I, the leader of the esoteric sect, am doing great things in the infinite world!

......

The True Lord Liuyun, who had crossed the sea of ​​clouds to arrive, still felt somewhat uneasy despite sending a disciple with an invitation to Mount Taiwei.

That's the Heavenly Lord of the Blazing Fire! In all these years, no immortal of this rank has ever appeared. Even the Emperor's eldest disciple, the Moon-Cutting Yang Immortal, is still only at the True Lord level.

If one had to rank them, the Great Sage Who Subdues Demons, the Golden-Winged King, and the Dharma Protector Yaksha "Xiao" would barely be at that level. However, he explicitly stated that he belongs to the Yaksha who protects and kills, and would never inherit the position of the Rock King Emperor.

Indeed, this is the reason why the three immortals of Jueyun are worried. The reason is that the Rock King Emperor once said something after the end of the Demon God War.

"A hundred or a thousand years later, a Heavenly Ruler will appear again, whose merits and deeds will be perfected, and he will ascend the throne."

In other words, the Rock King Emperor has announced to the immortals that he has established his successor.

Clearing his mind of all thoughts, Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun lowered his head and flew towards Taiwei Mountain. When he saw the flat stone platform, he was shocked.

She first saw her disciple Shen He, who was wielding an unfamiliar spear with tears streaming down his face on the stone platform, and she was immediately enraged.

"Who dares to bully my disciple, Liu Yun Jie Feng, like this?!"

The thought had barely crossed my mind when I saw Li Lin standing at the edge of the platform, his left sleeve empty, his eyes red and tears streaming down his face.

The Cloud-Borrowing True Lord was filled with anger but couldn't vent it.

This guy cried even harder than his own apprentice. Is that something to be said?

The azure crane folded its wings and landed at the edge of the stone platform. A clear, cold female voice came from the crane's beak: "You are the master of Mount Taiwei, the Heavenly Lord of the Profound Fire?"

Li Lin waved his hand.

The blue crane frowned—to be honest, I also find it hard to imagine how a crane could frown—Li Lin's actions seemed like a provocation, but seeing his tearful and painful appearance, True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng also felt a little soft-hearted.

"If you don't want to talk, then don't. Why are you acting like this...?"

Before he finished speaking, Li Lin stretched out his hands and groped around in front of him, then came to a spring to wash his eyes.

Only after washing his eyes clean did Li Lin stand up, frantically rolling his eyes as he looked at True Monarch Liuyun Jiefeng: "If you're talking about the next Rock God, then that's me."

The bird's beak trembled as it held the clouds and borrowed the wind.

She realized for the first time that being a good conversationalist was not really a compliment.

More importantly, Li Lin's constant eye movements created a powerful sense of pressure for the witnesses.

"What is this...?" asked True Monarch Liuyun Jiefeng, his voice trembling.

"Eye exercises." Li Lin snapped his eyeballs back into their sockets.

Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun shook his bird head, deciding to steer the conversation back on track: "You mentioned the next Rock God... have you already met with the Emperor?"

Not only have I met him, but I've also had a heated online debate with him that went toe-to-toe.

However, of course, these words cannot be said.

Li Lin straightened his expression and said, "I've met you before."

Just as Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun was about to say something, he was interrupted by Li Lin's next words.

"That year, Kanria launched a great catastrophe, which ultimately led to the fall of the Grass God and the death of Raiden."

“I saw the Rock King sitting on the edge of the giant abyss, weeping uncontrollably. I will never forget that scene.”

“At that moment I thought, if I become one of the Seven Rulers of the Mortal World, I must win everything. Now that the Heart of God is right in front of me, I have to consider whether this is the only chance I will ever have in my life.”

"I believe that Morax deserves much of the credit for Liyue's current status."

"It is our duty to restore the glory of the Pearl of the Orient."

Li Lin spoke with righteous indignation and passionate words.

After a moment of silence, Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun raised his wing and pointed at Li Lin's waist: "But your Divine Heart is of the fire attribute."

Li Lin glanced at her sideways.

I'll remember this grudge.

179. Sitting and discussing principles

Before anyone knew it, Shen He had finished demonstrating a set of spear techniques and, sobbing, returned the Lament Spear to Li Lin.

Master Li took the gun and tucked it back into his left shoulder. To the astonishment of Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhen Jun, his left arm grew back.

"This, what is this?"

The blue crane stammered.

It's probably impossible for anyone to be so heartless as to cut off one of their own arms and use it as a weapon.

"This is a gun," Li Lin replied with a nonsensical answer.

“No, what I mean is, this weapon is not ordinary—” Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun choked on his words, trying to express himself clearly, “I have always had an idea, which is to use mechanisms, that is, the Dao of the Alchemy Cauldron, to achieve the realm of reshaping the physical body—”

"Mechanical ascension? Or the Ship of Theseus?"

Li Lin stroked his chin, and with a few words, he made Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun's eyes light up, "But how can you guarantee that a person's self-awareness won't collapse in this process?"

Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun excitedly flapped his wings: "Anchoring! My alchemy initiation can allow a person's self to gradually accept that their physical body is being transformed and replaced by the alchemy technique while maintaining its integrity, and finally strengthen the soul and accept the self that has been completely transformed into the [Golden Body]."

"I see (meaningful)." Li Lin stopped stroking his chin, his dark eyes turning to Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun, revealing a perfectly timed smile. "In that case, I think we can sit here and discuss the Dao... how about it?"

"Excellent, excellent!" True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng nodded, his eyes narrowing with laughter. "Shall we begin?"

Li Lin raised his eyes and glanced at the surging sea of ​​clouds and the towering stone forest in the distance. "Plan is in place."

......

