The Path of the Martial Arts BOSS
Chapter 461 - 273: Caught in the Dao

Chapter 461: Chapter 273: Caught in the Dao

Feng Chaonan had everything arranged, and Qing Yu finally entered a period of dedicated cultivation.

With a Pharmacist present and the psychological suggestion Qing Yu had planted in Feng Chaonan’s mind, even without Qing Yu’s attention, Feng Chaonan wouldn’t be able to stir up any trouble.

However, when Qing Yu was polishing the Three Elements and entering the final stage, he encountered a minor problem.

That was, the Spirit and Energy were not completely compatible with the flesh, resulting in a slight flaw.

Qing Yu had always been dedicated to cultivating Daoist skills while concurrently cultivating Buddhist and demonic arts. His True Qi and Divine Origin were integrated as one, in perfect harmony. Logically, his body should be the same, since both Qi and Divine Origin are derived from Refining Essence and Transforming Qi, and Refining Qi to God.

But, because Qing Yu had absorbed part of the essence blood from the relics left behind by a Divinity Realm warrior from Vajra Temple, and had studied the Buddhist Protective Divine Skill "Golden Bell Shield," his body was purely aligned with the Buddhist approach, making it difficult to sync with the constantly changing properties of True Qi and Divine Origin.

As everyone knows, the Buddhist approach, though compassionate, is also domineering.

This isn’t apparent in their teachings, but once materialized into martial arts, it becomes clear that Buddhist martial arts have a strong assimilative nature. If one is not careful or is not firm in resolve, it is easy to be led astray by the Buddhist Law in martial arts, veering off into the Buddhist domain.

On the other hand, Qing Yu’s own path was One Qi to Ten Thousand Qi, and later, All Techniques to Unity, which meant that the singular nature of his bodily characteristics could potentially obstruct his Dao.

Of course, such a minor flaw was not something Qing Yu couldn’t solve in the future, nor did it significantly affect his progress towards the True Pill. For an average person, delaying the solution till the future would not be unacceptable.

But Qing Yu was different.

Before advancing to True Pill, he still had to face the Divine Origin Realm System Boss. Anyone who could become a System Boss was noted in the system records as having reached the peak within their realm, the most supreme being.

Qing Yu didn’t plan on confronting such an entity with even a minor flaw.

To resolve this minor flaw, Qing Yu had two methods.

The first was to train in additional Martial Arts to change his constitution.

The second was to refine his body with his inherently mutable but uniquely pure True Qi, harmonizing it with the other two elements.

Qing Yu chose the second option.

The first option would have been too troublesome, and other Body Refining Martial Arts couldn’t compare with the Golden Bell Shield strengthened by the relics’ transformed essence blood.

The second option, while merging the properties, would also completely refine the essence blood residues of the relics.

The very essence blood residue of the Divinity Realm that led Qing Yu’s body to gradually align with the Buddhist path was immensely effective.

Had it not been for this essence blood causing trouble, the Golden Bell Shield would have failed to affect Qing Yu.

"Indeed, the essence blood of a Divinity Realm warrior is not so easily absorbed," sighed Qing Yu.

The Divinity Realm was too far removed from Qing Yu’s current realm, making even the residual essence blood hard to digest. Especially during the period when Qing Yu, striving for a speedy mastery of the Golden Bell Shield, aggressively absorbed the essence blood from the relics, unwittingly falling into a trap.

As for whose trap he had fallen into, it was naturally that black-hearted Monk Shi Jue.

"I knew there was a reason why that thieving monk revealed the relics. Being a prominent young figure in the Great Zen Temple, he had plenty of things that could sway me.

Yet, he chose to bring out those unsavory relics. So, this was his plan..." sneered Qing Yu.

This trick reminded Qing Yu of his past life when he watched Heavenly Dragon, and the two fathers, Xiao Yuanshan and Murong Bo, who trapped their own sons.

Those two were also coveting the treasures of Buddhism without considering whether such things were easily obtained, and as a result, they practically handed themselves over to Buddhism.

"Back then, I criticized those two for robbing the chicken without being successful, ending up losing themselves instead. It seems when greed takes hold, no one is better than anyone else, isn’t it? Being unmoved is merely a matter of price," Qing Yu reflected.

Even Qing Yu, who was always cautious, had a moment of inadvertent lapse in the face of the irresistible Divine Realm relics; it would only be normal for others to fall into such calculated traps.

"Shi Jue, I truly underestimated you," Qing Yu admitted.

Once the top of the Dragon and Phoenix List, unsurpassed in his generation and even surpassing Yuan Jianyi and the Demon Young Master, he was indeed extraordinary.

Qing Yu had thought that after several collaborations, he had roughly grasped the measure of this black-hearted monk, yet unknowingly, he had nearly given himself away.

If it weren’t for Qing Yu’s profound and intricate grasp of the Three Elements, someone else might not even have noticed the flaw.

"Fortunately, I discovered it early," Qing Yu could only say that.

After a brief sigh, Qing Yu reined in his negative emotions and began to consider how to refine the accumulated essence blood of the relics within his body.

With mere polish refining, Qing Yu could do it. But that would take a vast amount of time.

Being of the Divinity Realm, and not an ordinary person, the difficulty Qing Yu faced in refining their essence blood was immense. If he were to refine it with a slow grind, he might not even complete it by the end of the Nirvana Ceremony.

Therefore, a proper and fast refining method was needed.

For such methods, Qing Yu had some ideas.

The reason why True Pill was called a Pill and not referred to by Buddhist relics, or the Confucian Dan Heart, was because of its closest resemblance to the Taoist Alchemy. Before Buddhism entered the Central Plains and before Confucianism rose, the True Pill had always been known as the Golden Core.

The process of its creation was in fact derived from the Taoist Alchemy Dao.

Therefore, for the harmonization of the Three Elements before the True Pill Realm, Taoism had the most detailed and thorough methods.

"As for the supreme of Taoist Alchemy Dao, naturally, Dragon Tiger Mountain comes to mind," Qing Yu thought with an ambiguous meaning.

The "Nine Tripods Elixir Scripture" of Dragon Tiger Mountain, passed down by the Dao Ancestor, had been augmented by later generations. It was arguably the most comprehensive and profound Alchemy Dao classic of ancient and modern times. The mere titles of the Alchemy methods known to the world included the Xuanhuang Method, Dan Hua Method, Returning Elixir Method...

With the "Nine Tripods Elixir Scripture" in hand, harmonizing the Three Elements would naturally not be a problem.

But considering Qing Yu’s relationship with Dragon Tiger Mountain, obtaining the "Nine Tripods Elixir Scripture"...

Heh.

Even those indebted to Dragon Tiger Mountain would not likely hand over their ancestral Shocking World Pill Scripture for study, let alone Qing Yu, who appeared unfamiliar, but was actually someone with deep-seated enmity.

"Fortunately, Dragon Tiger Mountain isn’t the only way to obtain this solution," Qing Yu thought.

In the current world, the "Nine Tripods Elixir Scripture" indeed was only mastered by members of the Zhang Family, but not all of them belonged to Dragon Tiger Mountain.

To Qing Yu’s knowledge, there was a traitor from the Zhang Family who had stolen the "Nine Tripods Elixir Scripture" and currently held a not insignificant reputation in the worldly society.