Chapter 122

"This is what you want."

Grandmaster Tongxuan handed over a jade slip.

Cheng Xinzhan took it, and he looked closely. Four characters were written on this jade slip,

"Nine Yang Refining Eyes".

"If you practice this method, Yang Qi can go straight into your eyes, helping you open the Yang Hall of the eye aperture. At the same time, this method also records a pupil technique, called "Nine Yang Returning Form Dan Pupil", which can see through illusions and also has a suppressing effect on demon attributes.

"After you open the Yang Hall, the pupil technique will naturally be practiced. When you are ready to lead Yang Gang into your body, come find me again.

"The Yang Hall opens quickly, so it's better to be slow than fast. Being fast easily hurts the eyes, and eye injuries are hard to treat, so you must pay attention."

Cheng Xinzhan didn't have the method to open the Yang Hall. When he asked his grandmaster if he could refine tools with apertures, he also asked for the method to open the Yang Hall. He didn't expect to accidentally get a pupil technique. After thanking him repeatedly, he left satisfied.

When he arrived at Wuyou Cave, the cat and dog pounced on him. Now these two had some climate in Qi refining, and their spirituality was extraordinary. Sanmei was no different from a ten-year-old child, and Denge was smart and steady, almost like an ordinary person.

The physical body was still sitting cross-legged, but it was just sitting and consuming Qi. The true evil in the physical body had long since melted, and it could already walk normally.

Just over ten days ago, also the day before Wen Sukong went out to undergo tribulation, the true evil blocked in the hundred apertures of the Zhou Tian and the hundred meridians of the physical body had all been forced out of the body by thunder as evil water.

It was half a year earlier than the several masters had expected.

One catty and three taels of evil water were saved.

Wen Sukong was silent for a long time when she knew this number. She even thought that this disciple would never feel pain again from now on, because he had already experienced the extreme.

You know, Second Realm cultivators lead Gang evil into the body, and under the suppression of lead and mercury, it wouldn't exceed one tael at a time.

And the half-tael of Yangming Yuntang Gang in Cheng Xinzhan's hand could turn into a cloud as big as a mountain. This catty and three taels of evil water of his, if he were willing, the miasma it turned into could wrap the entire Mingzhi Mountain!

To contain the evil water, Wen Sukong specifically refined a lead bottle for her disciple.

She said that only when new evil is born can one see so much evil water at once. In the future, as it is slowly mined and traded, what can be seen on the market won't exceed one tael.

Cheng Xinzhan had saved so much evil water now, and could trade it for Gang dew or other evil water in the future. Even if it was two for one or three for one, he could worry-free in the Second Realm.

As for whether to take the sect's spiritual Gang, it would depend on the nature of his Golden Core in the future.

After melting the true evil, Cheng Xinzhan immediately moved into his physical body and found his master, wanting to return the bamboo staff. After all, this was a supreme treasure refined after several generations.

The twenty-third generation grandmaster of Mingzhi Mountain sought bamboo shoots and planted bamboo, the twenty-fourth generation grandmaster cut bamboo into a staff, and it wasn't until the twenty-fifth generation, which was Wen Sukong's hands, that they began to store talismans to replace apertures, spending the hard work of three generations. But no one used it. The predecessors planted trees and the descendants enjoyed the shade, and he just happened to run into it.

But at that time, Wen Sukong glanced at him and frowned, saying,

"Would I still use a body you've used?"

Cheng Xinzhan was very embarrassed at that time, not knowing if his master wanted to take the opportunity to bestow the treasure upon him, or if she really disliked it. He almost fled in a panic.

But in any case, this treasure of Mingzhi Mountain was finally passed into his hands, which could be considered four generations.

And the benefits of this bamboo body naturally didn't need to be said again, so he still practiced method with the bamboo body and refined Qi with the physical body, advancing side by side, and the speed exceeded ordinary people too much.

Now the hundred apertures of the physical body were unblocked, the Gold Mansion was opened, and it was also back on the right track. It was just the hidden injuries brought by the true evil rushing into the apertures, which still had to be slowly nourished by water thunder.

Everything has its pros and cons. Cheng Xinzhan first opened the Fire Mansion, then the Thunder Residence, and then the Gold Mansion, taking advantage in attack and fighting, but the Earth Mansion, Water Mansion, and Wood Mansion, which mainly nourish and provide vitality, were all unopened. Now he relied entirely on the vitality of thunder, otherwise, the recovery speed of the physical body would be much faster than it was now.

