The Great Way to Truth, Starting from Jiazi Laodao

Chapter 141: Beautiful Mountains and Rivers, Tuna Universe

In the quiet room of Feihuo Palace at Liehuo Peak, three Taoists sat cross-legged with their eyes closed, resting and regulating their breathing.

The real fire was blazing, the Bagua furnace heated up rapidly, and the temperature in the room also rose rapidly. When the inner wall of the Bagua furnace was red, Xuanming opened his eyes, opened the Bagua furnace, raised his hand to pull it, and put in the materials.

Just like before, he first refined two token-shaped treasures to try his hand, accumulate experience, and get familiar with the feel before officially investing in tiger bones to refine the White Tiger Token.

Xuan Yang and Xuan Kong sat on both sides of the Bagua stove, holding a fan respectively, with their eyes wide open, watching Xuan Ming's movements carefully.

After the tiger bones melted into liquid, Xuan Ming put in a lot of spiritual iron and wind spiritual objects, refined them into liquid, and with the help of spiritual perception, fused the spiritual liquid and molded it into the shape of a token. The tiger head pattern carved on the token was engraved with numerous mysterious runes, which connected into various magic arrays, forming mysterious and ancient patterns.

The strong fire turned into the gentle fire, and the White Tiger Token began to be nurtured in the Bagua furnace and tempered with the true fire to further remove impurities and strive for perfection. Xuanming opened the skylight every day to draw in the essence of the sun and the moon, and refined the token with the Yin and Yang Qi. At the same time, he raised his hand to draw in the spiritual inspiration of the north wind and injected it into the White Tiger Token. Sometimes he also absorbed the essence of the stars to cultivate the spiritual inspiration of the treasure.

Xuankong and Xuanyang comprehended carefully, watching Brother Xuanming's fire control skills and his tips on refining equipment, and saw the mysterious combination and separation of Yin and Yang, Five Elements and Eight Trigrams in the Bagua furnace. They found that the refining process contained all kinds of principles, and even the Samadhi True Fire became more mysterious and subtle.

They were fully focused and immersed in it, and soon became fascinated. They saw the beautiful scenery in the Bagua furnace and understood the profound principles.

After forty-nine days, the furnace fire went out and the White Tiger Order was born, floating in the air. The wind spirit and the gold spirit entwined and condensed into a white tiger shadow. The white tiger flew with wings spread out, roared towards the sky, and fully demonstrated the tyranny and majesty of the king of beasts.

As Xuanyang and Xuankong looked at him with envy, Xuanming put away the White Tiger Order, stroked his beard and smiled: "Hard work pays off. I have finally gathered all the four spiritual instruments. If a storm comes, the Truth Seeking Temple will be more confident."

Xuan Yang and Xuan Kong immediately congratulated him: "Congratulations, Senior Brother. Thank you for your hard work."

They knew clearly what the Four Symbols Spiritual Weapons meant. From now on, the Qiuzhen Temple Mountain Guarding Array would get rid of the old and usher in the new, and would undergo a qualitative change. Its power would increase tremendously. Even if Senior Brother Xuanming did not take action, they would not be afraid of the Golden Core True Man.

When their fellow disciples’ cultivation reaches a higher level, even someone as powerful as Saint Embryo will not dare to act recklessly in Floating Cloud Mountain.

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After the White Tiger Order was refined, Xuanming did not leave. He closed his eyes and rested, recovering his magic power and spirit. Xuankong and Xuanyang did not dare to disturb him. After observing for more than a month, they were also a little tired, so they simply sat cross-legged on both sides of the Bagua furnace and recovered as well.

After the state was restored to normal, Xuanming swung his hand and sent out a magical power to activate the Bagua furnace. The Samadhi True Fire burned again, and the fire was blazing, and the temperature in the room rose rapidly.

Three gives birth to all things, which are endless. After refining two scroll-shaped treasures, his expression became more serious. Xuan Yang and Xuan Kong each waved the wind and fire fan. The temperature in the Bagua furnace was unprecedentedly high, far higher than when refining the White Tiger Order.

When the temperature reached its peak, Xuankong and Xuanyang both wiped their foreheads with their sleeves, sweating profusely. Xuanming took out a dragon skin, which was the skin that the evil water-walking dragon shed when it was condensing its holy fetus in the past.

He felt uneasy, always thinking that the Qiuzhen Temple would be safer if it had more safeguards. This time, Xuanming had already made a plan in mind to refine two treasures, one of which was the Bagua Four Symbols Formation Diagram.

With this in mind, he threw the dragon skin into the Bagua furnace, and after the dragon skin melted, he threw in spiritual objects such as heaven, earth, wind and thunder that matched the Bagua, as well as spiritual materials that matched the attributes of the four spiritual beasts, and fused them with the spiritual liquid, and refined them into a scroll.

During this period, Xuanming's hand seals flew around, and he occasionally inserted runes of the Bagua Formation and the Four Symbols Formation to connect them into a magic formation. At the same time, he engraved other runes to assist the magic formation and injected his own understanding of the two formations.

Both the Bagua Formation and the Four Symbols Formation were modified or created by Xuanming. He was very familiar with these two formations. In addition, he had refined treasures such as the Bagua Mirror and the Four Symbols Spirit Artifact before. Therefore, although there were occasional twists and turns in refining the formation diagram this time, it was generally smooth.

Forty-nine days later, a formation diagram flew out of the Bagua furnace, and slowly unfolded like a picture. The four symbols of the Bagua complemented each other, the principles were intertwined, the runes were shining, the formation echoed, and there were faint sounds of dragon roars, tiger roars, phoenix cries, and turtle roars. The wind and thunder howled, the mountains and swamps formed into pieces, and the images of Tao were lingering and emerging in endlessly.

