My Mythical Path to Immortality in Another World

Fortunately, the innate, indestructible spiritual light within the spiritual treasure will not be affected; on the contrary, it will be strengthened. Therefore, such an acquired spiritual treasure can also be used to sever the corpse.

Because top-grade and superior-grade innate spiritual treasures can be used to sever corpses, in the prehistoric world, merit is rarely used to directly refine high-quality acquired spiritual treasures. Instead, merit is used to upgrade low-grade or mid-grade innate spiritual treasures into superior-grade or merit-based spiritual treasures.

Therefore, by now, there are basically no purely innate spiritual treasures left in the primordial world; they are all merit-based spiritual treasures. As a result, the distinction between innate and acquired spiritual treasures has gradually disappeared, and they are all uniformly referred to as spiritual treasures.

Currently, the only top-grade spiritual treasure in the entire prehistoric world that is not used for severing corpses is Laozi's Vajra Bracelet.

The remaining top-grade spiritual treasures are either not in the prehistoric world or are too privately owned.

Using a magical artifact capable of severing corpses to obstruct the journey to the West is equivalent to a Quasi-Saint entering a Great Tribulation, where the main body of the Great Tribulation would directly reach the Quasi-Saint level.

This means that one of the five members of the Journey to the West group will be promoted to the level of Quasi-Saint.

The Journey to the West Calamity is a continuation of the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, so the intensity of the calamity is limited to below the Great Luo level.

Occasionally, there are instances of the Four Sages testing the Zen mind and causing havoc at Wuzhuang Temple. Although they were all quasi-sages, the former was a test, while the latter, Zhen Yuanzi and Sun Wukong, became sworn brothers and became one of their own, which is why they did not trigger a backlash of calamity.

Therefore, spiritual treasures can enter into tribulations, but spiritual treasures that can sever corpses cannot.

However, Sun Wukong inherited certain fighting principles and was extremely talented in combat. Therefore, Sun Wukong's realm had to be suppressed below that of the Great Luo, and his golden body could not be perfected.

Only those of the same Taiyi level or above can engage in a protracted battle with Sun Wukong using spiritual treasures or supernatural powers.

Just like the Five Classics of the Immortal Realm, the indestructible Vajra in the Primordial World is also divided into levels.

The Five Classics correspond to the five bodies of indestructibility, invincibility, immortality, undyingness, and eternal life. In the primordial world, the unity of these five bodies constitutes the complete Vajra Indestructible Body.

In the primordial world, the five bodies correspond to the skin, flesh, organs, and marrow. Only by achieving a complete set of the five bodies can one attain inner and outer harmony and achieve a complete, indestructible body.

In the Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm, the Five Elements converge and gradually merge with the immortal body, resulting in an indestructible body.

So don't be fooled by Sun Wukong's indestructible body; in reality, every Great Immortal possesses an indestructible body.

However, the Battle Saint Body is different; it is a higher level of indestructible body.

The Vajra Body only increases physical and magical resistance, but the Battle Saint Body not only increases physical and magical resistance more, but also greatly enhances speed and strength, especially reaction speed.

Even the Great Golden Immortals are divided into different levels; it's not a matter of how many grades of flowers bloom.

Since one cannot continue cultivating the path of the Great Luo Golden Immortal, the number of grades of the flower is meaningless.

Is there a difference between having a Dharma body or a Dao body?

The indestructible body of a Great Luo Golden Immortal allows him to absolutely crush a Taiyi Golden Immortal.

However, all Great Immortals possess indestructible bodies, so there is no difference between them.

There are three realms: Golden Immortal, Taiyi Golden Immortal, and Daluo Golden Immortal. The Golden Immortal realm cultivates an immortal body, the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm cultivates immortal energy, and the Daluo Golden Immortal realm cultivates an immortal god.

The three immortalities combined into one is called the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top, the Great Immortal Luo.

During this period, practitioners will gradually gain the recognition of the laws, especially when they are practicing or fighting, they will receive the blessing of the laws.

However, practitioners only know the law as it is, but not as it is.

However, some cultivators still manage to grasp subtle clues to the mysteries of the laws, allowing them to cultivate a Dharma body or a Dao body.

