Chapter 97: Great Brightness, Great Breakthrough
After the chanting of the scriptures, the dozen or so Taoists stood up and divided into two groups. One group walked out of the cave, and the other group was arranged in front of the sculpture of Emperor Wa.
As jade strips carved from top-quality jade are taken out and placed, a circle with a huge area is gradually formed. The outside of the circle is in the Bagua, and the inside is a typical yin and yang fish picture.
"There is a prohibition on the use of elixir power in this Shennong Temple. What are these Taoists' intentions to do this?"
In Ye Yian's doubts, the Taoist who had arranged the formations and took out two sets of star-shaped objects and placed them on the star position where the fish eyes of the Yin-Yang Fish Picture are located.
These two astrological plates, as big as a tabletop, must be extremely precious, otherwise the Taoists would not be so nervous and would not be so cautious in their movements.
The star plate has not been placed for a long time, and the Taoist who had gone out had also rushed back. It was really hard for them. In such a short time, they actually gathered the three major animals to worship the gods, and there were also many incense, candles, paper and other items.
Then, the crude and heavy stone door of the Shennong Temple was closed again with the rumbling sound. In the darkness, Taoists set up a bunch of bonfires between the two horoscopes of Yin and Yang Fish Pictures.
In Ye Yian's extremely surprised eyes, the dozen or so full sets of magical costumes were worn under the extremely majestic Taoist priests, and even the plain socks and hemp shoes were not retained. Then he broke up the Taoist bun on his head and spread his hair.
At this point, the Taoists were already emitting their feet and their bodies were full of energy. This was not enough. The Taoists also took plasma from the three sacred animals, and followed a specific pattern to spread the red and white on their bodies, dripping blood.
After doing this, the Taoists began to burn incense and feast at the statue of Wahuang Emperor. After the incense candle was lit, the paper surface was burned, more than a dozen Taoists suddenly stood up and walked to the middle of the Yin-Yang Fish Picture. Everyone was fucking a oxtail with their hands, and they danced around the pile of bells that had been lit before.
What these dozen Taoists dance together is not the popular long sleeve dance, but also a group dance. The Taoists shook their heads and threw their hair, and the movements of their hands and feet are far greater and more exaggerated than the long sleeve dance. The charm of every move is all simulating everything in nature. In addition to the extremely frequent symbolic movements such as raising their arms high and praying to the sky, the Taoists are also singing a long song with simple rhythm but abnormally ambiguous pronunciation in unison.
With a strong nasal sound, a lot of curled tongues and lyrics, Ye Yian only listened to a few sentences and concluded that the Taoist must be singing Yunwen.
Built in the Shennong Temple thousands of years ago, under the dark light, a group of Taoists with their feet radiating, bloody bodies danced and roared, and roared and sang with unusual pronunciations. The scene in front of them really made Ye Yian in the shadow feel both weird and funny.
Such an environment, such a scene, such a performance, is a scene of a group of demons dancing around, and it is also the most standard picture of the Taoist sect when the cult held a lewd sacrifice. If it weren't for seeing these people taking off their magic uniforms with their own eyes, Ye Yian would not believe that they would be Taoists and would have worshipped Emperor Wa in such a way that the Taoist sect had a strong attack.
Taoist sect, Taoist sect...there are so many weird things about them!
Ye Yian listened carefully, and although very few could understand, he vaguely guessed that what the people who debuted were singing was to express their awe and prayer for the gods of heaven and earth.
Witnessing such a picture, a record in the chapter "Lüshi Chunqiu? Ancient Music" suddenly appeared in Ye Yi'an's mind:
In the past, Ge Tianshi's joy, three people sang eight poems with their ox tails: one is called "carrying the people", two is called "mysterious bird", three is called "success in plants and trees", four is called "strive for the five grains", five is called "respect for heaven and constant", six is called "achieving the emperor's merit", seven is called "relying on the virtues of the earth", eight is called "to sum up all things"
According to Huangfu Mi's "The Century of Emperors", the Ge Tian family was the leader of the ancient Gedi tribe and a monarch in the age of the Three Emperors. It was the last of the Fuxi family and before Shennong family.
The Taoists' worship of Emperor Wa at this time was very similar to the ceremony when Ge Tianshi worshipped the heaven and earth ten thousand years ago. It was obviously a worship of the gods in the ancient times.
Ten thousand years have passed, and I don’t know how these Taoist dance moves and the lyrics of Yunwen’s long songs were preserved in their original flavor. This is tens of thousands of years!
At this point, Ye Yian had a deeper understanding of the Taoist sect. Although these people in front of him were probably born in the Ziji Palace, their identity as a Taoist is beyond doubt.
Which Taoist sect? How many years of secrets are hidden under its thick shadow?
