Chapter 292

Seeing so many people, Xiao Yu was a bit confused. He saw Qian Chen greeting them to follow, and hurriedly ran to Qian Chen's side, heading to a side room on the east side of the great hall.

Just after sitting down, Xiao Yu asked suspiciously: "The people of the three great families are actually still alive? Isn't it said that in the White Bone Corpse Land, by the hour of the tiger, if you can't find a White Bone Temple or a feng shui treasure land to hide, you will be swallowed by corpse qi?"

Qian Chen laughed: "I left three sticks of residual incense on the road, which can protect them through the hour of the tiger."

The Old Daoist suddenly understood and exclaimed: "Teacher is merciful!"

Xiao Yu was somewhat depressed, supporting his chin and saying: "Then in that case, we rushed on our way, but instead missed the path of life left by Teacher, which led to the Big Guy being eroded by corpse qi?"

Qian Chen shook his head slightly: "The Big Guy is different. He is a living person with a dead appearance, and his resistance to corpse qi is very poor. As long as he touches a wisp of corpse qi, he will be captured by the rules of the White Bone Corpse Land. Those three sticks of incense couldn't protect you."

"Not to mention, although I left a glimmer of life, there were disturbances in the process. Staying there would have been more ominous than auspicious."

Only then did Xiao Yu feel relieved, knowing that the three of them hadn't been clever but mistaken, and that their choice was indeed the only path of life.

"Did you find the Taiyin Refining Form Book?"

Xiao Yu hurriedly took out the golden book from his bosom and presented it to Qian Chen. Qian Chen took the golden book, and the ancient characters, twisted like tadpoles, slowly swam, suspended in the void, forming a shadow that looked like a true immortal.

As soon as this shadow appeared, an aura that was perfect and flawless, supreme and beautiful, flowed out.

The shadow of that immortal seemed to be transformed by the Great Dao of the world, and every part was perfect to the extreme. Only then did Xiao Yu realize why that immortal lady was so beautiful. Refined by Taiyin, turning from death to life, letting the original body decay and then reborn, becoming a more perfect immortal bone—this was the true meaning of Taiyin Refining Form.

"Taiyin Refining Form, the practitioner is buried in a strange feng shui cave, and according to the law, the primordial spirit is entrusted to Taiyin. Let the flesh die, but the soul does not perish; the three souls camp in the bones, the seven souls guard the flesh, and a trace of true spirit is never muddled."

"Wait until the muscles rot and the blood sinks and the veins disperse, then the vitality of the earth qi grows, and the practitioner is reborn from the five internal organs, and the white bones transform like jade. Then the flesh and the five senses are all reborn, transforming into immortal bones."

Qian Chen held the golden book and explained to the crowd.

"This method was originally the most ancient path to becoming an immortal in the Xuan Gate. When the ancient primordial spirit true person impacted the primordial spirit, they had to escape the mysterious pass of life and death. It was necessary to experience a turn from death to life."

"Escaping the mysterious pass of life and death can achieve the immortality of the primordial spirit. If you can't escape, you will die and the Dao will disappear."

"This is called the Corpse-Dissection Immortal!"

"So the Taiyin Refining Form Method is actually so ancient and miraculous. Closing the death pass, escaping the mysterious pass of life and death, and seeing the Great Dao. This is a proper Daoist method that can cultivate into an immortal!" Xiao Yu said excitedly: "Then if we cultivate the Taiyin Refining Form Method, don't we also have a chance to prove the Great Dao?"

"Who told you that the older the technique, the more miraculous it is?" Qian Chen picked up the golden book, knocked on his head, and laughed: "On the contrary, this path is already outdated! Proving the Corpse-Dissection Immortal can't be considered a superior method nowadays. Not only is the process extremely dangerous, but closing the death pass, those who can leave the pass are one in a hundred. And after achieving the Dao, the achievement is lower than the few Great Daos today."

Xiao Yu said in surprise: "This is an ancient cultivation method. At that time, Qi Refiners could take the sun and moon and descend upon gods and demons, far more powerful than today."

"It is indeed an ancient cultivation method, but it is too ancient! It is the path before the Supreme Dao Ancestor, the result of the early stage of the Immortal Dao. At that time, the Immortal Dao Xuan Gate was nothing more than some low-level cultivators outside the Divine Dao. The primordial spirit they cultivated was just imitating a trace of the shadow of the innate gods. How profound could the method be?"

"Through the birth of the Supreme, the Xuan Gate became grand, and through the hands of the Supreme Dao Ancestor, the Immortal Dao reached a state comparable to the Divine Dao, and even better. So..."

Qian Chen smiled slightly, sighing in his heart: "So that's right, I—Qian Chen, the Dust Pearl, am the source of the Immortal Dao in this realm!"

