Chapter 470: Things After Achieving the Dao

The wine liquid entered his throat, and his lips and teeth were full of fragrance.

"If you want to ask about the method of riding clouds, hahaha, it's actually very simple," Daoist Xuanming said with a smile. "If you want the clouds to go fast, or to carry mortals and mortal objects, you need the spirit in the clouds."

"What is the spirit in the clouds?"

"The spiritual rhyme of the world is infinitely mysterious. Everything in heaven and earth can obtain spirit. People obtain spirit and achieve the Dao, things obtain spirit and become demons, mountains can produce mountain spirits, water can produce water monsters, sculptures and earth and stone can also become spirits, and ethereal things can also obtain spirit," Daoist Xuanming said. "There is an old saying: mist often produces ghosts, clouds often produce gods. Such clouds with divine strangeness can be made into feather clothes and rosy capes, and can also be ridden for travel."

"How can one obtain it?"

"One is refining clouds, two is seeking clouds," Daoist Xuanming said. "If you want to refine clouds, you use your own Ji Xianren Qi and spiritual rhyme to nurture them. After a long time, they will naturally produce spirit."

Pausing, drinking a cup of wine, he continued to stroke his beard and said:

"If you want to seek clouds, hahaha, I once heard that Yunzhou in the south has many clouds, ever-changing, infinitely wonderful, often producing seven-colored auspicious clouds and mysterious clouds. If you wait quietly on the top of a high mountain and search at dawn and dusk, perhaps you can find a cloud that is not ordinary. Of course, you can also refine and seek clouds together—first seek clouds, then nurture them. Some can even split off a cloud for the spiritual officials and protectors under their command to ride."

"Yunzhou, top of a high mountain, dawn and dusk..."

Lin Jue murmured, remembering it:

"Thank you, Senior."

The zither sound changed several times, and the wind in the mountain valley outside the door changed direction several times. A small jar of Thousand-Day Wine had been drunk unknowingly.

The mountain wind blew leaves in, adding a touch of green to the pavilion.

"Thank you, Senior, for your guidance. Goodbye."

"What are you thanking me for? You and I both come from Yishan, and we have the fate of the Golden Core. I don't have any other skills, so what I can tell you is mostly this. Besides, hahaha, I have been idle in the mountains for a hundred years, and I haven't talked to anyone like this for a long time," Daoist Xuanming said. "Go, I will see you off."

So he walked out with Lin Jue.

It was only a few steps to the door.

This pavilion cave was also strange. Half of the ground inside was in the mountain, and the other half of the ground outside hung in mid-air, with a few red wood pillars supporting the eaves obliquely, and outside was a cliff. There was no road on the cliff that could reach here.

Lin Jue couldn't help but turn his head to look.

"What is the Daoist looking at?"

"Is this palace in the mountain built by yourself, Senior?"

"Does the Daoist also want to build a cave?"

"I have exactly this intention."

"Hahaha! That's not it!" Daoist Xuanming laughed, pointing to the palaces in the mountain. "This is the work of an Ji Xianren!

There is an Ji Xianren in the Nine Heavens named Yuzha Zhenren. During his lifetime, he loved carpentry. After achieving the Dao, he didn't change his original intention. Whenever he had quiet and idle days, he loved to find spiritual wood in the world and make it into palaces and pavilions. Many of the palaces in the Nine Heavens also came from his hands. This was a hundred years ago. When drinking and playing, I won it from him with two bottles of Ji Xianren pills as a bet."

Saying this, he paused: "Alas, I haven't seen him for a hundred years, and I don't know if he is still there."

"Truly beautiful!"

"Thank you, Daoist, for the compliment."

"Junior is leaving."

"Come find me to drink wine more often!"

"Good!"

Lin Jue took a step forward, and white clouds gathered under his feet, forming a standard white cloud, carrying him forward.

Looking back at the pavilion cave on the cliff, the cranes and rare birds flying in between, and the Ji Xianren music drifting, just with a mountain wind, the white clouds had already drifted far away.

Then he visited other Immortals and gods.

In the courtyard of the capital, several people gathered here.

"Previously, both the north and south sides had pushed the front line to the edge of Qinzhou and Zhongzhou, fighting endlessly. The north and south sides sometimes fought, but they rarely pushed forward. I heard a rumor that it was because the imperial court's army frequently had divine help, either gods descending to the mortal realm in person, or some monsters or Daoists helping to fight."

Wan Xinrong said to Lin Jue:

"In recent days, it is said that the north and south sides have reached an agreement to take Qinzhou and Zhongzhou first, destroy the imperial court, and then fight for the throne!"

Lin Jue listened and pondered.

The imperial court's army was already rotten. Being able to support for so long under the armies of Lord Luo and King Yue was undoubtedly due to divine help.

For divine beings to descend to the mortal realm and participate in human strife is something forbidden by the Heavenly Venerable's heavenly laws; however, looking back through history, every time the world changed, most instances involved divine beings descending in various ways to assist their own believers.

The methods are quite different.

Some plan ahead, predict the rise and fall of the imperial court in advance, and thus send civil and military gods from the sky to be reincarnated and descend to the mortal realm to extend the life of the imperial court. Some secretly foster capable masters, some subdue monsters or let their mounts and pets turn into monsters to descend to the mortal realm, and some descend in person.

This depends on whether the Heavenly Venerable is in seclusion or idle at that time, and also on the character of the person in power among the Nine Heavens gods at that time, and on the urgency of the matter and the strength of the opponent.

At this time, Tianweng is obviously at the end of his rope, almost prospering and perishing with the imperial court.

At the moment of life and death, naturally, he doesn't care about so much.

