Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 858 Breakthrough, Late Nascent Soul Stage

On this day, Ji An put down the jade slip of inheritance and activated the Five Elements Revolving Sutra.

However, this time he did not use the normal exercise as before, but instead reversed the flow of Qi and used the reverse exercise.

The magical power flowed from the nascent soul, and the golden magical power crystals flowed through the immortal veins and into the Five Elements Divine Palace.

The Dao Seed and the Divine Palace both shimmered with spiritual light, and each time the crystal sand passed through the Divine Palace, its color would dim slightly.

A moment later, Ji An reversed the cycle of the universe three times, and the crystallized magic power was restored to spiritual energy to nourish the heavens and earth.

This is a secret method left in the jade slips passed down by the Five Elements Sect. It allows one to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between Yin and Yang and the Five Elements by sensing the changes in Yin and Yang within the magical power.

When a small portion of his magical power was transformed back into spiritual energy, he began to circulate his cultivation technique, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to transform it into magical power.

He kept switching the route of his energy cultivation, gaining a deeper understanding of the technique and vaguely realizing how to break through this bottleneck more quickly.

After exhausting most of his divine sense, Ji An finished his cultivation, recalled what he had gained from this cultivation, and recorded his insights in the jade slip.

After completing the review, he exclaimed, "It's so great to have predecessors to guide us."

The jade slip of inheritance was left behind by a cultivator at the Three Flower Realm of the Five Elements Sect, and it records how to break through the realm more quickly.

Without this inheritance, Ji An would have needed to accumulate strength step by step to break through to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and it would have taken many years before he could completely destroy the bottleneck through brute force.

With this inheritance, it's like having a cultivator at the Three Flowers Realm personally guiding your cultivation, saving you from many detours.

This method is equivalent to creating many undercurrents during the accumulation of energy, putting greater pressure on the dam, thereby achieving the goal of quickly breaking through the bottleneck.

What intrigued Ji An the most was that this secret technique had never appeared in the inheritance jade slip before. He only discovered this secret technique when he took out the jade slip today to review the essence of the technique.

The jade slips containing the inheritance possess a certain sensitivity, allowing them to present different content based on the cultivator's specific circumstances.

This secret method opened a window for Ji An, greatly reducing the time spent breaking through bottlenecks.

Just as he was feeling smug and dreaming about the future, Big Yellow entered the gourd world and said in a muffled voice:

"Master, the sect leader and two True Immortals have come to visit."

"Understood," Ji An immediately stood up and released a golden light that seemed to leap across the ground, arriving at a specific area at the edge of the small world and leaving it.

After the host and guests were seated in the cave, Lin Jiuxiao said in a deep voice:
"True Lord, Junior Brother Zhang and Junior Brother Yun have developed an array plate that can sense and receive the power of the Buddha's vows. It has extremely strong anti-interference capabilities and has been widely used."

However, we have encountered a problem and need your assistance.

Junior Brother Zhang, you should speak to the True Lord.

Destroying the Buddha statues is only a temporary solution. As long as those Buddhist monks lurking in the Western Continent are not found, the danger will remain. There is no such thing as being able to guard against thieves for a thousand days.

Zhang Zeye gave his fellow disciple an encouraging look, "This idea was proposed by Qianhe, let him speak."

He wanted the deputy head of the formation hall to show his face more to the True Lord, because it was highly likely that the other party would take over his position in the future.

Yun Qianhe coughed twice to clear his throat and said:
“True Lord, the Shi Xiu have not reappeared. I think that simply testing their willpower is not enough to find out their whereabouts, because cultivators who are good at concealing their tracks can completely hide their aura.”

I don't know if you have any spiritual objects unique to Buddhist practitioners. We can detect these substances to pinpoint your Buddhist practice.

Ji An pondered and said:
"How sure are you?"

"To be honest, I'm not very confident, but I think the idea is sound, so I'd like to give it a try."

At this moment, Zhang Zeye interjected:

"Chizuru's idea is theoretically sound, and I think it deserves support."

Currently, we lack a unique spiritual object specific to Buddhist practitioners for our experiments; whether our approach is correct will soon be verified.

Ji An took out a jade bottle, poured out a finger-bone-sized, multicolored stone, and said:
“This is a relic, which only Buddhist practitioners who have achieved enlightenment possess. You can treat it as a subject of study.”

These are relics left behind by Kongwen after his death. They were of no use to him, so he generously took them out.

Yun Qianhe took the relic, probed it with his divine sense, and said with delight:
"This spiritual object has distinct characteristics. I believe that as long as we can decipher its rhythmic frequency, we can locate Shi Xiu!"

This is a power different from the cultivation system. All powers will dissipate energy outwards, but different powers dissipate energy in different ways.

He felt that as long as he could figure out how this power was dissipating, he could create an array to detect the release of cultivators.

"It's good that it's useful, you can keep it."

half a month later.

The Five Sacred Mountains True Lords arrived in the gourd world with great excitement and proudly announced loudly:

"Your Majesty, good news!"
The two Buddhist cultivators who infiltrated the Western Continent were discovered and killed by me and Haoran Zhenjun together. Haha, both of them were in the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and their combat ability was too weak to be a match for the two of us.

I knew His Majesty would need the corpses of the Buddhist monks, so I used my great merit to retrieve them from Lord Haoran.

The sovereign would burn the corpses of Nascent Soul cultivators and use the ashes as fertilizer to accelerate the growth of spiritual plants; he had seen this scene several times.

