Free Web NovelChapter 1630: Chapter 1256: Among Water, the Mightiest Is the Dragon; Among Land, the Mightiest Is the Elephant
"Returning to Truth Realm 8? Returning to Truth Realm 8!!! He actually... broke through two realms in one day, how is this possible? Is it a special technique, or..."
Fifty miles away, an old man with graying hair closed his eyes, his spirit shaken. Just by feeling, he had already sensed the realm Jiang Dali had broken through.
His steps continued, his sleeves fluttering, as he strode quickly towards the Leshan Giant Buddha, with each step measured as if by a ruler.
However, the strange thing was that with each step, the old man’s figure appeared ghost-like thirty zhang away.
In this manner, the old man would cover three hundred zhang every ten steps, as if one moment he was before your eyes, and the next, just a tiny silhouette in the distance, giving people a sense of profound mystery.
Yet even such a mysterious person felt a deep sense of awe toward Jiang Dali, who was even more enigmatic, feeling as though one mountain always surpasses another in height.
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At the top of the Leshan Giant Buddha.
Jiang Dali, towering like a Demon God, stood amidst the crackling arcs of thunder and fire, his body charred black, with even his hair smoking. His clothes entirely burned away, and even his golden silk pants and Iron Nail Bracelet had melted into lumps of iron due to nature’s power, sticking to his hips and arms.
At this moment, only the Great Strength Fire Qilin Saber on his back and Dharma’s Heart around his neck remained intact.
Even his God-like body had suffered from more than ten thunderstrikes, unable to withstand such formidable power against his Divine Demon Golden Body.
But at this moment, he had skillfully entered the supreme truths of the "Dragon Elephant Wisdom" through the Primordial State, reshaping the four fundamental elements of the body—earth, water, fire, and wind, which are the Three Elements—causing the sudden surge in Essence Qi, spirit, and power, to be further condensed and reshaped, not only becoming more mighty, but allowing him to slowly gather this amplifying power with his spirit’s strength.
This is the true meaning of "Dragon Elephant Wisdom."
This Martial Arts technique has always emphasized more than just brute force cultivation.
It is about harnessing the body’s strength and wisdom through the power of the spirit to subdue inner evil thoughts.
Buddha said: "In water, the creature with the greatest strength is the dragon; on land, the creature with the greatest strength is the elephant."
Before Jiang Dali obtained the "Dragon Elephant Wisdom," it existed in a state of fragmentary loss in the Martial World.
Even within the Vajra Sect, only six Chapters were collected, not pointing directly to the complete essence.
But two years ago, a highly skilled monk in Buddhism collected six Chapters of "Dragon Elephant Wisdom."
This person’s identity was not ordinary, having learned numerous Shaolin secret techniques in the past.
Later, he was crippled by enemies and chased in the Martial World, betrayed by friends, and his Martial Arts were destroyed. He survived in exile to the Western Regions, combining his Great Enlightenment state with his previously learned but now discarded deep Buddhist Martial Arts understanding, gradually completing and perfecting the full thirteen layers of "Dragon Elephant Wisdom," which is now in Jiang Dali’s possession.
This high monk claims to have dreamed on the night of his Great Enlightenment, enlightened by someone named Feiyun, later realizing that the foundation of "Dragon Elephant Wisdom" is rooted in the basics of Tibetan Martial Arts.
Tibetan Martial Arts do not cultivate meridians, acupoints, and Dantian, referring not to the Seven Chakras and Three Meridians, but originating from the Tibetan Medicine’s concepts of "two meridians, three elements, and five sources."
"Two meridians" refer to Black Meridian and White Meridian.
The Black Meridian centers on the heart, separating into the body’s vibrating meridian and resting meridian, akin to blood vessels but not entirely the same.
The White Meridian centers on the brain, spreading throughout the body, similar to the nervous system.
As for the "Three Elements," they refer to the three energies within the body.
In Tibetan terms, these powers are referred to as "Long," "Chi Ba," and "Bai Gen."
"Long" represents the "Wind Element" among the four fundamental elements, similar to "Qi," the source of all dynamics.
"Chi Ba" represents the "Fire Element," and "Bai Gen" represents the "Water Element" and "Earth Element."
Peaceful cultivation of the Three Elements does not seek excess.
Once excessive, imbalance occurs, leading to disease.
Therefore, the Three Elements also correspond to the Three Poisons recorded in Buddhism.
Too much "Long" leads to greed.
Too much "Chi Ba" leads to anger.
Too much "Bai Gen" leads to delusion...
This complete "Dragon Elephant Wisdom" revised by the high monk focuses on the strength of water and earth, through the cultivation principle that the greatest strength "in water is the dragon, and on land is the elephant," refining the foundational power of fire.
Then through the Three Mystical Truths formed by these three core sources into Dragon and Elephant Power, entering the brain through countless nerve meridians of the White Meridian, refining the body’s Wind Element, birthing Bodhi Wisdom in the brain, ultimately shedding the four elements to achieve the legendary state of "All Four Elements Are Emptiness."
These cultivation methods, when spoken, can already make ordinary people feel a headache.
With Jiang Dali’s high Martial Arts mastery, since obtaining this complete version of "Dragon Elephant Wisdom" from Chi Meng, he had already understood the cultivation method of this secret technique through thorough study, but had difficulty starting the cultivation.
