The Twenty-Four-Story Tower
The path of cultivating immortality begins with the Mystery Opening, opening up many acupoints in the human body to prepare for Qi Refinement and absorbing the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
When a cultivator Qi Refinement, he ingests the Spiritual Qi of the relevant Dao Path into his body, which is then absorbed by the human body to cultivate a Dao body. At this stage, because many Dao Path are related, he can change his Dao Path by paying a great price. However, once he condenses this Spiritual Qi and Law Power into Immortal Foundation, his Dao Path is determined, and the cultivator must rely on this to seek the Purple Mansion.
Seeking the Purple Mansion involves raising the Immortal Foundation from the Immortal Foundation Sea through the Twenty-Four Towers to the Great Gate and Rising Yang Divine Ability Spirit Platform, where it evolves into supernatural Law Power. This triggers interaction between Heaven and Earth, allowing the Dao Body to transform into a Dharma Body, enabling it to withstand the infusion, operation, and movement of the Divine Ability powers' Great Void power.
Su Yao's Sword Intent was enough to enter the Great Void, but his Foundation Establishment body couldn't withstand it unless his Purple Mansion protected him with its Law Power.
Since the three Dao Ancestors opened the Immortal Dao, they had never cultivated any other path before attaining the Dao. The first person to cultivate the Dao of Immortal Dao and reach the Purple Mansion was Lesser Yang Wood Duke of the Purple Mansion Continent. Therefore, this realm is called Purple Mansion!
Each school has its own name for the Purple Mansion realm. The name given to it by Su Yao's "Rosy Cloud Feather Wanderer Star Chapter" is:
"The rosy clouds rise with the Rising Yang, shedding their mortal form. Their radiant light penetrates the twenty-four-story tower, and their glow reflects on the Great Gate. Thus, the essence of the Rainbow Clouds enters the Spirit Platform altar, the abode of Rising Yang Divine Ability, which is called the ' Rosy Cloud Mansion '."
The Purple Qi Dao cultivated by Zilin is called the Purple Mansion:
"When the Purple Yang first stirs, the Great Subtle Gate opens. Embracing the Three Yangs, it rises; containing the True Essence, it sheds its form. The Twenty-Four-Story Tower connects to the Purple Extreme, and the Nine Heavens Spirit Platform illuminates the Elixir Origin. Hence it is called the ' Purple Court '."
Yang Xiu's cultivation of the Profound Qi path refers to the Purple Mansion as:
"Tribulations refine the form, and calamities permeate the crown of the head. The path to Rising Yang is severed, so it is opened by tribulations; the obstruction of the multi-tiered structure is broken by calamities. Profound Qi is tribulation, and one seeks survival within tribulation; therefore, it is not called 'mansion' but ' Tribulation Pass '."
These are all terms used in Mysterious Gate cultivation, and most of them are similar. They all refer to the foundation of immortality starting from the sea of Immortal Foundation, ascending to the twenty-fourth floor, passing through the Great Gate, entering the Spirit Platform to Rising Yang, Spirit Transformation, interacting with heaven and earth, and Boundless Illusion.
The Confucian School's term for this realm differs significantly from that of the various schools of Immortal Dao. Immortal Dao seeks transcendence, viewing the Purple Mansion as the "Residence of Divine Ability"; Confucian School, seeking to benefit the world, regards this realm as the "Pillar of Morality."
Therefore, it is not called "fu" or "ting", but called -
"Bright Hall"
The Bright Hall is the palace where the emperor governs and the place where the sage king proclaims his teachings. Confucian School scholars regard their hearts as the Bright Hall, their nature as the emperor, their orifices as their ministers, and the people as their Qi and Blood. Once their hearts and nature are clear, they are like the sage king sitting in the Bright Hall, governing the world with ease.
Therefore, Confucian School says, "The mind is the Bright Hall, and nature is the Son of Heaven. When the Son of Heaven is upright, all officials are upright; when all officials are upright, all people are at peace. Thus, governing the mind is governing the world."
The method of breakthrough is similar to, yet wondrous, the Immortal Dao to immortality.
The Immortal Dao involves Rising Yang to the Immortal Foundation and transcending the six heavens through the foundation of Vast Righteousness Qi; while the Confucian School uses righteous energy to cleanse the mind and connects the twenty-four seasons with literature and morality.
Su Yao had read the Confucian School Cultivation Method collected on Qixia Mountain, which contained the following:
"With the Bright Hall Brightness) established, the hearts of all people are won over. Even without a sage, the way of the king will naturally flourish."
The Immortal Dao seeks transcendence, Confucian School seeks to save the world, Buddhist School seeks liberation; they view this state as...
"Awakening Shore".
"Awakening" means enlightenment; "shore" means the other shore.
Buddhist School practitioners use the Bodhicitta (the aspiration for enlightenment) as their boat and the vow of compassion as their sail to cross the sea of suffering of birth and death and reach the other shore of Nirvana.
Once this state is achieved, it is just as the Shurangama Sutra says, "When one root returns to its source, all six roots attain liberation," meaning that the six roots are interconnected and perfectly integrated.
