Morning.
Chen Yun came outside to practice boxing as usual.
Perhaps he expelled all the parasites in his body. Today, he practiced "Slaying the Dragon", and felt that his power was more formidable.
A punch was thrown, the air was compressed and condensed together, yet it did not erupt immediately, thus forming visible "whirlpools" around him.
Whenever Chen Yun moved, these visible "whirlpools" followed his movements rapidly.
At that moment, the empty space outside the east courtyard became like a "fierce dragon" roaring and twirling.
Huh!
Huh!
The explosive sound of breaking space rang continuously.
Chen Yun was immersed in his practice.
That white monkey was very intelligent, and when it saw Chen Yun practicing the "Slaying the Dragon" technique, it copied him in a similar way, although it had not yet grasped the essence of the technique. However, its body was very strong and could also produce continuous explosive sounds.
Chen Yun practiced the "Slaying the Dragon" technique for half an hour, not expecting the white monkey to "steal techniques".
He stopped, unable to decide whether to laugh or cry, and stared at the white monkey with a suspicious gaze, "Let's have a go?"
The white monkey immediately backed away and shook its head, making a "no" sound with its mouth. It seemed a bit scared of Chen Yun's previous injury.
Chen Yun deceived the other party by saying, "I will not use true qi. It's a physical battle."
The white monkey shook its head again, not agreeing.
Chen Yun winked and said, "If you agree to accompany me in practice, I will give you two more pears as a reward when I return, how about that?"
Hearing there were pears to eat, the white monkey's saliva was almost dripping. It immediately nodded in agreement over there.
Immediately, both the person and the monkey fought with their physical strength over there.
Chen Yun and the white monkey's physical strength were too strong. During their fight, the entire empty space was filled with shadows, and occasionally, the sound of clanging metal echoed.
The powerful wave of qi spread in all directions, shaking several houses. The windows and doors were blown open.
This was because Chen Yun and the white monkey had deliberately contained the power of their fight from spilling out. Otherwise, they could have truly destroyed the Taoist temple.
A few minutes later.
Chen Yun took advantage of an opportunity and delivered a fierce punch to the white monkey's abdomen.
The white monkey was thrown out like a cannonball, speeding out towards the Taoist temple and crashing heavily into the distant mountain wall.
There was a tremendous boom, and the mountain wall shattered.
Chen Yun paused, taking a moment to center himself and feel. "I actually managed to suppress the white monkey just with my physical strength?"
He knew that in the past seven days, his strength had increased significantly.
On one hand, it was because these few days, he constantly refined the essence of the Rehmannia Root, making his physical body even more robust.
On the other hand, it was because expelling the numerous parasites from his body allowed him to use his strength more freely, thereby unleashing greater combat power.
"Now, with my physical strength, I may not be able to break through the white monkey's defenses, but I can certainly hold him down. In general, my strength has grown significantly."
Chen Yun was quietly delighted.
Suddenly, the white monkey jumped back quickly, looking dissatisfied and chattering at him as if to say that Chen Yun had hurt it.
Chen Yun took out several pears from his storage ring and threw them over to the white monkey.
The white monkey caught them and immediately smiled, then crouched down and started to eat.
...
At night.
Chen Yun and Xie Zirao went to the top of the mountain again.
After these days of Xie Ziran's instruction, Chen Yun could gradually sense the boundless qi between heaven and earth, but he still couldn't bring it into his body.
Tonight, as usual, he sat cross-legged on the square stone and sensed it.
The sixti-second kind of qi enveloped him around his body, and Chen Yun felt as if he was in an "energy ocean".
Suddenly, Xie Ziran recited a mantra, "Settle your mind and sit down, facing the northeast corner, think of the purple clouds condensed, from the Geng palace in the northeast corner, descending to cover my entire body, darkly inside and outside, for a long time, transforming into a nine-colored beast, resembling the shape of phosphorus, before my eyes, I knock my teeth thirty-six times..."
