Volume 8: Demon Suppression Chapter 1: Refining the Void
At the moment when the true meaning of cause and effect broke through to perfection, Lu Qingshan suddenly felt that every acupuncture point and every pore in his body exuded a vigorous feeling.
It was as if something was about to break out of the ground.
This is when everything has reached perfection, and even his body is subconsciously sending him a signal for a breakthrough.
Lu Qingshan understood this feeling and seemed to have realized something.
"Are you going to break through?" Another sword light rose up with the wind and flew to Lu Qingshan, asking this.
The person riding the sword was none other than Xi Xiang.
“Yes, my disciple has entered the Nascent Soul stage for more than three years, and today I finally feel like I have made a breakthrough.” Lu Qingshan said with emotion.
He has been in the state of mind for several years. He almost became a demon in the tomb of demons and spirits, and now he has borrowed his life to kill a god. His accumulation is already extremely deep.
The strong power of artistic conception was permeating, churning in the body, and even overflowing from the surface of the body, so Xi Xiang could sense it clearly.
In order to protect Lu Qingshan and prevent him from suffering a third attack from the underworld, the old swordsman who temporarily acted as Lu Qingshan's bodyguard and stayed in Zhenjiang with Lu Qingshan for more than a month felt infinite emotion when he saw the new "strongest of the four realms" in his sect.
The strongest fourth realm, will soon be the fifth realm...
This is a top-notch Nascent Soul cultivator who possesses the true meaning of the four origins in one body, and in just three years, he is about to break through!
This is the next generation of the Sword Sect, what more could you ask for?
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Sword Sect, Jianlai Peak.
Lu Qingshan opened the panel, and this time the scene on the panel was very lively, with several lines of small firefly words flashing continuously.
First, he jumped two levels and killed Yuan Cang, which earned him three million experience points.
Adding to his original 9 million experience points, even though he used Wangchuan, the gold-eating beast, many times and consumed another 1.26 million experience points, his experience point savings still reached a huge number of 10.74 million.
It seems like a lot, but compared to the experience required to accumulate in the Void Refinement Realm, it is actually not enough.
The second is the hint of breakthrough in artistic conception.
"The state of mind is promoted! ...The killing sword intent is promoted to the true intent of destruction!"
"Ability improvement! ... Your spirit is improved! (+150)"
"Comprehension of artistic conception!...The true meaning of cause and effect has been elevated to perfection!"
"Ability Enhanced! ... Your spirit is enhanced! (+300)!"
Combined with the improvement brought about by the breakthrough of the Immortal True Meaning, Lu Qingshan, who was still at the Nascent Soul Stage, had already broken through to the astonishing late stage of the Soul Control Realm (3225/5000).
In terms of the realm of the primordial spirit alone, Lu Qingshan can almost be regarded as the leader in the realm of refining emptiness.
The perfection of the concept of cause and effect has enhanced his two major magical powers.
The first is the premonition, which will no longer be limited to the prediction of the attack point, but even the attributes and intensity of the attack will produce a vague feeling.
Another thing is Gui Wushenyi. He saw that the distance between the spell causal lines was greatly enhanced.
In other words, he will be able to "return to nothingness" through the means of inner sword, rather than being limited to melee combat.
Although no new magical powers were produced, the improvements to the two existing magical powers were very practical enhancements, which greatly improved their applicability. Lu Qingshan was very satisfied.
Quality is more important than quantity.
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Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing. Lu Qingshan is ready for a breakthrough.
The so-called refining of emptiness is actually just a prerequisite for the transformation of the spirit.
At the same time, it is a realm that connects the nine realms of cultivation.
This realm is not like the Golden Elixir and Nascent Soul, which can bring about a physical transformation to the cultivator, nor is it like the God Transformation, which can transform spiritual power into Yuanli and produce a qualitative transformation.
Compared with the Nascent Soul stage, it is more about the amount of accumulated spiritual power.
In short, a breakthrough in this realm can enhance a cultivator's combat effectiveness, but it cannot immediately bring about a leap in strength.
But you can't say that this realm is not important, although this sounds like nonsense - among the nine realms of cultivation, which realm is not important?
However, as a realm that connects the previous and the next, the Void Refining Realm can largely determine the future realm and combat power of the cultivator.