After the meal, the ancient dance of the naked Taoist people's god worship finally came to an end. When more than a dozen Taoists stopped together with shouts and pointed the oxtail in their hands towards the black and white star plate at the eyes of the Yin-Yang Fish, the star plate that had not been abnormal before was suddenly activated, and two pillars of light rushing against the plate.
The dark Shennong Temple was lit up. In an instant, the two astrological plates had transformed into two spiritual eyes with abundant spiritual power that had become an erupting momentum. The green spiritual power flow rushing up the plate tightly wrapped the sculpture of Emperor Wa, and then flowed down along the surface of the statue like a waterfall, scattering to every corner of the Shennong Temple.
Soon, Ye Yian felt the spiritual power released by the astral plate. On the surface, this spiritual power was no different from the original spiritual power of the heaven and earth spurted out from the eyes of Fengge Mountain Top Spirit. However, when Ye Yian tried to guide the body slightly, he realized that the difference between the two was too big.
The spiritual power released in the astral chart is obviously purer, as if it has been tempered, and after being guided into the body, it will be integrated into the condensed pill without any obstacles.
However... Ye Yian soon discovered an abnormality again. When guiding this spiritual power, he could not reach the state of concentration and concentration during his previous practice. Involuntary faces like lightning flashed in his mind always appeared in his heart lake and his mind.
Because there are too many faces and flashing too quickly, it is impossible to see any face clearly. But without exception, these endless flashing faces have uniformly presented two expressions.
A sorrow
A piety
At the same time, as the spiritual power is guided, the already restless heart lake begins to accumulate more and more negative emotions involuntarily. In a very short time, Ye Yi'an's heart lake is filled with the rich eight sufferings of life - birth, old age, illness, death, meeting with enemies and hate, separation from love, unrequited seeking, and the five aggregates are abundant.
Why is this happening?
This thought flashed in the mind that flashed endlessly. At this time, Ye Yian had no time to resolve the doubts, and first gritted his teeth and resolutely terminated the guidance of the spiritual power released by the astrological plate.
After cutting off the connection between this extremely strange and extremely pure spiritual power and the condensed pill in the body, Ye Yian breathed silently.
It's so hard!
When the elixir in his body absorbed this extremely pure spiritual power that could be directly converted into the elixir power without any further tempering, it was like a person's addicted state after taking Wushi Powder. He just had to eat it, and he was so greedy that he couldn't extricate himself. He didn't care about the abnormalities in the heart lake at all.
Really evil!
After Ye Yian calmed down a little, he looked out all the time, but suddenly saw that the statue of Emperor Wa, which was tightly wrapped in spiritual power, had a shocking change. The originally solemn and smiling face had already smiled away at some point, and the solemnity was replaced by endless compassion.
Although these two sculptures in the Shennong Temple are simply unspeakable, because of this compassion full of great compassion, the rough sculpture of the ancestor goddess suddenly showed an invisible sacred glow.
Although the sacred glow is invisible, it is clear and sensible. It is far away in the empty Shennong Temple, and even every stone and dust are bathed in it.
In the sacred glow, I don’t know when the endless sad faces and negative emotions in Ye Yian’s mind have all disappeared, and his body is like returning to his mother’s body, with endless warmth and peace and joy.
Naturally, an impulse quietly emerged from Ye Yi'an's heart lake, wanting to worship in front of the statue of Wa and bathe in this great compassion forever.
With great perseverance, the impulse was stopped. In the temple, the Taoists who put on their magic uniforms had already bowed to the statue of Emperor Wa. Several of the Taoists had tears in their eyes, and they were obviously extremely excited.
The black and white star plate on the yin and yang fish eyes continued to spray the spiritual power that made it difficult to extricate one-plus guidance. When the compassion and sacred glow on the face of Emperor Wa were so strong that it was impossible to add up, the light suddenly became a masterpiece in the already dark Shennong Temple after the door was closed.
The tall sculpture of Emperor Wa suddenly emitted a great light. The invisible sacred glow, like the sun rising sun, appeared and sprinkled to every corner of the hall. However, the light revealed by this sacred glow is more magical than the sunlight - it can penetrate all darkness and obstacles, and even Ye Yian, who was hiding behind the Shennong statue, was covered with glow.
With the masterpiece of light, the sacred glow appeared, and the thick volume of books in the hand of Emperor Wa suddenly broke out from the statue as a whole, and as if it were pulled, the void flew to the center of the dome of the temple.
Seeing such a miracle, Ye Yian's heart was surging as if a river had collapsed from the dam, and even his body moved a lot. Fortunately, all the Taoists were bowing and worshiping at this time, and no one noticed him.
At the dome of Shennong Temple, thick books, which clearly appeared in the shape of stone sculptures, slowly unfolded in the vast light. When they were fully displayed, the sacred glow that appeared in the temple suddenly turned into brilliant golden light. Suddenly, the entire cave was cast like gold, which was dazzling.
