Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 401 Heaven and Earth, Human Heart, and Self, the combination of the three is the Tao (Please subscribe!)
The way monks practice Taoism varies from person to person, time to time and situation to situation. Even the spiritual objects that a monk needed extremely for his practice may no longer be needed after a few years, even if he is at the same level.

After the ninth level of the Golden Elixir, one must break the Golden Elixir and cultivate the Nascent Soul. This is a crucial, difficult and dangerous step. Most cultivators cannot get through it safely with their own Taoist power and can only rely on external forces. There is nothing wrong with this, as being able to make use of things is the advantage of the human race.

The best spiritual objects to assist in forming a baby: the sixth-grade superior Duchen Pill or the celestial treasure Jiuxiao Gangyu.

The next is the Three Infants Magic Pills: Infant Transformation Pill, Infant Nurturing Pill, and Infant Cultivation Pill. Although the effects are not as good as the first two, they can also play an important auxiliary role in the process of cultivators cultivating the Nascent Soul. The most important thing is that as a masterpiece of later alchemists, it is easier to obtain.

Other spiritual objects that assist in forming a baby include: Ten Thousand Years of Earthly Water, Thousand Years of Green Peach, Yang Fire Refined Gold, and Hundred-Shelled Silkworm. In addition, there are countless miraculous skills and secrets in the world of immortal cultivation. Some spiritual objects are only effective for cultivators who practice specific skills, and the effects are very good.

Inside the Jinting Immortal Palace of Canglong Mountain.

Wu Lingjun knelt there and cried, which made Lu Cheng look very bad and made the Xiao sisters cry. In the last Ten Thousand Demons Dharma Assembly, Lu Cheng and his wife had already purchased two infant-cultivating pills and a talisman for their disciples, but during these years of cultivation, Wu Lingjun got the spiritual object Wanzai Diyuan Water to assist in forming an infant due to an unexpected opportunity.

This treasure has similar properties to the Peiying Pill. Although it will corrode the cultivator's physical body, if the cultivator's body is strong and the will is firm, the effect will be similar.

At the same time, the baby-raising pill that can form a spirit object also appeared on the Haiyuan City Good Deeds List.

The combination of Wanzai Diyuan Water and Nurturing Pill is almost as effective even if it is not as good as Jiuxiao Gangyu. Wu Lingjun immediately borrowed good deeds from the palace and then went to Zhenhai Palace to exchange them.

Unexpectedly, he was stopped by Liu Song Zhenjun of Huangji Sect, who was avoiding the question at that time. After Wu Lingjun temporarily withdrew, Liu Song Zhenjun wrote a letter privately, asking Wu Lingjun to retreat temporarily this time, saying that she was too young and had done too little for Haiyuan City, and that there would be many opportunities in the future.

Master Liu Song is a very powerful Nascent Soul cultivator in the Huangji Sect. If Wu Lingjun was just a casual cultivator at the ninth level of the Golden Core Stage, she would have to give in on this matter whether she wanted to or not. Unfortunately, Wu Lingjun is not that kind of person.

The reputation of the Jinting Xianque in Canglong Mountain is not necessarily inferior to that of the five sects and three cultivators in Haiyuan City.

"Senior Sister Wu, you did the right thing. If you give in this time, even if we know about this, we won't be able to do anything for you in the future."

In the letter that Liu Song privately gave to Wu Lingjun, he said that there was no need to let Lu Cheng and his wife know about this matter, and that I owed Wu Xiaoyou a favor.

But after thinking it over, Wu Lingjun decided to report the matter to Lu Cheng and his wife. However, Liu Song had miscalculated. He thought Wu Lingjun was Lu Cheng's disciple, but he did not expect that Wu Lingjun was Lu Cheng's senior sister in terms of seniority.

"For the sake of his nephew's path, this True Lord Liu Song has really lost all his dignity. He privately bullies the younger generation and deprives them of their chance to seek the Tao!"

Xiao Yuxue has a very good relationship with her second senior sister. At this moment, she was even more indignant. If Xiao Yuhong hadn't pulled her back, she would have stood up at any time and flew directly to Haiyuan City to find Liu Song to argue.

If we go to their door like this, it will be ugly.

"It's a battle of great powers, a glimmer of opportunity, you advance and I retreat, what can I do?" Lu Cheng shook his head and chuckled as he took out a jade slip.

Then he input various graphic and text information into it, and after a moment, he handed the jade slip to Wu Lingjun.

