After reaching an agreement with Li Aotian, Chengshuo readily handed over the ancient book recording the practice experience of "The Great Desolate Swallowing Heaven Jue" into Li Aotian's hands.
The latter said unexpectedly: "Senior, I have the impression that you should be a cautious person. Why did you hand this ancient book into my hands so easily today with just a few words from me? Aren't you afraid of what I will do later? Are you going to regret it and not fulfill what you promised before?"
Cheng Sheng said enigmatically: "Actually, this ancient book originated from you. I can't explain the specific reasons. But in short, you can only get this book today if you fulfill your promise later."
"This" Li Aotian felt a little confused: "I didn't quite understand it."
Chenghuo smiled and said: "It's okay if you don't understand. In short, remember: this ancient book is given to you by yourself. If you regret it and do not intend to leave this ancient book to future generations in the future, then everything you have because of this ancient book , will disappear accordingly.”
"Anyway, I'll just say one thing: The promise you just made involves great cause and effect. Breaking the promise easily will have a huge impact, so be careful and take care of yourself."
"Um"
Li Aotian nodded and said solemnly: "I, Li Aotian, will keep my word. Senior, you can rest assured."
Li Aotian's consciousness was in the sea.
Cheng Sheng stopped talking.
It's not that he doesn't want to continue communicating with Li Aotian, but that he can no longer speak at the moment.
Not long after handing the ancient book to Li Aotian, Chengshuo once again fell into a long sleep.
During this period, Survivor would wake up once or twice every few years:
When Li Aotian was one hundred and twenty-three years old, that is, the fifth year after he obtained the Supreme Ancient Book, Chengshuo woke up for the first time.
At that time, Li Aotian had established an organization specifically to resist Heaven.
The organization code is 'pharmacy'.
The purpose of the pharmacy's existence is to steal the longevity medicine formula from heaven so that the monks will no longer be affected by the 'short life syndrome'.
At the same time, there is no need to be enslaved by heaven because of the longevity medicine.
With Li Aotian's cultivation as an "invincible hand under the Nascent Soul stage" and the goal of the pharmacy, he was what the monks in the world hoped for, so he had countless followers at one time.
Soon after the emergence of pharmacies, forces and organizations that resisted heaven appeared all over the world.
Everything is developing for the better.
Perhaps it won't be long before Li Aotian can lead the monks in the pharmacy to overthrow the Heavenly Court and change the current situation in which the lower-level immortal cultivators are enslaved.
…
time flies.
Fifty years later, Chengshuo revived again.
"Senior, are you awake again?" This time, it was Li Aotian who took the initiative to speak.
Sensing the changes in Li Aotian, Chengsheng was surprised and said: "Fellow Aotian, you have actually broken through the bottleneck of the Nascent Soul stage? What state are you in now?"
"I did make a breakthrough." Li Aotian replied: "The realm after the Nascent Soul stage is to become a god."
"The transformation stage is very strong."
"A monk who has broken through to the stage of becoming a god can separate his spiritual consciousness. His spiritual consciousness can travel thousands of miles away in an instant, and all the disturbances around him can be seen through the monk's eyes."
Is it the stage of becoming a god?
In my impression of life, most monks among Xianxia can possess the ability of "divine consciousness" during their Qi training period.
Unexpectedly, during actual practice, one has to wait until the stage of spiritual transformation to possess this magical power.
While Cheng Sheng was thinking about it, he heard Li Aotian say again: "Actually, our birthday boy does not have the realm of 'god transformation'."
"wrong."
He changed his words and said: "Not only our birthday boy, it should be said that the concept of 'divine transformation period' does not exist in the entire universe."
"A monk absorbs the spiritual power of heaven and earth and strengthens his body. No matter what, he can only break through to the Nascent Soul stage and then live a thousand years."
"So the Nascent Soul stage is the limit of cultivation. This is a well-known fact."
"But ever since nameless creatures appeared in the human world hundreds of years ago, things have become different."
"After the indescribable creatures appeared, some Nascent Soul stage monks, including me, absorbed the power of these creatures by chance."
"Thus, there were the first batch of monks in the transformation stage."
absorb?
Chengshuo was stunned when he heard this.
Because of some unknown reason.
In the era when I was born, the so-called "spiritual power" had long been gone in the world, and the monks relied on the charity of indescribable creatures for their cultivation.
Take Daliang Kingdom as an example:
The monks of the Liang Kingdom helped the 'Buddha' squeeze out the painful emotions of human beings, and as a reward, the Buddha would give the monks who squeezed the painful emotions strength.
Among them, the process of giving is called practice.
In other words, it is charity.
Alms from nameless creatures
…
on the contrary.
Li Aotian just said that if a monk wants to break through to the stage of divine transformation, he needs to 'absorb' the power of indescribable creatures.
