Dao Fruit - Longevity Instruction

[At age 376, you understood the principle that lone Yin cannot beget life and solitary Yang cannot grow. You attempted to absorb the power of moonlight to balance Yin and Yang. Unfortunately, the power of sunlight in your body was too overwhelming. As soon as the power of moonlight entered your body, the power of sunlight assimilated it!]

[At age 386, you thought of how Yang at its peak gives rise to Yin. You used alchemy to create a golden elixir capable of containing energy, then handed it over to a scientific laboratory for study. It was now the year 2186, and technology had become highly advanced. Using antimatter, the researchers caused Yang at its peak to give rise to Yin. The Yin, Yang, and five elements in your body reached a balance, and you regained your health!]

[At age 396, knowing your days were numbered, you brought together the work of your life and wrote the Longevity Instruction. It could be divided into seven volumes, corresponding to Yin, Yang, and the five elements!]

[At age 399, your lifespan reached its limit. Free of illness and calamity, you died peacefully of old age!]

[Based on your life, please choose a Dao Fruit--]

[Longevity Instruction][Unity of Heaven and Celestial Person][Leakless Body]

Mo Wenjian wanted all three options.

The least valuable was the Leakless Body, with which the energy in his body could only increase, never decrease.

Wasn't that the "getting stronger just by breathing" that often appeared in web novels?

Energy only went in and never came out. Even the legendary Taotie probably amounted to no more than that.

Unity of Heaven and Celestial Person was the supreme realm countless people dreamed of attaining.

If he had transmigrated to a mythical world abundant in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, Mo Wenjian would have chosen Unity of Heaven and Celestial Person without hesitation.

Unfortunately, this was not a mythical world abundant in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, but a martial arts world where Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was extremely scarce.

Choosing Unity of Heaven and Celestial Person meant choosing to become a leaky ball, releasing the energy in his body into heaven and earth.

Unity of Heaven and Celestial Person was undoubtedly the most valuable, but it could not adapt to the environment of the martial arts world. Even a thousand-year-old guqin could only be burned as firewood.

After hesitating for a moment, Mo Wenjian ultimately chose the Longevity Instruction.

The moment he claimed the Dao Fruit, countless memories appeared in Mo Wenjian's mind.

The Longevity Instruction was less like an ancient secret manual than a modern popular science book.

Everything from the initial conjectures to the final results was recorded in meticulous detail.

Mo Wenjian raised his head and looked at the moon in the sky.

He had just absorbed the power of sunlight and broken through to Gang Force.

The power of sunlight in his body was still thin and had yet to gain an absolute advantage.

If he absorbed the power of moonlight now, he would encounter no problems at all.

"Lone Yin cannot beget life, and solitary Yang cannot grow!"

Mo Wenjian gathered the power of sunlight in his left hand, then raised his right hand high.

Qi and Blood that had undergone nine qualitative transformations surged from Mo Wenjian's right hand.

In the blink of an eye, it formed a column of Qi and Blood like a plume of wolf-dung smoke.

The plume of Qi and Blood kept rising, finally stopping ten thousand meters above the ground.

More and more Qi and Blood gathered, forming a lake.

Since Mo Wenjian had already reached the Gang Force realm, the toughness of his Qi and Blood had undergone a qualitative change.

No matter how much Qi and Blood Mo Wenjian poured in, the lake showed no sign of overflowing.

Mo Wenjian immediately realized that there was no way to form a river of Qi and Blood, nor could he repeat the sight of purple qi coming from the east for three thousand li.

A problem like this, however, was clearly no obstacle to Mo Wenjian.

"Fishing the moon from the water!"

An endless torrent of moonlight poured into the lake.

The power of moonlight gathered together, forming the reflection of a bright moon.

As time passed, the energy of the moon's reflection grew stronger and stronger.

After an unknown length of time, the two kinds of energy reached a balance.

All the water in the lake flowed toward the moon's reflection.

The moon's reflection was like a black hole, constantly devouring the water in the lake.

After an unknown length of time, the entire lake dried up.

The moon's reflection passed from illusion into reality and plummeted from the sky.

The bright moon, originally more than a hundred zhang across, finally shrank to three inches and landed on Mo Wenjian's right hand.

Mo Wenjian pressed his palms together. The sun in his left hand and the moon in his right immediately fused, forming a Yin-Yang Taiji diagram.

At first, the power of sunlight was strong while the power of moonlight was weak, making one of the Yin-Yang fish appear larger than the other.

