Chapter 21

Unknowingly, Su Chen had been home for three months.

In these three months, Mianshui County was calm and peaceful.

The Su family's business was also thriving.

Su Wen and Su Yue, under Su Chen's guidance and the assistance of the Foundation Establishment Pill, also practiced the "True Scripture of Asking the Dao" quite well.

At a young age, their strength had already far exceeded ordinary peers, and among the children in the county, they had become little bullies.

Everything was developing in the direction Su Chen hoped for.

Finally, on a crisp autumn morning, Su Chen summoned the whole family to the hall.

The atmosphere in the hall was somewhat oppressive.

Su Yuanshan and Lady Li sat in the main seats, their eyes red, their lips tightly pressed, saying nothing.

Su Feng and his wife stood on the side, also looking dejected.

The two children seemed to have sensed something, and without their usual playfulness, they just quietly pulled on their mother's clothes.

"Father, Mother, Eldest Brother, Sister-in-law."

Su Chen first kowtowed three times respectfully to his parents.

"This child is unfilial and cannot serve you at your knees. Parting today, I don't know when we will meet again. I hope Father and Mother will take care of your health and not miss me too much."

Lady Li's tears finally couldn't be held back, rolling down like beads with broken strings.

She stepped forward to help Su Chen up, her trembling hands stroking her son's cheeks.

"Chen'er, be careful in everything out there."

Su Yuanshan patted his wife's shoulder; he looked at Su Chen, his eyes containing pride and worry, finally turning into a long sigh: "Go. You have your own path to the sky, and our Su family cannot become your burden. As long as you remember, this will always be your home."

Su Chen nodded; he took two jade bottles and nine prepared talismans from his arms and handed them to Su Feng.

"Eldest Brother, in this bottle are Foundation Establishment Pills. Father and Mother are old, so they can take one every three years, which can ensure they are free from all diseases and live a long life. You, Sister-in-law, and Wen'er and Yue'er can take one each year."

"These nine talismans were refined with my heart's blood. Keep them well; if the family truly encounters a crisis of collapse or a moment of life and death, take one out, call my name, and cast it."

Su Feng knew the weight of these things.

This was the guarantee his brother left for this family.

"Little Brother..."

"Eldest Brother, take care," Su Chen interrupted him and hugged his brother tightly.

Finally, he squatted down and looked at his nephew and niece.

"Wen'er, Yue'er, Second Uncle is leaving."

"Second Uncle, where are you going? When will you be back?" Su Yue pouted, tears swirling in her eyes.

"Second Uncle is going to a very, very far place to do a very, very important thing," Su Chen smiled and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, "You must listen to Father and Mother and practice hard. When you grow up, maybe we will have a day to meet again."

He stood up and took one last look at his relatives in the hall.

Then, he turned resolutely and walked toward the door.

The morning light was faint, and on the long street, Su Chen's figure was drawn very long under the morning sun.

He just walked out of the sight of the Su family like this.

Outside the city, Su Chen looked back at the small county one last time.

"Perhaps I will never come back!"

Su Chen whispered to himself.

This was not heartlessness.

It was because he had already stepped onto the path of Immortality, and Immortals and mortals are different; if he stayed in the mortal world for a long time, it would not be good for his family or himself.

He returned this time precisely to cut off his mortal karma, and now that the karma was settled, his Dao heart was clearer by another point.

At the same time, the prompt of the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian appeared:

【Detected that the host has settled mortal karma, the Dao heart is clear, and it has a significant impact on one's own luck...】

【Obtained Heavenly Secret Points +100】

【Current Heavenly Secret Points: 350】

The autumn wind was bleak, rolling up the withered leaves on the official road, spinning toward the distance.

Su Chen stood on a small hill outside the city. As he settled the karma with his mortal relatives, something heavy was stripped from his soul, and his whole person became light and transparent, as if he could ride the wind and go at any time.

That was not an unstable Dao heart, but an instinctive emotion of being human.

He did not suppress it, just quietly experiencing it.

Seeking Immortality and asking the Dao is inherently a journey of constant abandonment.

After a long time, he let out a long breath.

The heart lake returned to calm, leaving only a clear Dao heart.

Su Chen rode the wind to a deep mountain and began to think about his future path of cultivation.

He sat withered in the mountain for several days, constantly comprehending the "Hunyuan Golden Core True Explanation," and finally determined his future path of cultivation.

He cultivated the "Hunyuan Golden Core True Explanation" and walked the Golden Core Great Dao.

But the "Hunyuan Golden Core True Explanation" was not a single cultivation method, but a path of cultivation; everyone who cultivates has different comprehensions.

Now that the Great Tribulation is coming, he is unwilling to avoid the tribulation and cultivate, exchanging time for cultivation base, as the Patriarch warned that day.

Su Chen comprehended the "Hunyuan Golden Core True Explanation" and the insights and experience taught by the Patriarch, and found a path that can quickly increase his cultivation base.

That is to use the treasures of the Five Elements and Yin-Yang to temper the Golden Core and quickly accumulate the foundation of the Golden Core.

According to his conception, when his Golden Core Five Elements are perfect, he can become a Golden Immortal, and when Yin and Yang gather, he can prove the Taiyi.

Now that the Three Realms Great Tribulation is coming, many great powers have already gone into hiding to avoid the tribulation, and under the cover of the tribulation Qi, the heavenly secrets are chaotic, so even if treasures appear, they will not be calculated by those terrifying existences.

And with the help of the 【Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian】, he has a chance to find some high-quality treasures.

Thinking of this, Su Chen summoned the 【Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian.】

In front of him, the simple and unadorned treasure mirror that only he could see slowly emerged.

【Current Heavenly Secret Points: 350】

Three hundred and fifty points is not much, but it is enough to ask a key question.

His goal is very clear: first, to find treasures of the Five Elements and Yin-Yang for the "Hunyuan Golden Core True Explanation" to accelerate cultivation; second, to find a top-tier protective divine ability in preparation for the Great Tribulation.

After thinking for a moment, Su Chen made a decision.

Cultivation base is the root, and divine ability is the leaf.

If the root is not deep, no matter how lush the leaves are, it is water without a source.

The most urgent task is to find treasures that can help him quickly become an Immortal.

"Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian, consume Heavenly Secret Points to deduce for me the location of an ownerless wood-attribute spiritual object that I can obtain."

He described the question extremely precisely.

First, it must be obtainable with his cultivation; second, it must be ownerless to avoid fighting with others; third, it must be wood-attribute, which is the first step of the Five Elements he decided.

The treasure mirror's light flickered slightly, and the talisman scripts on it began to jump rapidly.

【Heavenly Secret deduction in progress...】

【Consumed Heavenly Secret Points: 300】

Three hundred points!

This almost exhausted all his accumulation, which shows the weight of the karma of this matter and also proves the preciousness of this treasure.

The light dissipated, and a line of simple seal characters appeared on the treasure mirror.

【Western Niuhe Continent, in Mount Wanshou, behind Wuzhuang Temple. Once Yang Mei established the Dao, a hollow willow hides the universe.】

Yang Mei? Hollow Willow!

Su Chen's pupils shrank suddenly, his heart shaking violently.

Before he traveled through, he read plenty of novels and had some understanding of some ancient Primordial secrets.

Great Immortal Yang Mei was a Chaos Demon God from the same era as Patriarch Hongjun, whose true body was the first hollow willow in chaos, and whose space law divine ability was superb; it was rumored that even the Dao Ancestor had suffered losses at his hands.

Did such a legendary supreme existence actually leave a dojo in Mount Wanshou?