frightfiction #564 - Seven-day pass
#564 - Seven-day pass
Chapter 561: Passing the Test in Seven Days
Faced with Zhang Shi's probing, Zhang Chen hesitated slightly before shaking his head in rejection: "No good! If we actively try to curry favor, it would seem like we're pushing ourselves onto them. We're going to Jiangnan to recognize relatives. If we can recognize them, naturally that's good. If we can't, then we can part ways amicably, and avoid giving people the impression that we're trying to take advantage of them."
To be honest, if it weren't for the news about his mother and father, and the fact that his mother had left something for him, he wouldn't necessarily feel that recognizing these relatives was a must.
He just wanted to find a quiet place to develop in peace. As long as he had time, he could easily step into the twelfth rank.
Before that, he didn't want to cause trouble, nor did he want to be noticed. He had enough ability to ensure that his mother and younger sister lived well, even without relying on anyone.
Hearing this, Zhang Shi didn't try to persuade him further. Now, all the major and minor affairs in the family were decided by Zhang Chen. Since Zhang Chen had made a decision, she would naturally comply.
However, what Zhang Chen didn't expect was that even though he didn't want to have any involvement with Jiangnan, the development of events was beyond his control.
Two months later, Zhang Chen was sitting in front of the mast, holding a fishing rod and fishing. Zhang Fei and Zhang Tuowei beside him were also holding fishing rods with excitement, constantly swishing them in the water.
Zhang Chen wore a bamboo hat to shield himself from the scorching sun in the sky. As they got closer and closer to Jiangnan, the sun in the sky became more and more scorching. Zhang Chen only felt that the air was extremely dry and hot, with an indescribable sense of heat that made him somewhat irritable.
Zhang Tuowei and Zhang Fei were sitting next to Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen glanced at Zhang Fei and felt that this little fatty had gained a lot of weight, so he asked, "How is your martial arts cultivation going?"
Hearing this, Zhang Fei's expression changed. He glanced at Zhang Chen quietly, and then said in a low voice: "Big brother, I have a question in my heart that I don't understand."
"What is your question?" Zhang Chen asked.
"No matter how diligently we practice martial arts, even if we reach the highest level, that's all there is to it. If we want to see the Divine Unbreaking and ignite our Qi and blood, without thirty to fifty years of hard work, I'm afraid there's no hope at all. Our bloodline power can easily grant us strength. As we age, our strength will become stronger and stronger, especially since we have obtained the Visualization Technique. The Visualization Technique is the Great Dao, possessing infinite potential. Why bother cultivating martial arts? If we use the time to temper our bodies, I can prove the Yang God in thirty to fifty years. Even if I can't, I'll at least achieve Yin God Immortality. Why bother practicing martial arts and suffering that hardship!" Zhang Fei couldn't bear the hardship of martial arts. Extracting five or six hours every day to practice martial arts was not easy to endure.
It's already extremely difficult for a normal person to persist in daily exercise, let alone asking someone to practice martial arts for five or six hours every day?
In addition, after getting on the boat, the food wasn't good, and the little fatty began to feel lazy.
Hearing this, Zhang Chen glanced at the slightly bloated fat on the little fatty's body, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: Good家伙！ No wonder he gains weight even when eating cornbread every day. It turns out he's been slacking off.
Zhang Chen glanced at the little fatty without saying anything, but turned his head to look at Zhang Tuowei. There was also a little bit of baby fat on the other party's fair little face, obviously this girl had also been slacking off. So Zhang Chen asked without any emotion in his voice: "Do you also think so?"
Zhang Tuowei scratched his head: "Big brother, physical cultivation is too slow to take effect, it's simply not worth us wasting time. Using the time to practice martial arts, we should cultivate the Yin God method, that's the most cost-effective. Ten years of martial arts practice is no match for one or two years of Divine Soul Dao. What's the use of martial arts cultivation? Moreover, we also have the power of bloodline. Cultivating the Yin God method can promote the development of the power of bloodline. It's most cost-effective for us to specialize in the Yin God method. Moreover, when we reach the realm of seizing bodies, we can just exchange for a powerful body. Wouldn't that save us countless hard work? Letting others help us practice martial arts, that's the real bargain. Others practice martial arts while we refine the Yin God. When the Yin God is strong enough, we can directly snatch other people's bodies. That's the right path."
Hearing the words of the two little ones, Zhang Chen frowned and his voice was filled with seriousness: "Nonsense! You've only just begun to cultivate, what do you know? Although the Yin God method can seize bodies and replace bodies, how can other people's bodies be better than your own bodies? It involves Qi and blood harmony, and there are physical imprints, with all kinds of drawbacks, which are extremely troublesome. Your ideas are absolutely unacceptable!"
At this time, there was a trace of anger in Zhang Chen's voice: "You've only just started cultivating, and you're already preparing to take shortcuts. It's simply outrageous. Martial arts cultivation is the most important key. No matter how strong your bloodline divine power is, no matter how powerful your methods are, you will eventually have evenly matched opponents. When the time comes, no one will be able to do anything to the other, and your physical body will be your weakness. People practice martial arts, but you don't practice martial arts. When the time comes, if they want to compete with you in physical strength, what will you do?"
"Big brother, our Zhang family is born with the ability to master the power of the soul, the situation you mentioned won't happen. I've already thought about it. As the Divine Soul improves, the power of bloodline will also increase. The power of bloodline and the Yin God method are superimposed, we are invincible among our peers. Who can be our opponent? Who can compete with us in physical strength?" Zhang Fei retorted Zhang Chen's words.
