From a martial arts disciple to a god through countless trials and tribulations

Chapter 124: A Few Things About the Cultivation System

Beams of light shone obliquely into the cave, and myriad dust particles drifted in the sunlight like golden mist.

Chen Xuan's eyebrows were like a piece of iron that had not been unsheathed, and the divine light in his eyes subsided. He had a well-proportioned and upright figure, strong muscles and bones, and his black robes fluttered like an ink dragon, and the smell of blood on his body dissipated.

Soon after, the chaotic Daozang Qi in his body completely calmed down.
The fourth Tianming Daozang has achieved success!
"Woo..."

The little dog looked up at Chen Xuan, his wet nose twitching as if expressing endless emotion, and seemed to be curiously asking how he balanced and restrained the hostile relationship between different Taoist canons?
Shanjun is a legendary monster in the Southern Wilds. He rose from obscurity and became one of the most powerful cauldron masters in the Southern Wilds in his prime. He possesses rare and extraordinary qualifications in the world... He practiced the three ancient mountain and sea scriptures and Taoist canons among the five elements at the same time. When he was young, he was confident that he could do it, but there was no need to waste time.

At this moment, Chen Xuan was forcibly practicing the fourth Taoist canon in front of him, and Shanjun could barely accept it.

But what shocked Shan Jun was that the fourth type of Daozang was the Plague Daozang outside the Five Elements! It was completely incompatible and dozens or even hundreds of times more difficult. This was a bit scary.

Furthermore, from the moment the Five Elements Daozang within Chen Xuan's body violently rebelled until he completely resolved this incredibly difficult situation, how long had it taken? Only a few dozen breaths! Even the mountain king found this quite unreal!
"If Daozang doesn't obey, just kill him and rebuild him."

Chen Xuan smiled and explained Shan Jun's doubts in a calm tone. His slightly relaxed words revealed an impressive self-confidence and iron-blooded decisiveness.

"Woo..."

The little dog took a deep breath and felt emotional. This little guy said such shocking words so casually.

Directly break up Daozang?

Even the most talented person in Chu would need several years to master a Daozang. Just because the Daozang disobeyed the orders of the master, a small problem that all cultivators would encounter, he would be beaten to death?

After years of hard work, will it all be gone in one day and turn into nothing?

"It is ridiculous that Daozang has his own consciousness. If he doesn't obey the orders of the master body and can do whatever he wants, then what's the point of practicing Taoism and cultivating Qi?" Chen Xuan said softly.

If Daozang could do whatever he wanted at any time and in any place, was this cultivation realm for his own benefit, or would it one day serve as a wedding dress for Daozang?

The small world within Chen Xuan's body was caught in a strange atmosphere of calm.

Because of his sudden suppression, which swept across the four Taoist deities of the Heavenly Fate at a very fast speed like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, now they all quieted down and did not dare to make any rash moves.

"..."

Under the yellow millet tree, the little farmer dragged his seriously injured body and sat under the tree, his eyes looking through the gaps between the leaves, silent.

On the river, the small black boat was swaying slightly. The little fisherman was lying on the bow, reaching out to scoop up the river water that seemed to be condensed by time, his eyes dim and unclear.

Inside the palace, a small Taoist priest sat upright, his lips and teeth moving slightly as he chanted the Six Desires Sutra in a low voice, his mind calm and swaying.

"call……"

The ancient bronze altar, surrounded by grayish-white and dark green plague aura, huddled at the edge of this small world within the body.

A flag like a magic spear stood there, fluttering slightly, with the words "Human Emperor" flashing on it.

The little figure of the Human Emperor Daozang, named [Human Emperor Platform], has completely condensed and grown up at this moment, but now, it is like a lifeless statue, motionless, and a pair of majestic eyes reveals a desolate sense of heroism.

They were all defeated.

Chen Xuan checked the scene of the small world inside his body and nodded with satisfaction. Then, a cold voice, like an imperial decree, fell from the sky.

"I'll give you a slight punishment this time and spare you, but you won't get a second chance. Take care of yourself!"

He gave the four Daoist monks a stern warning. Then, with a flick of his sleeve, a celestial energy rained down like a shower of light, bringing with it a rich vitality that healed the four Daoist monks.

"Whoosh!"

If it happened to other cultivators, once Daozang was injured, he would want to immediately suck out the energy of the main body to recover from the injury.

But now, these four beings, whose consciousness and intelligence far surpass those of other Daozang beings, dare not act on their own and do anything excessive that would harm their master.

Without Chen Xuan's permission, they dared not do anything presumptuous.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

As the green light rain fell, the four little figures of Tianming Daozang all breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a sense of relief that they had survived a disaster... Finally, they survived.