Due to the condensation of Tao seeds, the Refining Void Realm is even called the beginning of the Great Dao.
At this stage, what the monks compete on is accumulation, the practice of magic, and the application of artistic conception.
This depends on the monk's talent and the amount of time he spends.
Precisely because this is a realm of accumulation, the gap is often so large that it is unimaginable due to the amount of accumulation.
This is also the reason why many Nascent Soul cultivators are not as good as Lu Qingshan in the Nascent Soul stage - it is a realm that cannot immediately bring about a transformation in strength. If the cultivator's own accumulation is average among the Nascent Soul cultivators and cannot bring about qualitative change through quantitative change, then he is actually just an enhanced version of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
As a Nascent Soul cultivator, who has Lu Qingshan ever been afraid of?
The power of artistic conception in Lu Qingshan's body is flourishing, and his inner principles and mysteries are emerging one after another, almost reaching perfection.
The cultivators who condense their Dao seeds can be roughly divided into four levels.
One is the mortal species condensed by the lower-level artistic conception. However, unless the cultivator is really dull and has no choice, he will not condense the mortal species so hastily.
Because once the mortal seed is condensed, it means that except for a longer lifespan, the difference between this cultivator and a Nascent Soul cultivator in other aspects is almost the same.
More importantly, for those who have condensed into a mortal, the hope of breaking through to the state of godhood is slim.
The second is the land species condensed by the middle artistic conception.
This is also the most common situation for cultivators in the world of cultivation. Earth seeds can help cultivators in the realm of refining emptiness to widen the gap with cultivators in the realm of Yuanying, and there is also a 10% hope for cultivators to break through to the realm of Shenhua.
Next comes the heavenly seed condensed by the superior artistic conception.
Anyone who can condense the Heavenly Seed is considered a genius-level cultivator with a promising future. Their strength far exceeds that of a Nascent Soul cultivator, and there is a great chance that they will achieve Divine Transformation.
Finally, there is the original Tao seed condensed with the original true meaning. It is so wonderful that I will not say more for now.
Lu Qingshan possesses the four original true meanings. Even if he cannot be surpassed, he is still unprecedented in history.
The Tao seed he condensed is naturally the original Tao seed.
Lu Qingshan's heart moved, and he took out the spiritual jade containing the Lianxu chapter of the Daxia Sutra from his storage ring.
The Taoist patterns on the green spiritual jade are mysterious and the Taoist rhyme is flowing.
He extended his spiritual sense.
The Taoist patterns on the green spiritual jade were mysterious. They did not transform into words for Lu Qingshan to read, but they seemed to come alive.
In an instant, the Dao pattern suddenly turned into a spirit swallow with spread wings, fluttered to the ground, and disappeared into his mind.
After a moment, many wonderful phenomena and profound principles, many mysterious methods, appeared in his consciousness, and they rushed into Lu Qingshan's mind with mysterious and majestic momentum.
Lu Qingshan could not understand so many complicated truths instantly.
But with this way of inheritance, it is engraved in our hearts and hard to forget.
When he opened his eyes again, he found that the Dao pattern on the green ancient jade in his hand that contained the Great Xia Sutra had disappeared, and the entire piece of ancient jade had become gray and ordinary.
The Dao pattern can only be passed down once. Once someone accepts its inheritance, the ancient green jade will lose its charm and the text of the Great Xia Sutra.
This should be considered a "theft prevention" measure.
Lu Qingshan put away the ancient jade with the Taoist pattern disappeared, and immersed himself in the profound meaning of the "Daxia Sutra" again.
"Your requirements for the Refining Void Advanced quest have been met: Immortality, Cause and Effect, Destruction, and Nirvana are all in the Perfect state."
"The Refining Void Chapter of the Great Summer Classic has been detected. Do you want to learn it?"
[Daxia Jing] (Lianxu Chapter)
Level: Dao level
Explanation: The human heart is as square as the heavenly heart. The practice of refining emptiness is divided into four stages (early stage, middle stage, late stage, and perfect stage).
Effect 1: With each level increase, the upper limit of spiritual power increases by 25w.
Effect 2: Spiritual power recovery speed +100%
Effect 3: When the three flowers gather at the top of the head, it is perfect. As a Taoist-level practice, the Great Summer Sutra allows practitioners to temper their spirits up to the maximum limit (nine flowers) several times.
