Chapter 133

Fengyu Forms Golden Core

Regardless, Ruan Ci was ultimately somewhat unconvinced by Qing Jun's advice. She was just this kind of person; even with a Dao Ancestor's admonition, she would listen or not listen based on her own heart. If she were Qing Jun's reincarnation, one day, the Qing Jun of the past life would manifest on her. Then, letting her experience more of the human world's love, hate, resentment, and obsession, the bitterness of not getting what one wants, and the ecstasy of getting one's wish—no matter what emotion, tasting them one by one would naturally be best for Qing Jun. But for Ruan Ci herself, she didn't often feel lonely or envious of deep love between couples. There were too many interesting things in the world, and it didn't matter much who was by her side. Compared to being bold enough to taste all the emotions in the world, she would rather cultivate well. After all, given the circumstances, talking about love wouldn't make her live longer.

Furthermore, Ruan Ci was not a person who would suffer a loss. Most of the people around her were linked to her by cause, effect, and interests. Even if there were some emotions, they were not pure. In such human affairs, if she were to be as indulgent as Meng Lingyue, she would naturally suffer a huge loss. She didn't know what benefits these emotional thoughts would be used to seek. Why should those people be able to take such advantage?

Even so, she wouldn't cut off all emotions because of this—perhaps if she reacted so extremely, it was also in Qing Jun's calculations, and one day it would become a foreshadowing that could be used by her. For suggestions she didn't want to adopt, Ruan Ci felt it was better to treat them as wind passing by the ear, listen and forget, and do whatever she wanted. As for what Qing Jun said about not being able to merge with the second Dao without tasting various human emotions—with her current Foundation Establishment status, it seemed she didn't need to consider that far ahead. Even the matter of her possibly being a reincarnation, Ruan Ci only thought about it roughly and didn't waste any more thought on it. No matter where Qing Jun, Xie Xie Yan Huan, or even the Shangqing Sect wanted to place her as a chess piece, for Ruan Ci, the only thing she could do and wanted to do at this moment was to move forward single-mindedly, without ever wronging herself.

Carefully organizing this mysterious experience in her heart naturally yielded quite a bit. First, it clarified the boundaries of cultivation improvement. When she dreamed of entering the North Youzhou, she was on the fifth-layer high platform, building toward the sixth layer. Now, she was standing on the sixth-layer high platform, building toward the seventh layer, which could be considered entering the late-stage Foundation Establishment realm. Having cultivated for more than forty years, she was already in late-stage Foundation Establishment. Huan Changyuan and Dong Shuangcheng, whom she met in South Zhuzhou at the time, must have been left far behind. Without special encounters, for a Foundation Establishment cultivator, forty years might at most be cultivating from the second layer to the fourth layer. To reach Foundation Establishment perfection, it would be impossible without hundreds of years.

Ruan Ci now only needed to build the seventh-layer high platform to perfection, which would take at most two hundred years, and then she could take two elixirs to push her cultivation to the ninth-layer perfection. To reach Foundation Establishment ninth layer before two hundred years old, I'm afraid it would be an anomaly even in Langhuan Zhou Tian. But for her, how to build the illusory last three layers after the ninth layer was truly without a clue, and she couldn't worry about that for now.

The second thing she gained was knowing some secrets of the Dao Ancestors, and she had a vague guess about the Dao Ancestors' layouts, but she couldn't say exactly what it was yet. This improvement in perspective and the opportunity to talk frankly with a Dao Ancestor were things that many powerful cultivators couldn't seek even if they racked their brains. Ruan Ci also noticed one thing: both times she traveled through, it was at a time when a certain Dao Ancestor was visiting. She just didn't know if it was the same person, and whether this connection in timing was purely a coincidence or if there was also a connection in cause and effect.

Third, she had finally temporarily put down the haze that had been hard to dissipate in the past few days. Whether it was True Person Fu's lineage of the Jin Bo Sect or Ling Yuan's passing, in the eyes of powerful beings, it might be no different from the fall of a Grotto-Heaven. If one doesn't become a Dao Ancestor, it is ultimately void. Whether this fall is late or early, there is no need to be overly concerned. Ruan Ci herself might not be able to view the world like this yet, but borrowing the wisdom of others, she could already view the thoughts in her heart peacefully. More importantly, Ling Yuan said she was naturally formed and had not been contaminated, which showed that the ferocity contained in the Donghua Sword had not affected her nature—she wasn't afraid of being a cruel and murderous person, and she had never thought of being a good person. For Ruan Ci, the two most important things were: first, whether she was herself; second, whether she could have a result and get an understanding when she died.

