Eight-Nine Mystical Art!

Compared to martial artists who trained through the coldest days of winter and the hottest days of summer, laying their foundations with horse stances from childhood,

Dong Lin had skipped many steps and, through sheer tenacity and willpower, forcefully entered the first realm of Body Tempering in just four short days.

"Compared to martial artists who had built their foundations since childhood, a fast-trained martial artist like Dong Lin might lack some depth.

But among the four realms of Body Tempering, as long as he polished himself thoroughly, there shouldn't be too obvious a gap."

After entering the Body Tempering Realm, Dong Lin felt his entire body brimming with strength.

He truly felt the vivid vitality brought by this body, something that had rarely existed on his former path of immortality.

By the end of their cultivation, most immortals had grown numb from training, and some had even become extreme existences who severed their seven emotions and six desires, pursuing the Supreme Forgetting of Emotion.

"Eh, this is!"

Dong Lin suddenly felt the golden light in his mind quietly explode.

Ancient immortal script appeared around Dong Lin's body. Unable to move, Dong Lin could only passively accept everything before him.

At this moment, he continually comprehended and absorbed an ocean of knowledge.

The true mysteries of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art finally lifted their veil before Dong Lin!

Eight-Nine Mystical True Register

It was said that heaven and earth possessed the mechanism of turning, while the human body held the eight-nine transformations.

Those who modeled heaven and earth drew Kan to fill Li; those who passed through the hidden and reached the clear shed form and transformed matter.

Its essence lay in the nine turns of the Mystical Art and the eight transformations of divine mechanism, expounding the mysteries of cultivating nature and life together.

Volume One: Complete Record of the Nine-Turn Mystical Art

First Turn: Dust-Cleansing Body Purification

At the hour of the Tiger, face east. Between inhalation and exhalation, draw in purple qi to temper the meridians. Black filth seeped from the pores like ink, unceasing for three days.

Once all turbid matter had been expelled, the body became as translucent as glazed crystal, allowing one to observe one's organs and meridians internally.

Immortals and Daoist priests were not born divine; only by accumulating essence and gathering qi did they become true. This was the foundation of Foundation Establishment.

Volume Two: Correct Method of the Eight Divine Transformations

First Transformation: Five Elements Divine Art

The liver belonged to wood and escaped as green smoke; the heart belonged to fire and became flowing flames; the lungs belonged to metal and rang like swords; the kidneys belonged to water and surged with dark waves; the spleen belonged to earth and concealed mountains.

The art borrowed the qi of the Five Elements to build the great Dao of yin and yang.

"Cultivating nature and life together, cultivating nature and life together!" Dong Lin murmured.

Now, the Eight-Nine Mystical Art that Dong Lin had dreamed of day and night had truly appeared before him.

This supreme immortal art, which led directly to the end of the immortal path, had finally become Dong Lin's strongest foundation.

Nature could not stand without life, and life could not exist without nature. The principles of nature and life merged into one seamless whole.

Nature referred to the spirit, while life referred to the body.

Spirit was divine sense, while life was qi and form.

In the past, Dong Lin had cultivated only the immortal Dao, cultivating spirit and refining qi without tempering his body.

Thus, the Dao of nature and life had always been one piece short.

And that missing piece was the key to entering this divine art.

"The Eight-Nine Mystical Art truly deserves to be the Chan Sect's foremost divine art of protection!"

Dong Lin calmed his excited heart and began carefully sorting through and comprehending this divine art.

The technique was divided into two parts.

They were the Nine-Turn Mystical Art volume and the Eight Divine Transformations volume.

The Nine-Turn Mystical Art volume had nine turns in total. At present, Dong Lin had barely comprehended the first.

The first turn, Dust-Cleansing Body Purification, required one to cultivate at the hour of the Tiger while facing east, drawing in a thread of Innate Purple Qi at sunrise,

to temper the meridians within the body and cleanse away filth, rendering the flesh transparent and allowing divine sense to observe the five organs and six bowels internally.

"Completion in three days! Could it truly be so swift?"

Dong Lin rose to his feet in excitement.

One had to know that being able to observe the organs and meridians internally meant that future cultivation would become a broad and open road.

When a cultivation technique circulated through the meridians, divine sense could sense their positions, but everything ultimately still depended on feeling,

which was worlds apart from being able to see them.

If he achieved a Glazed Body, with every bodily meridian connected, then his future cultivation path would soar straight into the sky from where he stood.

"A divine art! A divine art!" Even Dong Lin, whose journey had been smooth sailing all the way, could feel how arduous cultivation truly was.

