Becoming a Deity from Planting the Bodhi Tree

According to Zhou Zhongda's view, Ji Jingqiu is currently considered a "celebrity" among the upper echelons of the Four Guardian Stars.

Every move he makes attracts attention, and meeting privately needs to be handled with utmost care, otherwise, Ji Jingqiu's identity in the Administration Bureau could be easily guessed.

Through the private channels controlled by the Administration Bureau, he relayed certain events that occurred during a recent meeting to Ji Jingqiu.

[Should my task be considered complete now?]

[What about my reimbursement?]

Seeing the messages from Ji Jingqiu, Zhou Zhongda was stunned for a long while.

Didn't Leng Dao act on behalf of this youngster to cancel that task? He even took advantage of the situation to rob a large merit, using it to help this youngster exchange for the [Formless Dao Body]...

He was inclined to refuse firmly, but thinking of Ji Jingqiu's great contribution in this matter, he had to reluctantly accept it, preparing to throw it over to Chen Laosi and see if he acknowledges it!

After considering, Zhou Zhongda sent another message to Ji Jingqiu, reminding him to be cautious of unidentified individuals recently, as underground societies' activities have been quite frequent.

Moreover, the [Formless Dao Body]'s Visualization Map had already been sent to the Star Division through the secret channels of the Administration Bureau, reminding him to remember to sign for it.

…

Ji Jingqiu found that all these large forces liked to operate a courier service company, sending deliveries to their personnel.

The Supreme True Buddha Sect does it, and so does the Administration Bureau.

One day, when he takes a high position in the Administration Bureau and holds great power, he will check all the federation-registered, interstellar transport courier companies!

"Li Family… Mude Daoist School…"

Ji Jingqiu noted down these two names, especially the latter.

At the same time, he also remembered Bai Lu from the Dragon Tiger Dojo and Mo Gong from Tiangong Heavy Workshop, who both backed him fiercely and heavily criticized the Mude Daoist School.

This matter was settled.

Ji Jingqiu stood up and looked around the training room where he had stayed for a week.

By now, the rain outside had stopped, and the morning sun, overcoming many barriers, shone through the window, casting the first patch of light onto the floor inside the room.

Ji Jingqiu walked out of the training room, draped in the morning sky's rosy clouds, stepping out of the deep alley.

Looking at the still deserted street around him, an idea suddenly struck him.

Is there still time to buy up these shops at their lowest prices?

…

Upon returning to the Star Division, Ji Jingqiu first found the delivery address sent by Zhou Zhongda, got the [Formless Dao Body]'s Visualization Map, and hurriedly proceeded to the training grounds.

He had been longing for a superior cultivation body for too long!

On the way, Ji Jingqiu encountered Zhang Yaode, whose eyes lit up as he warmly approached:

"Mr. Ji, I've been looking for you for a long time. Someone at the company headquarters wants to have a video call with you, do you have time now?"

Ji Jingqiu reflexively declined.

He shook his head, waving the special material-made metal box in his hand, saying:

"I need to go back and study the visualization map, aiming to establish the cultivation body within three months. I'll talk to you when I have some free time in a few days."

Establish a cultivation body from a visualization map within three months?

It must be a superior cultivation body, right?

Even though Zhang Yaode was quite smart, he was somewhat baffled by this.

However, Ji Jingqiu didn't elaborate further and quickly left for the training room.

Upon arriving at the training room, he put up a 'Do Not Disturb' sign and sat in the middle of the room, opening the box containing the [Formless Visualization].

He didn't rush to look through the visualization map but first opened the summary of the [Formless Dao Body] placed on top.

The opening line was—

The Dao is formless, adopt the shape of the deer's light.

Next to it was an annotation, sparing Ji Jingqiu the effort of searching.

The gist was: Although the Dao is formless and transcends the concepts of material, space, and time, it is omnipresent, residing in everyone's heart and closely connected to the world.

Ji Jingqiu studied the summary alongside the annotations.

"The formless, it is All Phenomena. All Phenomena abound, not stray from the nourishment of Liangyi; hundreds of Dharma gather, not exceeding the realm of Heaven and Earth..."

"The Dao is formless, hence internally not confined by existence. True nature is unforced, hence externally does not manifest intention..."

After Ji Jingqiu finished reading the summary, he felt somewhat baffled.

