novelapdf Chapter 498 The Chase
Chapter 498 The Chase
Hidden Domain, within the manor.
"I am Fang Qing of the Fang family of Sanshui'ao! Today I have confirmed the absence of the [Ji Shui] position and am hereby given the title of 'True Lord of the Mysterious Sea'... The [Ji Shui] originally faces the Taiyin (Great Yin), but since I have now opened it, it faces the Yang and shines brightly, proving to be the Mysterious Subtle. I will go beyond the heavens and will never see you again..."
A Daoist voice reached Hu Yunshu's ears, and misty water light appeared all around him.
She was stunned: "Sanshui'ao, Fang family? Isn't this my ancestral home? Fang Qing? Who is this person? He's not listed in the generational naming system. Could he be from one of the two branches that were assigned to ancient Shu? Or even earlier? My Fang family... has produced a dragon!?"
As the wife of the head of the Fang family, she naturally knew a lot about the Fang family and knew that the Fang family had suffered terribly in the past, being raised and exploited by a powerful family.
Later, the Daoji family was destroyed, and three ancestors escaped. One branch became the ancestors of the current Qingli Fang family. The other two branches dispersed during the great chaos of that time, and later even changed their surnames...
"Daoling, you've kept this from me for so long!"
Hu Yunshu was furious.
When she first married into the Fang family, they were merely a Dao Foundation Establishment family. Later, to support their own Dao Foundation, they even had to use her dowry, struggling to survive under the rule of the White Bone Dao...
As a result, the Medicine King Qing Tara emerged and became part of the Tara family.
Then, Master Wuchenzi returned and was elevated to the Purple Mansion Immortal Clan. Upon reaching the Secret Treasury, he was even rumored to be a Golden Core Immortal descendant…
Finally, at this point, another ancestor who had reached the Purple Mansion Perfection stage actually succeeded in obtaining gold and was named True Lord!
Hu Yunshu really wanted to knock Fang Daoling's head open and see how many more things he was hiding from her!
"Alas... Now that this ancestor has successfully obtained the [Ji Water], it is an auspicious sign... His Dao Spirit Purple Mansion should be unimpeded..."
She sighed, then her expression changed slightly as she thought about what happened after that sound.
This Golden Core True Lord clearly leans towards the sun, calls himself the Mysterious Subtle Immortal, and seems to be close to the Secret Treasury lineage.
But why did it suddenly become a journey to outer space?
She didn't understand, but she was deeply shocked.
At that moment, the heavens and earth collapsed, and the sun and moon shone brightly together...
As if an earth dragon were turning over, the entire manor began to tremble and collapse... and then the sky was bright and the moonlight was hazy.
The sun, in its turbulent energy, manifests numerous calamities!
"Even the most secure secret realm is like this..." Hu Yunshu's expression changed: "Pass on the patriarch's order, activate the great formation at full power... the elderly, women, and children, hide in the underground secret chambers!"
Beyond the heavens.
Fang Qing's eyes were like a deep, ancient spring, and her heart was as still as a deep well.
The flames followed, ablaze with apricot-yellow flames, tinged with crimson, purplish-blue, and other colors... until finally all colors vanished, turning into pure white!
It can burn away the True Lord's pure whiteness!
Even so, his heart remained like an ancient spring.
Do not!
At this moment, he is a spring, rain, water, an glacier that has never melted for thousands of years, a hidden spring in the earth, and also morning dew and autumn frost.
Even among the millions of cultivators who practice the [Ji Shui] technique, he was the only one who wasn't himself!
The experience of living two lives is incredibly fragile under the impact of this torrent that spans tens of thousands of years!
This made his humanity like a small boat in a stormy sea, as if it would capsize at any moment. He would go half-mad, or become indifferent, or even directly transform into a Daoist... becoming a primordial deity of the [Ji Shui]!
Just then, the pure white light caught up with the hem of his clothes, and the burning sensation of the [Winged Fire] struck. In this life-or-death crisis, Fang Qing's humanity was stimulated, allowing him to begin to think:
"Although the Immortal Xuanwei is known as 'lacking in rank and lowly,' he still possesses a trace of the Golden Rank, thus having the status of a Golden Core cultivator... 'Lacking' means 'incomplete,' not 'lacking'!"
