In the Pacification Navy, the vice-commander's tent was heavily guarded. Due to Cheng Hao's terrifying strength, no one dared to disturb him unless it was an urgent matter.
Cheng Hao sat cross-legged on the metal table in the tent. He didn't care about the negative impact his image would have on others. He ejected his spirit and fused it with the Yin Yang Peach Divine Sword.
After the battle with Hong Xuanji's Steward Wu, Cheng Hao felt the pressure. A mere steward had the strength of a Martial Saint. Cheng Hao didn't doubt that the Marquis of Wenwu, Hong Xuanji, who had always kept a low profile, had the strength of a Human Immortal.
He had crippled Steward Wu. This enmity with Hong Xuanji had been thoroughly sowed. With such pressure, Cheng Hao urgently needed to increase his strength.
His martial strength was still at the stage of changing his blood. Even if his new blood had completely transformed, he still didn't have the cultivation method to ascend to the Human Immortal Realm. He could only focus on cultivating the Yang Spirit Immortal Way and prepare to break through to the Ghost Immortal Realm in one fell swoop before attempting the Spirit Tribulation.
For the entire day, Cheng Hao's spirit remained in the Yin Yang Peach Divine Sword, constantly using the Spirit Vortex, an attack on the spirit. The black Spirit Vortex stirred and continuously crushed the spirit energy in the Yin Yang Peach Divine Sword, turning it into the purest spirit essence.
As the saying goes, a centipede dies but never falls down. The fact that the Yin Yang Peach Divine Wood hadn't died under the Thunder Tribulation meant that there was a trace of the Peach God's spirit within it. Even if it had been refined into the Yin Yang Peach Divine Sword, Cheng Hao didn't think that the spirit of the Peach God would completely dissipate.
Now, Cheng Hao needed to devour the immense spiritual power within the Heavenly Peach wood to ascend to the Ghost Immortal realm. Therefore, to be on the safe side, he used the Soul Vortex to shatter the spiritual power within the Heavenly Peach wood again and again, turning it into the purest spiritual essence. Even if the spiritual nature of the Heavenly Peach wood was hidden within, it would be completely destroyed.
It took Cheng Hao an entire day to activate the Soul Vortex. Only after the Soul Energy within the Heavenly Peach Sword had been completely disintegrated into Soul Essence did Cheng Hao relax enough to separate his Soul Consciousness and slowly absorb the Soul Essence within the Heavenly Peach Wood.
Time passed by slowly. Cheng Hao had absorbed more than half of the Divine Soul essence of the Peach Goddess. Although he had not broken through to the Ghost Immortal realm, Cheng Hao was already comparable to a Ghost Immortal with the power of his Divine Soul alone!
Whoosh!
Whoosh! A sense of satisfaction and satiation filled his heart. Cheng Hao knew that the power of his Divine Soul had reached its limit. If he could not break through to the Ghost Immortal realm and ascend to the next level, he would not be able to absorb any more of the remaining spiritual power of the Peach Goddess.
Cheng Hao had already anticipated this. His Divine Soul occupied the space within the Heavenly Peach Sword, visualizing the golden Buddha statue in the Amitabha Sutra, and beginning his first attempt at breaking through to the Ghost Immortal realm.
Bits and pieces of golden starlight, like fireflies, enveloped Cheng Hao's Divine Soul and gradually formed a golden kasaya. Countless stars and suns appeared on it, causing Cheng Hao's Divine Soul to gradually transform into a golden Buddha statue.
As the golden Buddha statue appeared, the entire space within the Yin Yang Heavenly Peach Sword quieted down. Golden light shone in all directions, turning into a golden ocean.
Suddenly, from the golden Buddha statue formed by Cheng Hao's Divine Soul, a vast wave of Spiritual Consciousness surged out and evolved into lines of profound scriptures.
Countless scriptures twined around the golden Buddha statue, gradually flowing and spinning, like the starry sky of the universe.
