Volume 7: The Strongest Four Realms Chapter 25: Yuanqiao Fully Open
After looking at the chickens raised by the Chicken Soup Monk, the gray-robed monk finally took the silent Lu Qingshan and Qin Yitian to the flat land behind the Chicken Soup Temple.
This is a huge platform.
Morning bells and evening drums, puffs of clouds and mist.
Because of the terrain, the sky here seems to be clearly visible.
Hundreds of monks, some with naked upper bodies revealing their bronze skin, and some lightly clothed, sit cross-legged here with their eyes closed and focused.
Among all the practicing monks, not a single one rashly interrupted their practice and opened their eyes because of the arrival of Lu Qingshan and Qin Yitian.
"This is the place where our Chicken Soup Temple monks practice." The gray-robed monk introduced to the two.
Qin Yitian was a little curious, "But I saw that they didn't breathe in or out spiritual energy, what kind of practice is this?"
Indeed, among the hundreds of practicing monks on the field, not a single one was practicing any techniques to absorb spiritual energy. They just sat cross-legged with their eyes closed, like a piece of dry stone, which was completely different from the practice that ordinary people imagined.
"Our Dragon Elephant lineage's practice emphasizes the integration of Zen and martial arts."
The gray-robed monk didn't take it seriously and explained, "Zen and martial arts have the same origin. Zen is the master of martial arts, and martial arts is the use of Zen. Therefore, the monks in this temple usually spend a year to understand Zen and a year to practice martial arts."
“This is how you realize Zen. Let the wind and the sun blow, be in harmony with nature, and understand nature.”
Lu Qingshan nodded slightly and said nothing more.
To say that it is enlightenment of Zen is actually a bit too abstruse. It is only what Buddhism calls it. The most common explanation is: cultivating the primordial spirit.
This is Long Xiang's special skill, which is to temper the spirit in the form of Zen enlightenment.
Yes, the Dragon Elephant monks of the physical cultivation lineage actually regard the tempering of the soul as important as the tempering of the body.
Of course, this is also in line with the principles of spiritual practice.
The body cultivators, who are known as the "toughest" people in the cultivation world, naturally cannot be all show and no substance.
If you only train your body without training your spirit, your body will shatter and disappear at the touch of your soul before it attacks. Wouldn't that make you just a silver spear or a candle end?
The Dragon Elephant Body is cultivated to be very hard. Not only is the physical body indestructible, but the soul is also invincible. It is a hardness that is almost flawless from top to bottom and from outside to inside.
Lu Qingshan looked around the huge square and found that there were many potholes on the hard rock ground.
The gray-robed monk also noticed Lu Qingshan's gaze and said proudly, "This is the mark left by the great monks in the temple. Because of their successful practice, their marrow is as white as frost and their blood is as pure as mercury. Their bodies have reached the highest level and weigh tens of thousands of pounds. When they sit here to meditate on Zen, even the ground cannot bear their weight and sinks."
Looking around, there are quite a few potholes of this type on the flat ground.
Each pothole represents a powerful and accomplished monk in Chicken Soup Temple.
No wonder the gray-robed monk is so proud.
"Young Master, have you obtained the consent of the abbot before you brought my son to the place of practice in your temple? Aren't you afraid that the wonderful methods of your temple will be leaked to my son?" Qin Yitian asked coquettishly.
"Of course it's agreed. How can the thousand-year inheritance of my Dragon Elephant be seen through with just a few glances? Besides, among the seven major Taoist sects, which one would conceal its own methods? The defense of our Dragon Elephant is indestructible. Outsiders have been watching it for who knows how many years, but so what? They can only be defeated by our Vajra body. The same is true for other sects, such as the monks of the Sword Sect. Their flying swords are fast and sharp. Who in the world doesn't know these two characteristics? But under the flying sword, those who deserve to die will still die, right?" The gray-robed monk, who has always been very polite, showed a rare bit of pride in his words when he mentioned his own sect.
It was obvious that he was proud of his sect.
This is also normal. For a powerful sect, the most basic thing is the centripetal force of the disciples, and the disciples will be proud of the sect.
If the disciples are full of resentment when they mention their own sect, then this sect will not be able to be passed down for too long.
