Chapter 10: Inner Scene Heaven and Earth

Inner Scene Heaven and Earth

"Panpan..."

"Shh, don't talk."

Song Guo has not had rain for seven hundred years, and the land has become a desert. Without vegetation to maintain it, the soil on the mountain surface has gradually been lost, and all the mountains in Song Guo are bare. Trees, flowers, grass, mist, smoke, rain, rivers, lakes, and seas are all things that do not exist. Although they are mentioned in classics and legends, this was Ruan Ci's first time walking into a mountain forest. She heard birds chirping everywhere, and saw fluorescent lights floating up and down in the forest, one by one, as if stars had fallen to the ground, and she couldn't help but feel fresh. She just opened her mouth to ask, and Wang Panpan nervously shushed her, "Liu Yin is not an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator. His inner scene Grotto-Heaven might have some extraordinary and bizarre aspects. Don't let your imagination run wild. In front of a cultivator, thinking is also a sin. Don't touch anything, just walk, just walk."

Not to mention Xie Xie Yan Huan, even Liu Jizi seemed to be able to see through Ruan Rong's thoughts. Ruan Ci was peeking from the top at the time, and Liu Jizi suddenly said something irrelevant to her. Ruan Rong's face showed surprise, which in Ruan Ci's view, looked very much like when Xie Xie Yan Huan read her mind. Ruan Ci was reminded by Wang Panpan and was also terrified. She restrained her thoughts and walked forward, only to see this dense forest lush and green, stretching forward, and she couldn't see the end at a glance. A small path wound through it, and there seemed to be towering mountains and flying eaves in the distance, full of immortal Qi. Ruan Ci couldn't help but feel longing in her heart, thinking to herself, "Since Sister Xie lent me the East Flower Sword, one day, I will also be able to go to these so-called immortal blessed places to open my eyes."

She just wanted to go and see, but had no intention of staying in the mountains to cultivate. She didn't know whether Xie Xie Yan Huan would be happy or unhappy if she knew. However, according to Ruan Ci's thoughts, Xie Xie Yan Huan would mostly not care. She lent the East Flower Sword to Ruan Ci just on a whim, and didn't think about whose hands the sword would be in when she returned. To her, no matter whose hands it was in, she would take it back anyway.

But to Ruan Ci, having borrowed something from Xie Xie Yan Huan, she always wanted to return it with her own hands. The world is vast, and she didn't want to just take a hurried glance from the top of the clouds. After walking out of this inner scene heaven and earth, she would ask Wang Panpan properly how she could cultivate the sword if she couldn't cultivate the Dao.

It's just that looking at Wang Panpan's jumping appearance, Ruan Ci didn't have much confidence in her heart. This cat said she was the most powerful big demon in North Youzhou, Ruan Ci didn't believe her, but Xie Xie Yan Huan accepted her as a spiritual pet, naturally because Wang Panpan had extraordinary qualities. Perhaps for cultivators like Xie Xie Yan Huan and Wang Panpan, cultivating the sword was as simple as cultivating the Dao, just like what Ruan Rong said, "You just immerse your mind in the runes, and you will naturally have a response."

Thinking of Ruan Rong, her heart tightened. Ruan Ci didn't want to think about these things. She reached back and touched the East Flower Sword, but felt nothing. She wanted to try to immerse her mind into the sword, but remembered what Wang Panpan said, telling her not to let her imagination run wild. As soon as the thought unfolded, she dismissed it a lot. She just paid more attention to the East Flower Sword, thinking in her heart what the sword on her back should look like, what shape it was, and what color the patterns on the scabbard were.

As soon as the thought arose, she felt her whole body shake. There seemed to be a long sword in her mind, but it was not the ordinary appearance, but a long sword with the sun as a pendant, stars as tassels, brilliant and magnificent, shining in the void. Ruan Ci seemed to see a person holding a long sword in the boundless void, sending it forward. Countless Great Heavens were born and perished at the tip of the sword, splashing out like water droplets, dripping toward the cracks in the void. The crack grew larger and larger, and the stars rolled like pearls, gradually giving birth to a galaxy. Ruan Ci was involuntary, throwing herself into the galaxy, only to see the stars flickering, rotating around her, showing signs of submission, while Ruan Ci herself was majestic, seemingly able to destroy these Great Heavens with a wave of her hand.

