Chapter 4: Opening the Divine Consciousness

Long Yu Baibu knew what to do, and in a panic, he activated the Tianyan Heart Technique, entering from the Shenting and passing it to the Dantian. As soon as the spiritual energy he inhaled collided with the flame, the purple flame was like encountering kerosene, and all the meridians in the body were burning. Long Yu felt that something was wrong, and he became more anxious and activated the Tianyan Heart Technique more quickly.

The purple flame seemed to have a temper, burning the spiritual energy more crazily, giving up other tendons and veins, and burning directly at the position of the divine palace. Long Yu was unwilling to continue absorbing spiritual energy, and rushed towards the purple flame.

Long Yu felt that his spiritual energy was becoming less and less reliable, and he could no longer suppress the flames. Suddenly, ten times the spiritual power joined Long Yu's team to extinguish the purple flames, and the purple flames burned as much as they absorbed.

Long Yu was guarding the Divine Palace and the purple flame, restraining each other and balancing each other, neither of them gave in. The two were like children, fighting each other. The purple flame kept burning, and Long Yu kept absorbing spiritual energy.

I don't know how long it took, but Long Yu just kept on doing it without getting tired. The purple flame seemed to be angry, burning Long Yu's spiritual energy fiercely. Long Yu's spiritual energy was retreating step by step, and the purple flame completely devoured Long Yu's spiritual energy. Long Yu watched the purple flame break through his soul, leaving a dark void, with only a tiny bit of purple flame left.

Long Yu unwillingly urged the spiritual energy, since it all became the nutrients of the purple flame. Long Yu was helpless, seeing that there was no hope of extinguishing the purple flame. Just as he was about to withdraw the spiritual energy, the purple flame kept shaking, as if in protest.

Long Yu despised such pretentious flames the most, and once again fought against the purple flames. Long Yu's spiritual energy was like a hair-like waterway rushing into a volcano, and it had no effect at all.

Long Yu's Tian Yan Xin Shu, which was originally sealed, suddenly seemed to be blown open by the wind. Long Yu read every line of Tian Yan Xin Shu. Although it was turned very quickly, Long Yu could barely keep up with the rhythm. The book said that there are many spiritual energy, spiritual energy crystals, which are filtered through the tendons and veins, and the unsuitable spiritual energy crystals are expelled from the body.

Long Yu looked at these and closed Tian Yan's mind. Long Yu no longer absorbed the spiritual energy all at once, but tried to extract the spiritual energy crystals. The spiritual energy crystals contained in the spiritual energy were too mixed. Long Yu tried one by one. Finally, after 13,000 times, the spiritual energy crystals that Long Yu extracted could resist the purple flame.

Long Yu raised his fighting spirit and challenged the purple flame again. Long Yu's spiritual energy crystals kept hitting the purple flames. The two fought fiercely, neither of them would give in. Every time the purple flame was hit, it would become a little bigger, and Long Yu would extract a little faster spiritual energy crystals.

Slowly, Long Yu's extraction speed was faster than the purple flame's growth speed. Long Yu's spiritual energy crystal expanded little by little, and the purple flame quietly waited for Long Yu to surround it. Long Yu's spiritual energy crystal fully surrounded the purple flame, and Long Yu attacked the purple flame again.

The purple flame was like a hard stone surrounded by cloth. No matter how you attack, you can't move the purple flame. Long Yu was not sure that the purple flame would not fight back, so he thickened his spiritual crystal to surround the purple flame to a small point, but he was still worried.

Long Yu looked at the purple beans that stayed in the aura crystal, still worried. When Long Yu was about to break the aura crystal, he looked at the purple flames that were constantly surrounding him and realized that he could practice. Long Yu opened his eyes with a puzzled look on his face, still unable to figure out why.

Long Yu was lost in thought as to why. His body moved involuntarily. His foot was painful, which brought him back to the present. Long Yu looked around and saw swords that were all glowing white. Long Yu watched as the swords kept gathering upwards and turned into one sword.

The sword just flew back to the old beggar's back. Long Yu looked at the many bottles and jars placed around the old beggar, scattered all over the floor. Long Yu walked behind the old beggar and saw a ball of purple flame on the old beggar's palm, which looked like it was surrounded by him.

Long Yu felt that the fire in his body was a smaller version of the old beggar. Long Yu remembered that it was this old beggar who had harmed him. He almost lost his divine palace. He didn't know where he got the courage from. He made a knife-like hand with his right hand and chopped at the back of the old beggar's head.

The old beggar stood up, grabbed Long Yu's wrist with his left hand, and stuffed a pill into Long Yu's mouth with his right hand. Long Yu pinched his throat with both hands, trying to stop the pill from entering his body. Long Yu didn't want to be killed again, and there were still many things to do.

After the pill entered Long Yu's throat, it turned into a cool gas and traveled through the tendons and veins in his body. Long Yu felt that his body had regained its vitality and was in good condition. Only his Dantian was missing, and everything else was fine.

Long Yu put down his hand and looked at the old beggar who was picking up bottles and cans. "Old man, you are an alchemist." The old beggar bent down calmly to pick up the bottles of alchemy on the road. "What's so strange about that? In this continent, alchemists, weapon forgers, rune masters, formation masters, and barrier masters basically all know one or two things. It's you who is really surprising. There was only one person who dared to be so crazy ten thousand years ago."

Long Yu looked at the old beggar in confusion, "How am I crazy? I just took a nap." The old beggar shook his head, "Just look at your consciousness and you will know that you are crazy."

