Chapter 145

The 431st year of Ming, Spring.

It is the third period of the Rain Water solar term, when plants and trees begin to sprout.

Spring rain nourishes the earth, and all things compete to grow, a scene of vibrant life.

Mount Wufu.

Shi Tongxuan had already built a hut here.

Shi Tongxuan and Cheng Xinzhan sat cross-legged in the hut. A small thatched hut couldn't block the fine, continuous spring rain, and the rain threads fell on their faces with the wind, feeling cool and refreshing.

Shi Tongxuan looked at the fruit seedling not far away. It seemed that this divine object had already felt at ease taking root here. The green sprout on top was already an inch high, and the spring rain falling on it formed dew drops, which was a joy to behold.

"Hmm?"

Shi Tongxuan turned his head to look at Cheng Xinzhan beside him; he sensed a majestic life force emanating from this child.

The small hut that Shi Tongxuan built used wood for pillars and reeds for the roof. With the vibrant life force emanating from Cheng Xinzhan, the wooden pillars actually took root and grew skin, growing green sprouts!

It seems he has opened the Wood Mansion.

Opening the Wood Mansion in less than half a year is truly fast.

However, contemplating the Dongwang Mugong, practicing beside the divine tree, and encountering the rain, it was exactly in line with the timing, location, and human harmony, so it could be considered expected.

Cheng Xinzhan, however, did not open his eyes; even more mysterious changes were happening in his Inner Landscape world.

In the Heart Mansion, within the Palace of Light, the Mao Mansion Star Official opened his eyes, and a wisp of Yang Fire shot out from his eyes, turning into a surging red-gold river of fire, rushing out of the Heart Mansion.

The river of fire surged into the Lung Mansion.

In the magnificent Ming Emperor's Mausoleum underground palace, a Jin Horned Qilin also opened its eyes. Seeing the river of fire rushing over, the Horned Qilin didn't dodge but stepped forward to meet it.

The Horned Qilin bathed in the sea of fire, unafraid of the calcination; its scales and horns became even more brilliant.

The Horned Qilin sucked the entire river of fire into its belly, its whole body glowing with fire, as if it had been reborn in the fire.

After swallowing the Yang Fire, the Horned Qilin opened its mouth and spat out a stream of gloomy golden light.

The golden light broke into the Spleen Mansion, where mountains stretched endlessly, and all the famous mountains and great rivers were within it. The golden light smashed into the mountains like a meteorite.

Suddenly, the earth shook and the mountains swayed.

Prince Bingling, who was meditating, was startled awake. Seeing the mountains shaking, he immediately formed a seal, and the mountains obeyed his command, immediately stabilizing and suppressing the golden light underground.

Not only that, the mountains merged with the golden light, swallowed the gold nature, and became even more stable.

Prince Bingling changed his hand seal again, and a mass of hazy earth light rose from the underground of the mountains and drifted into the Kidney Mansion.

In the Kidney Mansion, the Guanghan Palace hung high like the moon, drifting uncertainly. At this moment, the hazy earth light entered the Kidney Mansion and turned into a yellow cloud, steadily supporting the Guanghan Palace.

In the Guanghan Palace, the Taiyin Emperor opened his eyes and also pinched the seal to perform the Dharma. The cold well in the palace led directly into the yellow cloud, drawing earth energy and turning it into cold water.

The cold water in the well surged out and rushed toward the Liver Mansion.

The cold water entered the Liver Mansion, gathering into a vast blue ocean.

However, slowly, the water of the blue sea decreased, revealing an immortal mountain in the sea.

The immortal mountain was named Fangzhu, and on the top of the mountain, green clouds condensed into a canopy.

Above the green clouds was a god, wearing a three-dimensional crown and nine-colored cloud clothes; it was the Eastern King Dongwang Mugong.

The Dongwang Mugong faced the east, where a cinnabar-red sun hung high.

The Dongwang Mugong listened to the sound of the blue sea tide, pointed at the sun, and a wisp of green overflowed from his fingertips, like a green rainbow, connecting the mountain island and the cinnabar sun.

The green rainbow submerged into the cinnabar sun, but in reality, it appeared in the Heart Mansion.

The green rainbow fell into the blood river, and the blood river immediately surged and churned, with blood waves towering to the sky. But if you look closely, what surged to the sky was not blood waves at all, but fire waves.

The fire waves soared to the sky, overflowed from the Heart Mansion, and rushed into the Lung Mansion, startling the Horned Qilin.

This cycle repeated itself.

Fire river, golden light, yellow cloud, cold water, green rainbow.

The five-colored brilliant light traveled between the five mansions, moving faster and faster, connecting into a piece and turning into a five-colored auspicious cloud.

The five-colored auspicious cloud drifted in the Inner Landscape world, drifting and drifting, until it came to a place of nothingness beside the Heart Mansion.

However, this place seemed to be a place of nothingness, but in reality, it had thick barriers. However, the five-colored auspicious cloud looked light and airy, but in reality, it also contained infinite power.

"Boom!"

