by <unknown>
Only a handful of the whole Six Paths World was able to do something like that.
At the very least, Zhong Yue was only aware of three Qi Practitioners who had achieved it: Feng Xiaozhong, Chi Xue, and himself.
Among those three, Feng Xiaozhong was the strongest. The madman’s principle was to recreate the complete majesty of the Six Paths Reincarnation within his own body. His ideology was that if one was their own Six Paths Reincarnation, one would be able to reincarnate for eternity. And theoretically, as long as the Yuan Shen wasn’t destroyed, one would effectively become immortal.
“This Six Paths Fruit... it contains the mysteries of the Six Paths Reincarnation.” Chi Xue submerged her thoughts into the chants, and she could discern the abstrusities flowing in it. Her heart stiffened up, and she quickly said, “It feels like it has certain connections to the Six Paths Reincarnation inside our body!”
Zhong Yue then asked, “Does your Western Mother Empire have any records about this Six Paths Fruit?”
“None that I know of.”
Chi Xue shook her head, and she answered, “There wasn’t any Qi Practitioner that managed to obtain one before. Even if they did, there was simply no use of it for them. Without opening all six secret realms, one wouldn’t be able to gain much from its medicinal efficacies. It contains profound insights into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and thus, I think we should hold off on eating it for now.”
Zhong Yue nodded, if they consumed the divine fruit now without being fully prepared, they wouldn’t be able to fully enlighten themselves on the mysteries that were encapsulated in the Six Paths Fruit. If they couldn’t fully absorb the medicinal efficacies of the Six Paths Fruit, it would be a huge waste.
Thus, they needed to prepare themselves and find a place that was free of dangers, And with the help of many divine herbs which could strengthen their thoughts, psyche, and mortal body, they would then be able to eat it.
After all, this was a divine fruit from the king of divine herbs!
By then, I’ll have to take some parts off of the huge carrot and its friends! Zhong Yue looked at the huge carrot leading the way at the front as he thought this.
Husan Weng suddenly sneezed and shouted in anger, “Who is planning a scheme on me?”
Zhong Yue laughed behind the carrot and said, “Husan Weng, you are such a hero, who dares to scheme on you?”
…
After a few moments, Zhong Yue’s heart skipped a beat. There was a god’s corpse sitting unmovingly in the middle of a bush, staring at a divine flower in front of him.
Half of the god’s corpse was rotten, and its eyes were glimmering with rays, indicating that there was still a godly spirit in it. After all, after such a long time, it should be impossible for the soul to survive.
This meant that there was no soul but a spirit residing in the god’s corpse!
That godly corpse heard their footsteps as they drew nearer, and it raised its head to glance at them with a pair of emotionless eyes.
Immediately, Zhong Yue and the two girls could feel their body shuddering, their Yuan Shen froze, and their minds became vacant. Any sort of arcane energies and skill was frozen!
In their eyes, the god’s corpse was gigantic with many stars and planets revolving around it and the divine flower.
The god’s corpse then turned back to its usual state, staring back at the divine flower, It was then that Zhong Yue and the girls felt the pressure disperse and the specters disappear from their sights. They all heaved a breath of relief and quickly moved away from the god’s corpse.
“What is it? Is this god guarding the divine herb? Trying to eat it after the divine herb has matured?”
Along the way, they saw another few gods. Their dead bodies existed in many forms, but each and every one of them was guarding at a divine herb. Their souls were gone, but their spirits remained.
The danger persisted all over the Returning Ruins, even here, they had come across a huge creature’s skeletal frame. It wandered around the place and devoured every living being it encountered.
They also saw many coffins hanging in mid-air. The coffins were pitch-black, with one end connected to an ancient tree and the gravitational force pulling them vertically downward.
There was a nest of black crows living on the top of the ancient tree. As the crows saw the three outsiders, they let out a series of hoarse caws, and the dark coffins began to creak open. On one of the coffins, tendrils of hair reached out from inside and grabbed the coffin lid, trying to pull it open as black blood trickled out of it. It seemed like it was trying to come out.