What’s interesting is that, as far as Lu Qingshan knows, the sect in the world that does the best in this regard should be... his own sect?
It’s even a little too good.
You see, even Haoran Jian, who has the most gentlemanly character, when he mentioned the Sword Sect, his words were full of implication that the Sword Sect was the best in the world.
After seeing the Jitang Temple's place of practice, Lu Qingshan did not wander around any longer. He thanked the gray-robed monk and returned to his meditation room.
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The Chicken Soup Monk didn't mind how long Lu Qingshan stayed in the temple. As a big Chicken Soup Temple, they could still afford to support a guest from the Sword Sect.
That being said, he certainly couldn't stay in Chicken Soup Temple for too long.
The most important thing for him at the moment is to rebuild his foundation.
Lu Qingshan opened the panel, and two lines of small firefly words flashed in it.
The first line is a prompt for the experience points gained after killing the mountain ghost.
Lu Qingshan had no idea what realm the mountain ghost was in.
But the Thunder Tree clone that the mountain ghost transformed into was indeed only at the peak fifth level.
Killing the Mountain Ghost Thunder Tree's clone, including the cross-level reward, brought him 600,000 experience points.
Adding the 460,000 experience points he originally stored, Lu Qingshan’s current total experience points is 1.06 million.
These experiences are only enough for him to cultivate to the Golden Core Stage.
Another line of firefly small words:
"I have comprehended the state of mind! ...The killing sword intent has been elevated to perfection!"
"Ability improvement! ... Your spirit is improved! (+150)"
After the killing sword intent reached perfection, his soul had unknowingly broken through the late stage of condensation and was heading towards the perfect stage of condensation.
This is a blessing.
Unfortunately, there was only a miserable 0 in the spiritual power column.
Although his rank was shown to be at the early stage of Nascent Soul, and although he was in the Chicken Soup Temple, Lu Qingshan was always surrounded by a sense of crisis that his life and death were not in his own hands.
This made Lu Qingshan, who was used to dealing with all situations with the sword in his hand, feel a little uneasy.
Without giving it any more thought, he opened the "Dragon Elephant Mystical Art" and decided to find a little meager sense of security for himself first.
The first method of Qi Refining is to practice it and it will be done.
"【Dragon Elephant Mysterious Art】(Qi Refining Chapter) upgraded to level 1, spiritual power +40!"
"【Dragon Elephant Mysterious Art】(Qi Refining Chapter) upgraded to level 2, spiritual power +40!"
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"【Dragon Elephant Mysterious Art】(Qi Refining Chapter) upgraded to lv10, spiritual power +40!"
"【Dragon Elephant Mysterious Art】(Qi Refining Chapter) has been upgraded to the highest level, spiritual power value +200!"
"【Dragon Elephant Mysterious Art】 (Qi Refining Chapter) has been upgraded to the highest level, and gained the magical power of the art: 【Seeing Gods Indestructible】!"
【Seeing God is not bad】
Current Deification Acupoint: 0/9
Current realm: First level (unfinished)
The experience points required to reach the current level of divine enlightenment are: 0/500.
Looking at the information on the panel, Lu Qingshan raised his eyebrows.
No wonder the Chicken Soup Monk said that in the Chicken Soup Temple, many monks delayed their practice because they were obsessed with opening their minds.
Just for the first level, to deify a Yuanqiao, you need 500 experience points.
To deify nine Yuanqiao, four thousand five hundred experience points are required.
From his current perspective, 4,500 experience points are just a drizzle, but that's because he was a Nascent Soul cultivator not long ago, so the same thing cannot be generalized.
You know, when he first practiced the "Qi Guiding Technique" to the maximum level, the total experience points he consumed was only 5,500 points.
With four thousand five hundred experience points, I can almost start studying "Qi Guiding Technique" again from the beginning.
Apart from his special case, if ordinary cultivators want to open the realm of seeing the gods and being indestructible, they would have to put in twice as much effort as they would in practicing other ordinary techniques.
This is just the first level.
What about the second heaven, the third heaven, and the perfect fourth heaven?
How terrifying would the energy and time consumed be?
How can an ordinary Qi-refining cultivator afford to squander it?
