Longevity Begins with the Seven Injuries Fist-Chapter 348 - 209: Stepping into the Divine Realm! Fusing Fire Within the Heart!
Su Que followed Li Xuanji into the depths of the study.
After walking through two courtyards, they turned into a small room, and Su Que saw an unassuming wooden box.
When Li Xuanji opened the box, there were seven books inside.
"Sir, these are the secret manuals for cultivation in the Divine Realm left by my ancestors."
Li Xuanji said to Su Que.
Su Que carefully examined the seven secret manuals.
Although the wooden box was quite unremarkable, the secret manuals were made with extremely precious silk pages, sewn with gold thread.
Su Que picked up one book and leafed through it, feeling its excellent texture and the resilient pages, estimated to be waterproof and fireproof, difficult to cut through with a knife.
Inside the secret manuals, there were densely packed tiny characters and twenty-seven visualization diagrams.
’Liu Zhanhuo said he could only get twenty-four visualization diagrams from the Court, yet this book has all twenty-seven diagrams.’
Su Que thought as he looked.
At the beginning of this secret manual, methods for preserving the spirit were described, including how to comprehend the divine intent from the visualization diagrams and integrate it into one’s organs and apertures.
In addition, it contained some explanations about the Divine Realm.
Including the changes a martial artist would experience after integrating the divine intent into their organs.
Su Que, with his high talent, not only possessed a photographic memory but also read at an extremely fast pace.
Soon, he read through all the text of the secret manual and memorized it, then proceeded to carefully examine the visualization diagrams.
The first visualization diagram depicted a remote mountain with a deep pool within.
A majestic dragon soared into the sky from the deep pool.
Although it was just a still ink painting, as Su Que looked, he felt as if a deep pool had appeared in his mind, followed by a dragon bursting forth from it.
Moreover, the more he gazed at the painting, the more he felt his kidneys subtly pulsing.
It seemed the deep pool was about to move into his kidneys.
The dragon seemed about to fly into his kidneys as well.
It seemed he could, by applying the methods outlined in the secret manual, integrate the deep pool and the dragon into his kidneys.
This corresponded precisely to what he had read earlier.
The text he read earlier stated that the divine element contained in this diagram could be preserved in the kidneys.
The left kidney, right kidney, either could be chosen to store the spirit.
The twenty-four organs where the divine intent needed to be stored included a martial artist’s left and right kidneys.
Additionally, the front of this secret manual mentioned that if the divine intent of the deep pool and dragon were integrated into the kidneys,
the martial artist would not only be able to draw upon the water forces of the heavens and earth but also invoke a ferocious beast’s power originating from the dragon.
As long as a martial artist focused their mind when executing a technique, a surge of watery intent and dragon might would accompany the strike.
These watery intent and dragon might were tangible forces.
If these two forces were added to a technique, it would increase the technique’s destructive power.
Su Que continued leafing through this secret manual, examining the subsequent visualization diagrams.
These diagrams depicted landscapes featuring exotic birds and beasts.
’It seems this secret manual, as Liu Zhanhuo mentioned, is of the type where the essence of exotic birds and beasts is stored within one’s organs and apertures.’
His memory was naturally superb, and given these were illustrations, they were even easier to remember.
After going through them once, he imprinted the twenty-seven visualization diagrams in his mind.
Then, he set aside this secret manual and moved on to the others.
After about half an hour, Su Que finished reading all seven secret manuals.
As Liu Zhanhuo mentioned before, the visualization diagrams for the Divine Realm were nothing more than scenery, exotic beasts, celestial phenomena, and deities.
The visualization diagrams in these seven secret manuals did not deviate from these categories.
After finishing, each type of visualization diagram in the manuals had a varying level of impact on him.
He felt the strongest while viewing diagrams depicting scenery.
Diagrams with celestial phenomena came next.
Although he also felt strongly about the diagrams depicting deities, they induced a sense of repulsion.
Moreover, the deities in these diagrams were unlike those he had seen in local temples or Daoist temples, but rather bizarre in appearance.
Su Que speculated these visualization diagrams could possibly be drawn by a religion outside the Buddhist Dao.
He thought the sense of repulsion when viewing the deity diagrams might be because he did not believe in gods, only in himself.
The diagram series that affected him the least depicted exotic beasts.
He felt the reason for this was because he believed humans were the most intelligent of all beings, and storing these exotic beasts within one’s organs and apertures seemed to be diminishing oneself.
Among the seven secret manuals, two used scenes as visualization diagrams, and one used celestial phenomena.
As Su Que perused the seven secret manuals, a question arose in his mind.
——Is it possible to simultaneously visualize multiple sets of diagrams, comprehend various divine intents, and concentrate them all into one’s organs.
However, with further reading, he found the answer to his question in three of the secret manuals.
He learned that the reason most martial artists only visualize one set of diagrams
is because during visualization, the divine intent, which is the power to manipulate the forces of the universe, is stored in one’s organs and apertures.
The power to manipulate the forces of the universe is often substantial, and even when martial artists reach the Divine Realm, their organs and apertures, despite extensive cultivation, remain somewhat fragile compared to this power.
If one were to visualize multiple sets of diagrams, it might damage their organs and apertures.
