Devouring Evil Martial Arts, Eliminating Demons from All Heavens

Chapter 363 The mountain's terrain changes with the seasons, and the grotto-heaven returns in April.

Everyone in the cave has already seen General Yun Gu in person.

As instructed, they mentally visualized the person's appearance and demeanor, circulated their qi and blood, and those with internal energy activated their internal energy as well.

Although their expressions and appearances differed, they all clenched their teeth and stopped speaking to avoid disturbing their breathing.

Lin Chucheng's finishing touch, creating extraordinary phenomena, also incurred considerable losses.

Fortunately, the person who will guide the next spellcaster is not Lin Chucheng, but an old Taoist priest behind Lin Chucheng.

The man was in his fifties, with a thin and refined appearance. He wore a simple blue thick cloth Taoist robe, and his gray hair was tied up tightly with a wooden hairpin through his hair bun.

He was one of the members who proposed the establishment of the Special Arrest Bureau, Yan Xiake.

Because he often travels around observing the behavior of members of the Special Arrest Bureau, he doesn't usually dress up as a Taoist priest or anything similar.

This outfit is for the convenience of casting spells.

His hairpin was a magical artifact, the way he tied his hair was a spell seal, and his Taoist robes resonated with the atmosphere of the secret realm.

As the image of the swirling smoke and energy manifested, his figure gradually faded, drifting into the air like a human-shaped wisp of smoke carried away by the wind.

But he had a long, withered bamboo cane in his hand, the end of which was still touching the ground.

chatter!!

The blunt bamboo cane began to move, its end scraping the ground and leaving a long trail.

Wherever Yan Xiake drifted, this bright yellow trail extended in that direction.

He weaved through the crowd, skillfully skirting the pillars.

Viewed from above, the bright yellow lines form a series of huge and intricate runes.

Eight talismans formed an octagon, and then new talismans spread inward from each corner.

A faint fragrance permeates the air, like the smell of bamboo and wood being roasted.

The bamboo walking stick in Yanxiake's hand has become shorter and shorter.

It turns out that his bamboo cane was actually made by combining spices with medicinal mud and shaping it.

He appears to be drawing talismans with a bamboo staff, but in reality, he is offering incense and praying.

People are like fragrant smoke, inspiration reaches the heavens, incense sticks become talismans, and the Big Dipper receives them.

Beidou Prayer Festival in Guantian!

While Yan Xiake's cultivation level was not as profound as Lin Chucheng's, his mastery of various sacrificial rituals and spells was undoubtedly the best in the country.

This Great Sacrifice to the Big Dipper is a righteous ritual, not a worship of ghosts or gods, but a prayer to the celestial stars in exchange for supernatural phenomena.

Yanxia Ke devised this plan to exchange the vital energy of over a thousand martial artists for the summoning of General Yun Gu from the Seven Souls Cave of the Big Dipper.

The "spirit smoke" was merely a temporary burst of energy from the people present; they could recover after resting.

Even if the cave obtains the beacon fire, it will only gain a one-time burst of power.

General Yun Gu, however, had the very foundation for achieving the forbidden realm located within the cave heaven, allowing him to continuously circulate his power.

The latter clearly has a higher potential value.

Even if it were a complete grotto-heaven, Yanxia Ke wouldn't be confident that he could get away with it using this method.

But it was just the ruins of a cave, and he actually had a good chance of winning, but he didn't say it all when he told others.

Far away in Busan, in a courtyard.

Yun Gu was still looking at the screen when he suddenly realized that his fingers had become somewhat transparent.

"Is this the beginning?"

"Yes."

Chu Tianshu stared intently at Yun Gu and said, "It seems the first attempt went quite smoothly."

If all goes well, Yun Gu will first return to the cave, and then be exchanged from the cave to the secret realm.

Chu Tianshu was very curious about the existence of the cave heaven and wanted to take this opportunity to explore how the power of the cave heaven worked.

However, as Yun Gu's body grew fainter and fainter, he still couldn't understand what kind of power was at work on Yun Gu.

Suddenly, the wristwatch in Yun Gu's hand passed through the illusory image of his palm and fell downwards.

Chu Tianshu took it without hesitation.

Yun Gu seized the last moment and instructed Cui Dou Ri, "Be careful in everything, take good care of your two sisters, and I will call you if everything goes well."

"It will definitely go smoothly."

Choi Doo-il was a little nervous, but he grinned and said, "I will take Soo-joo and Dong-joo with me to visit Master's hometown."

