A good while passed before Zhang Ling finished engraving the Earth Immortal text on the cloth. Although there were only a little over a hundred characters, each one had many variations, making them unrecognizable and leaving him completely puzzled.
But Bluebird seemed to understand, fluttering around the cloth and chanting in a mature, old-sounding child's voice, "Non-action leads to self-transformation, myriad phenomena of the Luo Heaven, forming images in the heavens, taking shape on the earth, changes are revealed..."
It sounded like an outline of some kind of cultivation technique, or perhaps profound scriptures.
Zhang Ling's spiritual sense wasn't weak; he basically remembered it after Bluebird recited it once. But upon careful consideration, it was indeed obscure and difficult to understand, the profound meaning unclear.
Just as he was about to ask Bluebird, he saw that the creature hadn't left him, but was instead circling and flying in the air on its own, seemingly lost in deep thought.
Another incense stick's worth of time passed before Bluebird came back to its senses and said, "This is an extraordinary secret technique. Although I don't know its original name, it's a Dharma Image Divine Power that imitates heaven and earth."
"Dharma Image Divine Power."
Zhang Ling's expression was strange, first stunned, then revealing a hint of joy.
Although he hadn't come into contact with Dharma Image Divine Powers, they were described in ancient texts. Although only in fragments, it was indeed a great divine power capable of myriad transformations.
It was said to be able to imitate the power of heaven and earth, transforming into myriad phenomena. But no one in the human realm had ever been heard of using this divine power, so he asked with some doubt, "Are you sure it's really this kind of great divine power?"
"Don't you believe me?" Bluebird snorted and then continued, "Don't just you not believe it, even I am very surprised. I don't know much about this divine power either, but there are indeed cultivators in the Spirit Realm who can use this divine power. For example, among you humans, there are cultivators who can use the Daoist Heavenly Luo Dharma Image, and there are Buddhist cultivators who can cultivate the Golden Body Dharma Image."
"Other alien races also have similar Dharma Image Divine Powers. Some races that worship true spirits can imitate true spirits and cultivate true spirit Dharma Images. And the ancient demons of the Ancient Demon Realm can also transform into three heads and six arms and other even stranger demon forms."
"But very few cultivators know this divine power, because this divine power has extremely high requirements for one's own spiritual power, physical body, and soul. With your current cultivation, you don't even meet the minimum requirements. Like the Dharma Image Divine Power on the cloth, the minimum requirement is that you have the strength of a late-stage Nascent Soul. And to display the Dharma Image, you must at least be above the Refining Void stage."
"Hiss, such high requirements." Zhang Ling was truly surprised, and sucked in a breath of cold air.
"More than that, what I said is still the minimum requirement. This divine power is also a very great divine power in the Spirit Realm. It was passed down through or from the Immortal Realm, and it is a genuine Immortal Realm secret technique," Bluebird said solemnly, flapping its wings.
Zhang Ling could clearly sense the abnormality in the creature's spirit body. Bluebird's eyes were filled with extremely complex emotions, both helplessness and envy.
And upon hearing the words 'Immortal Realm secret technique,' Zhang Ling's brows also furrowed.
"Compared to the Immortal Realm, whether it is the Spirit Realm, the Ancient Demon Realm, or your lower plane, Immortal Realm secret techniques are not something that ordinary people can glimpse. Hehe, your opportunity is not small, to be able to obtain this secret technique."
"Immortal Realm secret technique? Zhang is afraid to ask for such things. For seniors, it may be an opportunity, but the conditions for cultivating this divine power are so harsh that I can't cultivate it now. What use is it to me?" Zhang Ling shook his head and sighed.
"Hmph, such a great opportunity is said by you to be such a useless thing. If the cultivators of the Spirit Realm knew, they might destroy you with a wave of their hand. This Dharma Image Divine Power seems to be a technique for their human race cultivators, it is not suitable for me."
"Is that so?" Zhang Ling smiled indifferently, looking at the cloth still floating in the air.
Although he said that this thing was worthless to him, his mood at the moment was also quite complicated, like Bluebird, both happy and helpless.
The minimum requirement is that a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator can cultivate it, so it is useless to him at the moment.
"The power of the interface is strong and weak. The Spirit Realm is much closer to the True Immortal Realm than the lower interfaces. Although the closer to the True Immortal Realm, the stronger the power of separation, the Spirit Realm, a large medium-sized interface, occasionally hears of some upper realm objects falling out of some space storms or space cracks. Most of them are useless, but a small part of them are also very attractive to Spirit Realm cultivators.
For example, not far outside the human race's territory, there is a desolate region, where there is an Immortal Palace of Remnants. It is said to be an Immortal Palace that fell from the True Immortal Realm. It opens once every thousand years, and each time it attracts many battles from the alien races of the desolate region."
