The Path to Immortality Begins with the Life-Extending Lamp

Chapter 179 Five Directions Immortal Sect
A grand banquet was held in peace and prosperity. Dragons roamed freely in the marshes. The Dragon Tooth Ship set sail, circling the thirteen spirit islands. Streams of light and magical artifacts flew back and forth on the blue waves.

On one side, the various sects are drinking merrily, two or three of them riding on a banana leaf, drifting leisurely across the shimmering waters; on the other side, a carefree hermit sings loudly, sitting on a precious gourd, leisurely crossing the sea...

The dragon spirit in the clouds beat the drum, and the golden bell rang, echoing the previous feasting and revelry.

At this moment, Li Qing was standing on a spiritual island, making a parting promise with four or five fellow Daoists on the side of the Cloud Crossing Water Pavilion.

Having achieved his goal during this trip to Wuxi Longze, he planned to return to the mountain gate as soon as possible.

First, one must calmly refine and master the Five Thunder Divine Power Seed. "Commanding the Five Thunders" is also known as Talisman Thunder Technique, which is in harmony with the innate Daoist texts and can activate the innate, greatly increasing Li Qing's progress in the cultivation of talismanic symbols.

Secondly, through this battle of wits, Li Qing truly discovered the shortcomings in his own cultivation.

The Mysterious Yin Qi, the Heavenly Mansion Mysterious Qi, the Prophecy Ghost Curse, the Rampaging Dao Assistant, and the many magical artifacts obtained by chance are numerous and varied, making it difficult to concentrate on using them during battles.

The ravenous foes acted as his henchmen, and the demon mother provided protection, but as he progressed through the Purple Palace, his opponents grew increasingly powerful.

With a single strike of magnetic gravity, the twelve rampaging gods were instantly crushed, leaving them utterly powerless to fight back.

Even a powerful figure like the Demon Mother struggles to play a decisive role when facing someone like Venus or Venus...

In the great age of immortals, the Netherworld has fallen into decline, and the Ghost Path has finally weakened. If one continues down this path, one will only become a Ghost Lord General bound in Qishan, how much better than the Dragon Lord?

It's nothing more than having the Qishan Yin Mansion and being a bit wealthier!
He must forge his own path, perhaps even venturing far into the realm of Yin Gods, before he can truly revive the Qishan region.

After returning to the mountains, one should seek out a Taoist-level "method" for cultivation, using the method as the trunk and techniques as the branches to complete the path of cultivation...

Like the Weak Water - Yang Jue's Weak Water Heavenly River, the Lingying Heavenly River, containing various treasures, can be unleashed at the same time, with unparalleled power, which should be excellent;

Alternatively, one can practice the Great Luo Heavenly Sleeve technique, within which the Three Realms stand, Heaven and Earth are reversed, and all kinds of magical artifacts and hundreds of great arts can be used immediately with just a swipe of the Heavenly Sleeve.

In this way, the complex system of arts and techniques, including the Way of Qi, the Way of Ghosts, and the Way of Prophecy and Dharma, can be unified and integrated.

Furthermore, before leaving the mountain, Yin Zu promised to bestow the "One Yuan Venerable Dao Great Dharma Boat" upon Li Qing, making him a servant of the mountain gate and establishing his own residence.

Considering the time constraints, we can't keep the mountains waiting any longer...

However, just as they were exchanging name cards with the four true disciples of the two sects and before they could set off, several more people slowly approached from the side of the waterside pavilion.

When their eyes met, Li Qing raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised.

The dozen or so people were dressed in blue and green robes, and were outer and inner disciples of Tiannan Temple. The one in charge was a true disciple of the sect, dressed in red robes.

"Senior Brother's skills in the banquet competition surpassed all other cultivators, and he stood out from the crowd. He is truly a role model for all!"

"Qinglai Sang of the Hall of Ten Thousand Laws greets Senior Brother Youhuang."

"Senior Brother Li..."

