The spiritual roots obtained by Xu Dao are not thunder veins, fire veins, wind veins...but ghost veins.
This lineage is inherited from the authority held by the master of the Yaksha Sect after he was promoted to the realm of golden elixir. From then on, Xu Dao's Yin God can devour ghost souls and flesh and blood Yang Qi at will, thereby increasing mana, repairing the Yin God, and the soul is extremely powerful.
It is difficult to be killed in one fell swoop.
And this is also the reason why although the master of the Yasha Sect is dying of old age, his body is broken, and even the great elixir in his body has been taken away, the other party is still able to survive and even thinks about finding another chance.
This is all because the Yaksha Sect Master's ghost can eat ghosts. Even if he loses the nourishment of his own body, he can slowly recover his soul and survive for several years.
And unlike ordinary ghosts that eat human souls, the ghost-veined Yin God swallows the souls of ghosts. It can not only turn the ghost souls into yin energy and swallow up the spiritual energy, but also use the form to complement the form, plunder the souls of others, and even
Memory can even split thoughts, change them in countless ways, and control a group of ghosts.
The reason why Xu Dao's current Yin Shen is not just a skeleton, but has eyes growing in his eye sockets, is related to this ghost-eating talent.
Before building the foundation, the three-yin white bone fork he practiced happened to be inlaid with the eyeball of a one-eyed Taoist priest, and this eyeball still retained its original shape and had not been melted into yin energy.
When Xu Dao planted his spiritual root, his Yin spirit derived itself, using the three-yin white bone fork as the foundation to create the entire white bone body. The one-eyed eye inlaid on the fork was naturally and completely devoured.
With the talent of ghost veins, Xu Dao's Yin Shen body complemented its shape, and a pair of eyes grew on the body, which was different from a mere skeleton.
In other words, although Xu Dao's current Yin Shen Dharma body has only condensed all the bones of his body, he can supplement the form by devouring the souls of Taoist priests of the same level or even higher levels, and transform his own Yin Shen Dharma body into shape.
The body is repaired completely and a human body is constructed.
As for why it is necessary to cultivate the body of the Yin God into a human body, instead of cultivating the Yin God into various ghosts and monsters like the Taoist priests of the Yaksha Sect; or as Xu Tao learned in the White Bone Temple, to cultivate the body of the White Bone Fine Gold.
Skeleton bodies such as ice muscle, jade bone body, etc.
This is because after Xu Dao swallowed up the remnant soul of the master of the Yaksha Sect, he had already obtained the principles of orthodox immortal cultivation from his mind.
It turns out that in the stage of foundation building, the significance of establishing the realm is not only to plant spiritual roots and communicate with the world, but also to forge a furnace and make a cauldron to temper the soul itself into a suitable body - the Yin Shen Dharma Body.
The subsequent condensation and refining of evil spirits are the process of tempering the body with the evil spirit. The evil spirit binds the five internal organs, and the evil spirit condenses the six internal organs, so that the legal body gradually becomes complete.
Only heretics will pursue power at this stage and cultivate their own Yinshen into various alien forms, such as wolves, tigers, leopards, demons and monsters, or they may make humans inhuman or ghosts, thereby compromising their potential.
The orthodox Taoist Taoism uses one's own physical body as a reference in the foundation building stage, extracts the essence and removes the dregs, and uses the true energy to condense a new, perfect "human body".
The explanation for this, Xu Dao learned from the remnant soul of the Yaksha Sect Master, is that human beings are the leader of all races and the destiny of nature.
The human body is the body of the Tao. If the demons and immortals in the world want to cultivate the Tao, they must first refine the human body, and then they can practice the Tao and walk on the Tao.
Therefore, those who practice Taoism must not give up one thing for the other and become beasts and ghosts. Otherwise, they will fall into the lower vehicle, cut off their own path to eternal life, and be unable to achieve elixirs throughout their lives.
However, after Xu Dao learned this, he secretly doubted this explanation.
After all, according to what is explained in "Hundred Explanations of Cultivation", the reason why Taoists need to plant spiritual roots is because the human body and human soul are inherently limited, so they need to use false cultivation to jump to their own life level.
And it must be said that this kind of self-proclaimed human body is favored by nature, which feels a bit bragging.
After careful consideration, he guessed that the real reason for tempering the Yin God into a human body may be another truth explained in "Hundred Solutions to Cultivation":
The Taoism and Dharma in the world are all derived from the human body and the human soul as the foundation. Once you are no longer in human form, you will naturally lose the opportunity to practice many methods, let alone seek immortality.
Moreover, Taoists shape the Yin Shen according to the appearance of their own bodies, which can be used as a reference at any time. They can also look inside and see every detail. Compared with cultivating the Yin Shen into other forms, it is naturally twice the result with half the effort and the possibility of making mistakes is greater.
Small.
When the Yaksha Sect Master was in the foundation building stage, he took a wrong path because he didn't understand this truth.
