Hanling City, Lingkuang Mountains
In the spherical light curtain in the dark mountain stream, Hunyuan Taizu quietly stared at a huge spiritual light ball in front of him. In that huge spiritual ball, a thin young man - Qiye - was tightly bound.
Qiye sat quietly hanging in the spirit ball, biting his lips and closing his eyes tightly. His thin face looked very labored, and his forehead was dripping with sweat. The thick spiritual power in the spirit ball tightly wrapped Qiye's thin body bit by bit, and then continuously penetrated into the body from the pores of the skin.
The spiritual power penetrated the body surface and continuously burned every piece of flesh and blood in Qiye's body, bombarding every silent vein, and continuously released spiritual power current to activate the blood vessels. Qiye suddenly felt a tingling pain all over his body, and his itching Extremely, unbearable. Afterwards, Qiye's bones began to "crack" under the squeeze of the continuously penetrating spiritual power.
"Ahh...ah...ahhh..." Qiye also gritted his teeth at the beginning and endured the pain until it was heartbreaking. Qiye felt that he was about to be squeezed and suffocated: all the bones in his body were crushed in the unbearable long time, like bones being crushed and ashes thrown away.
The severe pain and shock of shattering bones all over his body, inch by inch, has exceeded this seven or eight-year-old boy's deep understanding of pain. Even the bloody whips in the hands of the soldiers in the slave camp had never made Qiye so painful. Streams of uncontrollable blood in the chest came out of Qiye Shou's mouth like boiling water, and his eyes, which were dilated by the severe pain, were as red as red and almost bursting.
"Disciple, you must hold back! If you can't bear the pain of building the foundation, you will stop here for the rest of your life. There will be more hardships in the future, even worse than this." Taizu Hunyuan looked at such painful Qiye couldn't bear to look straight and closed his eyes, feeling distressed. Although he was worried in his heart, Hunyuan Taizu still believed in Qiye before seeing the final outcome.
As the first wave of spiritual energy tempering ended, the penetrating spiritual energy began to release icy cold. However, at this moment, Qiye's consciousness had completely passed out and he could not feel the change in body temperature at all. In the slow process of ice erosion and tempering, the blood flowing throughout Qiye's body gradually became warm and cool, and not long after, the warmth gradually became colder. In the end, Qiye's whole body became as cold as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
As the chill hit, Qiye's body began to tremble uncontrollably. White air leaked from the corners of his mouth and between his teeth, and the blood all over his body changed from bright red to cold blue. The heart wrapped in the cold body also began to beat vigorously and slowly, then became slower and weaker, and finally the heartbeat gradually became calm. At this moment, all the breath in Qiye's body has completely dissipated, leaving only a trace of life that has not yet been extinguished.
The second wave of spiritual power - ice quenching, is slowly unfolding...
In the chaos, Qiye's mind slowly fell into the abyss as if sinking into an ice pool, looking at the few white lights that were getting farther and farther in the sky. Qiye was unexpectedly calm and calm, closing his eyes without any struggle. In this silent ice abyss without any feeling or life, as if it had never been born, Qiye let his mind be swallowed into the chaotic darkness as if he was free.
Soon the outer membrane of Qiye's heart began to condense with a layer of hoarfrost that broke with a snap. The hoarfrost continued to condense and thicken, forming a thin layer of blue ice. The blue ice continued to spread quietly, completely covering the entire stopped heart in a few breaths. After the heart was completely frozen by the blue ice, the blue ice began to slowly spread to the surrounding areas, flowing through countless blood vessels connecting the heart throughout the body...
In the end, countless blood vessels were frozen to the point of being crystal clear like ice sculptures. Qiye's body was completely frozen, like a huge uninhabited ice palace. But the crazy blue ice didn't stop there and penetrated all over. Gradually, blue ice continued to erode out of Qiye's surface skin, forming ice spots the size of fingernails. The ice spots continued to expand and connect into one piece, covering Qiye's entire body. The hanging body was completely frozen, and the seven nights after being completely frozen looked like a crystal clear, dreamlike ice sculpture.
