Zhou Qing ignored their clamor and secretly assessed the cultivation of the five people. Zhou Qing had absorbed the spiritual energy of over a hundred Yin Soldier souls, making his divine sense incredibly powerful. With the addition of the Eight-Nine Mystical Technique's unparalleled profundity, the four Heavenly Eyes on his Dharma Body's brow opened, allowing him to see clearly the cultivation, magical treasures, and true yuan circulation within their bodies, as well as the color of their underwear, the number of silk threads, and even the patterns on them. It was truly perverted.
The Daoist who spoke up was clearly the leader of the three, and Zhou Qing's Heavenly Eye scanned him silently. However, he didn't notice at all. Zhou Qing discovered that this Daoist was actually a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, although his cultivation wasn't as pure as Dusty Empty Old Dao from Ah Liang Mountain whom he had killed with the Blood Slashing Sword. He should also be considered a top expert in the cultivation world. Especially with the faint fluctuations of treasure energy within his body, it was likely that he had refined a powerful magical artifact using his own Primordial Spirit.
The Benming Yuanshen Cultivation Method is to select a high-quality, extremely pure artifact that matches one's own Yuanshen fluctuations. Every day, use your own Benming Yuanshen to cultivate it, in order to merge the physical body and the artifact into one, so that the physical body takes on the properties of the artifact, becoming incredibly powerful and unmatched. The artifact can be used with unparalleled agility, like an extension of one's own arm, allowing for the full exertion of its maximum power. This method is simple, practical, and has no drawbacks.
However, although the principle is simple, it's quite difficult to operate. There are countless magical artifacts, and the fluctuations of human yuanqi are also different from each other. Finding a suitable artifact for one's own yuanqi fluctuations is almost impossible, unless you find rare materials and craft an artifact according to your own yuanqi fluctuations.
In ancient times, materials were abundant and spiritual energy was plentiful, so the method of refining artifacts flourished for a time. However, in modern times, it's not that fortunate, with heavenly materials and earthly treasures being scarce. Even if cultivators manage to create artifacts, they are often of extremely poor quality and cannot be merged with the physical body. Artifacts that can merge with the physical body usually have immense power, so over time, the technique of refining artifacts has become rarely used. However, Zhou Qing understood this principle and discovered that all three cultivators had abnormal artifact spiritual energy fluctuations within their bodies, indicating that they possessed powerful artifacts. Zhou Qing was secretly shocked and wondered what background these three people came from.
Zhou Qing's Blood Sacrifice Divine Sword was an ancient magic sword. If he could merge with it, he would be able to fully control the sword. Even if a heavenly immortal descended or a true god came into the world, Zhou Qing wouldn't fear them. Zhou Qing had thought about using his primordial spirit to refine and control the divine sword, but the two were fundamentally incompatible. Forcing refinement would likely result in immediate madness, the divine sword retaliating, his physical body shattering, and his primordial spirit splitting apart. Even now that Zhou Qing had condensed into a law body, he didn't dare entertain this idea.
Here is the translation:
To say that one's own Dharma body fundamentally cannot use external Dharma treasures, it can only mobilize its own eight arms holding eight pieces of pure spiritual power transformed into weapons. The second stage of the Eight Nine Mysterious Merit cultivation technique is half to make the Dharma body even more condensed, forever indestructible, and the other half is to mobilize the supreme thought power of the Dharma body to capture various energies in the universe, compress and purify them, infuse them into the eight weapons, condense them into a physical entity, turning them into something like the Dharma treasures of a cultivator. This is a long process that cannot be accomplished overnight. The technique of creating something out of nothing is incredibly difficult to the point of being unimaginable.
Zhou Qing's current avatar can use Taoist magic, but the eight pieces of armor are like empty shells, mere decorations. Zhou Qing can only follow the routine, cultivating his spiritual energy and condensing it into his avatar while absorbing energy according to the recorded mantra, slowly infusing it into the eight pieces of armor.
