Chapter 255: January Penance
Su Chen, who was on the second floor of the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, naturally didn't know that there had been a secret agent of the Elder of Bishan above him, and at this moment, after he learned that he couldn't break through the stone door, he put all his thoughts on improving his strength.
In just four or five hours of cultivation, it was worth Su Chen's three days on the first floor, and at this pace, Su Chen really felt that he should be able to break through to the late stage of the Enlightenment Realm in less than half a month.
Su Chen only stepped into cultivation, the boredom of cultivation was not something he could overcome in a while, after four or five hours of cultivation, Su Chen, stood up, moved his muscles and bones, and never wanted to sit down and cultivate again.
"Cultivation is boring, so let's take a look at swordsmanship. Su Chen comforted himself, and took out yesterday's classic book "Sword" from Meng Qishan's storage ring and studied it carefully.
It is said that it is the way of "sword", but this classic does not talk a lot about the way of the sword, but most of it is a basic sword style.
Stab, split, hang, tease, pick, cloud, slash, sweep, Su Chen looked at it for a long time, and then he realized that the whole book "Sword" is about these eight basic sword moves, a few of which Su Chen had seen in Confucian classics, and a few of which Su Chen had never seen.
Looking at Su Chen's itchy hands, he wanted to try the sword moves drawn in the book, but he didn't have a sword in his hand, so he had to use his fingers to gesture there, and after a while, Su Chen still felt a little unhappy, but he didn't have a sword in his hand, and suddenly he had an idea and took out the white jade ruler on his chest.
"Hey, this white jade ruler is about the same length as the sword. Su Chen's face was happy, holding the white jade ruler, imagining that it was a peerless immortal sword, according to the records in the classics, starting from the first move "thorn".
Su Chen thought that he was already a cultivator, and no matter how you look at the "Sword" book, it was just a secular sword classic, Su Chen thought that he could learn it by hand, but he didn't use the first move.
Just a "stab" action, when Su Chen was exerting his strength, the white jade ruler shot forward, but after a while, Su Chen, who had originally chosen the direction, his hand trembled involuntarily, and the "stab" move he used the white jade ruler to perform instantly changed direction.
Su Chen, who failed to "stab" the sword, was not discouraged, but took the white jade ruler and stabbed forward fiercely again, this time it was still a failure, just like that, in the cultivation room, a young man with a resolute face, holding a white jade ruler, kept stabbing forward.
The cultivation of the way of the sword seems to be more difficult than the improvement of cultivation, Su Chen has been a little exhausted after practicing for a while, whether it is spiritual power or mental energy, there is a great consumption, such a period of cultivation, Su Chen naturally still can't fully display the effect of the stab in the "Sword" book, but there is still some progress, at least Su Chen let the time for the white jade ruler to change direction be postponed for a while.
Su Chen was trapped in the cultivation room, he didn't know the sun, moon and stars at all, he just said that he would rest when he was tired, and practice when he woke up, he made a cultivation record by himself, cultivating spiritual power for five hours, practicing swords for three hours, and comprehending the "Taihe Yandian" for two hours.
Su Chen, who was immersed in cultivation, had long forgotten that he was imprisoned, and he was cultivating frantically every day, and when he didn't know how many days of cultivation, Su Chen really stabbed out his first sword, a sword that would not change direction.
"Xiao Suchen, how about cultivating for the entry into the realm?"
One day, when Su Chen was lying on the ground and cultivating, suddenly a familiar voice came from outside the stone gate, Su Chen heard this voice, this can be regarded as sobering, his face instantly became angry, and he shouted outside the stone gate: "Old Fang, let me out, I have cultivated into a demon."
"Hey, boy, you're stupid in cultivation, aren't you? You can open your mouth and want to go out, how can you fall into the devil? Boy, I advise you not to waste your efforts, when you cultivate to the realm of sitting and shining, you will naturally be able to come out, and I will give you a big gift when the time comes. ”
"Great gift?" Su Chen, who had been paying close attention to the movement outside the stone gate in the cultivation room, heard Elder Fang's words, and had an ominous premonition in his heart, "I can't delay here, although Elder Fang doesn't have much ill will towards me at the moment, but from his words, if you really wait until you sit in the realm and go out, God knows what will happen." ”
Thinking of this, Su Chen's cultivation worked harder, he sat cross-legged on the ground, the aura in the cultivation room poured into Su Chen's body like a tide, Su Chen's whole body was covered by a faint cyan light, and his body was like a huge formation, roaring, constantly transforming the aura into his own spiritual power.