Just like in the Immortal Realm, one can only be considered to have entered the path of the Laws once one has mastered them.

The laws governing the primordial world are the laws of chaos, which are extremely difficult for even a Great Luo Golden Immortal to comprehend or even begin to understand.

However, the Heavenly Dao is originally the manifestation of the order of laws, so the Heavenly Dao itself also possesses the mysteries of the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Therefore, cultivators in the primordial world did indeed practice the laws of chaos before becoming Great Luo Golden Immortals, but after achieving the Great Luo Golden Immortal status, they cultivated the laws of the Heavenly Dao.

Even so, the primordial laws of Heaven were equivalent to half of the laws of chaos, and the Heavenly Dao itself evolved a thousand laws of Heaven.

When a Great Luo Golden Immortal grafts their originally insignificant Chaos Law onto the thousand Heavenly Dao Laws derived from the Heavenly Dao, the Heavenly Dao receives the cultivator's feedback and also feeds back to the Great Luo Golden Immortal's Heavenly Dao Laws.

As cultivators continue to practice the laws of Heaven, they will gradually strengthen their connection with Heaven, and every action they take will receive the blessings of Heaven and Earth.

This is the Dharmakaya or the Taokaya.

Every saint or quasi-saint has their own Dao body.

The Dao Body is an advancement from the Dharma Body. If a Great Luo Golden Immortal wants to become a Quasi-Saint, he must first condense the Dharma Body.

The act of severing the corpse is about severing the Dharma body. After all, the true body has flesh and blood, so how can it combine with the spiritual treasure? Therefore, the Dharma body enters the spiritual treasure and is formed by using the spiritual treasure as its body.

In this way, since there is no conflict with the laws, the main body can cultivate the second law and condense the second Dharma body.

When needed, the clone can return, and the original body can simultaneously possess several laws.

The three Dharmakaya rules complement each other, which together constitute the Daokaya.

It can be said that the Dharma Body is the necessary path for a Great Luo Golden Immortal to become a Quasi-Saint.

Sun Wukong's Fighting Holy Body is an extremely powerful Dharma body.

So, when Zhao Xuan witnessed Sun Wukong displaying near-saintly fighting power after leaping out of Turtle Mountain, what kind of expressions would those gods, who thought they were high above and could control the fate of all living beings, have?

Five hundred years passed in the blink of an eye, and Zhao Xuan waited on Turtle Mountain for a highly accomplished monk who arrived riding a white horse.

Zhao Xuan never attacked Tang Xuanzang because it was pointless.

Xuanzang was a being who was constantly reincarnated; his bloodline was replaced after the first reincarnation.

The nine reincarnations are merely a way to remove the malevolent nature from the soul and gather its Buddha-nature.

Tang Xuanzang alone is nothing special, but once the five members of the Journey to the West are assembled, they become incredibly mysterious.

In the original text, Xuanzang is referred to as the Wood Mother.

The Five Elements are not inherently superior or inferior, but in Journey to the West, Xuanzang is referred to as the Wood Mother, which implies that the Wood Mother governs the Five Elements.

The way of Heaven values ​​life, and it is only natural that the Wood element, which is the primary source of life, suppresses the other four elements.

The Way of Heaven is a combination of forces of order. The simplest form of order is to divide all things into different classes, with the upper classes controlling the lower classes.

It's the simplest yet most effective method; Heaven can use it to enhance its power of order.

But Zhao Xuan seemed to know how Heaven used the Journey to the West to suppress the other four elements with the element of wood.

Zhao Xuan sent a wisp of his spirit to possess Tang Xuanzang's body, and something interesting happened.

For so many years, Sun Wukong has been in deep meditation. His ability to abstain from grains has become instinctive, and he doesn't feel any hunger or thirst at all. So even if the Buddhists wanted to feed Sun Wukong copper pills or molten iron, they couldn't.

When he entered meditation, five hundred years was but a thought. Moreover, Sun Wukong was no longer the arrogant monkey who didn't know his own limitations. When he caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace, he was only temporarily blinded by power and regained his senses after being suppressed.

Recognizing his own shortcomings and also in order to digest the surge in power, Sun Wukong was suppressed under Turtle Mountain without any dissatisfaction.

