Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 1056 - 39: Cultivation Body Examination
Essence is strong, the divine soul is stable, self is robust. Qiushui Daoist feels better than ever before. He only feels that the essence stored in each muscle of his body is enough to kill a Divine Separation Stage or even a Body Integration Realm cultivator with brute force.
Now, on Spirit Phoenix Island, excluding Holy Emperor Venerable, all other cultivators combined do not have as much mana as him alone.
He stood confidently in front of Holy Emperor Venerable, hoping this powerful figure would offer a word of praise.
However, there is not a trace of joy in Holy Emperor Venerable's eyes.
He is an awakened Banished Immortal, fundamentally on a different level than ordinary Mahayana cultivators. It's due to different accumulations.
This is comparable to Modern Heretics using a theoretical system to connect all civilizational achievements, where everyone seems to have gained from the accumulated achievements of countless people over two thousand years. Whereas he has traversed many worlds, reaping many civilizational achievements, achieving methods these ordinary cultivators could never imagine. For a Banished Immortal Mahayana, even an ordinary Mahayana cultivator is like an ant to be easily crushed.
Previously, he did not allow Mahayana cultivators to appear mainly because ordinary Mahayana cultivators completing Unity of My Method could create many unexpected variables during his eventual absorption, such as heart demons based on others' thoughts if he absorbed them.
He didn't expect ordinary Mahayana to provide combat power but had to be wary of too many Mahayana cultivators stimulating those dangerous Modern Heretics and be cautious of the variables during the final absorption. So why would he want to increase the number of Mahayana cultivators?
Holy Emperor Venerable pulled Qiushui Daoist up and said expressionlessly, "Follow me."
Qiushui Daoist felt uneasy but dared not resist. During the transmission of techniques by Holy Emperor Venerable, he vaguely perceived his terrifying essence, and the thought of rebellion had long been extinguished.
This was intentionally done by Holy Emperor Venerable. When Qiushui Daoist opened his self to him, allowing him to transmit techniques, he revealed his immortal essence, made contact with a bit of Qiushui Daoist's true spirit, changed his mind, and destroyed certain convictions.
This is also why Zhen Chan criticized Qiushui Daoist's "impure mind, difficult to achieve Tai Chu state." If not for this, Qiushui Daoist's mental cultivation wouldn't be so poor.
However, even this was calculated by Holy Emperor Venerable. He knew from the beginning that Qiushui Daoist's accumulation was insufficient to complete the Mahayana realm of the Da Luo Chaos Heaven Scripture.
Phoenix Spirit Fire was what he prepared.
Moreover, revealing the Phoenix Spirit Fire and achieving a new Mahayana could also reignite the will of those Ancient Method Practitioners, reviving the "Golden Phenomenon" of Spirit Phoenix Island.
The two walked into Holy Emperor Venerable's Jinshen Hall one after the other. When Holy Emperor Venerable stopped, he seemed to deliberately stomp heavily on the ground. Then, Qiushui Daoist's body stiffened, pupils dilated, losing vitality in an instant.
"No accidents occurred. Even if cultivation fails, complemented by Phoenix Spirit Fire, the hidden locks I left still exist." Holy Emperor Venerable nodded in satisfaction.
He naturally knew such methods of controlling subordinates.
None knew that Qiushui Daoist's cultivation of Da Luo Chaos Heaven Scripture was just an empty shell of the original version, entirely different inside. Before falling into Qiushui Daoist's hands, Wang Qi modified it once, planting many hidden locks, and then Holy Emperor Venerable modified it again before passing it to him.
The ingenious part is, Wang Qi and Holy Emperor Venerable are fundamentally different systems of cultivators. Wang Qi's thought process in modifying the cultivation technique was based on logic, mathematics, Yin Yang transformations, mechanical, pure; whereas Holy Emperor Venerable's modification approach was nearly metaphysical contemplation.
Like an app, where the programmer altered a few lines of code, while the artist adjusted the images slightly, neither detecting the other's actions.
Holy Emperor Venerable didn't discover Wang Qi's modification, and even if Wang Qi saw Qiushui Daoist's version of Da Luo Chaos Heaven Scripture, he wouldn't perceive any changes by Holy Emperor Venerable.
Perhaps only Zhen Chan, familiar with the original version, could recognize the modifications by these two. This is why Zhen Chan initially remarked "though there are some discrepancies." After these two modifications, the mana power intent produced is hardly identical to the original.
However, both Wang Qi and Zhen Chan attributed the differences to Wang Qi's modification of the cultivation technique, while Holy Emperor Venerable thought the discrepancies were due to his alterations combined with individual differences.
After all, those who witnessed Zhen Chan's breakthrough to Mahayana have died; who would know what the authentic Mahayana Foreboding of the Da Luo Chaos Heaven Scripture looks like?
Perhaps Qiushui Daoist's failure to take the final step was partly due to problems with his cultivation technique?
Holy Emperor Venerable first injected his mana into Qiushui Daoist's magic body, launching a fierce assault, attempting to find the weak spot of the magic body. But soon he was disappointed. This Mahayana cultivator's internal organs had been transformed into several interlinked divine skills, the body center chaotic, endless, without top or bottom, like the beginning. All signs indicated this one was truly cultivating the supreme technique.
——Except for a few deliberately created weak spots by Holy Emperor Venerable.
Holy Emperor Venerable probed to no avail. During this process, he gained an intuitive understanding of the supreme technique.
