Longevity and Immortal Cultivation: Starting from Controlling Your Own Essence

"So, my previous guess was wrong..."

Zhang Yao's face showed a thoughtful expression.

Over the past few days, in addition to comprehending the basic formations, he has been pondering the profound meaning of the "Wanhuadu Tianzhen Sutra", and gradually gained a deeper understanding.

He once thought that the "Wanhua Dutian Zhenjing" should come from the ancient times of the world of cultivating immortals more than 10,000 years ago.

After all, only before the great shattering of the ancient times, the five spiritual roots are the "perfect spiritual roots", and are qualified to allow the senior sages to create suitable top-level exercises.

But now, he overturned this idea.

"The Great Formation of the Five Elements has only two effects—increasing the speed of cultivation and increasing the total amount of mana."

But the spiritual root has a limit, and the speed of breathing and breathing cannot be increased infinitely.

What's more, in ancient times, the cultivation speed of Wulinggen was still higher than that of Tianlinggen. Let alone relying on the spirit-gathering array, even soaking in the spiritual liquid pool every day, the cultivation efficiency could not be increased by five times.

"So, the effect of the Five Elements Yunling Formation obviously comes from the thinking after the Great Destruction of the ancient times, and it is incompatible with before the ancient times..."

The real function of the Five Elements Yunling Formation seems to be to make up for some congenital defects of the five spirit roots after ancient times, so that it can achieve five times the speed of cultivation in today's era.

This is enough to show that the predecessors and sages who created the "Wanhuadu Tianzheng" lived in the era after ancient times.

"It seems that there may be a complicated story hidden behind this top-level exercise book..."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yao smiled lightly, and didn't pay too much attention to it, continuing to immerse himself in the comprehension of the formation.

Time passed by little by little.

…………

ten years later.

In the depths of Panlong Ridge.

Standing in front of a mountain wall, Zhang Yao's invisible mana surged like a sharp knife.

The mountain wall in front of him is covered with dense and complex spirit veins, forming a special formation based on five directions.

"Wow..."

With a wave of Zhang Yao's sleeve, the surface rock of the mountain wall shattered and disintegrated into gravel and dust, which drifted with the wind.

"I have tried thousands of times, and I have almost turned the method of constructing and inscribing the 'Five Elements Yunling Formation' into instinct."

He took a deep breath, his gaze firm:

"It's time, it's time to officially abolish and rebuild!"

Zhang Yao turned and left, returned to the cabin, and sat cross-legged on the bed.

He calmed down, operated the method, and dissipated his mana little by little.

The third floor of Qi refining, the second floor of Qi refining, the first floor of Qi refining...

After half an hour.

All of Zhang Yao's magic power has been wiped out, and he has turned from a practitioner of the fourth level of Qi refining to a mortal.

He slowly opened his eyes, exhaled a foul breath, and expressed emotion:

"A hundred years of hard work will be nothing."

"But for the new future, it's all worth it."

Although his magic power is gone, the realm from hard work is still there. The Qi veins that have been opened up do not need to be opened up again, and the bottleneck does not need to be broken through again.

As long as the "Five Elements Yunling Formation" can be successfully constructed and the "Wanhua Dutian Zhenjing" can be formally introduced, the reconstruction will be very fast.

besides:

The effects of the aura of heaven and earth flushing the body and strengthening the body for a hundred years have also been preserved.

If coupled with his martial art that has already been cultivated to the extreme in the world, he is even comparable to the Foundation Establishment cultivator after washing the marrow and cutting the veins only in terms of physical strength.

"Buzz!"

When the thoughts are together, the Lingtai is empty and bright, and the sense of energy is regenerated.

Zhang Yao absorbed the earth-attribute aura around his body, operated the method, and slowly guided the aura into his body, converging in his spleen.

The five elements of the spleen belong to the soil, which is the foundation of the postnatal day. It mainly transports and transforms the essence of water and grain, enriches qi, blood and body fluid, and fits the thick and boundless aura of the earth attribute.

"rise!"

Zhang Yao didn't dare to be negligent, and immediately used his mind as a knife and spirit energy as a blade, and began to engrave spirit patterns on his spleen.

The five-element spirit formation is an extremely simplified and compressed formation. Each spirit pattern is hundreds of times smaller than the normal state, so it can be carried by the five internal organs.

To use such a tiny spirit pattern to construct a complete formation is no less difficult than carving a thousand-character article on a grain of rice, requiring extremely fine sensing and manipulation.