Chen Yun followed the mantra and imagined these boundless qi as dense purple clouds, covering his body.
This step was easy to achieve.
He felt as if both outside and inside his body were immersed in a mystical purple cloud.
After a long time, Chen Yun's imagination transformed these purple clouds into a nine-colored beast, resembling phosphorus, in front of his eyes.
He knocked his teeth thirty-six times.
Xie Ziran recited the mantra again, "Return to the origin and change the image, reflect the hui-yuan and chuan-lan, cover my purple wall, hide my golden city, combine with the qi-staff, do not reveal my form..."
Chen Yun followed the kungfu practice.
Suddenly, a strange scene unfolded.
He felt that the most original sixty-two different qi in the heavens and earth, wild and desolate, seemed to have merged into one with him. A purple wall was formed within his body, hidden inside the "golden city" created by his physical form.
Of course, this was an imagined scene; there was no actual purple wall, nor any so-called golden city.
The integration of one by one, those sixty-two different, wild and desolate qi into his body, caused Chen Yun to forget that he had a physical form.
It seemed as though, in that moment, his body had fused with the heavens and earth into one.
He was the heavens and earth, and the heavens and earth were he.
That feeling was extremely strange.
Chen Yun was like a small sailboat in the vast ocean, constantly buffeted by the giant waves of qi.
Wave after wave, one after another.
He felt as if the cells within his body had been infused with qi, the feeling of being filled with this powerful force was incredibly addictive.
It was also unclear how long it had been.
Xie Ziran's pleasant voice echoed again, "Done, nine yawns, open your eyes, cloud qi clears, body becomes the elixir of 'Flying Jade Talisman'."
Chen Yun gradually completed the practice, using the nine-yawn method to swallow the spiritual energy.
Soon, he opened his eyes, and could not see any purple clouds.
This was not the end of the practice. He spread the swallowed spiritual energy throughout his body, making himself like a flying spirit talisman that can be taken by the Shangqing sect, with a faint light reflecting on his entire body.
Only after the light gradually merged with his body did he exhale a long breath.
Xie Ziran nodded slightly at him, "This kungfu comes from the Shangqing Sect's "Shangqing Danjing Daojing Yin Di Ba Zhi Jing", similar to the Zi Qing Fei Ling Baian Yu Fo. However, the Shangqing Sect is a talisman sect, and my method turns my own body into an elixir of a talisman, so the realm is commensurate with each other. One is to hide your shadow and form, two is to ride empty space, three is to conceal transportation through flight in space, four is to exist and nonexistence, five is to fly spiritually in eight directions, six is to transform shape and disappear mysteriously, seven is to return dawn and turn mystery back and forth, eight is to hide on land and dance in the sky."
She paused for a moment, "When the elixir of the Flying Jade Talisman is cultivated to perfection, one becomes one body with the gods, able to change and traverse in all directions, hiding one's form in the jade chamber. That is what is called an Immortal."
Chen Yun listened with a stunned expression, "When the elixir of the Flying Jade Talisman is cultivated to perfection, one can become one body with the gods and change and traverse in all directions?"
Xie Ziran said, "Yes, at that time, your physical body would be as powerful as a god's, capable of changing in countless ways and possessing limitless power. However, this is only the first level of my 'Tian Di Ding Luo Ren Dan' method. The subsequent seven levels can achieve even more amazing results. If the eighth level of hiding on land and dancing in the sky is achieved, one can possess cosmic power, far more powerful than ordinary immortals. Only the ninth level still remains to be completed according to my vision. Once it's accomplished, one can achieve Da Luo."
The celestial immortals in Taoism are already considered the highest level of cultivation.
The Daoist theory of the Great Luo immortals is a theoretical existence.
Great Luo, with "great" meaning vastness and "Luow" meaning boundless.
"Ro" refers to a net, indicating inclusiveness or embracing all things.
Great Luo, boundless and infinite, means embracing all phenomena.
