Chapter 383: Body Refining, Part Seven

In the end, the Retired Emperor agreed to the Emperor's proposal. He brought out the blessed land closest to Lingguang Hall, which the Imperial House had discovered, as bait, preparing to join forces with the Phoenix clan of the demon race to forcibly divert the attention of the Lingguang Hall Master away from the mass grave in the southeast of Nanxiang County.

However, what the Imperial House did not expect was that the matter of the mass grave not only attracted the attention of Lingguang Hall, but all parties also took note of this area.

Furthermore, the news of the Zhu Que Army's disappearance also spread within the circle of cultivators.

Consequently, all parties knew that someone was acting against the Zhu Que Army from the shadows.

The perpetrators were suspected to be from the Ghost and Demon races.

The demon race was the primary enemy competing with humanity for territory; knowing that a Spirit Platform realm demon had appeared in Nanxiang County directly drew the close attention of the Demon Suppression Army and the Xuanyuan Army.

And the appearance of the ghost race in the human world was also a major taboo.

With this, those who originally paid no attention to Nanxiang County all cast their eyes here, causing the situation in Nanxiang County to become increasingly chaotic.

As for Hua Changxi, after parting ways with Tong Yao, she returned to Lingguang Hall and immediately issued a new mission: to monitor the mass grave and the righteous manor a few miles away.

The fact that the Zhu Que Army's disappearance involved the Imperial House and the demon race was something she had not anticipated.

The demon race was lurking in the shadows, eyeing Nanxiang City, and the Imperial House was suspected of occupying the Ghost Fire Well...

These things made Hua Changxi's mood very heavy. Her survival anxiety, which had eased slightly after perfecting the sixth part of the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art," surged again as she felt the crisis.

The fact that she was consistently unable to advance to the Spirit Platform realm also made her somewhat anxious.

Although body refining could enhance strength, it was mostly for improving the body's defensive capabilities, while attack power remained limited.

Generally speaking, within the same rank, a body cultivator was no match for a dharma cultivator.

The reason she did not fear Spirit Platform realm cultivators now was, first, although she remained at the Infant Transformation realm, the spiritual power stored in her body was no weaker than that of a cultivator at the early Spirit Platform realm.

However, after the Spirit Platform realm, cultivators cultivated the Primordial Spirit. If she could not advance to the Spirit Platform realm and open up her sea of consciousness, she could not cultivate the Primordial Spirit and could not enhance her divine sense!

And for cultivators, Primordial Spirit attacks and divine sense attacks were, to a large extent, fatal!

Furthermore, although her physical realm was comparable to the Out-of-Body realm of dharma cultivators and she could rely on her body to "overcome ten thousand techniques with one force," if she faced too many Spirit Platform realm cultivators, the spiritual power in her body might not be sufficient, and her physical attack methods were too singular. If the battle lasted too long, she would easily be defeated.

"How can I break through the Infant Transformation realm?"

Hua Changxi grabbed her hair in frustration. Suddenly, her expression froze.

She couldn't break through the Infant Transformation realm for now, but she could enhance the attack power of her physical body!

Hua Changxi flipped her wrist, and a cultivation manual appeared in her hand—"Law of Heaven and Earth."

The Law of Heaven and Earth, ranked first among physical divine abilities.

Although she had only refined the sixth part of body refining and could not fully exert and display the power of the "Law of Heaven and Earth," after practicing it, she could at least enhance the attack intensity of her body to some extent.

However, Hua Changxi was quickly disappointed.

The requirements for practicing the "Law of Heaven and Earth" were too high. Even though she had perfected the sixth part of the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art," it was still not enough.

To practice the "Law of Heaven and Earth," one must at least reach the seventh part of the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art"—the Meridian Part.

According to Hua Changxi's understanding, the body's meridians included the brain's nervous system, and the brain's nervous system had a similar effect to the sea of consciousness in dharma cultivation, capable of cultivating divine sense.

The "Law of Heaven and Earth" divine ability allowed a cultivator to use themselves as a conduit to communicate with the laws of heaven and earth, merging their own power with that of nature and the world, displaying the power of "man as heaven and earth, heaven and earth as man."

If the physical body's strength was insufficient, it could not carry the power of heaven and earth; if the divine sense was insufficient, it could not resonate deeply with the rules of heaven and earth. Thus, this divine ability could not be displayed.

Therefore, only by cultivating divine sense through body refining could one reach the threshold for practicing the "Law of Heaven and Earth."

Although she could not practice the "Law of Heaven and Earth" immediately, Hua Changxi was not discouraged.

Since the seventh part of the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art"—the Meridian Part—could cultivate divine sense, it could compensate for her inability to open the Spirit Platform and thus her inability to grow her divine sense.

"Next, I can only clear my alchemy time to practice the seventh part of the 'Nine Revolutions Profound Art'."

