Chapter 61: The Tribulation
"Fate is illusory, and it may be deduced in a short time, but there are too many variables in a long time, and it is unpredictable. I didn't believe the words of that strong man originally, thinking that he was just trying to appease me temporarily, but I didn't expect it to be true. The old man sighed and said.
"Senior, since you gave me the opportunity to refine this tower, I will definitely agree to you on one condition, presumably your condition is that I let you out, right?" Hong Wu said.
The old man nodded yes, looking at Hongwu with hope on his face, for fear that if he did not agree to this condition, his verbal promise must have no binding effect, unless it was a heavenly oath.
"Senior, don't worry, what I promised you will definitely be done, but now I haven't completely refined the Treasure Pagoda, and I can't lift the ban on you, it is estimated that it will be a year later." Hongwu Zhengse.
"As long as you agree, I've waited for thousands of years, and I can afford to wait for a year. Don't call me senior, my common name is Xuanlong, if you can afford it, call me brother. Xuanlong's attitude became softer and softer, Hong Wu seemed to be a figure who was favored by the super strong man thousands of years ago, and his future achievements must be limitless.
"Brother Xuan." Hong Wu shouted respectfully, it is not a bad thing to be friends with a five-clawed golden dragon of the Mahayana period.
"Brother Hong! Ha ha! Xuanlong patted Hong Wu on the shoulder and laughed, and he could see that he was really very happy.
The time for the pagoda to open is a year, and as soon as the time passes, he will take the initiative to teleport the monks inside, but now Hongwu has obtained the control of the pagoda, and he has teleported all the people out in only nine months. To the astonishment of all the monks.
informed Zheng Meng and asked him to return to Linggui Island alone, while Hong Wu stayed on the seventh floor of the Jubao Pagoda to learn martial arts with Xuanlong. Study the scriptures and discuss the Tao.
Xuan Long knew almost everything about Hong Wu, and passed on all the melee attack techniques he had cultivated and the experience of these thousands of years to Hong Wu, which benefited him a lot, originally he could be called a great master in martial arts, but now he has made a qualitative leap, and has reorganized and improved the martial arts from a higher level.
Whether it's martial arts, or the method of cultivating truth. Cultivation to the extreme, the result is the same, the avenue is three thousand, and ten thousand laws are one. All roads lead to the end, but the scenery is different.
There are countless types of inner boxing, which are complex and changeable, but the core is refining and refining qi, refining qi and transforming gods, and refining gods to return to emptiness. Finally, the way is merged.
Based on his own experience and the knowledge he gained from Xuanlong, Hongwu simplified the inner fist. It has become the simplest move, which is not much different from the basic boxing method, but the divine meaning contained in it is very different.
Then he continued to deduce, and continued to fuse these simple moves, and finally turned them into one move, but he couldn't use this trick yet. Because the realm has not yet arrived, it is only deduced at the level of theory.
In the process of deduction. Xuan Long made a lot of valuable suggestions, and occasionally, his words would make Hong Wumao pause. Of course, he himself also benefited a lot, although Hongwu's cultivation was not as good as him, but he was well-informed and extremely knowledgeable, and there were some truths that he did not comprehend himself, but saying it made Xuanlong understand a lot, and some of the sluggish places in his heart were suddenly transparent.
After deducing the general outline of martial arts with the Dao Zhili, Hongwu turned it into complexity again, and used the theory of Tao to give birth to one, life to two, and two to three, that is, Wuji gave birth to Taiji, and Taiji gave birth to two instruments.
The first here is chaos, the second is yin and yang, and the third is change, chaos gives birth to yin and yang, and yin and yang give birth to all things.
Hongwu deduced the general outline of martial arts is the embodiment of this reason, there is no record of a move, but everywhere contains moves, each martial artist can understand the martial arts suitable for themselves by watching the general outline of martial arts, this is the general outline of martial arts.
Cultivation has no time, Hongwu's deduction and creation took ten years, and in the next nine years, Pangu, which completely fused the fragments of the heart of the universe, also played a vital role, and this fragment of the heart of the universe contained a large amount of information about the origin of the universe, and Pangu's evolutionary ability suddenly improved a lot.
In the past ten years, the continuous deduction, creation, and verification have greatly increased Hongwu's Yuan Shen power, and he has summarized the shocking masterpiece "General Outline of Martial Arts", which has made a qualitative leap in his strength, and he is no longer the Hongwu who he learned before but is not refined.
The current Hongwu can be regarded as the real meaning of having the strength of the Martial God Realm.
On an uninhabited planet not far from Donghuang Star, Hong Wu was chatting with an old man with white hair, who was Xuan Long who had just been released from the Giant Pagoda by Hong Wu.
Xuanlong was imprisoned in the Treasure Pagoda before he was a cultivator of the Transformation Period, after thousands of years of cultivation, he had already reached the late stage of the Fusion Period, and his strength was even more powerful than the late stage of the Mahayana Period, but there was no Heavenly Tribulation in the Treasure Pagoda, there was no Tribulation, and the true qi in his body could not be transformed into the Qi of the Immortal Spirit, and he was not a Mahayana monk in the real sense.
