Chapter 1091: Mending Heaven and Resting Fate Immortal Light Falls, Five Elements Rotation Great Dao Formed

Cui Dan immersed his thoughts into that streak of immortal light within his body.

Instantly, he saw a ray of light pointing down from the handle of the Big Dipper, shining upon him, and countless phantom images instantly dispersed from within his body.

As Cui Dan turned his head, the layer upon layer of phantom images also made the action of turning their heads, frame by frame.

He looked back and saw countless such shadows, reflecting his past time.

If he had seen film, he would have discovered that his life was like a long strip of film, pulled to the end.

And the Mending Heaven and Resting Fate Immortal Light was like a light source, reflecting the shadows on the film into the River of Time.

"So that's how it is!"

Cui Dan looked at all this, a trace of realization flashing through his heart.

The Mending Heaven and Resting Fate Immortal Light could actually perfectly alter one's foundation—no, that wasn't just altering the foundation, it was changing the past.

Following one's own heart's desire, changing the state of one's past.

Although the immortal light only shone upon himself, and the past it could change was limited to the self, it was already an unimaginable heaven-defying object.

Cui Dan's thoughts stirred, and his whole person returned to the moment he was building his foundation for a hundred days in the family and stepped onto the immortal path.

The twelve-year-old self reciting "Maxims," taking spirit medicine, drinking sweet spring water, in the mountain forest with incomparably pure spiritual energy and not a trace of turbid qi, a natural style, letting his nature go, wanting to cast a supreme foundation.

Alas, although the spiritual energy in the mountain forest was abundant, the scenery was also good.

But having grown up in a noble family since childhood, he was mostly with fox friends and dog companions, accustomed to wine and women, and before building his foundation, he could neither drink alcohol nor eat anything but bland food.

He could even less be close to beauty, lest his essence and qi be lost!

Gradually unable to stay in that life of clearing his heart and curbing his desires, he found a way to beg his mother to let him go down the mountain to practice in the Dao Academy.

At first, he could listen to his teachers preach every day and live and meditate in a garden with excellent Feng Shui, specially designed for nourishing qi.

Then he was occasionally called out by friends to play, mingling between flower houses and music workshops, raising literary toys and elegant objects.

He stopped reading Daoist books and scriptures and started reading idle miscellaneous books...

On the desk, in March or April, he had to raise a Weaver Girl, the size of a thumb, with the appearance of a woman but the lower body of a spider—a Jade Spider Girl.

This creature was extremely good at weaving, needing to be fed jade dust and dew. On weekdays, it could sing and dance, and could weave extremely exquisite silk.

From birth to death, six months, to weave one piece of brocade!

Every autumn, in the Dao Academy, everyone held a piece of brocade woven by a Weaver Girl, comparing with each other.

In the inkstone, he had to raise ink treasures.

Feeding them with the spirit of writing every day.

If one could raise a carp into a dragon like Wang Wang Ningzhi, wouldn't that be an elegant affair? Most people could only raise ink beasts with a few spells, which was enough to take and show off to classmates.

There were also the green cicadas of spring, the dream spiders of summer, the cold insects of autumn, and the piled snow of winter.

The little demon, a scoundrel raised in the eyes; the sleep-bug crawling out of the nose; the wondrous brush that brings flowers to life, nourished by literary Qi; the yellow millet rice planted in a dream!

In his youth, there were simply too many fun things to play with...

Many scenes, even now, as Cui Dan stepped back step by step to those shadows, could make him smile from the heart.

Exotic flowers from the Western Regions that would dance when they heard the sound of a zither, ink treasures that needed to be nurtured with spirit-writing brush intent.

Black and white cloud pieces meticulously polished by grandmaster array masters, spread out, with qi and rhyme flowing between the horizontal and vertical, able to set up arrays with pieces, chess games of array dao...

All kinds of interesting, broad external arts of cultivation, small paths, were all much more interesting than the boring nourishing of qi and nurturing of the foundation.

