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Chapter 65 Heaven and Earth as a Furnace

Chu Ming's mind is now incredibly sharp. When he concentrates, even the smallest movement within a radius of several hundred meters, as small as the flapping of a mosquito's wings, cannot escape his perception.

While things were still tangible, with a mind as powerful as Chu Ming's, he could even perceive the intangible things in the world, the vast and unpredictable, almost irresistible magnetic field of heaven and earth.

Chu Ming's mind was once able to instinctively regulate the field between himself and the universe, achieving harmony between humanity and nature.

But that was merely harmonious coexistence; it did not allow Chu Ming to utilize the vast and unfathomable power of the world. This power was too immense, even touching upon the very foundation of the world, and was not something that mortals could easily touch.

In ancient scriptures, there are often stories of monks and Taoists who have truly cultivated themselves suddenly transforming into rainbow bodies. Outsiders may think this is a scene of ascending to heaven and attaining enlightenment, but in reality, it is because they recklessly manipulated the divine power between heaven and earth. As a result, they failed to harmonize the state between heaven and man, and their physical and spiritual bodies were directly overwhelmed by the vast divine power between heaven and earth.

Outsiders thought he had attained enlightenment and ascended to heaven, but in reality, he had simply gone astray and was reduced to ashes.

Of course, although Chu Ming could achieve a certain degree of harmony between heaven and man before, he was actually not even qualified to go astray in his cultivation.

Only now, having glimpsed some of the principles of Qimen Dunjia, has Chu Ming finally gained some qualifications to go astray in his cultivation!

The universe is like a furnace. This is actually a spiritual realm recorded in many classics. Chu Ming also read through many classics before he learned about this term.

With the almost infinite and omnipresent divine power of the magnetic field of heaven and earth, it can indeed be considered a furnace for human beings.

A powerful cultivator uses their spirit to influence the magnetic field of heaven and earth, forging themselves like steel in a furnace, refining their physical body and spirit to become even stronger.

This is an extremely profound cultivation method that can refine the primordial spirit and forge the physical body; it is truly wondrous to the extreme.

The principle here is similar to steelmaking: the better the furnace, the better the steel it can produce. And what furnace can compare to the furnace of heaven and earth itself?

Although Chu Ming has now grasped some of the principles of the universe being like a furnace due to a fortunate coincidence, he dares not try it lightly.

The cultivation method of "Heaven and Earth as a Furnace" is almost like the Chinese martial art of "forming an elixir," requiring one to hold their life in their hands. However, in practice, it is ten times more difficult than forming an elixir.

Embracing the elixir is merely a change within one's own microcosm, while the universe as a furnace involves the resonance of the inner and outer universes, a process that is extremely dangerous; a single misstep can lead to rainbow body transformation.

You can't just hug Baodan easily; you have to "play" out that feeling before you can hug her.

The universe is like a furnace; one must grasp its essence before attempting to experience it.

In ancient times, many Taoist priests and monks tried to force their way to higher realms without truly understanding the essence of cultivation.

While this method is not without a chance of success, only one or two out of ten people succeed, with the majority achieving direct rainbow body transformation.

Even so, once successful, the benefits would be beyond description, far beyond a complete transformation.

……

At the end of the passageway was a huge circular stone chamber, more than two zhang high, with a huge fluorescent stone at the top, resembling a small sun, radiating a soft light.

Around the stone chamber stood eight bronze pillars, covered with countless intricate patterns, mysterious and extraordinary.

In the center of the stone chamber was a bronze coffin, covered with strange inscriptions. Eight thick chains, also covered with inscriptions, secured the eight corners of the bronze coffin.

Having been sealed for eight hundred years, this stone chamber was not stained with a speck of dust, and even the coffin chains and bronze pillars looked as if they had just been made.

However, the walls surrounding the stone chamber are covered with murals and numerous inscriptions.

The gist of it is that, as his lifespan was nearing its end, he foresaw the future and learned that the dragon vein would be severed in the years to come, and that eight hundred years later, the world would be in decline and humanity would be in chaos.

Unable to bear the extinction of the Yuqing lineage, he seized the opportunity of Heaven to set up the Eight Directions Demon Subduing Array, imprisoning the demon and reducing its demonic nature. He then used his own "true essence" to set up the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Microcosm Array, extracting the source, fusing the Dao and the demon, and nurturing the Chaos True Seed, so that future generations could break through the limits of Heaven and Earth, refine the false into the true, and cultivate true qi.

When the eight-hundred-year period arrives, and the end of the Dharma of Heaven and Earth arrives, it will be the time when the true seed of chaos matures.

At that time, the Demon Destruction Array collapsed, and everything except the Chaos True Seed turned to dust.

"Master, who is the demon being suppressed here?"

Ruan Youran asked.

"If I'm not mistaken, the demon here should be none other than the legendary Demon King, Temujin!"

"Born a hero, he died a valiant ghost. This man possessed extremely high martial arts skills while alive, but due to too many battles in his life, his hidden injuries accumulated and were difficult to heal, preventing him from reaching a higher level of martial arts!"

"According to the secrets of my Yuqing lineage, this person is unwilling to die like this. He wants to live another life. Before he dies, he will use the Great Technique of Seizing Fortune and Devouring Dragons to forcibly devour the national fortune of the Yuan Dynasty, cultivate the True Scripture of the Six Paths of Annihilation of the Ghost Emperor, and seek the path of the Ghost Emperor to borrow five hundred years of lifespan from Heaven!"

"Legend has it that this martial art was created by the first Ghost Emperor in the world, the Netherworld Emperor Yama. Each tribulation lasts for five hundred years. After the tribulation is completed, one can use a secret technique to borrow another five hundred years from heaven. After the ninth tribulation, the tribulation is complete, and one becomes the Netherworld Emperor, an unparalleled true immortal!"

"Of course, even the Netherworld Emperor has not cultivated this martial art to the Ninth Tribulation Realm, and it is even uncertain whether a true immortal has ever been born in the world."

"As time passes, so many things, true and false, become impossible to verify."

"Originally, when Temujin cultivated his Ghost Emperor Path, the patriarch did not care. But unexpectedly, after Temujin attained enlightenment, he wanted to destroy my Yuqing lineage."

"It forced the patriarch, who was undergoing a life-or-death crisis, to emerge from that crisis and suppress him with a single strike of Heavenly Immortal!"

Ruan Youran listened to the old Taoist priest recount ancient secrets, and his heart was filled with excitement.

Of course, in Ruan Youran's opinion, Temujin was a typical example of someone who would not die if he hadn't courted death.

"It's time!"

The old Taoist priest spoke, his voice trembling slightly.

The old Taoist priest stepped forward, bit his finger, and used his own blood to stain nine of the many inscriptions on the coffin.

As the inscriptions became stained with blood, the entire coffin, along with the chains and bronze pillars, began to glow. Then, it seemed as if millions of years had passed in just a few moments, and the coffin became rotten and decayed.

"Boom!"

Just then, the coffin in the very center of the stone chamber suddenly began to shake violently, followed by an endless burst of eerie light that filled the entire stone chamber.

The coffin exploded, but what appeared before the two was not some Chaos True Seed, but a dark light filled with twisted, bizarre, and evil demonic energy.

"I'm back! I'm finally back!"

"I hate that Heaven has taken eight hundred years from me!"

A mournful howl resounded throughout the heavens and earth, like the wailing of countless ghosts and gods, terrifying to the extreme.

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