Chapter 81 Treasure Selection

The two doors in front of him were vermilion in color and appeared to be made of some unknown hard wood. They were about three or four meters high, making Zheng Fa feel a little small as he stood in front of the doors.

He took two steps closer and the door opened by itself without any sound.

There are no traces of artificial decoration inside the gate, but it is a stalactite cave with rugged rocks. Walking in it feels like being in a magical rain forest.

Dozens of rocks shaped like bamboo shoots rose from the ground, with colorful lights floating at the tips. They were obviously the treasures left behind by the Nine Mountains Ancestor.

There are not many treasures, and compared with the two ridiculously large doors, they seem a bit shabby.

Jiushan Patriarch also followed him in, and looking at the flowing lights, he sighed: "I haven't seen these old things left by the old man for a long time."

Zheng Fa was a little confused and couldn't help asking, "Master, you can't come in yourself?"

"Me?" The Nine Mountain Patriarch pointed at himself and said, "I am not him. I am the spiritual vein and the Nine Mountain, but not him. All I have are all his memories..."

Zheng Fa suddenly realized.

He had found this Nine Mountains Patriarch very strange before.

Although he is the founder of a school, his mentality is like that of a child.

"If you really want to tell me who I am," Jiushan Patriarch said with a strange smile, "I am just a substitute who cannot leave Jiushan Sect. I even look like a magic weapon created by him."

"He wanted to merge this True Shape Talisman, but he couldn't let go of the Jiushan Sect, so he created me..." Jiushan Patriarch had a complicated expression when he talked about the original Patriarch: "Sometimes, I don't know whether to regard him as the father who gave birth to me, or the master who put a dog leash around my neck."

"Let's not talk about this." Jiushan Patriarch seemed to sigh and said to Zheng Fa: "You have such talent. According to what the old man left for me, you can get two treasures in here."

"How do I get it?"

Zheng Fa tried to see the treasures in the flowing light, but the light obscured the shapes of the treasures.

"It depends on fate!"

"Ah?" Zheng Fa was stunned. Wasn't this a bit hasty?

"Or maybe it's luck." Jiushan Patriarch rolled his eyes. "That old man doesn't have any magical foresight. How can he know who will come? Let alone what you need. His treasures may not be suitable for you... But treasures have spirits and their own senses. Go around and if there is something that makes you feel special, it may be useful to you."

After hearing this, Zheng Fa walked towards the cave, trying to find the special feeling that Master Jiushan had mentioned.

But most of the treasures were very cold. When he walked in front of these streams of light, he felt nothing except that they were dazzling.

After walking through most of the cave and seeing the same thing all the time, Zheng Fa even began to doubt whether the Nine Mountains Patriarch was deceiving him.

Until he came to a treasure with a lapis lazuli glow.

The energy belonging to the spiritual crane in his body suddenly became excited and ran wildly in his body, as if venting an instinctive desire.

The shadow of a spiritual crane appeared behind him, with its wings spread out, as if it wanted to plunge into the cyan and golden light.

"Eh?" Jiushan Patriarch understood what was going on at a glance: "Have you practiced the Spirit Crane Body?"

"yes."

"Dual spiritual roots of wood and fire, the body of a spiritual crane... no wonder this green yang energy makes you feel something." The Patriarch of Jiushan pointed his finger, and the green-gold light gradually dissipated, leaving only a ball of green air with a little golden flame, flowing slowly in front of Zheng Fa.

"Qing Yang Qi?"

"Well, back then, the old man turned into nine mountains, and all the trees in the mountains came to life, interacting with the spiritual energy of the sun, and this Qingyang energy was born. He collected it as a treasure." The ancestor of the Nine Mountains explained: "I didn't expect to meet you. It's quite suitable."

"Suitable?"

"You have dual spiritual roots of fire and wood. The Qingyang Qi is born from the interaction between the sun and plants, which is in line with your spiritual root talent. What's more, you have also cultivated the spiritual crane body."

Zheng Fa somewhat understood why the Qingyang Qi corresponded to his spiritual roots, but the spiritual crane body? He looked at the Nine Mountain Patriarch in confusion.