"Second Senior Sister, what Master Liu Song said is not without reason. Since we have less good deeds, we should accumulate them. In order to boost the morale of the group of cultivators, exchanging spiritual objects of this level will take at least a year. You can submit this jade slip in your own name to the Tianyan Pavilion. Half a year will be enough for you to accumulate merits."

Wu Lingjun took the jade slip from Lu Cheng's hand and looked at it with her spiritual consciousness. She saw that it contained an extremely profound theory of water law: Collection of Notes on the Water Classic.

"My husband, do you have any new theories?"

The eyes of all the cultivators present were bright and eager, especially those of the Xiao sisters.

Previously, Lu Cheng's "Theory of Great Dao Qi" promoted the cultivation of Taoism in this world for at least a thousand years. The cultivators of Jinting Xianque in Canglong Mountain were even more familiar with the content. As long as they could understand a little bit of it, they would feel that their Taoism had improved, and even their magic power had improved a lot.

The Xiao sisters are Lu Cheng's close friends, and of course they have benefited a lot from this process.

In previous years, Lu Cheng had to use the mines in Canglong Mountain and do some monster hunting missions to accumulate monster hunting merits to exchange for spiritual objects. Over the past few decades, Lu Cheng has written articles every few years, which have caused great shock in the entire Liehuo Dharma Realm. The merits he has gained from this far exceed those gained from the mines and monster hunting missions.

So much so that Lu Cheng himself was sighing: If I had known it was so easy, why would I have tried so hard to "take the great path with the sword"?

Of course, Lu Cheng himself knew in his heart that if he did not have the entire spiritual world as a reserve of Taoist theories, he would not be able to write a few Taoist theories of that level even if he practiced for a lifetime.

This is because Lu Cheng only wrote the Taoist theories that he could understand and read. Otherwise, if he simply copied them, all the cultivators in the entire Fiery World would probably lose their Taoist faith.

Even like this now, Lu Cheng's reputation in the entire Fiery World is growing.

Wu Lingjun submitted the "Collected Notes on the Water Classic" to the Tianyan Pavilion, which soon caused a sensation. In a short period of time, the copy was in great demand. Almost every cultivator who practiced water arts had a copy in hand to read and comprehend.

Thanks to this, Wu Lingjun also gained a lot of good deeds. A year later, when she exchanged for the spiritual object for forming an infant, Master Liu Song could no longer find any other excuses to prevaricate or block her path.

Most importantly, he did not want to separate from the Great True Lord Jie Fa who had committed the sin in the Golden Light Cave. Originally, the two of them had a good relationship. If it had not been for the shame of a family member's nephew, this incident would not have happened. Now he has done his best and can't find any other reason. He can't really become mortal enemies because of such a thing.

Yuanying cultivators have a long lifespan and can even transcend disasters and achieve immortality. No one will easily create an enemy that is difficult to resolve.

Of course, this time True Lord Liu Song was fighting for his family's nephews and nephews. If he was really fighting for an opportunity for himself, True Lord Yuanying would rarely be soft-handed and cowardly.

Two years later, at the main peak of Canglong Mountain in the Fiery Realm.

With the sun shining brightly in the sky, the mountain range looked like a giant dragon lying across the sky, with an indescribable majestic aura, but the sky above it was shrouded in a thick, inky cloud.

Wu Lingjun sat cross-legged on the altar, with the Hanlin tourmaline hanging three inches above her head, emitting a faint blue light.

Rumble, rumble! When the first red lightning struck, the entire mountain groaned under the heavy burden.

Wu Lingjun put her fingers together like a sword, and a ten-foot-tall Qilin phantom leaped out of the cold unicorn tourmaline, raised its head and swallowed the lightning and fire. The ice crystals and lightning around it exploded into stardust in the air, and the female Taoist on the platform turned pale.

"The Xuan cultivator exhaled the Earthly Evil Heavenly Gang, and the Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation was mixed with the fourth 49th Thunder Tribulation. The two combined are indeed dangerous."

A group of cultivators from Jinting Xianque stood on the mountainside thirty miles away and watched. Lu Cheng was still okay, but the Xiao sisters, Xue Yuzhen and Yun Linger behind him had mostly lost their color. After all, they lacked experience in their character to achieve enlightenment with the Ghost Infant Pill.

"If the master hadn't given me the elixir, I would have died in the thunder tribulation. No, with my level of cultivation, it would have been difficult for me to practice the elixir technique to perfection, and I would have died in the second or third thunder tribulation." Xue Yuzhen said with emotion.

