The "Dao City" in the starry sky, "Zu Zhou," the budding place of initial cultivation, "Shen Cang Gu Ze," the origin of water in the vast universe, and the void's forbid...
Chapter 665 Kunlun in the Coffin of Another World
Having all come from Earth, we share a unique bond.
Five years have passed, and even those who cultivated in the Jiuli Temple have experienced different circumstances.
Because of differences in cultivation level and social status, their mentality cannot return to what it used to be, and there is still some degree of flattery and awe. However, compared to other cultivators in this world, at least everyone can sit down and talk about the past, about that world, and laugh and confide in each other.
The distance quickly closed.
Even Cai Yutong, a shut-in who is completely absorbed in research and cultivation, couldn't help but smile during the conversation.
Afternoon.
The Jiuli Temple, which had been shrouded in tranquility, suddenly became bustling and noisy, like a pot of boiling oil being poured into cold water. Amidst the sounds of conch shells, drums, gongs, and bells, the noise surged one wave after another.
Urged on by the three priests who remained, everyone in the temple rushed outside to welcome the leader back.
Meanwhile, Li Weiyi and Li Songgu were already on their way to the Yaoli tribe in a hearse.
The bottom of the vehicle is reinforced with arrays, allowing it to fly off the ground as if lifted by clouds.
It consumes a lot of blood crystals.
Normally, when traveling, the formation is not activated.
Over the past two years, Li Songgu has also refined the Dragon Soul Source Light, and his martial arts cultivation has reached the peak of the first realm. According to him, it will take at least another eight or nine years to find and break the second Longevity Lock.
In fact, Li Songgu is not old; he just doesn't care about looking young. His real age is very young.
He's younger than Mo Duanfeng.
Mo Duanfeng was among the younger generation of immortals, only in his early seventies before entering the Ancient Kingdom of Time Ruins. Compared to his 360-year lifespan at the fourth realm of cultivation, he was practically a twenty-year-old mortal.
To Li Weiyi's disbelief, Li Songgu's mental power cultivation had actually broken through to the second realm.
Li Songgu fumbled in the pouch at his waist for a moment, then took out a seven-colored incense stick about a foot long and said, "The rainbow incense from the otherworldly coffin can help the Holy Spirit Mind Master condense and fuse his soul."
The most time-consuming parts of cultivating to the Holy Spirit Mind Master realm are condensing the Mind Power Stars and condensing the Ten Souls.
Li Weiyi's mental power is currently at the peak of the third realm, with thirty-nine stars. He has reached the critical point of this realm and is in the stage of condensing his fourth soul, the "Power Soul".
Rainbow Fragrance emits seven rings of light of different colors, and has a very faint scent, similar to sandalwood.
A gentle sniff instantly calms the mind and concentrates the spirit; it's truly magical.
Li Weiyi took the Rainbow Incense from Li Songgu and used his spiritual power to perceive it.
Li Songgu whipped the departed spirit beast and smiled: "According to the ancient book in the coffin, the soil around a highly accomplished monk after his death will undergo rainbow transformation, turning into seven-colored rainbow soil."
"Rainbow Incense is made from rainbow soil and some spiritual herbs and plants. This one is for you, use it sparingly."
Li Weiyi accepted the gift without hesitation. His relationship with Li Songgu was already that of a teacher, a father, an elder brother, and a close friend.
Then, he took out a bottle of Polar Day True Pill and a bottle of Netherworld Divine Essence.
Ten elixir pills and thirty drops of divine essence.
"What is that?"
Li Songgu placed the whip on his lap, took the two jade bottles, opened them one by one, smelled and studied them, then his expression changed drastically, and he immediately closed the lids and sealed them.
He knew his stuff: "This bottle of your Polar Day True Pills is extraordinary. Even the Polar Day True Pills refined by the Crossing Calamity Temple can't compare. It's like ten stars are contained inside. Where did you get such a windfall?"
