Volume 1 Setting Sail Chapter 83 Lei Huo's True Origin

  Eight hundred meters above the Dragon Pool, in front of the True King Ding of the Five Qi, one hundred meters away, Qi Changlao and Qin Changlao stood shoulder to shoulder, their eyes fixed on the round belly of the Five Qi True Yuan.

  At this moment, the Taoist instrument under Qin Lao's control has formed a picture of everything that happened in Longchi, presenting it to Qi Lao and Qin Lao like a movie.

  In the Longchi, all the disciples let out a heart-wrenching scream, wildly waving their arms in the sea of flames. Their faces were twisted, wandering in the sea of fire, suffering beyond measure...

  Qin Lao and Qi Lao gazed at them like bystanders, when Qin Lao suddenly spoke up: "Qi Shixiong, do you think any of these five disciples can understand your words, to awaken their own souls?"

  Upon hearing this, Old Man Qi fell silent. He realized that awakening one's soul was not a matter of difficulty, but rather a matter of opportunity, luck, enlightenment, and coincidence - something that could be encountered but not sought after, and no one could predict with certainty.

  Even Qi Changlao couldn't answer this question at the moment, and after a silence, Qi Changlao said in a low voice: "I hope so, it depends on their fate."

  At this moment, in the Dragon Pool, Xiao Chen thoroughly awakened, his soul went from being out to returning, from being still to moving, completing a transformation, completing an ascension.

  As for the sixteen-character mantra passed down by Qi Changlao, Xiao Chen had also thoroughly grasped it. At this moment, Xiao Chen was immersed in the boundless heavenly fire energy and thunder power of the Dragon Pool, where he could already attain a state of calmness and serenity, with his heart at peace and his spirit quiet.

  "Is this the heavenly fire and thunder power released by the Five Qi True King Ding?" Xiao Chen seemed like a wanderer floating in the ocean, casually grasping a handful of compressed heavenly fire energy that was as thin as a thread, and said calmly.

  For that scorching heat, enough to make people feel unbearable pain, life is not as good as death, yet he felt nothing, but rather had a kind of carefree feeling, like watching the clouds rolling in the sky.

  "You think you've grasped a few rotten tricks and now you're the best in the world?" But at this moment, Ye Liu Xing's voice suddenly echoed in Xiao Chen's mind, icy cold and stern, "Don't be arrogant and complacent, what you need to do now is hurry up and transform your true energy, not stand here being sour and pretending to be cool!"

  "Ah……" Xiao Chen heard this and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, looking around to see that Gu Xiuyi, Xi Men Wudi, and those others were still struggling in the flames, but they didn't seem as tormented as before. They were muttering to themselves, apparently having gained some understanding of the sixteen-character mantra, and were able to resist some of the pain.

  "It seems I was indeed arrogant." Xiao Chen saw the situation and suddenly realized that he had been a bit too proud of himself earlier, and now he came to his senses.

  Heaven has given him great insight, not to show off, but with such unique insight, he should strive for more progress, rather than just admiring the scenery and stopping in his tracks, which would be a waste of heaven's gift.

  "I know I was wrong." Xiao Chen admitted his mistake and dared to acknowledge it to Ye Liu Xing.

  "Hmph! Knowing one's mistakes and correcting them is a great virtue, but you, three days without being beaten and you want to rebel against me? It seems that during this time, I have indeed been too kind to you!" Night Flowing Star's voice was filled with anger.

  "Now that your soul has awakened, the properties of your battle body have been revealed. You possess the Starry Sky Battle Body, which can devour the Eight Wastes and gather the Six Harmonies. The heavenly fire energy and heavenly thunder power in this Dragon Pool are extremely pure for you. Absorbing them into your true energy and refining them into True Origin with the assistance of the 'Returning to the Origin Pill' will grant you unparalleled speed."

  "I'll teach you the Small Return to the Sea Technique, which will help you purify your Heavenly Fire and Heavenly Thunder Double Powers," Ye Liu Xing said.

  "What is Xiao Gui Hai Gong?" Xiao Chen didn't understand.

  "I'll pass it on to you now, and you'll understand. I'm also going to go fetch the heavenly fire and heavenly thunder to refine my spirit, accumulate power, and see if I can jump out of the 'Eye of Creation'. There's no time for me to explain in detail, you'll figure it out slowly yourself."

  Ye Liu Xing finished speaking and fell silent, while Xiao Chen felt that a divine soul imprint suddenly appeared in his mind, carrying the Small Returning Ocean Technique, a superior king-level cultivation method.

  "Minor Return to the Sea!" Xiaochen's divine soul immediately surged into the divine soul imprint, and in an instant, the divine soul imprint burst open, transforming into a detailed explanation of the technique that Xiaochen comprehended.

  "Blood and Qi flow like a sea, through the hundred rivers of the meridians, regulating the five elements, circulating through the hundred streams, returning to the Sea of Qi..."

  Xiao Chen began to recite, Xiao Chen was originally highly perceptive, and with Ye Liu Xing intentionally explaining the kung fu in detail and simplifying it, Xiao Chen only needed to read it once to grasp this kung fu.

  "It turns out that the warrior of Lingjue Mirror, the soul is awakened, stimulating the true energy to transform into true yuan. At the same time, the five qi in the xuanzhong are also awakened, and the five qi move in the meridians, gathering the power outside the body, refining and storing it in the dantian."

  At this moment, Xiao Chen was operating this technique, and immediately felt the Zhongzhu acupoint jump slightly, where the five qi suddenly started to circulate.

  The martial artist cultivates, with countless methods and techniques, but ultimately it all comes down to cultivating the Five Qi and the Three Flowers.

