To comprehend all laws and attain immortality

Chapter 356 Nine Cleansings of the Golden Core

Deep within the Taihe Mountains, a continuous roar echoed, causing the earth within a radius of a hundred feet to tremble.

Gu Fan crouched slightly, his left hand protecting his chest, his right hand tucked into his waist and abdomen, his feet apart, and with a sudden burst of power, his figure vanished from the spot.

Several afterimages flashed by in succession, and when he reappeared, he was already more than ten feet away.

Jin Kui was standing there when he saw Gu Fan's figure disappear. A chill ran through him. He quickly shouted and gathered his qi around his body, crossing his arms to protect himself.

Unexpectedly, this move was exactly what Gu Fan wanted.

Gu Fan crouched down, and his right fist, which had been held at his waist, suddenly slammed out, followed by a dull thud.

Jin Kui's protective qi shield shattered instantly. The residual force of the punch still lingered, striking his abdomen hard. He immediately arched his back like a shrimp, flying dozens of feet away, tumbling several times before crashing into the mountain wall.

Gu Fan snorted, stood up, patted his sleeves, and slightly raised the corners of his mouth.

After a long while, Jin Kui got up, wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth, and complained, "Fellow Daoist, this is hardly a fair fight! We agreed to spar with martial arts, so why did you use magic?"

"I was clearly using martial arts!" Gu Fan spread his hands in defense. "Generally speaking, body cultivators use the Gangbu (罡步) technique instead of escape techniques, which is fast but monotonous. I incorporated the Floating Light and Shadow Technique into the Gangbu, using illusions to confuse the body, making it even faster. This is the way of using techniques to enter martial arts."

As Jin Kui listened to his reasoning, the corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

Upon seeing Gu Fan assume the starting stance again, he quickly waved his hand, saying, "No, no! I didn't expect you to have such a deep understanding of body refining techniques. I have already witnessed it."

"That won't do." Gu Fan widened his eyes and said with dissatisfaction, "I have recently comprehended a new move, and I would like to ask you, fellow Daoist, to give me your opinion."

Before he finished speaking, crimson flames erupted from his fists, and his figure vanished once more, shouting, "Fellow Daoist, take this Fiery Fist!"

"This is outrageous!"

Jin Kui was also provoked, and with a roar, he unleashed a surge of powerful energy, swinging his fists to meet the attack.

Half an hour later, the roaring sound in the valley gradually subsided.

Jin Kui, his robes tattered and his face covered in bruises, leaned against the mountain wall, panting.

Gu Fan was in a worse state than him. Blood was spilling from the corner of his mouth, and he felt a tearing pain in his chest muscles as he breathed. He tried to sit up, but his arms were weak and powerless.

He wasn't a traditional body cultivator to begin with; his ability to suppress Jin Kui earlier was entirely due to his magical abilities making up for the gap in skill.

Jin Kui's assessment that his victory was dishonorable is not entirely wrong.

This was still just the two sparring; they hadn't even used weapons yet.

Otherwise, with his strength at the second level of Body Refinement, it would be nothing short of a pipe dream for him to fight against Jin Kui, who was at the third level of Body Refinement.

At this time, thirty years had passed since he comprehended the body-refining technique.

Over the course of thirty years, he truly experienced all the body-refining secret realms of the Hundred Refinements Sect, and he did not even miss the Black Wind Cave that Jin Kui had been longing for.

He admitted that the taste was indeed unforgettable.

A gust of evil wind blows through the body, drilling into the flesh and blood meridians through the pores, as if countless knives are piercing through the meridians, but the magic power that follows will repair the meridians.

Destruction and restoration intertwine, spiciness and tingling coexist, like drinking a sip of old wine mixed with aged vinegar.

With Jin Kui, a Golden Core cultivator, as his guide, Gu Fan's path of body refinement can be summarized as: he endured a lot of hardship, but achieved remarkable results.

Only Song Lian felt heartbroken every time she saw him return covered in wounds. After several unsuccessful attempts to dissuade him, she could only refine the best healing pills to help him recover faster.

In a way, this actually made Gu Fan "suffer" even more frequently.

With the foundation of late-stage Golden Core cultivation and the aid of elixirs, Gu Fan's body refinement progressed extremely quickly, and he believed he was not far from reaching the third level of body refinement.

But taking this step is not so easy.

Take Li Fengyi as an example. She also practiced the "Condensing Yuan and Tempering Body Technique" and received the help of the Xuanpin Ancestral Qi, but it still took her sixty years to break through to the third level of Body Refinement.

After the two rested for a moment, Jin Kui stood up, helped Gu Fan up, and said in a deep voice, "If you still want to test your skills, I will introduce other elders from the sect to accompany you next time."

"No, thank you." Gu Fan waved his hand, paused, and said, "I'm preparing to return to Cloud Realm Mountain."