At the same time, this also means one point—

The direct struggle between gods is coming, and the direct struggle between the Southern Husheng Husheng Zhenjun and the Four Saints of the Protectors under Tianweng is also coming.

"You all stay in the capital. It is best not to participate in the struggle for the world. If one day the capital is broken, no matter who attacks, south or north, I think it won't hurt you. Remember to pass a word for me: no soldiers are allowed to burn, kill, or loot in the city, or act recklessly, otherwise I will definitely bring down thunder to strike them."

"Obey!"

"I will return to the mountain to cultivate for some time. If there is anything, let Daoist White Egret send me a letter," Lin Jue said. "If a new dynasty is established, it will definitely need talent. With your skills, getting wealth and honor in the new dynasty is not a problem. It just so happens that you can also think about whether to seek wealth and honor in the imperial court or follow me to the mountain to cultivate and pursue longevity and the Great Dao. Don't rush to make a decision."

"Good!"

Wan Xinrong and the others looked at each other, all a bit excited.

This was completely in line with their expectations.

In fact, what else is there to choose?

They are all mortals in the world, growing up listening to Ji Xianren stories. Those wonderful magical powers and the romance of wandering in the mountains and waters—whether it is wealth and honor or the Great Dao and longevity, it is really not hard to choose.

Lin Jue had already ridden the clouds and left.

In Fengshan, there was still a mess.

The Daoist and the flower-robed person stood face to face.

Lin Jue's expression was solemn and guilty: "Senior suffered because of me, Junior is really sorry."

"What do you mean suffered because of you? I have long wanted to fight those gods in the sky!" The flower-robed person waved his sleeves. "I didn't even have enough fun fighting that day!"

"Junior will seek justice for Senior."

"Why do you need to seek it?" The flower-robed person looked at him sideways. "I heard you have achieved the Dao. You should cherish the hard-won cultivation and longevity, save yourself first, and don't intervene in this struggle of heaven and earth at will!"

"Junior knows what to do!"

Lin Jue's heart remained calm and unmoved.

"I didn't lose a single hair. If you really feel guilty, then host a treat for me—good wine and good meat, hmm, that braised meat last time was not bad." The flower-robed person almost drooled.

"It should be, it should be," Lin Jue said. "I just happen to want to ask Senior Hua, in this Fengshan, is there any blessed land with abundant spiritual energy suitable for quiet cultivation?"

"In Fengshan? Abundant spiritual energy?"

The flower-robed person immediately showed a thoughtful look:

"In this Fengshan, places with abundant spiritual energy, besides my place, are the Fengshan Hongye Guan. There is a third place, but it is deep in the mountain, and it is not so convenient to go down the mountain. Oh, that's right, you have achieved the Dao now, you can ride the clouds and mist, just right for quiet cultivation and avoiding the world!"

"That's right."

"It is right here—"

Senior Hua pointed with his hand, pointing to the back.

Lin Jue turned his head to look.

Today happened to be a clear day, the view was extremely far, and one could see deep into Fengshan at a glance. On the orange horizon, the mountain shadows overlapped. There were also cliffs and precipices, and clouds and mist.

If there were no clouds and mist, it would be the kind of place where one didn't know how many tigers, leopards, jackals, wolves, monsters, and ghosts were there at a glance, a place where mortals couldn't be involved. But with these clouds and mist, it added a bit of Ji Xianren Qi, and it became the kind of place where no one knew if gods lived in the depths of the clouds and mist. However, mortals were still difficult to be involved.

"Good place!"

"Do you want to cultivate here?"

"I'll see."

"Then if you want to build palaces and pavilions and need to move some pillars, bricks, and tiles, you can call me," Senior Hua said. "My boys are not as delicate as your bean soldiers."

"Definitely!"

"By the way—"

The flower-robed person suddenly became solemn: "I have one thing to ask you."

"Senior, please ask."

"Since you have achieved the Dao and are an Ji Xianren, then from your perspective, was the cultivation of the Daoist Konggu in the past unable to make progress because he was confused by gods?"

Daoist Konggu had been gone for many years. This question seemed still important to the flower-robed person.

Lin Jue looked at him and only replied:

"Yes!"

The dog face of the flower-robed person froze, first a bit gloomy, then a bit relieved to have solved a question, and later, even a bit of "I said it right" pride, changing very quickly.

Lin Jue said goodbye to him.

The flower-robed person stood in place and watched him go.

His heart was filled with more pride—

"Look! Even an Ji Xianren who has achieved the Dao must be respectful and polite when facing us!"

Later, he would tell the juniors behind that when he first met this Ji Xianren Lin, he hadn't achieved the Dao yet. The two had a fight because of a misunderstanding. He saw that Ji Xianren Lin was pitiful, so he spared his life, and thus they formed a fate.

And at this time, Lin Jue rode the white clouds and had already circled deep into Fengshan.

He looked at the terrain and the spiritual rhyme. Seeing that the green mountains were heavy and the scenery was very good, and the spiritual rhyme was also very abundant, he was very satisfied.

He even initially chose a place.

Only then did he fly to the Fengshan Hongye Guan.

After achieving the Dao, there were still quite a few things to do.

Need to find spiritual clouds, need to build a cave.

Need to understand the truth of the Great Dao and magical powers.

Yunzhou is so big, I don't know where to find spiritual clouds, and I don't know how long I have to wait.

Although I chose a place, unless I let the fox dig out a cave, I would need wooden pillars, mortise and tenon, bricks, tiles, walls, tables, chairs, and wooden utensils, and I don't know where they come from.

Of course, the most important thing is the Protector Saint Husheng Husheng Zhenjun. ===== CHAPTER 471 =====