If those old Qi Refining cultivators suffering through cultivation saw the wonders of this art, they would surely be so excited that they fainted on the spot.

There was still plenty of time. Dong Lin spent quite a while before calming the excitement in his heart once more.

Then he carefully comprehended the contents of the second volume, the Eight Divine Transformations volume.

The first transformation within the Correct Method of the Eight Divine Transformations was the Five Elements Divine Art.

Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—master the transformations of the Five Elements, forge the wood liver, fire heart, metal lungs, water kidneys, and earth spleen.

Comprehend the intent of the Five Elements and achieve yin-yang creation.

"This Five Elements Divine Art is even more incredible. Master the Five-Element True Intent and build a Yin-Yang Dao Foundation."

At this point, Dong Lin was already somewhat dumbfounded.

"Mastering the Five-Element True Intent at the Qi Refining Stage? What exactly is this Yin-Yang Dao Foundation? Why have I never heard of it at all?"

The full name of the Yin-Yang Dao Foundation was the Innate Yin-Yang Primal Chaos Dao Foundation, a truly supreme foundation.

It stood above even the Innate Law Dao Foundation, forging an Innate Creation Body through acquired means.

From then on, yin and yang would move as he pleased, heaven and earth would reside within his heart, and he would enjoy supreme, unfettered freedom.

"With this divine art in hand, the world is mine!"

Having just obtained this divine art, Dong Lin was somewhat excited. He took out the Thunderclap Sword and practiced with it for a while.

Only when he was utterly exhausted did he stop.

Dong Lin came to the outer sect and ran toward the small hill where he had first arrived.

The thatched hut was still there. The pile of straw inside seemed to have been tidied up by someone after Dong Lin left.

This hill was a temporary resting place arranged by the sect for mortals who had yet to enter the sect.

It was separated from the outer sect by only a few mountains.

"One year has passed. Time flies like a white colt glimpsed through a crack. Now that I've stepped onto the path of cultivation, so much has changed."

Returning to this place after a year, Dong Lin felt rather moved.

Dong Lin found a stone and sat in meditation facing northeast.

Sun and moon rose and set, east rose and west fell. The seasonal patterns of this world were unexpectedly much the same as Earth's.

Even its culture and language were not very different.

"The details of this are rather terrifying when one thinks deeply about them.

Could this world truly have some connection to Earth?"

If possible, Dong Lin still wanted to return and take a look.

However, after being here for so long, he had heard no news concerning the heavens beyond.

Only the books recorded that beyond the Nine Heavens, astral winds howled and spiritual qi was thin. There seemed to be no path upward, for communication between heaven and earth had already been severed.

Yet the sun and moon hung eternally high in the sky, while countless stars shone brightly.

Beyond the high heavens lay the universe.

Dong Lin could still be certain about the land beneath his feet—it should be a planet similar to Earth.

The continent where he was currently located was ruled by the Divine Evolution Empire.

It was surrounded by the sea, and the waters were vast. The sect held no records of matters beyond the sea.

At the northernmost edge of the continent, legendary demons seemed to be running rampant.

The empire stationed troops year-round at its northernmost border.

However, the records were not detailed, so Dong Lin could only hold a vague understanding of this world.

There was still plenty of time, so Dong Lin first tried cultivating this Five Elements Divine Art.

The cultivation sequence of this Five Elements Divine Art corresponded to the order of the five organs.

They were heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, cultivating fire, wood, earth, metal, and water.

Fortunately, like Command the Five Thunders, all the experience and requirements for cultivating the Eight-Nine Mystical Art were displayed completely before Dong Lin.

Unlike when Dong Lin cultivated the immortal Dao techniques of this world by himself, when cultivating Command the Five Thunders and the Eight-Nine Mystical Art,

he only needed to proceed step by step. He did not need to rely on his own comprehension to advance bit by bit.

As long as he had sufficient resources, he could advance a thousand miles in a single day.

"Wouldn't cultivating according to such guidance leave no room for innovation?"

Even while cultivating, Dong Lin remained rather worried about this smooth-sailing pace of progress.

However, with an immortal art like this, even if Dong Lin wanted to rely on his own comprehension to cultivate it and bring forth the new from the old, he likely would not even be able to enter its gates before he died.

Dong Lin did not yet know that the ultimate principles contained within this immortal art had undergone the deductions of Saints over countless thousands of years, nearly becoming one with the Dao.

Even if Dong Lin truly had a day when he ascended in a hundred days and became an immortal patriarch, he feared he still would not be able to fully unravel all the mysteries of this immortal art.