Chapter 104: Abnormal Situation! The Immortal Venerable Awakens!

Spiritual Qi was like a violent storm, surging and rolling back like a tidal wave.

Looking up, almost the entire small world was shaking, and a terrifyingly extreme Spiritual Qi storm was being born at the edge of the world.

Bai Ze was greatly alarmed!

What kind of hellish situation is this?!

This commotion is a bit too large, isn't it?

Is this an attempt to break through in Immortal Dao cultivation?

You are about to tear this small world apart!

The rolling Spiritual Qi surged like an army of thousands of horses charging; vaguely, one could even hear the sound of thunder shaking in their ears.

After that terrifying Spiritual Qi vortex appeared, the Spiritual Qi of the entire small world began to converge toward that location.

Such a terrifying method of gathering Spiritual Qi—is this something someone who has just stepped into the Immortal Dao can cause?

Bai Ze's eyelids twitched wildly.

For no other reason.

Only because he suddenly felt that the long-dormant spirit of the Dragon Gate seemed to be slowly awakening.

Li Xiang was currently breaking through, and he dared not act rashly for fear of damaging his Dao foundation.

But such a massive commotion seemed to have disturbed the spirit of the Dragon Gate.

After pondering for a while.

Bai Ze took out his Token and activated it repeatedly, transmitting messages one after another.

"Fellow Daoist, please restrain yourself a little."

"After all, this is the inheritance ground provided by the Dragon Gate for scaled creatures. You are of the Human Race; by inhaling Spiritual Qi so unscrupulously, the Dragon Gate will not be pleased with you."

"Fellow Daoist!"

"Fellow Daoist?!"

Bai Ze did not receive a response for a long time.

——

At the center of the Spiritual Qi storm.

The very core of that massive vortex that reached from heaven to earth was not as violent as it was on the outside.

After the vast Spiritual Qi entered the vortex, it actually became much calmer. The Spiritual Qi was drawn in by the great vortex, then continuously compressed, finally becoming like a fluid substance, gathering around Li Xiang.

He sat cross-legged on the ground, his black hair hanging down, and Spirit Rhyme gathered on his body, as if a rosy garment were draped over him. It was extremely brilliant, truly like an Immortal Venerable descending to the mortal world—mysterious and powerful.

In the haze, one could even hear faint chanting coming from beside him. The dense Spirit Rhyme condensed and dispersed from time to time, and the surrounding grass also gained an opportunity because of this, growing increasingly emerald green, as if it had gained intelligence, gently swaying its bodies.

At Li Xiang's side, a Token was constantly vibrating, with various characters changing on it from time to time.

However, Li Xiang did not pay any attention to these, his mind immersed in his Spirit Platform, putting his whole heart into cultivation.

At this moment, Li Xiang's Spirit Platform had undergone a great change.

The Spirit Platform, which had originally looked somewhat narrow because there were too many things in it, had actually begun to expand.

In just a few snaps of the fingers, it felt to Li Xiang as if it had changed from the original narrow and crowded state to something quite spacious.

The Spirit Platform remained divided into three parts, and the phantoms on the three honored positions could still only occupy the outer perimeter.

Inside, the 【Spirit Realm】 world and the 【Tianyuan】 world, like yin-yang fish, gently rotated around his Divine Soul.

Having not observed them for a long time, these two worlds seemed to have undergone many changes.

A lot of people had died in Chiyang County some time ago; the true spirits of those deceased seemed to have been absorbed by the 【Spirit Realm】 world, and the entire world looked as if it had undergone some changes, appearing to have grown quite a bit.

And that 【Tianyuan】 world was still in the stage of the separation of clear and turbid Qi; it looked as if it were different from before, but Li Xiang could not name what specific changes had occurred.

Currently, he had not yet found a way to interfere with the 【Tianyuan】 world; it was quite a pity to have a world but be unable to use it.

The two worlds circled each other, like Taiji yin and yang, occupying the middle part of the Spirit Platform and protecting the Spirit Platform space.

Of course, these were not the main points.

The point was Li Xiang's current Divine Soul.

The Immortal Dao cultivation method of this world was different from what Li Xiang had seen in novels when he was young; it was not about condensing Spiritual Qi into the meridians, circulating Qi vertically and horizontally, or forming Golden Cores and Nascent Souls—that kind of traditional Golden Core and Nascent Soul system.

