novelapdf Chapter 31 The Great Completion of Copper Red, the Sun Hanging in the Sky
Chapter 31 The Great Completion of Copper Red, the Sun Hanging in the Sky
(This is the third chapter today, an extra chapter for those who want to read it.)
Another ten days or so passed, and it was late March.
As spring deepens, the peonies in the courtyard have shed all their petals, and the new bamboo in the corner has grown taller than a person overnight, with tender green shoots still hanging on the tips, rustling in the wind.
Chen Lingxi sat cross-legged in the room with her eyes closed.
In the span of ten days or so, he took the Dragon-Inducing Powder twice more, each time using the Concealing Edge Technique to protect his blood and qi, refining the violent spiritual energy bit by bit and incorporating it into his dantian.
As the medicine entered his stomach, the torrent of spiritual energy still surged, but his meridians, after being cleansed twice before, were much wider and stronger than before, and he could no longer bear it as much as he had the first time.
The wisp of green energy in his dantian is now about three fingers thick.
It slowly circulated in the dantian, its color changing from the initial bluish-green to a richer hue, faintly revealing a layer of warm, jade-like luster, just like the water of a deep pool, calm on the surface but with undercurrents surging beneath.
The spiritual energy circulates throughout the body along the meridians, becoming increasingly powerful.
On this day, he opened his eyes, walked into the courtyard, and swallowed another pill.
This elixir was obtained from Wang Kong.
In just over ten days, he had already swallowed two pills; this was the only third one left.
This unknown elixir was quite extraordinary. After Chen Lingxi swallowed it, he immediately felt his blood and qi become intensely hot.
He began with the second move of the Seven Forms of Ceasefire – the Entering River Stance.
Qi and blood surged out from the dantian, like water bursting its banks, instantly filling the limbs and bones.
This time is completely different from what happened a dozen days ago.
The blood and qi no longer flowed like a warm stream, but rather surged and roared like molten copper and iron in the meridians.
As he swung his arms, crimson energy burst forth from his fists, condensing and forming a thin layer of light around him.
【Copper Fire Armor】.
The mark of perfected copper red.
The armor was not a thin layer, but was woven from countless fine, scale-like fiery red light spots, layer upon layer, flowing endlessly across his body.
Chen Lingxi stopped his stance and stood up, looking down at the crimson light shield around him.
"The Copper Crimson Realm has been fully mastered."
"This is the Copper Fire Armor."
He muttered to himself, a hint of joy in his eyes.
In just over ten days, after two doses of Dragon-Inducing Powder and three pills, his Qi cultivation level increased dramatically, and his martial arts realm also naturally progressed, crossing the threshold of the Great Perfection of the Copper-Red Realm.
With a slight thought, the copper fire armor suddenly blazed brightly, its crimson flames flickering and distorting the surrounding air.
He then activated the Concealed Edge Technique, and the blazing armor of energy receded like a tide, instantly disappearing completely without a trace of its aura leaking out.
To outsiders, he was still a novice who had just stepped into the Copper Red realm, with thin blood and qi and a lack of profound aura.
Chen Ling nodded in satisfaction.
He returned to the house, sat cross-legged, and closed his eyes to look inward.
The azure energy in his dantian flowed slowly, becoming thicker and more intense in color than it had been ten days ago.
The effects of the second floor of the Qi cultivation technique on widening the meridians and strengthening the bone marrow became increasingly apparent over these ten days.
He tried to activate his spiritual energy, guiding it upwards along the Du meridian, through the three gates, and into the Niwan point.
This time it was much smoother. Wherever the spiritual energy passed, the meridians were as wide as a river, without any sense of stagnation.
The tingling sensation deep within my bone marrow returned, like thousands of ants gently nibbling away at my bones, slowly removing the years of accumulated stagnation and obstruction.
He let out a long breath.
The breath condensed into a white arrow in the air, shooting straight for more than three feet before slowly dissipating.
"As the spiritual energy grows stronger, the meridians widen, the bone marrow is nourished by the spiritual energy, and one's physical constitution becomes better and better."
Chen Lingxi sat down cross-legged.
His consciousness communicates with the [divine chamber].
—Seeing the activation of the supernatural powers,
His consciousness entered the shrine and followed the smoke into the East Hall of the South Courtyard!
A sudden shift in perspective.
Chen Ling was deeply shocked!
He saw that Lin Suri was suspended in mid-air in the East Hall of the South Courtyard, more than three zhang above the ground!
He stood with his hands behind his back, his robes fluttering in the wind. With no support around him, he hovered steadily in mid-air like a leaf blown by the wind.
There were no clouds or radiance beneath his feet; he simply hung there, as if the gravity of the world had lost its effect on him.
Chen Lingxi was on edge, finding it utterly unbelievable.
"It is said that once you reach the Martial Arts Jade Qi realm, you can use the Jade Qi and Blood to reduce your own weight and stand on top of geese and cranes!"
But it's suspended in mid-air...
"Isn't this some kind of divine intervention?"
He had seen Lin Suri practice breathing exercises, seen him condense golden qi and blood into arrows that shot into the clouds, seen him discuss the ancestral mountain's mother qi with the man in black robes, and seen him use spiritual qi to activate the Time Candle in exchange for spiritual amber.
But none of those things were as shocking as what was happening before my eyes.
Suspended in mid-air.
