Chapter 663: Jin Dan Sixth Layer, Tai Xu Sect (Seeking Monthly Votes)

This old man was the only doctor in the village. Upon hearing his words, Wang Qin hurriedly stopped his hands and placed his gaze on the other party.

"Old Lu, please help look again. Uncle Zhang Er just fell from the haystack and didn't hit his head. Why is he dying so quickly?"

The old doctor, hearing this, sighed and shook his head: "I have already looked just now; the heart pulse has been damaged, and the person is indeed not going to make it."

"Sigh! I'm afraid it will be very difficult for Old Zhang to hold on tonight. It's better not to move him yet. Wait for Jiwa and the others to come and see him one last time, then carry him back!"

"Wang Qin, I know you are sad, but there is no other way right now; we can only leave it to fate. I will go back and get some medicine. You hurry and find a wooden board, remember to pad it with two quilts, and prepare to carry him back later."

"Old Liang, don't all crowd here. If Jiwa doesn't come back, I'm afraid he won't even be able to see him for the last time. Hurry and find him!"

After the old doctor gave a few instructions, the people at the scene also moved immediately, each busy with their own tasks.

Although "Yanhu Village" is a small village with mixed surnames, the people in the village are still relatively united. Seeing that something happened here, quite a few people dropped the work in the fields and rushed here to help.

Although he had been standing on the side without speaking, Song Qingming, relying on his spiritual sense to investigate, had already seen that Uncle Zhang Er, who was lying on the ground, was breathing weakly and could not hold on for too long.

Song Qingming also had some elixirs on his person that could treat mortals. Although there was no way to help the other party come back to life and recover immediately, it was doable to help the other party treat the injuries on his body and delay his lifespan for a period of time.

It was just that he had already promised Zheng Xingyun before that he could not use the abilities of a cultivator to interfere in the lives of these mortals. This made it difficult for Song Qingming to choose for a time.

The mortals around him, including Wang Qin, who had a relatively good relationship with Song Qingming, did not seem to have the idea of asking the Immortal Master for help in the face of such a situation.

Even seeing Song Qingming standing on the side, the people coming and going did not ask him a single question, letting him step forward to help look at the situation, seemingly not wanting Song Qingming to come out and intervene in this matter.

Just as Song Qingming was standing in place thinking about this matter, a teenager of seventeen or eighteen years old ran over upon hearing the sound, threw himself beside Uncle Zhang Er, who was lying on the ground, and called his father's name with sadness.

Seeing this scene, Song Qingming shook his head lightly with a trace of helplessness, then turned and left here decisively, not intervening in the matter before his eyes again.

The next day, just as the morning sun rose in the east, Song Qingming pushed open the door and walked out of his house through a trace of mist.

Uncle Zhang Er, who fell from a haystack more than a zhang high, although he saw his family before he died, eventually did not hold on through last night and let go of his last breath in the world.

Someone in the village passed away, and the entire "Yanhu Village" also fell into a piece of sorrow. Everyone was busy preparing for the funeral of the departed elder.

After hearing about Uncle Zhang Er's matter, some of those who had a relatively good relationship with him in the nearby villages in the valley also traveled hard to "Yanhu Village" to help.

After a farewell ceremony that lasted for several days, Uncle Zhang Er was finally sent up the mountain by everyone and buried on a small mountain ridge beside "Yanhu Village."

During the entire process of seeing Uncle Zhang Er off, although Song Qingming did not help much, he participated in the whole process.

Along the way, he was always calm, watching the things happening before his eyes, observing the emotional changes of everyone like a bystander, and experiencing the sorrow and regret in their hearts.

After finally seeing the elder off, Song Qingming did not choose to follow the crowd back to the village, but found a secluded place near that small mountain and took out magic tools to open up a simple cave dwelling.

After arranging a magic array outside this cave dwelling, Song Qingming walked in directly, activated the array outside, and began his seclusion cultivation. — Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, more than half a year has passed.

