"Haven't you realized where you are yet?"
"What?"
Before the big eyeball could react, an immense power transformed into a white beam of light that shot out from the depths of the starry sky, easily shattering the eyeball's proud purple light and piercing into its eye.
Zzz!
A sound like sucking on a beverage rang out, and his eyes desperately realized that his power was being continuously drained. An indescribably powerful being seemed to be treating him like a bottle of soda, sucking the essence of his soul.
The large eyeball could neither resist nor move, and could only watch helplessly as its body grew smaller and smaller until it disappeared completely, leaving only a purple crystal floating in the starry sky.
Chapter 49: Qi Cultivator
Xu Le picked up the purple crystal and could clearly feel the powerful force contained within it, but it was also filled with evil and tyranny. Xu Le could vaguely see the figure of an indescribable great being, powerful yet evil.
Xu Le hesitated for a moment, but still kept the crystal safe, thinking he might need it in the future.
His mind returned to his body, still in the basement. The once golden skeleton began to dim, and countless tiny cracks appeared on its bones, as if it had been gently smashed by a small hammer. The skeleton made cracking sounds, and then tiny fragments began to fall, finally turning into dust and scattering around the chair.
The yellow talisman on the small door fell off automatically, and the door slowly opened, revealing a dozen or so thick arms inside. Chains covered with runes tightly bound a black stone.
Upon seeing the black stone, Xu Le knew that it was the blood of the evil god that Jing Hongzi had mentioned before, but after losing its power, it had turned into a stone.
Xu Le checked and found no other treasures, only some artifacts that had lost their power. The iron chains that originally sealed the blood of the evil god had also lost their divine power and turned into pieces of scrap iron.
Finding nothing else, Xu Le left the basement, glanced back at the stone tablet, and then soared away from this underground world.
Long after Xu Le left, the huge eyes reappeared on the stone tablet, but this time, the eyes were covered with cracks, were grayish-white, and were slowly petrifying.
A wisp of purple liquid crawled out from the pupil of the eye, resembling a worm with densely packed mouthparts and two tentacles extending from its head, rotating as if searching for something, its body constantly wriggling. The eyeball, which had been slowly petrifying, completely transformed into a stone sculpture after the purple worm left.
A sparrow flapped its wings and flew from the distant forest to the stone tablet. It looked around with its small head and began to clean its feathers with its beak, but it did not notice a purple worm that was slowly approaching and emitting a purple light.
The worm moved behind the sparrow, arched its body, and suddenly darted out like a purple arrow, instantly piercing the sparrow's body.
Suddenly startled, the sparrow flapped its wings and let out a sharp cry, but the purple worm turned into a puddle of liquid, slowly enveloping the sparrow and eventually forming a purple egg.
After a while, tiny cracks appeared on the purple egg, but it began to shake violently.
Snap!
A crack appeared on the egg, and a long, sharp beak appeared. A large bird with purple feathers completely smashed the eggshell, shook its body to shake off the egg liquid, and ate the pieces of eggshell on the ground.
Then, the large purple bird looked up at the sky, its eyes flashing with purple light. Then it spread its wings and soared into the white mist.
……
After returning to Tianji Pavilion, Xu Le announced that he would be going into seclusion and forbade anyone to disturb him before returning to his room.
Xu Le took out the Daoist classic, opened the first page, which was the general outline of cultivation. It recorded the direction of cultivation and precautions. This was a classic text for Qi cultivators.
After a quick glance, I found that this Daoist classic is divided into two parts: Qi cultivation and body refinement. It involves absorbing the essence of the sun, moon, and stars to temper the body, and absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to refine the Qi in the dantian.
Looking at the cultivation methods in the Daoist manual, they were surprisingly similar to the meditation methods in the Qi Magic that Xu Le was learning, but it seemed to be a simplified and reduced version, leaving only the method for cultivating spiritual power, like a low-quality product.
The eight gods in Jackie Chan Adventures are all immortals from Chinese mythology, indicating that the system is an Eastern cultivation system, so it's not surprising that they have similarities.
At least, Qi magic not only did not hinder Xu Le's cultivation of the Daoist scriptures, but also laid a good foundation for him.
