Seeking the Way of Immortality

Time is like running water, it never returns. Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye. With more than ten alchemists working day and night to refine pills, one-third of the orders from various tribes have been completed. With the completion of transactions with various tribes, a steady stream of materials have entered the small world, and the entire small world has undergone earth-shaking changes. The scope of the small world alone has expanded to a radius of ten thousand miles. Various spiritual objects continue to breed, and forbidden areas have been circled by powerful people such as Bai Qi and Bai Shui.

The stone and wooden houses where Huang Yu and others used to live, after half a year of construction, a magnificent palace came into being. On the day the palace was completed, Xuan Jun wrote it himself and named it "Ling Xiao".

Around the Ling Xiao Palace, there is a hall in the southeast, northwest, and northeast, the Azure Dragon Hall in the east, the White Tiger Hall in the west, the Vermillion Bird Hall in the south, and the Black Tortoise Hall in the north. The four halls are about ten miles away from the central Ling Xiao Palace, not close nor far.

Outside the four halls, twenty miles away, eight halls stand tall and magnificent.

Xuanjun arranged the eight halls according to the orientation of the innate Bagua, and the eight halls were named Qian Hall, Kun Hall, Zhen Hall, Xun Hall, Li Hall, Kan Hall, Dui Hall, and Gen Hall.

As for the orientation of the eight halls, Xuanjun arranged them according to the seventeen words "Heaven and earth are positioned, mountains and marshes are connected, thunder and wind are close to each other, and water and fire do not shoot at each other".

The orientation of heaven and earth is naturally Qian in the south and Kun in the north. In short, Qian Hall is located in the south and Kun Hall is located in the north;

The connection of mountains and marshes means that Gen is the mountain in the northwest and Dui is the marsh in the southeast; thunder and wind fight each other, Zhen is the thunder in the northeast and Xun is the wind in the southwest; water and fire do not shoot at each other, Li is the sun in the east and Kan is the moon in the west.

According to the Taoist scriptures, heaven and earth are positioned, Qian is in the south and Kun is in the north, heaven is above and earth is below, north and south are facing each other, and up and down are relative. From the perspective of the two hexagrams, Qian is composed of three yang lines, which is a pure yang hexagram; Kun is composed of three yin lines, which is a pure yin hexagram. The two hexagrams are completely opposite.

Mountain and marsh are connected, Gen is the mountain in the northwest, Dui is the marsh in the southeast, the marsh air in the mountain, the mountain is rain; the mountain air is connected to the marsh, the rain is water and spring. From the perspective of the two hexagrams, Gen has one yang line on the top and two yin lines on the bottom; Dui has one yin line on the top and two yang lines on the bottom, and the two hexagrams form a pair.

Thunder and wind fight each other, Zhen is thunder in the northeast, Xun is wind in the southwest, the fighting forces are pressing, the thunder is fast and the wind is fierce, the wind is strong and the thunder is fast. From the perspective of the two hexagrams, Zhen has two yin lines on the top and one yang line on the bottom; Xun has two yang lines on the top and one yin line on the bottom, the eight hexagrams form an image of opposition.

Water and fire do not shoot at each other. Li is the sun in the east, and Kan is the moon in the west. Li is fire and Kan is water. Fire helps its coldness, and fire gets water for its heat, so they do not extinguish each other. From the perspective of the eight trigrams, Li has yang lines on the top and bottom, and yin lines in the middle; Kan has yin lines on the top and bottom, and yang lines in the middle, and the two trigrams also form a pair.

Including the Lingxiao Palace, there are a total of thirteen halls. The outer periphery is eight halls arranged by the innate eight trigrams, and the middle is four halls arranged by the four-image formation. The innermost is the Lingxiao Palace where Wu Zheng and others live.

Wu Zheng seems to have sunk into the sea and has been practicing in the Tianhuo Stone Pit. As the core of the entire small world, the rich and pure spiritual energy in the Tianhuo Stone Pit is far beyond everyone's imagination. Except for Xuan Jun who can enter and exit this place freely, others can't get close at all, and can't find the Tianhuo Stone Pit at all.