How could he honestly calm his heart and meditate? Often he couldn't sit for a moment before his heart felt itchy like a cat scratching, and the daily cultivation of literary toys, the games of zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and even listening to music in flower houses with partners, and talking to young ladies, and pleasing the eyes, were all much more interesting than boring meditation.

Until later, the qi-nourishing effort gradually fell behind, and he failed the homework assessments in front of his teachers several times.

He was about to be reported to his family.

His mother declared that she would confine him to the mountain, and he would not be allowed to go down the mountain until he had built his foundation, and he would not be allowed to go to the Dao Academy either.

Cui Dan felt bewildered and anxious, and went to ask those playmates, only then knowing the shortcut of taking pills and refining qi, which was worth a hundred days of hard work in one day.

Finally, Cui Dan looked at his fourteen-year-old self with a sorrowful and nostalgic expression, secretly using fifty liters of Clear Underworld Cold Spring and fifty dou of Jade Dust Gui Sand to exchange for a Flying Spring Foundation Building Pill!

His eyes were full of the shadows of his own foolish and naive past...

Until he achieved a Third Rank foundation, his mother was furious, drove him out of the Dao Academy, supervised his cultivation for two years, and seeing that he still couldn't break off with his fox friends and dog companions in Luoyang, she let Uncle Wu take him south to Jiuzhen Commandery, asking the Lu family, who had marriage ties, to find him an official position!

In Wu Kang County, he met a Daoist senior, and in Jiuzhen Commandery, he saw that miraculous alchemy technique, seeing the manifestation of the Great Dao.

Only then did he know what a true cultivator was, a true disciple of the Dao!

At that time, he switched to practicing the "Water Method of the Nine Gao of All Rivers."

With meridians running like the hundred rivers of heaven and earth, matching the timing of heaven and responding to the hundred rivers, there were requirements for which meridian the true qi rose and fell in each hour, and the order of qi movement in each hour. He had always disdained such complicated qi-refining methods before.

After all, there were only twelve hours in a day.

Spending all his time on carefully adjusting the movement of qi in his body, where would he have time to raise the little demons in his eyes and literary toys?

Fortunately, before leaving, his mother smashed all his toys. If Cui Dan hadn't desperately protected the little demon in his eyes, and she couldn't really crush his eyes along with it, he wouldn't have saved one "Dengtuzi," and accidentally formed a bond with the senior!

Until he returned to Jiankang and met that senior, Brother Qian Chen, again...

Listening to him and Princess Princess Qingcheng discuss the Dao, seeing the true alchemy technique of the Daoist true disciples, and even talking about the loftiness and ethereal nature of the Great Dao.

Only then did he truly feel that seeking the Dao and becoming an immortal was not just empty talk by the world.

Although the Great Dao was lofty, it was also under his own feet.

At this time, he repented of his past, but the mistakes of the past had already been cast, and there was no possibility of reversal. A Third Rank foundation simply could not carry higher, more solid magic power.

Even if he had the method of Five-Colored Profound Light, he had to condense it streak by streak!

Even if he practiced qi-refining without stopping, even with a thousand times the hard work, it would be difficult to make up for the eagerness for quick success in the beginning!

Then he watched the senior subdue the dragon elephant, fight Master Sima, and save the sky from falling in the Jiankang demon robbery, with a saber and a sword shocking the world. The twenty-eight characters of the Divine Land, although he was not among them, were still difficult to block their brilliant radiance.

At that moment, Cui Dan truly established his foundation, polished away his frivolity, and knew what he was pursuing!

But it was too late!

Too late!

Cui Dan saw Brother Qian Chen come to him to ask for a part of the "Heavenly Derivation Five Virtues Profound Scripture" space-time projection before leaving Jiankang, as if experiencing this scene once again.

