Chapter 47: The Life Spring Appears, the Taoist Temple Comes to Life

As soon as he walked out of the forest, Li Zhi saw several families at the foot of the mountain.

I saw some animal skins hanging in the yards of those families, or some fresh herbs drying in the sun.

Li Zhi judged that they should be hunters and herbalists, making a living by hunting and collecting herbs.

The State of Yan is 3,000 miles from east to west and 2,000 miles from north to south. The Ancient Forbidden Land is located in the middle of the State of Yan, surrounded by endless mountains. The forest is called the Ancient Forest, which is a circular forest with a width of more than 800 miles.

The six sacred places of Yan State were actually built around the ancient forest.

Almost half of the country is covered by virgin forests, so many people rely on hunting and collecting herbs for a living.

It was noon and there was no one in the yards of those families, as if the main labor force of the families had already gone into the mountains.

When he reached the gate of a medicine dealer's house, Li Zhi shouted, "Is anyone home?"

Soon, a young woman in her twenties came out of the house holding a child of three or four years old.

After seeing Li Zhi, the young woman's eyes seemed to flash with a hint of vigilance, and she said, "Little friend, who are you looking for?"

"Sister-in-law, I'm just passing by. I want to ask you which direction the nearest town is in."

When Li Zhi saw the wariness on the young woman's face, he immediately realized that his clothes were too gorgeous and made the young woman feel scared, so he directly explained his purpose.

Originally, he was thinking about whether he could rest and eat something in the homes of these mountain people before leaving.

But after seeing the young woman's reaction, Li Zhi understood that noble and humble have different meanings.

The young woman pointed to the southeast and said, "There is a Qingfeng Town twenty miles away."

"Thank you, sister-in-law."

After expressing his gratitude, Li Zhi left without staying.

After Li Zhi left, the child in the young woman's arms said, "Mom, that little brother just now was so handsome."

The young woman looked at the child in her arms lovingly and said, "Ni'er, don't envy him. When you grow up a little bit, mom and dad will send you to the Immortal Gate to take the test. If you can enter the Immortal Gate to practice, you will definitely be more beautiful than that little brother when you grow up."

When the young woman saw Li Zhi for the first time, she realized that he was not a normal child, so she did not entertain him.

"Nier, you need to grow up quickly." said the little girl happily.

The young woman looked towards the distant mountains and forests with a worried look on her face.

There has been unrest in the mountains recently, with people often riding the divine rainbow into the mountains. The wild beasts in the mountains are frightened and have caused riots and injuries.

A few days ago, a hunter was killed by a beast.

The changes in the mountains forced the hunters and herbalists, who originally worked independently, to go into the mountains together to hunt and collect herbs.

Although the harvest is a little low, it is safer.

As hunters and herbalists living in the mountains, they naturally know the value of life.

The reason why they risk their lives to go into the mountains to hunt and collect herbs is to enable the next generation to produce monks so that they don't have to take risks in the mountains.

Nowadays, a child of seven or eight years old dares to walk in the dangerous mountains and forests.

The young woman was worried that the wild beasts in the mountains would soon riot again.

At that time, the chances of death for mortals who go into the mountains to hunt and collect herbs will greatly increase.

For those mortals, the large-scale appearance of monks often does not bring them safety, but is instead a very dangerous signal.

Twenty miles of mountain road is not far.

Soon Li Zhi saw a small town which was not very big.

At the entrance of the town, there is a stone tablet with the words "Qingfeng Town" engraved on it.

The town is not big, with only one main road. There are quite a few shops on both sides of the road, mainly selling daily necessities.

There are almost no places for leisure and entertainment.

After entering the town, Li Zhi did not check into the inn directly, but took a walk around the town first.

After getting a general understanding of the layout of the town and not sensing the presence of any cultivators, Li Zhi felt relieved.

Then he went to the only inn in the town and stayed there.

In the guest room, Li Zhi took out the scripture that recorded the "Xiantian Changsheng Gong", as well as the scripture of the "Changsheng Sutra" Lunhai Volume obtained from Nangong Wentian and his experience in cultivation.

By comparing and studying the two techniques and combining them with Nangong Wentian's experience in cultivation, Li Zhi gained a deeper understanding of the Xiantian Changsheng Gong Wheel Sea Scroll.

The goal of "Innate Longevity Art" is not to strengthen combat power, so when practicing in the Wheel Sea Secret Realm, it does not pay much attention to the improvement of combat power. The divine patterns that are born are generally not used to forge offensive tools, but to forge special longevity tools.

