"Hu-ha-hu-"
"Ha-hu-ha-"
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Breathing sounds that were more terrifying than thunder resounded in a luxurious room. Gu Qingyang sat cross-legged in the air, accompanied by countless runes.
This is the thirty-eighth day that Shang Qingchen's ship sailed in the North Sea. In thirty-eight days, Gu Qingyang never left his room.
This is because he has been practicing.
During these thirty-eight days, Gu Qingyang has been deducing the Taicang Kurong Sutra, trying to integrate the Taicang Kurong Sutra with the mythical Tao.
This is an attempt that Gu Qingyang has never done before. Although he had deduced the two together many times before, he had never tried to fuse them.
Therefore——
His attempt will definitely be an extremely great one. If it succeeds, it will mean that he has found a new direction and can blaze a new path.
Even if you fail, it doesn't matter. He has already failed countless times. If we really wanted to count them, they would be impossible to count.
What's more, we can't decide success or failure yet.
After thirty-eight days of practice, his aura had risen to an extremely terrifying level. If Wei Jiuling hadn't helped him protect him, something might have happened.
"Crunch - crunch -"
Wei Jiuling only used part of the thorns to turn into Heavenly Locks to help Gu Qingyang suppress his aura. She did not let her body turn into Heavenly Locks.
At this moment, she was lying lazily on the bed, handling the spiritual fruits one by one with a knife. She only occasionally looked at Gu Qingyang who was practicing.
She would not look at Gu Qingyang at any other time.
In this situation, if it were anyone else, others might really worry too much about Gu Qingyang.
But Wei Jiuling wouldn't. She has absolute trust in Gu Qingyang. In her eyes, Gu Qingyang was a great and omnipotent god.
Although this is just her description of Gu Qingyang, the real Gu Qingyang is not absolutely omnipotent.
But she didn't care.
From the moment she decided to be reborn, she chose a path for her new life. It is destined to be a road full of pain.
Others may never choose such a path, and may even ridicule, saying that those who choose this path are either crazy or stupid.
But for her, as long as she chooses this path, she can be by Gu Qingyang's side, so she is willing to make this choice.
What about crazy people?
What about fools?
It's just the boring prejudices of the world. It's her choice. As long as she wants it, that's enough.
She really wanted nothing more than that.
In her opinion, Gu Qingyang was an absolute genius in cultivation... While the world was still searching for the truth about the true form of the Great Way, he had already opened the Great Way himself.
Shinhwa Road!
A supreme avenue that was born only for and because of Gu Qingyang, a avenue that did not belong to ten thousand ways, let alone three thousand ways.
It only belongs to Gu Qingyang, it will be born because of Gu Qingyang, and it will be destroyed together because of Gu Qingyang's destruction.
It is extremely powerful but also quite fragile.
But whether it is strong or fragile ultimately depends on Gu Qingyang himself. As Gu Qingyang's weapon, what can she do?
She will trust Gu Qingyang unconditionally and will willingly devote all her strength. As long as Gu Qingyang needs it, she can die immediately.
Now, the reason why she wants to deal with these spiritual fruits here is just because the quality of these spiritual fruits is good enough and can restore Gu Qingyang's vitality.
In thirty-eight days, Gu Qingyang woke up twice in total. The first time was because he had pushed all his magical powers to the extreme.
His body then reached its limit, just like a piece of divine gold that had been repeatedly hammered and forged, and finally reached a state where it was about to liquefy.
At that time, if he took another step forward, he would be greeted with either rebirth or destruction.
His desire prompted him to move forward, and his reason prompted him to retreat.
Of course he is eager to usher in a new life, and then make his strength stronger in this way.
But things in this world cannot be accomplished by just thinking. If you want to really take that step, it is impossible to do it without sufficient preparation.
He believed in himself, and he believed even more in his extremely rational self. So he chose to calm down, then wake up and write down all his insights.
That time, he relied on time to cool down and heal himself. Even though his body is cooling down, his soul is still deducing his many magical powers.
Soon after waking up, he fell into a state of practice again. Time passed and it was his second awakening.
The state when he woke up the second time was similar to the state when he woke up the first time. It was still because his body was too fragile to withstand that kind of pressure.
That time he didn't rely on time.
Because his injuries were more serious than when he first woke up, if Wei Jiuling hadn't saved him in time, he might have died on the spot.
When he woke up for the second time, he also devoured countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures, including those peerless treasures such as spiritual fruits.
These cultivation resources were all accumulated by him through previous killings, and they were all left behind by the souls of his dead men.
It was also after that time that in order to help Gu Qingyang better digest the essence of these heavenly materials and earthly treasures, Wei Jiuling began to process them.
Until now, the thirty-eighth day.
Gu Qingyang is still the same, still trying constantly, trying to make the Taicang Kurong Sutra and the Shinhwa Tao fit together in a perfect state.
It's a pity that he still failed. No matter how much time passed, no matter how much his strength improved as a result, he failed to integrate the two.
"Fusion?"
"The fusion should be just an appearance, just a result I want. I'm obsessed with it. How can I only demand one result?"