Brother Qian Chen flipped through the remaining chapters of the "Heavenly Derivation Five Virtues Profound Scripture."

Cui Dan apologized from the side: "This little one has always been mischievous. Although I learned some true transmissions of the family's "Heavenly Derivation Five Virtues Profound Scripture" under the pressure of my parents, I only have a Third Rank foundation! And the "Five Virtues Profound Scripture" is known for its obscurity, so I have not focused on practicing this scripture, and the chapters I have obtained are only the foundation chapters that my brother has taught me, so it is really difficult to fulfill the senior's wish..."

Brother Qian Chen raised his head slightly, stopping his later words: "For the same scripture, how much one can learn does not depend on the level of the person teaching, but on the aptitude of the person learning."

"Cui Dan, if you want to achieve a First Rank Core Formation and truly walk on the path of the Dao, you must practice this "Heavenly Derivation Five Virtues Profound Scripture"!"

Cui Dan was shocked at the time: "Why? Although the Cui family established its household with this scripture, in recent years, the family's scripture learning has also been broad and profound, and there are not many who specialize in this Dao, and achieving the Primordial Spirit is also..."

"You are not them, you don't have the ability to walk out a path of your own!"

Brother Qian Chen put down the scripture and sighed: "Some people are like withered vines on a cliff, they can also climb up."

"Scriptures are just vines for climbing. Although the cliff wall is rugged, it is the Great Dao. There is no path on the vines, but they can climb the Great Dao. The divine abilities and scriptures left by the ancients are just the occasional protruding corners on the cliff wall..."

"They are like apes flying across, swinging from one vine to another, grabbing the protruding parts of the cliff, bravely climbing up, walking alone on the precipice."

"But you can't! Cui Dan, you need to find a towering tree and follow the roots up. The higher the tree, the greater your achievement."

"As for whether you can look at the sun, moon, stars, and the eternal firmament Great Dao at the top of the tree that connects to the sky, and leap down, transforming into a flying immortal, straight into the long sky, that is something even I don't know!"

Cui Dan realized: "So the "Heavenly Derivation Five Virtues Profound Scripture" is that towering tree?"

"The foundation of the Great Dao towering into the sky is nothing more than Yin and Yang, Five Elements. Everything else is a left-handed path, and in the Five Elements Dao, after the Five-Colored God Clan, only Zou Zi has fully obtained its Dao!"

Brother Qian Chen rolled up the "Heavenly Derivation Five Virtues Profound Scripture" and patted it in his palm: "Do you know what virtue is?"

"What is virtue?"

Cui Dan pondered for a moment: "Is beautiful conduct virtue?"

Brother Qian Chen shook his head: "These are all extensions of later generations..."

Brother Qian Chen shook his head: "These are all later interpretations..."

"On the right is an eye, with a straight line extending from the eye."

"Later, a heart was added behind the eye, indicating that not only must the body act correctly, but the heart must also act correctly!"

"It means to walk the right path, to go straight..."

"The oracle bone script for 'Dao' is a person walking on a road, but the oracle bone script for 'De' is an eye looking at the straight line of the road."

"The two come from the same source. So-called morality (Dao De) is the Great Dao walking straight!"

"Only by knowing this oldest truth can one understand that the "Heavenly Derivation Five Virtues Profound Scripture" is not about deriving five kinds of beautiful virtues. It is the derivation of the Great Dao, five paths that we can walk straight and reach the end! Here, morality is two meanings of one existence."

"Dao is contained within all things in heaven and earth, a path that can be carried."

"Virtue is the method of walking on this path!"

"Zou Yan derived the path of the Great Dao into the Five Elements. Actually, using a road to illustrate it is not perfect; it should be best compared to a staircase!"

"The Five Elements are not five paths, but one path. Virtue has the meaning of rising and climbing. Here, the Five Elements are stairs, helping us climb to heaven and obtain the Dao!"

"Ordinary stairs, step by step, always have an end."

