After half a day, Zhao Sheng accompanied Qingshan Patriarch and the two ancestors to the edge of the Secret Mansion with a smile on his face, and then sent them out of the Secret Mansion.
After a while, Zhao Sheng flew back to the terrace and sat on the jade couch again. With a flick of his right hand, a volume of ancient books fell into his hand.
He carefully opened the ancient book and read it with hungry eyes, completely forgetting what happened just now.
If someone stood behind Zhao Sheng and looked at the pages of the ancient book at this time, they would be extremely surprised to find that the pages were completely white, with not even a word on them.
The reason for this is that this unknown ancient book was "handwritten" by Zhao Xuanjing with the power of his soul. Without the Nascent Soul-level divine mind and the specific "frequency" of the divine mind, it would be impossible to understand the "text" on it.
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There is not even a name on the cover of this ancient book, but it is one of the most important details of the Nantian Zhao family.
Because this book records all the cultivation experience of a true king who transformed into gods, it can be said that every word is precious and small, and the meaning is great.
The ancients said: "One sentence can be truly preached, but thousands of books can be falsely preached."
In Zhao Sheng's opinion, this unknown ancient book is undoubtedly a "legendary classic".
After just a few cursory readings, he gained a lot, solved countless doubts in his mind, and thus roughly saw the way forward for spiritual practice.
Although he had entered the realm of Nascent Soul in his previous life, because he had no family or sect, he was not very clear about the path of cultivation after Nascent Soul, especially the various training links and problems, which made him even more confused.
As a result, in the decades after he was promoted to Nascent Soul, his progress in cultivation was minimal, and his strength improvement was frighteningly slow.
But after reading this classic, Zhao Sheng suddenly realized.
It turns out that it’s not that I’m slow to progress, but that I haven’t found the true direction of practice at all.
From the day he started cultivating immortality, Zhao Sheng knew that there were four major stages in cultivating immortality: "refining essence to transform qi, refining qi to return to spirit, refining spirit to return to emptiness, and refining emptiness to combine with Tao".
Nascent Soul is the fourth realm after refining qi, building foundation, and golden elixir. From the perspective of the four major stages, it is in the second half of "refining qi and restoring spirit".
At this time, "refining qi" is no longer the focus of cultivation for immortal cultivators, but "returning spirit" is.
The word "huan" actually expresses the true meaning of cultivation in the Nascent Soul Realm.
"Huan" also means to complete something.
You must know that the important sign of becoming a true king of gods is to become a soul.
Therefore, the most important thing for those who are cultivating immortals in the Nascent Soul Realm during the stage of "refining Qi and returning to God" is to achieve Yuan Shen.
However, the soul is based on the Great Dao, so it is as difficult as reaching the sky to achieve success.
Why are the ancestors of Yuanying so attracted to Tianwai Xuanying? Just because there is a certain probability that the surface of Tianwai Xuanying contains traces of the Great Law.
These "secrets" have always been passed down orally without leaving any words.
Zhao Sheng was a lonely man in his previous life, so how could he know such top-secret information?
Now that he had finished reading, he beat his chest and sighed: Monopoly of knowledge is really a great harm to cultivating immortality!
Thinking of this, Zhao Sheng couldn't help but sigh. He had planted trees for several generations, but now a towering tree finally grew in his family, which could protect him in his practice and point out the way forward for him.
Cultivation in the Nascent Soul Realm is simple to say, it is nothing more than "returning to the spirit".
But in fact, 99% of the Yuanying ancestors can't even reach the threshold of becoming a god, so how can they achieve the goal of becoming a soul.
There are only three reasons:
First, there is a lack of scriptures that directly point to the soul;
Secondly, the understanding of the laws of the Great Dao is insufficient, and the foundation of the soul cannot be consolidated.
Thirdly, the spiritual energy in the Tianzhu Realm is thin, and there are very few places with abundant spiritual energy that can satisfy the cultivation needs of the ancestors of Nascent Soul.
On the surface, the Yuan Ying ancestors are all aloof and carefree like immortals, but in reality they are a bunch of miserable "paupers".
