nyslfriends Chapter 63 Water and Fire Supernatural Powers
Chapter 63 Water and Fire Supernatural Powers
Meanwhile, Xuan Yao, carrying the lush and verdant branch of the peach, left the inner mountain of Xikunlun, riding auspicious clouds all the way, and returned directly to Qinghei Mountain.
On his way home, he scanned the jade box with his divine sense, and had already clearly figured out its origin and purpose.
It should be noted that although this item comes from the renowned Primordial Heavenly Water Peach Mother Tree, it is ultimately just a side branch and not the original source capable of flowering and bearing fruit.
To expect it to bear abundant natural peaches every few thousand years, like the mother peach tree in Uchiyama, is nothing short of a pipe dream in the short term.
But the true wonder of this thing does not lie in the result.
Every branch and leaf of a top-grade innate spiritual root contains extremely pure innate Ren water vitality. Using it to suppress the water veins of a Daoist temple and harmonize the scorching fire energy in the mountains is most wondrous.
Before long, Xuan Yao descended from the clouds and returned to the Qinghei Mountain.
He opened his divine eye and saw the energy flowing and interacting throughout the mountains.
Within the outer pool of wind and thunder, the mysterious yin water vapor and violent thunderous energy are seeping inward along the hidden currents of the mountain.
On the cliff face, a section of the innate fire phoenix tree branch emitted a fiery, golden-red radiance day and night.
One cold, one hot; one water, one fire.
Although the pure and auspicious energy of the Jade Dew and Blessed Fungus acts as a buffer, if this continues, subtle tears will eventually appear deep within the earth's veins.
Ultimately, Xuan Yao selected a ley line node where spiritual energy circulated between the outer pool of wind and thunder and the inner mountain fire parasol tree.
With a wave of his sleeve, he parted the spiritual soil and carefully planted the emerald green peach branch deep into the earth's veins.
"Water, come!"
Xuan Yao held the imperial edict in his mouth and pointed it from afar.
From the outer pool of the mountain, the Xuan Yin Wind and Thunder Water Eye emitted a deep rumble, and a wisp of extremely pure Xuan Yin water vapor transformed into a trickle, flowing precisely along the earth's vein channels to the roots of the Peach Branch.
Subsequently, Xuan Yao drew upon a wisp of the auspicious life force of the Jade Dew Blessed Fungus, which transformed into a warm and lustrous jade membrane, protecting the delicate root system layer by layer from the contamination of the underground turbidity.
Finally, he separated a wisp of the gentle fire from the Fire Phoenix Tree, like a warm stove deep underground, to slowly nurture the spirit soil and stimulate the vigorous vitality of this piece of innate wood.
The three forces of water, fire, and earth intertwine to nourish it.
A moment later, a crisp sound of earth breaking through the ground was heard.
The branch of the peach tree took root on the ground, and a tender bud instantly sprouted from its tip.
Immediately afterwards, a circle of pale blue light, like a watery halo, slowly spread out along the crisscrossing underground water veins of Qinghei Mountain.
Wherever the clear light passed, the rocks and soil that had been somewhat dry and hot due to the fire sycamore trees instantly became much more moist.
The wisps of dry air floating in the void were quietly absorbed by the Ren water energy, turning into a light spiritual mist that enveloped the entire Qinghei Mountain in a dreamlike state.
Originally, although the various forces in Qinghei Mountain were all extraordinary, they seemed to be acting independently.
Now, with this branch of Ren water acting as the mediator, the red metal fire virtue of the Fire Phoenix Tree, the mysterious yin water and thunder of the Wind and Thunder Outer Pool, and the gentle blessings of the Jade Dew and Blessed Fungus gradually merge into one at this moment.
Water and fire are in harmony, wind and thunder are hidden, and fortune and misfortune are mutually reinforcing.
At this moment, the atmosphere of the entire temple grounds completely settled down, presenting a stable and profound structure.
Standing in the spiritual mist, Xuan Yao felt that the Nanming Fire Seal within his body, which had occasionally been restless, had completely quieted down in that instant, without any sign of intense backlash.
"Master bestowed this item upon us; his plan was truly far-reaching."
"This is not only a reward for the disciple, but also a way to fix the imbalance of water and fire in the Green and Black Mountains."
Xuan Yao felt much more at ease.
Once the layout of the mountain was set, he used divine jade from the mountain to build a temporary platform about one zhang in size between the fire sycamore and the peach branches.
He sat cross-legged on the platform, with a fiery phoenix tree on his left, its flames shimmering in crimson light, and a peach branch on his right, its branches shrouded in pale blue water.
One is cold, one is hot; one is yin, one is yang.
Xuan Yao closed his eyes, mobilized his mid-stage Golden Immortal power, and began to simultaneously draw two streams of innate energy into his body for cultivation.
He channeled the innate fire virtue of the fire-infused parasol tree into his dantian, slowly nurturing the Southern Bright Fire Seal, making it increasingly pure and stable.
