Five Mountain God Bodies

Li Fan was extremely grateful that Real Person Xiao Hong, who guarded Xiangzi Peak, had specially left her body and flown thousands of miles to transmit the Dharma. He then looked at the attributes of the Gui Xu Dao Yi. He learned that learning one more Dao Body Technique of Tai Su Transformation would also increase the number of clones. Referring to the example of Fairy Wangshu, these clones were not just about having an extra life or a different transformation, but rather about a comprehensive increase in cultivation, power, and magic.

Although transformation techniques like Qiongqi's would consume two hundred years of lifespan and reduce his emotional limit, it wouldn't actually be a loss for Li Fan. According to the calculation that a Golden Core Postnatal Immortal Dao Nascent Soul Stage faces a lightning tribulation every five hundred years, Li Fan only needs to retain a little over five hundred points of emotional limit as lifespan. Even if he goes to the Tai Su Realm to Moon Worship, he just needs to remember to perform the hand seals. After he cultivates his Gui Xu Nascent Soul the Void, he can still benefit from it, so he doesn't need to worry about his emotional limit dropping to the point of death. To be on the safe side, he can keep about two thousand points to deal with any potential loss of control over his Dao body.

Of course, the most important thing is to have a lower mood cap, so it's easier for him to farm energy rewards.

After making these initial plans, Li Fan decided to go to Lei Marsh! To cultivate! To cultivate the damn Tai Su Transformation Method!

The next day, Profound Heaven Sword Intent said it still needed to study the system's Gui Xu Dao Yi to see what grade it was, and it disdained to steal other people's spells. Kun, on the other hand, was putting what it had just learned into practice, teaching Cloud Hidden Leopard the Acquired Barbecue Dao.

Li Fan then rode on his Sword Light, using the Fagui Sword Escape Technique to fly straight to the summit of Xiangzi Peak.

Perhaps because the event of Real Person Xiao Hong's spirit transmitting the Dharma was unlocked, he didn't need to use the Si Nan to search for long this time. After circling around, he found a stone chamber on the cliff. He hadn't noticed it when he came to choose a spiritual site to settle down before. Perhaps the Immortal's spirit came yesterday to break the seal barrier?

Li Fan stepped directly into the stone chamber and immediately saw Revered Heavenly Demon: one with a bird's body Dragon Head, the other with a dragon's body and a bird's or beast's head, and the third with a dragon's body and a human face.

This was presumably a study room prepared by Real Person Xiao Hong for the new disciples of Mo Shan. Li Fan bowed and offered a handful of rice as a sacrifice to the mountain god. He then entered the room and indeed saw many murals carved on the walls, depicting the transformation methods of the three gods outside. In addition to the introduction of these three gods, there were detailed anatomical descriptions of meridians, muscles, and bones, as well as instructions on the proper way to practice Qi circulation. The instructions were very detailed; Li Fan could understand them at a glance even without the master demonstrating the postures on the bed.

Sigh, it seems there are actually many good teachers in this world, but he just happened to run into the most mismatched combination. If Li Fan hadn't been a genius, he would have been completely ruined if his comprehension had been slightly lacking...

So Li Fan calmed down and began to study the method of transmitting power in the stone chamber. According to the records of Real Person Xiao Hong, these three were all orthodox mountain gods, and could evolve to the highest level of Transformation Stage. Moreover, their transformations were relatively simple, so it was recommended that new disciples learn them. However, since all three were mountain gods of Nanshan, it was enough to learn only one of their transformations.

Li Fan recited the instructions several times, memorizing the transformation methods of the three mountain gods. After thinking for a moment, he decided not to transform himself. Instead, he would ride his Sword Light back and forth to Five Sons Peak to collect the introductory gift packages prepared by the five immortals for newcomers. He could choose the best ones later.

Thus, Li Fan explored the five peaks, his Sword Light back and forth. He opened all five stone chambers, gaining a general understanding of the basic transformation methods of the Mo Shan lineage.

He wasn't a newcomer to the path; based on his learning over the past year, he had organized his understanding of the methods for the transformation of newcomers at Five Sons Peak. Referring to his brief two meetings with the Five-Colored Squad and considering their individual attributes, Li Fan summarized and made his own deductions.