At this moment, the third thunderbolt suddenly turned into nine purple electric dragons that swooped down. Wu Lingjun bit his tongue and spurted out blood, which fell on his natal magic weapon.

The Hanlin Tourmaline swelled in size in response, and the Water Qilin's Dharma image condensed as if it were real. The Dharma light that spread from its body actually produced mysterious Taoist patterns.

As the Thunder Dragon bit the enemy, the Ice Qilin roared towards the sky. Heavy rain poured down in an area of ​​a hundred miles, and every drop of rain was filled with bone-chilling cold.

When the seventh inky black thunder tore through the sky, the nun below was already bleeding from all seven orifices, looking extremely miserable.

She suddenly gave up on activating the spell and flew up into the sky from the platform.

He held the seal in both hands as if he was holding a baby, and phantoms of water veins appeared around his body, connected to his natal magic weapon. After a moment, a huge water unicorn broke out of the calamity, trampling on the void as it ran. A huge water-blue light column rushed into the sky, breaking the calamity and forcibly dispersing the calamity in the sky.

The Incarnation Palace of Ten Thousand Beasts, the general outline of the transformation of the true spirit of Xuanmen, was founded by Taoist Huang Longzi. In fact, it is a school of physical cultivation. Although Wu Lingjun has not cultivated the general outline of the transformation of the true spirit of Xuanmen to the level of transformation and ascension, he has also cultivated some of the true meaning. At this moment, man and treasure are united, his magic power has skyrocketed, and he is using disaster to cultivate the Tao!

“Using calamity to refine the Dao, what a spirit!” After seeing this, Lu Cheng knew that it should not be difficult for Second Senior Sister Wu Lingjun to successfully survive the calamity.

Speaking of which, the lineage under Huang Longzi seems to be extremely prosperous with many Nascent Soul True Lords, but in fact, except Huang Longzi and Lu Cheng, all of them are Ghost Infant Pills, Dharmakaya Nascent Souls and the like. After today, a true Nascent Soul True Lord will finally be born to inherit the lineage.

From the depths of the calamity clouds came the sound of the Dao, like the wrath of heaven.

High in the sky, the last three thunderbolts merged into a chaotic dark lightning column. Wu Lingjun's hair bun broke apart, and her black hair turned into a snow waterfall (turning white under the lightning).

She suddenly stood up again, merged with the cold unicorn tourmaline light, and transformed into a hundred-foot-long ice crystal unicorn, rushing against the lightning pillar.

The sky and earth are incandescent!

Boom, boom, boom... When the thunder faded away, the clear sound of a baby crying could be heard from between the clouds.

A female cultivator with wounds all over her body stumbled and fell, but the baby inside her body was as clear as glass.

The Hanlin Tourmaline was held in the baby's hands and had transformed into a sixth-rank magic weapon. The seal button turned into a Qilin with its head held high, and the sound of the tsunami of vital energy when it was inhaled and exhaled shook for hundreds of miles.

"Welcome Master Lingyun, may you cultivate the great way of the Nascent Soul, enjoy a thousand years of life, and obtain the Dharma of Great Freedom!" Thousands of congratulatory voices echoed throughout the mountains.

On this day, Wu Lingyun's innate Ren water Yuanying was born.

The strange phenomenon of two Nascent Souls descending from the sky indicates a profound foundation in Taoism.

Forty years later, outside the Jinting Fairy Palace of Canglong Mountain, a sea of ​​clouds surged, and the spiritual light of the seventy-two peaks shot up into the sky like swords.

On the jade steps, more than ten people, some were Taoists in black robes holding whisks, and some were free and easy feathered monks, climbing up. Each of them had profound magical powers and was full of Taoist spirit, and they were all masters of the Nascent Soul stage.

Lu Cheng was sitting on the Yin-Yang platform in the palace, with two purple and green swords placed across his knees, and five-colored light seemed to be flowing slowly around him.

He raised his eyes to look at the first light that approached from the sky, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his lips: "Fellow Daoists, you have come from afar to discuss the Dao and prove the Dharma. I am very happy."

"The True Lord of Jie Fa is famous for his magical power and swordsmanship. He is famous for breaking all Jie Fa with one sword. But now he has been living in the palace for a long time, writing books and talking nonsense about the great way of heaven and man. This is really a move that misses the point!" The red-bearded old man who fell first had a voice like a bell, and his foot stepped on the void, causing ripples:
"I am Li Yuangang of the Huangji Sect, and I have come to ask you what the 'Dao Qi Theory' is!"

Before he finished speaking, crimson fire rose from the old man's body. Flame dragons roared out from his sleeves, and as they circled, they left fine words in the air.