Hearing Zhang Fei's words, Zhang Chen, who was already feeling irritable due to the hot weather, was truly adding fuel to the fire. There was anger in his heart: "Nonsense! There are thousands of methods in this world. Even I dare not say that I am invincible in the same rank now. How dare you say that you are invincible in the same rank?"
"What you said is just a minority situation. Where are there so many invincible and difficult characters in this world?" Zhang Fei muttered, his little face full of disapproval: "Besides, I can also plunder other people's souls to protect myself. How can I be so unlucky?"
"How many days have you cultivated? How many strong people have you seen, and how much knowledge do you have, to dare to say that you are invincible in the same rank?"
While speaking, Zhang Chen slammed the fishing rod in his hand on the deck: "Could it be that your wings have hardened, and you don't even listen to my words anymore? Now you have your own ideas, and I can't even control you anymore?"
At this time, it was noon, when the sun was at its highest point. As his heart became angry, it seemed to trigger a strange Qi mechanism from the outside world. Zhang Chen's body suddenly trembled, and his three souls and seven spirits underwent some unknown changes. An indescribable Qi mechanism rose in his body.
The third realm of Qi Refining Technique has three levels: Advancing and Retreating Yin Talisman, Civil and Military Fire Tempering, and Condensing the Primordial Spirit.
However, there are two barriers to condensing the Primordial Spirit. Of course, these barriers are not cultivation realms, but nodes that need attention.
The first node is Returning Elixir Enlightenment.
After the Qi Refiner refines the Jade Liquid Returning Elixir, he begins to temper and nurture the three souls and seven spirits, so that the three souls and seven spirits aggregate and transform, and nurture according to a certain pattern. The process is like fetal development, and the Jade Liquid is like fetal nutrition, the body is like the placenta, and the three souls and seven spirits are like the embryo in the placenta. In this process, they are continuously tempered by advancing and retreating Yin Talisman and civil and military fire tempering, so that the three souls and seven spirits undergo mysterious changes.
After the 'placenta' is nurtured, it still needs Returning Elixir Enlightenment, otherwise the nurtured 'placenta' is a stillbirth, and what is nurtured is a lump of dead flesh, which is of no use at all. Only after the key enlightenment can the 'dead flesh' come alive, causing the Primordial Spirit to undergo qualitative changes.
This is the first key to condensing the Primordial Spirit.
The second key is Passing the Test in Seven Days.
What is Passing the Test in Seven Days?
Although the Primordial Spirit has been ignited and 'lived', undergoing qualitative changes, its consciousness is blank, it is a blank slate. What Zhang Chen has to do is to infuse his own thinking and consciousness into the Primordial Spirit, so that consciousness and the Primordial Spirit are combined. This process takes seven days. Within seven days, the body and consciousness are combined, and the entire body loses all perception of the outside world, just like it is dead.
The body dies, the Primordial Spirit lives, transforming into a state of living dead. Thinking is extinguished and there is no thought, so that it can be in harmony with the Tao and complete the integration of consciousness and the Primordial Spirit.
In the past, Li Xuan, one of the Eight Immortals of the Upper Cave, transformed into a living dead because of Passing the Test in Seven Days, and then his body was burned by his disciple, and finally transformed into Iron Crutch Li.
Although the third realm has three barriers: Advancing and Retreating Yin Talisman, Civil and Military Fire Tempering, and Condensing the Primordial Spirit, the three barriers can be cultivated together.
Since the Blood Sea Great Dao descended into the world, it seems to have received a blessing in the dark. His cultivation progress has been rapid. From the occurrence of the Blood Sea phenomenon to the present, in just two months, Zhang Chen's Primordial Spirit nurturing has been completed. Today, his Primordial Spirit embryo has been completed, and naturally it is attracted to a point of True Yang in the dark consciousness, just like two magnets. Zhang Chen's Primordial Spirit is a Yin magnet, and Zhang Chen's point of True Yang is a Yang magnet. Then, Yin and Yang emit a huge attraction. Before Zhang Chen could react, that point of True Yang had automatically fallen from his consciousness into the Primordial Spirit. Then, his Primordial Spirit was nourished by that True Yang, like a finishing touch, and his entire Yang God completely came alive.
As mentioned earlier, Zhang Chen cultivates the Advancing and Retreating Yin Talisman, Civil and Military Fire Tempering, and Condensing the Primordial Spirit of the third realm together. The Returning Elixir Enlightenment and Passing the Test in Seven Days also occur at the same time. Since the Returning Elixir Enlightenment has already begun, Passing the Test in Seven Days will naturally begin, otherwise, if he misses the opportunity, the Primordial Spirit will not be infused with consciousness and will turn into an idiot.
Zhang Chen couldn't react at all. Zhang Chen only felt a buzzing sound in his head. Before he could react, everything in front of him turned black. His eyes looked at Zhang Tuowei, trying hard to say something, but he couldn't say it. The next moment, the whole person fell directly to the ground, his body quickly cooled down, his breath was cut off, and his heart stopped beating, completely transforming into a living dead state, no different from a dead person.
Zhang Chen is a wild road cultivator, and he doesn't have a master to guide him. How could he know that all of this would happen so suddenly? He just wanted to temporarily instruct the two, but it was too late. Before fainting, Zhang Chen only had one thought in his mind: "Could it be that I, like Li Xuan, will have my body refined away?"