bioinnovel Chapter 596 The Secret of the Divine Gate and Heavenly Pass
Chapter 596 The Secret of the Divine Gate and Heavenly Pass
Chapter 596 The Secret of the Divine Gate and Heavenly Pass
"You agreed?"
Cheng Peng was momentarily stunned and wanted to continue persuading Bai Ze, but to his surprise, Bai Ze agreed immediately.
However, after hearing Bai Ze agree, he still couldn't help but remind him, "Don't be careless just because you've defeated a Heavenly Gate warrior before. This time you might have to face Douglas, who is a powerful expert who has already broken through the third Heavenly Gate. He's not on the same level as someone like me who's only at the second Heavenly Gate."
"I'm a director of the Martial Arts Association now, so I know these things."
Upon hearing this, Bai Ze laughed and said, "With each breakthrough of a Heavenly Barrier, one's strength will make a leap forward. Moreover, General Bai Ze is also cultivating a new martial art called the Vacuum Zero Energy Furnace. I will not easily confront him."
"That's not just a leap forward, it's more like a leap in level," Cheng Peng shook his head and said. "Have you ever played a game? In game terms, each level of the Heavenly Barrier is an independent multiplier zone. Every time you break through a level, you gain another independent multiplier zone. Just in terms of power, there's a huge breakthrough, not to mention other aspects."
"Wait, why are you looking at me like that? I'm not some old-fashioned relic."
Even considering his age, Cheng Peng, who is only in his seventies, is in his prime among the martial artists of Tianguan, and he could live for at least another few hundred or a thousand years.
"I really didn't expect Senior Cheng Peng to play games too," Bai Ze chuckled. "I thought Senior Cheng Peng was always putting out fires."
After all, he was the top firefighter in Dongxia.
But thinking about it carefully, Cheng Peng isn't actually that busy.
Unless there is a major accident, this martial artist from the Heavenly Gate would not easily take action.
If you delay responding to a major emergency because of a trivial matter, then it would be a great loss.
So this Tianguan warrior who was always on duty usually played games in the Ziwei Pavilion in Yanjing?
This really damages the noble image of Senior Cheng Peng.
After laughing, Bai Ze said seriously, "I understand what Senior Cheng Peng means. Breaking through the Heavenly Gates is not independent. If you break through the Heavenly Gate of the Body first, then the difficulty of breaking through other Heavenly Gates will increase proportionally. But if you can break through the subsequent Heavenly Gates, your already perfected physique will also see another boost."
Now that Bai Ze has reached the tenth star level, he is preparing to break through the Heavenly Gate, so he naturally understands the Heavenly Gate.
The difficulty of breaking through the Heavenly Gate increases horizontally.
Breaking through the second level of the Heavenly Barrier is far more difficult than breaking through the first level, and breaking through the third level is even more difficult than breaking through the second level.
The reason for this is that the initial breakthrough of the Heavenly Barrier raised its own upper limit, making the subsequent breakthrough limits much higher than before.
For example, first break through the Heavenly Gate of the Body, then break through the Heavenly Gate of Qi.
Breaking through the Heavenly Barrier of Body requires breaking through the limit of the Ten-Star Realm, while breaking through the Heavenly Barrier of Qi requires that the "Qi" at that time be comparable to the current "Body".
Improving one's spirit, energy, and mind will also raise the overall potential of one's entire being.
The upper limit has already been raised once, so it cannot be measured by the upper limit at ten stars.
It's like climbing stairs; you're on the second step after the first, instead of going down and starting over from another set of stairs.
This is also why the general previously determined that Venerable Chakra could not reach the realm of divine enemies.
Even if he gathered four incarnations that had each broken through the four heavenly barriers, Venerable Kalachakra would still be unable to resist touching that highest limit.
The Divine Enemy is located at the fourth level, while even if Kalachakra Sudatta succeeds, he will at most possess four levels of the first tier.
The strength gained from a breakthrough naturally matches the difficulty of that breakthrough.
Breaking through the Heavenly Barrier of the Body raises the upper limit, but breaking through the Heavenly Barrier of Qi becomes more difficult. However, once broken through, the upper limit rises again, and "Qi" reaches the second level, while "Body" also rises to the second level.
Even the interaction between Qi and the body can bring about many wondrous things.
The same applies to the other breakthroughs at the Heavenly Gate.
Bai Ze is able to fight against and even defeat martial artists who have broken through the first level of the Heavenly Gate. If he uses the three-in-one Pinduoduo mode, he can fight against those who have broken through the second level of the Heavenly Gate.
For example, in the previous battle against the avatar of the third divine enemy, that avatar itself was only at the second level of the Heavenly Gate.
The two heavenly gates it broke through were the body and the qi.
As for the divine and the mind, they did not receive much improvement because the body of the third divine enemy could not be distracted.
The third enemy couldn't even devote enough effort to fully projecting his state of mind.