Ling Yuan's words let go of a big worry in her heart, and her cultivation had also improved somewhat. Although it was too late to take elixirs to raise her cultivation, late-stage Foundation Establishment was enough to catch up with Han Yuze's group. It is said that Ruan Ci should be very happy, but at this moment, she still felt a bit uncomfortable. Thinking carefully, it was because after leaving seclusion, she naturally had to go to pay respects to True Person Wang and listen to his teachings, and she was now somewhat unwilling to see her Master.

If asked why she was unwilling to see him, she herself didn't know clearly. She could find reasons—the remnant soul she saw in North Youzhou seemed to have expected the sword Ling Yuan received, and said things like "Master is like my father" and "I hope there is someone who is good to my Master" to Ling Yuan. This was undoubtedly said for her to hear, and it was hard not to associate it with True Person Wang. But Ruan Ci didn't want to ask him about the past, and didn't even dare to think about it much within the Purple Void Heaven. If it weren't for the fact that she was in seclusion, had set up several layers of arrays to clear her heart and calm her thoughts, and had recited the Heart-Clearing Mantra several times, she would never have easily thought of it.

Hearing about True Person Wang killing his disciple before, she only felt it was like a strange story. Now that she had some understanding of cause and effect, she knew how deeply True Person Wang was hurt by that matter, and I'm afraid the aftermath would continue to the present. Therefore, Ruan Ci didn't want to make him think of sad things, for fear of disturbing True Person Wang's state of mind. But she was unconvinced by what the remnant soul said, and muttered secretly, "Hoping for someone to truly understand him and be good to him... what does that have to do with me? I don't want to be good to him, and I don't want to understand him even more."

These words were a bit of a tantrum. She couldn't explain her own thoughts, but in her heart, she vaguely knew that her unwillingness to see True Person Wang was not just because of those few words the remnant soul said. As for what else it was, she couldn't say. But paying respects to her Master was also imperative. Ruan Ci's thoughts were chaotic. Suddenly, a thought moved, and she remembered the "Mysterious Pearl Record," thinking to herself, "If only I could condense these messy thoughts into pearls and put them away."

Just as she was about to do so, she hesitated, remembering what Qing Jun said, "But these emotional thoughts are also precious worries that I have only because I am human. Even innate Dao Ancestors cannot experience them, and those demon cultivators are also muddled, hard to have such complex thoughts."

"Condensing others' emotional thoughts is natural. Others' emotions cannot mess up my sea of consciousness, but if I condense all my thoughts into pearls, will I still be me in the end? Will I become a cold cultivation puppet?"

She immediately gave up this idea, gritted her teeth, and thought secretly, "I don't dare to see the True Person, it's nothing more than being afraid that he will sense the messy thoughts in my mind. But he is a high-level Grotto-Heaven cultivator and has cultivated sensing methods. I don't know how many secrets in people's hearts he has sensed. Even if he notices the thoughts in my heart, what's so great about that? What's more, a Grotto-Heaven True Person's thoughts and sights are already very different from mine, just like two kinds of living beings. Even if I like my Master, so what? I also like Tianlu very much. What's more, I clearly don't like him. It's all Qing Jun guessing wildly and fanning the flames."

She was ultimately a straightforward person. Other young ladies might toss and turn and struggle for a long time, but Ruan Ci had such a slight repetition. Thinking of True Person Wang sitting high in the Grotto-Heaven, although he manifested a divine sense to meet her, it seemed as if he were a person like her, but in fact, the gap between the two sides was huge. It was like a basin of cold water poured over her head, and there were no more fantasies. She just hid many thoughts and thought, "Fengyu has been in seclusion for thirty years. I don't know if I can see her before I go to Han Yuze."

Just as she was thinking this, she suddenly felt the spiritual energy around her tremble. Her heart moved, and she hurriedly removed the array, flew out of the Grotto-Heaven, and looked toward the sky. The maid behind her hurriedly stepped forward to pay respects. Ruan Ci asked, "This change in spiritual energy, has someone advanced?"

The maid smiled, "This is the direction of Miss Yu's Grotto-Heaven. I'm afraid Miss Yu has finally formed her core. Does Miss Ci want to go and take a look?"

