114: Chapter 114 Reaching the Pinnacle of Mortal Life

The second document, a record from a former Ancestral Master of the Tiangang Sect: "...Watching the sun and moon rise and fall, I suddenly had an Epiphany. It seemed as if the power of heaven and earth descended from the Void Realm into my body, and all my Meridians were cleared."

The third document, a remnant page from the founding Old Ancestor of the Cangyun Sect: "...Climbing sheer cliffs and precipices, finding life in a place of death, I heard the sounds of heaven in a trance. Light entered my body, and from then on, I transcended the mortal and became a saint."

You read through them one by one, your brows furrowing tighter and tighter.

Seven notes, seven different descriptions from seven people.

But there is one commonality: they all say that some kind of power entered their bodies from the outside world.

Some call it pure Qi, some call it the power of heaven and earth, and others call it light.

Moreover, they all seem unclear about what it actually is.

Suddenly feeling, suddenly having an Epiphany, in a trance—these are all vague descriptions.

You put down the last note, lean back in your chair, and close your eyes.

You open your eyes, your gaze falling on certain keywords in those seven notes.

Sitting in meditation in the back mountain for three months—deep mountains.

Watching the sun and moon rise and fall—the wilderness.

Climbing sheer cliffs and precipices—barren mountains.

Deep mountains, wilderness, barren mountains.

The locations where they achieved their Breakthrough were all far from human habitation.

You suddenly sit up straight.

Spiritual Power.

The pure Qi and power of heaven and earth that those Earthly Immortals speak of—isn't it just Spiritual Qi?

The reason they were able to sense it occasionally in the deep mountains is because the concentration of Spiritual Qi is higher in places far from human habitation!

And since the Spiritual Qi in Great Li is already extremely thin, in the cities and densely populated areas, that tiny, infinitesimal amount of Spiritual Qi has long since been exhausted. That is why when you run the Taixu Visualization Method in the imperial palace, it is impossible to sense anything at all!

You stand up abruptly, your thoughts clearing up as if your Ren and Du Meridians had been unblocked, and everything becomes suddenly clear.

The Fusion of Spiritual Qi and True Qi transforms into Yuan Power; this is the essence of an Earthly Immortal!

Those Earthly Immortals who had an Epiphany were simply in places where the Spiritual Qi happened to be dense, and by chance, a tiny amount of Spiritual Qi seeped into their bodies and underwent Fusion with their True Qi!

They are not Geniuses.

They just got lucky.

You take a deep breath, suppress the excitement in your heart, turn around, and walk with large strides toward the depths of the secret chamber.

There, the Black-robed Puppet stands quietly in the corner.

You walk up to it and press your hand onto the groove on its chest.

There are two Spirit Stones left in the groove, their pale blue light flickering slightly under your palm.

You hesitate for a moment; there are only two Spirit Stones left, and each one used is one less, as they cannot be replenished.

But you do not hesitate for too long.

You take out one Spirit Stone and hold it in your palm.

Then you sit cross-legged, close your eyes, and operate the Taixu Visualization Method.

This time, you focus all your perception on the Spirit Stone in your palm.

One breath.

Two breaths.

Three breaths.

...

A quarter of an hour later.

Your brows twitch.

In your palm, beneath the pale blue luster floating on the surface of the Spirit Stone, you vaguely sense something—extremely faint, like an undercurrent flowing beneath a frozen river in deep winter, or like the first glimmer of light on the horizon before dawn.

Previously, you could not sense anything in the air, but now, the Spiritual Qi concentrated within this Spirit Stone is enough for your Taixu Visualization Method to capture its existence!

The corners of your mouth curl up slightly.

As expected.

For the next few months, you Cultivate in the secret chamber almost every day.

The Spiritual Qi in the Spirit Stone is extremely pure but also extremely unruly. It is like a slippery fish; every time you try to guide it into your Meridians, it breaks free from your control at the last moment and retreats back into the Spirit Stone.

You try countless times and fail countless times.

Until a late night in the third month.

In the secret chamber, there is only you and the faint light of the Spirit Stone.

You lock onto the Spiritual Qi in the Spirit Stone with the Taixu Visualization Method once again, cautiously guiding a tiny, thin wisp of Spiritual Qi along the Meridians in your palm toward your Dantian.

The moment the Spiritual Qi enters your Meridians, you feel its repulsion. It does not like it here; this body without a Spiritual Root is like a desert to it, with nothing to attach to, and it desperately wants to escape.

You grit your teeth and desperately maintain control.

Just at the moment you are about to lose your hold.

The struggle of the Spiritual Qi suddenly weakens.

You are stunned.

That wisp of Spiritual Qi was originally darting around like a startled wild horse, but the next instant, its movements slow down, as if... it has been soothed by something.

You clearly feel that the attitude of that wisp of Spiritual Qi in your Meridians changes subtly, from resistance and repulsion to hesitation and doubt, and finally... it actually becomes docile.

It stops struggling and stays quietly in your Meridians, allowing you to guide it.

Your heart stirs, and you understand instantly.

Peerless Elegance.

Spiritual Qi affinity.

You have no time to think carefully; taking advantage of this window of time while the Spiritual Qi is docile, you decisively guide it all the way down, straight into your Dantian.

The instant the Spiritual Qi touches the True Qi condensed in your Dantian.

Like a drop of hot oil falling into cold water, the thick ball of True Qi that has accumulated in your Dantian for decades violently vibrates. The Spiritual Qi and True Qi frantically merge and permeate each other at the contact surface.

The first wisp of Spiritual Qi merges into the True Qi.

The color of the True Qi changes from milky white to an extremely faint blue.

Yuan Power.

You open your eyes abruptly, the faint blue light reflecting in your pupils, while wild joy, suppressed for too long, surges in your chest.

It worked.

With the experience of the first success, what follows is much smoother. You close your eyes again and draw Spiritual Qi from the Spirit Stone in the same way. This time, with the support of Peerless Elegance, the Spiritual Qi flows into your Meridians obediently with almost no resistance.

One wisp, two wisps, ten wisps, a hundred wisps.

More and more Spiritual Qi is drawn from the Spirit Stone, flowing along your Meridians into your Dantian, merging with the True Qi into one.

The Yuan Power in your Dantian changes from a thread to a wisp, from a wisp to a mass, and from pale blue to deep blue.

The True Qi in your body is transforming at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When the last wisp of Spiritual Qi is drawn from the Spirit Stone, the Spirit Stone that once emitted a pale blue light turns into grayish-white powder in your palm and falls away with a rustle.

At the same moment.

The Yuan Power in your Dantian completes its qualitative change.

The Bottleneck that has troubled you for over two years, like a layer of paper as thin as a cicada's wing, is shattered by a single rush of the surging Yuan Power.

Boom—!

Your robes billow without wind, suddenly bulging.

An unimaginably majestic force explodes from within your body, sweeping through the entire secret chamber and spreading from the ground in all directions!