Chapter 341 The Flesh and Blood Body Has a Great Secret
The bloody battlefield, the Spirit King’s cave, the fresh grass and trees, and the rich energy.

Li Zhi and King Ling were sitting opposite each other in front of a low coffee table, discussing Taoism. If outsiders saw this scene, they would probably be shocked.

No other trial-taker had ever been able to discuss philosophy with the strong indigenous people in this bloody killing field as easily as Li Zhi.

Li Zhi not only learned many secrets about this small world from King Ling, but also discussed cultivation with King Ling.

Li Zhi was full of curiosity about the cultivators who had attained enlightenment through the use of divine jade, fairy gold and other natural treasures.

This type of monk should have a longer lifespan than ordinary monks with flesh and blood, but in reality this is not the case.

Before in Beidou, although Li Zhi had encountered cultivators who had spiritual power through divine jade, his cultivation was too weak at that time and he could not discuss the Dao with those cultivators at all.

This discussion with King Ling cleared up many of Li Zhi's doubts.

The Spirit King told Li Zhi that it is difficult for a cultivator who has spiritual power through the divine jade to achieve perfection in the Tao. After reaching the limit of what the body can bear, their Taoism will not advance at all.

"Isn't the reason why we cultivators practice to break various innate limitations? Since fellow Taoist has already achieved spiritual enlightenment, why are you still affected so seriously?" Li Zhi asked.

"Fellow Daoist, you were born into the human race, so naturally you cannot understand the hardships of us, the alien psychics." The Spirit King sighed.

Then, King Ling invited Li Zhidao: "Fellow Daoist, please follow me."

After crossing two mountain ranges, Li Zhi followed King Ling and arrived at a spiritual jade vein.

With just a quick glance, Li Zhi discovered a large number of spiritual jades. This vein of minerals was very valuable and was enough to support the financial resources of a medium-sized sect.

After walking deep into the Lingyu mine, Li Zhi saw jade figures of various sizes embedded in the mine.

"Fellow Daoist Li, these jade people are the jade bodies left behind by our clansmen who passed away." King Ling introduced to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi saw many fragments of the great laws on those jade figures, but he did not find the death energy left in the bodies of ordinary cultivators after their death.

"Fellow Daoist Ling Wang, do you want to say something by bringing me here?" Li Zhi then asked.

"Fellow Daoist, you have also seen cultivators like me who have spiritual communication with divine jade. Although we can practice, our bodies remain jade after death, and there is no dead air. Fellow Daoist, you should understand the hardships that it takes for alien species like us to have spiritual communication." The Spirit King looked a little gloomy.

Although they were unwilling to admit it, the bodies left behind after death were still beautiful women, which was enough to prove that they could not be considered as true lives that had embarked on the path of evolution.

It has fatal flaws.

It can be summarized as "life but no death".

Even though they could embark on the path of cultivation like normal flesh-and-blood creatures, they still could not escape the essence of being refining materials.

And they are unable to reproduce and give birth to the next generation.

It can only be nurtured by the life essence within the divine jade veins, so that the divine jade can become spiritual again and new members of the tribe can be born.

From this perspective, the God-Slaying Stone, one of the ten evil spirits in the ancient times of the immortals, is the truly evolved stone man.

Because the divine stone can reproduce through its own bloodline, rather than by finding another stone to grant intelligence.

A living thing is one that has life, death, and the ability to reproduce.

The Spirit King said: "Although our divine jade bodies are naturally powerful, the nourishment of our primordial spirits is not as strong as those of creatures with flesh and blood."

"There is no need to beat around the bush, fellow Daoist. Just tell me what you need." Li Zhi was no fool. He naturally saw that King Ling wanted something from him.

"May I ask, fellow Taoist, have you obtained a complete source of Tao?" asked the Spirit King.

"Fellow Daoist, do you want the source of Tao?" Li Zhi said.

"Yes, only by integrating the source of Tao can we break the limitations of the innate race and evolve into a flesh and blood body. Even if we can only evolve a partial flesh and blood body, it can allow our Lingyu spiritual race to truly become an existence comparable to the Holy Spirit race." A strong sense of unwillingness immediately erupted from the Spirit King.

"I'm afraid the source of Tao is ineffective for you, fellow Taoist." Li Zhi rudely broke the Spirit King's fantasy.

Li Zhi has already sensed that the Spirit King's soul is already very old. Even with the source of Tao, he cannot become a great sage, or even a quasi-emperor.

"If the Taoist priest is willing to give up his love, my Spirit Clan is willing to offer you a piece of the innate Nine Heavens Blue Sky Divine Jade King born in the chaotic fairyland. It will be enough for the Taoist priest to refine a quasi-emperor divine weapon." The Spirit King seemed to be about to take out the treasure in the bottom of the box.

"Fellow Daoist, are you willing to give away such a precious treasure?" Li Zhi was shocked by King Ling's generosity.

