Chapter 384 Entering the Dao with One's Life
At night, Mingshan Mountain possesses a tranquility and peace that is absent during the day.
Apart from the orderly yet not heavy footsteps of the patrolling guards, only the sound of the night wind could be heard.
Just before dawn, a sweet dream was in full swing.
Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed by, moving at an incredible speed.
The patrolling guard only felt a blur before his eyes, as if something had passed by.
But when he looked again, there wasn't a soul in sight within a hundred meters except for the few of them.
His companion noticed something was wrong and asked, puzzled, "What's wrong?"
The man looked around for a moment, then scratched his head: "It looks like something just floated by."
Upon hearing this, his companion looked in the direction he was looking and saw a main road leading down the mountain, which was several hundred meters long.
Even a martial arts master cannot disappear at the end of the road in a short moment.
He chuckled: "You must be seeing things."
Another companion joked, "Maybe she was scared by the second young lady."
The person who first noticed something was wrong quickly said, "Don't talk nonsense. I wasn't frightened by the Second Miss, I was frightened by that Nuan'er."
It's really unlucky to talk about this in the middle of the night.
In the past, they were fearless because of their ignorance, and they wouldn't have thought much of it.
But after witnessing Nuan'er's ghost last night, they dared not treat those things as mere legends anymore, and naturally dared not joke around as recklessly as before.
"Alright, alright, let's not talk about this anymore." The guard captain waved his hand. "Let's keep going. The weather is getting colder every day. Let's hurry up and finish this round and go back to warm up."
After the patrolling guards left, Yu Zhiyi slowly emerged from the shadows.
Having refined four golden rays of merit in one go, her strength increased significantly, and ordinary people could no longer detect her presence.
Just like now, she didn't actually use her full strength, and she walked right under the noses of those guards without them noticing her.
She stood there for a while longer, making sure no one would pass by anytime soon, then took out spirit stones and began setting up an array.
She had never set up a large-scale defensive formation before, but similar formations were all similar, the difference being that small formations required fewer resources, while large formations required more.
Taking defensive talismans as an example, setting up a small courtyard that covers her previous Linfeng Pavilion only requires twelve defensive talismans.
Including the array's core, there are a total of twenty-five.
Setting up a defensive array to protect the entire Prime Minister's residence requires 128 array symbols, plus one array eye, for a total of 129.
Such a large mountain like Mingshan requires even more array symbols.
Fortunately, he liked to make some array symbols in his spare time as a precaution, and he has accumulated more than two thousand array symbols over time.
The formation that encompassed the entire Mingshan Mountain consumed a total of 1999 formation symbols.
In fact, if it were just array symbols, these 1999 would be far from enough to encompass the entire Mingshan.
But she also has spirit stones and jade.
The jade stones that the Song family father and son had given them earlier came in handy now.
It took a total of 36 spirit stones, plus 98 jade pendants used to make array flags, and 1999 array symbols to finally surround the entire Ming Mountain.
After the last array flag was placed, she saw an invisible light curtain envelop the entire Mingshan Mountain.
At that time, the sky was already slightly bright, and the bright red sun peeked out from the east.
As dawn broke, it tore a large hole in the darkness between heaven and earth.
Yu Zhiyi rarely watches the sunrise, but she was actually quite mesmerized at this moment.
The rising sun was only a thin, long ray, yet it was enough to tear apart all the darkness between heaven and earth.
This clearly shows that as long as one's strength reaches a certain level, even a mere wisp of power leaking from between one's fingers can deter villains.
Such a thought only flashed through my mind for a moment.
Yu Zhiyi became even more determined to pursue the path of cultivation to the very end.
"Jin'er! Jin'er!"
The sudden sound woke her up. Yu Zhiyi turned her head and saw Xiao Qingxuan rushing over with a look of anxiety on her face.
A few strands of her hair were loose, making her look somewhat disheveled, but not in a bad way; instead, it added a touch of messy beauty.
"mother?"
Yu Zhiyi was somewhat puzzled.
Although my mother usually gets up very early, she has never gotten up before dawn.
Why are you up so early?
Was it to see her off?
That makes sense.
Xiao Qingxuan was taken aback: "Morning? What nonsense are you talking about, child? It's already past breakfast time."
Forehead?
Yu Zhiyi was taken aback, and looked in the direction of the rising sun with a mocking expression. She saw that what was originally a narrow strip of light had now turned into a round and translucent fireball.
she:"……"
How did the sun rise?
She was just spacing out for a moment.
Suddenly, she remembered what her master had once said.
In the Xuanmen (mystical sect), everyone admires the strong and envies geniuses.
But what I envy most are those who can have an epiphany.
The so-called sudden enlightenment is the sudden understanding of the profound laws of heaven and earth in a certain moment.
Those who can achieve sudden enlightenment are not necessarily one in a million geniuses, but it is undeniable that everyone who achieves enlightenment has a limitless future.
Even someone with the worst aptitude can experience a rapid improvement in strength after a sudden enlightenment.
What's most enviable isn't the strength these people possess after their enlightenment, but rather the mysterious power they experience after that enlightenment.
For example, one of the ancestors of their Tianji Sect did not have particularly good talent. Among a group of geniuses with single spiritual roots, the ancestor's dual spiritual roots were not outstanding.
Although he is almost invincible among those with dual spiritual roots, his strength is not enough against geniuses with single spiritual roots.
As a result, he was suppressed for over a century.
Until one day a hundred years later, he suddenly had an epiphany and comprehended a spatial law.
Since then, the landscape of geniuses in the Hidden Realm has changed.
None of the geniuses who had once suppressed him to the point of being unable to raise their heads were his match.
Yu Zhiyi looked down at her hands.
If she just had an epiphany, what exactly did she realize?
She checked the situation inside her dantian and found that the spiritual energy inside had indeed become more abundant. Originally, she was still a long way from the late stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm, but now she had already touched the barrier.
But that's all.
She carefully examined herself again, but found no other changes in either her meridians or dantian.
She was somewhat disappointed.
As expected, as a native of the mortal realm, her starting point was far inferior to that of the geniuses in the hidden realm.
She hadn't forgotten what her master had said when he accepted her as his disciple.
“You have three spiritual roots, which is not top-tier but not particularly good either. If you follow the proper path of cultivation, you may never break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm in your entire life. I see that you also have talent in divination, so why don’t you join my Heavenly Mystery Sect and embark on the path of cultivation with your life?”
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