If you are satisfied with the realm of Nascent Soul and stop moving forward, it is okay. At least you can still live freely for thousands of years and enjoy the ultimate happiness.
But if you want to strive for a higher realm, it will be hard.
Let’s not talk about refining the gods for the moment, just increase the power of magic.
Because the level of mana is too high, the aura environment below the third level of spiritual veins is no longer sufficient for the cultivation of Nascent Soul cultivators.
Even if you can be satisfied, the spiritual energy you draw from heaven and earth to refine is disappointingly slow.
Therefore, on weekdays, Yuanying ancestors usually have three ways to practice. One is to practice with high-grade or even top-grade spiritual stones, and the other is to take high-grade spiritual pills with the lowest level three. The most luxurious and fastest way to enter is to directly
Refining Xuan Ying from Heaven.
But Tianwai Xuanying is so precious and rare that even Zhao Xuanjing is reluctant to "waste" it.
You must know that a sufficient number of extraterrestrial Xuanying is indispensable for opening the Ascension Formation.
Although the Ascension Formation is no longer usable at this time, what about the future? What if the Ascension Formation is repaired by a great talent one day in the future?
To sum it up in one sentence. The increasingly declining aura environment of the Tianzhu Realm can no longer satisfy the cultivation of the Nascent Soul Realm.
If you want to become a soul, you can't just rely on "killing people of the same level" or "seizing opportunities". After all, you cannot lack the support of heaven.
Coincidentally, Zhao Sheng now has great merits and virtues, and the most important thing he lacks is the destiny of heaven.
So as long as he has enough resources, he has a high chance of reaching the top of this world.
Let’s not talk about the too-distant future for the time being, and focus on the present.
Taking the Nascent Soul Realm as an example, this realm can be divided into early, middle and late stages. The basis for the division is very complicated, but there is also a set of simple and rough evaluation criteria.
It can be distinguished by the "height" of the Nascent Soul body. From one to three inches high is the early Nascent Soul stage, from four to six inches is the middle stage, and from seven to nine inches is the late Nascent Soul stage.
When the height exceeds one foot, there is a high probability that the body will transform into a soul. Of course, it is not guaranteed. There are some ancestors of the Nascent Soul who are super strong, but their understanding of the laws of the great avenue is insufficient, and it is difficult to become a god after all.
It’s great to enjoy the shade under the big tree!
What surprised Zhao Sheng was that in the second half of the ancient book, there was actually a spiritual cultivation method called "One Yuan Initial Jue" recorded.
According to the records in the book, this method was given by the great power of the upper world. Zhao Xuanjing once said in the book that this method played a huge role in why he was able to successfully achieve Yuan Shen.
There are only more than a thousand words in "Yi Yuan Shi Jue". The writing is clumsy and obscure, and the meaning is vague. At first glance, it is confusing.
Unfortunately, there is no comment on this technique in the book. Zhao Sheng does not think that Zhao Xuanjing forgot to write it down. He must have deep meaning in doing so.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zhao Sheng read it many times and determined that "One Yuan Initial Jue" should be an "orthodox" Yuanshen method, which is characterized by neutrality, peace, and nothingness.
The worry of going crazy.
The eight characters at the beginning of the chapter, "One yuan is the beginning, all things are renewed," seem to point out the main purpose of the exercise, and also seem to contain countless profound meanings.
Zhao Sheng read these eight words no less than a thousand times, and after chewing them over and over again, he suddenly had an idea and vaguely grasped the essence.
The renewal of all things is actually the word "change". Because everything is in the process of "change", and the same is true for the great road.
For Yuanying monks, the key to the "change" of the soul into the Yuanshen lies in the original "one", and Yuan Naiyuan can also point to the way.
The beginning of the One Yuan should be said to be based on the law of the Great Dao. Only by clearly seeing the "changes" of the Dao in all phenomena of heaven and earth can one achieve the Yuan Shen.
Zhao Sheng didn't know if he understood it correctly, but...
