Chapter 238 Eight Generals
Daoxing Tianzun and Yuding Tianzun were plagued by bad luck, but Chen Jiu was extremely lucky.
He continued to comprehend the Fire Element of Heaven in the shortest possible time. When he began to comprehend the Way of Life and Death, he thought of an excellent way.
Originally, it was very difficult to comprehend the way of life and death. Just like the old fox fairy, Zhang Shixin and Zhang Qian, they had all comprehended the way of life and death for nearly a thousand years, but the result was that they only seemed to understand it, as hazy as seeing flowers in the fog, and there was no hope of becoming gods at all.
It's not that they don't have the talent, but the way of life and death is difficult to comprehend. Among the Twelve Heavenly Ways, the Five Elements Heavenly Way is the easiest to comprehend, followed by the Way of Qi and Blood, and then the Way of Yin and Yang. The difficulty of comprehending the Way of Life and Death is almost as difficult as the Ways of Time, Space, Light and Darkness.
If Chen Jiu were allowed to comprehend it himself, he would either practice the "Qingqiu Jue" to refine the energy of life, build an immortal palace, and then comprehend the way of life and death, or practice the "Yinming Sutra" to absorb the energy of death, which is yin energy, build an immortal palace, and then comprehend the way of life and death.
Both of these methods would consume a great deal of time . The key point was that he did not have an elixir containing the energy of life or death, so it was too difficult to create an immortal palace.
So, what to do?
If it were someone else, there would be no way at all and they could only practice slowly.
Suddenly, an idea came to him and he thought of a perfect solution.
This method is to use the Star-Absorbing Skill to absorb the energy of life or death, directly forming a vortex of spiritual energy in the Dantian, and opening up the Immortal Palace in one fell swoop.
Of course, using the Star-Absorbing Skill to absorb the Qi of Life or the Qi of Death does not mean looking for the Qi of Life in the world of the living or absorbing the Yin Qi in the world of the dead. The Qi of Life is definitely not found in the world of the living. As for the Yin Qi in the world of the dead, the concentration is simply not enough. The concentration of Yin Qi in the Yin and Yang worlds is not enough.
After all, the Yin-Yang Realm was formed by the broken immortal palaces of two ghost immortals. Even if he absorbed all of it, it would probably not be enough for him to build an immortal palace. It would be a joke to use the Star-Absorbing Technique to absorb all the Yin energy in a thousand miles. If he really absorbed it all, the Yin-Yang Realm would be destroyed.
The Star-Absorbing Skill he thought of was to absorb the Qi of life or the Qi of death. That was to directly absorb the Qi of life or the Qi of death from the body of the True God!
The old fox fairy, Jiaona, Zhang Shixin, Zhang Qian and others have all become gods, so it is naturally no problem for him to absorb them. Moreover, for a true god, the life energy or death energy in the immortal palace is not worth mentioning at all.
They could just use their spiritual consciousness to brush around in the kingdom of God a few times and they would be able to come back. This was the same principle as his enlightenment of the demon fairies, except that he used his own demon energy to infuse them, while he absorbed the energy of life or death to form a vortex of spiritual energy in his dantian, which was equivalent to someone else giving him a reverse initiation.
Once he came up with this idea, it became easier for him to comprehend the Yin and Yang. This was because True Lord Wuyun and True Lord Chang'er had plenty of Yin and Yang in their bodies, so it would certainly not matter if he just absorbed some.
Of course, we have to try it to know whether this will work.
This time he chose to absorb the vitality from the old fox fairy to build a fairy palace.
That morning, at about noon, he had just enlightened a demon fairy and came to the cave at the foot of Linlang Peak.
The old fox fairy has now become their full-time chef. Every day she is busy in the cave under Linlang Peak. After making breakfast, she prepares lunch, and after making lunch , she prepares dinner. She is very busy and happy.
As for cultivation, she was not in a hurry because she had already become a god and had also comprehended the three heavenly ways. As long as she used her spiritual consciousness to expand her kingdom of God in the dead of night every day, she would be able to live for 20,000 to 30,000 years. Therefore, she was not in a hurry.
At this moment, she was thinking about making delicious food for everyone. Seeing everyone enjoying the food made her happy too.