So much so that during the foundation building stage, it cultivated the body of Yin Shen into a Yaksha ghost, which led to the final hopeless elixir. It was not until the grave was dug up and a heretic relic was found that a fake elixir was refined.
After that, he established the Yaksha Sect, recruited many disciples, divided the golden elixir method into six, and trained batch after batch of Taoist disciples and Taoist priests who practiced the six parts of the Yin Ghost Body.
He also wanted to rely on the ghost-eating talent gained after forming a fake elixir to swallow the souls of other Taoist priests and restore the ghost body of the yaksha to the human form.
When Xu Dao thought about this, he remembered the physical appearance of the Yaksha Sect Master he saw on the mass grave, and immediately thought to himself:
"No wonder the six Taoist priests of the Yaksha Gate are all in the shape of complete ghosts, but the boss of the Yaksha Gate has a majestic appearance. It turns out that this guy wants to be a human being again."
Of course, judging from the performance of the Yaksha Sect Master over the past one or two hundred years, the opponent's plan has obviously failed. No matter how much it repairs the Yin Shen body to look like a human being, its essence has already become inhuman.
Hard to reverse.
If you want to reverse the situation, the other party can only crush the fake elixir, destroy the magic body, and go through the path of building the foundation all over again. However, such a path of overthrowing and starting over will lead to a life of death, and the other party does not dare to do it.
After thinking quietly and clarifying these things, Xu Dao withdrew his thoughts and looked at the skeleton that his Yin spirit had transformed into, feeling very happy in his heart.
He originally thought that when building the foundation, he only needed to use god-level thoughts as spiritual roots to plant, but now he knows what the real practice of the foundation building stage is.
However, these things are not introduced in the "Hundred Explanations of Cultivation". The book only warns Taoists to follow the right path and keep their original intention, but it does not tell them what the right way is and what their original intention is.
Thanks to Xu Daoyin Shen's spiritual root obtained after building the foundation, which is a ghost vein, which can eat ghosts and take souls, and the remnant soul of the Yaksha Sect Master happened to fall into his hands and was swallowed by him, so he was allowed to live in this world.
By chance, I obtained this information from the other party's remnant soul.
Otherwise, even if he succeeds in building the foundation, he may go astray, cut off his immortality potential, or take many detours.
As soon as he thought of this, Xu Dao took a long breath in his heart and sighed again and again, lamenting that the road is difficult and it is not easy to practice casual cultivation.
After he finished sighing, he looked at his current sinister appearance and began to frown secretly again.
Because although he has not yet practiced any foundation-building Taoist method, due to the influence of the "Three Yin White Bone Cross" spell, compared to the authentic Taoist disciples, his current Yin Shen only has a skeleton and no flesh and blood fascia.
Xu Daode hurriedly restored the Yinshen to human form before practicing the Foundation-Building Dao method, shaping the fleshy fascia, nine orifices, meridians, etc., and then he could practice the Foundation-Building Dao method and shape the Dharma body.
Otherwise, he will either find it difficult to perform the exercises, or he will have to follow the other side and fall into the same situation as the master of the Yaksha Sect.
Click, click, click!
In the temporary cave, Xu Dao shook his own bones and spirits, and felt happy again:
"Thanks to the fact that the ghost vein spiritual roots can eat ghosts, replenish the form with the form, and can also harvest the souls of ghosts and monsters to shape the underworld, otherwise compared to the Xuanmen disciples who can practice the foundation-building method after building the foundation, I have to first
It will take ten or even more than ten years to make up for it."
In the orthodox Taoist sects, the spells practiced in the Qi refining stage are not only able to break through the realm, but also prepare for the creation of a legal body after the foundation is established. It allows the person's Yinshen to maintain the form of the human body after the foundation is established, which is convenient later.
Practice the foundation-building method.
Just like the "Three Yin White Bone Cross" practiced by Xu Dao in the White Bone Temple, this method laid the foundation for him to turn into a skeleton monster. After the spiritual root is planted, the Yin God will only grow bones on its own.
, does not grow flesh, fur or other things.
It's just that these orthodox breathing spells often don't have much power, they are just pure breathing spells.
Therefore, many Taoist books suggest that it is not only best for Taoist boys to only practice the breathing method, but also for Taoist disciples to only focus on the breathing method and not covet the power of fighting spells.
And like Xu Dao, who practiced the "Three Yin White Bone Cross" and other object-repelling spells during the Taoist stage, he may have a powerful spell that can deal with people, but after building the foundation, he will suffer a big loss.
It takes ten times the effort to find it back.
Although it is not as difficult as the master of the Yaksha Sect to turn back, he still has to repair his body layer by layer, and the time spent in delay is calculated in ten years.
Of course, when there are hundreds of rivals fighting to build a road, with a powerful object-repelling spell, a Taoist can often not only snatch supplies, but also save his life.
On the contrary, those Taoist disciples who are dedicated to the Taoist path and only practice breathing techniques are likely to die before they can build the foundation, or because their methods are not powerful enough, they cannot get the foundation-building spiritual roots at all, or the spiritual roots they obtain cannot form elixirs.
