Chapter 240: The Calamity of the Nine Great Inner Alchemy Methods

Three Corpse Illumination, once known as the number one method under Heaven, only because the person who practiced it was the number one expert under Heaven.

Nine Great Inner Alchemy Methods, flowing through the years, crossing the ancient and modern.

However, regarding those who truly practiced the Great Dharma to completion, undoubtedly the first to be pushed was the Three Corpse Daoist who made the Daoist world under Heaven change color at the mention of his name eighty years ago.

"It is said that that one truly practiced this method to completion, and he is also the existence closest to the immortal Dao in the past hundred years." Yu Hua couldn't help but sigh.

As a Maoshan disciple, he didn't mention that name, but his eyes revealed a trace of sincerity and yearning.

Anyone who practices the Dao, no one would be indifferent to such a realm, only looking up in awe, regardless of stance, regardless of good or evil.

"Since he was invincible under Heaven, why did he lose in Chu Zhenren's hands?" Zhang Fan couldn't help but open his mouth, asking the biggest question in his heart.

Once these words were spoken, everyone revealed a strange expression, looking at him.

"Chu Zhenren is a banished immortal from Heaven, not of the mundane class..." Yu Hua was silent for a moment before sighing.

If one says the Three Corpse Daoist is the most legendary existence in the human world in the past hundred years, then Chu Chaoran is the most incredible variable.

"The Dao Discussion at Mount Dongyue is already the desperate realm of human cultivation. It's just a pity that no one could witness that battle back then with their own eyes." Yu Hua murmured softly.

For the Three Corpse Daoist and Chu Chaoran, the life-and-death fight was also a discussion of the Dao.

On this road, they were both life-and-death enemies and fellow travelers, lighting a lamp to illuminate the road, groping forward.

That battle was hailed as the strange flower of the Daoist world for a hundred years. The flower bloomed for an instant, and how could ordinary people in the world have the qualification to see its fragrance!?

"I heard from my Master, Heaven creates all things, there is a strength, there must be a restraint..." Yu Hua said in a deep voice.

"That one was hailed as number one under Heaven, perhaps Chu Zhenren was his destined restraint. Furthermore..."

Yu Hua changed the subject, murmuring softly: "Three Corpse Illumination, while being one of the most mysterious methods under Heaven, is also one of the most terrifying calamities in the world..."

"One of the most terrifying calamities?" Fang Changle murmured softly.

"Not bad, the reason why the Nine Great Inner Alchemy Methods are above all methods, as the King of Ten Thousand Ancient Scriptures, is because each of them seizes the mystery of the Great Dao and derives the great calamity of the Heavens."

Any thing, developing to the extreme, will inevitably change in the opposite direction.

The so-called, the opposite is the movement of the Dao.

Just like holding cold snow in winter, the hand will gradually warm up instead.

If a person works too hard, efficiency will be low instead. If the car speed is too fast, the wheel breaks, and it won't move.

The same principle, Nine Great Inner Alchemy Methods, extreme strength gives birth to calamity. Their mystery is unmatched, and their calamities are also rare in the world.

"Just like the Divine Demon Sacred Embryo, known as the most ferocious under Heaven, the thoughts that practitioners talk about with fear, can only become their nourishment..." Yu Hua said in a deep voice.

"Precisely because of this, those who practice this method, the soul-aspect transcends the mundane and enters the holy, vast and boundless, ten thousand methods are difficult to fall on their body, but once they enter the calamity, it is like ten thousand thoughts becoming an abyss, entering that Great Night Not Bright, never seeing the light of day again."

"Heaven and Earth Fortune-Seizing, the Dao of Heaven damages the excessive to supplement the insufficient, seizing the great fortune of Heaven and Earth, there must be a great calamity of Heaven and Earth. Once the calamity arrives, Heaven will come to kill, and Earth will come to execute..."

