A person in Japan, a sword that soars to immortality.

Chapter 141 The Golden Crow Carries the Sun

With a single sword strike, the world fell silent.

A crisp snapping sound rang out, and the gray aura surrounding Bliss Island began to separate to both sides along the sword mark.

Taiyi's pupils contracted as he saw, from a distance of a hundred meters, Lian, who was also slowly rising into the air from the center of Paradise Island.

The purple hair hanging down her forehead covered half of Lian's face, and Taiyi's face was reflected in her single purple pupil.

With a smirk, Lian raised her hand, flipped her palm over, and beckoned to Taiyi.

"Ha~"

With a raised eyebrow, Taiichi tilted his head, grinned, and revealed a set of pearly white teeth.

"As expected, you haven't stood still either."

In sight, besides the lotus, five orbs of light shone in each of the five directions of Paradise Island.

Red, blue, gold, cyan, and brown—the colors of the five elements, and the five celestial beings.

Looking at the five points that faintly formed a pentagram, each connected by an aura to the lotus in the center, Taiyi murmured:

"The Six Harmonies Formation?"

He then unleashed his divine soul power and, through the feedback of their auras, discovered the celestial beings scattered in five locations, as well as the changes they underwent.

Orchids, peonies, peach blossoms, chrysanthemums, hibiscus, and osmanthus.

Some became more robust, some had black and white energy intertwined to form a tai chi pattern, and some controlled hundreds of giant, armored door gods.

"As expected of Paradise Island, is this your true strength?"

Taiyi frowned slightly, took a deep breath, and his gaze became sharp.

When the First Emperor unified the country, he naturally suppressed the various schools of thought and sects.

Judging from the changes in Lan and other celestial beings, Taiyi sensed the power of strategic maneuvering, the aura of ingenuity, and the spirit of iron and blood.

"Although the celestial beings have also become stronger, it's only been a little over a month..."

"So, it's not that we can't fight!"

With his back to everyone, Tai turned his head slightly and said calmly:

"Gentlemen, we're about to go up."

Call ~

Led by Hakumei-maru, and accompanied by the samurai of the Yamada family, they all knelt on one knee, bowed their heads, and solemnly said:

"I am willing to die for you, sir!"

Unaware of what was going on, Azazuki and Kenryu saw that everyone else was kneeling, so they looked left and right and also knelt down on one knee in a similar manner.

No, why should I say that? Although Lord Taiyi is like a god, I don't want to die!

As he looked down, Azazuki secretly glanced at Kenryu Minaya Gentetsu, and read the same thoughts in the other's eyes.

ha~

Click!

His eyes curved into crescents, and a slight smile played at the corners of his lips. As Taiyi's left thumb pushed open the sword guard, he uttered his final words:

"It is my honor to fight alongside you all. I entrust this to you."

sulfuric acid......

The sword hummed softly as the spirit of Futsu was drawn from its sheath.

Taiyi thrust forward with his sword, the tip slicing through the air and creating two white streaks of air as he charged ahead.

Meanwhile, Huameiwan and the others behind him were also being controlled by him, rushing towards five locations on the island where celestial beings were located.

The air around him exploded, but Tai remained unfazed. His eyes were fixed on Lian, and he also used all his divine soul power to try to pinpoint the location of the outer elixir flower, Pangu Flower.

"Underground?"

He narrowed his eyes and immediately sensed a powerful life force seeping from the ground beneath the lotus.

"Yamada Asemon Taichi!"

A ripping sound rang out, and just as the two were about to make contact, Lian's clothes burst open.

It has an extra vertical eye on its forehead and six arms all over its body.

These six arms, two of which are joined together in front of the chest, combine the ten mudras, uniting the ten Dharma realms into one body.

The remaining four hands are respectively formed in the earth-touching mudra, the wish-granting mudra, the wisdom mudra, and the fearlessness mudra.

