Chapter Five Hundred and Twelve: The Road to Sanctification
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is thousands of years.
Under the leadership of Li Yizhi, the human race rose strongly and conquered a large area. The clan territory expanded from the original radius of tens of millions of miles to the current radius of nearly ten billion miles.
The human race who were kept in captivity by various races were basically rescued by Li Yizhi.
For this reason, several decisive battles took place between the human race and the lich tribe, as well as the dragon, phoenix and unicorn tribes.
With the innate spiritual treasure in hand, Li Yizhi's third life was so brilliant that he was revered as the Three Saints of the human race, making the human race become the top clan in the world.
Yes, more than 8,000 years ago, Li Yizhi finally cut off his future body and broke through to the late stage of Dao Cutting Realm.
With his cultivation in the late stage of the Dao-Slaying Realm, his combat power has reached the level of the early Quasi-Saint.
After thousands of years of hard training, Li Yizhi's cultivation has improved by leaps and bounds.
In addition to successfully cultivating all the Five Emperors' Dao Dharma, he has also refined forty of the forty-nine prohibitions of the Donghuang Bell, leaving only the final nine.
Because of this, Li Yizhi gained an extremely profound understanding of the way of music.
Because Donghuang Bell carries the way of sound.
If we were to list all the laws he understood in detail, it would be 60% of the Tao of Yin and Yang, 60% of the Tao of the Five Elements, 60% of the Tao of Sound, and 70% of the Tao of Reincarnation.
Human race temple, in a certain palace.
Li Yizhi was sitting cross-legged on the futon, thinking about the method of quasi-sage.
In the prehistoric cultivation system, strictly speaking, both quasi-sages and saints should belong to the holy realm.
Because the cultivation of quasi-sages is a process, the dignity of a saint is the result, and there is a causal relationship between the two, not a hierarchical relationship.
What is a saint?
The saint places his soul in the void and merges into the way of heaven, thereby gaining the authority of the way of heaven and being able to carry out the "way" for heaven.
However, the way of heaven is heartless and has no desires, while humans have emotions and desires. Therefore, if they want to integrate into the way of heaven, practitioners must cut off all their emotions and reach the state of forgetting emotions, so as to blend with the way of heaven.
The quasi-sage state is actually the process of cutting off one's own emotions and reaching the point of forgetfulness.
Only after the supreme being forgets his feelings and the cultivator's soul becomes ruthless and has no desires, can it be integrated with the will of heaven. This is called harmony.
This harmony is actually the will of heaven.
In the prehistoric world, there are three ways to become a saint: one is to use force to prove the Tao; the other is to kill three corpses; and the third is to make merit.
The way of merit and virtue is actually the way of luck, with the future earth as a model, creating the six paths of reincarnation and becoming a saint.
All the other saints became enlightened by beheading three corpses.
As for using strength to prove the Tao, it is not a matter of cultivating the law of power, but using one's own strength to break the shackles of the heavenly way.
This 'power' refers to one's own strength and combat power.
Take Pangu for example. Legend has it that Pangu proved the Tao through force. He relied on his own powerful strength to break chaos and open up the prehistoric world, unlike the current saints who need to rely on the power of the prehistoric world.
Between the two, there is a judgment call.
To use a vivid metaphor, the prehistoric saints are equivalent to the rich second generation. Although they are not good themselves, they cannot stand up to the fact that their families have money.
Pangu, on the other hand, was rich himself and belonged to the rich generation.
After understanding the method of becoming a saint, there were two ways before Li Yizhi, one was to prove the Tao through force, and the other was to kill three corpses.
As for the method of merit, I'm afraid it's useless.
He didn't think he could create an existence comparable to the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
Moreover, even if he could create an existence comparable to the Six Paths of Reincarnation and upgrade the prehistoric world again, there would be basically no chance for him to become a saint, because the saints would definitely not allow it.
Otherwise, Zhen Yuanzi and Ancestor Minghe would have become saints long ago, because they are both at the pinnacle of quasi-sage.
In Huoyun Cave, there are three emperors.
They are all just one step away from becoming a saint.
Besides, this kind of method of becoming a saint is not what Li Yizhi wants.
He does not want to conform to the will of heaven in the prehistoric world. Although he is invincible in the prehistoric world, it is equivalent to being trapped in a cocoon. It will be difficult for him to have a chance to break through in the future.
Therefore, he could only choose to use his strength to prove the Tao and kill three corpses.
According to Li Yizhi's guess, to prove the Tao through force should be to comprehend the law, to comprehend and perfect a law, and to become the incarnation of this law. It is not the way of heaven, but better than the way of heaven.
Of course, if you can cultivate your physical body to the point where it can compete with a saint, you will naturally be a saint.
It's just that this road is too difficult. None of the twelve ancestral witches succeeded.
As for killing the three corpses, it is not simply about cutting off one's own emotions, but after cutting off the emotions, the soul can blend with the heaven and earth and leave its own mark.
The more corpses you kill, the deeper your integration with heaven and earth will be, and the more you can draw on the power of heaven and earth.
The power of the quasi-sage lies in its ability to borrow the power of heaven and earth.
Of course, if Li Yizhi wants to kill three corpses, the soul that is fused will definitely not be the prehistoric world, but his inner world.
In today's prehistoric world, it is basically impossible to become a saint.
On the one hand, the saints did not allow it, and on the other hand, the prehistoric continent could no longer bear the birth of saints. Otherwise, the prehistoric continent would not have been shattered by the saints in the Battle of the Gods.
After thousands of years of deduction, Li Yizhi finally determined his own path to becoming a saint, using his strength to prove the Tao and killing three corpses at the same time.
Needless to say, to realize the Tao through force is to understand a law to perfection. There is no shortcut.
As for beheading three corpses, it cannot be the same as beheading three corpses in the ancient times.
The method of killing three corpses passed down by the Taoist ancestors uses innate spiritual treasures to carry one's own good, evil, and three thoughts. Although Li Yizhi does not lack the innate spiritual treasures, he has a better carrying body, that is, the body of three generations.
Because the body of the third life is originally his own, it is more suitable to carry the thoughts of the three corpses than the innate spiritual treasure.
Using the innate spiritual treasure to carry the thoughts of the three corpses, the cultivation level of the three corpses will always be lower than the original body. Just like the three corpses of the saints, they are basically at the peak of the quasi-sage.
And if the body of the third life carries the thoughts of the three corpses, then the strength of the body of the three corpses will be the same as the original body.