The ancestor is incompetent!

Chapter 58: Life Extension and Dharmakaya

Zhang Qi, who was kneeling on the ground, heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this. He took the spiritual bead with both hands and said, "Disciple thanks Master for the gift of the treasure!"

"In the future, keep a low profile in your practice in the mountains. The more beautiful it is, the more dangerous it is. Don't forget your original intention just because you have a master." Li Yuan said, "There are many unknowns in this world. The prominent ones may not last long, but the ants can last long."

Zhang Qi hurriedly said: "Disciple will remember Master's teachings."

"You are still not good enough in practicing the true art of alchemy, but your foundation is solid. As long as you take it step by step, you will reach the late stage before the age of ninety. Pills can be used, but don't use them too much. Otherwise, your magic power will inevitably be mottled, and your future journey will be difficult. Many independent practitioners and disciples, in order to improve themselves, have spent all their money to buy elixirs to swallow for long-term practice.

Even the best elixir in the world requires dozens of spiritual herbs and objects, and it is most appropriate to take one per month.

......"

Li Yuan gave him careful advice. After all, his disciple also had a strong desire to pursue the truth, and the ancient divination technique had an extraordinary sense of fate. If he could cultivate it to a higher level, it might be of great use.

By the time Zhang Qi left, it was already dusk.

Chen Ming nestled comfortably in the osmanthus tree nest and fell asleep leisurely.

Li Yuan, who was sitting under the tree, was distracted and immersed in the chapter on martial arts in his mind.

After achieving the foundation building stage, one can live for 500 years or more. Although the life span is long, it is very difficult to climb up further. This is not something that can be achieved by accumulation in the middle and late stages of Qi Refining.

There is no difference between the spiritual lower primordial art and today's foundation-building techniques in the division of realms, both are the ninth level realm.

Each turn of the foundation-building true cultivation is a big step forward, and each turn of cultivation can increase one's lifespan by thirty years. Even some techniques that specialize in prolonging life can increase one's lifespan by thirty or forty years.

It may seem like thirty or forty years is not much, but if you practice a few times, you can directly add a hundred years to your life span, which is truly miraculous.

Every step of the true cultivation of foundation building is no longer something that a Qi-refining cultivator can imagine.

The foundation-building exercises of the spiritual lower Yuan Zhen Jue explain the meaning of the nine turns and three positions. The fourth turn and below is the lower position, the fourth to sixth turns are the middle position, and the seventh to ninth turns are the upper position.

Although there is a big gap between the lower-level and middle-level true practitioners, and although the third-level true practitioners can be defeated or even seriously injured by the fourth-level true practitioners, their lives are rarely in danger.

But in the higher levels of true cultivation, even if a sixth-turn cultivator encounters a seventh-turn cultivator, there is still the possibility of death.

Because the higher-level true cultivators have already touched the preliminary realm of the Golden Elixir status and have begun to master the power of heaven and earth of the Taoism they are cultivating.

The lower-level true cultivators are only familiar with and have consolidated their magical powers, and can borrow a trace of the power of heaven and earth.

The middle-level true cultivator seeks one magical power to integrate the power of heaven and earth, seeks the evolution of the magical power, and derives many miracles from one magical power.

These are nothing but fools in front of the higher-level true cultivators who are just beginning to master the power of heaven and earth.

Naturally, every breakthrough requires not only progress in supernatural powers, but also the accumulation of true energy.

It is necessary to cultivate true essence and comprehend the evolution of magical powers, so each advancement in true cultivation takes about thirty to fifty years of effort.

However, the third turn can lead to the fourth turn, and the sixth turn can lead to the seventh turn. It is extremely difficult, and some practitioners may not be able to make it in their entire life.

Li Yuan's mind swept through the foundation-building stage's exercises, which had far more words than the Qi-refining stage's. The exercises also mentioned that the blessing of the true secrets on cultivation would be greatly weakened during the foundation-building stage. However, because of the use of the ancient way of seeking truth, it was more in line with the power of heaven and earth, and the progress in comprehending supernatural powers would be three times faster than ordinary true cultivation.

