Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Liu Bai's soul essence imprint was carefully collected by Liu Qing into the Lesser Thousand World.

A point of light, radiating a crystalline glow, floated in the clouds of the Lesser Thousand Worlds. Liu Qing had placed layers of restrictions around it, and with his status as the Lord of the Lesser Thousand Worlds, he had turned this place into a forbidden zone, filling the area outside the restrictions with the violent power of the world.

No one except Liu Qing could get close to her.

Liu Bai said that his life was given to him by Liu Qing, and after returning it to Liu Qing, they would be even.

However, before Liu Bai could actively merge his soul into Liu Qing's, he captured Ksitigarbha's soul and gave it to Liu Qing.

In this way, Liu Bai doesn't owe Liu Qing anything, but Liu Qing does owe Liu Bai something.

Liu Qing painstakingly gathered Liu Bai's shattered soul essence imprint together, carefully stored and nurtured it, waiting for the shattered essence imprint to be repaired and restored to its original state.

Liu Qing will give Liu Bai a chance to live as an independent being.

Liu Qing will not owe Liu Bai anything.

Liu Bai's soul actively merged into Liu Qing's body, causing his soul power to surge from three thousand feet to nine thousand nine hundred feet.

Furthermore, since Liu Bai actively merged with her without any resentment, her soul did not bear any of Liu Bai's imprint. This allowed Liu Qing's soul to surge in power in a short period of time without any hidden dangers or instability.

Liu Qing's divine soul surged to 9,900 feet, but his physical body remained at 3,000 feet. The strength of his divine soul exceeded that of his physical body by several times.

The improvement of the physical body can no longer keep up with the growth rate of the soul.

To walk the path steadily, one must ensure that the spirit and the physical body grow in sync and remain in harmony, thus achieving the dual cultivation of body and spirit.

Otherwise, one cannot cultivate both body and mind, and go further.

Looking at the bottom of the canal ahead, at Liu Bai's body, which had lost its soul but was still full of life, Liu Qing solemnly bowed.

"You were created by me. Your soul and body should all be transformed into resources for me to achieve the golden body!"

"But I owe you the fortune to be an independent life form. Please wait a while. After I attain enlightenment, I will let you be born."

Having said that, Liu Qing no longer hesitated and spat out a stream of divine power, allowing Liu Bai's physical body to return to its original state.

Liu Bai's physical body was crushed and returned to its original earth element. His magical power manifested as a large earth-yellow mountain, and his blood and qi became a long blood-red rainbow.

The so-called cultivation of both body and mind refers to the cultivation of essence, energy, and spirit.

Thanks to Liu Bai's active fusion of souls, Liu Qing's 'god' is now approaching perfection.

The essence and energy came from Liu Bai's physical body. The essence was the blood-red rainbow in front of him, and the energy was the earth-yellow mountain.

Liu Qing opened his mouth and swallowed the Earth Element Mountain and the Crimson Rainbow that Liu Bai had gifted him.

The blood-red rainbow represents the power of blood and vital essence, which belongs to the physical body, while the mountain manifested by the Earth Path is placed within the Lesser Thousand Worlds.

The amount of qi and blood essence bestowed by Liu Bai was limited because he was only at the peak of the Divine Realm and did not have the amplification from Liu Qing's cultivation of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique and the transformation of the dragon into a dragon.

Ignoring the earth elemental power for now, Liu Qing focused on absorbing the simple qi and blood essence. Now that Liu Qing's talent for swallowing elephants was perfected, his own qi and blood essence was enormous, so absorbing Liu Bai's qi and blood essence was very fast.

In a short period of time, it devoured Liu Bai's vital energy and essence, and even fused it into its own body.

Liu Qing's true form, the Azure Dragon, grew once again. After completely absorbing Liu Bai's blood essence and vital energy, Liu Qing's true form had grown from three thousand feet to four thousand feet.

To reach the strength of a divine soul of 9,900 feet, it is estimated that one must continue to traverse the dragon realm and finally complete the process before the physical body and divine soul can be in harmony.

There's no rush; we can wait and continue the journey.

After absorbing the power of qi and blood essence, Liu Qing devoted all his attention to Liu Bai's earth element power.

Liu Qing is a river demon, originally a water elemental. Within the Lesser Thousand Worlds, the Jing River, the Wei River, and half of the Grand Canal have now manifested, all of which are manifestations of Liu Qing's water elemental power.

By combining the power of water with Liu Bai's power of earth, the two elements of water and earth are formed and circulate in a cycle, thus achieving eternal stability of yin and yang and breaking through to the Golden Body Realm.

Liu Qing had been planning this for a long time and had been waiting for this day.

Stepping into the Lesser Thousand Worlds, Liu Qing stretched out his hand and drew out a stream of earth elemental power from the earth elemental mountain, while with his other hand he summoned a stream of water elemental power from the Jing River.

Liu Qing carefully brought the earth element power and the water element power closer together.

The two forces belong to the Five Elements, but their attributes are mutually destructive. As they get closer, the repulsion between the Water Element and the Earth Element becomes increasingly intense.

As they drew closer, the immense repulsive force between the two forces nearly caused the water and earth elements to dissipate.

At this moment, Liu Qing knew that he needed to slow down his approach, but he couldn't let things go unchecked; otherwise, the two forces, which were inherently incompatible, would avoid each other.

What Liu Qing wanted was to create a yin-yang cycle between them.

Liu Qing released a wisp of divine power, enveloping the earth and water elements and stabilizing them in the vicinity.

