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Chapter 138: 137. Attaining Sainthood, a Second Reincarnation!
Chapter 138: 137. Attaining Sainthood, a Second Reincarnation!
Lei Jun's tall figure stood within a spacious dwelling that had been renovated beforehand to accommodate his height.
Although it was a tight squeeze for the giant panda to enter, at least they didn't have to dismantle the door or the house.
Once inside, Yuan Mobai's expression returned to normal.
He sat down, looking at Lei Jun and the giant panda, ignoring Lei Jun's previous question. Instead, he asked, "How is the Shushan Sect doing now?"
Lei Jun immediately replied with a solemn expression, "The storm has temporarily subsided, but the undercurrents remain fierce."
The civil war within the Shushan Sect seemed to have reached a final conclusion, and unlike the early days of the Celestial Master's Mansion, it did not appear to be splitting apart.
However, the people of the Shushan Sect were still far from being able to rest easy.
This battle had affected too much, drawing in almost all the Shushan experts.
After a bloody battle, the neutral faction that had existed in the Shushan Sect to mediate between the external and internal affairs had almost completely disappeared...
"I still hope that the fellow Daoists of Shushan can hold on to the situation," Yuan Mobai sighed softly.
Lei Jun understood the unspoken meaning of his master's words.
If the Shushan Sect were to fall into internal strife again, there might be another battle in the future.
Not that the Shushan Sect's experts were eager to fight to the death.
When they didn't fight, there were those who wanted them to.
In such a situation, it was crucial for them to maintain their composure and not be swayed by external influences.
Lei Jun then proceeded to tell Yuan Mobai more about his recent trip to Bashu, leaving out the details about the glowing orb in his mind and the lottery, and merely attributing his good fortune and insights to luck and intuition.
Apart from asking more about the Shushan Sect, Yuan Mobai listened to the rest without much comment or further inquiry.
Hearing how Lei Jun's prolonged stay at Rain Mountain had attracted the giant panda due to the Upper Clarity Golden Bamboo, Yuan Mobai smiled and shook his head. "Well, it's a twist of fate."
"Master, are you going to take on another disciple?" Lei Jun asked.
Yuan Mobai shook his head. "The one who has formed a bond with it is you, not me."
He looked at the giant panda, who was still a bit bewildered despite its intelligence, and said to Lei Jun, "Zhongyun, you have been an initiate for quite some time now. After receiving the ordination and cultivating to the Fourfold Heaven realm, you can now, by the norms, accept your own disciples."
"Me?"
Lei Jun turned to look at the giant panda.
Man and beast stared at each other, blinking simultaneously.
Well, my master's master is a panda.
Will my disciple be another panda, too?
This is indeed fate... Lei Jun thought, amused.
He turned to Yuan Mobai and asked, "Master, what should I do now?"
Yuan Mobai said, "According to the sect's rules, we must not casually impart the true teachings of our sect without proper initiation.
I have another volume of Taoist practices that you can guide and instruct from the sidelines, and you can also nurture it with spiritual objects.
Once this mountain leopard has made significant progress in its cultivation, first by fully awakening its spiritual intellect and second by gaining the ability to change its physical form, we can arrange for it to enter the Daoist Youth Academy. There, it can formally convert to our Taoist path through the proper rituals and gain the qualifications to participate in the initiation ceremony.
After the initiation and induction into the Celestial Master's Mansion, it will officially become your disciple. From then on, everything will be simpler."
"Master, you are indeed experienced," Lei Jun thought to himself.
As if reading his mind, Yuan Mobai shook his head slightly and said, "No need to guess. Yes, your master's master arranged for me in the same way back then."
His eyes, now calm and serene, took on a nostalgic glint as he continued, "Time flies, it has been over a hundred years..."
Lei Jun remained silent, standing by respectfully without disturbing Yuan Mobai.
However, Yuan Mobai soon snapped out of his reverie and proceeded to impart a new Taoist practice to Lei Jun.
Lei Jun received the teachings, and it was named the Taoist Canon: Chapter of Transformation.
"Disciple's cultivation is still lacking, and I fear I may misguide my future disciples," Lei Jun said, glancing at the giant panda by his side.
"For now, I will use this method and spiritual objects to help this lazy creature awaken its spiritual intellect. When the time comes for it to choose a master, we shall also respect its wishes."