Moreover, the Xuanmen sect also wanted to increase the difficulty for the Buddhist sect. The Nine-Character Mantra Talisman was transformed from the Taiqing Talisman, a companion spiritual treasure of the Taiqing Sage. It is a top-grade innate spiritual treasure and also the token of the leader of the Human Sect.

In addition, Sun Wukong has been in seclusion for so many years that the Buddhist community has had no time to communicate with him.

They wanted to enter Turtle Mountain to discuss matters with Sun Wukong, but were blocked by the Nine-Character Mantra talisman.

Therefore, after Tang Xuanzang arrived, Sun Wukong had no intention of joining the Journey to the West.

Only after Tang Xuanzang crossed Turtle Mountain did the Nine-Character Mantra talisman fly back to Heaven.

Guanyin deceived Tang Xuanzang with the illusion of flowers in a mirror and the moon in the water, causing him to go in circles and return to the place where Sun Wukong was suppressed at the foot of Turtle Mountain.

Guanyin then entered Sun Wukong's secluded retreat.

The Xuanmen sect doesn't subdue Sun Wukong like the Buddhist sect does; they first need to break down Sun Wukong's arrogance and leave only half of his body outside.

The Xuanmen (mysterious sect) is all-encompassing and all-inclusive; all practitioners belong to the Xuanmen.

Although the Xuanmen sect is headed by the Taiqing Sage, it was actually established by the Dao Ancestor.

However, when the Dao Ancestor merged with the Dao, the Great Pure Sage, as his eldest disciple, became the leader of the Xuanmen sect.

The Sage Taiqing wanted to follow the path of educating all living beings, so he transformed the Xuanmen (mysterious sect) into the Daomen (Taoist sect), but this also aroused the dissatisfaction of the Western religion.

After all, the Xuanmen was established by the Dao Ancestor, and the two saints of the Western Sect also received the Dao Ancestor's grace in transmitting the Dao, so it is only natural that the Western Sect belongs to the Xuanmen.

However, in order to maintain the basic tone of the Three Pure Ones, Taiqing regarded both Xuanmen and Daomen as things of the East, which is why the Western religions betrayed Xuanmen and became Buddhism.

Of course, the idea of ​​"betraying Taoism for Buddhism" is an Eastern perspective; the Western perspective is "betraying Taoism but not Taoism."

This means that Western religions do not obey the instructions of Taoism, but they are still members of the Xuanmen (Taoist) sect.

This is equivalent to another version of "listening to proclamations but not to orders."

Furthermore, since the Taiqing Sage converted the barbarians to Buddhism, the head of the Buddhist sect is also a manifestation of the Taiqing Three Corpses, and the Buddha's teachings are also Xuanmen teachings.

Therefore, the Heavenly Court would never humiliate Sun Wukong. There is a cave in Turtle Mountain where Sun Wukong can live, as long as he does not leave Turtle Mountain.

After Guanyin entered the cave, she saw Sun Wukong in deep meditation.

Of course, the first thing that catches the eye is the dense array of formations, which are connected to the aura of Turtle Mountain.

It's like having to break down the entire Turtle Mountain to move against Sun Wukong, or facing a magical treasure head-on.

Some people complained to Zhenwu the Great, saying that when Tang Xuanzang came, Lingbao would return, leaving only an empty mountain, so that Sun Wukong could owe Tang Xuanzang a favor, then become Tang Xuanzang's disciple and protect Tang Xuanzang on his journey to the west.

Now that he can't even see Sun Wukong, how can he do Sun Wukong a favor?

Little did they know that the Turtle General was also reporting to the True Martial Emperor that the time had come and the Taiqing Talisman had returned, but the Turtle General sensed that his tortoise shell was bound by some kind of force and could not return.

The True Martial Emperor calculated with his fingers and discovered that Guanyin had already entered Turtle Mountain, so he instructed the Turtle General to wait a moment.

Then Guanyin went to the Heavenly Court to discuss the matter of Turtle Mountain with the True Martial Emperor.

With Guanyin's profound insight, she immediately recognized that the formation within Turtle Mountain was based on the spiritual treasure tortoise shell of the transformed Turtle Mountain.

It both borrowed the power of the Spirit Treasure Tortoise Shell and trapped it, making it difficult for it to return.

