The Great Way to Truth, Starting from Jiazi Laodao

Chapter 173 Central Yellow Pole Yellow Horn Immortal
Observe for a moment and put away the magic weapon.

Xuanming stood up and walked out of the refining room.

Outside the Feihuo Palace, Xuanxu led the Taoists to congratulate.

"Congratulations to my senior brother (brother, uncle) for getting what he wanted. I finally have a magic weapon in the Truth Seeking Temple."

A magical power lifted up all the Taoists. Xuanming's eyes widened and his brows relaxed, and he looked radiant: "I have lived up to your trust. From now on, my Qiuzhen Temple will be one step closer to the top Taoist lineage."

When these words were spoken, all the Taoists were delighted.

After sending away all the Taoists and leaving only the Qigong practitioner, Xuanming took off the Jingming Bell, which had turned into a bell around his waist, and handed it to the Taoists for them to admire.

Xuan Yang was the most excited. He stared at it intently with an obsessed expression and couldn't let it go. No matter who looked at it, only he could hold it. He kept muttering to himself and praising it generously, wishing he could possess it immediately.

Unfortunately, he could only think about it. After Xuanming stretched out his hand to ask for it, he could only return it reluctantly, no matter how slow he was. But he was slow, while Xuanming was quick. He quickly hung the Jingming Bell around his waist as a decoration.

It was a rare gathering, so Xuanming started talking about business. The Taoists picked out the key points and told him about the internal and external affairs in recent days. Seeing that they handled the affairs of Canglong Mountain in an orderly manner, he gave them affirmation and thanked them for their hard work.

After understanding the situation outside the mountain and knowing the war assessment between the four counties and other counties, and knowing that the Taiping believers had withdrawn one after another, leaving only the four county cities still under siege, and even the formation that blocked the imperial army had been withdrawn not long ago, Xuanming stroked his beard and nodded, feeling satisfied.

This turmoil has lasted for nearly two years and is finally coming to an end. However, the more it comes to an end, the more he dares not be careless. He urges everyone to speed up preparations and guard the Qiuzhen Temple and Fuyun Mountain.

"The war is drawing to a close. The Taiping Cult's plot is about to be fully revealed. Our Floating Cloud Mountain is very close, and there is a high probability that we will be implicated. Those who rebel will be moved by the Tao. We must make the best efforts and prepare for the worst."

"Don't worry, brother. We know what we are doing."

Seeing that the Taoists had already made a plan, Xuanming nodded with satisfaction. He thought that today is the day to do it, so he sat down on the ground and answered their questions about cultivation and pointed them in the right direction.

Everyone was overjoyed and seized the opportunity to ask questions one by one in an orderly manner. When others spoke, they listened carefully to see if they had encountered similar problems and how they solved them, either to verify their own experience or to correct their own mistakes.

After a day and a night, the Taoists left, and Xuanming also got up and returned to Zangdao Peak, where he rested in a thatched cottage and slept for three days and three nights.

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On the fourth day, the sky brightened at dawn, the morning breeze blew the new green, and the fresh air filled the air with vitality.

The purple air was dense, gathering into clouds, and then condensing into a big sun. As Xuanming breathed in and out, it slowly decreased. The red sun completely jumped out of the horizon, dispelling the darkness. When the purple air became boiling and hot, he opened his mouth and swallowed the virtual sun, refining it into magic power, and ended his practice.

As my eyes opened and closed, there was a gray mist, which disappeared in an instant, and the sky became bright. I walked out of the courtyard, stepped into the woods, found myself in the canyon, went on an outing, and admired the early spring scenery of Fuyun Mountain.

While relaxing his body and mind and indulging in the beauty of nature, he listened attentively to the rhythm of the growth of all things deep in the earth, felt the changes of the revival of grass and trees and the evaporation of yang energy, and realized the mystery of the order of the four seasons and the time for all things.

This not only helps Xuanming to comprehend the principles of the earth's carrying of things and the vitality of plants and trees, and to comprehend the true meaning of Hunyuan bit by bit from the evolution of nature, but also helps him to touch the imprint of time, explore the traces of time, analyze the lines of time, deepen his attainments in the way of time, pile up soil into a mountain, and gradually master the laws of time under the precipitation of time.

In Xuanming's eyes, mountains, valleys, flowers, birds, insects, fish, sun, moon, stars, time and space, all things in the universe are within Hunyuan, visible and invisible, all come from Hunyuan and all return to Hunyuan. He just needs to explore carefully, experience with his heart, think patiently, and constantly verify and reflect.

Three days later, he went to the Daoist temple. Xuanming sat cross-legged in the thatched cottage and took out a piece of earth vein essence. This was the second breath of the dragon vein spirit, the essence of earth. Even a great cultivator would be moved when he saw it.

