Immortality Starts With Ignorant Heart Sword Art

Chapter 263: Myth Reborn, Five Elements and Eight Trigrams Nurturing the Stone Monkey

For Zhong Cang, there would always be an opportunity for enlightenment after advancing his skills.

In a state of enlightenment, Zhong Cang's thinking would become thousands of times more active, and inspiration would flow continuously like a spring.

Just like now, Zhong Cang's consciousness was like a sea of stars, and those specks of starlight were the inspirations that emerged in his mind.

Countless inspirations made Zhong Cang have countless ideas, and many of these ideas were realized one by one by Zhong Cang.

First is the transformation of the five beasts.

Originally, the five Transcendent Demonic Beasts that Zhong Cang cultivated were the Silver Dragon Fish, the Flame Exploding Ape, the Mountainous Giant Tortoise, the Wood Spirit Deer, and the Tiger Demon.

These five Demonic Beasts were considered strong at the Qi Refining level, but they were only average at the Foundation Building level.

Because of this, relying on the Body Tempering of these five beasts, Zhong Cang's physical strength was not considered strong among the geniuses.

This could also be seen in his battles.

When dealing with the geniuses, Zhong Cang would either use the Heavenly Heart to activate spiritual energy and release various spells to suppress them, or play the sword music and unleash the Sword of the Soul.

Or he would use the Ancient Gold Gourd to nurture a sword that could split mountains and seas.

Zhong Cang never engaged in close combat with his enemies.

From this, it can be seen that Zhong Cang's physique is indeed "weak," at least it is extremely incompatible with the spiritual energy and divine soul within his body.

And a large part of this is due to the fact that the Five Beasts Infusion Technique is too ordinary.

But now, transformation has come.

"Buzz..."

Reaching the Grandmaster realm allowed Zhong Cang to have a comprehensive understanding of the five beasts - this is the foundation of transformation.

And the increased comprehension by a thousand times in the state of enlightenment allowed Zhong Cang to come up with dozens of methods to transform the five beasts in his mind.

In the end, Zhong Cang chose dragonification.

Under his intention, the five beasts first completely integrated with Zhong Cang, giving him a detailed understanding of the five beasts.

Under the integrated union of the five beasts, Zhong Cang first transformed into the Flame Ape God, the White Tiger Demon God, the Spirit Deer Demigod, the Dragonman, and the Turtle Prime Minister carrying a turtle shell...

And in the next moment of transformation, as Zhong Cang absorbed the evil energy of the mountains and rivers, the forms of these five Demonic Beasts changed again.

The turtle turned into the Overlord carrying a giant stele, the Tiger Demon turned into the majestic Bixi, and the Spirit Deer transformed into a half-unicorn, half-dragon form.

This is the form of the Dragon Son.

In fact, for Zhong Cang who possesses the five beasts, it would be better to transform them into the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, Vermilion Bird, and Qilin.

However, the transformation of the Five Beasts is not something that can be achieved simply by wanting to transform. In addition to inspiration, it also requires the cooperation of resources.

Currently, apart from absorbing the Qi of the mountains and rivers, Zhong Cang has no other resources.

In this situation, he can only allow the Five Beasts to undergo a certain degree of dragonization, but they cannot become the Four Holy Beasts.

Fortunately, the dragon's genes are strong and have many different offspring.

Relying on the legend of the Dragon's Nine Sons, Zhong Cang has partially dragonized the turtle, tiger demon, and spirit deer, allowing their strength to undergo a transformation and advancement.

As for why only three out of the five have undergone dragonization, instead of all five, it is because the Mirage Dragon is already a dragon and does not need to be dragonized. What it needs to do is purify itself, purify its own blood, and truly become a dragon.

"Buzz..."

As Zhong Cang's thoughts trembled, the Mirage Dragon continuously absorbed the Qi of the mountains and rivers. Under the frenzy of absorption, its body, originally a silver dragon fish, gradually transformed into a dragon.

