"I thought you would never come back."
A voice sounded from behind.
Gu He did not look back, he just looked at the tombstone in front of him quietly. Buried in it was his past, the people he cared about the most, and the memories he could not let go of.
"Seven people went to the underworld, and only you came back. Is it worth it?"
The person behind walked out of the shadows, revealing her face. This was a woman with a long sword on her back, wearing a light blue gown with white sword patterns on the corners, and a strand of black hair falling between her eyebrows, mixed with a few white strands.
Behind her back was an ancient sword, which was very similar to Gu He's Taixu Sword.
This person is Gu He’s junior sister in the upper realm, and also the backup that the seven of them left behind before they descended to the lower realm, Junior Sister Mu Jianyu.
“Only after you walk the road, you will know right from wrong.”
Gu He stood up again, with an inexplicable aura on his body. Although he was still in the Spiritual Transformation Realm, his aura was completely different from before, and a sense of vicissitudes of life accumulated over the years appeared around him.
The way of immortality is ruthless.
For a cultivator, every step forward is unknown. No one can be sure that the path they are taking is the right one. Just like the mainstream cultivation system in the current cultivation world, there are no problems before returning to the void, but once it reaches the late stage of returning to the void and touches the integration of the Tao, all the drawbacks will be exposed.
Unable to conform to the Tao!
The peak of Return to Void is the limit.
This is the truth that Gu He realized after he had practiced to the limit in his previous life and comprehended the Tao. The root of this truth lies in the first step of refining the spirit, the state of transformation!
One wrong step, all wrong.
It is like a river, which flows from a fork into a tributary, going further and further, and can never turn back. Unless you abandon your physical body and your soul completely enter the legendary world, it will be even further away from the orthodox immortal path. Immortal cultivators without a physical body can only take the ghost immortal path in the later stage, but even ghost immortals have not yet become immortals.
Before his reincarnation, Gu He abandoned his physical body and tried this path. Although he did not reach the end, he also guessed the limit of this path.
That is also a wrong path.
It was precisely because of this discovery that the seven of them joined forces to go down to the mortal world to search for the 'real' path to immortality.
“We didn’t make a wrong move this time.”
Sensing the extra 500 years of his lifespan, Gu He added in his mind.
The Seven Ancestors of Qionghua were not all dead. Gu He had made a special trip to the Dragon Tomb before coming up. Apart from him, there was still one of the Seven Ancestors of Qionghua who was still going through the tribulation. It might be because Chen Luo had helped him. Gu He sensed the breath of life from the other person. It was just that there was no way to judge how long it would take to break through the tribulation.
The inner demon calamity is different from the natural calamity in the outside world.
The time it takes to break the calamity is related to one's state of mind. A person with a good state of mind can get through it in a few days, while a person with a bad state of mind may even have to reincarnate several times in the Heart Demon Tribulation. Each of the Seven Ancestors of Qionghua has accumulated a lot of knowledge, and it still takes a certain amount of time for the black fire of the Heart Demon Tribulation to burn their bodies.
"It's a pity that the Qionghua Sect no longer exists. I failed to protect the sect, and I also lost the Tao."
Mu Jianyu sighed.
As Gu He's junior sister in his previous life, even if she was the last junior sister to enter the sect, her life span had already reached its limit. In the nearly three thousand years, she had experienced a lot and seen through a lot.
Now the Qionghua Sect in the upper realm has been divided into seven parts, and no one knows who has the core of the sect, the "Tao".
The former glory is gone, what problems can it solve even if it comes back?
"Any clues?"
Gu He picked up the Taixu Sword, turned around and asked.
The 'Tao' of Qionghua Sect must be taken back. Subsequent cultivation cannot be separated from the 'Tao', and breaking through the Return to Void Realm also requires the power of the 'Tao'. Thinking of his nephew Chen Luo who had come up before him, Gu He suppressed his thoughts. As a master uncle, it was time for him to leave some resources for his nephew.
"Maybe it's the Silent Valley."
"Silent Valley?"
"He's a rising star. I'm no match for him."
Mu Jianyu briefly recounted what happened in the upper realm during the past two thousand years since Gu He's reincarnation, and especially mentioned the master of Wusheng Valley, Wusheng Taoist.
"This scar was left by the Silent Taoist."
Mu Jianyu stretched out her right hand, with a long scar on the back of her hand. Although she did not elaborate, Gu He could roughly guess that when the Qionghua Sect underwent a major change in the past, she tried to protect the sect, but unfortunately failed.
"Leave the rest to me."
Gu He wrote down the news, and a sharp sword energy emanated from him. The little apprentice sister Mu Jianyu standing behind him looked dazed.
The memory goes back to more than two thousand years ago.
One afternoon.
Dusk sunset.
My senior brother was also standing on the top of the mountain like he is now, facing the sunset, his eyes full of confidence.
"Junior sister, the current path in the world of immortal cultivation is wrong! If we continue on the current path, none of us will be able to become immortals." The mountain breeze blew across Gu He's cheeks, moving a few strands of hair. The setting sun shone on his face, full of confidence.
".Taihao and I have decided to reincarnate together and cultivate again to find the true path to becoming an immortal!"
A word from Xiandao.
It is ever difficult to ascend to heaven.
The story of becoming an immortal by practicing with a book only exists in storybooks. As the saying goes, "It is difficult to become an immortal even if you are not destroyed for a thousand years." No one can be sure that the path they are taking is right, and no one dares to be sure that the method they are practicing has no hidden dangers.
