Chapter 189: Fusang Spiritual Fruit Aids Cultivation; Five Qi in the Chest Return to the Innate

Seeing Lu Ya so certain, Fang Longye, who possessed the legacy and fortune left behind after Xihuang's transcendence,

remained noncommittal.

Yet, he did not voice a denial either.

After all, he himself was not clear whether his Golden Finger was truly the handiwork of the transcendent Xihuang.

He simply asked in return: "Oh? Why be so certain that my conflict with Donghuang is unavoidable?"

"Little friend only knows that Donghuang Taiyi's strength is formidable, but you do not know just how strong his power is, nor how arrogant his nature."

"Do you know the origin of this realm called Taiyi?"

Fang Longye naturally shook his head and said uncertainly: "It seems it has to do with Donghuang?"

Daoist Lu Ya nodded in approval and said: "In the distant past, there was no such concept as the Taiyi realm. Above Golden Immortal, there was only Great Luo."

"It is precisely because of Donghuang Taiyi that the current division of the Taiyi realm exists."

"It seems there is quite a story behind this!"

Seeing Fang Longye's exclamation, Lu Ya smiled and continued his narration.

"The world widely spreads the tale of the Zixiao Gong sermons, saying that Ancestor Hongjun is the Dao Ancestor of Honghuang, and that all the great powers of Honghuang emerged from his school."

"Little do they know, while the various great powers listened to his sermons, they did not all acknowledge him as their master."

"Especially Donghuang Taiyi. After his success in listening to the Dao, he created the Taiyi Dao, wishing to compete with the Great Luo Dao taught by Ancestor Hongjun."

"He forcibly trampled underfoot all the great powers who practiced the Great Luo Dao, including the Three Pure Ones."

"However, in the Lich War, he still fell and perished, his body and Dao dissipating."

"But the Taiyi Dao he cultivated had already been embedded into the heavens and earth, impossible to erase."

"And the Three Pure Ones, who had already attained the status of Hunyuan Saint by that time, simply absorbed some of the concepts of his Taiyi Dao and carved out a Taiyi realm between Golden Immortal and Great Luo."

Pfft—

Fang Longye amusedly said: "So, only after he fell did they let Great Luo suppress Taiyi?"

However, it was just a laugh.

After all, he was still walking the Great Luo Dao himself.

Lu Ya's brows twitched, thinking to himself: what kind of talk is this!

Know your place!

He is your future opponent~ After grumbling in his heart, he continued: "I am being so wordy because I want to remind you, little friend."

"Ordinary people, because of Xihuang, would not dare to touch you in the slightest, even knowing that his transcendent legacy is upon you."

"But Donghuang Taiyi is different; with his arrogant nature, he would not hold Xihuang in his eyes."

"And once he returns to the heavens and earth, I can guarantee he will absolutely be the strongest among the Hunyuan."

"Do you guess he will come to trouble you for the sake of insights regarding transcendence?"

Fang Longye withdrew his smile, his expression becoming serious.

Without Lu Ya needing to say more, Fang Longye knew the answer was affirmative.

Arrogant as he may be, he is not stupid; he would not be unable to bow his head and learn just for the sake of that bit of pride in his heart.

Even among three people, there must be a teacher for me! "So?"

"So, since you will eventually cross paths with that old scoundrel Donghuang Taiyi anyway, helping me out won't cost you anything, why not do it?"

Seeing Fang Longye open his mouth to speak, Lu Ya did not say another word and directly presented a Jade Slip.

Fang Longye immersed his divine sense, reading ten lines at a glance.

He took it all in at once.

A long, clear list.

All sorts of rare treasures were prominently listed.

A dazzling array.

Bang—

He immediately slapped the table and stood up.

Full of enthusiasm, he said: "I have already been deeply favored by Senior Hongyun, so I should naturally stand against Donghuang Taiyi. Since Senior Lu Ya thinks highly of this junior, this junior will naturally do as you wish!"

……

A mysterious realm.

All around were rainbow-colored waters, arcs of light flashing, shadows darting and leaping, interlinked, expanding and contracting, covering ten thousand times ten thousand miles, with marvelous sounds intertwining.

At the very core of this realm, various palaces and pavilions were hidden amidst Divine Light and auspicious vapors.

Fang Longye sat upright on a Cloud Cliff, quietly meditating and regulating his breath.

After accepting the karmic connection with Daoist Lu Ya, Fang Longye had requested that Daoist Lu Ya provide him with a place for quiet cultivation.

Thus, Lu Ya had opened up this realm right before his eyes and then stuffed him inside.

This period of seclusion was bound to be a major leap forward.

Therefore, Fang Longye did not dive into cultivation the moment he entered; instead, he kept his heart calm and focused on the Dao, polishing himself.

Time flowed away bit by bit.

All was silent and still, as if time and space had frozen, and everything around became inconsequential. Under his meditation and breath regulation, Fang Longye constantly leveled his mind and spirit until, in the end, he was without joy or sorrow, just like the Great Dao, high above, uninvolved with the myriad things.

Finally, he opened his eyes, calm as an ancient well.

He looked peacefully at a jade plate placed on the Dao platform before him.

He saw that within the jade plate, several Fusang Glazed Fruits were all emitting a dazzling light, shining brilliantly and enduringly.