If an outsider entered the space within the Yin Yang Heavenly Peach Sword, they would clearly see that in this mysterious universe, the golden Buddha statue formed by Cheng Hao's Divine Soul would shrink the universe to a small point with every breath, and expand the universe with every breath.
It was as if the universe could be born and destroyed with every breath of the golden Buddha statue.
"Life and Death Barrier! Life and Death Transition! Ghost Immortal, Ghost Immortal … Reincarnation, Corpse Disintegration … The Mystery of the Fetus … "
As his Divine Soul cultivated the Amitabha Sutra and transformed into the golden Buddha statue, Cheng Hao gradually came into contact with the barrier between life and death. It was an invisible barrier. If he could break through this barrier, he would become a Ghost Immortal!
However, this barrier was too huge. It was like a vast ocean in front of him. Even though Cheng Hao's Divine Soul was comparable to a true Ghost Immortal's, he still could not break through this barrier. This was not a barrier of strength, but a barrier of realm, a barrier between the laws of life and death.
The Ghost Immortal realm was the first true barrier for cultivators of the Yang Spirit Immortal Path. After breaking through this barrier, the Divine Soul would no longer be a Yin Spirit, but a Ghost Immortal. Once one had a preliminary understanding of the laws of life and death, they would be able to reincarnate and no longer be limited by the physical body's lifespan. In a sense, this was the first step to the realm of immortality.
"Sigh …"
Seeing that there was no hope for a breakthrough and that he could not break through the barrier of life and death before him, Cheng Hao could not help but sigh. His Divine Soul rushed out of the space within the Yin Yang Heavenly Peach Sword and returned to his physical body.
"My cultivation time is still too short. My foundation is still a little lacking. It is indeed a bit of a presumption to want to break through to the Ghost Immortal realm in one try."
Although he had failed to break through to the Ghost Immortal realm for the first time, Cheng Hao was not too discouraged. He had been cultivating the Yang Spirit Immortal Path for less than two years. Compared to those cultivators who could not manifest their Divine Souls after decades of cultivation, he was many times faster.
"My physical body is a little special. There are almost no bottlenecks in cultivating the martial arts of the Human Immortal. However, the cultivation of the Divine Soul is different from the cultivation of the physical body. Even with a supreme Divine Soul cultivation scripture like the Amitabha Sutra, it is not easy to cultivate to the Yang Spirit realm. The barriers within it also require one's own comprehension to break through time and time again. This kind of comprehension of the laws is the most troublesome. "
The laws were somewhat different from the will of martial arts. The will of martial arts was the will of a martial arts expert. For example, Cheng Hao's will that could suppress the heavens and crush all obstacles was not an inherent law of heaven and earth. Instead, it belonged to Cheng Hao's own Dao. As long as his will firmly believed that he could suppress the heavens, then his will of martial arts would only undergo qualitative changes time and time again as Cheng Hao's strength increased. In the end, it would be as if the universe had collapsed and the starry sky had shattered. It would suppress the ancient times and command the heavens!
However, the law was different. It was a real existence. Even if it was illusory and unfathomable, it was a real existence. If you could comprehend it, you would comprehend it. If you couldn't comprehend it, you could only be stuck outside the barrier of life and death, and would never be able to advance to the Ghost Immortal realm.
In the later stage of martial arts cultivation, it was more like taking the path of solipsism, focusing on strengthening one's will of martial arts. On the other hand, the Yang Spirit Immortal Path took the path of seeking the truth. It sought to verify the truth and law in the Great Dao of heaven and earth until it completely saw through life and death, reached the other shore, and proved eternity!
These two cultivation paths each had their advantages and disadvantages, but Cheng Hao had now made up his mind to walk both paths. Now that he had encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation of the Divine Soul, he had the idea of going out to try his luck.
When he encountered a bottleneck, simple closed-door cultivation was no longer of much use. Sometimes, when he went out for a walk, he might be able to break through with an epiphany when the opportunity came.
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