My Mythical Path to Immortality in Another World

What Zhao Xuan needed was not to comprehend their Dao guidance, but rather the Daoist essence within their entanglement techniques.

That Daoist essence contains the principles and methods of cultivation; only by absorbing these principles and methods can one use them as a guide to influence the principles and methods of heaven and earth.

Zhao Xuan possesses divine power, enabling him to create something from nothing, so he only needs to know the complete cultivation method of the technique.

As for reason and law, as long as Zhao Xuan knows how reason and law are implemented, he can create a similar beggar's version himself.

This is the true spiritual authority that Zhao Xuan obtained after mastering his own true spirit.

If one doesn't even have this ability, then the true spirit has no prestige whatsoever.

Although it's the basic version, it serves the same purpose. The only difference is that it's not as durable as the original version at the same level, so it can't be used as a regular method.

After tidying up, Zhao Xuan informed the Serpent Vine, then used spatial teleportation to retrieve tens of thousands of cubic meters of the Three Lights Divine Water. He then sent the Serpent Vine to Zhao Kingdom to find Zhao Mingcheng before entering meditation once more.

A hundred years later, Zhao Xuan was surrounded by tens of thousands of indescribable auras, which were the principles and laws of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, the Burial of Heaven Technique, the Covering of Heaven Technique, and the Deceiving Heaven Technique.

As for power, Zhao Xuan did not develop any special power, because the Beggar's version was, after all, just a Beggar's version, and it was not yet qualified to become his fundamental power.

A century passed in the blink of an eye. When Zhao Xuan opened his eyes and awoke from his meditation, the snake vine arrived with one hundred and eight pieces of purple gold with full fortune and several hundred pieces of purple gold without fortune.

Zhao Xuan selected 258 pieces of purple-gold without any luck to refine his body and 108 pieces of purple-gold with full luck, making a total of 365 pieces, which is the number of the Zhou Tian cycle.

Then there were other gold, silver, copper, iron, and tin, totaling 1,296,000 catties of refined metals.

The essence of the five elements was used to refine the furnace body, and 365 pieces of purple gold were refined into 360 fire bricks that adhered to the inner wall of the furnace.

This is the main body of the Bagua Furnace created by the Daoist Master.

He infused it with the principles and laws of his own condensed, beggar's version of the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Flames began to rise from the purple-gold fire bricks inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

The flames were gentle as water, without any oppressive heat, yet they burned steadfastly, with a resolute determination to burn everything.

That is the famous Six Ding Divine Fire.

Most flames in the world are yang fires, but the fire of the Six Ding is a yin fire.

Of course, Yin and Yang are just different in their characteristics.

It can also be called "fierce fire" and "gentle fire".

Yang fire, including the fire of burning stars, belongs to the category of Yang fire. Their characteristic is that they are extremely violent when emitting energy, no matter what.

It seemed as if all the light and heat were about to burst forth in an instant, with immense destructive power.

Yin fire, including the fire of the Six Ding, burns very stably, continuously emitting light and heat, and is easy to control.

Therefore, it is very suitable for alchemy and weapon crafting.

Or, to put it another way, Yang Fire is the fire of destruction, while Wen Fire is the fire of creation.

The principle and method of the Bagua Furnace is the fire of the Bagua, which is the fire of Li.

The fire of the Eight Trigrams is the fire of direction, meaning that as long as one resides in the Li fire position, this fire will never go out.

The second is to transform the fierce fire into a gentle fire.

Thirdly, it involves the harmony of the eight trigrams, and the refined products subtly conform to the principles of the eight trigrams.

Therefore, the Bagua Furnace is also called the Civil and Military Bagua Furnace or the Qiankun Bagua Furnace.

After completing the Eight Trigrams Furnace, Zhao Xuan began to refine the coffin for burial.

Zhao Xuan broke off some branches from the Source Blood Divine Tree and the Enlightenment Tea Tree, and threw them, along with the remaining hundreds of blank purple gold pieces, into the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

After the essence of the Source Blood Divine Tree and the Enlightenment Tea Tree was purified by the Six Ding Divine Fire and integrated into the already melted blank purple gold.

Zhao Xuan poured the principles and laws of the condensed beggar's version of the Burial Coffin into the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

These principles and laws were absorbed by the blank purple-gold liquid, which had absorbed the essence of the source blood divine tree and the enlightenment tea tree. Under the influence of these principles and laws, twelve coffins for burying people broke out of the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

A phantom image resembling a mass grave appeared above Zhao Xuan's head; it was the image of the "Burial of Heaven Technique".

Twelve coffins carrying the deceased flew into the mass grave, and the scene at the beginning of the mass grave began to change, eventually leaving twelve tombs arranged according to the twelve earthly branches.

After these twelve graves appeared, Xu Ying's place resembled a cemetery rather than a mass grave.

At the same time, the principles and laws of "Covering the Sky Technique" and "Deceiving the Heaven Technique" were also incorporated into it, and thick fog, or rather smog, appeared in the cemetery.

It can block people's view, preventing them from seeing what's happening in the cemetery.

