Chapter 545: Prince Xin's Banquet

In the Prince's Mansion in Xinzhou City, the Invitation Star Tower.

Li Yi stood on the roof of the Invitation Star Tower. His body was wrapped in faint incense Qi. This incense Qi was obtained when he rescued the dozen women during the day, and it seemed to be added with the incense belief power provided by those government office runners. Although it was only provided by thirty-odd people, this power was very special and alternative, seemingly able to be compatible with any power, and completely without rejection.

If combined with the physical body, then the physical body would undergo a magical transformation, possessing the ability to actively absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Besides that, the physical body also vaguely had a sense of spiritual consciousness, as if able to perceive the mysteries of heaven and earth, while also getting rid of the influence of the flesh and blood body, evolving toward an unknown direction.

If combined with the soul, then the soul would become powerful in an instant. Even if the physical body were discarded, it could exist long in heaven and earth, and it could also use the power of incense to reshape the soul form.

Even this incense belief power could be combined with Daoist tools to enhance the power of Daoist tools.

Knowing that incense power was false and temporary, and once belief collapsed, everything would be lost, but this sudden improvement was truly addictive. As long as there was enough incense, one could completely ascend to heaven in a short time and become a powerful existence.

"This incense belief power is so magical, it is simply omnipotent. And it doesn't need hard cultivation at all; as long as it is obtained, it can be immediately transformed into powerful strength. Such temptation truly makes people want to fall into it and walk on the path of incense becoming divinity."

Li Yi took a deep breath and pinched a fist seal.

Fist intent erupted.

The soul at this moment turned into a glaring Vajra, forcibly suppressing various distracting thoughts in his heart.

"What I want to do is borrow the false to cultivate the true, not be shackled by the power of incense. This power that doesn't belong to me is easy to obtain and easy to lose. I must be vigilant at all times." Li Yi opened his eyes, his gaze becoming clear again.

Then he took this incense power into his body. With the movement of the Qi and blood in his body, it then gathered toward the position of his lungs.

He had made up his mind to use the power of incense to open up the body's meridian points.

Because incense power was created out of nothing, it was most suitable for attempting to open up meridian points. As long as the opening was successful, Qi and blood would enter, and then the heaven and earth metal Qi would be gathered into it. Even if the incense power disappeared, the meridian point would still exist, because Qi and blood and spiritual energy were real and would not disappear with the incense power.

This was his borrowing the false to cultivate the true.

Li Yi observed the God-Manifesting Martial Arts Diagram while determining the position of the meridian point, and at the same time channeled a strand of incense Qi to impact the position of the meridian point, trying to open a crack in it.

Although this strand of incense Qi was very weak, it could guide a trace of Qi and blood energy to gather there.

As long as the correct position was determined and a crack was pried open in the meridian point, then subsequent meridian points wouldn't need the power of incense belief to be successfully opened.

Soon.

That strand of incense belief power exploded in his body, and the opening of the meridian point failed.

However, Li Yi didn't suffer any harm. Instead, the exploded incense belief power gathered again, and then was channeled by him to explore the mysteries of the meridian points in his body again.

"Sure enough."

At this moment, Li Yi was somewhat excited. His conception was correct.

Incense power didn't hurt his own body, and failure didn't matter. Unlike before, when he channeled the power of the god's bloodline to impact the meridian points, if the opening failed, his body would be injured immediately, and in serious cases, his internal organs would explode, and then he would need to recuperate and restore his injuries. Although he used the power of Qi and blood to the minimum, it was still hard to avoid hurting his body.

So his speed of opening meridian points was too slow, so his strength couldn't improve.

But incense was created out of nothing and couldn't hurt himself. If it dissipated, he could just gather it again.

As long as belief existed, the power of incense would always be there.

With such thoughts.

The power of incense exploded in his body for the second time. Li Yi's body was undamaged, but the meridian point was still not opened. However, it didn't matter; he now had the capital to try and explore again and again, and didn't need to spend time recuperating his body at all.

Third time, fourth time, fifth time...

In less than an hour, Li Yi tried no less than a dozen times.

Finally, at the twenty-first time.

This power of incense fell into a bottomless abyss, disappearing without a trace, as if there was a closed door that was now pushed open by a crack, and the power of incense disappeared into a void world along the crack.

"The fifteenth meridian point was opened?" Li Yi suddenly opened his eyes, a look of disbelief on his face.

It was really that easy?

Li Yi tried to channel Qi and blood, gathering it into the fifteenth meridian point.

The Qi and blood flowed rolling through his whole body, and the door that was only opened by a crack was now completely pushed open, and a new meridian point was formed.

He immediately took out a Spirit Blood Elixir from the Five Elements Bracelet to replenish the Qi and blood lost by his body.

Soon, Li Yi was certain without a doubt that he had really opened the fifteenth meridian point in such a short time.

"Hoo!"

Then, he slowly spat out a breath of air, but that strand of incense Qi remaining in the meridian point was spat out by him again, wrapping around his body, attracting the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around him.

"Borrowing the false to cultivate the true is indeed powerful." Li Yi stared at that strand of incense Qi, feeling it was truly outrageous.

