Chapter 2 Past and Present
?Before the reconstruction, his name was Lu Yu, but he was not actually a monk born and raised in Haoyuhai.
Instead, he was born in a Jindan sect called "Qianfa Sect" in the cultivation world of Tianyan Continent.
Since he possesses the earth-grade fire spirit root and has outstanding talent, Lu Yu has been the seed of enlightenment cultivated by the sect since the Qi training period.
Living up to his expectations, at the age of twenty-three, after practicing for sixteen years, he broke through the bottleneck and set foot on the true starting point on the road to immortality, the realm of foundation building.
There are six realms in the journey of cultivation.
It is divided into Qi training, foundation building, Yuan Dan, Jin Dan, Yuan Ying, and Shen Hua.
Except for the small levels one to nine in the Qi training period, the other major realms are only divided into the early stage, the middle stage, the late stage, and the Great Perfection.
As for spiritual roots, they are created things given by the laws of heaven and earth.
There are five elements of spiritual roots: metal, wood, water, fire and earth.
Variant spiritual roots such as ice, thunder, wind, etc., special spiritual roots such as sword, piano, bamboo, bitter, etc.
A cultivator can have up to five spiritual roots at the same time, except for special spiritual roots that can only be born alone.
Spiritual roots are divided into five levels: low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade, earth-grade, and heaven-grade.
The higher the spiritual root level, the faster the cultivation speed, and the easier it is to break through the realm bottleneck.
Generally speaking, under the same training environment, the cultivation speed of middle-grade spiritual roots is twice that of low-grade spiritual roots.
The cultivation speed of high-grade spiritual roots is twice that of mid-grade spiritual roots, and so on.
As for the special spiritual roots, since the chance of being born is much rarer than the heavenly spiritual roots, even many Nascent Soul forces are unaware of it.
It can only be determined that the lower limit of the special spiritual root is equivalent to the earth spiritual root.
Lu Yu has outstanding cultivation aptitude and was born in the Jindan Sect. All kinds of precious resources for cultivating immortals are open to him.
His cultivation progressed steadily, and he was promoted to the Yuan Dan stage at the age of sixty-two.
After that, he devoted himself to cultivation for more than 130 years, and reached the perfection of Yuan Dan before he was 200 years old. He was only one step away from becoming a Jindan Taoist.
Qianfa Sect is a Jindan sect, and there are two Jindan Taoists who have been practicing in the sect for a long time.
Even in the Immortal Continent where immortality is prosperous, he still dominates and is respected by thousands of cultivators.
However, golden elixirs are difficult to obtain, and Qianfa Sect has only accumulated a treasure to assist in elixir formation for hundreds of years.
It seems that Lu Yu was also unlucky.
Originally, with his qualifications as a fire spirit root, he had every hope of obtaining this treasure that would increase the chance of evolving a golden elixir by 30%.
Unfortunately, more than two hundred years ago, a person with even more amazing talents appeared in Qianfa Sect.
That was a heavenly spiritual root monk.
With the auxiliary treasure, there is a 70% chance of evolving the golden elixir. Naturally, the sect cannot retreat and give the treasure to Lu Yu for use.
So, after repeated weighing, Lu Yu began to retreat, trying to hit the golden elixir realm.
Without suitable external aids, even earth-grade spiritual roots have only a 20% chance of impacting golden elixirs.
As expected, Lu Yu failed to advance and also injured his own essence. It took decades just to recover from the injury.
After practicing for three hundred years, Lu Yu tried to attack the golden elixir for the second time, but the result was still a failure.
This time the injury was more serious than the first time.
Under the sixth level of thunder tribulation, even the soul suffered irreversible damage.
Thus, the path is completely cut off, and no breakthrough can be made in this life.
After failing to overcome the tribulation twice in a row, Lu Yu was disheartened and followed the instructions of the ancestor of the sect's golden elixir to refine the inner elixir of a fourth-level monster and became a fake elixir monk.
In terms of magical powers, the fake elixir monks far surpass the Yuan Dan Dzogchen, and are nearly half as powerful as ordinary early-stage golden elixir monks.
The fake alchemy monk is so terrifying, and the price is also huge.
Not only does it have to consume an extremely precious fourth-level demonic beast inner elixir and various precious materials, but the fake elixir monk can't continue to grow in level, including longevity, except for the magical power that can stabilize the yuan elixir Dzogchen monk.
When a monk refines fake elixirs, it can be concluded that he has reached the end of the road to immortality.
Unless someone like Lu Yu has reached the end of his path, no monk who has the potential to reach the Great Perfection of Yuan Dan will choose such a dead end.