"Practice, practice. The result of practice is this fruit, and now I am just practicing, and the direction I have chosen just seems right."
"Actually—"
"The path I am taking may be completely opposite to the result I want. Maybe I should try more, maybe..."
…
Gu Qingyang's thoughts were constantly changing. As soon as a thought occurred, another thought followed. Once a thought is extinguished, every thought will be extinguished as well.
As thoughts arise and disappear, Gu Qingyang seems to be able to find some inspiration from his own ever-changing state of mind.
It's a pity that there are too many spiritual lights, and the brilliance is dim and bright. No matter which one he catches, it seems that he is doing something wrong.
This feeling really makes Gu Qingyang crazy.
But he has indeed always maintained the rationality he should have. No matter how strong the disturbing desires in his heart are, he is always sober.
"The ultimate way of bone cultivation can actually be understood as the way of harmony between body and soul. This is how powerful bone cultivation is."
"Only when you have an extremely powerful soul and an extremely powerful body, and then perfectly integrate the two, can you be extremely powerful."
"Bone cultivation. In the beginning of cultivation, you cultivate your life bones and your body. Later, you will cultivate your soul."
"This is true for all cultivation realms starting from the phase bone realm."
"Soul Sacrifice, Innocence, Thousand Souls Tribulation, Ten Thousand Bone Dilemmas and all the saints behind -"
"The bone cultivator is like a traveler. He always needs to travel around in this world and keep moving forward. At least he should walk around."
"When you are cultivating your body, your body is on the road. When you are refining your soul, your soul is on the road. No matter what, no matter when and where -"
"Body and soul, one of them will always be on the way. But this is just the understanding that a bone cultivator who has reached the ninth realm should have."
"The tenth realm."
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When Gu Qingyang's thoughts changed to this point, his heart suddenly became extremely quiet, and his body began to be crazily strengthened by his power.
Even his soul began to emit waves of mysterious fluctuations, which affected his body and caused his breath to change again.
"Heart!"
Gu Qingyang suddenly opened his eyes, and he thought of a crucial point. It is the heart. Only this factor can make the body and soul fit together.
The body is like a weapon, and the soul is like the owner of this weapon. The process of cultivation is like the process of forging and refining this weapon of war.
And the heart is the flame, the Tao.
The requirement for the flame should not only be that the temperature is high enough, but that the temperature is appropriate. Because everyone has different qualifications.
This leads to...everyone is like a piece of different material. Some materials do not require a flame that is too hot.
But some materials are different.
I should understand that the reason why I pursue the ultimate temperature is because the temperature I need is exactly this temperature and this kind of flame.
The ultimate in temperature...the ultimate in Tao.
Extreme——
At the moment when his enlightenment reached this level, Gu Qingyang could no longer continue his enlightenment. Because he knew that it was enough to do this.
After practicing for thirty-eight days, he finally understood that the conditions he lacked were not just in himself.
He has an extremely powerful soul.
He can have an extremely powerful body.
He already possesses an extremely powerful heart.
…
He has already satisfied the owner of the weapon, the weapon itself... and many conditions related to it.
But these are all related to himself, and there are some things that are destined to have nothing to do with himself.
For example, a furnace used for refining weapons.
He is in this world, and the furnace for refining weapons is naturally this world. Who is the master of this world?
It could be him, or it could be Heaven.
In other words... he and Tiandao are both the masters of this world, but it is his practice, not Tiandao's practice.
As we all know, the highest level of weapon refining is nothing more than creating a Taoist weapon that is truly suitable for oneself, a truly perfect Taoist weapon.
As far as weapon refining is concerned, although his level is not high, he now has two perfect weapons.
One of these is his own Taoist soldier, Wen Qingtian. The other one is a weapon that has many causal entanglements with him, the Heavenly Suowei Nine Spirits.
Now, he wants to treat his body as a weapon, to sacrifice it, and then make his body perfect.
When Wen Qingtian was born, he was made from the blood fused with the special creature Qin Chi, and was melted in the furnace of great fortune.
The birth of Wei Jiuling was also tortuous.
The two have one thing in common, that is, a great disaster will befall them when they are completed. They are all supreme treasures that he forged after nearly nine deaths.
But now...even if his target is only his own body, other conditions have not changed.
"It turns out that I have created a cause and effect for myself. When I embark on this path, I have an additional need to compete with my old rivals."
"The world is so big that there is no room for me."
"Since I am determined to use my own body as a soldier, and use heaven and earth as a furnace to sacrifice my body, so that body and soul can blend together..."
"Then now is not the time. After all, this is only the North Sea, not the Beimingyuan. Besides, I am still on the merchant's ship."
"The right time, the right place, the right people, and the right people, I don't have anything now. Even though it's still the same in Beimingyuan, I still can't have it."
"But Beimingyuan is Beimingyuan, and there may be something there that can improve my attainments in the Taicang Kurong Sutra."
"I need to wait."
"call--"
Thinking of the end, Gu Qingyang couldn't help but let out a deep sigh. Time is important, especially for an orthopedic surgeon who doesn’t have much time.
