Chapter 90 Seizing the Yin Suit: Could this be the origin of the White Injustice? ...
"This is……"
"This is……"
"This is……"
"This is……"
The boys took turns stepping on the pieces thrown by Li Liuyun, passing through the array of divination blocks made of vast stars, and one after another uttered the words "This is," unable to finish their thought due to shock. Like a few stunned stutterers, they stood frozen in place, speechless.
Even Zhou Yaren and Li Liuyun were stunned on the spot, until Bai Yuan murmured, "...Taiyin."
At the far end of the tomb, mimicking the polar night, surrounded by stars, a middle-aged man with sunken cheeks sat cross-legged in the full moon, eyes closed.
This man, dressed in a blue robe, was extremely thin, and his hair ornament was embroidered with a yin-yang pattern, clearly indicating that he was a Taoist practitioner.
His skin was bluish and dark, and because he was sitting cross-legged in the moon, his whole body was coated with a soft silver light, making his face look lifelike. For a moment, it was difficult to tell whether he was dead or alive.
"Is he—" Lin Mu couldn't help but ask, "alive?"
The person showed no signs of life, and Zhou Yaren was certain: "Dead."
But his lifelike appearance was extremely deceptive. Compared to the word "death," the calm demeanor of this person sitting cross-legged in the shape of the moon made Wen Yi feel: "This mountain tomb is built like a celestial body, and he is like a person who has cultivated himself to the Tao and passed away in the Taiyin."
"Yes, it doesn't look like it's dead."
Several teenagers wanted to check his breathing, but they all restrained themselves from making any rash moves.
The scene, crafted with the imagery of stars and the moon, gave the illusion of stepping into a sacred place and encountering a celestial being. But none of the youths were truly foolish enough to believe they had met a moon goddess amidst a mound of corpses.
Lian Zhao: "Could he be the sorcerer who set up the formation?"
Yu Heqi: "It seems so. Because he died from the killing formation he himself set up, he buried himself here as well?"
Lin Mu asked in a surprised tone, "What is he holding in his hands?"
The sorcerer held his hands down in front of his abdomen, palms together, supporting a silvery-white, round object with a slight gap about a finger's width between them.
Wen Yi turned his head, looking left and right: "Isn't that a big clam? What's he doing holding a big clam?"
Bai Yuan stared at the slightly open clam shell for a long time, then suddenly spoke up: "This is Yin Sui."
The boys turned around in shock, their expressions clearly showing disbelief.
Yu Heqi questioned, "Isn't this just the most common clam shell found in the Haihe River? How could it be a fire-resistant mirror?!"
Lin Mu chimed in, "Yeah, it's not like we haven't seen what a Yin Sui looks like before..."
"The yin-fired lamps you see are all cast by craftsmen." Moreover, it must be cast at midnight on the Renzi day of the eleventh month, because the yin energy is strongest at midnight on this day, so that the yin-fired lamps can be cast by moonlight. Zhou Yaren said, "From the beginning, everyone has formed a fixed understanding of yin-fired lamps, believing that they should be made of alloy. But before the Qin Dynasty, the yin-fired lamps held by the sages were not man-made castings."
“That’s right,” Li Liuyun added. “Many ancient books record that Yin Sui is a giant clam. When the moon is full, it is placed under the moon to extract the essence of Yin and generate water.”
However, most people have never truly understood or witnessed it. Even if the Yin Sui, which embodies Lao Tzu's philosophy, were right in front of them, they would miss it because they did not recognize it.
Lin Mu was extremely shocked: "So this giant toad really is the Yin Sui of Dao Ancestor Laozi?"
“I understand.” Li Liuyun stared blankly at the stars and moon before him, his heart surging with emotion. “This is the Taiyin Refining Form.”
Bai Yuan turned his head: "What?"
“This is the way to longevity recorded in the ‘Laozi Xiang'er Commentary’,” Li Liuyun recalled. The original text said, “‘Taiyin/Daoji is the palace of refining the form. When there is a place in the world that cannot be lived in, the wise man will avoid it, entrust his death to pass through Taiyin, and then be reborn on one side, and will not perish.’ The Taiyin/Daoji mentioned here, the palace of refining the form, refers to Taiyin’s refining of the form.”
Zhou Yaren immediately understood: "The Yin Sui itself draws water from the moon and is a magical instrument for collecting the Yin/essence of the moon, and it has been so for thousands of years. So the Dao of Lao Tzu accumulated in the Yin Sui, and naturally the Taiyin/Dao body was formed."
“That’s right, it’s the moon we’re seeing right now,” Li Liuyun continued. “It’s the Palace of Taiyin Refining Form, known as the Realm of Immortality. If one can die there, one can be resurrected and will not perish.”
