Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

The more you progress in cultivating the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, the more difficult the refining process becomes, and the harder it is to find the power required for the refining. However, these are not the most difficult aspects. The most difficult aspect is the constant pain that threatens to overwhelm your mind during the refining process.

Even with Liu Qing's current cultivation level at the mid-stage of the Great Luo Realm, the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon's true form could hardly withstand it.

But once cultivation begins, there is no possibility of stopping. Therefore, no matter how unbearable it is, Liu Qing has to grit his teeth and endure the pain.

This process requires immense willpower and perseverance.

Otherwise, the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique is not considered a closely guarded secret among major sects, so why, from the primordial era to the present day, through countless eons, have only fewer than five people successfully cultivated it?

Moreover, these five fingers are based on the castrated version of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, the Eight-Nine Profound Technique, such as Erlang Shen Yang Jian, Yuan Hong, the leader of the Seven Monsters of Meishan, and the Giant Spirit God.

If we're talking about those who truly cultivate this Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, there are only Duobao Daoist, the chief disciple of the Jie Sect, and Liu Qing in the present day.

When Daoist Duobao reached the seventh level of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, he gave up halfway because he could not bear the pain during the refining process. Even so, the power of his seventh level was enough to make him the best in the three religions in terms of physical strength. In the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, he even used his physical body to withstand spiritual treasures.

Daoist Duobao has reincarnated a thousand times. In this life, he is Liu Qing. Through a series of fortuitous events, Liu Qing once again embarks on the path of cultivating the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.

This can be seen as fulfilling the unfulfilled wish of the Daoist Duobao in his previous life.

If Liu Qing completes the eighth stage of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, he will surpass Daoist Duobao and become the first person since the beginning of time to reach the highest level of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.

Endless pain surged like waves, assaulting Liu Qing's mind. With her strong will, Liu Qing struggled to resist.

This will is like a reef in the ocean, standing firm amidst the endless waves, unmoved despite the crashing of the sea.

As the pain battered his mind, Liu Qing stubbornly resisted with his will, and time passed year by year.

One year, ten years, one hundred years, two hundred years, five hundred years.
Liu Qing, who manifested his true form as a five-clawed golden dragon, was surrounded by the power of the Nine Heavens. Under the guidance of the refining array, the power gradually burned Liu Qing's physical body.

Gradually, Liu Qing's physical body began to change; the original golden five-clawed dragon body began to transform into purple.

The dragon scales, muscles, bones, and blood were also slowly tinged with purple.

Gold is precious, and purple is revered. The transformation from gold to purple represents the slow but steady progress in the eighth stage of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.

Liu Qing's will was battered and pounded by endless waves of pain. While silently enduring it, her will was also tempered, making her originally sharp-edged will become rounded and whole.

Time, like a galloping horse, has once again broken free of its reins and is racing wildly towards the long river.

A thousand years later, Liu Qing's true form was mostly dyed purple, and another thousand years later, it was almost entirely covered in purple.

Liu Qing was no longer a five-clawed golden dragon, but a five-clawed purple dragon.

Suddenly, a burst of purple light erupted from all parts of Liu Qing's body, enveloping the dragon's form almost like a thick fog.

Breakthrough at the eighth stage of the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art!
Liu Qing opened her eyes, her gaze filled with the vicissitudes of time and the joy of finally achieving her goal after years of hard work.

His clear, resonant dragon roar was like a clarion call for the sublimation of the physical body: "Thousands of years of refinement, the sublimation of the physical body is now!"

Immediately, the purple light became dazzling, and the boundless blood and energy of the flesh soared into the air, transforming into a blood dragon in the purple light, soaring and swimming.

Then, a beam of divine light shot out from the dragon's mouth and struck its body.

The dragon's body emitted waves of suction, swallowing Shenxi into its body. Then, with a crack, it was like a tiger that had been trapped in a cage for a long time being released from its shackles. It felt incredibly relaxed all over, as if it had been freed from all constraints, no longer belonging to the Three Realms or the Five Elements, and had jumped out of the world.

