Chapter 161: Return, Secret Society Origin
After reaching an agreement with Li Aotian, Chengsheng happily handed over the ancient book that recorded the cultivation experience of "The Flood Devouring the Heavens" to Li Aotian.
The latter said unexpectedly: "Senior, I have the impression that you should be a cautious person. Why is it that today with three or two sentences from me, this ancient book can be easily handed over to me? Aren't my predecessors afraid that I will regret it afterwards and not fulfill what I promised before? β
Cheng Sheng said incomprehensibly: "Actually, the specific reason why this ancient book originated from you, I can't explain, but in short, only if you fulfill your promise later, you can get this book today." β
"This" Li Aotian only felt a little confused: "I didn't understand much. β
Cheng Huo smiled: "It's okay if you don't understand, in short, you remember: this ancient book is your own to yourself, if you regret it and don't plan to leave this ancient book to future generations, then everything you have because of this ancient book will also disappear." β
"Anyway, I'll just say one thing: the promise you just made involves great cause and effect, and it is easy to break the promise and cause a huge impact, so I hope you can do it yourself."
"Hmm"
Li Aotian nodded, and said solemnly: "I, Li Aotian, will do what I say, and my predecessors can rest assured of this." β
Li Aotian was in the sea of consciousness.
Chengsheng no longer speaks.
It's not that he doesn't want to continue to communicate with Li Aotian, it's that he can't speak at the moment.
Not long after handing over the ancient books to Li Aotian, Chengsheng once again fell into a long sleep.
During this period, the survivors can wake up once or twice every few years:
When Li Aotian was one hundred and twenty-three years old, that is, the fifth year after receiving the Supreme Ancient Books, he woke up for the first time.
At that time, Li Aotian had already established an organization that existed specifically to resist the Heavenly Court.
The organization is codenamed 'Pharmacy'.
The purpose of the existence of the pharmacy is to steal the formula of the lifespan medicine of the heavenly court, so that the monks will no longer be affected by the 'short-lived life'.
At the same time, there is no need to be enslaved by Heaven because of the Life Pill.
With Li Aotian's cultivation of being an invincible opponent in the infancy of the Yuan, coupled with the goal of the pharmacy, it was what the monks in the world hoped for, so there were countless followers for a while.
Soon after the advent of pharmacies, forces and organizations against the Heavenly Court also appeared all over the world.
Everything is moving for the better.
Perhaps it won't be long before Li Aotian can lead the monks of the pharmacy to overthrow the Heavenly Court and change the status quo of the enslavement of the low-level immortal cultivators
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Time passes.
After another fifty years, Chengsheng woke up again.
"Senior, are you awake again?" This time, it was Li Aotian who took the initiative to speak.
And feeling the success of Li Aotian's changes, he was surprised: "Aotian Daoist, you have actually broken through the bottleneck of the Yuan Infant Stage?" What are you in now? β
"I did break through." Li Aotian replied: "The realm after the Yuan Infant Period is to transform into a god."
"The transformation period is very strong."
"After breaking through to the stage of incarnation, the monk can separate the divine consciousness, and the divine consciousness can travel thousands of miles away in an instant, and all the wind and grass around the body can be under the eyes of the monk."
Transformation period
In the impression of survival, most of the monks in Xianxia can have the ability of 'divine sense' during the qi cultivation period.
I can't think of the actual practice, but I have to wait until the transformation period to have this supernatural power.
While thinking about it, I only heard Li Aotian say again: "Actually, there is no realm of 'Transformation Period' on our birthday star. β
"That's not right."
He changed his words and said: "Not only our birthday star, but it should be said that in the entire universe, there is no concept of 'god transformation period'. β
"A monk absorbs the spiritual power of heaven and earth and strengthens his body, no matter what, he can only break through to the Yuan Infant Stage at the highest level, and then live for a thousand years."
"So the Yuan Infant Period is the limit of cultivation, which is a well-known thing."
"But since the appearance of unspeakable creatures in the human world hundreds of years ago, things have changed."
"After the unspeakable creatures appeared, some of the primordial infant monks, including me, absorbed the power of these creatures by chance."
"So, there is the existence of the first batch of Avatar Stage monks."
Absorb?
Chengsheng was stunned when he heard this.
For some unknown reason.
In that era, the so-called 'spiritual power' had long been lost in heaven and earth, and the monks relied on the alms of indescribable creatures to practice.
Take Daliang Country as an example:
Monk Liang helped the 'Buddha' to extract the painful emotions of human beings, and as a reward, the Buddha would give the monks the power to extract the painful emotions.
Among them, the process of giving is called spiritual practice.
Or almsgiving.
Alms from unspeakable creatures
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On the contrary.