The innate Nine Heavens Blue Sky Divine Jade King, born in the chaotic fairyland, is second only to the fairy jade. It is powerful enough for cultivators to sacrifice and refine quasi-emperor divine weapons. If they start practicing after gaining spiritual power, they will become a great sage in the future without any innate physique shackles.

I learned from the Spirit King that as living beings that are connected to jade spirits, their inherent quality determines their future achievements.

The reason why King Ling was able to become the Saint King was because his heart was a piece of Nine Heavens Blue Sky Divine Jade King.

However, ordinary cultivators who have access to the Nine Heavens Blue Sky Divine Jade can only cultivate to the saint level.

For different divine jades, cultivating to the king level is already the limit.

Almost no one can break this talent shackles on their own.

As if to gain Li Zhi's trust, King Ling then took him into the deepest part of the mine.

There actually is a pool of divine milk of the earth there.

The pool is seven feet square, and the milky white earth divine milk exudes bursts of fragrance. It is the top-grade spiritual liquid for refining divine materials.

At the bottom of the Earth's Divine Milk Pool, there is a piece of Nine Heavens Blue Sky Divine Jade King as big as a face. There are no impurities in the azure blue sky divine jade. The divine jade exudes a mysterious aura, as if one is facing the sky.

This piece of Nine Heavens Blue Divine Jade is the best of the best. It is the supreme divine material for refining the holy weapons handed down from generation to generation. It can even be refined into a quasi-emperor divine weapon.

"Master Li, this piece of Nine Heavens Blue Sky Divine Jade, the Divine Jade King, has been nurtured in the Divine Milk of the Earth since it was dug out from the Primordial Chaos Fairyland. The essence of the divine jade has not been damaged in the slightest. My spirit clan does not want all the source of Taoism in your hands, just one strand is enough." said the Spirit King.

"Deal." Li Zhi said with a smile.

Then, he flipped his hand and took out a ball of Source of Tao that exuded the aura of the Tao.

The light red source of Tao seems to have endless Tao runes flashing, and the power of Tao is flowing inside.

"Here." Li Zhi did not seem to attach importance to the Source of Tao. He threw the ball of Source of Tao to the Spirit King as if he was throwing the source of God.

After the Source of Tao left Li Zhi's palm, it instantly turned into a red cloud and tried to dissipate. The Spirit King quickly used a secret method to seal the Source of Tao in a small divine jade tripod.

Afterwards, King Ling simply waved his hand to unlock the restriction in the Earth Divine Milk Pool, and sent the Nine Heavens Blue Sky Divine Jade King and half of the Earth Divine Milk to Li Zhi.

After seeing Li Zhi put away the Divine Jade and the Divine Earth Milk, the Spirit King said, "Thank you for your help, fellow Taoist."

"You and I each get what we need. It's a fair trade. No need to thank me." Li Zhi waved his hand and said.

Afterwards, King Ling and Li Zhi returned to his cave.

After staying in the Spirit King's cave for another day, Li Zhi left the Spirit Clan's territory with a bunch of local specialties (spiritual fruits, wine, etc.) given by the Spirit King.

Shortly after Li Zhi left, King Ling came to the depths of the mine again and opened a secret portal.

After entering, a little jade man, only one foot tall, was practicing in a one-foot square pool of fairy juice.

"Father, why are you here?" After seeing the Spirit King, the jade figurine immediately woke up and said in a childish voice.

"Your father has brought you the source of the Tao. With the source of the Tao, you will definitely be able to become a great sage or even a quasi-emperor in the future. My Shenyu clan will also flourish in your hands." The Spirit King said excitedly.

The little jade man is a natural jade man, who was dug out from the chaotic fairyland together with the Nine Heavens Jade.

However, it was able to gain spiritual intelligence, while the Nine Heavens Blue Sky Divine Jade King still showed no signs of spiritualism after more than 100,000 years of cultivation.

Thanks to the efforts of the spirit race, the jade man finally gave birth to a spirit before the ancient trial road of the human race was opened, and was completely transformed into a living being.

Moreover, its body is made of almost the same material as that of the Nine Heavens Blue Sky Divine Jade King.

"Father, the guide of the human race actually allowed you to obtain the source of Tao?" The jade figure was not as excited as the Spirit King. Instead, he asked with some concern.

"Don't worry, the source of Tao in my hand was obtained by me in exchange for that piece of dead jade with the human cultivators." said the Spirit King.

The spiritual power in the Nine Heavens Jade King seemed to have been taken away by the Jade Man. Although it became extremely pure, it lost the possibility of spiritual communication. In the eyes of the Spirit King, it was far less valuable than those divine jades that could communicate with spirits.

"Father, why don't you discuss with me? That piece of magic jade is almost regarded as my companion immortal material. In the future, I will use it to refine my innate magic weapon - Biluotian." The jade man was a little excited and jumped directly out of the pool of immortal jade liquid.

