Chapter 1174

After the seven supreme Dao fruits of the Heavenly Human Divine Treasury fell, he faced the door that could no longer be shaken in the slightest.

He had finally burned everything away!

His jade-like body dimmed bit by bit, turning into the coarsest, grayest stone.

The Heavenly Human stumbled toward the edge of the cliff on Mount Shizhong, staring at the surging Yinhe and the great river, watching the mountains scattered like an archipelago, and let out a final, shrill howl.

At this moment, the howl echoed among the mountains, but he heard echoes rising one after another.

The Heavenly Human turned his head abruptly and smiled at Cui Dan: "Have you... ever seen the heart of a Heavenly Human?"

"Tell the human race, we also have hearts!"

Having said this, he reached back and dug out the heart from his own chest; the nine-apertured, jade-like heart beat faintly in his hand as it was extracted.

The Heavenly Human completely turned into a stone statue!

The humans of the Earth Immortal Realm were all silent; Cui Dan took the nine-apertured exquisite heart from his hand. It was slightly dim, yet it still retained its jade quality, carrying a profound mystery that led directly to the Dao.

Different from the wisdom of the human race, the Prajna of the Buddhist sect, the enlightenment of the Xuan sect, the telepathy of the Heavenly Human race was a kind of feeling of being naturally close to the Dao, a state of Heaven and Man as one.

Such a nine-apertured jade heart could only be obtained if a Heavenly Human dug out their own heart while alive.

It could not be forced in the slightest.

Even within the Daoist sects, a constitution like that of the Heavenly Human race was a Dao body naturally close to the Dao, but unfortunately, it was cursed by Heaven, unable to form a Nascent Soul or attain the Great Dao.

It was even sealed off from its own Divine Treasury!

As the first Heavenly Human since the New Heaven to dare to contend with Heaven for his life and open his Divine Treasury, the heart he left behind, besides being precious in itself and possessing the inherent characteristic of assisting in Dao enlightenment, held a unique symbolic meaning.

Cui Dan solemnly put away the jade heart.

Looking at the cracks opening one by one on Mount Shizhong, looking at the various phenomena of the Azure Bird, Bi Fang, and Vermilion Bird, whether weeping blood or crying out in grief, spitting out pieces of Primordial Divine Jade.

From the cracked Primordial Divine Stones, pieces of divine jade, each only the size of a fingernail, floated out...

And among the phenomena of beasts like the Taotie, Zhu Yan, and Pixiu, the various beast treasures they spat out were wrapped in Primordial Divine Stones, each looking like a lump of mud.

These were all demonic wonders mixed into the Yu Yu Jiuyou darkness, refined into the divine mountain by Xu Fu.

As for the things spat out by the toads, carp, white snakes, etc., they were mostly old relics from the First Emperor's Mausoleum washed down by the Yinhe, also refined into the divine mountain by Xu Fu.

These things could resist the refining of the Whirlpool of Creation and were not completely ground into Five Elements Qi, condensing into Primordial Divine Stones; essentially, they must have had their remarkable aspects.

Therefore, seeing this scene, Cui Dan could only sigh: "Each person, take one!"

"There is not enough Primordial Divine Jade to go around, and the rest come from the Yinhe and Nine Nethers; taking one can still be called destiny, but too many would be inauspicious."

Lan Jiu watched this scene, his heart also secretly shaken.

He had not expected that just one Mount Shizhong had been built with who knows how many Heavenly Soldiers, Heavenly Generals, and Heavenly Humans.

Even if the one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals were not all Heavenly Humans, they likely made up the vast majority.

Looking at it this way, the Heavenly Court raising Heavenly Humans might not be without the intention of using their innate power of faith to anchor its own Dao fruits and stabilize the Divine Dao.

Cui Dan sighed: "The Heavenly Human race truly has a heart..."

"Hmph!" Xia Yi sneered: "Having a heart is one thing, but don't take it too seriously. Facing the Supreme Dao Ancestor, they are naturally weak and appear pitiful, but they were born in the Heavenly Realm after all. Whatever Divine Treasury being sealed, at most they would just be Heavenly Soldiers or Heavenly Generals; this has nothing to do with them being arrogant in front of us."

"The Heavenly Human race, facing the Supreme Dao Ancestor, is naturally both pitiable and mournful; facing ordinary humans, they are the natives of the Heavenly Realm."

"High and mighty existences of the cosmic realms."