Chen Ying, who was in the pavilion, also stopped what she was doing, mixing herbs, and looked over.

Yun Gu touched the cigarette on his body and found that the smoke was fading.

"Hey! The fact that cigarettes are on the same wavelength as me means that I can smoke now too."

He smiled at Chen Ying, took out a cigarette, and just as he put it in his mouth, he disappeared.

Inside the cave, the vital energy and smoke near the dome grew increasingly turbulent and swirled faster and faster.

But as it approached its peak, the entire cloud of smoke suddenly began to shrink and fade.

"You couldn't see whose potential value was greater; were you just instinctively trying to devour more essence?"

Yan Xiake sensed something, and his body, floating in the air, showed a slight frown. "What a greedy paradise!"

"It's okay, I'll come."

Lin Chucheng let out a clear voice, his whole body seemed to be painted with a layer of gold, and he floated into the air, his slightly messy hair becoming even more angular.

In mid-air, he brought his palms together like lotus flowers, circled them in front of his chest, and then pressed them back to his right waist.

The whole body naturally sinks down the waist and hips, and the feet step on the air.

"Gong Cao Tai Chong, the true master of chasing the sun!"

Lin Chucheng, who possessed the spiritual energy of the stone tablet, also successfully comprehended the "True Skill of Chasing the Sun" and gained his own unique insights.

A tiny, bluish-white orb of light was brewing between his palms, gradually expanding.

The moment he pushed his hands out, everyone in the cave heard a deafening roar.

It sounded like the noise of some enormous engine being started.

The sphere of light, the size of a longan, rapidly changed color and expanded, unleashing a golden column of energy that crashed against the dome.

The vortex on the dome expanded instantly, becoming denser once more.

As everyone present looked at the pillar of light, they felt a bright, sun-like state of mind, as if the moon had turned into the sun, shining into their hearts.

"Rise!" "Start!" "Go!"

The crowd shouted in unison, their voices chaotic, yet all rang out at the same moment as they threw punches into the air.

The vortex trembled again, but this time it didn't fade; it simply shrank, as if an invisible monster was outside the dome, a whale sucking in water and swallowing it all up.

A phantom appeared in the dome, and as soon as it landed, it solidified.

Yun Gu stared blankly at his surroundings, then took a deep drag of his cigarette.

The cigarette butt was ignited by his breath, and in just one breath, it was almost half burned. "It really worked..."

Once Yun Gu confirmed that he could no longer sense the existence of the cave ruins, a smile finally appeared on his face, and blue smoke billowed from his mouth and nose.

"happy!"

Lin Chucheng's small body landed back on the ground, his breath completely concealed, and a smile appeared on his face.

Only Yanxia Ke remained floating in mid-air, his figure faint, his eyes closed as he sensed, seemingly peering into the situation of the Seven Souls Cave of the Big Dipper from afar.

In the pavilion in Busan.

Chen Ying's gaze suddenly froze, her eyelids unblinking and her eyelashes trembling not at all.

The wind blew, but it couldn't even stir her hair.

She was originally a physical being of flesh and blood, but at this moment, she seemed to become more and more solid.

It is like a stone or iron statue.

Above the nearby streets, the white clouds darkened, the dark clouds churned, and a strong, cold wind blew fiercely from who-knows-where.

Chu Tianshu sensed a vast amount of vital energy beneath the earth, which was disturbed and undulated like waves.

Chen Ying's soul left her body and disappeared into the earth not far before vanishing into an unfathomable place.

Beneath the surface of reality, in a world deeper than any grotto or secret realm.

The sky above the spirit world hung high as usual, without any unusual phenomena.

Some deep-seated beings sensed unusual fluctuations.

"What kind of feeling is this...?"

"It's a grotto-heaven! A grotto-heaven has recognized a master!"

"Are there really grotto-heavens in this world?"

"It should be the site of a cave, with a foundation stone."

Several vast thoughts blossomed one after another, each carrying countless trivial noises, like murmurs in a dream.

The subject of consciousness appears pure and persistent like instinct, but the accompanying noise contains a vast and chaotic amount of knowledge, which together form a clear tendency.

"If the grotto-heaven is completed, it can be used to resist the winds of transformation and preserve life for a short rest, and to absorb and release massive amounts of essence to cultivate heroes."

"There are already many taboos in the human world, and their growth is beyond our expectations. We must not allow them to rebuild their celestial realms; we must find a way to stop them..."

"You and I are but a fleeting moment, a single day in the human world. Forgetting years and months, abandoning spring and autumn, if we are to take action, we should first adjust our own sense of time and consciousness..."