Chen Jiu looked at her busy figure and couldn't help but sigh secretly. The old fox fairy had silently given too much for him.
When the old fox fairy saw Chen Jiu coming, he said happily: "Ah Jiu, you are here, just in time, there are not enough fruits today, you can pick some more from the Kingdom of God."
This is easy.
As Chen Jiu's spiritual sense moved, the stone chamber specially used to store fruits was filled up, with baskets of fruits neatly arranged.
Seeing him standing there in a daze after picking the fruits, the old fox fairy couldn't help but ask curiously, "Ajiu, what's wrong with you? Is there something wrong?"
Chen Jiu said rather embarrassedly: "Grandfather, I have thought of a way to comprehend the way of life and death, and I want to absorb some vitality from you."
So that's how it is.
The old fox fairy said without hesitation: "Tell me how much you want and how to suck it."
Chen Jiu explained in detail: "This is nothing compared to the life energy in your kingdom of God. However, you have to constantly pull the life energy out of the kingdom of God and continuously transport it to the tendons in your arms. I must absorb the life energy equivalent to that of two immortals."
The old fox fairy nodded, took him to the grass outside and sat cross-legged, and asked again: "One hand or two hands?"
Chen Jiu said without hesitation: "One hand, two hands consume too much spiritual energy."
In fact, using one hand takes more time, and he doesn't want the old fox fairy to be too tired.
The old fox fairy raised his right hand and asked, "Is this okay?"
Chen Jiu thrust his palm forward, probed with his spiritual sense, then nodded slightly and said, "That's all, as long as you keep your arms full of vitality."
The old fox fairy nodded without hesitation and said, "Okay, come on."
Chen Jiu directly used his Qi Star Absorbing Skill to absorb the vital energy in the old fox fairy's arm into his Dantian.
To be honest, he absorbed a lot of life energy. If it were an earthly immortal or a demon immortal, it would probably be sucked dry by him in a few strokes.
However, the old fox fairy continuously drew life energy from the kingdom of God and continuously replenished it into his arm, so he didn't have to worry about sucking the old fox fairy's arm dry.
I don't know how long it took, but a vortex of spiritual energy composed of life energy finally formed in his dantian, which proved that this method was correct.
He suppressed his excitement, and continued to absorb the life energy of the old fox fairy, continuously expanding the spiritual energy vortex, and continuously accelerating the spiritual energy vortex. Finally, with a bang, a black dot formed in the center of the spiritual energy vortex, and in a flash, the vast spiritual energy vortex like a galaxy was sucked into the black dot and disappeared.
The Immortal Palace is done!
He quickly opened his eyes and said gratefully, "Grandfather, it's okay."
Hearing this, the old fox fairy opened his eyes and looked at the sky. He could not help but said in surprise, "Oh, it's almost 9 o'clock. No, I have to kill sheep and cattle quickly and prepare the meat. Otherwise, they will all come and there will be nothing to eat."
Chen Jiu nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, you go ahead and do your thing. I'll think about it a little more and I'll go eat lunch later."
At this time, the newly formed immortal palace in his dantian had stabilized. It was just like the old fox immortal's original immortal palace, an endless grassland, but without wood spiritual energy, only life energy.
Why is it grass?
Chen Jiu thought about it, then took in some fire energy and condensed it into a fireball the size of a fist. It immediately burned a fist-sized black spot on the grass.
Sure enough, as soon as the smoke dissipated, the grass below began to sprout. The black ash from the burnt grass was quickly absorbed by the grass, and the grassland soon returned to normal.
Wild grass has the most tenacious vitality, perhaps it represents new life or vitality.
He thought about it again and simply extended his spiritual sense to catch a rabbit, a cow and a sheep in the new area and threw them directly into the immortal palace filled with vitality.
As soon as the rabbits, cattle and sheep saw the endless grassland, they became extremely excited and ate so happily that they couldn't stop at all.
The problem is that no matter how fast they eat, they can't keep up with the growth rate of the weeds. No matter how much they eat, the grass remains unchanged.
These guys started to poop while they were eating.
A magical scene appeared again. No matter how fast they defecated, the cow dung, sheep dung, etc. were instantly absorbed by the grass, leaving no trace at all.
It's really easy to raise herbivores here. No wonder the old fox fairy raises so many of them.
