Longevity and Immortal Cultivation: Starting from Controlling Your Own Essence

One month later.

On the top of Dalipingdu Mountain is the brand new ‘Qingxu Palace’.

All traces of the divisions of the seven sect alliances have been erased, and there is no ambiguity about what should be torn down and rebuilt.

In this area, the Lingyang Sect, the Dugu Family and other forces have spent a lot of effort. The only thing that has not been touched is the formation, which has to wait for the Lord of the Southwest to deal with it personally.

Half a month ago:

Along with the Jindan ancestors from Dali, Dayu, and Dacang, they returned home one after another and issued proclamations, officially announcing that the Southwest had completed its substantial unification and ushered in a new master.

Needless to say what a violent sensation this news caused, but just surrounding the rebuilt Qingxu Palace, all kinds of overt and covert struggles were extremely fierce, and they have not completely subsided to this day.

"Boom!"

A huge escaping light fell from the sky and landed in Qingxu Palace.

The clear and urgent bell rang, and many attendants and Taoist officials came to the main hall in a panic, kneeling down and worshiping:

"Welcome Ancestor Qingxu back to the palace!"

Zhang Yao walked out slowly, his simple blue Taoist robe fluttering, and his eyes swept over the Taoist officials and attendants.

He spent very little time in Qingxu Palace in the past few decades, but this palace, which symbolized his authority, still enjoyed high prestige and important influence in Dali.

Since he selected thirty-six Taoist officials and attendants, many forces have attached themselves to Qingxu Palace.

However, after decades of ups and downs, especially after the rebellion of the Seven Sects Alliance, only nine of the thirty-six Taoist officials and attendants from back then can be retained until now.

"You, you, and you..."

Zhang Yao tapped his fingers to select these nine people and said slowly:

"No matter what your thoughts are, the nine of you can persist until I return. It is considered rare."

He waved his sleeves, and nine streams of light fell down. Among them were spiritual weapons, secret treasures, second-level elixirs and other items that he had no use for long ago.

"This is a reward for you."

"Thank you, ancestor!"

The nine people were immediately overjoyed and kowtowed in praise.

The rest of the people were naturally envious, but they were all newly promoted and were afraid of being kicked out by Zhang Yao, so they naturally didn't dare to say anything or even change their respectful expressions.

You must know that although they are only in the position of attendants, the sects and aristocratic families behind them also paid a lot of money to push them up through the channels of Lingyang Sect and other companies.

"You, and you."

Zhang Yao pointed out two beautiful girls among the nine people, who seemed to be a pair of twins.

"You two, please serve me personally from now on."

He was destined to stay in Qingxu Palace for a long time, so naturally he didn't want to treat himself badly.

The way of cultivation also pays attention to relaxation. He has suffered in that hellish place in the underground world for more than ten years, and it is time to relax.

"Thank you for your grace, ancestor."

The twin girls were overjoyed when they heard this, and their eyes were slightly moist with excitement.

Unfortunately, they were originally the legitimate daughters of the family. They had extraordinary talents and promising futures since childhood, and were deeply loved by their parents.

But after being sent to Qingxu Palace many years ago, in order to please Ancestor Qingxu and increase their chances of being selected as concubines, they even gave up their own future as immortals and practiced the Yin Furnace method.

All these sacrifices and dedication are for the future of the family.

After practicing for decades, I relied on my talent and resources to break through to the foundation-building stage. I refused to compromise in the face of various temptations, and always maintained my vitality, just to fight for that glimmer of opportunity.

After waiting and suffering for decades, the weather finally turns brighter. How can one not be overjoyed?

"correct……"

Zhang Yao spoke again and explained some other matters to the many attendants and Taoist officials.

Of course he didn't know the psychological activities of the two little maids. Even if he knew, he wouldn't care. After giving everyone a few instructions, he ordered them to disperse.

As for himself, he took out a large amount of spiritual objects and treasures and began to rearrange the formations of Qingxu Palace.

It was said that the treasure house of Qingxu Palace had been completely plundered by the branches of the Seven Sects Alliance before, but Lingyang Sect and others had replenished it. For this, he also casually conveyed a few words of praise.

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner. The southwest land is ushering in a storm of new masters, but it has no impact on the Qingxu Palace at the center of the storm.

…………

A few days later.

Zhang Yao stood up from the cloud bed, behind him were the twin girls who couldn't stand the whipping and fell asleep.

He simply took a bath, put on a loose Taoist robe, tied a Taoist hairpin at will, walked around the Qingxu Palace and admired the beautiful scenery inside the palace.

"After the middle stage of Golden Core, it's a new world..."

Zhang Yao stood in a pavilion, looking at the wonderful scenery of Jiuchuan Waterfall in front of him, thinking about the future path.

Since he broke through to the middle stage of the Golden Core, he has been fighting his way out of Mo Yuan and fighting against the seven sect alliances. A series of things have happened one after another, so that he has only now had time to sort out his own path.

Now that the Five-phase Divine Wheel has been completed, he only has four great magical powers and six great treasures left on his journey to the golden elixir:

The 'Tai Xuan Golden Body' requires Baoxiang Liujinjing and Shenyuan Danyu. He has already obtained the former, and the latter has learned the key clues from the old monk Tongxing;

The 'Dongyuan Divine Light' needs the water of Guixu. He also got the key clue from the mouth of the old monk Tongxing;

The 'True Pupil of the Sun and Moon' requires the top treasures of the Taiyin and the Great Sun. He has already had clues about the former and has been waiting to attend the Taiyin Tide Festival for many years; but there has been no news about the latter, and he has no clues yet.