Without relying on external objects or one's own vital energy, one stands quietly and steadily in the void three zhang high.
They are like immortals or gods in the world.
At that moment, what welled up in Chen Lingxi's heart was not fear, nor envy, but a very pure, almost instinctive longing.
"When can I be like that?"
Thinking this, he stared intently until his consciousness left the shrine.
"Searching for immortality! Searching for immortality! Besides Lin Suri and Lu Baizhong, are there no other clues?"
Chen Lingxi opened her eyes, her gaze intense, and took out another library token.
With this token, one can enter and exit the mansion's library.
In the following days, he searched through all the books he could find in the library, hoping to find even the slightest record of "immortals".
Even just a few words or a clue would be helpful.
But it didn't happen.
Those books contained Confucian classics, historical records, military strategies, medical prescriptions, and even farming methods and construction techniques.
There were no immortals among them.
To be precise, it's not entirely absent.
A book called "Records of Lost Things from the Former Dynasty" records that the last emperor of the former dynasty sent alchemists to the sea to seek immortality.
The sorcerer brought back five hundred boys and girls, saying he wanted to offer them to the immortals in the sea, but the immortals never appeared, and the emperor was ridiculed by his subjects for hundreds of years because of this.
Another book, "Yuanjiang Prefecture Gazetteer," mentions Zushan Mountain in the west of the city in the chapter on "Mountains and Rivers," saying that "the clouds and mist on this mountain never dissipate throughout the year, and it is said that immortals dwell there."
But that was ultimately just "legend," followed by the sentence "However, no one in modern times has seen it," which extinguished even that faint possibility.
Chen Lingxi closed the book and pondered with his eyes closed.
wrong.
He had personally witnessed Lin Su Ri floating in the air.
Lu Baizhong flicked his finger and released a pale golden lightning bolt, instantly killing him in the divine chamber—something he witnessed firsthand.
He had also witnessed firsthand the strange method by which the man in black robes vanished into mist.
These are not illusions, nor are they fabrications from the supernatural tales.
These are real, living methods of the immortals.
But why is it that among all these books, there is not a single word or phrase recorded about it?
"It seems there's someone who doesn't want ordinary people to know."
"Or perhaps the library in the manor doesn't contain such profound books."
Chen Lingxi shook her head.
The sun was already setting outside the window, and golden sunlight streamed in through the window, casting dappled patterns of light and shadow on the floor tiles.
He stood up, put the books back in their original places, and walked out of the library.
Suppress these thoughts for now.
"I possess supernatural powers; I see wandering forests every day, and I always manage to find some hidden secrets!"
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A few days later, Chen Lingxi's consciousness sank deeper into the divine chamber each day, where he used his supernatural powers of seeing and traveling.
Lin Su also practiced deep breathing exercises every day.
On the sixth day, Chen Lingxi met You again!
This time, Lin Suri did not sit cross-legged in meditation, but stood in the open space outside the East Hall.
It was dusk, and the clouds on the horizon were like fire, turning the entire mansion into a dark gold.
Lin Su Ri stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky.
Chen Lingxi followed his gaze and saw a faint golden light flickering in the clouds at the horizon, like a star that was about to go out.
"What is Lin Su looking at all day?"
Chen Lingxi was filled with doubt.
At this moment,
Lin Suri's expression shifted slightly. Suddenly, he raised his right hand, his fingers forming a sword shape, and slowly swept them across his face.
His fingers did not touch his eyes; they merely drew an arc in the air.
Chen Lingxi could see it clearly—a faint golden light shimmered at Lin Suri's fingertips.
The golden light overflowed from his fingertips, condensing in the air into a thin line as fine as a hair, which shot straight into his left eye.
Then, an unbelievable thing happened.
A wooden eyeball slowly appeared in Lin Su Ri's left pupil.
The wood eye was extremely small, no bigger than a grain of rice, and dark brown in color with clearly discernible wood grain, like a carefully carved bead embedded in the center of his pupil.
Chen Lingxi held her breath.
Lin Su Ri made a sword shape with his left hand and lightly slashed across the wooden eye.
The wood suddenly burst into flames.
Without flames or smoke, the dark brown wooden eyeballs seemed to be ignited by an invisible hand, slowly turning to ashes from the center.
The ashes did not dissipate, but instead turned into a wisp of extremely thin blue smoke, which rose up and went straight into the depths of Lin Suri's eyes.
Lin Suri was startled.
Chen Ling saw it clearly.
Lin Suri's gaze changed completely at this moment.
That gaze pierced through the courtyard wall of the East Hall, through the roof of the Marquis's Mansion, through the city walls of Yuanjiang Prefecture, and fell straight down to the distant mountains.
What Chen Lingxi saw was what Lin Su Ri saw!
Lin Suri's perspective zoomed out and rose higher, passing over cities, fields, and undulating mountains, finally settling on a mountain.
He recognized that mountain.
【Cuojinshan】.
About thirty miles west of Yuanjiang Prefecture, the mountains are steep and the main peak is like an inverted sword piercing the sky.
The area above the mountain is covered in snow all year round, while the foot of the mountain is covered in dense forests where tigers and leopards often roam.
He recognized it because there was an illustration in the "Yuanjiang Prefecture Gazetteer" he had been reading these past few days, which depicted this mountain!
"What's in these mountains?" Chen Lingxi asked, surprised by Lin Suri's treasures and magic.