Mountain and River Festival

Chapter 523 Lu Xingzhou's Journey to Huiyang

The two were enjoying their time together on the cliff edge, unaware that Yuan Muyu was sitting not far away watching them, her pretty face pale, the armrest of her wheelchair, which had just been repaired, had been crushed again.

I used to watch a lot of videos like it was torture, and I thought I was used to it all. I've even overheard people doing it before, so what's a kiss...?

But those are mostly divine thoughts, always with a layer of haziness, like watching TV, which is still weaker than the impact of witnessing it right in front of you.

That burning jealousy and resentment made his blood run cold, and his face felt like it was about to explode. The Yama King persona he had painstakingly restored over the past few days crumbled almost instantly.

But even though she wanted to turn around and leave, she was bewitched, her eyes fixed on the scene of them kissing, unable to look away.

The cracking sound of the handrail breaking finally startled the couple in their sweet moment. They turned around and saw that Dugu Qingli was also slightly flushed.

This uncle-master is so persistent; he really is a lunatic uncle-master.

Seeing that the two had noticed her, Yuan Muyu finally moved closer, her face expressionless: "Looks like I've come at the wrong time?"

Unable to come up with a classic response, Lu Xingzhou could only ask, "Is there something you need, sister?"

"I sensed the power of the Extreme Cold Demon Abyss and gained something from it. I intend to use this opportunity to go into seclusion and prove my Qian Yuan cultivation. I would like to ask you about the specifics of how Ye Tinglan and Gu Zhanting concealed their Heavenly Tribulation last time."

Lu Xingzhou glanced at Yuan Muyu and thought to himself that if we're talking about geniuses alone, this one is a true genius.

He had previously suffered a qi deviation, almost losing his chance to maintain his Radiant Sun Realm cultivation. However, after calming his mind and using the Mountain and River Blood Slaughter Array, he not only recovered his cultivation but also made progress.

The Blood Slaughter Array was originally set up to prove the Qian Yuan realm, but it was activated prematurely, so it could only go this far. The Qian Yuan path that was painstakingly designed has been cut short.

As a result, she comprehended the Yin of the Netherworld through the Extreme Cold Demon Abyss and attempted to break through again. How much time has passed? In such a short time, Lu Xingzhou hadn't even considered that she could reach the Qian Yuan realm. Only now, after hearing this, did he realize that she might actually be capable.

In truth, the reason for activating the Blood Slaughter Array ahead of schedule was to help with that decisive battle, which caused his own path to be put on hold. He has to acknowledge this debt.

Lu Xingzhou said, "You were there at the time, so you should know about the matter of the Formless Realm, right?"

"Hmm. But that's not enough."

“Our little pig has the talent to deceive the heavens. Tinglan used this back then… Now the little pig has been taken to Dragon Cliff by Anuo. Why don’t you go to Dragon Cliff too, sister? I’ll send a message to Qinghuang.”

Yuan Muyu was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "If you really want to borrow the little pig, then I'll wait until Long Qinghuang has used it up. I won't go to Dragon Cliff."

The memory of being relentlessly pursued and attacked by Long Qinghuang is still vivid. Now, she's been delivered to their doorstep to live under their roof, forced to watch her touch her belly every day. One can only imagine how unbearable those days must have been. It might be one thing at other times, but doing this during a breakthrough in the Qian Yuan realm is bound to cause her to suffer a qi deviation.

Lu Xingzhou also realized that this kind of thing required a good mindset. Going to Dragon Cliff was not a good thing, so he said, "If she is about to go into seclusion, it is unreasonable to just wait for her to finish using it."

Do you have any other ideas?

"In fact, we didn't place all our hopes on the little pig. First of all, Gu Zhanting's altar had a concealing effect, and Tinglan should have thoroughly studied it by now. Secondly, the Demon Clan's Holy Mountain has a large number of ancient Buddhist scriptures, and Qinghuang will also try to upgrade the effect of the Colorless Realm. Combining the two, if you set it up on Miaoyin Mountain, it should be able to solve the problem."

Yuan Muyu said, "I'll contact Ye Tinglan myself. Could you help me contact Long Qinghuang?"

Lu Xingzhou was somewhat surprised.

Logically speaking, Yuan Muyu shouldn't easily accept assistance from Ye Tinglan and Long Qinghuang. How could she be so nonchalant? This isn't a fish; it's Ji Wenchuan in disguise, isn't it?

Of course, he should help with this, so he suppressed his surprise and said, "Okay, I'll write a letter."

Yuan Muyu said, "If there's anything that needs to be adjusted later, I'll ask you again."

Lu Xingzhou thought to himself, "I don't understand the follow-up adjustments either. You should contact your sister and Long Niang directly." But that wouldn't sound good, so he could only say, "Just contact me anytime if you have any questions."

Yuan Muyu said, "Then how can I contact you? Or you could go home to the south this time and imprint your divine sense on the communication array of the Yama Palace?"

See the picture poorly.

The words "go home for a visit" made Lu Xingzhou somewhat dazed. After a long while, he said, "Actually, it's not necessary... Your mark in the Tianyao Holy Land has not been removed, and I have it there too, so we have always been able to contact each other through the communication array of the Tianyao Holy Land."

Yuan Muyu paused for a moment, then took out a communication jade talisman belonging to the Tianyao Holy Land and entered it with her divine sense.

Not long after, Lu Xingzhou's jade talisman began to vibrate.

Yuan Muyu stared blankly as Lu Xingzhou took out the jade talisman.

It turns out we've always been so close; we can hear each other anytime.

