Chapter 321: This Spirit and This Qi Form True Essence

In the mountains, there is no calendar; when the cold ends, one does not know the year.

Time passed in a hurry.

In the blink of an eye, twenty-two full years had quietly passed within the Hongze Longevity Sin-Cleansing Fan Dongtian.

On this day, Chen Hang's body in the main palace suddenly trembled slightly, and he withdrew from his meditation.

He calculated with his fingers, understood the situation in his heart, smiled slightly, and then his palm grasped the golden cicada in his sleeve.

His mind instantly sank into the Yizhen Yizhen Fa Jie, and then he reflected his own page of the Maha Golden Book.

【Maha Supreme Secret Light Stabilization】

【Name】: Chen Hang.

【Cultivation Method】: Tai Su Jade Body (Origin Realm Third Layer), Innate Great Sun Divine Light (Great Completion), Divine Fierce Sword Scripture (Great Completion), Four Mountains Dou Decision (Great Completion), Yin-Erosion Red Water (Great Completion), Purple Clear Qing Shen Lei (Great Completion), Scattered Scene Concealment Technique (Great Completion), Zhou Yuan Secret Book Turtle Divination (Great Completion), Jiugong Xuan-One Standard (Great Completion), Luo Dark Black Water (Medium Completion)...

【Magic Treasure】: Abi Sword (——), Escape Realm Shuttle (High-Grade Dharma Artifact), Moon Wheel Mirror (High-Grade Dharma Artifact), Five Qi Qiankun Circle (High-Grade Dharma Artifact), Purple Mi Treasure Robe (High-Grade Talisman Artifact), Zhan Yan Dharma Jade (Secret Treasure), Abyss Void Subduing Demon Sword Talisman (Secret Treasure), True Proclamation Heaven Disk (Secret Treasure), Cleansing Clear Condensation Seed (Secret Treasure)...

【Artifacts】: Gray River Water, Clear Ascension Elixir...

【True Scripture】: Divine House Pivot Splendor Daoist Lord's Discourse on the Tai Shi Origin True Scripture, Qilingzi's Personal Direct Transmission...

【Sword Dao】: Fifth Realm — Sword Qi Thunder Sound.

【Dao Practice】: Cave-Mystic Second Layer — Extracting Five Essences (Dou Technique Heavenly King Divine Sect Jade Book).

Chen Hang looked at the cultivation status reflected on the Golden Book.

After a long while, he loosened his fingers, letting the Golden Book dissipate like flowing clouds, and sighed in his heart.

Up to now, he had been cultivating in this Hongze Longevity Sin-Cleansing Fan Dongtian for a full thirty-two winters and summers.

For the first ten years, he had used all his heart and effort to harmonize the Yin and Yang Qi within his body, just to cast a "Dragon-Tiger Cauldron" and achieve the Cave-Mystic First Layer realm.

He had had little leisure time to spend elsewhere.

As for the following twenty-two years.

Because his Dao foundation was incomparably solid, and he had the True Yizhen Yizhen Fa Jie to constantly test and correct, finding the path of practice most suitable for his own constitution.

Although it had also taken quite some time for Chen Hang to cultivate to the Cave-Mystic Second Layer "Extracting Five Essences" realm.

It was still several notches faster than geniuses of the same realm!

And beyond his Dao practice.

Because all external medicines were generously supplied by the Long Gong, and the Fan Dongtian had ample time.

Chen Hang naturally took this opportunity to carefully sort through all the Daoist arts and secret methods he had learned in his life.

Now, Red Water, Qing Shen Lei, Scattered Scene Concealment Technique, Zhou Yuan Secret Book Turtle Divination, and the Jiugong Xuan-One Standard learned from a disciple of the Huzhao Sect had all reached the Great Completion realm.

Their power was at its peak, with no room for further progress!

The Tai Su Jade Body had also been pushed to the Origin Realm Third Layer thanks to the Nine Phoenix Divine Blood obtained from the Flowing Fire Macro-Transformation Fan Dongtian.

According to the records in the scriptures.

If there were no accidents, the Origin Realm Third Layer was enough to dominate the Cave-Mystic realm.

Unless one encountered a truly gifted talent.