Because I possessed a trace of status, I attained the Golden Position, and at the same time, came into contact with everything within that position. My will even extended across heaven and earth, reaching far and wide, encompassing all things of the [Ji Water], and thus I was impacted!
"Could this be the 'Tribulation of Ascending to Position' after seeking gold and attaining the Dao? One wrong step and one will die and perish? Why didn't this happen before when I was wielding the divine pill or even controlling the [Mysterious Thunder]?"
Fang Qing quickly realized it was because of the 'Dao Sheng Pearl'!
He previously borrowed the power of the Golden Core through the 'Dao Sheng Pearl'! He used the supreme status of this treasure to suppress and filter out a large number of divine evolutions!
But at this moment, he was proving the Dao with his own body. The missing [Ji Water] was in his body, and he merged with the metal nature he had proven!
Therefore, the true spirit inevitably suffers directly from that vast torrent of information, or rather, the influence of divinity... and gradually becomes unlike itself.
"The way to resolve this calamity... is either to return to my grotto to recuperate and gradually adapt. But the 'Phoenix' clearly won't give me that kind of time..."
"Or... directly use the 'Dao Sheng Pearl' to absorb the missing [Ji Water]! That way, with the Dao Sheng Pearl acting as a buffer, we won't have to suffer this impact... We can adjust slowly afterwards, but not now!"
Fang Qing sought to verify that the "Ji River" was actually just a facade.
Furthermore, it will also be used to test how long it takes for someone to leave the Qi-cultivation path outside the heavens and become completely lost... Therefore, the ultimate plan is to abandon the [Ji Water] Qi-cultivation position.
Forcibly swallowing it would seem somewhat disrespectful to that ancestor. "Fortunately, it's just a vacancy; if it were a subordinate position, it would truly be stepping into a pit for [Ji Shui]..."
"However, things should improve once I'm 'out of position'?"
In the blink of an eye, Fang Qing was already surrounded by various images of fire.
Within the pure white flames, an indescribable claw extended, its color jet black, with a hint of gold at its tip, as if countless runes flowed and converged into a golden river…
As the dark claw descended, Fang Qing's figure vanished instantly, like a mirage or a dream.
In the distance, his figure reappeared, fading into the distance.
Water flows downwards, thus granting him the ability to escape. Furthermore, his "reflection in the water" allowed him to survive once amidst raging "winged fire."
But it's clear that "Great Sage of Blazing Feathers" won't give him a second chance.
A light drizzle began to fall from the sky sometime earlier.
These raindrops are emerald green, carrying a sense of ethereal transformation.
But it was quickly evaporated.
Flames raged across the sky, and within them seemed to be a colossal creature, drawing ever closer to Fang Qing…
"Soon!"
Fang Qing suddenly felt that the missing [Ji Shui] within him was restless and wanted to leave him.
This golden position is like a 'line' between him and the Daoist world, stretched from the heavens to this point to an extremely dangerous degree.
It felt as if the thread would retract at any moment, leaving him completely lost...
At this moment, amidst the raging flames, a 'true treasure' suddenly appeared!
Its shape resembled a red flag, fluttering and unfolding amidst the raging flames. One after another, crimson comets appeared, and the sky full of meteors resembled a net, trapping Fang Qing inside.
For a [Winged Fire] master who had once regressed from the late Golden Core stage to the mid-Golden Core stage, leaving behind a [Winnowing Basket] Golden Core master with a missing position was not exactly a piece of cake, but it was still quite easy.
This time, it was clear that all the previous methods were no longer effective. Even though water is known for its ability to nourish, it ultimately couldn't remove the moisture...
"What a pity..." Fang Qing suddenly looked up, a hint of regret on his face, his eyes filled with madness: "I originally thought it would be 'Great Sun Tathagata' or the Taiyin [Yearly Official] chasing after us..."