He didn't have much time to waste as he pleased, and the three thousand years that the Three Thousand Years Principle brought him was certainly a long time.
But actually——
A mere three thousand years is just a blink of an eye. Other bone cultivation can be practiced casually over thousands of years.
And what about him?
For him, one year must be used as ten years, hundreds or even thousands of years. Because he only has three thousand years left.
The great catastrophe has come, the troubled times have come, and the situation of one person being the enemy of the whole world reappears... He must spend three thousand years to grow crazily.
In his previous life, he was able to grow like that because he was not subject to additional restrictions from heaven. Eight thousand years is neither too long nor too short for him to do that.
In this life, since he and Tiandao had a complete showdown in a vague way of discussing Taoism, he has been growing up in Tiandao's targeting.
Nothing can be compared with the past.
In this life, he will be targeted every time he takes another step on the road.
He knew very well that the consequences of being careless and irrational were failure and death.
With the foundation he has accumulated, he doesn't need to care too much about people like merchants.
But considering various factors, he decided to wait a little longer.
"Owner--"
While Gu Qingyang was still deep in thought, Wei Jiuling's voice made him wake up instantly.
When he came back to his senses, he realized that he had finished eating the spiritual fruit at some point.
At this moment, he was holding Wei Jiuling's hand and was about to put it into his mouth.
"Forehead."
Gu Qingyang didn't say anything in the end. He just responded softly, and then took in the other prepared spiritual fruits from the air.
Only Wei Jiuling was left, and she could only lie there and continue to prepare the spirit fruit. She knew very well Gu Qingyang's personality and thoughts, so she wouldn't think too much about it.
But at the same time, some people also questioned their relationship. Are the two of them really what Gu Qingyang said when they boarded the ship?
"Brother, look."
"Let me tell you, how can these two people be Taoist companions? How can any woman call her Taoist companion master?"
"In my opinion, this guy just wants to keep a distance from you on purpose. But I really didn't see that he is actually a cultivator."
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In the cabin exclusive to the merchants, Shang Hongling was analyzing Gu Qingyang endlessly, using her imagination to deduce the truth step by step.
Seeing her like this, the people around her remained silent and didn't say much. Only Shang Qingchen looked thoughtful.
After all, this is their merchant's ship.
Therefore, their merchants still have ways to spy on others' status, and their methods of spying on others are also very overbearing.
Ordinary restrictions have no way to prevent this kind of snooping, so they can see the situation on Gu Qingyang's side without any difficulty.
However, what surprised all the snoopers was that Gu Qingyang did not go out for thirty-eight days and was actually practicing all the time.
Gu Qingyang is different from others.
Others will choose to practice, perhaps because others can only choose to practice. But Gu Qingyang was accompanied by Wei Jiuling, a peerless beauty.
If it had been any other male cultivator, how could he have let go of this delicious delicacy? But the fact is that Gu Qingyang let it go.
Thirty-eight days!
For thirty-eight days, this guy Gu Qingyang was like a dying bone cultivator who would die if he didn't break through.
After seeing what happened, even someone with a strong mind like Shang Qingchen couldn't help but wonder if there was something wrong with Gu Qingyang himself.
But thinking back, everyone felt that this shouldn't be the case. After all, Gu Qingyang was really strong, strong enough to make everyone look at him.
Not long ago, they concluded that Gu Qingyang was pure-hearted and had no desire for that kind of thing.
But looking at it now -
When Wei Jiuling called out the owner, they immediately felt that the relationship between the two people might be more complicated than they imagined.
Owner?
What is that name?
"Okay, Ling'er, don't say any more."
"This is a man's thing, you don't understand."
"elder brother--"
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Hearing what Shang Qingchen said, Shang Hongling couldn't help but feel angry. But she soon noticed the gazes of the people present.
It was an extremely strange look. It was the first time she had seen it in her life, and it also made her feel very uncomfortable.
In the end, Shang Hongling could only choose to remain silent.
Others present no longer paid attention to her, but turned their attention to the light curtain in mid-air. They were looking forward to the subsequent development of Gu Qingyang.
Although Gu Qingyang does behave a little coldly on weekdays, they don't think that this coldness is a mental problem.
No matter what, Gu Qingyang should have the nature of a normal man, right? So they still have expectations for Gu Qingyang.
"Weier, put it in."
On the other side, Gu Qingyang had deliberately put on a skilled look and urged Wei Jiuling to lie down inside.
He has noticed that this room is decorated with more than 1,200 luminous pearls. He used to think it was just a decoration, but now he realized something was wrong.
This night pearl seems to be just a decoration, but in fact it is a rare observation device that can be detected even by bone cultivators in the Sixteenth Realm.
This was a mistake on his part.
As a result, if he cast a spell now to block the observation of the Night Pearl, it would be a warning, so he simply took advantage of the situation and continued to act.
At the same time, Wei Jiuling's pretty face turned red and she just lay down inside. It wasn't until I received the message from Gu Qingyang that I understood everything.
"Master, why don't you—"
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