At this moment, Taizu Hunyuan was still watching the situation inside Qiye's body intently. But even under the focused gaze of Hunyuan Taizu, he didn't notice at all: at this moment, in the completely frozen blood vessels in Qiye's body, a few slightly bright red lights suddenly flashed, the light spots were like the sharp edge of a needle, like breathing It is generally strong and weak, and extremely strange.
At this moment, Qiye's mind has been completely immersed in the boundless and bottomless darkness. Qiye is calmly watching everything around him. He doesn't know how he got here, but no matter what, he firmly believes in the Master. Even though the process is so painful and long, Qiye will choose to grit his teeth and persevere.
In a dark world, it is easy for people to forget the existence of time. In such a dark world without everything, staying even for a minute may make people feel despair. But Qiye was floating quietly in such an environment. He didn't know what he should do, and there was nothing he could do in such a world...
Quietly, quietly... I don’t know how long time has passed, or maybe no time has passed at all. Qiye's mind began to become a little sleepy, inexplicable sleepiness gradually came over, and he felt that his eyelids began to slowly slide down with constant struggle. Although the eyes are open or closed, what they see is the same. But Qiye could still feel that in the invisible darkness, his eyelids were slowly drooping at an imperceptible speed...
Suddenly, Qiye's heart stirred, and he remembered Hunyuan Taizu's instructions: the mind is immortal, and the soul is immortal! At that time he didn't understand what this meant, but now he gradually understood. If your mind falls asleep here, your soul may be swallowed by darkness, and you may die completely.
After suddenly realizing this, Qiye was shocked, forced himself to cheer up, and suppressed the sleepiness that swept over him. Then he stretched out his right arm and took a fierce bite. The strange thing was that there was no pain in his arm. The darkness covered his eyes and he couldn't see whether there was any blood flowing out. But despite this, Qiye was still stubborn and biting his arm without any slack. He could not let himself fall asleep doing nothing and let his remaining consciousness slowly slip away. Qiye held this belief in his heart.
In this way, Qiye kept biting his arm repeatedly and tirelessly. He didn't know how long he had been biting, and he didn't know how many times he had bitten it. In the soundless darkness, the boy bit his arm stubbornly and monotonously. No matter how many times I bite it, I don't feel anything or get tired. Qiye felt that he was trapped in a quagmire of unspeakable despair: there was no way, no way out, only a shaky but unwilling perseverance...
I don’t know how long the annual rings of time have been rolling. Gradually, Qiye finally felt that there was a faint haze in front of his eyes, which was as dark as ink. This weak feeling suddenly filled Qiye's heart, which was on the verge of collapse, with unspeakable excitement. In such desperate darkness, even a little bit of sight is enough to make people cry with joy.
As the vagueness gradually became clear, Qiye could clearly see his arm. When he saw his own arm, Qiye's excited face showed unbelievable shock: the arm that had been bitten by him countless times had no teeth marks at all, and the entire arm was intact as before.
And as the darkness shrouding his mind quietly receded, Qiye finally saw the form of his mind: a person whose appearance was exactly the same as a real person, but whose size was unusually small. The whole body is emitting fluorescence, not a physical body but a body made of spiritual power. This is what countless spiritual practitioners have longed for throughout their lives: spiritual soul!
Spiritual soul is a spiritual object that is cultivated at a deeper level in the soul and mind of a spiritual practitioner. Having a spiritual soul means that a spiritual practitioner can have a sharper perception of spiritual power, stronger control of spiritual power, and a deeper storage capacity. Moreover, after thousands of times of tempering and forging, the soul can evolve into a clone that is very close to the fighting power of the original body. The place where the soul is born is called the "spiritual world". The spiritual world is the sea of dantian where practitioners store spiritual power. The vastness of the spiritual world also means powerful storage capabilities.
As the strength level of spiritual practitioners increases, dazzling "spiritual stars" will continue to evolve in the spiritual world: the greater the number of spiritual stars, the stronger the spiritual power. The larger the size of the spiritual star, the richer the spiritual power.
