Chapter 188 History in the Fragments

Chapter 188 History in the Fragments

Chapter 188 History in the Fragments
Li Wuxiang jumped back onto the top of the mountain and sat down again.

Today was a sunny day, with green mountains all around and a thin mist in the distance, the scenery was extremely beautiful. Sitting here, he could smell the slight moisture in the air and the pine scent in the trees, so he thought this was a good place to stay for the whole day.

Therefore, he would spend the whole day reading the classics and scriptures in the Tianxin Illusion. Before today, he didn't know much about the cultivation world in this world, but after today, he should be considered knowledgeable.

The first thing I read was the two books of exercises at hand.

When I opened the first page of the Great Tribulation Sword Scripture, it was just as Gong Fu said, the first sentence was "If you want to practice this skill, you must first obtain the true vacuum." This sentence alone took up an entire page, as if to remind the reader that this was the most important thing.

Li Wuxiang spent half an hour reading every word in the fragment, frowning slightly. Then he put the book down, thought for a while, and opened the Small Tribulation Sword Scripture again.

It took nearly another hour to finish reading the Small Tribulation Sword Sutra carefully, and the sun had risen above my head.

So he took out a small porcelain bottle from his stomach. The bottle was not filled with water, but a medicinal paste called "Qingyu Saliva". He took a sip of it as if it were water, frowned and thought for a while.

The Great Tribulation Sword Scripture was incomplete, but six pages of it were relatively complete. Comparing it with the techniques in the Small Tribulation Sword Scripture, he seemed to understand what the first sentence of the Scripture meant.

If we use ordinary martial arts as an example, this Great Tribulation Sword Sutra seems to be only feasible in theory, but has no practical possibility at all.

For example, if a person wants to build up his strength, the Great Tribulation Sword Sutra will tell him that once he has built up his strength to the point where he can make rivers flow backwards with a punch, he can proceed to the next step.

It may even give very detailed steps - for example, put a basin of water in front of you, punch the water, and the water will flow naturally because of your punch. Then make the basin bigger, bigger, and bigger, step by step, and you will eventually reach that state.

However, human power is limited! Many of the methods of impacting the acupoints in the Great Tribulation Sword Scripture do not seem to be practiced by humans, because Li Wuxiang cannot imagine how a person's body can contain so much spiritual energy!
The Small Tribulation Sword Scripture was like a low-profile version of the Great Tribulation Sword Scripture. Although due to the principle of "quantitative change leads to qualitative change", many of the cultivation methods in this set of skills were different, but Li Wuxiang could still see that the two were essentially the same.

In fact, this Small Tribulation Sword Sutra did not seem to be practiced by humans, because many aspects exceeded the limits of cultivators. But in order to solve this problem, this technique also contained many body-refining techniques, such as the Guang Chan Zi he had practiced, which was one of the methods, and its purpose was to break through the limit of the spiritual energy that a human cultivator could carry.

In addition, the two have one thing in common - luck.

Even though the Lesser Tribulation Sword Scripture already contained many evil and dangerous methods of body refining like Guang Chanzi, at certain important points, it still required the blessing of the luck of the Emperor Donghuang Taiyi to enable the practitioner to break through the limit and cross the threshold. The Sword Sect’s people divided the Lesser Tribulation Sword Scripture into the True Immortal Body Dao Chapter and the Flying Immortal Sword Transformation Chapter, perhaps because of this limitation.

This is easy to say... There are actually quite a few things in the world that have Taiyi's luck. At least the imperial seal that he saw in the lower world of You Jiuyuan is one of them.

With this comparison, the logic of the Great Tribulation Sword Sutra is even more incredible. It is almost equivalent to saying that you want to use this technique to cultivate into a Golden Immortal, but this technique can only be practiced when you have reached the realm of a Golden Immortal and obtained the human destiny of Donghuang Taiyi!
Seeing this, Li Wuxiang felt completely relieved - before obtaining the "True Emptiness" and the "Essence", he could put aside other thoughts and concentrate on practicing the Minor Tribulation Sword Sutra.

