Chapter 99: Chapter 98: Martial Ancestor’s Legacy! Creation of Heaven and Earth!
"Teacher, how are the realms of a cultivator divided? By combat power?"
Chang Qing calmed his excited emotions and asked.
"Combat power is only one aspect."
Wu Jiuling smiled and said, "Cultivators cultivate the Dao, study the laws, and train the body."
"Cultivation is the continuous transformation of the physical body, breaking limits and transcending above heaven and earth!"
"And the first level of this cultivation, also the most crucial one, is the Foundation Establishment of the Divine Body realm!"
Wu Jiuling pointed at the purple tower in front of them and said,
"Why is this tower over a hundred zhang high yet unaffected by the wind?"
"Because its foundation is broad and stable enough. If its foundation were as wide as a thousand zhang, even if the tower were tens of thousands of zhang high, it could still stand firm."
He paused, looking at Chang Qing, and said,
"The Divine Body realm is to lay a solid and broad foundation for future cultivation."
"The stronger the foundation, the further and more stable the path ahead."
Chang Qing asked doubtfully, "Teacher, is the Foundation Establishment of the Divine Body varied?"
"If they were all the same, what need would there be for inheritance?"
Wu Jiuling chuckled and said, "There are many dao traditions in the world, and countless methods of Foundation Establishment."
"Confucianism opens the literary vein, Taoism nurtures the dantian, Buddhism educates the spiritual soil... and so forth, myriad methods abound."
"But the ultimate goal of these myriad Foundation Establishment methods is to expand, widen, and fortify the ’space’ within the body, constructing the Divine Body!"
"Only then can one build a tower of tens of thousands of zhang!"
Enthralled, Chang Qing eagerly asked, "Then how does your inheritance establish a foundation, Teacher?"
"Opening literary veins? Nurturing the dantian? Or cultivating spiritual soil?"
Hearing this, Wu Jiuling laughed proudly, "The literary vein is too narrow, the dantian too small, and the spiritual soil too fragile!"
"My inheritance! It opens heaven and earth!"
Why is Su Nan so insistent on having Wu Jiuling assist Chang Qing in Foundation Establishment?
Because Wu Jiuling’s method for establishing the foundation is the strongest in the world!
Hearing this, Chang Qing was left open-mouthed, staring blankly at Wu Jiuling.
Isn’t he bragging too much?
The Divine Body realm is to open up the inner space and then temper the physique.
The larger, broader, and more stable the inner ’space,’ the better the foundation.
While other dao traditions open veins or dantians, the teacher speaks of opening internal heavens and earth?
This difference isn’t just big; it’s as vast as heaven and earth!
"Teacher..."
Chang Qing hesitated and said, "How does the human body open up heaven and earth?"
Having studied the Celestial Doctor’s wondrous scrolls, he had some insight into comparing the body to heaven and earth.
But those texts only documented how to manage according to heaven and earth, never mentioning that the human body could open its own heaven and earth.
"Opening the body’s heaven and earth requires a special dao diagram."
Wu Jiuling smiled and pointed at the tall purple tower ahead,
"Go ahead, what’s inside will resolve your doubts; whether you can cultivate it depends on your comprehension."
Chang Qing, filled with curiosity, slowly walked into the purple Inheritance Tower.
"How long do you think it will take him to comprehend?"
As Chang Qing entered the Inheritance Tower, Su Nan’s tall figure appeared beside Wu Jiuling.
"I don’t know."
Wu Jiuling shook his head slowly, staring at the purple tower ahead, and said,
"Whether the ’Heaven and Earth Divine Body’ can be cultivated depends mainly on how vast a heaven and earth he can comprehend."
"The Heaven and Earth Divine Body has three levels."
"A small world of a thousand zhang, a great world of ten thousand zhang, and a chaos world."
"The larger the heaven and earth envisioned within oneself, the more perfect the inheritance."
Su Nan asked curiously, "What kind of heaven and earth did you comprehend back then?"
"Me?"
Wu Jiuling replied calmly, "I was dull and only comprehended a small world of a thousand zhang."
Su Nan remained expressionless, but his heart trembled slightly.