Therefore, the emergence of the spiritual world is a sign that mortals have reached the threshold and foundation of spiritual practitioners.
In this world, only one percent of people can become spiritual practitioners through foundation building and channeling. Despite this, the consumption of spiritual power for foundation-building channeling is also huge. Strong sects generally use spiritual formations when conducting foundation-building channeling for their large number of introductory disciples.
Obviously, with the help of Hunyuan Taizu's strong and refined spiritual power, Qiye successfully became a spiritual practitioner through ancient foundation building, opened up the spiritual world in his body, and became a "junior level" spiritual practitioner. Moreover, Qiye didn't know that the spiritual world he had opened up was wider than that of ordinary junior spiritual cultivators: the spiritual world that ordinary spiritual cultivators initially opened was only a few squares, but Qiye's was a hundred squares. There are still 50 faint spiritual stars in the spiritual world, but ordinary spiritual practitioners only have 10 or even a few at first, and geniuses only have about 30.
As the level of spiritual power increases, the spiritual world will continue to expand and the number of spiritual stars will continue to increase. But even if there is a spiritual world, it may not be possible to successfully give birth to a soul in the spiritual world, just like not all shells in the sea can give birth to black pearls. Only one in 10,000 people can give birth to a soul when they first open their souls. If they fail to cultivate their souls when they open their souls, it will be very difficult to cultivate them in the future.
Qiye's soul stood quietly in the void of the spiritual world, scanning the entire empty spiritual world carefully: the dark night had receded into the distance, and there was nothing in the space except for the colorful spiritual stars. Despite this, Qiye still looked at all this with great surprise, like an explorer in an unknown world, with surprise written on his face.
And when Qiye looked curiously at the spiritual world, there was still a large amount of remaining strong spiritual power gathered outside the iceberg that sealed the body. When Taizu Hunyuan saw that Qiye had safely passed through the dangerous situation of opening his spirit, his face relaxed and he waved one hand: the remaining strong spiritual power penetrated the iceberg barrier like a flood that broke a dike, and poured into Qiye's body unimpeded.
In the spiritual world, Qiye stands suspended in the sky. Suddenly, there was a loud boom in the dark sky, and a torrent of pure spiritual power poured down from all directions like a waterfall, falling into an unknown abyss below the spiritual world. The spiritual power carried the momentum of thousands of horses galloping forward, and its unstoppable and magnificent scene deeply shocked Qiye. The spiritual power poured into the abyss soon formed a huge vortex. The vortex rotated slowly, like a huge millstone as thick as Mount Tai. It carried the momentum of crushing everything, and its roaring majestic sound was deafening.
"Hahaha... Congratulations to my disciple for successfully building the foundation!" In the dark space of the spiritual world, I remembered the old but joyful congratulations of Taizu Hunyuan.
"Thank you Master, my disciple's success now is all due to Master." Qiye said gratefully. Although he didn't know where Taizu Hunyuan's voice came from, he still bowed down and saluted devoutly.
"As a teacher, I can only give you a little help. As for the outcome, it's all up to you." Taizu Hunyuan said truthfully.
"Excuse me, Master, how should I exit this space." Qiye calmed down his excitement and asked with some confusion.
"Just concentrate and calm down, and let your mind follow your thoughts." Taizu Hunyuan explained quietly.
Qiye followed what Taizu said, closed his eyes, held his breath quietly, and then changed his mind. Only then did he open his hazy naked eyes with some discomfort. All the scenery in front of him was shrouded in a bloody red, which was extremely sinister. After Qiye noticed something strange, he quickly closed his eyes and tried to use his spiritual power to wash his pupils. Then he slowly opened them again, and the scarlet blood gradually faded away.
At this moment, Qiye was sitting cross-legged in the frozen iceberg. After fully waking up, the frozen iceberg began to crack inch by inch, and then the cracks opened like snakes. In the sound of "swishing", the entire small iceberg shattered and peeled off, revealing the young man's thin body. It was a petite body that had undergone forging and baptism and was reborn in Nirvana. No one knew what kind of destiny it would unfold.