The various thoughts subsided.

huh-huh-

Amidst the chaotic winds from all sides, Chu Tianshu slowly sat down cross-legged, placing his palms on the stone bricks of the courtyard and gazing down at the earth.

Although one cannot understand the operation of the cave itself, one can see the fluctuations of vital energy related to the cave.

The undulating essence, having broken away from its original underground veins, still seemed to follow a certain difference in elevation, bending and flowing, separating and reuniting, before finally being taken away by the cave.

This reminded Chu Tianshu of "The True Skill of Chasing the Sun".

Visualize over 800 Tianshan nodes within the human body, allowing internal energy to flow between the Tianshan Mountains, resulting in transformation.

Although he had originally set the Tianshan node, so that when his internal energy flowed, it would be like flowing through the body's original acupoints, circulating and tempering.

But upon closer reflection, he simply viewed internal energy as a flow of air, and those Tianshan nodes as pillars or pitfalls.

However, the mountains have different slopes and shapes, and the valleys are even more varied. If we really talk about the topography of the Tianshan Mountains, there are also hot and cold areas.

How could this be compared to ordinary pillars or pits?
Just like now, when the essence flows underground, every ripple in the details eventually merges perfectly.

This is not simply due to differences in the thickness of the veins or the density of the soil and rocks; there is a more specific guiding principle.

When Chu Tianshu visualized the Tianshan Mountains, he followed the instructions in the manual very carefully, but when it came to circulating his internal energy to cleanse them, he simply let it flow freely.

Because the manual doesn't describe this step in much detail.

The creators probably thought it was harmless and didn't need to be mentioned, so they overlooked it.

The initial understanding of the token is basically based on the original text; to optimize the content, a second deduction is needed.

"I figured out this crucial detail myself and added it to the cultivation technique materials. When it's time to optimize, I won't have to waste evil spirit materials on this part..."

Chu Tianshu smiled, feeling overjoyed.

The way internal energy flows changes slightly, slowly accumulating and flowing through the vague mountain-like terrain within the human body.

He wasn't sure for a while, and it took him a long time to figure it out before he completed the new round of experience.

However, when Chen Ying's soul reappeared from underground, Chu Tianshu was also awakened.

A wisp of soul light returned to Chen Ying's body.

"Master Chen, you have already become the master of the grotto-heaven?"

"To be precise, they are the controllers of the Dongtian Ruins."

Chen Ying's expression was a mixture of joy and complexity as she carefully considered her words.

"I feel like I didn't do anything special, yet I ended up in charge of the Cave Heaven Ruins. Shouldn't this be called 'a huge traitor'..."

Teacher Yuan chimed in first: "This kind of thing can be called winning by doing nothing, getting carried to victory, or hitting the jackpot!"

"Daoist Master, your appearance and demeanor are not suited to saying certain words. Please don't ruin the image you have in my mind!"

Chen Ying turned to look at her. Her eyebrows were like light ink, her breath like a delicate orchid, and her demeanor was ethereal and otherworldly. She parted her lips slightly and uttered a sound.

"Oh."

That sound was so endearing!
Teacher Yuan clenched her fists and sighed inwardly.

Chu Tianshu chuckled and said, "Master Chen, when you face Teacher Yuan in the future, remember to always keep a cold face and speak sternly. She will be very happy."

Chen Ying looked at Xiao Yuan with surprise.

I never imagined that this little girl would have such a hobby when she grew up.

"Let's get down to business."

Before Teacher Yuan could defend himself, Chu Tianshu strode into the pavilion.

"Judging from Master Chen's cultivation, it seems that there has been little change. Although he is the soul of a grotto-heaven, can he truly control the whereabouts of the grotto-heaven?"

Chen Ying nodded and said, "I will have many advantages within the cave, and it is indeed possible for the cave to move between the two realms and return to its homeland."

Chu Tianshu said with delight, "That's good. How long will it take?"

Chen Ying considered it for a moment.

"It would be best to let Dongtian return along the original route it came from."

Chen Ying did some quick calculations and said, "I've looked at the current map, and it will take about four months to get back into the country."

Chu Tianshu glanced at the token screen discreetly.

Yun Gu successfully returned to China, Chen Yinghua became the master of the cave, and the last blank in the fortune column was filled.

He will be leaving within ten days, and it seems he will not be able to stroll and enjoy the scenery with Chen Ying and the others before slowly returning home.

(End of this chapter)