Chapter 8: Three-Corpse Daoist, Zhenwu Temple Master

Evening, the lonely moon hangs high.

The mountain night is cool, clouds change like the vast sea, covering and reflecting the undulating mountains.

Guibin Building, room 2013.

"We're going down the mountain tomorrow, get some rest early."

Li Yi yawned and played with his phone on the bed. Glancing out of the corner of his eye, he saw Zhang Fan get up and actually pick up his hiking stick.

"Are you going out?"

"We're going down the mountain tomorrow, going out for a stroll, otherwise it won't be worth the two hundred and eighty yuan ticket."

Zhang Fan said casually, but in his mind, Jiang Lai's figure appeared.

That night of light and shadow was like a dream, making him unforgettable. If he didn't go to Nanxuan Palace to find out before going down the mountain, his heart would not be at peace.

"Don't go too far, I heard there are bears on Zhenwu Mountain." Li Yi warned.

Clang...

Following the sound of a door closing, Zhang Fan leaned on his hiking stick and went down the mountain alone in the direction of 【Nanxuan Palace】.

The mountain was cold, secluded, and pitch black. There wasn't even half a light, and he could only rely on the moonlight to hurry on his way. Occasionally, he could hear insect chirps and bird calls from afar.

Such an atmosphere was both quiet and ethereal, and also made people think of many things.

"Has my physical strength improved?"

After hurrying on the mountain road for an hour, Zhang Fan didn't feel half a fatigue, walking like flying, as if on flat ground, not even panting.

At first, when going up the mountain, he and Li Yi walked for ten minutes and rested for ten minutes.

"Hmm!?"

Just at this moment, Zhang Fan suddenly stopped, looked up, and saw a palace complex sitting and undulating under the faint moonlight, hidden in the chaotic night.

"Reached?" Zhang Fan raised his brows, couldn't help but take out his phone, and looked at the time.

When they went up the mountain, they climbed for a full three and a half hours to reach it, but now it was only about an hour.

Just as Zhang Fan was puzzled, a flickering firelight in the distant forest attracted his attention.

"Someone!?"

Zhang Fan's heart moved slightly, and he carefully leaned over.

In the mountain forest, a bonfire was burning, and beside it stood the warning sign 【Prevent forest fires, strictly prohibit fire sources】...

Two men sat by the bonfire, and they were the Gan Shengwu and Gan Shaokun brothers who had booked the hotel on the Golden Summit.

"It's them?"

"Brother Wu, tonight is the Zhenwu Mountain Jade Tablet Transmission... when are we going to make a move?"

Just at this moment, Gan Shaokun opened his mouth.

"Don't worry... this opportunity is rare, we must see clearly before making a move... after all, this is Zhenwu Mountain, there are many experts..." Gan Shengwu said in a low voice.

"If we can welcome back the 【Difficult Insect】, our Diannan Gan family will definitely shine..."

"Brother Wu, is this 【Difficult Insect】 really that powerful?" Gan Shaokun couldn't help but ask.

The Diannan Gan family inherits the 【Insect Gu】 path, with a long family history, tracing back to history, already a thousand years.

Even so, the 【Difficult Insect】 belongs to the top grade among the many insect Gus treasured by the Gan family, and its legend is passed down among the disciples of the clan.

"Don't know the height of heaven and earth..." Gan Shengwu pushed his glasses. In the jumping firelight, his cold eyes flashed with a sharp light.

"Do you know the origin of the 【Difficult Insect】?"

Gan Shaokun was stunned for a moment, then shook his head.

"Eighty years ago, the Daoist sect under heaven produced a strange person, named Three-Corpse Daoist..." Gan Shengwu changed the subject and said suddenly.

"This person was both righteous and evil, no one knew his master's origin, however, his cultivation realm was considered the absolute peak of that time... Great-grandfather said before he died that seeing this person back then was like a mayfly seeing the blue sky..."

"That level of cultivation, it is extremely likely that he crossed the Pure Yang Limitless Realm."

Once this was said, Gan Shaokun's face changed instantly.

Pure Yang Limitless Realm, that is a True Person. Such an existence is a rare existence in the world. Above this...

Three Flowers Gathering at the Summit, Five Qi Returning to the Origin...

"Doesn't that mean the change of three and five? In today's world, is there still anyone who can cultivate to this realm?" Gan Shaokun didn't believe it.

Crossing the change of three and five is an Earth Immortal, that is a person like Patriarch Pure Yang. Nowadays, one can only glimpse the style of such people in ancient books and alchemy books.

"The Three-Corpse Daoist was extremely mysterious. Back then, he traveled the world and once visited our Gan family, thus forming a fate. Before leaving, he left three papers of secret methods..." Gan Shengwu's tone became heavy.