Then, he rebuked, "Qiushui, I command you to enter extreme rage, attack me with full force!"
Qiushui Daoist's eyes suddenly turned crimson, inside the magic body, power boiled. He thrust a palm directly at Holy Emperor Venerable's head, which was silently neutralized by Holy Emperor Venerable with a single hand.
Subsequently, Qiushui Daoist crazily unleashed various divine skills, all casually dissolved by Holy Emperor Venerable without even stirring a breeze.
"So, it's not the type that gets triggered during fierce combat?" Holy Emperor Venerable frowned. He tried a few more moves, but still found nothing. By now, he also realized that Master Qiushui's martial arts and spells were extremely poor; while they might still be passable within the Unification Stage cultivators, they were utterly unbearable by the standards of Mahayana Cultivators.
He had no interest in accompanying a second-rate cultivator, and thus issued the next instruction: "Qiushui, calm down, meditate and cultivate."
Daoist Qiushui sat cross-legged, quickly entered meditation, and reached the state of oblivion. Nature's spiritual energy immediately "collapsed" and gathered toward him. At this moment, Holy Emperor Venerable's body suddenly emitted golden light. He used his own mana to replace the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, supplying Daoist Qiushui with absorption. During this process, his mana participated in every step of Qiushui's mana refining.
"Hmm? No flaws?"
Holy Emperor Venerable frowned again.
He pondered for a moment, tried a few methods again, but still couldn't probe out any possible "artificial flaws" on Daoist Qiushui—other than the ones he himself left.
"Could it be that the cultivation truly has an unknown origin?" Holy Emperor Venerable mused. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
An expert in mechanical techniques, even if capable of independently manufacturing steam engines, internal combustion engines, and other heat engines, would not understand the capabilities or the principles on which an integrated circuit chip operates. Even if they watched the chip work and sensed the electrical flow inside it, they wouldn't know how it could produce diverse images and texts.
The working principle of an integrated circuit chip is from a completely different domain than ordinary machinery.
Holy Emperor Venerable was in this state when facing Wang Qi's modified cultivation technique.
The difference between virtual form techniques and traditional real form techniques is like that between electronic programs and mechanical beasts. Although calculators are indeed mechanical, even if Holy Emperor Venerable were proficient in assembling all "mechanical beasts," he couldn't hope to write a game path rank.
The flaws Wang Qi planted would not appear as flaws under normal circumstances. He merely fine-tuned the part about "internal-external connection" in Daoist Qiushui's version of the Da Luo Chaos Heaven Scripture, ensuring it could sense certain special spiritual power fluctuations and store the information conveyed within these fluctuations, driving the further transformation of the cultivation technique.
Before Wang Qi launched his plan, it was no different from an ordinary cultivation technique.
This is the true essence of a "backdoor."
Soon, Holy Emperor Venerable gave up probing further. Sitting upright on the dragon throne, he declared aloud, "Today's guidance ends here. How much you can comprehend depends on yourself. Get out."
"Thank you, Emperor Venerable!" Master Qiushui's expression immediately became lively, showing a mix of regret, shock, and joy. In his memory, Holy Emperor Venerable had just preached the Heavenly Immortal Dao to him.
This Heavenly Immortal Dao indeed held many mysteries! Unfortunately, perhaps because the Dao's profound sound is ultimately hard to grasp, he didn't remember much of this segment!
Watching Daoist Qiushui retreat, Holy Emperor Venerable scoffed disdainfully. Then he closed his eyes.
In a world lacking in spiritual power, human dao power lacks a material foundation, the divine tao does not manifest, and heavenly gods and earth deities cannot show their manifestations. For Divine Tao cultivators, the concentration of nature's spiritual energy remains quite crucial.
Even in the End of Law Era, when spiritual energy was scarce, the Holy Infant Sect managed to forge a path. In this regard, he somewhat admired the Holy Spirit Ye Ye and Holy Infant Great Master Ye Su from back then.
After Daoist Qiushui's antics, the essence of his divine country wasn't damaged, but some weakness did emerge, requiring a readjustment.
Under Holy Emperor Venerable's encouragement, the divine country, anchored in the void, began to grow stronger once again.
And unbeknownst to him, on Spirit Phoenix Island, the Supreme Heart Demon Curse was rapidly spreading.
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The Dao wanes and the demon grows.
Holy Emperor Venerable God's divine country technique declined, allowing Wang Qi's Heart Demon Mysterious Net to thrive.
While Holy Emperor Venerable reshaped the divine country, Wang Qi was also slowly adjusting the Heart Demon Mysterious Net.
At this moment, the entire Ancient Method Sect had already thrown itself into relief work. Even the Unification Stage cultivators, who were once apathetic to low-level cultivators, at least put on a show to maintain the sect's operation.
And the only Unification Stage cultivator involved in this was Xu Xueqing, Elder of the Heavenly Book Tower, who entered Daoist skills through medicine.
Wang Qi felt this was an opportunity to interact with Xu Xueqing in advance. However, given that he was disguised as a low-level disciple, he certainly wasn't within Elder Xu's range for treatment. After lying down for a day, no Divine Separation Stage and above strong individuals showed intentions to emerge.
Helplessly, Wang Qi could only find the original owner of his current disguise, make him appear in a deep state of Deviation, unconscious and unresponsive, and then quietly leave.
With Holy Emperor Venerable too preoccupied and other Unification Stage cultivators unsettled, it was the perfect chance to arrange reincarnation matters.