Qi-training monks can live for one hundred and twenty years, and foundation-building monks can live for two hundred and fifty years.
Yuan Dan lasts for five hundred years, and Jin Dan lasts for nearly a thousand years.
At the Nascent Soul stage, with a lifespan of three thousand years, he is really a top monk who can watch the rise and fall of a small sect.
Lu Yu completed the fake elixir at the age of 330. In the remaining years, he fought for Qianfa Sect and made great contributions.
There were more than twenty hostile Yuandan monks who fell in his hands alone.
A few years ago, a foundation-building disciple of Qianfa Sect discovered a mysterious cave in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountains.
The protective formation outside the cave is actually as high as level five.
The senior officials of the sect concluded that the person who once opened this cave was probably a powerful Nascent Soul.
Qianfa Sect would not miss such an opportunity from heaven.
Two veteran Jindan masters, the newly promoted Tianpin Linggen junior brother, and Lu Yu, the four top masters of the sect came out.
It took several people working together for five years to break through this fifth-level magic circle that had existed for an unknown period of time and had lost 90% of its power, and then opened the cave.
As expected, the former owner of this cave was a Nascent Soul monk seven thousand years ago.
Moreover, he has cultivated to the Great Perfection of Nascent Soul, and is only a short distance away from the stage of becoming a god.
It's a pity that this step is like a chasm in the sky. In the end, the old monster Yuanying ran out of life and sat in this cave.
There is another world inside the cave.
They entered the outermost hall first.
In the center of the hall, something appeared on a tray of white jade pillars that immediately made everyone red-eyed.
Infant Transformation Pill!
One of the best fairy items to assist in the formation of babies. Even if you pawn the entire Qianfa Sect, you still can’t buy even half of it!
The atmosphere instantly became solemn. Several old Jin Dan monsters stared directly at Huaying Dan. Their breathing became heavier and their expressions began to become a little ferocious.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Lu Yu immediately retreated outside the palace.
However, in just a moment, three golden elixirs attacked him at the same time, using magical powers that were used as trump cards in life-and-death battles. It seemed that they were going to kill him with one blow.
Lu Yu was only in the fake elixir realm, so he could not withstand the joint attack of three golden elixir monks. In despair, he angrily exploded the fake elixir.
?"Boom"
Accompanied by an earth-shattering loud noise, the huge spiritual energy bloomed like a sandstorm, accompanied by scarlet flames.
If a fake elixir explodes in such a sealed space, even the golden elixir monks will not be spared and will suffer heavy losses.
"What a shame I didn't drag anyone to death!"
His thoughts were about to disappear, and Lu Yu, who should have been completely extinguished, felt an extremely strong suction force.
?A ray of spiritual power was forcibly stripped from the shocking explosion and escaped from the hall.
Eventually it was ingested into a golden ball held in the mouth of a jade brave.
After swallowing Lu Yu's soul, the golden bead spun around and disappeared into this space out of thin air.
When Lu Yu regains his original will, he is already in the Haoyu Sea cultivation world.
When Jinzhu rushed into the depths of the original owner's mind, Lu Yu instantly stole his soul.
The original owner was just a low-level monk at the sixth level of Qi training. Even though Lu Yu only had a trace of his soul left, he easily swallowed up his consciousness and successfully occupied this body.
Of course, this is only the first and simplest step in seizing a soul.
When your cultivation level reaches the golden elixir realm, your soul is nourished by the elixir energy, and you have the opportunity to seize the soul and cultivate again.
But this method is too vicious and is not tolerated by heaven and earth.
After seizing the soul, you will immediately be counterattacked by the law, causing boundless heart thunder disaster.
According to records, there is only one high-level monk in ten thousand who can withstand the boundless thunderstorm of the heart and successfully seize the soul.
With such a slim chance, even in the cultivation world for hundreds of thousands of years, few high-level monks dare to seize the body and be reborn before their longevity is approaching.
You must know that annihilation under the boundless heart thunder tribulation is the true sense of soul annihilation, and even the opportunity for soldiers to enter reincarnation will be deprived.
Lu Yu was also desperate.
He is not an authentic Jindan monk, and his soul will automatically dissipate after being separated from the body for a few days.
When the soul enters reincarnation, the blood feud and Taoist ambitions in this life will be empty talk!
Therefore, after entering Chen Ping's mind space, even if there was a one in ten thousand chance, he still decided to seize the soul.
After devouring the soul of the original owner, just as recorded in ancient books, an indescribable and powerful spiritual pressure suddenly descended.
