Chapter 81

Putting aside the matter of vying for supremacy in the world, Xiao Ran picked up the Longevity Sutra!

After his eyesight recovered, Kou Zhong and the others gave him the Longevity Sutra. With his perspective, the Longevity Sutra was not as abstruse and difficult to understand as it was for the people of this world!

He was originally very curious about the innate true qi of this world, because in Huang Da's novels, the settings regarding innate and acquired true qi were slightly different in various books!

Moreover, whether this world was exactly the same as the novels was still questionable!

When Xiao Ran read the book, he thought that the so-called innate realm was the ability to draw in the primordial energy of heaven and earth, which on the Ancient Continent was the realm of a Celestial Yuan Realm martial artist!

But according to the standards of the Ancient Continent's martial artists, even the innate true qi of supreme experts like Lang Fan Yun and Yan Fei was far from the true essence cultivated by Celestial Yuan Realm martial artists, unable to withstand a single strike from a Celestial Yuan Realm martial artist!

To tear through the void was no different from a dreamer's fantasy!

But after reading the Longevity Sutra, Xiao Ran finally had a rough understanding!

In the martial world created by Huang Da, the martial arts realms were divided into Essence Refinement to Qi, Qi Refinement to Spirit, Spirit Refinement to Void, and Void Refinement to Dao!

The martial artists of these worlds believed that essence was the root of life, existing before a person was conceived!

Essence Refinement to Qi was the process of combining the "essence" that existed innately with the conscious effort of the body after birth!

It was said that a fetus in the womb received nourishment and divine qi through the umbilical cord, which was the innate qi!

After a person was born and separated from the mother, they breathed and ate through their own mouth and nose, absorbing the acquired qi!

The innate qi was sealed within the Conception and Governor Vessels!

Therefore, infants had bright eyes, and as people aged, their eyes became more turbid!

It sounded mystical, and although Xiao Ran had not studied Daoist classics in depth, from the knowledge he had acquired in the Ancient Continent and Earth, the energy an infant received in the womb and the energy obtained after birth through breathing and eating only differed in the method of acquisition!

One was simple and direct, while the other was much more complex!

The eyes became turbid due to organ aging and the accumulation of toxins!

Combining the techniques of the Longevity Sutra, Xiao Ran believed that Essence Refinement to Qi was the process of converting the body's essence into true qi and purifying and condensing the true qi!

Innate true qi was ordinary true qi refined to remove impurities, becoming extremely pure and condensed, like the true qi he had cultivated!

Qi Refinement to Spirit was the cultivation of the spirit, at which point the spirit was no longer an intangible thing but could influence the performance and power of true qi, and had countless wondrous applications in combat!

On the Ancient Continent, this was the cultivation of the soul, making the spirit energy more powerful!

This was something only covered in the fifth level of Qi Refinement techniques!

At the sixth level of Qi Refinement on the Ancient Continent, the spirit energy combined with the martial artist's aura, giving the aura a spiritual nature, known as Spirit Aura.

In the martial world, the true qi cultivated at the Qi Refinement to Spirit realm did not condense into aura and did not combine the spirit with the true qi, but it had some characteristics of Spirit Aura!

It was highly spiritual, or somewhat similar to the basic instincts of living beings!

Therefore, martial artists at the Qi Refinement to Spirit realm were at most equivalent to third-level Qi Refinement martial artists but had some characteristics of sixth-level Qi Refinement martial artists!

However, due to the lack of key steps, they could not reach the level of the Ancient Continent!

Spirit Refinement to Void, in the martial world, referred to the martial artist merging with heaven and earth.

From Xiao Ran's perspective on the Ancient Continent, humans were already a part of nature, so the concept of merging with heaven and earth did not make sense.

Merging oneself with the world, allowing the world to support oneself and repel opponents, was somewhat similar to the spiritual energy field formed by powerful spirit energy!

After Void Refinement to Dao, one could tear through the void.

This was even more incredible; on the Ancient Continent, tearing through space required at least the Divine Power Realm!

Was the void in this world particularly fragile!?

However, Xiao Ran did not lean towards this hypothesis. He recalled that in the Legend of the Borderlands, Sun En had entered the void by discarding his physical body!