This Daoist classic is for those who cultivate Qi in Chinese legends. Before becoming an immortal, the cultivation stages are divided into Foundation Building, Qi Refining, Spirit Refining, Returning to Emptiness, and Dao Integration. Then comes the tribulation of lightning, which allows one to leap over the Dragon Gate and transform from a mortal to an immortal.
Xu Le now possesses the power of twelve talismans, making him comparable to a Refining God expert. However, his physical body is fragile and his divine soul is not yet fully formed. Although his strength is the same, he has too many weaknesses and is fundamentally different. Xu Le has not yet transcended the essence of a mortal.
However, the most important thing now is to establish a foundation as soon as possible. According to the classics, establishing a foundation is the starting point of the Great Dao. Even a tall building needs a solid foundation, otherwise it will inevitably collapse.
Foundation Establishment determines how far a person can go in the future, so it is extremely important. Xu Le was nourished by the abundant life force of the dog talisman, and his physique had been strengthened. In Taoist terms, he had an innate Taoist body. At the same time, his spiritual power far surpassed that of others, giving him an advantage far beyond that of ordinary people.
Xu Le instructed the shadow warrior to bring the collected medicinal herbs, then calmed his mind and sat cross-legged on the futon, focusing his energy on the five centers of his body, and began to open his dantian according to the foundation-building method written in the classics.
In the endless chaos, Xu Le unified his mind and spirit, his thoughts wandering within this chaos. He didn't know how many years had passed, but a sudden realization flashed through his mind. The God Cube within his body began to rotate and fell into this chaos. Twelve beams of light, like twelve pillars of heaven, cleaved through this chaos.
The earth, fire, wind, and water began to surge, the pure energy rose, and the turbid energy descended. Twelve zodiac animals appeared in the center of the twelve pillars of light, each supporting a part of the heaven and earth.
The dantian has been opened.
The method of cultivating Qi involves cultivating oneself, relying solely on oneself, and creating a small world within oneself. Even in the Dharma-ending Age, one's own small world can still provide the power to operate. If one cultivates to the highest level, it can be said that even if heaven and earth perish, I will not perish.
Therefore, Xu Le gave up on searching for cultivation methods in other worlds. Although they might be very powerful, they would have too many limitations. Qi cultivators cultivate themselves, and their strength is not affected at all, whether they go to a magical world full of magic or a netherworld.
This is the most important thing for Xu Le, who can travel to all the worlds. After all, the world is full of strange and wonderful things. If he cultivated magic and went to a world without magic, he would be completely confused.
That underground world was transformed from Jinghongzi's inner world. After his death, it fell from his body into this world, causing changes in the world's origin. A higher-level being can help a lower-level world avoid many detours.
Xu Le now understands why this world arranged for him to find the inheritance of Jing Hongzi. It turns out that it fears the power of the evil god. Moreover, this evil god can continuously devour the power of the world, so it is Xu Le who is sent to destroy it, or at the very least, bring it to another world.
Xu Le glanced at the size of his dantian, which was 9,999 zhang long and stretched across the void.
The twelve talismans formed the pillars of heaven, radiating power to maintain the operation of the world. In the center of the twelve pillars of light, the box-sized God's Cube was constantly rotating, radiating power while also devouring something.
Xu Le received a message that the Rubik's Cube operated in place of the rules of heaven and earth. Although it consumed energy, it could perfect the rules. These rules were not just those represented by the twelve talismans, but all the rules required for the operation of heaven and earth.
Although the speed is extremely slow, it is not impossible for the God Cube to become the Creation Jade Disc given enough time, although that time may take countless eons.
Within his inner world, the life energy transformed from the dog talisman would continuously sprinkle onto the earth, increasing the soil's fertility. Unfortunately, Xu Le could not create things out of thin air, so he could only take some plants from the outside world and plant them within his inner world to form a cyclical system as soon as possible.
After completing the foundation building, Xu Le stood up and found that his body was covered with black impurities. A stench made him cover his nose.
After the impurities inside his body were expelled, Xu Le felt increasingly relaxed, his muscles and bones were in good condition, his blood and qi were abundant, and his physical strength was amplified by about ten times. Without the power of the Ox Talisman, he could lift a ten-ton weight with his bare body. If he used the power of the Ox Talisman to amplify his strength, he could lift a small mountain as long as his body could withstand it.