The Five Palaces of Taiyuan are located under the Golden Summit of Emei Mountain. These are five caves opened up based on the Taiyuan Cave Heaven, a place full of spiritual energy, hence the name of the Five Palaces of Taiyuan. According to the leading disciples of the Emei School, there are at least a thousand stone chambers in the five caves of the Five Palaces of Taiyuan available for practitioners to use.
Among them, Taiyuan Cave Heaven is the most important heritage site of the Emei Sect. It has a profound heritage and contains countless secrets, making it a place not suitable for outsiders to live in. Therefore, even though the Qingcheng Sect was the first sect to arrive in Emei, they could only choose one area among the remaining four prefectures to set up camp.
Immortal Yu'e found a spot within Shangyuan Cave with abundant spiritual energy for the Qingcheng Sect team. Then, like a ghost, he vanished. No one knew whether he was reminiscing with old friends from the Emei Sect or discussing important matters. The stone chambers within Shangyuan Cave varied in size, yet all appeared clean and bright. Su Rui, unable to distinguish the various chambers, settled next to Zhang Beiyang and Yuan Ning, each choosing a vacant chamber to occupy.
Seeing that Mount Emei was still relatively calm and there would be no war in the next two days, Su Rui built a small auxiliary formation in the stone chamber to practice the "Nine-Slash Golden Elixir Magic Method" and immediately started a new round of practice.
He clasped his hands together, muttering something to himself. Mysterious runes flew out of his hands like dancing butterflies, landing in the small formation. As the runes continued to merge, the formation began to hum and emit a mysterious aura.
The spiritual energy in Shangyuan Cave Heaven is three times thicker than that in Qingcheng Sect's Xuanmiao Temple on Jinbian Cliff. Su Rui took a deep breath, feeling the rich spiritual energy around him. He closed his eyes and began to practice his skills with all his strength.
As time ticked by, Su Rui seemed to merge with the surrounding spiritual energy. Within his dantian, the seven golden cores, once swirling with energy, began to rapidly circulate. Su Rui's mind stirred, and without hesitation, he unleashed the "Nine Golden Core Slashing Technique" once again, slashing at the golden core. This slash was like a thunderbolt, carrying unparalleled power.
However, this time, the self-severing wasn't as smooth as before. After being attacked, the golden elixir merely trembled violently, but no cracks appeared. Su Rui, enduring the dizziness, once again transformed his mind into a sword, slashing down at the golden elixir spinning around in his dantian...
In the blink of an eye, three days passed. When he pushed open the heavy stone door again, a powerful aura emanated from him like a volcanic eruption. His golden elixir, which originally had only seven halos in his dantian, now had nine!
Su Rui's heart was filled with endless emotion. He had never imagined that his luck would be so good. During this period, he had cut his own golden elixir twice, originally just because he had nothing to do and wanted to speed up his cultivation. However, unexpectedly, this action brought such huge rewards.
A top-grade golden elixir that produced nine halos meant that the practice of the "Nine-cut Golden Elixir Magic Method" had reached its peak, and one could then directly move on to the next stage - the practice of nurturing the Nascent Soul within the golden elixir.
However, this step required the consumption of a large amount of natural resources to stimulate the transformation of the golden elixir. Restraining the indescribable joy in his heart, Su Rui walked briskly out of Shangyuan Cave Heaven. He was surprised to find that the Taiyuan Five Palaces had become more bustling than ever before.
When looking outside the mountain, although it was still quiet there, the perceptive Su Rui had already sensed a strong atmosphere of tension, as if foreshadowing a shocking war that was about to break out.
Just as he was secretly thinking that this decisive battle might begin in the next one or two days, something unexpected happened - a large blood-red cloud suddenly appeared in the western sky.
Almost instantly, the skies to the east, south, and north each presented a completely different and bizarre scene. From the east, a cascading rain of swords poured down, each sword gleaming with a dazzling array of light, like a gigantic rainbow stretching from the distant horizon. To the south, a turquoise flame, emitting golden sparks, filled the sky. The pale green glow seemed to foreshadow some sinister force descending from the void, accompanied by a gloomy and terrifying den of ghosts. To the north, dense black clouds rolled like a vast black curtain, mercilessly devouring the surrounding light.
Faced with such an astonishing change, how could Su Rui not understand what it meant? There was no doubt that the evil demons besieging the Emei Sect were already within reach!
The vision descended with lightning speed, especially the blood cloud, which seemed to teleport in the blink of an eye, reaching the edge of Mount Emei and quickly dyeing half the sky a shocking crimson. Despite the distance, Su Rui could still vaguely see the blood cloud, like a stream of flowing blood, with the faint shadows of gods and demons and bursts of roaring sounds emanating from it. Even more incredible, he could even smell the strong, pungent smell of blood.
"Could it be that someone really moved the Netherworld Blood River here?" Su Rui thought to himself, and couldn't help but feel that this possibility was very high.
At the same time, from three other directions, colorful lights, green fire, and black clouds each filled half the sky. The colorful lights illuminated the figures of sword immortals, clad in sleek, flowing robes. Their mere presence in the air unleashed Su Rui's innate Gengjin Chi Lei Sword Evil, automatically deploying a defensive force. Several of the sword immortals looked familiar to Su Rui, and after a moment's reflection, he immediately recalled them: disciples from Mount Wutai whom he had met in the demonic cave.
The figure revealed within the golden green flames was incredibly familiar to Su Rui; it was the long-lost Master Bai Gu and his disciples. Standing above the black cloud was an old man resembling a mummy. His skin was cyan, his eyes were mostly white, and he had fangs in his mouth, looking like a true zombie.
"The Blood God Cult, the Southern Demon Cult, Mount Wutai, the Xuanyin Cult, and some others have not yet arrived. This time, so many demonic forces are besieging Mount Emei. The scene is really grand!" True Man Yu'e had come to Su Rui's side at some point, looking up at the surging blood river, green fire, sword light, and black clouds in the sky, raised his eyebrows and shouted coldly.
Su Rui regained consciousness and looked around, realizing he had been surrounded by disciples from various sects. He even spotted familiar faces like Shi Chaoyun of the Kunlun Sect and Guo Yiming of the Laoshan Sect, as well as a few bald monks. It seemed support teams from all the major righteous sects had arrived during his two days of retreat.
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