Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 245 Dragon God's Flesh and Blood Technique, the Path to Nascent Soul?
"Excellent! Excellent!"

Inside the Three Immortals Pavilion, the old beggar chuckled and kept praising it.

Chen Gou'er, whose eyes were covered, didn't know what was happening and was so anxious he wanted to bite someone.

Chen Gou'er, the Dragon King, had rather complicated feelings about this.

He thought the Dragon King was stinking too much, but at the same time he really wanted to eat him.

In Chen Gou'er's simple logical understanding, this feeling was no less than when he felt that feces smelled bad, but he wanted to eat it.

Chen Gou'er found this feeling unbearable, so he used incense ash to block out his sense of smell.

Hearing the old beggar's commotion, his curiosity was piqued, and he wanted to take a look. However, before he could struggle free from the old beggar's arm, he felt a cool sensation between his brows, and a speck of incense ash fell on it.

Chen Gou'er rolled his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

The old beggar then moved a stool and began to study it intently.

Li Wushou stood at the edge of this pool of flesh and blood, his lips twitching.

He suddenly realized that even his meticulous training in beggar acting skills seemed insufficient for him to control his facial expressions.

Seeing this, the Dragon King laughed heartily, strode ahead, and headed towards the blood pool and flesh forest.

With each step taken, bursts of pleasurable gasps echoed from the blood pool and flesh forest.

Li Wushou came to his senses and looked down.

The ground beneath their feet had also turned blood red, with pairs of skinless flesh in the shape of men and women intertwined, covering the entire blood pool and flesh forest.

Those joyful gasps were the sounds made by the Dragon King as he passed by and stepped on them.

Li Wushou's eyes twitched. Seeing that the Dragon King had gone too far, he had no choice but to follow.

Sure enough, as he stepped on it, sounds of pleasure rose again from the pool of blood and the forest of flesh.

Despite covering a distance of thirty or forty zhang, Li Wushou was covered in a fine layer of sweat.

Before the Dragon King appeared a pool of blood.

Thick, fleshy pillars stood by the pool, each pillar composed of layers of flesh and blood devoid of skin, formed by men and women in the act of intercourse.

In the center of the blood pool floated a huge flesh dragon egg, and on the surface of the flesh dragon egg were various fleshy humanoid figures engaged in fierce intercourse.

As Li Wushou approached, a splashing sound suddenly rang out from the blood pool.
Looking towards the blood pool, one after another, blood-red dragons emerged from it, swirling and coiling around the floating flesh and blood dragon egg.

"Young Li, do you see this? This is my dragon seed!"

Li Wushou scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed. The dragon race he knew was not this kind of thing.

So he muttered under his breath, "Dragon King, isn't this a dragon egg?"

The Dragon King shook his head and explained solemnly:
"Only the female dragon lays the dragon egg; I am a dragon seed!"

Li Wushou nodded with a headache, deep down he had no expectations for the Dragon God's flesh and blood method.

At this moment, the Dragon King finally began to explain his flesh and blood method. Upon hearing this, Li Wushou felt a sense of novelty. It was very different from the erotic method he had originally imagined, and it seemed to make some sense.

In the Dragon King's view, the lineage of the Great Venerable of the Sea follows the path of the origin of Qi and blood. It is through visualizing the innate spirit that one tempers one's own muscles, bones, skin, and acupoints, thereby getting closer to the innate spirit and becoming closer to immortality!

The Dragon King himself is a dragon, and the Ancestral Dragon was one of the innate beings.

He was born with a strong constitution, and even without further training, he could still reach a level that ordinary people could hardly achieve after adulthood.

Therefore, the dragon race does not need to visualize the innate spirit, nor do they cultivate qi and blood.

They believed that they were descendants of the primordial spirit, but because the primordial spirit collapsed and gave birth to all things, although they inherited a lot, they were no longer complete and thus lost the power of the primordial spirit.

Therefore, their way of life is the process of replenishing themselves.

The Dragon King's flesh and blood method is called the Life-Giving Method, which, as the name suggests, means to reproduce, give birth, and procreate!

Unlike humans who reproduce by having children, their reproductive methods aim to compensate for their own deficiencies.

Through numerous acts of intercourse, new methods of flesh-and-blood fusion are randomly generated.

This is not a new life, but a possibility of combining flesh and blood.

As long as they integrate all these possibilities into themselves, they can complete themselves and return to their innate spiritual bodies.

To cultivate this method, the first thing you need to do is possess a dragon seed.

It wasn't the kind of dragon seed that Li Wushou understood, but rather the flesh and blood dragon egg in the blood pool before him, which the dragon race also called the "innate seed".

This dragon seed will contain all the possibilities that may arise from its reproduction. One day, when the dragon seed hatches, it will give birth to the strongest near-immortal body.

There are two methods for cultivating "seeds of nature" among the dragon race.

The first method involves finding a flesh-and-blood Dao treasure that is compatible with one's own flesh and blood. This type of treasure is usually nurtured by heaven and earth or cultivated by humans, and can be integrated into one's own flesh and blood. Relying on this treasure, one continuously integrates one's own flesh and blood into it, repeatedly refining it until it transforms into a primordial seed.

This method is relatively difficult because such flesh-and-blood containers are hard to find and cultivation is also relatively difficult.

Another method is through the propagation of one's own bloodline, by selecting a mother to give birth to offspring. These offspring are naturally similar to one's own flesh and blood, and are compatible with one's own. While the offspring are still innocent and ignorant, they are continuously nourished and refined into innate seeds by one's own flesh and blood.

