Chapter 355: Hundred Days of Foundation Building, Choosing and Returning to the Dao

Gu Qingyuan casually put down the Taoist scripture that he did not even want to mention his name. He was no longer a young man who had just started out. His horizons had long been broadened, and his understanding and experience were as high as the sky and as deep as the earth. He then acted according to the scripture and followed the classics, making those immortals and Buddhas laugh at him.

That foundation-building method was not a superior method, it was neither pure nor fast, it was just average, neither good nor bad. He had come here to try something new and see the cultivation path of this place, to avoid using methods from other realms and revealing his roots, attracting prying eyes.

And that trace of magic power also allowed Gu Qingyuan to see the whole world. With that trace of magic power, he returned it to his eyes and saw through the essence of this world. He looked and saw the smallest unit of the world. This big world was actually created by one breath, evolving into thousands. The sky was opened up by one breath, and the world was created by one breath. It is truly the purest worldview of immortals and heroes.

After understanding the fundamental nature of this world, Gu Qingyuan dispersed the magic power condensed by the foundation-building method. That magic power was ordinary. Although it had become first-class pure after his visualization and condensation, breaking through the upper limit of the foundation-building method, it still could not meet Gu Qingyuan's requirements. If he continued to do so, he would need to breathe in and out dozens of times, improving the quality again and again, and refining it again and again, until a strand of magic power was only the size of a particle, and he was just satisfied.

The process was too cumbersome and laborious, with a lot of extra steps added out of thin air, which reduced a lot of energy and wasted effort. Gu Qingyuan came here to achieve enlightenment, not to concentrate on practicing magic power. So how could the sparse foundation-building method be applicable to him?

Fortunately, his thoughts have become true spirits. As the saying goes, if the true spirit is immortal, all laws will be clear. Following the thread of this world's skills, it is also Gu Qingyuan's forte to modify them a little. As long as he doesn't go too far and use some big moves, even the immortals and gods won't be able to see through him.

With the Taoist scriptures left by the Immortal Fulong, and with that bit of magic power that allowed him to penetrate the truth of the Great Dao, a method that could be said to be the purest foundation of all time and the most pure foundation of all time came into being.

In this world of cultivation, the orthodox Xuanmen seeks purity, the Buddhist temple achieves tranquility, but there are also countless unorthodox ways, and the demon sects and evil spirits add to the expansion, forming the source of the success lineage.

One Qi forms a world. Practitioners all seek to get rid of evil roots, turbid Qi, and seek a trace of tranquility and perfection. There are different levels of skills, but the Tao is the same. No matter whether it is pure, turbid, or evil, they are all on the path of Tao. They complement each other and all follow the path of refining essence into Qi, and refining Qi into spirit.

In the mysterious universe, there is also the dense network of cause and effect, reincarnation, which gives rise to the path of destiny and catastrophe, and the method of accumulating good deeds and external merits is unique.

Practitioners not only cultivate magical powers, but also accumulate virtues, seek good deeds, and attract luck. Once their luck increases, they will become outstanding people of the time, which will trigger disasters. After the disasters are overcome, their luck will increase again. This cycle will repeat itself, and they will be able to break through the disasters and ascend to heaven.

If one dies in a calamity, one can also reincarnate into another, enter the cycle of reincarnation, and seek to accumulate good deeds and good luck, and eventually become an immortal or a saint, and ascend to heaven.

As long as you are not the one who hinders the heaven and earth, kills many people and commits unforgivable crimes, no matter whether you achieve the result through side doors or righteous means, you can accumulate good luck in the world, do good deeds, and finally become an immortal one day. This is truly the will of heaven and earth. To become an immortal through cultivating merits and virtues, the cause in the previous life and the result in this life all depends on the individual, and most of them are in accordance with the will of heaven, rather than like those who cultivate immortality like cultivating demons, doing things against heaven and robbing the fortune of heaven and earth.

As for the real big devil who has committed many crimes, such as harming others and killing people indiscriminately and committing unforgivable crimes, and who will be punished by heaven and earth, he has no righteous heart, and when the calamity comes, he will just kill them, turning the place into ashes and helping to boost the luck of others.

Therefore, heaven and earth sent down a killing calamity, leading to a battle between good and evil. Although countless true spirits were thrown into reincarnation to seek the afterlife, countless true immortals rose from the ground to ascend to heaven. The Tao was eliminated and the devil increased, the devil was defeated and the Tao was promoted. There were also many entanglements of cause and effect, and the calculations of the powerful, which created the current situation at the time.

