Don't let Yu Ding take on any more disciples.

Chapter 340 The Interweaving of Myth and Reality
Jiang Ziya—very unusual!

Yu Ding pondered. Jiang Ziya was nominally his junior brother, but he was passing on the teachings on behalf of his master, so in reality, he was almost like his disciple.

Although he hadn't seen Xiao Jiang for a long time because he was busy with his own affairs, he still arranged the subjects and courses for her cultivation before he left.

In his memory, Xiao Jiang was a normal classmate, but this time he seemed like a riddle teller.

To be honest, the sentence that made him stop doing something really startled him.

After finishing his business, he would check on the boy's cultivation and chat with him while he was at it... Yu Ding walked along the mountain path toward Yuxu Palace.

Jade Void Sacred Realm.

The Jade Cauldron Immortal's Cave.

As one of the earliest disciples to join the Jade Void Palace, one of their greatest advantages is the right to choose their own cave dwelling.

The twelve immortal caves are located in places rich in spiritual energy, each one better than the last.

It is far superior to their current temples and caves.

Yu Ding had already noticed this last time. If it weren't for the fact that the sect leader was concerned, Yu Ding would have considered moving this cave to Yuquan Mountain.

Empty-handed, he slowly walked to the entrance of the cave with his hands in his sleeves. After glancing around and seeing that no one was there, he coughed.

With a 'buzz', the barrier light screen surrounding the cave opened a hole from the inside, and Kongxu immediately slipped inside.

Inside the cave, Yu Ding sat cross-legged.

"Hey, the rabbit that doesn't burrow is back?"

Kongxuzi sat casually opposite him, hands in his sleeves, and joked.

Yu Ding glanced at him: "Stop talking nonsense. What happened at Yu Xu Palace while I was away?"

From the moment he separated the Void into an avatar, everything he saw and heard afterward was no longer shared, as if they had become two separate people.

But in reality, he's still just one person.

"Look at what you're saying! A great calamity has begun. Tell me, where is there a safer place than Jade Void Palace?"

Kongxu, hands clasped in his pockets, grinned and said, "Anyway, you've already been robbed beforehand. If you hide in this Jade Void Palace and don't go out, even if the floodwaters outside are raging, you won't get wet at all."

"After the great calamity, when you go out, you'll be the number one expert among the Twelve Immortals. What do you say, consider it?"

"What the hell are you going to think about?"

Yu Ding calmly and decisively refused.

He knew very well that fate was like a knife, and once the calamity arrived, there was no way to escape it by simply trying to hide.

The fate of Shi Ji, a middle-aged woman who stays at home, is the best example.

Furthermore, he was not some insignificant figure, but one of the direct disciples of the Primordial Sage of the Chan Sect.

You can hide and not come out at the beginning, but in the later stages, when the sage personally takes to the field, and all the disciples of the Chan Sect, including his master and fellow disciples, are fighting, is it appropriate for him to hide?

After the great calamity ends, how will he face the Chan Sect and Yuanshi Tianzun?
He hasn't forgotten his roots, nor has he forgotten that everything he has today is built upon the foundation of the Chan Sect and the great tree of the Primordial Father.

And then there's the fact that he's inexplicably gained so many disciples now.

Moreover, some of them were closely related to this great calamity and ultimately met with extremely bad ends.

How can he remain uninvolved?
"I knew you'd give this answer."

Kong Xu wasn't surprised at all: "So I haven't been idle all these years, I've been busy cultivating the Jade Purity Immortal Technique."

Yu Ding nodded. Emptiness was an avatar he had created using that wisp of innate Jade Purity Origin Qi.
Therefore, his physique is also the most suitable for cultivating the Jade Purity Immortal Technique. Similarly, Taixu is also the most suitable for cultivating the Taiqing Immortal Technique.

This allowed them to progress rapidly in their cultivation.

But just as the saying goes, the height of a waterfall cannot exceed its source, the realm of an incarnation cannot surpass that of the original; at most, it can be equal.

This Void has now reached the Celestial Immortal Realm, and is only one step away from the higher Golden Immortal Realm.

"Alright, I will share with you the process and state of mind of transcending the Golden Immortal Realm."

Yu Ding swept his whisk with his left hand, made a hand seal with his right, and a golden light shone from between his eyebrows, heading towards the empty space between them.

Kongxu nodded, closed his eyes, and accepted the golden light entering his brow. The two established a relationship and shared memories.

If Yu Ding were to die by accident in the future, he could be resurrected and return through incarnation.

Of course, Yu Ding encrypted his memories of his past life and the original Investiture of the Gods in his sea of ​​consciousness with multiple layers of encryption.

This secret can only be known to him.

After a long while, the golden light connecting the two of them disappeared.

"You passed on the Feng Hou Qi Men technique to Jiang Ziya?" Yu Ding asked in surprise.

With his eyes closed and still processing what he had learned, he asked, "Is there a problem?"

