Chapter 171 Chapter 174, From Sowing Beans to Creating Soldiers to Immortals
This Dharma lecture was originally initiated by Li Heng, but Li Heng was scared half to death and his pants were soaked. In the end, he hurried back to the palace on the pretext of feeling unwell and did not stay to attend the Dharma assembly.
Many of the guests were so frightened that they left in a hurry. Only some brave guests or those who had a great interest in supernatural things stayed.
Yang Yuhuan, who showed her power today, and Ouyang Feng, who accompanied her, wearing a tiger-skin cloak, and remained silent throughout the whole process, with an indifferent expression and giving people a cold and murderous feeling, became the protagonists of this ceremony.
Whether it was the guests who stayed or the Taoist and Buddhist masters, they all treated Yang Yuhuan with great respect.
Just one look at Ouyang Feng made him feel terrified.
Everyone is guessing whether this heroic and extraordinary "Giant Tiger Warrior" is an immortal who turned into a divine tiger, or a divine tiger who transformed into an immortal.
There is not much to say about the Dharma Assembly itself. It is nothing more than Taoist and Buddhist masters discussing mysteries and doctrines, and there is no real content at all.
At the invitation of everyone, Yang Yuhuan also spoke some abstruse Taoist scriptures, which were also devoid of substance.
It was not until the second half of the Dharma Assembly that Yang Yuhuan brought Ouyang Feng, Luo Gongyuan and Bukong Sanzang into the small hall for a secret talk, and they actually exchanged some useful things with each other.
Ouyang Feng remained silent throughout the whole process, only secretly signaled Yang Yuhuan to teach the two extraordinary people the Three Huashan Skills - Walking Alone in Ten Thousand Miles and Thirteen Life-Chasing Legs.
Although these two kung fu are external skills, they can both develop internal strength from the outside in, and have the ability to escape, fly high, protect oneself and kill the enemy. Moreover, if the internal strength is deeply trained, it can indeed strengthen the body and prolong life.
Luo Gongyuan and Bukong Sanzang, on the other hand, used their own techniques of "turning beans into soldiers" and meditation to strengthen their minds and spirits.
Wait until the Dharma Assembly is over.
Ouyang Feng transformed into a giant tiger again, and Yang Yuhuan sat on the tiger's back. Under the awe-inspiring gazes of everyone, they left Furong Garden and returned to Taizhen Palace via Jiacheng.
"After today, no one will dare to bother Sister Yuhuan anymore."
In Taizhen Palace.
Ouyang Feng lay lazily on the couch, ate a lychee peeled by Yang Yuhuan, and spoke slowly.
Yang Yuhuan leaned against him, delicately peeling the fruit, and said with a smile:
"Thanks to my good brother for helping me. If it were just me, it would be difficult to destroy those two heavenly soldiers. Although I am not afraid of them, others may not be so afraid of me when they see that Luo Gongyuan and Bukong Sanzang can compete with me."
Ouyang Feng smiled and said:
"In fact, Sister Yuhuan only needs to cultivate the innate true qi and develop a keen spiritual perception, then you can see through the weaknesses of the two powerful heavenly soldiers, and then you can defeat them yourself."
Yang Yuhuan held the peeled lychee between her lips and fed it to him mouth to mouth. She then leaned over him, rubbing her extraordinarily full breasts against his chest softly, and spoke in a charming voice that seemed to drip with water:
"But I haven't cultivated my innate Qi yet, right? My dear brother, you have helped me solve a big problem today. How do you want me to repay you?"
Ouyang Feng smiled slightly:
"Prepare some hot water and help me take a bath."
"As ordered..."
Yang Yuhuan smiled charmingly, went downstairs and told the Taoist boy to prepare hot water, while Ouyang Feng began to figure out the strange skills he had acquired today.
Luo Gongyuan and Bukong Sanzang's technique of "turning beans into soldiers" and their meditation method for tempering the mind and spirit, although there are differences in details, their essence is exactly the same, which shows that they come from the same source.
And the specific method of cultivation is not complicated at all.
First, gold, silver, and jade powder are used, supplemented by more than ten kinds of precious medicinal materials, and the pills are refined using special methods.
Afterwards, he used micro-carving techniques to engrave tiny spells on the surface of the pill. Finally, he separated out a wisp of spiritual thought and let it settle in the pill. After nurturing it with his mind, he would be considered successful.
There is no need to open an altar or offer prayers during the entire process.
When performing the spell, one only needs to throw the pill and activate the spiritual thoughts in the pill at the same time. The pill will then absorb the essence of heaven and earth on its own and evolve into a heavenly soldier.
The practitioner can use the spiritual thoughts within the pill to remotely control the heavenly soldiers and strong men.
It is also possible to let the spiritual thought inside the pill control the heavenly soldiers and warriors on its own, but the heavenly soldiers and warriors will be more clumsy and can only act according to a pre-set fixed pattern.
Since the heavenly soldiers and strong men are controlled by the caster of magic, they can display the same skills as the caster.
Luo Gongyuan and Bukong Sanzang only knew mundane fighting techniques, so the heavenly soldiers and warriors they summoned, although they had divine powers and indestructible bodies, could only perform mundane fighting techniques.