Even so, the realm of the Divine Enemy still far exceeded the upper limit, but in a serious comparison, it was still at the level of the Second Heaven Gate.
If Bai Ze were to face off against the Triple Heaven Gate, he would no longer be able to maintain his numerical advantage.
Take Cheng Peng as an example. He is a powerful figure who broke through the second level of the Heavenly Gate. At that time, when facing the "Black God" in the primeval forest, which was comparable to the third level of the Heavenly Gate, he had almost no chance to fight back.
If he hadn't been fast enough, he might have been instantly surrounded and killed by those evil gods.
Compared to "Black God" Chernobog, the general is not weaker, but stronger.
"Since you know the situation, you should understand Douglas's strength," Cheng Peng said earnestly. "It's not that we won't easily confront him, but we absolutely shouldn't face him head-on. If things go wrong, retreat immediately."
"To be honest, if the situation weren't like this, I would never have agreed to the God of War's order. As long as you don't die young, you will definitely be the next god-enemy of Dongxia."
"It is precisely because the situation is critical that I cannot let go of any opportunity to become stronger," Bai Ze said. "Going to the Western Alliance is not only to stop the general, but also to break through."
"Breakthrough?" This question left Cheng Peng completely confused.
Is there anything else on the Western Union that could bring a breakthrough?
Although their technology is superior to that of Dongxia, in terms of martial arts... to put it bluntly, the Western Alliance is incredibly lucky to have a god-like enemy like the God of the Mortal Realm.
There are indeed strong individuals in the new martial arts world, but the paths of these strong individuals are basically unreplicable.
Although Zhenwu said, "Those who learn from me will live, and those who imitate me will die," that kind of "death" means there is no way forward.
Moreover, 99% of martial artists actually don't reach the point of "no way out".
It's like learning the techniques of a god-rival; even if you can't become a second god-rival, it would be good enough to produce a Heavenly Gate Warrior.
A Heavenly Gate Warrior is one in ten million; many people never even reach the level of an Eight-Star Warrior in their entire lives.
And the Western Union's path to becoming a formidable foe... Those who learn from me will live, those who imitate me will die.
I was just kidding. Anyone who tries to copy me will die.
The "Uranium Crystal Battle Body" of the God of the Mortal Realm is said to kill anyone who tries to train it. Even he himself was able to succeed back then only with the help of the spiritual machine.
The general's "vacuum zero-energy furnace" is also unreplicable, even more difficult to replicate than the "uranium crystal battle body".
Below that, even someone like Robert, the "Prince of Shadows," who can manipulate dark matter through "Dark Sun's Illusionary Attraction," has not mastered it. Even Robert's clones only manipulate lower-level energies belonging to dark matter.
The only one who was close to success and had begun cultivating the "Uranium Crystal Battle Body" was Rhine, who also relied on the "Heavenly Demon Reincarnation Technique".
Cheng Peng racked his brains but couldn't understand what kind of help Western Union could offer.
"Spirit Machine".
Bai Ze provided the answer: "Machines without even independent personalities have given birth to personalities, consciousness, and minds. They are born with an extremely high state of mind, easily touching the threshold of the heart. Of course, they are also easily out of control, turning into villains like those in movies who want to exterminate humanity."
"A mechanical device?" Cheng Peng frowned. "A mechanical mind can also break through the Heavenly Barrier of the Heart?"
In his mind, weren't spirit machines just robots that came to life?
The so-called "ultimate state of mind" relies on rigid calculation.
"From a human perspective, mechanical minds are indeed rigid, but if you study them in depth, you will find that smart machines also have their wonders."
Bai Ze laughed and said, "Besides, isn't that Feathered Serpent God of the Western Alliance an enemy of the Spirit Machine God?"
Quetzalcoatl, the leader of the Nine Gods, and another enemy of the Western Alliance besides the gods of the human world.
Although the Eastern Xia side was basically certain that the Nine Alliance Gods were all spiritual machines, they still found it hard to imagine how a machine could reach the level of a god.
Of the four Heavenly Gates—physical body, vital energy, spirit, and mind—only the mind seems to be relevant.
If Bai Ze hadn't once obtained a spirit weapon and studied it in depth, he wouldn't have been able to associate the spirit weapon with the Four Heavenly Gates either.
"Don't look at the Four Heavenly Pass from a human perspective; look at it from a more macro or technological perspective."
Bai Ze gently waved his hand, summoning a light screen that displayed the related formulas.
The physical body is matter.
True Qi energy.
"The Heavenly Barrier of the Body is not the Heavenly Barrier of the Physical Body; a mechanical body can also potentially achieve immortality. Indestructible energy can also be achieved through scientific methods. As for the mind, as I said before, the birth of spiritual machines is the greatest miracle of the mind."
Bai Ze slowly said, "What spirit machines truly lack is a god. They lack a divine soul and cannot access the realm of divine thought."
