body's infinite and the universe's infinite are one.

"What level of comprehension did the later generations of Chuan Ying reach, to be able to comprehend the War God Atlas in such a short period of time, and then break through the void and ascend to heaven?"

Fang Qing was very curious about Chuan Ying's comprehension. He was definitely a genius among geniuses. He was an unparalleled genius in the world of the universe. This kind of genius would not change much due to the high or low level of the world. Because Chuan Ying just casually comprehended some War God Atlases, he directly broke through the void and ascended. Such deeds were god-like for the cultivators in various worlds.

Fang Qing sat down in the middle of the scene and began to comprehend the reliefs in the God of War Atlas.

The Bodhi seeds radiated light from his body, as if bestowing the light of wisdom on Fang Qing.

Fang Qing gained enlightenment here.

I don’t know how much time has passed, maybe the time of a stick of incense, or maybe just a few moments, Fang Qing is in a state of chaos. At this moment, he has no outside or inside, no people or self, and even time and space seem to no longer exist.

Countless spiritual wills continued to rise, turning into a condensed thought, and this thought seemed to be able to disperse at any time and turn into countless thoughts. In this ethereal, empty but not empty state, Fang Qing's spiritual will was rising at an unimaginable speed.

Many spiritual beings in the universe also entered into his thoughts and became his nourishment.

Time seemed to no longer exist. There was no previous moment and no next moment. It seemed as if the passing time had begun to stagnate.

This is definitely an extremely unique feeling.

After an unknown amount of time had passed, Fang Qing finally came to consciousness. He saw that his spiritual will had transformed into a new self, which was his soul, while his physical body was still on the ground.

Fang Qing's soul entered his body, and he then realized his new changes.

According to the Taoist realm, his current cultivation has reached the stage of returning to the void.

It is not about refining essence into qi, or refining qi into spirit, but about refining spirit into emptiness.

He felt an unprecedented spirit. If he wanted, he could use his cultivated soul to travel between heaven and earth, allowing the countless energies in the universe to enter his soul and nourish it.

Moreover, not only his soul, but also his body will become stronger because of his soul. Countless energies will enter into his body, making his sea of ​​suffering open up all the time and become more powerful.

Fang Qing decided to combine the Heaven Covering Method and the Void Shattering Method and practice them together.

The method of breaking the void does not actually attach importance to the physical body of the cultivator, and even regards the physical body as an obstacle. Only the heart is the most important. As long as the heart is cultivated to a certain level, the Tai Chi within oneself and the Tai Chi in the outside world will become one. The entire world belongs to you, and all the energy can be used by you. But how much energy can the physical body itself carry?
Therefore, the method of breaking the void does not value the physical body.

However, the Heaven-Covering Method attaches great importance to the physical body. No matter which secret realm in the human body, it is all about the development of the secrets deep within the human body, from the Sea of ​​Bitterness to the Palace of Dao, to the Four Poles, to the Transformation into a Dragon.

Fang Qing decided to practice both methods. He wanted to cultivate an extremely powerful soul, and he could also cultivate his physical body to create a heaven and earth, a world. This way, the great power would belong to himself and would be more secure.

Otherwise, there is a problem with the method of breaking the void. If he wants to borrow the endless energy of the heaven, earth and universe, but the heaven, earth and universe have their own consciousness and are unwilling to lend energy to the cultivator, what should he do? It seems to be rather troublesome.

After all, the human body itself is a universe, so we can be more self-reliant.

Fang Qing made up his mind and continued to circulate his soul, comprehending the other pictures recorded in the War God Atlas. From the first to the third pictures, the following scene was recorded:
A war god passed through the nine heavens and pounced towards a fireball. After he passed through the fireball, he turned into two cyclones, one yin and one yang, which gave rise to fish, insects, humans, animals, trees, flowers and fruits on the earth.

On the third picture is a big circle with a man and a woman communicating with each other in an endless cycle.

There are a few words written above this picture.

One opening and one closing, the extreme yang and the extreme yin.

Vitality lies between breaths, and vitality is also within the exhalation.

Without yin, yang cannot be born. Things will turn around when they reach their limit. When the Tao reaches its limit, it will change.

These pictures are linked together, and seem to be telling the story of how the gods evolved yin and yang and gave birth to all things. There are also many mysteries of yin and yang, such as the moon and the sun, the extreme yin and the extreme yang.

Fang Qing felt the importance of these pictures. If he could comprehend these pictures, it seemed that he could comprehend some branches of the Yin-Yang Dao, which would be enough to greatly improve his Taoism.

Many patterns were in his mind. Some of the scrolls showed a mortal, curled up and sleeping, with his eyes, ears, mouth and nose completely closed. It was written on it: The fetus is formed from the dormant qi, and the qi is exhaled from the fetus.

This is about the method of innate breathing, which can cultivate a person's innate qi, which is much more powerful than acquired breathing.

There are also patterns that talk about the Five Elements. Fang Qing saw traces of the Art of Immortality in those patterns. Apparently, Guangchengzi, who created the Art of Immortality back then, saw these pictures in the War God Atlas and created his own Art of Immortality.

Some patterns also talked about the way of thunder and lightning. This was the first time Fang Qing saw the way of thunder and lightning recorded in a pattern.

There is also swordsmanship, which is also included in the God of War Atlas.

Many great ways are all in this War God Atlas, so even though Fang Qing's mind is in a calm state like water in a well, he still feels great joy and happiness.

He knew that if he could comprehend the War God Atlas, his foundation would be extremely profound.

The original novel's description of the God of War Atlas is that one can directly practice to the state of refining the void and merging with the Dao, which is basically a one-step leap from the realm of martial arts to the level of the master of a single universe. Of course, we can't follow the original novel, otherwise one will become invincible once it is broken.

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