Chapter 190

Thousands of flowing lights flew across Qingzhou and arrived at Yu Zhang.

Seeing the mountain gate in sight, Cheng Xinzhan stopped, looked back, and said,

"Fellow Daoists, let's stop here. If you go any further, I'll have to invite you into the mountain for tea. With so many of you, my cave dwelling won't be able to seat you."

The crowd laughed upon hearing this, bowed to say goodbye one after another, and said, "We only wish for Teacher Cheng to form his Jin Dan soon and attain immeasurable longevity."

Cheng Xinzhan kept his hand raised to see them off, and only returned to the mountain gate after everyone had turned and left.

The mountain gate was already on high alert, as thousands of people coming in a swarm could easily cause misunderstandings. Huo Jingyan was also alarmed, and seeing that it was Cheng Xinzhan who had returned, he laughed and scolded,

"You come back, and you make such a big scene!"

Cheng Xinzhan kept bowing his hands to beg for mercy.

"Are you preparing to form your Jin Dan?"

Huo Jingyan asked seriously.

Cheng Xinzhan nodded.

"Mm, return to the sect!"

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After returning to the sect, Cheng Xinzhan first went to the Cangzhu Stele, but still did not see a trace of his master. He returned to Wuyou Cave to report that he was safe, and then went to the Yuanyin Hall on Pingding Mountain, where Vice Hong Jiaozhu Dong was.

Currently, the position of Vice Hong Jiaozhu of the Chunyang Hall is still vacant. Hong Jiaozhu Dong holds two positions, being the Vice Hong Jiaozhu in charge of Mingzhi Mountain and also the Vice Hong Jiaozhu in charge of the Lotus Blessed Land. As for Ancestor Tongxuan, although he is still his ancestor, his main responsibility now is to hold Yujing Peak. This is the reason why the Hong Jiaozhu sent Hong Jiaozhu Dong to Juqu Mountain to express gratitude three years ago instead of Ancestor Tongxuan.

Hong Jiaozhu Dong led him out of the sect, and now that he has returned, he naturally has to come to pay his respects.

Dong Shouren was very satisfied to see Cheng Xinzhan, pulled him down to sit, and talked about the recent situation of the sect and the Haoran Alliance, gave a few pointers on Jin Dan matters, and let him go after chatting for a while.

He left the Yuanyin Hall and turned into the Sanqing Palace.

Ji Hehe was very happy to see Cheng Xinzhan return,

"It's even earlier than I thought."

Cheng Xinzhan replied,

"With the experience of fixing the acupuncture points from the last time I plowed the court, it actually didn't take much time to guide the spiritual Gang into the body to fix the points and open the apertures. It was completed half a year ago. The main reason was that I wanted to learn more from True Person Chengchu and Daoist Nengyue, and interpret the classics, so I dragged it out for another half year.

"Until this beginning of spring season, when the ice and snow melted, the spring breeze thawed, and all things revived, the disciple thought this was suitable for forming a Jin Dan of water and earth vitality, so I came back."

Ji Hehe nodded, "Good, good, then go do it. Mm, how about this, go to Wufu Mountain to form your Jin Dan. The spiritual energy there is abundant, and there are immortals to look after you."

Cheng Xinzhan agreed, and the time was set for five days later.

After returning to Wuyou Cave, Cheng Xinzhan did not repeatedly deduce the Jin Dan formation, but instead emptied his heart and body, chased cats and teased dogs, tended to the medicine fields, and played the zither.

Five days later, he arrived at Wufu Mountain.

Thinking carefully, it had been many years since he had been here. Upon entering again, he found that the appearance had changed greatly; everywhere there were ancient trees and murmuring water. It didn't look like a new mountain created only a dozen years ago, but rather like it had existed here for ten thousand years.

Outside, the biting spring breeze had just thawed, but here, the green had already formed a curtain amidst the calls of cuckoos.

He walked up the mountain along the green path in the direction of his memory. When he reached the familiar hillside, he saw the thatched hut that Ancestor Tongxuan had built; it hadn't changed at all. Ancestor Qu was sitting there, and several emerald green birds were perched on his shoulders and knees, chirping.

Opposite the thatched hut were the seedlings of the ginseng fruit tree. Cheng Xinzhan was pleasantly surprised to find that it was no longer appropriate to call them seedlings; they were lush green and three feet tall, already small trees!

The small trees radiated five-colored light. When Cheng Xinzhan walked closer, he felt that the spirits of his five inner landscapes were all invigorated.

He walked up to the thatched hut and performed a salute,

"Greetings, Ancestor Qu."