Immediately, he released a bit of soul power and placed it between the earth and water elements, as a yin-yang eye. Then, Liu Qing used his divine power to control the two forces, using the soul power in the middle as the axis, and began to try rotating them.

Gradually, this rotation accelerated, spinning around the axis of soul power, round and round.

As it rotated, this force of earth and water gradually gained momentum, began to rotate automatically, and released power particles that mixed into the opponent.

These dissipated power particles became the connection between the two. As more power particles dissipated, the connection grew stronger. In the end, the rotational inertia completely overwhelmed the repulsion. Even though Liu Qing slowly released the driving divine power, the water element and the earth element still rotated due to inertia.

Earth represents Yang, and water represents Yin. With Liu Qing's sliver of soul power acting as the Yin-Yang eye, the two transform into a Yin-Yang fish, constantly rotating in and out of Yin and Yang.

Attempt successful.

Liu Qing was overjoyed. With the first attempt succeeding, there would be a second and a third. After half a day, Liu Qing had already manipulated thousands of water and earth elements to form a yin-yang cycle.

He transformed his divine power into a spear and thrust it with all his might at one of the water and earth forces that were in a state of yin-yang rotation.

Without a doubt, this divine power was deflected by the yin-yang rotation of the water and earth forces.

The power of water and soil forms a yin-yang cycle, which in turn creates a stable duality. When attacked by external forces, it will shake them off.

This is the eternal stability of the golden element in the Golden Body Realm.

The Golden Body Realm's eternal stability of metal does not mean forging the physical body into metal, but rather forging power into the characteristic of eternal stability of metal.

Even the strongest metal will eventually decay, but the strongest power can be immortal. By rapidly rotating the Yin and Yang, this indestructible property can be permanently solidified, resulting in an eternal golden body!

Liu Qing channeled one of the water and earth elements that was rotating in the Yin-Yang duality into his physical body, focusing on a tiny point. Instantly, that tiny point emitted a golden light representing immortality.

[Realm: Golden Body Realm 1%]

With a soft click, Liu Qing's cultivation level naturally broke through to the Golden Body Realm.

Liu Qing then infused thousands of the water and earth energies that had already achieved the Yin-Yang duality into his physical body, causing them to gradually radiate a golden hue representing immortality from the smallest parts of his muscles, bones, and internal organs.

His cultivation level also improved accordingly.

[Realm: Golden Body Realm 13%]

Liu Qing smiled; after scheming for so long, he had finally reaped the rewards.

Then, Liu Qing focused on two things at once. First, he matched the earth and water elements within the small world with each other to form a yin-yang duality. After it stabilized, he then injected these stabilized yin-yang dualities of earth and water elements into his physical body.

Although it may seem tedious, seeing one's cultivation level slowly but steadily improve makes it less boring and more exciting.

The cultivation of the Golden Body Realm is to use magical power as the source to form something permanent, which is then injected into the physical body, enabling the physical body to become immortal. For every point that the physical body's immortality is enhanced, the cultivation level of this realm increases by one point.

As Liu Qing continuously transformed the power of water and soil, his physical body gained more and more immortal characteristics, and his corresponding cultivation level became higher and higher.

After an unknown period of time, when the water element within the Lesser Thousand Worlds changed from the Jing River to the Wei River, and then from the Wei River to the Grand Canal, while the earth element mountain left behind by Liu Bai shrank to a small mound.

With a boom, Liu Qing's body was covered in an immortal golden color. From the inside out, from the smallest detail to the whole, everything formed the Yin and Yang of mountains and water, achieving immortality and creating an eternal golden body.

[Realm: Golden Body Realm 99%]

As predicted, by fusing Liu Bai's Earth Path, Liu Qing's cultivation level leaped from the Perfect Divine Realm to the Perfect Golden Body Realm.

The remaining path is to break through from the Golden Body Realm to the Undying Realm.

The so-called immortality refers to the immortality of the soul.

Compared to the eternal and unchanging nature of the physical body, the immortality of the soul represents a higher level of immortality.

Even if a powerful being reaches this level has their physical body destroyed, their soul can remain in the world forever, living freely and unrestrained. This is unlike the gods of incense offerings, who entrust their souls to incense offerings, lacking freedom and being constrained by them. Their foundation is like a castle in the air, and their souls may be destroyed at any time due to backlash.

Thanks to Liu Bai's gift, Liu Qing's soul is now powerful enough. He is only a little bit away from breaking through to the Undying Realm and achieving immortality.

This undying spiritual light is the most precious, and many powerful beings in the Three Realms are trapped in this situation because they cannot find it.

For example, Huanglong Zhenren of the Chan Sect and Jin Gu Xian Shixiong of the Jie Sect are both like this.

Liu Qing has no clue about this undying inspiration.

However, having just broken through to the Golden Body Realm, there was no rush. Liu Qing put this question aside for the time being and focused on experiencing the changes in his body after the breakthrough.

Having broken through to the Golden Body Realm and then soared to the peak of the Golden Body Realm, Liu Qing's rapid increase in cultivation made his body feel somewhat unfamiliar.

First, after breaking through to the Golden Body Realm, the size of the Azure Dragon's true form increased once again, from four thousand feet to five thousand feet.

The increase in size of his body brought with it a surge in power. Liu Qing roughly estimated that, at this moment, relying solely on his physical strength without any supernatural abilities or innate advantages, he already possessed a full fifty million jin of power. If he were to further enhance his abilities with three heads and six arms, the power of the Heavenly Law and the Earthly Manifestation, and the power of a strongman, he estimated that it could reach hundreds of millions of jin. (End of Chapter)