Li Songgu had an assessment of the value of these ten Polar Day True Pills and knew their weight.
"I made it." Li Weiyi leaned back against the car door, smiling broadly, his face radiant with pride, a true display of youthful vigor.
"Since that's the case, I won't stand on ceremony! It would be a waste for me to consume this. I'll leave it for Li Ling, which will be enough to help her quickly cultivate to the level of a nine-star Spiritual Master."
Li Songgu was in high spirits. He put the pill bottle into his storage bag and squinted at the front of his mind. In his mind, he imagined Li Ling becoming a Holy Spirit Mind Master. How proud and glorious he would be then?
Having outstanding children who have become renowned figures throughout the world is more fulfilling than attaining enlightenment and transcendence.
The transcendent is too ethereal and elusive; it is a dream that requires hundreds of years of arduous cultivation to pursue, too arduous and too perilous.
Li Weiyi shook his head slightly. Old Li was not a strong person by nature, but he was definitely an excellent family head and teacher. Yao Qingxuan was the one with the personality of a strong person.
"Old Li, you're familiar with otherworldly coffins and ancient books from otherworldly realms, how about you tell me about Kunlun?"
Li Weiyi still remembers the first time he met Li Songgu, it was in a mansion in Yaoguan. At that time, he was preparing to open the otherworldly coffin.
That otherworldly coffin is said to have come from Kunlun and is made of divine wood.
Each pound of wood used in the coffin is equivalent to a pound of a thousand-year-old medicinal herb.
At that time, Li Songgu dared not open the coffin, saying that the ancestors of the Jiuli tribe had once opened a sacred wooden coffin from Kunlun, and it seemed that something had happened. He was very apprehensive in his words.
When asked about his area of expertise, Li Songgu immediately became very talkative, saying, "You should know about the mystery and horror of the Blood Sea Coffin Dock, right?"
Li Weiyi nodded slightly, recalling what he had seen and experienced on the bronze ship, feeling that he might understand the incredible Blood Sea Coffin Dock better than Li Songgu.
Li Songgu said, "The Blood Sea is boundless, vast, and dangerous. It is said that the Azure King once went out to sea alone to explore what was deep within the Blood Sea, whether there was another land, and where the otherworldly coffin came from."
"He returned after several years at sea, becoming completely silent. It is unknown whether he was afflicted by some evil influence, but he died in his prime not long after. On his deathbed, he instructed his descendants never to go to sea."
"Perhaps those martial arts emperors who have traveled overseas know some of the truth, but none of them have told us about what happened overseas. Our exploration of the origin of the otherworldly coffin can only rely on deciphering the scriptures inside the coffin."
"The so-called otherworldly coffin is naturally not a coffin from our world. It is merely a collection of ancient texts from hundreds of worlds or inhabited planets collected by the Jiuli tribe."
"These ancient texts depict one real world after another, which are so captivating that one wishes to abandon everything, set sail, and go to find them."
"The world called Kunlun must be a great realm, where many coffins drifted into the Blood Sea Coffin Dock."
He was in high spirits and continued, "You know Taoli Mountain in Zuoqiu Sect, right? The peach pit of that peach tree deep in the space-time of Taoli Mountain came from an alien coffin from Kunlun."
"The peach wood staff I gave you on Moon Dragon Island was also made from a small branch of a peach tree from that otherworldly coffin; it is a divine wood."
"That otherworldly coffin was opened together by the leader and the patriarch of the Zuoqiu Clan. The Zuoqiu Clan took the peach pit, and the Jiuli Clan obtained the branch of the divine tree."
Li Weiyi listened intently, then paused, "Why didn't you say something so important sooner? The peach wood staff is still with Hongting. I thought it was just a decent staff."
Li Weiyi knew all too well the significance of "Kunlun" and "Peach Tree," so this made perfect sense.
Most of them are related to Earth's myths and legends.
