novelapdf Chapter 3 Xuanxian Dao Fruit
Chapter 3 Xuanxian Dao Fruit
After returning from the depths of Yaochi, Xuan Yao was led by a patrolling maid to a quiet stone hall on the west side of Xikunlun.
This stone palace is located on the edge of the inner mountain of Xikunlun. Although it is not as auspicious as the deep Yaochi, with its thousands of auspicious clouds and myriad rays of light, it is by no means comparable to the outer mountains.
The interior of the hall was extremely simple, even sparsely furnished.
In the center of the main hall, there was a warm, smooth white jade cushion, and beside the stone bed, a cold spring that was gushing out spiritual energy.
That white jade cushion was made from Qingling Jade Marrow, a specialty of Xikunlun.
When a cultivator sits upon it, not only can he maintain a clear mind at all times, but he will also be immune to all evil influences, greatly reducing the risk of going astray in cultivation.
And the cold spring that flowed was not ordinary water, but an extremely concentrated innate spiritual liquid.
Even just a sip is enough to equal the arduous cultivation of an ordinary immortal over decades.
It can be said that from the moment he stepped into this stone palace, Xuan Yao had already surpassed 99% of all living beings in this primordial world, and had truly touched the threshold of a blessed land of immortals.
However, Xuan Yao, sitting upright on the white jade futon, did not feel even the slightest bit of smugness.
He knew better than anyone that what he had asked for was nothing more than the empty title of "nominal disciple" and a door to the Great Dao.
Whether he can truly cross that threshold and enter the inner sanctum depends on his own destiny.
The primordial wilderness has never been a safe haven where one can simply worship a powerful figure and rest easy.
The Queen Mother of the West was willing to bestow upon him the Dharma and take him under her wing because she valued his clear and pure Daoist heart, which had been nurtured amidst fierce and malevolent forces.
The vision of a great being is so far-reaching. If he himself cannot shoulder this opportunity, then this master-disciple relationship will sooner or later become empty talk, and he will eventually be reduced to his original form.
After calming down, Xuan Yao did not rush to comprehend the method in his mind. Instead, he carefully sorted out everything that had happened during this period and the overall situation of the prehistoric world in his mind.
He has been in this primordial world for hundreds of thousands of years.
For the first half of his life, he lived in constant fear, his greatest wish being to cling to a powerful patron so that he wouldn't be crushed by the aftermath of the great battles between those powerful beings during the future Lich Wars.
Now, it seems that Xikunlun has managed to secure a strong connection with them.
But the real path of cultivation has only just begun.
As a transmigrator with memories of the future, Xuan Yao possesses an advantage that no other being in the primordial world has: he understands all too well the future trends of the world.
The current prehistoric world is in a delicate period before the Dao Ancestor Hongjun preached in Zixiao Palace, and before the Wu and Yao races have taken shape.
Later, when he began lecturing at Zixiao Palace, his master, the Queen Mother of the West, would be appointed by the Dao Ancestor as the head of all female immortals.
On par with the Queen Mother of the West was the Eastern King Duke, the head of the male immortals personally appointed by the Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
The Eastern King Duke established the Supreme Celestial Court based in Zifu Continent, commanding all the immortals under heaven. He was enjoying unparalleled power and influence.
However, Xuan Yao knew that Dong Wang Gong's seemingly prosperous situation was actually a death sentence.
If virtue is not matched, there will be disasters.
Although the Eastern King Duke possessed the decree of the Dao Ancestor, he lacked a supreme innate treasure to suppress the fortune of heaven and earth, and he also lacked the unparalleled strength to subdue all beings.
The existence of his Celestial Court severely hindered Di Jun and Tai Yi's progress in establishing the Heavenly Court of the Demon Race.
Ultimately, they will not have a good ending and are destined to become ashes under the great calamity.
In contrast, the master he now worships is the Queen Mother of the West.
Although the Queen Mother of the West also received an official title from the Dao Ancestor, she behaved with extreme restraint and humility.
She neither established a celestial court nor vied for supremacy.
They simply guard their small territory in Xikunlun, only guiding female immortals and pure-hearted people who are destined to be saved.
It was this clear-headedness in not competing that allowed the lineage of the Queen Mother of the West to successfully avoid the terrifying vortex of the Lich War and safely weather the storms of endless years.
Even in the distant future, when the Lich King's reign ended and the Jade Emperor took over the Heavenly Court, the Queen Mother of the West naturally became the Queen Mother of the Heavenly Court, ruling over the Jade Pool, enjoying unparalleled prestige, and remaining immortal through countless calamities.
"Now that I have become a disciple of the Queen Mother of the West, the safest future for me is definitely not to rely on my cultivation to fight for territory or seize unclaimed spiritual treasures in the primordial world," Xuan Yao thought to himself.
"Instead, we clung tightly to the West Kunlun line and steadily rose."
"When the time is right, and the Heavenly Court is newly established and in need of capable people, I can use my lineage as a direct descendant of the Queen Mother of the West to seek a legitimate divine position in the Heavenly Court."
"At that time, I will make friends with immortals and gods from all directions, accumulating connections and good fortune. At the same time, I will steadily cultivate my own path of virtue and protection. With the support of the orthodox lineage of heaven and earth, and a future that leads directly to the Great Luo realm, this is truly the perfect strategy!"
After figuring out the general direction for the next million or even tens of millions of years, Xuan Yao felt a sudden clarity in his mind, and the sense of urgency and confusion he had felt in the primordial world vanished.
