Twelve Immortal Physiques (Part 2)
The Lifespan Wheel and Life Palace were different. If you were born with an Innate Lifespan Wheel, then you had an Innate Lifespan Wheel; if you were born with an Imperial Fate, then you had an Imperial Fate! This could not be changed. Even if you became incomparably powerful and turned into an Immortal Emperor, it still could not be changed—unless you intended to alter your fate!
In cultivation, physique, Lifespan Wheel, and Life Palace were all indispensable. Each was of paramount importance. Physique determined the quality of one's bones and body; the Lifespan Wheel determined whether one's blood energy was vigorous; the Life Palace determined one's talent and comprehension.
For example, if you possessed a Sage Wheel, then your blood energy would be as abundant as a vast sea. Cultivating the same technique, not only would you progress faster than others, but its power would also be greater.
Li Qiye slowly read and comprehended "Moon Vortex Sun **," gradually recovering all of its profound truths. In truth, the manual of "Moon Vortex Sun **" preserved by the Washing Yan Ancient Sect was complete and flawless. However, the profound truths Li Qiye knew and had derived were far deeper than those within this manual!
Speaking of "Moon Vortex Sun **," it had an extraordinary origin. In truth, Li Qiye had poured countless efforts into this technique. During the early years of the emperors, he had once intended for Immortal Emperor Mingren to cultivate this art, but he later abandoned the idea.
In the savage primordial era, both the Human Race and the Demon Race had been weak beings. To survive, countless forebears charged forward one after another, creating innumerable cultivation techniques. Only then did they eventually usher in an age of flourishing prosperity.
In that distant savage era, an astonishingly gifted forebear had created a rapidly cultivated longevity art: "Moon Vortex Sun **." This genius could be called peerlessly brilliant. This technique truly allowed rapid progress; during the early stages of cultivation, a cultivator could use their own blood energy to drive their Fate Soul and swiftly raise their cultivation.
However, "Moon Vortex Sun **" had a fatal weakness. During its early stages, vigorous blood energy could indeed act like an engine to propel one's cultivation. Yet as one's cultivation grew stronger, personal blood energy could no longer sustain the cultivation of the Fate Soul technique. At that point, blood energy would fail to keep up and cultivation would stagnate. If one forced their cultivation, they might even lose years of their life!
During the savage era, Li Qiye obtained this technique and passed it on to quite a few people, but none could cultivate it to perfection. To improve this technique, Li Qiye had expended countless painstaking efforts. Later, he even brought in several Immortal Emperors to participate in its refinement, such as Immortal Emperor Xuexi, Immortal Emperor Mingren, Immortal Emperor Tunri, and others.
It was not until the era of the Black Dragon King that Li Qiye truly perfected "Moon Vortex Sun **." Today, as Li Qiye slowly studied and comprehended the "Moon Vortex Sun **" manual in his hands, all the memories concerning its profound truths gradually returned once more. Those erased memories slowly surfaced in his mind.
In the end, Li Qiye possessed the complete "Moon Vortex Sun **" in his mind. After putting away the manual, he could not help taking a deep breath.
Although this process had not taken long, how could the world know how much painstaking effort Li Qiye had poured into "Moon Vortex Sun **" over millions upon millions of years? How many would know how many Human Race forebears had pressed onward one after another for the sake of "Moon Vortex Sun **"?
In truth, after Li Qiye left this manual in the Washing Yan Ancient Sect, quite a few of the sect's geniuses had also tried this technique. Yet in the end, not a single person was able to cultivate it to completion.
To comprehend the Kun Peng Six Transformations and "Moon Vortex Sun **," Li Qiye spent a full three days and three nights. After three days had passed, Nan Huairen had yet to return. However, Li Qiye was in no hurry to select a treasure artifact. He remained on the solitary peak and began cultivating.
Li Qiye had already sorted out his longevity art and fate technique. Once everything was ready, he began cultivating. When it came to cultivation, Li Qiye possessed incomparably abundant experience. Though his talent was lacking, no one could compare to him in experience.
However, although Li Qiye already possessed heaven-defying techniques such as the Kun Peng Six Transformations and "Moon Vortex Sun **," he did not rush for quick success. He cultivated step by step, for he knew that any haste would leave hidden dangers along his long road of cultivation.
Li Qiye cultivated the Kun Peng Six Transformations and "Moon Vortex Sun **" at the same time. However, the two were unrelated and did not communicate with one another.
The Kun Peng Six Transformations was a fate technique for protecting one's life and slaying enemies, while "Moon Vortex Sun **" was a longevity art for extending one's life and nourishing one's blood. One cultivated the Life Palace; the other cultivated the Lifespan Wheel. During the early stages, the two could remain unrelated and be cultivated separately.
Cultivation techniques could be divided into four types. First, longevity arts that extended life and nourished blood; second, fate techniques that protected life and slew enemies; third, physique arts that forged the body and cleansed the marrow; fourth, Heavenly Mandate Secret Arts that carried the Heavenly Mandate!
There was also another kind of cultivation technique, known by some as a foundational heart method or basic heart method. This kind of heart method was an all-purpose one, combining blood nourishment, life protection, and body forging into one. A single technique could cultivate the Lifespan Wheel, Life Palace, and physique!
Although this kind of heart method was all-purpose, most such methods were relatively low-level and limited in power. It was difficult to reach an incomparably powerful realm by cultivating one.
