Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 413: The 288th Day of Eliminating Trouble through Practice_2

Zhao Xuanjing immediately turned his head and nodded to Su Li and the other, “Since that’s the case, then we’ll have to trouble you two.”

Su Li instantly clasped his hands and said, “You flatter me, Senior. Please, the three of you, follow us closely. There are many prohibitions here; be extremely careful not to touch any by mistake!”

Moments later, a crack suddenly opened within the cloud mist, and Zhao Sheng and the other two flew out one after another. After saying farewell to Su Li and the other, they blinked and plunged into the thick fog below.

…

Three days later, in Zhao’s Secret Mansion, under the Ancient Spiritual Peach Tree, master and disciple sat cross-legged.

The Beggar Immortal, having shed his previous playfulness, spoke earnestly to his disciple,

“There is an ancient tale of the opening of heaven and earth: The chaos was like an egg, and Pangu was born within it. After eighteen thousand years, heaven and earth split, the pure became the heaven, and the turbid became the earth. Pangu stood between them, changing nine times a day…”

“Taiqing represents the purity of primordial qi! What is primordial qi? It is the innate origin of a person. When primordial qi begins, the spirit manifests externally…”

“What is Nine Yang? Ancient legends speak of Tang Valley, where the Fusang Divine Tree grew. The tree had upper and lower branches, with one yang on the upper branch, and nine yang below… This method uses the nine yang as a metaphor, yet in reality, the Fusang Divine Tree corresponds to the human body, with one yang representing the eternally real Great Sun, and nine yang representing the nine true acupoints.”

At this point, the Beggar Immortal suddenly asked with a smile, “Disciple, what do you think are the locations of these nine true acupoints in the body?”

Although Zhao Sheng had a guess, he still shook his head, indicating that he didn’t know.

Having spent a few days with him, he had already gotten to know his master’s perverse sense of humor and certainly wouldn’t fall for it.

Seeing his reaction, the Beggar Immortal felt somewhat unamused, so he waved his hand, and a beam of light flashed by. Suddenly, a lifelike human figure illusion appeared, with the meridians and acupoints forming a dense network, clearly visible.

The Beggar Immortal pointed at the Core Energy Sea acupoint and said, “This is Tang Valley!”

Then, the entire spinal dragon lit up abruptly, with nine acupoints along it shining brightly.

“The human spine is the Fusang Divine Tree, and the nine true acupoints from top to bottom in order are Heaven Pillar, Divine Platform, Supreme Yang, Life Gate… the Changyang Nine Acupoints.

“The Taiqing Nine Yang Technique is an ancient dual cultivation method of body and technique. The realms of this method are very simple, from One Yang, Two Yang, all the way up to Nine Yang. Once the Nine Yang are achieved, one is invincible at the same level!

“Now listen carefully; I will impart to you the essence of the technique: Taiqing encompasses the primordial qi, the Golden Crow plants the Taoist lotus, Qi Refinement stores the Primordial Yang, Nine Yang breaks the Primordial Spirit…”

And so, the Beggar Immortal recited the Divine Skill at a leisurely pace, while Zhao Sheng listened silently.

In the Cultivation World, there is a well-known secret that any cultivation method related to Divinity Transformation is often not recorded in writing, relying only on oral transmission.

The reason for this is obvious.

Clearly, the Taiqing Nine Yang Technique was such a high-level Divine Skill.

The formulas for this Divine Skill were surprisingly few and astoundingly simple and straightforward.

Zhao Sheng had just listened once and had already understood most of it.

Only then did Zhao Sheng understand why the Beggar Immortal was so eager to take him as his disciple upon first seeing him.

The requirements for this Divine Skill were extremely stringent,

Firstly, one’s innate primordial qi had to be incredibly thick, at least a hundred times more than that of a normal person to barely meet the lowest standard for cultivation.

Secondly, one needed to have top-notch aptitude and comprehension, with a Single Fire Spirit Root considered to be the best.

Lastly, one needed to refine a strand of Golden Crow True Fire.

The Golden Crow True Fire wasn’t difficult at all.

The Golden Crow Fire Yang in the black market of Pocket World City was intentionally placed there by the Beggar Immortal.

While it was indeed rare to encounter a Single Fire Spirit Root once in a hundred years, with the Beggar Immortal’s status, it would not be difficult to find a cultivator with Dual Spirit Roots, one of which was fire, if he could not find one with a Single Spirit Root.

But the most difficult part was the first requirement; those with a hundredfold thick innate primordial qi were hard to find in the world.

However, throughout this Divine Skill, it subtly emphasized one point: Those with sufficient primordial qi will find it easy to achieve the Nine Yang!

Having obtained such a Divine Skill, Zhao Sheng couldn’t help but be overjoyed.

But at that moment, he heard the Beggar Immortal sigh:

“Alas, it’s a pity that this ‘Taiqing Nine Yang Technique’ is incomplete, lacking the crucial part of ‘Nine Yang Breaks Primordial Spirit.’ Otherwise, this old beggar might have been able to glimpse what lies beyond Divinity Transformation?”

Zhao Sheng’s smile faded as he comforted, “Master, there’s no need to regret. You are only at the Mid-stage Nascent Soul realm, still far from the Divinity Transformation Heaven Barrier. Be more realistic; first, break through to the Late-stage Nascent Soul and become a Great Cultivator before you regret.”