He calmed his mind and truly settled down to begin studying the first part of the "True Explanation of the Golden Palace Mysterious Demon" bestowed upon him by the Queen Mother of the West.
As his divine sense probed into it, countless profound innate divine characters flowed through his mind.
This technique truly lives up to its reputation as a supreme being like the Queen Mother of the West, a great Daoist method bestowed upon us. Right from the very beginning, in its general outline, it points directly to the essence of the Dao:
"Evil is not the source of all evil; it is the lack of control that brings it. Yin alone cannot grow, nor can Yang alone produce life. The mechanism of creation lies in the mind."
When Xuan Yao read this sentence, he felt as if he had been struck on the head with a thunderbolt, and his mind was shaken.
For hundreds of thousands of years, influenced by his previous life's beliefs and the mainstream understanding of the primordial world, he always felt that the fierce aura that his Black Tiger lineage was born with was an extremely dangerous hidden danger.
I must do everything I can to suppress and wear it down.
But now it seems that I've been thinking wrong all along, or even completely the opposite of what I intended!
Heaven and earth are divided into yin and yang; pure qi is the way, and so is turbid qi.
Auspicious omens are a product of creation, and so are inauspicious ones.
This innate black tiger aura is of the same origin as him. Forcibly eradicating it would be tantamount to weakening his own foundation.
However, if one can completely subdue this malevolent force and make it one's own, so that it can be used as one's own arm and fingers, it may become one of the foundations for one to make a living in this primordial world!
"No wonder Master said I was drinking poison to quench my thirst before; the root of the problem lies here."
Xuan Yao suddenly felt enlightened.
Having grasped the general principles, Xuan Yao no longer hesitated. He immediately closed his eyes and began to circulate his energy according to the methods in the "True Explanation," undertaking the first and most important step of this practice.
Observe the evil spirits.
As the cultivation technique circulated, Xuan Yao's divine sense no longer probed outwards, but instead continuously converged inwards, eventually sinking into the deepest source of his bloodline.
boom!
The moment Xuan Yao stepped into the Land of Origin, his divine sense was enveloped by an overwhelming and ferocious aura.
In the depths of that dark bloodline, he saw an enormous, pitch-black tiger that seemed to shatter the heavens and the earth.
The giant tiger's eyes were blood-red, and its body was shrouded in an intense, impenetrable black-red aura. It was roaring silently at Xuan Yao's consciousness.
Greedy, belligerent, bloodthirsty, violent, competitive...
This black tiger embodies almost all the purest desires of primordial beasts.
It is the true form of the malevolent energy that Xuan Yao's physical body has accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years, and it is also the embodiment of his instincts.
The moment Xuan Yao faced the true form of the black tiger, he felt his soul tremble. A strong desire to kill surged into his mind, almost causing him to suffer a qi deviation on the spot.
Upon this observation, Xuan Yao truly realized that the most difficult part of cultivating this method was not how to refine Qi, but how to recognize oneself.
All living beings have the instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm.
It's easy to admit your own arrogance and kindness.
However, confronting and acknowledging the most primal savagery and cruelty within oneself is as difficult as ascending to heaven.
If one cannot truly acknowledge in one's heart that this ferocious black tiger is a part of one's soul, and cannot reconcile with it, then the so-called "splitting the evil spirits" and "refining the evil spirits" that follow are all castles in the air, and one will be doomed to eternal damnation if one is not careful.
"I am the tiger, and the tiger is me. Born in the primordial wilderness, what fear is there of this mere physical form!"
Xuan Yao gritted his teeth, forcibly stabilizing the last vestige of clarity in his mind.
He no longer used the pure energy of Xikunlun to repel or suppress the black tiger, but completely let go of his mental defenses and stopped running away.
Following the secret method in "The True Explanation of the Golden Palace Mysterious Fiend", he used his own divine sense as a guide to slowly probe the true form of the raging black tiger, attempting to extract the first wisp of controllable mysterious fiend energy from it.
The primordial chaos knows no years, and so does spiritual cultivation.
For cultivators at the True Immortal realm, a single period of seclusion can last for hundreds of years, which is but a fleeting moment.
Until one day three thousand years later.
"Buzz—"
The previously calm spiritual energy inside the stone hall suddenly surged violently.
Xuan Yao, who had been sitting upright for three thousand years, suddenly opened his eyes.
Deep within his dantian, a completely different aura finally condensed and took shape.
It was a black and gold thread that looked almost tangible.
Although it was only a thin wisp, it exuded an extremely calm and composed aura.
This is the first strand of Xuan Yao's natal Xuan Sha that he finally refined after three thousand years of hard work!
As this wisp of natal Xuan Sha took shape, the aura surrounding Xuan Yao underwent a tremendous change.
The flamboyant and fierce aura that was originally supported by the instinct of the Black Tiger bloodline was completely contained within his body like a tide.
At the very same instant of this transformation of Qi.
Click—!
Within Xuan Yao's body, the cultivation barrier that had troubled him for hundreds of thousands of years suddenly loosened.
The immense innate spiritual energy within the stone hall seemed to have found an outlet, surging wildly into Xuan Yao's body.
Guided by the "True Explanation of the Golden Palace Mysterious Demons", these spiritual insights perfectly merged with the mysterious demonic energy within his body.
His cultivation naturally broke through to the Xuanxian realm.