Several emerald birds grooming their feathers were startled by him and flew away, flapping their wings.

Immortal Qu also opened his eyes, smiled, and asked him to sit down, saying,

"I heard from Hehe that you went to Juqu Mountain to learn the Dao of Inner Contemplation. It's been three years. How do you feel?"

Cheng Xinzhan replied respectfully, "The Dao of Inner Contemplation is profound and lofty; I have only gained a slight understanding."

If True Person Chengchu and True Person Nengyue were here, they would definitely say Cheng Xinzhan was being humble. If he could only say he had gained a slight understanding with such progress, then there would be few people on Juqu Mountain who could say they understood the Huangting Jing.

"Oh?"

Immortal Qu smiled, "Although this old Daoist is not proficient in the Dao of Inner Contemplation, I know that the essence of the Dao of Inner Contemplation lies in 'human and nature, inner and outer mixed as one'. Since you have gained something, why did you startle the birds as soon as you opened your mouth?"

Cheng Xinzhan was stunned upon hearing this.

Immediately, he realized, stood up, and performed a salute, "Many thanks for the guidance, Ancestor. The disciple will definitely keep in mind the essence of inner contemplation and the way of humility."

As the saying goes, a loud drum does not need a heavy hammer to be struck. Ancestor Qu just said one sentence and stopped mentioning it,

"Sit, sit, sit. This old Daoist was just talking nonsense. I heard Hehe talk about your theory of Jin Dan: water nourishes, earth grows, focusing on the foundation of longevity. I think it is very good. Next, you can rest assured and go into closed-door cultivation here to form your Jin Dan. No one will come to disturb you. As for this poor Daoist, you can just pretend I don't exist."

Cheng Xinzhan said yes, and he also discovered that when Ancestor Qu said to pretend he didn't exist, he wasn't joking. If he didn't deliberately look at the ancestor, he really couldn't feel this person who was right in front of him. The immortal seemed to have transformed into light and void, and the circulation of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth passed right through him.

He still had a long way to go.

Cheng Xinzhan warned himself, then adjusted his breathing, took out the "Rain and Dew Peilin Gang" gifted by the Hong Jiaozhu, and dripped it into his right eye.

The Yang evil entered the body, going from the Yang Palace in the left eye to the Huangting via the "Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian", successfully plowing the court. So, referring to this experience, Cheng Xinzhan selected the route for the Yin Gang to enter the Huangting, which was the "Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian", also one of the twelve regular meridians.

The "Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian" belongs to the kidney and connects to the heart, the five elements are in water, the two instruments are in Yin, reaching up to the "Yufu" acupoint, passing through the great aperture of the kidney palace, passing through the "Huangting", and also connecting to the soles of the feet.

There is just one point: the "Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian" passes through the water palace and the Huangting, which is very consistent with the Yin-Yang five-element attributes of the "Rain and Dew Peilin Gang". However, the "Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian" is different from the "Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian"; its highest starting acupoint is "Yufu", which is still below the twelve-story building and quite far from the Yin Palace in the right eye.

Thus, Cheng Xinzhan used the Yin-attributed "Ren Mai" and "Yin Qiao Mai" among the eight extraordinary meridians to build a bridge between the Yin Palace and "Yufu".

After the "Rain and Dew Peilin Gang" entered the Yin Palace, it turned into a damp rain mist, and similarly experienced the encounter of the original "Huang Ji Zheng Wu Evil", being repeatedly tempered and condensed by hot lead, peach evil, cloud Gang, and flying swords, finally turning into the true form of a green tiger. The green tiger was finally forced out of the Yin Palace and arrived at the "Jingming" acupoint on the "Yin Qiao Mai", then followed the "Yin Qiao Mai" all the way down. When it reached the vicinity of the twelve-story building, it turned into the "Chengjiang" acupoint of the "Ren Mai", and then followed the "Chengjiang"-"Lianquan" line downward.

Once bitten, twice shy. Cheng Xinzhan did not wait for the green tiger to enter the kidney aperture this time, but directly ordered the Taiyin Emperor to come out of the water palace and fly upward along the "Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian" to meet the green tiger.

The Taiyin Emperor and the spiritual Gang green tiger met at the "Tiantu" acupoint of the "Ren Mai".

Cheng Xinzhan interpreted the classics of the Dao of Inner Contemplation on Juqu Mountain, visualizing various divine forms, and his understanding of the inner landscape spirits had reached several levels higher. The spiritual charm and divine power of these inner landscape spirits in his body were also different from the past. The Moon Goddess held a precious sword, the sword light like the bright moon, rushing straight toward the green tiger. The spiritual Gang was no extraordinary object, but was formed by the combination of the innate spiritual machine Yin Mother and the acquired rain-dew celestial phenomenon, possessing its own heavenly power. At this moment, seeing the Moon Goddess blocking the way, it roared and pounced over.

