Chapter 4: The Shadow of Immortality
Qi Xuansu directly infused the totem with the power of "Xuanyu".
This time, it mainly acted on Wu Fan's totem and Wu Ji's totem, making both of them reach the seventh scale at the same time.
At the same time, Qi Xuansu's Qi Refiner inheritance broke through the infinite stage and entered the creation stage.
In this way, a series of chain reactions were also produced. Qi Xuansu met the conditions that in addition to the natal inheritance of the scattered people, there were three inheritances that were all in the creation stage, namely: the warrior inheritance, the witch inheritance, and the Qi Refiner inheritance, which pushed the exiled immortal inheritance to the creation stage, that is, the three corpses.
After reaching this level, Qi Xuansu can cut out a three corpse incarnation, two three corpse incarnations in the pseudo-immortal stage, and three three corpse incarnations in the immortal stage. As for the one-tribulation immortal, it can even make the three corpse incarnations separate from themselves and become independent individuals, which has the prototype of the celestial immortal incarnation.
The four inheritances of warrior inheritance, witch inheritance, Qi-refining inheritance, and exiled immortal inheritance in turn pushed Qi Xuansu's natal inheritance to the pseudo-immortal stage.
Unexpectedly, the improvement brought this time was not only in terms of cultivation, but also a lot of knowledge.
This knowledge is mainly aimed at the four stages of pseudo-immortal, immortal, quasi-first-tribulation immortal, and first-tribulation immortal. Many of the sayings, Qi Xuansu had never heard of, were directly poured into Qi Xuansu's mind.
There is no doubt that Yao Zu must have left this knowledge and it has been stored in the "Heart of the Longevity Stone". Qi Xuansu's cultivation was not enough before, so there was no need to know this. Now that Qi Xuansu has entered the pseudo-immortal stage, he has finally entered the door and meets the minimum requirements, so these secrets unknown to ordinary people are instilled into Qi Xuansu.
The creation stage of the Qi-refining inheritance corresponds to the Hedao realm. The biggest feature of this realm is the unity of heaven and man, mobilizing the power of heaven and earth for one's own use.
The several major inheritances of Taoism have their own advantages and disadvantages.
The damage that a Qi-refining practitioner who can call upon the power of heaven and earth can cause is extremely terrifying, and even the first among all the inheritances. However, there is also a huge disadvantage. The unity of heaven and man requires time and accumulation of strength. For example, when a Qi-refining practitioner is entangled with a warrior, it is difficult for him to use means that require accumulation of strength.
The martial arts inheritance emphasizes that the heart moves at will, and even acts before the intention, anticipates the enemy's moves, and attacks the enemy unexpectedly, and will not give the Qi-refining practitioner the opportunity to achieve the unity of heaven and man. If the Qi-refining practitioner is really given this opportunity, after the accumulation of strength, the warrior's physique cannot withstand the full force of the Qi-refining practitioner.
This means of unity of heaven and man will be further strengthened after becoming a terrestrial immortal, and become the "Innate Five Tai", which reaches the extreme in both attack and defense. It's just that each terrestrial immortal can only get one of the "Innate Five Tai", and cannot have all of them, so there are still weaknesses.
Therefore, the terrestrial immortal is only ranked second in the inheritance of the five immortals.
The first place is of course the celestial immortal. As the upper inheritance of the terrestrial immortal, the celestial immortal also has a kind of "innate" means, but it is not among the "five Tai", it should be said to be the "sixth Tai".
The so-called five Tais: Taiyi means the time before the appearance of Qi; Taichu means the beginning of Qi; Taishi means the time when the form appears; Taisu means the beginning of quality, when Qi, form and quality are complete and have not separated; Taiji means when Qi, form and quality are complete and have separated.
This is a clear process of the evolution of the world. The so-called "sixth Tai" is before Taiyi, that is, the period of Hunlun, when all things are in Hunlun but not separated, which is called Taixu.
Not only Taoism proposed this concept, but also Confucianism proposed this concept, using "Taixu" to represent the dissipated state of "Qi", which is the original state. "Qi" is the collective name of "Taixu" and all things.
The magical power derived from the "sixth Tai" is "Taixu Illusion".
This is certainly not comparable to the magic "Taixu Illusion" of the alchemists, but a great magical power that shakes the world.
In those days, Nanhua Daojun used the "Great Illusion" to cover the entire Yujing, causing Yujing to completely disappear. When people climbed up Yuxu Peak, they could only see the snow-covered mountains, but not the real Kunlun. Even the immortals could not see through it.
The interior of the "Great Illusion" is also full of mysteries. Not only does it confuse the concept of space, but even time is blurred. Some people who broke into the "Great Illusion" were trapped in it. They could not find the entrance to Yujing or the way back. They could only wander in the "Great Illusion" day after day, and finally got completely lost in it and became a part of the "Great Illusion".
In addition, there is a word "illusion" in the name of "Great Illusion", and illusions are also frequent, and they directly hit the weaknesses and flaws deep in the heart, making people unable to defend themselves. Many great masters with good cultivation have fallen into these illusions.
Even if Nanhua Daojun ascended to heaven and passed away, only the "Great Illusion" was left to operate on its own. For thousands of years, it has blocked countless people from the Taoist sect, and only immortals can barely pass through.
It was not until the Kunlun Cave Heaven landed that the Dao Sect closed the "Taixuan Fantasy" that enveloped Yujing. In other words, the "Taixu Fantasy" still exists and has not disappeared. It is already a semi-independent small world. The next step is to build a cave world that operates on its own and circulates endlessly. It is much better than the kingdom of God that needs to constantly consume divine power and will collapse if there is no divine power replenishment.