Li Aotian just said that if a monk wants to break through to the god transformation stage, he needs to 'absorb' the power of an indescribable creature.
You know, 'absorption' is an active act.
This is fundamentally different from passively accepting alms from unspeakable creatures.
Then it is reasonable for the monk to break through to the stage of transformation with this move.
Thinking of this, Cheng Huo asked Li Aotian: "I don't know, can Aotian Daoist Friend explain in detail, what exactly does the Yuanying Monk have to do in order to take the initiative to absorb the power of the indescribable creature?" β
"It's not difficult to absorb it, but it's a little complicated." Li Aotian said: "Maybe it's a convention. Although I don't know why, this method of absorption is generally called by the monks as 'the method of turning gods into gods'. β
"The way to turn gods into gods?" Hearing what the other party said, Cheng Sheng subconsciously asked, "Is there still the so-called 'method of turning gods into demons'?" β
"Really!" Li Aotian said: "After all, there must be yin and yang, and there must be anti, but in short, I take the path of 'turning gods into gods', so I don't know much about 'turning gods into demons'." β
"I want to hear about it!" Cheng Huo motioned for Li Aotian to continue.
The latter continued: "In order to follow the path of 'turning a god into a god,' the first thing you need to do is to identify the unspeakable creature that you are going to absorb. β
"Just like me."
"What I absorbed is the indescribable creature 'Shou' on the birthday star, and I broke through to the god transformation stage by absorbing the 'power of faith' of 'Shou'."
Do you want to determine the unspeakable creatures you want to absorb?
Following Li Aotian's train of thought, Chengsheng quickly thought of the two indescribable ones that existed on the Xuanwu Star in his era:
They are 'Woo' and 'Buddha'.
Therefore, the forces that can be actively absorbed by survival are the 'power of flesh and blood', which represents desire, and the 'power of pain', which represents pain.
He asked, "Then how exactly do you absorb the power of an unspeakable creature?" β
"In my impression, the power of an indescribable creature should carry a lot of pollution before it is rashly absorbed, and in the end it will only make the absorber fall into madness."
"You're right." Li Aotian followed: "Therefore, relying only on the monks themselves to absorb the unspeakable power is tantamount to seeking their own death. β
"So we need to find a replacement that carries power. And this substitute is generally called a 'totem' by practitioners. β
"Totem is the key to breaking through to the god transformation stage for monks who take the path of 'turning gods into gods'!"
Li Aotian continued: "Theoretically, a monk can choose anything as his totem, such as a stone, a sword, or a statue. β
"However, depending on the item chosen, the difficulty of breaking through will be different, and the ability obtained when breaking through will also be different."
"When you break through to the Transformation Stage, you can still get the ability?" Cheng Sheng longed: "What kind of ability is it? β
"At the moment, no one has been able to come up with a pattern." Li Aotian replied: "After all, we and other cultivators of the Transformation Stage have only just broken through to the Transformation Stage for a short time, so everything is still in the exploration stage. β
"So in addition to having divine sense, this ability is something that is always acquired. Other abilities that may be obtained during breakthroughs can only be said to be purely a matter of luck at the moment. β
"When someone breaks through, they gain the ability to predict the future, and some people gain the ability to be immortal, just to name a few."
"Back to the totem."
Li Aotian returned to the truth and preached: "After the monk has chosen the totem, he only needs to continuously inject 'emotional power' into the totem, and then wait for the totem to cultivate the true spirit. β
"As for which emotion to inject, it depends on which unspeakable creature you want to absorb."
"For example, the indescribable creature I absorbed is 'Shou', so what I inject into the totem is the 'power of faith'."
Li Aotian's words are not difficult to understand:
For example, if he wants to absorb the power of 'woo', then he needs to inject 'desire emotion' into the totem.
"And then." Li Aotian continued: "When the totem has enough emotional power, it will be able to cultivate a trace of true spirit. β
"Then you absorb that trace of true spirit, and you will have a chance to break through to the god transformation stage."
"When you break through, you may encounter a lot of problems in the process, which I won't explain one by one, after all, we are still in the exploration stage, so all the problems you encounter during cultivation need to be improvised."
Choose a totem, collect emotional power and inject it into it, and then absorb it after cultivating a true spirit to break through
Although the process is a little complicated, it is really 'not very difficult' as Li Aotian said.
Chengsheng was sincerely grateful: "Remember, thank you for telling you!" β
He thought for a while and said, "Then about the cultivation method after the transformation period, I don't know the Aotian Daoist."
"Hey! Don't ask me. β
Li Aotian said: "For now, I haven't seen anyone who can break through the bottleneck of the Transformation Stage, and I don't even know what the next realm is called, so it's a vain question for you to ask me." β
"Okay."