[Realm Level: 99% of the Great Luo Realm]

With the help of the breakthrough in the eighth stage of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, the physical body finally reached its ultimate sublimation and broke through to the Great Luo realm once again.

At this point, his soul, magic power, and physical body all broke through to the Great Luo realm once. With three consecutive breakthroughs, Liu Qing's realm soared all the way to the Great Luo realm perfection.

In terms of cultivation alone, she is only slightly inferior to the Golden Spirit Mother, the Buddha Tathagata, and Guang Chengzi in the Three Realms.

All three of them had surpassed the Great Luo Realm Perfection and were at the half-step Hunyuan Dao Fruit level.

Having fully accepted the insights into cultivation left by Daoist Duobao in the Duobao Pagoda, as well as the gifts from the sage's teachings, Liu Qing now understood.

This half-step Primordial Dao Fruit, in the primordial era, was known as the Quasi-Saint Dao Cultivation, which was said to be the closest to that of a Saint.

It's just that the name has been changed to Half-Step Primordial Dao Fruit.

It is said to be half-step into the Primordial Dao Fruit, but in reality, it is far from the Primordial Dao Fruit. This realm has never been recognized by the Great Dao; it is just a self-comforting title used by powerful beings.

In Liu Qing's view, after reaching the Great Luo Realm, the next step is the Primordial Dao Fruit.

If successful, one will attain the Dao Fruit and ascend to the status of a sage. If unsuccessful, one's path to enlightenment will be interrupted. Where would one find a half-step Primordial Being who is neither fish nor fowl? They are merely cowards who have reached the end of their path but lack the courage to advance further, hesitating before the Dao Fruit, fearing loss and afraid to break through.

I used to think that the half-step Primordial Dao Fruit was very powerful, but now it seems that the half-step Primordial Dao Fruit is really laughable.

No wonder that when Buddha and Guang Chengzi faced a life-or-death crisis, their first thought was to flee and avoid it, rather than to fight to the death.

It turns out that from the moment he stepped into the half-step Hunyuan realm, he had already lost the courage to fight desperately and the will to take the direct path of the Great Dao.

Anyone who is only halfway to the Primordial Realm will never be able to attain the status of a sage in their lifetime.

Guang Chengzi, the Buddha, and the fallen Dipankara Buddha, among others, were secretly pleased with themselves, believing that they were the number one person below the sages and that they only needed one opportunity to obtain the Primordial Dao Fruit.

Looking back now, they were both laughable and pathetic, indulging in their own fantasies, unaware that the path to enlightenment had already been severed by the great Dao.

Half-step into the Primordial Realm, the strongest below the Sage? Yet ultimately, he was not a Sage!

Having understood all this, Liu Qing no longer cared about the half-step Primordial Dao Fruit.

One must either seize the entire Primordial Dao Fruit and ascend to the position of a sage, or perish on the path of cultivation; there is no shortcut to achieving even a half-step Primordial Dao Fruit.

Having reached this point, Liu Qing has a clear plan for how to attain the Primordial Chaos Realm and has a clear vision of the path ahead.

Firstly, the Great Dao of Power requires one to first complete the Nine Revolutions of the Profound Technique, using an immeasurable physical body to create heaven and earth, transforming the Middle Thousand Worlds into the Great Thousand Worlds. Only by reaching the ultimate end of this path can one naturally obtain the Primordial Dao Fruit.

Secondly, to attain the status of a Sage of the Earthly Way, his soul has already been entrusted to the Earthly Way's supreme treasure, the True Scripture of Talking About the Earth. He only needs to incorporate the mountains, rivers, and deities of the Three Realms into the True Scripture of Talking About the Earth, and then, with the help of the fortune and merit of his journey to the East, he can attain the status of a Sage of the Earthly Way in one fell swoop.

Two paths to enlightenment are now clearly laid out before Liu Qing. All he needs to do now is follow the steps and seize the opportunity.