Except for Xuan Jun and Wu Zheng, no one knew that the Sky Fire Stone Pit that Wu Zheng cultivated was right below the Lingxiao Palace. One was in the light and the other was in the dark, forming a perfect complement of yin and yang. Together with the four large formations in the middle and the eight large formations on the periphery, two large yin and yang formations were formed. The power of the superposition of the two formations was unimaginable.

In the Sky Fire Stone Pit, after practicing for more than a month, Wu Zheng's cultivation had been completely restored. However, he did not come out of retreat, but began to think about refining the Red Emperor Sword. With the various meteorites and precious metal materials that Xuan Jun kept sending in, Wu Zheng was naturally familiar with refining the Red Emperor Sword again.

The Purple Sun True Flame melted various metal materials in the shape of a fire lotus. Under the intense high temperature, it would not take too long to melt the meteorites from outer space, not to mention that Wu Zheng also arranged the power of time and space in the Sky Fire Stone Pit.

After several months, according to the time of the outside world, Wu Zheng spent nearly four years to breed a three-foot-long divine sword with the sword-storing technique. The divine sword is still named "Red Emperor Sword", but it is several times stronger than the previous Red Emperor Sword.

At this moment, in the Dantian Qi Sea, the nine Yuanyings continued to spit spiritual energy to the newly refined Red Emperor Sword. The Red Emperor Sword was a top-level spiritual treasure as soon as it was formed, but because the new Red Emperor Sword did not breed a weapon spirit, it failed to reach the level of Xuantian spiritual treasure.

Originally, with Wu Zheng's weapon refining level, it was impossible to reach the level of spiritual treasure, but with the help of Xuan Jun, a great saint-level strongman, everything seemed not difficult.

Wu Zheng did not leave the small world, so there was no celestial phenomenon on the day when the sword was completed. If Wu Zheng left the small world one day, the Phoenix Realm would naturally bring down a thunder tribulation, and the Red Emperor Sword would also be tempered and baptized by the Phoenix Realm's heavenly tribulation again.

During this period of seclusion, the biggest gain may be a deeper understanding of the stone tablet. According to Xuan Jun's suggestion, Wu Zheng constantly cut his own spiritual consciousness to feed the stone tablet.

Every time he cuts his spiritual consciousness with his own hands, the pain he endures is unimaginable for ordinary people. It is more painful than cutting flesh from the body, especially since the spiritual consciousness is invisible and colorless, but when it is cut, it can make a sharp sound that makes people's teeth ache. Even with Wu Zheng's concentration and cultivation, he can't help trembling when cutting his spiritual consciousness.

In this way, the consciousness cultivated by "Dividing the Spirit" was cut off bit by bit. The consciousness cultivated by "Dividing the Spirit" dropped from the Transformation Realm to the Nascent Soul Realm, and then from the Nascent Soul Realm to the Golden Core Realm, and then to the current Qi Training Realm.

Since his consciousness fell to the Qi Training Realm, the little bit of consciousness that remained was like a maggot on the tarsal bone. No matter how Wu Zheng used his means, he could not cut it off at all.

On the other hand, the stone tablet that was fed by Wu Zheng's consciousness seemed to have taken a tonic. The mottled marks on its body gradually fell off, revealing the runes carved by the gods. The graceful runes were like the avenue of heaven and earth, making it difficult to start.

The stone tablet became stronger and stronger, and the dazzling light illuminated the entire Tianhuo Stone Pit as bright as day, just like a glass world. Wu Zheng, who only had the consciousness of the Qi Training Realm, could only sense the range of about a few miles, and his face was terribly pale.

Although his cultivation level did not decline, he was tortured by the pain of having his spiritual consciousness cut off and became unrecognizable. He was skinny and bony, like an old man in his twilight years.