, and ultimately all efforts were wasted.
As a result, it is impossible to judge whether it is better to accumulate more and take advantage of the situation, or to strike preemptively.
It can only be blamed on the lack of spiritual energy in today's world and the lack of resources. It is difficult to find a way without fighting or grabbing.
No matter what, Xu Dao suddenly felt sad.
After Yin Shen succeeded in building the foundation, because he came from a different background, if he wanted to walk on the high road and practice the foundation building technique, he had to recover his body first.
Suddenly, Xu Dao thought of the ghostly Taoist priests such as Long Tongue, Bronze Head, and Duo Er, and secretly thought it was a pity.
These Taoist priests were carefully raised by the Master of the Yasha Sect. If he refined the souls of the other five Taoist priests, he would be able to restore the Yinshen to human form in a short time.
It’s just that except for the one-eyed Taoist priest, several other Taoist priests have become the possessions of the Yaksha Sect Master, and most of the fragments of the Yaksha Sect Master’s legal body, as well as the most important Great Pill, have all fallen into the possession of the White Bone Temple Master.
in hand.
Although he refined the remnant soul of the Yaksha Sect Master, the other party was still a ray of the remnant soul. He could only barely let his spiritual roots take root. He spent the day building the foundation on the spot, but he could not bring more.
What a benefit.
This made Xu Dao immediately covet him:
"If you have Master Yaksha's fake elixir in hand and refine this elixir, you will definitely be able to pass the Ligen realm in one leap without asking for the realm to be doubled."
Desires rolled around him for a moment, and ghostly aura suddenly appeared all over his body, and his skull made a rattling sound, showing that he was evil and not a good person.
In addition, there was another unknown hatred rushing straight to his forehead, making Xu Dao's heart tremble.
This hatred did not come from Xu Dao's heart, but from the remnant soul of the Yaksha Sect Master he had refined. He resented that the legal body was destroyed, the great elixir was taken away, and the hundreds of years of conspiracy came to nothing.
Although the ghost-eating talent brought by the ghost pulse allows him to obtain the memories in the souls of the ghosts he eats, the influx of unfamiliar memories into his brain will bring many side effects.
If Xu Dao had not been firm in his Taoist heart and had practiced dozens of mind-purifying spells in his mind, I am afraid that the moment he swallowed the remnant soul of the Yaksha Sect Master, his memories of just a few decades would have been overturned by the opponent's more than 400-year-old memories on the spot.
His memory was washed away and his temperament changed drastically.
Therefore, he discarded 99% of the other party's soul memory without even looking at it, leaving only the memory purely related to the practice method.
But even so, Xu Dao still has an unstable Taoist mind, so he must clear his mind and calm his energy to stabilize his spiritual platform.
After a while, he slowly opened his eyes again, a trace of fear flashing in his eyes.
It is said that although he was worried about the consequences of his unstable Taoist mind and annexed the memory of the master of the Yaksha Sect, he also gained a lot of benefits and gained insight into the key points of cultivation in the foundation building stage.
But what Xu Dao wanted most, he still couldn't get, that is the immortality method that directly points to the golden elixir!
Xu Dao originally thought that when the six Yin Ghost Techniques were combined, it would be a complete Golden Elixir Technique, but according to the memory of the Yaksha Sect Master, this was not the case.
The six Taoist methods may allow him to cultivate the Yin spirit into a human form by himself, and he can condense evil spirits and refine Gang, but the last step of forming elixirs is missing, as if someone has deliberately erased it.
Xu Dao rummaged through the memories of Master Yaksha and frowned.
Strictly speaking, the path of the Six Yin Ghost Taoism has been crooked from the beginning. As long as you practice any one of them, it is absolutely impossible for a Taoist to form elixirs on his own!
Because in the foundation-building realm, immortal Taoist priests are not like warrior Taoist priests who sense the heaven and earth as a furnace to cook their bodies and sublimate their blood; instead, they use their spiritual roots as keys to communicate and sense the mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, sun, moon, and stars in the heaven and earth.
The majestic existence leads to great power and washes away the Yin Shen.
Moreover, the things that immortal Taoist priests can sense have been limited since the time they planted their spiritual roots. Only spiritual roots at the level of gods can communicate with the corresponding mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, sun, moon and stars.
As for the spiritual roots at the level of ghosts, the only things they can communicate with are jackals, tigers, leopards, demons, monsters, etc. They do not contain the principles of heaven and earth, they are heretical, and they are inherently incapable of immortality.
The things visualized and communicated by the Six-door Yin Ghost Method, as its name suggests, are six kinds of ghosts. Even during the career of the Yaksha Sect Master, he never visualized the incarnation of the great avenue, and followed the side path.
What you are visualizing is ghosts and ghosts.
Only after it formed the elixir, did it know that the thing that the ghost veins should communicate with was not a specific ghost, ghost, or living creature, but the eternal underworld flowing under the Nine Netherworld!