Now, Cheng Xinzhan intended to open the eye aperture, and both the bamboo body and the physical body's eye apertures were unopened.

The bamboo body's apertures only had three residences and five mansions, namely throat, nose, ear, heart, liver, spleen, lung, and kidney.

These were all refined into the bamboo body by Wen Sukong using talismans to replace apertures.

In the future, if the bamboo body wanted to add apertures, it must be that Cheng Xinzhan first opened the physical body's apertures, understood the innate magic intent and acquired effects of the apertures, and after mastering them, drew talismans to simulate the apertures, borrowed the false to seek the true, and then refined them into the bamboo body.

When the bamboo body had all hundred apertures and the hundred meridians were unblocked, at that time, if Cheng Xinzhan was willing to abandon the physical body, he could also move his Primordial Spirit into the bamboo body and ascend with a spiritual body.

Even if he didn't abandon the physical body, if he had the opportunity to refine a second Primordial Spirit in the future and move into the bamboo body, then this body would be the top-notch external incarnation. If he went a step further and achieved a second immortal body...

Cheng Xinzhan shook his head. Don't think too much for now, just walk down step by step. The primary task at present was to continue opening apertures, connecting the inner and outer heavens and earths. All things and all methods start from Qi refining.

A sage of the Inner Dan Dao once said: Qi refining is originally one realm, but it is deep and far, and it is difficult to understand its loftiness, so it is forcibly divided into Qi refining and Life-Embedded realms.

In fact, at the beginning of the founding of the Inner Dan Dao, mortal practice only had four realms: Qi refining, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Harmony with Dao.

Qi refining is refining essence into Qi, communicating with the inner and outer heavens and earths, borrowing the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth to nourish the physical body's essence and blood, opening the hundred apertures of the heavens, and then refining essence and removing dross in the hundred apertures, refining the five elements and Yin-Yang Qi from the physical body, proving the first step of longevity.

Golden Core is refining Qi into spirit, refining the Yin-Yang and five elements Qi into a Golden Core, beginning to produce divinity, from which my life is decided by me, not by heaven.

Nascent Soul is refining spirit and returning to emptiness, achieving the red-child infant, returning to the innate.

Harmony with Dao is refining emptiness and harmonizing with Dao, inner and outer harmonized as one.

However, under this division of realms in the Inner Dan Dao, the first realm was truly hard to endure. It was unknown how many years it would take to open the hundred apertures. For a newcomer, just trying to figure out the divine intent and effects of the hundred apertures was as difficult as ascending to heaven. In this way, it was better to practice other paths.

Facing the precarious situation of the Daoist tradition at the time of its founding, fortunately, there was heaven's will in the dark. At that time, a large group of Inner Dan Dao sages emerged, re-combing the first realm, splitting it into two, divided into Qi refining and Life-Embedded realms, and listed clearly and explained the innate divinity and acquired effects of some important major apertures, which preserved the Daoist tradition, made the Inner Dan Dao the mainstream and the first great Dao today, and also formed the practice lineage of the Inner Dan Dao today.

After re-dividing the realms, it was said very clearly: at the beginning of practice, the lowest of the low, the least of the least, the five major apertures of heart, liver, spleen, lung, and kidney must be opened. The so-called five viscera store essence and Qi without leaking, so they are full but cannot be solid. This is the foundation for understanding the five elements.

Taking the five elements spiritual Qi into the viscera, and then refining the five elements essence Qi from the viscera, the five elements essence Qi rotates and circulates, and then the Jianggong can be opened, gathering all essence and blood in one aperture, which can increase longevity. At this time, even if hands and feet are broken, or the chest is split, as long as the Jianggong is sound, this life can be saved.

After opening the five mansions, the five elements magic arts must have entered the door, which is also the beginning of longevity arts.

As for the three residences, it is best to open them. They are used to understand the natural phenomena of heaven, outside the five elements, and closely connected with the five elements. But if there is really no time and energy, it is also possible to open the Jianggong and enter the Second Realm first.

The Second Realm is called Life-Embedded, which means understanding the truth of life and exploring the treasures of the physical body.

