Mortal's Purple Sky Cave Heaven

Chapter 529 Star Chart Refinement of the Heart
"In theory, restrictions like the no-fly zone shouldn't pose much of a danger." Nie Zhaonan smiled slightly, a flash of spiritual light appeared on his body, and he leaped into the air, transforming into a streak of light and shooting towards the purple palace at the top of the mountain.

Yue Li didn't hesitate and followed after them, riding her escape light.
The journey was uneventful, and before long, Nie Zhaonan and Yue Li reached the top of the mountain, where they were already standing directly in front of the purple palace.

The main hall's gate appears ordinary, with only some rough and simple patterns imprinted on its surface. However, above the gate is a huge plaque, seven or eight zhang long, inscribed with several ancient golden characters.

"Golden seal script! It seems this place is indeed extraordinary." Yue Li stared intently, a hint of excitement appearing on her beautiful face.

Nie Zhaonan glanced at the main hall once, then turned his gaze to the pavilions and terraces behind it.

The area was lush with greenery, enveloped by a rich aura of wood spirit, and a gentle breeze carried the subtle scent of medicinal herbs within.

"Don't rush into the main hall. Let's go to the medicine garden first. This place was clearly left behind by a true immortal, so the spiritual herbs in the garden must be rare and precious. The healing medicine you need is also there," Nie Zhaonan said.

"I'll do whatever you say." Yue Li naturally had no objections. Moreover, compared to the opportunities in the main hall, she was more eager to obtain the healing elixir that could cure her parents' injuries.

Without further hesitation, the two transformed into two streaks of light and rushed straight to the back of the main hall.

With their cultivation levels, it only took them a short while to arrive at these pavilions.

Right there on a flat area between the three pavilions, there was a medicinal garden of several acres in size, and the faint fragrance of herbs was coming from it.

However, the entire herb garden was surrounded by five purple-gold pillars, and a five-colored glow enveloped it.

Nie Zhaonan's brow twitched, and with a flick of his wrist, the Xuan Tian Zhan Ling Sword appeared in a flash, followed by a burst of emerald sword light.

With a "poof," the five-colored light shield was shattered like a bubble by the emerald sword light.

"Let's go." Nie Zhaonan led Yue Li and slowly stepped into the herb garden.

As soon as they entered, they saw a large number of Red Luo Fruits, Corrosive Herbs, and several other rare medicinal herbs, many of which had become extinct in the spirit world millions of years ago.

However, Nie Zhaonan merely glanced around without stopping, only releasing Xiao Jiu to pick the local medicinal herbs.

He then led Yue Li toward the center of the herb garden.

There were more than a dozen medicinal herb gardens of different sizes there, each surrounded by a wooden fence several meters high, forming an independent world.

Within these gardens within gardens, there are spiritual herbs, spiritual trees that are several feet tall, spiritual flowers that are several feet tall, and one place even surrounds a spiritual spring that is seven or eight feet wide. In the spring water, there is a small, silvery lotus seedpod floating, which is extremely magical!
Yue Li was already captivated by the silver lotus seedpod and couldn't look away for a second.

"Although I don't know what kind of celestial medicine this silver lotus is, its healing effect is so strong that even a Mahayana expert who is on the verge of death and has fallen in cultivation level can recover most of his strength after consuming this lotus," Nie Zhaonan said with a smile, sharing some of the information he knew.

"Thank goodness for you." Yue Li turned her head slightly, her eyes sparkling as she looked at Nie Zhaonan beside her, her voice soft and full of gratitude.

If it weren't for Nie Zhaonan, she would never have been able to find such an amazing healing elixir as the Silver Lotus.

"There's no need for such gratitude between us. If you really want to thank me, Yue'er, just do your best to repay me later." Nie Zhaonan looked at Yue Li's beautiful and delicate face.

Their eyes met, and they both understood each other's feelings.

"Mmm," Yue Li replied softly, her voice melodious and pleasant, with a slight tremor.

Looking at the shy Yue Li, Nie Zhaonan felt a surge of desire and almost lost control, taking her right there and then. However, he knew that business was more important.

The medicinal herbs planted here by the owner of the herb garden are far more valuable than the Red Luo Fruit and Corrosive Herb mentioned earlier.

To Nie Zhaonan's delight, the place contained the four spiritual herbs he desperately needed, the very four he was missing from refining the Dao Immortal Pill.

