Longevity Chronicles-Chapter 958 - 617: Pure Yang Essence Root and Annoyance Hair, Ten Thousand Marvelous Mystical Pearl Can Attain the Dao (Part 2)
"Hmm?"
"Seems there's a sign of something...?"
As Tao Buddha's son murmured these words, the Spirit God Dharma Body within the temple had already transformed into countless forms.
Gradually, he perceived some auspicious signs.
At this moment, the Dharma Body generated from flesh and blood was a rather mundane, clichéd God Demon Body, with a thousand heads, a thousand arms, a thousand eyes, and covered in peach blossom patterns, blooming with Immortal Peaches. Innumerable hands held treasures, such as the Vajra Pestle, Ruyi Bag, Golden Ingot, Yin Yang Sword, and the like.
At first glance, it seemed nothing special.
But Tao Buddha's son fixed his gaze on two regions of his Dharma Body, and a joyful expression gradually appeared on his face.
These two places were, respectively, the thing below his waist, and the head of red hair.
Though the Spirit God's creation relied on the chaotic thoughts of the millions of believers in Liang Country at this hour.
Yet the Dharma Body was his own, and with a single thought, he naturally knew many secrets.
At this moment, he realized the peculiarity of those two organs, containing the God Demon essence being nurtured, far surpassing other regions.
"Even that thing below the waist can become significant?"
"The residence of Primordial Yang, termed Pure Yang Essence Root, not only can it merge with all life, produce strong bloodline descendants, but also generate Pure Yang Essence Qi, continuously without end, making the Dharma Body mighty, ferocious like a dragon and tiger. Even cutting it off, flesh will regenerate, miraculously restoring the divine form."
"Indeed, with one root preserved, the Spirit God remains."
Tao Buddha's son was clearly a person without much scruples.
Previously, when his entire being was a towering meat pillar, he was very unwilling, preferring to explode the body to change it.
Now, all benefits and essence condensed into that one thing, and he was willing, even delighted.
As for the other thing, he quickly guessed the reason.
"An anomaly of the God Demon red hair, not in its scarlet color, but in the roots."
"Now, it should be named 'Three Thousand Worry Threads'."
"In the mortal world, all living beings are troubled."
"With this head of worry threads, any life form fighting against me, unless they cultivate the [Taishang Forgetful Dao], likely cannot escape my disturbance."
"With a single thought, I can provoke the worries in their heart, attracting myriad karmic burdens to seek them out."
"These worry threads can also forge bonds, used as red ropes, stirring love and desire in others, leaving them unable to resist, complying with my manipulations."
"It's as if I've stolen a bit of divine authority from Yue Lao and the Red Rope God."
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"Pure Yang Essence Root!"
"Three Thousand Worry Threads!"
"Indeed, although the mind's wish power of millions of believers is immense, it is also jumbled and conflicting, causing suffering when refining the Dharma Body. Moreover, it's extremely difficult to succeed. If one solely seeks collective unity of thoughts, even refining ten thousand, a hundred thousand times, it is absolutely impossible."
"However, if with each few refinements, an essential organ is refined, accumulating over time, the Dharma Body truly forms...this method becomes entirely feasible."
"These two things are likely the essence refined from the first and second refinements of the Spirit God Dharma Body, now completely birthed."
"If my guess is correct, regardless of what absurd Dharma Body emerges next, these two will remain?"
Tao Buddha's son had this thought.
In the blink of an eye, he received confirmation.
The Dharma Body exploded again, and amid a chaotic myriad of thoughts, a new flesh and blood Dharma Body emerged.
He immediately looked below his waist, sensed above his head.
Indeed, both were present.
"Marvelous, truly marvelous."
"Given such a refining method, I can certainly look forward to what's next."
"Perhaps, truly obtaining a Dharma Body treasure more mysterious than [Spirit Treasure Sublime Body], not letting the original exclusively excel."
Tao Buddha's son delightedly murmured, even refraining from complaining about the many pains and penalties during the body-sculpting process.
Silently enduring, observing the emergence of strange and peculiar Spirit God Dharma Bodies, assessing which essences could be preserved.
Upon closer look, there were many gains, revealing yet another secret:
Though the population within Liang Country was vast, almost all were common folk, with few [God Demon Spirit Cultivators].
Stronger Spiritual Cultivators had already received divine hints and escaped Liang Country before Tao Buddha dispatched armies and Fish Basket Slaves to attack mountains and destroy temples.
The rest were weak, ultimately forced to convert to the Peach Blossom God.
Perhaps these very people brought Tao Qian many benefits.
The reason?