Xiao Yu exclaimed: "The Supreme Dao Ancestor is truly the ancestor of the Immortal Dao, the source of the Great Dao!"

The Old Daoist also nodded slightly: "Our Divine Continent Earth Immortal Realm is the hometown of the Supreme, the ancestral land of the Dao Gate, and its status among the heavens is very special! The Immortal Realm was originally the ancestral court of the Divine Dao, while the Earth Immortal Realm is the true ancestral court of the Immortal Dao."

When the Old Daoist said this, a sense of pride deep in his bones flowed out. This was the pride of the cultivators of the Divine Continent, but then he sighed in a low voice: "It's a pity that no matter how brilliant the Earth Immortal Realm was in ancient times. Nowadays, the Divine Continent Central Lands have long since declined, and there are not many primordial spirit true immortals to be seen!"

"The Corpse-Dissection Immortal is an ancient method of refining the spirit. Corpse-Dissection Immortals closing the death pass also have two passes: the Corpse-Dissection Pass and the Spirit-Dissection Pass..."

Qian Chen continued to explain: "The Corpse-Dissection Pass is letting the body decay, and the primordial spirit breaks through the pass between life and death, shedding the yin quality of the soul, cultivating the yin spirit into a yang spirit. If you can't take this step, the soul will have nowhere to rely on, and the yin spirit will be miserable if it becomes a ghost, and better if it possesses someone to recultivate."

"And the Spirit-Dissection Pass is after the corpse dissection, when the soul's limit arrives, it is a chance of soul scattering. The true spirit breaks the mysterious pass of life and death and completely sees through life and death, cultivating into a primordial spirit."

"Therefore, the Corpse-Dissection Immortal, after passing the Corpse-Dissection Pass, only proves the Yang Spirit. The Yang Spirit relies on magic treasures, transforming primordial qi into a shell. Although it was also called an immortal in ancient times, in reality, the immortality of a true immortal can only be achieved by corpse dissection, and the Yang Spirit entrusted to magic treasures, although having a long lifespan, still has an end."

"Only after passing the Spirit-Dissection Pass and shedding the entrusted magic treasure, proving the primordial spirit, can one be called a true immortal."

Qian Chen said this and touched his chin, pondering: "Speaking of which, if the ancient Corpse-Dissection Immortals could pass the Spirit-Dissection Pass, the achievement is not inferior to today's."

Xiao Yu and the other three showed a look of ignorance and thirst for knowledge, and Qian Chen laughed: "Because the last pass for them to break through the Spirit-Dissection Pass often requires refining the entrusted magic treasure to pure yang. After spirit dissection, the entrusted magic treasure is washed by the tribulation of life and death, and it will produce a trace of spirituality, transforming into a spirit treasure embryo. Therefore, ancient Spirit-Dissection Immortals usually have spirit treasures with them!"

"This method of using magic treasures to entrust the soul, the soul feeding back the magic treasure, and finally breaking through the life and death pass is the source of the path of vessel cultivators cultivating their own life magic treasures, deriving the most powerful sword cultivator lineage in the cultivation path."

"And nowadays, the primordial qi of the Earth Immortal Realm has fallen by a thousand feet, and the cultivation resources are far inferior to ancient times. Even if one proves the primordial spirit true immortal, if one is not a vessel cultivator who cultivates their own life magic treasure, one may not necessarily have a pure yang magic treasure in hand. Therefore, it is said that the combat power of today's primordial spirit true immortals may not be comparable to the Corpse-Dissection Immortals of that time."

"Ancient Corpse-Dissection Path, entering the Dao through visualization, soul foundation establishment, feeling penetration, spirit travel, receiving the three tribulations of wind, fire, and thunder, and cultivating into a yin spirit by seeing through the mystery of the womb, then closing the death pass to corpse-dissect and achieve the yang spirit, and spirit-dissect to prove the primordial spirit. Further up, most of them go to walk the Divine Dao!"

"The path taken by the Corpse-Dissection Immortal lineage is what we call the Refining Spirit Path later on, and later it derived the vessel cultivator lineage of the soul entrusted to life magic treasures, and the Earth Immortal lineage of the soul entrusted to heaven and earth spirit roots. This realm is called the Earth Immortal Realm because before the Supreme Dao Ancestor opened the Xuan Gate, there were Xuan Gate predecessors who opened the Earth Immortal Path, refining blessed lands and caves, and spreading the Dao in the Divine Continent, only then did there have the ancestral court of the Xuan Gate."

"Earth Immortal Path, isn't that the path taken by the seniors buried here? Cultivating Earth Immortals, and also entrusting the soul to heaven and earth spirit roots?" Xiao Yu frowned.

The Old Daoist was also somewhat surprised: "Cultivating Earth Immortals starts from building a spirit pool, accepting blessed lands, and opening caves to become immortals. Dead people inherit the spiritual machine of strange feng shui caves, cultivating from the underworld, transforming the corpse body, is also a path. Ancient Earth Immortals, although heard of, seem to be different from today?"

