Chapter 13: Practice the Dinghai Divine Pearl and Prove the Dao in the World

After controlling the Taiyin True Fire, Hong Yun began to continue refining the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler.

However, the difficulty of refining the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler was beyond Hong Yun's expectations. It took Hong Yun more than 100,000 years to refine most of its restrictions.

There are only fifteen restrictions left, which makes Hong Yun feel the pressure. It is not impossible to refine a few more if he continues to attack.

But it's not worth it. After all, compared with magic weapons, one's own cultivation is more important.

If refining the restriction was not a process of comprehending the spiritual treasure itself, Hong Yun would not even waste so much time refining the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler.

There are fifteen restrictions left, but Hong Yun plans to put them aside for the time being. It will not be too late to refine them when his cultivation level reaches a higher level in the future.

As for now, the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler, which has refined thirty-four restrictions, is enough for his own use.

After coming out of seclusion, he ate Zhen Yuanzi's ginseng fruit again. Although more than 100,000 years had passed, Zhen Yuanzi did not pick the ginseng fruit every 10,000 years.

Instead, let them hang there. The longer they hang, the better the quality of the fruits will be.

There will be more or less a trace of the great law in them, and the longer the time, the more there will be.

Afterwards, Hong Yun traveled around the prehistoric world with Zhen Yuanzi, mainly because Zhen Yuanzi took him to see other powerful people.

Communicating and discussing with these powerful people, etc., has also benefited Hong Yun a lot.

Hong Yun also gradually determined his own way to attain enlightenment. In the ancient times, there were three popular ways to attain enlightenment, which were also the three methods that Hongjun taught in Zixiao Palace not long after. They were: attaining enlightenment by force, attaining enlightenment by beheading the three corpses, and attaining enlightenment by merit.

Among these three ways of proving the Dao, Hong Yun chose to prove the Dao by force. The reason was that proving the Dao by force was strong enough and was the most stable way.

It's not like beheading the three corpses to attain enlightenment, although the levels are clear, beheading the three corpses and combining the three corpses, if there is any mistake in the process, it will waste time even more.

As for attaining enlightenment through merit, although all the saints in the ancient times attained enlightenment through merit, and Hongyun also has a time traveler and prophet, it should be easy to plan some merit.

But Hongyun felt that he still had to be more cautious. After all, this way of attaining enlightenment through merit was quite special and could be carried out in parallel with other ways of attaining enlightenment.

In other words, you can use your strength to prove the truth while also gaining some merits to see if you can prove the truth through merits.

Or, like the six saints, didn't they also originally take the path of killing three corpses to attain enlightenment? But in the end, didn't they all attain enlightenment through merit?
Attaining the Tao through merit is not necessarily the weakest. It mainly depends on how much merit each person has gained. The more merit one has, the stronger one’s strength will naturally be.

Just imagine, if all the merits of Pangu in creating the world were concentrated in one person, would this person's strength be worse than those who proved their Tao through force or by beheading the three corpses?
Therefore, attaining enlightenment through merit and virtue does not necessarily mean weak strength, but it is true that this way of attaining enlightenment is not stable.

Merit is not something that can be gained forever. For example, Nuwa created human beings and Laozi founded religion. If the human race were destroyed, the merits of the two would disappear in an instant.

If one does not have sufficient cultivation to maintain it, one may even be knocked down from the saintly throne the moment his merits dissipate.

Because of this, Hong Yun was determined to prove his Dao with strength. Killing the three corpses to prove his Dao seemed easier than proving his Dao with strength, but it might not be really easy.

However, to prove the truth with force, as long as you are down-to-earth and take one step at a time, one force can defeat all obstacles, which is much more reliable.

After such a long period of accumulation, Hong Yun's cultivation has now broken through to the late stage of Daluo Jinxian.

On this day, Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi sat opposite each other in a palace in the Wuzhuang Temple on Wanshou Mountain.

"Brother, I am about to begin, and you protect me." Hongyun said to Zhen Yuanzi.

Zhen Yuanzi nodded upon hearing this.

Hong Yun's mind moved, and suddenly, twelve beads emitting five-colored light appeared in the air.

They formed a circle around Hong Yun's head, slowly rotating. These twelve beads were the Dinghai Shenzhu that Hong Yun had obtained from the Wu Clan's treasure house.

Hong Yun's cultivation had improved greatly in recent years, and he used the twelve Dinghai Divine Pearls to make calculations, and he came up with a method of sacrificing and refining the twenty-four heavens that was different from that of the Taoist Master Ran Deng.

Hong Yun did not intend to transform the twelve Dinghai Divine Pearls into the Twelve Heavens like the Taoist Master Ran Deng did.

Because they felt that doing so would only disperse the power of the twelve Dinghai Divine Pearls.

It would be better to refine the twelve Dinghai Divine Pearls into the only heaven, the only world.

Therefore, Hong Yun further comprehended the magical power of "The Universe in His Sleeves" gained from Zhen Yuanzi.

This magical power is the supreme magical power created by the great immortal Yangmei, which contains the infinite mysteries of the great way of space.

Hong Yun wanted to use the twelve Dinghai Divine Pearls to refine a world, so naturally he had to learn from them.

In addition, Hong Yun also plans to combine this world with his own way of proving his truth through force.

In the future, the world will become the foundation of my own preaching. As the world grows, my own strength will also grow.

This is obviously the method of attaining enlightenment in the world mentioned in the prehistoric novel that Hong Yun read in his previous life.

However, novels are novels and reality is reality. Hong Yun is just trying to create this method of proof bit by bit.

If you succeed in the future, it can also become an independent method of achieving enlightenment.

But now, I still temporarily return to proving the truth through force, which can be regarded as the combination of two methods.

In short, Hongyun is about to start trying now.

But Hong Yun silently practiced his profound skills, opened his mouth and spit out a ball of colorful flames.

I saw that the colors of this flame were white, red, green, purple, yellow, pink, etc., but this flame was a mixture of more than a dozen kinds of powerful divine fires from the ancient times.

In addition to the previous Taiyin True Fire, Hong Yun has traveled around the prehistoric world with Zhen Yuanzi in recent years, made friends with many Taoists, and found many powerful divine fires.

Among them, the ten great divine fires of the ancient times include the Taiyin True Fire, the Sun True Fire, the Nanming Li Fire, the Ziwei Heavenly Fire, the Red Lotus Karma Fire, and the Samadhi True Fire.

In addition to these ten divine fires, there are some that Hong Yun has never heard of before, such as the Earth Core Divine Fire, the Ice Soul True Fire, the Nine Nether Poison Fire and the Six Desires Love Fire.

Hong Yun refined these divine fires one by one and mixed them together. The various divine fires blended together to form the colorful and strange flame in front of him.

However, although this flame looks strange, its power is extremely terrifying.

Hong Yun dropped a Dinghai Divine Pearl into it and activated the flame to perform a ritual. It only took a thousand years to melt the Dinghai Divine Pearl.

But after the Dinghai Divine Pearl was melted, it turned into a dazzling five-colored light.

This ray of light is the so-called innate immortal spiritual light, and it is also the origin of the Dinghai Divine Pearl.

Next, beads were continuously thrown into the flames, and Hong Yun's proficiency became higher and higher.

Finally, after spending about ten thousand years, Hong Yun melted all the twelve Dinghai Shenzhen Pearls.

Twelve innate immortal spiritual lights floated in front of Hongyun and Zhen Yuanzi, shining brightly and extremely bright!
(End of this chapter)