[Wuwu, Year of the Horse, June 28th]
Five days have passed, and when I think back to the scene when Lin Jingyue suddenly disappeared, I still feel a lingering fear.
This is the first time I feel so scared.
When I was forming my infant, I was determined to transform into a demon even at the cost of death. Even when facing the purple divine thunder in the sky, I have never been so terrified.
Because at that time I still had the Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron, the Dragon-Suppressing Coffin, and the "Chaos Nirvana Technique", so I could still hold on to a glimmer of hope.
But this time, Lin Jingyue, a powerful cultivator with at least the level of a fusion cultivator, was killed silently in an instant, even if he was just a clone.
Such ability is terrifying!
The destruction of Lin Jingyue's clone was like a warning, warning me not to continue exploring.
Yan Hongyu didn’t know what was wrong with me and stayed in her room in the inn all day long, but I couldn’t tell her or anyone else.
I remember clearly the feeling at that time, as if my throat was strangled and I couldn't utter the four words "Xiu Xian Panel".
Perhaps even if I write these four words in my diary at this moment, when others see the diary, these four words, including the content related to them, will disappear out of thin air.
Even if I have a way to force others to tell about the immortal cultivation panel, the fate of Lin Jingyue's clone is a lesson for us.
Either I die or the person who knows my secret dies.
How is this power different from the way of heaven
What is Lu Xingyun's intention in doing this
My mind is in a mess, I need to calm down.
Since besides me, Lin Jingyue may also have the cultivation panel given by Lu Xingyun, is there anyone else who also has it
I suddenly remembered something Hong Tao said to me when I first entered the Tianyan Sect.
During these 100,000 years, among the cultivators with the five spiritual roots in the Earth Spirit Realm, only Lu Xingyun ascended.
At that time, I felt that practicing the five spiritual roots was difficult, and reaching the top of the avenue was even more difficult. During the past 100,000 years, only Lu Xingyun had such extraordinary talent and was far ahead of others.
But what if this is not the case
However, what Hong Tao was talking about was only the Earth Spirit Realm. After Lu Xingyun, are there any cultivators in the upper realm who have the five spiritual roots and can reach the Mahayana stage or even ascend
This needs to be checked carefully!
I suddenly remembered that I had mentioned to my master the encounter with Lu Xingyun in the mountains when I was a child, but nothing happened at that time.
In other words, apart from the matters concerning the Immortal Cultivation Panel, can I tell you anything else
No, this is still not safe. From now on, I will keep this matter to myself and won’t tell anyone except the people involved in it, not even my master.
Wait, what Lin Jingyue and I have in common is the five spiritual roots. If we follow Lu Xingyun’s way of Great Evolution, will Master also be targeted
But Master knows those symbols and numbers, and didn’t show any abnormality, which means that Master doesn’t have a cultivation panel, but I’m still worried.
I have never asked my master about his experiences when he was young. There are only two paintings hanging in his study, one of Lu Xingyun and the other of Wuwei Shanren. My master said back then that he admired these two people and that as cultivators with five spiritual roots, they were outstanding.
Is it possible that there are other reasons for this admiration
There is also the "Five Elements Rotation Method" written by the master. Although it has no direct connection with the "Five Elements Return to Truth Gong", it has a very good auxiliary effect on the practice of the "Five Elements Return to Truth Gong". He later refined a life-saving magic weapon similar to Lin Jingyue's, and the road before the formation of the infant was also very smooth...
Thinking about it this way, there is a high possibility that there is a connection.
The more I thought about it, the more confused I became. The more frightened I became, as if there were always a pair of eyes staring at me in the dark, and that every cultivator with five spiritual roots was a pawn.
The last three words Lin Jingyue's clone said before he disappeared were "Qingyun Club".
She must have asked me to meet her at the Qingyun Conference. Yes, there would be Mahayana Immortal Lords from the Nine Star Alliances at that time, as well as many Combined Dao Lords. Perhaps at that time, I would be able to have a good talk with Lin Jingyue and sort out the truth of the matter.
I couldn't go on being so frightened and panicked, but I couldn't control myself.
I will hide for one more day. When the sun rises tomorrow, I will suppress everything, walk out of the inn, and continue on my way.
Even the sacred tree said, my fate is now in my own hands, so no one can manipulate me, and I will not be content to be a pawn, I will definitely be able to break out of the siege.
Of course you can!
*
[Wuwu, Year of the Horse, July 7]
I bought a horse in Yong'an City, took the official road for ordinary people, and walked slowly back to Tianyan Sect.
During this time, I went into mountains and forests, went down to rivers, saw many magnificent scenery, and even chased a newborn hedgehog in the mountains.
It thought I wanted to eat it, but in fact, I just wanted to teach it a little magic to save its life.