Therefore, in Buddhist School, this state is called "the Awakening Shore," also known as "the Perfect Penetration Realm" or "the Liberation Realm."
The method of breakthrough is quite different from that of the Immortal Dao and Confucian School. The Immortal Dao Immortal Foundation through the barriers by building a foundation of immortality, the Confucian School cleanse themselves with righteous energy, and the Buddhist School use the Bodhi mind to illuminate and break through self-attachment, and use the power of compassion and vows to open up all the orifices.
Therefore, when Buddhist School disciples break through, they do not sit quietly to break through barriers like Immortal Dao immortals, nor do they recite scriptures like Confucian School disciples. Instead, they sit cross-legged in meditation, using profound Prajna wisdom to observe that the five aggregates are empty, seeing the emptiness of self and the emptiness of phenomena, breaking through the twenty-four layers of the tower, and suddenly achieving enlightenment.
The internal phenomena were also different. When Su Yao broke through, rosy clouds shot into the sky from the top of his head; when Zilin broke through, Purple Qi rose like the morning sun; when Yang Xiu broke through, calamity qi tore through the sky and fell; when Confucian School cultivators broke through, the sound of reading filled the heavens and earth. When Buddhist School cultivators broke through, only the sound of chanting could be heard in the heavens and earth, like the morning bell and evening drum, like thousands of monks chanting verses in unison.
Wherever the chanting of Sanskrit reached, Mandarava flowers rained down from the sky, and golden lotus platforms sprang from the earth.
Therefore, Buddhist School refers to this state as. "Having reached the Awakening Shore, the other shore is in sight. The six senses are used interchangeably, achieving perfect understanding and freedom."
This, along with the Immortal Dao "raising the Rising Yang" and the Confucian School "the Bright Hall being opened," forms a tripartite balance, each achieving its own unique perfection.
As for the Demonic School, their unorthodox methods are nothing to be surprised about.
Another month passed, Su Yao felt that he had reached his peak condition, so he began to work on breaking through to the Purple Mansion.
Before him lay a jade bottle and a jade box. He probed the jade bottle with his spiritual sense and found five radiant pills lying quietly at the bottom of the bottle. These were the "Five Rosy Clouds Rising Yang Pill," specially made to enhance one's Immortal Foundation.
Su Yao has mastered nine Secret Method, making his Immortal Foundation far more profound than his peers. His own Law Power alone is far from enough. Even with talismans to increase his Law Power, his current Law Power is equivalent to that of four or five Zilin, but it is still not enough. After all, the more profound one's immortal Immortal Foundation, the more Law Power is required.
This elixir is refined using the Rainbow Clouds Treasure Medicine as a guide. Only those of the same origin as the Immortal Foundation can replenish the Law Power needed to break through barriers.
If the pills consumed are tainted with foreign energy, and the Immortal Foundation is defiled, the cultivator will die instantly the moment the Immortal Foundation enters the Rising Yang Mansion.
This single step blocked ninety percent of the cultivators in the world.
He swallowed all five pills in one gulp. The pills disappeared into his dantian, Su Yao no longer hesitated, activating his Immortal Foundation, "Rosy Cloud Feather Wanderer".
The Immortal Foundation at this moment resembled a shimmering, colorful feathered robe, slowly rising along the spine under the influence of Law Power —this was the Twenty-Four Towers, the first insurmountable barrier on the path to the Purple Mansion.
Immortal Foundation the seeds of Divine Ability. When they sink into the sea of qi, they are as light as a feather, but once they go against the current, every inch of them becomes heavier than a mountain.
It must first reach Great Gate, stay there to be thoroughly immersed in Great Gate, and then continue upwards before entering Spirit Platform Rising Yang Mansion.
But for Su Yao at this moment, those twenty-four vertebrae were tantamount to carrying the entire Qixia Mountain up the steps by himself.
Eight months later, Immortal Foundation Su Yao finally reached the twentieth level of the Immortal Foundation. His own Law Power was nearly exhausted. Just then, the five Five Rosy Clouds Rising Yang Pill in his Qi Sea suddenly dissolved, and the pure medicinal power surged up along the meridians like a spring tide bursting its banks, steadily continuing the torrent of Law Power that was about to be interrupted.
Although his magical Law Power was replenished, his physical body's endurance was nearing its limit.
Immortal Foundation of great importance, being the seeds of Divine Ability, which in Divine Ability are branches of the Great Dao.
In addition, the Immortal Foundation needs to enter the Rising Yang, which is inherently going against the current. This matter goes against the natural trend of the human body. Furthermore, Su Yao has cultivated nine Secret Method, and his Immortal Foundation and Law Power are several times stronger than his peers, and their strength is far beyond that of ordinary cultivators.
Moreover, cultivation is inherently defying the heavens, and the Purple Mansion is such an important hurdle. Before the Three Pure Ones opened the Immortal Dao to immortality, the various cultivation paths were incredibly complex, but most stopped before reaching the Purple Mansion, abruptly ending.