Ascension Through Generations

After half a day, Zhao Sheng accompanied Qingshan Patriarch and the two ancestors to the edge of the Secret Mansion with a smile, and then sent them out of the Secret Mansion.

After a while, Zhao Sheng flew back to the terrace and sat on the jade couch again. With a flick of his right hand, a volume of ancient books fell into his hand.

He carefully opened the ancient book and read it with hungry eyes, completely forgetting what happened just now.

If someone stood behind Zhao Sheng at this time and looked at the pages of the ancient book, they would be extremely surprised to find that the pages were completely white, with not even a word on them.

The reason for this is that this unknown ancient book is "handwritten" by Zhao Xuanjing with the power of Yuanshen. Without Nascent Soul-level divine thoughts and knowing the specific "frequency" of divine thoughts, it is impossible to understand the "text" on it. .

This ancient book doesn't even have a name on the cover, but it is one of the most important secrets of the Nantian Zhao family.

Because this book records all the cultivation experience of a true king who transformed into gods, it can be said that every word is precious and small, and the meaning is great.

The ancients said: "A true message can be true, but a false message can be thousands of books."

In Zhao Sheng's opinion, this unknown ancient book is undoubtedly a "legendary classic".

After just a few cursory readings, he gained a lot, solved countless doubts in his mind, and thus roughly saw the way forward for spiritual practice.

Although he also entered the realm of Nascent Soul in his previous life, because he had no family or sect, he was not very clear about the path of cultivation after Nascent Soul, especially the various training links and problems, which made him even more confused.

As a result, in the decades after he was promoted to Nascent Soul, his progress in cultivation was minimal, and his strength improvement was frighteningly slow.

But after reading this classic, Zhao Sheng suddenly realized.

It turns out that it’s not that I’m slow to advance, but that I haven’t found the true direction of practice at all.

From the day he started cultivating immortality, Zhao Sheng knew that there were four major stages in cultivating immortality: "refining essence to transform qi, refining qi to return to spirit, refining spirit to return to emptiness, and refining emptiness to combine with Tao".

Nascent Soul is the fourth realm after refining qi, building foundation, and golden elixir. From the perspective of the four major stages, it is in the second half of "refining qi and restoring spirit".

At this time, "refining qi" is no longer the focus of cultivation for immortal cultivators, but "returning spirit" is.

The word "huan" actually expresses the true meaning of cultivation in the Nascent Soul Realm.

"Huan" also means to complete.

You must know that the important sign of becoming a true king of gods is to become a soul.

Therefore, the most important thing for Nascent Soul cultivators in the stage of "refining Qi and returning to spirit" is to achieve Yuan Shen.

However, the soul is based on the great road, and achieving success is as difficult as reaching the sky.

Why are the ancestors of Yuanying so attracted to Tianwai Xuanying? Just because there is a certain chance that the mysterious surface beyond the sky contains traces of the Great Law.

These "secrets" have always been passed down orally, leaving no words behind.

Zhao Sheng was a lonely man in his previous life, so how could he know such top-secret information?

Now that he had finished reading, he beat his chest and sighed: Monopoly of knowledge is really a great harm to cultivating immortality!

Thinking of this, Zhao Sheng couldn't help but sigh. He had planted trees for several generations, but now a towering tree finally grew in his family, which could protect him in his practice and point out the way forward.

Cultivation in the Nascent Soul Realm is simple to say, it is nothing more than "returning to the spirit".

But in fact, 99% of the ancestors of Nascent Soul can't even reach the threshold of becoming a god, so how can they achieve the goal of becoming a soul.

There are only three reasons:

Firstly, there is a lack of scriptures that directly point to the soul;

Secondly, the understanding of the laws of the Great Dao is insufficient, and the foundation of the soul cannot be consolidated.

Thirdly, the spiritual energy in the Tianzhu Realm is thin, and there are very few places with abundant spiritual energy that can satisfy the cultivation needs of the ancestors of Nascent Soul.

On the surface, the Yuan Ying ancestors are all aloof and carefree like immortals, but in fact they are a bunch of miserable "paupers".