He rubbed his hands together, as if yin and yang were clashing, and a jade-white light was generated!
That's... thunder!
[Mysterious Thunder] Metal Position!
One after another, divine thunderbolts from jade pivots, jade pillars, and jade palaces exploded, forcefully blasting a gap in the endless crimson comets.
Amidst the raging flames, a surprised voice rang out: "[Mystic Thunder]?"
Fang Qing took a deep breath, and the Dao Sheng Pearl spun around.
Snapped!
He heard the sound of the wire breaking.
It wasn't that the [Ji Water] was absent and returned to the world on its own; rather, it was forcibly sealed away by him using the 'Dao Sheng Zhu'!
After all, this golden position has always been on him, making it extremely convenient for him to access the Dao-Born Pearl.
At this moment, under the glow of the Dao Sheng Pearl, a drop of dew suddenly appeared next to the [Xuan Lei] golden position.
After being sealed, Fang Qing's eyes were full of liveliness, and he felt that most of his humanity had returned.
"As expected... the tragedy of the Golden Position can be suppressed by the Dao Life Pearl. In that case, I'm probably convinced that this is the most humane True Lord in the Dao."
A golden element of [Ji Water] appeared between Fang Qing's brows, and through the Dao-Born Pearl, he strengthened himself by filling the missing [Ji Water] spot!
This is not meaningless. In the back and forth, the "tribulation of position" of the Golden Core has been eliminated, and the position has been completely secured!
Not only that, he already possesses the [Mysterious Thunder] master position, and with the [Water of the Basket] missing, he has already reached the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm!
"Unfortunately... the [Female Earth] can no longer reach this place. At most, she can borrow the power of the certificate from Sangji to become a [Lady] Divine Pill..."
"However, even if I were to borrow the [Lady] position, I'm afraid I still wouldn't be able to reconcile the situation..."
Fang Qing could feel that after forcibly borrowing two golden positions, the [Mysterious Thunder] and [Ji Water] were surging within his body and were about to begin a fierce conflict.
Fortunately, both of them were suppressed by him and could be perfectly controlled; otherwise, the problem would be even bigger. They would have exploded or gone half-mad immediately, equivalent to a Golden Core True Monarch going into a state of demonic possession, instead of advancing to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm!
"【Duty】Is the path to enlightenment so easy? My cultivation is ultimately too low; I can barely reach the early stage of the Golden Core realm... I originally wouldn't even be able to reach the middle stage of the Golden Core realm. Fortunately, the 'Dao Life Pearl' perfectly sealed these two golden positions, which gave me the ability to try..."
He now deeply understands the difficulties of the path of "being on duty for the year".
It's alright if one is within the same virtue, but to cross virtues to prove one's "yearly virtue" and reconcile the conflicts between water, fire, yin, and yang, what kind of wisdom and spiritual attainment is required?
Fortunately, he managed to achieve his goal through clever speculation.
Splash!
The azure water suddenly turned pitch black, carrying faint thunder, and transformed into streaks of water lightning!
Countless water mines spread out, transforming into a "Yuanlei Palace," imprisoning the sky full of fiery flames for a moment!
In just a moment, the Thunder Palace was burst open by the endless apricot-yellow flames, revealing the true form of "Great Sage Suiyu Xietian".
But at this moment, all the visions of the "rising fire" were stripped away from Him.
Because in the instant they were trapped, Fang Qing had already led this person deeper into the outer reaches of the sky.
With his Golden Core form, his lightning speed was so great that even ordinary Golden Core True Monarchs would be "lost" and lose their Golden Core status.
Fang Qing's two golden positions were sealed within the Dao Life Pearl, so he naturally had nothing to fear.
But the Phoenix has lost its [Tail Flame] position, its aura has declined to the early stage of the Golden Core realm, while its [Wing Flame] position remains bright, manifesting as blazing, burning, calamity, and scorching flames, yet it appears hazy, on the verge of losing its position!
It turns out that the critical points at which one loses their position upon entering the depths of the heavens are different for different realms, golden positions, etc.
Upon seeing this scene, Fang Qing's heart stirred.