It was just a pity that the place where the two met was in Cheng Xinzhan's inner landscape world, where all the regular meridians, extraordinary meridians, and the hundred apertures of the Zhou Tian stood on the side of the Moon Goddess. The Moon Goddess slashed out a sword at this moment, which was the power of heaven and earth in the inner landscape world. How could this green tiger block it?

The Moon Goddess slashed the green tiger to pieces, and it condensed again, a full seven times, before finally subduing the green tiger.

The Emperor flew down and sat on the green tiger's back, with his right leg bent and placed on the green tiger's back, his left leg naturally extended and dropped, his sword placed horizontally across his right knee, his right hand pressing on the sword hilt, and his left hand suspended in front of his chest forming the Taiyin True Water Seal. He had both a free and easy appearance, but also the solemn and precious appearance of subduing demons and subduing monsters.

The Moon Goddess rode the tiger and rushed to the Huangting, going down the "Ren Mai". When he reached the "Xuanji" acupoint, he held the sword and patted the green tiger. The green tiger roared and turned left, crashing into the "Yufu" acupoint of the "Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian".

Because the Taiyin Emperor is the master of the kidney palace, his divine power became even greater after entering the "Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian", and the speed of the green tiger walking through the acupoints was also faster. It followed the "Yufu"-"Yuzhong" line all the way down, passing through eleven acupoints, and reached "Shangqu".

It is worth mentioning that in the process of opening these eleven apertures, Cheng Xinzhan realized two new magical abilities, one is the "Lingxu" acupoint magical ability, and the other is the "Yindu" acupoint magical ability.

After reaching the "Shangqu" acupoint, the Moon Goddess patted the green tiger again and turned into the kidney palace. In the kidney palace, the moonlight was like water, and the kidney essence was like jade. The green tiger lowered its head to lick the jade flower, and the external natural rain and the kidney water of the inner landscape human body merged here. Subsequently, the Moon Goddess led the green tiger out of the palace again. At this moment, the Huangting Palace was already in front of him.

The Moon Goddess urged, and the green tiger roared and broke into the Huangting.

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However, the Huang Long True Evil that had lived in the Huangting for a long time had already regarded itself as the master of the Huangting. At this moment, seeing a green tiger break in aggressively, it was immediately enraged, and with a flick of its tail, it rushed up.

The green tiger lowered its head to the Moon Goddess, but it was not afraid of this yellow dragon. Seeing the yellow dragon coming with teeth and claws, the green tiger also pounced over, and they wrestled together.

Seeing that the Yang dragon and Yin tiger had finally met, Cheng Xinzhan breathed a sigh of relief. Next was the fusion of Yin and Yang.

However, he waited for a long time, but only saw the yellow dragon and green tiger refusing to give way to each other, contending against each other, scratching and clawing, not willing to coexist at all, let alone fuse.

It was time to use some methods.

Cheng Xinzhan had refined many furnaces of elixirs, and he naturally knew how to deal with the problem of incompatibility between gold, stone, and medicine. This knowledge was all in the fire.

Cheng Xinzhan's heart moved, and five rays of spiritual light flew out from his five palaces, just like when he opened the Jiang Palace. The five-colored spiritual light gathered in the Huangting, and after entering, it transformed into five-colored spiritual fire.

The yellow dragon and green tiger were still fighting on the sea of fire, seemingly natural mortal enemies.

And Cheng Xinzhan was concentrating on manipulating the flames. The sea of fire in the Huangting was sometimes vigorous, sometimes low, sometimes bright red, sometimes deep black.

Under the scorching of the flames, the yellow dragon and green tiger were also slowly changing. First, the yellow became yellower, and the green became greener. This was the impurities in the Gang and evil being burned away by the flames, separating from the Gang and evil themselves. Subsequently, the movements of the yellow dragon and green tiger slowly subsided, accompanied by the strange phenomena of rain curtains and soil dust.

It is unknown how much more time passed before the yellow dragon and green tiger gradually dissipated their divine forms, turning into two strands of Gang and evil spiritual Qi, one yellow and one green.

However, the two strands of spiritual Qi still separated upon contact.

But Cheng Xinzhan was not anxious, continuously transforming five-element magic power into furnace fire to melt Yin and Yang. But this was a huge drain on magic power. Even though he consumed Qi through visualization and breathing methods at the same time, the generation of magic power could not keep up with the consumption.

