sinovels Chapter 23 Advancement of Daoist Practice
Chapter 23 Advancement of Daoist Practice
Under the Enlightenment Tea Tree, Xuan Yao secluded himself for over 40,000 years.
For the first 20,000 years, he almost severed all external perception, devoting most of his energy to continuing to refine the vast medicinal power remaining from the top-grade Renshui Peach within his body, and to stabilizing his surging Xuanxian magic power.
The origin of a top-grade innate spiritual root is so vast!
If it weren't for this branch of the Wuyi Mountain tea tree, which constantly exudes the innate Daoist charm that illuminates the mind, it would be impossible to find it.
With Xuan Yao's current mere Xuanxian realm, even if he were to spend ten Yuanhui to completely refine the essence of these peaches that had settled deep within his flesh and blood, he might not be able to achieve perfection.
However, under the subtle and gentle nourishment of the tea's aroma and flavor.
The unshakable essence of the peaches of immortality was gradually extracted by Xuan Yao and transformed into the purest innate Ren water essence, which continuously flowed into his black tiger bloodline and natal spirit.
As time went by, Xuan Yao's cultivation level steadily increased without encountering any bottlenecks.
Finally, at a certain moment 20,000 years later.
"boom--!"
With a deep rumble emanating from within his body, a powerful and inexhaustible aura burst forth from Xuan Yao's body.
He naturally entered the realm of the Perfected Immortal!
At this point, Xuan Yao was only one final, truly significant threshold away from becoming a Golden Immortal who had attained the state of living as long as Heaven and Earth.
His magical power was immense, his physical body was incredibly strong, and his soul was remarkably stable.
Even the degree of fusion between the pure qi of virtue and the natal mystic evil within his body has been pushed to the limit that the realm of the Mystic Immortal can achieve!
Even so, Xuan Yao did not rush to break through the Golden Immortal barrier with his eyes tightly closed.
The path from Xuanxian to Jinxian is a formidable barrier on the road of cultivation!
This is the true transformation from mortal to immortal, and it is by no means something that can be easily overcome by simply piling up magical power.
Without a genuine moment of enlightenment, and without a more solid and profound foundation to support it.
Forcibly attempting to break through the barrier can easily lead to qi deviation and damage to one's foundation.
In severe cases, it can lead to death and annihilation, with no hope of redemption!
That is why, for tens of thousands of years afterward...
Xuan Yao calmly suppressed the urge to break through and focused more of his energy on another unexpected gain that came with this trip to Wuyi Mountain.
The set of high-grade acquired array flags that were seized from the green-robed Taoist, as well as the many array inheritance jade slips he left behind!
Initially, Xuan Yao only had a slight interest in formations and the idea of increasing his means of fighting enemies.
After all, his main focus was on the "True Explanation of the Golden Palace Mysterious Evil," which followed the path of blessing and warding off evil, and building a strong physical body. He did not truly regard the Dao of Arrays as the core of his future path.
But as he worked under the Enlightenment Tea Tree, he gradually refined the nine array flags.
Then, with the aid of the Enlightenment Tea Tree branch that makes one's mind and soul ethereal, one can comprehend the various array plates and array jade slips left behind by the green-robed Taoist.
Xuan Yao was surprised to find that he seemed to have a considerable talent in the art of formations!
Those array patterns and formation changes that seem as obscure and difficult to understand as a celestial book to outsiders.
In Xuan Yao's eyes, however, it often only takes a few deductions in his spiritual platform to clearly understand the underlying workings of the system!
Moreover, Xuan Yao practices the "True Explanation of the Golden Palace Mysterious Demon" day and night.
This supreme Dharma bestowed by the Queen Mother of the West requires cultivators to be extremely familiar with the changes in the Qi of heaven and earth, the flow of fortune and misfortune, and the connection between Yin and Yang and cause and effect.
This has an astonishing commonality with the principles of array formations, which emphasize borrowing the power of the earth's veins, understanding the changes in spiritual energy, and setting up restrictions!
Once you understand one principle, you'll understand all others.
Over time, Xuan Yao became increasingly engrossed in the art of formations, becoming completely absorbed in it.
He not only mastered the superior-grade acquired array flags of the Nine Netherworld Bewitching Killing Array to the point of complete mastery, but also repaired the slight cracks that had been caused by the Xuan Sha Golden Whip during the battle.
He even began to try to connect and integrate his most proficient skills of pure virtue and natal mysterious evil, as well as the earth vein trends and spiritual energy of the Qinghei Mountain Range, with the principles of the array!
Throughout these tens of thousands of years, Xuan Yao did not spend his days sitting on a futon in a secluded room, working in isolation.
Whenever he encountered a bottleneck in his formation deductions and felt a slight blockage in his mind,
He would then awaken from his meditation, leave his cave, and personally inspect his increasingly prosperous Qingheishan Daoist temple.
He used this newly comprehended method of array formation to gradually cultivate this blessed land.
Around the cold pool, he used natural jade as a base and drew upon the earth's spiritual springs to set up an extremely ingenious spirit-gathering array.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth from tens of thousands of miles around gathers here continuously, nourishing the branch of the Enlightenment Tea Tree and the Jade Dew Blessing Mushroom.
At the entrance to the Qinghei Mountain Range, he cleverly concealed the nine top-grade acquired array flags within the mountain's terrain, combining them with the surrounding ancient pines and withered vines to set up an extremely large and confusing killing array.
Even cultivators at the Xuanxian realm who stray into this place will lose their way in the illusions without proper guidance and eventually be trapped and die within the formation.
On the outermost edge of the dojo, Xuan Yao went to great lengths.
He used his own extremely pure and auspicious Qi and domineering innate Xuan Sha as the core of the formation, following the flow of auspicious and inauspicious Qi around Xikunlun.
Several layers of deadly formations have been set up!
As the art of formations gradually became integrated into the daily operations of the dojo, Xuan Yao looked at the impregnable, dark green mountain range and increasingly realized a truth.
A battle formation is by no means just a rigid stacking of flags and jade stones.
It is a supreme method by which cultivators use their own will to borrow the power of this vast world for their own use!
This realization made Xuan Yao understand that since formations could borrow the power of heaven and earth, he could truly and perfectly combine the principles of formations with the Xuan Sha method bestowed by the Queen Mother of the West.
In the future, I might just find a way to ward off evil spirits using formations!
The most famous example of such a method in the primordial world is naturally the clan-protecting formation of the Wu tribe.
The Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation!
That's the legendary first killing formation in the primordial world, capable of condensing the true form of Pangu and directly confronting the sharpness of a sage!
Xuan Yao was well aware of his own limitations.
He had neither the blessings of the great god Pangu nor the unique background and terrifying supernatural powers of the twelve ancestral witches.
It is absolutely impossible, and I would never dare to hope to recreate that top-tier primordial evil formation capable of destroying the world.
There are three thousand great paths, but they all lead to the same destination.
If one is only at the current Xuanxian realm, then one should use one's own innate Xuan Sha as the foundation to lay a prototype of one's own array path.
In the future, as their cultivation level continues to improve, they will advance to the Golden Immortal, Taiyi, or even Daluo realms!
Who knows, I might actually have a chance to forge something of my own on this path of using formations to ward off evil, and make it another major foundation for my future foothold in the primordial world.