Chapter 446 Mana
The breakthrough in the Shenhai period was even more difficult than Lu Qing imagined.
He has been practicing penance for fifteen years, and it is still real time. Counting the effects of practice in the secret realm beyond the starry sky and the time saved in the Temple of Gathering Spirits, it would take forty or fifty years.
After such a long time, he has indeed already reached the peak of Faxiang. But even with his powerful talent and skills, he is still a little short of the door of the final Shenhai stage.
It's not easy to squeeze in.
However, although the breakthrough has not been completed yet, in the process of trying to break through the deep sea level, Lu Qing has gradually noticed and felt the power of the Shenhai level.
The core strength of the Shenhai level lies in the 'world'.
At the level of dharma, a monk transforms his core strength, such as his own strength and soul, into an indomitable dharma. And in the Shenhai stage, this dharma will undergo further changes, creating a world with the appearance of a creator god.
Of course, the reason why this so-called 'world' is put in quotation marks is because it does not exist in reality in essence, but exists in the monk's body, which is a combination of spirit and matter.
Construct a small world in the body, no matter how crude this small world is, it can at least be regarded as a 'world'.
And this is the power of the so-called 'Shenhai'.
The power of the dharma form comes from the power of absolute condensation, and the external image revealed is the body of the dharma form; the power of the divine sea period comes from the primitive world, and this world is constructed by the monks themselves.
As for Lu Qing, now he is stuck in his own body, building his own world.
This difficulty is not low.
During this time of retreat and painstaking practice, he has polished his cultivation base at the level of dharma to the peak of perfection, and it didn't take him much time, just like the first third. For the rest of the time, he spent all his time trying.
The progress is not at all, but it is a lot of work.
The built world always collapses quickly after it has a prototype and a framework.
The whole world is like a house without pillars. When Lu Qing exerted all his strength and tried his best to support it, the 'house' could still be maintained and would not collapse, but as soon as he let go, it would collapse immediately.
It doesn't make any sense.
The reason why the monks in the Shenhai period are powerful lies in the inner world they have constructed, which can become the inner driving force that drives the monks' power, the core and source of power, rather than any means. Now, Lu Qing still needs to maintain the inner world that he has constructed, and even when maintaining it, it almost involves all his energy, and there is no way to use any other means to fight or do other things.
In this case, it certainly cannot be said that the breakthrough was successful.
The only fortunate thing is that even if this so-called inner world collapses, it will not affect the monk's own safety. Otherwise, Jiu Guang Lu Qing has experienced so many failures, even if he is extremely talented, it is enough to declare that his life is dying.
However, even so, Lu Qing still had a headache.
This breakthrough is too difficult.
However, no matter what, he can now be regarded as having some clues. At least, he has been able to successfully construct a world. Even if there is no way for this world to sustain itself for the time being, at least he has seen the light of day.
In fact, even if it is only this level of achievement, it is only in the past few years that Lu Qing has explored it. Before that, he was like a headless chicken.
Although the exercises of the Taishangjing contain the method of how to break through the level of Shenhai, but before this method is mastered, although I can understand it, but I have learned it from myself and mastered it proficiently.
It's two different things again.
Let go of some chaotic thoughts, since the dawn has appeared, Lu Qing has to continue this breath no matter what!
Directly build a world, support it with your own strength, until it is perfected to be able to operate on its own, this is the conventional method recorded in the Supreme Sutra to break through the Shenhai period.
But now, it looks like it won't work.
Lu Qing also tried to analyze why it didn't work.
In his view, this should be due to the insufficient recovery of the strength of the practice world. The ceiling where the power is on the line still exists. Under this ceiling, with Lu Qing's talent and skills, it can only be said that he can vaguely see the cracks in the door of the Shenhai period. In this case, it is not impossible to support an inner world cycle through conventional means.
But in the Supreme Sutra, there is also a relatively different breakthrough method recorded.
Since it is not feasible to construct an inner world directly, let's start from scratch.
The way to realize this method is to compress one's own power, including the Dharma image, and press it as hard as possible, until it is compressed into a singularity, and then it will burst out in a comprehensive way.
If it is done, then a primitive inner world will be constructed.
The inner world that emerges in this way is self-developed, not constructed by human beings. It will be more perfect naturally, and it will not encounter the situation of pillars that need to be supported, and it can be self-circulating.
However, this breakthrough method also has its natural disadvantages:
Danger.
In the past few years, Lu Qing tried many times to build the inner world but failed, but he hardly paid a big price. This means that it should be relatively safe to use conventional means to break through the Shenhai period. Even if it fails, the small inner world that has been built has just collapsed, and it will be fine to rebuild it again.
However, to construct the inner world by means of singularity explosion, it will really not play well, and blow yourself up to death.
This is also one of the main reasons why Lu Qing didn't directly try to use this method after encountering the failure of Cuodi.
However, now it seems that it is not necessary.
Of course, another very important reason for making such a judgment is that Lu Qing also carefully evaluated his physical condition, and after failing, whether he could survive the singularity explosion.
If he really would blow himself up to death, he would rather not break through, and Lu Qing would not take such a risk.
unnecessary. If it doesn't work, he uses the resurrection exchange item, goes out to find a few world locks, finds a way to recover the source of the world's power, and expands the upper limit and ceiling of the world's power. After all, it will be able to break through the Shenhai level for him It helps a lot. It is estimated that after opening one or two world lock sources, he can use normal methods to build an inner world that can circulate by itself.
