Taichu Yandao: Starting from the Villain

"I am not as ambitious as Daoist Brother Zhao." Qian Xiaoyi felt ashamed of himself and thought, "Throughout the ages, there have been countless cultivators who died of old age at the peak of Qi training. You may not believe in fate, but you still have to believe in it." He sighed and said,

"Since you have made up your mind, there is no point in me saying more. However, there is one thing I still want to remind you of. The Five Elements Return to Origin Art should only be a fragment, or the person who created it has only explored it to the Foundation Establishment Stage."

Zhao Rui looked towards the endless sea and said, "This senior can break through the shackles and walk his own path, so why can't I?"

He spoke slowly and calmly, and I don't know if it was a coincidence, but both the red magma side and the sea water side suddenly became turbulent.

“Besides this method, is there any other way to quickly improve combat power? Even if you break through the foundation-building stage, it will take a long time to consolidate your realm.” Zhao Rui added.

Qian Xiaoyi fell silent. He never knew that Zhao Rui had such ambitions.

Isn’t the purpose of practicing cultivation to achieve immortality?

Why take a harder path when there is an easier one?

What's more, we are just small cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage. Shouldn't this be a problem that only those powerful ones need to think about?

Qian Xiaoyi was puzzled, but he didn't say it out loud. He just said, "You have such great ambitions, and your achievements in the future will be limitless. I am a humble person, but I am willing to be your protector. If you need anything, just let me know."

Zhao Rui said: "Everything is ready, but I need your Heavenly Fire Scripture to look at it."

Qian Xiaoyi took out the scripture without hesitation and said, "Okay, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have seen this technique again. Take it."

"This is your master's technique. I will return it to you after I have read it."

Qian Xiaoyi did not respond, but asked: "Where do you plan to practice, fellow Taoist?"

"You mean, it's not safe here?" Zhao Rui frowned.

"Based on the way that senior died, the steel-toothed octopus was not unable to come ashore. It was most likely a sneak attack that caused the senior to be poisoned and die. Among the two of us, only you can fight the leader of the steel-toothed octopus. If the other party sneak attacks at the critical moment of training, it will be terrible."

Zhao Rui nodded repeatedly, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "What do you think of the wooden house just now? It's open on all sides and far enough from the coastline."

"That's what I was thinking. It's a perfect place to set up a formation."

"Okay, let's go to the cabin now."

About half an hour later, in front of the wooden house.

After Qian Xiaoyi finished drawing the last formation diagram, he stuck the Tai Chi sword into the ground and said, "Leave everything to me. Just practice with peace of mind."

Zhao Rui clasped his fists and bowed, saying, "Then I'll have to trouble you, fellow Daoist. If the steel-toothed octopus really attacks, you can just give us a warning early."

"Don't worry, Brother Zhao. I value my life very much and want to leave here alive."

Zhao Rui didn't say anything else and turned to enter the wooden house. He did not choose the wooden bed, but sat on the ground in the middle of the wooden house.

Then, he flipped his hand and took out a bag of spirit stones and two manuals, one red and one blue.

Although "The Secret of the Five Elements Returning to the Origin" has the momentum to swallow up all the laws of nature, the jade slip does not mention any specific method of cultivation. It is more like a general outline of the exercises, which only talks about the ideas but not the details.

Zhao Rui opened the red "Heavenly Fire Sutra" and began to read it carefully. He had actually read this book a long time ago, but he had only used it for reference before and had not truly mastered it.

An hour later.

Zhao Rui no longer had any questions about the "Heavenly Fire Sutra". He immediately picked up a spirit stone and began to practice fire-attributed magic power.

Pure spiritual energy was drawn from the spirit stone, flowing along the meridians and rushing to the limbs and bones.

At first, Zhao Rui felt numb and itchy all over, but he gritted his teeth and persisted, forcing himself to follow the circulation of the Heavenly Fire Sutra.

A quarter of an hour later, the spiritual energy suddenly dissipated, like warm sunshine, making Zhao Rui feel extremely comfortable all over.

“No wonder the sect’s elite disciples can successfully build their foundations in their teens!” Zhao Rui marveled at the efficacy of the spirit stone.

Everything was going smoothly, but when the Great Circulation was halfway through, the fire-attributed magic power that had just gathered suddenly disappeared into thin air.

Zhao Rui frowned and looked inward, discovering that the culprit was actually his golden magic power.

The golden magic power was like a surging river, directly merging the stream into itself as it flowed.

According to the "Secret of the Five Elements Return to the Origin", the human body evolved from the great way of heaven and earth. The five elements' spiritual roots are actually the manifestation of the five elements' great way in the human body. Each spiritual root has its own unique nature.