  The five qi are the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, corresponding to the five emperors and the five elements. The highest state is when the five qi return to the origin, then inside and outside become one, eternal and unchanging for all eternity.

  Three Flowers: Human Flower, Earth Flower, Heaven Flower. The highest realm is when the Three Flowers transform into the Three Pure Ones, only then can one be carefree and wandering, without death or destruction.

  As soon as you step into the spiritual awareness mirror, you have taken the first step on the path of longevity. The soul awakens, the flower blooms, the fragrance is emitted, and the five energies are born. This is just the threshold of the path of longevity. Later, with the continuous birth of the three flowers, the five energies become stronger, and the five elements are gathered, you will obtain the power of fragmentation, comprehend creation, attain the Great Way, infinite divine powers, infinite rules, freedom and leisure, no birth and no death.

  "Let me try it out and see how this Small Return to the Sea skill works!" Xiao Chen had grasped the training method behind it, and he couldn't wait any longer.

  As soon as this method is activated, the five qi in the chest suddenly burst out, and at the same time, the true qi in the dantian rushes out violently. The nine-turning qi spiral rapidly rotates to an extremely fast speed, as if it's about to explode due to its rapid rotation.

  At this moment, Xiao Chen's pores were all open, and the pure heavenly fire energy and thunder power in Longchi were absorbed into his meridians. With the five elements as a guide, they flowed through the twelve regular meridians of his body, then circulated through the eight extraordinary meridians, refining and transforming every inch.

  "Ah!"

  But at the moment this force was absorbed into his body, Xiao Chen suddenly gritted his teeth and felt that his body was burning from the inside out, as if there were endless flames burning in the many meridians, even the five organs were burning together. Xiao Chen felt that he had become a man of fire.

  But at this moment, suddenly, Xiao Chen only felt a strange and familiar power bursting out of his body. That power seemed to have been dormant in his body all along, merged with himself, but had never appeared before. At this moment, it was stimulated strongly and awakened all at once.

  This power is as still as a mountain, but once it moves, it's like a fierce tiger or a heavenly lion, ferocious and overbearing, unmatched in its dominance, possessing the ability to devour.

  Buzz!

  Xiao Chen only felt that this power shook violently in his body, and then the heavenly fire energy flowing through his meridians made the heavenly thunder power unable to bring him any pain. It was as if all the scorching air had been washed away, leaving only pure energy.

  "What kind of power is this? Is this the power of the Starlight War Body that Ye Xingxing mentioned?" Xiao Chen was also unclear about this power, as he had only just awakened his soul and activated the attribute of his war body for the first time.

  "Right, the others' martial bodies all have attributes. Ximen Wudi's martial body attribute is Frosty Snow and Mysterious Cold Power, Qin Yu'er's martial body is like a demonic brutal power, like a ghost without a shadow or a trace, Gu Xiuyi's martial body is to move the hundred flowers to pay homage, gather the spirits of the grass and trees..."

  "And my Stellar War Body attribute is this devouring power, which can absorb elemental attributes and leave only pure energy, allowing for infinite cultivation! But it seems I still can't control this power at will?"

  Xiao Chen's brow furrowed again as he thought of this, but in order to thoroughly awaken the Starlight War Body's attribute power, Xiao Chen continued to circulate the Small Return to the Sea Art, absorbing the Heavenly Fire and Heavenly Thunder within the Dragon Pool to stimulate the Starlight War Body's attribute power, thoroughly unleashing it, even to the point of being able to control it at will.

  After Xiaochen refined the power in his meridians, he once again began to guide the heavenly fire and heavenly thunder into his body. Sure enough, that strange yet familiar power appeared again, devouring the scorching pain and leaving behind pure energy.

  Next, Xiao Chen tried several more times. Each time the power was bound to appear, but he couldn't grasp it, so Xiao Chen didn't try to grasp it anymore and let it play freely.

  "Since I still can't grasp it, it means my skills are not yet mature, and I'm only halfway to the Spiritual Awareness Mirror. Once I step into the first layer of the Spiritual Awareness Mirror, this power will surely awaken completely. For now, I'll focus on cultivating and entering the Spiritual Awareness."

  With this enlightenment, Xiao Chen no longer paid attention to that power and directly took out the 'Guiyuan Dan' from the storage ring, swallowed it in one mouthful, then sat cross-legged like a Buddha, suspended above the Dragon Pool, closed his eyes and cultivated.

  The effect of 'Guiyuan Dan' is to enhance the five Qi, induce the true Qi to quickly transform into true Yuan, strengthen the power of the soul's operation, making it easier for the user to enter the spiritual mirror.

  As the 'Guiyuan Dan' was also swallowed into his body, in an instant, five forces appeared in Xiao Chen's body, namely the power of heavenly fire, the power of heavenly thunder, the five elements and five gases, the power of 'Guiyuan Dan', and the attribute power of Xingchen War Body.

  These five powers are not contradictory, the Five Emperors and the Five Qi guide the heavenly thunder, the heavenly fire flows through the meridians, refining the body while also refining the essence of the Five Qi. Afterwards, the stellar war body attribute power will violently erupt with the power of heavenly fire and thunder, burning away the impure energy and absorbing it, leaving only pure energy behind. The 'Returning to the Origin Pill' assists in the strong rotation of the air spiral, transforming energy and true qi into one, converting them into True Yuan.

  These five energies work together in harmony, without contradiction, and gradually progress within Xiao Chen's body, transforming true energy into rolling true yuan.

  Moreover, at the moment when Xiao Chen transformed his true energy, he incorporated the power of true fire and heavenly thunder, causing Xiao Chen's yuanqi attribute to also undergo a variation, no longer single, but amidst the red flames, flashes of blue lightning could be seen, looking very fierce.