Yuan Mobai smiled and nodded, "That is a good idea."
Lei Jun added, "Master, I did promise it a feast of Upper Clarity Golden Bamboo to convince it to leave its homeland and come to Longhu Mountain with me. Now..."
Yuan Mobai laughed, "It won't do to put it in there. I guess I'll have to do it myself."
The giant panda might not have fully understood human speech yet, but perhaps due to its keen instincts, it was extremely sensitive to the mention of Upper Clarity Golden Bamboo. As it heard Lei Jun and Yuan Mobai's conversation, its small eyes in its chubby face lit up with joy, and it couldn't stop turning its head from side to side in excitement.
The sight amused both Lei Jun and Yuan Mobai, and they smiled and laughed as well.
After a few more words of light conversation, Lei Jun took out the most important gains from his recent trip to Bashu.
The purple True Yin Bamboo Pith.
He then produced the white True Yang Miracle Flower, and the two objects complemented each other, exuding a profound mystery.
Yuan Mobai slowly nodded, "Indeed, these are two mutually generative spiritual objects."
Under his guidance, Lei Jun gained a deeper understanding.
A few days later, after Lei Jun had made all the necessary preparations and cultivated his essence, qi, and spirit to their peak state, he officially began the most crucial step.
For privacy and to ensure he wouldn't be disturbed, Lei Jun chose to perform this crucial step in his master Yuan Mobai's residence.
He set up an altar, sat atop the three-tiered platform, and offered incense to the heavens.
As the smoke rose towards the sky, Lei Jun spread his hands to his sides.
Above his head, three Yuan talismans flashed with divine light, merging into one and forming a wondrous light screen.
The purple and white, the True Yin Bamboo Pith and the True Yang Miracle Flower, representing the yin and yang, were placed on Lei Jun's left and right sides respectively.
At this moment, stimulated by Lei Jun's spiritual power, the True Yin Bamboo Pith and the True Yang Miracle Flower shattered into streams of light.
The radiant light transformed, quickly forming into two streams of yin and yang qi, one black and one white, which Lei Jun then respectively absorbed into his palms.
Lei Jun brought his hands together, pinching them into a complex incantation gesture before his chest.
Above his head, the light screen formed by the three spirit talismans simultaneously flashed, with the black and white qi manifesting within it.
As the black and white qi intertwined, another spiritual power resonated with them.
The Shadow Hare and the Blazing Heart Serpent, having long been refined by Lei Jun, merged with his Yin and Yang energies, becoming one with his Qi.
At this moment, the Yin and Yang Destruction appeared, responding to the black and white qi.
Streams of spiritual light flashed together, eventually condensing into a faint outline of the Taiji Yin-Yang diagram above Lei Jun's head, on his Yuan talisman.
The Taiji Yin-Yang diagram, like the confluence of water and fire, seemed about to burst forth from Lei Jun's Yuan talisman.
The faint sounds of dragon roars and tiger roars echoed, and the forms of a dragon and tiger appeared together.
Lei Jun's foundation in the Longhu Mountain Taoist practices, with its emphasis on the balance of yin and yang and the confluence of dragon and tiger, was illuminated by the spiritual power he had refined at this moment, each aspect complementing the other.
As the Taiji turned, the black and white qi sank, disappearing into Lei Jun's Yuan talisman.
The black and white qi did not truly disappear but, through Lei Jun's foundation in the mystical arts, reached the depths of his spiritual soul.
There, the True One Altar of the Cave Heaven quietly opened.
The lamps of the four nines shone brightly, and the nine banners fluttered.
The subtle and wonderful sounds of the Dao seemed to be there and yet not there, conforming to the aspect of the great sound arising from silence, turning within the Cave Heaven.
The black and white qi circled the Daoist training ground once, then entered the first layer of the Altar through the Flying Bridge Earth Gate.
In the first layer of the Altar, a large number of Taoist Imbued Talisman Patterns lit up together.
The black and white qi turned within them, never finding a moment of rest.
However, the black and the white gradually faded.
Two became one.
The True One, without a second.
Merged and blended, indistinguishable from each other.
In the end, only a faint, clear qi remained in the first layer of the Altar.