Once the Minor Tribulation Sword Sutra is mastered, its power should be one small realm higher than the True Immortal Body Dao Pian. And it is not difficult to practice it from his current Jindan level, because the practice method of this technique before forming the golden elixir is almost exactly the same as the True Immortal Body Dao Pian, just like the practice methods of the thirty-six sects are almost exactly the same as the True Immortal Body Dao Pian before refining qi.

The difference is that it starts after the formation of the elixir. After the formation of the elixir, the elixir power required for the Small Tribulation Sword Sutra is almost twice that of the True Immortal Body Dao Pian. The body of an ordinary swordsman cannot carry the spiritual power required for the Small Tribulation Sword Sutra, so at this time, he must start practicing Guang Chanzi.

However, in this method, Guang Chanzi's practice is called "Nine Palaces Disintegration Method", which is to reverse the meridians after forming the elixir, so that all joints and hundreds of spirits collapse and completely destroy one's internal breath. In this way, the meridians in a person's body are infinitely widened, and then supplemented with a medicinal bath, a little bit of the skin is washed and the veins are cleansed, so that it can accommodate more spiritual energy.

As stated in the book, this method has a very high mortality rate, and one must rely entirely on a stable physical body after forming a golden elixir before one can begin to practice it. But the good thing is that with a physical body that has formed a golden elixir, recovery will be fast after the power is dispersed, and it may take 20 to 30 years at the slowest, or 11 to 12 years at the fastest, to be as good as before.

Compared with the Nine Palaces Disintegration Technique, Guang Chanzi is much more gentle and conservative. It requires a person to start refining himself when he has no cultivation, and there is almost no risk of death. But the price is that the effect is not good - for example, Lou He, who has not reached the Golden Cloud Realm without the Golden Chanzi, can accommodate more spiritual energy in his body than ordinary cultivators, but it still does not reach the threshold required by the Small Tribulation Sword Sutra.

From this perspective, when the Small Tribulation Sword Sutra was created, the Golden Chanzi should not have existed. Because now that Li Wuxiang has the Golden Chanzi, he has cultivated the Guangchanzi to the level of Pijinxia, ​​and it seems that the effect is similar to the Nine Palaces Disintegration Technique. In the past few months, he has encountered dangers and fought desperately, and unknowingly passed the first level of the Small Tribulation Sword Sutra.

But after this first level of danger, the next one comes is the second level.

Because the power of the Minor Tribulation Sword Sutra has far exceeded the limits of human beings after it is formed into a pill, the book says that one must overcome the tribulation in the three realms after the pill is formed.

These tribulations did not come one after another. The first was the human tribulation, which manifested itself in constant fighting and restlessness. According to Mei Qiulu, he had already gone through this tribulation, which was the pill tribulation that ordinary sword cultivators went through when they were forming a pill.

After going through the pill-nurturing period and reaching the completion of the pill-raising period, one must go through the earth tribulation.

According to the book, when the elixir-cultivation stage is completed, one will enter the elixir-transformation stage, which actually means that the warm and yang yang spirit seed in the body begins to grow and transform into a new "me".

Humans are the essence of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in this world, and those who practice the Minor Tribulation Sword Sutra have already broken through the limit of the essence of heaven and earth. Therefore, once the golden elixir in the body begins to take shape, it no longer belongs to this world and will not be tolerated by the world of the living.

Therefore, this earth calamity is to find a way to erase one's name from the netherworld so that one can continue to practice in the human world.

When he read this carefully, Li Wuxiang had completely understood why the swordsmen practiced the True Immortal Body Dao Chapter.

——There really is no other way.

When Emperor Taiyi was still alive, Netherworld Earth Mother was also his disciple. It should not be difficult to go to the Netherworld and cancel her name. But after Taiyi was suppressed, someone went there again? Isn't that like an old man eating arsenic?

After going through this earthly tribulation, the next obstacle is the heavenly tribulation when one becomes an infant. When a person becomes an infant, he or she breaks free from the shackles of the acquired nature and returns to the state of an innate infant. At this point, those who practice the Minor Tribulation Sword Sutra are not only not tolerated by the Yang world, but also by heaven and earth.

