Eight-Nine Mystical Art!

Compared to those martial artists who trained through the bitter cold of winter and the scorching heat of summer, laying their foundations with horse stances from childhood,

Dong Lin 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 built their foundations from childhood, someone like Dong Lin who advanced so quickly might lack some depth.

"But among the four realms of Body Tempering, so long as they are tempered thoroughly enough, there should not be too obvious a gap."

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

He truly experienced the vivid vitality brought by this body, something he had rarely felt on his previous path of cultivation.

By the end of their cultivation, most immortals had become numb from training. Some even became extreme beings who spoke of severing the seven emotions and six desires, of forgetting all feelings in pursuit of the Supreme.

"Eh, this is!"

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

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

At this moment, an ocean of knowledge was continuously understood and absorbed by Dong Lin.

The true mysteries of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art unveiled themselves before Dong Lin at last!

Eight-Nine Mystical True Register

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

Those who modeled heaven and earth drew from Kan to fill Li; those who passed through darkness and reached clarity shed their forms and transformed into things.

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 impure matter was purged, the body became as clear and translucent as glazed glass, allowing one to see inwardly into the organs and meridians.

Immortals and Daoist priests were not born divine; by accumulating essence and gathering qi, they became real. 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 transformed into flowing flames; the lungs belonged to metal and rang like swords; the kidneys belonged to water and surged in dark waves; the spleen belonged to earth and concealed mountains.

The art borrowed the qi of the Five Elements to build the great Yin-Yang Dao.

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

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

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

Without life, nature could not stand; without nature, life could not exist. The principles of nature and life were perfectly fused as one.

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 only cultivated the immortal Dao, cultivating his spirit and refining qi without tempering his body.

In the Dao of nature and life, he had always been one segment short.

And that missing segment 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 suppressed his excitement and began carefully sorting through and comprehending this divine art.

The cultivation method 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 contained nine turns in total. At present, Dong Lin had barely comprehended the first turn.

The first turn, Dust-Cleansing Body Purification, required him to train at the Hour of the Tiger, facing east and drawing in a strand of Innate Purple Qi when the sun rose,

to temper the meridians within his body and clear away impurities, thereby making his flesh transparent and allowing his divine sense to inspect his internal organs.

"Success in three days! Could it truly be so fast?"

Dong Lin rose to his feet excitedly.

One had to know that seeing one's internal organs and meridians inwardly meant that future cultivation would become a broad, level road.

Cultivation methods ran through the meridians. Although divine sense could perceive the locations of those meridians, everything ultimately still depended on feeling,

which was worlds apart from being able to see them directly.

If he attained a Glazed Body and every meridian in his body became open, then his future path of cultivation would take off from where it stood.

"A divine art! A divine art!" Even Dong Lin, who had enjoyed smooth sailing all the way here, felt how arduous and difficult cultivation truly was.

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

There was still time. It took Dong Lin quite a while before he calmed the excitement in his heart again.

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

Comprehend the intent of the Five Elements and attain Yin-Yang creation.

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

By now, Dong Lin was somewhat dumbfounded.

"Grasp the Five-Element True Intent during the Qi Refining Stage? What 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 even above the Innate Law Dao Foundation, allowing one to forge an Innate Creation Body through acquired means.

From then on, Yin and Yang would move at his command, heaven and earth would rest within his heart, and he would enjoy boundless, supreme 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 swung it around for a while.

Only when he was exhausted did he finally 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, and the pile of straw inside seemed to have been tidied by someone after Dong Lin left.

This hill was a place temporarily arranged by the sect for mortals who had not yet entered the sect to rest their feet.

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

"A year already. Time flies like a white colt glimpsed through a crack. Now that I have stepped onto the path of cultivation, so much has changed."

Returning here after a year, Dong Lin felt rather sentimental.

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

The sun rose and the moon 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 differed little.

"The details here 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 for a look.

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

Only books recorded that beyond the Ninth Heaven, astral winds howled and spiritual qi was sparse. There seemed to be no path upward, as the connection between heaven and earth had already been severed.

Yet the sun and moon hung eternally in the high heavens, while the stars glittered.

Beyond the high heavens lay the universe.

Dong Lin was still certain about the land beneath his feet. It should be a planet similar to Earth.

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

It was surrounded by the sea. The sea region was vast, and the sect contained no records of matters beyond the ocean.

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

The empire stationed troops year-round at its far northern border.

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

There was still time, so Dong Lin first attempted to cultivate this Five Elements Divine Art.

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

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

Fortunately, just as with Command the Five Thunders, all the experience required to cultivate the Eight-Nine Mystical Art was displayed before Dong Lin completely and intact.

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

Dong Lin only needed to follow the prescribed steps. He did not need to rely on his own comprehension to advance bit by bit.

So long as sufficient resources were provided, he could advance a thousand miles in a single day.

"Will following such guidance in cultivation leave no room for innovation?"

Even while cultivating, Dong Lin remained rather concerned about such smooth and effortless progress.

However, with an immortal art like this, even if Dong Lin wanted to cultivate through his own comprehension 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 millennia, coming close to the Dao itself.

Even if Dong Lin truly one day ascended in a hundred days and became an immortal patriarch, he likely still would not be able to completely unravel every mystery of this immortal art.