Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 304 Exploring the Path to Nascent Soul (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

"Buzz!"

The moment the clay sculpture absorbed the giant mayfly into its body, the star floating in the darkness trembled, showing a faint tendency to fall.

The old beggar slightly stretched his leg, his toes touching the star of destiny.

He reached out and beckoned the clay sculpture to his front, then flicked it. The sculpture trembled, and the life star on the old beggar's toes also trembled.

A moment later, the two resonated in unison. The old beggar withdrew from his feet, raised his hand, and the clay sculpture landed in Li Wushou's hand. He sighed:

"The Eternal Mother has died a worthy death."

If others knew about this lineup, they would think that the Eternal Mother was a true god!

Looking at the old beggar's expression, Li Wushou understood his meaning. He weighed the clay sculpture in his hand and was somewhat speechless. It had indeed been quite a journey to completely subdue the Eternal Mother.

However, it was still worth it to win against them!
Moreover, it seems I also need to take some time to think about divine methods.

His soul at this moment is transformed from the Abdominal God, and is essentially a Yin God.

Furthermore, with the two Yin God incarnations, Chi Xiu and the Old Snail, learning some divine methods shouldn't be difficult for him. At least, he should be able to learn the Old Beggar's method of ascending to heaven in one step and hunting the star sea.

Having made up his mind, Li Wushou looked at the old beggar with increasing enthusiasm.

The old beggar felt a little uneasy under Li Wushou's gaze. He reached out and drew a gate of incense in the starry sky, and walked in without inviting Li Wushou.

Li Wushou was slightly taken aback, then shook his head with a laugh. This was too sensitive, wasn't it?

He then carried the clay sculpture inside. This time, he quietly comprehended the principles of the spell in the passage. At this moment, the passage was filled with the fragrance of incense, opening up the void. The distance between heaven and earth was shortened to a single line. With one step, he was already back above the Jing'an Temple.

The incense energy contained in the spell wasn't very strong; even the gods seemed capable of controlling it.
The challenge, however, lies in how to accurately anchor the ship across such a long distance.

However, having traveled to the Nine Heavens twice, Li Wushou vaguely sensed something was amiss; the so-called Nine Heavens should not be the same as the sky seen from above.

The Nine Heavens are more like a deeper level of heaven and earth hidden in the void, existing between the real and the illusory.

Therefore, the old beggar's mind may not have traversed the heavens and earth in a single thought; he merely pierced through the void and anchored himself to the nine heavens.

This explains why the divine spirit can project directly from the celestial star to the ground, but on the ground it cannot probe as far as an ordinary incarnation spirit.

He hadn't delved into this issue before, but now, looking back, there must be a lot of tricks involved.

After the Nascent Soul stage is completed, I must take some time to dig deeper into the old beggar's past.

A crack appeared between his brows, and he invited the yawning old beggar back to the Three Immortals Hall. Li Wushou then looked around the Jing'an Nunnery.

Xuan Yang's Taiji Daoist field suppressed Biluo Zhenjun, while the Talisman Master stood aside, sealing off the entire Tingyou Mansion.

Upon seeing Li Wushou return, the two quickly bowed and paid their respects.

Li Wushou waved his hand, and seeing that nothing seemed to have changed, he said to the two of them:

"The talisman master will first manipulate and control True Lord Biluo, then erase all traces in the Tingyou Mansion. Additionally, Xuan Yang will try to stabilize True Lord Biluo's acupoints using the Tai Chi method, at least to prevent him from perishing before we leave."

The two men straightened up and quickly bowed to accept the order!

After settling everything in, Li Wushou turned around and returned to the room where he had initially rested. He wanted to verify his conjecture about the path to the Nascent Soul stage through the Eternal Mother.

Sitting cross-legged in the side room, the old beggar and Chen Gou'er, who had been busy half the night in the Three Immortals Pavilion, were already fast asleep.

Li Wushou calmed his mind and pondered his path to the Nascent Soul stage.

When Li Wushou first borrowed the Abdominal God to achieve the Golden Core, his idea was that if the Golden Core didn't transform when he reached the Nascent Soul stage, he would borrow another Nascent Soul.

However, after this period of time, Li Wushou abandoned the plan.

He felt that the potential of the Golden Core evolved from the Abdominal God was still very great, and it would be a waste to borrow a Nascent Soul.

Later, Li Wushou began to pin his hopes on replenishing the Golden Core Dragon Seed, directly transforming the Golden Core into a physical body.

But at that time it was no longer as simple as a nascent soul; it should be called a primordial spirit, because it must contain a divine soul and flesh.

This is a road to heaven that Li Wushou firmly believes in to this day!

It wasn't just that he was captivated by the feeling of having a near-immortal body enhancing his physical form; more importantly, it aligned with Li Wushou's current understanding of the path to immortality.

The leap from the Golden Core stage to replenishing the Golden Core Dragon Seed and transforming into a complete near-immortal body is too great.

Therefore, Li Wushou needs to find a transitional stage between the two, and that stage is the Nascent Soul stage.

During this period, Li Wushou had been thinking about which direction to take in this stage.

It wasn't until this period, when he traveled from Pudu Island to Fubo Domain aboard a merchant ship from the Seven Stars Merchant Guild, that Li Wushou, during which he continuously attempted to construct a Dharma Realm, finally determined the entry point.

That is the soul!
Needless to say, his own physical body is sufficient to fulfill the role of a Dharma form, as his crystal-clear blood and bones are capable of doing so!
After his own method completes the Five Elements, the coexistence of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements can generate boundary power, which is naturally not weak.