Just a wisp of energy that diffused out made Xuan Kong and Xuan Yang shudder. Then they stared at the formation diagram, dazzled, afraid and happy, hoping to gain some enlightenment. After carefully examining the formation diagram, Xuan Ming was satisfied. He spread out his right hand and said the word "come". The formation diagram automatically rolled up, the light converged, and he closed his five fingers to put away the formation diagram. He continued to recover.

Two of the three treasures he wanted to refine were left, leaving only the last one. However, this treasure was also the most important. Not only was it the most powerful, it was also closely related to the Earthly Immortal Technique. He ordered Xuankong and Xuanyang to communicate with each other, and Xuanming to close his eyes and rest.

When he felt refreshed and full of energy, he opened his eyes and saw a few more Taoists in the quiet room, including Xuanxu, Xuanyin, Xuansu, Xuantong and Xuanyu. Taoists from three generations of Qiuzhen Temple gathered together.

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"This treasure is related to the path of all of you junior brothers. I hope you will observe it carefully and not be careless, lest you lose the big picture because of the small one."

The Taoists who were warned stood up and saluted: "We will remember the teachings of our senior brother and concentrate on meditation, hoping to gain something."

Xuan Ming nodded, thought for a moment and continued, "Gains and losses are like floating clouds that will eventually disperse. Let nature take its course without any hindrance. Although this matter is important, you cannot force it too much or rush for success. Otherwise, you will ruin your mood and end up losing more than you gain."

The Taoists bowed again and said yes.

He ordered his fellow disciples to sit back down, and Xuanming waved his hand, and the Bagua furnace began to boil again. The true fire burned, the flames billowed, and the temperature rose sharply. Xuankong and Xuanyang did not dare to delay, and followed Xuanming's instructions, injected their magic power, and worked hard to wave the wind and fire fans to provide assistance.

The other Taoists stared at the three fellow disciples who were refining the weapons seriously, and when they saw that the power of the Samadhi True Fire increased dramatically under the combined efforts of the three, a look of enlightenment appeared on their faces. It turned out that this was how they cooperated. Then they each focused on their own things. Some watched Xuanming's every move, and some stared at the Bagua Furnace without looking away.

When the temperature of the Samadhi True Fire soared to the limit that the Bagua Furnace could withstand, Xuanming took out another dragon skin and threw it into it. This was the one he obtained when he killed an evil dragon that ran away into the water, and its quality was far superior to the other dragon skin.

The real fire collided with the dragon skin, and water and fire competed with each other, and a large amount of white mist emerged. However, the dragon skin was like water without roots and tree without sources. It soon fell into a disadvantage and was slowly burned by the real fire and melted into liquid.

The liquid flows and is constantly refined by the true fire, removing the dross and retaining the essence. After being concentrated to the extreme, the true fire begins to decrease. Every time it drops by one degree, Xuanming will wave his sleeves and throw in some materials.

At first it was ore, then ordinary rock, and later wood, soil, water, etc. They come in all shapes and sizes and are very common, but there are so many of them. If you look closely, you can detect a different aura between them. Even if they are made of the same soil, there are subtle differences.

These were collected by three generations of Taoists. Some were obtained by Xuanming when he traveled, and some were collected by Xuankong and others when they went out of the mountains. They kept Xuanming's words in mind, and collected a piece of wood, a handful of soil, a flower, a stone, etc. wherever they went. Even on the road, they collected one thing every hundred miles.

Now, Xuan Ming has melted these into liquid, quenched them with real fire, and melted them into one furnace. In this process, the prototype of the scroll's map of mountains and rivers has appeared, and the aura is becoming increasingly strong, sometimes heavy, sometimes agile, sometimes ethereal, sometimes empty, sometimes virtual, sometimes real.

Xuanxu and others gradually immersed themselves in the artistic conception of the gestation and transformation of mountains and rivers, catching hints of the Tao rhyme and even investing their spiritual sense into it, transforming into a blade of grass, a grain of sand, etc., becoming part of the map of mountains and rivers, witnessing and experiencing its evolution and formation.

Sitting on the main cushion, Xuanming's eyes were also shining, and inspiration was surging in his mind. He just thought of the legendary Book of the Earth and the Map of Mountains, Rivers and States in his previous life. After a long period of conception and preparation, he tried to refine them. He didn't expect that the combination would bring such a surprise.

The earth and mountains and rivers are conceived on the scroll. There are continuous mountains, crisscrossing rivers, scattered hills, deep valleys, clear lakes, lush vegetation, strange peaks and rocks, barren beaches and Gobi deserts, as well as beautiful water towns. The mountains and rivers are magnificent and the scenery is endless. Everything is on it at the same time, like a miniature of the earth. While Xuanming is refining it, he also devotes a bit of his mind to appreciate the changes and comprehend the principles.

He has profound Taoism skills and his achievements are comparable to those of nature. He is also the refiner of the Map of Mountains and Rivers. He has gained the most opportunities and has the deepest feelings, especially when he draws the Yin-Yang spiritual energy and the earth's energy into the Map of Mountains and Rivers every day. The subtle changes derived from this treasure make him see the wonders of the earth and mountains and rivers, and he has a new cognition and deep understanding of the great way of heaven and earth, and also has more ideas and thoughts about the earthly immortal method.

On the twenty-seventh day, which was exactly the number of thirty-nine, Xuanming had a flash of inspiration in his mind. He looked up through the skylight, gazed at the void, raised his hand, made a gesture, drew in the energy of the void, and injected space runes and principles into the map of mountains and rivers, using the art of Qiankun.

(End of this chapter)