Chapter 531: The Purple Mansion is Formed

"Master, are you leaving the city?"

Yuan An blinked his eyes.

"Yes."

Li Rui nodded, showing rare hesitation: "At the shortest a few days, at the longest a few months. I have already reported to Grand Secretary Zhang. You and your Senior Brother Liu stay in the capital properly; if there is anything you cannot handle, you can go find Monitor Gu."

"Alright."

Yuan An said with a grin.

Although he was curious in his heart why his master wanted to leave the city, he did not pursue the question.

After explaining everything.

Li Rui then left the city.

He unleashed his flying boat, crossing ten thousand *li* in one go, arriving in the depths of the East Sea in just one day.

This place was rarely visited by people.

Even because it was too vast, even sea monsters were rarely seen.

A satisfied smile appeared on the corners of Li Rui's mouth.

Not bad.

This was the dojo he had selected to open the Purple Mansion.

Sitting cross-legged, his whole person hovered above the ten thousand *qing* of waves.

The next instant.

The aura of the Great Dao appeared around his body, and the Dao Embryo infant within his body was already wrapped in the Qingxuan Great Dao and the power of the Immortal Dao; his whole person resembled an immortal or a god, looking even more like a true immortal than that banished immortal.

At this moment.

The rolling waves were suppressed, actually appearing incomparably docile.

"Open."

Li Rui spat out a word slowly.

As soon as the voice fell.

The Dao Embryo infant opened its eyes abruptly, exuding thick life force.

This step was precisely to reshape the *dantian* to open the Purple Mansion; more importantly, it was the realization of the Great Dao. If the accumulated spiritual energy and Dao rhyme were insufficient, it could even lead to a halfway failure, causing the *dantian* to be destroyed while the Purple Mansion failed to open.

Countless cultivators had died with regret at this step.

Of course, Li Rui, by comparison, had almost no risk to speak of.

Simply because there was already a prototype of the Purple Mansion in his *dantian*.

Calling it "opening" was not as appropriate as calling it "sweeping."

No longer holding back.

The power of two Great Daos appeared, constantly nourishing the Immortal Court.

The next instant.

A three-inch cyan glow shot up from Li Rui's *baihui* acupoint, and the Immortal *qi* in the *dantian* was misty.

The scriptures say, "Within the three passes, the essence and *qi* are deep; within the nine subtleties, it is secluded and yin."

At this moment.

The *ren* and *du* meridians were like rivers flowing backward, and the Immortal *qi* transformed into jade liquid flowing down from the twelve-story building, gathering from the four limbs and bones, pouring into the *dantian*, and his essence, *qi*, and spirit reached their peak.

Without hesitation.

Li Rui's eyes shot out sharp light.

*Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! *

Dozens of small flags flew out from his sleeves on their own.

In just an instant, a grand formation was already set up.

The grand formation operated on its own.

Suddenly—

He was wrapped in spiritual energy that was almost materialized, and within it, there were even faint traces of Great Dao rhyme interwoven.

This was precisely the Great Dao Spirit-Nourishing Formation that Li Rui had spent all his efforts to find.

It was of great benefit to opening the Purple Mansion.

The next instant.

A shattering sound came from the *dantian*, bursting out with points of light, and the Immortal Court within seemed to have come alive, contracting with great regularity like breathing, and then... expanding!

The Immortal Court, which was originally only the size of a palm in the *dantian*, suddenly grew larger, becoming three *zhang* in an instant.

On it, white mist was born, and cyan lotus flowers bloomed.

This was precisely the omen of "Spiritual roots support white jade, true *qi* gives birth to the Purple Mansion"!

The Immortal Court expanded crazily.

Li Rui's body made *pipa* sounds like frying beans, and he forcibly raised a breath of true *qi*.

The Wan Gu Chang Qing Gong operated.

A red dragon shot up from his temple, and brilliant golden light appeared around his body, actually surpassing the scorching sun on the horizon!

Finally—

A thunderous explosion occurred within his skull, followed by a burst of clarity.

Suddenly hearing the sound of the Dao.

"The gate of the mysterious female is the root of heaven and earth!"

Looking inward at his own body.

He saw that the Immortal Court at this time was still a magnificent scene, actually reaching a full thirty *zhang* in size, and even after opening the Purple Mansion, there was still no sign of stopping; it was still growing.

The edge of the Immortal Court was constantly shattering, repairing, and circulating endlessly.

"It's Immortal *qi*!"

Li Rui saw cyan *qi* lingering at the edge of the Immortal Court, repairing the Purple Mansion with infinite vitality.

It was precisely the Immortal *qi* he had nurtured!

