[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-pure-yang":3,"chapter-pure-yang-pure-yang-chapter-8":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Pure Yang!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2267108,4427,"Chapter 8: San Shi Dao Ren, True Martial Grand Master","pure-yang-chapter-8",8,"\u003Cp>At dusk, a lone moon hung high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mountain night was cool, clouds shifting like the ocean, veiling the rolling peaks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guest House, Room 2013.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re leaving the mountain tomorrow. Get some rest.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yi Shan yawned, lying on the bed scrolling through his phone, then caught sight of Zhang Fan rising and picking up his hiking pole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re going out?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fan replied casually, “We’re leaving tomorrow—I’ll take a walk. Otherwise, I’d be wasting my 280-yuan ticket.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, Jiang Lai’s figure surfaced in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night’s light and shadow had been like a dream—he couldn’t forget it. If he didn’t investigate the South Xuan Palace before descending, his heart would never rest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t go far,” Li Yi Shan warned. “I heard bears roam True Martial Mountain.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the sound of a door closing, Zhang Fan leaned on his hiking pole and descended alone toward the South Xuan Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mountain was cold, dark, utterly without light—he could only rely on moonlight to guide his way, occasionally hearing distant insect chirps and bird calls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This atmosphere was both serene and ethereal, yet stirred endless thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have I gotten stronger?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hiking for an hour straight, Zhang Fan felt no fatigue at all—he moved swiftly, as if walking on flat ground, not even breathing hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they’d climbed up, he and Li Yi Shan had stopped every ten minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh!?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Zhang Fan suddenly halted, looked up—and saw, beneath the pale moonlight, a cluster of palaces nestled among the rolling terrain, hidden in the murky night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Already here?” Zhang Fan raised an eyebrow, pulled out his phone, and checked the time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they’d climbed up, it had taken them three and a half hours. Now it was barely an hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Zhang Fan puzzled over this, a faint, flickering firelight in the distant forest drew his attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Someone’s here!?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fan’s heart stirred; he crept forward cautiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the forest, a campfire burned gently beside a sign that read: “Prohibit Forest Fires—No Fire Sources Allowed…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the fire sat two men: Gan Shengwu and Gan Shaokun, the brothers who had booked the entire hotel on Golden Summit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s them?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Wu, tonight is the True Martial Mountain Jade Tablet Transmission… when do we act?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Gan Shaokun spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t rush… this opportunity is rare—we must wait for the perfect moment… after all, this is True Martial Mountain, filled with experts…” Gan Shengwu said gravely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If we can reclaim the Difficult Worm, my Dianan Gan family will shine brilliantly…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Wu, is the Difficult Worm really that powerful?” Gan Shaokun couldn’t help asking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dianan Gan family traced its lineage to the art of insect charms, with a heritage stretching back a thousand years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, the Difficult Worm was among the finest of their many insect charms, its legend whispered among clan disciples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ignorant of heaven’s height and earth’s depth…” Gan Shengwu adjusted his glasses; in the flickering firelight, his cold eyes gleamed with sharp light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you know the origin of the Difficult Worm?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gan Shaokun froze, then shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Over eighty years ago, a peculiar man emerged among the Daoist sects—named San Shi Dao Ren…” Gan Shengwu changed tone abruptly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He was neither wholly good nor evil; no one knew his lineage. Yet his cultivation level was peerless in his age… Grandfather once said, meeting him was like a mayfly gazing at the blue sky…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Such cultivation likely surpassed the Pure Yang Wuji Realm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At these words, Gan Shaokun’s face changed instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Pure Yang Wuji Realm was the realm of the True Person—such beings were rarer than phoenix feathers across the world. Beyond that…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Three Flowers Converge on the Crown, the Five Qi Gather at the Source…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So… the Three-Five Transformation? Is there still anyone alive today who can reach such a state?” Gan Shaokun doubted it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To surpass the Three-Five Transformation was to become a Land Immortal—a figure like a Pure Yang Ancestor, whose glory could only be glimpsed in ancient texts and alchemical scriptures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“San Shi