Starting from the Tiger Demon Yaksha, the demon immortality

Chapter 347-357 Heaven and Earth Furnace, Yin and Yang Divine Thunder

Condensing the primordial embryo is a very novel experience.

Li Cunxiao still remembers the experience of each breakthrough in his cultivation, from Qi and blood to the Xuan Guan (mysterious gate).

The weak blood and qi become strong, the stream-like true qi becomes a surging river, and the birth of the spiritual form is like installing a new core, a processor, and an engine into the body.

That was a perceptible power.

The process of returning to one's original state is not like this.

Essence, Qi, and Spirit represent everything about oneself, breaking free from the constraints of the physical body, traversing and being compressed in the tsunami-like power of heaven and earth, transforming into new forms.

This feeling is like being young again, returning to the womb where the fetus was conceived.

The difference is that while heaven and earth are the placenta, the final process and outcome of creation are firmly in one's own hands.

Li Cunxiao seemed to have gained a third-party perspective, watching the "qi" between heaven and earth weave together the Dharma form and body bit by bit.

This process was very long, but it seemed very short to him because he had lost his sense of time.

This state of oneness with nature is so wonderful that his breath is like the heartbeat of heaven and earth, each inhale and exhale stirring up tides of spiritual and demonic energy.

Until now.

Endless thunderbolts converged into a great blue sun, within which a hundred-foot-tall Dharma image gradually became clear.

Wearing a crown and tassels, a blue upper garment and a red lower garment, with a square-shaped collar hanging on his chest, he sat upright in the sky.

Beneath the throne, heavy clouds rose like mountains, and below those mountains lay vast palaces in all directions.

Inside the palace, the Ten Heavenly Venerables Who Save from Suffering sat upright, with the Ten Kings of Hell and the Judges on the left and right below them, suppressing hundreds of hungry ghosts and beasts, their wails and chanting of sutras never ceasing.

From a distance, it looks just like a divine court, perfectly orderly.

However, these gods and demons are of varying natures: some are illusory, some are real; some are rigid, some are agile; some are ferocious, and some are serene.

"The Grandmaster realm requires the Heavenly Dipper and Earthly Fiends as the essentials of cultivation."

"Cunxiao is exceptionally talented, and his accumulated knowledge has finally been unleashed. He has already condensed the number of twenty-seven divine demons in the first level of Gang Sha upon his breakthrough, reaching the entry level of Yuan Tai."

Qi Ci had long been numb to Li Cunxiao's amazing deeds along the way, but at this moment, he was still greatly shocked.

Ordinary grandmasters, when they first break through, only have a few celestial deities, including their Dharma form, while the other earthly demons need to be added gradually.

The cultivation of the first level of the Divine Fiends takes ten years. Without twenty or thirty years, let alone perfecting the 108 Heavenly Divine Fiends, even achieving great success is a distant dream.

Therefore, among the millions of people in the world, there are only a few dozen grandmasters and only a handful of great grandmasters.

In his original plan, Li Cunxiao's chances of failing this breakthrough were actually higher, which was the path most martial artists would take.

Breaking through to the Grandmaster level is even more dangerous than fighting a Grandmaster.

After all, although a grandmaster is not a human being, he still has a human heart, so there is always a one in ten thousand chance of survival.

However, the process of transforming the embryo into a physical form requires a struggle against the immense power of heaven and earth in a short period of time. All things are like straw dogs, and nature shows no mercy.

However, as the master of the spiritual treasure, Li Cunxiao is the ruler of the small world in the secret realm. He can control the portal through which the power of heaven and earth flows in, and thus can stop the process at any time.

In addition, there was the Seven Treasures Lotus, a priceless treasure. Li Cunxiao had also told the great monk about the incarnation before his breakthrough, which provided another layer of insurance.

Otherwise, Qici would not have been able to help Li Cunxiao break through.

After all, the other party is only in his twenties. To outsiders, his eagerness to become a grandmaster is a completely insane and extreme behavior.

If you accumulate experience for a few more years, you can become a grandmaster before the age of thirty. With a lifespan of three cycles of sixty years, you still have 150 years to become a great grandmaster.

But who would have thought that it would actually work on the first try?

"But then again, a grandmaster in his twenties is terrifying enough."

"Compared to that, jumping to a minor realm is nothing."

He comforted himself in this way, and his shocked mind calmed down a little.

As for Li Guangyi and Ye Shuyi, they couldn't even react; their minds were completely blank.

He could only stare blankly as the bright sun on the horizon gradually receded from its blazing glory, finally merging with the hundred-foot-tall Dharma image into the lightning.

Lightning flashed, and the next moment, a body completely outlined by "qi" appeared three feet in front of him.

The endless rays of light stretched into threads, outlining structures resembling bones, muscles, and blood, resembling a dazzling galaxy up close.

After just one glance, Ye Shuyi and Li Guangyi's eyes glazed over, entering a mysterious and profound state.

He had an instant epiphany!
“The Dharma form is the form of the Dharma principle, the essence of one’s own martial arts. You are quite generous.”