This discovery cheered Yuan Muyu up, and she smiled, "Then let's leave it at that, I won't disturb you two... your intimacy."

Watching Yuan Muyu leisurely turn her wheelchair and leave, the intimate atmosphere was long gone, and they couldn't bring themselves to kiss each other again.

Enraged, Dugu Qingli pinched the snowball on the edge of the cliff and crushed it into an ice block.

...The intimacy was over, it was time to get down to business. Lu Xingzhou returned to his room and first wrote a letter to Long Qinghuang, which he then gave to Yuan Muyu. Whether she sent someone to Longya or contacted Long Qinghuang herself, she could handle it herself.

Lu Xingzhou himself then focused on studying the Mysterious Art of the Maiden.

When he got together with Pei Chuyun, he had experienced the Charming Maiden Mystic Art, but he never asked Pei Chuyun for her technique to study in detail, and his knowledge was not enough at that time.

Only after carefully studying the entire "Charming Maiden's Profound Skill" did I realize that many parts of it do indeed share the same origin as the Yin-Yang Ultimate Meaning.

The so-called common origin is not merely a similarity in the effects of things, but mainly reflected in the consistency of the core theoretical foundation. If we now refer to the Great Bliss Sutra for comparison, we will find that it also has a consistent source.

Yuan Muyu's judgment was correct. Both of them were derived from the concept of Yin and Yang, and each combined different theories of Buddhism and Taoism, leading to different branches of development. If one's knowledge is insufficient, they may appear to be different cultivation methods.

Now that we have a direction, if we exclude the parts that combine the two with other theories and only extract the core parts, we will find that the two have some overlap and some complementarity.

It cannot be completely pieced together into a single technique, but if one has a sufficient understanding of the Yin-Yang Ultimate Intent Technique, there is indeed a chance of deriving it.

As Lu Xingzhou, whose fundamental principle is based on the Yin-Yang Ultimate Intent Martial Arts Manual, he is naturally the only person who can deduce this matter.

She could only rely on herself. It was already remarkable that Yuan Muyu could lead this path out; she couldn't do anything else. However, Yuan Muyu was still an excellent reference point—her transformation of the Ice Abyss Demonic Intent into the Yin Yin Intent and the Supreme Intent into the Netherworld clearly proved that the core of the Yin-Yang Extreme Intent was not the water and fire balance that Lu Xingzhou originally cultivated, nor was it merely related to men and women.

Tai Chi divides into Yin and Yang. All things in the world are divided into Yin and Yang: water and fire, male and female, and even the cycle of life and death of Yuan Muyu.

And many more...

If you continue down this road, it's not just the Chaopin Huiyang Road, it's the main road.

Water and fire are merely the starting point, guiding people into the practice. The dual cultivation of men and women is simply a manifestation of yin and yang.

Lu Xingzhou sat cross-legged in the quiet room, and suddenly reached out his hand.

Purple flames rose in his palm, the flames of mountains and rivers. Suddenly, a moon-white fire appeared above the purple flames, the glow of the moon.

Heaven and earth are opposites; this is the universe.

Flame itself embodies the extremes of yin and yang.

Lu Xingzhou looked at the fire in his palm; the moon-white Taiyin True Fire had moved slightly to the side, making room for it. Further analysis revealed that the Taiyin True Fire also contained a counterpart, the Taiyang True Fire, which was still missing.

The so-called ultimate meaning of Yin and Yang is something they haven't even figured out about fire yet.

"Following this path, my path to Radiance will lead to the moment I find the true fire of the sun."

It was as if a heavy stone door had suddenly opened, letting in countless rays of sunlight; the path to radiance was right there.

So it turns out... the Yin-Yang Ultimate Meaning doesn't contain any Daoist scriptures. The so-called missing half of the Daoist scripture is merely the direction of the path to immortality.

From beginning to end, the martial arts practitioners I know of are not pure martial artists; they have always been "demonic warriors." What they cultivate is never martial arts qi; the so-called Tai Chi Heavenly Qi is just a name. It has always been a technique for the explosion of yin and yang energies.

He has always cultivated both immortal and martial arts; all he lacks is a clear direction.

And this moment has arrived.

Lu Xingzhou clenched his fist, and the flames vanished.

The Taiyin True Fire, which was originally thought to be "temporarily residing" but not yet subdued, is now perfectly harmonious and fully usable.

Even when Ye Tinglan was in Huiyang, she couldn't use the Taiyin True Fire recklessly, but Lu Xingzhou had already subdued it in the later stages of Tengyun.

And... the same goes for water. If the water we use daily is yin, then the "heavy water" like the divine water of that day is yang. Everything is clearly distinguished between clear and turbid, and heaven and earth are clearly separated.

Then each of them spirals out of control, and together they form Tai Chi.

Lu Xingzhou let out a long sigh and opened his eyes.

The first thing he did was take out the communication jade talisman and call out to Ye Tinglan and Yuan Muyu: "I need news about the True Fire of the Sun."

Ye Tinglan: "Okay. I'll check the records to see if there's any trace of it."

Yuan Muyu: "I issue a bounty for the demonic path."

After a pause, both of them exclaimed in shock, "What's going on? Why can multiple people connect?"

Lu Xingzhou was also dumbfounded. He was clearly communicating with each other individually, so how did he end up in a group chat?

Logically, this communication jade talisman shouldn't be able to do that. Everyone's communication is done through pre-set divine sense imprints, a one-to-one connection. Since Ye Tinglan and Yuan Muyu didn't have a connection, how did they hear each other?
(End of this chapter)