Lu Qing chose a certain seabed location near the East China Sea as a breakthrough location. The main reason is actually one:

No one wants it.

Here, there is not even a first-level spiritual vein; it is not around the ship's route; there are no resources, and no fishing boats or people will come.

This sea area looks relatively barren, with only some ordinary marine creatures living in this area, and even the wise sea tribes, sirens, and sea beasts will not run here.

It was not Lu Qing's idea to choose this place to make a breakthrough. In fact, he had already started looking for a place that suits him to make a breakthrough ten years ago. The monitoring of this place has been more than eight years.

Only after confirming that there is no danger here will Lu Qing choose to make a breakthrough here.

Of course, there will be some necessary arrangements.

For example, Lu Qing has successively arranged some formations here to serve as safety and cover up the breath of breakthrough; his clone will also lurk nearby as protection when he breaks through.

A guard who is almost invincible in the Nascent Soul stage is enough to deal with most unexpected situations. Unless an opponent at the level of Dharma phase is killed, the clone will not be able to fight against it.

But the level of Dharma phase in this world, not to mention the number of hands, they are at least one big man. After wandering around here, they can also discover Lu Qing through the formation. The probability is too small.

He came here to make a breakthrough, and he could guarantee that no one knew.

After entering the formation and activate the effects of concealment and protection, he took out the materials one by one and began his own breakthrough.

...

The Dharma-Phase Level is the last step in the second major stage of the path of practice.

Condensing strength, building a core of strength in the body, and achieving the golden elixir; the golden elixir transforms, fusion of energy and spirit, forming a Nascent Soul, forming another self; the Nascent Soul gradually grows and touches a certain limit, so that it not only provides strength in the body, but can truly manifest itself, or even replace the physical body, forming a powerful combat power. Then this is the Dharma image.

From the first level of the Nascent Soul stage to the peak of the ninth level, the process is the process of a baby growing up. At the first level, it is really like a born baby; in the middle stage, it is like a grown-up child, although it has become much older, but still has childishness; in the later stage, and even the peak Nascent Soul, if it is released out or can be seen by others, it is almost no different from the appearance of a monk himself, except that the Nascent Soul is a pure energy body and is very fragile.

When it comes to the Dharma aspect, it is to jump in another direction.

The first step Lu Qing had to do was to raise the Nascent Soul from the Dantian, integrate it with his physical body, and further polish the soul, true essence, and physical body.

There is no big danger in this step. As long as you are at the peak of the Nascent Soul and polish your cultivation and realm more thoroughly, you will not encounter too many difficulties.

However, this step will be time-consuming, and this is a step where you can draw the bow without turning back.

This first step is essentially a preliminary preparation for the formation of the Dharma phase, and it is irreversible.

Lu Qinghua completed this step for four months.

At this time, the Nascent Soul in his dantian was gone. His soul, physical body, and the Nascent Soul that represents the source of power were all mixed together.

In other words, now his body and Nascent Soul are no longer different, and are all mixed together.

And the next step will begin to cause risks.

A large amount of external spiritual energy—actually provided by the system—was sucked in by his body, and this speed was tens of times that of ordinary practice.

Theoretically speaking, such a huge power is not a big problem in a short period of time and can last for a long time. Even the monks at the peak of the Nascent Soul can't stand it and will not be able to withstand being protruded.

But at the moment, Lu Qing's state is fine. The complete combination of Nascent Soul and physical body has greatly increased his ability to withstand many times.

This is already the initial form of Dharma appearance.

Without such a bearing power, how could a Dharma-image monk unfold the Dharma-image body that stands tall and upright to fight?

However, as the power carried in the body becomes more and more than many times more than the limit, the so-called "bow-drawing" characteristic is revealed again.

When the Nascent Soul monk breaks through the Dharma image, he will have no room for regret at this point. Once he fails, such a huge power will burst out, and it is definitely not something that the monks themselves can withstand.

