Divine Treasure Promotes, Descends

Martial Arts Hall.

Li Qingxu sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, sixty-three Wood Bud Crystals neatly arranged before him as streams of energy surged rapidly into his body.

Although the energy within the Wood Bud Crystals was also cosmic energy, it differed from the extremely thin cosmic energy found on Earth.

The energy of the Wood Bud Crystals was incredibly pure and refined, possessing an exceptionally high quality.

Furthermore, it was brimming with vitality and possessed a distinct spiritual resonance!

At this moment, the Western Emperor Scripture operated automatically; the Dao Palace resembled five dragons coiling and soaring, surrounded by swirling mists, with the five energies surging toward the heavens.

In an instant, the aura pierced the clouds, and the metallic essence rang out with a clanging sound.

He was drawn into a divine metallic radiance, sitting cross-legged beneath the firmament as his sea of energy gushed forth like a tidal wave.

The Lung Divine Treasury, belonging to the Metal element of the Five Phases, was the chief of the five viscera and was known as the Canopy.

A sharp, piercing aura shot into the sky, clanging incessantly as if ten thousand swords were singing in unison.

Li Qingxu's skin shimmered with a metallic luster, sharp as a blade capable of cleaving the blue sky, its edge so intimidating that none dared to confront it.

The Lung Divine Treasury hooked into the myriad energies, drawing upon his essence, energy, and spirit to distribute them throughout his entire body.

Reaching the skin and hair, it inhaled the origin of heaven and earth, containing a vibrant, burgeoning vitality!

At this moment, the turbid energy within Li Qingxu's Dao Palace vanished, replaced by surging divine essence; he was crystal clear, from his limbs and bones to his skin and pores, feeling incomparably lucid.

All energies belonged to the Lung Divine Treasury, connecting with heaven and earth; the essence required by the physical body was generated primarily through it.

With the replenishment of the Wood Bud Crystal energy, Li Qingxu quickly completed his cultivation of the Lung Divine Treasury within the Dao Palace.

The Western Emperor Scripture was profoundly deep and unfathomably miraculous, revealing the secrets of heaven and seizing the fortunes of the universe!

Why was the Dao Palace Secret Realm called a Dao Palace? It was because it resembled an eternal palace, containing endless Dao power within.

The five great divine treasuries were hazy and indistinct; behind them, five eternal ancient temples loomed, majestic and distant, mysterious and blurred.

When one entered a state of selflessness and emptiness, where body and mind were tranquil, one could hear the rhythmic sounds of the Great Dao.

It was like the chanting of Zen, or perhaps the sacrificial sounds of the ancients, as if traversing time and space to drift in from the distant past.

The Dao Palace was like the heavens, giving birth to five halls.

Though blurred and hazy, their existence could be sensed; the Zen chanting and the ancient sacrificial sounds pierced through time and space, drifting in from the ethereal void.

The human body was like heaven and earth, corresponding to the great world; the reason the Dao Palace was so named was that it housed the "Dao Self."

This belonged to the Dao-natured aspect of a person, corresponding to the Dao of the great world.

The chanting and ancient sacrificial sounds emanating from the halls were, in fact, the "Dao Self" resonating with the Great Dao of the world—an interaction between the internal and external.

More precisely, it was the act of capturing the traces of the Dao and comprehending the ultimate principles of the Great Dao.

The true nature of the Dao Self did not manifest externally; it resided within the five energies, silently hooking into the Great Dao of heaven and earth.

The Dao Palace derived the Five Phases, and the Five Phases secretly aligned with the ultimate principles of heaven and earth.

This meant that the Dao-natured aspect of myself was comprehending the Great Dao, contemplating the principles of longevity, and nourishing the master of life.

It was not some Zen chanting or ancient sacrificial sound, but rather me, myself, attaining the Dao.

For three full months, Li Qingxu remained immersed in an ethereal state, his body undergoing marvelous changes.

The Western Emperor Scripture was incomparably miraculous, operating of its own accord.

Within the Dao Palace, it seemed as though Zen chanting and ancient sacrificial sounds pierced through time and space, drifting in from the ethereal void.

At the same time, the Golden Bitter Sea began to ripple, the Bitter Sea Planting Green Lotus manifestation emerged, the mist grew hazy, and the Dao Scripture also operated of its own accord.

In this moment, the profound arts moved in parallel, harmonious and natural.

