Chapter 285

The vacuum is not empty, manifesting marvelous existence; marvelous existence returns to emptiness, refining the true form.

Of all the scriptures in the world, the nine methods are supreme. Among them, only 【Vacuum Refining Form】 and 【Five Elements Wrong King】 exhaust the mysteries of the human body and explore the changes of the physical form.

The latter takes existence as the body, the former takes non-existence as the root; existence and non-existence arise and perish, the void is real.

There have been ten thousand Daoist methods since ancient times, but in investigating the secrets of the physical body, none have escaped the cage of these two methods.

Rumble...

The clouds and smoke in the sky suddenly condensed, and the soft moonlight seemed to stop.

Everything seemed to fall into stillness.

Everyone's gaze fell upon that incredible figure. Her traces became increasingly blurred, white airflow surging around her body, as if containing vigorous life force, rhythmically moving with that mysterious figure.

The three Celestial Masters faced a formidable enemy, looking at this monster that had appeared out of thin air, strange colors flashing in their eyes, rising without end.

They instinctively sensed danger at the very first moment.

"Form is perfected by the Dao, life is extended by techniques; suddenly forgetting heaven and earth, shattering the physical frame..." Chang Weiyang's expression was solemn, murmuring softly.

"Vacuum Refining Form!"

When this name was spoken from the mouth of the Three Tian Shi of Mount Laojun, everyone's expression changed.

Jin Maori, Wu Qilu, Brothers Qi Delong... even Meng Qiwu, who was hiding in the dark, felt a wild tide rise in their hearts, rivers and seas overturning, shaking extraordinarily.

"Vacuum Refining Form? It actually has a successor?"

"Vacuum Refining Form... is this really Vacuum Refining Form?"

"A Three Tian Shi's discernment can never be wrong... who exactly is this person?"

One of the nine methods, Vacuum Refining Form: stealing infinite primordial Qi, continuing the limited physical frame, extracting yin and refining dregs, achieving Pure Yang...

No one expected that one of the nine legendary internal alchemy methods would manifest here, its successor appearing, domineering and extraordinary, actually blocking the three Celestial Masters, intending to seize the Heaven-Born Spirit Fetus.

"Who are you?" Chang Weiyang shouted in a deep voice.

Hum...

White airflow surged, making that figure appear even more blurred. She seemed not to have heard, slowly turning around and walking toward the deeply hidden Heaven-Born Spirit Fetus.

"Thunder and Fire Suspended in the Void!"

Almost at the same moment, Chang Weiyang suddenly acted. The gourd in his palm vibrated violently, a stream of light pressing down, as if rain clouds were crossing the sky, descending ten thousand paths of thunder and fire, roaring ferociously, crushing toward that mysterious figure.

How keen is a Three Tian Shi's perception; fortune comes to the spirit, disaster arises from the divine sense.

Without needing to think, Chang Weiyang immediately regarded this mysterious existence before him as the greatest threat, with no extra words, only decisive and unreserved slaughter.

Hum...

Ye Beichen gave a light shout, the Great Burial Sword of Mount Zhongnan ready to emerge, sword light crisscrossing, like a long rainbow piercing the sun, slashing toward the front.

Since he came for the Heaven-Born Spirit Fetus, he naturally would not hold back.

"Fierce Earth and Barren Mound!"

Nian Shangxie pondered slightly and also acted. Compared to Ye Beichen and Chang Weiyang, he was even more wary of this mysterious existence who had come from an unknown source but practiced the Vacuum Refining Form.

His Soul-Aspect appeared and disappeared, the Tai Sui Dharma Image hanging like a spirit in the heavens, his aura pouring out, auspiciousness turning into calamity, instantly staining the earth. The soil within a hundred paces turned black, like an abyss, like a quagmire, intending to trap that mysterious figure within.

Thunder and Fire Suspended in the Void!

Fierce Earth and Barren Mound!

Great Burial Sword Qi!

The three Celestial Masters had different stances, yet they unanimously chose to act against that mysterious existence, simply because the other party was a successor of 【Vacuum Refining Form】.

Thunder and fire descended from the heavens, the barren mound collapsed like a withered tomb, sword Qi traversed like a great river...

The terrifying phenomenon almost filled everyone's vision, dazed and confused, heaven and earth the same; such terrible power was no longer imaginable by mortals.

"Void Concealment!"

Just at this moment, the mysterious figure became increasingly blurred, white airflow surging around her body, and the void within her gaze twisted at this moment.

The three killing moves arrived together, actually twisting and deforming the moment they touched the white airflow, as if falling into a vortex, melting and dissipating, merging into the depths of the endless void.

Thunder and fire dissipated.

The barren mound retreated.

Sword Qi was annihilated.

"Techniques and methods completely destroyed!?"

Everyone's eyes were wide open, their gazes trembling, looking at this incredible scene before them.

Three Tian Shi methods, earth-shaking and heaven-moving, were actually resolved so easily?

