Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 1145 - 809 Enlightenment of the Law, past, present, and future

Chapter 1145: 809 Enlightenment of the Law, past, present, and future

The three great Chaos Treasures served as vehicles for reincarnation, a manifestation of the Way, evolving the three kinds of power into the form of the three great treasures. Even if Jiang Chen could not fuse them into one in the future, he could still substantially enhance his combat prowess.

After all, the three great Chaos Treasures themselves represented the highest echelons of beginning and end, and of creation and transformation. There was nothing higher than them. Directly condensing the supreme form of the Way, it was easy to imagine the enhancement it could bring to combat power, at the very least being invincible within the same realm.

If, in the future, Jiang Chen could truly achieve the fusion of these three Chaos Treasure-derived Dao Rhymes as he envisioned, then he could transform into the master of reincarnation, and would be entitled to preside over it.

"The three treasures share the same origin, so it might be possible to use the Slay Three Corpses method to fuse them,"

The method Jiang Chen thought of to fuse the three treasures was the Slay Three Corpses method passed down by Hongjun Daizu. The so-called Slay Three Corpses entailed severing one’s own good, evil, and obsession, each borne by three Innate Spiritual Treasures, and then forming three incarnations.

These three incarnations were the Three Corpses and were the foundation for a cultivator to achieve the Way. If one day he could reclaim the Three Corpses and merge them back into one, that would be the moment of achieving the realm of a Daluo Jinxian of the Primordial.

However, as simple as this method sounded, it was extremely difficult in practice. Since the Daoist Ancestors passed down the Slay Three Corpses method for achieving the Way, in the entire Chaos World, only Donghuang Taiyi succeeded in this feat. The rest, even the Saints, failed to accomplish the Way through it.

From this, one could see the difficulty of achieving the Way through the method of Slaying Three Corpses.

Jiang Chen pursued the path of proving the Tao with strength, naturally not needing to slay corpses. However, this did not mean that the method of Slaying Three Corpses was useless to him; it could still serve as a reference.

For instance, Jiang Chen’s inspiration to fuse the three great Chaos Treasures came from the methodology of Slaying Three Corpses.

To slay the Three Corpses, one needed to use three Innate Spiritual Treasures. These three spiritual treasures had their own requirements, they did not have to be the strongest, but ideally, they should originate from the same source. Only in this way, when fusing the Three Corpses in the future, would it be much easier.

Fusing the Three Corpses also meant fusing the three Innate Spiritual Treasures that bore them. If the attributes of the three treasures conflicted with each other, the difficulty of fusion would naturally be high.

But if they shared the same origin, then the fusion would be effortless, happening as naturally as water flowing into a channel. The three great Chaos Treasures were precisely of the same origin, all deriving from reincarnation.

This characteristic perfectly overlapped with the method of Slaying Three Corpses, so Jiang Chen could certainly take this point into consideration to develop his own method of fusion.

Of course, adjustments had to be made; he could not merely imitate the teachings. Every method was best suited to its creator. Others could learn it, but they must integrate it with their own conditions to refine the method to its utmost perfection.

"Those who learn from me live, those who imitate me die." After the Taoist Ancestors passed down the method of Slaying Three Corpses, the three thousand guests of Zixiao Palace did not all directly copy the method but adjusted it according to their own situations.

Thus, the three thousand guests from Zixiao Palace practiced three thousand different methods of Slaying Three Corpses. Each person added their own understanding to the foundation provided by the Taoist Ancestors, making the method more suitable for themselves.

The same classic text, with different thoughts from person to person, naturally led to different understandings.

Upper Qing Saints and Xihuang did just that. Jiang Chen, who had received their inheritance, knew clearly that their methods of Slaying Three Corpses were different, each with their own understanding, stepping out from the path of Hongjun Daizu.

If the orthodox inheritors of the Mystic Sect could do this, let alone Jiang Chen who pursued the path of achieving the Tao with strength. While others made minor changes, he needed to make major ones, branching out from the foundation laid by the Dao Ancestor to innovate and create a new method.

"The Dao Ancestor severed the Three Corpses of good and evil to seek transcendence of mind and thus prevail above the River of Time and Space, achieving the realm of Daluo Jinxian of the Primordial Chaos."

"This indeed is a majestic path, but it does not suit me. I walk the path of achieving the Tao with strength, needing immense force to transcend Heaven and Earth. A mere perfection of realm is not enough to allow me to escape from the constraints of Heaven and Earth."

"Therefore, if I wish to sever the Three Corpses, I cannot do as the Dao Ancestor did by severing the three thoughts of good and evil. That’s a state of perfect mindset and does not enhance my strength."

"The River of Time and Space represents past, future, and present. Thus, I will sever my past, present, and future selves, cutting out the ’me’ from the past, the ’me’ of now, and the ’me’ of the future."

"In this way, there will be no trace of me in the River of Time and Space, naturally achieving transcendence and supremacy over it."

"Moreover, my past, present, and future selves are all very strong. The past ’me’ is the ’me’ of a moment ago, always slightly weaker than my current self. The present ’me’ is me at this very moment, as strong as I am now. The future ’me’ is the ’me’ of the next moment, always slightly stronger than myself."

"Past, present, and future, when the strength of these three ’me’s is combined, it is equivalent to having three of me right now. Triple the power, and were I to integrate them within my body, it would be enough to make my power perfect, breaking all restraints, and forcibly achieving transcendence from Heaven and Earth."

At this moment, Jiang Chen attained enlightenment once again. Based on the Dao Ancestor’s method of Slaying Three Corpses, he innovated and combined his own circumstances to create a new method of achieving the Tao, a method of achieving the Tao with strength.

He would sever the Three Corpses of past, present, and future, fuse them together, and then forcibly achieve the Tao with power exceeding his own by three times, transcending Heaven and Earth.