"I have completed the second chapter of the Four Heavenly Fates Scriptures. Now it's time to improve my cultivation."

Chen Xuan muttered to himself, and then his consciousness withdrew from the small world inside his body.

The matter of cultivating the true scriptures came to an end for the time being. He still had the Five Mountains and Seas True Scriptures, Yinglong, Mingshe, Feiniu, Qiniao, Bifang... which he had not yet started to cultivate. These were completely different cultivation methods from the Heavenly Fate True Scripture.

He was not in a hurry. These Taoist scriptures that focused more on form than meaning were more troublesome and complicated to practice than the Taoist scriptures of destiny.

"Woof!" Little guy, what you are practicing is the True Scripture of Destiny. Once the Taoist Canon successfully coexists, the hidden dangers will be much smaller.

The little dog barked and told Chen Xuan that the Taoist Canon recorded in the True Scriptures of the Divine Beasts of Mountains and Seas was completely different. It was another cultivation system... It focused more on form than meaning, was much more complicated, and most of them could not coexist. There was no solution. If they were forced to coexist, the main body would become an irreversible monster.

"Woo!" Don't practice randomly, as this will result in losing the opportunity to cultivate a supreme divine body, and you will never become a powerful person in the Dinglu realm in your lifetime... The little dog warned seriously.

Chen Xuan also understood the seriousness of the matter.

For example, the Taoist Canon "Yinglong Shen" in "Yinglong Zhenjing" is covered with dragon scales, with a ferocious dragon scale mask on his face and a dragon tail.

The slightly weaker "Ming Snake Sutra", Taoist Canon "Ming Snake Scales", also has scales of mountain and sea beasts growing on the body, but they are Ming Snake scales, snake tail, and snake face.

There are conflicts between these two kinds of Taoist canons, and there is absolutely no possibility of their coexistence.

It is impossible for a cultivator to have two kinds of scales grow on his body at the same time. He will either be a dragon or a snake, and both are irreversible. He will not have two forms.

Another example is the Fire Deity's "Hidden Bird Sutra" and the "Bifang Sutra". The former is like a hidden bird with four extra hands, while the latter has arms transformed into Bifang wings. Both are hand-based Taoist scriptures and cannot coexist.

Only two kinds of Taoist Canons with the same Qi but in different parts of the body have a slight possibility of coexistence.

For example, if you do not practice the Hand Acupoint Daozang, you will have a chance to coexist with the Phoenix Scripture or the Bifang Scripture. "Well, Mr. Shanjun, I will not practice randomly."

Chen Xuan nodded slightly. Although he didn't understand a lot about cultivation, he wouldn't rashly try something that was obviously wrong or unreasonable unless he was confident enough.

"Is the Mountain Ghost Lady cultivating the Five Elements Mountain and Sea Dao Zang because she is cultivating the Dao Zang for different parts of her body?"

"Or is it due to some other reason? Master Fu Long said that her path to the Five Elements is extremely difficult and dangerous. Lady Mountain Ghost once said that the [Secrets of the Five-Treasured Military Immortal Body] could serve as a reference for her path to immortality..."

Chen Xuan was puzzled and muttered to himself, could it be that the ancient secret technique [Secret of the Five-Treasure Weaponry Immortal Body] could help the different mountain and sea Taoist treasures merge?
He sighed in his heart, it was a pity that this secret method had now fallen into the hands of no one. Then, he thought of the other two ancient fighting secrets that he mastered.

The Secret of Zhenwu Seven-Section Sword, the second move.

The Secret of the Purple Sky Dragon Transformation Technique.

The former is incomplete, but it is a peerless secret technique that the old turtle desperately snatched from the joint attack of three great cauldron masters. It is extremely extraordinary.

The latter is complete and was obtained from the third prince of the Rain Country Dragon, but there is only one move in the whole thing.

"A few days ago, after I killed the Third Dragon Prince and was leading Lord Shanjun away, Black Cat arrived and allowed me to obtain this supreme secret technique inherited from the Rain Country Dragon Clan."

In Chen Xuan's mind, the scene he saw in the small underworld emerged. There were dense purple-gold seal characters, mixed with strange symbols and patterns. Some looked like the trembling trajectory of Zixiao, and some were like the totem of some kind of dragon-shaped creature swimming, recording a dusty mysterious power.

That was the cultivation method and illustrations of "The Secret of the Purple Sky Dragon Transformation Technique".

"The difficulty of practicing secret techniques is very high. Even someone as talented as the Third Prince of the Dragon Sect spent no less than ten years to master the Secret of Purple Sky Transformation into Dragon. In the end, he only barely made it to the beginning. Even forcing it to activate once would take a long time."