"Heaven-Born Earth-Dead, known as having life and having death, no life and no death, dying and returning to life, life and death never stopping, but once the calamity arrives, life becomes an obstacle, death becomes an obstacle, walking toward the wood, it is just a curse that never stops reincarnation."

"Vacuum Refining Form, form and Qi as one, dispersing becomes Qi, gathering becomes form, outside the body there is a body, Heaven has an outer Heaven, but once falling into the calamity, one will be lost in the void, completely parting with reality."

"And there is the Ten Thousand Evil Calamity Phase, known as the source of all evil, the calamity of all living beings, its power is the most evil, but once the calamity arrives, the practitioner must enter the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, the soul-aspect withers, the flesh decays, the terror is unimaginable."

Yu Hua sighed. As a Maoshan disciple, and an expert at the 【Zhaishou】 realm, he was quite familiar with the Nine Great Inner Alchemy Methods.

They were the most powerful methods in the world, and also the most terrifying calamities in the world.

They were like the two sides of Yin and Yang. The Dharma fortune gives birth to calamity, no longer human cultivation methods.

If one says ordinary practitioners realize life and death, once the work is done, it is the realm of Pure Yang Limitless.

Then the Nine Great Inner Alchemy Methods realize the calamity fortune above life and death.

Calamity fortune exists within life and death, and also exists outside life and death. It is the root power of every thing's development.

Formation, dwelling, decay, emptiness, outside that cycle, calamity fortune still exists.

Realizing calamity fortune, that is the true immortal class.

Recognizing this layer, one knows how mysterious and terrifying the Nine Great Inner Alchemy Methods are.

Three Corpse Illumination, which is also one of the Nine Great Inner Alchemy Methods, is like this. Three Corpses are born innately, hidden in everyone's body. Especially for practitioners, it is the greatest pass to become an immortal. The higher the cultivation, the more terrifying the Three Corpse Calamity.

The Three Corpse Daoist practiced this method, how could he not suffer this calamity!?

"Senior Brother Yu Hua, why did you only mention eight kinds of inner alchemy methods, isn't it said there are Nine Great Inner Alchemy Methods?" Zhang Fan couldn't help but ask.

Yu Hua was knowledgeable, mentioning the Nine Great Inner Alchemy Methods like counting family treasures, but counting them, there were only eight kinds.

"There is one more I don't know, and I have never heard the elders in the sect mention it..." Yu Hua said in a deep voice.

"The senior only said that that inner alchemy method is not widely spread, only having mystery on the outside, but has never appeared in the world, and no one has practiced it."

"So mysterious!?"

Zhang Fan, Fang Changle, and Sui Chunsheng all revealed looks of curiosity.

"Not spreading in the world is also good. The Nine Great Inner Alchemy Methods have too much fame, but throughout the ages, how many have truly practiced them to completion? Instead, they have created countless evil obstacles." Yu Hua sighed.

Among the ancestors of Maoshan through the ages, there were no lack of existences who practiced and realized the Nine Great Inner Alchemy Methods. Which one was not a person of heaven-sent intelligence, groping forward on this road?

Unfortunately, these people either died and disappeared, or became madmen, became fools, and even more entered evil and became monsters that were difficult for this world to accommodate. It was truly sad and pitiful.

"Senior Brother, then the one locked in our back mountain 【Demon-Suppressing Well】..."

Just at this moment, Fang Changle seemed to have thought of something and opened his mouth suddenly.

Before he finished speaking, Yu Hua shot a sharp look over, wishing he could tear the mouth of this Junior Brother on the spot.

"Senior Brother Yu Hua, could it be that Maoshan really has an expert who practiced the Nine Great Inner Alchemy Methods?"

Zhang Fan and Sui Chunsheng looked at each other, where could they not see the trick, both moved their curiosity, unable to help but open their mouths to inquire.

"Junior Brother, your mouth will suffer disaster sooner or later." Yu Hua said coldly.

