Chapter 213 Return to the Southern Region
"Knowing yin and yang, understanding human affairs, being good at going in and out, avoiding death and prolonging life. Taoist friend Changshou, this sentence should not be your admonition to the Yin-Yang Sect, right?"

Standing in the clouds, with the breeze blowing and the spiritual charm surrounding them, Li Zhi and Saint Daoyi had a more fairy-like charm. Saint Daoyi was still thinking about the previous conversation between Li Zhi and the Yin-Yang Sect.

"Fellow Daoist Yu Chen, do you think I am playing tricks on them?" Li Zhi said with a smile.

Those people from the Yin Yang Sect, including the two great masters, have now turned into ashes and remained forever in the barren mountains and dense forests.

The moment they chose to attack Li Zhi, the outcome was already determined.

"Someone seems to have told me a story. In the story there is a kind of monkey, the red-butt horse monkey. It knows yin and yang, understands human affairs, is good at coming and going, and can avoid death and prolong life. Aren't these its innate magical powers?" Saint Daoyi stared at Li Zhi with a smile.

Li Zhi said calmly, "Whether it is describing a monkey or describing the Yin-Yang Sect, isn't it the same principle? Practicing the way of Yin-Yang, but not understanding the method of Yin-Yang, blindly viewing Yin-Yang as a means of killing, but forgetting that Yin-Yang is so vast that it cannot be covered by the two energies of Yin-Yang."

Saint Daoyi said: "You are right. Why do people practice Taoism in the end by fighting? They are proud of their great magical power, proud of their unparalleled fighting ability, and respect the people of Gaia."

Li Zhi said: "The immortal path is not obvious, immortality is not seen, fighting for life with heaven, it is not subject to human will, all living beings are involuted, so they will transform all their Taoism into heavenly fighting power, hoping to use it to fight a way to immortality. Unfortunately, the immortal path is hazy, the road is heavy, and they will not be granted destiny just because of their heavenly fighting power."

Saint Daoyi said: "It is said that immortals descended in the ancient times. The cultivation environment faced by cultivators at that time should have been easier than ours. I really want to know what it was like in the era when immortals descended."

Li Zhi said: "There are five immortals in the Zhoutian, heaven, earth, humans, gods and ghosts, all of whom can cultivate and become immortals. There are five insects in the Zhoutian, scales, hair, feathers and fins, all of which can transform and become immortals. Now the world has changed, the heavenly immortals are no longer visible, the earthly immortals are no longer detectable, the gods have disappeared, and the ghosts have no end. Only the path to human immortals is still connected. So everyone is crowded on the same path to immortality, so naturally it feels crowded."

Saint Daoyi asked, "Fellow Daoist Changshou, how do you follow the path of a celestial being?"

After thinking for a while, Li Zhi said, "As far as I know, in the ancient times of immortals, the method of cultivating Dao seeds was common. Dao seeds are seeds of heavenly Dao. They are born in harmony with Dao and can be regarded as the way of heavenly immortals. The way of heavenly immortals is to gather the three flowers at the top of the head, and cultivate the immortal energy of one's own destiny."

Suddenly, Li Zhi felt something in his heart. It seemed that if he wanted to defeat the king and become the emperor in the future, the way of the five immortals, heaven, earth, man, gods and ghosts, seemed to be a threshold that he would have to face in the future. It seemed that if he could not gather the power of the five immortals, he would never be able to defeat the king and become the emperor.

This feeling is very wonderful and seems to foreshadow the future.

"Longevity Taoist friend!"

Just as Li Zhi was lost in thought, he suddenly heard the slightly frightened cry of Saint Daoyi. Li Zhi came back to his senses instantly, and his body, which was flickering and seemed to be about to disappear at any time, returned to normal.

"Fellow Daoist Yu Chen, what's wrong?" Li Zhi asked curiously.

"Your state just now was very strange." The little Taoist nun Yuchen never expected that Li Zhi would enter a strange Taoist state while on the road and chatting. It seemed as if he had transcended the long river of time, and seemed like he was about to become a Taoist at any time.

"I'm fine." Li Zhi looked at his condition and there didn't seem to be any problem.

Saint Daoyi was still frightened and quickly changed the subject, saying, "Let's talk about something else."

But Li Zhi was still pondering in his heart, if the Tao seed method of the ancient immortal period was the way of the celestial immortal, then the Shinto method of the chaotic ancient period might be a way of the gods. It was a pity that in the early years of the chaotic ancient period, no one could follow the way of the gods.

The five secret realms created by Emperor Huang Tian are probably the way to become immortals, blocking out all external interference from the outside universe and becoming immortals in the mortal world.

In the ancient immortal era, there were ghosts that became immortals, and there were heroic spirits that were comparable to real immortals, which shows that the path of ghost immortals can also be followed.

So what is the way of earthly immortals? Could it be that the path to immortality taken by those undertakers who sleep under the earth for many years is the way of earthly immortals?
Li Zhi was not sure about this.