When Qi Xuansu went to Yujing for the first time, the most memorable thing was the moat of Yujing. Part of the river channel had separated from the mountain and hung in the air, like a galaxy rainbow, hanging without falling, and circulating endlessly. Just this scene is enough to make people who come to Yujing for the first time think that they have come to the fairyland.
This river is called "Taixu River", which is the concrete trace of "Taixu Fantasy" in the human world.
From this we can see how powerful the "Taixu Illusion" is, but it is really difficult for a celestial being to obtain such innate magical powers, because "Taixu" is completely muddled, the beginning and end of everything, and "nothingness". Therefore, the "Taixu Illusion" has no hierarchy, only one, and the threshold is the highest. Only a quasi-first-tribulation immortal can barely touch the threshold, and only a first-tribulation immortal can use it freely.
In other words, earthly immortals can obtain the "Innate Five Tai" when they enter the immortal stage, while celestial immortals must enter the quasi-first-tribulation immortal, or even the first-tribulation immortal, to obtain the "Sixth Tai".
This is actually reasonable, because celestial immortals are originally upgraded from earthly immortals.
If you proceed step by step, first become an immortal with the inheritance of earthly immortals, obtain one of the "Innate Five Tai", and then continue to practice, the inheritance changes from earthly immortals to celestial immortals, and at the same time enter the first-tribulation immortal, the "Innate Five Tai" changes to the "Sixth Tai", which is not abrupt, and can even be said to be a natural result.
But the problem is that Xuansheng has integrated a set of methods that directly point to the immortals, so that the immortals do not need to upgrade from the earthly immortals, and can directly become immortals. This leads to the fact that the immortal inheritance has nothing in the immortal stage. There is neither the "innate five Tai" of the earthly immortals, nor the "sixth Tai" because of the lack of cultivation, which makes the title of the first inheritance somewhat unworthy of the name.
In this way, it is not as good as the "innate five Tai" of the earthly immortals.
Qi Xuansu only then knew that there was a saying of "sixth Tai". It turned out that the immortals of heaven were so powerful that the immortals of earthly immortals. The five Tai returned to one void, and the void gave birth to all things, and all things returned to the void. However, for him, it was still a bit far away.
The immortals who were exiled from the sky are called dead ends. I am afraid that they will not see the day of "Taixu Fantasy". On the contrary, Zhang Yuelu and others, if they can survive the heavenly tribulation, can really get this magical power.
But then again, as the person who refined the "Heart of the Immortal Stone", Yao Zu could not have been unaware of the upper limit of the "Heart of the Immortal Stone".
In this case, why did she deliberately leave the secret about "Taixu Fantasy"? It can't be that he is "envying" the later generations, letting you see but not eat. Although it is in line with Yao Zu's style of doing things, Qi Xuansu always feels that there is another explanation.
Could it be that there is also a way to break through the "Heart of the Immortality Stone"? For example, the second-generation immortality medicine, and the Shaman King also relied on the "Immortality Stone" to survive the heavenly tribulation.
Thinking of this, Qi Xuansu couldn't help but feel moved.
The Shaman King did use the "Immortality Stone" to survive the heavenly tribulation, but it was not used in this way by Qi Xuansu. The Shaman King himself was an immortal. After refining the "Immortality Stone", he did not use the "Immortality Stone" to improve his cultivation. Because of the previous experience of Wu Xian and others, he directly used the "Immortality Stone" as a magic weapon, thus blocking the heavenly tribulation.
If Qi Xuansu became an immortal and had a second "Immortality Stone", could he become a first-tribulation immortal?
Of course, there is a problem here. The "heart of the longevity stone" is not equal to the "longevity stone". They cannot be generalized. There are even great differences between "longevity stones" and "longevity stones".
However, according to the fact that three pseudo-immortals are equivalent to one immortal, three immortals are equivalent to one first-tribulation immortal. From this, we can draw a conclusion: perhaps three "hearts of the longevity stone" can break through the limitation of the dead end road.
A person with one "heart of the longevity stone" can only stop at the immortal, but what if a person has three "hearts of the longevity stone"? That is the power of three immortals, wouldn't it break through the limitation of the dead end road?
More importantly, Yao Zu gathered the power of the Taoist sect and indeed refined three "hearts of the longevity stone", one for the Li family, one for the Yao family, and one for the Huasheng Hall.
Compared with the trivial matter of seeing but not eating, it is more in line with Yao Zu's bad character to let three Taoist handsome men with different "hearts of the longevity stone" kill each other for the only qualification of the first-tribulation immortal, or even provoke chaos in the Taoist sect.
The number of three "hearts of immortal stones" just corresponds to the three paths. Imagine, if the Zhang family had not caused the matter of the descendants of the gods, would the "heart of immortal stone" of Huashengtang have been delivered to the Zhang family through some means?
Zhang, Li, and Yao, the three major families, just represent the Zhengyi Dao, Taiping Dao, and Quanzhen Dao.
If everything goes according to Yao Zu's plan, today when the three paths are split, each of these three families has a "heart of immortal stone", and each launches a successor with advanced cultivation and equals, instead of Li Changge standing out alone. The key is that the final winner can not only become the head of the Taoist sect, but also become a one-calamity immortal, dominating the world for two hundred years, for thousands of years.
In this case, no one can retreat, no one dares to retreat, it is really a fight to the death.
The split of the three paths is inevitable, and the war between the three paths is also inevitable.
Thinking of this, Qi Xuansu couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
Does Yao Zu really dare to do this?