More than ten disciples of the Lin Yuan Dao Sect came from one side of the waterside pavilion. Since there was no Dao here, these Qi Refining Dao disciples manifested their Yuan Qi and walked in the air, stepping on Qi as they approached the waterside pavilion to congratulate this rather mysterious "senior brother".

Many of these people were already acquaintances of Li Qing.

"It's you?"

Li Qing bowed before the waterside pavilion, and upon raising his eyes, he saw that tall and sharp figure, which surprised him greatly.

This person is a woman from the Lanfeng Prefecture Judge's family. Years ago, when Li Qing came down the mountain, he briefly cooperated with her and they had some dealings. Now, he has built the foundation of the Purple Mansion and also holds power in the Underworld. He has acquired all sorts of abilities and is no longer the same as before.

But Lü Qingshu was no less impressive. In just a few years, she achieved perfection in all her acupoints and made great progress in Qi cultivation, making her a standout among her peers!
"Li...Does the true disciple still remember me?"

Lu Qingshu raised an eyebrow, not expecting that Li Qing would not speak with that Qing Zhenchuan, but would instead greet her beforehand.

Of course, her first meeting with Daoist Zifu also gave her a little bit of secret pleasure!
"Of course, Senior Sister Lü's Golden Lingzhi helped me a lot that day!" Li Qing nodded slightly.

His progress in cultivation began with his trip to Lanfeng Prefecture. After obtaining the Golden Lingzhi from Lü Qingshu, Li Qing traveled to Western Mang and exchanged a considerable amount of Golden Lingzhi for military merits at the Tiannan Governor's Mansion. He used these spiritual herbs to cultivate his Qi and quickly achieved Qi cultivation perfection.

Before being stranded at sea, it managed to establish a foothold for itself!
Seeing this female Taoist priest again now, the past five years immediately flashed before my eyes like flowing water splashing on flowers...

Meanwhile, in the north of Qingping Prefecture.

A hundred-foot-long cloud dragon soared into the sky, where the Dragon Lord sat cross-legged on its head, meeting with several Heavenly Palace Daoists who had been waiting impatiently.

"You rascal, before you go west, you still insist on going to the Five Streams Dragon Marsh for a fight."

"What an ugly defeat!"

But then, on a corner of the northern mountain, a young man sat cross-legged on the cliff top. He had a gentle face and short, crimson hair that resembled a wolf's tail hanging down to his shoulders. He didn't even look up when the cloud dragon approached, but instead kept his head down fiddling with a complex gear mechanism arm. However, the words spoken by this crimson-haired young man were not very pleasant to hear!

This is Mercury-Chenxing, a puppetry prodigy who left a certain school of thought in the Northern Kingdom.

Hearing the impatient sarcasm, the Dragon Lord was not angry. He jumped down from the top of the cloud dragon and walked slowly towards the three people on the cliff top.

"The Five Thunder Divine Power is nothing more than a thunder magic power to cultivators of other paths, but it is of extraordinary significance to me. Since there is an opportunity, I should strive to obtain it."

"It's just a pity that the ghostly man is indeed as you said..."

To this day, the three members of the Heavenly Palace—Water Star, Metal Star, and Moon Star—have all suffered at the hands of that Ghostly Gentleman, Li Qing.

In fact, Gui Lang-Li Qing was supposed to be the one to kill Yao Jidu.

With the Ghost Mother possessing Yin God-level combat power, this Ghost Gentleman poses a threat no less than that of a Yin God True Person. Yet, his mind is extremely yin and cunning, hiding in the shadows, making him incredibly unpredictable.

He exchanged a glance with "Yinghuo" and "Jupiter," who stood with their hands behind their backs on the cliff, and Taiyin-Huanglongjun bowed slightly, informing them:

"I have no further business in the Southern Kingdom and am ready to depart at any time!"

The reason for staying in Longze for several days was to compete for the top prize in the Qingping Grand Banquet. Although I failed, I obtained a scroll of Yin God-level Daoist technique, which is not bad.

He would repay the old dragon's favor another day, but for now he was going to join the Heavenly Palace's Zhuyao to seek business in the capital, Xiba Kingdom.