This is due to the principles and laws of the "Covering the Sky Technique".

And characters began to appear on the tombstone of Qianqiufen.

This is the "Deceiving Heaven Technique" using its principles and laws to fabricate a false identity.

The entire elephant began to exude a mysterious aura.

This is the second level of the "Burial of Heaven Techniques," the Thousand Autumns Tomb.

Although it is the second level, it is completely different from the original second level of "The Burial Manual".

According to the second level of normal cultivation, the "Burial of Heaven Technique," the coffin used for burying people is also a kind of image, and since it is an image, it has no physical form.

The first level can gather ninety-nine coffins, and can borrow the power of the person buried in a single coffin.

This so-called power includes everything, such as magic power, wisdom, enlightenment, and so on.

The second layer can gather even more coffins, up to a maximum of 365 coffins, and can also draw on the power of all 365 coffins at the same time.

The third layer gathers even more coffins for burial, with each of the 12,960 coffins capable of burying a specific rule.

In exchange, the people buried in these 12,960 coffins will never be awakened or have their power used again.

Moreover, the third layer of coffins, used for burying people according to the rules, must be for those who have reached the Saint Realm or above.

It is also possible for non-human races to be included, but they must be one realm higher, that is, non-human races equivalent to the Emperor realm.

The third level of the "Burial of Heaven Technique" can easily cause cultivators to lose their way. Many cultivators, in pursuit of power, will choose to bury human beings instead of other races.

Once the third-level burial coffin is used to bury the deceased, the burial rules are irreversible.

What was originally meant to help humanity will become a force that harms humanity.

The other seven techniques are similar at the third level, which is why they are sealed by powerful beings and only reappear under special circumstances, and only a very few people can comprehend them.

This is how the powerful beings select the most steadfast members of the human race.

Zhao Xuan's hastily mastered second level of the "Burial of Heaven Technique" used spiritual objects to refine coffins for burial, connected them with arrays, and also incorporated the power of the "Covering Heaven Technique" and the "Deceiving Heaven Technique".

These forces working together allowed Zhao Xuan to possess a portion of the power of the second level of the "Burial of Heaven Technique".

It wasn't that Zhao Xuan didn't want to refine more coffins for burial, but rather that refining coffins for burial was truly difficult.

Firstly, only an existence like the Bagua Furnace can use spiritual objects to integrate reason and law to refine a coffin for burial.

The level of the second spirit item must be very high, so high that it would be difficult to gather enough for the entire Earth.

Then Zhao Xuan chose the branches of the Purple Gold Tree, the Source Blood Divine Tree, and the Enlightenment Tea Tree.

Purple gold is the strongest refining material for humans, while the Source Blood Divine Tree and the Enlightenment Tea Tree are both extremely high-level natural treasures.

Not to mention how many years it will take for the branches that Zhao Xuan broke to recover.

Those purple-gold coins didn't come for nothing.

The cultivation technique Zhao Mingcheng practiced, "Huangji Jingshi Jue," is one of the most difficult cultivation techniques for the human race. It was unreasonable for Zhao Mingcheng to reach the third realm in just a few decades.

That's because Zhao Xuan was constantly providing Zhao Mingcheng with Source Blood Fruit to purify Zhao Mingcheng's bloodline.

Once the bloodline level is reached, the "Imperial Ultimate World-Shaking Technique" will naturally become easier to cultivate.

In exchange, Zhao Mingcheng would provide resources to Zhao Xuan whenever needed.

Within the royal family, there is a lack of everything except for purple gold. Although most of these purple gold pieces are empty shells that have already exhausted their fortune, since war is imminent, the replenished purple gold pieces will naturally not be handed over to the royal court.

In this way, Zhao Xuan could both get Zhao Mingcheng to pay him his salary according to the blank purple gold and exchange it with Zhao Mingcheng for the replenished purple gold.

Zhao Mingcheng needs the Source Blood Fruit to purify his bloodline, but no one on Earth except Zhao Xuan has this.

Therefore, as long as Zhao Mingcheng is the emperor, Zhao Xuan can freely take from the royal treasury of the Zhao Kingdom.

Of course, Zhao Xuan also knew what he should and shouldn't take, and how much he should take, so as not to damage their friendship.

Zhao Xuan also had a purpose in creating the twelve coffins for burial, one for Zhao Xuancheng, the other for the ten members of the Heavenly Stems Squad, and the other for the Serpent Vine.

The ten members of the Heavenly Stems Squad and the Serpent Vine can all be considered as Boundless Sacred Bodies, and with Zhao Xuancheng, there are twelve Boundless Sacred Bodies.

Their cultivation and magical power are boundless, and Zhao Xuan borrows their power.

After all, Zhao Xuan's ultimate move requires a formation to charge it up before it can be used.

Only by combining the magical power of Zhao Xuan's thirteen immeasurable holy bodies can one wield the ultimate move with ease.

By the time Zhao Xuan had everything ready, another two hundred years had passed.

In the imperial palace of the Zhao capital, Zhao Mingcheng, Zhao Xuancheng, Zhao Xuan, and others sat facing each other.