"call……"

Zhang Yao was breathing heavily, and there were faint pulsating veins on his forehead.

The five internal organs are naturally delicate and sensitive. Under the erosion of the heaven and earth spirit, the flesh and blood tissue is peeled off and separated little by little, and the degree of pain can be imagined.

But Zhang Yao didn't say a word, and forcibly endured it, without any wavering in his expression.

After a quarter of an hour:

Benefiting from the fact that the strength of the five internal organs is comparable to that of building a foundation, and can withstand a large amount of spiritual erosion, Zhang Yao's progress is very fast, and he has engraved a small half of the spirit veins corresponding to the spleen.

But at this moment——

A slight peristalsis of the spleen, and the slight fluctuation of the blood, caused the aura to lose control and suddenly went into a riot.

After a few breaths, the sharp pain from the spleen slowly subsided, and the spirit pattern array that had been successfully inscribed had basically dissipated.

"It's too difficult, the first attempt really failed..."

Zhang Yao shook his head, but he didn't look too disappointed.

The human body is a whole, and the internal organs, flesh, muscles and bones interact with each other, and any slight fluctuation will cause the inscription of the spirit pattern to fail.

Zhang Yao had already prepared for this.

If he can succeed after a few or a dozen simple attempts, then his estimated time is not twenty years, but only ten years.

He sat cross-legged, with no ripples in his heart, groaning silently, reflecting on the experience of his first failure.

With his martial arts realm, he can even control the growth of nails, hair fall, and the closure of pores. It stands to reason that there should never be uncontrollable qi and blood fluctuations, which would lead to the failure of the inscription.

"Um……"

Zhang Yao pondered for a moment, and gradually figured out the reason:

"Most likely, it's the effect of spiritual energy on the erosion of the spleen, which is beyond my control."

"At this point, I don't have relevant experience, so I can only explore step by step and try to solve it slowly..."

In Zhang Yao's mind, he was already prepared to try hundreds or thousands of times.

The aptitude of Wulinggen has inherent defects in today's era. If you want to be on an equal footing with Tianlinggen and Yilinggen, this is the price you have to pay.

Including the pain of engraving spirit lines on the five internal organs, you can't try to block it, because the pain sense is the most sensitive among the touch senses. Once blocked, the induction force will decrease, which will increase the chance of failure.

After a while, Zhang Yao swallowed a bigu pill to make up for the exhaustion of energy, adjusted his breath for a while, and started the second attempt...

…………

In the blink of an eye, eight years have passed.

During the eight years, Zhang Yao lived a life completely isolated from the world by relying on the large amount of bigu elixir he had accumulated.

With the passage of time, Zhang Yao's success rate in constructing the "Five Elements Yunling Formation" has been rising all the way through failure after failure.

In the beginning, he couldn't even engrave the complete pulse on his spleen; later, he had a lot of failure experience in the last step of the heart pattern.

At noon that day, Zhang Yao sat cross-legged, skillfully drawing the vitality of the earth attribute into his spleen.

The excruciating pain in the past has long been used to it. It only took him half an hour to successfully complete the spirit veins on his spleen.

Immediately afterwards, the earth-type aura dissipated, and the metallic aura poured into the body, which was guided into the lungs by Zhang Yao with ease.

This is the "earth-born gold" of the five elements.

The lungs are the canopy of the five internal organs. They control the circulation of the breath and regulate the meridians. The lung qi's expansion and descending are in line with the spiritual qi of the metal movement, which is the second step in building the formation.

Half an hour later, the engraving of the spirit veins on the lungs was completed, and the spiritual energy was transformed into water, which was channeled into the kidneys.

The kidney is the foundation of the innate nature. It stores essence, absorbs qi, and harmonizes yin and yang. Among the five elements, it belongs to water and corresponds to the heart fire. This is the third step in building the formation.

Another half an hour passed.

After the inscription of the spirit pattern on the kidney is completed, the aura will turn into the wood attribute and flow into the liver.

The liver mainly stores blood and communicates with the spring energy. It is the most vigorous of the five internal organs. It is in line with the wood attribute aura of the five elements and belongs to the fourth step of building a formation.

This step is relatively complicated, but after spending an hour, it was still completed without any twists and turns. The whole process was smooth and smooth, obviously it was the experience gained from countless failures.

finally--

The aura of the five elements is transformed into the fire attribute, flows through the four major viscera, and flows into the heart.