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Bluebird spoke a lot today, and also said some things about the Spirit Realm. Zhang Ling did not interrupt the creature's interest, listening with a blank expression.
Not long after, Bluebird left and returned to the Black Tortoise.
Zhang Ling was still sitting in the same place, with a cyan jade slip in his hand, looking at the information inside with a frown. This jade slip was left by Bluebird just now, recording the translation of the Earth Immortal text.
This kind of true immortal text is difficult to understand and profound. Many characters have many different meanings.
According to Bluebird, the Earth Immortal text circulating in the Spirit Realm is said to have been taught by a true immortal named Heavenly Decree True Person who accidentally descended to the Spirit Realm millions of years ago. It has been translated by various races, and the meanings are very different, so it is not easy to master.
Moreover, it is said that the Earth Immortal text passed down by the true immortal at that time did not have an accurate meaning. It was used to evolve the world with spells. It contained many changes, and different cultivators of different races understood it differently, so the meaning naturally had many differences.
The original Earth Immortal text had 13,500 characters. After being translated by various races, it evolved into many different immortal texts.
At this moment, the Earth Immortal text taught by Bluebird in his hand has as many as hundreds of thousands of characters.
After studying it so carefully for a few days, Zhang Ling roughly understood the Earth Immortal text. Then, he took out the recorded Earth Immortal text and consulted this nameless Dharma Image Divine Power.
Although the Earth Immortal text has many difficult meanings, the main cultivation formulas in it seem to be a profound breathing technique, recorded very clearly.
However, to be on the safe side, he checked for omissions.
Zhang Ling took out the gray cloth, and also took out another treasure, the Bronze Ancient Lamp. Under the action of essence blood, he lit the ancient lamp.
His own soul was greatly enhanced, and the power of his spiritual sense was increased by more than doubled. Then, using the secret technique taught by Bluebird, he barely peeked at the Earth Immortal text recorded on the cloth.
To see the immortal text on it, the power of the spiritual sense must reach at least the late stage of the Nascent Soul. Without the blessing of the Bronze Ancient Lamp, even with the secret technique, he would not be able to see the text on it.
After pondering for a while, Zhang Ling pieced together a complete set of cultivation formulas, breathing techniques, and some transformation methods.
This Dharma Image Divine Power did not record a name, but the two words 'Heavenly Luo' appeared the most in it, so Zhang Ling called this secret technique the Heavenly Luo Dharma Image.
The conditions for cultivating this technique are indeed harsh. The most core breathing formula is also very different from ordinary techniques. It also夹杂着 several auxiliary cultivation methods.
But without exception, they all use natural treasures, and even true spirit true blood as a guide.
According to the introduction, if you only cultivate this divine power with the breathing method, the time will be extremely long. It may not be effective for thousands of years.
The cultivation of this Dharma Image Divine Power is generally divided into three steps. The first step is that one's own strength reaches the late stage of the Nascent Soul, and the power of the physical body and soul cannot be too weak. This is the lowest minimum requirement.
After reaching this requirement, by mobilizing one's own spiritual power, blood energy, and soul power, one can barely gather a phantom. With this, one can use attack and defense methods.
It sounds like some kind of avatar technique, or like a spirit condensation technique.
The general avatar technique is not difficult for Nascent Soul cultivators. Like the divine sense avatar, it is this kind of method.
Like the Blood Light Old Demon's avatar, it is a higher avatar technique. Even higher, it is the second Nascent Soul that he cultivated himself.
The demon thought avatar descended by the ancient demons of the upper realm mentioned by Bluebird can also be classified as an avatar secret technique.
Although there are differences, the functions are basically similar.
As for the spirit condensation technique, it is even simpler. Golden Core cultivators can use it. Like the sword light, spirit light hand, etc., which are usually transformed with spiritual power and magic weapons. They are common methods relying on mana and magic weapons.
The phantom formed by the Dharma Image Divine Power is similar to these two methods at first. But in fact, there is an essential difference.
The phantom condensed by the Dharma Image Divine Power needs to mobilize all of its own power, so it has extremely high requirements for mana, soul, and physical body.
The Dharma Image phantom cannot use magic weapons or other external objects to display it. It is a divine power displayed by itself.
The second step is to constantly temper the Dharma Image phantom and make it continuously solidify. This is naturally not something that Nascent Soul cultivators can do.
The last step is to condense a true Dharma Image. Once displayed, its power is earth-shattering.
From Bluebird's mouth, Zhang Ling also learned that there are human cultivators in the Spirit Realm who can condense a Dharma body that is ten thousand feet tall.
But now he can't cultivate it, so everything is in vain.
After studying like this for more than a month, Zhang Ling could only temporarily put down the reverie in his heart, stopped thinking about it, and began to focus on the matter at hand.
There are many things to do now, so naturally he can't spend all his time studying methods that don't help him much now.
The most important thing is to increase his own cultivation.
Participating in the Dayan Mountain trade fair, his harvest was not small.
