From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 381: Eight Winds Unmoved, Becoming One

Yatou Mountain and Fire Cave.

Yu Shuyang was reciting the Eight Winds Mantra, but he didn't expect that the Fire Quail would spread its wings, causing the underground fire in the fire cave to explode.

Fortunately, he was more skilled and used the Yi wood cage to lock the erupting earth fire, and asked the Saoxia boy to protect Cao Qing who was refining the ink medicine.

Speaking of which, Cao Qing is also very powerful. He stood in front of the three golden tripods, closed his eyes and spit out fire to warm the ink medicine, as if he was in a trance. The eruption of the underground fire did not affect him.

After a closer look, Yu Shuyang realized that Cao Qing's way of cultivation was to take advantage of the opportunity of transforming the earth fire into the fire of separation, and continuously increase the intensity of the fire.

This is to refine the furnace fire into the life's heart fire. Cao Qing is a green worm that has become a spirit, and is not a fire insect monster. It is all thanks to the fireworms that devoured the fire mulberry trees that he has developed a belly full of fire energy.

Yu Shuyang sent a message to Saoxia Tongzi, asking him to take good care of Cao Qing and draw out as much anger from the Lihuo Quail as possible to prevent further trouble.

After giving the order, he left the fire cave with peace of mind. Just now, the eight winds blew the fire, causing the fire quail to spread its wings, which also gave him an opportunity to practice.

This matter has to start with Li Taiping. At the beginning, Li Taiping returned to his ancestral bloodline of the rhinoceros beast, saw him refining the Eight Wind Talisman, and taught him the secret technique of "Returning Wind".

The so-called "returning wind" refers to the in and out of the breath through the nose, which involves internal cultivation techniques such as true breath, rising yang talisman, and retreating yin talisman.

The Eight Wind Mantra that Yu Shuyang learned was originally a combination of cultivating the Eight Winds with the Five Internal Organs and Three Burners. The only thing missing was the harmony of the advance and retreat of true breath, and the harmony of water, fire, yin and yang.

Therefore, after Li Taiping taught Yu Shuyang the secret technique of "Returning Wind", he immediately cultivated the Heavenly Wind Belly, which enabled him to directly eat clouds and swallow wind without having to eat grains.

If he had practiced the Huangting Dao of the middle dantian at the beginning, he only needed to continue practicing according to the method of Tianfengfu, and he would be able to refine the Tianfeng Dao body step by step.

Unfortunately, his Dingqiao Xuanyuan is in the lower dantian, so he cannot combine his life with his body. He has to find a way to hone his sexual light.

However, his sexual light was bound by the Dao of the Circle of Heaven and Earth. If he wanted to use the Eight Winds Curse to sharpen his sexual light bit by bit, he had to break the Dao of the Circle of Heaven and Earth first.

Yu Shuyang was almost in despair about this. The only way he could think of was to prolong his lifespan and rely on the water-grinding technique of dripping water wearing away a stone to gradually separate the sexual light from the Taoist meaning.

This is how he came up with the idea of refining the Nine-bend Yellow Sand Sausage, hoping to use the method of immortality from his previous life to prolong his life as much as possible.

Fortunately, there is a way out for people. The eight winds in the fire cave blow the fire quail to spread its wings. This is not because the quail has become intelligent and wants to turn into a monster, but it conforms to a way of wind and fire - returning wind and returning fire.

It was thanks to Yu Shuyang's practice of the secret art of returning wind that he was able to think of returning wind and returning fire. Returning wind and returning fire is also called nine returns and seven returns, which is the great secret of alchemy practice.

Yin Chenzi taught him how to make elixirs, and divided the way to immortality into three categories, namely: the elixir of immortality, the golden elixir of immortality, and the elixir of harmony between heaven and earth.

Among them, the golden elixir is also called the nine-turn golden elixir. The core of its refining is the nine returns and seven returns, which happens to be related to the return of wind and fire.

Speaking of it, the golden elixir refined in the golden cauldron and jade furnace and the golden elixir refined in the lower dantian both belong to the alchemy path. The difference is that one is an external elixir and the other is an internal elixir.

Except for the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, other external elixirs are not beneficial to longevity. On the contrary, internal elixir practice is simpler. Every time you advance to a higher level, you can extend your lifespan.

