Chapter 302: Dao Ancestor Incarnation Laozi
Just like the Yan-Huang Two Emperors, one is Shen Nong tasting a hundred herbs, and the other has the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon.
However, these two human ancestors have long been mythologized by various mythology systems, with prestige that’s a bit frightening.
Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor is even revered by Taoism as the foremost of the three ancestors.
Their titles also frequently appear in different versions of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors series, solidly at the level of ancient great gods.
But the wonder is that while they are mythological figures, they are also historical human figures.
Therefore, Wu Xian can completely use a simplified version, trying not to involve mythological prestige in the concept, and draw these two in advance.
“Eh~ If that’s the case, what about Laozi?”
Wu Xian suddenly had a eureka moment.
Taishang Laojun won’t work, but Laozi from the Hundred Schools of Thought should be obtainable, right?
Wu Xian grew more excited the more he thought about it.
He suddenly felt that Huaxia’s cultural concept of deifying people was inexplicably great.
Following this thought process, many high-end big shot figures in the Heavenly Court System seem like they could be brought out in advance.
Although they might not be that strong when brought out this way, the key is to preemptively register the copyright, preemptively build the divine diagram system, and preemptively contact some functional law networks.
You know, many Huaxia mythological figures have historical prototypes.
Quite a few immortals are directly deified historical figures.
The most typical is our Emperor Guan.
But Emperor Guan isn’t urgent; he plans to leave this one for Old Master Wu Mingchang. If nothing unexpected happens, Second Master Guan should pair well with the tattoo scroll painting.
Action is better than hesitation, so Wu Xian immediately started trying.
Since he wants to contact law networks related to alchemy in advance, it’s naturally better to start directly from the ceiling of alchemy.
“Laozi, Dao Ancestor Incarnation in the human world, born in the state of Chu, one of the founders of the Daoist school in the Hundred Schools of Thought.
At the end of the Spring and Autumn period, the world was in chaos. Laozi wanted to resign and retire, so he rode a green ox westward out of Hangu Pass, leaving behind the eternal masterpiece Tao Te Ching…”
Among them, the focus is on the Tao Te Ching, this great work that formally established the concept of “Dao.”
At the same time, it also cloaked Laozi in a layer of mythological color.
“With this setup, it shouldn’t be impossible to make, right?”
But subsequent attempts proved that he still underestimated Laozi’s prestige and value.
After drawing several times in a row, all ended in failure.
A few times he clearly felt like he could touch it, but each time it was just a little short.
“Add some ingredients and try.”
His gaze fell on the faith incense accumulated in the sea of consciousness void. Nowadays, the incense from the Earth Temple and City God Temple is increasing day by day, and there is still some stock in the sea of consciousness void.
As mentioned before, the power of faith incense can increase the success rate of scroll paintings and raise the upper limit of drawing.
However, the moment he injected faith incense during the drawing, he suddenly froze.
“Holy crap, what’s going on?”
Drawing paper, pigments, the scroll painting concept in his mind, and the resonance of heaven and earth laws and spiritual power—everything was instantly activated.
In a daze, Wu Xian seemed to understand something.
“So this kind of clever scroll painting concept requires the assistance of faith incense?”
Right, aren’t these human ancestors and historical figures precisely deified by the incense and faith of later generations?
However, it seems that every step of the entire drawing process requires the addition of faith incense power.
He didn’t know if the current amount of faith incense was enough.
But things had come to this, so he could only grit his teeth and continue drawing.
Seeing that drawing was no longer an issue, Wu Xian didn’t forget to add some setting concepts during the process.
But as the setting concepts were added, the consumption of faith incense was also rapidly rising.
Helplessly, he could only temporarily abandon this idea.
“Hold on~!”
In the sea of consciousness void, the drifting faith incense was about to be exhausted.
Although fine faith incense was still being produced in the light spots of the Earth Temple and City God Temple, it was a drop in the bucket for this drawing.
“Steady, steady, it should be enough.”
Wu Xian appropriately adjusted the drawing precision. As long as it succeeded, slightly lowering the five dimensions attributes was acceptable.
Buzz~!
At the moment of the final brushstroke, Wu Xian breathed a sigh of relief.
Gentle heaven and earth law power surged from all directions, gathering on the drawing paper and mounting it into a scroll.
Dao Ancestor Incarnation-Laozi
Version: Original Gold Embroidery Border
Rank: Wooden Scroll
Painted Spirit: 2 stars
Spirituality: 21
Talent Trait: Dao Ancestor Incarnation
“Wooden scroll it is, as long as it can be made.”
The current Laozi basically has no extraordinary combat power, and it’s just the Dao Ancestor Incarnation version.
Fortunately, Wu Xian didn’t expect to use him for combat anyway. The key is the copyright imprint condensed in the sea of consciousness. Although it’s just a wooden scroll painting imprint, the law network within the entire imprint is already incredibly complex.
Laozi’s divine diagram phantom hung high above the sea of consciousness void. The intricate law network, though faint, connected and tugged at all the divine diagrams in the sea of consciousness.
Consciousness sank into the law void.
Laozi’s law network was dim, but it faintly tugged at the entire law void.
Its position was outrageously high. Looking up, it was all void; looking down, he could barely see the law networks of the other scroll paintings.
“Tsk tsk, Dao Ancestor is Dao Ancestor, this prestige is unmatched.”
After this realization, comprehending Dao Ancestor’s complex law network also spilled over to the law power of other divine diagrams in the sea of consciousness.
However, right now all of Dao Ancestor’s law networks were very blurry, and the perceivable law power was limited.
Of course, mainly those law networks related to the path of alchemy.
After finding the corresponding law network, he immediately took out various dimensional monster materials from the Qiankun Bag for refining and comprehension, with plant-based materials bringing the most obvious insights.
If it were otherworldly spirit grass or spirit medicine, the effect would be even better.
In just one short day, Wu Xian gained a deep understanding and cognition of pharmacology and the path of alchemy.
However, the pharmacological laws of this world are quite unique and chaotic, still needing adjustment through practice.
The spiritual substances and spiritual structures in various spiritual grass and herbs are undoubtedly the most suitable for alchemy.
But otherworldly monster materials can also provide some medicinal value spiritual substances and spiritual structures.
This insight and thought process is clearly different from current spiritual pharmacy.
“Human spiritual structure.”
Wu Xian pondered slightly. The deeper he delved into the path of alchemy, the more he could feel the special and profound nature of the human spiritual structure.
Or rather, this world is fundamentally different from a “normal” world.
Dao Ancestor’s alchemical knowledge and principles cannot be directly applied; adjustments must be made from the aspects of extraordinary scroll paintings and pigment mixing.
Moreover, he doesn’t have proper alchemy equipment right now.
“Alchemy through drawing?”
Drawing, but not conventional drawing.
Just like Tattoo Brother’s human scroll painting, it has to bypass the ingrained thinking of painting on paper traditionally.
“Or like the Earth Temple and City God Temple, create a completely new kind of scroll painting?”
