The Fate of Eternal Life

Chapter 6: Departure and Opportunity

Mount Tai, majestic and magnificent, is revered as the first of the Five Great Mountains. Since ancient times, Mount Tai has been a sacred symbol.

From the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in ancient times to the Qin Emperor and Emperor Wu of Han, Fengshan ceremonies were held here. Countless literati and poets left behind popular poems here. It can be said that there is no mountain greater than it and no history older than it!
"The sky is too high to be reached, so we set up a Zen statue on Mount Tai and offer sacrifices to it in the hope of getting closer to the gods."

Ning Qingyi stood at the foot of the mountain, looking at the bustling crowd heading towards the mountain, lost in thought, as if recalling the past.

During the month he was at Lingshan, he only did three things. The first was to return the small stone Buddha to its original place, the second was to return to the spiritual land of Luofu Mountain and move the Taoist temple away, and the third was to arrange a reunion with classmates who would join Ye Fan and others, and organize a team of people to observe the starry sky.

After that, he walked on this land like an ordinary person, following his own will.
It was not until the star observation team and the invitation to the party arrived that he arrived at Mount Tai on the last day to observe this ancient sacred mountain.

"Fake Taoist priest, you really came."

Suddenly, a voice sounded from behind him. Ning Qingyi turned around and saw many people walking towards him. The one who spoke was a girl walking in the front.

"Long time no see, Lin Jia."

Ning Qingyi remembered this person as a very beautiful and charming woman. Ye Tiandi had confessed his love to her, but she eventually rejected him.

Lin Jia looked him up and down, and said in amazement, "It's been three years since graduation, and it feels like you haven't changed at all since college, fake Taoist priest. Are you really cultivating immortality in the deep mountains and old forests?"

Ning Qingyi smiled faintly and was about to answer, but unexpectedly, classmates came up one after another to greet him. After a few greetings, he simply gave up.

After exchanging greetings, he went up the mountain with everyone else and followed behind the group.

"Ning Qingyi, I didn't expect you to come." Ye Fan said, with a look of surprise on his face: "When Pang Bo contacted you, I really couldn't believe it."

"Didn't I say when we graduated that I would come if the class reunion was held in Mount Tai?" Ning Qingyi smiled casually.

Ye Fan seemed to be thinking of the graduation scene, with a nostalgic expression on his face, while another classmate, Zhang Ziling, complained.

"So you won't participate except for Tarzan."

Ning Qingyi couldn't help but burst into laughter, and Ye Fan couldn't help laughing either.

"By the way, what have you been doing these past three years? Are you really cultivating immortality?"

Ye Fan looked Ning Qingyi up and down. Perhaps it was because he was always thinking about mythological stories and yearning for cultivating immortals. After seeing him again after three years, he always felt that this classmate seemed out of tune with the world.

With fair skin, red lips and white teeth, he still looks a bit childish, so it's not surprising that he's mistaken for a high school student. But unlike his youthful appearance, he exudes a quiet and peaceful aura, with a pair of deep eyes that can make people lose themselves in the moment.

Ye Fan was secretly amazed.

He and Ning Qingyi were not very close. Relatively speaking, his good friend Pang Bo was more familiar with Ning Qingyi, but he had indeed heard of Ning Qingyi's deeds as a "fake Taoist priest". After all, an orphan gave up his lucrative major to go into archaeology when he was admitted to university, and was even injured and hospitalized many times. It would be strange if he didn't remember it.

"A lot has happened." Ning Qingyi sighed when he heard that, but couldn't help but smile. His high spirits made Ye Fan look sideways.

"I inherited Ge Hong's legacy and accidentally entered Lingshan. I'm finally on the right path."

Ye Fan was stunned. People who were closer, with sharp ears, such as Zhang Ziling. Liu Yiyi, Li Changqing and others also looked at each other, suspecting that this classmate had gone astray in his cultivation.

For Ning Qingyi, who had practiced telepathy, these emotional fluctuations were naturally noticed.