She didn't know how long it had been, Ruan Ci's shoulders trembled, and she woke up, only feeling pain on her face. She touched it and found four bloody wounds. Wang Panpan poked half of its head out from her arms, glaring at her fiercely, and scolded in a low voice, "You're crazy! You actually contemplated sword intent at this time. Do you know that with your current lifespan, if you are unlucky, it is very likely that this meditation will last for decades, and the moment you wake up will be the moment you die!"

Ruan Ci didn't know that what she had just done was called 'contemplation', and she was scared to look at the sky, "Then how long have I been in meditation?"

"Not long, just a blink of an eye." Wang Panpan said angrily, "Fortunately, the East Flower Sword is enough to suppress the sea of consciousness and not let your aura leak out, otherwise if this inner scene heaven and earth were triggered by you, that would be bad. Heaven knows what kind of changes would be caused. If Liu Yin's residual consciousness felt the aura of the East Flower Sword and wanted to snatch it—"

Speaking of this, it slapped its cat mouth with a 'pa' sound, peeking at the movement on both sides in fear. Ruan Ci thought to herself, "Even a dead Nascent Soul is so afraid. It seems that Panpan's cultivation should be lower than Nascent Soul."

She didn't know what the sea of consciousness meant, but she could guess a little. Hearing that the East Flower Sword could suppress the sea of consciousness and not let thoughts leak out, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and tried to think in her heart, "Panpan is a big idiot, Panpan's cultivation is mediocre."

Wang Panpan really didn't notice anything, and was still observing the changes on both sides of the small path. Ruan Ci and it looked closely together, only to see white mist filling the mountain forest, and thousands of fluorescent lights flying and shaking up and down, seemingly nothing different. But just as she was about to turn her head, she saw the fluorescent lights slowly gathering together, turning into a human figure. It seemed that a young boy was walking in the white mist, but his figure was young, unlike the appearance of Liu Yin before he died.

Ruan Ci and Wang Panpan were both timid, but they wouldn't be flustered just because they were scared. Neither of them spoke, as if they hadn't seen anything. Wang Panpan's cat head suddenly shrank back into her clothes, Ruan Ci quickened her pace, and buried her head and walked forward quickly. The young boy didn't chase, but ran around in the white mist, and a mansion gradually appeared beside him, and there were a few faint shadows in the mansion, acting intimately with the young boy.

After a while, the fluorescent lights danced and changed, and the young boy's figure grew a little taller. He was listening with his head up in a square. Above the square, an old man sat high in the clouds, letting down a long ladder with his hands. Everyone scrambled to climb up. The young boy stood with his hands behind his back and didn't move. After the others fell down one after another, he climbed the ladder, flipped onto the cloud ladder with a few jumps, stood in front of the old man, and bowed down.

"Green Cloud Ladder... This is a common means for sects in South Zhuzhou to accept disciples and pass on the Dharma." Wang Panpan poked its head out again at some point and said in a fine voice, "Oh, he joined the Yunkong Sect and started cultivating."

Sure enough, the picture in the mist changed again. The young boy was already a young man, practicing martial arts in the mountains, seemingly shouting, and performing a set of long fists with profound moves. Ruan Ci couldn't help but be stunned, wanting to learn a few punches, but forcibly held back, but her memory was quite good, and she silently remembered the moves. Wang Panpan also nodded and said, "Hmm, the Yunkong Sect is indeed a superior sect in South Zhuzhou, this set of punches is still passable. Foundation Establishment and body refining, disciples who have just started, in addition to breathing spiritual energy morning and evening, all have to hammer their bodies, check for leaks and fill gaps, and cast their physical bodies to be perfect, before they can establish a foundation and cultivate the Dao. Before this, it is not much different from a mortal master."

Ruan Ci asked, "Sister Xie said that any physical body tempered by the Dao rhyme cannot leave Langhuan Zhou Tian. Is this the step where the Dao rhyme tempers the physical body?"

Wang Panpan laughed, "This is natural. I heard that the cultivators of the old days would stay in the near-Dao stage for more than a hundred years, and the lifespan of mortals would be exhausted, before they could make up for the five deficiencies and eight leaks they were born with, and keep the spiritual energy they breathed. If they could breathe the Dao rhyme, the faster ones would succeed in Foundation Establishment in ten years. Look, isn't this Liu Yin? Male cultivators don't take beauty-preserving pills, so their appearance stops at the moment of Foundation Establishment. He started cultivating at more than ten years old, and it looks like he established his foundation at twenty-something. If not, he wouldn't be a cultivation seed in South Zhuzhou."