Soon after it was released, the breath on Xuanlong's body triggered the advent of the Heavenly Tribulation, in the void, a dark cloud as black as ink was condensing, among the dark clouds, a huge vertical eye loomed, containing supreme majesty, Hong Wu just glanced at it and felt an extremely majestic and ancient aura piercing the bottom of his heart, making his heart palpitate.
"Brother Hongwu, you should retreat thousands of miles, so as not to hurt you in the aftermath of the Heavenly Tribulation." Xuan Long didn't have the slightest hint of nervousness, as if the catastrophe was as simple as a child's house in his eyes.
The speed at which the Heavenly Tribulation took shape was fast, and it locked on Xuan Long as soon as it appeared, unless he hid in an immortal weapon like the Giant Pagoda again, he would have to accept the test of the Heavenly Tribulation.
Soon, a bucket of thick purple thunder condensed and formed, slashing towards Xuanlong, Hong Wu's eyelids jumped in the distance, this kind of thunder robbery is extremely powerful, and it can't dodge, with his current body to resist one but it can withstand it, but there are nine thunderstorms, one is more powerful than the other, he estimates that three thunderstorms are his limit, and the fourth one will split him into ashes, of course, if there is a spiritual weapon to resist, it's another matter.
Xuan Long looked up to the sky and let out a dragon groan, and the old man's body turned into a five-clawed golden dragon tens of thousands of zhang long in vain, which was really majestic and majestic and looked at the world. Hong Wu didn't see him use any magic weapon, so he rushed towards the thunderstorm, and instantly collided together, the purple thunder exploded on Xuanlong's body, but it disappeared in his body in an instant.
"Aang!" Xuan Long roared a heaven-shattering dragon roar again, and he finally burst out when he had suppressed it for thousands of years, revealing his unruly and arrogant side. I saw Xuan Long rushing towards the clouds head-on, the golden giant tail with the terrifying power pumping towards the clouds, a huge shock wave drummed out from the collision, and the void was trembling.
Hong Wu was dizzy and fascinated by the side, and his blood was surging, this is the real hot-blooded man, with his strong strength and indomitable momentum, he just scattered the clouds a lot.
The second, third, and fourth thunderbolts slashed down continuously, smashing Xuanlong dozens of meters deep, dusty, covering the sky and the sun, like a meteorite hitting a planet.
But in the next second, Xuanlong's huge body appeared in the void again, he looked a little embarrassed, but he was not injured, which showed how strong his physical defense was.
After the nine thunderstorms, Xuanlong did not use any magic weapons, and directly resisted with his body, although it looked very tragic, but the benefits obtained were self-evident, after the baptism of the thunder, his physical body was strengthened again, and when the true qi in his body was transformed into immortal qi to nourish the physical body, his physique will have a qualitative leap.
The Nine Thunder Tribulation is only the first test, and then there is the Wind and Fire Tribulation, Xuan Long took a few top-grade recovery pills, meditated to restore the consumed spirit and spirit, and prepared to meet the more powerful tests below.
It didn't take long for the Heavenly Tribulation above the void to change again, and a small gray-black tornado like a spinning top drilled down from the Tribulation Cloud, and penetrated into Xuanlong's Baihui Acupoint with great speed, and swept straight towards his sea of consciousness.
At the same time, a huge black-red flame grew out of thin air under his feet, instantly burrowing into his body from the soles of his feet.
Xuanlong's huge divine dragon body suddenly turned into a human form, resisting the invasion of wind and fire in his body.
This gray-black whirlwind is called "Soul Wandering Wind", which is a test that must be passed through the tribulation, it acts on the primordial spirit of the tribulation monk, and if it can't resist, it will be blown away by it, even if the body is strong, it can only become a soulless body.
Therefore, those who fail to survive the tribulation will be wiped out, and some monks who know that they can't survive the tribulation will disintegrate their bodies and turn to cultivate scattered immortals.
However, there are pros and cons to everything, and casual cultivation must survive nine thunder tribulations in order to achieve positive results and become immortals.
The black flames that appear in the Heavenly Tribulation are called the Earth Yin Demon Fire, which specifically pollutes the monk's body, and if it can't resist it, the body will decay and turn into dust. If the monk can't pass this level, he can only turn to the cultivation of scattered immortals.
Xuan Long sat cross-legged, fighting against the Soul Swinging Wind and Earth Yin Demon Fire in his body, a trace of pain flashed on his face from time to time, Hong Wu could only watch dryly from the side, unable to help anything, and did not dare to help, because as long as he made a move, the power of the Heavenly Tribulation would immediately multiply, and when it was time, it was not helping him, but harming him.
Hongwu can't help him resist the Heavenly Tribulation, but he can protect the Dharma for him, although this is an uninhabited planet, if a monk or a demon beast suddenly comes and disturbs Xuanlong's Tribulation, it will not be good for him to fall short.
Five days later, Xuan Long finally opened his eyes, and it seemed that he should have survived the catastrophe. (To be continued......)