Therefore, to survive the heavenly tribulation one must confer a decree on oneself, which is what was mentioned earlier. One must have the blessing of the luck of Emperor Donghuang Taiyi so that the practitioner can become a part of the luck of humanity that he incarnates.

This step should not be difficult when Taiyi was still alive, Taiyi could do it. However, at this time, how should this step be solved?

At this point, Li Wuxiang stopped reading it carefully because he had thought of something in his mind and he wanted to verify it from other books in the Tianxin Illusion.

So he put the book down and thought for a moment, in order to relax his mind, about something that he had just suddenly figured out, something he had always ignored but that should be considered common sense by all the practitioners with a tradition in this world and therefore no one had ever thought of mentioning to him.

The thing is, the reason why the techniques of True Immortal Body Dao Chapter, Embracing the Dew and the Clouds, and Returning to the Origin of the Taiyin are all called "chaps" is because they are all extracted from the "Small Tribulation Sword Sutra", "Ranshan Sutra", and "Tianxin Sutra"!

No wonder the Five Mountains True Form Sect’s martial arts is called “Five Mountains Demon Suppression Sutra”, because their emperor is still alive and the martial arts does not need to be castrated!

He stood up, walked a few steps on the spot, picked up a few pine cones and peeled them, then returned to sit under the tree and searched for records about Donghuang Taiyi in the classics of the illusion.

What he is looking for now is not Taiyi itself, but the "Seal of the East Emperor", or the "Imperial Seal".

The information about this thing does exist, and it also includes Li Ye’s early entrepreneurial experience.

It is said that there was originally nothingness between heaven and earth. Later, part of it gradually settled and turned into mountains and rivers, and part of it rose and turned into the sky. The remaining spiritual energy was the more active ones. Among these, the less active ones became the invisible and intangible spiritual energy that remains in the world today. The slightly more active ones became various plants on the mountains and rivers. The more active ones became animals in the world. And the most active ones turned into the essence of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth - people.

The spiritual energy is distributed in different terrains, forming various rules. This is the destiny of heaven. Li Ye is the first person in the world to discover the rules of this destiny of heaven. As a result, his spiritual wisdom is greatly opened, and he creates cultivation methods and establishes a dynasty.

After he gained Taoist skills, the first magic weapon he refined was the "Imperial Seal". After he became Donghuang Taiyi, this thing was called the "Donghuang Seal".

He had a total of forty-three most outstanding disciples, including the founders of the thirty-six sects and the seven great emperors who came after them.

Li Ye was the first to achieve true immortality by virtue of the luck of humanity. However, this luck was not chosen by him, but because he was the emperor of man, this luck was bred by him. The luck of humanity is the only acquired luck in the world, and it is also the foundation for all the remaining practitioners in the world to become immortals. Regarding this part, the words in the classics are very profound and difficult. It should not be a specially compiled historical material, but more like a memorial used in ancient times to praise Donghuang Taiyi.

When Li Wuxiang knew that Taiyi was suppressed, he thought that he was just an unlucky loser. But when he read through the video bit by bit with a frown on his face, he realized that Taiyi was not only unlucky, but also felt aggrieved and wronged.

Since humans are the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, they are also part of the rules of destiny between heaven and earth. Therefore, no matter how you practice, you are still within these rules and you can never control them. It's like the strength of one arm on a person, which can never be greater than the total strength of the person.

But since the destiny of humanity only came into being after the human race gradually prospered, it became inseparable from Li Ye, and they grew together and became one, which also made Li Ye the first true immortal in the world who could transcend and control the rules.

After Li Ye became an immortal, he sealed his forty-three most outstanding disciples with the East Emperor Seal, allowing them to transcend certain rules with the help of human destiny and become true immortals as well.