The Immortal Dao cultivation of this world spoke of taking the Divine Soul as the foundation.

One cultivates the Divine Soul and refines the Spirit Rhyme.

It is about extracting Spirit Rhyme from the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth to nourish the Divine Soul bit by bit.

The heaven and earth are vast, and within them, Spiritual Qi is gestated.

Spiritual Qi is the Qi of Dao Rhyme.

Within it are mixed many Spirit Rhymes, perhaps fire-attributed, or thunder-attributed, or...

A mixture of thousands, encompassing all states.

Within it is contained the most fundamental power that constructs the world itself.

Although chaotic, if one carefully categorizes them, there are the five basic attributes of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, paired with the two special attributes of wind and thunder.

Seven types of power jointly construct the heaven and earth themselves, and a cultivator's cultivation is also based on the essence of these powers.

The "Spiritual Root" that cultivators speak of daily is the cultivator's affinity for these Spirit Rhymes.

Only with sufficient affinity for the Spirit Rhyme can one use the Divine Soul to strip the Spirit Rhyme from the Spiritual Qi and refine it into Immortal Light for one's own use.

Therefore, the Immortal Dao cultivation of this world is actually the cultivation of the Divine Soul itself, the cultivation of the Spirit Rhyme of heaven and earth, using the Divine Soul to control the Spirit Rhyme to manifest extraordinary power.

When the Spirit Rhyme is refined into Immortal Light, and then that Immortal Light is transformed into an edict capable of interfering with heaven and earth, releasing the Spirit Rhyme—that is a divine ability.

Therefore, the essence of cultivation here is a process of collecting Spirit Rhyme and then obtaining the authority of heaven and earth through that Spirit Rhyme.

This Dao is relatively special and differs greatly from the cultivation methods Li Xiang knows.

Taking the Divine Soul as the foundation, inhaling Spiritual Qi, transforming it into Immortal Light that one can control, illuminating the Spirit Platform, and seeing one's true self—that counts as entering the Grade.

Every sect has different methods for inhaling Spiritual Qi and cultivating Immortal Light.

The systems of divine abilities derived from them are also all different.

Using Immortal Light as a catalyst to unleash various divine abilities, interfere with Spirit Rhyme, and guide the power of heaven and earth allows one to perceive the mysteries of the Immortal Gate.

Like that wolf demon I once saw in Shihe Village; it had not received any inheritance, yet it stubbornly insisted on walking the path to cultivate Taiqing Immortal Light, using Taiqing Immortal Light as its foundation to gamble for a method of longevity.

How to condense Immortal Light, how to collect Spirit Rhyme after inhaling Spiritual Qi, and how to operate divine abilities.

These are all extremely exquisite techniques.

They involve the foundations and Dao scriptures of each sect and are very important inheritances.

That wolf demon had no master or sect, and it relied solely on a copy of the "Dao De Jing" to gnaw away at it by itself, seeking to clarify its Dao heart.

Although I pointed out some paths to it, it was still difficult beyond measure.

Li Xiang does not seem to remember there being any creatures among the Demon Race that cultivate the Immortal Dao.

Previously, I thought it was because the Demon Race and the Immortal Dao were contradictory and could not coexist.

But now that I think about it carefully, it might be because the Southern Wilderness is truly too barren, and the fighting is too intense; I myself feel that the Spiritual Qi in the Southern Wilderness is sparse, let alone for those demon beasts.

Born in the Southern Wilderness, there is basically no Spirit Rhyme at all; what would they use to cultivate Immortal Light?

Listening to what Bai Ze said, in ancient times, the Demon Race even established the Heavenly Court; I imagine there must have been many demon immortals in the Heavenly Court at that time.

Moreover, this Dragon Gate gathers Spiritual Qi from all directions, and it seems it also intends to let the True Dragon it cultivates walk the Immortal Dao.

It was my own shallowness before that I didn't think of this point.

I just assumed that demons could not cultivate immortality.

In this way, since the environment the gray wolf was in was poor and it had no inheritance, yet it could cultivate a drop of Immortal Light, this comprehension is probably quite astonishing—it might even be a fraction of what I have now.