According to normal circumstances, his strand of incense Qi was spat out, and the meridian point should collapse and disappear immediately. After all, your incense belief power had left your body, and everything created before should disappear. But the fifteenth meridian point in his body still existed, the Qi and blood in his body were continuously filling into it, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was also gathering.

Everything was exactly the same as the previous conception.

According to this progress, as long as there was enough incense power, Li Yi could open sixty meridian points in a month, and then collect the five elements Qi of heaven and earth, and after slowly honing for a period of time, he could successfully walk through the Five-Qi Realm.

Once the five Qi returned to the origin, Li Yi's soul would transform into a Primordial Spirit, and it would be a Primordial Spirit twelve times stronger than that of a practitioner of the Dao.

At that time, he didn't know how powerful his strength would be.

He calmed his mind.

No mistakes, one read, one send, one content, one look!

Li Yi calmed his mood. At this moment, he used the surging Qi and blood medicinal power of the Spirit Blood Elixir to slowly fill the fifteenth meridian point. After that, he still had to collect heart Qi, and then use the heart-fire Qi to hone the metal Qi, only then could it be complete.

Although he had taken a shortcut, subsequent cultivation still had to be pragmatic; otherwise, if the five elements were unbalanced, once the five Qi returned to the origin, his soul would shatter in an instant, and he would die.

Although cultivating multiple methods was powerful, one also had to bear the corresponding risks and costs.

And at the same time.

The Invitation Star Tower under his feet was brightly lit.

Because today, the owner of the Prince's Mansion, Prince Xin, was holding a banquet in the Invitation Star Tower.

In the spacious and bright pavilion, guests were seated. Beautiful maids sent various mountain treasures and seafood, fine wine and delicacies one by one. Besides that, birds flew and circled above their heads, making pleasant sounds. In the middle of the banquet, a white ape danced with a sword, and on the left and right sides, white foxes offered treasures... And the guests who could be invited also had extraordinary identities.

There were monsters that had transformed into human form, rangers who roamed the world, Daoist priests who had attained the Dao, and scholars with great talent.

Such a banquet could not be held by anyone other than princes and nobles.

And Prince Xin, who was sitting in the main seat, was a young man in his early twenties. He was handsome and had an extraordinary bearing, his body wrapped in dragon Qi. That dragon was made of black jade, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, looking ferocious. It was invisible to the naked eye of mortals and was condensed from the incense belief of the people of the world.

Dragon Qi was also known as Prince Qi, and with just this Prince Qi, he could sit there and deter monsters and command ghosts and gods.

However, Prince Xin, who possessed such a noble identity, prominent status, and many wives, beautiful maids, and rare treasures, was not happy.

There were two reasons.

First, he was only twenty-one and had already been titled a prince, which meant he had no chance with the throne in this life and could only be an idle prince.

Second, he wanted to imitate his ancestors, seek immortality, and go on a carefree journey, but he had no clue.

He couldn't fight for the throne, and he couldn't ask for longevity. Prince Xin was very troubled. He felt that his talent was extraordinary and he should have a broader future, instead of being trapped in this cage, slowly aging, and finally dying, leaving nothing behind.

"Tonight, I am holding a banquet in the Invitation Star Tower, inviting all capable people to attend, just for one thing. I want to know, whether it is monsters, ghosts and gods, or cultivating the Dao, is it possible to be immortal?" Prince Xin opened his mouth slowly, his gaze looking at the guests present with a bit of expectation.

"The monsters in my mansion were also taken in by me. They were born and raised by heaven and earth, eating in the wind and sleeping in the dew, collecting Qi and transforming into form, but in the end, they also have a limit to their lifespan and cannot be immortal. I have also thought that perhaps it is because they didn't get the method and their talent is limited, unable to cultivate to the point of immortality. But this heaven and earth is vast, and I think there must be some special ones who can exist long in heaven and earth. Do you have any insights from your travels in the Four Seas and Thirty Provinces?"

As soon as this was said, a ranger carrying a precious sword said: "Back to the Prince, the one with the longest lifespan I have seen while traveling the world is a tree spirit. It had a thousand years of time, but for the first few hundred years, it was like rotten wood, and for the last hundred years, because it received incense offerings, it opened its spiritual wisdom and transformed into a form. But if you talk

A bewitching and beautiful woman covered her mouth and laughed at this moment: "Your Highness enjoys all the riches of the human world, why seek that immortality? A stubborn stone may last forever between heaven and earth, but how dull is that? Moreover, Your Highness possesses the incense of the common people; cultivation is extremely difficult. Seeking immortality is like a flower in a mirror or the moon in the water—in the end, it is all vanity."

"In the end, I must try," Prince Xin said calmly. "If I obtain the method, I can abandon my throne and forfeit this incense of the common people."

"If there is no throne and no incense of the common people, then how can you seek immortality?"

The bewitching woman said with a giggle, resting her head on her hand, while a furry tail emerged from behind her, swaying slightly.

Clearly, this bewitching woman was not human, but a fox spirit, a creature that had taken human form.

(End of chapter)