The Five Mountains True Form Emperor was named as the True Immortal in charge of the mountains and rivers in the Ye Dynasty; the Six Rivers Xuanming Emperor was in charge of the rivers, lakes and seas in the world; the Dongjun Taiyang Emperor and the Suyao Taiyin Emperor were in charge of the seasons of the world; the Jici Baosheng Emperor was in charge of the grains and livestock in the world; the Haotian Five Senses Emperor was in charge of the combination of yin and yang, and the generation and restraint of water and fire in the world.

With Li Ye's edict, these cultivators can gradually touch the rules, master the rules, until they become one with the rules.

Then, Li Wuxiang felt very frustrated. No matter how prosperous the human nature in this world was, no matter how powerful the luck was, it was not stronger than the rules that originally existed in the world and maintained the existence of heaven and earth. So his seven disciples were the first to cultivate into golden immortals, while Li Ye's own realm wasted, until he lost the initiative and was suppressed by the joint forces.

Without him, no one in the world would be able to become a second True Immortal. He could indeed be called the Taoist Ancestor. Being surpassed and crushed by the disciple he had trained himself was more than just bad luck. It was simply aggrieved!
However, this past event only made Li Wuxiang sigh in his heart for a while. What he cared about was that Li Ye had used the Eastern Emperor Seal to confer titles on people.

That is to say, when he practiced the Minor Tribulation Sword Sutra and was about to reach the Nascent Soul stage, he seemed to be able to survive the heavenly tribulation through the East Emperor Seal.

And that thing had been in the lower realm of You Jiuyuan before, and it seemed that only Jiang Jie knew of its existence.

When he was possessed by the external evil and saw that thing, Kong Xu also saw it. When he came back and told everyone in the sect about it, everyone knew about it.

However, Li Wuxiang was sure that the swordsmen did not take it away when they evacuated Youjiuyuan, because he was able to see the thing because of the external evil. Cui Daocheng and Mei Qiulu's cultivation should be far inferior to that of the external evil at that time. Not to mention taking it, they might not even be able to find it!
Then, there was a clue to solve the problem of heavenly tribulation. Next, it was earthly tribulation, which was also what Li Wuxiang wanted to figure out the most when he went to Tianxin Sect - the Netherworld Earth Mother!
Was the external evil that was in his body before the Mother of the Underworld?
He had already caught a glimpse of this part of the information before, but he had waited until now to read it because he was actually a little worried that the answer was yes.

This is because of the origin of the Netherworld Mother——

After the spiritual energy of the world gave rise to living things, especially humans, life and death also came into being.

Death is also a rule, a part of the Way of Heaven. This part of the Way of Heaven is inseparable from the souls of all living things in the world, which is actually very similar to the relationship between Li Ye and the destiny of humanity.

Because the soul is somewhat muddled compared to the living, it still has consciousness after all. These many consciousnesses gathered together and evolved into the Netherworld Mother. At first, it was between having spiritual intelligence and not having spiritual intelligence, and it only relied on instinct to control the cycle of life and death in the world. To be more precise, this "instinct" is the "Netherworld Mother".

Li Ye discovered it after he became a true immortal. After slowly coming into contact with it, he awakened its spiritual intelligence.

Since the Netherworld Earth Mother is destiny, she does not need to practice. But Li Ye wants the world to be prosperous and sets many rules and etiquette. These things directly affect the Netherworld Earth Mother's mind, making it become more and more like a human. Everyone in the world regards Li Ye as the emperor, so this understanding also affects the Netherworld Earth Mother, making it submit to Li Ye and become one of his disciples.

When he saw this, Li Wuxiang realized that the Netherworld Mother seemed to be different from other destiny and rules in the world - it could be shaped and changed. It seemed to be what the human race as a whole looked like.

So, when we saw the Netherworld Mother dying, looking pale and rotten outside the Nether Nine Abyss, was it because humanity is no longer prosperous?

Then it should be a die-hard fan of Li Ye. Why did it join forces with the other six emperors to suppress Taiyi?

Li Wuxiang continued to check and explore, and seemed to have found a possibility -

It seems to be because of Lingshan. The classics in the illusion say that Lingshan did not exist in the world originally, and it only appeared after Li Ye achieved the Golden Immortal. At that time, he was fighting with the six emperors now. Although his own strength was six to one, he had many disciples and had an absolute advantage in numbers.

