Asking about longevity

The disciples of Taixu Sect live in the secluded forest to the north.

The sun is shining, the ancient trees are towering, the leaves are lush, the scenery is soaked in light clouds and mist, stained with the golden edge of the sun, quiet and beautiful.

In the forest, Mo Hua is practicing the sword with his mind alone.

On the outskirts of the forest, the big white dog sits with his head held high, looking around with his eyes sharp, watching for Mo Hua.

In its heart, Mo Hua is already the "big brother".

It also has self-awareness and voluntarily becomes the "little follower" of the big brother, staying outside the grove to guard for Mo Hua and prevent others from disturbing Mo Hua's sword practice.

Of course, this is only one of the reasons.

There is another reason:

When Mo Hua was practicing sword, the overflowing mind fluctuations were too terrifying, and the big white dog couldn't stand it, so he ran to hide outside the grove.

In front of a towering tree in the forest.

Mo Hua stood there in concentration, with powerful thoughts in his eyes, manifesting into a sharp and dazzling sword intent, breaking through the air and slashing at the ancient tree in front of him.

As the murderous intent floated, one sword after another,

In the mountains and forests, the frightening fluctuations of divine thoughts rose and fell one after another.

But divine thoughts are inherently obscure and cannot be seen by the naked eye.

Therefore, although Mo Hua was practicing the forbidden sword technique of Taixu Sect, and his divine thoughts were killing and surging, from the surface, the forest was still sunny and peaceful, with occasional mountain breezes blowing, but apart from that, there was no movement.

Only the big white dog by the forest would occasionally feel a burst of fear.

After practicing for a long time, Mo Hua sat on the ground to rest, reviewed his thoughts in his mind for a while, and shook his head.

"Not very good..."

His previous estimate was correct. Only when the divine consciousness was formed and the foundation of the divine thoughts was further consolidated, could the sword of the god beheading be released.

His sword of beheading gods did leave his body, and he had the initial power of killing with divine thoughts.

But the moves were crude, and correspondingly, there were many disadvantages.

First of all, the moves were too slow, and the consumption of divine thoughts was too great.

The sword of beheading gods was the final move of the Taixu divine thoughts into swords, and it was more than one level stronger than the sword of shocking gods.

Not to mention that Mo Hua's sword of beheading gods was a "hodgepodge" of swords of beheading gods, which was a fusion of various ways. It contained the sword formations of breaking gold, opening mountains, leaving fire, and Guishui, the sword intent of Taixu, and the way of cutting emotions of the Supreme...

With all the sword laws integrated into it, not only was the sword too slow to move, but the consumption of divine thoughts was also very huge.

Basically, Mo Hua would have to rest after two sword strikes.

Also, his eyes would hurt, very much.

The sword of beheading gods leaving his body used the eye holes as a carrier to receive the sword of divine thoughts.

Mo Hua's body was weak to begin with, and although his divine thoughts had formed a pill, his cultivation and body were only at the foundation building stage.

The mind becomes stronger, while the body becomes weaker.

Therefore, when the sword of the mind leaves the body, the pressure on the eyes becomes stronger.

In addition, the sword light of the mind-transforming sword is sharp.

The sword light in the eyes will sting like a needle after a long time.

The last problem is that the success rate of the God-Slaying Sword is low.

From morning to now, Mo Hua has practiced it more than ten times, but not every time, he can successfully release the God-Slaying Sword.

First condense, then leave the body, do two things at the same time, sometimes the God-Slaying Sword will stall.

The sea of ​​consciousness has a virtual and real boundary, and the eye orifice has an internal and external distinction. The sword of the mind will occasionally be blocked by these barriers and cannot leave the body.

Even if it leaves the body, the subsequent spiritual consciousness is insufficient, the spiritual consciousness is unstable, and the sword intent will dissipate before it is chopped out...

Mo Hua sighed slightly.

The sword of the god-slaying sword came out of the body, and it killed the real flesh and blood enemies with the illusory sword of divine thoughts. It seemed very powerful, but in reality, there were problems everywhere when practicing it.

He didn't even practice it well, let alone use it in actual combat and fight with others.

However, Mo Hua was not discouraged.

This is how cultivation is.

Any method is just a "method", an external "art".

Even if you learn it and know it, it is still difficult to really use it.

Therefore, after practicing the method, you must continue to practice, practice it, and correct and improve it through actual combat...

Only in this way can you deepen your understanding of the method, so that you can truly master it and truly integrate it.

