Chen Luo discovered he could scavenge the minds of the dead.
So he went to a graveyard and scavenge the brain of a deceased Great Emperor, figuring he’d borrow it for a bit.
While other...
"It's good to have a breakthrough."
Venerable Kuchai did not ask about the details. He had never thought of asking about the details in the first place.
After resting for a while, he got up and walked back to the hut, took out a dusty and tattered book from the room, and threw it to Chen Luo.
"Take it and practice. I was originally planning to give it to you after you reach Nascent Soul stage, but now I am passing it on to you in advance." As he spoke, Venerable Kuchai started to cough again. Without waiting for Chen Luo to ask, he waved his hand. A stream of light appeared, and when Chen Luo came to his senses again, he had already reached the foot of the mountain.
This old man's time is coming soon.
Chen Luo glanced towards the back mountain, then turned his gaze to the book in his hand.
"The Void God Technique!"
The name of the technique was simple, but Chen Luo could tell it was extraordinary at a glance. In his external brain, Brother Changqing and Brother Qiuyuan appeared at the same time. They were the only two brains on his body that had surpassed the Spiritual Transformation Realm.
'You can practice the method of returning to the void.'
'Unorthodox ways.'
As they flipped through the pages, the two brains further revived, and the internal memories were updated again. Especially the brain of the second brother Qiuyuan, compared to the brain of the elder brother Changqing, it was lagging again. This was because the brain was missing and could not keep up with the pace, and it was also reminding Chen Luo that it was time to return to the tomb to collect more brains of the elder brother Changqing.
"Both brothers have no objection, so we can practice."
After confirming that the two brains had no objections, Chen Luo returned to the third peak with the skills.
He had just begun to imitate the power of the Debut Stone and was lacking the inheritance of the Return to Void inheritance. The technique of Venerable Kuchai came at the right time.
The secret room was closed and he practiced hard behind closed doors.
The dispute in the Star Gate became more and more intense. Yue Zun walked out of the Dao Palace and killed people everywhere. He slaughtered more than ten Divine Transformation cultivators at one time. This act of bullying the weak angered the Dao Sect behind these people. When Yue Zun ascended to the Ziqing Star Region, he was blocked by a mysterious strong man.
The two sides fought fiercely in the Ziqing Star Region, and nearly ten cities were reduced to ruins.
Thousands of miles of land are desolate and all lives are lost.
The order of cultivation in the entire Star Gate was in chaos. No one was cultivating the spiritual fields, and the spiritual farmers were suffering. There were robbery cultivators everywhere, and some people took advantage of the chaos to rob small families and sects and make a fortune. The prices of talismans and elixirs increased by more than ten times, and formation masters became the hot cakes that everyone pursued.
It's chaos.
All this information was brought back to Chen Luo by the Flower-backed Turtle. Someone from the Changqing Sect that he had left behind survived and passed on the information. Also brought back was information about the ancestral tomb of the Qunxing Sect.
Just as Chen Luo guessed, the ancestral tomb of the Star Gate was indeed not guarded by anyone, but it also did not contain the immortal corpse that he wanted.
According to the information found by Flower-back Turtle, the immortal corpse of the Star Gate was placed in the Taoist Palace by the three ancestors of the Star Gate, namely the Sun, Moon and Star, and was kept by the three of them personally.
Three days later.
The back mountain of the ancient Shenzong.
"Nascent Soul Realm?"
"I have some small insights and occasional breakthroughs."
Chen Luo said calmly. The Void God Technique that the Kuchai Venerable taught him was very profound, and the entry level was at the Nascent Soul stage. If his surface cultivation level was not improved, it would be difficult to ask many subsequent questions.
Venerable Kuchai looked at Chen Luo's improved cultivation level in three days, and the corner of his mouth twitched.
He suddenly felt that what Le Qingzhu said made some sense.
This kid really has a problem.
But fortunately, he didn't care about these things. He made his choice from the moment he passed the Void God Technique to Chen Luo. After asking a few simple questions, he ignored them and asked about Chen Luo's progress in practicing the Void God Technique.
"Have you learned the Void God Technique?"
“I have some insights, but I don’t understand many things.” It was because Chen Luo saw this that he dared to ‘break through the Nascent Soul Realm in three days’.
The Void God Technique was different from the techniques he had practiced before, and there were really many things he didn't understand. He couldn't understand it even after calling up the external brain. There was only one reason for this, that was, his 'database' lacked content, and when calling up the 'inheritance', there was a loss. So he had to find the Ku Chai Master to fill in the missing part.
"Tell me more specifically."
Venerable Kuchai gestured and asked Chen Luo to sit down next to him.
He had no plans to chop wood today. After being severely injured by Yue Zun, his injuries have not yet recovered. He would stay in the mountain until he eliminated Yue Zun's remaining power.
"How can I use the spirit to transform the void?"
This is the most common phrase in the "Xu Shen Fa". According to Chen Luo's previous understanding, refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, and refining spirit into emptiness are the three major realms of Taoist practice. They correspond to different small realms, and each small realm has different practice characteristics, such as enlightenment, awakening the spirit, and spiritual travel.
But he couldn't say specifically how to practice.
The Virtual God Method was more detailed than the concepts he knew, involving the absorption, circulation, and invocation of spiritual energy, especially the use of "God".
“What is your God?”
“Immortal.”
