The two secret realms merged into one. Although it seemed that they were simply put together, in fact, there was a deeper integration between the secret realm avenues. It is precisely because of the fusion of the secret avenue that the originally obscure and almost void avenue can now become more clearly "visible".
Ye Zan only glanced at the surrounding environment, then closed his eyes again, carefully comprehended the rich and majestic meaning of the avenue around him, and began to attack the realm of Yuanshen.
To put it simply, from the Yuanying to the Yuanshen is to move the source of mana, the "little Yuanying", from the Dantian to the sea of consciousness. Of course, it's not that simple in fact. It also involves a lot of complicated things, such as the most basic thing is the change of form.
If we say that the existence of Nascent Soul is still material, it is just in a different dimensional space from the physical body. Then, Yuanshen can be said to be a spiritual existence, and has the magical ability to interfere with matter with spirit. Therefore, although Yuanying and Yuanshen all appear to be energy "little people", their actual compositions are completely different.
From the perspective of monasticism, Yuanying is centered on the perception of the great road, condensing spiritual energy into mana that resonates with the great road, and placing the soul in it to become the true existence. So Yuanshen is the fusion of the soul with the perception of the Tao, so that the soul itself is an existence that resonates with the Tao and becomes its own "Tao".
Therefore, it can be said that the transformation from the Nascent Soul Realm to the Yuanshen Realm is to engrave the understanding of the Dao in the soul and condense the three souls and seven souls to achieve one's own Dao.
To achieve one's own path, one cannot work behind closed doors. To understand the path of heaven and earth is actually a process of learning and imitation. Whatever kind of Tao you want to achieve, then learn and understand what kind of Tao of heaven and earth, there is always one of the three thousand Tao that is suitable for you. From another perspective, an environment that corresponds to the avenue one seeks is more conducive to understanding a certain avenue of heaven and earth, and will also be of great help in achieving the soul.
For example, if a person walks the path of fire among the five elements, if he wants to advance to the realm of Yuanshen more smoothly, it is best to be in a place where the path of fire is flourishing. If you want to follow the path of water, then the purer the path of water, the more helpful it will be to advance to the realm of soul.
If, on the other hand, you are obviously following the path of fire, but you go to a place full of water paths to retreat and meditate, then the difficulty will definitely increase exponentially. However, if you can still stick to your own path in this environment and truly succeed in condensing your own fire path, your achievements will definitely be higher than ordinary people.
In the Nascent Soul realm, Ye Zan condenses the core of three avenues, one is the way of insight, the other is the way of science and technology, and the other is the way of two realms. However, this naming was taken for granted by himself. In fact, the three avenues are not completely independent, but are inseparable from each other.
First of all, the way of insight is to understand the root of all things, from appearance to interior, from macro to micro, from tangible to intangible. It is a means of understanding all things. And this point, in fact, is integrated with the way of science and technology in some aspects. The root of science and technology is to explore, research and understand the knowledge of the laws of change of all things in the universe, that is, science.
Then let’s talk about the way of technology. In fact, it is not exactly the same thing as the technology in the technology world. In other words, the Tao of science and technology can be called the ability of Taoist science and technology, which is to realize some knowledge theories of scientific and technological research in the world in a "Tao" way. For example, Ye Zan's gravity control, black hole devouring, and star shifting methods can no longer be explained by science.
Ye Zan is able to do this, on the one hand, because of the knowledge and theory of the technological world, but on the other hand, it is also indispensable for the role of the "Tao of Two Realms". It is this "way of two worlds" that opens the barrier between the civilizations of the two worlds, allowing Ye Zan to bring things from the technological world to this world for use.
At the same time, the way of the two worlds can play a role, and the way of insight is indispensable for the insight into all things in this world.
In the final analysis, the three avenues can actually be merged into one, and that is the path to true knowledge.
Now that the two secret realms are merging, although the manifested avenue is only the avenue of the two secret realms, it is still of great help to Ye Zan in understanding the way of true knowledge. More importantly, when merging the two secret realms before, Ye Zan, as the master of the two secret realms, had a deep understanding of the avenues of the two secret realms, and also performed a large number of fusion calculations.