Only when you truly integrate it, you will not panic or be timid in the future in the actual combat of the cultivators, or even in the more severe life and death battles, and you will be able to use the sword moves that you have painstakingly understood and practiced with ease.

Mo Hua calmed down and began to concentrate on thinking.

Relying on his own knowledge of cultivation, experience in cultivation, and understanding of the way of divine thoughts, he thought about how to cultivate the sword of divine beheading, and optimized and improved it little by little.

The mountains and forests were quiet, and the branches and leaves were green.

The sunlight was cut into fragments and sprinkled on Mo Hua.

Mo Hua sat quietly, his consciousness was focused, and he merged with the mountains and forests.

As he thought about it, his mind moved slightly, and he gradually had an idea.

"Since the divine thoughts are too strong, and too many formations, sword formations and swordsmanship are integrated, the burden is too heavy... Then we can't be greedy, and do appropriate subtraction..."

"Only integrate the five elements sword formation to promote the sword of divine beheading."

"Add some Taixu sword meaning later."

"As for the supreme love-slaying way, forget it..."

This one came from the mouth of the ancestor Dugu.

But Mo Hua was not sure whether the one who preached to him was the real ancestor Dugu.

The things in the back mountain were confusing, and he couldn't see through them at all.

Therefore, although this Supreme Way of Cutting Off Emotions is infinitely mysterious, its origin is strange and reveals a sense of evil, so it is better not to release it outside the body for the time being.

Subtracting these, the difficulty of the mind leaving the body is almost reduced by half.

Although the power will also decrease, the power that can be completely controlled by oneself is one's real ability.

And with the exquisiteness of the mind turning into a sword, if it can leave the body, half of the power is enough.

Remove the Supreme Slashing Emotion, remove half of the Taixu Sword Intention, and the fusion of the Tao is reduced by half. Correspondingly, the load will be reduced, and the attack will be faster, and the actual combat effect will be better.

The world's magic can only be broken by speed.

This is what Grandpa Gui taught me a long time ago.

It is better to be faster than to be stronger.

The problem of condensing the Slashing Sword has been solved.

The next problem is the problem of release.

And to release it out of the body, you must use your eyes as the orifice to break the boundary between the sea of ​​consciousness and the real world, so that the mind can be turned into a sword and released completely.

In a sense, this problem is more fatal.

Once the moment is critical, the transmission of divine thoughts is blocked, the boundary between reality and illusion cannot be broken, and the divine sword cannot be successfully released, then it is over.

Just like two cultivators, fighting with swords.

Others' swords have already cut your neck, but your sword cannot be unsheathed, then you can only die stupidly.

Mo Hua's expression is solemn.

He doesn't want to die "stupidly".

"We must find a way to ensure that the divine thoughts can be transformed into swords and leave the body..."

But the method of leaving the body is not something that Mo Hua can learn at this level.

He "exceeded the outline" too much, so that there is no precedent to refer to. He can only explore it little by little by himself and make improvements according to his own situation.

Mo Hua pondered for a moment and thought of some of the previous teachings of the Dugu Patriarch.

According to the Taixu Sect, the most orthodox divine thoughts into swords requires a "sword" to be used as a medium for the orifice.

Mo Hua is not an orthodox sword cultivator, he does not have this sword.

Therefore, he can only use his eyes as a medium.

But using the eyes as the orifice and the mind as the sword is obviously a more complex and advanced method.

With Mo Hua's current cultivation and his attainments in swordsmanship, it is impossible to control it stably.

If it is unstable, it is easy to fail. Once it fails, it will be over.

"It is necessary to add another medium to ensure stability..."

But what should I add?

I don't have my own magic weapon, and I haven't even nurtured the embryo.

Except for the eyes, there is nothing else in the body that can be used as a medium...

Mo Hua frowned, racked his brains for a long time, and finally found a hint of inspiration from the first-grade thirteen-pattern five-element source array law with his profound and profound knowledge of array formations.

Spiritual power!

The core of the five-element source array is to use the divine mind to transform through the array formation to increase the power of the five elements, thereby enhancing the power of the five-element Taoist method.

That means that spiritual power and mind power, although seemingly two completely different powers of cultivation, have something in common in their origins.

Spiritual power can be integrated with divine thoughts.

That means, to a certain extent, that spiritual power can be used as a medium for "divine thoughts".

This process is very complicated, and it must involve certain great laws, otherwise the Five Elements Source Array would not be the Five Elements Sect's sect-defining array.

But Mo Hua does not need to make too complicated transformations.

