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Chapter 527 - 134: Three Divine Woods, Three Spirit Roots (2/3)

Chapter 527: Chapter 134: Three Divine Woods, Three Spirit Roots (2/3)

——True Dragon is not merely a dragon, but the Ancestor of All Spirits!

——True Person is not merely a person, but the Leader of All Spirits!

Before, An Jing had vaguely guessed that the Ancestral Dragon was not the ’dragon beast’ with flesh and blood as seen nowadays but a divine sacred entity between heaven and earth, shaped like a dragon snake. It could very well be a tree...

Now, under the enlightenment of the Huai Xu Heavenly Dao, he could confirm that the Ancestral Dragon was indeed an ancient Divine Wood that once stood between heaven and earth, shifting according to the movement of the Spirit Vein of heaven and earth!

Its branches pierced into the clouds, following the Spirit Mechanism of the Heavenly Sea, its roots plunged into the earth, regulating the Turbid Evil of the Earth Vein—it is the Heaven and Earth Spirit Root, the Central Hub of the Heavenly Dao!

Its fruit is the original ’Demon Pill.’ Even a minor beast upon ingestion could instantly become a Demon Spirit and even a True Spirit. This process was summarized and learned by later generations of the Dragon Clan, transformed into the orthodox path of the True Spirit. The Divine Abnormality that simulates the Ancestral Dragon absorbing the Spirit Mechanism of heaven and earth is the ’True Dragon Spine’!

But dragons are not True Dragons. The current Dragon Clan might only be the strongest category among the True Spirits created by the Ancestral Dragon in the past; they are the most loyal followers and kin of the Ancestral Dragon, not the real bloodline descendants of the Ancestral Dragon, so their True Dragon Spine is modified.

On the contrary, humans have similarities with the Ancestral Dragon in terms of their spines!

And just as humans must undergo Spirit Awakening in cultivation, demon beasts also need to condense a Demon Core. For Heaven and Earth Spirit Roots to grow, there is also an initial foundation, an origin.

That origin is the primordial chaos of the Huai Xu Realm at the beginning, the original nature naturally nurtured, the [Heaven and Earth Born] [Natural Demon Pill].

That is the seed of the Ancestral Dragon, the egg that nurtured the Ancestral Dragon, the initial source of the Ancestral Dragon as a Heaven and Earth Spirit Root!

For future spiritual experts, the technique of the ’Devil Pill True Spirit’ is that seed! And if one does not practice the path of Demon Spirits, then the Spiritual Roots can be used directly as a substitute for cultivation! This is the fundamental difference between the path of Demon Spirits and the Immortal Path!

However, the Ancestral Dragon fell.

The [Heaven and Earth Spirit Root] of the Huai Xu Heavenly Dao has been destroyed... The current Huai Xu Heavenly Dao, just like Huai Xu Martial Artists, is unable to control the nature’s spiritual energy with the Spirit Root, to manipulate the Circulation Spirit Evil, hence the creation of ’Fate Pattern Martial Arts’...

Huai Xu Heavenly Dao and all beings of Huai Xu are actually two sides of the same coin! Or to put it another way, the shortcomings of the beings are the shortcomings of the Heavenly Dao. If the beings can remedy this deficiency, then the Heavenly Dao can also be remedied!

Demon Spirits, Immortal Path, Martial Arts... all are imitations of nature, but change with the changing environment of the Heavenly Dao.

"But human beings are different!"

"The Spirit Roots of the Huai Xu heaven and earth have been destroyed, but human Spirit Roots have not, they have simply become unusable!"

"If humans cultivate the Small World within themselves, grow the Spirit Roots within, or rather, grow the ’Fate Pattern,’ grow this ’Heavenly Gifted Root Seed,’ then when Martial Artists reach the end of their cultivation and their bodies perish, the Spiritual Roots and Lands they nurture will also return to heaven, accumulating to the rebirth of ’Spiritual Roots’ for heaven and earth!"

"The Huai Xu Heavenly Dao is healing itself! Until the second [Ex Nihilo], the second True Dragon emerges, the Huai Xu Heavenly Dao, will be completely restored!"

But that is far too distant, at least not a recent event.

Having comprehended the [Heaven and Earth Root], An Jing now feels incredibly refreshed throughout his body.

Under the blessing of the Heavenly Mandate, his interior radiates with light, traversing his spine, flesh and blood, five viscera and six bowels, even to all four limbs and bones— even the power of the Taibai Luminous Godly Ban within him is drawn out, in return resonating and strengthening An Jing’s own body. Inside him, outlines of ’gold, earth, wood’ three types of Spirit Root are faintly delineated.