With a thought in his mind, the Book of Hundreds of Worlds slowly rose from the depths of the Sea of Souls. After flying into the air, the pages of the book opened, casting down streaks of clear light.
When he turned to the fifth page, Zhao Sheng stared at the vivid "small world" of the sea of stars, and a massive amount of information poured into his mind instantly...
After a dozen breaths, the Book of Hundreds of Worlds sank into the depths of his soul again.
Well!
Zhao Sheng felt dizzy and couldn't help but rub his eyebrows with his hands, but a happy smile appeared on his face.
With the Star God World as a reference, Zhao Sheng was sure that his understanding was correct.
But compared to this, he actually has greater gains.
At that time, he drew on the existence form of the Star God and deduced the secret technique of "Star Gate Thousand Hearts". The original intention was to achieve the power of one mind and a thousand uses by splitting the soul.
But now, Zhao Sheng discovered that this divine soul technique actually has a more important purpose.
It actually has the prototype of a Yuan Shen method, but one part is missing.
If the essence of "Star God Thousand Heart Jue" is "split", then what it lacks is the word "hehe".
When the mastery of this method reaches the state of Thousand Hearts, when Zhao Sheng comprehends the Great Dao, he will be able to comprehend the law of a certain Dao from a thousand different angles, just like a thousand Nascent Soul Ancestors are participating in the same process.
When the fire is almost done, practice the technique in reverse, from a thousand souls to a hundred souls, then to ten souls, and finally merge into one.
If his idea is successful, it shouldn't be difficult to achieve Yuan Shen.
Thinking of this, Zhao Sheng's mind was flooded with inspiration, and he had some premonition that his idea would definitely succeed!
"Huh? Everything went so smoothly! Could this be the meaning of the law of heaven, which is invincible?!" He suddenly thought strangely in his heart.
An hour later, Zhao Sheng suddenly stood up and flew down the terrace.
Not long after, he came to a core training room underground in the secret mansion.
The spiritual energy here is extremely rich, enough for Jindan Zhenren to practice.
But Zhao Sheng doesn't care about these "thin" spiritual energies.
He waved his hand and cast a spell, and a shielding barrier immediately appeared on the walls around the training room.
Then, Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged on the thousand-year-old warm jade bed. With a flick of his right hand, there was a top-quality spiritual stone in his palm that was as bright as the sun and had a whirlpool of spiritual energy condensed inside.
Then, he placed the spirit stone in his Dantian, clasped it with both hands, and the Nascent Soul body in the soul sea also sat cross-legged in the air.
Spiritual thoughts like flowing water surged out from the center of the eyebrows and penetrated into the interior of the top-quality spiritual stone. Then, under the guidance of spiritual thoughts, wisps of extremely pure spiritual energy slowly precipitated and submerged into the sea of dantian.
For a moment, a drizzle began to fall over the Dantian Qi Sea. The raindrops fell into the mana "lake" and were quickly assimilated into traces of mana.
This process starts over and over again, very slowly.
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Three months later, Zhao Sheng sighed softly, put the exhausted top-quality spiritual stones into his storage bag, then stood up and walked out of the training room.
He was already prepared for the slow progress of his cultivation, and was not as impatient as other novice Nascent Souls.
With these three months of buffering, the entire Zhao family should have adapted to the addition of another Nascent Soul Ancestor in the family.
It happened that at this time, Zhao Sheng, who was "quiet and restless", was scheduled to travel around the family.
The purpose is not to meet the descendants of the clan, but for the Dao Zang of the entire Zhao family in Nantian.
It is important to know that in practicing Buddhism, it is most taboo to work behind closed doors, and it is essential to explore the strengths of others in order to broaden your knowledge.
As soon as he left the customs, he saw a young man in green robe guarding the door.
As soon as he saw Zhao Sheng coming out of seclusion, the man immediately bowed and saluted: "Blessings, ancestor!"
Zhao Sheng said casually: "I have been in seclusion for three months. Is there anything important going on in the Secret Mansion?"