On one hand, it draws the clear light of the Ren water from the branch of the peach tree straight up to the crown of the head, transforming into a clear spring that nourishes the spirit of the soul day and night.
At the same time, the pure energy of virtue surging within his body acts like a sturdy dam, ensuring that these two inherently conflicting forces do not clash within him.
For the first few centuries, everything went relatively smoothly.
But when Xuan Yao tried to introduce the newly acquired Ren Shui Qi into his sea of consciousness as usual to temper the Nanming Guardian General, a sudden change occurred.
The moment his divine sense, carrying a wisp of Ren water light, stepped into his sea of consciousness, the crimson-gold armored general who had been standing quietly in the center suddenly shot out two dazzling beams of repulsive light from his eyes.
The fire-patterned halberd in the divine general's hand hummed without wind, and the Southern Ming Fire on the tip of the halberd instantly surged.
Water and fire are incompatible.
This deity is based on the purest and most intense Southern Bright Fire Seal.
In its instinct, all external water-related forces seem to be mortal enemies that want to extinguish its source, and it will naturally resist them with great force.
Within his sea of consciousness, water vapor and fire collided violently, causing Xuan Yao's divine soul to tremble slightly.
Xuan Yao remained calm.
He forcefully suppressed the divine general's riot, temporarily isolating that wisp of pure Ren water energy at the edge of his sea of consciousness, and then fell into deep thought.
"I was thinking too simplistically."
Xuan Yao silently pondered the collision just now, and a sense of enlightenment gradually arose in his heart.
"When I first condensed this guardian deity, I only thought that the Southern Bright Fire could burn away all the filth in the world and thus keep my spiritual altar pure."
"The great principles of heaven and earth cannot be sustained by rigidity, nor can they be maintained by yielding."
"Is the only true method of protecting the Way ruthlessly incinerated and brutally murderous?"
"If the primordial spirit is damaged, even if the Li Fire can burn away the inner demons, how can it repair the damage to the primordial spirit?"
"If one's natal Xuan Sha is too aggressive, cracks will appear in one's Dao heart. Even if the Li Fire can burn away the dust in the cracks, it cannot mend the cracks again."
"With just fire, this sea of consciousness will eventually be burned to ashes."
Thinking of this, Xuan Yao's path suddenly became clear.
"A true protector of the Way must not only be able to kill the enemy, but also be able to govern oneself."
"It should possess both the swift and fierce power of fire and the gentle, nurturing, soothing, supporting, and circulating vitality of water."
"Only when water and fire are in harmony, and yin and yang are equally valued, can one be a flawless guardian deity."
With enlightenment, Xuan Yao's cultivation, which had been somewhat stagnant in the mid-stage of the Golden Immortal realm, experienced a silent leap in that instant.
"The reshaping of the divine generals begins today."
Once Xuan Yao made up his mind, he had no more hesitation.
He did not allow the pure water energy of Ren to clash head-on with the divine general's fire energy. Instead, he mobilized the gentle and virtuous pure water energy to construct a constantly rotating Yin-Yang Taiji array around the divine general.
The Tai Chi formation slowly rotates.
The once domineering, all-consuming, crimson-gold-armored divine general, under Xuan Yao's control, slowly sat down cross-legged in the void of his sea of consciousness.
It retracted the sharpness of its long spear, gradually suppressing the intense fire within its body.
The pale blue light of the Ren water, flowing along the Taiji formation, transformed into a clear stream that gently nourished the divine general's armor and meridians.
At first, the god's body was still flaming with fiery gold, trying to evaporate the water.
But Xuan Yao is extremely patient.
He sat upright on the stone platform, his consciousness breathing in and out in his sea of consciousness, a process that took a full three thousand years of painstaking effort.
Over three thousand years, nourished by the continuous flow of Ren water from the peach branches, the energy of that Ren water gradually seeped into the depths of the divine general's origin.
One day, a clear, crisp sound, like spring thunder breaking through ice, suddenly came from Xuan Yao's sea of consciousness.
The towering image of the divine general slowly opened its eyes at that moment.
Its left eye was as red as fire, and its right eye was as clear as water.
Behind his head, a wheel of Tao, half red and half blue, intertwined with water and fire, was slowly and endlessly rotating.
The long halberd, which was originally formed solely from the fire patterns of the departing flames, was now also covered with a layer of mysterious water patterns.
Between water and fire, there is both the meaning of endless life and the hidden edge of invincibility.
Xuan Yao slowly opened his eyes.
On either side of the platform, the crimson-gold flames of the fire sycamore trees and the pale blue light of the peach branches intertwined above his head to form a complete yin-yang symbol.
"When water and fire are in harmony, the divine will be restored."
Xuan Yao exhaled a long breath of Xuan Qi, which was a mixture of light blue and crimson, and a faint smile appeared on his face.