The Primordial Era: The Mythical Path Beginning with the Jie Sect

Chapter 3 Choosing and Cultivating Supernatural Powers

The Shangqing Tongtian lectured this time on the great supernatural powers of the Heavenly Gang number and the minor supernatural powers of the Earthly Fiend number.

The Great Divine Powers of Tiangang are: Manipulating Creation; Reversing Yin and Yang; Shifting Stars and Changing Constellations; Returning Heaven and Reversing the Sun; Summoning Wind and Rain; Shaking Mountains and Earth; Riding Clouds and Driving Mist; Dividing Rivers into Land; Spreading Golden Light Across the Land; Turning Rivers and Seas Overturning; Turning Earth into Steel; Five Elements Great Escape; Six Jia Qimen; Knowing the Future; Whipping Mountains and Moving Stones; Bringing the Dead Back to Life; Flying and Leaving Traces; Absorbing Qi in Nine Breaths; Guiding Primordial Yang; Subduing Dragons and Tigers; Mending the Sky and Bathing the Sun; Pushing Mountains and Filling Seas; Turning Stone into Gold; Standing Upright Without a Shadow; Transforming from a Fetus into a Form; Size at Will; Flowers Blooming in an Instant; Wandering the Spirit and Controlling Qi; Seeing Through Walls; Returning Wind and Fire; Mastering the Five Thunders; Diving into Abysses and Shrinking the Earth; Flying Sand and Moving Stones; Carrying Mountains and Crossing Seas; Scattering Beans to Form Soldiers; Seven Arrows with Nailheads.

Don't be fooled by the monkey in Journey to the West into thinking that having more Earthly Fiends means you're stronger. In fact, each of these Heavenly Fiends' supernatural powers points directly to the origin, and in the end, you will comprehend the corresponding laws.

Like manipulating creation: this is the creation of something from nothing or the transformation of the essence of things, capable of creating all things. Reaching the pinnacle of cultivation leads to understanding the laws of creation; the goddess Nuwa used this manipulation of creation to create humans and attain sainthood.

Reversing Yin and Yang: This can cause the heavens and earth to lose their order, and the sun and moon to lose their normal course; it is like reversing right and wrong, confusing black and white. It is called the Divine Prison Heavenly Tribulation, which is the reverse journey of all things, the turning of heaven and earth upside down. Yin and Yang are the opposites of things; this is the Great Dao of Yin and Yang, and ultimately, one comprehends the laws of Yin and Yang through cultivation.

Shifting Stars and Changing Constellations: This is the ability to alter celestial phenomena, capable of obscuring and tampering with heavenly secrets. It is said that when Heaven unleashes its killing intent, it shifts stars and changes constellations. Heavenly secrets are synonymous with the will of Heaven. When a sage enlightens the mind, that is the heavenly secret. This is a great art of life and death, capable of reversing the positions of all things in the universe, including gods, humans, ghosts, demons, and beasts. Those who defy it can be killed, their very essence destroyed. Or they can be saved. This is the manifestation of the laws of Heaven and Earth.

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These great supernatural powers were created by the sages so that their disciples could understand and master the laws more quickly. Of course, it doesn't mean that these supernatural powers become useless once you master the laws. These are techniques; the deeper your understanding of the laws and the stronger your magical power, the greater the power of the techniques.

The most obvious example is when Nuwa used the power of creation to create humans and achieve sainthood. At that time, Nuwa was already at the quasi-saint level and had long mastered the laws of creation. Why then did she need to use the power of creation? Couldn't she have used the laws of creation directly? Of course, she could, but the magical power required to use the laws of creation directly is different from that required to use the power of creation through manipulation; they are not proportional. Therefore, Nuwa used the great supernatural power of creation through manipulation to create humans, rather than directly using the laws of creation.

This fully demonstrates the importance of these celestial supernatural powers.

Although Zhou Chen created the Mythical Great Luo Cultivation Method, he still needed to practice some techniques for self-protection. Of course, he didn't need to practice them all; he just needed to choose a few that could protect him. His main focus was still on cultivation. No matter how powerful these techniques were, they were still just techniques. Without strong cultivation, no matter how powerful the techniques were, they were useless.

After pondering for a while, Zhou Chen selected four supernatural abilities to protect himself:

Nine-Breath Breathing Technique: This technique involves breathing in and out nine times, transforming the primordial energy of heaven and earth into magical power. It can be used for meditation and breath regulation to restore one's own magical power. This is the supreme method of breath regulation, gathering the energy of heaven and earth. It can heal injuries and restore one's overall condition. Its magical power is very strong, and with this supernatural ability, the recovery speed will be very fast.

