Chapter 17: The Secret of the Desolate Expanse (1)
"Swords are the leader of all weapons! Since the Honghuang era passed, the Qingyun continent has gone through nearly 100,000 years of cultivation. Other types of weapons that were not suitable for cultivation have gradually disappeared in the long river of history. There must be gains and losses! Although we lost the splendor and diversity of hundreds of weapons, we have refined the sword-making techniques, swordsmanship, and sword secrets to perfection! In short, now most cultivators' weapons are almost all swords. Only some auxiliary spiritual instruments will occasionally appear with other types of weapons."
"In the early days, the foundation of swordsmanship was only nine simple techniques: shock, shake, chop, hang, collapse, sweep, lead, entwine and stick. However, after nearly 100,000 years of continuous exploration and research, in this era where everyone cultivates the Tao, swordsmanship has become a simplified version of the cultivator's sword mantra. As long as one's cultivation is high enough, almost anyone can use their practiced sword techniques to cultivate higher-level sword mantras!"
"Although I haven't found a suitable qigong method for you to cultivate based on your five-element body type, I have also searched through many historical classics in the inner library. One of these classics records that the power of the five elements is the foundation of heaven and earth. The rotation of the five elements gives birth to endless life. In my understanding, as long as one's body has all five elements, they can cultivate all five elements together, establish the foundation of heaven and earth, rotate the five elements, and achieve the effect of endless birth. However, without a corresponding connected qigong method, this is very difficult to accomplish. But if we add the characteristic of the transformed element type from your cultivation of the 'Swallowing Heaven Golden Body Method', then there will be a platform."
According to another ancient book, the Honghuang era had five-element kung fu, and it should be said that there was any kind of heavenly kung fu! At that time, cultivators called themselves divine communicators. The human tribe fought against the demon tribe for territory, and countless powerful divine communicators fought continuously with the demon tribe. In the final battle, they even turned the Honghuang world into two boundless continents. The two continents were separated by countless spatial fractures. One of them had thin spiritual energy and became the current cultivation world, also known as Qingyun Continent. The other one had dense spiritual energy and transformed into the Xianling Realm, also known as the Xianyao Continent.
"It's strange that since the ancient world was first divided, some powerful techniques and methods also disappeared. Even those surviving divine beings and great demons disappeared. It can be said that a major break occurred in the cultivation of human beings. Later generations, based on the remaining traces left by the divine beings, after long research and exploration, slowly evolved a path of cultivation based on the Heavenly Path. This path of cultivation is centered around humans, first developing oneself, then contacting the laws, understanding one of the three thousand great paths, and finally transforming into an immortal body through thunder tribulation, and ascending to the Immortal Realm."
"In summary, what I want to say is that although the Qingyun Continent does not have a five-element cultivation method now, since the path of cultivating the Tao is based on developing human potential to its limits, you can use the 'Swallowing Heaven Golden Body Technique' to reach this standard. Then, utilizing the characteristics of the Five Elements, transform the True Qi of All Spirits in your body into evenly distributed Five Element powers. Based on the power of the Five Elements and the foundation of heaven and earth, the Five Elements circulate, giving birth to each other endlessly. These four sentences contain the meaning of understanding the principles and contemplating the Great Tao!"
