Not only did the Daoist books left behind by the seniors of Qincang School, there were also secret books that were collected over the past ten thousand years.
Zhang Yan spent two days and Just Now he had finished reading the Daoist books. However, after he put the jade scroll back, he shook his head slightly.
Shen Baishuang looked over and asked, "How is it?"
Zhang Yan bowed and said, "Forgive me for being direct, but the technique here is a little rough. It's not a top-notch technique."
Shen Baishuang smiled and said, "You are right on point. The techniques that we use to form a grotto-heaven can be divided into top, middle, and bottom three. Just Now, what you are looking at is the technique of borrowing objects. If you look closely, it can only be considered as a bottom technique."
Zhang Yan nodded his head and was not surprised at all.
The so-called method of borrowing objects was to take an object that was filled with spiritual vigor and merge its original spirit with oneself. From there, one could use it to ascend to a grotto-heaven.
Although there were many types of this technique, those who were able to complete it were mostly on the path of borrowing objects and spirits.
The so-called borrowing objects was the merging of the cultivator's body with the true spirit of the true weapon. If one ignored the harsh conditions, as long as one knew the trick, in theory, any cultivator who reached the third level of Yuanying could do it.
However, it was easier said than done. It was definitely not as simple as it seemed.
Cultivators first had to find a true spirit that was willing to merge with them. Although once it was done, the true spirit could be freed from its shackles and reincarnate as a human, and no longer be trapped in a cage and be manipulated by others, there was a huge risk involved. Most true spirits would rather maintain their old state than do such a thing.
For example, the True Weapon of Chongyue True Temple, the Yin Killing Blade was the result of an elder of the sect failing to merge with it. In the end, he ended up half crippled. That elder also died because of that. Most people were stopped before they could even take this step.
As for the method of borrowing objects, it was similar to borrowing objects. However, the object was not a magical weapon, but a different kind of living being.
Jiuling Sect's Hibiko Higashi incarnated into Taihao School's Mount Qingcun to steal the Ganoderma Ancestor's body shell.
Another example was the one from the Southern Cliff Continent who refined the King Candle Worm. Daoist Nameless, who was killed by Lingya, was one of them.
However, because the spiritual vigor did not come from oneself, it was borrowed from an external tool, it was difficult to improve in the future. According to the records, only one person was able to ascend to heaven, but this was only a legend. No one had ever seen it with their own eyes, so it was ranked last among all the techniques.
However, this did not mean that these cultivators' battle prowess was weak. If someone could borrow a True Killing Artifact and use it together, it would be enough for them to look down on their peers.
Shen Baishuang continued, "This technique originated from an unorthodox sect. Most of those who take this path are not fated with the Great Dao. I think you are not willing to take this path either. "
He pointed upwards and said, "All the techniques are over there. You can take a look again."
Zhang Yan bowed and walked up the stairs to the second floor of the Golden Pavilion. He saw a cave on the east side. There were also many Dao books, but the number was less than half of the lower technique.
He walked closer and looked around. He saw a red silk jade scroll hanging at an eye-catching spot. He took it down and his eyes lit up.
This was left behind by a Grotto-Heaven Zhenren named Yi Sanshan. He was one of the twelve grotto-heavens of the previous generation. He was a master and a disciple. This person was kind and loved to take care of the younger generation.
When he was in charge of the Golden Pavilion. He thought about how difficult it was for the disciples who could not use the Heart Transmission Spiritual Seal Technique to view the technique. He was afraid that they would make mistakes, so he carefully organized the techniques and left this scroll for convenience.
Zhang Yan did not look down on this technique just because it was described in words. Instead, he read on patiently.
The middle technique was a technique to store Qi. There were only three techniques recorded here. The first was to absorb the pure and turbid Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth to train the body and use it to open the door.
During the Eighteen Peace Sects' sword battle, the Gantian Jun Yang essence that the sects fought for was the pure Qi of heaven and earth. As for the turbid Qi, it was the spiritual vigor that was condensed in the mountains and rivers after the heaven and earth was created.
Any cultivator in the world, be it the Xuanmen or the Demon Sects, as long as they had the opportunity to obtain enough Qi of heaven and earth, along with rare external medicine, they would have the opportunity to break through the door opening state. However, the difficulty was that these two Qi were extremely difficult to find.
The Jun Yang essence originally came from beyond the heavens. It had strong and dry Qi, so it needed to be refined by the star stone before it could be used by the cultivator.
Naturally, it was not impossible for the person who obtained the Grotto-Heaven to go above the heavens to collect it. However, after he came back, he would need to refine the impurities in it repeatedly. It would not take long to do this for tens to hundreds of years. Not to mention that it was a waste of time and effort, in the end, the harvest would be less than one percent. Therefore, very few people would do this.
As for the turbid Qi, it was even harder to obtain. Other than using it to break through the realm, it could also be used to refine treasures and medicine. Therefore, since ancient times, it had been used by the cultivators. If one really wanted to use it, it could only be obtained by refining a large number of Earth Yin Spiritual Medicine.
In the Zhou family's secret method, the White Moon Heroic Fruit was obtained this way. However, it was good to use it to refine a dharmakaya, but if it was used to break through the realm of the Grotto-Heaven, the medicinal efficacy was far from enough.
Zhang Yan pondered and said, Although the ancient book said that the Earth Yin turbid Qi has been eliminated, this may not be true. Otherwise, the various sects would not value the Jun Yang essence so much. The sects must still have some in their hands.
He continued to read. The second method recorded in the book was the method of borrowing the primordial Qi of the previous ascended cultivators.