He only needs to use his own spiritual power to attract his own divine consciousness.

Spiritual power and divine consciousness are both his own, and they have a certain affinity. When they are mobilized, they will not repel each other.

"Spiritual power attracts divine consciousness..."

Mo Hua pondered for a moment, and suddenly he was shocked, thinking of his own practice - Tianyan Jue.

When practicing Tianyan Jue and breaking through the realm, every time the spiritual power goes backwards, converges at the Tianmen, passes into the sea of ​​consciousness, and then connects with the divine consciousness, forming a spiritual curtain composed of a puzzle array, which is used as a bottleneck for breakthrough.

Does this mean...

The operation of Tianyan Jue involves the resonance of spiritual power and thought power... or some kind of fusion?

Mo Hua's expression changed slightly, and his heart was quite shocked.

This involves the fusion of the lowest level of power of the cultivator.

The ancient technique that the master taught him really has a lot of mysteries.

But unfortunately, his cultivation is still shallow, so he can only vaguely see the general idea and cannot glimpse the deeper essence of Tianyan Jue.

"Practice slowly, maybe when the cultivation is higher and the knowledge is more profound, the secret of this ancient technique can be revealed little by little..."

Mo Hua temporarily put aside the doubts about Tianyan Jue and continued to concentrate on studying the mind-transforming sword out of the body.

After thinking for a while, he had ideas for most of the problems, and he also built a set of methods based on his knowledge and experience.

Now all he needs to do is try.

Mo Hua calmed down and abandoned all distracting thoughts, and then his eyes gradually became sharp, and the whole person was like a sword with murderous intent in its sheath.

In the sea of ​​consciousness, Mo Hua raised both hands high.

The four sword formations of Duanjin, Kaishan, Guishui, and Lihuo gathered in his hands endlessly.

A wisp of Taixu sword intent was also integrated into it by him.

Because only a part of the sword art was integrated, this sword of slaying gods took shape very quickly.

After the sword of slaying gods took shape, the sword intent was sharp and ready to go.

Mo Hua's eyes became brighter and brighter, and his sharpness was revealed.

He put his fingers together and tapped his eyebrows.

There was a wisp of spiritual power at the fingertips, connecting to the sea of ​​consciousness, "pulling" the mental power in his sea of ​​consciousness out little by little.

Mo Hua could clearly sense the boundary between reality and illusion.

With the eyes as the orifice and the spiritual power as the guide, Mo Hua's sword of divine mind was also breaking the barrier of reality and illusion little by little.

Mo Hua sensed all of this.

Carefully experience the flow and changes of spiritual power and mental power here.

Also constantly anchoring the path, direction and target of his own sword, realizing the transformation of reality and illusion in the sword.

Finally, the time came.

In Mo Hua's eyes, the light surged, and in the illusion, a sword with five elements flowing and vastness seemed to condense out.

This sword was pulled by the spiritual power of Mo Hua's fingertips.

Then Mo Hua pointed his finger forward, and the spiritual power flowed, also driving this "sword of divine thought", breaking the wall of reality and illusion, turning into a divine light, and flying out.

In the void, the sword intent bloomed like glass.

The divine thought fluctuations that were more intense than before shook in the form of sword intent.

In the flashing of divine light, the sword of the god pierced the towering ancient tree in front of it.

Then, it seemed that nothing happened.

But the ancient tree trembled suddenly.

The whole forest was silent.

The big white dog guarding the periphery and watching for Mo Hua also had white hair standing up at this time.

This was the first time that Mo Hua had truly pulled out his Taixu Sword of God-Slaying from his sea of ​​consciousness and slashed it in the real world.

Even from a distance, the surging and sharp sword intent could convey a sense of oppression like a thorn in the back.

In addition to being shocked, the big white dog was somewhat stunned.

It did not expect that Mo Hua, who was already strong enough, could become even stronger.

In a short period of time, he was already so strong that it was a little "out of reach".

The big white dog secretly stared at Mo Hua, his eyes narrowed.

Now it also began to question Mo Hua's "composition".

It seriously suspected that Mo Hua was actually a divine beast, but was just wearing a harmless human skin...

Wait until the storm of divine thoughts subsided.

In the woods, Mo Hua smiled brightly.

"Success!"

The Sword of God-Slaying was finally slashed from his sea of ​​consciousness into reality.

From then on, his powerful divine thoughts killing move, which was always effective in the realm of divine thoughts, could finally break the boundary between reality and illusion and be used in reality.