The Dragon King didn't say which type he was, but Li Wushou guessed it was the second type.

Because that flesh and blood dragon egg didn't look like a flesh and blood treasure born from heaven and earth at all.

After completing the cultivation of the "Seed of Nature", the second step is to create the Blood and Flesh Pool Forest.

The flesh and blood of various superior species are selected, and those that are similar to or related to the dragon genus are all collected into the Flesh and Blood Pool Forest.

According to the Dragon King, it took him more than a hundred years to create this Blood and Flesh Pool Forest alone.

Once the Blood and Flesh Pool Forest is completed, the dragon species will be moved into it.

The method of nurturing flesh and blood is used to continuously propagate, nurture, and derive, and then nourish the dragon seed.

After continuous nurturing, the dragon seed will eventually reach maturity and give birth to a new body, which will then be swallowed and refined.

Then one can achieve a near-immortal body and the strongest dragon form!
In Li Wushou's view, at first glance, this method is somewhat similar to the core essence of "food is heaven" which devours all things in heaven and earth to create an indestructible body, except that one relies on eating and the other relies on life.

Unfortunately, although it sounded exciting, Li Wushou couldn't practice it.

No wonder the Dragon King was so generous in sharing his flesh and blood magic with him.

Aside from its core essence, Li Wushou failed to achieve any of the steps in this flesh-and-blood method.

He didn't have any Dao treasures to contain flesh and blood, nor did he have any intention of finding a woman to have a child with. He wanted to refine the innate seed first and then eat it for fun.

They certainly don't have the energy to spend over a hundred years building a pool of flesh and blood, and then watch them create little people every day.

Pity!
Meanwhile, inside the Three Immortals Pavilion, the old beggar shook his head in disappointment after hearing the same thing.

He wasn't disappointed that Li Wushou couldn't cultivate; he just felt that the Dragon King was straying from the right path.

With such favorable conditions, if one were to wholeheartedly study the methods of dual cultivation, even if one could not become an immortal, one could still leave a significant mark on the history of romance.

Even if we opened this Blood and Flesh Pool Forest to the public and charged admission, we'd still have plenty to eat and drink!

The old beggar sighed deeply, somewhat angry at his son's lack of ambition.

However, Li Wushou offered his own insights when comparing the Dragon King's flesh and blood cultivation method with the concept of food as the foundation of life.

"It's far inferior to Food for Heaven. While procreation is a good thing, representing various directions and possibilities, it also represents uncertainty. Concentrating all of these within oneself doesn't necessarily strengthen the physical body; it could also lead to mutation. Food for Heaven, on the other hand, extracts the essence and discards the dross. If the two could be combined, that would be quite good."

The old beggar's words reminded Li Wushou of Chen Gou'er's aversion to the Dragon King.

Chen Gou'er always thought the Dragon King smelled bad, and Li Wushou always thought that the other party was corrupted by incense offerings, but what if the corruption was also caused by the flesh and blood nurturing method?

But then Li Wushou's eyes suddenly lit up, and he felt a sense of enlightenment.

Because he suddenly realized that, following the old beggar's line of thought, if he were to refine a naturally born seed, he wouldn't actually need to collect the flesh and blood of various near-dragon species to create a flesh and blood pool forest, and then nurture various possibilities through the life-giving method.

According to the Dragon King's understanding, after the primordial spirit collapsed, all living things came into being.

These creatures all inherited the bloodline of the innate spirit. Does that mean that the various possibilities nurtured in the flesh and blood pool forest through the life-giving method are actually contained within all things in the world today?

If that's the case, why should he need to reproduce? If he simply uses the "food is heaven" principle of the innate seed, eating whatever he can get his hands on, discarding the dross and taking the essence, wouldn't it be easier to conceive a near-immortal body?
The reason why dragons don't use this method is probably because they can't solve the problem of digestion and absorption, right?

But this was not a problem for Li Wushou at all!

Therefore, as long as he solves the problem of refining the Seed of Heaven, then the Dragon God's flesh and blood method will be an extremely useful method for him.

Moreover, combined with the principle of "food is the foundation of life," it should be even faster than the Dragon God's method of nurturing life!
For Li Wushou, there was no psychological burden.

But how do we refine the Seed of Heaven?
Judging from the Dragon King's situation, the other party obviously doesn't have the Dao treasure that can contain flesh and blood either.

Li Wushou didn't expect to have some kind of lucky encounter to obtain such a treasure. After so much, Li Wushou had come to terms with it; even if a lucky encounter did come, it might not necessarily be a good thing.

Perhaps the protagonist in Wu Zhuangyuan's story, who supposedly had a miraculous encounter and soared to great heights, was simply reborn after being possessed by a master like Xuan Yang Shangren?

It may seem to be enjoying great success, but in reality, it has already been replaced by someone else.

So how does one refine their innate seed?

Whether nurtured by nature or by human intervention, it must be integrated into one's own flesh and blood.
Li Wushou pondered for a moment, then suddenly felt a jolt in his mind. It seemed that he really did have something that perfectly matched this requirement!

The golden core that slowly rotates within his dantian can be said to have been nurtured by heaven and earth or by human intervention; it is naturally able to integrate into his flesh and blood.

If we were to use this golden elixir as a "dragon seed," wouldn't that be the best choice?
However, according to the Dragon King, once the dragon seed reaches maturity, it will generate a new body, which needs to be swallowed and refined to achieve a near-immortal body.

But since his own golden core had already been refined within his body, what about the new body that was formed after achieving great success?
Nascent Soul?

(End of this chapter)