Seeing that Li Zhi's eyes became blurred again, as if he was about to wander in the void again, Saint Daoyi hurriedly said: "Fellow Daoist Changshou, you once told me the story of the Four Monkeys. Can you tell me in detail? I want to hear their story."

"If you want to hear it, then I'll tell you." Li Zhi came back to his senses and thought to himself, what's wrong with him? His mind always wants to wander, as if he can't keep his mind locked within his body.

In fact, Li Zhi is now facing a disaster that he is not even aware of.

The Pure Yang Spirit he cultivated was too powerful, seemingly beyond the limits of what his body and soul could endure, causing his mind to unconsciously want to fly out of the body to find space to move freely.

If I don’t break through to the second level of Immortal as soon as possible and start using the supreme power of my soul to tap into the potential of my body, I’m afraid it will become increasingly easy for me to lose my focus.

“The so-called four monkeys who have brought mischief to the world, the first is the Spiritual Stone Monkey, who is good at changing, knows the weather, knows the advantages of the terrain, and can move stars and change the constellations; the second is the Red-butt Horse Monkey, who knows the yin and yang, understands human affairs, is good at coming and going, and avoids death and prolongs life; the third is the Long-armed Ape, who can hold the sun and the moon, shrink thousands of mountains, distinguish good and bad, and manipulate the universe; the fourth is the Six-eared Macaque, who is good at listening, can observe the truth, know the past and the future, and understand everything. The Fighting Saint Ape that Ye Fan cut out in the Divine City that year, you can actually regard him as a kind of Spiritual Stone Monkey.” Li Zhi said with a smile.

Saint Daoyi nodded and said, "I once saw a record in the Sutra Library of the Holy Land. There was once a six-eared macaque who used his innate magical powers to steal a complete ancient scripture of the Supreme God from a supreme sect."

Li Zhi nodded and said, "In fact, I have some doubts that the ancestors of the Fighting Saint Ape clan are also holy spirits nurtured by heaven and earth. Their innate magical powers are too terrifying, comparable to those of holy spirits."

After thinking for a while, Saint Daoyi said, "It is indeed possible. I suddenly have a strange intuition about the Holy Spirit. Perhaps every great and perfect Holy Spirit bred by the heaven and earth is not for them to achieve enlightenment, but to add races to the heaven and earth and breed some races that are close to the heaven and earth."

Li Zhi's eyes lit up and he said, "Daoist Yuchen, your view on the Holy Spirit is really unique. But I think what you said seems to make sense. According to legend, the descendants of Kunlun are a race close to immortals, extremely powerful. The Holy Spirit, as a life born from heaven and earth, is equivalent to the offspring of heaven and earth. Then the offspring of the Holy Spirit seem to be more suitable for practicing in the present heaven and earth. In this way, it is easy to explain some powerful beings, and why they are born with special physiques."

"I'm just talking nonsense, don't take it seriously." Seeing that Li Zhi seemed to be very curious about this, Saint Daoyi quickly denied it.

After a nonsensical exchange, Saint Daoyi seemed to have regained the feeling of getting along with others in the Holy City.

After traveling in Zhongzhou for just over a month, she survived a massive heavenly calamity and became a great master in the Xiantai secret realm.

As for Ye Fan, he survived the Yin-Yang Death Curse and successfully survived a horrific natural disaster, which made everyone have a deeper understanding of his strength.

People can't help but think of Li Zhi's evaluation of him.

It also made many geniuses in the Qi Shi Mansion feel invincible.

As a result, many people withdrew from the Qi Shi Mansion and seemed to have chosen to give up on the ancient starry sky road that could lead to the outside world.

There were even several major forces in Zhongzhou that contacted the Yin-Yang Sect in private, seemingly wanting to exchange for the secret technique of the Yin-Yang Death Curse, but they were all rejected by the Yin-Yang Sect.

As Ye Fan successfully survived the death tribulation and the heavenly tribulation, he became a genuine master of the Xiantai level.

Most of the forces hostile to Ye Fan disappeared in an instant.

Even the Jiuli Divine Dynasty, one of the four immortal dynasties in Zhongzhou, gave up the grudge between it and Ye Fan.

When Li Zhi and Saint Daoyi traveled to the Yin Yang City of Yin Yang Sect, they found that the Yin Yang City had been destroyed by someone using the source technique. On the vast land, stood a ruined city.

Most of the mountain-like city walls have collapsed. The cold city walls can no longer emit a majestic aura, and the overwhelming pressure has become chaotic.

The ancient marks seemed to have been wiped out by the First World War.

The mountains surrounding the holy city were filled with auspicious auras and rosy clouds. The sacred and peaceful atmosphere had long since disappeared, and was replaced by boundless evil spirits.

The pure land that was once the Yin-Yang Sect no longer has any sacred places except for a small area.

“The Holy Body was truly merciless and brutal. When this divine city was broken, I don’t know how much killing was caused and how many innocent people lost their lives.” Saint Maiden Daoyi looked at the ruined Yin-Yang Sect’s Pure Land with compassion.