Having said that, there are still too few alchemists who can refine the Nine-Transformation Golden Elixir. After all, this involves the inheritance of the Taoist Ancestor and is not something that ordinary alchemists can master.

Yu Shuyang figured out the obstacles in his practice and found a way to break through them. It was like a huge stone had fallen from his heart. He finally understood the urgency of his junior brother Li Taiping's practice.

He took out the Black Tortoise Book, input the Secret Art of Returning Wind, the Nine Returns and Seven Returns, and the Eight Wind Curse into it, and began to deduce the method of practicing sexual energy.

With the complete Nine Returns and Seven Returns of the External Alchemy Dao, it is not difficult to reverse the return of wind and fire. What's more, there is also the secret technique of returning wind, which makes it even easier.

In just a quarter of an hour, he deduced the secret technique of returning fire. If returning wind is to refine true breath, then returning fire is to refine dragon and tiger.

When refining external elixir, there are talismans to raise yang and retreat yin. When refining internal elixir, there are also talismans to subdue the wood dragon and subdue the golden tiger. In the final analysis, it is all about harmonizing yin and yang.

Yu Shuyang looked at the secret technique of returning fire and sighed. Even though he had all the skills of returning wind and returning fire, they were still useless to him. Right now, there was only the magic power of Xuanshui in his Xuanqiao. He had to break through to the fifth level before he could cast a virtual pill.

Now the key to his practice is to release the sexual light from the Qiankun Circle Dao Yi, and the focus is still on the Eight Wind Mantra.

He deduced the Return of Wind and Fire together with the Eight Winds Curse and the Qiankun Hunyuan, trying to find a way. There must be a connection between wind and fire, otherwise, he would not have felt the connection.

As the laws of heaven and earth were in operation, the two techniques and the principle of Taoism collided with each other, just like an iron ingot being forged into steel, constantly fusing the three together.

The core of the Eight Winds Mantra is the wind in the sky and the air in the earth, representing the circulation of wind and air between heaven and earth, and is used to explain yin and yang, four seasons, five seasons, and eight winds.

The core of returning wind and fire is the yin and yang of wind and fire, which represents the internal and external interaction of the body, thereby constructing the circulation of the Ren and Du meridians, and is also the operation of the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys.

The core of Qiankun Hunyuan is one Qi. The so-called one Qi is the three Qi of Xuan, Yuan and Shi, which transform Wuji into Taiji, and create Qiankun and divide Yin and Yang.

Between the return of wind and fire and the fusion of heaven and earth, the Eight Winds Mantra was first refined, and the wind of heaven and earth was combined with the yin and yang of heaven and earth, as the two were originally very similar.

Then, it was a contest between heaven and earth and the wind, fire, yin and yang. Although it did not escalate to a battle between heaven and man, there were some signs of it.

The direction of deducing the exercises has also reached a fork in the road, should it be based on the heaven and earth, or should it be based on wind, fire, yin and yang?

Yu Shuyang couldn't make up his mind for a moment, so he decided to deduce both methods to see which one was more suitable for him.

As his thoughts changed, a new track appeared in the Black Tortoise Book, and the two techniques began to gradually improve.

The exercises based on the Heaven and Earth Universe tend to be biased towards the Five Elements and Eight Winds, attempting to use the Eight Winds to activate the Dao of the Universe Circle, to separate the Five Elements and release the Light of Nature.

The method is indeed clever, but Yu Shuyang cannot give up the Taoist concept of Qiankun Circle. This is what he gained from his understanding of the Hunyuan Yiqi Divine Talisman, and it is also the proof and basis for the inheritance of the Taoist lineage.

Afterwards, the exercises based on wind, fire, yin and yang tend to use wind to stimulate fire to differentiate yin and yang. In this way, the yin and yang rings of the Qiankun circle are split apart, and the sexual light can be released from it.

In comparison, this method does retain the Qiankun Circle, but by splitting the Qiankun Circle into two rings of yin and yang, it loses the essence of Hunyuan Qi.

Yu Shuyang was not satisfied with the results of the two techniques. If they had destroyed the Dao of the Qiankun Circle, why would he have waited until today?

