Chapter 26: First Enlightenment of the Way and the Way Ahead
The black beetle understood what the breath emanating from Wu Yi represented. This was the rhyme of the Tao, representing the cultivator's understanding of the Great Dao.
"But which one did he comprehend? It doesn't look like the origin of the Tao. It looks like meditation." The black beetle murmured to himself, with curiosity, surprise, confusion, unwillingness and other expressions in his eyes. No one knew what he was thinking in his heart.
"Back then, the Burning Emperor was just like this, no, he comprehended it by himself, and the Burning Emperor relied on the help of the Fire Lotus to comprehend the rhyme of the Tao." The Burning Emperor was the previous owner of the bead, the black beetle who rose from the ordinary and was promoted to the semi-immortal. After becoming a Taoist, it called itself the Burning Emperor, and comprehended the exploding Great Dao of Burning.
Most cultivators will only touch the charm of the Great Dao when they have achieved the Golden Elixir. The three elements of spirit, energy and spirit are united. At that time, the perception of the world will be extremely sharp, forming a small world of their own. The Great Dao they comprehend is the pillar of this world, and what Great Dao they comprehend is mostly related to the practice method they practice.
As for encountering natural treasures during Qi Refining and Foundation Building, unintentionally swallowing or being nourished by spiritual treasures, one can also comprehend a trace of Dao rhyme, but after all, it is a minority.
Just like the Burning Emperor encountered the Fire Lotus growing in the volcanic magma and was nourished by the Fire Lotus, comprehending the Great Dao of Burning. Wu Yi saw the Burning Emperor waking up and jumping into the magma before, thinking that the Burning Emperor's physique and race were not ordinary, but even the divine beast with the blood of the real dragon would never dare to regard the magma as its own swimming pool. The real reason is that the Burning Emperor comprehended the Great Dao of Burning after a breath of Qi entered the spirit from the mortal, and was not afraid of the raging fire and lava.
The reason why the Burning Emperor comprehended the Great Dao of Burning was largely because he experienced a volcanic eruption and witnessed the destructiveness of fire, and what did Wu Yi comprehend?
Wu Yi does not belong to either of the two situations. So far, he has not found a way to practice the law, and there are no natural treasures. He relies on his own understanding, which is the most rare. Perhaps his starting point is not as high as the other two situations, but he is better in that he has no shackles.
Whether it is the help of the skills or the treasures of heaven and earth, they will be constrained by existence. For example, the emperor Fen got the help of the fire lotus to comprehend the avenue of the fire system, and he can only continue to practice along this path in the future.
In the outside world, under the cover of a peaceful and calm atmosphere, Wu Yi's face was still pale, but other parts of his body did not have any problems such as retrograde aura and blood blockage. He recovered step by step, bit by bit.
From time to time, the ghost would spit out a mouthful of pure Yin Qi to help Wu Yi recover and establish a connection with the ghost pet. As long as the distance was close enough, he could pass his Yin Qi to the other party, which could not only be used in fighting, but also help heal injuries, with infinite functions.
Under the regulation of Daoyun, everything on Wu Yi developed in a direction that was conducive to his recovery, but after all, his mind was too exhausted. It was not until the evening when the ghosts began to come out that Wu Yi slowly opened his eyes.
What a wise pair of eyes, it seemed to see through the world, like a pool of blue water, even people with anger in their hearts would become calm when they saw this pair of eyes.
"Thank you for your hard work. You can use this little bit of Yin Qi to recover." Seeing the weak breath of the demon around him, Wu Yi naturally understood that it had spent a lot of money to help him before, so he gave all the Yin Qi stored in the Yin Talisman to the demon.
As for the agreement with the black beetle, he subconsciously ignored it. It was just that the 90% Yin Qi agreed by the black beetle with him was more like an excuse, an excuse to lure him into a trap, and now Wu Yi jumped out of this urn, which was something the black beetle did not expect.
Just after waking up, Wu Yi was not in a hurry to use the fake body technique to explore Dahuai Town. It would not matter if this matter was postponed. What was more important for him now was to sort out what happened today.
Today's experience was really the most profound thing he had ever experienced since he started practicing Taoism, especially the old people he met at the end. They were clearly a certain future of his, but these futures were not the future Wu Yi wanted, so he did not accept them and wanted to decide his own future.
So, what kind of future do I want? Wu Yi couldn't help asking himself in his heart.
"My fate is determined by me, not by God." Wu Yi blurted out the answer, just as he said to the stone tablet before he became conscious.
But it is not easy to decide one's own fate. The struggle between heaven and man is endless. Wu Yi thought of his experiences after going up the mountain and realized that it was impossible to completely decide his own fate, at least with his low cultivation.
Then I can only keep calm in my heart. Although I can't change the outside world, the outside world can't change me. Wu Yi understood his own path in his heart, and the looming Tao rhyme on his body became solid, like an aura, consciously or unconsciously affecting the surrounding world.
The black beetle suddenly opened his eyes and murmured: "The Great Way of Tranquility? This is the first time I have seen it."
"If you don't want to be changed by the world, you still have to improve your cultivation." Wu Yi's eyes flashed with white light, and a blade of air cut a ghost in front of him straight, dispersing into wisps of Yin Qi.
This ghost actually took advantage of Wu Yi's thinking to attack him, which made Wu Yi extremely angry, but for some reason, the Qi Blade was used just like that, and even Wu Yi himself was extremely surprised.
In the past, it was necessary to move the spiritual energy to the fingertips and condense the energy into a thread before it could be used. Otherwise, it would be a ball of spiritual energy and had no killing power at all.
