947: Chapter 267: Where is the Person_2 947: Chapter 267: Where is the Person_2 And in the Cave World, cultivators gradually cultivated, condensed a demon fetus in the Demonic Realm, drew upon the Heaven and Earth Laws in the Heavenly Human Realm, then crossed the Heavenly Tribulation to refine the laws, and afterward opened up within these laws.
Compared to this, the cultivator’s Cave World is closer to the Soul Beast’s Profound Realm.
Ji Feixue then merged the inner world of the beast body with the Cave World of the human body into one.
Su He had always considered the cultivation methods of traditional Taoism from his previous life.
The more Xuanwu cultivated, the more it resembled the Qi Cultivators from the legends of the previous life, refining its own spirit essence and divine intents, reversing the root source…
It was just like the legendary refining essence into Qi, refining Qi into Divine, refining Divine back into the void…
In Taihe Palace, it was discussed with Thai Zu.
Thai Zu believed that this path was feasible, but not the only path, and not necessarily the best one.
Qi Cultivators were also present in this realm in the past, rumored to be seen even at the Heavenly Court before.
But that path is no longer suitable for today’s world—not that Qi Cultivators were bad, but the world had changed!
It’s not just about Qi Cultivators; even the path of Transcendence, Demonic, and Stepping Sky for cultivation has become less smooth.
It had been twenty or thirty million years since anyone had opened the Fairy Sect and stepped into the Immortal Realm.
Some of the Yuan Qi between heaven and earth is only found in the Mystery Yellow Cave Sky now, let alone earlier methods of cultivation.
The Way of Xuanwu, even the Way of the Four Sacred Beasts, was closer to the cultivators.
The Divine God Beast’s method of Opening The Heaven did not work at all in Xuanwu’s cultivation, and this was the first time Su He truly saw the direction of his Xuanwu path.
The inner world transforming into the Cave World could still change back and forth; the Way of Xuanwu is feasible!
“Sister, how did you initially transform your inner world into the Cave World?” Su He asked, suppressing his excitement.
“Sister?” Ji Feixue was startled, “Is that what you called me in the later generation?”
It sounds more pleasant to the ear compared to ‘wife’.
Why come here and keep calling her ‘wife’?
Su He: “…That’s not important, we’re discussing cultivation right now!”
Ji Feixue snorted, but still answered, “Do you have separate inner worlds for your first and second body?”
Su He shook his head, “No, both bodies share the same inner world.”
“Then why would you think about transforming your inner world into a Cave World?” Ji Feixue’s voice was calm, like a master giving a lesson, “The Boundary Pearl is in the Dragon Turtle body, generating the Dragon Turtle Yuan, in the Peacock body it produces the Peacock True Energy.
If there is a human body, the inner world naturally serves as the Cave World; why bother yourself?”
Because of her origins, she naturally could have a human body.
It seemed like the inner world had transformed into a Cave World, but in fact, she didn’t do anything.
It was like when Su He’s Dragon Turtle True Form transformed into the Peacock True Body, nothing was done, and the Yuan generated from the Boundary Pearl naturally changed.
Even though Su He was slow-headed, at this moment, he was truly at the Opening Heaven Three-fold stage.
His experiences and knowledge certainly weren’t much inferior to Ji Feixue during her tribulation.
If Su He couldn’t do it now, how could Ji Feixue have done it back then?
“What you should be thinking about is not the transformation of the world but where the human body lies,” Ji Feixue’s voice came directly through consciousness, like a thunderclap exploding in Su He’s mind.
Suddenly, Su He was utterly stunned.
Where the human body lies…
Ji Feixue’s form shifted again, and from human to dragon, as the injuries she obtained from the giant palm scolding in the great tomb had not fully recovered.
It was a good opportunity to heal.
There was only this one chance, not because Ji Feixue was stingy.
She could sense that, under Su He Qi Te’s Tao Rhythm, once her injuries recovered, the weaknesses between human and dragon transformations might be compensated.
Afterward, even if he pulled Su He’s Divine Sense here again, he would not sense the intricacies of the transformation between human and dragon anymore.
This was also why Ji Feixue brought him here.
It wasn’t familiar now, but considering they were husband and wife in the future, if she could help, Ji Feixue was not stingy.
Su He’s consciousness focused on the constantly changing Ji Feixue, but deep in his mind, he endlessly conjectured his own path.
The Tao Te Ching resonated unknowingly, and a turtle and a dragon gradually fell into a state of enlightenment.
In Ji Feixue’s eyes, it was as if both human and dragon forms existed simultaneously.
Using the Tao Rhythm of the Dragon Turtle, she gradually melted the flaws between the human and dragon forms.
And Su He, utterly motionless, fell completely into a stupor, watching Ji Feixue transform, watching the fusion of human and dragon, his consciousness unknowingly receded from Ji Feixue.
Returning to himself, he observed his own inner world still drizzling, gazing at the Xuanwu Star Lodge above his head.
Feeling the rotation of the Boundary Pearl, feeling the surge of the True Yuan.
As days passed by, Ji Feixue’s healing had long finished, but she didn’t leave the array, transforming into a human form and waiting by the side.