As he spoke, he took out the two corpses of Buddhist monks and said regretfully:
"The Void Stone has been tainted by the aura of death; I will replace it from now on."

Ji An was overjoyed. Now that the sect's True Monarchs were all capable of handling things independently, he could confidently go into seclusion.

He looked at the lingering sword intent on the corpse and asked in confusion:

"Didn't you say it took the two of you working together to kill them? How come they only have sword wounds?" "I used the Five-Colored Divine Light to collect the magic treasures of the Buddhist cultivators, which is why I gave True Monarch Haoran room to maneuver."

After the two Buddhist monks were killed, True Monarch Haoran performed a soul search and fortunately obtained crucial information: only two Buddhist monks had come to the Western Continent.

The Five Sacred Mountains True Lords displayed their spoils: a string of prayer beads and a begging bowl, which emitted a golden Buddhist light.

Ji An smiled broadly, "So you two have perfectly solved the problem?!"

He felt a surge of happiness, like suddenly realizing that the child he had raised had grown up.

"Yes, Your Majesty need not trouble yourself!"

"Great, I can finally win without lifting a finger. This feels amazing."

Ji An made a hand seal to activate the Azure Lotus Heart-Burning Flame, and began to burn Shi Xiu's corpse.

"Your Majesty, in consideration of the two corpses of the monks I have offered, please give me more mulberries when the Fusang tree ripens."

The Five Sacred Mountains True Lord said in a flattering tone that he could not forget the taste of mulberries.

"Then I'll give you three mulberries."

Ji An plans to bury the ashes of the two corpses next to the phoenix tree on Crimson Flame Peak, so that it can be promoted to the fourth level as soon as possible.

"Okay!"

Receiving three mulberries was exactly what he expected, so the Five Sacred Mountains True Lord readily agreed and asked:

When will the mulberries ripen?

"About twenty years, don't worry, I'll keep an eye on it for you."

"Alright, I'll go cast a spell on the white spirit field now."

As Ji An watched the Five Sacred Mountains True Lords depart triumphantly, he increased his power to activate the Azure Lotus Heart-Burning Flame.

Flames continued to flicker and burn, and the two corpses were quickly reduced to ashes, leaving behind a few relics.

With the threat of Shi Xiu eliminated, Xizhou returned to peace, and two years passed in the blink of an eye.

In the gourd world, Ji An activated his cultivation technique by reversing the flow of energy, and he clearly felt that the bottleneck in his cultivation was becoming increasingly loose.

Initially, he circulated the qigong technique normally for one full cycle, and then circulated it in reverse for three full cycles.

Later, he circulated the qigong normally for two major cycles and then circulated it in reverse for three cycles. In the end, he circulated the qigong normally for three major cycles and then circulated it in reverse for one major cycle.

The spiritual energy, mixed with the five elements, flowed into Ji An's body like an inverted celestial river, surging through his immortal meridians.

The moment the exercise reverses direction, a special rhythm of energy flow creates vortices within the body, generating immense attraction and drawing in more spiritual energy.

A greater-than-normal amount of spiritual energy surged within Ji An's body, but his body acted like a sturdy container, constantly 'pressurizing' this spiritual energy.

Inside the Moon Palace, the Nascent Soul cultivator solemnly manipulated hand seals, carefully controlling the immense spiritual energy—enough to burst the body of an ordinary seventh-level Nascent Soul cultivator—as it flowed through his immortal veins.

Ji An focused all his mental energy on circulating his cultivation technique. If it were any other disciple, they would have already broken through to the late Nascent Soul stage by the time they could circulate the technique to this level.

Because he chose the most difficult path of 'mutual generation of the five elements and the return of all laws to oneness,' this is not enough.

The vein patterns in the Five Elements Divine Palace shimmered, changing from dim to bright, then gradually dimming again, in a continuous cycle.

At first, the rhythm of the changes in the five divine palace meridians was not consistent, but as the cultivation technique was practiced, the rhythm of the changes in the meridians became more and more unified.

The pain in his immortal meridians began to swell, then became as if he were being burned by fire. Ji An's body seemed to have turned into a furnace, with rolling heat waves spreading in all directions.

The situation took a complete 180-degree turn the next moment.

His body seemed to have turned into the eternal ice on the snow-capped mountain, with white frost spreading outwards.

The immortal veins developed countless cracks under such extreme temperature changes, but were quickly repaired by some mysterious force.

Ji An remained unmoved, maintaining a steady pace as he circulated his cultivation technique, seemingly unaffected by the pain his immortal meridians were enduring.

He didn't know how much time had passed before he controlled the flow of his cultivation technique, changing it from reverse to forward.

The veins of the five divine palaces changed brightness from dim to bright and back again within the same time period, and the chaotic rhythm became consistent.

The flow of spiritual energy and magical power within his body momentarily stopped, and then more vortexes formed.

The Moon Palace shone brightly, and the Nascent Soul Dharma Form was automatically activated at that moment.

The bright moon rises over the sea, its light reflected on the flowing waves stretching for thousands of miles.

Ji An couldn't help but open his mouth and inhale sharply. The heavens and earth resonated, and the spiritual energy gathered above his head poured into his mouth and was swallowed clean.

The bottleneck in his cultivation suddenly burst open, and the range of the Nascent Soul Dharma Image expanded dramatically.

At this moment, the bright moon disappears from the image of the Buddha, the sun rises in the east, the sea turns into mulberry fields, and all trees vie for spring.

The wood elemental energy surged and gathered together, transforming into a lifelike azure dragon, its roar accompanied by thunderous roars.

(End of this chapter)