On this day, a burst of five-colored glow suddenly appeared on the mountain ridge behind "Yanhu Village," but it soon disappeared again.

Wang Fengzhi, who was turning over stones to look for fish and shrimp with a few little friends by the river, happened to look up and see this scene, and hurriedly ran to his mother who was washing clothes upstream and shouted loudly:

"Mother! Look at the mountain quickly, is that the Immortal Master back!"

Wang Qin's wife, hearing this, turned around and looked at the glow on the back mountain. A trace of surprise first appeared on her face, but she quickly returned to calm and nodded with a smile:

"Mm! Maybe. Don't play with water here, hurry and help me take this back, your grandmother is still in a hurry to use it!"

After speaking, Wang Qin's wife picked up a bamboo-woven basket beside her, handed it to her son, and sent him away quickly, not caring about any immortal matters.

Watching Wang Fengzhi still looking at the glow on the mountain not far away and leaving with reluctance, Wang Qin's wife shook her head lightly and sighed.

"It's not so easy for an immortal to live a lifetime, what's there to envy!"

In a bamboo forest behind "Yanhu Village,"

After the glow ended, a flash of spiritual light passed, and Song Qingming, dressed in coarse cloth with a trace of joy on his face, appeared out of thin air in the bamboo forest.

After half a year of seclusion, the momentum on Song Qingming's body also had a brand-new change, successfully breaking through the bottleneck of the fifth layer of the Jin Dan stage and advancing to the sixth layer of the Jin Dan stage.

Before this seclusion, Song Qingming's cultivation had already successfully cultivated to the peak of the fifth layer of the Jin Dan stage, and the distance to breaking through the cultivation bottleneck was not far.

After experiencing Uncle Zhang Er's death and attending his funeral, Song Qingming, who was about to return to "Yanhu Village," did not expect that his state of mind would suddenly have an epiphany on the way, touching his cultivation bottleneck.

Seeing this, in order not to disturb the mortal life of "Yanhu Village," Song Qingming left the crowd alone, found a place near the mountain where the spiritual energy was slightly denser, opened up a cave dwelling, and began his seclusion to try to break through his own cultivation.

In the valley where "Yanhu Village" is located, the spiritual energy has reached about the third-grade mid-quality. Song Qingming breaking through the realm here is also enough spiritual energy.

Unexpectedly, this seclusion was also very smooth. Song Qingming did not take any elixirs to assist in breaking through the bottleneck and successfully broke through the obstacles, raising his cultivation to the sixth layer of the Jin Dan stage, which truly made him feel joyful in his heart at this moment.

"Haven't seen you for more than half a year, congratulations, Junior Brother Song, your cultivation has improved again." Just as Song Qingming was still full of joy, Zheng Xingyun's voice had already entered his ears from the side.

Song Qingming turned around and saw that this Senior Brother, whom he hadn't seen for more than half a year, had appeared not far beside him at some point. He hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to him.

"Experiencing mortal life here for so long has indeed benefited me a lot and gained quite a few new insights. This is all thanks to Senior Brother Zheng's guidance to this junior."

Before Song Qingming's seclusion, Zheng Xingyun happened to have something to do and returned to the mountain, so he was not in "Yanhu Village" at that time. Song Qingming's seclusion and breakthrough here were actually something he only knew about after returning to the village later.

Zheng Xingyun, with a calm face, nodded slightly to Song Qingming and said: "Junior Brother Song, being able to gain so many insights from mortal life so quickly and being able to break through the cultivation bottleneck with this is indeed a very rare thing."

"The birth, aging, sickness, and death of mortals are the will of the Heavenly Dao and cannot be easily violated. Even if we cultivators have the ability to move mountains and fill seas in this world, we cannot make changes to their fate that violate the Heavenly Dao."

"In their lifetime from birth to death, they will also experience many things that are difficult for us as practitioners to touch. When you truly experience these, your insights into all things in this world will also be different from the past."

"Among the people who have come to the island over the years, there are many who have better talent than you. However, in terms of insights in this area, indeed not many people can do better than you. You don't need to be humble with me about this point."