"Ancestor, there is nothing going on in the Secret Mansion, but the family ancestors have sent congratulatory gifts one after another, and the clan elders also asked you when will you hold the Nascent Soul Ceremony?"
"Where is the thing?" Zhao Sheng said in a very calm tone.
Upon hearing this, the young man in green robe quickly took out a storage bag from his return bag and handed it to the ancestor.
Zhao Sheng took it casually, and when he looked inside with his spiritual mind, he couldn't help but reveal a bit of surprise.
Zhao's Nascent Soul Ancestors are really very down-to-earth and generous with their actions. Five of them directly gave a top-quality spirit stone, while the rest gave different gifts, such as magic weapon-level enchantress puppets, large magic weapons.
Boats, spiritual mine land deeds, etc., but their value is about the same as a top-quality spiritual stone.
It can be said that the value of these gifts alone is several times richer than Zhao Sheng's net worth.
This shows how arrogant and arrogant Zhao’s Yuanying is!
Later, Zhao Sheng put the storage bag into his arms, and then ordered the young man in green robe to step back.
Not long after, others came to the peach tree, waved their hands, and a ray of Dharma light instantly sank into the trunk of the tree and disappeared.
After a while, a layer of emerald light suddenly appeared on one of the trunks of the peach tree. After a moment of distortion and blur, a fat old man with a rosy complexion and full of good fortune suddenly emerged from the tree.
"Old Sixteen, I'm sleeping soundly, why did you wake me up?" The fat old man complained hurriedly as soon as he appeared.
Zhao Sheng said with a smile: "Second Ancestor, I have to go out to the mountain. The secret mansion cannot be left unattended, so I have to wake you up. Please forgive me."
When the fat old man heard this, he looked strange and said: "I see, has your kid changed his mind?"
"No, I just need to go to the family Taoist library to read some books." Zhao Sheng answered truthfully.
This fat old man's name is Zhao Qingbi, and he is the only remaining elder of the Zhao family with the surname Qing.
But back then, Zhao Sheng was so powerful that he overpowered all his peers, so he was not very familiar with his peers.
After he left and never returned, Zhao Qingbi suddenly stood out from the clan and eventually became the second Yuan Ying ancestor of the Zhao family.
Therefore, Zhao Qingbi was highly respected in the Zhao family in Nantian. Although his strength was not as good as that of Zhao Changdu in the late Yuanying period, his status was second only to his ancestor Zhao Xuanjing, so he was honored as the second ancestor.
The third ancestor was reduced to Zhao Changdu.
As for why Zhao Sheng is the sixteenth ancestor and not the fourteenth ancestor, the reason is very simple.
Because there are still two Yuan Yings of the Zhao family, Zhao Haikui and Zhao Youxuan, lurking in the Netherworld.
These two people are from the Zhao family's Anbu, and are rarely known to outsiders.
well!
The fat old man sighed, waved his hand and said: "Go, go! Without you, the old man can't sleep anymore. You know, one sleep is worth three years. The old man still wants to live for another eighteen hundred years."
Zhao Sheng smiled but did not answer.
This old boy looks harmless, but his hands are actually full of blood. After all, he is a strong man who came out of the war between the two worlds, so he is indispensable for being ruthless.
Furthermore, just listen to Zhao Qingbi’s words. Anyone who believes everything is a fool.
Zhao Sheng knew very well that the secret mansion was always under the surveillance of the old boy.
The "sleep" he mentioned actually meant that the spirit of the soul was integrated into the ancient flat peach tree. The purpose was not only to monitor the secret palace, but more importantly, to use the spiritual peach tree to achieve enlightenment.
There are countless roads to the soul, and Zhao Qingbi relied on ancient spiritual roots to understand the Muxing Avenue, which can be regarded as a completely new path.
Although the success rate is not high, there is some hope.
What's even more amazing is that even if he fails, he can still integrate his soul into the heart of the spiritual tree and maintain his sanity, thereby "extending his life" for thousands of years.
A few days ago, when Zhao Sheng noticed Zhao Qingbi's thoughts, he couldn't help but admire this person's imagination. He really dared to think and do it!