The "immortal tree" transformed from divine patterns in Li Zhilun's sea is a special instrument of longevity.

In the future, when his cultivation breaks through to the level of Life Spring, the newly born divine patterns in the Wheel Sea can be used to accelerate the growth of the immortal tree, and can also be used to forge new instruments of immortality.

In short, if you want to gain powerful offensive power, it is not possible to do so by simply practicing the Xiantian Longevity Technique.

Li Zhi read the scriptures and insights for three consecutive days, and finally understood the scriptures of the Sea of ​​Bitterness and the Fountain of Life stages thoroughly.

Then he entered into seclusion in an independent little world within the Hundred Herbs Map.

He has a special physique, and when he breaks through the Life Spring, it will definitely cause a lot of noise. There is no safer place than to break through in the Hundred Herbs Map.

Sitting under the longevity fruit tree on the top of the mountain, Li Zhi took out the source stone and began to practice.

After absorbing the surging life essence from the source stone, Li Zhi immediately felt the divine power in the sea of ​​suffering growing stronger.

Source, it really is a powerful tool to accelerate cultivation.

It is enough to save the novice monks several years or even decades of hard work in accumulating life essence.

Just as Li Zhi was in seclusion, the innkeeper began to inspect the inn with a middle-aged man.

When passing by the No. 1 courtyard where Li Zhi lived, the middle-aged man asked curiously, "Who lives here?"

The innkeeper responded, "Manager Zhang, there is a very generous young man living here."

"Young man? Which family are you from? How many days have you lived here?" Manager Zhang asked.

"He has been here for three days. He has hardly stepped out of the room. Judging from his clothes and the material of his clothes, I guess he is most likely the son of a powerful noble from Yandu." said the innkeeper.

"The son of a powerful noble from Yandu actually came to our remote town. Is he alone, or is there someone accompanying him?" Manager Zhang asked with a hint of thought in his eyes.

"I only saw him. But the food he ordered each time was enough for four or five adults. He must have subordinates following him secretly." The innkeeper said after thinking for a while.

Afterwards, Manager Zhang instructed the innkeeper, "Then you should pay attention to his every move and report to me at any time. The Seventh Young Master will be back soon, and at this critical juncture, nothing can go wrong."

"Okay, sir." said the innkeeper.

Li Zhi in the Hundred Herbs Map has also reached a critical moment in his cultivation.

After refining 1,200 kilograms of source, he finally felt the sea of ​​suffering begin to boil.

It seems that there is a volcano under the sea that may erupt at any time.

Then he used all his strength to activate the mysterious method to guide the volcano under the sea to erupt. "Boom! Puff!"

Suddenly, a thick ray of light spurted out from the sea of ​​suffering. The silver sea of ​​suffering began to churn constantly. In an instant, huge waves surged and the sea surface exploded.

Then, a collapsed area appeared in the center of the Sea of ​​Bitterness.

The glow of the sunset is what gushes out from that area.

It seemed as if a sea eye as big as a wellhead appeared above the Sea of ​​Bitterness.

Immediately afterwards, a silver-white life essence gushed out from the sea eye, supporting the sea eye that was being compressed and collapsed by the bitter sea.

As the waves gradually subsided, the eye became more and more solid.

It indicates that Li Zhi has completely entered the realm of Life Spring.

The Wheel of Life, obscured by the sea of ​​suffering, finally has a channel to communicate directly with the outside world.

However, the sea eye had only penetrated ten feet into the bitter sea and had not reached the bottom of the sea.

One day, when Li Zhi digs through the eye of the sea and reaches the Wheel of Life, it will mean that he has cultivated the Life Spring realm to the peak level.

As the Life Spring was opened up, countless divine patterns gushed out from the spring, forming a colorful cloud over the Sea of ​​Bitterness.

Li Zhifu immediately activated his mysterious magic in his mind, controlling the shape of the glow and pulling it towards the giant silver island.

As the rays of light fell on the giant silver island on the sea of ​​suffering where the immortal tree took root, a Taoist temple instantly rose from the ground, even surrounding the immortal tree inside the temple.

Until no more divine patterns gushed out from the Life Spring and the rays of light were exhausted, the Taoist temple on the giant silver island also completely took shape.

The Taoist temple is silver-white all over, as if it were made of silver, and it exudes a soft silver glow all over.

It seems that there is a mysterious power brewing in it.

Looking at the Taoist temple that had merged with the giant silver island, Li Zhi felt that something was missing.

Looking left and right, I found that the bare walls on both sides of the Taoist temple's gate looked a bit awkward no matter how I looked at it.