"Qingming, thank you, Senior Brother, for your teachings!"

After hearing Zheng Xingyun's explanation, Song Qingming immediately understood why he had always wanted to remind himself not to use his cultivation abilities to interfere in the lives of the mortals around him.

When Song Qingming's cultivation was still low years ago, he also experienced the death of his parents and relatives down the mountain. But at that time, he had been separated from mortal life for a long time. Although he was also very sad inside, he could not gain too many insights from it.

The reason he gained something this time was also because half a year of mortal life allowed him to substitute himself into ordinary mortals, deeply experiencing the sorrow, reluctance, and regret in their hearts... This suddenly gave him this cultivation insight.

Since he was a child, Song Qingming had heard of many high-tier cultivators in the cultivation world who would often disguise themselves as low-tier cultivators or mortals when traveling to experience different lives. At that time, he did not understand the deep meaning in this.

It was not until he experienced so much himself this time and gained insights into his cultivation that Song Qingming finally understood why those seniors would abnormally do these things of "escaping into the red dust."

Although Song Qingming's aptitude is not very outstanding, Zheng Xingyun still likes his character of understanding at once, smiled and waved his hand, and said again: "Having been here for so long, you must also be very strange. We are all high-tier cultivators with successful cultivation, why does Master still want us to come here often to experience the life of ordinary mortals."

"These are actually mainly related to the cultivation techniques we practice. However, Master is in a hurry to see you right now, so I won't explain too much to you here. If you have anything to say, just ask him in person!"

"Senior Brother Zheng, you said that Senior has already left seclusion and wants to see me now?"

Hearing Zheng Xingyun's words, Song Qingming felt joy in his heart instantly and asked for confirmation nervously. Only after the other party nodded in response did he set his mind at ease.

Having been in the valley for a year, he was finally able to see the senior who passed him the "Jade Profound Scripture" technique. After learning this news from Zheng Xingyun, Song Qingming was also excited in his heart, and for a time, he didn't know what to say.

"Master actually left seclusion a few months ago, but it was a coincidence that you happened to be in seclusion breaking through your cultivation. For fear of disturbing you, I didn't inform you in advance."

"He is on the mountain now; I will take you there now!" Zheng Xingyun finished speaking, waved his hand, summoned a cyan flying boat, and stepped onto it first. Seeing this, Song Qingming also moved his figure and jumped onto the flying boat. Not long after, the cyan light around the flying boat lit up, and Song Qingming and Zheng Xingyun disappeared in place as spiritual light.

After leaving "Yanhu Village," the flying boat controlled by Zheng Xingyun crossed the mountain-protecting array around the valley and flew straight up to the empty island above.

Just when Song Qingming was a bit confused in his heart, after the flying boat passed through a white cloud in mid-air, a huge mountain peak suspended in the ten-thousand-zhang high sky suddenly appeared before the two.

On the mountain peak stood several pavilions and towers, and from time to time, there were bursts of white clouds drifting by, a scene of an immortal holy land that made people yearn for it.

After arriving near here, Song Qingming also felt that the spiritual energy above was clearly much denser than the spiritual energy on the island below. The mountain peak before his eyes should at least have a spirit vein above the fourth grade.

Unexpectedly, the sect gate of the "Tai Xu Sect" was actually suspended above the entire island using a magic array. No wonder Song Qingming did not find any mountain-protecting arrays or the like on the high mountains around the island before landing on the island.

Seeing this unbelievable scene before his eyes, a look of shock immediately appeared on Song Qingming's entire face.

"Junior Brother Song, there is a special great array guarding the mountain. If ordinary people do not have the guidance of our sect's cultivators, even a Nascent Soul cultivator would find it very difficult to find this place."

"After meeting Master later, let him impart to you a set of magic formulas for entering and exiting the array, and you will be able to come and go on the mountain freely in the future."

"Thank you, Senior Brother Zheng, for the reminder!" Hearing the guidance of Zheng Xingyun beside him, Song Qingming hurriedly cupped his hands and thanked him.