But then, Mo Hua looked at the towering ancient tree in front of him, looked at the non-existent divine sword mark, frowned again, pondered for a moment, and still felt dissatisfied.

Although it was chopped out, the power of this sword was far from his expectations.

He "cut corners" and deducted half of the integrated sword art.

In addition, it is a very complicated and troublesome process for the divine mind to leave the body and the sword to be released accidentally.

To break the barriers of reality and illusion, to cross the sea of ​​consciousness, to use spiritual power to pull, to anchor the sword path...

During this period, the power of the divine mind will be severely damaged.

In addition, this sword art was originally discounted by Mo Hua.

Therefore, in the end, the power of the sword of the gods...

Mo Hua estimated that it might be only about one-tenth of what he exerted in the sea of ​​consciousness.

In the sea of ​​consciousness, such a powerful sword of the gods can only exert about 10% of its power when it is chopped into reality...

Mo Hua felt a little complicated.

But there was nothing he could do.

The divine mind transforming into a sword was not something he could do at his level.

His level was too low, and he was lucky to be able to barely activate this sword, and he couldn't expect too much.

He could only continue to practice and gradually improve his proficiency in "slashing the gods out of the body" to maximize the power of the Taixu Sword of God Slashing.

Thinking of this, Mo Hua was stunned again.

Another doubt floated in his mind:

What is the "lethality" of his sword of God Slashing?

Cutting down trees with divine mind is used for sword practice.

But the tree itself is a plant, with only the most instinctive life, and almost no divine mind, which is equivalent to a "dead thing".

Mo Hua cannot use the tree to measure the lethality of his sword of God Slashing.

Because it has no divine mind to kill.

If you want to really test the sword, you need a "living thing".

"Living thing..."

Mo Hua looked around, and then involuntarily looked at the only "living thing" in the forest-the big white dog.

The big white dog was stunned for a moment, and instantly understood Mo Hua's intention. It immediately widened its eyes and looked "furious".

It barked at Mo Hua twice.

The implication was to advise Mo Hua not to be ungrateful!

Don't repay kindness with enmity!

People should know themselves!

Don't be confused about your own strength and come to harm this harmless big white dog!

Can anyone take that terrifying sword?

Mo Hua also realized that it was not right, smiled apologetically, and then said: "I'll treat you to good food."

The big white dog reluctantly "humphed".

Mo Hua was about to take the big white dog to the dining hall, but before leaving, he looked back again. He had been chopped by many swords by himself, and silently endured everything, but the big tree, who had no words to say, felt a little sorry in his heart.

He pointed his finger, moved the spiritual ink, and drew a few thick earth formations and water and soil formations on the ground for the big tree, as compensation.

Then Mo Hua patted the tree, "I'll draw more for you when I have time..."

The towering old tree was silent, but its wounded "heart" was somewhat comforted.

Afterwards, Mo Hua took the big white dog to the dining hall.

Because it was time for dinner, he also had to eat.

In the dining hall, the fragrance was floating, and the disciples were bustling. Mo Hua sat side by side with the big white dog, he was gnawing on a chicken leg, and the big white dog was gnawing on an elbow.

One person and one dog, the eating movements were similar.

After dinner, Mo Hua sent the big white dog back to the library, and secretly gave it a bone that sealed a demon on the way.

This made the big white dog very happy, its tail kept wagging, and its big head kept rubbing against Mo Hua's face.

……

After sending the big white dog away and returning to the disciples' residence, Mo Hua was still thinking about "testing the sword".

But it was not easy to find someone to test the sword with.

You can't find a human.

Otherwise, if you fail and kill someone, it will be a big trouble.

Some sinners and demons can be used.

But he is now in the sect and needs to practice. It is not convenient for him to go out, and he has no time to go through all the trouble to find a demon to test the sword alone.

After thinking about it, he can only find a monster to test the sword.

People have spiritual consciousness, and monsters actually have "demon consciousness".

Monsters are weak in intelligence, and their demon consciousness is not as complex as the spiritual consciousness of cultivators, but their instinctive impulses are stronger, and there is no lack of animal cunning and slyness.

The flesh and blood and demon power of monsters are much stronger than the physical body and spiritual power of cultivators.

But the demon consciousness of monsters is not too different from the spiritual consciousness of cultivators in terms of the strength of pure spiritual thoughts.

And if the demon consciousness is annihilated, the monster will die.

Mo Hua nodded and made up his mind.

Two days later, he happened to be free, so he went to the Demon Refining Mountain, intending to find a demon beast to "test the sword".