Wu Yi looked at his hand in astonishment and tried to release it again with his hand. The power was almost the same. He couldn't believe it.
This is the power of Taoism, which represents the Great Dao and is a law of heaven and earth. It is not limited to one move or one form. Picking flowers and leaves can pass on one's power.
Wu Yi tried to release the air blade with his eyes again. As his mind went, the spiritual energy surged and condensed, and a bright air blade split the tree in front of him.
"It seems a bit strange." Wu Yi tried several times and found that this air blade was no longer a pure air blade technique. It required the coordination of the three elements of spirit, energy and spirit. Without any of them, the technique could not be used as desired. Wu Yi even found that the art of controlling spirits that he had been thinking about before was easily realized. The technique could not only be retracted after use, but also achieve clever changes such as turning and changing speed.
It's just that the art of controlling spirits consumes too much energy, which is not something that cultivators at the first stage of Qi Refining can deal with. Wu Yi only comprehended a trace of Tao rhyme and integrated his spirit, energy and spirit in advance, so that he could barely master the art of controlling spirits. Compared with those who have deep spiritual power and have been immersed in this way for many years, he is far inferior. For example, the sword light differentiation technique of sword cultivators is a kind of art of controlling spirits, and it is also a more difficult one among the art of controlling spirits.
Although a lot of energy and spirit are consumed, the existence of Tao rhyme also makes Wu Yi recover much faster. From time to time, he blends with the heaven and earth, and the spiritual energy replenishes his empty Dantian like a spring.
Although he doesn't understand what happened, Wu Yi knows that this is a good thing, but he can't help but mutter in his heart: Is this the reason why the black beetle taught me the two ways of force? Did he expect this a long time ago?
Wu Yi's vigilance against the black beetle became stronger. In fact, this was an injustice to the black beetle. Under the black beetle's high-rise gaze, Wu Yi did have his own selfish motives to let him practice the three paths, but Wu Yi could be said to be completely beyond his control.
In the black beetle's plan, Wu Yi should have used the power path as the core of his practice, and the law of the great way he comprehended was preferably the original law of the fire system, but who knew that before his subsequent layout was launched, Wu Yi had already comprehended his own great way. It is not impossible to change the core great way, but it is extremely difficult. Basically, it is not voluntary for the cultivator to change, such as the change of the body-stealer and the change of the inner demon.
Being able to comprehend the great way proves that it is suitable for this path. Random modification will only make gains more than losses.
"Three paths run in parallel, I am weak in the law path, so finding a way to practice the law path is still the most important thing so far." Realizing his situation, Wu Yi quickly sorted out his most important task at the moment.
Wu Yi glanced at the beads and thought: If you have a plan, I will follow your wishes.
Since the black beetle had already arranged three parallel paths for him, it was impossible that he had no backup plan. In the absence of other options, Wu Yi could only choose the path provided by the black beetle.
When his mind entered the bead again, Wu Yi found that the black beetle was not practicing, but thinking about something. The red flame on its back shell kept jumping, just like a living thing. The black beetle actually comprehended the rhyme of the Tao. No, it should not be called the rhyme of the Tao, but the complete avenue. The black beetle inherited the avenue comprehension of the peak period of the Burning Emperor.
Generally, only a true immortal can comprehend the complete avenue. Although the Burning Emperor is only a half-immortal, he has already comprehended a complete avenue, comprehended the origin, and formed his own world. The predecessor of the bead is the inner world formed in its body. The current bead should be said to be the most essential part, the origin of heaven and earth.
The origin of the black beetle is indeed not ordinary. If it were not for Wu Yi's ball of ordinary fire, which greatly reduced its origin, the black beetle should have been an immortal at birth. But the black beetle should also be thankful for that ball of ordinary fire, otherwise it may never have the possibility of spiritual intelligence. It takes a long time for such an immortal to evolve.
Even if it has gone through countless years and is lucky enough to get a chance to open its spiritual intelligence, it is 99% likely to fall under the heavenly calamity. The mysterious power on the day when the bead changed was actually the heaven and earth's ban on the black beetle. The avenue does not allow too powerful creatures to be born.
Wu Yi used a ball of fire to help the black beetle avoid the avenue calamity, which can be said to be a grace of rebirth for the black beetle. The cause and effect of the two are closely combined.
If the black beetle leaves the bead, or even leaves the outer flame encirclement, the Heaven will sense it, and then bring down the calamity of world destruction (immortals create their own world and the world, all the calamities against immortals are collectively called calamities of world destruction, and there are also different levels of calamities of world destruction, which will not be discussed here for the time being, and the black beetle belongs to the immortal). With the current cultivation of the black beetle, it is absolutely impossible to avoid it, so it lives next to Wu Yi.
Wu Yi naturally doesn't know these, but it doesn't prevent it from detecting the intentions of the black beetle. Although the black beetle has been born for a long time, Wu Yi is confident that he can still have the upper hand in terms of scheming.
"I found that I have changed a lot."
"Yes, I know."
"I think this change is not very stable."
"It is already very stable, but you just didn't notice it."
Wu Yi frowned, not sure what the black beetle meant, so he simply made his words clearer, saying: "My cultivation of the law is too low, I lack the method of practicing the law."
The black beetle glanced up at Wu Yi, and Wu Yi could feel that it was a mockery, but Wu Yi, who had comprehended the great way of tranquility, was clear-minded and was not moved at all, waiting for the black beetle's next words.
"You already have it, it suits you very well, and your changes are so great that your enemies will be jealous. This is a way to hide your changes." A colorful light shot out, Wu Yi took it, and without saying much, his mind left the bead.