“No one could remain calm. The Red Dust Female Saint was too legendary. Among the Supremes, the Red Dust Female Saint was an exception, but legends concerning her could rank within the top ten of Supremes, and possibly even the top three.
And such a person had erected such a towering boulder, writing these few characters upon it.
Ye Chu gazed at those large characters. The more he looked, the more he felt the conception within was boundless, permeating between heaven and earth. All conceptions were ethereal and hard to trace, yet existed within the worldly red dust.
The three simply stood beneath the boulder. Compared to the boulder, they were like ants.
Ji Die closed her eyes and suddenly sat cross-legged beneath the boulder, using her mind to comprehend the characters imprinted upon it. The characters on the boulder were written with dragons flying and phoenixes dancing. Every stroke held miraculous patterns. Combined together, they possessed a quality of seeming yet not seeming, both ethereal and worldly.
Ye Chu likewise closed his eyes and sat down, using his primordial spirit to comprehend the boulder’s conception. Everyone knew this boulder absolutely contained the Red Dust Female Saint’s conception. As long as one could comprehend even a shred, it would bring immense benefit.
However, for a figure on the level of the Red Dust Female Saint, how could her conception be so easy to comprehend?
This sitting lasted three days. For three days, Ye Chu and Ji Die hardly changed at all. They simply sat there, their bodies not moving in the slightest.
“We only envy mandarin ducks, not immortals. Immortals transcend the world, existing eternally, beyond the mundane dust. But love belongs to the mundane dust, ultimately returning to yellow earth. The mundane dust is fleeting. How can it compare to immortals?”
“The mundane dust has love. How could immortals and gods not have love? How could they not have mundane dust?”
“Immortals and gods transcend beyond the world, viewing all things as ants. What emotions could they have?”
“Immortals and gods emerge from the dust. Their hearts do not touch the slightest speck of dust. How could they touch the dust?”
“…”
Ye Chu’s mind immersed into the boulder’s large characters. Gradually, his heart gained some clarity. Ethereal and mundane breaths continuously revolved around Ye Chu’s body. Ye Chu constantly changed amid this opposition.
These were the large characters left by the Red Dust Female Saint. The conception within was boundless, but the conception was not teaching others anything. Rather, it was a choice of living. Either transcend and emerge from the dust like immortals and gods, or walk through the boundless red dust, experiencing the wonders of the three thousand red dusts.
This peculiar conception made Ye Chu’s entire person fluctuate uncertainly, constantly wandering between the two breaths. With every wandering, the transformation of Ye Chu’s breath caused his conception to become even more refined.
“Immortal dust opposes yet coexists. Then could one treat the conception as immortal gods, and the body as red dust? Being divine within red dust, both transcending and transforming into red dust.”
As Ye Chu comprehended the boulder’s meaning, the conception upon his body slowly merged into his body. With every merging, two breaths existed upon Ye Chu’s body.
With every wandering of Ye Chu’s breath, streams of conception continuously merged into his own body. As the conception permeated, Ye Chu’s body was slowly tempered. The conception drew in spiritual energy, constantly baptising Ye Chu’s body.
Upon Ye Chu’s body, patterns began to appear one after another. Ye Chu comprehended his own path, possessing the principles of heaven and earth. And at this moment, the principles of heaven and earth were manifesting upon Ye Chu’s body.
As the conception continuously merged within, through the baptism, Ye Chu’s body grew increasingly vibrant. Just like a person’s primordial spirit and conception, it was incomparably lively. Every piece of flesh and blood within his body possessed boundless vitality, as if reborn.
Ye Chu simply sat there with closed eyes, his mind comprehending everything. He comprehended the conception left by the Red Dust Female Saint, merging himself and the conception together, and thereby using intent to temper his body.
This was a comprehension that made people feel astonished, using the opposing methods of immortal and mundane to refine the body with intent. This exceeded human cognition. The comprehension of immortal and mundane was something only those most pinnacle figures possessed the deepest understanding of. And for Ye Chu and the others, this was too distant. Because their distance from immortals was too great. They could only be dust.
Yet, borrowing the Red Dust Supreme’s conception, Ye Chu forcibly used this comprehension to transform himself.
Ji Die finally opened her eyes for the first time after three days. Ji Die’s conception had become even more restrained. Her entire person carried a few more points of ethereal bearing, as if about to float away.
And just as Ji Die opened her eyes, she saw patterns flashing upon Ye Chu’s body. Streams of conception revolved around Ye Chu’s body. With every revolution, the conception increased by several degrees, continuously permeating into his flesh and blood. Ye Chu’s flesh and blood therefore became extremely vibrant, yet also carried a few points of ethereal transcendence.
This change made Ji Die startled. She had not expected Ye Chu could actually borrow the Red Dust Female Saint’s conception to refine his body with intent. With how powerful a comprehension ability did he need to sense the opportunity to break through to King level from such a conception?
Ji Die gazed at Ye Chu, seeing the conception permeating into Ye Chu’s flesh and blood. The strange breath made Ji Die exhale lightly. Just relying on the fact that this breakthrough was achieved through the Red Dust Female Saint’s conception, Ye Chu’s refining body with intent was absolutely astonishing.
“The green lotus emerges from the mud yet remains untainted, bathed in clear ripples yet remains uncharming. Transcending beyond the dust, yet living within the mud. The body can be like mud, with a green lotus rising from within.”
Ye Chu murmured to himself. His fingers suddenly began to move, primordial spirit power pouring into his own body. Within Ye Chu’s flesh and blood, faint green lotus phantoms slowly began to flash.
As the conception continuously permeated into Ye Chu’s flesh and blood, it was as if ten thousand lotuses bloomed instantly. Green light enveloped Ye Chu’s entire body.
This scene made Ji Die’s heart tremble. She knew how difficult it was to refine the body with intent to this degree. Letting the entire flesh and blood nurture conception, bearing Ye Chu’s intent patterns. This was equivalent to needing to merge a portion of Ye Chu’s primordial spirit into every bit of flesh and blood.
Although Ji Die had also achieved this point, how much effort had she expended to reach this step? And he had achieved this step on his first attempt at refining body with intent.
Ji Die took a deep breath, only feeling this fellow was too monstrous.
However, Ji Die’s shock was not yet over. After the conception continuously permeated into the flesh and blood, transforming into green lotuses one after another, Ye Chu’s conception actually continued to permeate deeper into the body.
“Bones and sinews being baptised by intent?” Ji Die nearly jumped up. Achieving flesh and blood being baptised was already considered quite good for cultivators. To reach the level where bones and sinews were baptised, for ordinary cultivators, their realm needed to reach the fifth level of the Profound Origin Realm.
Yet at this moment, Ye Chu had actually begun doing so on his first attempt at refining body with intent. This was something even she had not accomplished.
Normal cultivators, none could achieve this point. Because this was one of the important steps in entering the fifth level of the Profound Origin Realm.
Ji Die took a deep breath, staring at Ye Chu, watching Ye Chu’s conception continuously merge into his body’s bones. Yet while Ji Die was surprised by this, Ye Chu’s action made her fall silent once more. She only felt the youth before her could not be viewed through ordinary reason at all.
Ye Chu’s conception actually continued to permeate deeper into the body. Beyond the bones and sinews lay the bone marrow. Could he be intending to baptise his entire body with intent in one go?
Ji Die found it inconceivable.