"The foundation-building technique is complete, and it is time to choose a fundamental path to integrate the magic power."

Gu Qingyuan took out a pen and paper, recited the technique he casually named "Yi Qi Chao Yuan", and threw it behind the statue. Perhaps after a few hundred years, someone's luck would come, good deeds would be accomplished, and this true technique would be obtained, and a career would be established, and a cause and effect would be established with Gu Qingyuan. After a moment of thought, he decided to use the fire technique as the basis and cultivate a fire Taoist. First, although the Five Elements Great Method is widely taught, it is also a great way, and it is a grand and righteous way. Second, Gu Qingyuan had just arrived in this world and had no magic skills to accompany him. He had no treasures to protect himself. He practiced this fire technique to draw out a trace of true fire energy, and then used the method of refining instruments to produce a few magic weapons to protect the way.

He didn't want to be killed with all his ambitions and aspirations before he could even leave the temple, and his soul would be thrown into reincarnation. At that time, Gu Qingyuan, who had some dignity, would have to use his great power to erase this timeline to avoid being laughed at by others.

That group of characters are the true self of me, and they understand each other's temperament. They are good at exposing people's scars and speaking their mind. It was OK before they didn't know, but now they know, and they don't know how they will be arranged! In contrast, Gu Qingyuan, the group leader, who brags and chats with a group of fake newbies with white faces and black hearts every day, knows it best.

After a few strokes, Gu Qingyuan gathered his distracting thoughts, calmed his mind and regulated his breathing. He became unconscious, oblivious to the world and himself, observing the universe, sinking into heaven and earth, breathing in and out according to the law, and arousing the pure innate energy in the human body.

The breathing becomes deeper and deeper, following a specific rhythm. The air is divided into nine strands, intermittently, as if it cannot be raised up. Those strands of spiritual energy mixed with the breath are absorbed into the body. This is the Nine Breaths to Subdue the Air.

Gu Qingyuan held the Yuan and kept One, chanting Huangting quietly. His breath gradually faded away and became a state of fetal breathing. Once the fetal breathing was completed, the innate Yuan force in his silent body turned into pure Qi, which was drawn up and mixed into the spiritual power in his body.

The magic power, like a trickle of a stream, circulated for a few weeks and became smaller than before, leaving only a few traces of pure magic power, and the abandoned inspiration slowly dissipated.

The terrain of Fulong Temple is rugged and it is located in a remote area. Now that the spiritual energy within this hundred miles has been aroused, the first to notice it are the birds and beasts in the mountains. Birds flutter in the air and wild beasts run with a rumble. They move according to their instincts and run quickly along with the flow of spiritual energy. There are spiritual birds flying into the sky, wolves looking at the sun, white apes dancing, and wild deer chasing each other.

With a loud roar, a huge white-browed tiger with hanging eyes came down from the mountain, but it was indifferent to the blood and food around it. The natural enemies lived in harmony, and there was no longer a natural survival of the fittest and fighting for food with each other.

There was also a purple shadow that came quickly from the back mountain. After a few jumps, its figure could not be seen, but only the faint sounds of wind and thunder. It was several points faster than the white tiger with hanging eyes.

A group of wild beasts and spirit animals ran to a few miles away from the gym, took it as the center of the circle, and stood still, not stepping out of the line, only greedily breathing in the leaked spiritual energy at the edge.

Gu Qingyuan was aware of the strange phenomena outside the temple, but he did not care. He only used a trace of his magic power to cover up the aura of the place to avoid attracting strangers. He refined his magic power and removed the dross. The discarded inspiration was useless to him, but to those birds and beasts, it was no less than the essence of the sun and the moon.

He communicates with the heaven and earth, and also interacts with the spiritual energy of the heaven and earth to purify his magic power, and they complement each other. It can be called returning to the Tao, it can be called sharing the spirit, it is the way of choosing and giving up, giving up spiritual energy to replenish the heaven and earth, and the heaven and earth return the magic power, it is a cycle, the more you give up, the more you get.

When the moon reached the zenith, Gu Qingyuan slowly finished his work. For other Taoists, the hundred-day foundation-building and cleansing of foul air were completed in just half a day.

(End of this chapter)