Chen Luo revealed his physical appearance.
Forget about the Dharma image and the Meaning image, he was afraid that if he brought them out together they would scare the old man.
"The physical cultivation is not bad."
The Kuchai Venerable waved his hand, asking Chen Luo to take back his 'god', and at the same time revealed his own 'god'. A shadow over five meters tall appeared behind him. As soon as this 'god' appeared, he immediately lowered his eyes, and an invisible pressure enveloped him.
Chen Luo looked at this barbarian god and vaguely understood something.
"The foundation of returning to the void is built on the 'God'. The stronger the God, the stronger the power after returning to the void. This is the difference in foundation. I asked you to practice the 'Ancient God Body Refining Method' of the Ancient God Sect before, just to help you lay a good foundation." After showing his God, Venerable Kuchai took back his power.
"I know that."
Chen Luo nodded. In terms of foundation alone, he was stronger than Venerable Kuchai.
"After the transformation into a spirit is complete, the 'spirit' will reach its limit and the spirit will no longer improve. At this time, the strength of your 'spirit' is equal to the strength of your power."
Venerable Ku Chai stretched out his hand and tapped the table, and two small saplings grew out.
One thick and one thin.
One tall and one short.
"Just like these two trees, they are different in length, thickness and thickness, and their strengths after they grow up will also be different. Your immortality is considered average. If you practice to the extreme, you can be in the middle among the spiritual cultivators. As for returning to the void."
Venerable Kuchai knocked on the table, and a white star flashed across his fingertips.
The two trees twisted and expanded, their branches spread out, and turned into two umbrella-shaped tree crowns. The roots climbed up from the table and turned into two walking tree men, and then twisted and changed again, turning into two things that were completely out of the form of trees. A tiger in the shape of a green tree, and an eagle flapping its wings.
Under the power of Venerable Kuchai, two ordinary trees turned into two other species.
“The most important thing is prying!”
"Use your 'God' to pull your own legend out of the void. This is 'Return to the Void'! Only when you find your own 'God' can you officially enter the Void God Method and enter the Return to the Void realm."
As he spoke, Venerable Kuchai threw a small black stone to Chen Luo.
“Try to imagine that what you hold in your hands is not a stone, but gold.”
Alchemy.
It is the most entry-level magical power of 'conversion between virtual and real'. Chen Luo has seen it in the method of virtual god. Now after being reminded by Venerable Kuchai, he immediately found the key.
"good."
Chen Luo closed his eyes, his consciousness calmed down, and the 'Xu Shen Fa' started to operate on its own, trying to transfer the power to his fingertips.
The vision fell into darkness.
His body was empty and his soul was no longer confined to the body. What he sensed was a dark world. In this dark world, he wandered like a ghost.
"Look carefully for the 'stars'. 'Ancient God Refining Stars' refers to this step. The 'Ancient God Refining Body Method' of our Ancient God Sect originated from the ancient body cultivation. In our perception, gods are stars, and stars are gods."
The voice of Venerable Kuchai sounded in my ears.
The speed of the virtual god method was getting faster and faster. The seven leaves in the body lit up at the same time. The flower buds at the tips of the leaves lit up and turned into a rope hanging from the sky. Such a bright light was particularly eye-catching in the dark world.
Chen Luo floated over, gently grabbed the rope, and his consciousness was instantly brought to a high altitude.
Then
He saw the sky full of stars.
"this?"
Chen Luo was stunned for a moment.
The stars that the Kuchai Venerable mentioned as being "extremely difficult to find" were everywhere here. With puzzled doubts, Chen Luo stopped the operation of the "Virtual God Method", his soul descended, and his consciousness returned to his body.
When he opened his eyes, he found himself still in the yard. Venerable Kuchai was sitting opposite him, still looking the same as before.
"Don't be impatient. You are not at that level yet. It is normal that you cannot sense the stars. Take your time."
Seeing Chen Luo wake up, Venerable Kuchai spoke.
The 'Xu Shen Fa' is a magical power to return to the void. Even the original Ku Chai Venerable had practiced for more than 800 years before he succeeded. He spent 300 years just to find the 'star'. This is also what Ku Chai Venerable is most proud of. Even the senior who took him to 'enlightenment' praised his talent.
"First, you need to get started. Cultivation is not something that can be done overnight. Only when your heart is firm can you move forward courageously."
“Is Xing really that hard to find?”
"nature!"
Venerable Kuchai said affirmatively.
"'Stars' are a reflection of the inner heart and an extension of the path. The reason why 'Enlightenment' can assist in cultivation is that the power of Tao can lead people to their inner heart and find their obsession in cultivation. Only by taking obsession as the source can one find one's true heart."
Obsession
Chen Luo understood a little.
He didn't have much else, but his obsession was the most important thing. Of the brains he had taken into his body, nearly nine layers carried obsession.
The most difficult thing for ordinary immortal cultivators to do is to strengthen their own Dao heart, and they cannot see clearly their obsessions. But Chen Luo can see clearly that obsessions are everywhere in him.
No wonder we saw the sky full of stars before.
With so many obsessions colliding together, it was possible to create a galaxy. But in doing so, he encountered a new problem.
With so many stars, which one should he choose?
You still have to choose your own.
With such doubts, Chen Luo started a new round of practice. This time, he was going to grab a random "star" to try and see if he could practice it. (End of this chapter)