“Feng Hou Qi Men, Feng Hou Qi Men…” Yu Ding sat there pondering, tapping his knee with his fingers, his expression shifting.

In the original novel of Investiture of the Gods, it was not mentioned what Xiao Jiang cultivated. After descending the mountain, he claimed that he had not learned anything and that he did only menial tasks on the mountain.

However, he quickly demonstrated his abilities in catching ghosts, fortune telling, and the Five Elements Escape Technique... and in the history of Yu Ding's previous life, where there were no immortals or gods, Jiang Ziya was even more extraordinary.

Not only was he proficient in Qimen Dunjia, but he also simplified the more than 1,000 formations of "Feng Hou Qimen" and combined them with his own knowledge to refine and evolve them into "72 formations", which contributed to the consolidation of the Zhou Dynasty royal family's eight-hundred-year foundation.

Later generations of learners called it 'Taigong Qimen'.

At this very moment, Jiang Ziya from the Investiture of the Gods learned the 'Feng Hou Qi Men' from his real-world historical counterpart.
In a daze, Yu Ding had an unreal feeling of reality and mythology intertwined.

In addition, another detail caught his attention.

That is, he didn't teach Jiang Ziya divination, but Jiang Ziya practiced Feng Hou Qi Men, and everything seems to be developing in the direction of the original Investiture of the Gods.

Moreover, Jiang Ziya's reminder to him just now...

Yu Ding's expression tightened. Had this kid foreseen something?

"I can't figure it out..." Yu Ding shook his head, stood up and bowed: "Disciple Yu Ding has doubts in his heart, please be sure to enlighten me, Master."

hum!
Not long after Yu Ding's voice fell, a beam of holy, pure light descended upon him.

The next instant, Yu Ding's figure disappeared from the cave, and when the holy light before his eyes dissipated, he had already appeared in the Jade Void Palace.

……

Yuquan Mountain.

A large zongzi (sticky rice dumpling) lay on two beds inside a bamboo house.

After applying the medicine to Chi Tianzheng, Yu Ding's clone wrapped him in white bandages, while Xiao Bai remained unconscious.
Even while unconscious, he would occasionally grimace, gasp for breath, and show signs of pain on his face.

This shows how much strain his nine-fold over-limit punch had on him.

Yu Ding's clone sat at the table in the room, quietly drinking tea.

"Hiss... Master, Master... hiss..."

When Xiaobai woke up, she gasped for breath, her whole body was convulsing, and the muscles on her face were contorted.

"woke up?"

"Hmm...hiss..."

"Does it hurt?"

"Hiss... um..." Xiaobai said, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Heh, still dare to act tough?" Jade Cauldron clone sneered.

Xiao Bai thought for a moment: "Didn't Master say that we have to see how things go... hiss..."

"Hey, you kid!"

"Master, please calm down. This time it wasn't me being stubborn. Please let me explain... Hiss!" Little White grinned.

The Jade Cauldron clone said, "Very well, your master would like to hear your explanation."

Xiao Bai's expression turned serious as he recalled, "Master, I wasn't being reckless. I originally intended to stop at eight times the speed, but..."

He seemed to be recalling something.

"But what?"

"However... if each multiple is a limitation, then the limitations of one, three, five, and seven times are even greater."

Xiao Bai pondered and said, "But at the eighth time, I suddenly felt that the ninth time was an unprecedented limitation."

At that moment, a strong premonition suddenly arose in my heart that I had to try, but I didn't know what would happen once I broke through to the ninth level..."

Jade Cauldron: (O_o)??
The more I listened, the more it sounded like he was describing the boundary between the Celestial Realm and the Golden Immortal Realm...

Wait, it's not like that!

It seems...it really is...

"This kid..." Jade Cauldron's clone asked in surprise, "How did it feel when you used the Nine-Times Overlimit Fist?"

"It hurts, it hurts so much, Master, it hurts so much."

Xiao Bai said with lingering fear, "The immense power almost swallowed my consciousness, but the last vestige of my consciousness told me that I had to beat that arrogant bastard so badly that even his own mother wouldn't recognize him."

"That bastard is lying right next to you. He doesn't even recognize his own father, let alone his mother."

The Jade Cauldron clone smiled and said, "Get some rest."

"Master, what does it mean that these restrictions of one, three, five, seven, and nine times are strong and weak?" Xiaobai asked somewhat uneasily.

"One, three, five, seven, nine..."

The Jade Cauldron clone pondered: "The numbers of heaven and earth begin with one, stand at three, are completed at five, flourish at seven, and reach their peak at nine. Therefore, the path of Qi cultivation is now divided into four realms of the human path and five realms of the immortal path. I think your situation... is probably for the same reason!"

"Is that so?" Xiaobai asked thoughtfully.

The Jade Cauldron clone said, "From now on, pay attention to whether this is true or not."

(End of this chapter)