Chapter 53: Transformation (Part 2)

  It can't be helped, this is also a preparation for the twin sisters Huaxiang Yu and Jiangxue who are far away in Lingshan to pass through the tribulation.

  Waiting for the little fox to refine the tortoise treasure, everyone fell silent, and only Wang Jun asked: "Master, why is this yellow-haired little fox transforming, and you and Master Shu are so tense? Is transformation very dangerous?"

  Wang Jun's question also gave Xuan Kong a headache, and explaining it was actually quite troublesome. He could only explain from the beginning: "You have to know that during the Hong Huang era, Nüwa Saint took the heavenly way to create humans, using her own body as the foundation."

  "The sage's body is forged through a thousand refinements and verifications, and is the form that most conforms to the ultimate principle of heaven and earth."

  He silently operated the true yuan, wiping it on Wang Jun's eyes, letting him see inside his own body. Wang Jun exclaimed in surprise while listening to Master's explanation: The twenty-four vertebrae correspond to the twenty-four qi, and the twelve sections of the trachea are called the Twelve Heavy Towers.

  The navel is the ancestral palace, inside it is called Huangting, the heart is called Jianggong, the lungs are called Huagai, under the tongue is called Huachi, the sole of the foot is called Yongquan, one inch and three tenths below the navel is called Fengdu, the eighteen turns of the small intestine are like the eighteen prisons, the waterway is called Dihou, the foodway is called Youmen.

  The left teeth knock eight sounds as the golden bell, the right teeth knock eight sounds as the jade ladle, the front teeth knock eight sounds as the Dharma drum, three eights together twenty-four passages, to respond to the twenty-four Qi.

  Wang Qi involuntarily patted himself all over, biting his tongue as he said, "Ahh, so my body is this formidable? Then why couldn't I even defeat a weak little hundred-year-old demon?"

  Xuan Kong waved his hand and said, "The operation of the Heavenly Way is most fair, every drink and every bite are predetermined by cause and effect, what do you know?" He also said, "Think about it, this is a structure verified by the saints, in accordance with the creative way of heaven, earth, and the three realms. And apart from this, in ancient times, there were countless strange and bizarre life forms, not just billions."

  "They all saw the benefits of human form, so they worked hard to cultivate and transform their original bodies into human shape. But they didn't know that the saint's body was not easily obtained? The human tribe gave up all its innate potential and only then received the compensation of the Heavenly Way."

  Everything has its good points in this world.

  Never has there been a creature like humans, who cannot fly in the sky like birds, nor swim in water like fish. In terms of physical strength, they are not even among the top hundred beasts, and as for their vitality, they can't even compare to insects.

  Wang Qi interjected: "That's strange, Big Brother Shifu. You said that the human body is in harmony with the heavens, yet you also say that it's so weak - what do you mean?"

  Xuan Kong smiled and said, "From birth, you are already endowed with the pre-heavenly Dao body. You were born with a round head reaching for the sky and square feet treading on the earth, and you have five organs, six viscera, nine orifices, and four limbs. Compared to other creatures' cultivation, you've already saved countless cycles of hard work. What more do you want?"

  It is known that heaven and earth are just, there is a gain for every loss.

  Ordinary mountain and field animals, if they have the opportunity to open their spiritual wisdom, can spend decades of hard work to shed their shells; if they are in a more ferocious beast, with abundant original essence and blood, without hundreds or thousands of years of bitter cultivation, it is feared that it will be difficult to achieve true results.

  There are also some ancient gods of chaos who have achieved the Dao in a different way, but they are not within the scope of Xuan Kong's consideration. Those ancient beasts and celestial birds were born from the creation of heaven and earth.

  Everything has a great destiny in its body and can be born into the world. Every object is born with its own cause and effect.

  So it is not among these worldly five worms.

  "It's precisely because these foreign tribes are inherently powerful that transformation is even more difficult, but it's also precisely because transformation is more difficult that the abilities after transforming into human form are even stronger and the true yuan of their lives are even more robust." Xuan Kong rubbed the dragon bead hidden in his sleeve space, his eyes narrowing to a line.

