Chapter 109: Everything Turns Into Wonder
Chapter 109 – All Things Turned Into Wonders
Li Fan and Lord Yin reentered the depths of the building, and after sitting down at a resting place, Li Fan explained the purpose of his visit.
“Oh? You are asking how to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage?” Lord Yin instantly became excited and sputtered. “Fellow Daoist has asked the right person! I dare say that no one knows more about Foundation Establishment than I do!”
“I wish to hear about it!” Li Fan didn’t refute and asked smilingly.
The human hand dog walked upright like a human at this time.
The two hands of the forelimbs carried two cups and placed them on the table.
The cups were black and tumbling, and it was not known what kind of stuff was in them.
The manhandled dog then plopped down again, circling around Yin Shangren and inviting credit.
“Please drink tea, fellow Daoist! This is good stuff, it’s the Aura Flora I cultivated. If it multiplies and symbioses in the body, it can speed up the speed of aura operation and enhance the power of aura outbursts, so there are many benefits.” Lord Yin deliciously tasted it and said to Li Fan.
With a sweep of his divine sense, Li Fan realized that what was tumbling in this cup were countless tiny micro organisms with open teeth and claws and chic looks.
So Li Fan pressed on.
Seeing that Li Fan did not drink, Lord Yin was a little regretful.
Without forcing the issue, he started the main topic, he asked, “The so-called foundation building, building the foundation of cultivation is also. Then do you know what this foundation of the Dao is?”
Li Fan pondered for a moment and replied, “The foundation of the Dao is the root of a cultivator’s cultivation. After cultivating to Qi Refining Perfection, a cultivator needs to build his own Dao Foundation before he can continue his cultivation. Otherwise, even if the cultivation level can continue to increase, it would still be like a hundred foot tall building built on top of sandy soil. With a gentle shake, it will collapse.”
Discussing academics, Lord Yin was quite serious. He nodded, “Not bad, before the Great Tribulation, there were qi refining cultivators who took a different path, not building a dao foundation, but only specializing in refining qi.”
“It was claimed that there was no limit to qi refining, and that three thousand layers of qi refining could cut through the Harmonious Dao. Unfortunately, this person only cultivated to the ninety-ninth layer of qi refining before he was killed by a Jindan cultivator who couldn’t stand the sight of it and casually beat him to death.”
“Perhaps its path is really feasible, but for one thing, the Qi Refining cultivator’s body is weak and can’t withstand such a huge amount of power. For two, even if there are more layers of Qi Refining, they are only empty of brute strength. To really fight with Foundation Establishment and above cultivators, there are too many losses, and you’ll be sacrificing your strength for the sake of the end.”
Lord Yin took a sip of tea and continued, “Ancient cultivators were all masters of nature. Observing the laws of heaven and earth’s operation and comprehending the laws of the flow of the Great Dao.”
“Then, synthesize their own senses and go for a poor imitation.”
“The cultivator’s perception and thinking of the Great Dao, formed over years and days, turned into the foundation of future cultivation.”
“And because qualifications vary, there are high and low levels of enlightenment; the speed and degree of fit between cultivators’ perception of the Great Dao and the building of the Dao foundation also varies greatly.”
“Some people can feel something in their heart in a flash and build a foundation on the ground. And the vast majority of them have tens of years of poor experience and can’t advance an inch.”
“The difficulty of cultivation is evident.”
Lord Yin suddenly sighed, “But that was once.”
“If the Laws of Heaven and Earth are compared to a giant tree in the sky, then once upon a time, cultivators of my generation were all microscopic elves between the trees. Flying between a branch and a leaf, observing and comprehending.”
“It was too slow and too difficult.”
“Thus, after the Immortal Elder’s preaching, my generation of cultivators all became greedy ants, no longer engaging in any observing and comprehending, emulating and reproducing, but instead directly nibbling on the branches and leaves of the giant tree, turning them into sustenance for their own growth.”
“In this way, cultivation would certainly be countless times faster. And the wonders of heaven and earth are just like the branches and leaves of this giant tree.”
“It is the aggregation of the laws of heaven and earth in some way. By using the curiosities as their basis, cultivators can skip the process of their own enlightenment and directly transform it into their own Dao foundation.”