Size at Will: This is the way of changing size, capable of mimicking the heavens and earth, and also capable of concealing its form. The main appeal is its coolness; after all, before his transmigration, he had longed for the magical transformations he had seen in those fantasy dramas.

Mastering the Five Thunders: The Five Thunders, though named as such, are actually the Five Qi. Each of the Five Thunders corresponds to one of the Five Internal Organs. Only when the Qi of the Five Internal Organs gathers and converges into one can one reach the Great Dao and master the wondrous uses of the Five Thunders. The attack methods will not be elaborated upon further.

Golden Light Across the Earth: The user transforms into a golden light and travels across the earth, covering tens of thousands of miles in an instant. Of course, this distance is determined by magical power. Although Zhou Chen is already able to shatter the void, cultivating Golden Light Across the Earth to its ultimate level can lead to comprehending the Law of Speed, which is why Zhou Chen chose it.

As for the minor supernatural powers of the Earthly Fiends.

Communication with the spirits, exorcising spirits, carrying mountains, prohibiting water, borrowing wind, spreading fog, praying for clear skies, praying for rain, sitting on fire, entering water, concealing the sun, riding the wind, boiling stones, spitting flames, swallowing knives, creating a celestial pot, traveling by divine speed, walking on water, dissolving with a staff, splitting into two, becoming invisible, continuing a head, fixing the body, slaying demons, inviting immortals, chasing souls, capturing souls, summoning clouds, taking the moon, transporting, marrying dreams, dismembering, entrusting a staff, stopping a flow, averting disaster, resolving calamities, using alchemy, swordsmanship, guessing riddles, earth element, astrology, setting up an array, feigning form, spraying and transforming, finger transformation, corpse dissolution, shifting scenery, summoning, chasing away, gathering beasts, taming birds, restricting qi, great strength, penetrating stone, generating light, obscuring vision, guiding, ingesting food, opening walls, leaping over rocks, sprouting a head, climbing and copying, drinking water, lying in snow, scorching the sun, playing with pills, talisman water, medicine, knowing the time, knowing the place, abstaining from grains, and praying for a nightmare. Zhou Chen took a look and realized that with his extraordinary comprehension, he had already mastered the basics, which was enough. He could learn it when needed, and there was no need to go deeper.

Ten thousand years later.

Zhou Chen has already made some progress in cultivating supernatural powers. He is proficient in all four major supernatural powers and has learned all the minor ones. Next, he will begin to condense his own Dao body, which will allow him to truly reach the perfect Earth Immortal realm.

The first step of the Mythical Great Luo Cultivation Method he created requires one to open up star rivers, refine one's own realm, obtain longevity, achieve independence in one's own space-time, and undergo the sublimation and transformation of the physical body and primordial spirit. One's own power can move the power of heaven and earth, and the Dao body can enter the space-time dimension.

Now, everything before has been completed; only the final step of condensing the Dao body and stepping into the spacetime dimension remains.

Once his Dao Body enters the spacetime dimension, he will no longer worry about his safety, because even if his physical body dies, his Dao Body will still exist in the spacetime dimension and can return again.

Unless his physical body and his Dao body are both destroyed at the same time, he is truly dead.

To destroy his Dao body, one would need to be at the Quasi-Saint level.

After all, although a Great Luo Golden Immortal has begun to come into contact with time and space and has transcended the long river of time, it is not an easy task to find his Dao body from the dimension of time and space. It is estimated that only a Quasi-Saint can do it.

At this moment, he couldn't help but start comparing himself to others, because he didn't know how his current strength would be equivalent to that of the primordial world.

Now, he has created his own star river, condensed his own Dao Fruit, and integrated his true spirit into the Dao Fruit, thus gaining immortality and longevity, making him a Great Luo Golden Immortal like those in this primordial world.

The Great Golden Immortal is like this, transcending the long river of time and living as long as heaven and earth.

Now that he is the same as a Grand Luo Golden Immortal, does that mean that his self-created cultivation method, at the Earth Immortal level, is equivalent to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal level?

At this moment, Zhou Chen's eyes showed contemplation as he pondered something.

After pondering for a while, he still couldn't figure it out. After all, he had never witnessed how powerful a Great Luo Golden Immortal was, so he simply stopped thinking about it and went into seclusion to refine his Dao body.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, ten thousand years had passed.

(End of this chapter)