The Wheel Sea and the Dao Palace pulsed, divine power flowing through them from top to bottom, as if heaven and earth were connected, unified into a single primordial whole.

Li Qingxu was as ethereal as the Dao; though he sat upon the ground, he felt as if he were perched upon the clouds, possessing a sense of transcendence.

This was a marvelous, profound state—an understanding and realization of cultivation. The Wheel Sea and the Dao Palace resonated together, blending like water and milk, allowing his Dao power to flow endlessly.

This was also a baptism; his physical body shimmered with crystalline light, his spirit was full, and his body and mind were tempered and sublimated, bringing his original realm toward perfection.

He remained at the third heaven of the Dao Palace, yet he was entirely different; the Wheel Sea and the Dao Palace pulsed in unison, and he had captured the traces of the Dao.

The Wheel Sea and the Dao Palace resonated together, the Dao Scripture and the Western Emperor Scripture moving in parallel, flawless and complete, harmonious and unified.

It left his body and mind clear and pure; every movement of his hands and feet felt as if he were wielding the Great Dao itself.

When the ninety-ninth day passed, the two imperial scriptures ceased their operation, and the sixty-three Wood Bud Crystals had been completely absorbed.

Yet, the cosmic energy omnipresent on Earth surged in like a tidal wave, completely submerging the Martial Arts Hall where Li Qingxu resided.

This lasted for three full days.

Li Qingxu suddenly rose, two rays of Taiji divine light shooting from his eyes.

His black hair hung loose, and he stood proudly, his blood and energy like a great river, his body filled with immense power.

At this moment, he felt he could shatter a mountain with a single punch, possessing an inexhaustible reservoir of strength within.

After one hundred and two days of cultivation, he had finally entered the third heaven of the Dao Palace, having successfully cultivated the Liver Divine Treasury, which belonged to the Wood element of the Five Phases.

He first cultivated the Heart Divine Treasury, then the Lung Divine Treasury, and followed with the Liver Divine Treasury, practicing the reverse Five Elements.

When he eventually reaches the Great Sage realm, the Sacred Body will focus on the Dao Palace Secret Realm, practicing the Five Elements in their natural order.

The reverse and natural Five Elements are like the yin and yang, the light and dark, of the Taiji.

When both reach their ultimate peak, they will fuse into the primordial Five Elements, unifying the Dao Palace and achieving absolute perfection.

In the outer space of Earth, the stars twinkled.

"Whoosh!"

A golden streak of light cut across the cosmic void, flying directly toward Earth at near-light speed.

This golden streak rapidly pierced through the atmosphere, plummeting toward the planet.

It headed toward a stretch of sea roughly several hundred nautical miles away from a cluster of islands in the Pacific Ocean.

"Whoosh!"

The golden light streaked across the sky and plunged into the sea; strangely, despite the near-light speed of its descent, it did not cause the slightest ripple on the surface of the water.

Not only did the ocean remain undisturbed, but every satellite and monitoring device across the entire Earth failed to detect the golden streak.

Deep within the Pacific Ocean.

More than three thousand meters below the surface, the golden light had dissipated, leaving behind only an oval-shaped black egg about twelve meters in diameter.

The black shell was covered in strange, golden patterns.

For the moment, all was silent!

Satellites from various nations on Earth, and even the specialized monitoring devices at ancient civilization ruins, continued to operate as usual, with not a single one detecting its arrival.

Ever since the Great Nirvana period, the oceans had been the domain of monsters.

The sea area was far larger than the land, and the boundless ocean had given birth to all manner of monsters.

The massive, oval-shaped black egg lay quietly, motionless.

About twelve minutes after it had plunged into this sea area, a fish-type monster with cyan scales, measuring seven or eight meters in length, swam up to the giant egg.

The fish-type monster swam slowly; possessing simple intelligence, it guessed that the giant egg before it was likely not a stone.

Suddenly, the fish-type monster opened its massive maw, revealing rows of large, sharp, interlocking teeth that resembled a saw, and bit down fiercely onto the black egg.

"Crack!"

The massive fish-type monster shook its head in pain, and several broken teeth fell from its still-gaping mouth.

Terrified, the cyan-scaled fish-type monster flicked its tail and fled rapidly.

The giant black egg remained motionless on the seabed, its shell still pitch-black and streaked with mysterious golden patterns.

The terrifying bite from that fish-type monster had not left even a single mark.