After the two stood on the flying boat and talked for a few sentences, they had already arrived at a flat ground on the west side of the mountain peak.

Just as Zheng Xingyun put away the flying boat beside him, a streak of light suddenly flew over from a stone pavilion not far away, and a man in white with a cultivation of only the third layer of the Jin Dan stage appeared before the two quickly and bowed slightly to them.

"Fourth Senior Brother, Master asked me to pick him up!"

Seeing the person who came, Zheng Xingyun responded to the other party slightly, then turned to Song Qingming beside him and said: "This is Junior Brother Liu Yang. You go with him to see Master. I still have some work to do down the mountain, so I will go back first!"

After speaking, Zheng Xingyun did not wait for Song Qingming to respond and disappeared in place as a streak of light while riding the flying boat again.

Song Qingming, seeing this, nodded with a smile and immediately turned to bow to the white-clothed cultivator beside him.

"Then I will trouble Senior Brother Liu!"

Although the other party's cultivation was a bit lower than his and his age did not seem to be older than his, the seniority among fellow sect members in the cultivation world is all arranged according to who entered the sect first. Since Song Qingming had arrived here, he could only call the other party Senior Brother first.

Liu Yang, with a delicate face, looked at Song Qingming and hurriedly responded with a smile: "Junior Brother Song is too formal, come with me quickly!"

Liu Yang finished speaking and led Song Qingming to walk toward the stone pavilion. The two walked along the stone steps on the mountain road for about half a mile and soon arrived in front of a mountain wall.

After arriving here, Liu Yang waved his hand and released a purple sound transmission spirit talisman, which went directly into the mountain wall. A moment later, the mountain wall before the two changed, revealing the gate of a cave dwelling.

"Junior Brother Song, Master is waiting for you inside, you go in by yourself, I have something to do and will go busy first!" Liu Yang finished speaking and did not care about Song Qingming before his eyes, turning around and leaving along the original path.

Song Qingming, standing in place, tidied up the somewhat old coarse cloth outer garment on his body slightly. Seeing that there was nothing inappropriate, he stepped lightly into the cave dwelling.

After coming to the "Tai Xu Sect," although whether it was Zheng Xingyun or the Liu Yang he had just met, the feeling they gave Song Qingming seemed to be very casual, without the rules common to cultivators of other large sects.

However, along the way, Song Qingming was still very careful, trying his best to make himself appear steady and not leave a bad impression on the other party.

Just after walking into this cave dwelling, a middle-aged man with an elegant appearance appeared before Song Qingming's eyes, sitting on a futon in the middle of the cave dwelling, looking at him with a smile.

This middle-aged man was also dressed in coarse old clothes like Song Qingming, holding a bamboo slip that had just been put away in his hand, and was precisely the "Guiyun Marketplace" shopkeeper who had dealt with Song Qingming years ago.

Song Qingming's cultivation had already reached the sixth layer of the Jin Dan stage. Seeing an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator like Zheng Xingyun, he could still quickly see the other party's cultivation.

However, when Song Qingming's spiritual sense investigated near the middle-aged man before his eyes, it was like a clay ox entering the sea, instantly losing its trace, and it was completely impossible to see what the other party's true cultivation was.

The appearance of this situation was enough to prove that the person before his eyes was either a great cultivator at the late stage of the Nascent Soul or precisely a Soul Transformation cultivator in the legends of the cultivation world.

"This junior Song Qingming, greets Senior!"

Seeing Song Qingming bowing respectfully toward him, the middle-aged man nodded slightly, then got up and walked to a stone table on the side, and beckoned to him again.

"What are you still standing there stupidly for? Hurry and come over and sit!"

Hearing the other party's instructions, Song Qingming was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly walked over quickly and sat on the stone stool beside the table according to the other party's instructions.

Seeing the birds singing in the immortal mountains outside just now, Song Qingming thought that the cave dwelling where this senior lived must also be a place of splendor.

