A single Visualization Image is enough to step from the Yin Spirit Realm into the Yang God Realm.
"You are my disciple. If you wish to cultivate the Mysterious Power, you naturally have the qualification. I will teach you the Yellow Heaven Dao Visualization Technique, and you should contemplate diligently, striving to reach the Yang God Realm soon to uphold my honor," Wu Changming said as he pulled out a scroll from his sleeve and tossed it to Zhang Chen: "This scroll is engraved with my Yellow Heaven Dao Fundamental Technique. You may study it for three days and must return the scroll afterward."
Wu Changming sighed with emotion: "Had it been thirty years earlier, obtaining the Visualization Technique wouldn’t be so easy. It would require great achievements and countless trials. Yet since the establishment of the Yellow Heaven Dao Incense Path, the Visualization Technique has fallen into disuse, and even its legacy is about to be severed."
"Why is that?" Zhang Chen asked in surprise, his action of taking the scroll paused, his eyes full of astonishment.
"To cultivate the Visualization Technique demands decades of painstaking effort, but without a great opportunity for enlightenment, the Yin Spirit realm remains elusive. Although related to Mysterious Power, its divine techniques are limited in their destructive capability. In contrast, the Incense Path allows one, by simply recruiting followers and transmitting incense, to immediately be endowed with Divine Power, gaining extraordinary strength. Furthermore, propagating the path is straightforward; with the right methods and expanding belief, one can challenge Yang God masters within just three to five years. Faced with this choice, would you persist in hard cultivation or choose the Incense path? Especially since the Incense Path grows like a snowball, with increasing belief enhancing divine techniques, and stronger divine techniques attracting more believers. It’s a virtuous cycle. Moreover, as the Yellow Heaven Dao has developed the Wonderful Technique of Innate Divine Spirits, Visualization has been abandoned by everyone," Wu Changming sighed lightly.
Upon hearing Wu Changming’s words, Zhang Chen also felt sentimental, realizing that compared to the Divine Spirit Technique, the Yin Spirit Technique is slow, requires innate talent, and has high thresholds, though the Divine Spirit Technique is almost without boundaries. By merely obtaining the Great Virtuous Master’s Talisman Decree and gathering belief, one can achieve immediate greatness, illustrating the vast differences between them.
"The Incense Technique is even more effortlessly attainable for the noble families, who possess estates and subjects. With minimal effort, they can instantly achieve enlightenment. The Yin Spirit Technique is near obsolete! Some claim the Divine Spirit Technique is the aristocratic path, while the Yin Spirit Technique is for the impoverished. Even if one proves the Yin Spirit, it may struggle against Divine Spirit techniques, with disparities as vast as heaven and earth. Only by stepping into the Yang God Realm can one match the Divine Spirit Technique and amend its defects."
Wu Changming’s voice was full of reflection: "Some label the Yin Spirit Technique as the old method, and the Divine Spirit Technique as the new. Especially after Liu Feng successfully ennobled as the Water God of Miluo River, alongside the appearance of the Innate Divine Spirit Technique, the noble families have begun their Incense Path endeavors."
Hearing this, Zhang Chen inhaled sharply: "Thus, the reach of the Yellow Heaven Dao is set to envelop the world? All nobility entering Yellow Heaven Dao would become part of it?"
Having learned, now all divine ennoblements rely on the Great Virtuous Master’s decree. Should the world’s aristocracy aim to travel the Innate Divine Spirit Dao, joining Yellow Heaven Dao is inevitable.
"Exactly!" Wu Changming nodded: "Yellow Heaven Dao has already swept across the world, and a great trend has formed!"
Zhang Chen listened, pondering deeply, yet he was unwilling to believe the Yellow Heaven Dao’s dominance, primarily due to the enduring presence of the Great Victory Dynasty’s royal family.
Seeming to perceive Zhang Chen’s thoughts, Wu Changming mentioned, "Many within the Great Victory Dynasty’s royal family have begun gathering belief, stepping onto the Divine Spirit Dao."