The alchemy of the True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng is not the usual method of subduing dragons and tigers and circulating the river chariot. Instead, it uses various means to broaden one's self-awareness and, through the cultivation method, incorporates the metal limbs forged in the alchemical cauldron into the original body.

Slowly, profoundly, and meticulously refining one's personality, using various symbols and emblems as anchors in the present world and in one's mind, through repeated initiations and spiritual guidance, constructing a "hut" to accommodate the three souls and seven spirits, and using the existence of the Destiny Seat as a mask to reveal oneself, in a situation where the physical body is becoming increasingly alienated, slowing down the collapse of one's original thinking.

I will integrate my three souls and seven spirits with the ever-changing elixir cauldron, until one day, my Yang spirit will be so vast that it can contain all the "existence" and "non-existence" in the world, and my body will be able to recreate the "purity" and "turbidity" of the beginning of the world.

For example, Shen He received this empowerment, which suppressed his Lonely City Calamity Fate and transformed it into Immortal Bones. His white hair was essentially an outward manifestation of severing all emotions and desires.

This coincides with Li Lin's principles of casting.

A transcendent being who can forge an image must personally create a legendary artifact and then forge it into himself.

Their body temperature would rise as high as a furnace, and they would burn with the power of a daytime forge, with hot liquid metal flowing through their bodies—a metal that their fanatical followers called "Orichalcum," meaning orthogonal.

However, very few disciples of the casting school dare to replace their own bodies with legendary artifacts. The reason for this is that in such a hasty replacement process, the weak human mind will collapse under the alienation of the body, resulting in various ailments.

In the mental hospital in Yongcheng, these illnesses have various specific names: Cottal syndrome, severe bisexuality, severe schizophrenia, continuous tuning disorder...

In other words, he was a “pathetic madman” whose mind was now occupied by the buzzing from the woods.

The brains of madmen are like murky soup bowls, where their fragile minds are constantly being cooked and roasted, turning into dark pink juice under endless interrogation and torture. Some believers in the Dividing Wolves particularly enjoy this.

Threatened by Oripathy, Li Lin had no choice but to replace his left arm with the Lamentation Spear when he reached the Second Mark. At that time, he knew that if he did not advance to the Third Mark as soon as possible, or seek other solutions, then all that awaited him was to be swallowed up by Oripathy, or to collapse under the unrestrained replacement.

But the third mark means that Li Lin will have to face a test in the wilderness, namely the test of the knowledgeable: the Gate of the Stag.

This door will pose unique questions to all mystics and extraordinary individuals who aspire to become omniscient. Countless exceptionally talented people have stopped at this door, their path to ascension halted.

......

About a week later, True Lord Xiaoyue Zhuyang and True Lord Lishui Dieshan came to visit Li Lin. They were then attracted by the atmosphere of the discussion and joined in.

"Take the earth veins as an example. All traces of living beings are left by this tree." The male immortal in the shape of a brown crane, the True Lord of Water and Mountain, spoke eloquently, "The earth is the fragrance of the world. The function of the land is to bear and is the foundation of the world. Life dies in the scent of the soil and also grows in the scent of the soil."

“Slaughter, rebellion, conquest, bones, history... everything is eventually buried under the earth.”

"Therefore, my Way can be called Great."

The meaning of the True Lord of Streams and Mountains is quite clear: he wants to merge himself with the "earth veins".

The concept of "Genshin Impact" has long been associated with Teyvat, and it is said that all those who possess the Vision of God are the prototypes of gods.

When their Eye of God is no longer an external elemental organ, but is integrated into their body, they will travel to Sky Island and become "gods".

In Mondstadt, there was Vanessa, who ended the rule of the nobility and became the first Grand Master of the Knights of Favonius. Legend has it that she planted a great tree in the Land of the Rising Wind, then renounced her physical body and, by divine grace, ascended to the Isle of Sky.

In Liyue, there lived a chivalrous knight named Gu Hua, who founded the Gu Hua School. Legend has it that he traveled five thousand miles, and bandits dared not make a move, bringing peace to the countryside. It is said that at the end of his chivalrous journey, he transformed into a star and ascended into the heavens amidst a radiant purple aura.

In Inazuma, there is an Onmyoji named Seinosuke Yuugami who once sought the Immortal Path in Liyue, established the Onmyodo lineage, and passed down the Onmyodo Techniques, all in an effort to end the dark calamity ravaging the archipelago. After letting go of all his obsessions, he entered Takamagahara.

However, such outstanding individuals are few and far between, and thus this technique of merging with the earth's veins to achieve immortality is something that the True Lord of Water and Mountain Crafting is quite proud of.

“Nonsense,” True Lord Liuyun retorted. “It is true that the earth’s veins are vast and more extensive than the living beings on the surface, but how can you project the traces of living beings? The memories carried within the earth’s strata are countless. A mere immortal should not be so arrogant.”

180 Yet Ningguang was still eating her Mora meat pie, which was quite remarkable.

Liuyun Jiefeng Zhenjun took a few steps on the stone platform.

“Lishui, have you ever entered the secret realm? I once saw a petrified, silvery-white ancient tree that stretched for tens of kilometers in the secret realm. Under its roots, there were four thousand four hundred sacrificial crowns piled up, and the longing within was so vast that it was almost suffocating.”

"How then will you carry out your way? And how do you know that the thoughts that awaken through your body are not the dead of the past?"

The blue crane flapped its wings and swaggered back to its place.

"Therefore, I must reiterate my Dao once again: the Dao of alchemy is profound and subtle, and it is to learn from the creation of heaven and earth."

Liu Yun Jie Feng Zhenjun raised one wing, and several jet-black metal alloys were blended into it, changing shape and instantly shedding their jet-black form, transforming into a bright silver color.

"This is the Golden Elixir."