"Actually, there is nothing... that is a Senior Uncle of mine, who didn't know where he got part of the 【Heaven-Born Earth-Dead】 cultivation method in his early years..."

"Resulting in becoming a madman." Yu Hua sighed.

"Madman? How mad?" Zhang Fan's mouth didn't stop.

Yu Hua raised his head, glanced at him, paused slightly, and finally said: "That Senior Uncle of mine might be living with more than two hundred people in his body now."

"Living with more than two hundred people?"

Zhang Fan was stunned for a moment, then blurted out: "Multiple personality disorder?"

"Something like that."

Yu Hua murmured softly: "People live in the world, only having one life, one identity. Wanting to transcend life and death, naturally, one must fall into the maze of life and death!"

"Heaven-Born Earth-Dead, it's not so easy to practice."

"That's more terrifying than going into demonic deviation..."

Just at this moment, Fang Changle couldn't help but say: "I have seen it once with my own eyes. That Senior Uncle rushed out of the 【Demon-Suppressing Well】, don't know how many people died before he..."

"Cough, cough..."

"Also killed people!?"

Zhang Fan and Sui Chunsheng looked at each other.

"Junior Brother, can you not talk nonsense outside?" Yu Hua's expression was gloomy, staring dead at Fang Changle. "Don't listen to his nonsense."

"So dangerous, why not..." Zhang Fan thought to himself, as if he hadn't heard Yu Hua's explanation.

"Practicing Heaven-Born Earth-Dead, it's not so easy to kill him, furthermore..." Fang Changle said in a low voice.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Yu Hua coughed violently, coughed forcefully, coughed desperately.

Zhang Fan's gaze tightened, but he didn't press.

He naturally knew what Fang Changle's unfinished words meant.

Heaven-Born Earth-Dead, that is one of the Nine Great Inner Alchemy Methods. Even Maoshan, I'm afraid, would be interested. 【24

Although Yu Hua's uncle-master had not succeeded in practicing it, he was a rare subject for observation; perhaps one could glimpse some of the mysteries of this legendary Inner Elixir Method from him.

With such value, what did the deaths of a few people matter?

As long as that so-called uncle-master was alive, he was the most precious treasure, far more valuable than human lives.

This had nothing to do with good or evil; it was simply human nature.

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As long as one is human, as long as one is in this mortal world, there will be desires and obsessions; even practitioners of the Dao find it difficult to avoid such customs.

Rumble...

Just at this moment, in the courtyard downstairs, the sound of car engines roaring came, drawing everyone's thoughts away.

Zhang Fan turned his head to look and saw the convoy of the Supernatural Association's investigation team, fully loaded with boxes of files, driving out of the main courtyard of the Jiangnan Province Daoist Alliance.

"They're gone." Sui Chunsheng also let out a sigh of relief.

During these days, in order to cooperate with the work of the Supernatural Association's investigation team, they had been working overtime day and night, and there was no overtime pay.

"Yeah, they're finally gone." Zhang Fan's tense nerves also completely relaxed.

Thanks to the ancestors, the cases of Meng Qinghuan and Hua Yanqiu could be considered temporarily concluded.

He was fine, Old Yu had gone to look at the fish pond, and everyone was safe.

"Little Zhang, you are a life-and-death friend of my junior brother, so naturally you are also a friend of our Maoshan. If you have time, come to the mountains to sit for a while."

Just at this moment, Yu Hua spoke up.

"Senior brother, rest assured, if there is an opportunity, I will definitely go." Zhang Fan nodded.

Regardless of whether it was because of Jiang Hu or Fang Changle, his relationship with Maoshan was destined not to be too distant, and it was necessary to find time to go and recognize the sect.

"Then I will be leaving first."

As he spoke, Yu Hua looked at Fang Changle.

"Senior brother, why aren't you leaving? Is there anything else?"

"Junior brother, come and see me off." Yu Hua gritted his teeth and said.