Upon hearing this, the Beggar Immortal immediately felt a mix of embarrassment and anger, admonishing his disciple, “Go away. With your wretched mouth, this old beggar will end up dying before you one day.”

Zhao Sheng, unafraid, stood up, bowed to his master, and then vanished into the stone room to cultivate.

The Beggar Immortal was the type to jest and not sweat the small stuff; he certainly wouldn’t get angry over a few teasing words.

What just happened was merely a bit of communication between master and disciple.

Both were cunning old foxes with profound thoughts and extraordinary minds. Being somewhat candid with each other was even more conducive to tightening the master-disciple relationship.

…

In the secret mansion, days and months were irrelevant.

The Beggar Immortal hadn’t stayed in the secret mansion for long. Once his disciple had fully grasped the essence of the cultivation method, he floated away and left this place.

Before his departure, Zhao Xuanjing had already returned to sit and oversee the happenings in Xinglong City.

Three months, in the blink of an eye, passed,

while Xinglong City was boisterously holding a Dharma Transmission ceremony.

In one of the cultivation rooms in the underground caverns of the secret mansion, Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged with closed eyes, his body suspended in mid-air, emanating a blinding golden light.

Behind him, a “Sun” radiated incredibly fierce light heat.

The heat waves rolled, air twisted, and waves of invisible flame power surged violently, causing the surrounding stone walls to melt away, dripping large amounts of fiery red magma onto the ground.

The ground also turned into vast molten magma, bubbling up white-hot fire bubbles.

At this moment, Zhao Sheng was running his Nine Revolutions technique and had reached the most critical time.

Countless strands of “clear as water” Primordial Qi filled the “Life Gate” acupoint at the tail end of his spine,

where the qi gathered into a lake, carrying a miniature golden “Sun” which seemed like a microcosm of the real, outer Sun.

Then, threads of Innate Yuan Qi began pouring into the illusory “Sun”.

As time passed, the qi gradually waned, and the illusion slowly solidified. At this point, the phantom of a three-legged Golden Crow began to take shape within the “Sun”.

When the qi was completely absorbed, the golden Yang shone brightly and then turned into a small three-legged Golden Crow. After circling once in the true acupoint, it changed back into a golden Sun, suppressing the true acupoint here.

Crack, rumble!

The door of the cultivation room suddenly cracked with numerous fissures, then collapsed thunderously; fiery magma spewed from inside to out.

Parting the dense flame clouds, Zhao Sheng retracted the Big Sun Illusion, stepped into the void, and walked out step by step.

The “Taiqing Nine Yang Technique” is indeed a high-level divine skill that goes straight to Divinity Transformation, with profound concepts and deep essence but surprisingly simple and direct to start practicing.

In just three short months, Zhao Sheng had easily reached the One Yang Realm.

Indeed, this divine skill is typically the type that accumulates over time and explodes in power in one day, a type of cultivation method with an amplification effect.

With One Yang Burst, the strength of the cultivator increases by at least thirty percent, and afterward, there are no side effects whatsoever.

Once reaching the Three Suns Realm, the full force can double the individual’s power.

If one follows the path of the Beggar Immortal and cultivates to the realm where Six Yang manifest, one can contend with an enemy a Half-step higher for a short time.

Once the Nine Yang is established to Great Success, one can truly be invincible among peers and fight across realms.

Of course, how many Yang realms one can cultivate to doesn’t depend on Qi Fortune nor chance; it solely depends on whether the cultivator’s innate Yuan Qi is abundant enough.

In this regard, Zhao Sheng considered himself to have ample capital.

Back when the Beggar Immortal reached the One Yang Realm, it took him a full three years, whereas Zhao Sheng took only three months.

Afterward, despite the Beggar Immortal’s millennium of arduous cultivation, he managed to reach only the Six Yang Realm, with the Seven Yang Realm still far out of reach.

From this, one can see how demanding the “Taiqing Nine Yang Technique” is for a cultivator’s innate talent.

However, Zhao Sheng was very confident in himself; as long as he didn’t fall midway, it was a matter of when, not if, he would attain the Nine Yang Realm.

After leaving the cultivation room, Zhao Sheng casually found another stone room, approached the stone platform, and sat down on the cushion he released.

Then with a swing of his right hand, a small heap of pink, crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, dried meat appeared in front of him.

He picked up a piece of meat the size of a palm, about eight pounds, tossed it into his mouth, chewed it a few times, and then swallowed it down.

Next, Zhao Sheng picked up piece after piece of the dried meat, continuously swallowing it down his throat.

The entire eating process was concise and fluid, filled with an unusual beauty.

In just a moment, Zhao Sheng had consumed over two hundred pounds of Seventh Rank demon beast meat, but his stomach remained as flat as before, not bulging at all, as if his stomach housed a voracious Taotie.

Practicing the “Taiqing Nine Yang Technique” consumes a large amount of Innate Yuan Qi, and feasting on large quantities is undoubtedly the method with the lowest cost and highest efficiency to restore Innate Yuan Qi.

A quarter of an hour later, the meat mountain had disappeared, and Zhao Sheng, satisfied, stood up and stepped out of the stone room.