The mysteries of the hundred apertures of the heavens can be explored deeply in this realm.

This realm has an eye-catching name, called "Supernatural Power". Opening the apertures and knowing their mysteries can lead to practicing corresponding supernatural powers.

For example, Thousand-Mile Eyes, Wind-Following Ears, Stomach Tripod and Gallbladder, Divine Kingdom in the Palm, and so on.

The more apertures opened, the more beneficial it is for later practice, and it is also very beneficial for fighting and protecting the Dao. It just delays the time, all depending on personal trade-offs.

Can one turn back to open apertures after the Third and Fourth Realms? It is possible, but if there is no time and energy in the Second Realm, then the Third Realm is busy washing the Dan, and the Fourth Realm is busy nurturing the infant, so it is even more impossible to turn back.

If one really doesn't want to delay, as long as one opens the apertures on the two meridians of Yin and Yang that connect the Huang Ting and the outer heaven and earth, one can lead Yin-Yang Gang evil into the body from the outside world, and follow the opened apertures into the Huang Ting, which is the Dan Tian. Yin and Yang harmonize, Dragon and Tiger intersect, and the Golden Core is formed, and one can enter the Third Realm.

At present, whether looking at the arrangements of the various masters or walking according to Cheng Xinzhan's own inner thoughts, it is definitely necessary to grind for a long time in the First and Second Realms, and the opening of the hundred apertures of the heavens is naturally the more the better.

He read the "Inner Landscape Scripture of the Hundred Apertures of the Zhou Tian" thoroughly, and recently began to come into contact with refining method, so he naturally thought: can apertures be palaces to nourish spirits, can they be containers to store Qi, then why can't they be regarded as furnaces to refine tools?

Just taking the repair of "Taodu" as an opportunity, he wanted to try his own ideas.

"Taodu" is a sword of solar fire, but in the acquired world, the five elements are always easy to get, but Yin and Yang are hard to seek. Since "Taodu" has the nature of solar fire, it should naturally go further toward pure Yang. If the focus is always on fire, it will fall into a lower grade. Yang can control fire, but fire is hard to summarize Yang. Moreover, "Taodu's" material is extremely good, having both exotic iron from outside the sky and ancient Yang wood, so it shouldn't just be confined to a flying sword.

And he has two bodies, bamboo and physical, and practices the "Secret Decree of the Long-Life Fetal Primordial Spirit Manifestation". Such rare family assets should naturally be used to the extreme. He can make the inner landscape spirit engrave talisman and magic refining, and at the same time separate a soul to refine, doing both magic sword and flying sword, as a sword of pure Yang.

The reason why the cultivation world today divides flying swords, magic swords, and body swords so clearly is, in the final analysis, only two points: one is that precious materials are scarce, making it difficult to satisfy agility, magic-communicating spirituality, and sharpness and toughness at the same time; the other is that the sword master's energy is limited, unable to take care of spirit refining, magic refining, and blood refining at the same time, as well as the practice paths hidden behind these three refiners.

But unfortunately, these two points, the precious sword "Taodu" and the sword master Cheng Xinzhan, can both do it!

In the future, gradually refining "Taodu" into a sword of pure Yang, and also gaining the benefits of a flying sword and the spirituality of a magic sword, will inevitably be an extremely long process.

Since it is to be a sword of pure Yang, it must naturally use a furnace of pure Yang and fire of pure Yang.

The apertures of the human body that can be furnaces of Yin and Yang are the eyes, heart and kidneys, gallbladder and stomach, etc. But Cheng Xinzhan's heart and kidneys mainly control water and fire, and the gallbladder aperture has already become the location of the Thunder General Administration. What remains is the eyes, and the eyes are also the most suitable Yin-Yang Hall.

The Daoist Treasury says: The essence of heaven is based on the sun and moon, and the essence of man is hidden in the eyes. It also says: The essence and Qi of the five viscera and six bowels all pour into the eyes and become essence.

The eyes are the sun and moon of the inner landscape small heaven and earth of the human body, matching Yin and Yang, and are also the essence of the viscera, secretly matching Yin and Yang to control the five elements.

In the inner landscape of the human body, the left is Yang and the right is Yin, so the left eye is the Yang Hall and the right eye is the Yin Hall.

As for the Yang fire in the furnace, it naturally comes first from Yang Gang. Now leading Yang Gang into the eyes is also to prepare for the formation of the Golden Core in the Second Realm in the future.