A loud noise resounded through every corner of the Inner Landscape world.

That place of nothingness exploded into countless fragments, like glass reflecting variegated colors in the sunlight. The fragments of the barrier of the place of nothingness also reflected infinite neon light under the swaying of the five-colored auspicious cloud.

After the barrier cracked, a slightly transparent empty aperture appeared in the original place of nothingness, only this empty aperture presented a cinnabar color under the illumination of the fiery red Heart Mansion beside it.

This was the Jiang Palace.

The five-colored auspicious cloud surged into the Jiang Palace and turned into a cloud bed.

From now on, this is the place to nurture the infant.

The five mansions are all opened, and the five Qis rush into the palace.

In the seventh year of Cheng Xinzhan's cultivation, he broke through to the First Realm.

His thoughts came to the Jiang Palace; below was the cloud bed, as if in the sky, and above were ripples, like the surface of a lake, as if on the ground.

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But Cheng Xinzhan knew that those ripples were not lake water, but his life wheel.

He counted carefully and saw it.

There were ninety-eight colorless ripples inside, which meant that with his foundation, even without cultivation, without illness or disaster, he could live to ninety-eight years old and die of old age.

Outside the colorless ripples, there were five layers of ripples: red, white, yellow, black, and green, each with thirty, seven, thirty, thirty, and thirty circles, which was the order in which he opened the five mansions.

The Heart Mansion and Kidney Mansion govern the essence and blood of the whole body, and the Inner Landscape Gods are all Yin-Yang star lords, so it is understandable that each added thirty years of life after opening. The Wood Mansion governs the life force, and the Inner Landscape God is the Eastern King Duke, which also added thirty years of life.

Theoretically, opening the Earth Mansion should add less than thirty years of life, but Cheng Xinzhan guessed that it might be because the Earth Mansion Inner Landscape God, Prince Bingling, had a position as a god of the underworld, which added to his lifespan in the dark.

And the Gold Mansion governs killing, so adding only seven years of lifespan is very normal.

Outside these five layers of ripples, there was another circle of cinnabar ripples, totaling sixty circles.

Opening the Jiang Palace added exactly sixty years of life.

Looking carefully again, in the middle of the life wheel, there were fifty-two circles that had already been covered in gray. Among them, twenty-two years were his age, and thirty years were when he was rushing through the acupoints with true evil spirits, which happened to be when he opened the Heart Mansion. All the lifespan and life force added by the Heart Mansion were consumed to resist the evil spirits scouring the Heart Mansion.

So now, he could clearly see that his lifespan was two hundred and eighty-five years, fifty-two years had already been consumed, and two hundred and thirty-three years remained.

This is called knowing the mandate of heaven.

And two hundred and thirty-three years is really not much, because among the various acupoints of the life treasure, the acupoints that can increase lifespan have already been opened for the most part. The only ones left are opening the Huangting and the Purple Palace to increase lifespan.

That is to say, before plowing the court and forming the elixir, his lifespan will not increase anymore. In the entire Second Realm, he only has consumption.

And when he reaches the Third Realm, he cannot even know if the increase in lifespan brought by each elixir washing can support him until the next elixir washing.

There is great terror between life and death, so inner demons frequently occur in the Third Realm, and those who can ascend to the Fourth Realm are few and far between.

It was at the moment when the five-colored auspicious cloud rushed open the Jiang Palace in Cheng Xinzhan's Inner Landscape world.

Outside, above Mount Sanqing, five auspicious clouds appeared out of thin air: red, white, yellow, black, and green, with Mount Wufu as the core, circling in a ring.

On the five auspicious clouds, five divine Dharma images appeared.

On the red cloud, the Mao Ri Star Official stood, and in the mirror wheel behind his head was the scene of the great sun in the sky.

On the white cloud, the Jin Horned Qilin corpse stood, and in the mirror wheel behind his head was the scene of the mountain of knives and hell.

On the yellow cloud, Prince Bingling stood, and in the mirror wheel behind his head was the scene of endless mountains.

On the black cloud, the Taiyin Emperor stood, and in the mirror wheel behind his head was the scene of the vast sea tide.

On the green cloud, the Eastern King Dongwang Mugong stood, and in the mirror wheel behind his head was the scene of ancient trees reaching the sky.

It was just that the five clouds emitted infinite bright light, almost completely covering the five divine Dharma images, making it impossible for people to see the true appearance of the gods. Only the five mirror wheels hung high on the clouds like the sun, illuminating all directions.

At the first moment the phenomenon appeared, Ji Hehe, Dong Shouren, Lu Duxing, You Weixu, and a group of others who could mobilize the mountain-protecting array all opened the Cloud Prohibition Array in unison to conceal the phenomenon.

And in Mount Wufu, Shi Tongxuan watched the wind and clouds rising above Mount Sanqing and couldn't help but pat his hands and laugh.

At this moment, Cheng Xinzhan had just opened his eyes and saw his ancestor pointing at him with a smile:

"You, you didn't even say a word about breaking through today, you really made a group of people nervous."

(End of chapter)