As the Yin-Yang Taiji diagram turned, however, the powers of Yin and Yang transformed into each other and soon reached a perfect balance.

Mo Wenjian gazed at the Yin-Yang Taiji diagram, suddenly lost in thought.

Whether he had a sun disc or a moon disc above his head, it looked like the golden wheel of merit in a mural.

But if he had a Yin-Yang Taiji diagram above his head, the look would be a little off.

Mo Wenjian froze for a moment, then quickly came to his senses.

The Longevity Instruction had seven volumes in total, corresponding to Yin, Yang, and the five elements.

The Yin-Yang Taiji diagram was not its final form, so there was no need to draw conclusions yet.

"Five Qi converge at the origin!"

Following the Longevity Instruction, Mo Wenjian made the five organs in his body form a cycle of the five elements.

His five organs were reflected in the sky.

The power of the five elements between heaven and earth transformed into the divine beasts of the five elements.

The Yi Wood Azure Dragon in the east, the Geng Metal White Tiger in the west, the Kui Water Black Tortoise in the north, the Bing Fire Vermilion Bird in the south, and the Wu Earth Qilin in the center.

The divine beasts of the five elements roared, transformed into five-colored streams of light, and charged straight at the Yin-Yang Taiji diagram.

Everyone on Earth knew that white sunlight was actually a mixture of seven colors of visible light: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet.

Mo Wenjian's Yin-Yang Taiji diagram absorbed the colorless light of the five elements and finally turned golden.

At a glance, it looked almost no different from the golden wheel of merit in a mural.

Seeing this, Mo Wenjian could not help breathing a sigh of relief.

A golden wheel hanging behind his head suited his identity as the Buddha's son.

His identity as the Buddha's son had seemingly already become Mo Wenjian's foundation.

Unless he had absolutely no other choice, Mo Wenjian really did not want to abandon that identity.

"Congratulations, Buddha's son, on advancing in your cultivation and taking another step toward regaining your Buddhahood!" As Mo Wenjian's dedicated guardian, Master Xingshan was naturally the first to arrive after Mo Wenjian caused such a great commotion.

"I have already gained the strength to protect myself, so there is no longer any need to restrict your freedom. You needn't keep wasting your time watching over me!" Mo Wenjian said to Master Xingshan, full of vigor.

"I am probably the shortest-serving guardian in history. In just a few days, the Buddha's son went from not even beginning to master the Muscle-Tendon Changing Classic to being unrivaled under heaven. I am truly ashamed!" Master Xingshan had witnessed the phenomena Mo Wenjian caused with his own eyes and knew full well that Mo Wenjian's strength had surpassed his imagination, so he did not insist on staying.

"If we're talking about strength alone, I have certainly surpassed Patriarch Bodhidharma by now. But in terms of realm, I am still a level below him. I am still in the Gang Force realm, while Patriarch Bodhidharma Shattered the Void and Saw the Indestructible Spirit, ultimately ascending in broad daylight!" Mo Wenjian had a vague feeling that the direction of his research had been wrong. Judging from Shaolin's Seventy-Two Supreme Skills, Patriarch Bodhidharma's Qi and Blood had undergone only one qualitative transformation. The profound secret of Shattering the Void and Seeing the Indestructible Spirit certainly was not a matter of strength.

"Although Patriarch Bodhidharma was a genius blessed by heaven, he was ultimately only a mortal, seeking to ascend and become a Buddha. You are already a Buddha, Buddha's son, so why rush to Shatter the Void and See the Indestructible Spirit and thereby return to the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss? You have lived at Shaolin Temple since childhood and have yet to see what this world has to offer. If you ascended just like that, it would be a terrible pity!" Master Xingshan suddenly felt somewhat anxious. In just a few days, Mo Wenjian had raised Shaolin Temple's overall strength by a level. The longer Mo Wenjian stayed at Shaolin Temple, the more it would benefit the temple. If Mo Wenjian reached the realm of Shattering the Void and Seeing the Indestructible Spirit and suddenly ascended in broad daylight, Shaolin Temple would lose its chance to flourish.

"You have a point. I have yet to see what this world has to offer. If I suddenly ascended in broad daylight, I would surely have regrets. It's already late at night, and I feel very tired. I'm going back to rest!" Mo Wenjian offered Master Xingshan a word of comfort, then returned to his meditation room, collapsed onto the bed, and fell asleep.