"Then if some people have a particularly thick foundation and succeed in Foundation Establishment in the womb..."

Ruan Ci couldn't help but mutter. Wang Panpan glared at her, "It's not that there are no people who have cultivated to be perfect and leakless in the womb. Then you think, the child's foundation is so deep, what about the parents? Great powers naturally have ways to make the child look the way they want."

While they were talking, the shadow grew taller again, looking like Liu Yin—Ruan Ci had only seen him for a while, but her memory was better than before, and even if it was just a hurried glance, it was like being in front of her, so she could naturally recognize it.

"Has the foundation been successfully established?"

That shadow was no longer practicing martial arts, but was breathing thin mist under a bright moon. Wang Panpan nodded and said, "Correct. Four stages of cultivating the Dao, body refining and Foundation Establishment, this is near-Dao. When the physical body is cultivated perfectly, that is the foundation for cultivating the Dao. Before this, it is not cultivating the Dao, but approaching the Great Dao step by step. After the foundation is successfully established, enter the Dao. At this stage, breathe spiritual energy, nourish and cultivate in the body, and cultivate a Golden Core. This is Golden Core refining Qi."

Sure enough, the spiritual energy breathed out by Liu Yin, thread by thread, gradually wrapped into a pill. The pill was first misty, gradually solidified, and kept spinning in Liu Yin's abdomen. Wang Panpan praised, "I heard that human cultivators have to turn spiritual energy into liquid before condensing the pill, and refine the pill from the liquid. Hmph, this Liu Yin can be considered to have some talent, actually skipping this step directly."

This white mist changed until now, just performing the story of Liu Yin cultivating the Dao. At this time, the two were courageous, walking leisurely on the small path, watching Liu Yin slowly condense the Golden Core, turning the Golden Core from virtual to real, and from sparse to dense. Wang Panpan was a cat after all, and seeing the Golden Core spinning cutely, couldn't help but raise its claws and flick it in the void, laughing, "What a big gold bullet—meow!"

Neither of them expected that the Golden Core in the mist would be drawn by Wang Panpan's move, and it flew over, turning from virtual to real, and instantly flew in front of Ruan Ci. Ruan Ci couldn't react at all. Wang Panpan slapped it, knocking the Golden Core to the ground. The Golden Core was knocked low, and flew back into the mist. Liu Yin in the mist reached out and drew it to his front, stood up, and stared at them with misty white eyes.

"Pan... Pan, Pan, Panpan..."

Ruan Ci's teeth couldn't help but tremble, "Now, what should we do now? Walk, walk faster..."

Wang Panpan's voice also trembled slightly, "No, no, no, don't walk, don't walk, let, let me think."

Ruan Ci also felt that it was not appropriate to walk forward, but she couldn't say why, but staying here and staring at Liu Yin was also very scary. Just as she was hesitating, a familiar voice came from behind, "Don't go forward—"

Wang Panpan shrank its head, and Ruan Ci only felt empty in front of her chest. This cat didn't know where it was hiding. The person's voice gradually approached, "If I were you, I wouldn't go forward. Staying here is just a Golden Core. If you go forward, the cultivation base will reach Nascent Soul, how should you deal with it?"

This sentence hit the point, but Ruan Ci couldn't care about thinking carefully. She had heard this voice for several hours on the top of the cave, and she would never recognize it wrong. She turned around suddenly, looked over with Liu Yin in the mist, only to see a white figure floating over from the path, with a smile on his lips and a face like jade. Who else could it be but Liu Jizi?

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Updated, sorry for the long wait, everyone. I'll send out red envelopes for the previous chapter in a moment, and this chapter will also be sent~

By the way, why do immortal cultivators usually raise a 'grandfather' or an encyclopedia pet? In fact, it's a simple reason. It's convenient to explain the worldview, or to externalize the protagonist's psychological activities. Otherwise, on the road of cultivating immortality, the protagonist doesn't know anything at the beginning, and then is alone for a long time. If there is no character to hold the stage, the article will be very boring.

Panpan is currently a white cat! There will be other colors later!

Q&A time: Will Wang Panpan's Song Guo incarnations trigger the great array? No, because before the array was broken, the incarnations lived the lives of ordinary civet cats.

I had fish head tofu soup for lunch today, and bread for breakfast, but I think many breads are too sweet now, and sugar-free and oil-free bread makes people very depressed. In fact, bread is not an ideal food, alas.

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