Great Luo, which means the highest pursuit for scholars of Daoism.
It refers to ascending to the highest level, the Great Luo Heaven, among the Thirty-Six heavens in Taoism.
This is the origin of the Great Luo immortals.
In actual practice, there is no such level as "Great Luo Immortal" in Daoist cultivation.
Because to ascend to the Great Luo Heaven, one must achieve "union with the Dao and achieving true essence," which is a higher level than celestial immortals and cannot be considered a realm.
This level transcends the laws of heaven and earth, allowing one to exist eternally regardless of the collapse of the world. Even the creation of heaven and earth can be done easily, effortlessly evolving a world.
According to Chen Yun's knowledge, there are only three sacred beings in this world who have reached or exceeded the level of the Great Luo Immortals: the Jade Pure Sky Primordial Lord, the Pure Celestial Jade Lord of Upper Light, and the Supreme Deity of True Virtue from the Taiyuan Palace.
Jade Pure Sky Primordial Lord may be at a higher level.
The Pure Celestial Jade Lord of Upper Light has not shown any miraculous signs, so no one knows exactly which level he has reached.
However, the Supreme Deity of Virtue from the Taiyuan Palace is in charge of heaven and earth, so he should be at the level of Great Luo.
Chen Yun only now realized just how high Dōngjí Zhenrén's "wisdom" was, and how he had managed to create such a grand method using the "Shangqing Danjing Daojing Yin Di Ba Zhi Jing" of the Shangqing Sect.
However, he also noticed a hint that this method seemed to conflict with the internal alchemy.
Once he cultivates himself into a true Immortal by practicing the "Flying Jade Talisman," he might not be able to condense a golden pill within his body because he is already the golden pill, and how can he condense it again?
Unless he can somehow fuse this grand method with the internal alchemy, he would have to stop his cultivation before it reaches the perfection of the Flying Jade Talisman.
As he was thinking, Xie Ziran suddenly said, "Your physical cultivation has a solid foundation. If you practice according to this method for a month, you should be able to achieve a small accomplishment. By then, to some extent, you will be able to resist both water and fire. If you want to reach the level of being impervious to weapons and invulnerable to water and fire according to the method of accumulating essence and refining the body, you need to cultivate it into great perfection."
Water and fire are not invulnerable to myself at the moment.
Regarding water and fire not invading, according to Xie Zhenren's deduction, it is indeed correct that one needs to accumulate essence and refine the body to great perfection.
With the great method of Master Xie, Chen Yun can reach the realm of "impervious to water and fire" ahead of schedule.
The surface meaning of "impervious to water and fire" seems to be that water and fire cannot harm oneself, but in fact, it does not mean this.
The so-called "impervious to water and fire" actually means that to some extent, one can be immune to the damage caused by spiritual arts.
Of course, there are limits to being immune to magical attacks. If the opponent casts a spell with immense power, even the strongest physical body cannot withstand it.
Nevertheless, to achieve fearlessness against both physical and magical attacks within one month is definitely a huge breakthrough.
......
After 15 days.
With the original foundation, Chen Yun continued to practice the "Flying Jade Talisman," further enhancing the strength of his physical body.
Yesterday, he had fought with the White Ape, and he was now able to break through the opponent's defenses solely with his physical strength.
You see, before that, he needed the power of spiritual energy to do so.
To be honest, with Master Xie's meticulous guidance and teachings, my strength has improved rapidly.
At night, Chen Yun had just refined the last remnants of the medicinal power of the spiritual herb Ling Qi.
He felt that the true qi within his body was becoming increasingly "concrete," as if it was about to undergo a transformation.
Chen Yun opened his eyes wide to view the qi energy with the gaze control technique, and he could see that his whole body was glowing like fire, illuminating every inch of the room. It was evident that he had reached the late stage of the sixth-level mage, and he was truly just a hair's breadth away from becoming a mid-level mage.
(End of Chapter)