Beneath each Fusang Glazed Fruit, crimson-gold flames were entwined, like blooming Fire Lotuses, lifting them up.

Without hesitation, he directly submerged into his Golden Finger, the 'Equivalent Balance', and used two Fusang Glazed Fruits to exchange for two Innate Spiritual Objects.

Mysterious Yellow Precious Lotus, an Earth-element Innate Spiritual Object; consuming it grants immense strength and a sturdy divine body.

Innate Wood Spirit Marrow is a pure wood jade marrow nourished within an Innate azure jade stone, containing boundless vitality.

In truth, with the existence of the Fusang Glazed Fruit, he had no need to exchange for Wood-element Innate Spiritual Objects. After all, as long as it is a Spiritual Root or spiritual fruit, the presence of wood Qi is indispensable.

However, to be safe and achieve perfection, Fang Longye naturally wanted to strive for the best under the given conditions.

Afterwards.

With a thought from Fang Longye, a Fusang Glazed Fruit rose into the air from the jade plate, swaying as it came before him and hovered in mid-air.

A delicate fragrance permeated, filling the space above and below.

Just by smelling it, he felt refreshed and invigorated, the power within his body stirring.

No longer suppressing the restlessness within his body, he swallowed it in one gulp.

At the same time, the Mysterious Yellow Precious Lotus and Innate Wood Spirit Marrow stored in the trading space also fell into his belly.

As these three Innate Spiritual Objects, rarely seen by ordinary people, entered his stomach, a vastness of primordial energy, difficult to imagine, immediately filled his true body.

Dharma power surged!

Qi and blood became abundant!

His primordial spirit cleared! In an instant, an indescribable joy radiated from his essence, Qi, and spirit, surging into his heart.

It was as if his whole being had walked out of a winter day and entered spring waters.

Power surged, full of vitality.

He could not help but manifest his primordial spirit's celebration cloud, five-colored and dense, layered upon layers.

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle—

The Five Qi in the Chest churned, transforming into five divine dragons of different colors, hungrily sucking in the Xiantian Spiritual Essence originally hidden within the Innate Spiritual Objects.

Metal generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal.

Of Fang Longye's Five Qi in the Chest, the metal of the lungs and the water of the kidneys had already been Reversed to Innate previously.

Thus, under the mutual generation of the Five Elements, the wood Qi of the liver soon became increasingly brilliant and radiant, finally transforming into a tangible Azure Dragon that raised its head and let out a long roar.

It swallowed all the Innate Wood-element Xiantian Spiritual Essence, and countless seal characters appeared and vanished, emitting an Innate aura.

The wood of the liver, Reversed to Innate!

Following closely behind was the fire Qi of the heart, which swallowed the Innate Fire-element Xiantian Spiritual Essence within the Fusang Glazed Fruit clean, likewise Reversing to Innate~

Then, the earth Qi of the spleen, as always, like the previous two, also successfully Reversed to Innate~

At this point, the Five Qi in the Chest were all Reversed to Innate!

The water of the kidneys, the wood of the liver, the fire of the heart, the earth of the spleen, and the metal of the lungs—the Five Qi generated each other, rotating ceaselessly, and gathered together.

A burst of pleasant celestial music sounded, and various phantoms of Golden Bells, fishing drums, Dharma conchs, and horns appeared in the void above Fang Longye.

Under the Divine Light and auspicious clouds, he appeared transcendent and refined.

Layer upon layer of halos surged from the Qi sea within his body, finally flying out from the celebration cloud above his head, one circle after another, one layer after another.

From top to bottom, they descended, numbering more than ten thousand.

In the end, the halos condensed, forming a swirling mass of Dao Qi before his chest.

Its color was five-colored, possessing its own wondrous music, and it rotated incessantly, with indescribable subtlety floating within it.

Roar— With a dragon's roar, five divine lights rushed out from this halo in front of his chest, vast and mighty.

Red, yellow, white, black, and azure; the five colors rotated, fully displaying the wonder of the Five Elements rotation.

Swirling and circling, they rose to the void above his head and converged with each other, forming a Five Emperors Canopy to protect his body.

Immediately after, five-colored Divine Light shimmered behind Fang Longye, spreading out in layers to form the phenomenon of a treasure tree.

It was like a gnarled pine reflecting in water, covered in dense, fist-sized pearl flowers, resembling gathered pine needles.

Seal characters of varying sizes floated around, colliding with each other and chiming.

Thousands of five-colored rays of light hung down like a beaded curtain of tassels, resembling a precious canopy, beautiful and magnificent, filled with Dao Rhyme~ As time passed, the Five Emperors Canopy above Fang Longye's head and the Five-Colored Treasure Tree behind him gradually merged bit by bit, until they finally became one.

In an instant, its power increased by more than a thousand times.

The entire domain was filled with light, and a vast, unimaginable power radiated out, becoming the only thing.

As the Five Qi in the Chest Reversed to Innate, Fang Longye gained a deeper understanding of the Five Elements.

He finally achieved the initial fusion of the Great Five Elements Art with the Five-Colored Treasure Tree divine ability he had previously cultivated, presenting an unimaginable brilliance!

(End of chapter)