Taiyi Dao Fruit-Chapter 1129 - 353: One Qi to Three Pure Ones

Daoist Lord ultimately admired Emperor Jiang for his virtues and was willing to impart "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones" to him. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

He rode the Green Bull to a flat area, sat down on a large stone, while the Green Bull stood upright, swept away the dust and dirt around, and cleared out a clean space.

Observing the Green Bull's familiar movements, it was evident that it had done this type of work quite often.

Serving both as a mount and a worker, it was indeed a diligent good bull.

To this, the Daoist Lord merely said, "Although these things can be accomplished by manipulating Qi with Divine Thought and doing them directly, if everything relies on Qi and depends on magic, the limbs will end up neglected. One must still move around a bit."

"Makes sense, but this kind of calm mental state, I'm afraid it's hard to experience it in a short time."

Jiang Li, upon hearing this, chuckled softly, and with a thought, a similar large stone condensed opposite the Daoist Lord, allowing him to sit down.

This calm mental state was akin to the mindset of elderly people enjoying their later years. Jiang Li was still young, and no matter how elevated his mental state was, it was difficult to comprehend such a mindset.

"Fellow Daoist, feel free to be at ease."

The Daoist Lord smiled slightly, not persuading Jiang Li to imitate him, and directly entered the main topic, saying, "The Three Cave Elements fundamentally share the same Dao Qi, singular Dao Qi applied as three. The profundity of One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones is immense, but the essence lies in this sentence. However, there is a crucial point in these words, where do you think it is, Fellow Daoist?"

"It should be in 'separation'." Jiang Li, hearing the Daoist Lord's words, applied his intelligence to analyze it. Although he didn't directly grasp the true meaning, he did understand the key point.

"Indeed," the Daoist Lord nodded, "the key is in the 'separation into three' and also in 'transform' in One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones."

"Dividing one into three without diminishing the one's essence is precisely this kind of special profundity, which is the key to why One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones is considered the foremost miracle techniques of incarnation from ancient to modern. If it's simply dividing, then it falls into the lower level."

In the world, methods of dividing into avatars fundamentally reduce one's strength by partitioning oneself into avatars that act externally.

These methods imply that the stronger the avatar becomes, the more strength the original body loses, and essentially they don't enhance the original body's power.

There are also methods involving a second primordial spirit, third primordial spirit, which divide the primordial spirit using artifacts as carriers or independently grown, thus also increasing strength, but essentially it's still about subtracting by partitioning the primordial spirit.

This method cannot be strictly judged good or bad, because for some cultivators with no path forward, it indeed increases strength. But for cultivators already progressing, not partitioning the primordial spirit might lead to faster growth in strength.

Whereas One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones is additive, transforming the original one into three without diminishing the one's strength, greatly enhancing strength out of thin air, profoundly mystical.

Jiang Li himself had already digested the wisdom of Zhuang Zhou Dao Fruit, and now continuously studying the mysteries within the Green Emperor Dao Fruit allowed him to quickly grasp the Daoist Lord's points.

"I see, no wonder One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones can't be cultivated at lower Realms," Jiang Li said with sudden clarity.

If one's realm is too low, how could they accomplish such profoundly mystical one to three transformations?

If cultivation starts from a low realm, then one can only partition into three, and transforming into three is unthinkable.

Understanding this, Jiang Li's thoughts flickered, and he asked, "But even if it's transforming one into three, there should be a base point, it can't just come from nowhere, right?"

"Fellow Daoist indeed has a sharp mind."

The Daoist Lord smiled slightly and said, "This brings us to the Three Pure Ones Heavenly Venerates. Legend has it the Three Pure Ones were originally one entity, representing the three stages of the world themselves, where transforming into three separates these three stages."

As he spoke, he gently stretched out his hand, brought a piece of gravel, nipped it with two fingers, grinding three sides of the gravel.

"Just like this stone, inherently one, it has three different sides, and One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones is to separate these three sides."

The Daoist Lord slowly said, "For us to practice One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, we must first find that single Qi within ourselves, then transform that one Qi into three. My single Qi is Yin Yang, transformed into three, one is Taiyin, two is Sun, three represents the melding within Yin and Yang, Yang within Yin, Yin within Yang."

"My great disciple Taibai represented the separation of 'self,' into the virtuous self representing Dao De, the desirous self pursuing desires, the conscious self representing self-awareness. But his realm was not sufficient, and forced cultivation led him to fall into a lower level, even being misled by the Heavenly Monarch, showing flaws in his mental state."

"Transforming into Three Pure Ones is not about cutting, Fellow Daoist must find the essence that melds yet can independently emerge, only then can cultivation proceed. If your realm is inadequate, it's best not to force cultivation and end up like my foolish disciple."

While explaining, he still took a moment to remark on Taibai True Monarch, showing some exhaustion regarding this disciple.

And Jiang Li, having heard these straightforward words, already understood the foundation of One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.

The Daoist Lord didn't use mystical phrases to teach, but recapitulated in a simple and straightforward manner. If one fails to understand with such an explanation, it would be an injustice to the wisdom obtained from Dao Fruit.

However, Jiang Li still had some questions.

"Can one Qi only transform into Three Pure Ones?" Jiang Li asked again.

Some entities have more than three sides, possibly four or five, such as Jiang Li's Five Primordial Elements. Each of the Five Supreme elements represents different stages of evolution, inherently as one, if it can transform into Three Pure Ones, why can't it transform into Five Supreme Ones?

"Transforming into Three Pure Ones isn't the only way, yet Dao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things, three is the number of all things, One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones aligns with the principle of world evolution, while other divisions fall short of this ultimate principle."

The Daoist Lord shook his head, stating, "We can cultivate One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones because the Three Pure Ones Heavenly Venerates have paved the way ahead, not because we have reached that point of transforming into three. Until we attain the Three Pure Ones Heavenly Venerates' realm, it's best to honestly walk this path. The magic to be imparted to you by this old Daoist is only One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, there is no Four Purities or Five Purities transformation."

The two of them repeatedly discussed intentions, yet specific methods were not conveyed.

Without discussing methods, understanding the intention still doesn't enable one to manifest the Three Pure Ones.

And attempts to form Four Purities or Five Purities are already approaching the core of the Dao, beyond merely touching the surface, beyond expression by words or even Divine Intent.

"That's enough for the earlier conversation, Fellow Daoist, have you thought of your 'one' to be divided into three?" the Daoist Lord asked.

"Naturally, I've been prepared for a long time," Jiang Li responded without hesitation.

He had even had related thoughts long ago.

His 'three' is the Three Emperors, One Qi Transforms into Three Emperors.