He read the first half, thinking the "formless" referred to the Daoist concept of formlessness from his past life, but after reading the second half, he realized it also included some Buddhist perspectives on formlessness from his past life.

This cultivation technique emphasizes not being fixated on any appearance or Dao, finding one's own substantial Dao from the formless Dao is the true intent of this technique.

At the end, Ji Jingqiu had some insights.

This cultivation technique is named formless, but it is not about pursuing formlessness; rather, it starts from being All Phenomena, then ascends from the existence to the void, achieving true formlessness.

Reaching this step, one has entered the realm where the great image has no form, oneself being harmonious and unobstructed, clear and complete, penetrating heaven and earth, filling all directions.

Of course, such idealistic concepts are too abstract.

As one who focuses on strength, Ji Jingqiu then turned his attention to the practical aspect of strength.

Cultivating a Formless Dao Body could convert the original Qi Force into One Qi Mixed Yuan Power, which is one of the most significant changes in a superior cultivation body.

The biggest characteristic of One Qi Mixed Yuan Power, apart from being untraceable and elusive, is its ability to mimic any Qi Force it sees or contacts.

With the special nature of the Formless Dao Body, its power is not only not weaker than the original version, but it may also be stronger, depending on the Martial Artist themselves.

This description made Ji Jingqiu think of "Little Faceless Skill" immediately.

Moreover, theoretically, the Formless Dao Body could cultivate three kinds of Divine Phenomena, and just in terms of theoretical number of Divine Phenomena, it ranks among the top in many superior cultivation bodies.

Generally speaking, possessing one Divine Phenomenon qualifies for the superior rank.

The so-called Divine Phenomena are manifestations of Law.

As such, this also leads to the Formless Dao Body being much more challenging to cultivate than other superior cultivation bodies, as it requires engraving more Laws inside the body, and accommodating more "Taboo Knowledge."

But the gain is proportional to the effort.

Ji Jingqiu has a 95.8% compatibility, theoretically capable of cultivating three Divine phenomena.

After flipping through the general outline, Ji Jingqiu carefully read the attached "superior cultivation body process manual."

The so-called superior cultivation body is essentially using spirit secret skills as a knife to engrave the mysterious Heaven and Earth Law within the body and finally filling it with one's own Divine Intent.

The Dragon Tiger Body mentioned in the Yang Master Handbook actually refers to the Heaven and Earth Law and Divine Form corresponding to the True Dragon and White Tiger.

Once forged, Martial Artists can use it to cultivate the related superior combat skills.

It is said in the era of planetary warriors, their physical bodies were frail. To breakthrough, they had to consider all aspects of the human body because one wrong step could lead to instant death, hence the old saying goes, "creating a dojo in the shell of a snail."

Today's superior cultivation body could be said to have taken this saying to the extreme.

Preparations complete, Ji Jingqiu unfolded the [Formless Visualization Map].

This was also the first superior visualization map he encountered.

Following a hint of Divine Intent from the visualization map, Ji Jingqiu quickly immersed himself in an ethereal and intangible state of mind, comprehending the true meaning of this visualization map.

In this state, he quickly forgot everything around him, completely losing himself.

Vaguely, he felt as if he had transcended the mundane world, blending with the surroundings.

In the Inner Realm world, under the gradually spreading light of the Bodhi Tree, Ji Jingqiu slowly opened his eyes as if enlightened, extending his hands, and a stream of formless and intangible breeze twined around his fingers.

Under his command, the breeze transformed into a dragon, several feet in length, with antlers like a deer, head like a camel, eyes like a rabbit, neck like a snake, belly like a clam...

As Ji Jingqiu's intentions circled in the air, vaguely accompanied by wind and thunder, capable of reaching the Nine Heavens and diving into deep seas.

Fatty Hu, nearby, widened his eyes and with a clatter, dropped the Ten Thousand Ancient Blade, and hopped over curiously staring at the Azure Dragon perched on Ji Jingqiu's shoulder.

A thought arose in Ji Jingqiu's mind.

The Azure Dragon transformed again, turning into a small white tiger cub that perched on Ji Jingqiu's head, its small ears pressed tightly to the head, it stretched its tongue and licked its tender little nose, its gaze damp and curious, looking downwards at the similar Fatty Hu.