"Neither Tao nor Buddhism, Lotus, you can't kill me with such methods alone!"

"Ignorant child, don't you know that Buddhism is one family, and that Buddhism is the Tao!"

"I'm still dreaming about divine intervention!"

Swish!

Golden lightning crackled wildly as Taiyi cleared his mind of all thoughts, letting only his instinctive fighting spirit control his body.

Futsu no Mitama, the master of the Qianyang Qi Pavilion, fully revealed the power of the divine sword. Before it even touched Ren's body, the sword light emanating from its tip already made the opponent feel the sensation of skin being cut.

Snapped!

"Hmm? You've got something here, Lian!"

The sword was caught between the opponent's palms and could not advance an inch. Taiyi grinned and his forearm swelled up, with veins bulging out from under the skin like vines. Then he flipped his wrist and swept it horizontally.

The moment her hand was severed, Lian didn't even flinch. Her other hand, which was in the Fearless Mudra and enveloped in dense, compressed true energy, slammed directly towards Taiyi's head.

boom!

A huge explosion rang out, and two figures shot off at opposite ends, followed by a horse standing still in the air.

Tiny vines grew from the broken ends, and the severed lotus hand quickly healed.

Taiyi, on the other hand, started from the neck, and like a 3D printing scan model, his blown-up head grew back completely in the blink of an eye.

"Hehe, did you think that only celestial beings could regenerate limbs?"

Seeing the other person's surprised look, Taiyi covered his neck with his left hand, tilted his head and grinned maliciously.

At the same time, he stopped attacking and instead checked the lotus's attributes.

【Name: Lotus (Doll)】

【Age: 2117】

【life:???】

[Energy Count: 30.4]

[Qi and Blood: 32.6W]

[Spiritual Essence: 3.3]

"Sure enough, the ratio of the value of the soul to the essence and blood is not 1:5 like mine."

Taiichi slowly inserted Futsu-no-Mitama into the scabbard, then bent over in a bow stance, assuming the posture of drawing his sword.

"Is this the primordial spirit constructed from the essence of flowers and the essence of Yang? No wonder her body collapses when her emotions fluctuate."

According to the cultivation method generated by the system, Taiyi determined that a stable body energy structure could only be established when the ratio of spiritual power to essence and blood was 1:5.

But increasing one's spiritual power is the most difficult.

The methods that Zuoqie and Axia used to help him enhance his spiritual power were just for fun.

It wasn't until the appearance of the Elixir Fire that Taiyi's spiritual growth finally had a truly correct method.

There are different ways to achieve immortality.

During the pre-Qin period, internal alchemy was just one of many methods, perhaps because the primordial energy of heaven and earth was more abundant and there were more rare and precious materials available at that time.

It's also possible that the difficulty in condensing a perfect divine spirit through internal alchemy practice made internal alchemy not a mainstream practice in Lian's era.

The idea of ​​internal alchemy is good, but it is almost impossible to refine the physical body to a high level.

Who can guarantee that everything will go smoothly during this polishing process?

During cultivation, one will encounter various troubles, such as inner demons, calamities, entanglements of cause and effect, and great changes in the world.

This also explains why the Daoist canon always contains accounts of abandoning one's physical form and ascending to immortality.

It's simply that we can't wait any longer, or rather, the physical body can't be refined at all, so the primordial spirit has to leave.

"But just because others can't do it doesn't mean I can't."

"No matter what, I will seize every sliver of opportunity, every fleeting possibility!"

Taiyi's gaze grew increasingly sharp, and the killing intent rising from his body distorted the space around him.

With a crisp click, Futsu-no-Mitama was drawn from its sheath once more.

Like the rising sun, the brilliant golden flames enveloped Taiyi, and the figure emerging from within, illuminated by the distorted air, resembled a three-legged golden crow spreading its wings, ready to take flight.

【Five Elements Gathering at the Origin - Convergence - Golden Crow Carrying the Sun】

boom!