Chapter 213 Cub
The birth of celestial beasts has always been quite mysterious. The classics only record that monks witnessed the birth of celestial beasts. It can be traced back to the most ancient time when the ancestor of the formation way, Xingji, attained enlightenment and ascended to the celestial beast Xiyan on the spot. It has a history of tens of thousands of years.
Other celestial beasts seemed to appear out of thin air. For example, ten thousand years ago, the celestial beast Jinglai, slain by Yu Lu, the ancestor of the Yu clan, had its dao of the afterlife unknowingly retaken by the suddenly appearing celestial beast Zhijing. Before Zhijing's appearance during the great war between good and evil, the cultivators were unaware of the change in the dao of the afterlife.
Another record of a young celestial beast appeared in the Daowang Sect's texts, which were snatched away by Zang Yaozong. This young celestial beast was named Wuli, and it had been in its cub form since it was discovered by Daowang Sect members three thousand years ago. To this day, it's unknown to which sect it belongs.
Wu Li possesses three wings. When spread out, they resemble clouds obscuring the sun, their wingtips two hundred miles apart. When folded, they disappear into the air, revealing only a small, gray body, the size of a hare. The Daowang Sect captured Wu Li to study the origins of the Heavenly Dao and celestial beasts, and for three thousand years, Wu Li has remained unchanged.
After the Daowang Sect's attempt to slash the sky was thwarted, the Zang Yao Sect rose to power, gaining access to Wu Li and all the information the Daowang Sect had researched. Knowing that Wu Li was no longer useful, he was slain by the True Lord Beilian, his spine extracted and refined into the Baishi Ghost Work Ball, while his body was taken by Taoist Hua Shen for alchemy experiments.
During this period, the Heavenly Dao had not brought down any divine punishment. Therefore, before the Heavenly Beasts reached adulthood and took over the Dao, the Heavenly Dao did not seem to protect these "physical agents of the Heavenly Dao." I wonder if the righteous side knew about this.
Luo Xuanyi had no right to see Wu Li's research, nor was it in Taoist Hua Shen's collection. However, there were several volumes documenting alchemy using Wu Li's body. Taoist Hua Shen's disappointment practically overflowed from the volumes, as he angrily wrote, "Using it to refine an elixir is a complete waste of spiritual herbs!"
Taoist Hua Shen separated Wu Li's body into its organs, skin, and flesh for alchemy. Without exception, all spiritual herbs were contaminated by the foul aura emanating from the flesh, their spiritual energy dissipating and transforming into ordinary grass. Feeding humans and animals with the flesh alone would instantly kill them. Filling the soil with blood, the dead soil would no longer support any vegetation.
At that time, the Zang Yao Sect had not yet developed a method to stimulate the growth of spiritual herbs. Taoist Hua Shen lost all the spiritual herbs he had collected over the past hundred years in this alchemy experiment. Stimulated by this, he forced the monks in the sect to work with him to develop a method for mass production of spiritual herbs.
Taoist Hua Shen lost interest in the young celestial beasts, much to the chagrin of True Lord Bei Lian. While the young celestial beasts' bodies couldn't be used to refine elixirs, they could be used to refine weapons, and every part of them was top-grade refining material. Yet, all of them were wasted by Taoist Hua Shen, who took advantage and acted ungratefully.
According to records, at the time, True Lord Bei Lian was only at the middle stage of the Nascent Soul stage, yet he could easily slay a young celestial beast that hadn't inherited the Dao. The power gap between a young celestial beast and a true celestial beast was as vast as heaven and earth. Luo Xuanyi was currently at the Red Ghost Realm, equivalent to the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. Furthermore, the fleeting glimpse she had just taken confirmed that this celestial beast was only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul stage, a level she should have dismissed.
However, Luo Xuanyi couldn't even sneak into the Songyun Mountain where the mysterious young celestial beast lived with the dead energy, and the reason was Taoism.
Cultivators like True Lord Bei Lian and Taoist Hua Shen, though eccentric, are still considered human cultivators. By the time they reach the Nascent Soul stage, their minds have already begun to engrave the Dao essence within their bodies, awaiting the formation of the Dao Seed that will allow them to break through to the Refining Void Realm. It can be said that their every move already carries the Dao's subtlety. While incomplete, it's enough to break through the defenses of young celestial beasts who haven't inherited the Dao's teachings.
For a cultivator like Luo Xuanyi, who has no one to teach her the Dao and can only explore on her own and devote herself to strange cultivation, she is completely confused about what she should do at each stage and relies entirely on her high level of comprehension.
To put it in a more detailed way, a Nascent Soul cultivator at her level would have difficulty even creating a small space for themselves, while she was already able to create a small world. However, Luo Xuanyi only knew the name of the Soul Separation Technique, which ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators could use.
Her cunning way is the basic heart sutra, which is only the method to open up the path of cunning cultivation. So far, she has not been able to establish the real avenue on this path, and has not been able to realize the Tao and engrave her own enlightenment. Therefore, she has a strength far superior to that of the young celestial beast, but cannot break through its defense.
Although she said so, after Luo Xuanyi refined the eight formation flags and began to truly learn the art of formations and build a path for herself, this defense was nothing more than a thin layer of white paper in her eyes.
Luo Xuanyi held no fear for the celestial beasts. She knew only that Yu Lu had slain the beast to prove her Dao, and that she had fashioned the Dao Branch from Jing Lai's corpse into her own magical instrument, a weapon of immense power. She also coveted the Hundred-Life Ghost Crafts Ball, forged from Wu Li's spine by True Lord Bei Lian. She desired to become stronger, and the materials for that were right before her eyes. Why not take them?
It's a pity that I can't kill it now. The eight basic formation flags made of young celestial beasts must be extremely powerful. Luo Xuanyi couldn't help but start looking forward to it.
It can't be done now.
This young celestial beast is likely the reason why only townspeople can enter the mountains to harvest the fruits. It's unknown why it only allows townspeople to do so. Regardless, it's confirmed that this celestial beast resides within the Twelve Cloud Mountains.
Although Luo Xuanyi guessed that it would most likely use this as its base and would not leave, in order to be on the safe side, she still used the confusing servants to contaminate the surrounding weeds and trees around the mountain, and used the ghost servants as eyes to monitor the movements of Songyun Mountain.
Ghost servants were much more convenient than dead energy, and it was less likely for cultivators to detect abnormalities. As long as there was no need to transmit complex information, the newly born mind was sufficient.
After confirming the connection between the ghost servant and her mind, Luo Xuanyi sighed with regret, stood there for a moment, reluctant to leave, before turning around and flying back to Guhu Town. On the way into the town, Luo Xuanyi passed by several neatly arranged groups of townspeople. She didn't look away and quickly turned back to Ma Xinghua's yard.
For the next month, while waiting for the townspeople to deliver the refined products and monsters at the end of the month, she traveled all over Guhu Town and became familiar with almost all the townspeople.
She didn't stay in Ma Xinghua's yard because the children there were too noisy. She rarely had anything she clearly disliked, and children were one of the few things she could clearly identify. Her dead aura's range of perception was too large and too sensitive, but constricting it gave her an uneasy feeling of being unable to grasp all the movements around her. So she had no choice but to leave the yard.
So, now when she walks on the street, people will gradually greet her, even if she doesn't know who they are - in fact, she has never seen them before. She has no interest in gossip about other people's families, or perhaps she has a misunderstanding, so she never asks about the family affairs of the townspeople she meets, but the townspeople will share her as an interesting story with their families.
This month's leisure gave her time to thoroughly understand the real life of the people of Zhengdao. For her, the knowledge she gained was a great harvest.
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