Divine Tang Era

Chapter 106 The Mysterious Deer Transforms into a Divine Being

The Book says: "The kidney is called Xuanming, and its name is Huangying. It is shaped like a black deer with two heads, and it is responsible for storing will."

It grows on the navel, attached to the waist and spine, weighs one pound and one ounce, and resembles two round pebbles, its color like white silk reflecting purple.

It governs the distribution of water and qi, nourishing the whole body like the roots of a tree. The left side is the kidney, corresponding to the five internal organs; the right side is the gate of life, where men store essence and women connect to the uterus. It is the organ of life force and the dwelling place of death force. Guarding it ensures survival, while using it depletes it.

It is the mother of the liver, the child of the lungs, and the ear is its organ.

Heaven gives birth to me, and the flowing qi transforms into essence; the interaction of essence and qi is called spirit. The spirit is stored in the kidneys, which govern emotions and intellect. The left corresponds to Ren (壬), the right to Gui (癸), in Chen (辰) it corresponds to Zi (子) and Hai (亥), in qi it is blowing, in fluid it is spitting, and in form it is bones.

Xu Dan sat cross-legged on the bed and began to refine his kidneys, with relevant words and phrases from the book surfacing in his mind.

The five elements generate and restrain each other: wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water, and water generates wood; wood restrains earth, earth restrains water, water restrains fire, fire restrains metal, and metal restrains wood.

The five internal organs are associated with the five elements: heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, and fire, wood, earth, metal, and water.

Xu Dan has now refined his heart, liver, spleen, and lungs. The five elements interact, and with each organ refined, another is correspondingly activated. Therefore, his kidneys have also been partially refined. Xu Dan surged his qi and blood, impacting his kidneys with unstoppable force, reaching the left kidney gate. The kidney gate was tightly locked, like an impenetrable fortress.

Xu Dan resorted to his old trick, reciting the six-syllable mantra.

"Om... Mani... Padme... Hum..."

Each word of the mantra, each sound wave, crashed against the impregnable walls like boundless tidal waves, causing them to tremble. Xu Dan quickly increased his strength, and after a short while, the walls collapsed with a deafening roar.

A black deer with a single head leaped out and galloped over the city.

After conquering the left kidney, Xu Dan pressed on, mobilizing his qi and blood to attack the right kidney.

Before long, they arrived at the foot of the Kidney Pass, where a magnificent city blocked their way.

Xu Dan directed his qi and blood to collide with the giant city, resulting in a deafening boom, but the giant city didn't budge. He immediately chanted an incantation, sending waves of sound propelling his qi and blood to strike the giant city. The giant city swayed, seemingly about to collapse, yet stubbornly held firm.

Xu Dan frowned; this kidney was far too sturdy.

"Boom... Boom..."

Although there were no sonic waves, the surging blood and qi still flowed through the veins, producing sounds like waves crashing on the shore.

Xu Dan seemed lost in thought. In his past life, he had heard Mongolian singers sing throat singing and was very interested in it, so he specifically searched for it and found that it was actually the lion's roar of Tibetan Buddhism. The two are pronounced in the same way, but Tibetan Buddhism, by its very nature, has a religious character and is more awe-inspiring.

I learned a few tricks because I was interested at the time, and they're perfect for me to use now.

The advanced version of the Six-Syllable Mantra, the Lion's Roar Six-Syllable Great Bright Mantra.

"Om... Mani... Padme... Hum..."

In an instant, each word of the mantra, like a lion's roar, slowly emerged from his mouth. Each roar was like a raging sea of ​​ink, one wave pushing another, one wave overlapping another, layer upon layer, stretching endlessly. The magnificent city, which had only been swaying moments before, began to shake violently under the impact of the Lion's Roar Six-Syllable Mantra. As the roars intensified, the city began to twist irregularly, then shattered with a deafening crash.

A single-headed black deer, identical to the previous one, leaped out of the city, soaring through the air, merging and merging with the left kidney black deer to transform into a two-headed black deer.

The deer cried out, spitting out colorful ribbons, which they trod upon, rushing towards the center of their internal organs.

The remaining organs—heart, liver, spleen, and lungs—transformed into divine forms, converging above the center of the five internal organs. In an instant, the five forms, five spirits, and five energies merged, transforming into a wisp of divine energy that surged into Xu Dan's mind.

In an instant, Xu Dan felt his mind clear and his spirits bright. The words he had just read appeared in his mind with unparalleled clarity, word by word. His memory was exceptionally good; he didn't even need to memorize them, they were already imprinted in his brain.

Could this be the god within the Nine Cauldrons Transformation into Godhood? Xu Dan quickly focused his mind on comprehending and understanding.

After a night, he opened his eyes and looked radiant, not at all like someone who hadn't slept all night.