"You pity them? You'd be better off pitying yourself, pitying the truly vast human race!"

"Heavenly Humans are born with ten thousand years of life, comparable to True Dragons. If their Divine Treasuries were not sealed, each would naturally possess the power of a Nascent Soul. If they are pitiable, wouldn't the demon race, and even the birds and beasts without intelligence, be lowly to the point of dust?"

Cui Dan listened and sighed, saying no more.

The rising stars of the Earth Immortal Realm, who had been bystanders the whole time, then went up one by one to take a stone ball, all tacitly leaving the Primordial Divine Jade to those who had taken action in this battle.

Only then did they board the boat of the Karmic Fire Red Lotus and head downstream...

Beside the Blood Sea, Qian Chen fell into thought. Xu Fu watched him kneading the mud ball, lost in thought, and found it difficult to remind him whether he had kneaded his own body too much; if the mud were too dry, the human body molded would be relatively stiff.

But seeing Qian Chen's attitude of adding mud when there was too much water and water when there was too much mud, he couldn't help but speak up.

He immediately reminded him: "Creating humans is the Great Dao of the Goddess, how can one not be focused?"

"The proportion of the Nine Springs is extremely important. Breathing Soil has extremely high plasticity, but lacks vitality! The vitality of the Nine Springs originates from the Blood Sea, which is the manifestation of the incredibly complex and unimaginably prosperous vitality of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Blood Sea. The seniors of the Creation Dao, the Blood Mud Demon Lord of the Yellow Mud Dao, and the Nine Springs Demon Lord categorized and divided it into nine types."

"Only because of this can even those of the Dao Lord level grasp the authority to create living beings..."

"This kind of method is extremely precious even among Dao Lords. As long as it is the creation race, it can carry a few Dao fruits, and even help in the evolution and perfection of Dao fruits. This is also a Dao fruit method, named the Creation Method, not inferior to the World Creation Method!"

"Among the myriad races of the cosmos, who knows how many species were created by Dao Lords who were ignorant and unaware of creation, hiding who knows how many defects, only able to multiply in the Dao fruit environment created by the Dao Lords."

"But the living beings created with this 'Classic of Kneading Earth to Mold Humans' can multiply throughout the cosmic realms and grow into towering trees!"

Qian Chen asked casually: "So how many species have you, the Immortal Qin, planted foreshadowing in? To deal with?"

Xu Fu then kept his mouth shut.

Qian Chen, while perfecting the concept of guiding the overall fall of the Heavenly Human race, said casually: "The Huang Quan is the spring water condensed from the death energy in the deepest part of the earth, containing endless death energy. It can cause everything it touches to rot and be sealed in dust, can dissipate all creation, and turn all things into a stream of dead, turbid Qi..."

"I have also used this to return to the origin and manifest the Yellow Mud Body of the human race, but hearing that this spring is an evolution of the Blood Sea water, it is still somewhat unbelievable."

"I thought the Huang Quan was death!"

"Using 'death' to kill the 'life' of the flesh, forcing out vitality, forcing us to grasp the fundamental creation and vitality of the human body."

Xu Fu said indifferently: "The Huang Quan is indeed 'death', and it is also the most important type among the Nine Springs for shaping the human body, but its death is more like a kind of 'hiding', like the stern killing of winter; death energy is the manifestation of earth energy being deeply hidden and restrained."

"Whenever anything enters the earth, it will be eroded by the Huang Quan, appearing as dim divine light and rusty spots, but if you nourish it with essence, energy, and spirit, it can shine again, and that kind of luster is more internalized, no longer floating on the surface. This is the wonder of 'Earth Hiding'!"

Qian Chen asked doubtfully: "But when people are buried in the ground, when living beings are buried underground, they rot into white bones, or even turn into yellow earth with nothing left!"

"What kind of Earth Hiding is this?"

"Why do you think people are buried underground? Do those geomancers who practice the Dao of Feng Shui not know that corpses will rot and turn into earth in the soil?"

"But there is life within death, and there is immortality within decay!"

"The soul nourished by a corpse buried underground is more stable than any other burial method."

Xu Fu said: "Therefore, the life of the Huang Quan is a kind of restraint. Because it is restrained and deeply hidden, it is continuous. The vitality nurtured by the corpse being rotted by the Huang Quan can nourish the soul, can follow it into reincarnation, nourish destiny, and can even spread to descendants."

