Gai Cang traveled all over the fairy island. Even though it was a rootless island, it had its own spiritual charm. Although the earth veins were dry and short-circuited, the only trace left made this island far superior to the ordinary spiritual mountains in Dongzhou.
The outside of the island is shrouded in numerous illusory barriers, giving a feeling of Mount Sumeru being contained in a mustard seed. This island is independent of the mountains and the sea. Without the permission of the island owner, ordinary people simply cannot find the entrance to this paradise.
Gai Cang tried to fly, but he could not fly out of this fairy island. Even if he flew straight there, he would break into the space barrier and be trapped there for several days before flying back.
Finally, Gai Cang discovered a spiritual root tens of meters high in the ruins of a Taoist palace deep in the island. However, the former spiritual root tree had long since withered and died, without any vitality at all.
Under the dead spiritual roots, Gai Cang found a legacy of ancient immortals. It was a set of incomplete stone tablets called the Book of Mountain and River Spiritual Roots, which recorded the characteristics and directions of various mountain and river veins in the world, as well as more than a dozen kinds of spiritual root sacred trees that could nurture the veins.
The one in front of Gai Cang is one of the spiritual roots named Shatang.
This set of mountain and river spiritual root books also records how to cultivate spiritual roots, nurture earth veins and create spiritual realms and blessed lands. It emphasizes using true spirits to refine spiritual roots and finally refine earth veins, turning this spiritual realm and blessed land into one's own possession.
Finally, he used this spiritual paradise as his foundation and became an immortal.
"This is actually a set of immortal techniques!" Gai Cang was shocked and carefully studied this set of immortal techniques. Even though most of them were incomplete and there were a lot of incomplete records, Gai Cang used his talent to deduce the missing links from them.
"Unfortunately, the last link in the process of becoming an immortal is missing. Without this step, it will be impossible to achieve the state of immortality." Gai Cang sighed inexplicably, but he was proud and felt that he would definitely be able to complete this path to immortality.
"If you are looking for something to rely on, as long as you have a spiritual root and find a spiritual mountain or water palace anywhere, you can step into the fifth level with this spiritual root and the earth vein."
"Why is it noted here that we must find a spiritual paradise, or even a cave world?"
“Perhaps this final step to becoming an immortal is related to this blessed spiritual land. This is the true foundation of the immortal path.”
Gai Cang sat in front of the stone tablet and finally realized something. Looking at the entire blessed island, he confirmed that this might be the place where he would become an immortal.
Gai Cang was very excited and thought to himself: "If Feng Sheng knew that this fairy island contained the secret of becoming an immortal, would he still give this fairy island to me?"
"No! The pot in his hand can even hold the sun and the moon. Maybe it is the legendary immortal weapon."
"These powerful people who became famous thousands of years ago really have their own secrets. They are not comparable to a newly emerged fourth-level person like me."
Gai Cang could neither see through nor figure out the secret of the mysterious man. Finally, he decided to practice as quickly as possible and turn this blessed island into his own possession and break through to the fifth level. Otherwise, he would not even be able to leave this island.
Gai Cang used his own magic power and his true spirit to nourish this spiritual root passed down from ancient times. The spiritual root that was originally withered and broken was given new life, and Gai Cang also turned this spiritual root into his own life object.
Finally, this spiritual root, Shatang, restored the hundreds of miles of earth veins of this blessed island. With the help of this spiritual root, Gai Cang was also connected to this earth vein and even this small world.
The appearance of this spiritual root is somewhat similar to that of a pear tree, but it is much taller. Unlike other spiritual roots, it is best at forming water veins.
So once his inspiration came back to life, the originally dried-up rivers and waterfalls on the entire fairy island gradually began to come back to life.
The gurgling water flows in all directions from the highest point of the fairy mountain and finally sinks into the ground, forming a cycle. Overlapping waterfalls, swamp forests, and streams appear on the fairy island, but unfortunately there is no sign of life. Although some spiritual trees and fairy herbs are grown on the island, most plants cannot survive here because there is no sunlight.
Gai Cang suddenly thought of the wine pot of the Taoist priest in Fengdu. There was heaven and earth, sun and moon in the lake. It was an independent world. Although his fairy island was also independent of the mountains and seas, it was still a little far away.
In essence, it is still connected to the mountain and sea realm.
"This is the difference between a paradise and a blessed land! The gap from falling from the sky to the ground." Gai Cang sighed.
With the gradual growth of the spiritual root Shatang, the spiritual realm of the entire fairy island was revived. Gai Cang could even simply control the movement of this fairy island and gradually leave this moonlit ruins.