Effect 4: After practicing the Great Summer Sutra and opening the first flower, you will comprehend the supernatural power [Tianxin Fangzhang].
【Tianxin Abbot】
Description: Generates a ten-foot area around the Yuanshen. Within the area, there is no dust and it can resist the Yuanshen's attacks/charming methods.
Supplementary note 1: Passive magical power, permanent existence.
Supplementary explanation 2: Every time a flower blooms, the Tianxin Fangzhang area will extend outward by one zhang.
Effect 5 of the skill: As a Taoist skill, the experience points required to upgrade the Great Summer Sutra will be 200% of that of ordinary skills.
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"study!"
A mysterious feeling suddenly surged into his heart, and Lu Qingshan's mind suddenly became clear.
Those obscure and profound principles began to become clear, and a strange golden thread began to flow out from his limbs and bones.
These golden threads are the pictographs of the power of artistic conception.
The Nascent Soul sitting cross-legged in Lu Qingshan's Dantian began to exhale and spread, and soon a vortex was formed, madly absorbing all the golden threads.
As soon as the magical golden thread was pulled into the body by the Nascent Soul, it began to merge with the magic power that Lu Qingshan had cultivated for several years.
As the golden thread of the original true meaning , it possesses an incomparably powerful force. Only the pinnacle of the Nascent Soul can contain such a powerful force of the true meaning.
This is also the reason why it is said that the path of cultivation is closely linked.
Without the Nine-Pattern Golden Elixir, it would be difficult to condense the ultimate Nascent Soul. Without the ultimate Nascent Soul, how could one withstand the power of the true meaning of the origin and condense the true seed of the origin?
Lu Qingshan no longer hesitated, and circulated the true scriptures, starting to condense the Tao seed as if rubbing a mud ball.
In the Nascent Soul, the intersection of the original true meaning and magic power continued, like waves hitting the rocks, causing waves of tsunamis.
This situation lasted for a whole hour before the terrifying fluctuations gradually subsided.
This means that Lu Qingshan's magic power and his true intention have reached a synergy, and the Nascent Soul will no longer resist the existence of the true intention.
Lu Qingshan took advantage of the situation and moved his mind, gathering all the vortex of golden threads of true meaning and sinking inwards, converging at one point.
After a moment, the vortex had transformed into a colorless, gray Tao seed, which was placed quietly between the brows of the Nascent Soul, with strands of golden threads flowing on it.
Lu Qingshan carefully examined this hard-earned Tao Seed. Judging from its appearance, it looked plain and simple, far different from the appearance of his Nascent Soul.
But when he looked at it more carefully, he found that this Tao seed was made of gold inside, and there were four dark golden lines flashing inside the Tao seed, which was extremely magical.
These four dark gold lines represent the four true meanings of Lu Qingshan’s origins: destruction, nirvana, cause and effect, and immortality.
At the same time, an extremely powerful and mysterious force suddenly emerged from the Tao Seed, spreading to every inch of the Nascent Soul, and then transmitted to Lu Qingshan's consciousness.
This is a kind of mystery, and it is also the first difference between the Void Refining cultivator and the Nascent Soul cultivator: after condensing the Tao Seed, the cultivator can mobilize the power of artistic conception through the Tao Seed, which will greatly save spiritual energy.
You must know that although the power of artistic conception is extremely strong, it also consumes a lot of spiritual energy when used.
Even top cultivators like Lu Qingshan, who have mastered the four major Taoist techniques, often feel that their spiritual power is insufficient, let alone other cultivators.
Lu Qingshan estimated that after condensing the Tao Seed, using the power of artistic conception saved about 50% of the spiritual power loss compared to the Nascent Soul stage.
This will greatly enhance his sustained combat capability, and also make the power of artistic conception gradually become a conventional means that can be used without scruples.
The next step in the practice of the Refining Void Realm is to use the Tao Seed as the foundation.
In this state, what the cultivator has to do is to infuse the Tao seeds with spiritual power to help them bloom into Tao flowers.
From the moment the Tao Seed appears, one enters the realm of refining emptiness.
The first Tao flower bloomed, this is the middle stage of Refining Void.
The blooming of the second Tao flower marks the late stage of Refining Void.