In fact, a large number of treasures that assist in breakthroughs are helping to do this: helping monks better control this power, so that these powers can stay in their bodies, accept the mobilization of monks, and not make trouble.

This step continuously inhaling power from the outside world is essentially to lay a solid foundation for the body of the Dharma until it reaches a certain baseline.

It is called the "baseline", but this standard is very, very high. When most monks are still far from this baseline, they can no longer hold on.

In fact, this is also the biggest difficulty.

Before reaching the baseline that satisfies the true formation of the body of Dharma, all Nascent Soul monks who are not prepared enough and have no strength in their strength will fail here.

The means of saving lives are in place, the treasures prepared are reliable enough, and the depth of the power is not high enough. It may be able to use external forces to derive most of the power in the event of failure to save one's life. But despite this, after such a failure, the body and Nascent Soul will be damaged irreversibly.

This will lead to the monks never having a chance to make a breakthrough.

For Lu Qing, there is no problem with this.

He almost didn't feel too much pressure, but as time went by, he felt more and more power being introduced into his body and tempered his unformed Dharma body.

Due to the special features of the Taishang Sutra, Lu Qing absorbed external forces much faster than ordinary monks; in addition, the system provided an almost unlimited supply of spiritual energy, this speed will be even more improved.

According to Lu Qing's various classics, especially the various materials collected by Li Shiwen in order to prepare for the breakthrough of the Dharma image, Lu Qing can see that it will probably take one year to complete this step.

But in fact, when he only had three months into this step, he had already tempered the body of the Dharma phase to the qualified baseline.

Theoretically, Lu Qing can take the next step at this time, that is, the final step to achieve the Dharma image: completely explode and unfold all the power contained in the Dharma image body, and this explosion and development must be carried out in an orderly and controlled manner. In the end, the blank of this Dharma image body will truly become a Dharma image body that stands tall.

Of course, the danger of taking this step is also very great. Many Nascent Soul monks can accommodate so much power in their bodies, which is already the limit. If they explode, they still have to control the explosion? They really can't control it.

The remaining half of the people who are already well prepared usually fall at this point.

Lu Qing felt that he would not have this problem. When he reached the baseline, he was still so at ease, so the problem would not be too big when it was unfolded and exploded.

However, he had actually thought of this beforehand.

If he has a super divine martial art like the "Taishang Sutra" and has multiple top-level spiritual roots such as the "First Holy Body" and a super-top talent that combines the spiritual body, he is only as powerful as an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator, which is too embarrassing.

He did not intend to explode at this time and form a Dharma body.

Since there is still a lot of spare energy, Lu Qing is ready to take this opportunity to cast his Dharma body to a more solidify, which will of course be of great benefit to the future.

So, he continued to gather strength and prepared to try to make a breakthrough until he felt a little struggling.

Of course, he wouldn't put himself too far. If he plays too much, he will not be able to control himself in the end and will break himself up, which will make a big joke.

...

When Lu Qing was in the East China Sea, he was making a breakthrough in his Dharma image, something happened in Qi State in the south.

The capital of Qi, that is, within the Jidu of Jeju, was the powerful minister of the Great Qi, the chief minister of the Great Qi, and Cui Jae-wen, left the country with an unconcealed and gloomy face.

The Kong family, the ruler of Qi, essentially relied on many aristocratic families to achieve control over the Great Qi. If the political structure of Qi is compared with the Yan State, although there are some sects and local cultivators in various places, overall, these sects and small forces must obey the Great Qi court.

But the imperial court was controlled by aristocratic families.

This is somewhat similar to the Yan State in the Li Dynasty.

In addition to the huge influence of Yunxiao Sect, the former Li Dynasty was basically a system within the court where Zhao and Zhang Mo were under the leadership of the Li family.

Qi State went further in this form. The royal family Kong family was almost like a formal king. The one who really held power was the major families below who almost completely controlled the government.

Among these aristocratic families, the Cui family is naturally the one with the most prominent status.

They have a Dharma image, which is the most important factor.