He felt a little bitter in his heart. Perhaps other cultivators did not worry too much about their true essence, but the quality of his spiritual roots was too low. Coupled with the fact that he could not take pills to replenish his true essence, he would definitely lag far behind other cultivators.

Even if he had comprehended the magical powers, his life span of five or six hundred years might not be enough for him to cultivate to the perfection of the sixth level.

This is the shackle of true practice. Many true practitioners, when they achieve success, can already clearly understand the approximate limit of their lifetime. If they want to go further, they can only rely on things that change their fate and increase their fortune.

However, when Li Yuan read the second half of the technique, he suddenly felt happy.

The True Art of Tongling Xiayuan is worthy of being listed alongside those two heaven-defying techniques. The latter part of the technique records an unparalleled secret technique called the Nine Heavens Mysterious Origin Life-Sustaining Technique!

This method can only be used nine times at most, and each time it is used the caster must be willing to use this secret method of stealing life from the heavens and inflicting it on himself.

Of course, the conditions and objects of the operation need to be very strict, and there cannot be any mistakes.

Moreover, the life span gained each time the spell is cast must not exceed half of the life span of the person being cast, and this half of the life span must be divided again in half to make up for the concealment of the secret.

That is to say, if Li Yuan used this technique on a 500-year-old cultivator, the other person would directly lose 250 years of his lifespan. But when it was used on Li Yuan, only 125 years of his lifespan remained.

If the age of the person being cast is more than half of his lifespan, then his lifespan will end immediately, and Li Yuan will not gain any life extension.

But there was a sentence attached at the end of this technique, which dampened Li Yuan's joy.

"Extending one's life and increasing one's longevity is an act that defies heaven. Once it is performed, disaster and misfortune will befall upon one. One must find a way to avoid disaster and misfortune."

"Fateful disasters are no joke." Li Yuan recalled the dangers of Wanzhang Valley with lingering fear.

Avoid disaster?

Li Yuan seemed to have a thought in his mind, and appeared in the Xuanyuan Ten Thousand Woods Realm. What was different from before was that at this moment, Li Yuan entered in his physical body!

In other words, the World of Ten Thousand Trees is a real cave that can be connected to the real world!

Li Yuan had guessed this a long time ago, otherwise it would be impossible to bring the puppets made in the Wanmu Realm into the human world.

If one day, my life comes to an end, and I hide in this cave and practice the art of prolonging my life, wouldn’t that allow me to avoid the evil spirit?

As for the target of the spell, others might find it difficult to find one, but Li Yuan doesn't worry because he can create one himself!
As early as when he broke through, he glanced through the Ten Thousand Puppets Sutra, hoping that it would record some extremely powerful puppets.

There are many more kinds of puppets in the Wan Kui Sutra, including insect and beast puppets used for hidden reconnaissance, soldier puppets used to form battle formations, psychic puppets that have appeared in the sect, and even ferocious creatures like corpse puppets.

There are seven major categories in total, which are further divided into hundreds of specific puppet types. It truly deserves to be called the Ten Thousand Puppets Sutra.

But these puppets are all at the Qi Refining stage, and the most powerful one is at most at the Qi Refining Perfection stage. After all, true cultivators have supernatural powers, which cannot be replaced by inanimate objects such as puppets.

However, there are indeed real puppets in the Wan Kui Sutra, but they are called puppet Dharma bodies.

It is quite similar to the incarnation in Xuanmen. Precious spiritual materials are used to refine a puppet body that is exactly the same as a human body, and then it is fused with flesh and blood to make it a real human body with flesh and blood.

The most important thing is to differentiate the soul!

It is clearly stated above that one must be a true practitioner of the fourth level or above to perform this technique. Otherwise, once the soul is divided, one will create an uncontrollable self for oneself.