Li Songgu rolled his eyes at him: "You lent it out, go and get it back yourself. The Jiuli tribe doesn't lack such a staff. If you get it back, it's yours."
Li Weiyi looked at him with a surprised expression: "Just how many good things did you guys get out of the otherworldly coffin? The Divine Wood Staff, Lao Li, do you know what you're saying?"
Li Songgu didn't care and instead sighed about something else: "There are naturally many treasures that have been opened from the coffins of other worlds, but the vast majority of them were left behind by the Cang King and his generation four thousand years ago, or opened by the Chief and his generation a thousand years ago."
"Besides the lost treasures, the most exquisite treasures, the Jiuli tribe probably has more than ten other items, all stored in the temple's treasury or the ancestral mountains of various tribes. These treasures were sealed away by the methods of our ancestors, either pressed into the earth's veins or sealed in spatial rifts, and can only be opened using the Nine Emperor Banner. We simply cannot retrieve them."
"I will only dare to tell this secret after the leader returns, otherwise, if the news leaks out, there will be a disaster that wipes out the clan."
"You think you can hide it? The otherworldly coffins are being sold one after another. Who wouldn't guess your wealth?" Li Weiyi shook his head slightly, not believing that they had kept the secret for thousands of years. There must be another reason.
Li Songgu said, "The ones sold are all Ming coffins and ominous coffins. The otherworldly coffins that might actually contain great treasures are all sent to the Jiuli Ancestral Realm for safekeeping."
Li Weiyi had visited the ancestral realm where the God of Jiuli and the tombs of the Nine Kings were located. Indeed, he saw many rare and exotic coffins in the square in front of the tomb of the Cang King.
"Since you know it's rare, why don't you open it?" Li Weiyi asked curiously.
"Dare you open it? The more precious the coffin, the greater the potential for it to unleash disaster. A slight mishap could lead to annihilation. These are the words of the leader back then."
Li Songgu continued, "A thousand years ago, the leader disappeared, and several transcendent beings of the Jiuli tribe perished in the Great Calamity of the Netherworld. Without transcendent beings in charge, we dare to open very few top-tier otherworldly coffins."
Li Weiyi was still deep in thought. How did the Jiuli tribe manage to protect the treasure? This was highly unusual.
Surrounding Lizhou are transcendent beings like the Coffin Mountain Taboo, the Four Extremes Ape King, and the Lilong Tree. They couldn't possibly be indifferent to the Jiuli tribe, yet they haven't taken any concrete action. All their past actions seem to have been probing, testing the limits of some unknown entity.
Could it be related to those yin spirits worshipped?
Li Weiyi's heart skipped a beat, his eyes lit up, and he stroked his chin: "Doesn't that mean that after the leader returns, the rare treasures from the Nine Li Divine Palace and the ancestral mountains of the nine tribes can be brought out?"
Li Songgu stroked his beard and laughed, "Otherwise, why did the Red Priest claim last night that he had divined an auspicious omen? After the leader returns, many things can be activated, and many otherworldly coffins can be tried to be opened. Isn't that auspicious?"
The two then returned to talking about Kunlun.
According to the records in the scrolls in the coffin, Li Songgu described a magnificent and prosperous otherworld, where gods and saints were said to exist, the land was vast, and all kinds of laws coexisted, inspiring endless imagination.
The ancestor of the Yaoli tribe, the Medicine King, practiced a fundamental martial art called "Heavenly Wind Palm Technique".
To reach a certain level in the Heavenly Wind Palm Technique, one needs to cultivate the Laogong Spring Eyes in the palms of both hands, creating two inner worlds like Qi Seas to store wind energy.
Wind-evil is formed by the condensation of wind.
It can be cultivated through techniques or Taoist arts.
In some special regions, one can also detect the wind evil nurtured by nature.
Tianchi Peak, the home of the Yaoli tribe, is such a place.
(End of this chapter)