"It's working!"

Zhong Cang had a feeling that when the refining of the Qi was completed, it would also be the moment when the Mirage Dragon transformed into a dragon.

In this way, the tiger, deer, dragon, and turtle, Zhong Cang made their arrangements.

As for the monkey, Zhong Cang had other plans.

He had ideas about a certain Great Saint from a previous legend.

"Sun Wukong was born in the Flower Fruit Mountain of the Aolai Country in the Dongsheng Divine Continent of the Saha World. He was nurtured by the immortal stone since its creation. But the immortal stone did not come from nowhere. It was on the ancestral veins of the Ten Continents and Three Islands, with its height corresponding to the twenty-four Qi and its orifices corresponding to the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams..."

Recalling the origin of Sun Wukong's birth, Zhong Cang separated the dragon's aura from the Qi of the mountains and rivers, most of which were injected into the Mirage Dragon's body.

As for the Qi of the mountains and rivers, it was inputted into the monkey's body by Zhong Cang.

The majestic Qi of the mountains and rivers condensed into a stone cocoon outside the monkey's body, as if a myth was being recreated.

This was not all that Zhong Cang did for Sun Wukong's birth.

He quickly thought of the immortal stone in the Flower Fruit Mountain of the Aolai Country in the Dongsheng Divine Continent, which was left behind by Nüwa when she repaired the heavens.

And the stone left behind by Nüwa's heaven-repairing was called the Five-Colored Stone.

Undoubtedly, this corresponded to the Five Elements. After all, in the Eastern Immortal World, the Five Elements were the foundation of the world.

Any cultivator who could transcend the Three Realms and was not bound by the Five Elements was a supreme existence among supreme existences.

"The Five Elements can create a world. The Five-Colored Stone left behind by Nüwa definitely possesses the power of world creation. Otherwise, it would not be able to repair the heavens. In other words, that Great Saint is likely the essence of creation nurtured by a world."

"I may not have the ability to nurture a world, but I can complete the Five Elements."

Thinking like this, Zhong Cang not only inputted the Qi of the mountains and rivers, but also extracted a part of the aura of the other four transformed beasts and injected it into the stone cocoon.

And it didn't stop there. Zhong Cang quickly thought of the immortal stone in the Aolai Country, which had nine orifices and eight holes, corresponding to the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams.

Zhong Cang didn't have many thoughts about the Nine Apertures. However, when it came to the Eight Apertures, he happened to be quite skilled in the Eight Trigrams.

"Om..."

With a thought from Zhong Cang, he merged his Heavenly Heart and unfolded the domain of the Eight Trigrams.

Heaven, Earth, Wind, Thunder, Water, Fire, Mountain, and Marsh.

The eight types of qi from heaven and earth continuously gathered and merged into the stone cocoon.

In this way, following the legend of the Great Saint from his previous life, Zhong Cang used the qi of mountains and rivers as the foundation and successively merged the essence of the Five Elements and the qi of the Eight Trigrams.

He was preparing to give birth to that monkey within his body.

This divine monkey would serve as the foundation of Zhong Cang's constitution.

"I don't seek to reproduce the full power of that Great Saint, even if it's just one ten-thousandth or one hundred-thousandth, it would be enough for me to dominate in Foundation Building and Gold Core cultivation..."

"Om..."

Crazy Integrated Union, crazy absorption.

Due to the transformation of the Five Beasts, Dragon Transformation, and most importantly, the birth of the divine monkey.

All three of these required a large amount of energy, causing Zhong Cang to devour more and more demonic energy.

Outside, the Turtle Prime Minister and Qing Qiu Shangren who accompanied him could only watch as Zhong Cang's absorption speed of demonic energy quickly increased from being five times faster than "ordinary" to fifty times faster!

Seeing this scene, Qing Qiu Shangren breathed a sigh of relief.

The Turtle Prime Minister, on the other hand, sighed inwardly.