Long Yu sat cross-legged on the ground and entered into meditation. The spiritual world appeared before his eyes, and he was stunned. In the black space, there was a layer of gas surrounding a purple bean. Looking closely, wasn't this the white dot of the spiritualist stage that the old man mentioned?

Long Yu looked at the old beggar with a puzzled look on his face. The old beggar also sat cross-legged in front of Long Yu. "Others use their spiritual power to open the gate of the Divine Court, but you use my Zi Li Fire to open the gate of the Divine Court. Others have white dots, but you have purple dots. Your spiritual consciousness has assimilated with the Zi Li Fire, and the Zi Li Fire has been subdued by you."

After listening to the old beggar's words, Long Yu finally understood that the Purple Fire had merged with his consciousness. Long Yu smiled awkwardly and looked at the old beggar with gratitude. If it weren't for the old beggar's help to suppress the Purple Fire, I'm afraid I would be a fool now.

The old beggar looked at Long Yu, as if he was teaching a younger generation. "Twelve hundred years ago, there was also a kid named Jian Chen. At that time, he was still called Fang Tu. He was even more miserable than you. I don't know who told him to draw the lightning into his body and turn it into Dantian. He took advantage of others' tribulation to draw the lightning into his Dantian."

Long Yu looked at the old beggar stroking his gray beard with a curious look on his face. "What happened to Jian Chen later? Was he successful?"

The old beggar looked at Long Yu with a very gratified look. "Jian Chen's dantian was split open, and all the tendons in his body were broken. Later, the person who passed the tribulation took Jian Chen as his apprentice and taught him to read and write. He taught him swordsmanship, making elixirs, forging divine swords, and formations. I didn't expect Jian Chen to be a demon cultivator who reached the Mahayana stage a hundred years ago. He should be training his soul now."

Long Yu was shocked when he heard this. "It took ten thousand cultivations to achieve great success, and this is calculated by a demon. Old man, you are not going to tell me that you are Jian Chen, are you?"

The old beggar shook his head and said, "I am the one who taught Jian Chen. I am Leng Tu."

Long Yu looked at the old beggar in disbelief, "Senior Leng Tu, there are several ways of cultivation in the world."

“There are countless kinds, roughly divided into cultivation of Taoism, cultivation of the soul, cultivation of the body, cultivation of Buddhism, cultivation of magic, and cultivation of gods like you.

The practice of Taoism requires Dantian, from foundation building, consecration, fusion, heartbeat, golden elixir, Nascent Soul, out-of-body experience, distraction, fusion, cave emptiness, Mahayana, and tribulation.

Soul cultivation is to cultivate the three souls and seven spirits, from spiritual movement, spiritual awakening, soul pill, heart refining, soul devouring, body condensation, spirit condensation, soul refining, body tempering, return to emptiness, Mahayana, and overcoming tribulation.

Body cultivation refers to the physical body, which very few people practice. It starts with training the skin, unblocking the meridians, opening the blood vessels, dredging the five internal organs, connecting the six bowels, strengthening the heart, producing blood, tempering the body, achieving great power, becoming a saint, Mahayana, and overcoming tribulations.

The main focus of Buddhist practice is the relics on the head, from: gathering origin, transcending the ordinary, original heart, scattered thoughts, clear heart, relics, moving soul, Taixu, Qingling, Tongxu, Mahayana, and transcending disasters.

Practicing magic and practicing Taoism both require Dantian, from gathering Yuan, transcending the ordinary, Yuanxin, scattered thoughts, clear mind, relics, moving soul, Taixu, Qingling, Tongxu, Mahayana, and transcending tribulation.

The main purpose of spiritual cultivation is to cultivate spiritual consciousness, from spiritual masters, spiritual masters, the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, to enlightenment, to opening the way, to knowing the time, knowing the land, knowing the sky, leaving the bones, leaving the body, leaving the heart, crossing the emotions, crossing the soul, crossing the spirit, Mahayana, and crossing the calamity.

Long Yu listened attentively, "Why isn't there any demon refining?" Leng Tu stood up and faced the cave entrance. "There are very few people who refine demons, but there are different levels of demons: gathering spirits, gaining wisdom, forging bodies, refining bones, demon pills, transforming, condensing souls, wandering spirits, tempering bodies, refining the void, Mahayana, and transcending tribulations."

Long Yu stood up and walked to Leng Tu's position. Looking at the dark sky outside, "What a weird atmosphere. Someone must have gone through a tribulation." "Yes, it's been a hundred years. Old friend, you can finally step on it."

Long Yu didn't understand what Leng Tu was talking about, and looked in the direction of Yao Dujie in the distance. "Old man Leng, do you know who is doing the tribulation?" Leng Tu turned around with a smile on his face, "It's the soul-cultivating snake."

Long Yu looked ahead in surprise, "It was fine just now, and now it can ascend, this is too fast." Leng Tu slapped Long Yu on the back of the head, "You have been in seclusion for a hundred years, and you are still talking about just now."

Long Yu looked at his body and saw that there was no change. Except for his graying hair and a little weathering of his clothes, everything else was normal. "What do you mean by a hundred years? Why can't I feel the change of time?"

Leng Tu smiled and patted Long Yu on the shoulder, "This road is still long, you will get used to it slowly." Long Yu pouted and cursed in his heart, "What the hell is this? Ordinary people only have a hundred years of birthdays, and I have accidentally lost a hundred years."

Long Yu looked at Leng Tu, who was squinting his eyes and looking ahead. Long Yu always felt that Leng Tu beside him should not be simple. This was a kind of self-awareness, or it might be that this reaction would only occur after opening his spiritual consciousness.