He felt that he must have been mistaken, and recalled his experience in the fire cave just now, carefully savoring how the eight winds blew on the Lihuo Quail, and how the earth fire transformed into the Lihuo fire.

After thinking about it, Yu Shuyang still couldn't find the key, so he decided to go back to the fire cave and practice it again.

Fire cave.

Cao Qing put away the three golden tripods. He had already woken up from the warming of the ink medicine and was talking to the Sweeping Cloud Boy. He had never seen the Sweeping Cloud Boy transformed into a Taoist child. "Cao Qing, have you finished warming the ink medicine?" Yu Shuyang asked.

At the beginning, Cao Qing surrendered himself as a servant of the demon, and Yu Shuyang taught him the method of refining three ink medicines. His purpose was to let him refine the ink medicines and sell them.

After all, the people of Donghai are not like the people of Jiuzhou. There are too few cultivators practicing calligraphy and painting, so there is no shortage of spiritual ink. Instead, ink medicine is more suitable.

Unexpectedly, Cao Qing refined three cauldrons of ink medicine, but never made it into pills. He just kept nurturing it, and it became a consumable material for cultivating his natal fire.

"Little Lord……"

Cao Qing's heart skipped a beat. He heard the dissatisfaction in Yu Shuyang's words and for a moment, he didn't know how to explain it.

At the beginning, he offered himself as a demon servant in exchange for the subsequent cultivation method. He also knew that the method of refining the three ink medicines was for him to refine the ink medicines and earn money from talismans.

Unfortunately, when Cao Qing was refining the ink medicine, he realized the method of improving the furnace fire. He was so immersed in refining the fire that he forgot to refine the ink medicine.

Yu Shuyang waved his hand. He had no intention of pursuing the matter. He just said it casually. Besides, the Yu family was not short of the money for the talisman.

"Cao Qing, don't be nervous. I'm going to practice the wind and fire method, and you also need to practice your natal fire. Why don't you stay and observe?" Yu Shuyang comforted Cao Qing.

With the experience from last time, Yu Shuyang first released the Five Ding Yin Fire Snake, which was one of the three Dharma images of Xuanwu that he had cultivated.

The Five Ding Yin Fire Snakes coiled around the Li Fire Quail to prevent the earth fire from erupting after the Quail spreads its wings.

Yu Shuyang cast the Eight Winds on the Li Fire Quail. As the five earth winds of spring, summer, long summer, autumn and winter blew, the Chen Dragon and Wei Sheep responded, and the Ding Fire and Yi Wood also became stronger.

Afterwards, three winds blew from the southeast, northwest and disaster winds, and the Lihuo Quail spread its wings. The fire energy in the earth veins surged up, and the underground fire began to riot.

In an instant, Yi wood helped the fire power and Ding fire became strong, and the earth fire spread out and turned into black fire lotuses. The fire lotuses gathered together and then burned violently, turning into balls of Li fire.

This time, with the Five Ding Yin Fire Snakes suppressing it, even if there is no Li Fire Quail to control the Li Fire, the newly born Li Fire will not riot, and will not affect the operation of the Twelve Yuanchen Formation.

Yu Shuyang also let go, taking advantage of the power of wind and fire, and practicing the method of wind, fire, yin and yang. The eight winds gathered in the fire of Li, and produced a "Xun wind".

In an instant, Yu Shuyang understood where the opportunity lay. In order to refine the Zhenlong Yunyi, he comprehended the status of the Great Dragon God.

The so-called Great Dragon God is the one who occupies the position of Nine-Five. For example, the Great Blue Dragon God is the celestial dragon god with Qian above and Qian below.

Zhenlong Yunyi is Xun on top and Zhen on the bottom, and also occupies the position of a great dragon god, that is, the wind and thunder great dragon god. Because wind and thunder bring benefits, the wind and thunder great dragon god can also be called the Tianyi great dragon god.

Now, the Xun wind is nurtured in the Li fire. No matter it is Li on top and Xun on bottom, or Xun on top and Li on bottom, both occupy the position of Nine Fives, and contain the method of the Great Dragon God.

Yu Shuyang's inspiration was inspired by this.