"Huh?" Jin Kui was taken aback, then slapped his forehead and asked, "Could it be that you are preparing to shatter your core and form your nascent soul?"

Gu Fan chuckled softly and nodded slightly.

Thirty years have passed, and he has perfected his Golden Core. He plans to return to the Lingxiao Sect soon to complete the final purification and the shattering of the core to form a Nascent Soul.

So you just wanted to beat me up today?

Jin Kui glanced at his wounds, hesitated for a moment, then cupped his hands and said, "Then I wish you success in forming your Nascent Soul!"

"Thank you." Gu Fan returned the greeting with a cupped hand.

Lingxiao Sect, Wendao Peak.

When Gu Fan returned in his magic boat, Qi Lingyun, who had already received the news, rushed to greet him.

"Master!" Qi Lingyun shouted loudly.

"Be more composed." Gu Fan raised the corner of his mouth slightly and criticized, "You're already a Golden Core cultivator, how can you still be so impetuous?"

Qi Lingyun chuckled, completely unconcerned.

With Gu Fan imparting his knowledge and teachings, Song Lian providing elixirs, and Qi Lingyun cultivating superior techniques, her treatment was unparalleled in the Lingxiao Sect. Her foundation was extremely solid, and forming her core was a natural progression.

Looking at her somewhat familiar face, Gu Fan suddenly remembered the boy who had accompanied him to Zixia Temple to comprehend Taoist texts.

Unfortunately, Qi Yan has long since turned into a handful of dust.

During their casual conversation, Song Lian and Lin Chen stepped out of the Dharma Boat one after the other.

After exchanging a few pleasantries with his three disciples, Gu Fan flew straight to the Lingxiao Palace.

The formation of the Nascent Soul is a major event, involving significant events, and must be notified to the Sect Leader in advance.

By the time Gu Fan returned to Lingxu Cave Heaven, night had already quietly fallen.

The four of them, unusually, did not discuss cultivation, but instead held a banquet and drank to their hearts' content.

Gu Fan leaned against the peach tree, watching Qi Lingyun and the gourd fight over the spirit fruit. Lin Chen chatted with Chang Yuan with his head down, while Song Lian slowly stepped forward and poured him a cup of spirit wine.

He took the cup, tilted his head back, and drank it all in one gulp.

The next day, Lingxu Cave Heaven had been cleaned up and was completely tidy.

Gu Fan glanced at it and immediately recognized it as Song Lian's work, and couldn't help but chuckle.

He chased away Hulu and Changyuan, who were rubbing their eyes, sealed off the Lingxu Cave, and sat down on the futon to meditate for a while.

Then he took out two jade bottles, which contained the essence of Yin and Yang.

This was refined by him in the Yin-Yang Spiritual Energy Hall, and it is extremely pure.

With a flick of his finger, the bottle cap opened, and two streams of yin and yang essence, like serpents peeking out, slowly drifted into his nostrils, slid down the twelve-story tower into his dantian, and transformed into two thick clouds of mist, one black and one white.

Gu Fan focused his mind and calmed his spirit, simultaneously drawing upon a wisp of Yin and Yang energy, like weaving a cocoon, to slowly envelop the golden core.

This is a purification method he comprehended by combining the secret techniques passed down by Su Nanzhi with the inheritance of the Lingxiao Sect.

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Tai Chi lineage practitioners comprehend Yin-Yang spiritual techniques, but Yin-Yang is not unique to the Tai Chi lineage.

On the contrary, in the universe, Yin and Yang and the Five Elements converge, and all things have both Yin and Yang aspects. The way of Yin and Yang is never independent of all things, but rather encompasses the universe and nature, silently driving the operation of creation.

This is the connection between the Creation Lineage and the Yin-Yang Lineage.

If the Way of Creation gives all things form, then the Way of Tai Chi is the underlying principle governing the operation of all things.

Having grasped this principle, Gu Fan felt a sudden sense of enlightenment, and the world before him seemed to expand infinitely.

He had already grasped the way of Yin and Yang harmony back in the Liangyi Hall.

At this moment, the light cocoon woven from Yin and Yang essences was completely uncontested. After completely enveloping the golden elixir, it slowly tightened, and two Yin-Yang fish eyes gradually took shape, swimming on the surface of the light cocoon.

Finally, the two yin-yang fish eyes found their position, stopped rotating, and slowly sank.

Gu Fan used his divine sense to investigate and saw two mysterious apertures appear on the surface of the golden core inside the cocoon of light!

With this miraculous skill, he opened the last two mystic apertures without touching any other apertures.

Once the two mystic apertures were fully formed, the light cocoon slowly melted and disappeared entirely into the mystic apertures.

"Boom!"

Gu Fan felt a roar in his mind, as if he were sinking into an infinitely vast void.

The golden core radiated a seven-colored light, and he clearly sensed a faint power hidden within it, waiting for him to break through the core and grasp it in his hand.

He knew what it was.

That's his... innate supernatural power!