"Alas, I knew this guy was a freak. He wouldn't have such obvious flaws... Fortunately, although the fifty-fold absorption efficiency is top-notch among past cultivators, it hasn't exceeded the limit."

Ordinary cultivators, elites, geniuses, freaks, and those who exceed the limit are the classifications of Dragon Race's innate talent for human cultivators.

There's not much to say about ordinary cultivators, they are the countless beings in the Immortal Cultivation World, and ninety percent of cultivators are at this level.

Elites are the backbone with a unique skill (inner disciples).

As for geniuses, they can fight beyond their level. Most of them possess the true transmission of a sect, and some powerful geniuses can even reach the status of a Saint Child.

Freaks are the top figures among the true transmission and Saint Child. They can contend with Dragon Race and wrestle with giants, leading the human race.

However, in the eyes of Dragon Race, although individuals may possess great power, they cannot change the overall situation for a large force or sect.

Even a freak can only have a slight influence.

After all, while you have a freak, other large forces have also grown over thousands of years.

This kind of mutual restraint among top geniuses makes it impossible for a freak to lift a sect off the ground.

After being an unparalleled demon, one becomes an extraordinary genius.

They are people who break the norm and possess unimaginable talent.

Such individuals, in terms of personal power, have already surpassed the limitations of their sects. They can break the norm.

In the eyes of Prime Minister Gui, Zhong Cang is such a person.

However, in the eyes of Zhong Cang and the others in Dragon Palace, what makes Zhong Cang extraordinary is his soul and mana (the scene of lifting thousands of hectares of seawater into the sky).

His physical body was originally considered weak, even though he broke through this time due to the evil energy. In the eyes of Prime Minister Gui, he can only be considered an unparalleled demon, not surpassing the limits.

Zhong Cang is unaware of Prime Minister Gui's thoughts, but if he knew, he would have a different perspective.

"I am only extraordinary in terms of my soul. My mana is still only at the level of an extraordinary genius, not surpassing the limits..."

Zhong Cang hasn't forgotten that he can lift thousands of hectares of seawater into the sky by relying on gravity and attraction, not boundless mana.

The comprehension of the laws belongs to the soul.

Therefore, strictly speaking, Zhong Cang's mana is still at the level of an unparalleled demon. However, Zhong Cang has a flame furnace and the rotation of the Five Elements within his body, which allows his mana to be inexhaustible and instantly explode with thirty-two or even sixty-four times the power.

Otherwise, Zhong Cang's mana would only be considered at the level of an extraordinary genius.

After all, the Five Organs Divine Palace True Form Diagram only allows Zhong Cang's mana to be fifty times greater than an ordinary person's, without any additional special attributes.

Of course, although his mana is not too strong, Zhong Cang can finely control the rotation of the Five Elements and stimulate the spiritual energy in the natural world by merging with the Heavenly Heart. This makes the power he displays far surpass the level of an extraordinary genius.

This is also the power of breaking the limits of the soul.

"My mana still has a long way to go, but it doesn't matter. Earthly Fiend Body Tempering, Heavenly Constellation Cleansing Qi... and later, Heavenly Dipper Qi, are precisely for supplementing mana..."

To compensate for shortcomings and forge a perfect foundation, that is the purpose of Foundation Building.

If Zhong Cang obtains a Supreme Grade Heavenly Dipper Qi, he is confident that he can break the limits of his mana with the power of the constellations.

...

Zhong Cang's current state is that his soul has already broken the limits due to the baptism of thunder.

Mana has the shortcut of the constellations.

As for his physical body, Zhong Cang is currently undergoing Body Tempering.

And he is confident that in this Body Tempering, he can make his weak body soar to new heights and surpass its limits.

The source of this confidence is the divine monkey that is currently gestating, as well as... the characteristic that was solidified in his body during Foundation Building.

He hasn't forgotten that a certain true meaning he solidified was specifically prepared for breaking the limits of his body.

(End of this chapter)