Chapter 21: 【Divine Bridge Immortal Venerable, Breakthrough!】

"The Heart-Monkey returns to righteousness, the Six Thieves leave no trace."

Barron was thoughtful. As a holder of an Eight Extraordinary Technique, unlike ordinary foreigners, he was from a prestigious school, could use seven languages, and majored in classical and modern languages, as well as Oriental studies.

Naturally, he had read the Oriental classic "Journey to the West," knowing that Sun Wukong was the Heart-Monkey. After escaping from Mount Wuzhi, he killed six thieves. The six thieves were named Eye-Seeing-Joy, Ear-Hearing-Anger, Nose-Smelling-Love, Tongue-Tasting-Thought, Opinion-Desire, and Body-Basic-Worry, which corresponded to the six roots of the human body: eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind.

"The World-Honored One once said: The suffering of all living beings is mostly due to not keeping the precepts and indulging in desires."

"If the six roots are not clean, it is difficult to become a Buddha."

Barron tentatively asked, "Do you want me to convert to Buddhism and keep the eight precepts?"

"Keeping precepts is for cultivating the heart; cultivating the heart does not require keeping precepts. Whether you can be liberated by converting to Buddhism, I don't know. But, if you stay in All-Nature and indulge your desires, you will definitely not be liberated." Lin Xian looked back at Xia He and said meaningfully, "If you are lustful, all sentient beings are evil; if you indulge in desires, all actions are meaningless."

Xia He trembled, as if her heart had been pricked, and she turned her head away.

"If you are greedy for wine, worries and fears will rise and fall impermanently; if you indulge in pleasure, youth is but a fleeting moment."

Barron fell into deep thought. Over the years, he had been pursuing delicious food and fine wine to fill his desires and gain satisfaction.

When desires are satisfied, he becomes empty; when desires are not satisfied, he becomes painful.

He had been changing between these two emotions in an instant, turning back and forth, experiencing the suffering of impermanence.

"If you are greedy for sleep, you will struggle without liberation." Lin Xian said, then turned to Barron, "However, I know a practitioner who has not slept for decades. His state of mind is similar to yours. Perhaps, he can untie your worries."

"Where is that practitioner?" Barron asked, a trace of longing appearing in his eyes.

Lin Xian smiled slightly, patted Barron on the shoulder, and said meaningfully, "Child, all the gifts of fate have already been marked with a price in the dark."

"You will get what you want." Barron lowered his head humbly, knelt on one knee, and said with extreme piety, "Please grant me the gift."

"Follow me until the Luo Tian Dajiao begins."

Lin Xian nodded, took Barron onto the Golden Bridge, and returned to the World Group, leaving Xia He stunned on the spot, feeling lost.

[Ding-dong, host Lin Xian has issued a side quest: Crack the ultimate mystery of the Six Storehouse Immortal Thief. Please complete it as soon as possible, System 10086.]

It was the same familiar scene, the same familiar formula.

System 10086 worked hard, trying to pull the progress bar. It had thought about giving up, but the sunk cost was too great.

Persisting might lead to a glimmer of hope; not persisting would lead to nothing.

Finally, the mystery of the Six Storehouse Immortal Thief was cracked. Lin Xian grabbed it and refined it in an instant. He suddenly chanted, "The Six Storehouse Immortal Thief is truly awesome, seizing the mechanism of heaven and earth, reversing life and death, turning reincarnation, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven."

System 10086: "...Host, what the hell is that last sentence?"

"Ahem, I'm not good at poetry. Let's do it again."

Lin Xian stood in the alchemy room, looking at the furnace in front of him. He suddenly remembered that after Xu Xiang died, a baby was born in the hospital. The mortal world is nothing more than this. A sense of life and death surged into his heart. A strong narrative urge forced him to take out his phone, so he said in a deep voice: "Bring the medicine!"

Thousands of words are no match for taking pills to cultivate immortality and having boundless magic power.

The World Association staff who had been waiting under the mountain filed in, and boxes of precious medicine were continuously transported into the alchemy room on the mountain. The financial power of the World Group was displayed vividly at this moment.

In modern society, there are aliens who worship seeking immortality and ask for the Dao, practicing hard, and there are also aliens who indulge in pleasure.

There are all kinds of birds in a big forest. There are always some unworthy descendants who couldn't hold on and traded the ginseng left by their ancestors for life extension, the Ganoderma lucidum for breaking through, and the hundred-year-old Polygonum multiflorum for gold and silver treasures.

All these things now benefited Lin Xian.

