Behind the Si Tiantai, a total of four towers stand.
It is said to be a high tower, but it is no different to call it a high pavilion. Its area is comparable to a house, and its height is more than ten feet, second only to the Star Observation Tower.
All these four towers are the residences of the Heavenly Master.
Three of the towers are the residences of the three generations of Celestial Masters before Si Tiantai and have been preserved to this day. The newest one located in the east direction belongs to the fourth Celestial Master, Chen Mu.
There are almost no living people in the Tianshi Mansion. The only ones moving are a few special puppets. The rest is quiet.
Chen Mu rarely comes to Tianshi Mansion, and only comes here occasionally when he is in retreat.
I thought I would be able to get soul points immediately after handing the improved rice to the new emperor, but it turned out that I had to wait for nearly four months for the initial popularity of these rice to dissipate the obsession with the dead soul.
The highest point of Tianshi Mansion.
This is a very quiet room, not a sound can be heard, and the whole room is clean and tidy, without any dust or debris.
The quiet room is not big, only about two feet in diameter, and has no windows except for a door. However, the top is dotted with several extremely large feldspar stones, which illuminate the entire quiet room.
Chen Mu sat in the center of the quiet room.
[Name: Chen Mu]
【Age:18】
[Force: Power of Hundred Elephants]
[Realm: Foundation Building Success]
[Heart and Soul: First Spirit lv49 (+)]
[Soul points: 481 points]
Although there has been no breakthrough in the soul, the breakthrough in the martial arts realm has still caused a lot of changes in the description on the system interface compared to a year ago. After the martial arts broke through to the third level, the description of the realm added the word 'Dacheng'. Specifically,
The force of force has also reached the level of the power of a hundred elephants.
The power of the giant elephant is unparalleled, and the power of hundreds of elephants is gathered into one body. This is the physical strength possessed by a third-level martial arts master, but compared to a second-level magician who can split mountains and break mountains, it is still insignificant.
, not enough to produce any change.
A total of 481 soul points have been accumulated!
Because in the following months, Chen Mu encountered several more dead souls, but the number of soul points he obtained never reached the 300-point mark. It was not until he obtained the soul points of the 'Rice Seed' dead soul that he could gain more soul points.
Suddenly, it surged by more than 200 points, reaching a total of 481 points.
After getting enough soul points, Chen Mu went directly to his Tianshi Mansion without any fuss and went to the quiet room on the top floor for retreat.
In silence.
Chen Mu gathered all his thoughts and thoughts into one, his eyes were as calm as water, without any fluctuations, and he just looked at the depiction on the system interface.
"Then let's get started."
Accompanied by a whisper.
A prompt popped up on the system interface in front of you.
[Tip: Do you want to consume 300 soul points to break through the current realm?]
Chen Mu naturally would not pause.
The golden light flashed across the system interface.
boom!!
Chen Mu felt as if his whole body was exploding from the inside, and a spark seemed to light up in the center of his heart and soul, burning his heart and soul as if it were boiling!
Looking from the outside, one can see that Chen Mu's bright red color that almost saturates the entire soul body is becoming more and more dazzling at this moment. The patches of red are like pieces of burning flames, tempering the entire soul body!
Burning heart!
From the inside out!
Every heart and soul is being burned, and every thought is being tempered.
In this violent calcination, Chen Mu could feel his soul body transforming bit by bit, as if he was moving from illusion to reality step by step!
"Removing the false and preserving the true is for the real person."
The vast words of Master Tiansheng seemed to ring in my ears.
"Being transcendent is the real person."
"Cut off the shackles for the true man."
"Broken destiny is for real people."
"The longevity is endless...for real people!"
It seems to be the voice of the real person born in memory, it seems to be the ancient words transmitted from heaven and earth, it seems to be the ravings of all things, and it seems to be the thoughts of all living beings.
Gradually,
The transformation of Chen Mu's soul body is approaching a certain limit.
