Longevity and Immortal Cultivation: Starting from Controlling Your Own Essence

The main hall of the Taoist Palace.

The sudden shocking change took everyone by surprise.

"what happened?!"

Ancestor Mingyuan had a frightened and angry look on his face, and a black light rose faintly behind him, as if something was about to come out of his womb.

Before he had time to think about it, he forcibly suppressed his instinctive mana, and the energy in his body collided and counterattacked, and he couldn't help snorting again, with blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth.

"Master!!"

Master Heiyuan stood up abruptly, lost his composure in panic, and hurried forward:

"What's wrong with you?"

"Buzz!"

Zhang Yao quickly reacted, and while frowning, the tyrannical and majestic divine sense was released with all its strength immediately, sweeping around the Dao Palace.

"What a tyrannical divine sense!"

The remaining few Golden Core cultivators, aware of the sweeping divine thoughts, felt awe-inspiring, and at the same time, they all came out with divine thoughts:

"what happened?"

"Could it be that someone secretly attacked?!"

When the thoughts of many Jindan monks flickered, five or six spiritual thoughts shot the inside and outside of the Taoist palace, but found no clues.

There was no sign of monks hiding, not even traces of mana, and the "inexplicable attack" that ancestor Mingyuan suffered just now seemed to have never existed at all.

"this……"

Patriarch Jiuhua was a little uncertain, and signaled to Zhang Yao with his eyes.

He was a little suspicious, whether the means of the hidden person were too ingenious to be detected by his divine sense.

Zhang Yao noticed the look in his eyes, and immediately shook his head slightly—obviously, like these monks at the early stage of Jindan, he didn't notice anything.

"Hoo, hoo..."

The Patriarch Mingyuan on the main seat, after taking two deep breaths, wiped off the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said:

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

He said, got up and bowed to everyone, apologizing:

"Just now, there was a small mistake in my performance. It was not because of someone's secret murder, but it disturbed the master. I am really sorry."

Many Jindan monks heard the words, but naturally they dared not speak up. After the two sides exchanged a few words of courtesy, the matter was considered to be over.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Patriarch Mingyuan's state is not right just now, but since he didn't intend to reveal it, everyone will naturally be wise enough not to break the casserole and ask the bottom line.

"Master..."

Only Master Heiyuan still had a hint of deep worry in his eyes, but after all, the occasion was different, so he suppressed the worry in his heart and did not speak again.

soon:

The patriarch Mingyuan, who had recovered his original expression, continued to discuss some details of the distribution of benefits with everyone.

After the discussion was almost done, the ancestor Mingyuan took the lead, and everyone signed a legal contract together, which was regarded as a formal alliance.

The content of the legal contract is very loose. Apart from the distribution consensus reached just now, the main thing is that under the abyss, they cannot attack each other, and they must help each other within their ability, and so on.

The binding period of this deed only lasts during the exploration of Moyuan, and it will automatically expire once you leave Moyuan.

After the deed was signed, everyone's expressions became much more relaxed, and they held a small ceremony banquet for a long time before dispersing.

After returning to my room:

"puff……"

The ancestor Mingyuan couldn't hold on any longer, and suddenly fell to his knees, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

The blood he spewed was as black as ink, and its shape and texture were like mud and paste, which could not be melted even if it was spread on the ground.

"Who could it be..."

Patriarch Ming Yuan slowly got up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with a gloomy face, and waved his sleeve:

"boom!"

A black yin fire ignited on the ground, igniting the slushy blood, which burned quickly and cleanly, leaving no smell or trace.

He came to the cloud bed in the dormitory and sat down cross-legged, frowning, deep in thought:

"I guessed back then that I should not be the only one who could escape from that ghostly place by chance."

"I didn't expect that this time I actually bumped into each other, because the distance was too close and caused a reaction, 'he' should have noticed it too..."

Patriarch Mingyuan thought of this, and his expression became more and more gloomy.

"Master!"

Outside the room, the isolation formation was touched by a divine thought, and the voice of Master Heiyuan came:

"Are you all right?"

Ancestor Mingyuan raised his eyebrows, and when he heard the worry in his disciple's tone, his expression eased a little, and his divine sense responded:

"I'm fine, you can rest assured."

As he said that, he paused for a moment, and then exhorted:

"The eruption of the Kuroshio is imminent, practice hard and don't slack off, maybe this time is your fate."

"If you can find suitable rare treasures and spiritual objects, and cultivate a golden core disciple, you can also go to Tianzhou with me."

"...Yes, Master."

Master Heiyuan was silent for a moment, then responded respectfully, turned and left.

at the same time:

In the quiet room, Zhang Yao sat cross-legged, still thinking about the scene just now.

"This Patriarch Mingyuan, something is wrong..."

Just at that moment:

Although the change was between the elbows and armpits, he still noticed that there was something vaguely about to break free from the body of the ancestor Mingyuan.

The most important thing is that the aura rising out along with the black light gave him an extremely faint familiar taste.

He didn't have time to think about it carefully, the feeling had already passed away, and it wasn't until after the Fa conference was over and he returned to his room that he could calm down and review the previous details and clues.

"This feeling……"

Zhang Yao thought about it carefully, then suddenly thought of something, and suddenly realized:

"Dirty air!!"

"The extremely thin aura on Patriarch Ming Yuan's body is very similar to turbid air!"