"Biluo, do you still remember the meaning of the name your father gave you?" The Spiritual King instantly exuded a tremendous pressure and imprisoned the little jade man in front of him.

"I remember that my father hoped that I could break the innate limitations of my Divine Jade clan one day and transform into a flesh and blood body like the Holy Spirit, so I was named Biluo." said the little jade man.

"Remember, the hope of the entire race rests on you. The purpose of your cultivation must not be the same as those of the human cultivators, who only cultivate to become stronger. Your father has not allowed you to show up in these years, but you should have seen how terrifying the top human trial-takers with flesh and blood are. They can even cultivate their bodies to be stronger than the divine jade." The Spirit King said seriously.

"It was my fault. Please punish me, father." The little jade man seemed to have accepted the Spirit King's teachings and quickly admitted his mistake.

The Spirit King withdrew his overwhelming holy power, then walked up to the little jade man, touched his head, and said, "Okay, when you have truly gotten rid of the shackles of the divine jade body, you can go out into the universe to look for weapon refining materials. Maybe you'll have a chance to find real immortal materials. Five years ago, a human cultivator had a tripod made of the mother energy of all things. If you can break the shackles of the innate in the future, maybe you'll have a chance to get the mother energy of all things, and thus refine the real Azure Sky."

Afterwards, the jade man refined the source of Tao under the protection of the Spirit King.

That ball of Tao source was not something separated from Li Zhi's Five-Colored Fairy Phoenix Tao source.

Rather, it was a fragmentary source of Tao that Li Zhi condensed in the ancient battlefield using the Hand of Stealing Heaven.

It seems to be a part of the complete source of Tao that was bred here.

After returning to the place where the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi was in seclusion, Li Zhi began to comprehend what he had obtained from the Spirit King.

It even includes the cultivation methods of the Divine Jade spiritualists.

Those divine jade creatures do not practice the five secret realms of the human body, and they do not have the five secret realms to be explored.

The reason why they can cultivate to the saint level is because the strength of the great laws engraved in their bodies has reached the saint level.

That’s right, the jade elves’ cultivation is to comprehend the great Dao of heaven and earth, engrave the laws of the great Dao in their bodies, and ultimately achieve the transformation of the laws.

Their bodies are merely carriers of the laws of the Dao and will not grow as their Dao attainments do like flesh and blood creatures.

Therefore, Li Zhi rethinks what life really is.

Is the jade spirit transformed by the divine jade a living being?
They are life, without a doubt.

But is there any difference between their lives and human lives?

There is an essential difference.

In the process of spiritual practice and evolution, what role does the monk's physical body play?

Is it just a carrier of the primordial spirit?

Is the relationship between the soul and the body really the same as I understood it before?

All kinds of doubts arose in Li Zhi's mind.

For this purpose, Li Zhi directly took out the Source of Dao that had transformed into a five-colored fairy phoenix for contemplation, hoping to figure out this matter from the source of the Dao of heaven and earth.

Unfortunately, although his Taoism skills have improved a lot, his understanding of the secrets of the physical body has not made much progress.

Li Zhi couldn't help but think of the "door" inside the human body.

Why would opening the doors within the body greatly increase a cultivator's spiritual power?

Where do those doors lead to?
The path of spiritual practice has always been a path of using the false to cultivate the true.

Ordinary mortals do not have a soul in their bodies. Only through cultivation can a cultivator give birth to a soul.

From this perspective, the physical body is real and the spirit is false.

It’s like Duan De, who constantly condenses the Seal of Reincarnation in his body. Although his soul is different each time, his body remains the same.

There is also the "Immortal Sutra" from the ancient immortal period, which claims that as long as the physical body is not destroyed after death, the same soul can be given birth to.

It seems that the soul that a cultivator cultivates with great effort is not as important as the physical body.

Why is there an essential difference between a body made of flesh and blood and a body made of other materials?

The more Li Zhi thought about it, the more he felt that this flesh and blood body seemed to hide a shocking secret.

This can also explain why the Holy Spirit’s body will transform into flesh and blood after the Great Consummation.

As it turns out, the further you advance in your practice, the more doubts you will encounter.

"when……"

The sound of the bell echoed throughout the bloody battlefield.

The ringing of the bell indicated the official end of this trial that lasted for more than two months.

Unfortunately, those who stepped into the trial field had no chance to hear such beautiful bell sounds.

Not long after, the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi and Li Zhi woke up from their state of enlightenment.

Then, the void above the sky was torn apart, and a five-colored altar hidden in the void appeared there.

A ray of divine light fell, and Li Zhi and the Holy Maiden of Yao Chi disappeared into this world.

"what?"

It seemed that the guide who opened the five-colored altar was full of doubts. Why did he only sense two survivors?
"hiss!"

Then, the guide who secretly controlled the five-colored altar took a breath of cold air.

I couldn't help but mourn for the trial-takers ahead.

(End of this chapter)