Fatty Hu hugged Ji Jingqiu's thighs, jumping excitedly upwards.

Ji Jingqiu gave a mute smile.

He lifted the small white tiger cub from his head, placed it on the ground, and Fatty Hu joyfully circled around the other, cautiously reaching out its paws to touch.

With a whoosh, the small white tiger instantly dispersed into a gust of wind, whirling past Fatty Hu's ears, formless and intangible.

Seeing this, Fatty Hu was dumbfounded, looking around, but could not find the new little companion.

Ji Jingqiu was sorting through his insights.

The essence of the [Formless Visualization Map], he had already grasped.

It was Formless, and also All Phenomena.

The visualization map, therefore, gave birth to a breath of "Formless Qi," capable of transforming all phenomena, truly wondrous!

Putting aside other things, simply speaking about the speed of sharpening, it would now be doubled!

With the visualization map complete, the next step would be to incorporate taboo knowledge.

So-called taboo knowledge actually refers to the "Dharma" corresponding to the superior cultivation body, but not the Dharma of their world, rather it is extracted from the depths of the Spiritual Wilderness.

With the underlying rules of the current Great Universe stable, True Seed Realm Martial Artists can't even begin to emulate and depict every bit of Dharma within themselves, not to mention just sensing it.

Thus, "taboo knowledge" emerged.

Compared to extracting a part of Dharma from the Great Universe that could be infused into a True Seed Realm Martial Artist, the cost of taboo knowledge was far too low.

It is a shortcut, but also comes with high risk, greatly testing a Martial Artist's spiritual cultivation, as well as their mastery in visualization maps.

Of course, this threshold is practically non-existent for Ji Jingqiu.

His far-leading spiritual cultivation finally showed its merit at this moment.

Ji Jingqiu pondered for a moment, prepared to have Daoge bring over the taboo knowledge from Zhou Zhongda.

One reason was that Zhou Zhongda mentioned that they shouldn't meet recently, another was that his own speed of cultivating the visualization map was indeed shockingly fast, and he didn't have a deep relationship with Zhou Zhongda.

Ji Jingqiu looked up at the clock on the wall.

Indeed worthy of a superior visualization map.

[Starving Tiger Holding a Knife] he used in a glance.

[Formless Visualization Map] he used in an hour.

After contacting Daoge through the terminal, Daoge indicated that he would bring the taboo knowledge over in the next couple of days.

Ji Jingqiu, after studying and playing with the Formless Qi in the Inner Realm world for a while, got up to continue practicing his knife techniques.

His knife methods, no longer mere copying like a calligraphy apprentice, rigid and stiff, but now carried the style of a master.

According to Senior Zhuang, on the path of martial arts, he had completed the first step of [Body and Intent]—

Integrating various knife techniques into one, connecting different moves' transformations, and developing his own style.

Just one step away, and he would reach the pinnacle of skill.

In the following time, while waiting for Daoge's arrival during his spare time, Ji Jingqiu first received an invitation from Dragon Tiger Dojo.

[Xuanzhen]: Junior Brother Ji, Master Bai Lu from the dojo wants to invite you to come to the dojo, to hold a class for the junior brothers and sisters there, to give them a glimpse of the splendor of the Sixth Limit of Heavenly Person, wondering if you have time?

Inviting me to give a lecture?

Ji Jingqiu paused, initially wanting to refuse, but seeing the words "Master Bai Lu," he agreed.

Besides, previously Shi helped him with the qualifications of Inviting Gods into the Temple, this favor should be acknowledged.

He looked at the time, figured he might as well set off now, go and return early.

As he just left the division's main gate, he felt something, suddenly turned around, looking up, his gaze met a young man standing by the window.

Never seen him before.

Ji Jingqiu didn't care, withdrew his gaze, boarded the division's arranged car, and headed to Dragon Tiger Dojo to honor the invitation.

...

On the top floor training room by the window.

As one of the three Five Limit Martial Artists of the division, Gong Chen's gaze was profound.

He had heard from others yesterday that Ji Jingqiu declared he would complete the Cultivation Body from the visualization map within three months, but seeing today, just one day and he couldn't stay put and went out again.

Looks like he was overthinking it, even if this person is a genius, just one visualization map is not something that can be comprehensively understood in three months!