Cultivation has no time, especially in this closed cultivation room, he doesn't know how long he has been cultivating, but every once in a while, Elder Fang will come to visit Su Chen outside the stone gate and ask about Su Chen's cultivation progress.
From the law of Elder Fang coming to visit, Su Chen roughly deduced that he had been cultivating for almost twenty days, his eyes were like torches, and his expression was a little excited.
"It's about this time. Su Chen muttered in a low voice, breathing for a moment, "After today's cultivation, the spiritual power in the dantian should be filled, which means that I can step into the late stage of the Spiritual Realm, maybe after breaking through, I can try to blast open this stone gate again." ”
Su Chen, who made the decision, had a faint stream of light surging in his eyes, he took a deep breath and shouted, "Give me ...... inhalation" The spiritual energy in the cultivation room swarmed in, and the majestic spiritual power continued to converge into his dantian along Su Chen's meridians, and the spiritual power in his body had been stored nearly ninety percent at the moment, and it was only a little short of enough to be completely filled.
Seeing this, Su Chen absorbed the aura in the heaven and earth even more frantically, and after a while, a crisp sound came from Su Chen's body, he seemed to feel something, and there was a special aura permeating his whole body, Su Chen knew that he had reached the late stage of the Enlightenment Realm at this moment,
At this time, Su Chen felt that his whole body seemed to have inexhaustible spiritual power, and after the spiritual power in the dantian was filled, these spiritual powers rotated wildly in his dantian, forming a complete Zhou Tian with the meridian bones of his whole body, Su Chen was shocked to find that his body was automatically absorbing the spiritual energy in heaven and earth at this moment, and the absorption speed was naturally not as high as when Su Chen took the initiative to cultivate, but at least it was increasing.
"It seems that only after stepping into the late stage of the Enlightenment Realm can you truly be regarded as a cultivator. "Su Chen seems to have enlightenment, after entering the late stage of the Enlightenment Realm, if you want to step into the Sitting Lighting Realm, you have to look at your personal qualifications and understanding, someone can break through the late stage of the Enlightenment Realm at the moment of epiphany, awakening the Spiritual Eyes at the same time, and suddenly go to the Sitting Lighting Realm, such as Yao Liang and other people with heavenly qualifications
There are also people who have not succeeded in awakening their eyes for several years after stepping into the late stage of the Spiritual Realm, such as Sun Dayong, the deacon of the Miscellaneous Servant Academy, Su Chen did not feel the slightest sign of breakthrough when he stepped into the late stage of the Spiritual Realm, and he couldn't help but feel a little regretful in his heart, but this feeling passed away in an instant, and Su Chen once again focused his eyes on the stone gate in front of him.
Su Chen, who arrived at the late stage of the Spiritual Realm, saw the stone gate in front of him again, and had a deeper feeling than more than twenty days ago, although he failed to wake up his eyes, but Su Chen's eyes had more or less changed, and his eyes were also within Zhou Tian constructed by the spiritual power in his body, under his control, there was a trace of spiritual power in his eyes, which allowed him to roughly see the prohibition behind the stone gate.
In Su Chen's understanding, there are roughly two ways to break the formation prohibition in cultivation, one is to directly break it with external force, which is a common practice in the cultivation world, and it is also what Elder Fang wants Su Chen to do.
The other is to use the method of the formation mage, without destroying the forbidden formation and passing through it, but this method requires the monk to have a higher formation cultivation.
Su Chen, who had reached the late stage of the Enlightenment Realm, was sure that he would be able to directly destroy the stone gate with external force, but if this was the case, he would also be discovered by Fang Lao, he didn't want to do this, and at this time, the change in his eyes made Su Chen have a new idea.
Su Chen didn't know if other monks would be like himself when they broke through to the late stage of the Spiritual Realm, at this moment he could clearly see the forbidden structure in the stone gate, and even in his eyes, he could clearly see the operation of the forbidden without a trace of spiritual power.
