Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 1603: Chapter 864: Hunyuan Self-Transformation, One Qi Births Yin Yang

What virtue and ability does that person possess to be granted the "Heavenly Pillar Order"?

Regarding this, Zhao Dingji felt both puzzled and indignant; he was sure other Daoists felt the same.

Thus, for the past thirty years, he had been secretly observing that person’s activities.

Unfortunately, that person was inherently like a "turtle", having stayed on Hualong Island for decades without venturing out, and rarely interacting with outsiders—like a recluse focused solely on cultivation.

Zhao Dingji had tried to send him invitations several times, but each attempt was politely declined.

Other Daoists had similar approaches, but without exception, all failed.

That person was like a seamless egg, unmovable by external probes and temptations, remaining on Hualong Island, causing profound speechlessness and frustration.

Now finally making big moves, Zhao Dingji felt inexplicably relieved, eager to discern his purpose and intentions.

As Zhao Dingji initiated action, other Daoists also discovered this astonishing news one after another.

On the same day, under the Bottomless Pit in the southeastern Divine Continent, sudden dragon roars erupted, as profound yellow Earth Qi soared into the sky, coloring half the Heavenly Vault.

Simultaneously, a remote ice peak within Eternal Night Cave Heaven melted into water vapor in a single day, the vapor forming clouds that lingered for three months.

In Chong Yue Spirit Domain, one of the Zhao Family’s Ten Lands, many cultivators personally witnessed enormous entities appearing deep within the Mist Hidden Mountain Range, each appearance accompanied by thunder and earth-shattering sounds.

A day later, in the eastern part of the Ten Thousand Peak Spirit Domain, several spiritual rivers encircling Five Emperor Mountain simultaneously leapt from their beds, ascending the peaks and dancing around the ancient imperial mountains for several days.

On the same day, an island hidden within the Cloud Sea beneath the Divine Continent suddenly emerged, quickly soaring over the Divine Continent and hurtling toward the Central Sea.

In half a month, Zhao Family Daoists came forth in succession, launching a new round of inquiries towards the "First Daoist".

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Dragon Transformation Blessed Land.

Indifferent to the turmoil outside, Zhao Sheng kept his Spirit focused on personal cultivation and enlightenment.

Crack!

Deep in the lush bamboo grove, Zhao Sheng casually snapped a green bamboo stick, his gaze falling on the broken end, noticing droplets of water emerging from the cut.

Before long, the droplets merged into a stream, flowing down the bamboo wall and drenching his palm.

Zhao Sheng’s eyes were alight with Divine Light, his right hand gently running across the broken end.

With the flickering of green light, layers of "invisible ripples" overlapped across the bamboo.

In the next moment, shoots of green sprouts rapidly burst forth from the broken end, visibly growing into seven or eight new shoots.

Zhao Sheng effortlessly embedded the broken bamboo into the soil, precisely at the point where countless "ripples" of soil and rock overlapped most densely.

Simultaneously, a thread of Divine Thought transformed into a large invisible hand, gently stirring the surrounding "ripples" of soil and rock, arranging and stacking them according to some pattern.

In a haze, Zhao Sheng seemed to glimpse an exceptionally familiar three-dimensional structure, sustained for only a moment before collapsing chaotically, never to exist again.

However, everything was ultimately transformed!

Zhao Sheng distinctly perceived that, where the broken bamboo was inserted underground, a very weak Earth Vein was rapidly forming.

The nascent Earth Vein stretched barely four or five miles and was exceedingly fragile compared to nearby ones, but the "Life Force" it emitted was like a flame, illuminating Zhao Sheng’s eyes.

"Primordial, the progenitor Qi of Chaos and Everlasting Night, existing before heaven became form. Its essence is neither pure nor impure, its form neither existent nor nonexistent, vast and unfathomable, all-encompassing...

The Qi fundamentally one, initially divided brings Yin Yang, verily the Qi of Primordial self-transforms. Its motion like the wheel, circulating tirelessly; its virtue... the Sun, Moon, Stars are its image, mountains, rivers, plants bestow its spirit, all life formed in womb, egg, moist growth derive from it to exist...

To the sage obtaining it, the gateway to creation’s secrets; to the common man losing it, mere servitude of the body in the mundane world..."

As Zhao Sheng "looked at" the vibrant Earth Vein, his mind spontaneously surfaced with hundreds of ancient etchings, each word a pearl, each word significant and profound.

The "Ultimate Truth of Hunyuan Qi Cave True Scripture" outline contained merely a thousand words, yet despite its cryptic nature, its intention was incredibly vast, almost directly indicating the Great Dao Truth, unfathomably mysterious.

Since acquiring the outline and the first three Chapters, half a long cycle had passed before today when he began to grasp the essence of this scripture.

What was "The Five Elements’ mutual generation and suppression"? Everything was but a facade!

Laozi states, "Tai Chi generates two forms, the two forms divide into the Five Elements."

Zhuangzi states, "Yin Yang and Five Elements, all flow under the one Qi of the world."

The forefathers pointed to later generations—Yin Yang, and Five Elements are but transformations of Primordial Qi.

Therefore, the Five Elements are the manifestations of all things, Yin Yang, two forms are the foundation, Tai Chi Primordial is the beginning of all things.

One Qi can transform into Yin Yang two forms, can evolve the Five Elements bagua, division and integration, growth and demise all happen in a single thought!

Zhao Sheng’s Daoist attainment was limited, far from reaching the supreme state of mind where "one thought brings forth all things, one thought eradicates heaven and earth."

Yet, through this bamboo grove enlightenment, his Dao heart realm had risen another level, with his strength advancing by leaps and bounds once again.

Moreover, this bamboo grove enlightenment undoubtedly allowed him to perceive the higher essence of the great Dao, immensely beneficial for future cultivation.

Three days and nights later, Zhao Sheng awoke from meditation.

Upon awakening, he smiled lightly, plucking a bamboo leaf and casually tossing it.

The bamboo leaf gently floated up, flying no more than a yard before abruptly transforming into a streak of green light, piercing through over a hundred thick green bamboo stalks in succession.

Not only did it not diminish, but instead expanded into a grinding wheel-sized blaze of ghostly green, propelling further into the distance.