However, at this time, Zhan Chen's Wuxiang Divine Palm was only halfway through. He was deeply immersed in the continuous artistic conception of the palm technique. Should he stop here and try to break through? Zhan Chen's heart was throbbing, but only for a moment.
He made a decision: continue to use the Wuxiang Divine Palm, never stop, and continue this set of palm techniques!
Because the Body Immortal Realm is different from the Peeping Yuan Realm. It is a road that follows nature. It is a realm that one can definitely cross when the strength of the physical body reaches a certain level. Its hardship lies in the process of accumulation, not in the last step.
Therefore, using the various martial arts of the "Shadowless Divine Art" will not hinder his breakthrough, but may actually promote it.
But this does not mean that it is easy to break through the realm of body immortal, because from the body of a martial saint to the body of a body immortal, it is also a process of breaking out of a cocoon and becoming a butterfly. It is accompanied by a huge transformation of the body, and the pain that needs to be endured is by no means
Ordinary people can tolerate it.
When Patriarch Bodhidharma opened up this arduous road that no one had ever walked before, he narrated his experience at the end of "The Divine Art of Wuxiang". In fact, he could have broken through to the realm of physical immortality long ago, but he failed several times.
Failure is because opening the door to breakthrough means the beginning of endless pain.
He had fainted hundreds of times because he couldn't bear it at the beginning. It was only later, after he studied the Diamond Sutra, that he found a shortcut to overcome this pain.
Zhan Chen also immediately felt what Patriarch Bodhidharma felt back then. First, his skin began to itch, as if his body was crawling with ants. Then the ants began to eat his skin, and the itching feeling turned into
A painful and itchy feeling that is simply unbearable.
However, Zhan Chen is a determined person, how could he be defeated by such torture? He still kept his mind and performed his skills. Gradually, Zhan Chen found that subtle cracks began to appear on the surface of his arms, and these cracks were
It gradually spread and covered his whole body, and the breakthrough came at this moment.
Zhan Chen felt pain as if his body was being torn apart, just like an insect shedding its skin. His original body began to peel off his body gradually, and the pain became more and more severe, even more severe than when he had once broken through to the Martial Saint realm.
hundred times.
Zhan Chen began to become unbearable and seemed unable to maintain the operation of his skills. At the same time that his movements were out of shape, his breakthrough pace also gradually stopped.
Seeing this, Zhan Chen sighed: "Is this the pain that Patriarch Bodhidharma talks about? It's really powerful. I'm afraid normal people would have given up long ago!"
But then he strengthened his belief: "Should I give up too? No, I must not give up. The difficulties that Patriarch Bodhidharma was able to overcome in the Martial Saint Realm, cannot be overcome by me, a powerful person in the Immortal Yuan Realm?"
So, he gritted his teeth and persisted in practicing the various martial arts of the "Shadowless Divine Art", and at the same time, he operated the Great Thousand Saint Buddha living in his divine palace. Under his driving, the Great Thousand Saint Buddha began to recite the "Diamond Sutra" loudly.
》. Zhan Chen suddenly felt a
An invisible force fell from the sky, like an enlightenment, and poured into his mind and heart, making his faith as solid as a rock. Even if the pain in his body came like a turbulent wave, it could no longer create even a ripple in his heart.
During this process, a layer of old skin on Zhan Chen's surface quickly fell off his body, revealing the flesh and blood under the skin, and new skin immediately grew on top of the flesh and blood. However, the good times did not last long, and the new skin quickly grew old.
, and under the new skin, a newer skin was born. This process repeated itself and lasted dozens of times! Zhan Chen's skin became tougher and tougher.
At the same time, the muscles, meridians, bones, and even blood and nerves on his body are accelerating metabolism and evolution just like his skin. Yes, using the word evolution to describe the changes that have taken place in Zhan Chen's body at this time, it seems
Much more relevant than breakthrough.
During this evolutionary process, Zhan Chen's seemingly perfect body began to contain a lot of impurities, like a layer of grease that fell off along with the old skin on his body.
The breakthrough lasted for ten days and ten nights. These ten days and ten nights seemed not as long as the ten or eight years it took for the Martial Saint to break through to the Dao realm, but the time and cost of the accumulation before breaking through to the Body Immortal realm were longer.
Ten times more than breaking through the Yuan Realm!
When all the dust settled, Zhan Chen sat quietly among the mountains and forests. He was a lot thinner than before and looked much slender, but his expression looked extremely peaceful, and the skin on his body was like suet.
Jade is generally white and delicate. If he had a different face, everyone would mistakenly think that he is a goddess who descended from heaven.
But within this thin body, there is an extremely terrifying power surging, like a prostrate lion staring at you with its eyes, giving people an instinctive sense of fear.
After a long time, Zhan Chen slowly opened his eyes, with a lot of understanding in his eyes, and murmured: "Is this the Body Immortal?"
Then, the calmness on his face was immediately replaced by excitement. He stood up and punched out. There was no wind where the punch passed. A force of air pressure was formed out of thin air, blowing a hundred-meter tree in front of him.
Cut off at the waist.
"Is this the power of the Body Immortal? From this point of view, I have truly entered the realm of the powerful warrior mentioned by Patriarch Bodhidharma. The powerful warrior is indeed much more powerful than the primary level of Guiyuan..."
The Realm of the Strong Man is exactly what Patriarch Bodhidharma called the first realm of the Body Immortal. Zhan Chen immediately began to compare his first entry into the Realm of the Strong Man with the year when he broke through to the Peeping Realm.