After a long time, the magic power in Cheng Xinzhan's five palaces was finally running low, but the two strands of Gang and evil spiritual Qi still showed no signs of fusion.

Immortal Qu, sitting not far from Cheng Xinzhan, saw Cheng Xinzhan's current predicament and prepared to take action to capture the five elements for this extremely excellent junior—this was a matter of course. Otherwise, why would he have this child come to Wufu Mountain to form his Jin Dan?

Because the five-element spiritual energy here, which had been breathed in and out by the ginseng fruit tree, was as thick as the dense fog of a late autumn morning. It was also because only by taking action himself could he ensure that a sufficient amount of five-element spiritual energy would seep into the child's body without disturbing his mind, transforming into pure five-element magic power.

But just as Immortal Qu was about to take action, he noticed that Cheng Xinzhan suddenly opened his mouth, and there was a swallowing action at the twelve-story building, and the left side of his neck bulged slightly.

"Woo—"

A sound as ethereal and deep as a flute came from Cheng Xinzhan's mouth, lingering for a long time, accompanied by a huge suction force.

On Wuzhuang Mountain, the thick five-element spiritual energy was like a lake that was about to overflow, but at this moment, a gap appeared on the lake embankment, and all the water rushed toward this gap. The torrent of spiritual energy surged into Cheng Xinzhan's mouth. By the time it reached his mouth, the spiritual mist had already condensed into spiritual liquid, surging into his "Qishe" acupoint.

At the same time, in his five palaces, the five inner landscape spirits formed seals and chanted mantras, drawing out the spiritual energy in the "Qishe" acupoint, running the Zhou Tian, transforming it into magic power, and then sending it into the Huangting, transforming it into flames to melt Yin and Yang.

This was exactly the "Whale Suction" magical ability of the "Qishe" acupoint that he realized when opening the "Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian", and now he was using it.

Beside him, Ancestor Qu silently put down the hand he had just raised, a satisfied smile on his face.

On Wufu Mountain, after hearing the whale chant five times, the green and yellow Qi in Cheng Xinzhan's Huangting finally began to slowly fuse.

Just as the Gang and evil fused and Yin and Yang became one, with the thatched hut where Cheng Xinzhan was located as the center, it suddenly began to rain in the sky, and where there was vegetation on the ground, the vegetation grew wildly, and where there was no vegetation, vegetation grew.

This vigorous vitality spread outward, spreading all the way outside Wufu Mountain.

Previously, when Cheng Xinzhan rushed the palace, strange phenomena filled the sky. The last time he plowed the court, Ji Hehe was prepared and locked the yellow clouds in the great array, but the earthquake still spread far away, to the point that Juqu Mountain knew about it.

This time, Cheng Xinzhan formed his Jin Dan, and Sanqing Mountain was on high alert, determined not to let outsiders know about the Jin Dan strange phenomena. Now the demonic path is rampant, and there is a ghost-like Blood God Sect, so one must not show off.

Therefore, the first moment the majestic vitality burst out from Cheng Xinzhan, Immortal Qu threw out the Yin-Yang Ring in his hand. The magic treasure burst with mysterious light, wanting to lock this vitality. It was just that the vitality spread too fast. When it rushed out of Wufu Mountain, Immortal Qu only intercepted sixty percent.

At the same time, Ji Hehe, Shi Tongxuan, and Dong Shouren had long been prepared. The three of them took action together, the Cloud Prohibition Great Array operated at full power, Pingding Mountain shone brightly, and finally, they locked all the vitality before it rushed out of Sanqing Mountain.

However, before they could breathe a sigh of relief, an even more majestic energy machine spread from Wufu Mountain. Brilliant light rushed into the sky there, and all the Sanqing Mountain disciples saw it. Above that forbidden area of the sect, a scene of dragons soaring and tigers leaping appeared. The dragon was a yellow dragon, and the tiger was a green tiger.

And outside Sanqing Mountain, the entire Yu Zhang region began to rain.

In the Sanqing Palace, Ji Hehe's gaze fell outside Sanqing Mountain, looking at the drizzling spring rain, secretly rejoicing, thinking: This child chose a good time. Closed-door cultivation at the beginning of spring, forming the Jin Dan at Grain Rain; this is originally the time when it rains, so no one should be able to see anything.

And in the thatched hut on Wufu Mountain, Cheng Xinzhan looked inward at himself, only to see that in the Huangting Palace, the yellow dragon and green tiger, the five-colored sea of fire, all disappeared at this moment, with only a round and flawless Jin Dan radiating light, illuminating the entire inner landscape world brightly and transparently.

(End of chapter)