Zhong Yue and the others quickly ran, they dashed away at an incredible speed and saved themselves from another dance with death.
They also met with a team of demon Qi Practitioners that numbered over ten people, walking on the top of the mountain ridge. Suddenly, as they walked, the flesh and muscles of their bodies seemed to spontaneously disintegrate while they continued walking onwards like skeletons, ostensibly oblivious to what just happened to them.
It was utterly bizarre, they were dead and were turned into skeletons, but were still walking forward. It felt like as if there was an evil force manipulating their action to bring them to the precipice before making them jump off of it.
It was unknown how deep their fall was, and when Zhong Yue focused his senses toward the bottom, he was never able to hear the sound of the skeletons hitting the bottom.
“It would be the Reincarnation Pool.” Husan Weng looked down at the bottomless hole and said, “An old divine herb once told me that there is a Reincarnation Pool in here. If one dropped into it, they wouldn’t die but reincarnate into one of those little babies and start over again. Hence, the Reincarnation Pool.”
Chi Xue heard the explanation, and she laughed, saying, “Makes me feel like jumping down to see what kind of interesting things I’ll find down there.”
They then reached the front of a herb garden and saw countless divine herbs growing in it, But the godly seals around the garden still operated. These godly seals have surrounded the herb garden. This would most probably be a garden created by one of those ancient existences of the imperial court.
The divine herbs in there lived and died over countless generations, with each generation making the soil better for the next. When the divine herbs died of age, they would turn into the best fertilizer. Year after year, even these soils were imbued with a divine air!
Even the soils alone qualified to be divine herbs superior to ordinary divine herbs!
Zhong Yue and the others, including Husan Weng, nearly couldn’t help themselves. They wanted to be soaked in the godly soils so much, but the corpses and shattered weapons around the garden gave them a warning to not do it.
The corpses around numbered in hundreds, clearly telling them that before their arrivals, there were many predecessors that have been here, tried to collect the divine herbs for their own but were killed by the godly seals instead. Even their divine weapons were crushed by the seals!
If Xin Huo is still awake, he might be able to break the seals. I wonder just what level these seals are at…
With Zhong Yue’s current cultivation base and Xin Huo’s knowledge, they were capable of fully breaking the lord-level godly seals but would struggle if it were the emperor-level godly seals.
As for how strong the seals around the herb garden were, and whether it would be stronger than emperor-level godly seals, even Zhong Yue wasn’t sure about it.
When they were leaving, Husan Weng turned back every three steps it took. It was clear that it was unwilling to leave, but there was no choice at all. Zhong Yue then comforted it from the side, “Husan Weng, don’t worry. I will find you better soil in the future, better than this one!”
Husan Weng wiped the tears off its eyes and said, “Promise?”
“Promise!”
…
There were still the other Qi Practitioners in the Heaven Garden, some were the celestial experts from
Kun Lun while some the demons from A’thoer. They were all strong and powerful, but when situated in a place like this, not a single one of them had engaged in a battle.
After all, those that managed to reach this stage were the cream of the crop; their cultivation and prowess were not much different, and it would be unwise to be entangled in battles among one another.
Furthermore, without reaching the Peaches of Immortality, there was really no need to fight. However, in turn, quite a number of them had chosen to join hands to cross the dangers together.
Zhong Yue has noticed that these Qi Practitioners walked in different sized teams; some were made up of as few as seven people, while others had 50 people. These teams were led by the strongest experts, a fact that drew Zhong Yue’s. He then mumbled inquisitively, “Magnates like them don’t need to have so many Qi Practitioners around them as they would be nothing but burdens. So why are they still bringing so many weaker Qi Practitioners around them?”