But if Ouyang Feng uses it, the heavenly soldiers and strong men he summons will be extremely powerful.
If he controls it himself, he can display almost all his martial arts skills.
If it runs automatically, even if the spiritual thought in the pill cannot accommodate too many martial arts, at least each heavenly soldier can be equipped with a complete set of martial arts and body movements.
In addition, how many heavenly soldiers and warriors can be summoned at one time depends entirely on the practitioner's mental strength.
For example, Luo Gongyuan and Bukong Sanzang only had enough mental strength to remotely control one Heavenly Soldier. Even if they refined more pills, they would not have enough mental strength to control multiple Heavenly Soldier at the same time.
Of course, it is also possible to release more pills automatically.
But with their martial arts, the automatically operated heavenly soldiers and strongmen will only become more unbearable.
It's okay to bully ordinary people, but when facing masters like Ouyang Feng and Yang Yuhuan, he will be defeated.
So today in Furong Garden, after witnessing Yang Yuhuan's miraculous "immortal fighting skills", Luo Gongyuan and Bukong Sanzang did not release more heavenly soldiers and strong men to humiliate themselves.
As for the weakness of the heavenly soldiers and strongmen who were afraid of the evil spirit of the military formation and could not be stained with too much blood, in Ouyang Feng's opinion, it was also related to the strength of the spiritual thoughts contained in the pill.
The so-called evil spirit in military formations is essentially nothing more than the essence of the human body that spontaneously dissipates when tense minds and boiling blood of tense soldiers face the battlefield.
The energy of millions of people gathered together and condensed into a powerful chaotic energy. Under the impact of this energy, if the spiritual thought in the core center of the heavenly soldier is not strong enough, it will be easily dispersed by the energy.
Once the core center is scattered, the heavenly soldiers and warriors will naturally collapse.
The same applies to being stained with blood.
The blood of a person contains the essence of the person. If there is too much blood, various essences will mix together and impact the core of the heavenly soldiers. It will also disperse the weak spiritual thoughts and cause the heavenly soldiers to collapse.
To solve these two weaknesses, one must have an indestructible mental mind.
This involves the cultivation of the soul realm.
"Although the methods used by Luo Gongyuan and Bukong Sanzang to refine their minds and spirits have their own mysteries, they are still not profound enough. Although they can use this method to refine a relatively powerful mind and spirit, and even perform illusions to deceive the senses of ordinary people, they cannot cause substantial harm to people. The strength of my mind is only at this level. The spiritual thoughts that are separated and settled in the pill are of course more fragile and subject to various limitations."
It was for this reason that the two heavenly soldiers were scattered by Ouyang Feng's "Tiger Roaring Skill".
“But with my current spiritual cultivation, the spiritual thoughts that are differentiated from it should not be so fragile... At least, they will not collapse on the spot after being hit by a tiger roar.” Ouyang Feng took out the two golden pills, played with them in his hands, and reflected them with his spiritual sense.
This was the pill that Luo Gongyuan and Bukong Sanzang each used when they performed the "Throwing Beans to Turn into Soldiers" technique. During the ceremony, the two were too embarrassed to ask for it back - they had a lot of spares anyway, and there was no need to offend such a powerful wizard like Yang Taizhen for a pill.
Although the spiritual thoughts within the two pills had been dispersed by the Tiger Roar Technique, the pills themselves were still intact.
And although this pill is important, the control over the heavenly soldiers and warriors depends on whose mental thoughts are stationed inside.
The pill itself is a universal magical tool.
Now, Ouyang Feng only needs to follow the method of "casting beans to create soldiers", separate a wisp of spiritual thought, and station it in the pill, so that he can perform this strange skill.
But this spell actually has a hidden drawback.
That is, after the pill is refined, the basic attributes of the heavenly soldier are fixed.
Strength, agility, physical strength, etc. will not increase as the caster becomes stronger and will always remain fixed at the initial state.
"So, these pills are still somewhat useful to me now, but as my strength increases, they will gradually become useless and I can only use them as odd jobs... Then again, for real immortals, the existence of heavenly soldiers and strong men seems to be just laborers and chores?"
Ouyang Feng pondered for a while, and felt that this technique could actually become even stronger.
The pill is essentially just a carrier, with the inside carrying the spiritual thoughts of the caster and the outside carrying the talisman engraved on it. The function of the pill talisman is to gather and absorb the essence of heaven and earth, giving the heavenly soldiers and warriors form and strength.
If the efficacy of the talisman could be thoroughly analyzed, its essence understood, and then improved upon, perhaps there would be no need to use special pills to carry it.
It can also refine the properties and functions of the heavenly soldiers and strongmen.
For example, there is the gold warrior, who is made purely of gold essence, with an indestructible body and fierce attacking power; there is the fire warrior, who is made purely of fire essence, with a body like flame, not restricted by physical constraints, and can burn mountains and boil seas; there is the thunder warrior, who is made purely of thunder essence, with movements as fast as lightning, and can exorcise evil spirits and demons, and so on.