Upon hearing this, the two Yin Gods on the cliff nodded slightly.

This trip to the Southern Kingdom was originally intended to bring the Moon, "Taiyin," back to its rightful place.

However, the golden star "Tai Bai" acted on its own initiative, creating a rift with the candidate Ke Du, and went into battle alone, trespassing into the underworld. As a result, it got lost in the vast and dark heavens, causing the heavenly palace to lose another Yin god in a short period of time.

Even though the Taiyin-Huanlongjun is in place now, it can hardly be considered a gain.

Fortunately, the news from the North Sea was good. The new Killer Star - Ketu, "Tai Sui Tian Zun" received the decree on the spot, which can be regarded as making up for the missing part in another direction.

"After much preparation, we are about to take action. Let's put other tasks aside for now and head to the capital, Xiba, to meet with the leader."

"Taibai has fled to Youtian and disappeared without a trace. Perhaps it's time to let Li Yuhao do his part!"

The middle-aged man with a sallow complexion greeted the Dragon Lord, frowned for a moment, and then turned to the Empress Yinghuo beside him to offer her advice.

The disappearance of Venus-Taibai was certainly not good news for the still incomplete Eleven Luminaries Heavenly Palace. However, with the operation imminent, they could not spare the time to rescue him and could only reluctantly let "Chenxing" and "Taiyin" fill in.

Let Taibai wander obediently in that boundless, dark sky for a few more years before we talk about it...

"Can!"

"Then let us return west! As for Taibai, perhaps the leader can find him when we return to Youtian later..."

The female ruler named Yinghuo stood atop the cliff, gazing into the clouds and observing the floating sea of ​​clouds. She seemed not to have noticed anything unusual. Upon hearing Suixing's suggestion, she nodded slightly.

Even though Jin Yao-Tai Bai went missing during their trip to the Southern Kingdom, their mission wasn't considered a failure. The Great Master Yin of the Southwest was nearing the end of his lifespan and indeed had little room for maneuver left; even his temperament had improved considerably.

In the Southern Kingdom of Tiandu, the only remaining Yin Spirit of the highest rank capable of being called a Great True Man is the Heavenly Talisman Returning Elixir Great True Man in the Golden Elixir Dao. Even he is probably only slightly stronger than the Great True Man of the Western Kingdom of Duxi...

The two Yin Gods exchanged a glance and were about to flee westward in their escape light when a sudden change occurred.

Suddenly, towering dark clouds rose from the previously swirling sea of ​​fog.

Boundless black mist rolled and covered a hundred miles. Dark clouds swept across the area, creating a murky mess that took the form of mournful human faces, each a hundred feet in size, with features like deep holes, constantly wailing in silent agony.

Before the four could retreat, a dark light shone down from the black clouds, sweeping over the spot where they stood, instantly crushing the hundred-foot cliff and the massive rocks into powder.

This is the White Bone Daoist Technique - Extreme Yin Soul-Destroying Divine Light, a core scripture comprehended from the Earthly Book of Ghosts!
The moment the Soul-Destroying Divine Light touched them, Mars and Jupiter immediately trembled with fear.

With a light tap of her toes, Yinghuo opened the Feathered Heavenly Umbrella at her waist, and eleven or eighteen beams of Feathered Immortal Light rose up instantly, seemingly transforming into eighteen long rivers of pure energy, fixing the Soul-Destroying Light in mid-air.

Jupiter then moved a hundred feet to the side in one step, stretched out his hands, grabbed Chenxing and the Dragon Lord to the left and right, and flashed across a thousand feet, immediately retreating behind Yinghuo.

Rumble…

Hearing the sound again, he looked up and saw a hundred-foot-long soul banner descending from the sky. The Venerable Soul Banner, which had been broken by Yin Zu's sleeve, had been rebuilt. The banners covered the clouds and the sun, and together with the soul light, they instantly condensed into a sky-covering soul pressure, trying to knock all the spirits in the world down to dust.

That was a threat originating from the depths of the soul, a suppression at the level of the soul!

"You are... the Venerable Soul of the White Bone Path?"