At some point, Su He began to shift between the Dragon Turtle True Form and the Peacock True Body.
Feeling the transformation between the two forms, feeling the subtle differences in the True Yuan condensed outside the Boundary Pearl during the sudden changes.
Memories of the Evil-suppressing Taoist Palace and the Xuanwu Passage flashed through his mind, recalling the humanoid transformation of Xuanwu.
After an unknown duration, a speck of starlight above his head seemingly connected with the star constellations of the Four Directions Starlords in the vast cosmos.
Su He looked up and was able to see the Heavenly Star constellations in the Netherworld.
The starry sky was divided into regions.
Each of the Twenty-eight Constellations had their designated tasks.
In the north, Xuanwu meandered, transforming into a man dressed in a dark imperial robe.
In the south, the Vermilion Bird spread its wings, emitting a cry that transformed into an Empress, standing in midair with phoenix eyes overlooking all Heavens and Myriad Realms.
The Azure Dragon in the east let out a long chant and its coiling form also transformed into an emperor, with a towering tree holding up the sky behind him, turning the entire east into a lush green world.
Only the White Tiger from the west, unlike the others who transformed into emperors, became a great general clad in armor, exuding an intimidating aura.
The existence of these four beings stirred up the entire starry sky.
A humanoid form…
He had found it!
The humanoid form had always been there!
It wasn’t about achieving a humanoid form to prove the Xuanwu; rather, embarking on the Way of Xuanwu naturally led to developing a humanoid form!
The true form of Xuanwu lay in the Xuanwu Star, embodying both human and beast forms.
In fact, Xuanwu did not need to open a Cave World, for Xuanwu itself was a stretch of the cosmos.
The Xuanwu Cave World had long existed, already unified with the inner world, hanging in the sky of the inner world.
Perhaps Thai Zu had already hinted at how he should walk this path?
With doubts in his heart, Su He focused on the Xuanwu Star Fate, much like Ji Feixue had begun her humanoid transformation from the inner world, manipulating Xuanwu Power, emulating it bit by bit.
Su He’s awareness focused on the Xuanwu Star Fate in the inner world.
The Xuanwu Star Fate transformed into the shape of Xuanwu, meandering through the stellar space, then the Spirit Snake merged into the Turtle Body, its limbs stretching out to form arms and legs, and the Turtle Shell serving as clothing, instantaneously transforming into a humanoid shadow.
It was Su He’s appearance from his previous life, clad in a black robe, rather dashing.
He stood in the inner world’s heavenly expanse like the Emperor of the North.
But before he could fully project the humanoid shadow into the Dragon Turtle True Form, he sensed something fiercely tugging at the figure, and the shadow shattered explosively, reverting to a sky full of stars.
Su He tried again, but the outcome remained the same.
Su He fell silent for a long while, then understood.
He possessed the Transforming Beast Guide, and Xuanwu alone could not truly coalesce into human form!
The Transforming Beast Guide indeed turned out to be a barrier to human transformation.
Su He withdrew his consciousness from the inner world and looked up at the starry sky again—the Netherworld Realm originally had no stars visible.
But at this moment, in his eyes, the starry sky was still there, still the three emperors and one general.
Having learned from the experience of Xuanwu Star Fate transforming into humanoid, looking at the four figures in the sky again, he could vaguely discern.
This was not the actual starry sky, but rather like the power of starlight, a marvelous concentration of force.
This power was not native to the Netherworld; rather, it had been projected there.
This power was the foundation of the Four Directions Starlords.
Su He carefully watched, the starry sky twinkling in his eyes.
He pulled it downward as if he were a practitioner in Tian Xing Palace extracting power from starlight, seemingly pulling down the entire starry sky, drawing this power down, bit by bit, shrinking and settling into his forehead, entering his body.
The power within him slowly coalesced, forming a…
perfect tetrahedron.
Like a crystal, clear and brilliant.
This was the physical representation of the Transforming Beast Guide.
In each of the four vertices, there was a roaring apparition of a Sacred Beast.
The upper vertex where Xuanwu was fully consolidated, but in the spot for Vermilion Bird an apparition of a Peacock soared instead.
The other two vertices for Azure Dragon and White Tiger were completely just apparitions.
All four vertices simultaneously projected their power towards the center, slowly coalescing into a humanoid figure.
Su He realized then, if the Four Sacred Beasts gathered together, a humanoid form would naturally take shape instantly.
But now, with only one and a half—the Xuanwu consolidated and the Vermilion Bird merely a Peacock Body, and no hope for White Tiger or Azure Dragon—the creation of a humanoid form seemed as hard as reaching the heavens.
However, at the moment the crystal consolidated, Xuanwu and Peacock had already begun continuously transferring their power towards the central humanoid figure.
Xuanwu consolidated into a humanoid shape, and while the Peacock did not become the Vermilion Bird, it nonetheless added a pair of wings to the humanoid figure’s back.
Truly astonishing.
Su He watched for a long time, then slowly opened his eyes and nodded towards Ji Feixue, the protector sitting beside him.
Although he still could not shape a humanoid form, it was…
close!