Just comprehending the most rudimentary Foundation Establishment method of Wu Jiuling could withstand an Emperor’s Weapon.
How strong must the great world of ten thousand zhang and the chaos world be?
Su Nan looked at the purple tower ahead and softly murmured,
"Chang Qing, how far you can go depends on yourself."
...
Inside the purple tower.
Chang Qing stepped forward. This place was vast and boundless, pitch-black, with only a dao diagram exuding a hazy glow in the center.
"Is it that thing..."
With curiosity, Chang Qing approached the dao diagram and gazed intently.
The dao diagram was ancient and natural, its drawings exceedingly simple, with only two ancient characters.
Heaven, Earth!
"Visualize, heaven and earth..."
Chang Qing seemed to gain some insight, sitting cross-legged, immersing his mind, and looking at the dao diagram before him.
Initially, the characters before him were just simple words, but gradually, the ’Heaven’ seemed to soar abruptly, and the ’Earth’ suddenly broadened!
The dao diagram emitted brilliant light, and a unique dao resonance filled the air, pulling Chang Qing entirely into the painting.
Looking up, he saw the heavens reach overhead and the earth below only ten zhang, a flash of understanding crossing his eyes.
"This is my... heaven and earth."
Suddenly, Chang Qing frowned slightly, murmuring softly,
"No, heaven and earth shouldn’t be so small. Even the heaven and earth of the body should be vast and limitless!"
In this environment, Chang Qing understood that the body’s heaven and earth truly existed.
But if it exists, it couldn’t possibly be so small!
The Celestial Doctor’s scrolls once documented this: The human body corresponds to heaven and earth; as vast as heaven and earth are, so is the body!
For a moment, Chang Qing had yet to comprehend the Foundation Establishment method but made rapid progress in understanding the ’principle’ that he hadn’t grasped in the Celestial Doctor’s scrolls.
Bang!
At that moment, the heaven and earth surrounding Chang Qing began to expand wildly.
The heavens that could be touched seemed to rise gradually, and the earth of ten zhang spread out a thousand zhang.
Now, this heaven and earth were like a small world.
"Not enough!"
Chang Qing’s eyes shone brightly as he looked up to the heavens. "Without sun, moon, stars, mountains, and rivers, how can it be a world?"
An endless realization surged into his heart, and Chang Qing’s eyes shone brighter and brighter.
Simultaneously, as Chang Qing’s understanding deepened, the seemingly stagnant heaven and earth before him swelled again.
A thousand zhang, ten thousand zhang, thirty thousand zhang!
Eventually, the world stretched infinitely, the heavens towering at ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine zhang!
The sun and moon hung high, stars twinkled, and mountains and rivers spread in all directions!
At this moment, the perfect great world had formed!
This state of the heaven and earth world had far surpassed that of the original Wu Jiuling.
Even now, the understanding in Chang Qing’s eyes had yet to fade.
The dao resonance continuously emerging within this ’heaven and earth’ felt increasingly familiar to him.
"The person who created this inheritance must have comprehended the Celestial Doctor’s scrolls!"
Chang Qing was certain.
This method of Foundation Establishment was identical to what was recorded in the Celestial Doctor’s scrolls.
Even the division of heaven and earth was that similar.
"Since it’s so... then this heaven and earth can still be larger!"
Chang Qing’s shining eyes surveyed the surroundings, and he softly murmured,
"The newly formed heaven and earth have already stabilized; only the unformed heavens hold infinite possibilities."
"Chaos is like a primordial egg..."
Bang!
As Chang Qing’s understanding continued to grow, the world before him suddenly collapsed.
Heaven and earth toppled, the so-called world’s edge crumbled, and strands of Chaos Qi seeped out from the collapsing heaven and earth.
In just a moment, the heaven and earth vanished, replaced by an infinite world of chaos!
Meanwhile,
The dao diagram inside the purple tower, inscribe with the words ’Heaven, Earth,’ underwent tremendous changes.
Those two characters ’Heaven’ and ’Earth’ slowly faded, and a primitive giant axe filled with boundless power emerged!
Beside that giant axe were engraved three dao symbols.
Heaven-Opening Axe!