Nie Zhaonan is now preparing to refine this elixir, as it may be needed later, and this matter cannot be delayed.

Beneath these individually cultivated medicinal herbs, there is another layer of powerful restrictions.

If there is no way to break the restriction, forcibly taking the above-mentioned spiritual medicine will cause the spiritual medicine to self-destruct.

This would naturally be a thorny problem for other cultivators, and they might not even have a solution, but it was not a problem for Nie Zhaonan.

He directly took the entire medicinal field containing the spiritual herbs into the Purple Cloud Cave Heaven, and then used the power of the cave heaven to solve the problems one by one.

Next, naturally, he took out a pill furnace and sat cross-legged in the herb garden to refine the Dao Immortal Pill.

Two months later, in the sky above a desert in the Guanghan Realm, where yellow sandstorms raged everywhere, a sudden flash of light appeared, and three strange, unusual blue chariots, each carrying two short figures, shot towards them from afar.

But just ahead of the chariot, a cold voice suddenly drifted out from a cloud.

"So you are fellow Daoists from the Black Confucian Clan. However, you have come to the wrong place. This place has already been occupied by our clan!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of light suddenly shone from the cloud, and more than a dozen figures dressed in different styles emerged.

The leader, dressed in a yellow robe, looked to be only in his early twenties, but had three short, golden horns on his forehead that shone brightly and were extremely eye-catching.

Behind him stood a dozen men, women, and children, all with horns on their heads, but in different colors and shapes.

Upon seeing these dozen or so people, the six short, alien warriors on the chariot immediately turned extremely pale. One of them, who seemed to be the leader, uttered an unusually hoarse and unpleasant sound:
"Horned Chi tribe! What are you doing here? Have you been secretly following us?"

"Stalking? You think you're worthy?" The golden-horned youth at the head of the group sneered, then abruptly changed his tone:
"It seems you've discovered this place too, so don't even think about leaving."

"Go! Send them on their way!" Finally, the golden-horned youth gave the order to his companions behind him.

The dozen or so Horned Chi tribesmen behind him responded in unison, and then, with a burst of light, they surrounded him in a fan shape.

"go!"

Knowing they were no match for them, the six Black Confucian clansmen's expressions changed drastically, and the leader let out a furious shout, filled with shock and anger.

With a humming sound, the azure chariot suddenly leaped out, instantly transforming into three balls of azure light that shot off in the other direction.

Within the azure light, faint arcs of light flickered, accompanied by a booming sound; its speed was astonishing.

However, those Horned Chi people possessed even more astonishing supernatural abilities. A dozen or so of them either flashed with spiritual light and transformed into dazzling rainbows, or formed hand seals and vanished from their spots in a flash.

The golden-horned youth, however, hovered motionless in the air with his hands behind his back, seemingly full of confidence in his companion.

Soon, the few Horned Chi tribesmen who used the strange teleportation technique appeared in front of the chariot.

In an instant, a fierce battle broke out here!
But these aliens, including even the golden-horned youth who had been watching the whole time, were unaware that...

Besides their two clans, there was a third party in a mountain stream a thousand miles away, watching everything here with a strange treasure.

This treasure is a crystal-clear white mirror, and the image flashing on its surface is a life-or-death battle between a dozen Jiao Chi tribesmen and six Hei Ru tribesmen.

Before this precious mirror stood Yin Yue, Nangong Wan, and their group.

"What's going on? Could it be that the Horned Chi tribe also discovered the restrictions on this site?" Bingfeng asked with a look of surprise and doubt.

"No need to worry. This ruin is so vast, it's unlikely that the Horned Chi tribe would be so coincidentally targeting the same place as us. And even if they do come looking for us, with the strength of us sisters, are we afraid of them?" Silver Moon said calmly.

“Indeed, as Yin Yue said. Moreover, my husband has received many benefits from the thirteen clans of Tianyuan. Although he killed more than a hundred Jiao Chi people before, the number was still too small. If these Jiao Chi people really come to us willingly, we can also take care of them. But so much time has passed, why haven’t my husband and Sister Yue Li made any moves yet?” Nangong Wan suggested, but her tone was tinged with worry.

“He should be alright. If my husband were truly in danger, or trapped in a moment, he could have informed us through the Gold-Eating Insects. But we haven’t received any news yet, so he must be preoccupied with something extremely important and unable to leave.” Wang Ningyu pondered for a moment before speaking in a melodious voice.