The clear qi blew like a gentle wind, emanating from the True One Altar.
It passed through the Cave Heaven training ground, through Lei Jun's spiritual soul, through his Yuan talisman, and finally landed on his physical body.
Lei Jun did not feel any special changes within himself.
He only felt a sudden lightness throughout his body.
But then, as he circulated his mystical power, he instantly felt his power divide into two paths, yet they intertwined and communicated with each other.
With the constant interconnection and exchange between the two, everything seemed to be endlessly abundant.
With a thought from Lei Jun, his physical body suddenly felt a coolness.
On his Yuan talisman, a faint black qi appeared.
The black qi was not evil; it merely signified the ultimate purity and truth of yin in this world.
With another thought, his physical body felt a scorching heat.
A faint white qi appeared on his Yuan talisman, signifying the ultimate purity and truth of yang.
[Yin-Yang Sacred Body]
Lei Jun's heart was filled with joy.
He had succeeded! With the help of the True One Altar, the True Yang Miracle Flower, and the True Yin Bamboo Pith, he had successfully taken this difficult but crucial step.
He had successfully improved his root bone once more.
From the Qilin Spirit Body, he had advanced to the Yin-Yang Sacred Body.
With yin and yang in balance, supporting and complementing each other, and with their constant interconnection and exchange, he could now transform at will.
Going forward, whether he cultivated yin-attributed Taoist practices and incantations or yang-attributed Taoist practices and incantations, he would achieve twice the result with half the effort.
With the balance of yin and yang, there might even be further sublimation.
Furthermore, the Taoist arts of the Celestial Master's Mansion of Longhu Mountain inherently emphasized the path of yin and yang, with water and fire in harmony and dragon and tiger converging.
Going forward, Lei Jun's cultivation of his sect's Taoist arts would be even more advantageous.
The Yin-Yang Sacred Body could be said to be one of the most suitable body types for cultivating the Taoist arts of the Celestial Master's Mansion.
At this moment, as Lei Jun silently circulated his mystical arts, he felt his inspiration and spiritual power intertwine and accumulate within him to the point of overflowing.
The two streams of mystical power, one black and one white, converged above Lei Jun's head, beginning to derive layers of radiant mist.
After an unknown amount of time, the radiant mist stabilized.
It transformed into a new Yuan talisman.
Lei Jun's fourth Yuan talisman.
Four talismans, the perfect Four Heavens Yuan talisman realm! This improvement in his root bone directly propelled Lei Jun's cultivation to the next level, reaching the perfect Four Heavens realm.
Just like when he improved his intelligence before, good, good... Lei Jun nodded repeatedly.
He exhaled a long breath and then quietly calmed his mind and adjusted his breath.
After a long time, Lei Jun ended his cultivation and got up to step down from the Altar.
Outside the ceremonial ground, his master, Yuan Mobai, was smiling as he watched him.
Lei Jun stepped forward and bowed, "Master."
Yuan Mobai smiled, "Excellent, this way, you have also laid a good foundation for your future cultivation in the Five Heavens Dao Palace realm."
In the Taoist Talisman Sect's cultivation, one refined both life and cultivation, giving equal importance to the spiritual soul and the physical body.
However, comparatively speaking, the First Heaven Refining Qi and Second Heaven Building Foundation focused more on physical body life cultivation, while the Third Heaven Altar and Fourth Heaven Yuan Talisman realms focused more on the elevation of the spiritual soul and the improvement of spiritual nature.
Upon reaching the Fifth Heaven Dao Palace realm, there would once again be a significant elevation in physical body life cultivation.
Of course, the premise of all this was that the cultivator could progress steadily.
For Lei Jun, the most important tasks ahead, aside from adapting to his body's new state and consolidating his cultivation, were the tribulations between the Fourth Heaven and the Fifth Heaven.
Although he had the Five Elements Great Derivative Treasure Sand, it was not enough to rely solely on this treasure.
"In tribulation transcendence, the focus is always on oneself."
Yuan Mobai said, "However, Zhongyun, you now have both the Sacred Body root bone and the Clear Understanding intelligence. As long as you cultivate steadily, without disturbing your heart, the future is promising."
Lei Jun: "Master, please rest assured, disciple will follow your teachings."
PS: Second update of the day, there will be another update later.
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