The human body, a small world, holds a Spirit Root that is also the Heaven and Earth Spirit Root!

"As for Jianmu, its leaves are green, its stem purple, its flowers black and its fruit yellow, reaching a hundred ren in height without branches. Above it bears nine Jiu, below it grows nine Gou, with emperors ascending and descending, it is the Heavenly Ladder."

In a barely discernible moment, as the ’Golden Spiritual Root’ shimmered, An Jing’s spine seemed to transform into a giant tree of gold.

His spine is the Heavenly Ladder, his ribs are the nine Jiu and nine Gou, with innumerable nerves and blood vessels extending from them, blue and purple intertwined, like branches and leaves, spreading into his flesh and blood, connecting with the Pupil Fire, condensing An Jing’s Circulation Spirit Evil throughout his body!

"Tanggu Fusang, dwelling in water, is where the ten suns bathe. Of the nine suns residing below, one sun resides above."

Subsequently, the Earth Spirit Root congregated into a great valley, which is the flesh. In this valley, waters rush as blood, flowing through limbs and organs, converging at the head.

For a time, within An Jing’s body, places corresponding to acupoints of limbs and organs condensed into dazzling and brilliant rings of light, the congregates of all the Spirit Qi within his body now.

The nine days below are limbs and organs; the single day above, suspended in ’Heaven’!

The Heaven is where the Primordial Spirit dwells, the realm of Divine Sense, also the region of the Six Yang Leader!

"The Undying Sweet Wood, whose fruit gives longevity when eaten, also has a Red Spring, drinking from which one does not age."

Finally, the Wooden Spiritual Root pierces through the bowels, and as An Jing has cultivated the Taibai Luminous Godly Ban, he naturally knows that the internal organs are the real essence of a person’s longevity. If one can cultivate the Seven Spirits Human Soul, being untainted, one can subsist on wind and dew, breathe in the Spiritual Fiend, divine and everlasting in life!

At this very moment, An Jing’s body contains three-colored vessels; one transforming into Jianmu, passing through the spine and ribs, interconnecting countless nerves; another transforming into Fusang, condensing Spirit Qi into the sun, touring ’Heaven and Earth’ to perform the Complete Circuit; one transforming into the Undying Tree, nourishing the internal organs, ingesting Qi for longevity!

The spinal bones, limbs and organs, as well as the visceral organs!

The Divine Abnormality - Heaven and Earth Root, is so comprehensive; although it might be slightly inferior in individual effects compared to other Divine Abnormalities that specifically condense the spine, its effect completely covers all areas An Jing needs!

Jianmu forms the Heavenly Ladder, winding like the Dragon Snake; Fusang condenses Essence Qi, Divine Sense shining like the Golden Crow; the Sweet Wood bears longevity fruits, nurturing viscera to refine Yin and Yang.

During the Enlightenment process, An Jing used the Xuanyuan Pure Light he acquired from slaying the Martial Meridian Heavenly Demon, and in one breath, fully cultivated the ’Heaven and Earth Root.’

—His tendons and bones are like trees receiving the Golden Crow, his skin and membranes tightly woven into a flaming net; the Great Tendons coil like the Dragon Snake, the visceral organs a furnace refining Yin and Yang!

Even the [Heaven’s Virtue] has been mostly cultivated in this process, the branches and roots of the three Divine Woods all transforming into [Heaven’s Virtue].

And indistinctly, this [Heaven and Earth Root], aims to integrate all five of An Jing’s Divine Abnormalities into one entity, where Soul and Spirit represent Heaven, the eyes represent the sun and moon, the heart is the Central mechanism, the Spirit Root is the Heavenly Pillar, and Creation is Heaven’s Virtue!

"Just one more step, and it will be completely cultivated, but that is just the accumulation of Spirit Qi... whereas my body has already stepped into the realm of the Martial Meridian!"

At this point, An Jing’s body, condensed into one, he raises his hand, the Great Sun within his body shines, making his form appear as though soaked in light.

Now, it is not just his body comparable to the Martial Meridian; An Jing’s body is of the Martial Meridian realm!

Thus, Daze burns yet it cannot heat, the Milky Way freezes yet it cannot cool, lightning breaks mountains, winds stir seas yet they cannot perturb; his form is solidified, the Eight Evil Plagues cannot harm, he may live in this world for three hundred and sixty years!