Dao Ren was extremely mysterious. He once traveled the land and visited our Gan family, forging a bond. Before leaving, he left behind three secret scrolls…” Gan Shengwu’s voice grew heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those scrolls were the supreme secret of the Dianan Gan family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The three scrolls contained the methods to cultivate three ancient insects: the Evil Worm, the Desire Worm, and the Difficult Worm…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Desire Worm too?” Gan Shaokun’s face paled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Desire Worm was one of the five ancestral worms venerated by the Gan family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Know this: Dao cultivators must avoid desire above all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since ancient times, seekers of the Dao have retreated into deep mountains, severed from the mortal world, extinguishing desire to achieve cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alchemical texts say: “Tame the mind-horse, lock the heart-monkey; slowly refine lead and mercury. The Great Dao teaches first to still thoughts—unless thoughts cease, all effort is vain.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when desire is extinguished can cultivation succeed. Conversely, if a cultivator stirs desire, even a thousand years of practice can be lost in a single moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the Desire Worm is the cultivator’s nemesis—terribly fearsome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Back then, our Gan family expended immense effort to cultivate the Desire Worm and the Difficult Worm…” Gan Shengwu said gravely. “The Difficult Worm, upon birth, reveals profound mystery—it draws calamity as its essence…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daoist cultivation revolves around four characters: “plant, gather, nurture, refine.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Planting the medicine” means first sowing a seed—the True Seed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This seed is the Nascent Soul, hidden within the ancestral aperture, the space between the eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once stirred, observing the Nascent Soul is equivalent to planting the seed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next step is gathering and refining the medicine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All things in heaven and earth, their inner and outer essences, can be transformed into medicine for absorption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, animals in the mountains gazing at the moon absorb moonlight as their medicine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, the human body also contains solar essence and lunar essence: the heart-fire is the sun, the kidney-water is the moon. Drawing the moon’s Po  into the sun’s Hun  is like lead and mercury merging—taking from Kan to fill Li, wondrous in its inversion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Depending on each sect’s lineage, the type of medicine gathered and the acupoints involved differ.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, the mysterious Yinshan Sect specializes in Supreme Yin; at its peak, Supreme Yin transforms into Pure Yang, and their medicine is drawn from corpse qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Difficult Worm consumes calamity—and brings calamity… the mortal world has no shortage of suffering…” Gan Shaokun sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Back then, our Third Grandfather carried the Difficult Worm north from Dianan, crushing all before him—until he met his destined nemesis.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, Gan Shengwu sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who?” Gan Shaokun couldn’t help asking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their Third Grandfather was the highest-ranking elder in the Gan family, said to have possessed unparalleled talent, once deemed the most likely to cultivate the Evil Worm—until he lost his eyes and legs in a Dao battle, thereafter withdrawing from the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chu Chaoran!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chu… Chu Zhenren? The True Martial Mountain’s Grand Master?” Gan Shaokun’s expression shifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was the universally acknowledged patriarch of today’s Daoist sects; outsiders speculated Chu Chaoran had already touched the Pure Yang Wuji Realm and was a living True Person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Back then, Chu Chaoran suddenly emerged from the mountains, his brilliance unmatched. Seeing our Third Grandfather commanding the Difficult Worm, he used Daoist divine power to cripple him and sealed the Difficult Worm in the True Martial Mountain’s Qingwei Palace’s Demon-Sealing Well…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Daoist divine power… no wonder he’s Master Chu.” Gan Shaokun couldn’t help but sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daoist divine power could not be compared to ordinary techniques—it arose naturally, aligned with the Dao, not attainable through cultivation alone. Its mysteries and opportunities were beyond ordinary understanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tonight’s Jade Tablet Transmission will draw True Martial Mountain’s experts to the ceremony… we can open the Demon-Sealing Well then.” Gan Shaokun sneered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To open the Demon-Sealing Well and reclaim the Difficult Worm, we need a living sacrifice.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gan Shengwu adjusted his glasses, a cold smile curling on his lips, his Youyou  gaze fixed on the dense forest—toward Zhang Fan’s location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Worms are just worms… you’ve listened long enough. Come out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1365,"2026-06-19T21:05:40.312Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","1bc8b152902fb6e0939c19bcb6552c15a9d6ac3ba003f337997082b7575e108e","pure-yang-chapter-9","pure-yang-chapter-7",520,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fpure-yang-cover.jpg"]