Eternal God Emperor: Only I Am Emperor One

Chapter 18 When the fake is true, the truth is also false

In the dead of winter, I woke up to find that several peach trees were covered with an even thicker layer of snow, bending the branches and freezing the tiny pink buds, making it seem unlikely that they would survive the winter.

The sound of the flute in the courtyard was continuous, like a gentle breeze, clear and melodious, or like a mountain stream, swift and smooth.

The [Six Desires Gara Mantra] of the Illusionary Saint lineage uses music as a catalyst, and is not limited to any particular instrument, but a long zither or a vertical flute is best.

Once the music is played, it can stir up the enemy's emotions and desires, causing them to develop inner demons and sink into a dreamlike state.

Ye Honglei's spiritual power cultivation was insufficient, and she was not very skilled at playing the flute. The sound she produced could only make the true energy circulation speed of the black-robed figure in the training ground two points faster.

With the help of the flute music, Di Yi finally found the entrance to the secluded path and successfully displayed the martial arts skills he had practiced for half a day.

He leaped from the training ground, covered a distance of more than ten zhang, and landed by the pavilion. He shook off the snowflakes clinging to his body, walked straight into the pavilion, picked up a steaming cup of plum tea, and drank it all in one gulp.

As the hot tea entered his stomach, the chill in his body dissipated. Ye Honglei, in the pavilion, also finished her song and put down the purple bamboo flute in her hand.

"【Flowing Light and Flying Clouds】As expected of a high-grade spirit-level movement technique, after practicing for half a day, I can only barely be considered to have touched the basics."

The ultimate realms of both the Profound Realm and the Earthly Realm are related to speed. The Profound Realm requires reaching 81 meters per second, while the Earthly Realm requires reaching the speed of sound.

Di Yi has a strong ambition to master all four realms of martial arts. Now that he has reached the Profound Realm, the cultivation of movement techniques and martial skills has naturally been put on the agenda.

Flowing Light and Flying Clouds is a movement technique widely circulated in the black market. Its grade reaches the upper level of the Spirit level, which is sufficient for most martial artists in the Heavenly Realm.

After leaving the Wenqu Hall with the first part of the Heart Realm, Di Yi made a detour to the Po Jun Hall and obtained two martial arts manuals there.

One of them is "Flowing Light and Flying Clouds," and the other is the infamous sword technique in the black market, "Pluto Sword Technique," which reaches the low-grade ghost level.

Ghost-level martial arts techniques, in general, can only be fully mastered by martial artists at the Fish-Dragon Realm. However, there are many people in the world with exceptional talent and comprehension who can break the rules and master superior martial arts techniques at a lower level.

As his swordsmanship improved, the low-grade Spirit-level Heavenly Heart Sword Technique was still too low-grade for Di Yi. He needed a more powerful sword technique as his trump card.

The Hades Sword Technique is extremely powerful and is quite famous in the black market and even the entire Kunlun Realm. Although it is a low-grade ghost-level martial art, if one can cultivate it to perfection, its power is no weaker than that of an ordinary mid-grade ghost-level martial art.

Of course, it is extremely difficult to cultivate a ghost-level martial skill with the cultivation level of the Profound Realm, and even if one succeeds, it is difficult to unleash the power of a ghost-level martial skill.

For the vast majority of people, including 99% of geniuses, the higher the grade of the martial arts they practice, the better. It is the right approach to do what you are capable of.

The current Empress Chi Yao, the Great and Virtuous Holy Empress who reigns supreme over the world, is said to have mastered a low-grade ghost-level sword technique when she was in the Yellow Extreme Realm, demonstrating an extraordinary talent and comprehension.

However, this also caused him to waste too much energy. When he reached the Yellow Extreme Realm, he only opened up thirty-one meridians and failed to cultivate the first level of the Qingzhao Divine Skill to perfection.

The Emperor possesses a sacred body and extremely high comprehension, but to say that he has surpassed the young Empress Chi Yao would be a stretch.

Unlike Empress Chi Yao, in addition to the extraordinary comprehension brought by his Sacred Body, he also possesses the abnormal cultivation aid, the True Source Demon Eye.

Under the Demon Eye, all martial arts techniques and secret methods become much simpler, making them much easier to comprehend and cultivate.

"You've mastered a high-level spirit-grade movement technique to the basics in just half a day, and you're still not satisfied? It's infuriating!" Ye Honglei said angrily, her gaze towards Di Yi filled with hostility.

"Junior Nephew Honglei, what kind of tone is that?" Di Yi said, feigning displeasure.

Ye Honglei's beautiful eyes almost blazed with fire, but she could only helplessly lower her proud head and whisper, "Junior Uncle, please calm down. I misspoke."

Seeing her like this, Di Yi couldn't bear to tease her any longer and chuckled, "Alright, I won't tease you anymore. Don't call me Junior Uncle anymore, it makes it seem too formal."

"That won't do. If Master finds out, he'll definitely reprimand me." Ye Honglei shook her head and refused to agree.

"Fine, from now on we'll each do our own thing," Di Yi said helplessly.

Having resolved the issue of address, Ye Honglei continued playing the Six Desires Mantra, and the sound of the flute rose again in the courtyard.