The heart is the official of the monarch among the five internal organs. It controls the mind and controls the blood vessels. It ranks as the "lord of the five internal organs and six internal organs". It is the most important organ in the human body, juxtaposed with the brain and marrow.

The heart is the yang of yang, and it communicates with the summer qi. It is undoubtedly the vitality of heaven and earth that fits the fire attribute.

Earth produces gold, metal produces water, water produces wood, wood produces fire, and fire produces earth.

Only when the engraving of the spirit patterns on the heart is completed, can the five-element cycle be truly constructed, and since then it will be endless, and it will automatically become the core of the whole body's energy channels and aura breathing.

Zhang Yao's face was calm, and the sharp pain in his heart could no longer make him frown a little.

Under his meticulous manipulation, the heaven and earth aura of the fire attribute engraved densely packed tiny spirit patterns on the heart, forming a complete formation bit by bit.

Without a doubt, this is the most difficult step.

The heart is the source of qi and blood, a slight fluctuation will cause the whole body's qi and blood to be in disorder, not to mention engraving the spirit pattern on the heart.

The spirit pattern on the heart is the most complicated, and it needs to be the central master to connect the spirit patterns of the first four internal organs to form a complete formation.

Zhang Yao was stopped by this step for three years, and he failed countless times.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Under Zhang Yao's control, the heart beat smoothly and vigorously, ignoring the erosion of the fire attribute aura.

Two hours later, the aura of fire attribute flowed and converged, outlining the last touch of the spirit veins.

So far, the Five Elements Yunling Formation has finally been completed.

"Uh-huh?!"

Zhang Yao was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, showing a hint of surprise.

"It actually succeeded this time? So smooth?!"

His heart was immediately filled with joy, and there was a long-lost excitement and expectation.

Next moment:

"Buzz!"

The spirit patterns of the five internal organs are connected and nested with each other, instantly turning into a complete formation.

Zhang Yao's mind matched with it, and he operated the Xuangong method to capture the "sense of energy" again, and immediately felt a completely different treatment.

The spiritual energy of the five elements between the heaven and the earth, as if attracted by a huge magnet, swarmed in continuously, automatically merged into his body, and wandered through the energy veins.

The five-element aura takes the five internal organs as the center, and after traveling along the Qi meridian for a large circle, it began to quickly transform into mana, accumulating little to much, and hundreds of rivers converging.

Compared with the efficiency of the whole process when he practiced "Thick Soil Jue" for the first time, it can be said to be a world of difference!

"This speed is really amazing!"

Zhang Yao couldn't help holding his breath.

Even though he had expected it, he was still shocked at this moment.

After stepping into the Immortal Dao for more than a hundred years, he has always practiced with difficulty, and now he roughly feels how abnormal the cultivation efficiency of Tianlinggen and Yilinggen are!

Even if it is the same aura environment and the same exercises, someone else's one year of practice can be as good as yours for a few years.

If one enters a large sect to be cultivated intensively, and if there is no shortage of spiritual pill resources, and then cultivates a top-level kung fu method that matches the genus, then the gap between the two will be widened to an unimaginable level.

"call!"

Zhang Yao took a few deep breaths, and there was more emotion in his expression:

"After painstaking planning and several twists and turns, I finally stood on the same starting line as those heaven's favored ones."

"It's a long road to immortality, and today is the right path."

The upper limit of the "Thick Soil Jue" that he had practiced was too low, but it was just a springboard for him.

Today's "Wan Hua Du Tian Zhen Jing" refers directly to the Dao of Reaching Heaven through refining formations into the body, which is the way he really wants to practice.

Possessing the talent of immortality, and practicing top-level skills——

Zhang Yao has the confidence to finish this long fairy road and appreciate the charming scenery that is so high.

...

Time flies like water, and another nine years have passed.

In the land of the spiritual spring, in the log cabin.

"Buzz!"

The spiritual vortex of heaven and earth reappeared and poured down.

After half an hour.

Zhang Yao adjusted his breath, slowly opened his eyes, and exhaled a foul breath.

"Nine years of rebuilding, and finally returned to the fourth level of Qi Refining."

This speed, compared with his past 80 years of penance, can be described as a difference between cloud and mud.

This is still in the land of Lingquan, and the aura environment is poor. If it is replaced by Tiandu Mountain, it is estimated that it will only take six or seven years.

"When these batches of spiritual herbs are mature, you can leave."

"Take advantage of these last few months to practice those few high-level spells to further enhance your strength."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yao got up and left the cabin to take care of the Lingtian.