"Master can see if he wants to," a voice with a hint of laughter rang out, but it didn't come from his throat; rather, it was a sound that emanated from the vibration of the void.

Qi Ci shook his head. He could tell that this Dharma image was passed down from Taiyi Zhenren and he did not want to pry into the lineage of another school.

If Li Cunxiao is breaking through to the Buddhist Dharma form this time, he will not be polite.

“On the day you went into seclusion, I sensed being watched from the void. Now it seems that this secret realm has been completely taken over by you.”

"Indeed, in a sense, the Dragon Palace Secret Realm is my training ground. However, it is easy to invite a god but difficult to send him away. If we really let an opponent in, it will inevitably be a fight to the death."

"After all, the dojo is still an illusion, but the secret realm is a real space. If it is damaged, it will be very troublesome to repair."

As soon as he spoke, the entire secret realm trembled violently, and the pavilions and palaces changed and reorganized accordingly.

What is particularly eye-catching is that nearly a hundred flying dragons soared in the sky, piercing through the clouds and splitting the sky, which was extremely spectacular.

But in Qici's eyes, these flying dragons were clearly warships in the clouds, the smallest of which could accommodate hundreds of soldiers.

"I've reforged all these ships; they can be used to assemble the 'Heavenly Army' in the future,"

"Heavenly soldiers," Qi exclaimed, able to imagine the shock that these ships, which were practically divine warriors, would bring to the battlefield.

Even Li Yisheng's flying cavalry numbered only a little over ten thousand, and without a grandmaster as the main force, they couldn't take off.

As for what Li Cunxiao intended to do with these different types of troops, the master and apprentice tacitly avoided discussing it further.

"Master, there is one more thing I need to tell you."

As he spoke, a delicate, fragrant white lotus, like a gathering of morning dew and drifting clouds, appeared from the void and floated toward the great monk.

"Hmm? Isn't this your Seven Treasures Lotus?"

Qi Ci was initially puzzled, but when he saw the petals bloom, revealing the seemingly sleeping Taoist spirit within, his heart was instantly filled with astonishment:
"A bull's nose?!"

The white lotus bloomed only for a moment, then closed again, surrounded by three lotuses of blue, gold, and red, before disappearing back into the void. Li Cunxiao's face appeared on his star-like divine body.

The spirit of the weapon, Qingluan, cried out, its blue and fiery red colors like a vast ocean and flames. Clearly, this divine weapon had also benefited from its master's breakthrough in cultivation. It then transformed into a plain white round-necked robe, with a red cross-collar and leather belt at the waist.

"I am ashamed to have kept this from my master, for it is of utmost importance."

"Incredible, incredible, incredible!"

Qi Ci didn't mind his disciple's concealment at all, he just kept muttering to himself, and then as if he had realized something, he grabbed Li Cunxiao's hands:
"When will Taiyi wake up in this state?"

"It's hard to say; it could take anywhere from several decades to just over ten years."

Li Cunxiao was also full of regret. "I originally thought that the incarnation formed by the Seven Treasures Lotus was somewhere between a physical body and a spiritual form, and was a rootless tree, so it had to rely on a physical body."

"This time, I used the power of heaven and earth to accelerate its maturity, and then used the furnace technique to refine it into a tangible object. In theory, it should be enough to become Master Taiyi's body."

"What a pity," he sighed.

"The realm of a Grandmaster is far beyond what I can reach now."

Qi Ci immediately understood.

Grandmasters and experts return to their original state, undergoing embryonic transformation and physical refinement. Both their Dharma form and Dharma body are nurtured by the power of heaven and earth.

Li Cunxiao wanted to take advantage of his breakthrough to reshape his body with the Seven Treasures Lotus. His idea was good, but he overlooked the fact that Taiyi was a Grandmaster.

How could the strength of his primordial spirit be supported by Li Cunxiao's meager breakthrough to the Grandmaster level plus a rare treasure?

To put it bluntly, the container is too small, but it's trying to hold too much stuff.

'However, at least we don't need to use the vajra to suppress it and keep Master's primordial spirit from dissipating.'

'Transferring to the white lotus allows it to gradually replenish its spiritual energy by gathering it within the secret realm.'

'Otherwise, I'm really afraid that one day I might accidentally refine my master's primordial spirit.'

Thinking this way, Li Cunxiao felt somewhat comforted.

As for giving up a Seven-Treasure Lotus, it was nothing to him.

This treasure was originally a gift from the Immortal Taiyi to him.

Every sip and every bite has its cause and effect, and this is how it should be.

Moreover, he cultivated Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, so three incarnations were enough; having more would be meaningless.

"Whether it's decades or a dozen years, as long as he's alive, that's good enough. How could he possibly blame you?"

"In other words, you have done a life-saving favor to that stinky old man. If he could really come back to life, he should call you master."

Qici and Taiyi were considered to be enemies. They thought the other had returned to the righteous path, but they never expected that the disciple's methods would defy the heavens and actually snatch the dead back.

Knowing that the other party had a chance of survival, he became quite rude.