Foundation Establishment cultivators usually don't have any movement, but forming a core or Nascent Soul will cause spiritual energy to tremble. The style when achieving Grotto-Heaven, I think, should be even greater. In fact, even if Qin Fengyu forms her core at this time, she still needs to stabilize her cultivation and will only be able to leave seclusion in a few days. Ruan Ci wouldn't be able to see anything outside her Grotto-Heaven, but she was also very happy in her heart, so she flew toward the hub of the spiritual energy tremor. Sure enough, she saw a small floating mountain hundreds of miles away, which was exactly where Qin Fengyu lived, floating here following the change in spiritual energy.

She didn't dare to get too close, only watching from afar, and it was not good to use spiritual sense to observe the changes in the momentum field. She only vaguely felt that between heaven and earth, there seemed to be some kind of momentum constantly shrinking and expanding, just like a heartbeat trembling, one expansion and one contraction, making this momentum field full of tension, yet vaguely there was a sense of new hope, just like in the thick dark night, although she couldn't see her fingers, she knew the morning sun would rise soon, and this darkness was by no means eternal.

I don't know how long it took, the darkness gradually dissipated, and colorful clouds appeared in the sky, as if the morning sun were about to rise in the east, but it could never break through the infinite darkness. In that tense waiting that made people hold their breath, suddenly a crisp phoenix cry was heard. A five-colored phoenix manifested from the top of the floating mountain, flying around the pavilion three times, crying again and again. In the air, there seemed to be infinite greenness, appearing and disappearing, which was the top of the phoenix tree. The phoenix spread its wings and soared in the air, slowly landing on the branches in the forest, raised its head and cried clearly several times, pecked hard, and pecked the dark night open. A golden pill suddenly jumped out in the sky, bursting with ten thousand rays of light, driving away the remnant night. Its momentum was majestic, righteous and hard to block, making people dizzy and fascinated, and they couldn't help but feel dry-mouthed and shocked!

The Golden Core hung in the air, not falling into the Grotto-Heaven, but slowly rotating. Its rotation momentum seemed to stir wind and thunder, and even the spiritual energy in the sky followed and rotated. Ruan Ci was in this vortex and couldn't even stand, and was afraid that being in the vortex would make the Golden Core rotate even harder, so she hurriedly fell onto the sea and floated back several miles. At this moment, looking up at the golden pill, it was truly like a scorching sun, small and bright, still slowly rotating. And the stirring momentum was no longer wind, clouds, and spiritual energy, but vaguely contained some inexplicable things, as if cause, effect, and fortune were all rolled into it, rotating endlessly with the golden pill.

At this moment, there were many things being carried, and the Golden Core's rotation was even more difficult, but there was no stagnation. On the phoenix branches, it rotated nine times and finally landed on the branches in the forest. For a moment, the sky was bright, as if a great sun were lying in a bird's nest. This phantom flashed and disappeared, and together with the Golden Core, turned into light and entered the Grotto-Heaven. Ruan Ci was overjoyed, and the maid beside her also whispered, "Golden Core nine turns, Miss Yu is one step closer to Grotto-Heaven!"

Foundation Establishment ninth layer does not necessarily mean Golden Core nine turns. Everyone saw how difficult and slow this last turn was. Ruan Ci was also happy for Qin Fengyu, the haze in her heart was swept away, and she said happily, "Not bad, after I pay respects to my Master, I must go to Brother Ning to congratulate him well."

There were still a few disciples under the Purple Void Heaven, but they were still in seclusion. After all, Ruan Ci had only entered the sect for more than fifty years, and Nascent Soul True Persons almost always closed seclusion for hundreds of years. Even Golden Core True Persons would not be surprised to close seclusion for hundreds of years. Ruan Ci had not had the chance to see them yet.

When she went to the small courtyard by the cliff, she made a wasted trip. Tianlu came out of the room and said, "Miss Ci, the True Person said there is no need to meet this time. Since Miss Ci is already in late-stage Foundation Establishment, I expect Han Yuze can be visited. You can go to the Seven Star Small Abode to meet your clan sister, or pay respects to the Sect Master, and discuss it yourself."

Ruan Ci was stunned for a long time when she heard this. In fact, she didn't really want to see True Person Wang, but True Person Wang didn't see her. For some reason, she was very angry in her heart and couldn't help but lose her temper, "What kind of Master is this, not caring about his disciple at all. Hmph, Tianlu, let's go, don't ever see this heartless Master again."

Saying this, she pulled Tianlu and flew toward the sky, and smiled and teased him, "Let's go to Han Yuze, do you dare to follow us..."

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Updated, sorry for the long wait everyone, I'm sending red envelopes to everyone this chapter

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