Finally, there is the ‘True Body of Ten Thousand Souls’, which requires the ‘True Soul of Heaven and Humanity’.

Zhang Yao has known this clue for a long time. He even knows how to collect and refine the "True Soul of Heaven", but he has been reluctant to mention it.

Just because the 'True Soul of Heavenly Being' is something that even ordinary evil spirits and demons dare not refine. The collection and refining process is so cruel that Zhang Yao doesn't want to face this problem.

"But what's coming is inevitable."

Zhang Yao sighed, with mixed emotions in his heart.

After cultivating the Five-phase Divine Wheel, except for the 'Sun and Moon True Pupil', which is the final training for the subsequent four magical powers, the remaining three magical powers have no priority.

But for Zhang Yao, the most difficult magical power is not even the 'True Pupil of the Sun and Moon', but the 'True Body of Ten Thousand Souls' which comes at a terrible cost.

The refining of the true soul of a celestial being needs to start from a mortal. Every age, every different identity, every fixed birth date and fate has restrictions from birth to a hundred years old. From there, there are restrictions on the first level of the Qi refining stage. Heaven has reached perfection, and there is still a foundation-building period...

The conditions are accumulated layer by layer, and the conditions to be complied with are extremely stringent, and it is extremely difficult to get them all together.

Although the quantity requirements are not high, the problem is that if you do something so unconscionable and unacceptable to justice, you will definitely have to be silenced and massacred, so the number of people involved will be incalculable.

Liu Cang was a ruthless man back then. In order to collect and refine the true souls of heavenly beings, he secretly sneaked into the millions of mountains in southern Xinjiang. He spent decades traveling around southern Xinjiang and slaughtered tens of thousands of villages bit by bit. , killing hundreds of millions of mortals and millions of monks.

But he was unlucky and was discovered in the final stage. Because too many people died, even the ten major villages in southern Xinjiang were alerted. Many Yuanying real people were sent to search the sky and the earth, forcing Liu Cang to death several times. I was desperate and almost died in southern Xinjiang.

In the end, it was because the real Yuanying in southern Xinjiang did not dare to enter the Middle Kingdom that Liu Cang managed to escape with his life.

But since then, Southern Xinjiang has become a restricted area for him, and he has never dared to step into it again for the rest of his life. He has to be extra careful about monks from Southern Xinjiang when traveling in places such as the East China Sea and the Western Wilderness.

"I cannot copy Liu Cang's path."

"Let's not talk about the problem of defense in southern Xinjiang. This method alone greatly violates my original intention."

Zhang Yao's eyes were firm, and he obviously did not intend to follow Liu Cang's old path.

He asked himself that he was a selfish person, but after all he was not an evil or demonic monk who could kill hundreds of millions of mortals without feeling anything.

If there is no other way and he is desperate, then he may force himself to do it, but he is an immortal body and cannot bear to torture himself like this.

"Hey, the true soul of heavenly beings is really a difficult problem. We can only take one step at a time."

"I hope the boat will straighten out naturally when it reaches the bridge."

Zhang Yao sighed in his heart.

Regarding the true soul of heavenly beings, we can only put it on hold for now, and there is no other good way.

If it didn't work out, he was even prepared to spend thousands of years collecting and refining the true souls of heavenly beings bit by bit incognito, in order to keep the number of people killed as low as possible.

Call him hypocritical or call him bottom line, that's what he plans to do at the moment anyway.

"First, go to Jingguo Liangyue River to participate in the Taiyin Tide Festival more than ten years later, and get enough Taiyin Dettol."

"Secondly, go to the 'Shin Dao Sect' in Tianzhou Donglong Mansion to obtain the Shenyuan Dan Jade, and combine it with the Baoxiang Liujin paste to refine the 'Tai Xuan Golden Body'!"

"Finally, go to the far sea area of ​​the East China Sea, wait for the opportunity to sneak into the eye of the Sea of ​​Ten Thousand Stars, try to capture at least one drop of the water of Guixu, and refine it into the 'Divine Light of the Cave Abyss'..."

While Zhang Yao was thinking, he further clarified his "three-step" plan.

As for the search for the rare treasures of the Great Sun, and even the search for alternative refining methods for the true souls of gods, they can only be carried out in the middle of the advancement of the plan.

"Oh, by the way, one more thing!"

Zhang Yao suddenly remembered something very important - the method of Zhuoxiu!

When he was in the underground world, he exchanged "The Great Law of Saving All Living Beings" from Wuhe for the Zhuoxiu method that he was very interested in, which was the "Tianwu Mingze Gong" of the Wujin tribe.

He was already familiar with this technique, but when he was in the underground world, he was so focused on getting out of trouble that he had no time to understand or even try to practice this technique.

Until today, when he had some free time, he thought again of this skill that had placed his hopes on it.

"If you follow the "Wanhuadu Tianzhen Sutra" all the way, when you step into the realm of Yuanying, you will reach a dead end."

"If you want to be new and take a path that has not been taken before, I'm afraid you have to find a way from the path of Zhuoxiu, but the current time is not suitable..."

In the underground world, turbid air is everywhere, but it is different in the surface world.

The only place Zhang Yao had ever seen where he could come into contact with a large amount of turbid air was the Demon Cave in the Kingdom of Mani.

"It seems that we can only figure out a solution for this matter after returning to Mani Kingdom."