On the road to immortality, everything is unknown.
By the time you realize the problem, there is no going back.
There are more than thousands of dead bones lying beneath the immortal road.
Legend has it that the Great Emperor went through 99,000 calamities to become an immortal, and there were even ancient mighty beings who went through one calamity. Compared to these beings, the 9,000 years of three reincarnations was really too short.
"After I leave, I hope that you can guard the sect and this mountain. When I return, I will take you to the path of immortality!" Gu He stretched out his hand and lifted Mu Jianyu's hair, and the picture froze at that moment.
This also became the most profound memory in Mu Jianyu's heart.
"good."
Mu Jianyu agreed to the promise.
At that time, she had just entered the Nascent Soul Realm. For this promise, she had guarded the Qionghua Sect for 2,700 years! Only she herself knew the hardships. Now the Qionghua Sect has been divided into seven parts, but the ancestral land of the sect still exists. If it weren't for Mu Jianyu, the Qionghua Sect in the upper realm would have disappeared long ago.
Baixian Cave is the best example.
"good."
Mu Jianyu pondered for a long time and replied with the same word.
Two thousand seven hundred years of protection came to an end at this moment, and everything became full again.
Gate of Stars.
The three great incense gods have returned to the world of legend.
As a product of "legend", they can't stay in reality for long. Every minute they stay here consumes the power of incense. As their partner, Chen Luo naturally has to contribute. Fu Yunwa and the other two assigned him the trivial tasks of transforming the Star Gate, and also demarcated a small country in the edge area of the Star Gate near the Ancient God Sect, and gave him the "incense rights" there.
For Chen Luo, he didn't care about the 'incense power' at all, and he didn't want to become an incense god.
This time, the battle with the Star Gate made him a lot of money. Apart from other things, the corpse alone was enough to make him back his investment. Not to mention that he also intercepted the rough pieces of the immortal tools that the three ancestors of the Star Gate, the Sun, Moon and Star, were refining. It can be said to be a wave of fat! The Evergreen Sect also expanded rapidly in this process, occupying a large amount of spiritual fields and precious land, becoming the largest sect in the Star Gate territory. Except for the lack of "Tao", the Evergreen Sect has completely replaced the Star Gate and become the overlord of this area.
"We have made a lot of money, but we have also left some hidden dangers."
Chen Luo glanced at the faint moon mark on the back of his hand. This was a backup left by Yue Zun after he defeated him last time. He didn't need to think about the purpose of Yue Zun leaving this moon mark.
'Soul Mark, tracking and locking souls, not limited by distance.'
Calling upon Brother Changqing's brain, his thinking mode changed rapidly. Looking at the mark of the Moon Mark in his hand, he felt that it was full of flaws and as rough as a sticker, which could be erased with any means.
'At the 32nd node of the Moon Mark, there is a flaw in the combination of spiritual power, which can be broken with Yang power.'
As the thought flashed through his mind, Chen Luo raised his right hand, gathered spiritual power at his fingertips, and accurately tapped the mark.
Hiss.
A burst of white smoke rose from the back of his hand, and the crescent mark on it twisted. Then, like a discarded sticker, Chen Luo picked it up with two fingers and tore it off the back of his hand.
The moon mark lost its attachment point and separated from the fingers. It floated in the air for two circles and then exploded like a balloon.
After solving the hidden danger, Chen Luo used Brother Changqing's brain to search his whole body. After making sure there were no other troubles, he got up and left.
As for trivial matters like creating the 'Land of Absolute Spirits', just leave it to your subordinates.
At his current level, there is no need to do everything himself.
Besides, the current Star Region is not stable, and there are many escaped Return to Void cultivators. Those guys are likely to come back after they recover. Putting oneself in an openly dangerous situation is inconsistent with Chen Luo's outlook on life and values.
"We need to find a place to digest the newly acquired immortal corpse brain. The hammer also needs time to be refined."
With a thought, his figure dispersed in the air like ink, and then disappeared on the spot.
Ancient God Sect.
Back mountain.
Venerable Ku Chai was sitting on a wooden block chopping firewood.
After the turmoil of the Star Sect, the Ancient God Sect also settled down. All the strange faces that had been wandering around the Ancient God Sect disappeared. For those people, the Ancient God Sect had nothing worth planning. A poor physical cultivation sect, with only one Ku Chai Venerable who broke through to the Return to Void Realm by luck.
There are no treasures or techniques, and it's a waste of time to look at them any longer.
Bang bang bang.
The Ku Chai Master kept swinging his axe, causing wood chips to fly everywhere. The Ancient God Sect suffered heavy losses in this disaster of the Star Sect. None of the disciples taken away by the Sect Master came back alive.
In this general trend, those who died were like ants, and no one cared about them.
As one of the few survivors in the center of the storm, Venerable Kuchai returned to the sect intact. His return also helped the Ancient God Sect survive, and many turbulent areas were stabilized.
These days, Venerable Kuchai has been chopping wood in the back mountain and has not seen any outsiders.
He had originally intended to risk his life this time, but unfortunately, he gained nothing in the end. He failed to save his brother Kuzhu, and failed to understand the meaning of fate.
Now that I have little time left, I feel more open-minded.
This is how the path to becoming an immortal is.
He was not the only one who had a life of hard training but no ending. There were many people who died in a foreign land and their bones turned into mud. How many people in the world could break through to the Return to Void Realm and found a large sect like the Ancient God Sect?
After understanding this, Venerable Kuchai completely relaxed and stopped forcing it. (End of this chapter)
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