"And the Five Elements cycle and rotate, without end, which is the true staircase to heaven."

"Therefore, those who realize that the Five Virtues are five paths have only just entered the door, and those who know that the Five Virtues cycle and rotate have not yet obtained the true meaning."

"The former will divide the Five Elements and cannot understand the truth that they are one body, so the Great Dao obtained will inevitably have deviations..."

"This is not 'straight'!"

"The latter cycle back and forth, trapped in one place, like a puppy chasing its own tail and turning in place. They think this is the unbreakable truth, but they forget the original meaning of Dao. Dao is to move forward, Virtue is to move upward!"

"Therefore, the Five Virtues cycle, not back and forth, but spiraling upward!"

Cui Dan opened his mouth wide. The deepest thing that the elders in his family talked about when preaching was this "Heavenly Derivation Five Virtues Profound Scripture."

But what they talked about were the unbreakable truths of cycling back and forth, the rotation of the Five Virtues, and the generation and restriction of the Five Elements.

Only Brother Qian Chen dared to assert that the rotation of the Five Virtues is moving upward.

Brother Qian Chen joked: "Zou Yan must have seen a wheel. He saw that many people had difficulty walking the Great Dao, so he derived Virtue into the Five Elements rotation, letting you sit on a wheel and run fast."

Brother Qian Chen joked: "Zou Yan must have seen a wheel. He saw that the Great Dao was difficult for many people to traverse, so he derived virtue into the rotation of the Five Elements, letting you sit on wheels to run fast."

"Stepping on the wheel there and spinning in place, forgetting the truth of the Great Dao moving forward!"

"The better ones also know how to turn the wheel to move forward, but forget that Virtue is to walk straight. They ride the wheel and run fast, but don't look at the road, turning in circles!"

"The most powerful people know that 'Dao' must move forward, and also know that 'Virtue' must walk straight!"

"So they build a cart with several wheels, driving external objects as cattle and horses, with only the 'straightness' of the road in their eyes! They hold the reins, raise the canopy, and the bells on the carriage are crisp. Everyone looks at them and is dazzled, indulging in the magnificence of the carriage and horses, but forgetting to look at the wheels turning underneath them!"

"So those people learn from the successful ones to build a 'cart'!"

"Some raise a canopy symbolizing status, carrying weight and moving forward; some grab external cattle and horses, running fast; some build a solid carriage body, standing in place, without a cart, using it as a house is also not bad..."

"How can there be such absurd people!" Cui Dan interrupted Brother Qian Chen.

Brother Qian Chen smiled: "How can there not be? Those who practice the Divine Dao are like raising a canopy, only seeing the noble status granted to gods by heaven and earth!"

"Those who practice the Immortal Dao only see the improvement of magic power, indulging in the 'cattle and horses' that drive them forward. Aren't pills, cultivation methods, divine abilities, and talismans all cattle and horses that drive them to fly? As for where the horses are taking them, and whether they can walk straight, naturally they run around, where is the road?"

"Those who practice the physical body, aren't they building a solid carriage body, blocking the wind and rain, hoping the carriage body won't rot, protecting them?"

Cui Dan was slightly stunned, feeling that he had committed all of them!

He recalled the various cultivators he had seen, and not one of them could build that carriage well.

"Even if the carriage is built, does it necessarily mean one can get on the road? Even if one can get on the road, can one walk straight? Even if one can walk straight, can one necessarily reach the destination?"

Brother Qian Chen sighed: "I have only just started on the road. For the two words 'morality', I have grasped the Dao, but I have not found the Virtue!"

"The senior is also... lacking... lacking virtue?"

Cui Dan really didn't know how to speak!

Brother Qian Chen pointed out with Five-Colored Divine Light, letting him deeply experience what Five Virtues rotation was...

Cui Dan, who had been thrown into a mess, lay on the ground, barely raising his head.