Zhao Mingcheng looked at Zhao Xuan with a heavy expression and asked, "Are you really sure?"

Zhao Xuan nodded. "You were born too early. If you had waited tens of thousands of years, born at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and met me again, I would have been able to help you establish a new unified dynasty. By then, the time would have come, and after ten thousand years of rule, you would have accumulated a vast fortune and established a Heavenly Court in the heavens."

If one leads the Heavenly Court to conquer the starry sky for ten thousand years, one will surely be qualified for the Human Emperor realm, if not the Human Emperor realm.

But have you ever considered that the methods we devised are merely to build up a great momentum for you? According to the rules, you will ultimately be the one to deliver the fatal blow.

But how long can this trend last? When we leave Earth, and the guards of the Imperial Court and the Great Qin Heavenly Court shift slightly, will the trend we have accumulated over ten thousand years be able to match the will of the Emperor Realm?

Are you confident that you can master the sixth level of the "Imperial Ultimate World-Shaking Technique" within ten thousand years and be able to contend with those Imperial Realm guardians?

Even if you win, and the Zhao state unifies the world.

Without the support of the imperial court, how long can the Zhao state's rule and imperial power last?

With your current level of power, you would find it difficult to absorb the destiny to unify the world without a ten-thousand-year reign.

Will the imperial court allow the unified Zhao dynasty to last for ten thousand years?

After listening to Zhao Xuan's words, both Zhao Mingcheng and Zhao Xuancheng fell into deep thought.

Zhao Xuan had already transmitted the history of the dynasties of past emperors to the two of them through his divine sense.

They naturally knew that, apart from the first century, all the second dynasties that had ever established a unified dynasty in later imperial eras could not escape the three-thousand-year cycle of rise and fall.

Moreover, the first generation of emperors will occupy 70-80% of this 3,000-year period.

The purpose is simply to cultivate a cultivator at the Emperor Realm.

This shows how difficult it is to enter the imperial realm.

For example, the Qin state had unified the country eight times. Except for the first time, the second to the eighth times, each of them lasted only two generations.

Because too many people died in the war of unification during the Qin Dynasty, the second to eighth emperors did not have enough fortune to reward humanity. They could only enhance their fortune through a longer period of rule.

After the second dynasty, the imperial cycle was only three thousand years. The longer the first emperor reigned, the fewer emperors were able to share in the fortune.

Even if future emperors only reign for sixty years, not just anyone can take the position.

To become an emperor, one must possess the aura of a human emperor.

The so-called aura of a human emperor, besides being innate, means that one's destiny star and karmic star both indicate the potential to reach the imperial realm.

The day after tomorrow, one will gain the approval of both literary and martial energies and be bestowed with the destiny of Ziwei.

As for innate and acquired, among humans, those who have gained recognition from the aura of the Human Emperor through acquired means are more highly regarded.

Therefore, when Zhao Mingcheng's father was in power, the eldest and second princes received more attention, simply because they were the two northern and southern poles closest to the power of Ziwei, the civil and military stars, and they themselves originally had a destiny of Ziwei.

The next step is the Mandate of Heaven for the Human Emperor.

This is the innate aura of the human emperor.

Zhao Mingcheng, on the other hand, purified his bloodline by cultivating the "Huangji Jingshi Jue" and enduring countless pains. When the bloodline of the Human Emperor accumulated to a certain level, he naturally gained the recognition of the Human Emperor's Qi.

This is the aura of a human emperor acquired later in life.

Without enduring the bitter cold, how can the plum blossoms exude their fragrant aroma?

Those who can withstand hardship and strive in the right direction possess a more stable imperial aura than those who are born with it, and are more likely to gain the approval of destiny.

That's why Emperor Zhao Huang chose Zhao Mingcheng to succeed him.

Zhao Mingcheng naturally knew all this, and he also knew how difficult it was to cultivate in the Imperial Realm.

Therefore, he was not confident that he could cultivate to the Emperor Realm in a short time and withstand the will of the Imperial Court without the support of Zhao Xuan and the others.

After thinking for a long time, Zhao Mingcheng nodded.

"What you say makes sense, but what you are doing will be extremely difficult. If there is even the slightest mistake, our efforts over the past few hundred years will be in vain."

"It would be better to remain calm then. Even if the imperial court decides to destroy the Zhao state, we can still reap considerable benefits."

As soon as Zhao Mingcheng finished speaking, Zhao Xuancheng burst into laughter and said:

"Soldiers, the important affairs of the country, the place of life and death, the way of survival, must be observed."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Mingcheng assumed that Zhao Xuancheng shared his thoughts. Just as he was about to speak, Zhao Xuancheng waved his hand to stop him and continued:

"Now that we have begun, we must find a way to do our best. Otherwise, how can we face the soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the war?"

I agree with Zhao Xuan's idea; since we've started, we should see it through to the end.

A war that fails to achieve its strategic objectives is a failure, no matter how great the results.

I would rather die in battle than be a defeated one.

Moreover, doing this gives us a chance of success, while not doing so will inevitably lead to failure.

It's simply shifting the time of failure from the present to the future.