Shenzi Peak, guarded by Xiao Jin, belongs to the Divine Hardness and is the successor of the West Mountain God's transformation methods: human face and horse body, human face and ox body, and sheep body and human face.

Shengzi Peak, guarded by Xiao Qing, belongs to Return to Dust and is said to possess the transformation techniques of the Zhongshan Mountain God, who has a human face and bird body, a pig body and human face, and a horse body Dragon Head.

Xiangzi Peak, guarded by Xiao Crimson Fiend. It is said to be the transformation method of the Southern Mountain God, who has the body of a bird Dragon Head a dragon, the body of a dragon and the head of a bird or beast, and the body of a dragon and the face of a human.

Xiezi Peak, the guardian of Xiao Zi, belongs to Purple Radiance. He is the successor of the Eastern Mountain God's transformation method, possessing a human body with Dragon Head, an animal's body with a human face, and a human body with sheep horns.

Fuzi Peak, guarded by Xiao Bai, belongs to Dark Underworld. It is said to be the site of the transformation method of the northern mountain god, who has a human face and snake body, a horse body and human face, and a pig body and snake tail.

If we convert it to the Five Elements theory, these Five Sons Peak form a formation where the Five Elements generate each other. Starting from the southernmost Fuzi Peak, the elements of Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal cycle and generate each other, sending the spiritual energy of heaven and earth northward to the Ink Bamboo Mountain Grotto-Heaven.

Although these methods of mountain god transformation are all strange and unusual, they are relatively simple among the forty-nine transformations of Tai Su. At most, one can cultivate them to the peak of the Transformation Stage. The requirements for one's Dao heart are not high, making them a reliable Dao body suitable for beginner disciples to master.

Of course, this "entry level" probably refers to the Mo Shan lineage, the "entry-level disciples" at the Nascent Soul Realm. Those at the Golden Core Stage who receive special training should just honestly follow the transformations of spirit beasts, transforming into things like monkeys or snakes.

However, Li Fan is different from others; he is a prodigy, and reaching the Nascent Soul Stage is just around the corner! Presumably, the Five-Colored Squad also realized how terrifying Li Fan was and couldn't afford to waste his time on that fool Wangshu. So they directly transmitted the basic techniques of Five Sons Peak.

Based on the attributes of the Five-Colored Squad and the classification of the Five Mountain Gods, Li Fan figured out that he didn't need to learn all the changes. At most, he could choose one of the three familiar mountain god changes from each peak to cultivate, and finally achieve the transformation of his five Dao bodies and the circulation of his internal energy. Once that was achieved, his Nascent Soul Realm would be stable.

It just so happens that the Cultivation Method supporting his Divine Court Golden Core is the Five Luo Sword Ghosts Secret Training. Each of the Five Luo Sword Ghosts practices the Mountain God Dao Body of the corresponding attribute, and uses the Gui Xu Nascent Soul to control these five Dao Bodies. On the other hand, the Qiongqi Dao Body is controlled by the Limitless Nascent Soul Stage, which is almost enough to achieve the Nascent Soul Realm.

Considering that he was cultivating the Divine Court Golden Core, Golden Core was stored in his head, and that he could still use the Crimson Vein Child Sword Technique, Li Fan, after a brief consideration, selected five mountain gods from the Five Sons Peak: one with a human face and a bull's body, one with a human face and a bird's body, one with a human face and a dragon's body, one with a human face and a beast's body, and one with a human face and a snake's body, as his Dao bodies. This way, he could take a shortcut and lazily avoid cultivating five heads...

Anyway, Li Fan made up his mind and returned to his immortal abode to cultivate in seclusion.

Based on his deduction of the Five-Colored Squad attributes, it would be most appropriate to cultivate the five Dao bodies in the order of mutual generation of the five elements. Moreover, he was extremely familiar with the Dark Underworld attribute human-faced snake body, since Real Person Wanshu practiced this all day long!

Li Fan mastered this transformation in just one night, thanks to system verification.

' Li Fan has successfully cultivated the North Mountain God Dao Body (Beginner Level), consuming 100 points of his current mood cap, which is now 3600.'

It seems to be a simple, beginner-level transformation, with the upper limit of emotion only half that of Qiongqi back then. Moreover, based on the transformation method of Qiongqi before, Li Fan only needed to construct the body of the Northern Mountain God in his Divine Sense before he heard the system's judgment.