Qian Chen laughed: "Ancient Earth Immortals didn't cultivate any spirit pools, they only entrusted their souls to heaven and earth spirit roots, which are innate divine trees."

"Where the divine tree takes root is a blessed land. And then, with the help of heaven and earth spirit roots, they open a realm, walk the path of the world tree, and prove the primordial spirit."

"Nowadays! Nowadays, you can't find heaven and earth spirit roots. So you just make do and cultivate a spirit pool! The true ancient Earth Immortal Path, one person is one realm, also known as the Realm King Immortal, Creation Immortal, which is extraordinary. The ancient Earth Immortals who live to this day are at least at the level of Dao Lords."

Qian Chen took back his words and continued to evolve that immortal shadow. He pointed to an immortal bone, and countless tadpole characters jumped. Qian Chen transformed those countless tadpole characters into cloud seal red books and casually printed them on the golden book.

"These are ancient tadpole characters! Although they can directly reach the mystery of the Great Dao, primordial spirit true immortals know their meaning at a glance, but for you, they are still too obscure. I have transformed them into cloud seals commonly used today."

"Of course, I only copied the part you need, immortal eyes, immortal bones, and the five qi in the chest. In the future, when you have achievements, you can compare the cloud seals and tadpole characters and realize the whole book yourself!"

Xiao Yu saw this and smiled embarrassedly, touching his head and saying: "Teacher, let alone these tadpole characters! Even the cloud seals you wrote later... actually we don't recognize them?"

Qian Chen looked at the two. The Big Guy lowered his head in shame, and Xiao Yu said shamefully: "Teacher, would you like to copy them into clerical script?"

Qian Chen shook his head and sighed: "The mystery of the Great Dao is difficult to fall on paper. These characters are all ancient practitioners who have exhausted their blood and sweat to realize them. Only then can they record the mystery of the Great Dao!"

"You can transform them into clerical script, but at most they can only record thirty percent of the mystery."

Xiao Yu said with a bitter smile: "Would Teacher like to write another clerical script, and we will realize it slowly..."

The Old Daoist then opened his mouth and said: "I know a little about cloud seal red books."

Xiao Yu cheered, hugged the Old Daoist's neck, and said excitedly: "Great! Old Daoist, you actually have such skills. We brothers, two illiterates, will leave it to you!"

Qian Chen continued to copy the tadpole characters of the immortal shadow's eyes and five internal organs into cloud seals and printed them on the golden book.

He said to the three: "Go back and realize them well. Stealing the creation of the immortal path like this, I'm afraid you will only have this one time in your life. Once you leave the demon cave, you will miss the opportunity of the eight halls. When the demon cave opens again, it will be at least sixty years later!"

Xiao Yu and the other three bowed respectfully to Qian Chen: "Thank you, Teacher, for your guidance!"

After Qian Chen finished teaching, he took the three and left the east side room. This time, Xiao Yu and the other three could follow them, put on the talisman-leaf rain capes, put on the bamboo hats, lit three sticks of God-Praying Incense, and left the White Bone Temple.

This time, the disciples of the great families and loose cultivators didn't dare to fall behind. Seeing Qian Chen and the others set off, they followed closely.

After leaving the White Bone Temple, the masters of the three great families, Jin, Lei, and Xin, looked at each other. Some had killing intent in their eyes, while others waved their hands secretly, signaling not to cause trouble. Qian Chen ignored them completely.

Anyway, if they dared to take action, the White Bone Corpse Land would have new taboos.

As the party with the final interpretation right, for Qian Chen, going down to the dungeon was just so simple, unadorned, and boring.

After everyone left the White Bone Temple, hundreds of white bone monks stepped into the great hall, and together with the few puppets who were still kowtowing incessantly, worshipped the bronze Buddha, while the bronze Buddha bowed slightly toward the direction Qian Chen left.

"Praise the Supreme Heavenly Demon! Praise the Supreme Mani Wisdom Buddha!"

The sound of Zen chanting shook this golden lotus Buddha land.

In the White Bone Corpse Land, countless walking corpses, zombies, and poisonous corpses appeared in the forest. Even the fiercest corpses stood quietly by the roadside when everyone was shrouded in the incense of God-Praying Incense.

Golden wish-power sprinkled down. Wherever Qian Chen walked, countless zombies crawled out of the ground and stood by the roadside, as if welcoming them.

In the most crowded places, the roadsides were full of corpse groups, densely packed, numbering in the tens of thousands.

Everyone walked among them, terrified, fearing that the corpse groups on both sides would break through the protection of the incense and launch a ruthless slaughter against them. Based on what they saw, the combat power of the corpse groups here, three thousand armored corpses, would be enough to annihilate them.