Before the ascended cultivator broke through the realm, he would leave a strand of primordial Qi in his body. If the disciple of the later generation came from the same sect and had the same origin, after obtaining this Qi, with the help of the precious medicine in the sect, they could also enter the Grotto-Heaven.
This kind of method could only be achieved by the sects that had been established for a long time and had a deep foundation.
And because the aristocratic families were born with the bloodline, they had an advantage on this path, and most of them relied on this method to achieve success.
Zhang Yan had studied the Billowing Cloud Secret Book before, and he could not help but think, Rumor has it that Sun Zhenren once obtained this Dao technique in the mountains, so he might have obtained this strand of Qi that day as well.
The third method recorded in the jade scroll was the most mysterious, and it depended on a strand of luck that was related to the cultivator.
When a cultivator walked on this path, he had to place his mind on one thing, and then use all kinds of methods to achieve the goal. During this process, he had to go through all kinds of hardships and training, and the more difficult it was, the higher his achievements would be in the future.
For example, when Tao Zhenren founded the Clear Feather Sect, he walked on this path. Before this, he established several sects in the East Flower Continent, but they were all destroyed by the Southern Flower Sect. In the end, he established his sect on the East Sea, and he used this to enter the Grotto-Heaven.
Others like Baili Qingyin, Yang Poyu, and the others also walked on this path.
If they could keep the Xuanmen out when fighting for the devil's cave, they would naturally enter this realm. They could be considered to have obtained the middle method. As for people like Su Yan Zhong, who only dared to steal Qi from the outside to climb the spirit cave, even if they succeeded, they would only have obtained the lower method.
These three methods did not have a strict boundary between them. How to do it depended on one's own choice. For tens of thousands of years, there was no lack of talented and outstanding people who pursued the Great Dao, and cultivated the three paths at the same time.
When Zhang Yan saw this, his heart moved, and he suddenly thought of the Du Zhen Temple. Shen Nu once talked about the matter of gathering living beings.
If his guess was right, this should be a method left behind by the ancestors, and if it could allow the billions of living beings in the Xuanze Sea to multiply, when it was done, it could also become the Grotto-Heaven.
In less than an hour, he finished reading the jade scroll. However, he did not disregard the rest of the Dao books, and still picked them up to read.
After two days, he came down from the second floor of the Golden Pavilion, and walked in front of Shen Baishuang. He bowed and said, "Disciple has already read the middle method, may I ask Reverend, where can I find the best method?"
Shen Baishuang looked at him. He said solemnly, "There are no records in the Golden Pavilion of the Upper Method, but this method is rarely used since ancient times. If you don't follow this path, it will instead hinder your cultivation, do you really want to read it?"
Zhang Yan smiled, and said, "I haven't read it, how would I know if it's not what I want?"
Shen Baishuang agreed, and raised his hand. A golden talisman flew out, and entered the space between his eyebrows. He said solemnly, "This is a secret of my Qincang School, without permission, it is not allowed to be privately taught to disciples."
Zhang Yan nodded his head solemnly, and then found a praying mat, and sat down to refine it.
Not long later. He refined the talisman, and the incantation appeared in his consciousness, but when he looked at it, he was shocked.
It was not that this method was too profound, but too simple. Other than the notes and the insights of the predecessors, the true incantation was only a few hundred words. After looking at it carefully, he couldn't help but frown.
After thinking for a while, he asked, "May I ask, Zhenren, what method did you use to achieve the grotto-heaven?"
Shen Baishuang said, "This is not a secret, there's no harm in telling you."
He paused for a while, "Among our generation, only my senior brother and I followed the Upper Method."
Zhang Yan asked again, "Among the Zhenren who have ascended in the past, how many people have cultivated this method?"
Shen Baishuang thought for a while, and said, "Including my master, there should be four."
Zhang Yan couldn't help but think. The so-called Upper Method was not profound, it was to examine oneself, strengthen one's Daoist heart, and search for the fated chance to break through the realm.
No one knew where this chance came from, and it couldn't be described in words, but the moment the cultivator reached that point, his heart would sense it, and he would naturally know what to do.
Moreover, at the last step, the cultivator would need to absorb a large amount of spiritual Qi of heaven and earth at the juncture of breaking through the realm, so he had to find a place with abundant spiritual vigor. Such a place was hard to sustain even in a grotto-heaven, only a spiritual cave could withstand it. This meant that only the direct descendants of a sect would be able to benefit from this.
At this moment, he understood that Qi Yuntian was able to cultivate in the spiritual cave at this time, he was almost at this step.
There were actually four Zhenrens in Qincang School who cultivated this method and ascended, it was obvious that this was not only the Upper Method, but also the Proper Method!
However, he was not willing to choose this method, not because he was afraid of the difficulty, but because the cultivators usually waited for the fated chance for hundreds of years, usually seven to eight hundred years old, or even before the end of their lives, only then they could truly grasp this mystery.
Now, he was only three hundred years old, that was to say, if he chose this path, he would need to cultivate in peace for another four to five hundred years.
If it was during normal times, he could still afford to wait, but there would be three great trials in a thousand years, even some Zhenren in a grotto-heaven might not be able to protect themselves, let alone a Yuanying cultivator like him. The only way was to seize every opportunity and become a grotto-heaven before that, then there would be hope for him to survive the trials.
However, if he did not choose this path, would he really choose the Middle Method?
He pondered for a long time, and suddenly raised his head, and asked, "Zhenren, may I ask, other than these three methods, is there any other way?"
Shen Baishuang pondered for a while, then slowly replied, "There is another method, I've heard my master mention it, but I don't know the details. If you want to know, you can ask the headmaster."
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