The women nodded in agreement with Wang Ning's statement, but they couldn't help but show some concern on their faces.

On the other side, Nie Zhaonan and Yue Li had already appeared in a strange space.

As for the Dao Immortal Pill, after Nie Zhaonan spent two months refining it without sleep, it was naturally successfully made into a pill.

The reason the two of them are here now is that they have entered a screen inside the main hall.

The sky above was shimmering with blue light, and the surrounding area was a small plaza with gray barriers. Apart from the gate through which the two of them entered, there were no other entrances.

The entire space was empty except for a strange circular platform in the center, upon which sat a magnificent, emerald-green armchair, resembling a small bed.

"A grotto-heaven within a screen! A treasure of Mount Sumeru! Setting up the infusion formation here can indeed be said to be foolproof." Yue Li's figure disappeared from the spot in a flash, and when she reappeared, she was already on the high platform.

The next moment, Nie Zhaonan's figure also appeared beside her.

The platform was not small, measuring over thirty zhang in width.

At the edge stood nine silver-armored warriors, each wielding a long spear and wearing full helmets.

Apart from their pair of dark eyes, they had no skin showing on their bodies, so they were not ordinary puppet warriors.

However, it was ultimately just an inanimate object, so naturally it couldn't instill any fear in Nie Zhaonan and his companion.

"The arrangement here is very complete, and it even includes a star chart to temper your mind. This way, you won't have to worry about your mind becoming mismatched with your cultivation level after a rapid increase. Use this chart to temper your mind first. I will protect you to prevent you from getting lost in the star chart and never waking up." Yue Li glanced around and then her gaze fell on the pattern on the high platform.

It was a stunningly beautiful painting, depicting the sun, moon, and stars, with stars of varying sizes, lifelike and almost covering the entire platform.

“Okay.” Nie Zhaonan readily agreed; what he lacked now was mental fortitude.

He then lowered his head slightly and began to examine the huge starry sky pattern on the ground.

At first, I thought it was just ordinary and very common.

But after looking at it for a while longer, the entire star chart suddenly seemed to blur and come alive.

The surrounding scenery blurred, and he suddenly found himself under the starry sky, in one mysterious and otherworldly realm after another.

The once dull sun and moon emitted golden and silver light, and where the light shone, other stars of different sizes emitted a cool white light and began to revolve around the sun and moon in a regular pattern.

The sun and moon themselves also vary in size, rising and setting, constantly repeating this cycle, and time flows by as swiftly as a river.

Nie Zhaonan quietly watched the sun and moon revolve, his mind blank, not thinking about anything, just passively experiencing the passage of time.

Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years
It was as if hundreds of thousands of years had passed in the blink of an eye.

Only when his mind was exceptionally clear and he could no longer feel the star chart's tempering effect on his state of mind did he activate the 'Ranking Technique' and awaken with his powerful divine sense.

Yue Li, who had been waiting for only a quarter of an hour, saw that Nie Zhaonan had regained consciousness, and asked with concern:

"How does it feel?"

"Although it was a bit lonely, it was indeed a rare test of my mental state and brought great benefits to my will." The look of vicissitude in Nie Zhaonan's eyes slowly faded, and he smiled slightly.

“In that case, I’ll give it a try too.” Yue Li had been cultivating for much longer than Nie Zhaonan, so her mental state was naturally much stronger. Originally, she wasn’t very interested in this star chart, but now that she saw how much Nie Zhaonan had gained, she naturally wanted to give it a try as well.

Soon, just like Nie Zhaonan had done before, Yue Li looked at the star map, her mind blank, and then she became immersed in it.

However, Yue Li didn't keep Nie Zhaonan waiting for long; she returned in just a few breaths.

However, once she came to her senses, Yue Li quieted down and looked at a golden ball of light that was faintly visible in the misty sky. Her slender fingers gripped her palace dress tightly, showing her nervousness.

She certainly knew what the next step was.

"Let's remove the outer garments first, I'm afraid we won't have time later." Nie Zhaonan plopped down in the armchair.

Upon hearing this, although her body had already been seen by the person in front of her, this time was different. Yue Li couldn't help but blush, and then she mustered up her courage and smiled slightly. She placed her slender hand on the thin belt around her waist, about to untie it.

But at that moment, Nie Zhaonan suddenly spoke:
"There's no need for such trouble; simply remove the key parts."

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