The second diagram of the scripture, Young Silkworm, had 18,000 transformations. Feiyun had learned 11,000. However, it became increasingly harder because they were profound later on.
Nonetheless, Feiyun had his phoenix gaze on top of a heavenly dao comprehension from the previous life. His cultivation speed far exceeded regular people.
Meanwhile, Yao Ji also refined her ghost pills on top of the area. She got ten from White Skin Ghost King. Each contained immense energy and was very beneficial for her.
Even Little Demoness who hated cultivating found a good area to train. Unfortunately, this only lasted several days. She then ran off to play with the ores.
Bi Ningshuai and the turtle have been missing recently. Some said that they took advantage of the busy spirit beasts and raided their caves and nearly got caught by the two tigers again.
They were the number one enemies of the kingdom now and needed to hide near the frontier.
Another twenty days pa.s.sed by.
Long Cangyue came to report about surpa.s.sing the 3,000,000 stone mark.
Feiyun had to leave his session early. He nearly finished understanding all 18,000 by this point. He just needed to change the first-level Buddhist energy in his body to the next level.
Just the first level was enough to create pills comparable to peak fourth-ranked spirit pills. What about the second level?
This process was quite slow and couldn’t be done in one session. Plus, it could be channeled anywhere.
“I wonder if I’ll reach Nirvana with this.” A Buddhist glow covered Feiyun just like a layer of jade. Each of his actions contained a Buddhist hymn - a magical phenomenon.
Long Cangyue stared at him and found that he looked so surreal. His temperament was different from the past.
His eyes had a faint red glow, looking a bit demonic. He ordered: “Tell Xinnu and Xiaonu to come, Yao Ji too.”
The three girls gathered along with Long Cangyue. All four stared at Feiyun.
Yao Ji had completely refined her ten pills and became stronger. She hid her yin energy and looked just like a beautiful fairy walking in the mortal realm.
Feiyun summoned the essence river of the kingdom a second time. This golden river spanned for a thousand meters, looking ethereal and blinding. Each drop contained ma.s.sive energy.
“Essences of Buddhism, more precious than 10,000-year spirit medicine, how can there be so much?” Yao Ji recognized their value. They could directly improve one’s cultivation.
Refining this energy was similar to being taught by a great master.
“It’s acc.u.mulated across many generations. It’s up to you how much you’ll gain from this. Xinnu, Xiaonu, your cultivation is too low so just refine one drop. Don’t be greedy.” He waved his hand and two drops of water looking like golden pearls came over.
The two girls couldn’t believe the weight of the drops. It felt like two mountains.
Long Cangyue and Yao Ji didn’t hold back. They cultivated unique merit laws that specialize in stealing others’ cultivation. These essences were perfect for their endless need of energy.
Long Cangyue was at the peak of eighth-level Heaven’s Mandate so she took ten drops. They hovered around her like stars and covered her wondrous figure.
Remember, Monk Zhi Zang only used seventeen drops to reach Nirvana. That’s why it was so impressive for her to use so much. It was mainly due to her evil treasure-seeking art capable of siphoning energy.
Yao Ji was even more terrifying. She took in three hundred drops. They looked like a galaxy seeping into her jade skin.
Her body resembled a bottomless pit. Buddhist essences in the form of golden strings poured into her and disappeared from sight. It seemed as if this was still not enough.
Yao Ji was a ghost cultivator. The only way for her to grow stronger was to devour other ghost cultivators - also a type of devouring cultivation.
The two fierce women doubled Feiyun’s initial expectation.
“It’s not easy taking care of women.” Feiyun murmured.
Fortunately, he had plenty of essences. These drops weren’t even 1/100,000th of the river.
Because he had improved on the scripture, he could accept more essences. He took twenty drops and meditated in the air.
His cultivation continuously increased. His dantian became brighter. Buddhist hymns emanated from him, seemingly changing his form.
His blood and bones absorbed the essences. Below his ribs was another bone becoming resplendent and gaining spirituality. Little fiery sparks emerged around it.
“The ninth phoenix bone is forming.” He focused the essences towards that bone, wanting to obtain it first before breaking through to Nirvana.
The phoenix physique was more than just improving the body. It could improve one’s talents.
At one hundred bones, he would become a mythical genius. The entire human race probably only had a few. At that level, he might be able to break the curse of Heaven’s Emergence.
Alas, he only had eight bones, far from one hundred. It would be nice if he could get the Yang Soul Holy Embryo. He removed unnecessary thoughts and began working on the ninth bones.
“Boom!” The materialization was a success!
His body burned as the nine bones connected with each other. The flow became different than before.
He was touching the barrier between life and death once more. The laws of this affinity flowed around him like smoke with extreme speed.
This was the time to reach Nirvana. He knew that he had reached the peak of the ninth level, the very limit. It was time to open the next door.
Grasping one law of Nirvana meant being able to see the path. He would become a pseudo Enlightened Being then.
Fully controlling one meant entering the first level of Nirvana and accomplis.h.i.+ng the first rebirth - the stage of an Enlightened Being.
This was arduous and difficult for the majority of cultivators, akin to reaching heaven itself.
However, this wasn’t hard for Feiyun since he had done it before and knew about the laws channeling this realm. Thus, it was easy for him to grasp and eventually control one.
Moreover, the path afterward is even easier because nothing was better at rebirth than a phoenix. He would be able to soar faster than other human geniuses.
He restrained his excitement and felt the life-death laws around him. His forty divine intents in his head turned into a ma.s.sive palm that reached for one of the laws.
“Boom!” The feeble strand of law dispersed into smoke.
The first attempt was a failure but he didn’t mind at all. It would be strange to be successful right away. Human geniuses would need to do it millions of times.
Each attempt gained more ground. After the 561st failure, he finally pulled one into the spirit platform of his mind.
“I am now at the pseudo level. I just need to conquer this law then.” He smirked.
The law of life and death contained complex knowledge and profundities. One needed to comprehend it completely before understanding “Nirvana”. Next, they would be able to experience the tribulation of death and obtain rebirth.
Many ninth-level cultivators recklessly tried for rebirth before fully understanding this information. Thus, they died during the process and couldn’t come back to life.