On the one hand, in terms of strength, when he was in the Great Perfection of the Martial Saint, his strength was five million kilograms, but when he broke through to the Peeping Realm, his strength was six million kilograms, which only increased by one million kilograms, and in
In the following days, the growth in strength almost stopped. But now after breaking through to become a strongman, his strength suddenly increased to 50 million kilograms, an increase of nearly ten times!
Not only that, the number of Immortal Yuan born by the first-level powerhouse is limited. If the Immortal Yuan is exhausted, it will not be able to maintain combat power. However, the warrior has no such restriction. As long as your physical strength is still there, you can use it to fight.
If you keep fighting at your peak state, your endurance will be nearly ten times that of Guiyuan's primary level!
On the other hand, in terms of defense, the skin of a strongman feels the same as that of ordinary people. Instead, it is softer and more delicate than before. However, this is only in normal times. Once entering a fighting state, Zhan Chen can make it extremely tough as he wishes.
It is not inferior to the sacred weapon of the Martial Saint; and the physical strength of the strong people in the Peeping Yuan Realm has basically remained at the level of the Martial Saint's Great Perfection. Until now in the Immortal Yuan Realm, Zhan Chen still feels that his physical strength has not increased much.
Therefore, in this aspect, the difference between the body immortal and the powerful person who has entered the Tao is also very huge, and this difference will continue to be widened due to the improvement of the body immortal realm. It can be said that body cultivation will become more and more powerful in the later stages.
Regardless of the comprehension of skills or the profoundness of mysteries, if it is purely about pure combat power, the body immortal can completely crush the immortals who have entered the same realm, or even several realms beyond!
After the comparison, Zhan Chen couldn't help but sigh: "The Body Immortal is so powerful! It's far beyond the same level!" After a while, he murmured again: "However, the realm of the Warriors is just the beginning of the Body Immortal.
.”
In order to make the body immortal correspond to those who have entered the Tao, Patriarch Bodhidharma also divided the realm of body immortal into seven levels. From low to high they are the strong man, the king of power and the saint of power, which respectively correspond to the peeping yuan, the immortal yuan and the soul of the Tao.
realm, next is gold
The three realms of Gang, Arhat and Bodhisattva respectively correspond to the three realms of enlightenment, Dharmakaya and Ten Thousand Dharmas. In the end, Patriarch Bodhidharma called the realm beyond the realm of Ten Thousand Dharmas Buddha, which corresponds to the highest realm in the legend of the Ten Thousand Dharma Continent——
The state of breaking the path.
However, Patriarch Bodhidharma did not make a more detailed classification of each realm. According to his explanation, the power of the body immortal is not as clear-cut as that of the Taoist immortal.
For example, the Peeping Realm is divided into elementary, middle, high and Dzogchen levels; while the strength growth in the Hercules Realm does not have this sense of hierarchy. Its strength increases one pound at a time until it reaches the end.
When you reach the bottleneck of the strongman realm - 100 million kilograms, it will become difficult to break through to the strongman realm.
Now, Zhan Chen has barely crossed the threshold of the realm of warriors, but he feels that the realm of warriors is not his current limit. He still has the potential to increase his power a lot in a short period of time, because he is already an immortal.
The level of a beginner strongman is completely different from the state that Patriarch Bodhidharma was at back then.
"The primary level of Immortal Yuan should correspond to the realm of the King of Strength in the Body Immortal. I have to work hard towards that goal!" Zhan Chen thought silently, and he became dissatisfied with the fact that he was now limited to the realm of the strongman.
"But now I'd better go back and fill my stomach first!" A deep sense of hunger hit him. Zhan Chen even felt that he could eat a whole mountain of food now. Unable to endure this hunger, he
He quickly ran back to Cangyue City...
For the rest of the day, he kept fighting hunger. In order not to appear so conspicuous, he went to ten restaurants and spent ten yuan of high-grade immortal stones.
In the days that followed, Zhan Chen insisted on coming here to practice the "Shadowless Magic Art" as usual. Just as he expected, his power grew rapidly. After another four years, his power finally reached 100 million.
Jin, which is equivalent to the Dzogchen level of the Hercules realm.
After his strength reached 100 million kilograms, Zhan Chen's strength growth finally stagnated, but he was not discouraged, calmed down and continued to persevere, and finally achieved another breakthrough in the fifth year.
Every breakthrough of the Body Immortal is like the rebirth of a phoenix. Zhan Chen experienced ten times the pain and torture than his own breakthrough to the realm of strong warriors. The breakthrough lasted for a full hundred days. After the breakthrough, his power jumped to 300 million.
Jin, his physical strength has also leapt forward again, and now he is confident that he can catch a full-strength blow from a mid-level Immortal-level powerhouse equipped with a mid-level Immortal-level Taoist weapon with his bare hands!
After his strength reached 300 million kilograms, Zhan Chen finally felt that his strength began to grow very slowly and was not as rapid as before. Based on the progress of his training, he made the following judgment: He would reach the limit of the Great Perfection of the King of Strength.
, I’m afraid it’s much more difficult than reaching the Immortal Yuan Dzogchen realm.
But Zhan Chen was not worried about this. On the contrary, he was surprised to find that in the process of his persistence in practicing the "Shadowless Divine Art", his cultivation level had reached the limit of the primary level of Immortal Yuan at some point.
This means that you can retreat at any time and start breaking through to the intermediate level of Immortal Essence!