Instead of continuing to practice martial arts, Di Yi took out the first of the three thousand six hundred silver-gilded books from the Qiankun bag hidden at his waist under his black robe.

The Qiankun Bag is a spatial treasure, extremely precious, with enough space inside to hold a small mountain. According to the Illusion Saint, it was a gift left by the Illusion Queen for her disciples who had opened up their Purple Mansion Sea of ​​Consciousness.

The 3,600 silver-plated books containing the cultivation methods of the first part of the Heart Realm were all stored in the Qiankun Bag. Inside the bag were the methods left by the Illusion Queen. After Emperor Yi imprinted his mental mark on them, no one but him could open them. Placing the silver-plated books on the table, looking at the books that were at least two feet long, one foot wide, and one foot thick, Emperor Yi couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.

Each gilded silver book has at least a thousand pages. With three thousand six hundred books combined, how much content would that contain?

However, the supreme scriptures of the Illusion Path lineage, the legacy left by the Illusion God, were right before him. No matter how much content they contained, they could not scare him away.

He took a deep breath and turned to the first page of the gilded silver book.

All phenomena are illusions; the mind is the only boundary. A single thought can create the universe, and a single thought can annihilate all heavens.

……

The opening, a lengthy several hundred words, is entirely devoted to describing the power of the mental realm's laws.

Di Yi activated his True Source Demon Eye and carefully read every word several times, but found nothing new.

He turned to the second page, but the content suddenly changed.

"This is... a basic inscription?"

The gilded silver book clearly records all sorts of the most basic inscriptions.

Di Yi continued flipping through the pages and discovered that the entire gilded silver book contained only basic inscriptions, making it a veritable encyclopedia of basic inscriptions.

Unlike the Inscription Encyclopedia of the Inscription Masters Guild, the basic inscriptions on the Silver Book are not drawn with physical objects. Instead, they are drawn using the spiritual power in the sea of ​​consciousness as ink and the sea of ​​consciousness in the Purple Mansion as paper, inside the sea of ​​consciousness.

Inscriptions are mysterious patterns that can draw upon the power of heaven and earth. Basic inscriptions are the foundation for building the entire inscription system.

The so-called weapon refiners, array masters, talisman masters, beast tamers... are actually all about inscribing various patterns on different materials. Although their ultimate goals are very different, they all originate from inscription.

But what is the connection between these basic inscriptions and the cultivation of the mind realm?
The Illusionary Saint didn't tell him much useful information, because the Illusionary Saint himself had never cultivated the Mind Realm.

Di Yi frowned slightly, reopened the Qiankun Bag, and probed it with his spiritual power. After a careful search, he finally found a special animal hide on the purple sandalwood bookshelf.

He took out the animal hide and spread it on the table. Di Yi read through the contents on it from beginning to end, and the question in his heart was finally answered.

This piece of animal hide was left by the Queen of Illusions. The inscription on it roughly means:

The first part of the cultivation of the Mind Realm is to use the Purple Palace as the foundation in the sea of ​​consciousness to evolve a world that is infinitely close to reality.

There are many branches of spiritual power, and they are all kinds of strange and wonderful. The Illusion God divides all the spiritual power schools in the world into three categories: the Refining Path, the Controlling Path, and the Heart Path.

The Dao of Refining, as the name suggests, involves using spiritual power to inscribe patterns, refine elixirs, craft weapons, create arrays, and craft talismans... refining the spiritual materials of heaven and earth for one's own use, and applying external power.

The Imperial Way is a means to command thunder and lightning, summon clouds and rain, move mountains and fill seas, drive stars and chase the sun... using one's own spiritual power as a guide to harness the power of heaven and earth, and borrow strength from the heavens.

The Way of the Mind, represented by Confucianism and Taoism, cultivates a righteous spirit in one's heart. With three cups of wine, one can make a promise; with three cups of wine, one can feel the weight of the Five Sacred Mountains. With one thought, one can connect with heaven and earth, and with one thought, one can reach all gods and Buddhas. This can be described as storing power in one's heart.

The Way of Illusion is also a kind of Way of the Mind, and it has a significant connection with Confucianism and Taoism.

Borrowing strength from the outside, relying on the power of heaven, and storing strength in one's heart are three different paths to spiritual cultivation. There is no superiority or inferiority among them; each is a smooth road to heaven.

The Illusion God possesses great ambition; he not only cultivates illusionary arts in the Way of the Mind, but also achieves unparalleled mastery in the Way of Refinement and Control.

The Mind Realm is a lineage created by integrating the three paths.

The first part of the Mind Realm consists of 3,600 volumes. The first 1,200 volumes record the inscriptions and combinations of the world, the middle 1,200 volumes record various spells, and the last 1,200 volumes record Confucian and Taoist classics, as well as the arts of music, chess, calligraphy, and painting.

There was no illusion magic.

Illusions are ultimately illusory and false, but the mental realm forged by the three paths is infinitely close to the real world. Illusions based on the mental realm are the most terrifying illusions in the world.

When falsehood is taken for truth, even truth becomes falsehood!
(End of this chapter)