"He is a bit cruel. He has no worries and acts recklessly, causing loss of lives and damaging his virtue. But I'm afraid he won't care about this." Li Zhi said.

"The Holy Body is like this, and so is the Yin-Yang Sect. Why does this world give me the feeling of being infected by an endless sea of ​​blood, as if all the spirits in the world have fallen into evil demons who don't know what virtue is?"

At this moment, Saint Daoyi's face was full of confusion, as if the unbridled killing had made her disappointed with this world.

Li Zhi felt the same way.

Why do most monks not value their lives and wantonly deprive others of their lives?

He practiced Taoism and became a killing machine, fearing that he had not killed enough people or eliminated enough enemies, and that the blood on his hands could not be wiped clean.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, the world of mortals is full of suffering, and all living beings are suffering. You are not merciful, and you are practicing the Great Dao in vain. I pity the people of the world, and they have many worries. I will burn my body to purify the heaven and earth..."

Suddenly, Saint Daoyi seemed to have sensed something and began to chant a mysterious spell. A sense of great compassion emanated from her whole body, and a mysterious power began to burst out from her body, making her look like a deity.

Upon seeing this, Li Zhi immediately dispersed the monks around to prevent anyone from disturbing her.

This is to see one's true nature and enter the realm of establishing the Tao.

The wonderful Taoist state of mind of Saint Daoyi became more and more intense, and there was even a feeling of transcending the mundane world.

Two days later, she finally stopped chanting, and her aura began to change, eventually completely shedding the aura of a cultivator, as if she had become an ordinary mortal.

His eyes were clear and transparent, without a trace of impurities.

"Wulian Tianzun, Changshou Daoyou, thank you for accompanying me in my travels in Zhongzhou. I plan to go alone for the rest of the journey."

Saint Daoyi seemed like a sage who was about to enter the mortal world, saying goodbye to her fellow Taoists before leaving.

"Congratulations, fellow Taoist, great things are in store for you."

Then Li Zhi said, "Before you leave, fellow Taoist, I'll give you a message. All living beings suffer, and there are tears in the mortal world. When one day you shed tears for all living beings, that will be the day when your journey in the mortal world is complete. When you have walked through the mortal world and left behind your dharma image, that will be the day when you truly enter the Tao."

"Fellow Taoist Changshou, we will say goodbye here." Without any hesitation, the young Taoist nun Yuchen turned around and stepped into the world of mortals.

Watching her disappearing back, Li Zhi felt that the next time they met would be the day she would truly become a Taoist master.

Li Zhi was quite pleased about this.

Afterwards, he took another look at the Yin Yang Divine City that was destroyed by Ye Fan, and said with emotion: "If you don't know the destiny, why do you deserve the disaster? I hope that the Yin Yang Sect can use this disaster to be reborn in Nirvana."

Then, Li Zhi walked towards the imperial capital of the Great Xia Dynasty.

If you travel around Zhongzhou and don't visit the imperial capitals of the four immortal dynasties, the elegance of the nine ancient countries, and the mysteries of the various schools of thought, how can you say you have been to Zhongzhou?

The imperial capital of the four immortal divine dynasties is indeed a place where the fortune of heaven and earth is seized, and the cultivation environment is simply too friendly to cultivators.

The large number of powerful people in Zhongzhou also opened Li Zhi's eyes.

Along the way, Li Zhi exchanged ideas with no less than a hundred powerful people, which benefited him a lot.

I feel like the day of breaking through to the second level of Immortal is just around the corner.

Afterwards, Li Zhi borrowed the domain gate of a large sect to leave Zhongzhou and returned directly to the southern region of the Eastern Wilderness.

In the southern region of the Eastern Wasteland, vegetation is lush, the four seasons are like spring, and the land and sky are beautiful.

Although there are dragon veins all over the earth, there is no dragon energy overflowing and no dragon marrow is produced. However, it does produce many vital spiritual springs.

It also indirectly led to the existence of numerous rivers and lakes in the southern region, with misty waters and endless vitality.

Li Zhixing walked on this land, going in and out of the primitive wilderness, silently feeling the subtle changes of heaven and earth.

However, his perception was a little vague, as if his current level of Taoism was not enough to allow him to directly perceive everything.

In the wilderness, blue phoenixes were flying, divine turtles were emerging from the water, golden monkeys were making noises in the forest, and great rocs were spreading their wings, causing Li Zhi to unconsciously have a friendly exchange with them.

Although most of the ferocious birds and beasts fled back to their nests to lick their wounds after the communication, Li Zhi also left them with sufficient combat experience so that they would not be so arrogant as to collide with others in the future and thus lose their lives.

As he communicated and discussed with these ferocious birds and beasts in the mountains, Li Zhi gradually developed a wild and natural aura.

It was as if he was no different from those creatures struggling for life in the wilderness.

In this way, he did not remember how long he had walked in the wilderness. When he entered the human city again, he had unknowingly appeared in the imperial capital of Yan State on the edge of the ancient forbidden area.

(End of this chapter)