Jupiter flanked the two Taoist priests, who had not yet attained Yin Spirit status, on either side of his armpits, and exclaimed in astonishment:
"Why are you doing this...?"

However, in response to the two's questions, the Venerable Soul Ancestor smiled contemptuously, raised the Soul Banner and shook it. Boundless soul pressure condensed into countless ten-thousand-foot-long Soul-Destroying Threads, which fell from the nine heavens and pierced through the void.

"The Heavenly Palace? I wonder which scum it is, roaming freely in the Southern Kingdom without any restraint. Does it really think it can treat the Five Immortal Sects like clay idols?"

As the successive soul pressures descended, an extremely yin and violent aura rose up, and a thousand-foot-long dark light descended from the sky, falling beside the hundred-foot-long soul banner and transforming into a fierce and powerful man.

After a cold laugh, the burly man casually summoned the Soul Banner, made a hand seal, and used his ten-foot-tall body to shake the hundred-foot-long Soul Banner, then raised his hand to suppress it.

The banners billowed in the sky, creating layers of mist that seemed to press down like an ancient black mountain.

Before the soul light descended, eighteen beams of immortal light, instead of descending, transformed into pillars of light that reached the heavens, shooting straight up a hundred miles into the divine sky.

The Nine Heavens shook down the Soul-Destroying Silk, and the Heavenly Light of Ascension soared to the Dipper and the Ox. Upon their collision, the clouds for a hundred miles were instantly annihilated, and the terrifying shockwaves instantly covered several counties. The extraordinary phenomenon of the collapsing sea of ​​clouds was praised throughout the prefectures and counties.

Within the Dragon Marsh, three figures stood at attention: Nanfu Yuntian and Qilin turned their heads.

Only in the Qingping North Ridge could one see the soul light suddenly break through and the Xuanqing appeared. The Yinghuo female crown lightly touched the void with her bare feet. On her feathered robe, the Daoist rhymes and true texts were intertwined. They were ancient immortal records.

Taking medicine, preserving the spirit, refining elixirs, performing sacrifices... talismans like those in a children's book appeared on her flowing sleeves and flowing robes.

Why is this? This is the supreme glory that the path of ascension to immortality has been passed down to this day. Seeking immortality in the Western Kunlun Mountains is one of the oldest origins of the Xuanmen!

The woman, holding an umbrella in her delicate hand, descended step by step from the void. Eighteen rays of celestial light, like a celestial waterfall, cascaded around her. No matter how the ghostly spirit light tried to harm her, it immediately wilted upon contact with the celestial light.

Yinghuo walked barefoot, descending from the heavens, entwined with supreme secret power, seemingly about to ascend to immortality. A cold light swept over him, yet even the Venerable Soul Ancestor felt a chill in his heart.

A clear light flowed, its pointer unseen; only the Feathered Heavenly Umbrella, carrying terrifying secret power, struck down, causing the hundred-foot-long Venerable Soul Banner to spin and fly back more than three thousand feet. When it returned to the Venerable Soul Ancestor's hand, it had already violently cracked open his tiger's mouth...

Who is this?

The Venerable Soul Ancestor staggered a few steps, his face filled with horror, as he looked up at the female Taoist priest who was approaching on feathers.

"You dare to come alone?"

Yinghuo raised an eyebrow, and the continuous, mysterious power of feather transformation behind her, in accordance with an unknown law, wove together a pair of flawless immortal wings, 1,680 wings, exuding an ethereal quality.

Clearly, unless this Venerable Soul Ancestor has something wrong with his mind, it's impossible for him to come alone to cause trouble for the "Heavenly Palace".

Looking around, there was still no sign of a living person. Yinghuo raised the Feathered Heavenly Umbrella, took a step and landed in the clouds. The void rippled, and she immediately stood up and approached the Venerable Soul.

The Ghost Talisman for Suppressing Souls? This Earthly Ghost Talisman, one of the Five Mountains Talismans, had no effect on her whatsoever. The ten thousand feet of Soul-Destroying Silk colliding with the clear light immediately crumbled.

