Shushan, Yuyuan.
Chi Yao put the final touch, and the wound on his hand healed automatically, ending today's blood refining of the sacred tree.
Looking at the blood slowly seeping into the branches, he silently calculated the progress of the blood refining.
"Almost one fifth completed..."
The root system of this tree hidden in the mountain is so huge that it is really hard to see and startled at first glance. Just like an iceberg on the sea, only a small part is exposed above the water.
However, this was just a grinding effort, and Chi Yao was mentally prepared. After exhaling a breath of turbid air, he returned to the ground, looking at the sacred fuso tree whose canopy covered half of the mountain, slightly lost in thought.
A trip to the Yin Yang family, in addition to persuading Donghuang Taiyi, naturally also cannot let go of the Yin Yang family's classics.
Although it is a branch that split from Taoism, there are many times more classics in the Yin-Yang family than in Taoism.
Because they did not follow the Taoist approach of harmonizing yin and yang and integrating Hunyuan. Instead, they took a deviant approach, subdividing each path separately and then taking it apart, and deduced it to the extreme.
For example, the Taoist Shang Shui has top techniques [Wanchuan Autumn Water] and [Heart as Still Water], which aim to realize two states of movement and stillness respectively. Water is just a tool for their enlightenment and elucidation, not the specific goal of practice.
In other words, the ultimate disciple who practices [Wanchuan Autumn Water] and [Heart as Still Water] does not do it to control water, but to use water to realize the principles of movement and stillness.
But the techniques of the Yin Yang family are completely different.
They also have water skills, but whether it is [The Supreme Good is Like Water] or [White Dew and Frost], the goal of practice is to manipulate the substances themselves, water and ice.
Compared with Taoism, it can be said that one uses the outside and the other uses the inside.
That's not all. In Taoist philosophy, heaven, earth, and the human body should be one and the same. In practice, there is no distinction between water, fire, wood, earth, etc. They regard these as vitality and treat them equally. If the skill is reached, there will be no situation where the leaves can be driven but the water flow cannot be driven.
But the Yin Yang family is different.
In order to reduce the difficulty of cultivating disciples, they differentiated fire control, water control, wood control, etc. from the beginning, so that the disciples could form combat capabilities as quickly as possible.
Give a vivid example.
Taoist practice is like our ordinary schooling. We learn Chinese, math, English, physics, chemistry, politics, history, geography, physical education, beauty and music, and develop comprehensively. The practice of the Yin Yang family is to learn only one subject, choose a specialization from the beginning, and devote yourself to one subject. This way, the progress will naturally be much faster than the comprehensive learning method.
This also reflects the fundamental differences between Yin-Yang and Taoism.
Taoism also talks about yin and yang, but what they emphasize is that "lonely yin does not grow, solitary yang does not arise." Round Tai Chi is the right way. The Yin Yang family, on the other hand, is just the opposite. What they pursue is to go their own way, to be the best and specialize, in order to seek for the slightest possibility of breaking the limit.
One cannot simply say who is better or worse between these two ideals, but there is no doubt that the Yin Yang family’s ideals contain a sense of paranoia and visible risks.
This can be seen from the fact that the hands of the great masters of the past dynasties who practiced the fire-based skill [Yin Yang Muddra] were as scarlet as blood. It is not impossible to specialize in one thing, but being too specialized and too precise will indeed cause problems.
In fact, it is not just the [Yin Yang Combination Mudra] of the Fire Department. After looking at the Yin Yang family's collection of books, Chi Yao discovered that the Wood Department's [Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flowers] includes the Water Department's [The Supreme Good Like Water] and [White Dew and Frost], as well as the Earth Department, Many of Jinbu's exercises actually have risks, they are just bigger or smaller.
Even the last three parts of Sun, Moon and Star are no exception, not to mention the forbidden techniques in the Yin Vein that were originally studied from the witchcraft curse. Most of them hurt the enemy by 1,000 and suffer 800 losses, and some even do the opposite, hurting the enemy by 800 and losing 1,000.
After browsing through it, most of them were of no use to Chi Yao. At most, they only enriched his methods of training subordinates in the future.
But there was one thing that really interested him.
Those are the five fundamental skills of the Yin Yang family - alchemy, illusion art, mind control spell, astrological law and soul changing method.
Alchemy in Xu Fu's hands can only be used to make alchemy, but in fact it is a pretty good technique, suitable for both alchemy and weapon refining, and is no worse than the alchemy technique Chi Yao learned from Yuan Tiangang.
The Illusion Art, the Mind Control Curse and the Astrological Laws may be combined with some of the Gu substances in Chi Yao's body to enhance their functions.
And what he valued most was undoubtedly the soul-changing method.
This thing can be said to be the supreme secret of the Yin Yang family, and this scope can even be expanded to the entire Taoist family.
The soul and the body can be regarded as two parts of the human body, and the spirit, energy, and spirit are the three treasures of the human body. However, compared with the many exercises for body and qi training, there are very few that involve refining the spirit.
There is a saying in Taoism: Refining essence turns into qi, refining qi turns into spirit, refining spirit returns to emptiness, and refining emptiness turns into Tao. Progress step by step until you reach the Tao.
But most people are stuck at the step of refining qi and becoming a god.
They cannot strengthen their own souls through Qi training!
There are very few schools that have divine refining techniques. At present, the only one Chi Yao is sure about is the Taoist school.
Whether it is Zhuang Zhou Hua Die or those disciples of the Yin Yang family who have successfully practiced the soul-changing method, they have clearly demonstrated the power and extraordinaryness of their souls.
Although it is still not stable, there is no doubt that this road can be continued.
As mentioned before, Chi Yao was able to defeat Donghuang Taiyi not because he was at a higher level, but because he had stronger combat power, knew himself and the enemy, and was more targeted in his preparations.
In other words, he was equivalent to using the power of a hundred levels of Qi training to defeat Donghuang Taiyi who was in the ordinary realm of god refining.
So after obtaining the soul-refining method of the Yin-Yang family, Chi Yao was also thinking about whether he should also use this set of techniques to break through the soul-refining method.
After all, the Yin Yang family's method of refining gods is still very clear, and the Fuso sacred tree is there, so he can use it easily.
The only question is whether he wants to.
"Do you want to or not?"
Chi Yao looked at the Fuso sacred tree so close at hand, but his eyes were empty.
There is a saying that if Chi Yao had not seen the methods of Concubine Yan and Donghuang Taiyi before, there would be no way for Chi Yao to hesitate if there was a way to improve his realm.
After all, although realm is not directly equivalent to combat power, it is also a strongly related attribute. Since it can be improved, why should there be any hesitation?
But now, the battle prowess of Donghuang Taiyi and Yan Fei made him hesitate.
It's not that the realm of refining gods is not good, but he wonders if there is something wrong with the Yin Yang family's soul-changing method. Otherwise, why are both of them so weak?
And there is another point, body and soul, one body and two sides, one yin and one yang, the attributes between each other cannot be too different.
However, if he practices the soul-changing method of the Yin-Yang family, his path to god-refining will only be through the sun. In terms of physical characteristics, it does not seem to be a good match for his Chi You body.
Compared with the method of refining gods, his body, which has been tempered countless times and has reached the state of human and Gu integration, is the foundation of cultivation.
If the enhanced soul cannot coordinate well with the body, then it is better not to use this improvement.
Of course, the reason why he can think so leisurely about whether to practice god is because he can travel out of control and will not be trapped in the current world.
He believes that in the future, in a more advanced world, there will definitely be no shortage of methods for refining gods, which is why he has the confidence to rather lack than to waste.
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