“Sacrificial objects, these Qi Practitioners are only meant for one thing, to be sacrificed.” Chi Xue explained, “The Peach Garden is an evil place, it requires blood to open a temporary path for them to go past the seals. On the surface, it is a cooperative relationship between the Qi Practitioners and the magnates, but in actual fact, the magnates are just planning to sacrifice them to open a temporary path. This is also why Feng Zhishan brought so many Qi Practitioners together with him. This is a secret that only the higher-ups of the Kun Lun and A’thoer gods know about.”
Zhong Yue’s heart clench in alertness, while at the same time, he felt guilt and pity for the Qi Practitioners that were fated to be misled.
The Peaches of Immortality were limited in number, they were the divine herbs only the higher-up gods could have enjoyed. Even in such a dangerous place like Returning Ruins, which looked as though it was fair for all, the inherent inequity of life still prevailed.
The higher-ups held the best and most valuable resources, they had more means and better ways to search for the Peaches of Immortality for themselves. While those lower gods who thought they might have a chance were, in fact, tools for the higher-up gods.
“The Peach Garden!”
Suddenly, Husan Weng shouted, it was thrilled and excited, “That’s where those arrogant brats threw me out of the last time I came!”
Zhong Yue, Chi Xue and Ying Nu heard the huge carrot and were excited. They quickly climbed to the top of a mountain, and as they looked over, their bodies violently shuddered.
They saw a palm mark, huge beyond imagination!
The palm mark covered miles and miles of distance. It seemed to be what had crushed the indestructible godly mountain and eradicated the divine palaces. There were only finger-like marks extruding out from the ground, so tall that they were piercing into the cloud layer!
Five mountains of fingers!
Zhong Yue frowned, he slammed his hand on the sands and a palm mark was left on the ground, but it was nothing close to what was presented in front of them.
The palm mark in front of them had five mountains extruding high from the ground, resembling five fingers!
That evil existence, how… how can a palm mark be like that? He… it seemed like he has….
Zhong Yue’s face had a strange expression, and he pierced his hand into the sand and flipped his palm up to the sky while slowly moving his hand up. His fingers then started to extrude out from the ground and looked the same as the mountains. He mumbled, Yes, yes, just like this. That evil existence has … severed his hand and planted it in the Returning Ruins! But … why, why is he doing that?
Chapter 456: 【Celestial Demon Nine Revolving Worshipping Art】 |
The mountains and his fingers all looked exactly the same.
However, the mountains were way too huge they would have to be calculated in distances of thousands in miles.
Zhong Yue had seen Bo Xun’s head that was even mistaken for a great mountain. He had also seen the huge heart of the Bi Xie Celestial Emperor buried deep in the forbidden land underground of Swords Gate.
But these five finger mountains were even bigger than them. Zhong Yue hadn’t the slightest clue Zhong Yue as to how strong the evil existence to be able to do something like this.
Why, why did that evil existence cut its hand and bury it here?
A horrible shriek sounded out, and he looked over toward it. He saw a Qi Practitioner, walking into a wave of black smoke as a demon and walking out as a bony skeleton with not a single drop of blood left on it.
The curse….
Zhong Yue looked at the black, and his hair stood up like bristles. Due to the curse targeting the Fuxi Celestial Race, he – who had awakened 20 percent of his Fuxi bloodline – felt his body tingling, as if warning him about the danger around him.
Deadly lack smoke rose beneath the five finger mountains, and he saw many thick metal chains crawling on the five finger mountains.
Is that the evil existence’s totem patterns?
A thought flashed across Zhong Yue’s heart, but the metal chains were too abstruse for him to even get anything out from them. This was because his current knowledge still limited him to reading only the simplest part of the totem patterns.
“I’ve heard that there is also an ancient stone tablet in the Peach Garden, they say it’s crimson red, soaked in blood that never seemed to dry off.” Chi Xue suddenly said, “There are words engraved on it, but most of them have been blurred over time. Although, there are some that are still very clear. Hmm, it says… Fuxi … nevermore to return…”
Zhong Yue’s made sure that his face didn’t betray the raging storm in his heart. That evil existence laid down the curse, condemning every newborn Fuxi from then on. Not only that, but it even raised a stone tablet to gloat?