After sitting down and sweeping a glance at the surroundings of the cave dwelling, what surprised Song Qingming was that this cave dwelling was as simple as the mortal village courtyard where they lived down the mountain.

Apart from a pile of books, there was not a single thing that looked relatively precious in the entire cave dwelling, and even the tea cup on the table was an ordinary utensil fired by mortals.

Knowing that Song Qingming was coming, the middle-aged man had already boiled a pot of water by the table. After boiling this pot of hot water, the middle-aged man suddenly asked Song Qingming again: "You should have brought spirit tea on your body, the kind produced in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range, hurry and take it out!"

"Ah... yes!" Hearing the other party's question, Song Qingming was slightly stunned for a moment before reacting, hurriedly took out two bags of spirit tea he had stored on his body from the storage magic tool.

Then Song Qingming took the initiative to take the teapot from the middle-aged man's hand, helped him brew a pot of spirit tea, and carefully sent it before him.

"Mm! Your craftsmanship is not bad. The taste of this spirit tea is about the same as what I drank two hundred years ago!" The middle-aged man picked up the tea cup on the table, smelled the taste, and then sipped it lightly by his mouth.

"If Senior likes the spirit tea from our side, I still have some more here!"

Seeing the focused look on the other party's face when tasting tea, who seemed to be a person who liked to eat and drink like himself, Song Qingming immediately understood and took the initiative to take out all the remaining spirit tea he had brought from home and piled it on the table.

"Hehe! Since you are so generous, then this old man will not be polite with you. I will accept these things first, and when I think of what you need later, I will return the favor to you!"

Seeing the big pile of spirit tea on the table, the middle-aged man nodded with surprise, did not be polite with Song Qingming, and waved his hand to collect them all.

After collecting the spirit tea on the table, the middle-aged man suddenly changed his face, put away his previous casual appearance, and the look he looked at Song Qingming also began to become a bit serious.

"Separated by such a long distance, I thought you wouldn't be able to find this place. It seems that those with destiny are destined to be guided by the Heavenly Dao in the dark. Even if I didn't leave you clues at the beginning, I'm afraid we would still have a day to meet."

"Mm... Senior is right. This junior being able to find this place is indeed also favored by heaven, otherwise I'm afraid it would have taken quite a bit more time to see Senior again."

Hearing the other party say this, although Song Qingming agreed on his mouth, he felt a bit helpless in his heart.

The clues the other party left him at the beginning were too vague, making him unable to investigate at all for a time. If it weren't for the later reminder from Mo Laoguai to come to the "Donghuang Kingdom" cultivation world to investigate, I'm afraid Song Qingming truly didn't know how long it would take to find this place.

If this guy could have left an accurate location at the beginning, even if he told him that these two places were in the Nanzhou territory of the "Donghuang Kingdom," Song Qingming wouldn't have been so confused along the way for so long.

"The Tai Xu Sword I passed to you should still be on you!"

"Mm! It is, but this junior accidentally broke it when refining this sword years ago."

Hearing the other party ask about the "Tai Xu Sword," Song Qingming felt a bit helpless on his face, rummaged through the storage bag on his body, and found the broken top-quality flying sword that the middle-aged man gave him years ago.

When he bought this flying sword years ago, he didn't know at all that they had left a cultivation technique inheritance inside. He didn't expect to break this sword when refining it, and accidentally obtained the inheritance of the "Jade Profound Scripture" inside.

Looking at the short sword on the table, the middle-aged man shook his head slightly and said: "No matter! This sword was originally used to carry the inheritance, and breaking it won't affect anything."

After waving his hand to collect the short sword on the table, the middle-aged man introduced again: "Before you went up the mountain, Xingyun had already introduced you to our Tai Xu Sect. I think you should also be clear about some things."

"This old man's Dao name is Lingxu Daoist, and I am the current Sect Master of the Tai Xu Sect. The Jade Profound Scripture you practice is precisely a cultivation technique inheritance left behind by a predecessor of this sect." (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 664 =====