However, Zhou Qing was also a very patient person, especially with the eight spiritual energy-formed weapon shells. The array method was complex and intricate, even Zhou Qing, an expert in arrays, couldn't understand it. After all, one can only know their own affairs. Zhou Qing vaguely felt that if these eight weapons were successfully cast according to the manual, they might not be inferior to any divine weapon between heaven and earth. However, at the current speed, it would take thousands of years for these eight weapons to take shape. This was the difficulty of the Eight-Nine Mysterious Merit.
Zhou Qing thought of this and couldn't help but admire the person who created these eight or nine mysterious skills, using the intangible to create the tangible, which is exactly what creation is all about!
These thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant. In fact, the three Taoist priests were all mid-term masters of the Divine Transformation stage, and their flying swords were also orthodox rather than evil. They must have been people from the Taoist sect as well. However, they had a proud and arrogant expression, without even half a hint of the transcendent air of a Taoist master. The other two strange and barbaric monks had an aura that was hidden but not released, like a dragon lurking in the depths of the earth. Their cultivation level might be even higher than that of the three Taoist priests. The purple golden lotus platform under their feet was also a pretty good treasure, and there were many places on their bodies where spiritual energy fluctuations could be seen. It was clear that they were people with many treasures. Obviously, the five of them were still in cahoots with each other. Now that the other party was looking for trouble, Zhou Qing also felt that it would not be easy to deal with them.
If it were just himself, he wouldn't mind, conjuring a divine sword to kill the five people would still be difficult but not impossible, and if all else failed, he could always run away. However, with these three disciples now, Zhou Qing was no longer confident, but relying on one of them, he might be able to kill three people, and Liao Xiao Jin wouldn't even be able to escape. The difference in their cultivation wasn't just a little bit.
As the leader of the group saw Zhou Qing and his four companions not responding, his face changed and he was about to make a move. A fellow Taoist beside him pulled him back and whispered: "Brother, I'm afraid it's not suitable. Look at that five-colored light shield; our Storm Sword technique formed a strong gust of wind that doesn't even move when blown against it. It must be an extraordinary treasure. Considering these few people are so young yet possess such a powerful artifact, they probably have a significant background. Now, with the Wudang Mountains' grand opening ceremony inviting cultivators from all over, there's a large influx of cultivators coming and going. If we were to get rid of them and it got out, I'm afraid it wouldn't be good."
"What's there to fear? We five have been roaming the Western Regions for decades, and even the Kunlun Sect and the lamas of the Potala Palace haven't been able to do anything to us. Could it be that in the inland regions there is a sect that can surpass the Kunlun? The more powerful the treasure, the better. There are no great masters among them, at most just some Nascent Soul cultivators. We can easily wipe out these few kids with just one of us, heh heh!" That tall and thin monk, resembling a bamboo pole, walked forward, completely ignoring everyone else, treating Zhou Qing and the others like meat on a chopping board or chickens in a cage.
In fact, the five of them had already discovered the four people and deliberately used their sword energy to stir up a whirlwind similar to Zhou Qing's Taoist practice. Liao Xiao Jin's move was really too clever, leaving them with lingering fear, otherwise they would have come up and started fighting long ago.
"Hahaha! Hahaha! ......" A faint, ethereal laughter drifted over from the distant white clouds. "Zhen Ling, Zhen Guang, Zhen Kong, Hui Yun, Hui Hai! Weren't you five always bandits in the Western Regions? How did you end up here in the interior, robbing people? You'd better be careful, you have many enemies!" As soon as the words fell, a magnificent seven-colored dragon boat, three zhang wide and over ten zhang long, burst forth from the distant white clouds. From afar, it could be seen that on the boat stood twenty or thirty bright-eyed, beautiful young girls, their beauty beyond compare.
Zhou Qing was not surprised, the hundred-year-old opening ceremony of Shu Mountain had long been spread throughout the cultivation world, and the people who came to watch were mixed with fish and dragons, everything was there. Moreover, Zhou Qing had seen legendary things like killing Shen Baiqi, Epang Palace, and Shanhe Sheji Tu, so what's surprising about this?
I'm tired today, need to rest a bit, that's all for now, everyone please understand me! Hehe!
