Chapter 7: Divine Aura

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  Qingyun Sect

  Sword Peak Purple Bamboo Forest.

  Under several stalks of purple bamboo, he sat cross-legged, with the Sword Classic open on his knees. He read it carefully several times and finally memorized all the thousands of characters of the true words of the Sword Classic.

  "One sword, indeed profound and intricate. The Sword Immortal first conceives the sword fetus, then condenses the sword soul, next accumulates the sword energy, finally unites body and soul to form the sword infant, thereby attaining the highest realm of the sword heart, able to ascend to the heavenly path and open the immortal gate."

  After a moment of contemplation, the Sword Scripture says that to conceive the sword embryo, one must first open up all 108 meridians. As he had just entered the Immortal Gate, as Yun Fei said, he needed to open up all 108 meridians first.

  At this thought, he calmed his mind and concentrated his spirit, responding to heaven and earth according to the method taught in the Sword Classic.

  Xian practitioners use their mortal bodies to resonate with the great Tao of heaven and earth, using their limited bodies to respond to infinite changes, refining them into a mouthful of heavenly spiritual energy.

  Jian Xian, all forms of movement are possible, and the sword energy is also different. Just a few breaths of time, Qi Tian felt a golden sea between heaven and earth. This golden sea was vast and boundless, with brilliant golden light, like jade. It seemed to have sensed Qi Tian's thoughts, and suddenly a stream of golden light fell from the void and poured into Qi Tian's dantian.

  This is the Golden Energetic Aura!

  His mind sank into his dantian, and Qitian saw a small cluster of golden mist the size of a pinky finger. This golden mist was as resplendent as star clouds, with divine light flickering, seemingly containing infinite mysteries. It was just one cluster, but Qitian felt an even stronger power than before, far surpassing his previous true energy.

  Lingqi is the innate energy, possessing boundless spirituality. On the other hand, Zhenqi is merely the refined essence of blood and flesh cultivated from the mortal body, and fundamentally cannot be mentioned in the same breath as Lingqi; the two have a difference like that between heaven and earth.

  Having thought this through, Qitian began to stir up the golden spiritual energy of the group, wanting to try and see if he could break open the first Daoist aperture.

  One hundred and eight acupoints, combined with seventy-two earthly evils, thirty-six heavenly gates in number. The Sword Classic says: after breaking through, one can connect to the Spiritual Ocean, spiritual energy is uninterrupted, divine powers are unbroken.

  The thought stirred up this group of golden spiritual energy, and it rushed towards the first Daoist aperture.

  The Taoist void is false, but in the sword classic, it is revealed one by one. After the spiritual energy rushes in, it seems to enter a virtual world of nothingness. A golden gate appears in front, as the external manifestation of the Taoist void.

  Boom!

  The spiritual energy crashed into the door, as if a mantis was shaking a tree. With one crash, it collapsed, and even Qitian's entire body shook several times. His mind was floating, and his face turned slightly pale.

  Opening his eyes, Qi Tian smiled bitterly: "It's really hard to break through, no wonder Cloud Shifu used three years to break through the 96th Dao aperture. According to the solidity of this Golden Gate Dao aperture, at least seven days of continuous and uninterrupted spiritual energy emission are needed to break through it. Calculating like this, breaking through the 108 Dao apertures would take at least two years."

  He shook his head, and Qitian calmed down, wanting to retrieve the spiritual energy of Dao Kung's void into his dantian.

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  Suddenly, a white awn as thin as a hair appeared in the void, and instantly pierced into that cluster of golden mist. In the blink of an eye, it swallowed it all up, and its own body swelled up slightly.

  In his heart, Qi Tian was shocked and didn't expect that this strange white mang would come from the depths of his dantian, running through a void in space, and even swallowing the golden spiritual energy he had just spat out.

  Qitian carefully looked at this white awn, which seemed to have a faint and intangible sharp aura, crystal clear and translucent. After swallowing a cluster of golden spiritual energy, its entire body had a layer of light golden awn shining through.

  Is it sword energy? Or something else?

  Qitian faintly felt that this white mang had a great relationship with his arrival in this world, and even, it was the trouble buried by the sword mound.

  However, half a day passed and Zitian discovered that this white awn seemed to have no consciousness at all, only instinctive reactions. Every time he spat out a ball of golden spiritual energy, it was swallowed up by the awn, and apart from that, it was completely under his control.

  Unable to resist, even his own golden spiritual energy was completely absorbed by it, so what could he use to break through the bottleneck?