If you are satisfied with the realm of Nascent Soul and stop moving forward, it is okay. At least you can still live freely for thousands of years and enjoy the ultimate happiness.

But if you want to strive for a higher realm, it will be hard.

Let’s not mention refining the gods for the time being, but only increase the power of magic.

Because the level of mana is too high, the aura environment below the third level of spiritual veins is no longer sufficient for the cultivation of Nascent Soul cultivators.

Even if he could be satisfied, the cultivation speed of absorbing spiritual energy from heaven and earth to refine it was disappointingly slow.

Therefore, on weekdays, Nascent Soul Ancestors usually have three ways to practice. One is to practice with high-grade or even top-grade spiritual stones, and the other is to take high-grade spiritual pills with the lowest level three. The most luxurious and fastest way to enter the country is to directly refine Tianwai Xuanying.

But Tianwai Xuanying is so precious and rare that even Zhao Xuanjing is reluctant to "waste" it.

You must know that a sufficient number of Tianwai Xuanying is indispensable for opening the Ascension Formation.

Although the Ascension Formation is no longer usable at this time, what about the future? What if one day in the future the Ascension Formation is repaired by a great talent?

It can be summed up in one sentence. The increasingly declining aura environment of Tianzhu Realm can no longer satisfy the cultivation of Nascent Soul Realm.

If you want to become a soul, you can't just rely on "killing people of the same level" or "seizing opportunities". After all, you cannot lack the support of heaven.

Coincidentally, Zhao Sheng now has great merits and virtues, and the most important thing he lacks is the destiny of heaven.

So as long as he has enough resources, he has a high chance of reaching the top of this world.

Let’s put aside the too-distant future and focus on the present.

Taking the Nascent Soul Realm as an example, this realm can be divided into early, middle and late stages. The basis for the division is very complicated, but there is also a set of simple and rough evaluation criteria.

It can be distinguished by the "height" of the Nascent Soul body. From one to three inches high is the early Nascent Soul stage, from four to six inches is the middle stage, and from seven to nine inches is the late Nascent Soul stage.

When the height exceeds one foot, there is a high probability that the body will transform into a soul. Of course, it’s not necessarily the case. There are some Nascent Soul Ancestors who are extremely powerful, but their understanding of the laws of the Great Dao is insufficient, and they will never become gods after all.

How about enjoying the shade under the big tree!

What surprised Zhao Sheng was that in the second half of the ancient book, there was a spiritual cultivation method called "One Yuan Initial Jue" recorded.

According to the records in the book, this method was given by the great power of the upper realm. Zhao Xuanjing once said in the book that this method played a huge role in why he was able to successfully achieve Yuanshen.

There are only more than a thousand words in "Yi Yuan Shi Jue". The writing is clumsy and obscure, and the meaning is vague. At first glance, it is confusing.

Unfortunately, there is no comment on this technique in the book. Zhao Sheng does not think that Zhao Xuanjing forgot to write it down. He must have deep meaning in doing so.

Zhao Sheng read it many times and determined that "One Yuan Si Jue" should be an "orthodox" Yuanshen method, which is characterized by being upright and peaceful, without the worry of going too far.

The eight characters at the beginning of the chapter, "One yuan is the beginning, all things are renewed," seem to point out the main purpose of the exercise, and also seem to contain countless profound meanings.

Zhao Sheng read only these eight words no less than a thousand times, and after chewing them over and over again, he suddenly had an idea and vaguely grasped the essence.

The renewal of everything is actually a word "change". Because everything is "changing", and so is the Dao.

For Yuanying monks, the key to the "change" of the soul into the Yuanshen lies in the original "one", and Yuan Naiyuan can also point to the way.

The beginning of the One Yuan should be said to be based on the law of the Great Dao. Only by clearly seeing the "changes" of the Dao in all phenomena of heaven and earth can one achieve the Yuan Shen.