"Resurrected from the dead?" Lian Zhao exclaimed in astonishment. "You're saying he can be resurrected here?"
Lin Mu's eyes widened: "He can come back to life?"
"In my opinion, refining his form in the Taiyin (the realm of Yin) is the path to immortality he sought." Laozi left behind the five-thousand-word Tao Te Ching after leaving Hangu Pass, stating, "The Tao gives birth to One, One gives birth to Two, Two gives birth to Three, Three gives birth to all things." Li Liuyun said, "The Tao gives birth to all things, and life and death cycle endlessly. He obtained Laozi's 'Tao,' which is to say, he obtained the palace of refining his form. Therefore, he chose to be reborn in the Taiyin, just like..."
As Li Liuyun finished speaking, he suddenly turned to look at Bai Yuan.
The other teenagers, unaware of what was going on, also turned to look, then looked at Li Liuyun with confusion. Before they could ask any further questions, Li Liuyun stared at Bai Yuan and said firmly, "Just like you."
Bai Yuan seemed to have heard something outlandish, raising his eyebrows: "Me?"
Lin Mu was even more surprised: "She looks like her? What happened to her?"
“According to what Tingfengzhi said earlier, the Taiyin Dao Body that was sunk in the Northern Qu Ghost Office during the Qin Dynasty and used to imprison you was made from the Yin Sui of the Dao Ancestor. Isn’t that another Taiyin Refining Body Palace? And you are still standing here today, which confirms the saying, ‘Entrusting death to Taiyin, and then being reborn, and not perishing,’ thus obtaining this immortal Yin body?”
Upon hearing this, all the boys stood up straight in unison, staring at Bai Yuan with wide eyes. No wonder! No wonder she was able to "live" for so long! How did she "survive" like this?!
Li Liuyun's words also had a significant impact on Zhou Yaren: "Undying Yin Body?"
Could this be the origin of the injustice done to Bai Yuan?
Zhou Yaren recalled Sun Xiuniang's sacrifice of death to worship the moon at the Ghost Palace, her aim being "the Taoist priest's actions are complete, the Taoist gods return to him, he escapes the world by entrusting his death to pass through the Taiyin, and is reborn to be immortal, hence his longevity," which refers to the Taiyin refining of form, also from the "Laozi Xiang'er Commentary," yearning to be reborn in the moon, to be reborn and immortal, and thus obtain an immortal Yin body.
Bai Yuan didn't deny it, and she also felt that what the boy said was very reasonable and well-founded. If Li Liuyun didn't point to himself to verify this, she might have believed it to be true.
Previously, Zhou Yaren also compared her to the legendary "Chang'e" who gained immortality and "flew to the moon," but unexpectedly dug her own grave and was imprisoned forever in the "moon palace." This is the so-called price of immortality, which is quite interesting.
Whether it's the "Moon Palace" or the "Taiyin Refining Form Palace," both are paths to immortality, and in the eyes of others, it seems that she has already attained some kind of immortality in Taiyin.
Bai Yuan pointed at the sorcerer sitting cross-legged in the moon and asked, "According to your reasoning, he can also cultivate an immortal Yin body?"
Li Liuyun dared not make a hasty judgment: "If given time..."
“He probably won’t live that long,” Bai Yuan stepped forward, heading towards the figure in the moon, his tone now tinged with arrogance. “Mortals, seeking life and death, are most prone to wild fantasies. People always have all sorts of delusions and insatiable desires. What makes him think he can be compared to me?!”
Zhou Yaren was the first to react: "Innocent."
Without turning his head, Bai Yuan stepped into the lunar phase and into the barrier bathed in silver light: "I have never been a human being, so how can I entrust my death to someone?"
Li Liuyun was suddenly taken aback: "What?"
Before anyone could even process her words, "I have never been human, so how can I speak of entrusting my death?", the moonlight rippled as Bai Yuan stepped on it. "This sorcerer meticulously planned a way to escape the world and feign death, attempting to be reborn in the moon and live an endless life." Silver light overflowed, bathing Bai Yuan in holy light, making her appear like a banished immortal walking on the moon. "Then she set up twelve killing formations as the Corpse Star Abyss, using the calamity and killing intent of the ancient battlefield to protect her little territory—the Palace of Taiyin Refining Formation."
Anyone who mistakenly enters the gate or trespasses will die in the ambush buried in the Jingguan (a mound of corpses), and none will survive.
Unfortunately, this formation encountered Bai Yuan and Zhou Yaren, as well as Li Liuyun, a Celestial Master's successor who was proficient in Qimen formations, and it was time for it to be broken.
This group of people are lawless. They not only passed through the "Gate of Hell" filled with the bones of the dead and went straight to the Taiyin Refining Palace, but also tried to disturb his cultivation of the path to immortality.