  "He secretly smiled and said: 'I am indeed a traverser, able to accidentally cultivate this treasure with such shallow skills.'"

  His body was a human flesh, the easiest to cultivate, but after cultivation, it was still inferior to the gods of other tribes in terms of magical power. However, Xuan Kong had made a profit, he had merged with the Dragon Pearl of the Western Heaven's Eight Departments' Tianlong Guangli Bodhisattva to form his second yuan god when his cultivation had just entered the Scattered Immortal stage and had not yet experienced the Three Calamities.

  The yuan Shen is tied to a person's Fa Li, the ancient cultivators of Qi refined themselves, and only by refining their muscles and bones with their Ben Ming Zhen Yuan into a single piece of Hunyuan can they condense out the yuan Shen.

  Three Calamities are fierce and poisonous, but they are also the only way to promote this process, so some powerful people do not want to take action for their disciples to avoid this disaster and teach them the art of change to avoid danger.

  Xuán Kōng's luck lies in that his primordial spirit was not born in this world, but came from the previous life in another world where he broke through the void.

  So his body was originally a blank slate, with no concept of a "true self" or "original spirit". It just so happened that he obtained the power of the small white dragon and condensed it into a true dragon original spirit. With an original spirit, Xu Kong's vision on the path to cultivation naturally broadened as well.

  It's like having a map with a clear destination, all you need to do is follow your own preferences and choose a path to take.

  Compared with other cultivators, I don't know how much time is saved and how many detours are avoided.

  Xuan Kong's mind wandered off for a moment, and just as he was about to feel pleased with himself, he suddenly sensed a surge of True Yuan fluctuations emanating from the small fox's body. This transforming fluctuation was also one of the sources of negative spiritual energy in the Three Realms, and an important component of karma.

  Cultivators are people who defy heaven and earth. Every step forward they take means cutting off the last thread of life for countless other living beings.

  The ghosts wail and the wolves howl, heaven and earth are jealous.

  After a moment of contemplation, he shook his head and sighed. The Eight Great Kings' tortoise treasure had been circulating in the world for over a hundred years. The remaining true yuan inside was not much, and after Little Fox refined it, her magical power still didn't meet the five-hundred-year standard, triggering only the transformation tribulation and not the internal three disasters.

  There is a saying that people often say that 100 years of cultivation is equivalent to 1,000 years of Taoist practice. In fact, it doesn't necessarily mean that one person has to cultivate for a whole hundred or thousand years.

  It is a value used to measure a person's magical power, and the reference for this data is the severity of the three disasters.

  The first calamity of the three disasters is the heavenly punishment of thunder, which is the 500-year-old law. It can be avoided by longevity and immortality; after that, waiting for another 500 years of law, there will be a dark fire from the body's own spring hole, burning up through the mud wall palace, avoiding the cultivation of the yuan god, but unable to avoid the five internal organs turning to ash and the four limbs rotting, making thousands of years of bitter practice turn into an illusion.

  When there are another five hundred years of Dharma, there will be a calamity of evil wind, which blows into the six bowels from the fontanelle.

  If this calamity can be avoided, it will be considered a great achievement to become an immortal and live as long as heaven and earth. However, it is not necessarily required to cultivate for exactly 500 years. If that were the case, how would someone like Xuán Kōng, who has only cultivated for 20 short years, have the opportunity to pass through the heavenly thunder tribulation?

  Xuán Kōng himself had dodged heavenly thunder in the golden altar of Maoshan Huayang Heaven, so he knew about the fluctuations of heavenly thunder. What he sensed from the small fox's body was not that kind of feeling, but just ordinary five-element calamity thunder used to synthesize negative spiritual energy.

  Although he was somewhat disappointed that he didn't have the opportunity to test his new idea for an evasion technique, Xuan Kong's hands didn't slow down, and he secretly activated his technique in preparation to make a move. The Heaven's Thunder, one of the three disasters, was a manifestation of karma, and it transcended the Five Elements Thunder Law, so Xuan Kong could only think of a way to avoid it.

  But this simple transformation of thunder was still a trivial matter for Xuan Kong, who had received the ancient god's inheritance from the Congshan School.

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