The biggest harvest is the Dream Luo Flower. This strange flower can make the Void Insects become restless. He needs to cultivate a large number of them to feed the Void Insects.
Furthermore, he also collected a lot of spiritual herbs that grow in the demon spirit environment. One of them, the fourth-grade Demon Spirit Grass, can reach a thousand years of age and can be used to refine the Demon Spirit Pill.
This kind of pill contains manic spiritual power. It is a body-tempering pill passed down by the alien demon race. Ordinary cultivators rarely take it.
This pill is just right to use to cultivate the Demon Yuan Tempering Spirit Technique that Bluebird taught him before.
To cultivate this technique, he needs to use demonic energy to temper his own spiritual power. He has already refined three strands of True Demon Qi, meeting the requirements.
This technique also has a body-tempering effect. It will stimulate his own meridians and continuously enhance his own blood energy. It is also like a secret technique in body-tempering techniques.
In addition, he also collected Demon Taro Flower, Gan Ying Grass, and other spiritual herbs that replenish blood energy. Combined with the pill formulas of alien demon cultivators that he collected before, he can refine Blood Cherry Pill and other good blood energy pills.
Moreover, Zhang Ling himself is parasitized by the strange vine, which is very suitable for cultivating this technique. It can be said to be a win-win situation.
In the next two months, he was cultivating spiritual herbs and refining pills. In this way, he obtained another batch of valuable and precious pills.
With this batch of pills, he doesn't need to refine pills for a long time.
And through the experiment of Dream Luo Flower, it is indeed beneficial to the advancement of the Void Insects. Devouring Dream Luo Flower, the Void Insects will often fall into a dormant state.
The dormancy time is not long, only two or three days. Each time they wake up, the spiritual power on the Void Insects will be greatly enhanced.
In just two months, the strength of the Void Insects has improved more than twice as fast as before. At this rate of advancement, in more than ten years, the Void Insects' own spiritual power can be comparable to second- and third-tier monsters.
Although these low-level monsters have no auxiliary effect on him now. But the Void Insects are special. They have spatial divine powers and can temporarily create temporary spaces. This potential is what he values most.
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In addition, the spiritual eye jade born in the middle-grade spiritual vein collected at the auction also has great use.
On this day, Zhang Ling set up several layers of restrictions in the stone house, holding a five-color array plate in his hand, and took out a lot of spiritual stones, all kinds of attributes. He was setting up a set of formations.
A spirit gathering formation. Spirit gathering formations are generally easy to set up. It didn't take long for the ground to be covered with spiritual stones. There were as many as hundreds of them. It doesn't seem like much, but you must know that they are all middle-grade spiritual stones, and there are also a dozen or so high-grade spiritual stones.
After setting up the spirit gathering formation, Zhang Ling held the five-color spirit plate, with two pebble-like stones on it, a bright yellow stone, and a milky white jade stone that was half the size, slowly rotating.
It also released a piece of colorful spiritual mist. At this time, the spiritual power in this stone house was higher than that of ordinary high-grade spiritual veins.
These are the two spiritual eye objects in his hand. The yellow stone is the original spiritual eye stone obtained from the high-grade spiritual vein, which releases the most spiritual energy.
A vague black lotus grows on this spiritual eye stone. Naturally, it is the rootless lotus, the spiritual object of heaven and earth that Qinghu King asked him to collect.
After returning, Qinghu King gave him four lotus seeds. In order to condense the Nascent Soul, Zhang Ling swallowed two of them. The lotus seeds of the rootless lotus also played a huge role in the successful condensation of the Nascent Soul.
This thing also has the effect of washing his own spiritual roots. It has been nearly a hundred years since he swallowed the rootless lotus seeds.
Zhang Ling can indeed feel that his aptitude has greatly improved compared to before. Although it is not as good as the enchanting heavenly spiritual root, his spiritual root aptitude is now no weaker than that of cultivators with dual-attribute spiritual roots.
It seems to have some other benefits to the body, which are difficult to describe. The third lotus seed was swallowed by the Black Tortoise, leaving the last lotus seed, which has not been used.
Zhang Ling also wanted to use the heaven-defying mysterious bead in his hand to see if he could催生 this strange object.
But after dozens of experiments, he failed. The thin ice spiritual liquid produced by the mysterious bead is only useful for plants and has no effect on the rootless lotus.
He had originally given up, but some time ago he accidentally discovered that the rootless lotus had given birth to another lotus seed.
Looking closely, there are two colorful small fish slowly swimming in the black lotus on the spiritual eye stone. After swimming a few circles, the small fish turned into two bean-sized colorful light spots. The one with dim light is the newly born lotus seed.
This discovery surprised Zhang Ling very much. He also noticed that the quality of the spiritual eye stone parasitized by the rootless lotus had declined a lot.
He understood instantly what this change meant.