"The Great Void is me; first empty the body. Once the body is empty, heaven and earth are also empty. Once heaven and earth are empty, the Great Void is also empty. Empty with nothing to empty, this is the vacuum..." Chang Weiyang's expression was solemn.

"Is this Vacuum Refining Form!?"

"Ordinary methods are useless against Her; truly worthy of being one of the nine internal alchemy methods."

Ye Beichen gave a light shout, subconsciously glancing at Nian Shangxie.

"I don't care who you are, but you should know that at the Three Tian Shi rank, even the nine internal alchemy methods are not invincible..."

While speaking, Ye Beichen took a step forward, the ground cracking, floating dust rising suddenly.

"Time to get serious."

While speaking, a marvelous aura radiated from Ye Beichen's body, like incense in a Daoist temple, the blue sky like a mirror, faintly projecting Ye Beichen's blurred figure.

"Unity of Heaven and Man..."

"The realm of a Three Tian Shi is not something human power can imagine." Brothers Qi Delong whispered.

At this moment, his gaze became dazed, as if he saw Ye Beichen's projection on the black curtain of the sky.

"Ye Beichen, after so many years, even having achieved the Three Tian Shi rank, you still get hot-headed and float away."

Just at this moment, the mysterious figure suddenly spoke, white airflow surging, the profound voice seeming to come from the void, indistinguishable in gender or age.

"Huh!?" Ye Beichen was stunned for a moment, the cold slaughter on his face gradually dissipating, his expression becoming strange.

"Remembering the eating but not the beating, you little fool of Zhongnan!" The mysterious figure whispered.

Rumble...

The ground beneath Ye Beichen's feet cracked inch by inch, his dark hair scattered, his breathing became heavy, and complex emotions flowed in his eyes: shock, joy, suspicion...

"You..."

Ye Beichen's voice trembled, even forgetting his current situation, subconsciously taking a step forward, as if wanting to get closer to the other party and see her true face.

"Great Universal Diffusion!"

The mysterious figure whispered indifferently, the white airflow around her body boiling violently, as if possessing life, spreading and diffusing toward the surroundings. Wherever it passed, the void floated like surging tides, stirring up layers of ripples.

"This is..."

Zhang Fan's gaze jumped, seeing the Toad Treasure Mountain before him actually boiling like waves, all images overlapping like sheets of paper.

White airflow permeated and boiled, filling north, south, east, and west.

At this moment, Zhang Fan looked at his own body, as if it had merged into this strange white airflow, folding and folding again, his thoughts and senses about to merge into that mysterious void.

"Is this Vacuum Refining Form?" Zhang Fan looked at his twisted body, unable to tell for a moment whether this was real or false.

Everything before him disappeared, only twisted scenery and boiling white airflow remained.

Whoosh...

Just at this moment, in the boiling white airflow, a figure slowly emerged; it was exactly that mysterious existence who practiced 【Vacuum Refining Form】.

In this boiling white airflow, her figure became increasingly blurred, only a pair of eyes exposed to the air, the gaze looking at Zhang Fan filled with infinite tenderness and attachment. "Mom? Is it you? You... you didn't die?"

Zhang Fan and that mysterious figure met eyes; an inexplicable emotion flowed in his heart, familiar, with a thousand thoughts.

Hum...

The mysterious figure's traces vibrated at an extremely marvelous frequency, becoming increasingly blurred, as if between reality and nothingness.

She did not speak, slowly raising her hand and reaching toward Zhang Fan, as if wanting to stroke his face.

The white airflow boiled accordingly, her hand actually passing through Zhang Fan's face, dissipating into a trace of an afterimage.

"Mom?" Zhang Fan was stunned and speechless.

Hum...

The mysterious figure's vibration frequency became increasingly terrifying, the hissing sound stinging his eardrums. The next moment, she turned into a mass of white airflow, slowly dissipating.

"Mom..."

Zhang Fan's expression changed suddenly, lunging forward. The white airflow opened up, and the surroundings were empty; where was there even a trace of a person!?

!

"It really was Mom!?" Zhang Fan frowned, the clouds of suspicion in his heart growing thicker.

Slap...

Just at this moment, a palm reached out from behind, resting on Zhang Fan's shoulder.

He subconsciously turned his head to look, only to see a familiar face.

Snake Bai Yujing.

"Aunt Bai..."

"You have a tough life; it's hard to stay out of such a chaotic situation." Bai Yujing said in a low voice.

"Is this because I have a tough life?" Zhang Fan said with a strange expression: "Aunt Bai, tell me, is my mom not dead?"

"Is that person who practices Vacuum Refining Form her?"

Bai Yujing was Li Linglong's absolute confidante among the thirteen zodiacs and one of the five great demon monsters of the past.

She should know about Li Linglong's affairs.

"That day in Yujing City, she appeared once; I thought it was strange at the time..." Zhang Fan said in a deep voice.

"Tell me, is my mom not dead?"

Zhang Fan asked again in a deep voice.

"The nine internal alchemy methods all have great trials..." Bai Yujing changed the subject and suddenly said.