His eyes lit up immediately.

*'It truly has infinite wonderful uses.'*

Originally, with his foundation, thirty *zhang* would have been the limit, but now because of the Immortal *qi*, there were infinite possibilities.

Expanding to a hundred *zhang*... a thousand *zhang* in the future was not impossible!

*'No wonder Bai Yujing values this immortal fruit so much, not hesitating to send people to the lower realms to hunt him down.'*

Li Rui stood up slowly.

The little old man, the artifact spirit, once said that when Daoist Lord Wanshou opened the Purple Mansion, it was only ten *zhang*, and he now had a full thirty *zhang*, and it was still growing!

Of course.

According to what the little old man, the artifact spirit, said, Daoist Lord Wanshou was not very stunning when he was in the Purple Mansion Realm.

He relied entirely on the specialty of his Great Dao to survive until he became a Daoist Lord.

But conversely.

Among those who could achieve the position of Daoist Lord, how many were ordinary people?

Li Rui's achievement in the Purple Mansion Realm now could already stand shoulder to shoulder with a Daoist Lord, which could be said to be extremely outstanding.

Compared to the Heavenly Phenomenon Realm of the small *dongtian*, it was leading by an unknown amount.

And what was even more special was that when others first opened their Purple Mansion, it was just an empty cave dwelling, but his was the same, already a scene of an Immortal Court.

This kind of momentum would probably shock even a Daoist Lord if they saw it.

All of this.

Was inseparable from the Immortal *qi*, Immortal Court, and Immortal Dao nurtured within his body.

Precisely because of this.

It could not be known by others even more.

Opening the Purple Mansion.

As Li Rui raised his hand, the spiritual energy seemed to materialize, and there were even cyan lotuses of the Qingxuan Great Dao appearing, blooming with infinite vitality.

His strength surged again.

A curve appeared at the corner of his mouth.

After decades of bitter practice, he had finally opened the Purple Mansion.

There is a saying in the immortal cultivation world: "Only after opening the gate of the Purple Mansion can one be considered one of our kind."

This means that only by opening the Purple Mansion can one be considered to have truly stepped onto the path of seeking immortality; anything below that is just an ordinary person.

Now, he had finally reached this step.

Li Rui closed his eyes to feel it carefully, and then the smile on his face grew wider.

Perhaps because he practiced the Wan Gu Chang Qing Gong, and coupled with the stability of the Purple Mansion, his lifespan directly reached a terrifying nine *jiazi*.

It directly broke his previous lifespan limit.

Longevity was what he sought.

A lifespan of nine *jiazi* was something that would make people in the immortal cultivation world extremely envious.

Li Rui threw out the flying boat.

Then it transformed into a divine rainbow and disappeared into the horizon.

At the other end.

The capital, the Imperial City, the Imperial Observatory.

"Hmm?"

Gu Changsheng, who was dozing off in the room, opened his eyes slowly, a look of surprise flashing across them.

Just now.

The national fortune of Great Yu actually increased!

This was no small matter.

Generally speaking, this phenomenon only occurred in one situation: someone had broken through their realm, and not just an ordinary person, but at least someone opening the Purple Mansion.

And what surprised him secretly was.

That person's Purple Mansion seemed extremely unusual.

He had not encountered the situation where opening the Purple Mansion increased national fortune, but like the current scene, which was like ten Heavenly Phenomenon experts opening their Purple Mansions at the same time, he had never seen it before.

If it was done by one person.

Their Purple Mansion was probably the largest in the world!

Gu Changsheng blinked his eyes.

He had some guesses in his heart.

There were only so many Second-Rankers in the world, and there were not many who were people of the Yu Kingdom.

Just as Gu Changsheng was pondering.

A young *fangshi* ran in, a look of anxiety on his face: "Monitor, the Hun Tian Yi just moved!"

The Hun Tian Yi was an object for monitoring the national fortune of the Yu Kingdom.

Clearly, the national fortune had changed.

This was a major event.

The young *fangshi* of the Imperial Observatory was naturally anxious.

But he was anxious, while Gu Changsheng before him was completely unconcerned, only saying indifferently: "It was just me practicing martial arts just now and getting a *qi* deviation, accidentally bumping into the Hun Tian Yi. It's nothing."

Hearing this.

The *fangshi* breathed a sigh of relief.

But the Monitor was a Land Immortal; how could he get a *qi* deviation while practicing?

He left, half-believing.

Gu Changsheng, however, looked toward a direction with a smile.

That was precisely the location of Jishuitan.

He hooked the corners of his mouth slightly:

"Brother Li, you are making me increasingly unable to see through you."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 532 =====