Since he couldn't inquire about more information, Cheng Huo turned to ask about the current situation: "Speaking of Aotian Daoist, what is the specific situation between you and the Heavenly Court?" β
From Li Aotian's perspective, Cheng Sheng found that the other party seemed to be in a palace.
Seeing that after breaking through the God Transformation Period, Li Aotian is no longer as embarrassed as before.
"You must be asking, where am I now?"
In the palace.
Aotian poured himself a glass of wine, drank to himself, and said: "I am in the Heavenly Court now, in fact, more than ten years ago, I took the initiative to make peace with the people of the Heavenly Court. β
"Peace?" Cheng Sheng was puzzled: "Why, didn't you plan to overthrow Heavenly Court in the first place? β
"It's useless."
Li Aotian said: "I originally thought that the 'short-lived disease' that broke out on the birthday star was spread by the heavenly court, and the purpose was to control the world through the cooperation of 'short-lived disease' and life-saving medicine. β
"But in fact, 'short-lived' is a kind of pollution. It is a contamination spread by an indescribable organism 'Shou'. β
Is it an unspeakable creature?
Cheng Sheng was going to continue to ask something, but when he saw Li Aotian, he said to himself: "Recently, in the star field where we are located, there is a god stage monk who has provoked the big beam and formed an organization called the 'secret society', and intends to use this organization to gather all the god stage monks to fight against the indescribable creatures. β
"Secret Society? Starfield? Chengsheng was stunned when he heard this.
Li Aotian explained: "In fact, there are countless planets in our universe, and most of these planets revolve around the star, that is, the sun, to form galaxies. β
"Countless galaxies revolve around the black hole at the center of the star field, thus forming the star field."
"Can you understand what I say?"
So the star field is actually the so-called 'Milky Way'
After receiving modern education, he quickly understood the concept of Star Field, so he responded loudly: "Understood, so Daoyou is planning to leave the birthday star and then go to the organization called the secret society?" β
"Hmm."
Li Aotian said: "The reason why I haven't left now is actually waiting for you to wake up, because I have had a premonition since a few years ago, and I have a hunch that you will wake up recently." β
"Other than that."
He continued, "I also have a hunch that you will leave this place after I break through to the Transformation Stage. β
"No, to be exact, it will leave this world." Li Aotian said uncertainly: "Because I always have a feeling that you don't feel like a person from this world." β
"I'm from this world, but I don't belong to the present." Cheng Sheng replied: "To be honest, at first, I didn't know why I came to this point in time, but then I gradually had a guess. β
"Oh?" Li Aotian was curious: "Can you tell me why you came here?" β
"Because of you," Cheng Huo said meaningfully, "I must see with my own eyes that you break through to the Transformation Stage. In short, whether you can break through to the Transformation Stage is a matter of life and death for me, and now that you have successfully broken through, my goal can be regarded as achieved. β
"Huh?" Li Aotian didn't know why: "So Daoist friends came to my sea of consciousness just to watch me break through to the god transformation stage?" That's all? β
Cheng Sheng answered: "That's all"
Li Aotian frowned: "Can you explain it in detail?" β
"Not really." Cheng Sheng said helplessly: "Some things, once they are said, will involve more cause and effect, which will produce more variables." β
"Okay then." Li Aotian no longer insisted.
"In addition," Cheng Huo continued, "After you broke through, I also heard from you that there is a method of cultivation for the transformation period. This is a windfall! So overall, it's a worthwhile trip for me. β
Li Aotian said: "When exactly will that Daoist friend leave?" β
"Well," Cheng Sheng said uncertainly, "It depends on the force that sent me over, when will it send me away." β
"The power?"
Li Aotian was depressed by the mysterious and mysterious style of survival.
He was going to continue to ask, but before he could speak, he suddenly found that the life in the sea of consciousness suddenly disappeared inexplicably.
It's as if there has never been a life in this world.
"Enlightened friends?"
In the palace, Li Aotian tried to shout.
There was no response from all around.
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Endless darkness.
I don't know how long it has been.
Survive and open your eyes.
The first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was Zhong Ran, who showed a panicked look and looked at him intently.
He was resting on Zhong Ran's lap at the moment.
"I" wanted to speak.
But he was interrupted by Zhong Ran and said, "Chenghuo, are you okay?" β
"Should I be fine?" Chenghuo stood up, looked around, and found himself in a deep pit.
ββSince leaving Li Aotian's Sea of Consciousness, he seems to have traveled back again, on the battlefield outside the west gate of Xia Mountain City in the Great Liang Kingdom.
At this moment, seeing Chenghuo waking up, the team leader Gu Xian and his teammates, as well as Thunder, Yun Rusong, Li Zhuo and others not far away, all focused their eyes on Chenghuo.
(End of chapter)