Sun En believed that as long as the soul remained, entering this space made the physical body irrelevant!

The Sword Canon also had a death barrier, and when Qin Mengyao sat in the death barrier, her soul left her body!

This reminded Xiao Ran of the Divine Realm!

On the Ancient Continent, the gods and demons were immensely powerful, but after the great war among the myriad races, which expelled the gods and demons, each race conducted extensive research on them!

The final conclusion was that the so-called gods and demons were actually powerful beings composed of pure energy or pure spirit!

Their spirit energy was extremely powerful, allowing them to directly interfere with material energy and control all things, thus possessing immense power!

The Divine Realm was a world within the material world that nurtured pure spiritual or pure energy beings!

Ordinary people could not see or sense it!

It was highly likely that martial artists who tore through the void entered such a world!

Those who discarded their physical bodies entered a purely spiritual world!

As for achieving sainthood through the physical body, it was probably a process of converting the physical body into a form similar to pure divine energy after entering the Divine Realm!

Such events had also occurred on the Ancient Continent!

Of course, these views on Spirit Refinement to Void and Void Refinement to Dao were just Xiao Ran's hypotheses.

To determine the true nature, Xiao Ran would need to witness such situations!

Overall, in Huang Da's martial world, the cultivation of martial arts placed the greatest emphasis on the cultivation of the spirit, but the cultivation of the physical body and true qi was far inferior to that of the Ancient Continent, so the martial artists were far less powerful!

It was like a creature with three legs, but only using one leg to walk, with the other two serving as simple aids, so it moved slowly and did not go far!

The Longevity Sutra was a technique that allowed one to cultivate essence, qi, and spirit simultaneously!

While solidifying the foundation and cultivating the true qi, it also trained the spirit energy!

No wonder the true qi cultivated by the Longevity Sutra had the characteristics of innate true qi!

The Longevity Sutra was considered one of the top-tier techniques among second-rate techniques on the Ancient Continent. Xiao Ran had gained a lot of knowledge from the Green Void Flame during their battle, so he could make this judgment!

For others, cultivating the Longevity Sutra was difficult, and they generally had to start over from scratch, but Xiao Ran's World Tree technique had the characteristic of accommodating various different techniques!

Therefore, Xiao Ran only corrected the obvious errors in the Longevity Sutra based on the knowledge he had gained on the Ancient Continent and began to cultivate!

Unlike the two dragons, Xiao Ran cultivated all seven diagrams at once!

He condensed spirit orifices at the seven most important acupoints, such as Yongquan and Tianling...

Thus, Xiao Ran's cultivation was twice as effective with half the effort. However, these spirit orifices were not from the same diagram and could only exist independently, without connecting the spirit meridians!

Apart from the Phoenix Eye, Xiao Ran did not have any other high-level spirit orifices, so he had to make do for now, hoping that this martial world would surprise him in the future!

He would replace them when the time came!

In less than a day, Xiao Ran's qi began to surge, and a month later, his Longevity True Qi was fully cultivated!

It was at this time that he entered the third level of Qi Refinement!

Because during the battles with the Du family siblings and Feng Xi, he had experienced the feeling of the seventh level of Qi Refinement, so looking back at the third level of Qi Refinement was not so difficult!

The difference between the second and third levels of Qi Refinement lay in the control of true qi and the greater condensation of true qi, making it less likely to dissipate!

After experiencing how to control true aura, Xiao Ran learned many techniques, greatly improving his control over true qi.

Moreover, his soul was stimulated during the great battle, and his spirit energy increased significantly, enhancing his control over true qi!

Finding a method to condense the true qi that he previously thought could not be condensed, he naturally entered the third level of Qi Refinement smoothly!

It was like a common person possessed by a famous painter from a previous dynasty, who could paint a masterpiece through his body. Although he could not paint the same masterpiece, he would roughly know how others painted it.

Gradually imitating, the common person could learn up to 70-80%!

(This chapter took three hours to write. I don't understand those high-level Daoist theories, and looking up information made my head explode!

Later, I thought, since it's my story, I'll just write it according to my understanding.

After all, no one has really cultivated true qi!

This chapter might be a bit dry, but only this chapter is like this, as the differences between the two worlds need to be written about.)

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