In the golden light, a soft voice like a loving mother's muttering sounded for no reason, and a gentle voice with great compassion was chanting slowly and softly like a flowing spring in the mountain stream, which was absolutely similar to Yunwen.
With this chanting of the sound of great peace and joy, on the books that had been hanged in the dome, symbols that were equally unique to cloud text floated up into the sky, and after manifesting for a moment, they returned to nothingness.
At this time, no one in the Shennong Temple could pay attention to any other things in the world, including the elapse of time. I don’t know how long it took, but the chanting stopped, and all the symbols of the essays on the book had been revealed.
Ye Yian didn't understand a single sentence of the chanting, and naturally he could not interpret the meaning at this time. He did not recognize any of the symbols that were revealed. But what was very strange was that the entire content of the sound and symbols were deeply preserved in his mind, and the depth of memory was as clear as a knife and axe.
At this time, the golden light that appeared in the Shennong Temple was dimming breathlessly. At the same time, the book that was retracted from the dome floated downward. Looking at its direction, it was clearly about to fall into the hands of the Shennong statue.
At this moment, two Taoist priests with tears on their faces suddenly soared into the sky from the star plate and cut off the book full of infinite magic in the sky.
Without the imaginary restrictions, the Taoists easily took the book. Seeing this, Ye Yian's heart was about to jump out, letting his hands turn white so that there was no trace of blood before he could control the fiery thoughts of jumping out and snatching the book.
After the two Taoists landed, they were immediately surrounded by other Taoists. The dozen Taoists, who were so congested and excited that they could not escape the protection of the book.
The last light revealed by the sacred glow of the sculpture of Emperor Wa was at this moment without breath. In the moment before the silence, Ye Yian looked up and saw that the great compassion on Emperor Wa's face seemed to be full of helplessness, like the light of the dark night, penetrated deep into his heart.
Then, the Shennong Temple returned to darkness and returned to the scene before it was opened ten thousand years later.
Under the cover of darkness, Ye Yian, who was in a complicated and unspeakable mood, quietly withdrew from the Shennong Temple.
Back in the secret passage, he turned around and looked at the thread of the secret passage connecting the temple. He didn't know why he had this thought in his heart, Ye Yian took out the Tianjian Ghost Sword from the universe in his sleeve.
There has been a restriction range where the temple cannot use pill power. When Ye Yian controls the Sky-Slaying Ghost Sword, he suddenly realizes that the dark blue and mysterious black color shown by the light of the guard device is much clearer than before.
This discovery surprised him inexplicably. He temporarily let go of what he wanted to do and first drive the intra-sky eye vision technique to investigate.
The results of the investigation made his uneasy surprise come true. From the discovery of the Sky-Slaying Ghost Sword to the time when he was just a few hours later, his cultivation level actually made a strange and major breakthrough.
Originally, he had just stepped into the threshold of the spiritual realm of the Spiritual Pill Stage, but now he suddenly jumped to the spiritual realm, and stepped from the first level of the Spiritual Pill Stage to the second level.
The reason why the third level of the spiritual elixir stage is used to describe the third level of the spiritual elixir stage is because the breakthrough of this level is too difficult. Each breakthrough requires a long time for the practitioner. There are even many practitioners with slightly less talent or poor opportunities that will be difficult for them to break through in their lives. Ye Yian inexplicably jumped to the realm of heaven outside the sky, which is actually a major breakthrough on the road of cultivation.
After the surprise, I will think about this incredible breakthrough process in detail. The reason Ye Yian can think of is the sacred glow displayed on the sculpture of Emperor Wa.
In the final analysis, the cultivation of the Spiritual Pills is mainly to temper the alchemy acupoints in the body. According to his personal feelings, the sacred glow manifested in the temple has a very gentle but significant effect on the human body.
The sacred glow manifested by the sculpture of Emperor Wa invisibly tempered the condensed pill, which led to a great breakthrough in his cultivation realm that crossed the first level of heaven?
Ye Yian could not confirm this speculation, but after thinking about it, he could not find any other possibility. In the end, he could only bury this doubt deeply in his heart with surprise.
After suppressing his surprise, Ye Yian drove the Tianzhang Ghost Sword to slash at the stone wall on the side of the secret passage. The sword body was inserted into the stone effortlessly and removed a long, thick stone slab.
Ye Yian took back the Sky-Splitting Ghost Sword. Under the Heavenly Eye Skill, he saw that there was no damage on the blade's body, and the surprise was even greater.
The Sky-Slaying Ghost Sword is worthy of its reputation, and it is indeed a famous weapon!
When he used a stone slab to block the gap between the secret passage and the temple, Ye Yian felt a deep reluctance and attachment.
After a long time, he gently closed the stone slab.
I just wish that Emperor Wa would return to peace and tranquility, and never have to witness all the ugly disputes in the world again!
Chapter completed!