  Suddenly, he had an epiphany. Since this sword-like aura of the White Mang had absorbed the spiritual energy, he would use it to open up his meridians.

  At the beginning of his immortal journey, Zitian was not bound by many constraints. His mind was free and wild, and as soon as he had an idea, he would immediately put it into action.

  At this moment, he immediately guided the air blade that had transformed into a pale golden color into the void of the Taoist temple.

  Pfft——

  It was just a slight obstruction, and the first pass of the Golden Gate was suddenly shattered. In an instant, Qi Tian Sheng felt a response, and in the sky, a brilliant golden spring fell from the golden sea, pouring into this open passageway.

  However, before it could even stir up a storm, the pale golden energy burst forth with a loud whoosh, swallowing everything in its path in just two or three mouthfuls.

  After swallowing the large cluster of golden spiritual energy, the aura suddenly expanded by a factor of two, with two strands as thick as hair, and the pale golden divine aura also became several times more intense.

  As his mind stirred, the pale golden aura flowed and transformed throughout his body. Qi Tian only felt as if he had immersed himself in a celestial spring, with all 36,000 pores on his body opening simultaneously, and threads of gray mundane impurities seeping out from within.

  Her eyes snapped open and her whole body shook violently. The many grey specks of dust fell off instantly, dispersing into the air.

  "Opening up the meridians is also a way to refine the physical body, shedding the mortal shell. Once all 108 meridians are opened, the physical body will be pure and become a true Dao body," Qitian murmured to himself after a moment of contemplation, "Since this Qi can help me open up my meridians and is almost indistinguishable from spiritual energy, it can refine my physical body and continuously strengthen it. For now, I suppose I'll just have to treat it as spiritual energy."

  The vital energy circulated between the elixir field and the first passageway, sometimes dispersing throughout his body. Each time, Qi Tian clearly felt his body expanding, as if his mortal flesh was transforming into a divine iron stone. This feeling was profound and mysterious, beyond his comprehension. He could only continue to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

  Opened up a path, the feeling of the spiritual sea between heaven and earth became clearer, breathing in, more spiritual energy entered the body, but all the spiritual energy was swallowed up by the aura after entering the dantian.

  Another half day passed, and Qitian tried to break through the second Daoist aperture. However, that sharp aura only made the Golden Gate of the Daoist aperture tremble a few times before subsiding.

  Despite this, it also allowed Qitian to reap a lot of benefits. Looking at it this way, breaking through the second acupoint would take about two days' time. With two days' time, one can break through one acupoint. Then, with 108 acupoints, half a year would be enough to break through all of them.

  When Qi Tian opened his eyes again, it was already night. The purple bamboo forest was quiet and silent, with a faint purple mist scattered around. Above the sky, a bright moon spilled its divine light, and the spirit stream reflected the image, clear as a mirror.

  Standing up straight, Chi Tian exerted a slight force and instantly rose two zhang high, with faint golden light appearing around his body.

  A punch is made, and there is a sound of wind whistling, the bamboo leaves on the ground are rolled up and scattered in all directions.

  At this point, Qitian can be certain that the aura is indeed like spiritual energy and can be used. Moreover, just by opening up one of the meridians, Qitian can feel that he is much stronger than when he had true energy before, and his physical body is far superior to what it was in the past. The mortal energy has dissipated a lot, and spiritual energy has grown.

  From this, Qitian can imagine how powerful those who have completed the Taoist foundation, opened up all 108 meridians in their body and cultivated the Taoist immortal way are.

  Along the Spiritual Brook, passing through a thicket of purple bamboo, Qi Tian saw Yun Fei, still practicing his breathing exercises to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. At this moment, he had already entered the realm of immortals and even opened up one side of the Daoist aperture. When Qi Tian looked at Yun Fei again, he could feel the surging thick spiritual energy emanating from him. This energy contained both sharp and thick auras, just as Ming Fa Dao Ren had said: Yun Fei's Five Elements were biased towards Earth and Metal, and the energies he was absorbing were those of the Earth and Metal elements.

  Yun Fei had already opened up the ninety-six Daoist meridians, and his physical body was almost perfectly tempered. At this moment, as he breathed in and out, a gentle aura emanated from his body.

  After Zitian arrived, the pale golden light on Yunfei's body gradually dissipated.

  "The first time I spat out the spiritual energy, being able to cultivate for a day was already very difficult, unfortunately, my sword path opened up the Daoist aperture, which is even more difficult than the Fa Dao immortal pulse, almost requiring twice as much time as someone with the same physical constitution."

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