What's more, at the moment, he is not facing any huge predicament that he has to make a breakthrough, or die if he doesn't make a breakthrough to increase his strength.
That being the case, if the risk of the breakthrough method of singularity explosion is huge, even fatal, then Lu Qing wouldn't be so stupid that he had to try it.
But... Isn't this a self-inspection, the risk is completely controllable?
For ordinary monks, the breakthrough method of the singularity explosion may be the same as the previous large-scale breakthrough. Failure will result in death, at least serious injury, or even damage to the root. But for Lu Qing, on the one hand, the Taishangjing's skills are of high level and the effect is very good. Even if the creation of the world fails in the end, there is a good protection mechanism, which can greatly reduce the price Lu Qing pays.
Another point is that Lu Qing's ability to bear it is extremely strong because of the powerful 'Primary Eucharist', which combines many top-level talents.
Judging from this, even if the singularity explosion failed, it would not kill him, at best he would suffer some injuries.
And getting hurt... Lu Qing is not afraid. Relying on talent and skills, even if it is a serious injury, he can recover relatively easily, it just takes some time.
After evaluating in this way, Lu Qing is ready to try it out.
Of course, not on Yuyan Mountain.
Yuyan Mountain was his old lair, so he definitely couldn't take risks with it.
The singularity explosion is essentially to condense one's own power into a point to a great extent, and then explode in an all-round way. If it succeeds, it's okay to say that the power that erupts will be controlled within the body and become a circulating inner world.
But if it fails...
The out-of-control power, erupting, is definitely the destructive power of Shenhai level. If this force erupts on Yuyan Mountain, let alone whether or how much people within the spiritual veins can survive, the entire mountain may be blown away.
The risk that Lu Qing himself can bear does not mean that the Lu family can bear it.
Moreover, because of the power of the system, the high-quality spiritual energy provided free of charge is almost inexhaustible. When Lu Qing breaks through, he does not need to worry about the source of power in the external environment. You have to find a place with strong spiritual energy to make a breakthrough.
Then, this choice is easy to make: go to the depths of the East China Sea and find a place, wouldn't it be good?
When he broke through the Dharma level before, the place he chose was quite good.
With a thought, he set off directly.
...
A year later, Lu Qing, who was at the bottom of the sea, had no breath at all.
When all his powers, from the essence and blood of his body, the true energy in his body, the power of his soul, and even his body that should be extremely huge, were all compressed as much as possible, and became a tiny, non-existent thing at the macroscopic level. After pointing', his physical appearance will naturally be as if he is dead, without any vitality.
But right now, Lu Qing couldn't pay attention to his appearance at all. Squeezing all the power into a singularity is easy to say, but it is simply too difficult to sit up.
It was okay to say at the beginning, the further to the back, the smaller this point is squeezed, and the greater the resistance he encountered.
Even with his powerful and efficient control of power, in the later stage, it is quite unsustainable.
The last thing he can do is to force his own power into the singularity bit by bit, and he has to control the point where the very powerful power has been compressed and blocked, so as not to burst out in advance.
How is this a hard work?
During the whole process, Lu Qing was quite frightened, especially in the recent period, he was afraid that if he didn't control himself well, he couldn't suppress it, and if his strength burst out in advance, it would be a failure.
Fortunately, no matter how frightened he was, he finally did it.
Then, the rest... depends on fate.
On this point, Lu Qing has never been too worried.
Destiny is... not towards me, who else can it be towards?
Holding his will, Lu Qing let go of all restrictions, then immediately turned around and began to manipulate his power.
Exploding the singularity is not letting it explode. If it is completely out of control, then such a huge force will instantly leave his body and start to expand outward, eventually causing a violent explosion like a nuclear bomb descending into the world.
That way, it's just that the power is venting in disorder, and it has nothing to do with the formation of an inner world with the ability of self-circulation.
Explosions are not an end, but a means. In essence, it wants to simulate the birth of the world through the process of extreme compression of this power and then explode outward, so as to form an inner world with the ability to circulate.
And in this process, in order to keep the power from getting out of control, it is impossible to let the impact of the explosion escape from the physical body.
Lu Qing is currently trying his best to control this point.
It was harder than expected, but...he succeeded.
In his perception, everything in his body has changed.
Originally, the meridians, flesh and blood, and the body with distinct internal organs had completely disappeared under the violent explosion—or in other words, it still existed, but it was all integrated into a completely fictional chaotic world.
This chaotic inner world can only appear in his body. Inside, everything is empty, but it is not the kind of dead nothingness, but more like a germination state where everything will start. This kind of "emptiness" is an "emptiness" with great vitality.
"So... the world was like this at the beginning?"
Lu Qing suddenly had such a realization in his heart.
Putting his emotions aside for a while, Lu Qing began to test his own strength with great interest.
The body of Dharma can still be displayed, but the principle is completely different.
The original dharma body is a manifestation of its own dharma power projected to the outside world.
But at the moment, this dharma body is more like the projection of the power of the inner world, betting on the outside.
The biggest difference is the difference in the nature of power.
What he controls is no longer true energy, but a brand-new, different and higher-level power.
In the records of the Taishangjing, this kind of power is called 'mana'.
The characteristic of power like 'mana' will reach the level of true immortals.