When the three flowers gather at the top of the head, the practice of refining emptiness is complete. At this stage, the cultivator can choose to strive for the realm of transformation of spirit.
But if the cultivator is not willing to enter the God Transformation stage so early and wants to accumulate more foundation, it is also fine. He can choose to continue to infuse the Tao seeds, and then bloom the Tao flowers, up to the stage of Nine Flowers.
However, there are requirements for blooming more than three Tao flowers. You can't just do it if you want to.
The first is the restriction on Dao seeds. Just like if you want a high yield of rice, the quality of the rice seeds must be strong enough, and the same goes for Dao flowers.
Ordinary seeds can produce at most three flowers, earth seeds can produce at most five flowers, sky seeds can produce at most seven flowers, and only the original Tao seeds can produce nine flowers.
The second is the limitation of the primordial spirit. The so-called Tao flower actually blooms from the essence of the human body's essence, energy and spirit.
The higher your spiritual realm is, the more Dao flowers you can bloom.
Both are indispensable.
Finally, there is one more hard condition, the technique you practice must be able to open the Nine Flowers.
Of course, for cultivators who can condense the original Dao seed, this kind of skill must not be difficult to obtain.
At this point, we can also deduce an explanation for the huge difference between the cultivators of the Refining Void Realm - the Nine-Flower Refining Void Realm cultivator and the Three-Flower Refining Void Realm cultivator are both in the Refining Void Perfection Realm, but do you think the two can be the same?
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"You have already mastered the [Great Summer Scripture] (Lianxu Chapter)!"
"Your rank has been raised to Refining Void!"
"You gain the rank bonus of [Original Dao Seed]: Establish your Origin and refine your spirit to return to the Void, your spiritual consciousness is improved by +200. At the same time, every time you advance a small rank in the Void Refining Stage, your spiritual consciousness will increase by +200."
"Your talent [Transcendence Body] has been upgraded and transformed into [True Form Body]!"
[True form of the body]: Hold the spirit in stillness, and the form will naturally become straight.
Those who obtain the true form will have a strong will, and at the same time your lifespan will be extended (two thousand years, now only one thousand four hundred years left).
"You get a new slot for your natal sword! Please note that the attributes of the natal sword added to this slot must not be the same as the attributes of the existing natal sword!"
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Lu Qingshan, who successfully advanced to the realm of refining emptiness, slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air. He opened his eyes, which were clearly black and white, and a gleam of brilliance flashed in his eyes.
The next moment, a black fish appeared in his eyes.
At the same time, four dazzling dark golden lights flew out from the Tao seed in his body, going straight up, and without even asking for his consent, they merged into his eyes in an extremely domineering manner.
An almost unbearable pain came from his eyes, turning into a chill that reached the top of his head.
Lu Qingshan was caught off guard and quickly covered his eyes with his hands, trying to relieve the pain, but found that it was useless.
Pupil technique: Xiezhi.
As a pupil technique of artistic conception, as the four major artistic conceptions that constitute the pupil technique become stronger, the power of Xiezhi will become increasingly stronger.
And at the moment of achieving the Tao Seed, his four major artistic conceptions underwent a transformation, followed by the sudden increase in the power of the Xiezhi and an indescribable pain.
"It's worthy of being my...supernatural power!" Lu Qingshan gritted his teeth in pain.
After a full half a quarter of an hour, the severe pain slowly subsided.
"I want to see how strong you have become..." After recovering, Lu Qingshan carefully let go of his hand, ready to verify what level the pupil technique that made him endure such severe pain had transformed into.
But what Lu Qingshan didn't expect was that the moment he let go, he felt an itch in his pupils, and something shot out uncontrollably.
"?!" After the object flew a short distance, he saw its true form.
A sword energy.
Phew.
The sword energy shot onto the wall of the wooden building.
boom!
The extremely powerful force contained in the sword energy instantly shattered the wooden building where Lu Qingshan was, turning it into ruins.
It can be seen that a hideous-looking monster with a single horn , Xiezhi, emerged from the sword energy.
"Ups and downs, success or failure, Lord Rat was tragically framed!" The Rat King of the West, who was in the same wooden building with Lu Qingshan and was practicing the magic skills seriously, was immediately awakened when the wooden building collapsed and let out an extremely shrill scream.
"Lu Qingshan, someone is here to assassinate Master Rat!"