That is the limit of mundaneness,
The boundary between heaven and man!
At this moment, Chen Mu finally felt a kind of restraint, the restraint from heaven and earth, the restraint from cause and effect, like a shackle, firmly nested in his body!
The bondage between heaven and earth imprisoned him there, allowing his soul to continue to strengthen, but he was still unable to cross that boundary and form a qualitative change.
Those lines of cause and effect were like silk threads, wrapping around his body, binding him, binding him to the human world, to this mundane world.
It makes it impossible for him to take that step and climb from the mortal world to the nine heavens.
Some of these causal lines come from Chen Yao, some come from Ning Qiang, some come from Lin Yue, and some are from Li Chenxing, Xiyu and others.
"As expected..."
Chen Mu murmured in his heart.
His secret feeling was correct. The worldly cause and effect would indeed become a constraint that broke through the barrier between heaven and man. If he were to marry a wife and have children in the secular world, this constraint would probably be unimaginable.
Today, he does not owe huge karma in the world. He has repaid every karma. Therefore, although there is still a line of karma in his body, it is very shallow.
The fire in my heart still continues to burn.
It seems to burn forever and never stop.
During this continuous burning, Chen Mu could feel that his soul power was becoming stronger and stronger, as if it were a filled cup, and more water was being poured into it.
Although it was almost impossible to hold it, the water was still pouring in and squeezing, making his aura thicker and deeper.
boom!!!
The brewing soul power exploded.
It was as if the entire heart and soul exploded directly from the center.
The terrifying soul power is surging crazily, trying to completely break through that layer of shackles, transcend the shackles of heaven and man, transcend the mundane world, and ascend to the Nine Heavens Immortal Platform.
But that layer of heavenly and human barrier was so strong that it still did not break through under such an impact, and it still bound Chen Mu's soul in place.
No.
To be more precise, Chen Mu's body seemed to have turned into a shackle at this moment, combining with the heavenly and human barrier to block Chen Mu's way forward, blocking him from the immortal road!
Chen Mu immediately knew that this was a lack of his physical realm.
The vague feeling I had before was right. To break through the barrier between heaven and man, to break the shackles, and to transcend, it is indeed necessary to cultivate the body to perfection, and to combine yin and yang to transcend.
It is undoubtedly as difficult as climbing to the sky to just let the soul body break through and break that layer of restraint. After all, it is missing a part of itself, so how can it be possible to break through the limit.
If Chen Mu was trying to break through on his own, this attack would have definitely failed.
The consequences of failure will inevitably be quite serious. Falling into the realm is always minor. In serious cases, it is very likely that the entire soul body will completely collapse and the body will die!
However.
This breakthrough came from the system!
Chen Muna's soul power, which was imprisoned by the shackles and could not break the barrier, just collapsed and was immediately forcibly restrained by an almost boundless terrifying force.
The fire in my heart burned brightly again.
The gathered soul power once again launched an impact on the shackles.
boom!
The impact failed again!
The soul power collapsed once again, and the entire heart and soul seemed to be shattered.
But the disintegrated soul power still had not dispersed, and was unreasonably gathered together again, tempered again, increased again, and launched another attack!
boom!
boom!
boom!!!
Impact after impact, failure again and again.
In this constant impact, Chen Mu felt that his consciousness was about to be shattered. His whole mind felt like a buzzing, and it was difficult to even gather a complete thought.
"I...day."
I didn't expect that this breakthrough would be like this. At this time, those fragmentary thoughts only uttered an unconscious curse.
If a real person from the outside world were watching this scene, his jaw would be enough to drop his jaw.
On the path of a monk, you must first shed the mortal world, then build the foundation, and only then can you reach the barrier between heaven and man until you reach perfection.
To break through this barrier and take the step pursued by hundreds of millions of monks, we need to cut off the worldly cause and effect and get rid of all possible constraints. Then we need an unshakable Taoist heart and a perfect Taoist foundation.