Li Fan nodded, “I remember that in the Theory of Curiosities, it was also said so.”
“The Theory of Strange Objects ……,” Lord Yin snorted, seemingly disdainful.
He continued, “If it is said that the fake wonders of heaven and earth were once meant to omit the process of sensing heaven and earth ……”
“Then, let me ask you. Nowadays, there are cultivators with heavenly wonders who don’t even need heaven and earth wonders to comprehend these laws. His comprehension of the heavens and earth fits extremely well, and in the ancient times, he could build his foundation straight away. Now, is it still possible?” Lord Yin looked at Li Fan with a burning gaze.
“Naturally, it won’t work, foundation building needs to fake the wonders of heaven and earth…….” Li Fan said, suddenly thinking of something, and fell silent.
“Not bad, the cultivation method has long been completely changed.” Lord Yin said in a cold voice. “In the past, it was natural for cultivators to sense the laws of heaven and earth and cultivate in accordance with heaven.”
“But after Immortal Elder transmitted the law, this natural reasoning, reversed. Cultivators have to go against the heaven and plunder the heaven and earth ……”
Li Fan whispered, “Against the reason of heaven and earth ……”
“In order to prove longevity!” Lord Yin continued.
“I don’t know what a cultivator needs to do to be certified for immortality before the Great Tribulation.”
“But since the method of cultivation has been altered, the only way to attain immortality today is to go against the reasoning of heaven and earth.”
“The original Dharma Transmission Immortal, who was the proposer of the theory, was also the first to practice it.”
“He went against all the principles of cultivation for all the cultivators in the world and attained the fruit of immortality. Since then, he has lived the same life as heaven and earth and has been free.”
“And after this, all cultivators in the world who want to cultivate can only do so according to His ‘law’. How overbearing!”
Shangren Yin spoke vehemently, clearly quite dissatisfied with this Dharma Transmission Elder Heavenly Father.
“Walking one’s own path, and then making the multitude of beings only walk that path from now on. What a Dharma Transmission Heavenly Father ……” Li Fan’s heart shook.
This was the second Eternal Life Heavenly Father he had spied.
Then, he suddenly thought of the giant statue of the high-crowned old man on Ten Thousand Immortals Island.
It was towering and independent, looking down on the incoming and outgoing beings.
“Could it be that this Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance was created by the Dharma Transmission Heavenly Father? But since this Heavenly Father of Transmission of Dharma is still alive, how could he sit back and watch Ten Thousand Immortal Island being destroyed by Red Flame several years later?…… “A pang of doubt welled up in Li Fan’s heart.
Yin Shangren didn’t care about Li Fan, and then said, “The key question comes, since nowadays foundation building must be false to the wonder of heaven and earth.”
“Then what exactly is the wonder of heaven and earth?”
“You have also read the Theory of Curiosities and know that after a cultivator falls, he will be transformed by heaven and earth into a heaven and earth curiosity.”
“Doesn’t that mean that cultivators can also be viewed, before they are born, as heaven and earth wonders that have not yet been fully transformed?”
Lord Yin spoke faster and faster, as if he wanted to say all the research that no one cared about all these years in one breath.
“Heaven and earth are like furnaces, and the finished products that have been melted down are the formed heaven and earth wonders. And everything in the heavens and earth can be seen as wonders that have yet to be formed!”
“Wondrous objects are the aggregation of rules, aren’t people! The human body is so subtle and contains endless mysteries. Why can’t he be viewed as a wonder?”
“Fellow Daoist also knows that some cultivators will take those mortals with extraordinary abilities and refine them into heaven and earth wonders, using them as their own dao base. Thus taking those mortals’ extraordinary abilities for themselves.”
“I am also a human being, so am I a strange object?”
Seeing that Shangren Yin was getting more and more outrageous, Li Fan couldn’t help but ask out loud, “Is this a guess from fellow Daoist, or is it ……”
Shangren Yin grinned, “It was once a guess, but now ……”
“It has been confirmed by me.”
With that, his entire body, along the center line, split left and right.
Within the five viscera and blood, another Yin Shangren’s face emerged.
“Ten years ago, I used myself as a curiosity to build a dao foundation!”
The two faces, inside and outside, spoke in unison.
(End of chapter)