Chapter 26: Relics (Part 1)
After carefully reading the diagram on the table, Zhang Xuanning realized that the secret passage leading to the outside of the city was equipped with tracks and iron carts for transporting goods. As long as the rope was turned, the weapons could be quickly transported out of the city. However, the so-called rapidity probably took at least one or two days, but even so, there must be a large number of people outside the city to respond.
However, since there is no need to enter the treasure warehouse, the goods can be transported slowly in batches, and the requirements for personnel loyalty are greatly reduced .
Zhang Xuanning observed the map closely, and the first thing he found was the mechanism that separated the fake warehouse located on the southwest axis from the real warehouse. In this way, even if someone knew the entrance to Xijiyuan, they would never be able to get into the real warehouse.
Then he grabbed the edge of the table with both hands, pulled it up, and then turned it to the left. Sure enough, the floor next to the table sank, revealing a narrow space inside. Looking down, he saw a small sealed copper jar underneath.
This is the relic of the Evil Emperor. Of course he didn't dare to open the lid. Once it was opened, the masters who had entered the innate realm, especially Shi Zhixuan, might be able to sense it.
Zhang Xuanning stretched out his hand and touched the copper jar. As expected, a scream was heard in his mind, and countless bloody and horrible visions appeared . He seemed to hear the screams of millions of wronged souls demanding their lives. Even if he withdrew his hand, it took a long time for the screams to disappear.
Sure enough, it was the evil emperor’s relics!
The history of the Evil Emperor's relics comes from the burial objects found by the first generation Evil Emperor Xie Bo in an ancient tomb from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. When the Evil Emperor's relics were discovered by Xie Bo, they were placed under the neck of the tomb owner. They were covered with blood spots and crystal mottled. Because of its translucent crystalline nature, it is classified as citrine. In fact, it is very different from any other citrine stone. What most interested Xie Bo was that this crystal ball seemed to contain some kind of strange power. After long-term experiments by Xie Bo, he made an astonishing discovery that the crystal ball has the strange property of absorbing and storing human true energy and essence.
This discovery is truly remarkable.
In the magic sect, there has long been a method of absorbing other people's power. However, no matter how skilled the practitioner is, absorbing other people's true energy is only auxiliary or temporary. No one can really take over other people's decades of power permanently and increase their own power significantly and endlessly. Moreover, due to the differences in the nature of true energy, it will only do more harm than good, and there is a risk of going astray.
Even if one absorbs the other's yin and yang through the technique of sexual intercourse between men and women, it is only auxiliary in nature. It is not without risks and may even not be worth the cost. It is not the best way.
But the Yuan Jing mentioned here is another mysterious thing.
Simply put, Yuan Jing is the total amount of a person's life essence and the root of everything. Yuan Qi and Yuan Shen are obtained by cultivating and improving Yuan Jing.
Everyone's essence is fixed at birth, which determines the limits of what a person can achieve, the limit of his or her lifespan, and is even related to a person's fate.
It can even be said that the true meaning of the innate realm is to return from the acquired to the innate, to transform the acquired vital energy and spirit into essence in order to improve one's own essence. Therefore, only innate masters can transcend human limits and reach the incredible power of the grandmaster.
However, even if it is innate, this method of returning to the innate and increasing the true nature is extremely inefficient and difficult.
However, with this treasure, Xie Bo created a method to inject his own essence into the crystal ball. At that time, he was not far from his death, so before his death, he injected all his essence into the ball and asked the next generation to find a way to extract the essence from the ball.
All the evil emperors in the past, unless they died suddenly, would inject their essence into the relics before their death according to their last instructions. This has also become the way of death chosen by the leaders of the Tianxie Dao in all the past.
In fact, in Zhang Xuanning's opinion, this is a standard suicide. If there is reincarnation, it must be this essence of the true self, which is one of the fundamentals. Now that it has been injected into the relic, it has cut off the possibility of reincarnation. To some extent, both the body and the soul are destroyed.
