Chapter 137: Essence Power Vortex
Chen Jingzhai was immersed in the peculiar state of understanding the path.
It was peculiar because he was now in the form of his divine mind.
After entering this state, his mind was lifted up, and it was compatible with the Grotto-heavens.
The broken spirit lights now became clear under the support of the Grotto-heavens.
His deduction and calculation abilities improved exponentially and reached a shocking level.
From here, he could see the path that suited him.
In the Meditation Plane, cultivators had to lure Qi inside their bodies and circulate it from the spirit root to the meridians.
In the Foundation Establishment Plane, it went from the meridians to the acupoints, then converged in the acupoints.
In technical terms, this was described as “touching the acupoint to become spirited.”
The most obvious example was mud pelletizing the upper core.
In other words, the Foundation Establishment Plane was completed by cultivating the acupoints.
For example, Chen Jingzhai entered the beginning phase of the Foundation Establishment Plane by cultivating his acupoints into the Yin Yang Formation with formation patterns.
If he wanted to create cultivation methods, the Foundation Establishment passage had to include acupoint cultivation.
In fact, Chen Jingzhai still had to turn acupoints into formations.
This was because his core cultivation path was the path of using acupoints for formations.
This was also the framework of the Foundation Establishment Plane.
However, after using the Grotto-heavens, Chen Jingzhai realized that he was wrong.
He had a better choice, which was the Dragon and Phoenix Consummation Seal Script.
This celestial scripture was not only a consummation method.
It actually contained an extremely advanced cultivation method.
Every cultivation stage was different from ordinary cultivation paths.
For example, the Dragon and Phoenix Consummation Seal Script was different in the Foundation Establishment Plane.
In essence, this celestial scripture was the method of cultivating talismans. One could use it for the Path of Talisman.
Its Foundation Establishment Plane was not the usual acupoint method. Instead, it used acupoints to form talismans.
Each acupoint was a seal character; each seal character was a talisman.
Chen Jingzhai saw the dragon formed by the Dragon Qi, which reminded him of his celestial bone.
His celestial bone contained both a dragon and a phoenix. Technically, his celestial bone could also be an acupoint because humans were just one big acupoint.
This was the essence of the Foundation Establishment Plane!
Chen Jingzhai only started experiencing other enlightenments after understanding this.
The Foundation Establishment passage was born naturally through this.
“The Dragon and Phoenix Consummation Seal Script has 129,600 seal characters.
“It describes tens of thousands of Yin and Yang items, with respective Yin and Yang talismans.
“I can view them as dragons and phoenixes, Yin and Yang, or the sky and earth.
“Thus, the human body can be the sky and earth. The acupoints can contain Yin and Yang, and they can evolve into all organisms.
“I can then integrate it with other sky scriptures, celestial codes, and the Path of Dynasty Fate.
“Then the acupoints will become seal characters and transform into spirit deities, divine beasts, and terrains.
“Going further, my skull will be the heavens, my pelvis will be the underworld, and my spine will be the world.
“My acupoints are the stars; my blood is the rivers; my bones are mountains; my skin is the fetal membrane.
“My breathing will be the breathing of the world and form the organisms and foundations.”
Spirit light flashed quickly, helping Chen Jingzhai organize the Foundation Establishment Plane cultivation methods.
He comprehended all the mysteries of the Foundation Establishment Plane from the celestial scriptures, sky scriptures, and celestial codes.
His divine mind used the power of the Grotto-heavens to quickly read and digest the 300 Foundation Establishment Plane cultivation methods.
Ideas exploded like fireworks in his mind as the thoughts of ancient and current worlds collided.
Finally, Chen Jingzhai’s own Foundation Establishment passage was created.
After his divine mind comprehended the cultivation method, Chen Jingzhai’s own spiritual power started changing.
His spiritual power was already clearly divided due to the Yin Yang Formation and the water and fire celestial code.
After comprehending the Foundation Establishment passage, the formation runes shone, and spiritual power surged into different acupoints.
In his upper core, a newly-created divine mind landed automatically and guided the spiritual power into the acupoints.
Inside the acupoints, the divine mind integrated with the spiritual power and automatically created seal characters.
Each of the 129,600 seal characters had a respective acupoint.
The Yang seal characters matched with the open acupoints. The Yin seal characters matched with hidden acupoints.
The seal characters were formed, the acupoints expanded, and the suction force was born.
Outside the Wangdan Pagoda, large amounts of free essence power flooded into the fifth floor.
Gradually, a shallow vortex funnel formed at the top of the Wangdan Pagoda.
The two Golden Core Sages and everyone else were shocked by this scene.
“Elder, what is going on?”
“He isn’t in danger, is he?”
Hong Fu grew anxious when he saw this.
“Don’t worry. This is good news.
“Judging by the situation, little junior brother has had a breakthrough and has improved his cultivation.
“He must have comprehended something without preparation.”
After Qing Mu spoke with a smile, he took out some water essence stones and tossed them.
The water essence stones crumbled in the air.
Pure water essence power spread out instantly and was absorbed by the funnel. Not a drop remained.