The roaring alchemy fire burned. Lin Xian narrowed his eyes, looking at a pool of medicinal liquid, thinking about how to utilize these precious medicines to the extreme.

There would never be a second chance for such an opportunity.

The medicinal materials in front of him were already the precious medicines on the surface of the alien world. Even if the World Group wanted to buy them again, there would be no market for them.

Thinking of this, Lin Xian used divine patterns to turn into a spirit knife, actually cutting his own arm, letting the hot, blood-red blood with a hint of gold flow into the medicine furnace. It was like magma dripping into water, stirring up earth-shattering changes. Rolling green smoke floated up, as if it were about to gather into a cloud!

The alchemist who was refining the medicine saw this, not scolding Lin Xian for adding things randomly, but shouting, "Clouds rise to the blue sky, the pill is formed and the dragon and tiger appear~!"

"Host... you, what are you doing?"

Not only was the alchemist stunned, but at this moment, System 10086 was also stunned. It was the first time it had seen a host who self-harmed to refine medicine. Even in the host world, this was an extremely explosive existence.

"I have eaten holy fruit and soaked in divine springs. My blood naturally contains this divine power, which is most suitable for leading the refining of medicine."

Lin Xian's face turned slightly pale, but his eyes were incomparably firm, and he said sonorously, "Refining medicine, refining people, and even refining heaven! If you don't even dare to refine yourself, what kind of refining Dao is this?"

"It's just a little blood, it can be replenished later."

"One step ahead, every step ahead; one step slow, every step slow."

"If I can't break through to a higher realm at an extremely fast speed, what's the point of talking about the future."

"Sprint to the Great Saint realm with all your strength, comprehend the five secret realms, and observe the six-fold Sendai from the beginning. That is my path."

"Six Storehouse Immortal Thief, help me break through!"

Lin Xian sat cross-legged on the ground. The six organs of the large intestine, small intestine, stomach, triple burner, gallbladder, and bladder were all fired up, forming the six entrails, which complemented the five internal organs, creating a perfect digestive system, completely decomposing the ingested medicinal liquid, transforming enough acquired essence to help Lin Xian break through.

At the same time, another function of the Six Storehouse Immortal Thief was activated, fully absorbing the essence of heaven and earth to transform into innate essence, consolidating the origin.

"Silent to the no-ancestor. Void stands on the edge of the kalpa. The vastness of the mysterious text. Who can measure this seclusion..."

He silently recited the true scripture and operated the technique. The misty Qi rose and surrounded him, bit by bit completing the body and blessing the human body.

The Shrouding the Heavens method uses the body as a seed. In the past, the Huangtian Emperor created the method, referred to the Indestructible Scripture, and was proficient in fighting, leading to the fact that practitioners of the entire system, although they also cultivate the primordial spirit, ultimately focus on the body, and the attainments of the primordial spirit are often a grade weaker than the attainments of the body.

Under the cut of Heaven's Will, without the replenishment of longevity substances, the Emperor's primordial spirit would perish in tens of thousands of years, but the Emperor's corpse could exist for millions of years.

The power of the body is not exclusive to the Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors; bottom-level practitioners are also like this.

The Ancient Sacred Body has ten thousand catties of divine power when the bitter sea is first opened, and the mortal body also has several thousand catties of divine power.

An immortal body is what the Shrouding the Heavens method is proud of.

Now, under the blessing of the Six Storehouse Immortal Thief, Lin Xian's divine power continued to climb, and his body continued to sublimate. Finally, with a click, it seemed to reach a limit, opening something!

Lin Xian opened his eyes suddenly. Both his body and spirit were sublimated. Three white-gold divine lights burst out, destroying everything. He condensed the heavenly veins and nurtured his spiritual sense. A silver-white rune seemed to be engraved on the center of his eyebrows, adding a bit of fairy spirit to him who had returned to simplicity. The third divine light flew out from the center of his eyebrows, like a flying sword.

Barron, who could only be forced out by brute force before, was now scanned by his spiritual sense, his aura exposed, and every speck of dust in heaven and earth entered his eyes.

"Open!"

Lin Xian shouted. He just stomped his foot, and the earth and rocks suddenly appeared with spider-web-like patterns. Large swaths of mountain forests turned into wood chips and danced. The giant rocks ten meters away exploded in an instant. A moment later, there was nothing around the alchemy room, and it had become a white land.

The alchemists, aliens, and World Association employees who were serving Lin Xian in the alchemy room suddenly felt their knees go soft, as if they had seen a god!

"Immortal, Immortal Venerable..." Finally, someone couldn't help but groan. Is such an existence still human? Why is he still in the mortal world!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 32 =====