As midnight approached, Hou Wenjie raised his head, stood up, and used his Shrinking Earth to an Inch technique to head towards the Purple Mystery Cave.
Now, Hou Wenjie's walking speed when using the Shrinking Earth technique has already exceeded 10 kilometers per minute, which translates to a speed of over 600 kilometers per hour, an astonishing speed.
Therefore, at such an astonishing speed, Hou Wenjie arrived at Zixuan Cave Zhaotian in time!
Hou Wenjie wasted not a moment. The moment the Purple Mystery Cave Reappeared in reality, he went inside and sat down to meditate.
As the sunlight shone, he felt again the continuous, flowing light.
The constant flow of the returning light into his mind made his spiritual light shine even brighter.
Not only that! He saw that the Avici Prison Stele, which had been floating in his sea of consciousness, had now leaped to the Qi Sea above his sea of consciousness.
In the void, a beam of blue-white light also poured into the Prison Suppressing Stele, but a small portion of it also spilled onto the sea of consciousness!
The double dose of heavenly light made the embryo in Hou Wenjie's sea of consciousness even more active!
There it was, a radiant kidney, like a lotus root, slowly forming within the cinnabar embryo!
Time slowly passed! A scene, like the manifestation of the Great Dao, appeared in Hou Wenjie's sea of consciousness.
As the lotus root-like glossy kidneys formed, the lotus root sprouted new shoots, which then grew into slender stalks!
The leaf stalk extends straight to the heart, forming a lotus bud!
Hou Wenjie understood that this lotus bud was the heart formed from the elixir embryo!
As the heart and kidneys formed, other organs within the embryo also began to slowly form.
The light of sexuality shone even brighter, and more and more sunlight streamed down beside the prison monument in Abi Town.
The embryo is growing faster and faster!
The lotus began to slowly bloom! A wisp of fragrant floral mist rose straight up, reaching the heavens and connecting with the first eyes that had formed. From then on, the facial features gradually began to take shape.
Hou Wenjie focused his mind and quietly watched the fetus develop.
What could be more awe-inspiring than the birth of life?
As midnight was approaching, Hou Wenjie got up and left Zixuan Cave Zhaotian.
The existence of the Prison-Suppressing Stele accelerated the formation of his dantian!
Standing in the wilderness of Luomen Village, he still felt his heart surging with emotion.
He finally experienced the great freedom described by the ancient sages!
The Taoist texts say:
Though dwelling in the mortal realm, one's name is already enshrined in the immortals; needing no external guidance, one is a sage within oneself. After a hundred years of diligent practice, one sheds the mortal shell and ascends to immortality; with a single elixir, one's spirit roams the eight directions.
It is also said:
[The body is like a lotus root, the heart like a lotus flower; the root is in the mud, but the flower blooms in the void! The enlightened one's body is mortal, but the heart is in a sacred realm!]
Hou Wenjie could sense that his dantian would be fully formed the next time he entered the cave.
What is it like to personally nurture a fetus and watch it take shape little by little?
Hou Wenjie couldn't say it; he wasn't exactly a good communicator.
But he understood that feeling; it was strange, very strange.
To borrow the words of the Taoist master Zhang Sanfeng, who practiced Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism:
[Understanding Yin and Yang, deeply comprehending the workings of nature, discerning truth from falsehood, obtaining the true essence of Yin and Yang, and seeking the true origin of lead and mercury.]
To achieve immortality through transformation, to dwell in a sky that never sleeps, to enjoy the scenery of eternal spring, to live as long as heaven and earth, to shine as brightly as the sun and moon—this is truly the duty of a great man.
Once the elixir is successfully formed, he will be close to achieving immortality through bone transformation.
Hou Wenjie meditated until dawn, feeling refreshed and the time flew by.
In the morning, he returned to Xiashan Town. After a quick wash at home, he first went to a street vendor for a bowl of noodles.
Then, he prepared to go to the next marked location to deal with the strange event.
Just then, he received a phone call. After answering, the person on the other end said:
"Hello, Hou Wenjie. I am Zhou Qingshan, the deputy director of the Chuzhou Bureau of Strange Affairs, and the chat group owner of the group 'I Am a Madman of Chu,' also known online as Ximen Gujiu. Do you remember me?"
Hou Wenjie knew immediately that something must have happened, so he asked, "Of course I remember. Has something unexpected happened that requires my help?"
Zhou Qingshan confirmed: "Yes, a serious and strange incident has occurred in the East China Sea. A cargo ship has gone missing!"
There are a total of 24 of our citizens on board! It is currently uncertain whether they are dead!
After the Hangzhou Ghost Affairs Bureau dispatched three experienced ghost hunters to search for them, the three men also disappeared, and the positioning system could not locate their communication devices at all.
Yu Hangzhou finally requested assistance from the Bureau of Ghostly Affairs. After reviewing your mission report, the Bureau recognized your abilities and, based on a comprehensive assessment, determined that you ranked No. 1 among the best ghost-sealing experts in the country. Therefore, they decided to send you!
Of course, you also have the right to refuse and continue with your original task, without worrying about being targeted by your superiors!
Hou Wenjie didn't hesitate and said, "Go! Of course I'll go! Since things have come to this point, the situation must be quite urgent!"
I'm just curious, I haven't even achieved anything yet, how did I become number one!
Zhou Qingshan laughed and said, "You may not have logged into today's Ghostly Affairs Bureau website. The post about you is already pinned to the top."
The official account posted a special account of your massacre in Luomen Village, which was obviously embellished to some extent!
But the fact that you were able to single-handedly storm the Dragon Pool and ruthlessly slaughter an ancient deity when all three of the Sealed Ghosts had fallen demonstrates that you are at the pinnacle of all Sealed Ghosts.
Moreover, you also brought out secret information such as gods, yin gods, the small heavenly circulation cultivation method, and becoming a god through incense offerings. You also contributed the ancestral Taoist book "Qi Body Origin and Flow". All of this is enough to deepen the goodwill of all the Fenggui people towards you!
What's more, you subsequently resolved the Hot Spring Village incident and the Apricot Blossom Village incident!
The difficulty of these two bizarre incidents can be seen in the report.
Of course, most importantly, you have the ability to strip the supernatural from a person's mind.
With this ability alone, you're more than capable of becoming the best in the world!
“Alright! Then I’ll do what I, the number one master in the world, should do!” Hou Wenjie said.
"I'll send a helicopter to take you there!"
"No need! Since you've seen my information, you should know that I can travel on foot faster than a helicopter! Just send me the information!"
"Okay, I'll send it to you right away!" Zhou Qingshan's steady voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Okay, that's settled then. I need to get going."
After ending the call, Hou Wenjie put the phone in his pocket and then began to use his "shrinking earth to an inch" technique.
This time, he used this supernatural power to its fullest extent.
With his frantic urging, his speed had already exceeded an astonishing 900 kilometers per hour!
He arrived at the scene of the accident in just over an hour.
A grayish-white fog covered the sea surface, reducing visibility to extremely low levels.
Hou Wenjie did not hesitate and immediately activated his Heavenly Eye.
Under the power of his telescope, he saw a hazy, indistinct island, and the cargo ship was stranded on its side.
In the sky, howling winds and torrential rain could be seen.
On the island, one can see ancient trees, lush and verdant, their canopies blocking out the sun.
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