Unfortunately, this multiple-choice question that has troubled countless Dragon Elephant monks is just an easy point question for Lu Qingshan.
In the Zen room, everything was quiet.
Lu Qingshan practiced his profound skills and silently recited the secret of finding the acupoint.
"Find the bone protrusion behind the ear, and level it with the lower edge four fen into the hair."
"One inch and a half from the upper ear to the hair, the top of the horn is opposite to the valley."
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"Divide the two points into three, with the lower point hanging over the upper point hanging over the skull."
Experience points turned into spiritual power and flowed out.
It was said before that Lu Qingshan's practice was like the gentle stream of chicken soup for the holy monk. If one could see the internal condition of Lu Qingshan at this moment, one would be speechless.
At this moment, pure and powerful spiritual power rushed out of Lu Qingshan's body, surging like the Yellow River!
All of his meridians were already surrounded by a layer of divine light and a myriad of auspicious colors.
That huge amount of spiritual power all gathered at the Wangu point behind his ear.
This acupoint was originally dark, and seemed to be covered by a layer of membrane.
With the gathering of spiritual power, the wall membrane was constantly being eroded and becoming thinner and thinner.
A moment later, under the impact of the huge spiritual power, with a bang, the wall membrane quietly shattered and disappeared.
The spiritual power rushed in immediately and soon filled the acupoint.
After the spiritual power in the Wangu acupoint reached saturation, it turned into a flickering point of light.
This is a sign of complete deification.
A sense of enlightenment arose in Lu Qingshan's heart.
At this moment, he could clearly understand the nature and special abilities of the Wan Gu Point.
Finished, completely, all.
Bones are the water controlled by the kidneys.
The Wangu point is the place where Qi and blood of the gallbladder meridian of the human body completely cool down and turn into water in the ground.
Lu Qingshan looked inward at the 360 Yuan Acupoints in his body and discovered that when these Yuan Acupoints were combined, they looked like a star map.
But at present, all other stars are dim and irrelevant.
Only the Wangu point is as bright as a lamp, shining brightly.
And around the Wangu acupoint, there are eight dim dots surrounding it.
After lighting up all the eight points, the first level of [Seeing the Indestructible God] will be completed.
Lu Qingshan's heart moved slightly, and his experience points decreased by another thousand.
The practice is proceeding in an orderly manner, and the orifices are slowly opening one by one.
As time passed, a translucent and glittering light gradually appeared on the surface of Lu Qingshan's body, making his skin look almost transparent.
One could even vaguely see that there seemed to be blood and divine flames burning in his body.
After a long time, the precious light that was flickering outside his body was all retracted into his body.
Lu Qingshan opened his eyes, and a jade light flashed in his dark pupils.
At this time, he had already opened all nine Yuanqiao of the first level.
There seemed to be a line between the nine deified Yuanqiao, connecting them together.
Of course, he couldn't see the line clearly, but he could vaguely sense it.
【Seeing God is not bad】
Current Deification Acupoint: 9/36
Current realm: First Heaven (completed) / Second Heaven (uncompleted)
The experience points required for the current realm of divine enlightenment: 0/600
The experience points for opening the Yuanqiao in the Second Heaven increased to six hundred points.
Without hesitation, Lu Qingshan tapped out the experience points, and the surging spiritual power reappeared in his meridians and rushed to the next Yuanqiao.
The divine Yuanqiao is not like practicing martial arts, which can be learned in one go.
It takes a process to wear down the wall membrane. Although Lu Qingshan has compressed this process into a very short time, it still takes some time.
An hour later.
The twenty-seven Yuan Acupoints of the Second Heaven were finally all opened.
【Seeing God is not bad】
Current Divine Acupoint: 36/72
Current realm: First Heaven (completed) / Second Heaven (completed) / Third Heaven (uncompleted)
The experience points required to reach the current level of divine enlightenment are: 0/800.
The experience value of the third level of Tianyuanqiao deification is eight hundred points.
Lu Qingshan continued.
Only after 30,000 experience points can one reach the third level of the indestructible realm of seeing gods.
Among cultivators, even those with extraordinary spiritual talents would need a year to practice from the first level of Qi Refining to the tenth level of Qi Refining.