Ning Qingyi suddenly lost interest in chatting and said, "The journey to Mount Tai is long. If you are interested, we can talk about it after we reach the summit."

Ye Fan and the others looked at each other, suspecting that something bad had happened in the past three years, and turned their attention to climbing the mountain.

Many of them were climbing Mount Tai for the first time, and only by experiencing it in person could they feel the majesty and grandeur of Mount Tai.

A ten-kilometer-long stairway winds along the mountain like a stairway to heaven, winding its way to the top of the mountain.

In front of the majestic Mount Tai, everyone feels as insignificant as an ant, as if everything is insignificant.

Listening to the guide's explanation and with everyone's constant jokes, we finally reached the Jade Emperor Peak near sunset.

At this moment, the sun is setting in the west, and the cloud peaks are inlaid with a layer of golden bright edges, shining with the brilliance of rare treasures.

Everyone walked to the edge and felt what it meant to "stand on the top of the mountain and look down on all the other mountains."

Ning Qingyi looked up at the sky. His eyesight was now far superior to that of ordinary people. The black spots that ordinary people had not noticed were clearly visible in his eyes.

Nine dragon corpses, each one hundred meters long, had black iron chains as thick as bowls tied to their tails. The huge chains were tempered through thousands of hammerings, and were thick, long and strong. They were connected to a twenty-meter-long bronze coffin behind them.

The dragon's body is like a mountain, strong and powerful, with a sense of both strength and mystery. The huge bronze coffin is simple and unpretentious, engraved with vague ancient patterns, full of the vicissitudes of time.

Kowloon pulls the coffin!

Even though Ning Qingyi had made sufficient preparations for this day, he still couldn't help but tremble with excitement when he really came.

"What are you looking at?"

At some point, Ye Fan appeared beside him and looked up at the sky following his gaze.

Ning Qing said seriously, word by word, "I'm looking at the dragon."

Ye Fan was stunned, but before he could tell whether it was true or not, he saw several black spots in the sky rapidly enlarged, and bursts of wind and thunder were heard.

The next second, the myth came true, and the Nine Dragons pulled the coffin and landed on Mount Tai as if it was an irresistible fate.

"boom!"

The entire Mount Tai was shaking, and the top of the mountain was in chaos as tourists screamed in fear and cried helplessly.

Many people were even affected, and were hit by the rocks and fell into the mountains, their flesh and blood mangled.

Ye Fan's mind was also captivated by it, but his eyes subconsciously followed Ning Qingyi's figure, but he saw that this classmate had walked towards the hanging coffin at some point.

Under the blood-red sunset, the Jade Emperor Peak was in ruins, and the figure overlapping with the sunset was dyed with gold and walked towards the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin.

This picture was deeply engraved in Ye Fan's heart.

"Let's hurry down the mountain." Lin Jia spoke first after coming back to his senses from the panic.

Everyone nodded, thinking that they should leave the place immediately, as they felt that Jade Emperor Peak was an ominous place.

"Look, what is that!" Li Xiaoman suddenly spoke.

Ning Qingyi appeared near the huge pit where the Nine Dragons pulled the coffin at some point, and then something unbelievable happened.

His body was radiating golden light, and his divine power swept away the rocks and soil, revealing the original shape of the huge pit, which was an ancient group of five-colored altars.

This was a major reliance of the ancient ancestors in crossing the starry sky, and it was also an outstanding work of the Dao of Array Patterns. For him, who practiced the secret of "combination", it was undoubtedly a great tonic.

But time is tight and there is not much time to waste.

Ning Qingyi scanned it with his spiritual sense and forced himself to memorize the structure of the five-colored altar group. When he had free time in the future, as he had mastered the mother of all formations in the world, it would be natural for him to study it.

After finishing his contemplation, he did not stay any longer, but walked to the Nine Dragons Coffin, waiting to set off.

What seemed like a leisurely stroll to him was unimaginable to many of his classmates.

"Is that a fake Taoist priest?" someone groaned.