At this time, feeling the Taoism permeating the space, Ye Zan was actually close to finishing.
Sitting cross-legged at the intersection of the two secret realms, Ye Zan deeply felt the way of the outside world and verified his own way with insights. In his Dantian, Nascent Soul manifested into a shape with three heads and six arms. In the realization of the Great Dao, he gradually showed a smile while holding flowers, and gradually exuded layers of halo of the Dao.
And at this moment, suddenly, inexplicably, flames surged out of Ye Zan's Dantian, surrounding Nascent Soul from all directions. Those clumps of flames seemed to appear out of thin air, gathering into waves of fire and slapping towards the Nascent Soul in the middle.
There was a "boom"!
A wave of fire hit Ye Zan's Nascent Soul, and the splashing sparks were like tiny red lotuses. The Nascent Soul was also hit by this wave of fire, and infinite cracks spread all over its body in an instant.
Before the previous wave receded, the next wave of fire followed one after another, making the cracks all over the body of the Nascent Soul more obvious, as if it would disintegrate into a pile of fragments in the next moment.
However, in the face of such injury, the smile on Ye Zan's Nascent Soul's face did not diminish, and the magic formula in his hand did not change at all. He did not take any measures to block the continuous erosion of the fire waves. He just sat cross-legged in the void of his Dantian and continued his understanding of the great road.
Since Ye Zan chose to attack the realm of Yuanshen, he naturally already understood the various aspects of this process. The situation he faced at this time could be regarded as a calamity to advance to the Yuanshen realm, called Heart Fire Refining God. In fact, the flames pouring out of the void were just an appearance. The real source of the inner fire was actually in his soul.
As waves of fire washed away, Ye Zan's Nascent Soul was like cracked porcelain, which finally began to peel off piece by piece after being filled with cracks. The peeling debris turned into fly ash in the fire waves, and what was exposed was the more crystal clear and jade-like Nascent Soul body. However, as the fire wave struck again, the exposed intact "skin" was once again occupied by dense cracks.
Time and time again, Ye Zan's Nascent Soul seemed to be shedding its skin, shedding layers of impurities like a shell in the tempering of the inner fire. After each tempering, Ye Zan's Nascent Soul will be purer than before, making the aura of the avenue brighter.
This process sounds easy to say, but in fact the pain Ye Zan endured cannot be described in words. In particular, during this process, he could not stop comprehending the Great Way, nor could he stop engraving the Great Way on his soul during his enlightenment. Many people who failed to advance to the realm of Yuanshen actually failed at this difficulty. Not only must they be able to endure what ordinary people cannot endure, but they must also endure without losing their original intention.
I don’t know how long it has passed, and I don’t know how many times it has been tempered by the inner fire, but Ye Zan’s Nascent Soul has become like an illusion. There is no texture like "crystal" or "jade", and it is not in the form of mist and light. At this time, the Nascent Soul is like an existence between reality and illusion.
Finally, many Nascent Souls sitting cross-legged in the Dantian suddenly stood up and jumped out. Not only did they leave Ye Zan's body, but they also jumped out of the secret space. However, this Nascent Soul did not appear in the outside world, did not appear on the Jade Spring Peak, but seemed to be above the Nine Heavens in an instant.
Ye Zan's consciousness has been integrated with the soul along with the soul, or it can no longer be called the soul, but it is not the real soul. In short, when he opened his eyes, what he saw was that he was above the nine heavens, but it didn't feel like he was flying in the sky. He couldn't see the boundless earth downwards, nor the endless starry sky upwards.
At this time, Ye Zan could clearly feel that the endless avenues were surrounding him, as if the avenues of heaven and earth were already within reach. According to his understanding, this may be called another dimension, the space where the Great Avenue of Heaven and Earth is located. This is not a specific space, but a place that can only be reached when one has reached a certain level of understanding of the avenue.
Some people will find their own Tao here and choose to form some kind of connection with it to enhance their mastery of this Tao. However, there are also some people who just want to understand the origin of the Dao in order to have a real Dao of their own.