Whether it is the Great Dao of Power or the Dao of the Sage, the path is clear, but there are still unpredictable obstacles ahead. For example, Guang Chengzi, who keeps to himself, and the Buddha, are probably waiting for the moment when Liu Qing proves his Dao, and then suddenly appear to block his way.

Although Liu Qing looked down on the two's half-step Hunyuan level, he had to admit that the half-step Hunyuan level was powerful. Although he was not afraid, he still needed to make full preparations and accumulate sufficient protective power.

Once one has cultivated to the Great Luo level, their previous supernatural powers and spells are no longer effective against those of the same level. At this point, what can protect them is either physical strength or a protective spiritual treasure.

Liu Qing possessed physical strength and protective spiritual treasures, but his offensive capabilities were mediocre.

The authentic treasure, the True Scripture of Earth, has functions of sealing, imprisoning, and enshrining Liu Qing's soul. It is auxiliary and not good for offensive purposes.

The Dragon Clan's supreme treasure, the Hall of Ten Thousand Dragons, is a true dragon created through merit. It can alter the flow of time and, while it can influence opponents by changing the flow of time, it is still not considered a supreme treasure for offensive purposes.

If Liu Qing wants to protect the Dao, he must have a powerful spiritual treasure, which can only be the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone.

This treasure also belongs to the dragon clan's treasures for conquest. Long ago, when Liu Qing evolved into a five-clawed golden dragon, the dragon pattern on the spiritual treasure became a five-clawed golden dragon.

It seems that this has also unlocked the shackles that prevented the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone from evolving again, allowing the door to evolve of the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone to be completely opened.

Given sufficient innate spiritual materials and enough time for refining, this Panlong Eight-Tone Cone will evolve all the way to become a top-grade innate spiritual treasure, or even a supreme innate treasure.

The Pagoda of Many Treasures, left behind by Daoist Duobao, contains all sorts of innate spiritual materials that he collected during his countless eons of travel through the primordial world.

In the primordial era, when heaven and earth were first created, the innate spiritual energy had not yet degenerated into the acquired spiritual energy we have today. Therefore, the materials produced were all of high quality and in great quantity.

The primordial wilderness is vast and sparsely populated, with abundant spiritual materials. As the chief disciple of the Jie Sect, Duobao Daoren could travel through the primordial wilderness and collect any innate spiritual materials he could.
Looking at the Pagoda of Many Treasures, piled high with various innate spiritual materials that are now extinct, Liu Qing was fifty percent certain that it could help the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone evolve into an innate supreme treasure.

The remaining 50% certainty will be entrusted to Daoist Duobao's method of refining spiritual treasures.

If the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone is allowed to devour and evolve on its own, it can at most evolve into a top-grade innate spiritual treasure. However, if it has the spiritual treasure refining method of the Daoist Duobao, it is highly likely to evolve into a supreme treasure that is dedicated to killing.

The method of refining spiritual treasures used by Daoist Duobao originated from the Qiankun Cauldron, the companion spiritual treasure of the Primordial Ancestor, a powerful innate being from the primordial era.

The Qiankun Cauldron has only two functions: one is to reverse the acquired state to the innate state, and the other is to evolve the grade of innate spiritual treasures.

After the fall of the Ancestor of Qiankun, the Qiankun Cauldron was also shattered. However, its core function, the ability to evolve innate spiritual treasures, was obtained by Daoist Duobao, who then created the method of refining spiritual treasures.

Therefore, the method of refining spiritual treasures left behind by Daoist Duobao, like the Qiankun Cauldron, can evolve the grade of innate spiritual treasures.

With an abundance and quality of innate spiritual materials, and the method of refining spiritual treasures, the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone is ready for evolution.

However, before preparing to evolve the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone, Liu Qing released his divine sense to check on the progress of the journey to the east.

The pilgrimage team had only been at sea for a few months, having just passed the trials of the East Sea monster and the West Sea nine-headed worm. They hadn't even begun their journey to the next challenge: the black bear demon Xiong Kuohai, offered by the South Sea Dragon King. (End of Chapter)