Yet he saw Brother Qian Chen with his hands behind his back looking out the window, indifferently saying: "I am an exception. While you have only seen carts, I have seen another kind of thing!"

He plucked a bamboo dragonfly, placed it in his palm, and rubbed it lightly.

The two leaves of the bamboo dragonfly rotated rapidly and flew up.

It flew past Cui Dan, past Brother Qian Chen, and bypassed the bamboo curtain and desk.

It flew toward the window and quickly disappeared into the mist of the great river.

Cui Dan noticed that the two leaves of the bamboo dragonfly were one black and one white, rotating, like Primordial Taiji, returning to chaos.

"While you see others walking straight on the Great Dao, I have seen people go straight to heaven!"

"You say, how can this let me continue to walk forward?"

"But the truth of heaven is even more remote and ethereal! You hold Virtue, you walk forward, there is a path paved by predecessors for you! Foundation building, sensing, qi refining, penetrating law, golden core, Yin spirit, Yang spirit, Primordial Spirit... Even if you lose your way and are turning in circles, there is always a path under your feet."

"And I, I saw someone fly straight to heaven, wanted to follow, but got lost in the clouds and mist!"

"Above the firmament, is there really a path?"

"My confusion will only be deeper than yours..."

Until now, Cui Dan still couldn't figure it out. If everyone was walking, and some senior immortals had already built wheels, canopies, reins, brought cattle and horses, and finally led everyone to sit on the cart...

Who was the one who turned the bamboo dragonfly and flew to heaven?

And how should that path be walked?

Cui Dan had now realized.

If the Great Dao moves forward, the Five Elements Dao derived by Zou Zi is the wheel.

And the Yin and Yang Dao opened by the Supreme Dao Ancestor is another thing, just like the bamboo dragonfly with two black and white leaves.

What Senior Brother Qian Chen said, following one person to heaven, should be that Supreme Dao Ancestor.

This method of ascending to heaven is also something that the Daoist sect has been bitterly searching for for thousands of years!

But Cui Dan no longer had more time to look up at the sky. He had to sit down, calm his heart, and build his own "wheel."

"Five Elements rotation is moving forward!"

"But senior, I probably know how to make the Five Elements rotate, but how should I move forward?"

Brother Qian Chen smashed a volume of the "Heavenly Derivation Five Virtues Profound Scripture" on his head: "Stupid!"

"Ah?" Cui Dan was puzzled.

"A stupid path, foundation building, sensing, qi refining, penetrating law, core formation, Yin spirit, Yang spirit... Isn't this the path paved by predecessors! You follow this path, naturally you are moving forward!"

"Oh, right!"

Cui Dan realized, one realm after another, naturally it was moving forward.

No matter how many times the Five Elements cycle, as long as you take a step toward the next realm, naturally you are moving forward!

Cui Dan pointed toward his twelve-year-old self.

The Five Elements divided, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth constantly rotated with the qi of the internal organs, being absorbed and refined by him, bit by bit...

This was the first step!

"What is the benefit of a wheel?"

During the projection of returning to Jiankang, Brother Qian Chen asked again.

Cui Dan subconsciously answered: "Walking faster?"

"This is the result, we must look at the cause!"

"The reason is that as long as the wheel turns, constantly applying a force, it can turn faster and faster. The larger the wheel, the stronger that power. The wonder of the Five Elements is also like this! Until now, it is too slow for you to push that huge wheel!"

Cui Dan realized: "Senior, are you saying I should have practiced the Five Elements Dao from the beginning? But the "Heavenly Derivation Five Virtues Profound Scripture" is too profound, with my..."

"The wheel is always slowest when it starts to turn!"

After Cui Dan was interrupted, he seemed a bit distracted.

He thought of the dazzling things in his childhood, and that carefree time.

He was like a child stumbling forward, excitedly picking up beautiful shells on the beach.

Running all the way, only to find that those precious, beautiful things had already scattered all over the ground.