It's true what they say, starting with the difficult parts makes everything easier; learning anything becomes a breeze.

Li Fan tried it out. He swayed his shoulder and coiled his entire body up, leaving only his head visible. Looking down at the purplish-black scales of the snake's body, he could clearly feel that his control over the Dark Underworld Spiritual Qi had increased. If there were a reference value for his magical power cultivation and the basic attributes of his Dao body, they should also have increased.

After merely glancing at his Dao body to confirm that he could transform freely, Li Fan immediately reverted to human form. Having a system was truly convenient; as long as he completed the visualization of the Mountain God's Dao body and heard the system verify that his Dao body was correct, he could transform.

Compared to the near-disaster with Qiongqi, Li Fan can now transform at will without any problems. He can completely control his Dao body, which is probably suppressed by two Nascent Soul Stage and a Qiongqi. This kind of low-level mountain god Dao body wouldn't dare to cause trouble, right?

Li Fan felt confident and assured that there would be no problem, so he simply continued his cultivation into the next stage that very night.

Xiezi Peak's East Mountain Mountain God Dao Body was not difficult to obtain. This beast body belonged to the hoofed beast category. Li Fan had also eaten a lot of green rhinoceroses, so he took a look and managed to transform into a human-faced rhinoceros before dawn.

' Li Fan has successfully cultivated the East Mountain Mountain God Dao Body (Beginner Level), consuming 100 points of his current mood cap, which is now 3500.'

It really doesn't feel like much... The impact on my Dao heart is nowhere near as significant as Qiongqi's! Continue!

Next was the human-faced dragon-bodied form, inspired by the Coiled Dragon and the White Dragon used by the Fairy Wangshu. It took a whole day...

' Li Fan has successfully cultivated the Nanshan Mountain God Body (Beginner Level), consuming 100 points of his current mood cap, which is now 3400.'

The three Dao bodies... seem to be having a slight effect. I'm hungry, but I can still hold on. I can always take some drugs! Let's continue! Human-faced, bird-bodied mountain god, let's go!

After another period of seclusion and cultivation,

' Li Fan has successfully cultivated the Zhongshan Mountain God Body (Beginner Level), consuming 100 points of his current mood cap, which is now 3300.'

This time, Li Fan felt noticeably hungry. He went outside to check and found that the Profound Heaven Sword Intent had disappeared. Meanwhile, Kun and Cloud Hidden Leopard had actually deduced and mastered the method of the charcoal grill on their own!

Li Fan was so frightened that he thought the two of them had undergone a super evolution during their centuries of seclusion!

Well, after asking around, I found out that this closed-door cultivation took seven days, and the oven was ordered by Kun from Heavenly Craft Peak... So Li Fan had no choice but to use his wooden kite to pay the deposit, and also snatched two pieces of meat from them to stave off hunger. They were half-cooked, so I'll give them 30 cents.

Unbeknownst to me, it took me seven days to visualize the structure of the Dao body, which clearly indicates that it is beginning to have an impact on my Dao heart!

In fact, the transformation method taught by the five immortals in the stone chamber was written very clearly and was not difficult. However, when Li Fan was visualizing it, he began to be distracted involuntarily. Although he was visualizing the bird-shaped body, the body structure of a snake-dragon-rhinoceros would involuntarily appear on its own. It should be that his primordial spirit was under a certain burden.

But it finally worked out.

There's still one last Dao body left. Li Fan feels that his current state is even better than when Qiongqi went out of control, and he should be able to hold on.

The last leg of a journey is the hardest! Time for drugs! Keep going!

One month later,

' Li Fan has successfully cultivated the West Mountain God Body (Beginner Level), consuming 100 points of his current mood cap, which is now 3200.'

Li Fan has completed the cultivation of the Five Mountain Mountain God Dao Body!

By the way, Kun and Cloud Hidden Leopard's skills have improved too!

It's amazing that you two, one using fins and the other using claws, can still control the heat...

Li Fan then said, "I am very relieved that you can all support yourselves." He then grabbed the roasted meat from Kun and Bao and ran away, mixing it with the Donghua Changchun Pill to eat. This finally relieved his hunger and replenished some of the protein his body needed.