He has been in the Mani Kingdom for nearly twenty years, killing the turbid air day and night, and he is very familiar with the turbid air of the earth.

But the turbidity on the ancestor Mingyuan's body seemed to be a little different from what he knew, and there were some subtle changes in the details, which caused him to fail to recognize it at the first time.

"That's interesting... How could he have turbidity on his body? Could it be that he is a demon cultivator?"

Thoughts surged in Zhang Yao's mind, and he kept guessing.

It's not impossible that the Liyuan faction is a demon cultivator, but the possibility is really unlikely.

After all, he is a demon cultivator, no matter how strong his cover-up methods are, it is really inconceivable for him to establish a sect openly and even go to the Nine Mansions of Tianzhou.

But among the thousands of cultivation methods in the world, only the magic cultivator can use the turbid qi. If the ancestor of Mingyuan was not a magic cultivator, what would it be?

"It seems that he has a lot of secrets."

Zhang Yao thought for a moment, but he didn't have any clue.

"It's better to find a chance and ask a few questions from the side tapping..."

In his mind, such an idea burst out.

It stands to reason that all the strong people who can cultivate to the late stage of Jindan are those who are full of talent, understanding, resources and opportunities. It is normal to have secrets.

As long as the Nether Ancestor doesn't spoil his affairs and doesn't prevent him from seizing the Infernal Yin Soil, Zhang Yao doesn't bother to care so much.

But at this juncture, everyone signed a deed to form an alliance. If this incident caused unexpected troubles, then Zhang Yao had to make plans early.

"It's really going to be a critical time. If the big deal is to tear up the deed, we can't let him lead us by the nose!"

In Zhang Yao's heart, he had already prepared for the worst.

The binding force of something like a legal deed also depends on the specific level. The legal deeds produced by the ancestor Mingyuan are just high-end goods and do not have too strong binding force.

The binding force of this low-level legal deed is stronger than the illusory Dao Xin oath.

The backlash suffered by violating the legal contract is enough to cause serious damage to ordinary Jindan monks, but to Zhang Yao, it is just sprinkled water, he doesn't care at all, otherwise he would not sign it readily.

…………

The Kuroshio is about to erupt, and every day passes slowly.

Since the formation of the alliance, all the Golden Core cultivators have practiced together in the Dao Palace, often exchanging practice experience, talking about the world, and maintaining a good relationship.

With the style of the ancestor Mingyuan, he doesn't think much of the other Jindan monks, but he still treats Zhang Yao differently.

Under Zhang Yao's deliberate befriending, the relationship between the two developed quickly, and they got together from time to time to make friends with each other. Zhang Yao occasionally wanted to exchange ideas, but they were all rejected by the ancestor Mingyuan.

this day:

Zhang Yao and Mingyuan Patriarch had a drink and conversation in a viewing pavilion in the back hall of the Taoist Palace, and once again talked about the experience of Mingyuan Patriarch.

"...Hey, Tianzhou is like that."

The ancestor Mingyuan drank a glass of wine, shook the glass, and spoke with disdain:

"Those years when I first entered Tianzhou, I was really shocked. I felt a sense of admiration from a high mountain, and I acted cautiously."

"But later I gradually discovered that the xenophobia of the local monks in Tianzhou is too serious, and it is full of all aspects, and the contradictions cannot be reconciled at all."

"The competition there is already fierce. If we outsiders want to get ahead, we can only join secret organizations like the Three Heavenly Palaces..."

"Three heavenly palaces?"

Zhang Yao's expression moved, keenly grasping this key word.

In fact, he also knew about the specific situation of Tianzhou through the memory of Liu Cang, a man of the Five Elements, but it was the first time he heard about the three heavenly palaces.

But Patriarch Mingyuan seemed unwilling to say more about his experience in Tianzhou, so he immediately changed the topic:

"There is nothing to talk about in Tianzhou. When Fellow Daoist Qingxu goes there in the future, it will naturally become clear."

"However, Mo Yuan, which we are about to explore, is worth talking about..."

He said, paused, and then said:

"Fellow Daoist Qingxu, you probably don't know very well."

"There are actually more than one or two bottomless abysses that lead directly to the lungs of the earth. The Central Plains, the East China Sea, and the Northern Desert...these places all exist."

"But this ink abyss on the southwest border is truly the 'first abyss'."

"oh?"

Zhang Yao raised his eyebrows and signaled:

"Then I'd like to hear more about it."

Patriarch Mingyuan put down his wine glass, shook his head and said:

"I only found out about this news after I went to Tianzhou."

"There are many bottomless abysses in the world, each with different specific features, but according to the sages of our predecessors, this one should be the deepest."

"No one knows exactly how deep it is, but it is said that at the beginning of the Middle Ages, there was a true king of Huashen who sneaked into the ground for hundreds of thousands of feet, but he still couldn't see the bottom, and finally had to return without success... "

"Ten thousand feet?"

Hearing this, Zhang Yao couldn't help being moved.

In the normal state of this Moyuan, it would be difficult for a Golden Core cultivator to sneak under ten thousand feet, but for the True Monarch of Huashen to dive into hundreds of thousands of feet in one breath, his supernatural powers are really unimaginable.

You must know that the deeper you go underground, the stronger the earth's magnetic force will double. Every time you dive 10,000 feet, the difficulty will vary greatly.

"The key is that under the tens of thousands of feet, I don't know how many rare treasures of heaven and earth will be in the world..."