"Tao" is not a thing, but a concept. There is an infinite way here. This infinity is really infinite, not whether the quantity can be counted.
Just like, people say that there are countless stars in the sky, but you can always count tens, hundreds, or even thousands of them. There is no way to count these infinite avenues. You can say there are three thousand avenues, but you can also say that they are integrated.
Therefore, the path of true knowledge cultivated by Ye Zan can also be found in this space, and it is not necessary to comprehend all the great avenues in the sky.
However, Ye Zan did not choose the first approach, to find the path of true knowledge to establish a connection, but chose to verify and strengthen his own path.
What Ye Zan wants to do is not to comprehend the infinite avenues all over the sky like he did in Tiandao Mountain. That would never lead to a result. His method of true knowledge is actually more like establishing a formula, a formula that can be applied to any avenue, or to all things in the world, to analyze everything.
Of course, in order to establish such a formula, Ye Zan also needs to have enough samples to verify whether his "formula" is correct. And the infinite avenues in this avenue space provided him with enough samples to allow him to perfect this "formula" to a certain extent, which is his own avenue of true knowledge.
Ye Zan was just hanging in the avenue space, and he didn't need to move around to look for anything. As long as he had a thought in his mind, the needed avenue would appear in front of him. However, this is not his special ability, but anyone here can do this. As for the so-called search, it is actually not about exploring everywhere, but about clearly seeing your true heart and clarifying what is in your heart.
For example, if I want to use words to describe something, I first say that what I want is a piece of porcelain, so all options other than porcelain are eliminated. Next, it was further determined that the porcelain I wanted was a porcelain bowl, so all porcelain other than porcelain bowls was excluded again. If you accurately describe your needs step by step in this way, you may eventually find out what dynasty, which kiln mouth, and what pattern you want for a porcelain bowl.
Of course, to comprehend the great path and see one's true heart clearly is much more complicated and difficult than finding a porcelain bowl.
Ye Zan was able to quickly find the path he needed. On the one hand, he had the foundation of true knowledge, and on the other hand, it was actually a kind of verification.
In any case, Ye Zan spent an unknown amount of time in this avenue space.
And after constant verification and understanding, the true way of knowledge in Ye Zan's heart became increasingly clear. However, if you want to truly complete the path of true knowledge, it is not something that can be achieved in the realm of Yuanshen. In other words, any avenue cannot be fully mastered by the realm of Yuanshen, otherwise there would be realms such as Dharma and Heaven.
In the process of comprehending the great road, Ye Zan also integrated all his understanding of the way of true knowledge into his own soul. When this fusion reached a certain level, the scene around him suddenly changed again, the infinite avenue instantly disappeared, and boundless thunder surged out from the void.
"Boom!" A roar sounded, and a bolt of thunder struck down toward Ye Zan's head like a giant pillar reaching the sky.
The catastrophe is coming.
Speaking of this heavenly tribulation, he was really diligent. He had just been dissipated by Xuanyuan Daozu not long ago, and now he came out to cause trouble for Ye Zan again.
Of course, Ye Zan's catastrophe was far worse than that of Xuanyuan Daozu. After all, it was just a catastrophe in the Yuanshen realm.
When the thunder suddenly fell, a green leaf lotus platform suddenly appeared in the void below Ye Zan. The thunder struck from all directions, but the green leaf lotus platform only shook the lotus leaves slightly, and layers of ripples spread to all directions, wiping out the incoming thunder.
However, while blocking the thunder for Ye Zan, thunder lotuses appeared around Ye Zan in the middle of the green leaf lotus platform. Those thunder lotuses no longer had the violence of the Heavenly Tribulation, leaving only the effect of tempering the soul, and they fell towards Ye Zan one by one.
Ye Zan just sat in the center of the green leaf lotus platform, enjoying the tempering of the calamity without any disaster. His body, which was obviously very illusory, became full and clear again. This is the final step in the transformation from the body of the Nascent Soul to the body of the Soul. It seems that it is just from real to virtual, and from virtual to real, but in fact the essence is completely different.