Chen Jiu thought about it again and simply used his spiritual sense to catch a bunch of rabbits and hundreds of cattle and sheep and let them eat like crazy inside.
Sure enough, with so many herbivores eating together, he could clearly feel that the vitality in the immortal palace was slowly decreasing.
However, it doesn't matter much. Once the immortal palace expands to the kingdom of God of five or six thousand miles, even if tens of thousands of rabbits and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep are put in, it will not deplete the vitality of his kingdom of God.
So, how can we transform the chaotic energy in this fairy palace into the energy of life, so as to expand the fairy palace into the kingdom of God?
He didn't need to ponder this, he could just ask the old fox fairy and Jiaona and he would understand.
"Master Jiu, why are you sitting outside?"
At this time, True Lord Wuyun, True Lord Chang'er and other demon gods had already come over one after another to prepare for the meal, and the hall next to them had already been filled with fruits and meats.
Chen Jiu smiled slightly and said, "I'm waiting for you to come and eat together."
After saying that, he stood up and walked towards the hall.
Eating now was really not a waste of his time, because he could ask the old fox fairy, Lord Wuyun and others about their insights into the way of life and death while eating. One meal was equivalent to several months or even years of his own insights.
After finishing the meal, he already had a vague understanding of how to transform the chaotic energy into the energy of life.
He flashed to the top of Linlang Peak and was about to gain some insights when a team of bat soldiers suddenly flew over, and there seemed to be several people on their backs.
Brothers Qi Jiguang and Qi Jimei actually came with a few young people in their twenties.
What are these two guys doing?
Several people came to the top of Lianshen Peak on bat soldiers and jumped from the bat soldiers one after another, and lined up neatly in front of him.
Qi Jiguang directly took out a letter, bowed respectfully and said: "Master, this is a letter my father wrote to you."
Chen Jiu took the envelope, opened it and looked at it, his face full of strangeness.
Qi Jingtong actually sent him a disciple.
Coincidentally, this period was the time for the Nanzhili Military Examination. While these martial arts students were taking the examination, the situation suddenly changed. The army of King Jiushan actually occupied the city of Jinling, and all the officials presiding over the military examination were arrested.
These martial arts students were so depressed. They were about to become martial arts candidates, but suddenly the examiners were gone.
What should I do?
They had no choice but to go to the newly formed Ministry of War to ask someone.
When Qi Jingtong received the news, he did not drive them away. Instead, he pulled up their experience and martial arts examination results and looked through them carefully.
He wanted to find a few martial artists and train them well to become capable and skilled generals. After all, he didn't have many generals under his command at the moment.
As a result, he found several people with outstanding experience and achievements.
Most of these people were hereditary garrison commanders, some were commanders, and some had military records of killing Japanese pirates.
He also personally assessed these people's literary talent and martial arts, and found that they were all top choices.
He felt that his efforts to cultivate some good seedlings were wasted, so he picked out five particularly outstanding ones and recommended them to Chen Jiu. The general idea was to let Chen Jiu accept these people as his disciples, train them well, and cultivate a few trusted generals.
However, this time the brothers Qi Jiguang and Qi Jimei brought a total of six people. The others were not martial artists participating in the military examination, but civil officials who were dismissed by Jiajing.
This guy is even more amazing. Not only did he get first place in the provincial examination, first place in the metropolitan examination, and first place in the second class of the palace examination, he was also a genius in martial arts. He killed many Japanese pirates when he was in office in the local government!
However , such a genius was actually dismissed from his post and sent back home by Jiajing just because he wrote a memorial to advise Jiajing when he was promoted to be the head of the Ministry of War!
This guy happened to be from Changzhou Prefecture in Nanzhili. After the army captured Changzhou Prefecture, he actually came to Jinling City in admiration of the hero who wiped out the Japanese pirates. As a result, he was caught by Qi Jingtong.
After Qi Jingtong's persuasion, this guy was immediately convinced and came over to become his disciple.
These six people plus the brothers Qi Jiguang and Qi Jimei make exactly eight. As long as he accepts these six more disciples, he will be able to train eight trusted generals.
Not bad, not bad.
After reading Qi Jingtong's letter, Chen Jiu couldn't help but nodded slightly.
