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Chapter 517 The Secret of Empty Proof
Chapter 517 The Secret of Empty Proof
As Fang Leiyue landed, she saw a man in black robes projecting his inner vision outwards, but the figure holding the white cat had vanished.
The two exchanged a glance, both seeing intense fear in each other's eyes...
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"Is it due to supernatural powers?"
Fang Qing, holding Xiao Bai, sighed, "Even a grandmaster can be sent to their death if hooked by a supernatural power..."
"Meow... Master, I only let the little fish occasionally run into my mouth, it doesn't count as tempting me..."
Xiao Bai suddenly spoke up.
"I wasn't talking about you..."
Fang Qing stepped into the void, and when he reappeared, he had arrived at a certain place in the Three Green Mountains.
A man dressed in a black robe with golden dragon patterns stood quietly, and there was little trace of the Ghost Blade Liu Qi of yesteryear.
"A five-clawed golden dragon?"
Fang Qing glanced at the dragon pattern and laughed, "It seems you, the Master of the Bureau of Strange Events, have long harbored thoughts of betraying your master..."
"The Great Zhou Dynasty has fallen. I just never expected that you, sir, would deign to grace us with your presence here..."
Liu Qi gave a bitter smile.
In front of this person, all talk of meticulous planning and ingenious strategies is a joke!
Fang Qing glanced at him, his gaze seemingly piercing through his inner world to see that divine power—the 'Book of Reversing Fate'!
"I never imagined that after cultivating the True Qi of Ji Water to its fullest extent, you would be able to acquire such supernatural powers?"
Those with supernatural powers are a product of their destiny, formed by heaven and earth, and are also related to human beings.
Even with the same cultivation technique, the supernatural abilities developed by different people may be two different versions.
The "Book of Reversal of Fate" is an extremely rare way of water reversal. Water is good at flowing and moistening... It has the virtue of the highest good, but rarely does it rebel or defy authority, especially the "Ji Water" which is the last of the four waters!
The appearance of this "Book of Reversal of Fate" divine power was a small surprise for Fang Qing.
"Does Your Excellency wish to kill me?"
Liu Qi raised his eyebrows. Although he had now condensed supernatural powers, he was still no different from the little constable he had been back then.
"How could this be? You've acquired such an interesting supernatural power; I'm just about to take a good look at it..."
A slight smile appeared on Fang Qing's lips.
The martial artist in the outer realm thought he had obtained supernatural powers from the 'inner realm,' but little did he know that this was also a way for him to cultivate supernatural powers, allowing the [Jishui] to gain more imagery!
In this world, anything is possible!
"Then I shall take my leave..."
Liu Qi cupped his hands in greeting, but his eyes held a hint of confusion: "My lord, you descended like a god, transforming this world. Now the world is divided into nine parts. Is this as you wished?"
"I'm just standing there, that's all... It's the world that's going to change, not me."
Fang Qing smiled slightly: "As for what I want to know, then go and advance your cultivation... When you have mastered the Four Divine Powers and unlocked the Seeking Gold skill, you will know."
"The Four Supernatural Powers, Seeking Gold?"
Liu Qi's pupils contracted slightly, he bowed, and his figure disappeared...
After a long while, a stream of blue water gathered and transformed into Ye Zhuo's figure, with Fang Leiyue following beside him.
"Sect Master?"
Fang Leiyue looked at Ye Zhuo.
"I sensed it through my supernatural powers; the Lord of the Bureau of Strange Events did indeed come here..."
Ye Zhuo's expression was somewhat strange: "I just don't know why, even though he had the upper hand, he took the initiative to leave..."
The two exchanged a glance, both thinking of the figure holding the white cat, and were immediately filled with a sense of awe.
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Beyond heaven and earth.
Fang Qing's true form trembled slightly, and the radiance belonging to the "True Lord of Profound Darkness" overflowed around him.
"The [Ji Shui] was missing... has it been restored?"
He murmured, "Not only that, but several more images have indeed appeared... and even signs of the water element have emerged..."
Fang Qing suspected that even if he returned the missing [Ji Shui] to the world of Fu Qi Dao, his ancestor might not recognize it.
It might even be considered a specific position or subordinate position of the [Zhen Water]...
"The ocean is deep because it accepts all rivers..."
"Unfortunately, this is only a repair of previous injuries; it's still far from a true qualitative leap towards the Gold rank..."
He calculated with his fingers: "At least we'll have to wait for the next seeker of gold to appear, sacrificing their life and all their gold essence to the [Ji Water] gold position... before we can see any change. After all, this Qi cultivation technique acquired supernatural powers so easily, it's naturally just for cultivating new recruits and filling gold positions. As for how many gold-seeking seeds are needed for a true qualitative change, that's completely unknown..."
"However, now that the [Ji Shui] has been restored, it can do many things again..."
Fang Qing smiled slightly, and the Dao Sheng Pearl was "omnipresent," and scenes of absorbing the Dao of Qi appeared before his eyes again.
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He accepted the explanation.
"The spiritual aura that has waned with the decline of the sun and moon remains unchanged... If a Golden Core is born, there will be divine retribution!"
Fang Qing, possessing the body of the Hidden Realm, stood with his hands behind his back, communicating with heaven and earth.
The missing [Ji Water] projected from the Dao Sheng Pearl on him stirred slightly, and he immediately felt the rejection from this world.
Although the Golden Core True Monarch could completely withstand such disgust, every bit of activity would increase the possibility of him "losing his position".
In addition, many Golden Core True Monarchs are recuperating from the last great battle, and the current situation is still one of peace and order in the Purple Mansion.