Finally, his hands were empty! And there was no way back!

"If only there was a chance to start over!"

"If only there was a chance to come again!"

The heart's voice echoed, finally turning into a thunder-like loud noise in the River of Time, and the Mending Heaven and Resting Fate Immortal Light shone again from the origin of Cui Dan's life.

At twelve years old, practicing the Five Elements, qi transforming.

Achieving a First Rank Five Elements foundation in a hundred days!

Sensing heaven and earth.

Seeing green wood sprouting in the mountain forest, all kinds of vitality sprouting; fire burning wood, thunder striking the mountain forest to become a great fire, all kinds of qi blazing; all things returning to dust, deeply hidden in the earth, all things returning to storage; all kinds of sharp qi sprouting, gold and iron spirit minerals dug out by craftsmen, forged into tools...

Finally, moonlight sprinkled on gold utensils, dew drops condensed.

Someone sprinkled it casually, merging into a small stream, flowing into the river, and finally into the sea.

One day, water vapor steamed, clouds and mist drifted over, sweet rain fell on the earth, and all things sprouted again!

Cui Dan stepped into sensing in the rain.

Seeing the Dao, seeing myself, seeing the Five Elements, seeing heaven and earth...

The vast qi of the heavens and earth rotated, whether clear or turbid, all returning to the Five Elements.

The five qi in his chest rotated, self-refining qi immortal.

Each Five Elements rotation could refine a thread, strengthen a bit, and finally the five qi were strong, from sensing primordial qi from the outside, condensing water, generating fire, nourishing wood, sharpening gold, storing earth, gradually realizing the Great Dao of heaven and earth.

Finally, a point of profound light sprouted, and the Five-Colored Profound Light was formed.

Then entered the Penetrating Law!

The Mending Heaven and Resting Fate Immortal Light followed the shadows, footprints, and traces Cui Dan left in the space-time, shining toward the "present," and from the moment of birth, that small wheel of Five Elements rotation began to rotate bit by bit.

With growth, the wheel became larger and heavier.

Until the first step on the immortal path, the rotating wheel was finally placed on the road.

The inertia of the flying wheel carried him forward, step by step, constantly pushing a force for the wheel, and finally it galloped on the Great Dao, locking onto every correct direction.

When the Mending Heaven and Resting Fate Immortal Light shone on this moment, Cui Dan finally heard the sound of the wheels rolling in his ears!

"The Great Dao is long and far, the Five Elements rotate like a wheel!"

"But ask, where is the road?"

"Both teacher and friend and companion..."

At this moment, the original chasm was like thin paper under the wheels.

The unbreakable obstacles between the Five-Colored Profound Lights shattered instantly.

Cui Dan brushed out the Five-Colored Profound Light in his chest, yet saw those five colors merge instantly, turning into a primordial pill, falling into his chest.

Everything was so easy, so natural!

Taking a step out, Cui Dan achieved a First Rank Core Formation, and the great divine ability, Five Elements Great Escape, was formed!

Opening his eyes again, Cui Dan almost wanted to cry.

He finally felt the power of that Five Elements rotation.

Feeling the unstoppable forward power of that wheel turning, those heavy difficulties and obstacles, those various obstacles and tempering, could not stop the rotating Five Elements!

The only thing to worry about was the loss of the path ahead.

But he also found direction from the past, which was teachers, friends, and companions!

"The long Great Dao, never walk alone..."

Facing the finger of death, Li Xiuzuan looked back and saw him, his gaze candid and joyful.

Gao Zhao and Zhi Society struggling in the chaos opened by the inversion of Yin and Yang...

Brother Qian Tang stepped out of the Mending Heaven and Resting Fate Immortal Light, moved to the point of almost shedding tears, and the sword qi roared into a long river, pouring out all his depression and regret vividly!

The Five-Colored Profound Light rotated, wrapping him as he took a step down.

Ahead, the road is blocked!

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