Ten years ago, Cui Qing died on the front line of Wei State. This was of course a bolt from the blue against Qi State, and even more so for Cui State.

Cui Zaiwen is the head of Cui's clan and the spokesperson of Cui Qing. After Cui Qing's death ten years ago, he truly became the leader of Cui's clan.

Over the past ten years, he has worked hard to maintain the authority of Cui in Qi. Although it is definitely not as good as before, under his leadership, at least it is still the largest family in Qi.

The most important thing is that as the chief of the Great Qi Dynasty, after he suffered huge military defeats in the Great Qi Dynasty, he was also working hard to maintain the interests of the entire country of the Great Qi Dynasty.

Once Cui Qing died, the jackals surrounding him were like they had no last concerns and became impatient one by one.

This is the case with the traditional old rival Wei. Although they clearly stipulated in the contract with Da Yan that they were not allowed to invade Qi on a large scale, especially forbidding cultivators above the Nascent Soul to take action. However, the Wei State could not be so ruled. They were still on the border and constantly provoking trouble and eroding. If they hadn't suffered any loss in the war ten years ago, in addition to the lack of death, their losses would have been more aggressive than Qi in the past ten years.

Although Da Yan restricted the Wei State, it does not mean that they were good people. Yan State used Yuzhou, half of Qingzhou as a springboard, and also eroded the territory of Da Qi. In the past, they only cut off half of Qingzhou from Wei State and the other half in the hands of Qi State, but now the entire Qingzhou has fallen into the hands of Yan State.

Even though the Wu Kingdom in the south did not have a direct border with them, it was still eyeing it. In terms of cross-sea transactions, Qi Kingdom suffered countless losses in the past ten years and lost countless benefits...

These things made Cui Jae-wen, the sect leader, exhausted and angry.

Of course he knew that the root of all this was that Qi State lost the only Dharma image. To solve this problem, it was simple - to create a new Dharma image, everything would be much easier to do.

And in his opinion, this candidate can only be himself.

He is at the peak of the Nascent Soul, and his accumulation is not too bad. It is indeed a bit risky to make breakthroughs in magic phases now, but as long as he is provided with national strength, there is still a chance of success.

He is willing to gamble this.

If the resources of 20 million are not enough, just use 40 million to spend!

Under the huge sense of crisis, he felt that he could no longer delay. During these ten years, it was supposed to be the ten years for Qi to recuperate after the war, but ten years have passed, not only did they not recover their blood, but instead became weaker and weaker.

However, the feedback he received from the major powerful families of Qi State made him extremely disappointed.

They did not say it explicitly, and even verbally supported him to make breakthroughs, but when it involved specific interests, he was just about the matter.

Although the Cui family is strong, it is impossible to provide it with the power of a family. Many aristocratic families, even the royal family Kong family, are unwilling to take out much of their things.

This made him extremely angry!

He could understand the ideas of these aristocratic families: After finally your Cui family's Dharma image has died, now everyone can be on an equal footing. Supporting you, Cui Jae-wen, to become a new Dharma image, isn't it equivalent to inviting another Buddha on his head?

But... Isn't it more important that Qi State has no law? At this time, I was still thinking about internal power and profit. Will they have any good life after Qi State is completely eroded in the future?

In his opinion, he was no longer afraid of life and death, and was taking huge risks to prepare to break through the Dharma image. These people were actually dragging their feet!

"Stupid pig!" Sitting on the carriage, he cursed with regret.

Today, for the last time he had a conversation with representatives of many aristocratic families in front of the emperor, and the final result still disappointed him.

So he left Jidu in anger and prepared to return to his hometown Dongzhou.

"You don't support me, do you think I can't do anything?"

This was what he thought in his mind.

He also hesitated that the secret place in Dongzhou was extremely evil and not a good place, but it was also the last chance for him to break through.

As for what will happen then... Cui Zaiwen can no longer care about it.

No matter what, it will become a Dharma image first!

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Chapter completed!