"Then I will see senior brother off."

Fang Changle led the way and pushed open the door. As soon as the two of them walked out the door, Zhang Fan heard a burst of dissatisfied grumbling from Yu Hua's senior brother drifting in.

"Can you not blabber nonsense outside?"

"Actually, this is no longer a secret."

Just at this moment, Sui Chunsheng spoke up.

"What? Are you talking about that senior from Maoshan who practiced the Jia-Sheng-Gui-Si?" Zhang Fan asked in return.

"The ten great Daoist famous mountains under heaven have been passed down for so many years; how could they remain indifferent to those nine Inner Elixir Methods?"

Sui Chunsheng whispered solemnly and sat down on the sofa.

"You mean they all have people who have studied and practiced them?" Zhang Fan's heart stirred.

In terms of foundation, who could compare to the ten great Daoist famous mountains under heaven? Throughout the long years, anything involving the secret of immortality was worth a try, not to mention those nine immortal cultivation techniques.

"From ancient times to the present, many experts who practiced the nine great Inner Elixir Methods have emerged within the ten great Daoist sects, but most of them were half-finished products."

Sui Chunsheng shook his head.

Were the nine great Inner Elixir Methods really that easy to practice?

Apart from the Zhang family of Long Hu Mountain, it seemed there had been no reports of any sect or person successfully practicing any one of them.

However, although no one had succeeded, every family must have studied these nine Inner Elixir Methods very deeply. Like that "specimen" of Yu Hua's senior brother—let's call him a "specimen" for now—there must certainly be quite a few.

"Fang Changle's senior brother said the nine great Inner Elixir Methods are infinitely poisonous; how do we know they haven't studied them?" Sui Chunsheng said in a deep voice.

"Perhaps he practiced it himself."

"This..." Zhang Fan lowered his gaze, revealing a thoughtful expression.

"You've seen what happened in Yujing City these past two days; even the Lord of the Mysterious Palace of the Wu Wei Sect appeared here..."

"Zhang Fan, this is Yujing City, this is Jiangnan Province, Maoshan's territory..."

"Do you think that Lord of the Mysterious Palace and Maoshan might..." Sui Chunsheng hesitated.

"Old Sui, you are a person in the government; it's better not to talk nonsense about some things." Zhang Fan reminded him.

Hearing this, Sui Chunsheng couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It's just that in this recent period, I've seen too many things. Humans, ghosts—sometimes you just can't tell them apart..."

"Speaking of which, I really have gained a lot of knowledge since I met you."

"In this world, I don't find anything strange anymore." Sui Chunsheng sighed.

Under the sun, there has never been anything new.

"Old Sui, you've sublimated again. Your future is boundless, boundless indeed."

Zhang Fan grinned, patted Sui Chunsheng on the shoulder, and stood up to leave.

"You're leaving? Not staying for a meal?" Sui Chunsheng tried to persuade him to stay.

"Your cafeteria has been too vegetarian lately; there's no oil or water at all. Let's do it next time."

"That's because the investigation team is here; we can't appear too corrupt. Come another day, and I'll treat you to a private meal." Sui Chunsheng said with a smile.

"I'm off."

Zhang Fan greeted him and walked out of the Jiangnan Province Daoist Alliance in a swaggering manner.

Just a few steps after walking out of the entrance, a black car drove over from the distance and stopped in front of Zhang Fan.

"Hmm!?"

Zhang Fan was stunned. Before he could react, the car door opened, and a fair-skinned and beautiful young woman sat inside. Her long legs were crossed, and her eyes flashed with strange colors as she looked Zhang Fan up and down.

"Get in."

"Who are you..."

Zhang Fan's gaze narrowed slightly. He didn't recognize the woman before him, but the car looked somewhat familiar; it seemed to belong to Li Yishan's family.

"My name is Jiang Yunxian, and I am Yishan's stepmother."

(End of this chapter)