He removed the bloody evil spirit from the dragon spirit three times, combed the earth's energy and repaired the earth's veins many times, which made him deeply aware of the shortcomings of Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun's Dharma body.

Every inch has its own strengths and weaknesses. Even the Shinto emperor in the previous life was not omniscient and omnipotent.

If he condensed into a Dharma body of a genuine great god, when purifying the dirty and evil spirits in the dragon vein spirit, he would not be able to cure the symptoms but the root cause. He could only watch the situation get worse and the condition continued to worsen.

In view of this, after much deliberation, Xuanming planned to condense the Central Yellow Emperor Xuanling Huang Lao Yiqi Tianjun, this god is also known as Taiji Zhenren, Central Jade Treasure Yuanling Yuanlao, that is, the famous Central Huangji Huangjiao Daxian.

This deity is one of the Five Old Gods of the Five Directions, and is on par with the other four gods. In heaven, he is the Five Old Gods and the Five Stars of the Five Directions; among gods, he is the Five Emperors of the Five Directions; in mountains, he is called the Five Holy Emperors of the Five Mountains; and among humans, he is the Gods of the Five Internal Organs.

Since Xuanming has the earth essence in his hand, he must use it reasonably. He wants to condense the Dharma image of the Central Huangji Huangjiao Immortal. No matter whether it is the promotion of Fuyun Mountain or dealing with the terrible situation of the collapse of Canglong Mountain after the dragon vein spirit is escaped, with the help of the power of this Dharma image, he will be able to handle it more easily.

If he could get feedback from the earth, obtain fortune, and sublimate the Dharma image into the Dharma body in this process, he would be even more delighted.

Of course, the Five Elders' Dharma images cannot be condensed just by wanting to. Plants need soil, rain, dew and sunlight to grow, and the conditions for the birth of Shinto Dharma images are even more stringent.

The Dharma form of Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun is an extraordinary spiritual perception. He has also cultivated the "Qingxin Jue" and can also reveal the "Huangting Sutra" to the outside world. He has collected the purple energy of the morning sun for many years and accumulated some of the essence of the sun in his body, which was then condensed when he was refining the souls of the Canglan River.

The Dharmadhatu of Emperor Gou Chen is a person with profound attainments in the Xuanming Thunder Dao. He possesses the Three Talents Spirit Lamp and has rich star essence in his body. It happened to be the time when the Taiping Rebellion broke out, and the aura of war was abundant, so he was able to succeed.

It seems simple, but in fact, the right time, right place and right people are all indispensable. The same is true for the condensation of Tu Lao's Dharma image this time.

The spirit of the dragon vein provided the earth essence, spring returned to the earth, and the earth's energy flourished. Xuanming was well versed in the ways of the earth and stood out from the crowd in the ways of Tai Chi and Liang Yi. Only then did he have the confidence to give it a try.

To be on the safe side, Xuanming escaped into the earth vein space of Floating Cloud Mountain, sat cross-legged on the ground, swallowed the earth essence, circulated his magic power, refined it, and guided it to the spleen.

He then breathed in the earth energy that was surging between the mountains and rivers, and at the same time, he poured the principles of the earth that he had understood in the past into his spleen along with the earth energy, using it as the embryonic bed to give birth to the Dharma.

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Leaving aside Xuanming's cultivation for now, let's say that the army of the Great Xuan Divine Dynasty that suppressed the rebellion left the capital, traveled day and night, galloped all the way, broke through the clouds and sky, crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, and encountered an obstacle in front of the Tongtian Mountains. They set up camp on this front line and joined forces with the vanguard army that had been trapped here for a long time.

The Great Xuan Divine Dynasty has three major mountain ranges, namely Tongtian Mountain, Yuxiu Mountain and Qiri Mountain, which are natural barriers that separate the vast territory of Great Xuan. The Great Xuan Divine Capital is located between the three major mountain ranges, which is the center of the territory, namely Middle-earth, guarded by three mountains and surrounded by four rivers, covering an area of millions of miles.

Tongtian Mountain is the dividing line between the Middle-earth and the northern part of Daxuan. It is high in the east and low in the west. The mountain is majestic and steep, stretching for millions of miles. There are countless lush ancient trees, and I don’t know how many demon kings and monsters are hidden there.

The vanguard troops in suppressing the rebellion would be delayed for a long time because they were blocked by the Yellow Turban formation set up by the monsters in Tongtian Mountain and the Taiping Sect.

But after the two armies joined forces, the roadblocks were removed, and the star gods joined forces to break the formation and repel the demons from Tongtian Mountain. They marched straight in, wiped out the bandits who took the opportunity to cause chaos in the counties along the way, and approached the four counties.

Despite their overwhelming force, the generals were not happy. The Taiping believers had already fled, withdrawn, or hidden deeper. Even if they caught some of them, it would be a drop in the bucket.

(End of this chapter)