"No way," Li Cunxiao said, both amused and exasperated. As he spoke, he clenched his fist, his thumb, index finger, and middle finger stirring up a vortex of spiritual energy in the air. The collision of spiritual and demonic energies caused lightning and thunder to crackle.

In the blink of an eye, the lightning transformed into two Qi pills, each with a complex spiral structure, which flew into the bodies of Li Guangyi and Ye Shuyi, causing their auras to rise rapidly.

The twelve regular meridians, the eight extraordinary meridians, and the Qi Sea (CV6).
First step, second step, coccyx ridge
Qi Ci was speechless with amazement. "Your Heaven and Earth Furnace technique is almost as good as an old Taoist priest's."

"Master, you flatter me," Li Cunxiao said with a modest smile.

"Without raw materials, we can only produce about a thousand low-grade pills a day, but then we won't have to do anything else."

I fucking bastard.
Qi Ci no longer wanted to speak. He waved his hand, and the master and disciple flashed away from the secret realm, appearing in the quiet room they had just been in.

Without needing to be told, the powerful primordial spirit captured information from its surroundings: celestial phenomena, water vapor, the smell of wood from the barracks, and the degree of aging of the tables and chairs in the buildings.
"I've been in seclusion for six months? What's the situation now?"

Qi then gave a brief account of the developments in the two states over the past six months and the external situation.

"Qin and Liang fought against the Liao ruler of Huainan"

"Hmm, this is a good opportunity to make a move."

Li Cunxiao seemed to be deep in thought, stroking his chin.

The next moment, as if he had made a decision, his eyes flashed with lightning, and lightning suddenly tore through the void in front of him, from which emerged a fat blue lion and a red steed snorting.

The two beasts were clearly still confused, their eyes filled with clarity and bewilderment.

“You’re living a good life,” Li Cunxiao said, reaching out and stuffing two Qi pills the size of human heads into the bodies of the two beasts, which then swelled up like they were being inflated.

A horse neighed and a lion roared, then they were enveloped in a cocoon of light and thrown into the Dragon Palace Secret Realm.

"You can control the secret realm from the outside? These two spaces... are they connected?"

“That’s not the case,” Li Cunxiao explained:

"Where I am is the center of the secret realm, and the scope of the cave world is enough to cover a hundred miles of the present world."

"Within this range, as long as I wish, I can move people and things from the real world into the secret realm and then move them out using the secret realm. However, this process is very short and looks like I am directly manipulating the space of the real world."

"The premise is that the opponent's cultivation level is below mine, and the number cannot be too large."

Upon hearing this, Qi Ci remained silent, only picking up the tea he hadn't drunk earlier and sipping it.

It's still steaming.

The head monk chewed up and swallowed the tea leaves before speaking again.

"You just said you were going to take action, do you mean you want to take over Tibet?"

"At least we must take over Tibet," Li Cunxiao said without any modesty.

“Jia Zuru is only a newly promoted Grandmaster. She has only been a Grandmaster for half a year. Her cultivation level may not even be as good as mine.”

"There's no need for Master to take action; I might be able to handle it on my own."

Is he this arrogant after just breaking through to Grandmaster?
Qi Ci's brow furrowed halfway, but then, remembering what he had just seen, he slowly relaxed it.

When grandmasters clash, if their skill levels are equal, the remaining factor is the power of their divine weapons.

Li Cunxiao himself not only possessed several divine weapons, but also had spiritual treasures by his side.

Simply by opening the secret realm and trapping the emperor inside, half of his abilities would be lost.

Both are grandmasters. One side can manipulate spiritual energy without restraint, while the other side cannot manipulate the power of heaven and earth. With this ebb and flow, the outcome is already decided.

Hmm, thinking about it this way, even if I were the one to make the move, I could only maintain a suppressive stance against Li Cunxiao, and it would be difficult to win.

The existence of the cave heaven and secret realm is almost comparable to the dojo of a grandmaster. It can be used for both offense and defense, and it is simply a dimensional reduction attack for martial artists of the same level!

"Master?"

Seeing Qici's ever-changing, unpredictable expression, Li Cunxiao became somewhat suspicious.

"Cough, it's nothing. In war, it's not enough to just win. The key is how to handle the relationships between the parties after the victory. Now that you are in charge of two states, you must consider everything carefully."

Seeing that even the senior monks were starting to repeat themselves, Li Cunxiao belatedly realized that the impact of his breakthrough was still too great.

As the saying goes, the student surpasses the teacher, but one can only imagine the complex feelings a disciple must have when they stand side by side with their master.

"Your lesson is correct. If we take Tibet, Wang Jian and Qingcheng Mountain will certainly not remain indifferent."

"When the five grandmasters are fighting, it will be difficult to hide the news of my breakthrough. If the capital finds out, who knows what changes will occur."

Before Qi Ci could even nod, Li Cunxiao raised his hand with a smile, his hand flashing with lightning, a mixture of life and death, like the chaos before the creation of the world, making the onlooker's brow twitch.
"In that case, Master, would you like to give it a try first?"

"I still don't know how good my disciple's new divine power, the Yin-Yang Divine Thunder, is."

(End of this chapter)