Zhao Sheng didn't know if he understood it correctly, but

With a thought in his mind, the Book of Hundreds of Worlds slowly rose from the depths of the Soul Sea. After flying into the air, the pages of the book opened, casting down streaks of light.

When he turned to the fifth page, Zhao Sheng stared at the vivid "little world" of the sea of ​​​​stars, and a massive amount of information poured into his mind instantly...

After a dozen breaths, Baishishu sank into the depths of his soul again.

Well!

Zhao Sheng felt dizzy and couldn't help but rub his eyebrows with his hands, but there was a happy smile on his face.

With the Star God World as a reference, Zhao Sheng was sure that his understanding was correct.

But compared to this, he actually has greater gains.

Back then, he used the existence form of the Star God to deduce the secret art of the soul called "Star Gate Thousand Hearts Technique". The original intention is to achieve the power of one mind and a thousand uses by splitting the soul.

But now, Zhao Sheng discovered that this divine soul technique actually had a more important purpose.

It actually has the prototype of a soul method, but one part is missing.

If the essence of "Star God Thousand Heart Jue" is "split", then what it lacks is the word "hehe".

When the mastery of this method reaches the state of Thousand Hearts, when Zhao Sheng comprehends the Great Dao, he can comprehend the law of a certain Dao from a thousand different angles, just like a thousand Nascent Soul Ancestors are participating in the same process.

When the fire is almost done, practice the technique in reverse, from a thousand souls to a hundred souls, then to ten souls, and finally merge into one.

If his idea is successful, it shouldn't be difficult to achieve Yuan Shen.

Thinking of this, Zhao Sheng's mind was flooded with inspiration, and he had some kind of premonition that his idea would definitely succeed!

"Huh? Everything went so smoothly! Could it be that this is the meaning of the law of heaven, which is invincible?!" He suddenly thought strangely in his heart.

An hour later, Zhao Sheng suddenly stood up and flew down the terrace.

Not long after, he came to a core training room underground in the Secret Mansion.

The spiritual energy here is extremely rich, enough for Jindan Zhenren to practice.

But Zhao Sheng didn't care about these "thin" spiritual energies.

He waved his hand and cast a spell, and a shielding barrier immediately appeared on the walls around the training room.

Then, Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged on the thousand-year-old warm jade bed. With a flick of his right hand, there was a top-quality spiritual stone in his palm that was as bright as the sun and had a vortex of spiritual energy condensed inside.

Then, he placed the spirit stone on his Dantian, clasped his hands together, and the Nascent Soul body in the soul sea also sat cross-legged in the air.

Spiritual thoughts like flowing water surged out from the center of the eyebrows and penetrated into the interior of the top-quality spiritual stone. Then, under the guidance of spiritual thoughts, wisps of extremely pure spiritual energy slowly precipitated and submerged into the sea of ​​dantian.

For a moment, a drizzle began to fall over the Dantian Qi Sea. The raindrops fell into the mana "lake" and were quickly assimilated into traces of mana.

This process starts over and over again, very slowly.

…

Three months later, Zhao Sheng sighed softly, put the exhausted top-grade spiritual stones into his storage bag, then stood up and walked out of the training room.

He was already prepared for the slow progress of his cultivation, and was not as impatient as other novice Nascent Souls.

With these three months of buffering, the entire Zhao family should have adapted to the addition of another Nascent Soul Ancestor in the family.

It just so happened that at this time, Zhao Sheng, who was "quiet and restless", had planned to travel around the family.

The purpose is not to meet the descendants of the clan, but for the Daozang of the entire Zhao family in Nantian.

It is important to know that in practicing Buddhism, it is most taboo to work behind closed doors. It is essential to explore the strengths of others in order to broaden your knowledge.

As soon as he came out of seclusion, he saw a young man in green robe guarding the door.

As soon as he saw Zhao Sheng coming out of seclusion, the man immediately bowed and saluted: "Blessings, ancestor!"

Zhao Sheng said casually: "I have been in seclusion for three months. Is there anything important happening in the secret mansion?"