Cultivation techniques also had ranks. For example, the ancestor of the Nine Sacred Demon Gate, the Nine Sacred Heavenly Demon, was an incomparably powerful grand sage. Techniques created by beings of this level were called grand sage techniques. As for Immortal Emperors, the techniques they created were called Immortal Emperor techniques, or Imperial Techniques!
With the same physique and the same talent, different cultivation techniques would lead to different levels of cultivation. Within the same span of time, one cultivating Imperial Techniques would certainly be stronger than one cultivating grand sage techniques.
As for Heavenly Mandate Secret Arts, there was no need to say more. These were secret arts that carried the Heavenly Mandate, so heaven-defying that they defied imagination.
Of course, cultivation techniques were not omnipotent. Without a steadfast Dao Heart, everything would ultimately be floating clouds. Since time immemorial, how many geniuses had cultivated heaven-defying techniques and found their path of cultivation smooth sailing, only to eventually suffer deviation and madness? Or there were those breathtakingly gifted geniuses who had cultivated Immortal Emperor techniques from birth, but in the end, when contending with others for the Heavenly Mandate, could not create their own Heavenly Mandate Secret Arts and became failures of their generation.
Li Qiye understood these great principles of cultivation better than anyone. Thus, even though he possessed countless secrets, he still cultivated step by step!
Li Qiye cultivated both arts at once. As he used the true formula of "Moon Vortex Sun **" to drive his Lifespan Wheel, the effects were obvious. Gradually, rings of light emerged behind Li Qiye's head. Like the growth rings of a tree, they turned one after another. As the Lifespan Wheel revolved, blood energy also rose, fell, and flowed within it.
As blood energy flowed with the Lifespan Wheel, it resembled river water driven onward by a waterwheel, babbling without cease and flowing without end.
Blood energy was the foundation of a person's health. If blood energy weakened, one would suffer birth, aging, sickness, and death.
Li Qiye had been born with Mortal Meridians. His innate advantage in this regard was extremely weak, and his blood energy could only be said to fill a basin. Thus, when his Lifespan Wheel rose, fell, and revolved, his blood energy babbled without cease and flowed without end.
If one possessed an Innate Lifespan Wheel or an Imperial Wheel, their blood energy would surge endlessly like a great river. In particular, those with Sage-grade Lifespan Wheels had blood energy roaring like the sea!
Li Qiye used his will to drive the true formula of the Kun Peng Six Transformations, knocking on his own Life Palace time and again. Everyone possessed their own Life Palace.
The Life Palace was where one's true life resided, and also where the three souls and six spirits spoken of by mortals resided. The Life Palace was hidden within the Mud Palace acupoint. As Li Qiye knocked with the true formula of the Kun Peng Six Transformations, the Life Palace gradually rose and fell into view from within the Mud Palace acupoint.
When the Life Palace appeared, the entire palace was ancient and dignified, crystalline as jade. Li Qiye merely possessed a Mortal Fate, so his Life Palace only exhaled and inhaled a faint glow.
If one possessed an Imperial Fate, then their Life Palace would exhale and inhale thick, long golden light. Such a Life Palace was extremely domineering. Li Qiye only had a Mortal Fate; the innate advantage of his Life Palace could not compare to people with Sage Fates.
When the Life Palace was closed, the souls and spirits slumbered. Only by knocking open the Life Palace, awakening the souls and spirits, and communicating with the power of life could one cultivate and build the Dao!
Thus, the first realm for cultivators was the Palace Knocking Realm. The Palace Knocking Realm had three minor levels, from lowest to highest: first, Knocking the Door; second, Awakening; third, Blood Surge.
Knocking the Door, as the name implied, meant knocking upon the door of the Life Palace and allowing the true formula of one's fate technique to enter it. This cultivation process was like a Buddhist disciple kowtowing to the Buddha time and again. Only through unceasing effort and repeated knocking, waiting until the Life Palace responded, could one knock open the door of the Life Palace.
Li Qiye used the Kun Peng Six Transformations to strike the door of his Life Palace again and again. "Dong, dong, dong"—the sounds of repeated knocking echoed endlessly in Li Qiye's mind.
Again and again, Li Qiye used the true formula to knock without pause. He did not know how many thousands of times he had knocked, yet the Life Palace still gave no response. Even so, Li Qiye did not stop. He continued knocking time and again.
For geniuses, especially those with Sage Fates, knocking upon the door of the Life Palace was far too easy. Their Fate Souls were powerful, making it easy to receive a response. Legend had it that some with Sage Fates could knock open the doors of their Life Palaces with a single strike.
Such people were geniuses among geniuses. Naturally, Li Qiye was not one of them, so he needed to strive time and again. Only countless efforts could bring success.
In truth, Li Qiye had other methods to knock open the door of his Life Palace in one go. He could use "Moon Vortex Sun **" to drive all his blood energy, using the blood energy of his entire body as power to activate the true formula of the Kun Peng Six Transformations. With the force of his blood energy, he could blast open the door of his Life Palace. Carrying the might of his blood energy, Li Qiye could likewise knock open the door of his Life Palace in one strike.
However, Li Qiye did not do so, because it would leave hidden dangers behind. He had a Mortal Fate, and his blood energy was weak to begin with. Forcibly driving his blood energy would damage his Lifespan Wheel, while forcing open the door with blood energy would also alarm his Fate Soul. Though this method of cultivation was fast, it would leave hidden dangers for his future cultivation.
Therefore, Li Qiye laid a solid foundation. With an unwavering Dao Heart, he knocked upon the door of his Life Palace again and again. Even if it took ten thousand times or a hundred thousand times, he would keep knocking until his Life Palace responded.
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