You know, 'absorption' is an active behavior.
This is fundamentally different from passively accepting charity from unspeakable creatures.
Then it seems reasonable that the monk can break through to the divine transformation stage in one fell swoop.
Thinking of this, Chengshuo asked Li Aotian: "I wonder, fellow Taoist Aotian, can you tell me in detail what the Nascent Soul cultivator must do to actively absorb the power of the indescribable creature?"
"The method of absorption is not difficult, but it is a little complicated." Li Aotian said: "Maybe it is a convention. Although I don't know why, this method of absorption is generally called 'transformation of gods' by monks. For the law of God'."
"How to transform gods into gods?" After hearing what the other party said, Chengsheng asked subconsciously: "Is there a so-called 'method to transform gods into demons'?"
"It really does!" Li Aotian said: "After all, if there is yin, there must be yang, and if there is good, there must be the opposite. But in short, I follow the path of 'turning gods into gods', so I don't know much about 'turning gods into demons' learn."
"I'd like to hear the details!" Chengshuo motioned to Li Aotian to continue.
The latter continued: "If you want to take the path of 'turning gods into gods', the first thing you need to do is to determine the indescribable creature you want to absorb."
"Just like me."
"What I absorbed is the indescribable creature 'Shou' on the longevity star. I broke through to the stage of becoming a god by absorbing the 'power of faith' of 'Shou'."
Are you sure you want to absorb the nameless creature?
Following Li Aotian's train of thought, Chengshuo quickly thought of the two indescribable creatures that existed on Xuanwu Planet in his time:
They are 'Wuwei' and 'Buddha' respectively.
Therefore, the power that Survival can actively absorb is the 'power of flesh and blood' that represents desire, and the 'power of pain' that represents pain.
He asked: "Then how exactly do we absorb the power of the indescribable creature?"
"In my impression, the power of unspeakable creatures should carry a lot of pollution before being absorbed rashly. In the end, it will only make the absorber go crazy."
"You are right." Li Aotian followed: "So relying solely on the monks themselves to absorb indescribable power is tantamount to seeking death."
"So we need to find a substitute that carries power. And this substitute is generally called a 'totem' by practitioners."
"Totem is the key for monks who take the path of 'transforming gods into gods' to break through to the stage of transforming into gods!"
Li Aotian continued: "Theoretically, a monk can choose anything as his totem, such as a stone, a sword, or a statue."
"But if you choose different items, the difficulty of breaking through will be different, and the abilities gained when breaking through will also be different."
"When you break through to the stage of becoming a god, can you still gain abilities?" Chengshuo asked, "What kind of abilities are they specifically?"
"Currently, no one can sum up a rule." Li Aotian replied: "After all, we and other monks in the God Transformation Stage have only just broken through to the God Transformation Stage, so everything is still in the exploratory stage."
"So in addition to possessing divine consciousness, which is a certain ability that can be obtained, other abilities that may be obtained during a breakthrough can only be said to depend on luck at the moment."
"Some people gained the ability to predict the future when they made a breakthrough, and some gained the ability to be immortal. It's just a list of all."
"Let's go back to the totem."
Li Aotian returned to the truth and preached: "After the monk has chosen the totem, he only needs to continuously inject 'emotional power' into the totem, and then wait for the totem to develop a true spirit."
"As for the specific emotion to be injected, it depends on which indescribable creature you want to absorb."
"For example, the indescribable creature I absorbed is 'Shou', so what I inject into the totem is the 'Power of Faith'."
Li Aotian’s words are not difficult to understand:
For example, if Chengshuo wants to absorb the power of "Woo", then he needs to inject "emotion of desire" into the totem.
"And then." Li Aotian continued: "When the totem has enough emotional power, it can cultivate a trace of true spirit."
"Then if you absorb that trace of true spirit, you will have the opportunity to break through to the divine transformation stage."
"When you break through, you may encounter many problems during the process. I won't explain them one by one. After all, we are still in the exploratory stage, so you need to adapt to all the problems you encounter during practice."
Choose a totem, collect the power of emotion and inject it into it. After cultivating a true spirit, you can absorb it and then you can break through.
Although this process is a little complicated, it is really like Li Aotian said, 'it is not difficult'.
Chengshuo said with sincere gratitude: "Remember it, thank you fellow Taoist Aotian for letting me know!"
He thought for a while and then said: "As for the practice method after the stage of spiritual transformation, I don't know Taoist Aotian."
"Hey! Don't ask me now."
Li Aotian said: "For now, I haven't seen anyone who can break through the bottleneck of the God Transformation stage. I don't even know what the next realm is called, so it's a waste of time for you to ask me."
"Fine."