The common folk, despite their strange imaginations, had limited knowledge, failing to infinitely enhance the Dharma Body's power, stopping at certain limits.
While these converted God Demon Spirit Cultivators harbored residual source Qi and secrets from other Gods and Demons within their body and soul.
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After they participated in the refining method, this portion of "essence" was entirely seized by the Great Method.
Like the fated divine power within the Three Thousand Worry Threads, it was exactly stolen from the remaining spiritual cultivators of Lord Red Rope.
In the subsequent Dharma Body transformations, such phenomena were not uncommon.
Of course, they were all some not particularly strong gods and demons, without any grand surprises for now.
The refining method took an hour that lasted a day and a night.
If Tao Buddha's son were to refine it alone, not to mention a day, even a year, ten years, or a hundred years would merely be trifles.
But the real refiners of this "Ten Thousand Refining Spirit God Method" were thousands of believers, all mere mortals; for them, persisting for a day and a night was not a trivial matter, many believers had to retreat midway, quickly reaching their limits.
This night, at midnight.
In the Liang Country's Palace, the bedchambers of both the Great and Minor Empresses, within the Peach Blossom Temple.
Suddenly there was a great explosion of Divine Light, soaring to the sky, visible for ten thousand miles, and in a blink, it detonated, a halo sweeping across the entire territory of Liang.
All the believers who were reciting the "Peach Blossom Immortal Scripture" and meditating on the divine body, were instantly freed.
They all collapsed on their beds, their faces ashen, very weak.
No mistake!
This was also one of the costs.
The Spirit God's body was not something that could be obtained through mere fantasy.
Unknowingly, the believers all offered up a large amount of Essence Qi and heart power as sacrifice.
If it were other Secret Demon Child, or Demon Cultivator.
Seeing this, they would not find it odd, for believers and servants giving themselves to the refining method is only right and proper, not worthy of much consideration.
Tao Buddha's son, however, neither wished to drain every last drop nor sought something much larger.
Thus, majestic Dao sounds reverberated in every mind very soon:
"The Great Method is completed!"
"You have all contributed, rest well, and tomorrow you may go to the Peach Blossom Temple to receive your reward."
"Our Master is generous."
"Thank you, my God."
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Tao Buddha's son did not heed the sudden influx of praise and flattery, instead, he sat upright in the main temple, carefully observing his newly acquired Spirit God Dharma Body.
The complete form naturally could not be fully revealed; though the main temple was spacious, it could not contain a deity or demon body.
Moreover, at this moment, Tao Qian also understood, the power and divine might of the Spirit God Dharma Body refined from the Spirit God Method were not in its size, but in the essence that remained after countless refinements.
Like the Pure Yang Essence Root!
Like the Three Thousand Worry Threads!
Or perhaps, the third kind of alien obtained in the last attempt: the Ten Thousand Marvelous Mystical Pearl.
At this moment of thought, Tao Buddha's son summoned the light mirror.
Then, his sturdy demon body, utterly unclad, abruptly underwent an alien transformation, fully mirrored in the light.
It was seen that on his perfect flawless flesh, "meat beads" began to sprout.
Densely packed!
Starting from the head, moving down to the feet.
Every inch of skin was not spared, covered with small, round, peach blossom-colored meat beads about the size of soybeans, flawless in their roundness.
As Source Qi surged, these meat beads seemed to come alive, features beginning to surface on each one, and so forth....
This scene!
Truly eerie, truly horrifying.
Anyone slightly timid would be scared to death by it.
Suddenly, Tao Qian gave a shudder, and all the meat beads fell off; the moment they touched the ground, they instantly transformed into new "Tao Qian."
In the blink of an eye, the main temple was crowded with Tao Buddha's son.
The energy mingled, the divine might persisted, without flaw, and simultaneously sighed:
"Flesh and blood derivation, avatars by the millions, undying and immortal."
"Each Mystical Pearl Avatar can cultivate separately, can be a substitute for death, can regenerate, all have the power to transform into myriad forms."
"Their birth is to respond to the believers' wish for 'companionship,' each person's desired companion varies, thus the Mystical Pearls naturally have infinite transformations, further deriving the ability to gather essence and steal souls."
"If I were ruthless, I could now split into millions, or even tens of millions of Mystical Pearl forms, consume every person in Liang Country and its neighboring nations entirely, with little cost, for it is the believers themselves who desire it..."
"Tsk tsk, this is clearly a shortcut on the Demon Path, if indeed Liang Country and several surrounding nations were completely devoured, wouldn't it be possible to enter the Realm of Dao Transformation overnight?"