Because if one only starts cultivation superficially, as the Martial World rumors go, it is easy to enter but difficult to reach Great Success.
Ultimately, when you think about how to cultivate this technique, you have already fallen into the lower level, and your spirit will find it difficult to access Bodhi wisdom, hard to subdue the anger in your heart.
But if you don’t think about how to cultivate this technique, how can you cultivate quickly?
This is inherently a very contradictory and challenging secret technique that tests human nature and spiritual realm, a product of wisdom that combines Buddhism and martial arts, which ordinary martial world people cannot overcome and comprehend.
Jiang Dali, too, was at a moment of knowing but not knowing truly, when in the breakthrough to Realm 8 of Returning to Truth, his spirit touched upon the subtle state of "All Four Elements Are Emptiness", quickly stabilizing his heart with a primordial state, thus rapidly using the remaining cultivation points and potential points in a near "exploiting a glitch" manner to understand and cultivate the true meaning of "Dragon Elephant Wisdom", reshaping the four primordial elements of earth, wind, water, and fire in his body.
At this moment.
His physical condition is terrible, yet with the reshaping of the four primordial elements of earth, wind, water, and fire, his injuries recover quickly.
All his limbs and bones, including organs, are strengthened under this mysterious power, and the brain too is like a light bulb being illuminated, opening up more wisdom.
If an expert were to view Jiang Dali’s physical condition at this time, they would find that in his mind, his body presents a complex and awe-inspiring human diagram. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm
He is glowing all over, as if electrified, with muscles full and skin taut, meridians, brain, organs, all shining as he continues to strengthen and consolidate after breaking through to Realm 8 of Returning to Truth.
Those muscles, skin ripped or scorched by heavenly thunder, quickly recover, scab, and shed, even scars fade quickly...
The blood bar that had dropped halfway recovers rapidly with the powerful heartbeat and even its limit keeps rising.
A great formidable force, hard to ignore, surges from the ancient demon-like muscles of Jiang Dali.
It’s rumored that with each level of cultivating "Dragon Elephant Wisdom", the Dragon Elephant Power grows, up to Power of Ten Dragons and Ten Elephants at the Tenth Level.
Jiang Dali always thought it was a hyperbolic statement.
In fact, it truly is a hyperbolic statement.
The actual cultivation of "Dragon Elephant Wisdom", each successful level is equated to a reshaping of earth, water, fire, and wind inside, and those with lower physical strength basics and higher spiritual realm find it easier and more evident to progress.
But the improvement in the early levels is truly limited.
For example, martial world lore states that after successfully cultivating the first level of "Dragon Elephant Wisdom", it merely equals the addition of a grown man’s strength to the body.
At the second level, it adds the strength equivalent to four grown men.
And all the way to the fourth level, it merely adds the strength of sixteen grown men to the body.
Such lore is measured by ordinary people’s standards, strong but still within the dreams of ordinary martial world people, but for Jiang Dali, naturally powerful in strength, not much concern is given to such trivial enhancement.
Actually, after cultivating himself, he discovered that for someone inherently strong like him, reshaping once the four elements with "Dragon Elephant Wisdom" enhances strength possibly exceeding the level ordinary people achieve from the first to ninth level.
Modestly speaking, even without reaching the thousand at the tenth level, his physical strength surely increased by a force of three hundred people.
This is likely because his physical strength basics are inherently hundreds of times stronger than ordinary people, so even reshaping once the four elements brings enhancements far exceeding ordinary disparities.
But this fortunate method of cultivating near "exploiting a glitch" style, Jiang Dali knows without further fortune, it would be difficult to replicate again.
Just because upon breakthrough these chance encounters into the "spiritual silence" state, it’s hard to find and once found fleetingly passes by, possibly missed with a moment’s thought; such opportunity is hard to grasp again.
Even methodically cultivating "Dragon Elephant Wisdom", consuming large amounts of cultivation and potential points to enhance, without grasping the essence of "All Four Elements Are Emptiness", it’s impossible to touch the realm of this secret technique’s Bodhi wisdom, difficult to reshape the four primordial elements or enhance the basic physical strength, at most enhancing some inner strength, not worth the cost.
Now as Jiang Dali’s aura calms, the breakthrough ends, dark clouds gradually disperse, and the turbulent river water slowly calms.
Under distant gazing skeptical eyes, Jiang Dali seated on Buddha’s Peak appeared as though struck by heavenly thunder into charcoal.
Who would know, beneath the surface charred like charcoal, lies a renewed surge of vitality and strong life force.
He suddenly maintains a seated posture, activating all muscles, a delightful sound of muscle undulations echoes, like sliding pebbles underwater, smooth yet textured.
His densely packed muscles throughout, begin to violently pulse with a thought, bouncing lively like active spring water, full of vitality and life.
The range of muscle activity not limited to limbs, even includes chest and back, or simply hardest to control top muscles, including even the subtle muscles behind the neck, all under precise control.
This precise control of various body forces achieved after accessing Bodhi wisdom is what Jiang Dali pursued as "Control Power".
Under such control power, even just breaking through to Realm 8 of Returning to Truth, his "Physical Strength" becomes flexible and refined like water, yet explosive, aggressive, grand mighty.
This is surely the Water’s greatest power as Dragon, Land’s greatest power as Elephant—the Dragon Elephant Power!
Refined delicate, yet powerfully massive!
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(Promised updates! Continuing during the day! Guess who the old person is!)