"Did the fake Taoist priest become an immortal?" Some people began to doubt reality.

Foreigner Cade was even more shocked and shouted: "Oh my God, is this Chinese Kung Fu?!"

Only Ye Fan took a few steps forward nervously, but accidentally slipped into the pit.

"Don't come any closer. This is a legendary divine object that can travel across the starry sky. It is about to set off to the distant starry sky."

Suddenly, Ning Qingyi, who was standing next to the huge bronze coffin, uttered his own warning.

Many people were stunned and subconsciously took a step back, but many people still stayed where they were. Some people, like Ye Fan, stepped on a huge rock and hit the five-colored altar with a bang.

One step away, the five-colored altars began to glow. Those who were close felt a huge force enveloping their bodies, and their legs felt like they were tied with lead, unable to move a single step. "Boom!"

The entire Jade Emperor Peak began to shake as the altar revived, and all the people were shaken and rolled into the big pit and fell onto the five-colored altar.

Immediately afterwards, countless lights condensed into the Tai Chi Bagua diagram. With a dull vibration, the black and white fish moved, revealing a huge passage with shining stars in it, vaguely forming an ancient starry road.

"How to do?"

"Help……"

At this moment, an inexplicable invisible force came from the bronze coffin, which had a crack due to the vibration, pulling everyone in, and then it completely restored and closed with a "clang".

Then, on the top of Mount Tai, five-colored divine light penetrated heaven and earth, and nine dragons pulled the coffin into the starry sky.

Inside the pitch-black coffin, there was an icy chill. The fact that they could not contact the outside world made many people almost collapse, and their hearts were filled with helplessness and fear.

"What should we do? Who can save us?"

"Are we really inside the bronze coffin now?"

"Why is this happening? Is there any way to get out?"

But soon, the darkness receded and a lamp shone.

It was a golden lamp with a jade plate-shaped bottom, a cylindrical lamp post, and a square bowl, like a small tripod. It was engraved with dragon and phoenix seals, mountains, rivers, plants, and complex divine patterns that made people feel dizzy.

"Silence."

Everyone's heart trembled suddenly and they were speechless.

Only then did he realize that the lamp was actually floating above Ning Qingyi's left shoulder, while he was concentrating on observing another smaller bronze coffin!
It is less than four meters long and less than two meters wide, simple and dim, engraved with ancient pictures, covered with verdigris, and engraved with the vicissitudes of time, which makes people feel cold and afraid.

"There is a coffin within a coffin, and it is actually another copper coffin!" Everyone was shocked.

Ning Qingyi rubbed it for a while, and after making sure that he could not hear the scripture now, he let go with a little regret.

"Come here, I have something to tell you."

Everyone looked at each other, perhaps thinking of Ning Qingyi's previous performance, and slowly moved closer.

Ning Qingyi looked around at everyone and found that the number of people was much smaller than in the original book, but surprisingly, everyone with a name was there.

Is this fate?

"Ye Fan, Pang Bo just fell down and fainted, go help him."

Ye Fan followed his gaze and found that his friend had actually fainted in a corner. He quickly woke him up and pulled him back.

Ning Qingyi glanced at everyone and said, "As you can see, after graduation I gained a chance to become an immortal, and now I am a cultivator with some achievements."

Everyone was shocked. Even though they had already seen the incredible scene, they couldn't help but get excited when they heard him admit it in person!
This is a cultivator! A mythical being who can single-handedly travel from the North Sea to Cangwu, overturning the world and moving mountains and seas.

For a moment, the anxiety in everyone's hearts subsided and they felt that there was hope of escaping the predicament.

"The second thing is, the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin we're in is a divine object. Few people have ever been able to touch it. And if nothing unexpected happens, we're now riding it across the starry sky."

Everyone was shocked.

Across the starry sky? This was a feat that could not be achieved even with all the efforts of mankind, yet now they had actually experienced it.

"So be prepared that you won't be able to return home."

