Eternal God Emperor: Only I Am Emperor One

Chapter 195 The Five Elements Chapter of the Book of Changes

When the emperor opened his eyes, he felt refreshed and invigorated.

"It feels so good to be alive."

He slowly rose, his black cloak gone, replaced by a familiar black robe—the one he had draped over the Holy Book Maiden in the Forest of Fallen Gods.

The talented woman from the Holy Book sat not far away, her face still flushed, not yet fully recovered.

Although Di Yi was unconscious, he was not oblivious to what had happened and guessed what had occurred.

For a moment, I didn't know how to start the conversation.

The two sat facing each other quietly for a quarter of an hour.

The energy of the Dragon Essence Pill had not completely dissipated, and a feeling of heat still rose within the body.

Di Yi hurriedly circulated his cultivation technique to regulate his breathing and was surprised to find that his martial arts cultivation had reached the peak of the Upper Realm Saint, and his spiritual power cultivation had also been raised to the peak of the fifty-third level.

The greatest improvement is to the physical body.

The 144 acupoints each contain a volume of 30,000 cubic meters within their inner world.

The source of power for cultivators who achieve physical sainthood lies in the 144 acupoints in their bodies. Blood and energy are stored in these acupoints, and the size of these acupoints, to some extent, determines the combat strength of cultivators who achieve physical sainthood.

The path of physical sanctification differs from the more detailed realm divisions of martial arts and spiritual power. The complete sanctification of all 144 acupoints signifies sanctification.

When the acupoints transform into a sea, it is equivalent to the realm of a Saint King; when all the acupoints become immortal, the physical body becomes a Great Saint.

Before reaching the Saint Realm, cultivators of the Physical Saint lineage determined their combat strength within the same realm by the number of Blood Spirit Veins.

After reaching the Saint Realm, the size of the inner world within the acupoints is considered. The larger the inner world, the more blood energy it stores, and the stronger the power it unleashes.

Once the inner world grows to a sufficient level, it can transform into a sea. The larger the sea of ​​acupoints that is transformed, the stronger the combat power.

The vast majority of saints who achieve physical sainthood will not have a world of more than five thousand square meters within their acupoints when they reach the saint realm; those who reach ten thousand square meters are extremely rare.

The 30,000-square-meter endogenous world has broken the limits and rewritten the norm.

The blood and qi within the acupoints are still far from being fully accumulated, making it impossible to transform into a sea and break through to the Saint King realm.

But Di Yi felt that his physical strength was now comparable to that of a Supreme Saint, and was many times stronger than before.

Such a great improvement can be achieved with just one Earth-grade Saint Pill.

After circulating his cultivation technique for several cycles, Di Yi suppressed the restlessness within his body, and the voice of the talented woman from the Sacred Book rang in his ears.

Are we just going to sit here like this forever?

Di Yi looked up at her, feeling slightly flustered, but quickly calmed down and smiled, "I thought Danqing was still shy and didn't want to bother you."

The talented woman was silent for a moment, then said, "Today's matter is urgent and requires expediency. You don't need to feel too much pressure, and I won't use this as an excuse to hold you responsible for anything."

Di Yi's expression immediately turned serious. He stood up, walked to the side of the talented woman from the Holy Book, and reached out to pull her into his arms.

The woman did not resist, seemingly exhausted and powerless to fight back.

"you……"

"A beautiful lady is sought after by a gentleman. Whether by a twist of fate or by chance, from this day forward, you, Nalan Danqing, are my woman." The Emperor spoke with conviction and unwavering resolve.

They shared life and death, and went through thick and thin together. In times of crisis, she did not choose to leave alone, but instead risked her life to save him. For this alone, the talented woman from the sacred book is worth protecting.

The talented young woman, her cheeks flushed like the morning sun, remained silent, nestled in Di Yi's arms, enjoying the rare happiness of surviving a calamity.

The two fell silent once again, but this time there was less awkwardness and more warmth and romance.

