Douluo: I, the Sun God

Chapter 114 Inner Alchemy and Soul Core
"It's worth it that I've been consciously training my control since I started practicing, and now I'm finally reaping the rewards!"

When it comes to controlling soul power, the soul masters of Douluo Continent also have their own training methods. However, due to their limited knowledge and cognition, they have never thought about controlling soul power and body from a microscopic perspective. They only believe in what they see and hear.

Of course, being able to reach the subtle realm must be related to mental power. After all, not everyone can reach such a strong mental power at the Soul Emperor level.

Xu Yang's current mental power should have reached the level of Poseidon and Qian Daoliu, but the amount is much less than that of the two people who have practiced for hundreds of years.

At this time, Xu Yang also realized why the Extreme Douluo could live for hundreds of years, and even the Sea God lived for thousands of years before becoming a god. Perhaps it was because they had strong mental power and could exercise subtle control, so they could keep their bodies energetic and prolong their lifespan.

Now, not only does he have enough mental strength, he has also realized the state of unity between man and nature. His practice to become a Titled Douluo will be smooth sailing.

You can also get a glimpse of the Ultimate Douluo, or even the realm of God.

If one wants to break through to the Titled Douluo level, one must condense a soul core in the body, condensing the soul power from liquid to solid.

This is also the main reason why Xu Yang chose the Sunworm King that is over 80,000 years old as his sixth soul ring. The purpose is to use the soul skill of Sun Gazing, which compresses the energy soul power into a point.

His current mental strength and control ability are definitely far beyond the standard of condensing a soul core. The only thing he lacks is soul power.

But he was confident that he could accumulate enough soul power at level 69 to condense his soul core and use this power to break through to level 70. This was also the best time to condense the soul core in the Douluo Dalu tetralogy he had read in his previous life.

At this breakthrough point, absorbing the soul core into the body and then absorbing the seventh ring will not only enhance the power of the martial soul true body, but also prolong the martial soul true body's life. And with the formation of the soul core, even without meditation, it can guide the energy of heaven and earth to flow into the meridians and soul core, greatly increasing the speed of future Soul Sage cultivation.

However, in addition to the soul core, Xu Yang had another idea in his mind, and this idea had a higher priority than the soul core.

That is the inner alchemy method, the golden elixir path that condenses one's own essence, energy and spirit into one.

After practicing for so many years, with his knowledge, cognition and state of mind increasing, Xu Yang guessed that the soul core theory was flawed.

Although soul cores are essential for breaking through to the Titled Douluo realm, once one's strength reaches a certain limit, one needs to condense the second and third soul cores. The condensation of the latter two soul cores is not as safe as the first soul core, whether it is an isotopic resonance soul core or a yin-yang complementary soul core.

The isotopic resonance soul core is not a big deal. As long as the mental strength is sufficient, the control is strong enough, and you are careful, it should be no problem to condense the second soul core.

The other Yin-Yang complementary soul core is extremely dangerous. In the original novel, Huo Yuhao, who had various cheats, almost died with the help of Mu Lao and his dragon pill. This shows the danger of condensing the soul core in this way.

However, high risk also means high returns. When the Yin-Yang complementary dual soul cores are successfully condensed, and the two soul core vortexes collide and blend with each other to reach a balance, the soul power in the body will have the characteristics of two soul cores at the same time. The new soul power generated at the same time will also become a vortex-shaped soul power. This vortex-shaped soul power must be a combination of mental power and soul power.

Just like after Huo Yuhao condensed his Spiritual Soul Core and the Ultimate Ice Soul Core, his soul power possessed the characteristics of both spirit and ultimate ice, and he also possessed a vortex-shaped soul power, a new soul power that was a combination of his spiritual power and ultimate ice soul power. Not only could he control it at will, but its power was also terrifyingly strong. This fusion of soul power was the reason why the Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core was stronger than the Isotopic Resonance Soul Core.

But Xu Yang felt that it was too dangerous to condense the soul core in this way. Why not completely condense the essence, energy and spirit into one when condensing the soul core at the beginning? This way, he would not only have the fusion soul power, but also avoid the danger of the yin and yang complementary soul core.

This is also the reason why he wants to practice the Golden Elixir.

As a former Chinese, who doesn't have a dream of becoming an immortal hero? So Xu Yang has also read some theories of inner alchemy, but his understanding is limited to that of the four stages of inner alchemy practice: refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness, and returning to emptiness and merging with the Tao.

Although he didn't know much, he knew that these four stages were how a cultivator could go against their innate nature and condense their essence, energy, and spirit into one. To achieve this, one must first complete the Small Zhoutian practice to combine essence and energy into Qi, and then practice the Great Zhoutian practice to combine Qi and spirit, returning Qi to spirit.

To put it simply, it is actually to allow the energy in the body to be transformed into each other, allowing the essence to condense from the lower dantian and rise to the middle dantian to condense and transform into true qi, and then the true qi rises again to the Niwan Palace, which is the spiritual sea of ​​consciousness, to be transformed into mental power, and finally the mental power sinks from the Ren and Du meridians back to the lower dantian and is transformed into essence.

From then on, the three energies of essence, energy and spirit can circulate back and forth.

To achieve this cycle, one must achieve a state of unity between man and nature and establish a method for the circulation of the small and large internal circulations. Once the essence, energy, and spirit are able to transform into each other, one can then draw upon the power of heaven and earth, using the spirit as fire, the essence and energy as medicine, and the three dantians as the furnace, allowing the spirit and essence to merge in the Ren and Du meridians, ultimately achieving the unity of the essence, energy, and spirit, and condensing the golden elixir.

For a Taoist, Xu Yang had achieved the unity of man and nature, which was rare. What was more difficult was the method of running the small and large heavenly circles. Although he had opened the Ren and Du meridians and knew the locations of the three dantians, he had no idea about the Taoist practice theories of his previous life. Apart from the Ren and Du meridians, he had no idea about the corresponding eight trigrams and five elements for the other meridians, so it was very difficult for him to complete the complex circulation of the heavenly circles.

"Ah! I can only study it myself first, but I can't leave the soul core behind. This way, if the inner alchemy technique doesn't work, I still have the soul core to fall back on!"

As he thought about it, Xu Yang sighed softly, and began to gently pinch Ning Rongrong's face with his hands. He couldn't let go of her delicate skin.

Ning Rongrong had already woken up at this moment, her pretty face flushed red. She never thought that she would climb onto her brother Yang while sleeping, and was even touched and pinched on the face, which made her feel very embarrassed.

She didn't dare open her eyes and could only pretend to be asleep, hoping that Xu Yang would let her go and not embarrass her.

Unfortunately, she didn't know that Xu Yang was sensing her every move. When he regained consciousness, he knew she was awake, so he pinched her face to see her reaction.

Seeing Ning Rongrong pretending to sleep, Xu Yang couldn't possibly agree to her wishes. He smiled softly and said, "Rongrong, stop pretending to sleep."

When Ning Rongrong heard this, she had no choice but to open her eyes, glared at Xu Yang in anger, slapped Xu Yang's hand away, and quickly got off him. She stood aside and picked up the wrinkled clothes.

(End of this chapter)