After a low-level cultivator dies in battle, he or she will go to the netherworld and reincarnate. After being reborn as a human being, he or she will need the guidance of seniors and friends to continue practicing, which always takes decades.

So Li Ye opened up Lingshan Mountain, allowing the souls of cultivators to directly enter Lingshan Mountain after death and become ghost cultivators, thus quickly forming combat effectiveness.

At that time, Lingshan and the world of the living were not almost completely isolated as they are now - Guiyin Zhenjun could open the Yellow Spring Road in the world of the living, which would serve as a passage between the two, making it convenient for the ghost cultivators of Lingshan to enter and exit freely.

But in this way, Li Ye and Gui Yin Zhenjun slowly seized some of the power of the Netherworld Earth Mother, which was equivalent to weakening it. As the war became more and more intense, people's hearts began to split, which would directly affect the mind of the Netherworld Earth Mother.

So, at a certain point, the balance was broken - the Netherworld Mother Earth leaned towards the other six Golden Immortals and joined the opposing camp.

Li Wuxiang stood up and took a few steps on the spot.

From this perspective, Li Ye seems to have made a stupid move... No matter how many low-level cultivators there are, they should not be as powerful as the Netherworld Mother. Why make the allies unhappy at that time?
But no one knows much about the war at that time. Maybe there was some unavoidable situation at that time. Or maybe Li Ye also knew that whether the Nether Earth Mother was loyal to him was not determined by personal feelings and personal charm, but by the people's hearts in the world. Thinking about it this way, the Nether Earth Mother was like a bomb placed next to him... So he wanted to seize the opponent's luck as soon as possible, but in the end he didn't control the progress of seizing power well?

But no matter what, in all direct and indirect descriptions of the Netherworld Mother, its image seems to be completely different from the one in one's body.

The Netherworld Earth Mother seemed to be always dull and calm. This was actually very similar to a country - everyone in the country had different thoughts and temperaments, but if all the countries in his previous life were regarded as separate people, it would be found that the personalities of the more than 200 "people" in the world were basically the same -

He is an extremely selfish, extremely rational, but slow-reacting giant baby.

However, the external evil in himself was arrogant, cold, and cunning, and seemed completely different from the image of the Netherworld Mother. The most obvious difference was that whenever it appeared, it was always accompanied by a vague greed, as if it was extremely eager for something.

And the key point is that the Netherworld Mother is still "alive" and struggling. As a whole, it is impossible for it to enter Lingshan, just like a person cannot enter his own body!

Therefore, the external evil in him does not seem to be the Mother of the Underworld.

This result made him feel a little relieved, because even if that thing was Taiyi or any of the other six emperors, he felt that he had a chance of revenge, although the chance was very slim.

But if it is the Netherworld Mother, what should we do? Will we destroy the world?
Li Wuxiang stood up from the ground again, walked to the edge of the hillside, relaxed his hands, straightened his chest, and looked into the distance.

The sun was already setting in the west, and the morning mist had dissipated, revealing everything clearly. The sky above was dark blue, and slightly purple near the horizon, while the vast land, rivers, lakes, and scattered villages were reflected in the sun into a golden glow.

In the days after Jiang Jie's death, he hated the external evil with all his might, and was eager to find the cause and take revenge immediately. But now this idea has faded, because the more he understands, the more he realizes that the problem may not be the external evil or the six sects, but himself.

This world is different from his previous life. It is like a huge poison-making room, where there are almost no rules of justice. Whether he wants to jump into this huge vortex of fighting for ultimate power, or withdraw and watch from the sidelines, he must first have strong enough power, otherwise, he will only become a dead branch and rotten leaf in the vortex, and will never be able to escape.

Therefore, if he could not become one of the top strong men in the world, the idea of ​​revenge seemed to be just a joke. He felt that he had paid off his debt to the Sword Sect, and next, he had to plan for himself.

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Because there are a lot of settings to explain, I will update 6000 words today.

(End of this chapter)