After an unknown period of time, the clouds dispersed and light appeared, with countless rays of light falling on the glacier and refracting into bright rainbows.

One of the rainbow bridges is illuminated in five colors, with one end connecting to the top of the snow-capped peak and the other falling into the deep valley.

"What a nice view."

The talented woman from the Holy Book felt happy and broke free from Emperor Yi's embrace, gazing into the distance.

Emperor Yi looked into the distance and exclaimed in surprise, "That rainbow bridge doesn't seem to be formed by the refraction of light, but rather it emerges from the valley."

"Is there treasure at the bottom of the valley?" the talented woman of the sacred book guessed.

The two clashes between the Lord of the Undying Temple and the Yellow Dragon Dao Seed turned the ten-thousand-foot-high glacier upside down.

Ancient artifacts that were originally buried under glaciers have also been brought to light again.

Curious, the two set off towards the valley.

It is called a valley, but it is actually a crack in the glacier, no more than a few dozen feet wide, but its depth is unknown, perhaps several thousand feet.

The five-colored rainbow light emanated from the crack.

"Such pure power of the five elements! There are treasures related to the five elements below the crack," said the talented woman of the Holy Book.

Di Yi sensed a familiar charm in the power of the five elements before him.

"The Book of Changes..."

"What did you say?" The talented woman turned to look at him.

"It's just a guess, whether it's true or not, we'll have to go down and see for ourselves."

Emperor Yi stepped forward and leaped into the crevice, followed closely by the Holy Book Maiden, who released her spiritual power and groped her way into the darkness. After falling four or five thousand feet, the surroundings were no longer dark, and a faint light began to appear.

The five-colored rainbow disappeared, leaving only five clusters of light beneath the thick ice.

Di Yi walked to the ice layer, activated his True Source Demon Eye, and saw the true nature of the five orbs of light.

It was five pages with a metallic sheen.

Di Yi unleashed a palm strike, his physical strength comparable to that of a Supreme Saint, which struck the ice, but only created a dent a foot deep.

"Such solid ice."

He took out the Heaven-Sealing Sword and used the holy sword as a chisel to dig little by little.

When the talented woman from the Holy Book arrived, she also recognized the extraordinary nature of the five orbs of light. She wanted to help, but after a brief attempt, she gave up.

Spiritual cultivators don't really have many ways to deal with this hard ice layer. Only Di Yi's physical body is terrifying, and he can rely on the power of his body to dig it out little by little.

After digging through a layer of ice dozens of feet thick for most of the day, Di Yi finally managed to get the five pages of the book into his hands.

After a quick glance, Di Yi was overjoyed.

"It really is the Book of Changes, specifically the chapter on the Five Elements."

"Beneath the ancient snow mountain lies the legendary Book of Changes. Truly, fortune and misfortune are intertwined." The talented woman was astonished. The Book of Changes is one of the three great ancient books.

The other two great books are "Lianshan" and "Guicang".

Legend has it that those who can comprehend the three great books can understand the myriad principles of heaven and earth, comprehend the origin of the universe, and achieve immortality and eternal existence.

The Five Elements chapter of the Book of Changes is a significant part of Confucian and Taoist records.

In the late ancient times, the first Confucian patriarch comprehended the five musical scales from the Five Elements chapter of the Book of Changes, and then attained enlightenment through the zither, thus creating Confucianism and elevating it to the level of the Great Dao.

It wasn't until ancient times that the Second Confucian Ancestor further developed and promoted Confucianism and Taoism, making it one of the seventy-two supreme holy paths.

It can be said that the Book of Changes is, to some extent, the source of Confucianism and Taoism, and holds an irreplaceable and lofty position for them.

The Five Elements chapter of the Book of Changes, which the first Confucian patriarch had comprehended, appeared before her eyes. How could the talented woman who possessed such a sacred book not be excited?

But she didn't ask for it; this was Di Yi's reward.