That is the supreme secret of the Diannan Gan family.

"Those three papers of secret methods are the refining methods of three ancient insects, namely 【Evil Insect】, 【Desire Insect】, and 【Difficult Insect】..."

"Desire Insect is also one?" Gan Shaokun changed color suddenly.

Desire Insect is one of the five ancestral insects enshrined by the Gan family.

It must be known that Daoist practitioners fear desire the most.

Therefore, since ancient times, many seekers of the Dao have had to hide in deep mountains, stay away from the red dust, and cut off desire to succeed in cultivation.

The alchemy books all say, firmly capture the intention horse and lock the heart ape, slowly work to refine lead and mercury. The Great Dao teaches people to stop thoughts first, if thoughts don't stop, it's all in vain.

Only by cutting off desire can one succeed in cultivation. Conversely, if a Daoist practitioner develops desire, even if they have a thousand years of Dao practice, they can be ruined in a morning.

Therefore, the Desire Insect is the nemesis of practitioners and is extremely terrifying.

"Back then, our Gan family didn't know how much effort we spent to refine the 【Desire Insect】 and 【Difficult Insect】..." Gan Shengwu said in a low voice: "The Difficult Insect was born with mystery, can gather disaster and difficulty as great medicine..."

The essence of Daoist cultivation mainly revolves around four words: "Plant, Gather, Nourish, Refine."

The so-called planting medicine is to first sow a seed, which is the true seed.

This seed is the primordial spirit, hidden in the square inch of land between the eyes, which is the mysterious pass of the ancestral aperture.

After the initial movement, glimpsing the primordial spirit is equivalent to planting the seed.

The next step is to gather medicine and nourish and refine.

All things in heaven and earth, internal and external essence, can be gathered and supplemented as medicine.

For example, animals in the mountains worship the moon, and the medicine they gather is moonlight essence.

In fact, there is also the essence of the sun and moon in the human body. Heart fire is the sun, kidney water is the moon. Taking the moon soul into the sun soul is like lead and mercury being cast together, taking the Kan to fill the Li, the mystery lies in the reversal.

According to the inheritance of different Daoist lineages, the types and keys of gathering medicine are also different.

For example, the extremely mysterious 【Yinshan Sect】 in the Daoist sect specializes in Taiyin. To the extreme, Taiyin turns into Pure Yang. The medicine they gather is mostly the energy of corpses.

"The Difficult Insect eats disaster and difficulty, and can also bring disaster and difficulty... In the human red dust, the least lacking thing is suffering..." Gan Shaokun couldn't help but sigh.

"Back then, Third Grandfather brought the 【Difficult Insect】 from Diannan all the way north, sweeping away everything, but he happened to meet his nemesis."

Speaking of this, Gan Shengwu couldn't help but sigh.

"Who?" Gan Shaokun couldn't help but ask.

They are the existence with the highest seniority in the Gan family. It is said that his talent was the highest, and back then he was the best in the Gan family, seen as the person most likely to refine the 【Evil Insect】, but because he fought with others, he wasted a pair of eyes and legs, and since then lived in seclusion and didn't ask about worldly affairs.

"Chu Chaoran!"

"Chu... True Person Chu? Zhenwu Temple Master?" Gan Shaokun's face changed slightly.

That is a recognized titan-level existence in the Daoist sect under heaven today. The outside world speculates that Chu Chaoran should have touched the Pure Yang Limitless Realm and is a living True Person of the present age.

"Back then, Chu Chaoran suddenly came out of the mountain gate, his edge was unstoppable. Meeting Third Grandfather, seeing him driving the Difficult Insect, acting recklessly, he used the Daoist supernatural powers to abolish him and suppressed the Difficult Insect in the Demon-Suppressing Well of 【Qingwei Palace】 on Zhenwu Mountain..."

"Daoist supernatural powers... as expected of True Person Chu." Gan Shaokun couldn't help but sigh.

Daoist supernatural powers are not something that ordinary arts can compare to. They are natural, can be supernatural, and are not something that can be obtained by cultivation. The opportunities and mysteries inside are difficult for outsiders to know.

"Tonight is the Jade Tablet Transmission, the experts of Zhenwu Mountain should all go to observe the ceremony... we can just open the Demon-Suppressing Well..." Gan Shaokun sneered.

"To open the Demon-Suppressing Well and welcome back the Difficult Insect, we still need living sacrifices."

Gan Shengwu pushed his glasses, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, revealing a cold smile. His deep gaze was cast toward the dense forest, looking at where Zhang Fan was.

"Insects are insects... listened for so long, you can come out now."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 9 =====