"One can see the wonder of this vitality!"

"The method you originally used, using Huang Quan death energy to draw out human vitality, although not bad, is also based on external Yin and Yang, which is the Yin and Yang of life and death. The Huang Quan is death, used to match human vitality, used to reshape the human body."

"It is certainly self-taught, utilizing a fraction of the Huang Quan's mystery."

"But compared to my Creation Dao directly opening the Nine Springs and 'creating' the Huang Quan from Heaven and Earth, it is still a bit lacking."

"I think you can at most use it on living things, and even if you use it to refine pills, you can only refine 'living pills', and you have to match it with blood water."

Qian Chen shook his head: "That's not necessarily true. I can also use Heavenly River water and Clear Spirit water to refine Huang Quan pills."

"Oh!" Xu Fu was slightly surprised: "It seems your attainment in alchemy is even higher than I imagined, but you probably don't know. The Huang Quan itself is already a complete pill! It is a pill, not medicine!"

"A pill is perfection." Qian Chen pondered: "If as you say, the Huang Quan itself is a mixture of life and death, it is indeed a kind of Yin-Yang perfect pill."

"If the Huang Quan is a pill, then aren't the other eight springs..."

"That's right, otherwise why would it be called the Essence of Creation? Creating living beings is another supreme alchemy method not inferior to the Supreme Dao's Nine-Turn Golden Pill or the Ancient Divine Dao's Immortality Medicine. The Nine Springs are also nine kinds of spirit pills; combining them into one is another meaning of the Nine-Turn Alchemy Dao."

Qian Chen thought for a long time before saying faintly: "I'm afraid the Nine Springs are also a main ingredient for an immortality medicine!"

Xu Fu's tone choked, and after a long time he scolded: "I didn't intend to teach this..."

Qian Chen gave a light hum: "Does this need teaching? After you pointed out that the Nine Springs are also nine kinds of spirit pills of Heaven and Earth creation, my mind turned and I naturally thought of it!"

He sighed: "When I saw the Blood Sea, I thought about using it to refine an immortality medicine."

"After all, what divine medicine can compare to the true body of a dignified Demon Ancestor, the manifestation of a Life Dao fruit? But I didn't expect that the seniors of the Demon Dao had already walked ahead, creating the method of refining the Blood Sea into Nine Springs and using the Nine Springs to create living beings long ago."

Qian Chen said this and suddenly realized: "So that's it!"

"The Blood Sea is indeed a main ingredient for an immortality medicine, but this immortality medicine has already been eaten by the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor! This immortality Great Dao has already been occupied by someone!"

"Therefore, even if you refine the Nine Springs from the Blood Sea, you cannot achieve the immortality medicine; you can only walk another path."

Qian Chen had to admit that a Great Fangshi is a Great Fangshi, and the seniors of the Demon Dao are also quite remarkable.

Compared to the immortality medicine he refined using the Western Kunlun Immortality Divine Tree.

The method of using the Nine Springs to create living beings is truly concise, without so many bells and whistles. A little soil, a little Nine Springs differentiated from the Blood Sea, can mold living beings and create races.

How should I put it?

It is full of concise beauty, using the power of the Life Dao fruit to the extreme.

"But among the auxiliary materials for the immortality medicine you prepared, there must be the Nine Springs."

Qian Chen's thoughts turned, and he suddenly said: "The essence of the Nine Springs is of great help to me. If I had known this in the Return to Ruins in the past, I probably wouldn't have had to trick you into refining pills."

Xu Fu heard this, and his tone turned cold: "You didn't trick me; I was willing to come myself. The immortality medicine is my obsession. Everyone knows that if the immortality medicine appears, I will definitely come!"

Qian Chen's tone was relaxed: "Old Xu! It's not shameful to be tricked by me. Look at the Black Emperor, look at..."

He was too embarrassed to say Tai Yi out loud.

It wasn't that he was afraid of being beaten, but he had to give Tai Yi some face; they were already friends!

Fortunately, these words didn't come out, because Qian Chen felt the Blood Sea glance at him subtly, like some fisherman...

Qian Chen had to speed up his actions.

His hands became nimble.

At this moment, his hand suddenly paused, and he suddenly said: "I know who that Demon Lord of the Yellow Mud Dao who created the Nine Springs is!"

Xu Fu was stunned for a moment and said: "Since it is a Demon Lord, how can there be a question of who it is? We all know that the identity of a Demon Lord is unpredictable; whether male or female, human or demon, it is hard to say."