That night, Xu Dan refined a total of five strands of divine energy. Although it was only five strands, he could feel a wondrous change occurring in the Yang spirit within his ancestral aperture at the center of his brow. Most importantly, the Nine Cauldrons Transformation Divine Skill could actually be used in conjunction with the Tranquil Mind and Hibernating Spirit Technique. The Nine Cauldrons Transformation Divine Skill uses the physical body's blood and qi to transform the power of the Yang spirit, which inevitably carries impure blood and qi, while the Tranquil Mind and Hibernating Spirit Technique can temper and purify it, making the Yang spirit flawless.

Wait, something's not right!

Xu Dan suddenly sensed something was wrong and quickly took out the Nine Cauldrons Divine Transformation Technique to examine it.

"The Nine Cauldrons represent Qi and Blood; Qi and Blood represent the Dao."

The Dao is the primordial essence, the pivot of heaven and earth. Refined into truth, it is established as a great furnace and cauldron. Within it nourishes lead and mercury, outwardly manifesting as the trigrams Li and Kan, gathering and circulating Yin and Yang, harmonizing the dragon and tiger, to return to the original Yang. Within Yang, the nine numbers are generated. Sensing the Qi of Yin and Yang, it is divided into nine cauldrons. When the nine cauldrons are completed, the elixir is formed.

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At the transition between Chen and Si (辰巳), the essence of the liver is gathered, and its name is Qingjin Dan (青金丹); at the transition between Wei and Shen (未申), the essence of the heart is gathered, and its name is Hongye Dan (红液丹); at the transition between Zi and Wu (子午), the essence of the spleen is gathered, and its name is Huangya Dan (黄芽丹); at the transition between Xu and Hai (戌亥), the essence of the lungs is gathered, and its name is Xihua Dan (西华丹); at the transition between Chou and Yin (丑寅), the essence of the kidneys is gathered, and its name is Taiwei Dan (太微丹).

One who possesses this elixir can live to be a hundred years old.

The Five Elixir Refining Method is a long-term practice. It involves extracting true qi to refine qi, thus creating qi within qi, from which spirit arises; where spirit resides, form resides...

Upon reading the contents of the book, Xu Dan suddenly felt a headache coming on.

According to the book, one must first refine the Qi of the five internal organs into pills, then fuse the five pills to extract their essence and refine them before one can generate a spirit. But now, he has achieved this in one step, directly generating a spirit, which is completely inconsistent with the book's description.

But... but the ones I made myself don't seem to be wrong, do they?

Xu Dan sensed the tiny Yang spirit inside his ancestral aperture between his eyebrows; it seemed that apart from being slightly larger, there was nothing wrong with it.

Since nothing's wrong, let's ignore it. The sage said, "It is better to have no books than to believe everything in them," and there's certainly a reason for that.

"Brother, wake up!"

Hearing Xiao Que'er's voice outside, Xu Dan quickly got out of bed to wash up and began their daily training. Since practicing breathing exercises and martial arts, the little one had grown stronger and bigger every day. Yun Niang was delighted, and with Xu Dan's encouragement, she also began practicing martial arts with the two of them.

After practicing martial arts, Yun Niang's delicate body became strong and powerful, and she radiated brilliance from the inside out.

Seeing the good results, Yun Niang was delighted and liked to practice at home whenever she had free time, even more diligently than Xu Dan.

Seeing that she liked it, Xu Dan wanted to take her to a martial arts school to practice, but Yun Niang refused, saying she only wanted to practice at home. Xu Dan didn't know what she was thinking, but seeing her firm attitude, he didn't force her, only thinking that one day he would find a martial arts manual suitable for women for her.

After lunch, I took Xiao Que'er to school.

He didn't rush back, but strolled around the streets instead.

As July approaches, people return to the far north tundra plateau, filling the city with more and more people, and the atmosphere grows increasingly tense. It's not that these people are causing trouble everywhere, but rather that July is the Ghost Festival, and Jingning City is located on the edge of an ancient battlefield. At that time, the yin energy is at its peak, forming ghostly realms in the wilderness.

Each ghost realm has a lord, and ambitious individuals will gather a group of ghosts to attack the city and obtain blood and food.

This is true every year, without exception.

Jingning is under the jurisdiction of Tingzhou in Beiting Circuit. Every year, Beiting and Tingzhou Prefectures send people to provide support, and this year is no exception.

To be honest, they had no choice but to provide support. Despite its small size, Jingning produces many unique medicinal herbs, is an important grain production base for Beiting, and a significant source of tax revenue.

You tell me, how could we not provide support?

With support from two locations, plus Jingning City's own defensive capabilities, there is no fear of the city falling.

However, it's inevitable that ghosts will enter. The reason everyone is tense now is mainly to deal with those ghosts entering the city. At that time, it won't be just a few small ghosts like now, but old ghosts who have cultivated for many years, and many people will die.