Then, streaks of deep purple lightning tore through the space, densely packed, and instantly merged into a sea of thunder and lightning, mixed with endless destructive power, and violently struck at Lu Yu's soul.
An extremely painful feeling of anxiety and numbness covered his body. At that time, Lu Yu's soul was bound by the laws of heaven and earth and could not move. No matter how he looked at it, he was bound to die.
At this critical moment, the golden pearl suddenly appeared.
The whole body shone brightly, and all the purple lightning surrounding the outer ring was pulled away, and finally merged into a lightning whip, with countless black runes on it rotating independently, flickering on and off.
"Snapped"
Facing the sea of thunder and lightning condensed by the laws of heaven and earth, the long whip also formed by the illusion of thunder and lightning struck hard at it.
Silver light dances, and with every whip, thousands of heart thunders are annihilated.
In just one cup of tea, the previously endless and powerful Heart Thunder Sea was dispersed alive and disappeared without a trace, as if it had never arrived.
"It's so terrible. No wonder so few seniors have succeeded in seizing souls since ancient times."
Thinking of the thrill just now, Lu Yu's heart was still palpitating.
Even if there is only one heart thunder derived from the laws of heaven and earth, he is not sure to take it.
However, such a terrifying Heart Thunder Tribulation was completely wiped out. Where did that mysterious golden bead come from?
Lu Yu held his breath and looked inside, his spiritual consciousness exploring every inch of his body, but he could not find the location of the golden beads.
He had a strong intuition that this golden bead was definitely still hidden somewhere in his body.
After several searches to no avail, Lu Yu no longer bothered about the golden beads.
He calmed down and began to refine all the memories of the original owner of this body.
Chen Ping, who is over thirty years old, is a direct descendant of the Chen family on Haichang Island. His ancestors once produced foundation-building monks.
My father and mother worked in the family foreign affairs office, but died in the war five years ago in a foreign land.
As an only son, he received generous pensions from his family.
After being promoted to the sixth level of Qi training, he took over the post of guard of Lantian Town.
Chen Ping kept a low profile and was an ascetic monk.
He only wanted to advance to the next level and build a foundation, and he and Xue Yun had been a Taoist couple for many years but had never been married.
"It's unheard of in the Haoyuhai cultivation world. I don't know how far it is from Tianyan Continent."
Lu Yu murmured.
Even with his identity as a fake alchemy monk, he couldn't know how many thousands of miles this world stretched across.
The only thing that can be confirmed is that the Haoyuhai Cultivation World is definitely not near the Tianyan Continent.
During the hundreds of years he has been practicing Taoism, although he has never left Tianyan Continent, he still has some knowledge of several cultivation circles bordering Tianyan Continent.
Lu Yu frowned and said to himself: "This is troublesome. I'm afraid I won't be able to go back in a short time."
Several ancestors of the sect who once respected him actually killed him for the Huaying Dan, without caring about what he had done for the sect over the years!
When he thought about it, Lu Yu wanted to crush them to ashes.
Although he is no match for the three Golden Pills, as long as the news about the Infant Transformation Pill hidden in the cave is released, Qianfa Sect will immediately become the target of public criticism.
What's more, the Infant Transformation Pill is only hidden in the main hall at the edge of the cave, and there must be more precious treasures inside.
By then, none of the Nascent Soul Sects on Tianyan Continent will let them go.
But now that he is no longer in Tianyan Continent, there is no way to talk about revenge.
"First establish a foothold in the cultivation world of Hao Yuhai, and then find out how to return to Tianyan Continent."
Lu Yu sighed and could only suppress his hatred temporarily.
Fortunately, he has been practicing Taoism for many years and his close relatives have passed away long ago.
After that, he was alone, with no Taoist companions or good disciples.
With no worries, you can start over again.
?......
After a while, Lu Yu was able to imitate the original owner's usual expressions, movements and tone of voice with ease.
This physical body contains middle-grade spiritual roots from the three elements of earth, fire, and wood, and its qualifications are not very good.
Even if you can barely build the foundation in the future, without a great opportunity, there is basically no hope of breaking through to the Yuan Dan realm.
Now that Lu Yu has taken over this body, with the skills and secrets he has accumulated and mastered in his previous life, he feels that building the foundation should be a sure thing.
There is also a lot of confidence in the Yuandan realm. As for the higher realm, he dare not say anything, maybe it will land on the golden beads.
"From now on, there will be no more Lu Yu in the world."
Now that Lu Yu has decided to stay in Hao Yuhai to practice, it is time for Lu Yu to come to an end with his previous life.
Chapter completed!