Qian Chen said: "This Demon Lord has a great background in the Daoist sects; it's hard for people not to know!"

"In the past, there was a divine shaman in Zheng named Ji Xian, who was the third-generation descendant of Xian, one of the ten shamans of Ling Mountain. His shamanic Dao reached the heavens, knowing the life and death, existence and destruction, misfortune and fortune, and longevity of people. Lie Zi saw him and was intoxicated, telling his master Hu Zi. Hu Zi then let Lie Zi bring this person to see him. On the first day, Ji Xian said his expression was strange, his heart like dead ashes, and he would die."

"On the second day, Ji Xian came to see him again, saying his vitality was sprouting and his illness seemed to have improved."

"On the third day, Ji Xian told Hu Zi that his expression was trance-like and hard to predict."

"On the fourth day, just seeing Hu Zi, Ji Xian ran away at full speed..."

"Hu Zi said, the first time he displayed a state of mind like the earth deeply hidden, the second time was a state of mind like the appearance of heaven, and the third time was a heart of void Dao without traces. Hu Zi used the nine appearances of water flowing and coiling in the abyss to describe it, the so-called 'Ni Huan's Abyss', 'Still Water's Abyss', 'Flowing Water's Abyss'. The abyss has nine names, and these three are here!"

"'Ni Xuan's Abyss', 'Still Water's Abyss', 'Flowing Water's Abyss', 'Lan Water's Abyss', 'Wo Water's Abyss', 'Jiu Water's Abyss', 'Yong Water's Abyss', 'Qian Water's Abyss', 'Fei Water's Abyss'..."

"The so-called Yu Jiuyou are actually nine kinds of supreme Dao mysterious hearts!"

"Therefore, Hu Zi can also be called the Yu Jiuyou Dao Lord. In the Daoist sects, he is the Yu Jiuyou Dao Lord, and in the Demon Dao, he is the Nine Springs Demon Lord. The so-called Nine Springs are the nine kinds of spirit springs that Hu Zi refined from the Blood Sea using the Dao of the Yu Jiuyou."

Xu Fu sighed deeply: "If you were born in the same generation as me, perhaps the one who would have squeezed me out of the position of Great Fangshi would be you!"

"The principles of the Yu Jiuyou, even the dragon race only thought it was the appearance of the Dao of Water."

"But they didn't know that Hu Zi used the abyss to describe the Dao. Being able to realize that the Yu Jiuyou are not the abyss, and even less the number nine, but Hu Zi's understanding of the Great Dao, you have already far surpassed the others."

"Being able to see through the Nine Springs from it is even more terrifying and awe-inspiring. You must know that Hu Zi also put in a lot of effort to cover up his Demon Dao roots."

"I didn't expect that you would see through his identity after just tasting the Nine Springs!"

"Since you can see through the Dao of the Yu Jiuyou through the Nine Springs."

"I suppose you have already obtained all the wonders of these Nine Springs!"

Xu Fu smiled bitterly: "I have nothing left to teach you..."

Qian Chen was a bit distracted, just murmuring: "No wonder there are Yu Jiuyou hidden under the Kunlun Immortality Tree!"

"In that great sacrifice that refined the immortality medicine back then, I was still too opportunistic and ignored many places."

"Using the method of the shamanic Dao to knock and ask the vast heavens to refine medicine is ultimately not the correct path of alchemy."

"Thinking about it, if one truly wants to refine the immortality medicine, one must put the medicinal properties of the Immortality Divine Tree into the Yu Jiuyou to be washed and refined, experiencing the Dao of the Yu Jiuyou, only then can it be refined!"

"Hu Zi's Dao of the Yu Jiuyou is the Supreme Dao Ancestor's 'Highest Good is like Water', using it to describe the Dao."

"And there is a technique to observe water; one must observe its waves. Waves form an abyss, and there are nine images, and 'non-action' is within it!"

"The Dao of the Yu Jiuyou, its foundation is still to summarize the nine changes of the Great Dao with the Yu Jiuyou. As long as the nine changes cannot erode oneself, one can naturally live forever!"

"Similarly, the nine changes of the Great Dao are also the Dao of Creation. Used externally, it can create all things!"

At this moment, Xu Fu was truly convinced. His head rolled on the side, circled Qian Chen once, and sighed: "You are already a Great Fangshi..."