"Ancestor, there is nothing going on in the Secret Mansion, but the family ancestors have sent congratulatory gifts one after another, and the clan elders also asked you when will you hold the Nascent Soul Ceremony?"

"Where is the thing?" Zhao Sheng said in a very calm tone.

Upon hearing this, the young man in green robe quickly took out a storage bag from his return bag and handed it to the ancestor.

Zhao Sheng took it casually, and when he looked inside with his spiritual mind, he couldn't help but reveal a bit of surprise.

The ancestors of the Zhao family's Nascent Soul are really very down-to-earth and generous in their actions. Five of them directly gave a top-quality spirit stone. Although the remaining gifts were different, such as magic weapon-level charm puppets, large magic boats, spiritual mine land deeds, etc., their value was the same as a top-quality spirit stone. Stones up and down.

It can be said that the value of these gifts alone is several times richer than Zhao Sheng's net worth.

This shows how arrogant and arrogant Zhao’s Yuanying is!

Later, Zhao Sheng put the storage bag into his arms, and then ordered the young man in green robe to step back.

Not long after, others came to the peach tree. With a wave of their hands, a ray of Dharma light instantly sank into the trunk of the tree and disappeared.

After a while, a layer of emerald light suddenly appeared on one of the trunks of the flat peach tree. After a period of distortion and blur, a fat old man with a ruddy complexion and full of good fortune suddenly emerged from the tree.

"Old Sixteen, I'm sleeping soundly, why did you wake me up?" The fat old man complained hurriedly as soon as he appeared.

Zhao Sheng said with a smile: "Second Ancestor, I have to go out to the mountain. The secret palace cannot be left unattended, so I have to wake you up. Please forgive me."

When the fat old man heard this, he looked strange and said: "I see, has your kid changed his mind?"

"No, I just need to go to the family Taoist library to read some books." Zhao Sheng answered truthfully.

This fat old man's name is Zhao Qingbi, and he is the only remaining elder of the Zhao family with the surname Qing.

But back then, Zhao Sheng was so powerful that he overpowered all his peers, so he was not very familiar with his peers.

After he left forever, Zhao Qingbi suddenly stood out from the clan and eventually became the second Yuan Ying ancestor of the Zhao family.

Therefore, Zhao Qingbi is highly respected in the Zhao family in Nantian. Although his strength is not as good as that of Zhao Changdu in the late Yuanying period, his status is second only to his ancestor Zhao Xuanjing, so he is honored as the second ancestor.

The third ancestor was reduced to Zhao Changdu.

As for why Zhao Sheng is the sixteenth ancestor instead of the fourteenth ancestor, the reason is very simple.

Because there are still two Yuan Yings of the Zhao family, Zhao Haikui and Zhao Youxuan, lurking in the Netherworld.

These two people are from the Zhao family's Anbu and are rarely known to outsiders.

well!

The fat old man sighed, waved his hand and said: "Go, go! Without you, the old man can't sleep anymore. You know, one sleep is worth three years. The old man still wants to live for another eighteen hundred years."

Zhao Sheng smiled but did not answer.

This old boy looks harmless, but his hands are actually full of blood. After all, he is a strong man who came out of the war between the two worlds, so he is indispensable for being ruthless.

Furthermore, just listen to Zhao Qingbi's words. Anyone who believes everything is a fool.

Zhao Sheng knew very well that the secret mansion was always under the surveillance of the old boy inside and outside.

What he meant by "sleeping" actually meant that the spirit of the soul was integrated into the ancient flat peach tree. The purpose was not only to monitor the secret palace, but more importantly, to use the spiritual peach tree to gain enlightenment.

There are countless paths to the soul, and Zhao Qingbi's use of ancient spiritual roots to understand the Muxing Avenue can be regarded as a completely new path.

Although the success rate is not high, there is some hope.

What's even more amazing is that even if he fails, he can still integrate his soul into the heart of the spiritual tree and maintain his sanity, thereby "extending his life" for thousands of years.

A few days ago, when Zhao Sheng noticed Zhao Qingbi's thoughts, he couldn't help but admire this person's imagination. He really dared to think and do it!