"You exhausted all your life-saving methods to save me. Now that you have obtained the Five Elements chapter of the Book of Changes, it can be considered a form of compensation. The Five Elements are part of the sacred path you cultivate, and the Five Elements chapter will be of great use to your future cultivation. I will keep this a secret and will not let a third person know about it."

The Emperor looked at the talented woman with the sacred book and saw that her tone was sincere. Apart from surprise, she showed no greed for the treasure, which made him feel even more relieved.

He carefully put away the five pages of the Book of Changes, brushed the ice shards off the Heaven-Sealing Sword, and took the slender hand of the talented woman from the Sacred Book.

"let's go."

The two rushed out of the ice crevice and headed south towards the edge of the ancient snow mountain. After spending most of the day, they finally emerged from the vast expanse of ice and snow.

They encountered no imperial court officials or immortal blood clan cultivators along the way, and the journey was smooth.

When the moon was high in the sky, the two left the territory of the Juegu Snow Mountain and found a dilapidated temple in the wilderness to rest.

The talented woman looked at him and said, "Release Sister Canglan and the others. I need to take them back to the Central Imperial City and ask the Temple Master of the Earth God Temple to remove the Hades Blood Poison from their bodies."

The Emperor chuckled and said, "Are you leaving already? I slept soundly last night and haven't yet experienced the joys of a romantic night. Now, a lone man and woman alone in a dilapidated temple in the mountains, perhaps..."

The talented woman glared at him, her face flushed, and said irritably, "You should know that the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden is like one body, and has long agreed not to marry anyone. Even if she does marry, she can only marry one person. It was one thing that you didn't know that Sister Canglan was in your personal spatial artifact before, but now you still have no shame. Emperor Yi, don't go too far."

When the emperor saw that she seemed genuinely angry, he abandoned his playful mood.

"Don't put yourself in danger again. I can save you twice, but I might not be able to save you a third time."

Emperor Yi leaped onto the roof of the dilapidated temple, lay down, and gazed at the bright moon and stars in the sky.

This ordeal resulted in heavy losses for him. The Sacred Talisman left by Nangong Shi was burned out, and the Yuan Tu Ghost King left by Huan Hou was severely injured and it was unknown when it would recover. The Yellow Dragon Divine Power that he had painstakingly accumulated was also completely exhausted.

They had a brush with death, but thankfully both of them were unharmed.

After paying such a high price, wouldn't it be a huge loss if I couldn't win the heart of my beloved?

As for the agreement with the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden, he could not accept that the talented woman of the Sacred Book would remain unmarried for life. Therefore, he could only ask the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden to share a husband with him one day.

The talented woman, unaware of his wicked thoughts, squatted on the temple ridge, gazing at the bright moon: "Back in the Ziwei Palace, the Empress often looked at the starry sky, sometimes for an entire night. Once, I asked her out of curiosity, and guess what she said?"

Di Yi put himself in the shoes of Empress Chi Yao, who had reached a high level of cultivation, and casually said, "The stars are like the warp and weft, the world is like a chessboard, and one can understand the world by observing the laws of the stars?"

The talented woman smiled and shook her head: "The Empress said she was looking at old friends. Some people, we haven't seen each other for a hundred years, like the stars Shen and Shang."

Emperor Yi knew who Empress Chi Yao wanted to see—either the Azure Emperor or Zhang Ruochen.

"I never imagined that the invincible empress would say such things to you."

"The Empress is also a woman, not as terrifying as you imagine. It's just that she has to become ruthless because she's in that position."

"If one day I were in the same position, I might become even more ruthless than the Queen."

“That day will never come. In any case, it’s not your turn to stand in front of them.”

At dawn, the two parted ways, and the Holy Book Talented Woman led several female saints from Wan Canglan back to the central imperial city.

Di Yi took out a brand new set of clothes from the Azure Dragon Bracelet, put them on, folded his black robe neatly, and put it away.

(End of this chapter)