It was just a mid-grade spiritual treasure; Guanyin didn't even consider it a threat.

The problem is that the owner of this magical treasure is a celestial general, and not just any ordinary one.

As the guardian deity of Zhenwu the Great, the turtle general represents the majesty of Zhenwu the Great. Guanyin may not care about the turtle general, but she cannot disregard Zhenwu the Great.

Finally, the tortoise was dispatched by the True Martial Emperor to accompany Guanyin down from Heaven and personally suppress the Spirit Turtle Shell so that Guanyin could break the formation.

However, in doing so, the Buddhist community will have to share some of the merit with the turtle general.

The tortoise descended from the Heavenly Court and cast spells at Tortoise Mountain, while Guanyin took out a bead filled with Taoist charm.

After Guanyin used her magic to summon the bead, it emitted a mysterious light. Wherever the light shone, the formation collapsed and dissipated automatically.

The turtle general then waved his hand and summoned the magical turtle shell from the turtle mountain.

After the formation was destroyed, Sun Wukong was also awakened.

Looking at the bead breaking the formation, a golden light flashed in Sun Wukong's eyes, but he did not make any move.

After the bead broke the formation, it turned into fragments on the ground, and then disappeared as dust.

The reason Sun Wukong didn't make a move was that he realized the bead was a one-time use magic weapon that would be destroyed once the formation was broken.

But that's not important. What's important is that Sun Wukong sensed the Buddhist sect's intention to target him.

For billions of years, formations have been the primary means of protecting the Dharma and fighting enemies.

He established a formidable reputation in every eon, such as the Dragon Clan's Ten Thousand Dragons Formation during the Dragon-Han Eternal Tribulation and Rahu's Immortal Slaughtering Formation.

The Great Tribulation of the Lich King and the Eastern King's Myriad Immortals Formation, the Zhou Tian Star Formation of the Demon Clan, the He Luo Formation, and the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation of the Witch Clan.

In the Investiture of the Gods, the Jie Sect's Ten Deadly Formations and the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation were featured. The Tongtian Sect Leader even recreated the Immortal Slaughtering Formation and the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation.

There are also the Taiqing Sage's Yin-Yang Microcosm Array, Zhen Yuanzi's Mountain and River Array, Zhunti's Bodhi Array, the Buddhist Ten Thousand Buddha Array, and the Chan Sect's Twelve Yuan Chen Array.

Although the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation and the Ten Thousand Buddhas Formation evolved from the Ten Thousand Dragons Formation, and the Twelve Yuan Chen Formation was created by Yuanshi Tianzun after comprehending the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation of the Wu Clan, they are all top-tier formations thanks to their innovation.

The reason why formations are powerful is that they represent a person's mastery of the rules of heaven and earth; the closer a formation is to the rules of heaven and earth, the more powerful it becomes.

Although cultivators in the primordial world cannot directly manipulate the rules of heaven and earth, they have spiritual treasures and spiritual plants. By using these two items as the foundation of an array, they can mobilize the power of the rules of heaven and earth.

The term "battle formation" (阵法) is derived from the concept of "law" (法), indicating that battle formations are indeed a form of law.

The law can be changed at will. If ten thousand people comprehend a single formation, they will gain ten thousand insights, and the formation they establish will have ten thousand different forms.

Therefore, to break the formation, one must either have a deep understanding of the formation or forcefully break it.

There are indeed innate spiritual treasures in the world that can break formations, but this spiritual treasure was destroyed by the God-Slaying Spear as early as the Dragon-Han Calamity because it was used to deal with Rahu's Immortal-Slaying Formation.

Therefore, there is nothing left in the world that can directly break the formation.

There are as many as a hundred formations that Sun Wukong set up during his seclusion. To break them normally would require breaking through them.

Now, such an indiscriminate array-breaking item has appeared, and that array-breaking item is no ordinary one. Although it cannot be considered a spiritual treasure, it is still made from rare and precious materials.

Sun Wukong had already sensed that Guanyin was a Quasi-Saint. Breaking the Taiyi Formation with her Quasi-Saint cultivation was merely a matter of course for her. Now, however, she was using items crafted from rare and precious materials to break the formation. This indicated that Guanyin was plotting against him.