The cultivators of other sects only need to cultivate a single spiritual root, so there is no need to distinguish the nature of the spiritual root. However, the cultivators who practice the Five Elements Return to Origin Technique have to face this problem.

The jade slip clearly states that as long as one understands the nature of different spiritual roots, the five elements of magic power will be able to operate peacefully without interfering with each other.

The principle is not difficult, but when it comes to practicing, Zhao Rui finds that it is not that simple. He tries to control magic power with his spiritual consciousness, but always ends in failure.

The fire attribute magic power would only go through three quarters of a cycle before being completely devoured by the gold attribute magic power, and the difficulty would increase as time went on.

With his current spiritual power, he is totally unable to complete the entire cycle.

"If we go on like this, there will be no result!" Zhao Rui put down the spirit stone in his hand, and pointed his finger into a sword, pointing towards the sky.

With sword moves everywhere, the flying sword behind him broke through the roof directly and soared in the sky like a dragon.

Outside the house, Qian Xiaoyi was confused and immediately asked in a voice transmission: "Daoyou Zhao, is everything okay?"

"I am trying out a technique and must first exhaust my gold-attribute magic power. I will be relying on you during this period of time," said Zhao Rui.

"I've made sure to warn everyone within a ten-mile radius. If all else fails, we should just run upwards. As long as they can't fly, they can't do anything to us."

A quarter of an hour later.

The golden magic power in Zhao Rui's body was running out of energy, so he tried to circulate the Qi around him again according to the practice route of the Heavenly Fire Sutra.

This time, the gathered fire-attributed magic power successfully broke through the three-quarters limit and moved towards a complete great circulation.

However, before Zhao Rui could be happy, a stream of golden magic power whizzed past and instantly swallowed up the stream of fire magic power.

"What's going on?" Zhao Rui looked inward and had to accept a cruel fact. In this short period of time, the gold attribute magic power in his body had recovered a lot, and its strength was far greater than the fire attribute magic power that he had carefully nurtured.

For ninety years, he has been practicing the Tianqing School's skills in his body, which have long since become muscle memory. Even if he doesn't do it intentionally, his body is constantly absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to replenish the golden magic power in his body.

"I can't just let all my cultivation disappear!" Zhao Rui was depressed for a while, then thought: "No matter what, after the gold attribute magic power is exhausted, there is some progress. I will try it again and see."

Zhao Rui closed his eyes and tried to condense the fire attribute magic power again.

This time, his attention was not entirely focused on the fire attribute magic power, but he diverted part of his mind to try to control the gold attribute magic power and slow down its speed.

Zhao Rui didn't know what the result would be, but with no one to ask for advice, he could only use this stupid method of trial and error.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Rui clenched his teeth, his face was distorted to the extreme, and the sea of ​​consciousness in his body kept trembling, but he could hardly squeeze out a trace of spiritual power.

His eyes gradually became blurry and he nearly fainted several times. He kept repeating in his mind, "Hold on, hold on, it's almost done!"

Suddenly, a mysterious feeling came over him, which was hard to describe or explain. It was as if his mother held him in front of the fire when he was a child, or as if he was playing with his playmates in his childhood and was accidentally burned by a torch.

Warmth, light, violence, destruction, at that moment, he understood that this was fire.

“It’s done!” Within Zhao Rui’s body, two forces of magic power moved one after the other, running through the Great Circulation like a cat and a mouse.

After careful feeling, he discovered that the two magical powers were running at an incredibly fast speed, far above the state of great perfection.

“This seems to be different from the Five Elements Return to Origin Technique!” Zhao Rui frowned. Making mistakes in the practice is a big taboo in practice. At the very least, one may go astray, or even die.

He did not dare to be careless, so he hurriedly took out the jade slip and read it carefully again.

Soon, he found the original text. The description of the initial stage of the technique in the jade slip clearly stated: "The nature of Taoism does not affect each other, and the power of magic advances in parallel."

Zhao Rui frowned even deeper and hurriedly stopped practicing his skills, not daring to absorb any more spiritual energy.

Half an hour later.

A warm feeling rushed out from Dantian, instantly flowing through the limbs and bones, and rushing straight to the fontanel.

"My life is over!" Zhao Rui broke out in a cold sweat.

However, the next moment, there was no situation of going crazy, only a foul smell floating in the air.

Zhao Rui's nostrils twitched slightly and he discovered that the stench was actually coming from himself.

He stretched out his hand, touched his arm, and rubbed out sticky black mud.

He had experienced this situation before. That was the effect of cleansing the meridians and marrow when breaking through a small realm. It meant that this body was purer and more in line with the needs of cultivation.

"Could it be that by chance, I found another way?"