Thirty thousand experience points is close to refining the entire Qi Refining Stage six times.
Of course, the speed of absorbing and refining spiritual energy at the tenth level of Qi Refining will naturally be much higher than that at the first level of Qi Refining.
But no matter what, according to a rough estimate, even if one is a genius in cultivation, it would take an extra four to five years of time and energy to cultivate [Indestructible Gods] to the third level.
If you are not gifted, it will take more than ten years.
But for Lu Qingshan... it was two hours.
【Seeing God is not bad】
Current Divine Acupoint: 72/360
Current realm: ...Third Heaven (completed) / Fourth Heaven (uncompleted)
The experience points required to reach the current level of divine enlightenment are: 0/1000.
The experience points required to open the Yuanqiao in the fourth level increased again to one thousand points.
A total of 288,000 experience points are required to perfect the ability to see the gods without being destroyed.
What is the concept?
The total experience points required to practice Lu Qingshan's foundation-building technique [Guixu Sutra] to perfection is only 460,000.
Moreover, although the 460,000 experience points in the Foundation Establishment Period and the 460,000 experience points in the Qi Refining Period have the same value, they are obviously two different things.
Lu Qingshan had already understood by now that the fourth level of [Indestructible God] was, in most cases, just a concept, and there was no cultivator who could achieve it.
His heart moved slightly, and he suddenly remembered a saying from his previous life.
What is a top student?
A true academic master is not only able to reach the pinnacle in his own field, but also be able to crush you in your field.
It seems that today he is going to be the Overlord of Cultivation, severely crush the Dragon Elephant cultivators, and do what no one in the Dragon Elephant Temple can do - to achieve perfection in seeing the Indestructible God.
Lu Qingshan thought with some evil humor.
His experience points began to decrease rapidly.
The spiritual power was like the surging Yangtze River and the surging Yellow River, rumbling in his body.
The membrane of the Yuanqiao was like a shoddily built dam in the face of this huge torrent of spiritual power, and it collapsed soon.
After breaking the membrane, spiritual power poured in unrestrainedly and occupied the space of the acupoints.
One after another, sparkling spots of light continued to light up on the star map.
One day later.
The last star on the star map was finally lit up.
In an instant, a stunningly gorgeous star trail suddenly appeared among these shining stars.
This star track presents beautiful colors and a mysterious aura, emanating from the three hundred and sixty stars, and then connected through the star track, forming a whole and endless cycle.
It was at this time that Lu Qingshan discovered that subtle changes had taken place in himself.
In a trance, he could feel the power in his blood, see countless tiny particles in his body, know the relaxation of every meridian, the breathing and contraction of every inch of muscle.
In addition, I can hear the sound of my own heart beating and the slight trembling of my internal organs...
The most important thing is that he can almost touch the wheel of life hidden deep inside his body.
The perfect state of seeing the indestructible gods seems to have already begun to show its extraordinaryness without having to wait until it reaches a high level.
This is a wonderful process of "knowing who I am". For the first time, Lu Qingshan discovered that there are so many unknown mysteries in his body.
Today he broke through the air and freed himself from the constraints.
When he has achieved success in his practice in the future, he will surely be able to see the indestructible gods!
Lu Qingshan was overjoyed. He suddenly opened his eyes and the moment he stood up, he felt inexplicably lighter.
"Young Master, have you finished your training?" Qin Yitian, who was watching on the side, said happily when he saw Lu Qingshan stand up.
Lu Qingshan nodded, "It's almost time for us to leave."
It is a recognized fact that he is a talented monk.
But if he stayed in the Chicken Soup Temple for a few more days, the Chicken Soup Saint Monk would probably see a miracle of the three-day golden elixir.
He didn't intend to do that.
In addition, there is another very damaging thing.
Although he had lost all his cultivation at this time, his realm was still there.
In other words, in terms of experience point acquisition, he will be regarded as a cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage .
For Nascent Soul cultivators, there will be an experience point penalty for killing enemies below the Nascent Soul level.
Therefore, before his cultivation was restored, his way of gaining experience points was almost blocked.
The problem is that all his experience points, even with the spirit crystals, are not enough for him to return to the early Nascent Soul stage.
Fortunately, there is a place that can solve all problems.