However, once the so-called essence concentrated in the relics of these dozen generations of evil emperors can be absorbed, they will possess a life essence that is more than ten times that of ordinary people. In this case, apart from anything else, as long as they are used properly, they can live for hundreds of years, their physique will automatically transform into a Taoist body, and the upper limit of their cultivation will be greatly improved. These are all natural things.
The Evil Emperor Xiang Yutian was a man of natural talent. He practiced the "Dao Heart Planting Demon Method" and realized the method of extracting the essence of relics. In order to practice the supreme way, he pretended to be dead and even lived for hundreds of years. This is a clear proof.
You know, human power is limited, so it is difficult to succeed in cultivation, but once human potential is greatly increased, many things will fall into place naturally.
In essence, his own Day-Changing Technique is a method of stimulating the essence of life. Once stimulated, it can achieve the results of rebirth, cleansing of tendons and marrow, and healing of all injuries in a short period of time. However, the essence of human life is fixed. How many times can a person stimulate it?
This determines the limitation of the Sun-Changing Technique, and is also one of the reasons why Tyrant Blade Yue Shan cannot truly succeed. This is because his life essence has long been refined into innate internal energy. Therefore, his innate internal energy has been broken, and the life essence in his body is no longer sufficient to be stimulated and reborn.
Zhang Xuanning was a man of extraordinary talent, with thoughts that went straight to the essence of things. He did not care about the Four Great Books, but he had always longed for the Sun-Changing Method and the relics. Think about it, if he cultivated to the level of a human being like Li Ruohai in the future, and could not break through, and then he practiced the Sun-Changing Method to stimulate the essence in the relics, it would be equivalent to immediately breaking through the limit of human beings and reaching a new level of life. After several times, when his essence was exhausted, what realm could he reach?
As for the others, they cannot be wasted. The relic is divided into three layers. The first is dead air and mixed air, the second is vital energy, and the third is vital essence. In Zhang Xuanning's view, dead air is the murderous aura and experience possessed by the previous evil emperor, condensing the hatred of all the people he killed. So in history, when Kou Zhong obtained it later, he used the Moon in the Well to probe into the jar and picked up the relic with the blade of a knife. As a result, the air penetrated the blade, and a large amount of dead air in the relic rushed towards Kou Zhong along this bridge. He made his mind full of hallucinations, as if millions of wronged souls came to claim his life. At that time, all Kou Zhong could do was to try his best to force the strange air surging from the relic back into the relic, as if he was possessed by an evil spirit and could not move.
However, if these things could be absorbed and refined one by one, it would be equivalent to training in countless battlefields, which must contain some experience from previous evil emperors. Even if there was nothing, one could still train his spirit and will, and any future exercises would be unlikely to have a spiritual impact on him.
The second layer is Yuan Qi, which is the innate internal energy of the evil emperors of all generations. Although extracting it cannot increase the essence of life, it is of great benefit to the cultivation of internal strength. Moreover, this has been proven by the evil emperors of all generations, and it is not something Zhang Xuanning took for granted.
The evil emperors of all generations were already at the innate realm at that time. They looked down on the evil qi, dead qi and internal qi, and wanted to absorb the essence directly. However, they did not know that after the dead qi and the original qi were absorbed, the essence would naturally appear. Is there any need to consider what will happen? Even the essence accumulated by more than a dozen generations of evil emperors in the relics has its limit. Is the dead qi attached to the essence infinite?
As expected, these guys from the Demon Sect are extremely stupid.
In this world, there is the saying of breaking the void, and there are countless heroes, but who can compare with the natural talent of me, Zhang Xuanning?
Throughout the ages, all the heroes and masters in the world are nothing but fools, only I am superior.
At this moment, Zhang Xuanning firmly believed that this was the true reality. From now on, he would do whatever he wanted and would be unrestrained, no longer caring about what others said.
If you can do whatever you want, even three generations of emperors are no match for you!
Of course, having this method doesn't mean reaching heaven in one step. Cultivation still has to progress step by step. But for him, there is no upper limit. Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing and stretched out his middle finger, looking down on all the masters of the past, present and future.