, but also need a heart and soul that can ignite the soul fire!
With these things in mind, we still need to be cautious and careful, and do our best to seek for all accumulation, tempering the true energy to the end that is difficult to temper, and raising the heart and soul to the extreme that can no longer be improved.
even so,
There are still countless monks who have fallen in front of the barrier between heaven and man.
There is not even one person out of ten who can truly transcend this step, completely transcend the mundane world, and become a real person.
But Chen Mu's body here is not only far from being able to break through the barrier between heaven and man, but also two steps away from the completion of foundation building. There are also worldly causes and effects on his body that have not been shaken off. He only relies on his perfect soul body.
, just dare to try to attack the barrier between heaven and man!
It's simply outrageous.
The last person who did this had grass growing up to the sky on his grave.
Even the ancient soul clan in the Inanimate Realm do not dare to attack the barrier between heaven and man with their soul power alone. They also have to cultivate their realm honestly, accumulate layer by layer, and build the foundation step by step before they dare to break it.
territory.
At this moment.
The blessing of the power of the system has never faded, and has become more and more intense, as if it has been fighting against that barrier forever, and the burning inner fire has become so strong that it almost ignited Chen Mu's entire soul.
Boom! Boom! Boom!!!
Chen Mu could no longer remember how many times he had attacked the barrier under the operation of the system.
His consciousness had already been unable to maintain itself under the impact and became fragmented. Every time it tried to gather itself together, it was shattered again because of the failure of the impact.
three times,
five times,
ten times,
A hundred times!
Every impact caused his soul to be broken, and then it was restrained again by the system. And every time it was broken and restored, his soul became stronger.
The entire soul body seemed to have turned from illusion into substance. The dark red soul body was crystal clear, like blood-colored glass, exuding a little luster.
Finally, after countless shocks, Chen Mu's completely numb and sinking consciousness finally heard a completely different voice.
Click.
The sound was so soft that it was almost impossible to hear it.
It is impossible to tell its source, as if it does not come from within the body, nor from the outside world, but from the mysterious connection between oneself and heaven and earth.
This layer of connection gradually crumbled under countless impacts. Finally, this time, cracks appeared and then completely shattered!
The barrier between heaven and man is broken!
Chen Mu's soul body paused for a brief moment, and then his soul power finally began to surge wildly, as if he was swimming like a fish into water. At this moment, he felt an unprecedented freedom!
It was as if the heaven and earth could no longer restrain his body and mind. The fate in the world was completely cut off by him and no longer handed over to heaven and earth.
Destiny is determined by God.
This is a shackles that millions of living beings in this world cannot escape.
As long as one does not transcend the destiny, traces of it can be found in the world, and one can even deduce its past and future, past and present lives, through deductions from the destiny.
But at this moment, Chen Mu cut off the shackles, and his destiny belonged to himself. From heaven to earth, he could no longer deduce his destiny, nor could he deduce his past and future.
also.
Fate is not only the illusory things of the past and future, but also limits a person's lifespan. Even a second-level magician or a first-level martial saint still cannot escape this lifespan.
Theoretically speaking, when you reach the realm of a first-grade martial saint, you should have reached the level of immortality and immortality. However, a martial saint still has a lifespan and is still unable to live beyond two hundred years.
This is destiny.
But at this moment, Chen Mu completely got rid of this shackles.
He could feel that he no longer had the limit of lifespan, which also confirmed the words of Tianzhen Zhenren - the life span is endless, for Zhenren!
As his soul power became stronger and stronger, Chen Mu's broken consciousness gradually recovered, and his scattered thoughts gathered together again, and finally he was completely restored.
"Breakthrough."
This was Chen Mu's first thought after regaining consciousness.
Although the transformation of his soul body was still going on, at this moment, he already felt that he was completely different from before. It was a change that seemed to be earth-shaking!
As far as his eyes can see,
The entire Kyoto could no longer hide his sight.