Unfortunately, when they returned to the original location of Youdu Fairy Island, the fairy island Youdu had long disappeared.
"It is said that the fairy island Youdu is outside the world and its location is uncertain. It is indeed true."
Gai Cang did not see the Youdu Fairy Island again and felt a little disappointed, but he still controlled the Fairy Island and headed towards the distance. At the same time, he was also controlling and adjusting the earth veins and water veins of the entire island and refining them at the same time.
I don’t know how long I floated in the darkness, until the entire fairy island broke through a curtain of darkness and emerged above the water amidst unnecessary thunderstorms and sea of clouds.
This fairy island left the Nether Sea and appeared among the mountains and seas. The sun shone on the sacred mountains of the fairy island. The cascading waterfalls reflected the sun's light, and the water splashed everywhere. The whole fairy island seemed to be activated in an instant.
At the same time, in the ruins of the Taoist palace on the top of the mountain, the spiritual root Sand Tang also blossomed in an instant, flashing with spiritual light.
Gai Cang broke through to the fifth level at the same time as he appeared in the Mountain and Sea Realm on this fairy island.
He sat under the sacred tree Shatang, slowly opened his eyes, looked towards the sun in the distant sky, and then his gaze fell on his own fairy island.
"I didn't expect that after so many twists and turns, I would end up at the South China Sea. This island will be called Nanhua Island from now on."
Since then, the Nanhua Fairy Island has remained on the South China Sea and has become a famous fairy island paradise overseas.
Gai Cang called himself the True Lord of Nanhua and often went out to sea, looking for some exotic flowers and plants, magical birds and beasts overseas to fill the gaps in the Nanhua Fairy Island. As a fifth-rank powerful man walking in the world, there are naturally all kinds of legends about him.
According to rumors, there is a fairy island overseas called Nanhua. On the island there is a True Lord Nanhua who inherited the legacy from ancient immortals.
As for the cultivators from all over the world, they knew that someone overseas had actually broken through to the fifth level, becoming the first person in the world to do so and the one who was closest to gods and demons.
Great monks from Dongzhou, Nanzhou and even Xizhou crossed the sea and rushed to Nanhua Fairy Island to discuss Taoism with Nanhua Zhenjun. Even the Mermaid Kingdom in the South China Sea and the Dragon King of the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea personally invited Nanhua Zhenjun to visit their residences.
Although Master Nanhua inherited the ancient immortal heritage, he did not keep it to himself. Perhaps it was because the immortal secrets he obtained were not perfect himself. He would often communicate with these powerful beings, exchanging Taoist methods for discussion.
Gai Cang, the True Lord of Nanhua, deduced a whole set of Taoist methods for the inheritance of earthly immortals from it bit by bit.
Jia Yi, the headmaster of Lingshu Mountain in Dongzhou, comprehended the Five Elements Earth Vein Soul Refining Technique from this earthly immortal inheritance, and then went into seclusion to try to deduce the complete five-level path from it. He rarely leaves Lingshu Mountain all year round. Maji of the Corpse-Driving Sect comprehended the magic that combined the gods and demons in heaven with the earth from this earthly immortal inheritance. Tai Liang of the Yuanshen Dao wanted to integrate the formation with this earthly immortal inheritance to create his own Yuanshen method.
Even the monk Hongyuan from the Buddhist land of Western Continent comprehended a set of Buddhist inheritance from the inheritance of the earthly immortals. After returning, he used the spiritual root Bodhi tree of the Leiyin Temple and combined it with the Golden Body Method of Buddhism. He wanted to transform the area of dozens of miles around the Leiyin Temple into a Buddhist pure land and deduced the fifth-level inheritance of Buddhism.
Each of these great men who can cultivate to this level is naturally a genius, and they can combine their own Taoism with the general outline of the earthly immortal inheritance to conceive of the inheritance that best suits them.
The reputation of Nanhua Zhenjun spread throughout the world, and a large number of third- and fourth-level cultivators rushed to overseas to seek immortality and discuss Taoism with Nanhua Zhenjun. The custom was passed down and had a far-reaching impact.
Over time, a large number of cultivators who were tired of the fighting between Dongzhou and Nanzhou also rushed overseas and stayed on the Nanhua Fairy Island to discuss and discuss the great principles with each other. Nanhua Zhenjun had no disciples and did not mind these cultivators staying on the fairy island.
Instead, he would often discuss Taoism with these monks and work together to find the path to becoming an immortal.
As time went by, thousands of independent cultivators gathered on this overseas fairy island, and Nanhua Fairy Island became a holy place for independent cultivators overseas.