Chen Xuan thought to himself that the same was true for Jiang Qinghuang. He mastered some secret techniques inherited from the Jiang family of the Chu State, but in order to use them successfully, he needed other cultivators to protect him so that he would have the time and opportunity to use them in battle.

The secret art of ancient fighting is not something that a cultivator in the Daozang realm should master.

Even the top-tier geniuses in Chu and Yu Kingdom would find it difficult to master a secret technique even if they worked day and night for several years.

"Practicing the ancient fighting technique is not a one-day job. It will take me at least ten days or half a month to get started. For now, I'll just improve my realm!"

Chen Xuan was planning the next stage of his training in his mind.

"The advancement of Daozang Realm is based on four words: cannibalism."

“It’s a brutal, forbidden path.”

When Chen Xuan took away the Human Emperor Banner and left that day, he saw many noble families and forces in Chu taking the opportunity to launch a fierce attack on the hostile forces and seize the Fire Virtue Spirit.

"Using the same spiritual essence to nourish the human body's Daozang, it will undergo repeated transformations and growth, eventually reaching its complete form, nurturing a flawless and precious body."

There are six levels of heaven in the Daozang realm.

This means that a Taoist canon must undergo at least six transformations before it can finally reach perfection.

To reach the sixth heaven and cultivate a body of true scriptures, one needs hundreds and thousands of Taoist spiritual essences, a staggering amount.

"Any powerful person in the world has the blood of Qi practitioners on his hands, and there are piles of bones under his feet. There is no good person who can reach that level." Chen Xuan thought to himself.

In the world of Qigong, there is a saying that kings do not meet each other because they share the same Qi Daozang.

When two Taoist masters of the same Qi meet alone, neither can guarantee that the other does not have bad intentions in mind. It is too dangerous.

"Woo!" Little guy, you have formed four kinds of Daozang. Although your fighting ability is far superior to that of cultivators at the same level at this moment, this also means that the road to advancement is four times more difficult than that of others.

The amount of spiritual resources required for the growth of the four kinds of Taoist canons will be a huge number.

"Woo!" The little dog told Chen Xuan that a person can only cultivate one true body.

In the future, when Chen Xuan reaches the Daozang realm, he will have to face a major choice. Only one true scripture path can continue to move forward, and the other three paths must be abandoned.

"Mountain Ghost Lady, isn't she just cultivating the Five Elements Qi? If she can do it, there's no reason why I can't do it."

Chen Xuan said optimistically, and he knew that it was not only the Mountain Ghost Lady, but the old turtle also seemed to be taking a similar path and had practiced more than just the Taoist Canon.

The old turtle once told Chen Xuan that it had cultivated a [Spinning Turtle True Body], but this true body did not have enough potential. This time it entered Shangyang Cave Heaven in order to attain a higher level of [Xuanwu Demon-Slaying Body].

That should be the product of the interaction between the true body of the rotating turtle and other true bodies.

The spiral turtle and the black tortoise are of the same genus.

However, the Dao body and divine body recorded in Chen Xuan's Four Kinds of Heavenly Mandate Sutras have no connection with each other, which is very troublesome.

"I have obtained many Taoist spiritual essences along the way, including four types of spiritual essences: fire, thunder, water, and plague."

Chen Xuan calculated the amount of the four kinds of Daoist spiritual essence: "Among them, the fire spiritual essence is the largest, but it is not used for the time being, followed by the plague spiritual essence.

"The spiritual essence left behind by nearly twenty cultivators of different realms in Xiaowenfu is enough for me to ascend to the second heaven, or even the third or fourth heaven level with the help of the Human Emperor Daozang."

The spiritual essence of water virtue can be used in conjunction with the Sutra of Longevity, but in smaller quantities.

Only five portions in varying sizes.

One came from the old man of the Lu family in Peach Blossom Spring, it was the lightest and had the dimmest glow, three came from Long Ziyue's men who were killed by Jiang Qinghuang, they were mediocre, and the last one came from Prime Minister Turtle, a subordinate of the Third Prince Long. This Taoist soul, shaped like a raindrop, was glowing with a dark glow, heavy and very weighty.

"If I'm lucky, the Longevity Daozang might be enough to advance, because among these five Daozang, one comes from the Turtle Prime Minister on the second level of the Daozang, which is very important."

Chen Xuan pondered and decided to practice the Human Emperor Sutra first, and then the Longevity Sutra. As for the Fire Virtue and Thunder Spiritual Essence that he could not use for the time being.

Immediately, he asked the little dog in a low voice.

"Master Shanjun, do you know where in the Southern Wilds I can exchange spiritual essences of different attributes?"

(End of this chapter)