Since he couldn't get any more information, Chengshuo turned to ask about the current situation: "Speaking of Fellow Taoist Aotian, what is the specific situation between you and Tianting?"
Through Li Aotian's perspective, Chengsheng discovered that the other party seemed to be in a palace.
It seems that since breaking through to the divine stage, Li Aotian is no longer as embarrassed as before.
"You must be asking, where am I now?"
In the palace.
Aotian poured himself a glass of wine, drank it himself and said: "I am in Heaven now. In fact, more than ten years ago, I took the initiative to make peace with the people in Heaven."
"Make peace?" Chengshuo asked in confusion: "Why, weren't you still planning to overthrow the Heavenly Court?"
"it's useless."
Li Aotian said: "I originally thought that the 'short-life syndrome' that broke out in longevity stars was spread by heaven. As for the purpose, it was to control the world through the combination of 'short-life syndrome' and longevity medicine."
"But in fact, 'short life syndrome' is a kind of pollution. It is pollution spread by the indescribable creature 'Shou'."
Is it another indescribable creature?
Cheng Sheng planned to continue asking something, but he saw Li Aotian said to himself: "Recently, in the star field where we are located, a monk in the transformation stage took the lead and formed an organization called the 'Secret Society', and planned to rely on it to This organization gathers all the monks in the transformation stage to fight against the unspeakable creatures."
"Secret meeting? Star field?" Chengshuo was stunned when he heard this.
Li Aotian explained: "Actually, there are countless planets in our universe, and most of these planets rotate around the star, the sun, to form a galaxy."
"Countless galaxies rotate around the black hole in the center of the star field, thus forming the star field."
"I said this, can you understand?"
So is the star field actually the so-called 'Galaxy'?
Cheng Sheng, who had received modern education, quickly understood the concept of the star field, so he responded aloud: "I understand, so fellow Taoist disciples are planning to leave the birthday girl and go to that organization called the secret society?"
"Um."
Li Aotian said: "The reason why I haven't left yet is actually waiting for you to wake up because I have had a premonition since a few years ago that you will wake up soon."
"besides."
He continued: "I also have a premonition that you will leave this place after I break through to the divine transformation stage."
"No, to be precise, you will leave this world." Li Aotian said uncertainly: "Because I always have a feeling that you don't feel like a person from this world."
"I am a person in this world, but I do not belong to the present." Chengshuo replied: "To be honest, at first, I didn't know why I came to this point in time, but later I gradually came up with a guess."
"Oh?" Li Aotian asked curiously: "Can you tell me why you came here?"
"Because of you," Cheng Sheng said meaningfully: "I have to watch you break through to the God Transformation Stage with my own eyes. In short, whether you can break through to the God Transformation Stage is related to my life and death, and now you have successfully broken through, so My goal has been achieved.”
"Huh?" Li Aotian didn't understand why: "So fellow Taoist descended to my sea of consciousness just to watch me break through to the stage of divine transformation? That's it?"
Chengshuo responded: "That's all."
Li Aotian frowned: "Can you explain it in detail?"
"It really can't be done." Chengshuo said helplessly: "Some things, once spoken out, will involve more causes and effects, thus creating more variables."
"That's okay." Li Aotian no longer pressed.
"The other thing is," Chenghuo continued: "After you broke through, fellow Taoist, I also found out from you about the cultivation method of the transformation stage. This is an unexpected gain! So in general, I This time it was a worthwhile trip.”
Li Aotian said: "When exactly will fellow Taoist leave?"
"Well," Chengshuo said uncertainly, "It depends on the force that sent me here and when it will send me away."
"That power?"
Li Aotian was depressed by Cheng Sheng's mysterious behavior.
He planned to continue asking, but before he could speak, he suddenly found that the living being in the sea of consciousness had suddenly and inexplicably disappeared.
It's as if there has never been any survival in this world.
"Becoming a Taoist friend?"
In the palace, Li Aotian tried to shout.
But there was no response from all around.
…
Endless darkness.
I don’t know how much time has passed.
Chengshuo opened his eyes.
The first thing he saw after opening his eyes was Zhong Ran, who had a panic expression on his face and was looking at him intently.
He was currently resting on Zhong Ran's lap.
"I" want to speak.
But he was interrupted by Zhong Ran: "Chengshuo, are you okay?"
"I should be fine?" Chenghuo stood up, looked around, and found that he was in a deep pit.
——After leaving Li Aotian's sea of consciousness, he seemed to have traveled back to the battlefield outside the west gate of Xia Shan City in Daliang Kingdom.
At this moment, when Cheng Huo woke up, the team leader Gu Xian and his teammates, as well as Lei Lei, Yun Rusong, Li Zhuo and others not far away, all focused their attention on Cheng Huo.
(End of chapter)