Zhou Yaren was a beat too slow and failed to stop Bai Yuan in time. She then brazenly "ascended" to the moon and went straight for the Yin Sui that the sorcerer was holding in his palm.
"Don't act rashly!" Li Liuyun shouted to stop them, but it was too late.
The moment Bai Yuan touched Yin Sui, he immediately sensed something was wrong. He then struck out with his palm, knocking Zhou Yaren, who was approaching, back several steps.
Before anyone could figure out why Bai Yuan had suddenly turned hostile, as if he had mistaken Ting Fengzhi for someone who had tried to steal Yin Sui, the anger had barely taken hold in the hearts of the young people when the tomb chamber suddenly underwent a celestial transformation. Several strands of silkworm silk lashed out at the spot where Zhou Yaren had just stopped. Bai Yuan abruptly withdrew his palm, but his arm still couldn't avoid the attack unscathed, and drops of blood clung to the silk threads, barely touching the ground.
Countless silken threads pierced the moon's surface, threading and stabbing at the innocent woman who had "entered the inner chamber." She moved like a blur, gliding past the silken blades powerful enough to slice flesh and break bones, and turned back to the group of reckless youths, shouting, "Get out of here!"
This is the final mechanism protecting the Palace of Taiyin Refining Form, and it is extremely dangerous.
The boys knew this was no small matter. As soon as Bai Yuan finished speaking, they immediately took off running, frantically dodging the haphazardly arranged silkworm threads. These deadly things were extremely tough, impossible to cut with a sword, and would even change shape with the changing stars. If you weren't careful and got hit by them, even a scratch or bleeding would be considered a minor injury.
The boys had several deep and shallow cuts on their bodies. The only saving grace was that they weren't poisoned by anything that could kill instantly, otherwise they would all have been killed and none of them would have survived.
However, although it doesn't contain a deadly poison, it can still draw blood and slit the throat instantly—a silkworm thread suddenly appears out of nowhere and lies across the sky, and any tree that turns its head will immediately be forced to its death.
"Miki!" Lian Zhao cried out in shock.
A sudden gust of wind arrived, and a hand reached out, catching Lin Mu's slender neck as he leaned forward. The cool palm pressed against his throat, and Lin Mu broke out in a cold sweat: "Tingfengzhi..."
I almost, I almost lost my life.
Zhou Yaren took a step back with Lin Mu, but they were still not out of danger. The constellations on the tomb wall changed again, and the haphazardly arranged silkworm threads were like a woven net, leaving them nowhere to escape.
"careful!"
"quick!"
Get out of the way!
"Flowing Clouds!"
The boys' cries of alarm rose and fell; under the stellar divination, they were all on the brink of life and death, with nowhere to hide and nowhere to escape.
Everyone stared wide-eyed, utterly horrified.
At the critical moment, thousands of ice threads suddenly burst forth from the lunar phase, entangling the interwoven celestial silkworm threads and forcibly pulling on the ever-changing stellar mechanism.
Zhou Yaren was stuck between the silkworm silk and the ice silk in a 90-degree backward posture, unable to go up or down.
Li Liuyun, on the other hand, stood on one foot, his body tilted, his sword pointing eastward, which was stuck in the middle. Anyone who was not in good balance would fall on the Heavenly Silkworm Blade.
The other teenagers were frozen in various poses, creating countless unique statues, and none of them dared to make any rash moves.
Having been lying in wait for a long time, Chen Ying seized the opportunity and of course would not let go of this once-in-a-lifetime chance to rob the Hu people—if she didn't seize Yin Sui now, when would she?
As soon as Chen Ying gave the order, the dark figure suddenly darted out from the shadows, nimbly traversing countless "lines of life and death," heading straight for the moon!
Bai Yuan suddenly turned his head: "Who?!"
The dark figure moved with lightning speed, flashing past her eyes and heading towards the sorcerer.
Just as Bai Yuan was about to free her hands to deal with the rat that had scurried out of the ditch, the formation on the field immediately began to operate out of control, cutting towards several living people in the formation—Lin Mu, who was almost cut off, was terrified and immediately screamed. Bai Yuan had no choice but to restrain the Star Change while she was also restrained by this formation.
She hesitated for only a moment, and the dark figure snatched Yin Sui away from her right under her nose like a ghost.
"Don't go!" Bai Yuan said coldly, as a strand of ice silk wrapped around the neck of the dark figure and pulled it back sharply.
In a flash, the slingshot flew high into the air and was caught by Chen Ying, who was waiting for the right moment.
Once the dark figure was dragged to his feet, all that remained was a skeleton covered in human skin. Bai Yuan kicked the rotten skeleton away, saying, "Wang Xiang."
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