This is the Huangji Sect's secret "Nine Flames of Heavenly Fire", which uses the fire of elixir to demonstrate the Tao and burn away all falsehoods. It is extremely profound and mysterious.

Seeing this, Lu Cheng tapped the altar in front of him with his fingers and said with a smile, "Daoyou Li uses fire as a pen and the sky as a scroll to express his thoughts and interpret his own Taoism. This is very good."

After he finished speaking, he flicked his fingers lightly, and the Gengjin sword energy in the lung palace turned into ink. He drew dots in the air and wrote fine words, which actually corresponded to Li Yuangang's scriptures one by one, and solved the problem.

"How could this happen?" Li Yuangang's hair and beard trembled when he saw this. He watched helplessly as the characters of his natal Danhuo were covered by the characters drawn by the Gengjin sword energy. These were exactly the key points and explanations in "The Theory of Great Dao Qi".

The entire response was answered and deciphered in one go, as if a Yuanying Zhenjun was explaining the answer to a young Qigong boy.

"Fire can overcome gold and can also forge gold. Without fire, how can gold come from stone?" Lu Cheng flicked his sleeves, and the seal characters turned into flowing light and sank into the old man's brow.

Li Yuangang stood there in shock, the flames around him flickering. Suddenly, there was a slight "hiss" sound, and the jade crown on his head was burned by the raging fire overflowing from his body. Then, he walked away barefoot and with his hair loose, like a madman, stumbling on the clouds: "It's too difficult, too difficult, I don't understand, I don't understand!"

"Your Excellency has great means!" Immediately afterwards, another woman in plain clothes stepped on the black water and came. The cinnabar on her forehead reflected her icy skin and jade-like bones:

"I am Bai Miaoyin from the Feiling Sect. I would like to ask you, Lord Zhenjun - if the way of heaven is ruthless, why does the Annotated Commentary on the Classic of Water say that 'water benefits all things without competing'?

Heaven created all things, but water has no nature?"

Before she finished speaking, a sudden downpour of rain fell within a radius of a hundred miles. Every drop of rain reflected the face of the nun, and a faint sound of Taoism came from the thousands of mirror images. It was the Feiling Sect's "Demon Spirit Questioning Mantra".

This method directly targets the flaws in one's Dao heart. Even a Nascent Soul cultivator will have his Dao foundation destroyed if he is not careful.

"The highest good is like water. It is not that water is good, but that Tao is good. People also say that water and fire are emotionless. It is not that water and fire are evil, but that Tao is evil.

Under the great way, good and evil are mixed together. "

Among the five sects in Haiyuan City, Huangji Sect, Fuhai Sect, and Raolong Sect are all considered to be sects that lean towards the righteous path, while Chiyan Sect and Feiling Sect are somewhat inclined towards the evil path.

Bai Miaoyin came up and asked Lu Cheng, "Heaven has emotions, and water also has kindness." If Lu Cheng debated with her on this point, he would fall into a trap, because where there is good, there is evil, where there are fairies, there are demons, and any extreme characteristic cannot exist independently after losing its opposite.

Lu Cheng expounds on Taoism based on the fact that the Great Dao encompasses yin and yang, life and death, righteousness and evil, and good and evil.

The two looked at each other, and after a moment, Bai Miaoyin's body shook violently. She saw the scripture of "Demon Spirit Questioning Heart Mantra" flowing in the void, and each word turned into a fish swimming upstream. The devil heart that she had cultivated for a hundred years turned into a school of fish and swam into the depths of the void. When she realized it, the Nascent Soul in the Purple Palace was already extremely weak and seriously injured.

The Illusionary Sun Method can break the devil’s heart-questioning spell. It’s not because of the high level of skills but because of the high level of Taoism.

The nun understood this and staggered back, her moon-white robe soaked with sweat. Then, amidst the wailing, she turned into a stream of white jade and fled into the sky.

"Great True Lord Jie Fa is going too far!" Later, a big man with a curly beard came over, crushing rocks, carrying a huge sword on his back and speaking like thunder: "I am from Wanren Peak of Fu Hai Sect, and I only want to ask the Great True Lord one question - which is more important, the sword in your hand or the way in your heart?"

Before he finished speaking, a thousand-foot-long sword aura split the earth and separated the clouds, and the fierce sword intent actually caused the Canglong Mountain protective formation to activate faintly.