It cultivated a drop of Immortal Light; although it cannot be counted as Taiqing Immortal Light, it does contain a bit of the essence, which is truly outrageous.

After all, that is the path of the legendary Taiqing Daoist.

If there is a chance in the future, I must return to Heifeng Mountain.

My three disciples have quite good talent, but they lack a good cultivation environment and a good teacher.

With some training, they might be of great use.

Setting aside idle talk, Li Xiang's cultivation here is actually quite interesting.

It seems something went wrong when he entered the ranks of the Immortal Dao in the past.

I played a game of chess with Hongjun and entered the ranks of the Immortal Dao.

I don't remember the specific process very clearly.

It is as if my memory was erased; I only remember some scattered fragments.

I didn't pay much attention to it before.

Now that I have begun to cultivate properly, I have discovered that this Immortal Light is water-attributed, and what I have cultivated is Immortal Light with icy attributes.

But it is icy throughout, leaping on my Spirit Platform, and my whole body emits a faint icy aura; it can be called Heavenly Cold Spirit Light.

Spiritual Qi shuttles through, the Divine Soul vibrates slightly, and bit by bit, the Dao Rhyme within the Spiritual Qi is stripped away and condensed into Immortal Light.

Because the mantra for inhaling Spiritual Qi was modified to the extreme by Li Xiang, an extremely vast amount of Spiritual Qi is being transformed by Li Xiang every moment.

It took only a few breaths of time.

The originally dim Spirit Platform was already shining brightly.

Hundreds of white Immortal Lights with a hint of blue were moving Vertical and Horizontal within the Spirit Platform.

A portion nourished the Spirit Platform, expanding it by a great deal.

Another portion hung around the Spirit Platform, turning into dots of stars that illuminated the Spirit Platform.

If I want to use the power of the Immortal Dao in the future, I only need to manifest these Spirit Lights and use the Spirit Rhyme within them, mixed with divine ability techniques, to interfere with the energy of heaven and earth.

This Heavenly Cold Immortal Light is standard and unremarkable; it cannot be called pure, and can only be said to be a small branch of water-system Immortal Light.

After all, it is an extraordinary reward from the newbie village, so it is not that good, but it is not that bad either.

When my cultivation reaches the Seventh Grade, I will choose my Dao, find my own path among the three thousand Great Daos, and then I can improve this most basic Heavenly Cold Spirit Light.

I will imprint my understanding of the Dao and my insights into the Dao onto the Spirit Light.

To cultivate Divine Light.

By then, the mobilization of the power of heaven and earth will become increasingly powerful, and my divine abilities will be vast, nearing that of a god-man.

Li Xiang continued to cultivate, and rolling Spiritual Qi surged into his Divine Soul, where it was condensed into Spirit Rhyme by the Divine Soul, turned into Spirit Light, and dotted onto the Spirit Platform.

Not long after he started cultivating, he suddenly felt a strange movement coming from his Spirit Platform.

One-third of the Spirit Platform suddenly vibrated gently.

My Spirit Platform enshrines three deities, which seem to be the appearance of my future self having reached the extreme on the corresponding paths.

The Spirit Platform is imprinted with countless patterns, recording the Dao and Principle, which are divided into three parts by the three of them.

At this moment, the patterns belonging to the Immortal Dao suddenly began to glow slightly.

In the space of the Spirit Platform, those beautiful Heavenly Cold Immortal Lights seemed to have received some kind of summons; they fell together, falling into the body of that Immortal Venerable.

On the Spirit Platform, that child-like Divine Soul gently "opened" its eyes.

It looked up.

Li Xiang looked at the Immortal Venerable on the Immortal Dao throne, who had been chanting the nameless Immortal Scripture; he did not know when it had opened its eyes, looked up at the sky, and was silently chanting the Immortal Scripture.

The Immortal Scripture was strange, and the sound grew louder and louder, but it was impossible to hear it clearly.

There was only a feeling of being drowned in a boundless ocean.

That is an extremely profound technique, so profound that even now, with my ten thousand points of comprehension, I cannot hear it clearly.

The Dao Pattern became brighter and brighter, and that illusory figure seemed to become slightly more real after swallowing the hundreds of Immortal Lights I had just condensed.

This guy, it took away all the Immortal Light I had just condensed.

What are you planning to do?

(End of chapter)