Then, Li Zhi realized that the Taoist temple was missing something.

There are no plaques or couplets introducing the Taoist temple.

Afterwards, Li Zhi used his divine power like a knife and began to carve a plaque on the gate of the Taoist temple.

The three mysterious runes "Heaven, Earth, and Man" were engraved by Li Zhi on the plaque of the Taoist temple.

These three mysterious runes are the three words "Heaven, Earth and Man" picked out by Li Zhi from the three sentences he comprehended from the Three Generations Bronze Coffin. Their mystery even surpasses the nine emperor runes left in the emperor scriptures by the emperor-level strongmen.

Afterwards, he added a pair of couplets on the left and right sides using the oracle bone script from Stealing the Heaven's Secret.

The first couplet reads: "The immortal palace of immortality."

The second line reads: "The Taoist family has a longevity equal to that of the heaven."

After Li Zhi finished carving the plaque and couplets, the Taoist temple seemed to give people an even more mysterious feeling.

There is even a kind of artistic conception that transcends the long river of time.

At the same time, a powerful aura gushed out from Li Zhi.

Li Zhi, who was originally sitting cross-legged on the ground, began to gradually float in the air.

It was not until his head hit the longevity fruit tree that his aura was restrained.

Standing on the top of the mountain, Li Zhi burst into hearty laughter.

But when he saw the source stones that had lost all their vitality under the fruit trees, his joyful expression froze instantly.

Originally, there were still three or four hundred kilograms of source left, which was enough for him to improve his Life Spring realm by a large margin, and even cultivate to the peak of Life Spring.

But now, the remaining source stones have all turned into waste stones, which makes Li Zhi feel like his house has been robbed.

Then Li Zhi shouted to the sky: "Senior Caotu, did you absorb the life essence in my source stone?"

The spirit of the Hundred Herbs Map did not respond to him, as if it had fallen into a deep sleep.

If I had known this would happen, I shouldn't have poured out all the source stones at once.

In this small world that is extremely lacking in the replenishment of the essence of heaven and earth, how could it possibly let go of the source stone that is so rich in life essence that he brought in?

Afterwards, Li Zhi walked out of the laughing world in the Hundred Herbs Picture.

After putting the Hundred Herbs Map back into the Wheel Sea, a sense of enlightenment arose in his heart.

There is actually a fee to enter the map to practice.

This gave Li Zhi a toothache.

Then he decided to treat himself to a big meal to relieve his boredom.

After ordering a large table of food, Li Zhi began to enjoy the food in the room.

The waiter, under the instructions of the shopkeeper, hurried to the Li family in the town to inform the manager Zhang.

At this moment, Manager Zhang was reporting the situation at home to his young master.

And what's been happening in town lately.

Especially about the situation of Old Man Jiang's family.

There is also the conflict between their Li family and the Wang family.

The Seventh Young Master doesn't care about these worldly family conflicts, but is more concerned about Old Man Jiang's affairs.

Steward Zhang reported: "Seventh Young Master, it seems that Old Man Jiang took in a young man a few days ago."

The Seventh Young Master was not concerned about the young man that Old Man Jiang had taken in. Instead, he asked, "How is that little girl?"

Manager Zhang said, "I can now help Old Man Jiang with his work."

A gleam of brilliance flashed in the Seventh Young Master's eyes, and he nodded and said, "Very good. It's time for the child left behind by Fairy Yanxia to return to the sect. Come on, take me to see Old Man Jiang and his granddaughter."

At this moment, the waiter came to Li's house to report the situation.

After hearing the waiter's report, the Seventh Young Master asked curiously, "What's going on, Manager Zhang?"

Manager Zhang responded, "Seventh Young Master, a young man from Yandu stayed at our inn a few days ago. He seemed to be cultivating, but his purpose was unclear. So I asked the innkeeper to keep an eye on him."

The Seventh Young Master frowned slightly and thought, "A cultivator from Yandu? What are they doing here? It seems we need to find out."

Then, he said to Manager Zhang, "Since you are a fellow traveler from Yandu, as the host, I should entertain you. Manager Zhang, you lead the way."

But Manager Zhang said, "Seventh Young Master, that man is just a child. There is no need for you to visit him in person. If you want to see him, I will go and invite him to the mansion."

The Seventh Young Master glared at Manager Zhang and said, "What do you know? Monks are different from mortals. You can't judge them by their age. I'd better go and pay them a visit."

Afterwards, the seventh young master of the Li family, led by Steward Zhang, went to the inn to visit Li Zhi.

(End of this chapter)