"While those bloodline families possess powerful Bloodline Power, it cannot grant them immortality. No matter how strong the bloodline ability, it only spans a fleeting hundred years. But upon becoming a divine entity, the bond of mortality is shattered. How should these aristocrats not be obsessed? Furthermore, Yellow Heaven Dao’s higher circles are originally composed of great families; how else could Yellow Heaven Dao propagate across the world?" Wu Changming’s voice was brimming with emotion.
Zhang Chen inhaled coldly again, a foreboding feeling surged in his heart, sensing that the prevalence of the Incense Path was not a good omen.
He recalled the Strange Tales World from his previous life and the rampant proliferation of rural temples described in past novels.
Currently, Yellow Heaven Dao holds the power to regulate divine orders with its rights of divine ennoblement, yet there will come a time when various divine spirits grow dissatisfied under Yellow Heaven Dao’s control, seeking to find ways to bypass divine ennoblement.
"Does Yellow Heaven Dao have the ability to control the divine spirits under its ennoblement?" Zhang Chen inquired.
"Of course. Divine enthronement power resides with the Great Virtuous Master, who can enthrone and depose," Wu Changming stated.
Suppressing his startled nerves, Zhang Chen slowly opened the Visualization Image. What came into view was a peculiar creature, its head resembling a panda, the body of a Qilin, covered in three thousand hands, each holding a mysterious symbol.
Upon first glance at the image, Zhang Chen felt a grand and vast sentiment emanate, as though the creature in the picture suddenly came to life, extending its three thousand hands like tentacles towards him.
At that moment, the Pangu Stone in Zhang Chen’s Spiritual World trembled slightly, the illusion vanished, and the unchanged scroll lay before him, devoid of any living monster.
"Your first observation of the Visualization Image elicited a response from the Yellow Heaven; truly an exceptional talent," Wu Changming remarked in surprise.
"This Visualization Image seems off," Zhang Chen muttered to himself but dared not continue inspecting the image. Instead, he rolled up the scroll, directing his gaze towards Wu Changming: "While the disciple is interested in the Visualization Technique, I am more desirous of techniques for cultivating immortality and Qi refining."
"Are you still not abandoning the idea of traveling to the Spiritual World to cultivate immortality? I’ve already tried, and it’s simply unachievable," Wu Changming advised while eating beef.
Zhang Chen knew the opportunity was rare but persisted stubbornly, "The disciple must try personally to know for sure."
Wu Changming felt helpless upon hearing, eventually agreeing, "Then I shall teach you the First Three Layers’ Mantra, and you can have a try."
"Master is indeed stingy; what use is the First Three Layers? Why not share them all with me?" Zhang Chen asked playfully.
Wu Changming shook his head: "You’re seeking more mantras; that’s not possible, as I only know the first three layers."
Surprised by Wu Changming’s words, Zhang Chen probed further, "Why is it that even Master cannot gain the complete transmission of such a mystical mantra?"
"It’s not the Great Virtuous Master’s reluctance but rather Qi refining and cultivating immortality mantras are mere tricks, not worth remembering. I was only curious and studied the first three layers in private," Wu Changming explained.
"Could Master retrieve and grant all the remaining mantras from the General Temple?" Zhang Chen suggested with a smile.
"Only after meeting the Great Virtuous Master and receiving permission can one copy the True Scripture from the Great Virtuous Master. All Qi refining and cultivating immortality mantras are carried by him, and it requires his approval," Wu Changming stated.
Though disappointed by Wu Changming’s words, Zhang Chen felt content merely gaining one more cultivation mantra.
After all, having achieved Perfection in Qi refining, and succeeding in the second realm, he was prepared for the third realm of cultivation.
Wu Changming continued eating meat and drinking wine. Once satiated, he copied the mantras in Zhang Chen’s room, completing the transcription of the first three layers of Qi refining, then staggered back to sleep.
Within the room, Zhang Chen gazed at the three layers of Qi refining mantra left by Wu Changming, his eyes growing brighter: "Jade Liquid and Golden Core!"
Circulation One Acupoint’s next step is Jade Liquid and Golden Core.
This Shock Realm splits into two crucial breakthroughs, akin to Circulation One Acupoint bifurcating into circulation and acupoint. This realm similarly divides into Jade Liquid and Golden Core.