This seclusion lasted longer, and during the cultivation process, he began to become distracted, leading to errors in the structure of his Dao body that he himself did not even realize.

Fortunately, the system would provide an official notification if the Dao Body was constructed correctly, so after starting over twice, Li Fan successfully completed the construction of the Five Mountain Mountain God Dao Body. It could now be used as a Dao Body to change at will.

Compared to when he possessed the Qiongqi Dao Body and even experienced a complete loss of control over his body, he now only suffers from mental fatigue. In fact, Li Fan feels that he hasn't reached his limit yet. However, forcing himself to cultivate further would be inefficient.

Moreover, Li Fan only managed to forcefully enter the Five Mountain Mountain God Dao Body by relying on his own comprehension. Mastering the initial transformation method is just the beginning. He still needs some time to adjust and master it. However, it seems that the Five Mountain Mountain God Dao Body is much more stable than the fierce god Qiongqi. Basically, as long as the Five Luo Sword Ghosts are separated to suppress it, it can remain stable and not chaotic.

However, he now has to use the Five Luo Sword Ghosts to distract himself from suppressing the Five Mountain Gods, so he can't use the Sword Ghosts to control swords and qi for the time being. Of course, the basic attributes of his Dao Body should have increased significantly now.

Although I haven't tested the output limit by using the palm technique to blast the mountain yet, it took a lot of effort three months ago to move the Celestial Devil Statue of the Si Niu to a spiritual cave near the residence and transform it into the Qiongqi Dao Body.

But now, Li Fan only needs to use his human-shaped Dao body to gather his energy, and with a simple lift of his hands, he can hoist the Celestial Devil Statue on Xiangzi Peak onto his head and hop back over mountains and valleys.

The transformation method of the Tai Su Dao is truly wonderful; it's fast and powerful. Aside from the fact that if you're not careful and can't retract it, you'll become someone's drinking companion, there's really no flaw to be found.

After going back and forth like this, carrying back five corresponding statues of the Revered Heavenly Demon Mountain God left behind by his predecessors from the stone chamber of Five Sons Peak, Li Fan has almost learned to control his new body, so that he won't accidentally lose control and crush the Kun to death.

The mountain god statues from the five mountains were moved back and placed near the corresponding Spiritual Spring and energy points. This way, not only could they cultivate in the corresponding Revered Heavenly Demon World, but Li Fan's own small dojo could also have a basic five-element formation for protection.

To be honest, Li Fan's array-setting skills were quite rough, not much better than Fairy Wangshu's. But perhaps the Mountain God's Suppression of the Mountain had some special bonus, or something like that. The Five Elements Mountain Array was activated, and the effect was surprisingly good. The aura in the entire array was balanced and peaceful, and the spiritual energy was abundant. It really had a bit of the feel of a fairyland on earth, and also a bit of the feel of a secluded place.

Even the Profound Heaven Sword Intent commented, "It's only slightly better than trash."

That's great, okay!

Ahem, but Li Fan wasn't in a hurry to cultivate the Mountain God's Body. He'd been cultivating the Five Mountain Gods' Body for a month and was starving; he figured Qiongqi was hungry. He needed to go eat a few rhinoceroses to fill his stomach first, and then cultivate his Returning to Emptiness True Essence a bit more, so he wouldn't run out of Daoist robes.

Once you're fully recovered, follow the order of the five elements' mutual generation, starting with the North Mountain Human-faced Snake-bodied God Body, and proceed to the Tai Su Realm to cultivate your Dao body in sequence. Once you've fully cultivated the Five Mountain Gods bodies, you should be able to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.

Excellent! With my extraordinary and unparalleled talent, five years to forge a sword is a bit of a stretch, but five years to Nascent Soul Stage the Nascent Soul stage is no problem!

"Hmph, hmph haha, hmph hmph haha! Hohahahahaha! Ahahahahahaha!!!"

Kun and Leopard listened to the bursts of wild laughter coming from the quiet room, exchanged a glance, shrugged, and continued their study of the Barbecue Road.

At least they both understand the saying, "Diligence is the path to the mountain of books, and hard work is the boat to the boundless sea of learning."

I'll be updating twice a day during the recommendation period. Thank you all for your support!