“Hurry and break the water essence stones to release more essence power.
“We must stop the funnel from expanding to satisfy junior brother’s needs.
“Otherwise, he might fail if he doesn’t have enough essence power.”
Qing Hui immediately alerted everyone when he saw this situation.
He himself grabbed a large number of water essence stones and spiritual stones. Then he tossed them all out.
These water essence stones and spiritual stones all exploded on the fifth floor.
Large amounts of essence power were absorbed into the funnel.
However, the funnel did not weaken at all. Instead, it grew even stronger.
The funnel started to materialize and attracted the attention of many cultivators on the street.
Wang Tong was the first to hurry over. He led the people of Dao Cheng Division to drive away the nearby cultivators.
Hong Fu and the other maidservants started throwing water essence stones and spiritual stones with Zhang Kui’s group.
Hong Fu even took out Essence Power Pearls and threw them as if they were cheap things.
Seeing this waste made Wang Tong’s eyes twitch, but he was also stunned at the same time.
They had already shattered millions of water essence stones and spiritual stones in a short period of time.
Technically, this large amount of essence power should make the funnel stop.
However, the funnel expanded even more quickly and started absorbing the essence power of Donglai City.
“You are Wang Tong?” Qing Mu turned to look at the commander of Dao Cheng Division.
“Sage!” Wang Tong ran over. “I am Wang Tong, commander of Dao Cheng Division.”
“Activate the city’s Essence-Gathering Formation.” Qing Mu expressionlessly took out a storage bag. “Zhang Kui, follow him. You must activate the formation without holding back.”
“Yes!” Zhang Kui walked over and accepted the bag.
“Sage!” Wang Tong’s expression changed. “If we activate the city’s Essence-Gathering Formation entirely, we need Donglai County’s Commandery Governor to write a request to the Dao Cheng Division and the garrison general.”
Sage Qing Mu just gazed at him.
Wang Tong could not withstand it, and he dropped to his knees, shaking.
A Golden Core Sage’s pressure was as heavy as a mountain on one’s back.
“If our celestial clan’s pride has an accident here, you won’t be the only one in trouble.” Sage Qing Mu’s eyes were cold. “The Eastern Ocean Ruler and the entire State of Qiong will cease to exist.”
“I understand!” Inhaling sharply, Wang Tong led Zhang Kui away.
Sage Qing Mu did not care about Wang Tong’s attitude at all.
He took out a puppet.
It guarded the Wangdan Pagoda with Sage Qing Hui’s puppet as they secretly created a formation.
More essence power was attracted over.
The huge funnel was now hundreds of meters tall.
It was like an upside-down mountain was above Donglai County.
Such a great phenomenon attracted the attention of mortals.
The Eastern Ocean Ruler’s royal house also learned about this due to the convenience of the phone bug.
Commandery Prince Hong Yi led his close servants to the outside of Donglai County.
When he saw the huge vortex inside the city, he hesitated.
He was a bit afraid.
He already knew that Chen Jingzhai had caused this huge phenomenon.
But he did not know if it had anything to do with himself.
After all, he indeed pulled a trick by hiding the Dragon Qi.
Feeling guilty, Commandery Prince Hong Yi did not dare to enter Donglai County.
He was scared that the two Sages would kill him.
But since he was already here, it was unsuitable for him not to go in.
Considering this, he handed a storage bag to his two close servants.
He ordered them to bring the storage bag to Wangdan Pagoda.
The vortex funnel above the Wangdan Pagoda was still expanding at a rate visible to the naked eye.
When the two close servants arrived, Sage Qing Mu and Qing Hui had used up all their spiritual stones.
With a troubled expression, Sage Qing Hui grabbed the storage bag from the servant.
He poured all the water essence stones out and tossed them up to the fifth floor, where they crumbled directly.
Even this massive essence power was futile.
A moment later, the Essence-Gathering Formation of Donglai County was activated.
The formations at the four city gates of Donglai County were activated.
Donglai County was not on the seaside, but it was not too far from the ocean.
Once the Essence-Gathering Formation was activated, it immediately lured over essence power from the ocean.
The Essence-Gathering Formation could gather more essence power than shattering spiritual stones.
The vortex funnel devoured the essence power as soon as it approached Donglai County.
The vortex was expanding. It continued until it covered three-fourths of Donglai County.
By now, the essence power under the vortex had already turned into mist.
Those close to Wangdan Pagoda even condensed and dripped down.
Seeing this, the Commandery Governor hurried over, and the garrison general prepared to lock the city gates.
All of the streets were sealed off. No one was allowed to disturb this.
Inside the fifth-floor cultivation room of Wangdan Pagoda
Dense essence power transformed into mist and liquid and flowed continuously into Chen Jingzhai’s body.
The open and hidden acupoints in his body shimmered like stars. The celestial bone in his spine radiated with colorful light.
In his Grotto-heavens, his divine mind opened his mouth to swallow the dragon.
Then Chen Jingzhai’s divine mind returned to his body. At that moment, something exploded inside his body.
It was like thunder and lightning, yet there was no sound.
This was what philosophers meant by “the greatest sound is no sound.”