While taking a break at a roadside teahouse, I heard someone talking about a very efficacious temple dedicated to the goddess in the nearby mountains. If I was not mistaken, that should be the place where Miaoyin practiced in the mortal world.
*
[Wuwu, Year of the Horse, July 17]
I shamelessly stayed in the Niangniang Temple for ten days, chatting with her about all sorts of things in Miaoyin Mountain every day and telling her about my travels.
No matter how exaggerated I played, Miaoyin always had a faint smile in her eyes, listened attentively, and never exposed me.
Seeing the sound of Guanghan Jianjun chopping wood in the backyard getting louder and louder, and the pilgrims saying that the temple was getting colder and colder day by day, I knew it was time for me to leave.
Otherwise, Lord Guanghan Jianjun, a mortal, would not be able to continue pretending and would drag me into the mountains to compete.
Before leaving, I transferred all the energy of incense and worship accumulated in the golden book into Miaoyin's body. It would save her decades of hard work, help her to form a Dharma body faster, and officially embark on the path of cultivation.
In order to accompany her, Guanghan Jianjun will definitely not go to the upper realm with me. It just so happens that after the master leaves, the Tianyan Sect can be handed over to him to manage.
I had a great time during this ten-day stay. I even dressed up as a Taoist nun and set up a stall in the temple.
The scholar failed in the imperial examination because the direction of his study desk was not right. He would be more motivated to study if he changed the direction.
The young lady was lovesick and was unwilling to follow the matchmaker's advice, which was that the man she was going to marry was unlucky for her, so she changed his partner.
Anyway, they just say nice things, no matter what the question is, it's all because of the door, the window, the sky, the earth, and they blame others and external things. There's really nothing to blame, just the bad past life.
Anyway, just don't blame yourself.
It can make those who were originally frowning happy and restore their confidence.
So much so that within just a few days, the temple became much more popular, and many more people came to burn incense and draw divination sticks.
In the following days, when I set up a stall, Ling Guanghan would pretend to sweep the floor beside me, eavesdropping with his ears perked up.
Unfortunately, with his personality, he can't do my job.
But before leaving, I wrote down all the ways I could think of to attract pilgrims in a booklet and placed it in Ling Guanghan's room.
For example, the method of person-to-person transmission that was taught to Yan Hongyu and others in the Iron Palm Realm, such as having temples of the Goddess blossom everywhere, and as long as someone was willing to open a temple of the Goddess in their local area, they would be given a method of cultivation. He just wrote down more than 30 of them, which was enough for him to learn.
After watching Ling Guanghan and Miao Yin, I decided to take a detour and watch Guo Zhen and Hong Tao.
*
[Wuwu, Year of the Horse, September 13]
Guo Zhen and Hong Tao are both living a good life. Their hometowns are not in the same place, so I had to take a detour to find them.
Their respective small families have developed very well and have begun to train the third generation of disciples. Among the first generation, two or three have already established their foundation and can become the pillars of the family.
On the one hand, they are just like the escort agencies in the mortal world, taking on tasks that warriors can take on, earning money, and establishing themselves in the local area.
On the one hand, they help each other and the Taoist temples opened by Tianyan Sect in the mortal world, assist the Taoist temples in supervising the people's sentiments, clear out the monsters that occasionally appear in the surrounding mountains and forests, train disciples, and protect the area.
The Tianyan Sect did not provide much support to their two families, but it was enough for them now. After all, Guo Zhen and Hong Tao, as the ancestors of their respective families, had only reached the peak of the foundation-building stage.
I quietly went over to take a look, and left them three top martial arts techniques, as well as some magic weapons that I had refined on the way here, including the Five Elements Thunder Beads, Thunder Talismans, and formation plates.
I also refined some foundation-building pills. The longevity pills are not easy to refine. When the pills are made, they will trigger thunder. Only one out of ten will survive. I did not refine them myself, but bought six to share with them.
I believe that with these things, plus the support of Tianyan Sect, their two families will surely become giants in the future.
I left my things without letting them see me, because I didn't want them to act like they were grateful to me.
After hanging around outside for three months, I feel that I am no longer so anxious. Compared with ordinary people who rely on luck for their livelihood, and compared with people like Guo Zhen and Hong Tao who are at the bottom of the cultivation world, I am already powerful enough.
Regardless of whether Lu Xingyun has ill will towards me or not, she was just born 100,000 years earlier than me.
As long as I keep my head down and work harder, I believe I will be able to catch up with her sooner or later.
Just like me, who was only in the Qi training stage back then, facing Lin Xiangtian, who was in the Golden Core stage, I was like an ant, and in the end, didn’t I still overturn the table
So, it is better to practice than to be afraid!
Now, ride back to the clan!
I'm out today and won't be back until the evening, so I'll just update this chapter and make it up tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)