Zhang Yan had never carefully felt "vitality" before, which in his opinion was an external manifestation.
As long as they are living creatures, even plants, trees and flying insects have vitality on the surface. Just like trees have roots, stems and leaves, and people have eyes, ears, mouth and nose, the same appearance.
Is this anything worth paying attention to?
Now Zhang Yan knows that it is worthy of attention! At least now he understands that the foundation of living beings is these seemingly ordinary "vitalities". And although he has become an immortal now, he still belongs to the category of living beings, but he is not a mortal living being.
It is still based on the most fundamental thing of "vitality".
When the first Hongmeng purple energy began to affect the Tao elixir in his lower Dantian, Zhang Yan felt a "vitality" independent of himself from his Tao elixir slowly emerge from the Tao elixir.
The time is still unknown, and there is no intention of spilling out from around Dao Dan.
It wasn't until the second streak of Hongmeng Purple Qi entered the body that the independent "vitality" on the Dao Pill began to expand its influence, and as soon as it came out, Zhang Yan's originally gradual pace of practice improved by several orders of magnitude.
Later, when the third Hongmeng Purple Qi entered the body again, the "vitality" independent of the Dao Dan increased dramatically, and at the same time, the influence that spilled into Zhang Yan's body also continued to soar.
The most direct feeling is the physical body.
Zhang Yan's current physical body has already become the body of a fairy. Every bit of flesh, blood, bones, and every inch of meridians and soul have long been different from ordinary people and have entered a higher level of life. But this is not the end, but a new one.
It's just the starting point.
The upward step is to understand the "principles" between heaven and earth, and the downward step is to further evolve one's own physical body and thereby progressively improve one's cultivation.
Now with the gain of "vitality", the active evolution from bottom to top has led Zhang Yan's immortal spirit body to continuously sprint towards the limit of human immortality at an unprecedented speed.
The reason why Zhang Yan went into seclusion was because his fairy body evolved so fast that he had a frightening "unstable" feeling. He could only find the safest place to calm down and recuperate, and seize the time at the same time.
Let your consciousness sink to the "world level" to understand the deeper "principles", and try to make your top-level evolution progress keep up with the upward progress of the lower levels.
If there are other people present at this time, they will see Zhang Yan's skin exposed outside his robe flashing and extinguishing like fluorescence with his breathing. The surface of the skin has a luster similar to mutton-fat jade, and even underneath the skin.
The blood vessels are looming, giving people an inhuman sense of sight, accompanied by an inexplicable pressure that is gradually increasing.
This is just an abnormality on the surface. If you look inside the body with Zhang Yan's inner vision, you will find more wonderful and even subversive changes.
First of all, the muscles all over the body. When Zhang Yan achieved the immortal body before, he was still a body of flesh and blood, but the composition of the flesh and blood has changed. It is mixed with many golden light spots, which is because of the penetration of the immortal essence into the body, and also
The boundary that distinguishes the immortal from the ordinary.
But now Zhang Yan's physical body is completely distanced from the word "flesh and blood" because crystal-like particles are appearing all over his body.
Just like the frost flowers on the grass in winter.
These crystals appeared bit by bit at a seemingly slow but actually fast speed, and began to connect with each other to form small layouts, and then the layouts were connected to each other to form a large piece that eventually spread throughout the body.
After these crystallized frost flowers appeared, the original basic structure of Zhang Yan's physical body was completely cut open, like particles packed into tiny grids, waiting for the final transformation.
Also undergoing changes are the meridians, which are invisible to the naked eye but clear to the inner eye. These structures, which are the energy transmission pathways in Zhang Yan's body, were previously "thick" and "tough".
Strong meridians can withstand the transmission of greater spiritual energy and immortal energy, can support powerful spells and guide stronger rules and means.
Toughness can improve the ability of the meridians to withstand energy blows, and it can also prevent oneself from being injured when using some explosive methods.
But now Zhang Yan's meridians are also being completely smashed and recast.
The previous structure of the two meridians of Ren and Du plus the eight meridians of Qi was completely fragmented, chopped into shreds one by one and then integrated into the crystallized frost flowers of the physical body.
In other words, today's Zhang Yan's body is gradually losing the "veins" of meridians, and is now in a state of being filled with meridians all over his body.
The advantage is also obvious, that is, any method can call on all these fragmented meridians to work together, and is no longer limited by the "meridian endurance capacity". Moreover, once the damage is suffered, it will be shared throughout the whole body, greatly increasing the upper limit of the force.
.And even if you are injured, there will not be a state of "the meridians are damaged and it is unsustainable". As long as you are alive, the function of the meridians will not be completely interrupted due to the injury.
Of course, these changes are still in progress.
Including the flesh and blood that has not been completely reconstructed after being divided like a crystal frost flower grid. And although the meridians are fragmented, several large nodes have not been completely connected. These are the difficulties that Zhang Yan feels, or in other words,
threshold.
Zhang Yan tried to attack those difficult points and wanted to complete the evolution of the physical body in one go. Unfortunately, he failed several times. It can even be said that there was no progress.
In the end, Zhang Yan suddenly realized that perhaps these nodes were not hurdles that could be overcome by evolving on their own, but required the help of external forces. He was just speeding up the process now.
With what external force?
Naturally, it was the Forty-Ninth Heavenly Tribulation. Just like when he achieved the immortal body before, the bombardment of the Heavenly Tribulation played a key role, allowing Zhang Yan's physical body to complete the leap from mortal to immortal.
However, compared to the "no need to worry" about the active evolution of the physical body, the level of soul and consciousness made Zhang Yan feel even more difficult.
The key to enlightenment lies in the word "enlightenment". And "enlightenment" is a very elusive thing. There is no definite number in terms of income or contribution.
Maybe you have been struggling for a hundred years to achieve nothing, but in an unintentional moment, you have a clear idea. And if the enlightenment is originally in the heart of Tao, then you will get twice the result with half the effort. Otherwise, you will have no explanation, and it all depends on luck and time.
polish.
Of course, the level of personal understanding will also show a big difference at this time.
Zhang Yan's understanding is extremely high, and he has never felt any difficulty in this aspect. But what makes him different from others is that even though he has touched the threshold of the Earthly Immortal Realm, he still has not found his Taoist heart.
This also resulted in Zhang Yan having no focus at all that could reduce the difficulty of enlightenment.
But similarly, Zhang Yan does not have any fixed path to enlightenment. He can understand anything he is interested in as he wishes.
This allows Zhang Yan to have fewer constraints when using the "world perspective" to understand Taoism.