The Immortal Seeker: Legend of Bronze Mirror-Chapter 449 - 196: Divine Intercourse and Dual Cultivation (Please Subscribe)

Xu Residence, in the Wutong Courtyard, Xu Qing will set off for the Sea Sand Gang Headquarters tomorrow, but in his eyes now, it is but a trivial matter.

The day before departure, Xu Qing still found leisure and interest, holding a "Chongyang Complete Truth Collection" and reading it.

This was a rare book that Xu Qing had specifically instructed his men to search for far and wide.

Naturally, it contained no Cultivation Techniques, but rather the tales of Wang Chongyang’s Cultivation.

For instance, this Chapter mainly talked about the "Living Dead."

Chongyang True Master integrated the three teachings, and in the process of becoming a Martial Arts Grandmaster, he drew from the Buddhist Sect’s "Heart Sutra."

He dug a grave on Zhongnan Mountain, called the "Living Dead Tomb," where he cultivated the Alchemy Dao.

The so-called Living Dead refers to the state in the Heart Sutra where there is no perception of eyes, ears, nose, body or mind; no sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, or phenomena.

A Martial Arts Grandmaster is thus someone who has perfected the Qi-Blood into the Alchemy Dao, fulfilled.

Why a Divine Soul Expert finds it hard to sense a Martial Arts Grandmaster through Divine Thought, the reason lies here.

Such a practitioner retracts their Qi-Blood, unseen, unheard, unthought, just like a Living Dead, existing between the states of life and death.

Once Divine Thought passes over them, naturally no signs of life can be detected.

It can be said that the metaphor of the Living Dead precisely unveils the profound essence of the "Inner Elixir Dao."

With the Xuantian Marvelous Sound Marrow Cleansing Technique and the upper realms of Tiger and Leopard Thunder Sound, Xu Qing’s mastery over the marvels of Qi-Blood is unmatched by almost anyone below the level of Martial Arts Grandmaster.

He reads about the deeds of his predecessors not to imitate them slavishly but to combine them with an understanding that benefits himself.

This is known as "interpret the classics in terms of one’s own understanding."

Without this layer of insight, studying becomes meaningless and misguided.

At this moment, Feng Wu walked into the courtyard.

Seeing Xu Qing’s expression, she was startled, "Husband, are you sick? How could this be?"

She quickly realized her husband was so robust, how could he possibly be ill. But Cultivation is unpredictable; a mistake in the circulation of Qi-Blood, leading to a deviation or possession, is even more frightening than illness.

Xu Qing smiled, his Qi-Blood once again filling his limbs and bones, "I am attempting the Inner Elixir Method, striving to reach the threshold of Martial Arts Grandmaster as soon as possible. You should try it, too."

"Can I really do it?" Feng Wu asked in surprise.

Xu Qing: "The Alchemy Dao is a Realm but also a theory; applicable to Martial Arts, Divine Soul, all things—all can benefit from it."

The Alchemy Dao implies perfection, yet it is the completion of a stage.

To view a Martial Arts Grandmaster as the Alchemy Dao means that within this stage, after new breakthroughs, Qi-Blood, the physical body, and even the Divine Soul, all undergo a new Transformation, at which point one must again comprehend the Alchemy Dao and once more achieve self-completion.

The prerequisite for "destroying and then establishing" is that one has reached a bottleneck, a completion of a stage of Cultivation, forming a circle, within which all Cultivation revolves.

Naturally, one must break free to ascend to a higher Realm.

Upon reaching a new Realm, one starts all over again, from incomplete to complete.

Therefore, the most difficult hurdles for powerful Cultivators often lie within themselves.

Breaking through oneself is the hardest challenge.

No one wishes to reshape themselves.

Moreover, like a porcelain vessel, shattered and then rebuilt, could it truly be better, or is it beyond repair.

Thus, "destroying and then establishing" also carries great risks.

Much like a Dynasty, once established, internal reforms are tremendously difficult because it necessitates shattering something, potentially a vital part.

Reforming others is hard enough; how much more so to reform oneself, and a misstep could equate to suicide, subject to ridicule by future generations.

But those with courage and wisdom will not retreat because of this.

Such individuals can accept failure but never mediocrity.

As the great general Huan stated eloquently, if not to remain fragrant for a hundred generations, then to leave an odious legacy for tens of thousands of years.

Xu Qing took Feng Wu’s hand, Heavenly Sound Vibrations stirring, Feng Wu instinctively matched with Earth Sound. Now completely led by Xu Qing, she practiced the Xuantian Marvelous Sound Marrow Cleansing Technique.

But unlike before, her heart, pulse, and breath all ceased their movements; all signs of life stopped. Only a spot below her abdomen seemed to contain a scalding hot sphere spinning and condensing.

This was Xu Qing displaying, unreservedly, his insightful understanding of the Qi Blood Pill Dao to Feng Wu.

Only with such intimacy as a couple can one trust unreservedly, sensing all this.

Xu Qing’s soul and Feng Wu’s soul, at this moment connected, opened up to each other. After a long while, the Mystical Sound ended.

Feng Wu opened her eyes, releasing a satisfied sigh, "Just now, I felt as if I were dead, no, as if existing between life and death."

In the past, she too had undergone Dual Cultivation of the flesh and Qi-Blood with Xu Qing: Taoist Flute Blowing Technique, Locking Gold Pass, Reverse Absorption Method all tried, but none yielded such a significant gain as this one.

Because consolidating Qi-Blood brings the greatest benefit directly to the Divine Soul.

In that moment just now, her Divine Soul had been greatly stimulated.

In the precipice between life and death lies great terror; the state of a Living Dead comes close to this sensation, under such extreme terror, the Divine Soul can grow.

It’s somewhat akin to what Cultivators call Stealing the Heavenly Secret, Heavenly Thunder, while not as beneficial, it’s safer.

Feng Wu stares at Xu Qing, eyes brimming. Her Divine Soul seems to flow like water.

The Annihilation Scripture says, emotions are like water.

Tenderness as water, passion as deep as the ocean...

Her soul’s true form is water, ever-changing.

The spirit of the young wife drifts out, becoming a deep sea vortex.

Xu Qing’s soul also emerges, a small dragon.

A hidden dragon in the abyss!

The souls of both engage in the deepest level of communication.