Upon hearing this, Cheng Peng suddenly realized what was going on.
"That's why the Nine-Linked Gods, like those evil gods, call themselves gods," Cheng Peng said. "They want to emulate the evil gods and draw faith from them. The difference is that the evil gods want to strengthen their spiritual bodies, while they want to create spiritual bodies for themselves."
Since evil gods can create material containers for themselves, spiritual machines can certainly create a place for their souls to reside.
Spiritual power is, in essence, a form of energy, and the soul is also a product of spiritual power.
However... Cheng Peng still couldn't understand how Bai Ze could draw inspiration from spiritual machinery and touch the Heavenly Gate of the Heart.
He was already considered a peerless genius to have become a Heavenly Gate Warrior, but he still felt that he couldn't understand Bai Ze's way of thinking.
This must be the number one genius in Dongxia.
Whether it was Mu Yaoguang in the past or Bai Ze in the present, they were capable of things that ordinary people could not do.
Compared to Mu Yaoguang, Bai Ze is even more legendary and more unbelievable.
Thinking of this, Cheng Peng stopped trying to ask any further questions.
If we ask any further, it might involve Bai Ze's own martial arts, which would be extremely impolite.
"As long as you know it, that's fine," Cheng Peng said.
Afterwards, he discussed the specifics with Bai Ze, including whether he needed to help Bai Ze infiltrate the Western Alliance.
However, considering that Bai Ze himself could also appear and disappear without a trace, and could even imitate Cheng Peng's martial arts, Cheng Peng gave up the idea of lending a hand.
However, we still need to keep an eye on Western Union.
When the time really comes, even the fastest man in Dongxia will have to venture into Xilian to put out a fire.
As Cheng Peng left, Bai Ze couldn't help but sigh.
He could tell that Cheng Peng was prepared to sacrifice himself.
If Bai Ze were to fall into trouble, this senior would risk his life to get Bai Ze out.
"If it weren't for people like you in Dongxia, I really wouldn't bother doing these arduous tasks."
After a sigh, Bai Ze looked at the light screen he had drawn.
"The most materialistic spirit machine has actually taken the path of idealism. As a spirit, the evil god has always been pursuing a material container. How interesting."
Evil gods have a spirit but no physical body; what they lack is a material vessel.
Spirit machines have a mind but no soul; what they lack is a vessel for spirit.
Bai Ze possesses the "Cantongqi," a cultivation technique from the Yuan Realm that can help him reach the Heavenly Gate of Qi. Materially, he also need not worry.
Furthermore, Bai Ze studies Mahayana Buddhism and absorbs the power of faith, a path similar to that of an evil god.
The only thing left is probably the soul.
Can spirit machines allow Bai Ze to grasp the mysteries of his state of mind?
Thinking about his many plans, Bai Ze couldn't help but chuckle.
Because he discovered that not only had he figured out the model for solving the puzzle, but his subsequent breakthrough plans were also inextricably linked to "solving".
The "god" of the evil god, the "heart" of the spirit machine, the "qi" of the primordial realm, and the "simple and unified celestial remains" that he explored based on many techniques and by using the principle of words becoming law.
By drawing upon the knowledge of all realms, they painstakingly forged a path to their divine enemy.
No matter how difficult this path may be, or how many hidden dangers it may have, at least in Bai Ze's calculations, it is feasible.
As the saying goes, "The law will be followed by a backup plan," so Bai Ze doesn't need to worry about the consequences of failure.
"Have you decided?"
A metal door opened beside them, and Mu Yaoguang's voice arrived before she even stepped out.
"Um."
Bai Ze nodded slightly. "Going to the Western Alliance is the most urgent matter for Yan. Don't worry, if necessary, I can get you to my side at any time, and Yan can get away at any time."
This rumor relieved Mu Yaoguang and Ekaterina, who had just emerged from the situation.
Having dealt with the Rift Sea Whale, Catherine must return to Ursus to take over the orthodox church, while Fa and Bai Ze will go to the Western Alliance together.
Without her, Bai Zeyan's technique entered a three-part mode.
But since Bai Ze has a way to get the three of them together, there's no need to worry.
"Katyusha, you can return to Ursus without worry. Yaoguang, you stay on the Steel Continent and temporarily impersonate me to take charge of the situation."
Bai Ze looked at the light screens on all sides and said.
The later the news of their own group's move to the Western Union is revealed, the better.
The Western Union today is quite different from what it used to be.
Although Bai Ze had never been to Xilian...
The screen was displaying the Western Union's maritime borders.
A force field, like a vast expanse of light, descended from the sky, sealing off the sea.
High in the sky, several large ships were patrolling, their cannons pointed down, ready to unleash a barrage of fire at any moment.
The Western Union is now under full martial law; the sea, land, sky, and even space itself are blocked.
The force field under Naqi is a device to prevent spatial teleportation.
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