Otherwise, relying solely on this physical body, it would be difficult to find any rivals in the Cave-Mystic realm!

As for the Sword Dao realm, although the opening time of the Formless Boundary Sword Cave was not controlled by the Fan Dongtian's time but synchronized with the present world, allowing entry for comprehension only once a month.

But thirty-two years in the Fan Dongtian.

Four years in the present world.

Calculated this way, there were forty-eight opportunities to enter the Sword Cave.

And Chen Hang had been cultivating until now, his aptitude and root bones having been washed and refined by his Dao foundation several times.

His Sword Dao had awakened its original true quality through repeated battles and fights, far from what it used to be.

The fact that he had realized the wonder of "Body and Sword as One" from Ding Hepu's inner scene world was proof of this!

Because of this, although he could not decide the layer he reached in the Sword Cave.

He had successfully cultivated the Sword Dao Fifth Realm and achieved the powerful means of "Sword Qi Thunder Sound"!

Realm, Dao methods, sword techniques, physical supernatural powers...

At this moment, Chen Hang withdrew from the True Yizhen Yizhen Fa Jie.

His gaze swept across the quiet room where he had stayed for thirty-two years, and he sighed slightly, a trace of emotion inevitably rising in his heart.

Raising his eyes to look, he saw walls of pink powder and mud, pillars decorated with patterned cypress, ornaments of glazed glass and agarwood, and gemstones like pearls—the real ones translucent and green—a scene of utter magnificence and splendor.

Although thirty-two years had passed, due to the restrictions, the room was quite clean.

Just as it was when he moved in, without a speck of dust.

And although thirty-two years in the Fan Dongtian was only four years in the present world.

The cold and heat, the day and night, were real and undeniable.

If it were an ordinary mortal, after thirty-two years, they would likely have exhausted their lifespan, be on the verge of death, or even have turned into a pile of decaying bones, no longer existing in the world.

Like this, only cultivators with Dao practice could bear it.

And the more magic power a great supernatural being has, the longer the years spent in a single retreat.

Often, after a single session of refining magic, the world would undergo the changes of seas turning into mulberry fields; things would remain but people would be gone, and the dynasties of the human world would have risen and fallen several times over.

Thinking of this, Chen Hang's obsession with pursuing the Great Dao of Longevity became even firmer, feeling his mind as if washed, swearing to transcend the mortal world, break free from the shackles of heaven and earth, and enjoy that unrestrained, eternal freedom!

And on this journey, there would inevitably be all kinds of dangers and twists.

Only by striving with all one's might could one fight for that one line of opportunity to achieve the Dao!

At this moment, after pacing the room for a few rounds.

Chen Hang slowly stopped, his mind made up to leave.

Although there were still a few months left before the Four Academies Competition at Mount Qiyun.

But since he had achieved success in his cultivation, further progress in realm and Dao methods would not be a matter of a single day or night.

Staying here any longer would be of no benefit; returning to Changying Academy early to participate in the Four Academies Competition was the right thing to do.

If any storms or twists were to arise on the road, missing the deadline for the competition would be a matter of eternal regret.

Not to mention that all previous efforts would be in vain, it would also delay his planning and greatly drag down his cultivation progress.

"Yuchen Mountain Gate, Xiaoming Great Marsh..."

Chen Hang sighed slightly in his heart:

"I wonder if this return trip will be smooth and without twists?"

And not long after.

East Sea, Long Gong.

After hearing the news that Chen Hang was about to bid farewell, in a jade garden, the gold-robed old man Ao Yan had made up his mind after pondering for a few rounds.

After giving instructions to the many servants standing on the steps, several young boys bowed and took orders, walking out of the garden.

Soon, a burst of footsteps came from far to near, accompanied by a loud laugh, saying:

"Grandfather, what is the matter with seeking me out today? Is there another war about to start, and do you need me to go to the front line to fight?"

"Ao Zhongdu, what kind of cultivation do you have, why are you still so combative? Day and night, your brain is full of fighting and killing, what kind of decorum is this!"

Ao Yan glanced at him, his voice scolding, but his face carried a kind smile:

"Why don't you come over quickly? I am seeking you out for an important matter!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 322 =====