He even used himself as the "pill" for casting spells, and his own spirit as the "spiritual thought" in the pill. He used his body to absorb the essence of heaven and earth and transformed it into a huge shell of essence.
Such manifested "heavenly soldiers and strong men" can also become stronger as their own cultivation level improves.
"This idea... feels a bit like 'Law of Heaven and Earth'! It seems to have some potential?"
Of course, it is not easy to realize these ideas.
Ouyang Feng did not have the urgency to accomplish it overnight, he just planned to treat it as a long-term project and study it slowly.
As for this moment.
Ouyang Feng put away the two pills, closed his eyes and practiced the "Throwing Beans to Create Soldiers" technique to split his mental thoughts.
He had a strong understanding and high spiritual cultivation, and in a short while, he was able to separate a trace of spiritual thought from his mind.
After that, it will take some time to cultivate and strengthen this spiritual thought according to the method of sowing beans to create soldiers, and set up an action mode for it.
The stronger and more tenacious the spiritual thoughts are, the more complex the action patterns they can carry out. When the heavenly soldiers and strongmen operate on their own, their actions can be more flexible and autonomous.
To use a robot as an example, that spiritual thought is like the central processing unit. The more powerful the central processing unit, the more powerful the robot.
Luo Gongyuan and Bukong Sanzang were limited by their spiritual cultivation and their ability to process a single mental thought, so if the heavenly soldiers and strongmen they trained were allowed to act independently, they would be slow and clumsy like decayed old men and would be of little use. They would have to be actively controlled and manipulated.
But Ouyang Feng's spiritual cultivation is far stronger than Luo Gongyuan and Bukong Sanzang.
His ability to process a trace of mental thoughts can at least allow the heavenly soldiers to have mobility that is no less than that of ordinary people, and each of the heavenly soldiers can also carry a good martial art.
With his spiritual cultivation and the strength of his mental thoughts, he can be guaranteed not to be easily defeated.
In this way, he didn't have to concentrate on controlling the heavenly soldiers and strong men. He could just release the pills, give a general instruction, and let them do their work on their own.
Just as that strand of differentiated spiritual thought was slowly being cultivated and strengthened.
Yang Yuhuan came over to call him and said that the hot water was ready.
Ouyang Feng paused his practice and went to the bathroom, where he enjoyed Yang Yuhuan's meticulous service.
It was not until the hot water turned cold that Yang Yuhuan hung on Ouyang Feng like a koala and was carried back to the bedroom by him.
At night, the two of them practiced as they did in the previous days. In the morning, Yang Yuhuan was radiant and continued to cultivate her innate true energy, while Ouyang Feng devoted himself to studying the art of turning beans into soldiers, continuing to strengthen that spiritual thought.
After breakfast, a eunuch led a team and brought Yang Yuhuan a large number of gold, silver, jade, silk brocade, precious medicinal materials, rare Taoist classics, etc., all of which were gifts from the emperor.
After the emperor's gift-giving team left, another team came to give gifts.
Especially those noble relatives who had harassed Yang Yuhuan some time ago, the gifts they gave were more generous than the others.
At the end of the day, all kinds of valuable gifts filled up several storerooms in Taizhen Palace, making Yang Yuhuan a fortune.
In the next few days, more people came to give gifts, and many people came to visit and seek the truth.
However, except for Li Longji's half-sister Princess Yuzhen, and Luo Gongyuan and Bukong Sanzang who came for exchanges, Yang Yuhuan did not receive any other visitors, even if they were princes.
Although this move is a bit arrogant and cold, as a master with real ability, the more arrogant and cold, the more unkind he is, the more respected and sought after he is.
It means that even the emperor has difficulty meeting you, and when your visit is rejected you can only smile and not dare to get angry. This is a true god-like person.
Half a month later, Yang Yuhuan wrote to the emperor, saying that the worldly atmosphere in the city was too strong and she wanted to leave the city to practice in seclusion. She requested that the "Huaqing Palace" on Mount Li be used as a place for practice. Huaqing Palace was the famous hot spring where "in the cold spring, one is granted a bath in the Huaqing Pool, where the warm spring water washes the fat away". Li Longji had spent a lot of money to renovate and expand it during his lifetime, but he died just after all the magnificent palaces were built, before he had time to enjoy them.
Now it exists as a royal hot spring and is the private property of the emperor's family.
Li Heng had originally intended to win over Yang Yuhuan and learn from her some immortal techniques for strengthening the body and prolonging life. Seeing that Yang Yuhuan had finally asked him for a favor, he agreed generously without any pretense and ordered that Huaqing Palace be given to Taoist Taizhen for her practice.
So a few days later, Yang Yuhuan moved to the Huaqing Palace in Mount Li with dozens of carts of wealth, more than a dozen female Taoist children, and twenty palace maids given by the emperor, escorted by two hundred Yulin guards.
In return, Yang Yuhuan gave Li Heng the basic internal breathing method of the Xiaoyao Sect through Princess Yuzhen, who was also a Taoist practitioner. With long-term practice, one can develop some basic internal strength and also have the effect of curing diseases and strengthening the body.
As for prolonging life…being healthy and getting sick less often, isn’t that indirectly prolonging life?
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