Chapter 1: The Seven-Colored Dragon Boat, Azure Pearl...

  Luobei sat down at the base of a lush tree, with the morning sunlight sprinkling on him.

  The Mahakala Tantra was spread out on the ground in front of him, three feet long and wide, with golden letters that were very small but extremely clear. In the middle of the first volume of scriptures was a golden Buddha sitting in mid-air, surrounded by jewels and treasures, with a red sun hanging above his head, shining its light onto this golden Buddha image. The posture of this golden Buddha was the same as that of Luo Bei, but his appearance was completely different from those ordinary Buddha images in the temple, instead having a blue face and sharp teeth, looking extremely ferocious, making people feel frightened at first sight.

  After silently reciting the scriptures again, Luo Bei raised his head and calmed his mind, slowly casting aside the distracting thoughts in his heart. He then looked up at the sky, gazing intently, before suddenly closing his eyes. Following the first volume of the Mahakaruna Dharani Sutra, he formed a mudra with his hands like the golden Buddha image, imagining himself and that golden Buddha suspended in mid-air as the radiant light from the sky entered his body inch by inch.

  For the cultivation world, Luo Bei can be said to be a complete blank slate. For ordinary cultivators who have just started cultivating, even entering stillness is difficult, let alone Luo Bei who relies solely on rote memorization and doesn't even consciously think about whether he has remembered correctly or not. However, he is simple-minded and hasn't been deeply influenced by the world, so his heart doesn't have many distracting thoughts. As a result, reaching this step is actually much easier for him. After sitting for about the time it takes to burn an incense stick, he gradually entered a state.

  In the midst of his meditation, the radiant light of the rising sun, like tangible rays, pierced into his body thread by thread. As these threads of light entered his body, it was as if a gentle warmth flowed through his meridians, like soaking in a warm spring, making him feel extremely comfortable. "This is the first step mentioned in the scriptures!" Luo Bei exclaimed unintentionally, but as soon as this thought arose in his mind, the sensation vanished instantly.

  The state of being quiet and forgetting myself was broken.

  Luobei didn't give up, and once again calmed his mind and sat in stillness, forming a seal. Soon, his whole body was like it had absorbed a gentle, shimmering light, and he felt comfortable again. This time, he had experience, and tightly guarded his heart and spirit, continuing to follow the scripture's instructions. He slowly merged the shimmering light into his five organs and six viscera, then from his lower abdomen, it flowed upwards through the seal of his joined hands, passing through his throat, falling to the root of his teeth, and entering the Mud Pill Palace to condense.

  As the light poured in more and more, Luo Bei's sea of consciousness seemed to become increasingly scorching hot, condensing into a small red fireball. This red fireball began to slowly rotate, spinning faster and faster, like a whale sucking in water, absorbing all the incoming light.

  Suddenly, countless flames burst out of the fireball, and Luo Bei's whole body felt a stinging pain, his scalp exploding. Then, the flames emitted by the fireball seemed to envelop Luo Bei in an instant.

  Suddenly, it seemed like I had fallen into the depths of hell. In front of me was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Countless ferocious and terrifying evil spirits surrounded me from all sides, as if they were about to pounce on me to devour my flesh and drink my blood.

  Even in his worst nightmares, Luo Bei had never seen such a scene before. It was as if it was instinctual, and he couldn't help but throw up his arms and shout in shock.

  A terrifying thought had just emerged in the sea of consciousness, and Luo Bei's mind was immediately lost. In front of him, the evil spirit Nie Cha suddenly condensed into a gigantic red-faced demon god, with flames raging all over its body, and the mountains of corpses and seas of blood instantly turned into a boundless fire that engulfed Luo Bei in a blaze of flames.

  "Not good!" A hundred meters away, Old Zhao Nan's face changed drastically as he hid behind a boulder.

  Just by looking at Luo Bei, who was on the verge of collapse, with a painful expression on his face and beads of sweat falling from his forehead, Lao Zhao Nan already knew that Luo Bei had fallen into an extremely dangerous situation.

  Lao Zhao Nan had told Luo Bei that in order to cultivate the Mahakala Dharma, he would have to go through all sorts of unprecedented illusions and resist the temptation of his own nature, guarding his original heart.

  But this "Mahakala Kalpa" is not an ordinary practice manual.

  All the Buddhas above are green-faced and blue-toothed, extremely ferocious. This is because this "Mahakala Dharani" is actually a true mantra of the Western Regions' Zhen Temple, a treasure of the temple that suppresses evil spirits and demons. The Buddhas above are also in the form of fierce deities. This volume of dharani is much more powerful than ordinary cultivation methods, it's unknown how many times more powerful it is. If people like He Tu could obtain the Pearl of Wisdom, they would be overjoyed to get this volume of dharani from Yuantianyi's hands.

  However, the more profound and mysterious the cultivation method is, the more perilous the cultivation process will be. Moreover, it differs from general cultivation methods because Esoteric Buddhism emphasizes actualization through practice, with the goal of attaining Buddhahood in this very body. Therefore, this volume "Mahakala's Secret Method" also begins by cultivating the original spirit and heart-nature.