"Vacuum Refining Form is a method that exhausts the mysteries of the human body, emphasizing refining the form to transform into Qi, form and Qi as one. Once practiced, one must shatter the physical frame, between existence and non-existence..."

At this point, Bai Yujing could not help but sigh.

This is like a fish living in water; suddenly one day, a fish breaks that limit, leaps out of the water, touches the air, and sees the scenery of another world.

Once that step is taken, it is difficult to return to the water; even if one can return, it is only for a brief moment.

"This is the trial of Vacuum Refining Form: shattering the physical frame, returning to emptiness through Qi. If one wants to enter reality again, there are often trials, perishing at the barrier of nothingness." Bai Yujing sighed.

Even for her, she could only roughly describe the trial of Vacuum Refining Form; as for the true situation, it was truly unimaginable.

After all, the nine internal alchemy methods are no longer techniques of the human world; ordinary people find it hard to understand their meaning.

"Living in this world, everyone has trials, especially practicing the nine internal alchemy methods, which is the greatest trial in the human world..." Zhang Fan thought thoughtfully.

He practiced the Divine Demon Saint Fetus, so he naturally had deep experience.

People all think the nine internal alchemy methods are ways to become immortals, not knowing that this is also a cage, a trial, and karmic obstruction...

Seeking immortality requires facing trials first; the greater the trial, the greater the fortune.

"How can one escape the trial?" Zhang Fan could not help but ask.

"She thought of two methods..." Bai Yujing pondered slightly.

"Which two methods!?" Zhang Fan pursued.

"Using the true form of the void to rely on the fortunes of heaven and earth, recreating a body-vessel, internal and external as one, shattering the vacuum, then one can achieve the great divine art and completely take that step." Bai Yujing said in a deep voice.

"Relying on the fortunes of heaven and earth... you mean..." Zhang Fan's heart moved slightly, as if thinking of something.

"Heaven-Born Spirit Fetus!?"

"Correct!" Bai Yujing nodded.

Vacuum Refining Form is originally formed by shattering the mortal physical body to transform into Qi, entering the void without perishing.

Precisely because of this, the mortal physical body cannot carry the Qi of the vacuum.

Only a spirit fetus born of heaven and earth can serve as a body-vessel, internal and external as one, shattering the void, completely returning to manifestation, and breaking the trial.

"No wonder!!"

Zhang Fan suddenly realized.

No wonder Li Linglong appeared here; it was to contend for that Heaven-Born Spirit Fetus to help her break the trial of Vacuum Refining Form.

"Did she succeed?" Zhang Fan pursued.

"She succeeded." Bai Yujing nodded.

Who could have thought that the spirit fetus, which that Daoist on Long Hu Mountain had painstakingly schemed for hundreds of years to nurture using the pattern of a golden toad swallowing a pearl, would finally fall into the hands of a dead person under the contention of three Celestial Masters.

It is time, it is fate.

Truly a marvelous fortune, with heavenly secrets hard to fathom.

"Then that means..." Zhang Fan's heart moved, and his eyes lit up.

"It's not that easy." Bai Yujing saw his thoughts and shook her head.

"The Heaven-Born Spirit Fetus is just a hope; wanting to possess it and turn it into a body-vessel still has a long way to go."

The Heaven-Born Spirit Fetus, although without a Soul-Aspect, has an initial consciousness born of heaven and earth, which is extremely terrifying. Once born, that initial consciousness will become stronger and stronger; wanting to erase it is inherently extremely dangerous.

This is the first point.

Even if that consciousness is erased, occupying the Heaven-Born Spirit Fetus with a mortal foundation, acting against heaven in such a way, naturally brings many trials; when the great calamity descends, it is also a life-and-death situation.

"The nine internal alchemy methods are truly not meant for humans to practice." Zhang Fan sighed softly.

For the first time, he felt deep despair regarding the nine internal alchemy methods; once cultivation begins, the great calamity descends.

At this moment, Zhang Fan even felt somewhat unable to distinguish whether this was a method to become an immortal or a cause for self-destruction.

"Aunt Bai, didn't you say there is another method to break the trial?" Zhang Fan's thoughts turned, and he asked.

Bai Yujing pondered slightly, revealing a hesitant expression, before speaking uncertainly.

"This is just her conjecture; it might not necessarily succeed."

"What?" Zhang Fan did not understand and pursued.

"There is another alchemy method in this world that also exhausts the mysteries of the human body, only Vacuum Refining Form takes non-existence as the root, while that lineage takes existence as the foundation..."

"Existence and non-existence arise and perish, both are one body. If one can cross-reference and connect them, perhaps one can open up a new world, from then on the scenery will be different, and immortals will be clearly distinguished..." Bai Yujing's voice was low, extraordinary brilliance rising in her eyes.

Listening, Zhang Fan's expression gradually changed. His current knowledge was different from the past; how could he not know what kind of alchemy method Bai Yujing was talking about.

Waves surged in his heart, strange colors flashing in his eyes, a name rising in his mind, ready to be spoken.

"One of the nine internal alchemy methods..."

"Five Elements Wrong King!?"

(End of this chapter)