The only weak point is the soul.

In essence, the nascent soul is the divine soul that is born from the golden elixir. It absorbs the essence, qi, and spirit of the golden elixir and undergoes further transformation, turning the intangible divine soul power into a tangible divine soul shadow.

Li Wushou's transformed soul had actually condensed into a illusory soul image, but it had never undergone a metamorphosis.

In theory, after undergoing a transformation of the soul, one's spiritual power will also be transformed into the power of heaven and earth.

Take Li Wushou himself as an example. At this moment, the Yin-Yang and Five Elements power within his Golden Core is still at the spiritual power level. Part of this spiritual power was refined from heaven and earth by him through the Taiji method, and the other part was transformed from the black shadow hunting Yin spirits.

However, if he is a Nascent Soul cultivator, then the power of heaven and earth stored within the Nascent Soul should be leveraged through Yin-Yang and the Five Elements.

There are differences between the two in both quality and quantity!

Therefore, although Li Wushou can now control the power of the Dharma Domain and the power of heaven and earth, he cannot store it in his body because there is no nascent soul to support it.

So even though Li Wushou is already trying to construct a Dharma Realm, he is still essentially a Golden Core cultivator!

Therefore, the transformation of his soul is the fundamental issue for him right now!
So how does one transform their soul? Li Wushou also began to analyze the essence of his soul.

His soul was actually formed by his own mind enslaving his inner spirit and then fusing it with his own essence and energy.

Since essence and qi are currently in a leading position, what needs to be improved is actually the abdominal spirit!

The original path that the Abdominal God had set for himself was to enhance his blood essence through the White Bone Cicada, and then refine his spirit by feeding back the pure incense from the Old Snail.

Therefore, Li Wushou also considered starting from this aspect.

In fact, Li Wushou had tried it when he first formed his Golden Core, but at that time he used the incense from the Three Immortals Hall, which directly attracted the rule of heaven and earth.

Later, the old beggar explained that the incense from the Three Immortals Pavilion could be used, but no one else besides the Three Immortals Pavilion members could eat it.

Although the Abdominal God was forcibly controlled by Li Wushou, he was not a member of the Three Immortals Hall in essence, so he could not be eaten.

Although Li Wushou didn't know why, he had already attracted the Dharma Body of the Rules, so he didn't try again.

Since then, because of the matter of raising the Heavenly God, Li Wushou has not found an opportunity to use incense to feed the Belly God again.

It was only after confirming the direction these past few days that Li Wushou thought of trying to find Chi Xiu, since the incense offerings from the other party would definitely be much better than those from the old snail.

I never expected that before I could even reunite with Chi Xiu, my old friend, the Eternal Mother, would appear. What a coincidence!

Place the clay sculpture in front of you, and a vertical line appears between your eyebrows. An invisible golden elixir emerges from between your eyebrows and floats above your head.

With a thought, the golden elixir manifested.

During this period, Li Wushou's golden core underwent a tremendous change, turning from its original milky white color to blood red, and its overall color became roughly the same as his own bone body.

On the surface, various mysterious and intricate dark patterns were outlined, but these dark patterns only covered one-third of the area. Li Wushou knew that this was an external manifestation of the perfection of his dragon seed.

If these dark patterns cover the entire Golden Core, then his Dragon Seed should be complete!
But today, we don't care about the dragon's lineage, we only care about its spirit.

With a thought, a rather solid illusory image of his soul stepped out from the golden core and sat upright above the clay sculpture. He wanted to temper the incense on the body of the Eternal Mother.

The method of tempering is also very simple and brutal: eat!

Since the Eternal Mother originated from the lineage of the Venerable Longevity, she must have also worshipped gods, which is why Li Wushou did not attempt to control her using the God-Controlling Talisman. Naturally, he could not expect her to reciprocate like Chi Xiu did.

Therefore, eating is the most direct method. After eating, one can then observe the state of one's soul. If it proves effective, the old beggar can then replace the person's inner deity, controlling them and making them collect incense offerings.

If it's useless, then there's no need to waste your time!

The spirit sits upright in the void, silently reciting that food is the foundation of life.

The clay sculpture beneath him suddenly trembled, and large wisps of incense smoke rose from its body, being absorbed into his soul.

Suddenly, countless wails resounded in his mind. The memorial tablets enshrined on the altar in the Three Immortals Hall flashed with golden light, and then Li Wushou felt as if his mind had been isolated.

The wailing, like a maggot clinging to a bone, instantly became distant and almost inaudible!

With a relaxed mind, the faster one silently recites "food is heaven," the faster one consumes the incense offerings.

The illusory image of the divine soul, sitting cross-legged in the void, shimmered with golden light, and then began to solidify at a speed visible to the naked eye.

“It really works!”

Li Wushou was overjoyed. He didn't know yet whether he could successfully transform into a Nascent Soul, but the improvement in his soul was real.

That's good enough, so he started chanting "Food is the most important thing" even more diligently!

After a moment, Li Wushou's heart stirred, and he focused his gaze on the blood-red golden elixir above his head.

Not long after the incense was refined, the blood-red golden elixir began to tremble continuously, and its interior was writhing violently as if it were gestating something.

This wriggling has been going on for a long time, ever since the great transformation on Evil Island.

But it has never been this intense before. Could it be that what is being nurtured is about to come to fruition?

(End of this chapter)