"All things in the world correspond to the spirit of heaven and earth. The crane is white in color, pure and yang. Some cultivators call it the yang bird and regard it as a symbol of longevity. The spiritual crane body was created based on the pure yang Taoist body."

The Nine Mountain Patriarch moved his fingers, and the Qingyang Qi fell in front of Zheng Fa. "This Qingyang Qi is extremely rare, otherwise the old man would not have kept it in his hands until his death. If you can practice a pure Yang body training method before the foundation-building stage and integrate this Qingyang Qi, you may be able to achieve the Qingyang Dao Body, which will be of great benefit to you in the future."

Zheng Fa stretched out his hand, and the green yang energy flew into Zheng Fa's palm like a young swallow flying into the forest, and entered his dantian along the meridians.

This Qingyang Energy was extremely overbearing. After entering the Dantian, it seemed to treat this place as its own home. It squeezed out the spiritual crane energy that Zheng Fa had cultivated, leaving it with nowhere to stay. The energy could only wander along the edge of the Dantian.

But Zheng Fa also had a vague feeling that the energy in his body seemed to be slowly penetrated by the Qingyang Energy, and had some different changes, as if it was a little more lively.

…

After obtaining the Qingyang Qi, Zheng Fa no longer had such good luck.

The other treasures ignored him and his body didn't react at all, there was an awkward tacit understanding that they looked down on each other.

"Hmm..." Jiushan Patriarch frowned and said, "These treasures are not for you, so you can only look at the skills left by this old man."

He waved his hand, and a pile of jade tubes appeared in front of Zheng Fa.

"Pick it."

"?"

Zheng Fa was confused for a moment. No, this one was even more mysterious than the previous one. How should he choose?

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"In fact, compared to treasures, the skills are less helpful to you - that old man is a different kind of person who has achieved enlightenment, and there are simply not many people who can practice his skills. This is why I let you pick the treasure first."

The Nine Mountain Patriarch explained.

Zheng Fa nodded. Many treasures can be used right away, but the skills are selective about the person.

Especially for someone with such an outrageous background as Jiushan Patriarch, his way of cultivation must be different from that of normal people.

"But there are some formations or talismans in here that should be suitable for you." Jiushan Patriarch pointed at the pile of jade tubes and said, "The female disciple before was quite smart. She chose an incomplete foundation-building method, which may be suitable for her cultivation."

"Incomplete?" Zheng Fa perked up and understood Senior Sister Zhang's idea - since I can't practice it, why don't I just modify a semi-finished product?

He was determined to continue learning from Senior Sister Zhang.

"Don't think about it. That old man doesn't have that much time to spare. That foundation-building method was created by that old man when he was comprehending the True Form Talisman." Jiushan Patriarch seemed to have remembered something: "Come to think of it, I was actually created at that time as well."

"?"

"That old man also created a Lingshan method. He was originally a spiritual vein that became a Taoist body. Later, he reversed his own cultivation process to create the Lingshan method. The purpose of the Lingshan method is that the Taoist body is the Lingshan, the meridians are the spiritual veins, and the human body is used to replace the heaven and earth to provide for the cultivation of the Jiushan Sect. That's how I came into being."

"This Lingshan method is useless to you. It is a method that only serves the benefit of others. You..."

"Disciple wants this Lingshan method."

Zheng Fa suddenly said.

Jiushan Patriarch looked at him with complicated eyes: "I actually misjudged you..."

"?"

Zheng Fa didn't understand why the other party said that.

"I originally thought that you were a complicated person, secretly malicious. The atmosphere in my Jiushan Sect is already impetuous enough. If you join the Jiushan Sect, then my Jiushan Sect will..."

...You scolded a lot of people.

"But I was wrong. When the old man created the Lingshan Method, he said that this is a method that only people with selfless hearts and great virtues would choose to practice. It is even possible that no one in the world would choose to practice this method..." The Jiushan Patriarch looked at Zheng Fa with some admiration in his eyes: "I now feel that my Jiushan Sect is not worthy of you!"

Zheng Fa felt that there was some beautiful misunderstanding here.

For him, there was only one reason for choosing Lingshan Method: this method solved a big problem for him - how to produce spiritual energy safely and controllably in the modern world.

(End of this chapter)