Because the differentiated soul is an independent soul, just like another real self, it can think independently, judge good and evil, and even practice alone.

It is precisely because of this puppet Dharma body that Li Yuan was so surprised when he saw the Jiu Tian Xuan Yuan Life-extending Method, because he could completely create a puppet Dharma body and perform the life-extending method.

However, this method goes against the cycle of creation of heaven and earth and is loathed by heaven and earth, so most practitioners encounter difficulties and it is difficult to make much progress.

After reading these secret techniques, Li Yuan seemed to understand why the Tianqi Sect was wiped out. It was all because of such a heaven-defying secret technique that was despised by heaven and earth and brought about a fatal disaster. It would be strange if it could last long.

The spiritual objects required for these secret techniques and arts are all extremely precious, but most of them require one kind of spiritual object, that is Qi Xuanmu!

This wood seems to be related to some kind of destiny, so it is often used to make puppets and secret techniques related to numerology.

As for the Ten Thousand Trees Realm, its scope was greatly expanded after he broke through the foundation-building stage. It now covers an area of ​​over a thousand miles, with countless spiritual trees, most of which were hundreds or even thousands of years old.

It’s just that most of the spiritual trees never bloom and bear fruit, which makes their value much less.

After all, most elixirs and spiritual supplies are spiritual medicines, spiritual flowers and spiritual fruits. These spiritual woods themselves are rarely used for making elixirs except for making puppets and refining tools.

Li Yuan walked through the forest of thousands of trees, marked many types of spiritual trees, and drew a detailed map. As for the spiritual trees he did not recognize, he drew them carefully and waited for the opportunity to identify them in the future.

In the forest of thousands of trees, he also found an altar.

The altar is nine feet high and round in shape. There are nine columns on the platform, all of which are covered with some kind of dark black chains, which looks very much like the rack used for the execution of criminals.

In the middle of the nine pillars stands an ancient gray stone ball. The nine pillars are connected to this ancient gray stone ball through the patterns on the ground, which looks very much like the altar on the top of Qifeng Mountain.

Li Yuan walked forward cautiously and found a few lines of ancient characters engraved on the stone surface under the stone bead.

"Mysterious origin trees nourish life with their nature and generate vitality with their movement.

Offering sacrifice to the true spirit and nourishing the mysterious origin will make all the trees flourish. "

"Sacrificing the true spirit?"

Li Yuan felt confused. It was obvious that the people or monsters used for the sacrifice had to be at the first level of true cultivation, and nine of them were needed.

Obviously this is not something he can do.

Moreover, based on these twenty-four characters, it can be inferred that "Xuanyuan" still exists. Perhaps it is a powerful being, or it may be some kind of ancient spirit, or even the origin of some kind of Taoism.

There are too many unknowns in this cave world. Li Yuan dare not think too much about it. This is the only basis for his practice to this day. Even if this cave world is really planned by some powerful person, he cannot leave it.

Moreover, until now, the Xuanyuan Wanmu Realm has never forced him to do anything or offer sacrifices.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan felt that he should read the secret history of Qi Lingmen and see what shameful truth there is in this world.

This is of vital importance to him who is now in charge of Qi Lingmen. Only by judging the general trend and overall situation can he make the right decision in the disputes.

Li Yuan had an idea and came to the gate of the Qi Ling clan's ancestral hall. The breeze blew peach blossoms in and the old door creaked. An old man in a gray robe was holding a wooden broom and slowly sweeping the fallen flowers in the yard in front of the hall. The wind was still and the yard was empty. There was no noise and everything was as quiet as the Zen spirit of autumn.

　I saw everyone talking about the update problem. I always write and post immediately, and I don’t have any drafts saved. It’s not that my update time is hell, it’s just that I just finished writing at that hell time. The author is incompetent, I hope everyone will forgive me.

　　
　
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