This is a question that a sword cultivator asks with utmost sincerity. If you answer irrelevantly, your sword heart will be obscured. If you answer even half a word wrongly, your magic power will transform into thousands of swords that will pierce your heart!

Hearing this, Lu Cheng laughed loudly and stood up, clapping his hands and shouting, "Dao Zhong."

"Without a sword, how can one defend the Dao? Without the Dao, how can one forge a sword? The Dao is the bone of the sword, and the sword is the support of the Dao. But the sword is ultimately only an interpretation and expression of the Dao, so the Dao is ultimately more important."

Half a day later, the Nascent Soul True Lord Wanrenfeng of the Fu Hai Sect also emanated.

After that day, the cultivators in Haiyuan City spread the word that during the discussion that day, several Yuanying Zhenjun retreated from the Jinting Immortal Palace in a very embarrassed manner, crying out, "Difficult, difficult, difficult..." as they covered their faces and left.

Taoism and cultivation are mutually reinforcing. Higher magical powers enable people to better comprehend the laws between heaven and earth, but conversely, a higher level of Taoism can also provide a bird's-eye view and enhance the growth of a cultivator's magical powers.

However, if one pursues Taoism too much, it is easy to fall into the trap of empty talk: sitting and discussing Taoism will waste a hundred years; talking about the mind and nature with hands behind one's back on daily basis, and continuing to practice when one encounters a disaster and is about to die.

Such practice is meaningless.

However, if one pursues magic power too much, it is easy to lose one's spiritual heart and go astray. When breaking through various levels of magical power, one will need more external assistance and take greater risks. If one's spiritual heart and Taoist theories are sufficient, it is actually possible for a cultivator to become an immortal through his own practice without the help of external things.

Foundation Establishment Pill, Xuanying Jade Marrow, Five Elements Spirit Fruit, Three Infants Divine Pill, Nine Heavens Gang Jade, these external objects can theoretically be perfectly replaced by Taoist Heart and Taoist Theory, but it is indeed very difficult.

Heaven and earth, human heart and self, the combination of these three is the Tao, but the truth is, it is extremely difficult to obtain even one of them.

In recent years, cultivators like to use the word "Dao Xin" when practicing. It seems that a firm Dao Xin can overcome everything. However, in Lu Cheng's opinion, that is not Dao Xin, but an obsessive inner demon.

Therefore, he acknowledged the heart of Tao in his heart, but was inclined towards Taoist theories. It was not that the words "heart of Tao" were wrong, but that people in the world who practiced Taoism had made the words "heart of Tao" empty.

His intention in using Taoist theories was to remind his disciples to be more pragmatic and to have a deep understanding of the laws governing the operation of the heaven, earth and universe. Filling this gap is the heart of Tao, which includes the human heart, but is by no means limited to this part.

Over the years, as Lu Cheng continued to write books and spread Taoism, many cultivators benefited greatly from it. At the same time, the Yuanying Zhenjun, a cultivator from the five sects in Haiyuan City, also accumulated a lot of doubts in his heart.

Lu Cheng had secretly guessed this a long time ago, and in the Xuandu City of the spiritual world, he used his external incarnation to find out the main research direction and related Taoist theories of each of the five sects' Nascent Soul True Lords. The things they studied were all what was left over from the research of the spiritual world cultivators. The external incarnation either spent some spirit stones to purchase classics, or went to Taoist temples to ask Taoist masters for advice. It was naturally not difficult to defeat the Nascent Soul cultivators of the five sects; it could even be said to be a piece of cake.

In the mortal world, the ancestors of the primordial spirits are like dragons that are hard to find. In the Daozhai of Xuandu City in the spiritual world, there are several Taoist masters who have reached the realm of refining emptiness.

Therefore, it is natural to discuss victory, but it is strange to discuss defeat.

But from the perspective of the cultivators in Haiyuan City, it was very terrifying. Lu Cheng defeated the Nascent Soul cultivators of five sects in a debate with his own strength. In addition, there had been many Nascent Soul thunder tribulations on Canglong Mountain in recent years. For a while, guarding the gate of Jinting Xianque in Canglong Mountain became a good job that many cultivators could not get for a huge sum of money. They did it for no other reason than to seek the opportunity to preach from the Great Lord Jiefa once every ten years.

For a cultivator in the Jindan realm, more than ten years is nothing, but if he can get guidance from the Great True Lord Jiefa to break through the original realm, perhaps he can take a few more steps forward on the path of cultivation.

While the reputation of Lu City in the mortal world was growing, Lu City in the spiritual world was also desperately seeking Taoism in Xuandu City.

(End of this chapter)