"If I can learn some formation knowledge, it should be no longer a problem to pass through this stone gate without knowing it, Su Chen's face was slightly regretful. ”
"Maybe you can try the Heavenly Forbidden Technique?" Su Chen suddenly had an idea, remembering the Heavenly Forbidden Technique that Qing Shang had passed on to him that day, but Su Chen had not regarded the Heavenly Forbidden Technique as his own before, and had not cultivated.
"The first prohibition of the Heavenly Forbidden Technique is the ban on mountains and seas, although it is called mountains and seas, but any other dead thing should be able to be banned, and this stone gate is no exception. ”
Su Chen thought of it, calmed down, and immediately began to cultivate according to the mountain and sea forbidden method that Qing Shang said that day.
"Heavenly Forbidden Technique" is completely different from Su Chen's previous cultivation of "Taihe Yandian" and "Water Cloud Technique", the first forbidden mountain and sea ban made Su Chen encounter a great challenge, the mountain and sea ban Su Chen thought he had written it down that day, but now he found that it was more like Qing Shang did his tricks, and the entire "Heavenly Forbidden Technique" method was printed in the depths of his sea of knowledge, and it seemed to be innate.
The method of the ban on mountains and seas is obscure, and it took Su Chen half an hour to read it completely, if it weren't for his familiarity with Confucian classics since he was a child, he might not be able to recognize all the words in the ban on mountains and seas, let alone the content.
"The words recorded in the "Heavenly Forbidden Technique" seem to be ancient characters!" Su Chen lowered his head and pondered, he had heard that before the development of Confucianism, they were all used in ancient texts and ancient characters, and their words were clear, their meanings were obscure, and their principles were mysterious, which was not conducive to the communication between people, nor was it conducive to the spread of the way of sages.
At this point, Confucianism arose the way of character innovation, and at the same time, Buddhism and Taoism responded one after another, and in just a few hundred years, all ancient classics were translated into new languages, and then ancient Chinese characters gradually disappeared from the mainland.
But the "Heavenly Forbidden Technique" in Su Chen's mind is written in ancient texts, and only a few hundred words can reach the world for a thousand words, fortunately, Su Chen was born in Nanling, although Confucianism in the Southern Tang Dynasty uses new texts, but there are still a lot of ancient collections, as a Confucian disciple of Su Chen. His love for classics is beyond the ordinary, and he has also dabbled in ancient classics.
However, although Su Chen can understand the meaning of the words of the Forbidden Exercises of Mountains and Seas, he can't determine the true solution of the combination of hundreds of words, each of the ancient characters will have several meanings, if something is slightly wrong, the whole method will be completely changed, how can Su Chen dare to cultivate?
Dismantling the ancient texts and deriving the true cultivation method of the mountain and sea ban has become something that Su Chen has been happy to do these days, after countless times of mental exhaustion, Su Chen finally came up with several versions of the mountain and sea forbidden formula, and there are only three that are really related to cultivation, as long as Su Chen can derive the correct method from these three formulas, then he can cultivate into the first forbidden method of the "Heavenly Forbidden Technique".
The first is to use one's own spiritual power to contain the Heavenly Forbidden Disk in the body, and then use the Heavenly Forbidden Disk to cast the Mountain and Sea Forbidden Stone Gate Seal, the key to this kind of magic is to condense the Heavenly Forbidden Disk in the body, and all subsequent Heavenly Forbidden Techniques rely on the Heavenly Forbidden Disk to perform.
The second is also condensed into a Heavenly Forbidden Disk, but this Heavenly Forbidden Disk is not condensed in the body of the person who casts the spell, but condenses the Heavenly Forbidden Disk with the thing to be sealed, and then uses the Heavenly Forbidden Disk to seal itself.
The last one is that the Heavenly Forbidden Disk has existed since ancient times, and there is no need for the caster to condense, but everything in heaven and earth can become the Heavenly Forbidden Disk, this version of the Mountain and Sea Forbidden sounds the most ethereal, but Su Chen is more convinced of this one.
"When Patriarch Qing Shang and Brother Meng performed the "Heavenly Forbidden Technique", they never saw a Heavenly Forbidden Disk, thinking that this Heavenly Forbidden Disk was simply intangible, so the last one was correct. ”
Su Chen pondered for a moment, his gaze was firm, and he began to cultivate according to the third mountain and sea forbidden method.