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He happened to have a Yang Gang bestowed by the Sword Immortal in his hand, "Yangming Yuntang Gang". As for the lead and mercury to suppress Yang Gang, he could melt the lead bottle used to contain the "Yangming Yuntang Gang".

Now everything is ready, only the opening of the Yang Hall is lacking.

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Early morning of the next day.

Cheng Xinzhan controlled his physical body to come to the mountain top, facing the east, waiting for the sunrise.

At the beginning of the Mao hour, the sky brightened slightly. He relaxed his body, closed his right eye, and focused his left eye on the bright spot.

Slowly, a point of cinnabar red appeared.

He immediately operated the method of "Nine Yang Refining Eyes", pressed his right fingertip against the Jingming acupoint of his left eye with fire-row magic intent. After feeling the warmth, he alternately performed Qi with the two-character mantras 【Xu】 and 【He】, six exhales and one inhale, each performing nine times, while staring at the cinnabar red.

The left pupil moved, drawing a talisman pattern recorded in the "Nine Yang Refining Eyes" in the eye socket. The talisman pattern naturally had divine intent.

Thus, among the infinite Yang Qi emitted by the cinnabar sun, a wisp of Yang Qi fell into his left eye, smearing his left pupil with a trace of cinnabar color, but it couldn't be seen without looking closely.

It wasn't until the morning sun turned from cinnabar red to golden that he stopped practicing.

After the morning sun turned golden, the Yang Qi was too vigorous, and introducing it into the eye aperture at this time would easily hurt the eyes.

Today is the 30th of the seventh month, the last day of this month, and also his rare day off.

Master Jiang Weishan saw that Cheng Xinzhan was working hard, so he allowed him to rest on the last day of each month.

Every time he rested, Cheng Xinzhan would go to the same place.

Songluhu.

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Green Chi now not only knew how to play "High Mountains", but as a dragon species that could sleep for a hundred years, she even knew how to calculate the months and days.

Today is the end of the month, he will definitely come.

Green Chi had long been prepared, a pair of wet eyes exposed outside the lake surface, looking toward the direction of Mingzhi Mountain.

This person came so early today.

Green Chi saw the clouds coming, and spat out the magic conch, pretending to play it casually.

Cheng Xinzhan, who was still in the air, couldn't help but laugh. This Green Chi, every time she only played the conch when he came, but wanted to pretend she had been practicing all along.

He thought so, but as soon as he landed, he immediately started clapping,

"Unexpected, really unexpected, fellow Daoist can even play such a difficult piece as "When Will the Bright Moon Come"."

"Gudong!"

Green Chi opened her mouth to smile upon hearing this, and the magic conch in her mouth didn't hold, falling into the lake.

She hurriedly lowered her head and bit the magic conch again.

This bad habit she just couldn't change, she couldn't help but laugh.

Cheng Xinzhan saw this, and a smile also appeared on his face.

He couldn't help but laugh in front of her too.

When Cheng Xinzhan walked closer, Green Chi felt something was wrong, or rather, the feeling from before was back.

She looked at Cheng Xinzhan suspiciously.

This Green Chi was too lazy and still hadn't refined the horizontal bone. In daily conversation, Cheng Xinzhan mostly guessed her meaning.

Now he saw Green Chi's gaze spinning on him. He thought for a moment and guessed her doubt. Just now, after he finished refining his eye aperture, he didn't change his bamboo body and came directly over. Thinking about it, this was the first time he had walked in the sect with his physical body since his true evil rushed into the apertures, so he explained,

"Before, my body was unwell, so I changed to a body to walk. Now, my body is completely well, so I changed back."

Saying that, he opened his clothes and exposed his chest.

Green Chi hurriedly closed her eyes when she saw this.

"Look!"

Cheng Xinzhan said.

Green Chi slowly opened her eyes.

She suddenly widened her eyes. Why did Chi scales grow on that person's chest? Eh, it seems to be the one she sent out.

"Thank you, fellow Daoist, for the gift of the scale. At that time, I encountered an enemy outside the sect, and thanks to the fellow Daoist's scale blocking my chest, it saved my life. Later, my body was injured, and this scale took root in my flesh and blood, but it couldn't be returned to the fellow Daoist."

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