Fire and wind are the cauldron, wind and fire are family, just like the martial arts he just deduced, heaven and earth, wind and fire are yin and yang.

Yu Shuyang seemed to have suddenly become enlightened. He took advantage of the Lihuo and Xunfeng opportunities and combined the two skills he had just deduced into one.

With the help of the two great dragon gods, Huofeng Ding and Fenghuo family, the heaven and earth, the yin and yang of wind and fire were combined, as if the four elements of heaven, earth, man and Tao were combined.

A brand-new concept was born from the Black Tortoise Book. It is a concept about the universe. To describe it accurately, it can be called a "domain".

Yu Shuyang felt his heart shaken, and a sentence seemed to ring in his ears: "So the Tao is great, the sky is great, the earth is great, and man is also great. There are four great things in the world, and man is one of them. Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature."

The Tao is great, the sky is great, the earth is great, and people are also great.

Yu Shuyang repeated this sentence over and over again, and he understood something in his heart.

The sexual light and the Taoist meaning of the Qiankun Circle are not combined together. He does not need to break them apart and then absorb the sexual light from them.

Nature and life are originally one, just like the four elements in the domain. The meaning of Tao is also refined by the mind and thoughts. As early as the meaning of Tao is refined, the light of nature also rises accordingly.

Yu Shuyang has never been able to perceive the sexual light. He only felt that there was sexual light in the Dao of the Qiankun Circle. That was because he didn't know that the sexual light had been enhanced.

It's like a person cannot fly by stepping on his left foot with his right foot. Yu Shuyang was blinded by his "mental barrier".

Because his sexual light increased with the improvement of his Dao consciousness, he fell into mental obstacles early on, just like the fish mother.

Most other monsters have "cognitive impairments", such as Mr. Mu Yue, who was transformed from a moon-gazing eel into a spirit. She is trapped in the cognition of male and female genders.

Yu Shuyang was a human in his previous life. Even after reincarnation, he turned into a fish monster, but he still thought of himself as a human. The mental barrier was not the difference between humans and monsters, but rather he fell into the debate between "I and Tao".

The so-called distinction between I and Tao, I am the light of nature, that is, the light generated by thoughts, this is the cognition of oneself, and the thought of Tao in the Qiankun circle represents the Tao.

It can be said that this is a debate between the id and the Tao self, just like the two kinds of exercises deduced by Yu Shuyang using the Xuanwu Turtle Book. No matter which one he tends to, he will lose in the end.

Fortunately, Yu Shuyang seized the opportunity and was not affected by his ego or Tao self. He continued to deduce the opportunity and break through the barriers.

Just like the four elements in the domain, whether it is the original self or the Tao self, it is all one self, no matter whether it is the Tao, the sky, the earth, or the man.

As Yu Shuyang comprehended the mental barriers, the Xun wind in the Li fire flew out and merged with the eight winds of heaven and earth, transforming into a wonderful energy.

This wonderful energy combines the energy of heaven, earth, wind, fire, yin and yang. Because of the concept of Qiankun Circle, it also has the characteristics of Xuanqi, Yuanqi, and Shiqi. Its status is lower than Hunyuan Yiqi.

Yu Shuyang's sexual light merged with the Qi, fixing the Li Fire Quail in the fire cave, placing it between the Xu Dog and the Wei Sheep, and taking the newly generated Li Fire into his body.

With the refinement of the Qi of Light, Yu Shuyang's cultivation level, which had been stagnant for a long time, also improved. He advanced from the early seventh level to the middle seventh level, and then to the late seventh level.

The core of the seventh level of cultivation is to sharpen the sexual light and integrate it into the practice method to make it concrete. Yu Shuyang refined the sexual light in one step, and his cultivation level directly broke through two small realms.

If it weren't for the fact that Yu Shuyang's water method of life-saving cultivation required repeated accumulation, he could have easily broken through to the sixth level in one go.

The core of the ninth and eighth grade cultivation of life skills is to accumulate magical power and Taoism, while the core of the seventh and sixth grade cultivation of sexual skills is to comprehend the method of cultivation.

After all, he is not a wandering cultivator or a wild monster. He knows the benefits of laying a solid foundation and will not rush for success, so as not to affect his future practice to reach the third level.

(End of this chapter)