“I’ve also seen it.”
Husan Weng then said, “Just right in the Peach Garden between the five mountains. More words were legible in the past, but now… just a few of them.”
Zhong Yue’s calm voice masked the anger billowing beneath it as he said, “Let’s have a look then.”
Husan Weng led the way as they walked toward the Peach Garden in the middle of the five finger mountains. The Peach Garden was surrounded by the mountains, without going close enough, one wouldn’t be able to see it.
But the mountains were way too big, they covered a great distance of land, and even starting their journey from the foot of the mountains, it would still take them dozens of days to reach the Peach Garden.
“Chi Xue, how do the Qi Practitioners cultivate the Inner Core level to the extreme state? How do you utilize the force of heaven and earth to form the Avatar?” Seeing that they have many days of work ahead of them, Zhong Yue seized the chance to humbly ask Chi Xue.
“Cultivate the Inner Core to the extremity…?” Chi Xue startled for a split second, she then exclaimed in shock, “What? You haven’t already done so, how are you still so strong then?”
“Well… I did cultivate my Awakening and Atman Body level to the extreme state.” Zhong Yue explained, “I’ve reverse-opened the five secret realms and also opened the Bloodline Secret Realm. And while I was in the Atman Body stage, I cultivated my Yuan Shen to 360 feet tall.”
Chi Xue stared at him blankly, only being able to regain her composure after a few moments. She shook her head and said, “What a guy… reverse-opening the five secret realms and opening the sixth secret realm. Succeeding in either one of those things is a remarkable achievement in and of itself. Yet, you did both. In that case, breaking through the Yuan Shen’s limit of 200 feet is natural, but shouldn’t cultivating the Inner Core level to the extreme state be fairly simple to you as well? Why is it that… Oh, I forgot, the Ancestral Star’s cultivation heritage is incomplete, there are no recordings left regarding this.”
Zhong Yue nodded with a smile, “That’s why I can only rely on you to answer my questions.”
Chi Xue then replied, “For Qi Practitioners, there is an extreme state for each leve
l, such as the cultivation of the lightning pool psyche ocean for the Spirit Nurturing level.
“The achievement of the Yuan Shen’s three forms indicates the extreme state for the Rebirth level. But the Awakening level is a little more unique, there are two extreme states, one being the reverse-opening of secret realms, with the other being the opening of the sixth secret realm. As for Atman Body, it is to break through the Yuan Shen limit of 200 feet. The extreme state for the Inner Core level you are asking about… is referred to as the Nine Revolving Inner Core.”
“Nine Revolving Inner Core? How does one achieve that?”
Chi Xue then answered, “Nine Revolving Inner Core, each revolution indicates a cycle of reincarnation for the inner core, and each revolution remakes the core to become stronger than before. After nine revolutions, the inner core will be at least twice as strong as it was before.
“The reincarnations of inner core work on the basis of destruction and rebirth. The inner core is broken down and reformed stronger than before with each iteration. However, this is very dangerous. There is a risk that the inner core breaks down but never reforms again. In that case, your best outcome would be managing to keep half of your previous strength, but that’s not too great either, is it?
“However, if you complete the nine revolutions, when the inner core is formed again for the tenth time, it will have reached the extremity. As for how to do it, each race and clan has their own methods. The Phoenix race has the【Nirvana Art】, while my Western Mother Celestial Race uses the【Golden Mother’s Embracement Art】. Both are consummate arts in Kun Lun. I’ll teach them to you now, and you can have a look at it.”
Her psyche then flowed out and imparted the two arts to Zhong Yue. “In fact, the spirits themselves also contain their own respective arts. If you can fully synergize with your spirit, you will be able to find the best way to reincarnate your inner core. But I thought that with the【Nirvana Art】and【Golden Mother Embracement Art】as references, you will be able to find your way quicker.”
