The boy jumped up to Hu Le, bowed, and asked, "Are you the Eastern Divine Lord?"
"It is indeed Hu." Hu Le nodded.
"That's good. Master knew you were coming, so he specially sent a servant to greet you. Please come with me."
The boy gestured for them to proceed.
"Please lead the way, boy."
Next, Hu Le, led by the boy, entered the Wuzhuang Temple.
After passing through the courtyard, he arrived outside the main hall and saw Zhen Yuanzi, the Great Immortal, already standing below the steps, smiling at him.
Upon seeing his arrival, Zhen Yuanzi also hurried forward and came to stand before him.
"Greetings, senior." Hu Le was the first to greet him.
"No need for formalities. Your presence at my Wuzhuang Temple is an honor to our humble abode! Please come inside for a chat."
Zhen Yuanzi was extremely polite and led him into the hall.
The boy offered up the celestial dew and ordered someone to bring a ginseng fruit for Hu Le to taste.
Hu Le exchanged a few polite words, ate the ginseng fruit, and chatted for a while before Zhen Yuanzi asked Hu Le about his purpose for coming.
"Young friend, what brings you here today?"
Hu Le smiled and said, "I have come here because I have a favor to ask of you. I hope you can lend me a hand."
Zhen Yuanzi didn't take on too much responsibility, but asked, "Oh? What is it? Why don't you tell me?"
"Alright, I am currently trying to condense a breath of earth elemental energy, and I need a place with abundant innate earth elemental energy. I have long heard that you, senior, are in charge of the Earth Book, and the circulation of the earth veins and spiritual energy of the mountains and rivers of the primordial land are all recorded in the Earth Book."
"I am now making this abrupt request to see you, senior, so that you may use the Book of Earth to find a suitable spiritual burial site for me."
"Heh... I thought you came looking for me for something, but it turns out it's so simple..."
Zhen Yuanzi secretly breathed a sigh of relief; he had thought Hu Le had come to him about something serious.
Finding spiritual veins and burial sites was a piece of cake for him.
After all, the flow of earth veins in the entire primordial Yin and Yang realms has left traces in the Earth Book. As long as he unfolds the Earth Book and examines it briefly, he can find many places suitable for condensing earth elemental energy.
He reached out and gestured backward, and a wisp of primordial energy carrying the Earth Book flew from the rear hall and landed in his palm.
He held the Earth Book in his hands, unfolded it, and stared intently into its contents. A glint of wisdom flashed in his eyes, and he nodded in satisfaction before closing the Earth Book.
Next, Zhen Yuanzi pointed out a place to Hu Le.
Hu Le noted down the location, stood up to thank Zhen Yuanzi, and then took his leave.
Zhen Yuanzi then ordered someone to fetch three ginseng fruits from the backyard for him to take back and taste.
Hu Le also put down the rare and precious materials he had carefully selected, and was then personally escorted out of Wuzhuang Temple by Zhen Yuanzi.
Hu Le rode on auspicious clouds and left Longevity Mountain. He then went directly to the foot of Mount Tai and arrived at a place with dense yin energy. He tapped the ground with his bamboo staff.
In an instant, a dark vortex appeared in front of him, and chilling ghostly energy spread out. The originally lush green grass and trees around him were instantly covered with a layer of frost and withered.
Hu Le stepped into the vortex, his figure instantly enveloped by a cloud of black mist. As the vortex gradually disappeared, Hu Le appeared in the Netherworld...
The underworld.
Everywhere you look, there is no vegetation, a pervasive sense of gloom, and an atmosphere of death.
A crimson moon hung high in the sky, casting a hazy, desolate glow.
Under the moonlight, one can vaguely see ghostly figures wandering between heaven and earth.
Looking into the distance, the Yinshan Mountains had turned into a long, dark shadow, appearing indistinct and vague, like a giant ghost.
Behind the Yin Mountain, wisps of foul air condensed into red clouds, drifting between heaven and earth; these were the rising vapors of the Blood Sea…
Long ago, the Earthly Sovereign Yue Jianshi opened up the Netherworld on the edge of the Blood Sea, providing a final resting place for the billions of true spirits of the primordial world.
So that they would no longer be scorched by the yang energy of the world, nor be tainted by the filth of the sea of blood.
Yue Jianshi thus gained great merit, and with this merit, he wanted to attempt to break through to the Hunyuan Dao Fruit.
Unexpectedly, the Primordial Dao Fruit was not so easy to attain!
In the end, he not only failed to attain enlightenment, but also suffered a backlash, perishing in the Netherworld. His physical body transformed into a continuous, undulating Yin Mountain, separating the Blood Sea from the Netherworld.
...
Hu Le rode on auspicious clouds and arrived above Yinshan Mountain.
Yue Jianshi was the master of the earth. After his death, the Yinshan Mountain he transformed into must be a place where the earth's energy is concentrated, the earth element is the most concentrated, and the purest.
Hu Le arrived at the outer edge of Yinshan Mountain and took a look around. He found that the earth element energy here was indeed extremely rich, and Zhen Yuanzi had not deceived him.
However, the earth element here has been polluted by the yin energy of the underworld and is no longer pure, so it is naturally unsuitable for condensing the five elements in the chest.
So he rode on auspicious clouds and headed deep into the Yin Mountains.
Just as he expected, as he went deeper, the earth element in the mountains became not only purer but also more concentrated.
Until he arrived at the center of Yinshan, which is also the highest peak of the Yinshan mountain range.
There is a Heavenly Pool on the mountaintop, the water of which is dark yellow and looks quite murky.
However, because it was transformed from the Purple Palace Spirit Platform of Yue Jian, the Heavenly Pool is not only vast and boundless, but also unfathomably deep, and the innate earth element energy within it is extremely dense.
It's just right for Hu Le to condense the five vital energies in his chest...
Hu Le used his bamboo cane to part the water and jumped in. As he slowly sank, the surrounding earth energy became purer and denser.
He descended for about ten thousand feet before stopping. With a flick of his bamboo staff, the innate five-colored divine light flowed, washing away the surrounding pool water and creating a dry space.
Seeing that the surrounding pool water was about to flow back, he flicked his sleeve, and a Kan-Gen-Kun flag flew out and immediately stood suspended in the air.
As the flag fluttered in the still air, a ray of clear light spread out, keeping the surrounding pool water out.
In an instant, the area within several feet of Hu Le became completely dry, without a trace of moisture.
Hu Le raised his hand and pointed, and a prayer mat appeared under the banner. He walked to the banner, sat down on the prayer mat, and immediately sat suspended in a ball of clear light.
Hu Le calmed his mind and then closed his eyes. With each breath, wisps of innate earth element energy flew out from the surrounding water and converged on him.
Soon, he was enveloped by a vortex of dark yellow energy.
Just as his cultivation was about to reach its peak, a thunderous explosion suddenly came from not far ahead, abruptly waking him and interrupting his cultivation.
He opened his eyes and saw that the once calm pool water in front of him had suddenly become extremely murky, with swirling currents churning and surging, as if a giant creature was fiercely fighting with someone in the water...
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