At the same time, the azure light of the [Ji Water] churned and gradually took on azure and dark black hues, transforming the original light of the [Ji Water] into a chaotic ocean...
Fang Qing's aura continued to rise, almost reaching the level of a missing True Monarch, but falling just short, landing at the level of the [Ji Shui] Divine Pill.
"The method of emptiness proof... I see."
A look of enlightenment appeared in his eyes: "The so-called realization of emptiness must first be the attainment of the Way, not the pursuit of gold... Otherwise, if one is limited by the imagery of gold, how can one talk about the realization of emptiness?"
"The initial proof of emptiness should be achieved through a long period of cultivation, after fully mastering a golden position, by reducing and modifying its imagery..."
This step is actually very difficult. Even for Fang Qing, if he were still in the Qi Condensation Path and relied on seclusion, it would not be something that could be accomplished overnight.
How can working in isolation compare to learning from the heavens and the earth?
Therefore, he has already made a preliminary effort to add the missing imagery of the "Ji River," but it was a shortcut, directly bringing over the imagery of the "Ji River" from that region of the Nine Provinces.
"The second step is to add or subtract imagery... to make this golden position different from the original, almost transforming it into another golden position?"
"And the final step is to take away the entirely new imagery... transforming it into a 'golden position of emptiness,' which is the method of using gold to prove emptiness!"
Fang Qing thought of the Kitchen God from back then, who used a shaman to prove his authority over the underworld... The reason he borrowed a shaman first was because many of the shaman's images had some similarities with the underworld, which would save him a lot of effort.
"This is proving one's position by borrowing from the void... The other way is to prove one's position directly from the void without borrowing from other positions. This requires a higher level of cultivation, almost reaching the Dao Fruit..."
Fang Qing silently experienced the improvement in his cultivation level.
"With the help of that world, I have now entered the path of emptiness... but this brings a problem: the method of 'using gold to prove emptiness' is certainly beneficial to the world, since it proves a completely new gold position, but what about the original gold position?"
"If I continue to add imagery to the missing [Ji Water] position, I will eventually be able to prove a state of [Yuan Water] or [He Water] from this void. But when the new metal position appears, how much mystery, imagery, and authority will it take away from the original borrowed metal position?"
"It seems that even if the [Ji Shui] is missing and doesn't immediately become unusable, it's not far off..."
"Last time, the Kitchen God used the [shaman] to falsely testify about [the Yin], which also damaged the [shaman's] authority and even took away a lot of imagery. However, it was divided among the metal and earth elements and spread across many metal positions, so it was not very obvious."
In this world, there are four types of metal and four types of earth, and each of them has five metal positions, making a total of forty metal positions!
The [Witch Doctor] skill has been greatly reduced, but when spread across forty gold positions, the effect is quite subtle.
Because it is inherently a fruit position that is to be divided and eaten.
"Now that the True Lord has gone into seclusion, even envoys and divine servants find it difficult to travel... My divine pill is truly overpowered."
Fang Qing looked around and saw that the water vapor was moist and shone with different kinds of light.
To outsiders, it doesn't seem like the [Ji Shui] elixir at all; some might even believe it's the work of a certain True Lord of [Zhen Shui]!
"The final battle of the Dao of Qi Subduing, Taiyin, no, the one on [Dangerous Moon] who was forced back into slumber, 'Great Sun Tathagata', and 'Kitchen God' were roughly the same... Next, it's my chance."
Fang Qing is now the "True Lord of Profound Sea Nourishment," a Golden Core cultivator, and will naturally need to consider the path of "Taking Charge of the Year."
As for taking the path of a different lineage and attaining a higher position, we tried it before, and it only resulted in certain death.
Sangji is still lying there like a corpse.
"The one on the 【Dangerous Moon】 dares to walk the path of the sun, moon, water, and fire because His own cultivation is extremely high, surpassing even ordinary 【Yearly Officials】..."
"Apart from this one, even the Great Sun Tathagata, the Kitchen God... all follow the lineage of Great Sun and Earth Virtue, at most they can only attain a Golden Position to replace the original one... This is clearly a certain limit of the Golden Core True Lord's cultivation."
"I possess the 'Pearl of the Dao,' so I can try both paths... Of all the pure Daoist traditions, the most convenient is naturally the Water Virtue, which I am most familiar with!"
The greatest advantage of the Pure Daoist lineage's method of verifying the "Yearly Duty" is that it does not require a high level of Golden Core cultivation. The path is already set, so you just need to follow it.
Therefore, if one wishes to obtain the Water Virtue of the Year, one should have the Zhen Water as the main element, the Bi Water as the secondary element, the Shen Water as the secondary element, and the Ji Water as the secondary element.
Fang Qing secretly pondered: "This is also a path monopolized by the Great Sun [Yearly Ruler], who still tightly holds the [Wall Water] subordinate position... Fortunately, it's different from the Fire Virtue. The Fire Virtue's position is truly unchangeable, and taking away the [Winged Fire] principal position completely severs the [Yearly Ruler] path!"
"But the position of Water Virtue can change! Now we need to confirm the status of the [Zhen Water] principal position. If not, should we support one and then usurp it? To take this step, we would have to steal a certain metal position of [Bi Water] right under the nose of the Great Sun [Yearly Ruler]. It would be better to just kill Him and seize it by force, or to seek the position of Fire Virtue [Yearly Ruler]. We only need to destroy one of the Nine Heavens Fire Palaces... It seems much simpler. As long as my own Fire Virtue Dao Wisdom is sufficient..."
He let out a long sigh: "In any case, let's find some pieces first, and then test the waters with [Dangerous Moon], the Nine Heavens Fire Palace, and the Flood Dragon Palace..."