  To subdue demons and evil spirits, one must first encounter them without being moved in the heart. Since evil arises from the heart, cultivating this volume of secret techniques involves facing not only simple illusions but also the three poisons of greed, anger, and delusion, as well as the six dusts of sound, form, smell, taste, touch, and dharmas that will all come to attack at once! Only those with a strong and unwavering mind can guard their original heart, advance in their cultivation, and avoid immediate danger to their lives.

  Lao Zhao didn't tell Luo Bei all of this because even if he did, it would be useless. The more afraid and fearful one is, the easier it is for the heart demon to invade.

  However, Luo Bei, who is currently practicing this profound mantra, has obviously been invaded by heart demons and his body is being burned by true fire!

  Lao Zhao Nan couldn't help but take a step forward towards the place where Luo Bei was sitting, but he only took one step before suddenly freezing in place.

  This Mahakala Dharma, the more you cultivate it in the later stages, the deeper your cultivation will be, and the stronger the demonic invasion of your heart will be. If you rely on external forces to overcome it temporarily, but your own original spirit and heart nature have not been tempered, then when you continue to cultivate, you will inevitably fall into the same trap again, and instead fall into an even more dangerous situation.

  Besides this, there is something even more important!

  In the world, many big sects have a powerful master standing by to protect their disciples when they are cultivating. With someone protecting them, the danger during cultivation is greatly reduced and their cultivation progress is also faster.

  But Luofo Zong has always been self-cultivating and does not have a guardian deity.

  Luofu Sect has always been a one-to-one master-disciple relationship, single-handedly passed down, which is also the rule of Luofu Sect.

  Cultivating the Tao and understanding the truth ultimately still relies on oneself. Otherwise, even if a master helps you in every way, once you reach his level, you still have to rely on yourself from then on.

  As a result of being overly supportive everywhere, the ultimate consequence is that many disciples cannot surpass their master's boundary.

  Luofu Sect's disciples either don't appear or if they do, they must be astonishing and shocking to the world. This rule is also one of the reasons.

  Lao Zhao Nan did not dare to violate Luo Fu's rule, so he forcibly stopped in his tracks, only loudly and urgently calling out in his heart: "Master, why don't you let him cultivate your 'Void-Born Oceanic Luminous Scripture', but instead make him cultivate this technique?"

  "Who would have thought that cultivating the Tao could be so perilous!"

  Luobei, surrounded by the raging flames, felt as if his entire body was being scorched, his whole body on the verge of splitting apart. He subconsciously wanted to stop cultivating, but found that he couldn't move at all, feeling as though he would really be burned until his soul dispersed.

  "What you're experiencing today is only a small fraction of the pain and terror that true cultivation entails, which will be hundreds or thousands of times more severe...". But just then, Luo Bei suddenly recalled what Yuan Tianyi had said to him when he was trapped in the magma illusion at the seaside.

  "This is just the beginning! I must persist!" Suddenly, Luo Bei's determination became exceptionally firm once again!

  In Luo Bei's mind, he once again imagined that golden Buddha statue!

  In his sea of consciousness, he transformed into that golden Buddha, the majestic devil god with flames raging all over his body, desperately resisting the fierce flames in the surrounding void.

  A wisp of heavenly energy mixed with the true fire of the sun, was absorbed into Luo Bei's body at an increasingly faster speed. The wild grass around his body was scorched yellow and charred by the overbearing and violent heat of the true fire of the sun, while Luo Bei's weak and small body was like one that had just been pulled out from water, with his entire body drenched in sweat.

  But Luo Bei's body seemed to be getting hotter and hotter, the large sweat all over his body was evaporated dry, this repeated sweating, repeated evaporation, Luo Bei quickly became thin, the entire surface of his body was covered with a layer of salt, forming a shiny hard shell. His lips and eye corners were cracked open due to dryness, the fresh blood that seeped out was instantly scorched dry, forming scabs.

  Physical suffering is magnified many times over in the ocean of consciousness.

  This feeling is truly being burned to ashes!

  But Luo Bei's body remained still, gathering the strands of spiritual energy mixed with the True Fire of the Sun, circulating it through his meridians according to the incantation.

  Along this specific cycle, after thirty-two small cycles, the golden Buddha image that Luobei Guanxiang had been visualizing suddenly burst forth with a brilliant light, and the fierce flames of the demonic god dissipated like ice and snow!

  In the sea of knowledge, everything has become clear again, with only that one fireball spinning around, and this fireball has changed from its initial red color to a faint golden color.

  With a cracking sound, Luobei, who had already exceeded his physical limit, finally couldn't hold on anymore and opened his eyes. The dry scab of blood fell off, and new blood gushed out from the dry crack. However, in Luobei's gaze, there was only joy, determination, and perseverance!

  With a sigh, the old Zhao Nan, who had been staring at Luo Bei from afar, let out a breath, and a strange light flashed in his turbid eyes.

  Luobei unexpectedly grasped the first volume of Mahakala's secret method, guiding the breath into the body and unblocking the meridians with a seal, successfully taking the first step!

  As the hunchbacked old man loosened his tightly clenched fists, he and Luo Bei were unaware that on a mountain peak not far away, a pair of eyes was quietly watching everything.

  Those were a pair of eyes that even women would envy, which could be described as beautiful, but seemed to lack any hint of worldly desires.

  In these clear eyes, there is still a hint of appreciation and warmth. "Luo Bei, you really haven't let me down!"

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