Chapter 13: The Mortal World, Returning to the Greater Universe

Inside the cave dwelling, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi contained within the thirty million spirit stones—split into ten portions and piled into ten small mountains—was absorbed by Lu Lingwei at extreme speed.

As time passed.

Three days later, the black-and-white Spiritual Light emanating from Lu Lingwei burst out of the Tianji Blessed Land, which now sat unhidden atop a newly born spirit vein.

Spreading across a radius of several hundred thousand li, it became visible across nearly half the Primordial Spirit Realm.

……

It was not until nine days later that the black-and-white Spiritual Light slowly began to recede.

But it took another nine days.

Before that spreading black-and-white Spiritual Light finally receded completely.

Inside the cave dwelling.

As the Yin-Yang Dao Body fully revived.

Lu Lingwei, who had originally only seemed fresh and lovely, now had Yin-Yang Dao Rhymes flowing about her—immortal-like, divine-like, brimming with boundless charm.

Seeing this, Chen Daoxuan felt his heart stir; in some mysterious way he was drawn to her, and even the Dao Heart he had polished for ten thousand years stirred with a touch of mortal desire.

But Chen Daoxuan understood in his heart that this was merely the attraction of the Yin-Yang Great Dao upon Lu Lingwei's body acting upon him.

The Five Elements merge and interweave, giving birth to all things.

Yin and Yang flow and turn, giving birth to the infinite.

When Yin-Yang and the Five Elements gather together, they can create and transform Heaven and Earth.

……

Suppressing that wisp of mortal desire in his heart, Chen Daoxuan connected with and sensed the Three-Color Heaven-Stealing Stone within Lu Lingwei's body.

Through this Heaven-Stealing Stone, he sensed from the inside out, carefully, the Yin-Yang Dao Body within Lu Lingwei after its revival.

In an instant, he discovered that the grade of Lu Lingwei's revived Yin-Yang Dao Body had actually reached Huang Grade.

It even seemed not far from reaching a Hong Grade Yin-Yang Dao Body.

At this, Chen Daoxuan was filled with pleasant surprise, and even felt a trace of regret.

Because the higher the grade of Lu Lingwei's Yin-Yang Dao Body, the better.

Although Lu Lingwei's Huang Grade Yin-Yang Dao Body could be completely filled by the Three-Color Heaven-Stealing Stone with only a small portion of Yin-Yang Dao Source.

If it could reach a Hong Grade Yin-Yang Dao Body, even if the amount of Yin-Yang Dao Source drawn remained unchanged, the quality of the Dao Source would be stronger by another level.

The higher the grade of the Dao Body, the more profound the Yin-Yang Great Dao contained in the Yin-Yang Dao Source that his Three-Color Heaven-Stealing Stone could draw would be, and the greater the benefit to him.

And seeing Chen Daoxuan's gaze upon her—somewhat different from before—Lu Lingwei's pretty face flushed slightly.

She found that, for some unknown reason, she could not help but want to draw closer to this Upper True, Chen Daoxuan.

Regarding this, Lu Lingwei only assumed it was because, after her Yin-Yang Dao Body revived and she felt she had some foundation, the feelings suppressed in her heart had burst forth.

Seeing Chen Daoxuan's strange gaze, Lu Lingwei bit her red lip, bent in a bow, lowered her head slightly, and said:

"Many thanks to Upper True for helping revive my Yin-Yang Dao Body."

"This humble girl has no way to repay you; I only hope I may attend upon you, Upper True, in some small measure. Please grant me your permission!"

After speaking, Lu Lingwei kept her head lowered, her heart pounding like a drum.

But after a long while, finding there was no response at all, she gently raised her head to look.

She discovered that Chen Daoxuan, this Upper True from beyond the realm, had at some unknown moment already vanished.

Lu Lingwei was instantly stunned, and instinctively stamped her foot, her cheeks flushing crimson, brimming with coquettish charm.

Thoughts churned ceaselessly in her heart.

"What does Upper True mean by this? Has he accepted my request to attend upon him?"

"Is it that Upper True finds my current cultivation realm still too low to attend upon him, and so gave no response?"

"Then once my cultivation realm has risen and I can be of use to Upper True, will he then permit me to attend upon him?"

"Or does this mean Upper True is rejecting me?"

……

Facing the little female cultivator Lu Lingwei, who dared to covet his body, Chen Daoxuan gave no response and departed directly.