But wherever Qian Chen walked, the corpse groups were silent. The most bizarre thing was that when passing through a place that had no zombies and should have been a feng shui treasure land, a figure carrying a butcher knife stood in the distance, watching Qian Chen and the others walk past from afar.

It was as if it were welcoming, and as if it were seeing them off.

The green ox even saw Qian Chen nodding slightly at that figure. The two seemed to be acquaintances, or even old friends.

At that moment, the green ox felt a chill down its spine and comforted itself in its heart: "This might be a senior in his sect. Since this kid is a true disciple of the Supreme Dao who sealed this place, it's very reasonable to know a few Earth Immortals... It's definitely not, definitely not what I think?"

"If he is the reincarnation of the senior who set the seal?"

"Laying out such a big game, what is he plotting? Nine Earth Immortal strange caves, one burial immortal land, and those eight demon halls suppress extremely fierce demons, and who is buried in the burial immortal land? Could it be his previous life?"

"With eight supreme evil demons as burial objects, if he is the one buried, then who was he in his previous life? True Immortal? Dao Lord? Or even... Dao Venerable?"

Qian Chen burned incense to ask for the way, and they were safe and sound all the way, crossing several great mountains, and arrived at a gloomy, dark, and pitch-black great canyon. From far away, they heard the sound of wind passing through the canyon, wailing like ghosts, coming from the depths of the darkness.

Walking closer, they saw a surging great river flowing in the canyon, winding away, running through the entire White Bone Corpse Land.

And this river was crimson as blood, spreading like a dragon.

It was a surging blood river!

And on the other side of the canyon, they could see the golden spires of some stupas. That place seemed to be a forest of pagodas, the spires pure gold, and further down, the white pagoda bodies, the material seemed somewhat familiar.

Someone remembered the white bone trees along the way—that wouldn't be a pagoda built of white bones, would it!

On the cliff of the canyon on their side, a towering bone tree stood like a dragon, like a small mountain. The huge branches spanned both sides of the canyon. Climbing the bone tree, it seemed they could walk to the other side.

And on the bone tree, what looked like leaves, swaying in the wind, everyone looked carefully, they were all gray-white human skins.

Full of human skins, swaying in the wind, like countless people waving, dancing, such a scene made people uneasy.

Xiao Yu was somewhat shocked—this wouldn't be that!

Recalling when Qian Chen manifested the earth qi of this place, the Dragon-Becoming Tree transformed by the incense smoke seemed to be nearby. Corresponding to the six Earth Immortals, the one buried in the Dragon-Becoming Tree, wouldn't it be—the Ghost King?

This title was even more terrifying than Daoist, Monk, Butcher, General, and Scholar.

Xiao Yu felt a little uneasy in his heart.

The crowd was also somewhat restless. They had looked carefully, some even opened their Dharma eyes, before they could distinguish that the blood river was not iron-red soil, or mixed with other minerals, but a river gathered by fresh blood.

Such a blood river made people feel cold from the bottom of their hearts.

How many people had to be slaughtered to gather such a river?

The great families even remembered the blood rain that fell from the sky when the demon cave opened, full of inauspiciousness! Such a river, even if you said it wasn't great evil, no one would believe it!

Qian Chen walked straight to the white bone tree. This towering tree was nine bone dragons fused together, inlaid with countless skulls, and other skeletons formed its branches and leaves, covered with gray-white human skins.

It made people feel cold from the bottom of their hearts.

He lit three sticks of God-Praying Incense, inserted them beside the tree roots, and then climbed the white bone tree with his bare hands. The family disciples behind him had their hair explode. Someone said angrily: "Why not walk the canyon in front, but climb this tree that looks very bizarre?"

Qian Chen didn't look back and said: "You can not climb, I didn't let you follow me?"

"And, the cold wind blowing on this canyon can blow away a person's blood qi. If you are blown by this wind, all your flesh and blood will be transformed, leaving only a human skin hanging on the tree."

Some hesitated again. Qian Chen would rather climb the tree than go down the valley. Could the blood river in the canyon be more bizarre and dangerous than this white bone tree?

Qian Chen had already climbed several zhang along the twisted tree body. Ma Laohei, Old Guo, and even Xiao Yu and the others naturally wouldn't doubt him and followed him up. The green ox looked at the blood river with copper-bell-sized eyes, his expression somewhat solemn.

It said in a low voice: "That river seems to be the body of a blood demon... to be able to cultivate into such a river, at least it has proven an immortal demon body. I am not its opponent either!"

"This tree is bizarre, but easier to deal with than that river!" The green ox didn't hesitate and turned toward the white bone dragon tree. At this time, seeing the Tao family move, the other families didn't hesitate and followed closely, climbing the white bone dragon tree.

Along the thickest branch, they walked toward the other side of the canyon, wanting to use the tree as a bridge to cross the canyon!