Having determined what to do next, Hua Changxi checked the One-Thought Connection.

At Lingguang Hall, the managers of the Discipline Hall and the Mission Hall sent messages one after another, saying they had pacified the Zhu Que Army on patrol today; the Mission Hall manager also sent a message saying they had received the charred body of the tiger demon.

At Dan Yuan Peak, only Wan Feng sent a message, saying that the Spirit Realm Pavilion, the Qihuang Pavilion, and the Nine Streets Hall had held another meeting due to the Alchemy Conference, and at the meeting, Xia Zhen had mentioned her name, hoping she could attend the meeting next time.

Hua Changxi glanced at it and threw Wan Feng's message to the back of her mind. With so many things happening in Nanxiang County, she wished she could split herself into clones; she had no leisure to attend boring meetings at the Medical Department.

Seeing that there was nothing going on at Lingguang Hall or Dan Yuan Peak, Hua Changxi took out the Seven-Pattern Profound Yellow Fruit and consumed it.

After a night passed, the Profound Yellow Fruit was absorbed and refined.

Hua Changxi sensed that the seventh shackle of her body had been broken, so she took the teleportation array back to the Dan Yuan Secret Realm.

Body refining required soaking in a medicinal bath. Fortunately, the Dan Yuan Secret Realm was of a high enough grade—an eighth-grade secret realm—and the spiritual herbs needed to practice the seventh part of the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art" could be found on the seventh level of the secret realm.

After collecting the necessary spiritual herbs, Hua Changxi summoned the Shennong Cauldron and brewed a pot of seventh-order body refining medicinal bath.

After soaking in the medicinal bath, the next step was to polish the physical body.

As more and more shackles of her body were broken, Hua Changxi's understanding of her body deepened, and her realization that body cultivators could also achieve the Great Dao through body refining became more thorough.

In addition, starting to practice the seventh part of the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art"—the Meridian Part—gave her an even more refined understanding of body refining.

Even if a cultivator had no spiritual roots, the Heavenly Dao still left a glimmer of opportunity for ordinary people.

The body was covered in meridians, and meridians were the "innate trajectories" imprinted in the human body by the "Great Dao of Heaven and Earth," serving as the "natural interface" for cultivators to resonate with heaven and earth.

In the eyes of body cultivators, the human body had infinite potential, and the meridians within could be refined into channels capable of storing the laws of heaven and earth, just like spiritual roots.

The Heavenly Dao endowed the human body with eighty-one hidden nodes, corresponding to the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, the Twelve Regular Meridians, and other branch meridian networks.

The meridian network of ordinary people was always in a dormant state. Practicing the seventh part of the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art" meant activating all the meridian nodes in the body, allowing the meridian network that carried the power and laws of heaven and earth to form its own circulatory system.

Having sorted out the theory of the seventh part of body refining, Hua Changxi teleported to the Nine Heavens Fire Spring.

Nowadays, Zhu Que soldiers had been coming to the fire spring to practice one after another. As soon as she arrived, without meeting the Zhu Que soldiers, she plunged into the fire spring and once again went against the current.

The Zhu Que soldiers who were practicing saw a red figure, braving the immense force of the fire spring, and in the blink of an eye, she rushed to the top of the spring and disappeared. They all opened their mouths wide.

"Was that... the Hall Master?"

"The Hall Master is too amazing. I can only go against the current for a dozen meters at most. I wonder how she does it?"

"If only we could listen to the Hall Master preach."

Hua Changxi went up to the Fire Spring Palace, but she discovered that the body refining effect of the Nine Heavens Fire Spring was already somewhat negligible for her.

Hua Changxi sighed. She knew she had to find a new place for body refining again.

But what should a place for body refining that activates the meridians in the body be like?

Hua Changxi temporarily put this question aside and collected a lot of Fire Star Velvet, which looked a bit like moss, from the floating island.

Then, she took out the "suggestion box and suggestion stones" refined by the Artifact Saint Palace.

Finally, she used spiritual power to imprint the Fire Star Velvet onto the suggestion boxes and suggestion stones. Instantly, the suggestion boxes and suggestion stones changed their appearance.

After changing the outfits for all the suggestion boxes and suggestion stones, Hua Changxi set up a suggestion box on the spot at the entrance and exit of the Nine Heavens Fire Spring.

After leaving the Nine Heavens Fire Spring, she went to the Karma Fire Platform and also left a suggestion box at the entrance and exit.

Then, she went to the Li Huo Cliff, set up a suggestion box, and at the same time, gave everyone a suggestion stone.

Finally, Hua Changxi returned to Lingguang Hall, set up a suggestion box at each of the four corners of the mountain gate square, and at the same time placed one hundred thousand suggestion stones in the Logistics Department, asking the Logistics Department to give one to every Zhu Que soldier.

After doing all this, she started patrolling Nanxiang County again. ===== CHAPTER 384 =====