With the supreme Immortal Dao inherited from the Shanhai Immortal Sect to walk, he naturally would not be drawn by this little female cultivator Lu Lingwei to walk the extraordinarily difficult path of dual cultivation.

Unless there were a supreme Immortal Scripture for dual cultivation and becoming an immortal.

Otherwise, whether it was the path of dual cultivation treating her as a furnace, or the path of dual cultivation treating her as a Dao Lu.

It would only increase the difficulty of becoming an immortal.

For Chen Daoxuan, who wished to attain the Dao and become an immortal, to live forever and at ease, both were things he feared to encounter and avoided at all costs.

If he had wanted to walk the path of dual cultivation, he would have done so several thousand years earlier.

As for the desires of the mortal world, in the three hundred years before achieving Nascent Soul, in order to survive the Spirit Void Tribulation, he had already experienced them countless times.

He had even left behind several bloodlines on several cultivation stars.

The next time he saw this little female cultivator Lu Lingwei would be a hundred years later, to retrieve the Three-Color Heaven-Stealing Stone.

Beyond that, unless something unexpected occurred, he should have no further entanglement with this little female cultivator.

However, if that little spark of mortal desire in his heart kept arising and dying without fading, then experiencing a stretch of romance would not matter.

Once the mortal desire was thoroughly cured, they could simply forget each other throughout Heaven and Earth.

Consider it a journey of tempering the heart.

……

Just as Chen Daoxuan departed and Lu Lingwei's heart was still wandering in wild thoughts.

Outside her cave dwelling, Tianjizi, who had waited and stood guard for eighteen days, was brimming with excitement.

Even through the cave dwelling's restrictions, he could sense the Yin-Yang flowing within, in that mysterious way.

Sensing that Upper True Chen Daoxuan had departed, Tianjizi could not wait to send a message to Lu Lingwei.

"Good disciple, quickly open your cave abode and let this Master see the wonders of the Yin-Yang Dao Body."

"Master, I just now to Upper True…"

Hearing the transmission, Lu Lingwei's heart stirred. She opened her cave abode and began telling Tianjizi about what had just happened.

Seeking guidance from Tianjizi.

"Master, are you saying that Upper True rejected me, or accepted me?"

Hearing this, Tianjizi's expression of joy vanished, and he sighed softly in his heart.

Without answering directly, he pondered for a brief moment, then said:

"Lingwei, for Upper True, that supreme Immortal Achievement is within reach; the tender feelings between men and women have long since faded in his eyes."

"And you, my disciple, also possess a Yin-Yang Dao Body, with a boundless future ahead."

"If in the future you two can both achieve immortality, you will have endless years to be with Upper True, to go through all manner of things with him…"

"But if you become lost in these mortal emotions, causing your cultivation realm to stagnate…"

"Even if Upper True agrees, you will only be able to accompany him for a few hundred, or a few thousand years…"

"Do you wish to accompany Upper True for endless ages, or merely a few hundred or thousand years?"

Instantly, Lu Lingwei's expression changed.

Tianjizi looked at his little disciple's thoughtful expression under his words and nodded slightly.

Mortal emotions, even if deeply engraved in the heart for a time, after hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years, washed by the passage of time, become merely a faint memory in the heart.

Looking back, it is only like a dream.

Thinking thus, a graceful figure standing quietly beneath a tree naturally surfaced in Tianjizi's mind.

……

Leaving the Primordial Spirit Realm and returning to the Great Universe, Chen Daoxuan sensed several transmission messages from a few years ago within his True Inheritance Shanhai Stele.

They were from several nodding acquaintances, asking where he was.

At this, Chen Daoxuan's heart chilled.

"Hah, suddenly several people asking where I am — what for?"

"Could something related to me have happened?"

With this thought, he piloted his True Inheritance Shanhai Stele, intending to send messages to his friends to inquire whether anything had occurred.

But in an instant, Chen Daoxuan stopped himself.

Not sending a message, acting as though he had not seen those few transmissions.

He put away his True Inheritance Shanhai Stele.

He departed from the Ten Zhang Giant Substitute Puppet connected to his Aura.

He began summoning Zhen Ling Xuan Wu Ding Jiu Jiu, and under the bearing of the Xuanwu manifested in its black fog, headed toward the Array Eye of the Mie Xian Zhen to slay the Dao Body incarnation.

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