As if to prove his statement, the huge bronze coffin suddenly shook violently, and everyone was unstable. Fortunately, Ning Qingyi was too lazy to bother them, and used his divine power to freeze them, allowing them to withstand the subsequent waves of vibrations.

Finally, with the last thunderous roar, a crack appeared in the huge bronze coffin, and the boundless desert in the distance could be seen through the wind.

Ning Qingyi steadied the people floating in the air and walked out first. The frightened people looked at each other, and finally Ye Fan, the bravest one, followed first.

The surroundings were covered with reddish-brown gravel. Under the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin was the outline of a five-colored altar, and not far away was a huge rock.

"Where is this?" Ye Fan asked.

"If you walk behind that stone, you can see the words 'Yinghuo'." Ning Qing pointed ahead.

After hearing their conversation, some of the people who followed out were confused, while others were surprised.

The man named Zhou Yi's face turned pale. "The flickering light is so confusing. You said this is Mars?!"

"How is this possible!" Many people were dumbfounded and could not believe the fact before them.

Ning Qingyi shook his head, not interested in talking nonsense: "This is not our destination, but there is still some time before the Nine Dragons Coffin sets off. If you are interested, you can go explore the surroundings. Hmm, it will probably take about an hour."

He estimated the itinerary of everyone and decided that if the Crocodile Ancestor under the Great Leiyin Temple did not take action, he would also burn the divine source and set off.

"I'm researching something, please don't disturb me."

Ning Qing returned to the coffin after saying this, and everyone looked at each other. In the end, Liu Yiyi and Zhang Ziling stayed, while Li Changqing, Liu Zhiyun and others bravely walked out.

As for Ye Fan, he asked Pang Bo to wait for a moment, and then he calmed himself down and came to Ning Qingyi. He was ready to ask some questions.

"Sure enough, I guessed you would ask me, go ahead."

Ye Fan was stunned and was about to speak when he was interrupted by Ning Qingyi.

"I have practiced the Buddhist telepathy, and I can see clearly what ordinary people are thinking. Although you have a special physique, you haven't embarked on the path of cultivation yet, so I can naturally detect it." Ning Qing turned around and snatched Ye Fan's right to speak.

Ye Fan was shocked.

He could read minds! Rumor has it this was a supreme Buddhist secret technique. It was incredible that his classmate actually had such an opportunity.

He suppressed his shock and asked, "What do you mean by my special physique?"

"You possess an ancient holy body. Before the ancient times, it was an unparalleled physique, unprecedented and unrivaled. Nine generations of figures have emerged one after another, each of them invincible, shocking the world and unprecedented in history, and hailed as the greatest holy body of all time."

Ning Qingyi looked at Ye Fan with his mouth wide open and stabbed him again.

"But this was before the ancient times. Now it is the post-ancient times. The holy body has become a useless body, almost impossible to practice."

Ye Fan felt that his heart had finally died, and he didn't know what to say for a moment, but then he suddenly realized something.

"You said it's almost impossible to practice, which means it's still possible to practice, right?"

Ning Qing smiled without saying anything: "It's very difficult, but there is still a chance."

Ye Fan was provoked by him again and again, and forgot to ask how to go back. He asked: "How?"

"To build a foundation with the Immortal Medicine and practice the Emperor's Scripture, one must have great perseverance, great luck, and great wisdom to achieve success."

"I don't understand what you are talking about. Are these things very rare?" Ye Fan frowned, feeling uneasy.

Ning Qingyi sighed: "It's rare, but not too rare. Now there is an opportunity, I don't dare to take it, it depends on whether you dare."

Ye Fan was stunned.

"About a thousand meters in that direction is the Great Leiyin Temple, which was used by Sakyamuni Buddha to suppress the Crocodile Ancestor. Inside, there are still some magical weapons that have not decayed yet, as well as the legendary supreme sacred object Bodhi seeds. If you can get them, I will give you a great opportunity." Ning Qingyi smiled.

Ye Fan felt that he was standing at a crossroads of fate, but he nodded resolutely.

"Okay, it's a deal!"

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