Before Venerable Soul Ancestor could create distance, the Feathered Heavenly Umbrella struck down on him. Venerable Soul felt a chill in his heart, immediately bit his tongue, and spat out his natal ghost talisman, which instantly transformed into a ten-thousand-foot-long black light.

The black light and the clear light clashed and intertwined, and the celestial light instantly vanished without a trace, as if it had been cleaved back by the sharp light. Only a deep crack remained in the sky, as if the sky itself had been torn apart.

Venerable Soul Ancestor, panting heavily, grabbed the Venerable Soul Treasure Banner. The original black light revealed its true form: a ghost-headed dagger about the length of a forearm, which circled around him like a flying fish.

This is an ancient treasure from Lingnan - the Ghost Head Knife!

However, the Venerable Soul Ancestor's face showed even greater shock.

Who exactly is this foreign celestial palace, and why does a female Taoist priest possess such abilities?

That pure energy, ethereal and uncertain, desolate and ancient yet unconventional, is about ascension... ascension?
"If it is truly a whim of yours, then I will accept your magic weapon and Yin spirit!"

A cold voice suddenly rang out from behind the Venerable Soul Ancestor's head, and the killing intent hidden within it caused the White Bone Dao Ancestor's expression to change drastically.

With a thought, he spun the Ghost-Slaying Blade around his neck, carrying the Ghost-Slaying Aura behind him. Perhaps because they were too close, the two collided, and even the protective divine light could not shield against the aftershock. The terrifying secret power shook the Purple Mansion Palace of the Venerable Soul Ancestor, and his divine sense became unstable for a moment.

Just as the Venerable Soul was about to be obtained, an unseen disturbance occurred. Black and white energies surged wildly in the void, instantly landing between the extraordinary treasure umbrella and the swaying Ghost-Slaying Blade. The Yin-Yang symbol fixed itself on one side, immediately separating the two.

A stern-looking old man and an old scholar appeared at the same time.

Crane Lord and the Palace Guardian Ancestor witnessed the entire exchange between Venerable Soul Ancestor and the female Taoist priest. After several rounds, the fierce man was completely suppressed.

The female Taoist priest named Yinghuo did not use any supernatural powers; the difference in their cultivation and background alone was enough to make the Venerable Soul Ancestor helpless against her every move...

"The Way of Feathering!"

"Are you the Ascended Daoist from the North of Tiandu?"

He Jun's eyes darted around in thought, but within a few breaths he was certain of the woman's identity.

The paths of Yuhua and Fangxian are ancient Taoist traditions that are on par with the Three Immortals of the Overseas Regions. However, these two paths have long been lost and unknown. When Ancestor Yin traveled to Tiandu in the past, he only heard about them but never saw them.

But this person seems to possess a complete and true Daoist teaching. Could it be that the Ascension Dao will reappear in the world?
While the three were surprised and suspicious, Yinghuo was also somewhat wary. Endless secret power intertwined in her eyes, transforming into double pupils.

Surprisingly, were there three people who had already set up this scheme?
"Yinghuo, the leader has been waiting for a long time."

The sallow-faced man behind him looked distressed and quickly spoke up.

He was genuinely afraid that Yinghuo would lose his temper and, like he had fought the Seven Star Pavilion Ancestor Lord with all his might that day.

The Heavenly Palace's plan is about to begin, and the one from the North Sea has already started heading towards the Kingdom of Duxiba. There's no reason for them to linger here any longer.

The matter of Venus and Venus has already greatly displeased the leader!
"I know, you all should set off first."

Upon hearing this, Yinghuo nodded slightly, then slowly closed the Feathered Heavenly Umbrella, its double pupils revealing traces of the past void.

She naturally knows how to behave appropriately; she doesn't need anyone to remind her.

What kind of trouble can a second-rate talisman master, a mediocre old demon, and a kept servant possibly pose?

Only the female Taoist priestess, who had ascended to immortality, unleashed her celestial light and stood blocking the three of them. Despite being at the same Yin God realm, she dared to fight three against one...

(End of this chapter)