Every bit of spiritual light in the world cannot escape his discernment. In this endless spiritual light, countless dense threads are intertwined, connecting all living things.
"The line of cause and effect, no, this is destiny!"
A little glimmer flashed in Chen Mu's eyes.
For him now, he can see all the fates of mortals at a glance. There is no need to deduce or calculate. There is no secret in everything.
Whether it is the empress Xiyu, Chen Yao, or Lu Shiyun, they all have countless threads connecting them in countless directions.
Only he was missing.
He was the only one in the entire Kyoto, sitting there cross-legged like this, with no thread connected to heaven and earth. He seemed to be completely transcendent from heaven and earth, and not included in his destiny.
"Is this a first-level magician, half a real person..."
Chen Mu murmured.
Every move in the worldly world can no longer escape his sight. All fate and cause and effect can be clearly seen at a glance. This is the realm after breaking through the barrier between heaven and man.
Although a second-level magician is powerful and can even split mountains apart, in essence, he is still just a mortal, just a mortal with a little more power.
But now.
Chen Mu, who had taken that step, was already a different kind of life in a sense.
Everything in this worldly world, the intertwined destiny and numerology, and even the thoughts and thoughts in the hearts of all mortals can be presented in the mind with just one thought.
This is not only a change in strength, but also a leap in life level, just like what Tianzhenzhen said -
Eliminating the false and preserving the true is for the real person!
"Take this step to cut off the shackles of the world... In fact, even if you don't cut it off, after you really take this step, it will be difficult to return to the world."
Chen Mu shook his head slightly.
finally.
The burning soul fire began to fade away.
Chen Mu clenched his fist and could feel that his current strength was unprecedentedly powerful. He could truly lift mountains and fill the sea with just one thought!
If he attacks with all his strength, he may be able to cover a hundred miles radius with one blow!
This power also far exceeds worldly concepts. It can change the geography of mountains and rivers with a single move of the hand, and can level a city to the ground with a single wave of the hand.
The Demon King Yu, who previously suppressed Kyoto and almost destroyed it, could easily be crushed to death by him with just one finger, just like an ant.
"Under real people, everyone is just an ant."
This thought came to Chen Mu's mind.
Today, he has only made a breakthrough in soul power, and has only reached the realm of a real person at the level of heart and soul. He already has the feeling that all living things are like ants, let alone those complete real people.
However, it is not accurate to say that. After all, his breakthrough route is very unique. He broke through the realm with soul power alone. Even if he only reaches the real person realm with soul power, he is only half a real person, but compared to a complete real person, it may not be as good as a real person.
How much difference will there be?
Now that he has broken through the barrier between heaven and man, he looks back at the Blood Jade Ruler, Jiu Yuan Xi, and Pang Qi, the leader of the Tiansheng Sect who was killed by him before. What he sees is completely different. Those things he seemed to understand before are completely different.
I understand the inscription array, and I understand it clearly at this moment.
This is wisdom.
The so-called wisdom does not mean intelligence and IQ, but the awareness of the soul, which can penetrate the truth of life and all things, and see through the fog to see the essence of all things.
This is also an ability that was completely lacking before the breakthrough.
"First shed the mortal, then build the foundation."
"Foundation building is also divided into small realms, which should be Xiaocheng, Dacheng and Perfection, which respectively correspond to the fourth, third and second levels of martial arts."
"Then there is the unity of heaven and man, which seems to be called the Void Core Realm. It is the realm between the foundation building and the real person. It corresponds to the first-level martial arts master, and also corresponds to the second-level magician... No, to be precise, it should be
It corresponds to the limit of the second-grade magician."
In just a moment, Chen Mu deduced another system that was completely different from martial arts.
This is exactly what Zhuang Cao and He Bai said!
From this point of view, Pang Qi, the leader of the Tiansheng Sect, has probably reached the perfection of the Foundation Establishment Realm, but is still one step away from the Void Pill and has not reached the level of unity between heaven and man.