The Path to Immortality Begins with the Life-Extending Lamp

Chapter 206 The Sixty Years of the Tai Sui Jiazi

South of Banan lies a barren land, a place even mountain dwellers avoid; it is the poorest and most desolate place.

Li Qing, Si Chen, and Fairy Mo Ling traveled south without stopping, their purpose being to clear both banks of the Yuan River.

As the Ghost Lord Huailian-Yulingshen said, one must exert all one's strength to eliminate all ghosts before one can claim merit and be qualified to enter Yan Valley to receive the blessings of the Sun God.

At this moment, the God of Dawn resolutely followed Li Qing, venturing deep into the barren lands to purify the hundred ghosts.

Of course, if he knew that his own religion's sacred land of Yan Valley had been destroyed, one can only imagine how interesting his expression would be!
Fairy Mo Ling has already completed the commission of the Divine Blessing of the Dawn, thus fulfilling her duty. However, due to the Ghost Lord's advice, she will temporarily follow Li Qing to lend a helping hand.

At this moment, the three of them had just swept over six hundred miles and captured twelve day and night wandering ghosts when they saw Li Qing standing on the mountaintop looking north, his expression somewhat solemn.

"Fellow Daoist Li, what's wrong?" Fairy Mo Ling couldn't help but ask softly.

"To the north, something major seems to have happened. The two energies of heaven and earth are turbid, the three realms are reversed, and the six elements are in chaos. The tremors seem to have spread to half of the western capital..."

Li Qing internally cultivated a primordial ancestral energy and externally cultivated the changes of primordial energy. He was extremely sensitive to the changes in this world. He clearly knew that there seemed to be a battle between Yin gods in the north, and there were more than one or two of them.

Perhaps the northern dynasty has begun its attack on the southern kingdoms and the Ba kingdom again?

After all, this has always been the case for northern expeditions and southern campaigns. At least seven Yin Gods were stationed along the natural barrier of the capital city to stabilize the Hengshan Mountains and the Tongtian River that separated the north and south.

"The north? Perhaps the border!"

"Fellow Daoist Li can actually sense such a distance?"

The God of the Morning, however, did not take it seriously, regarding it merely as a major battle that frequently occurred on the border of the Kingdom of Ba.

What surprised him even more was that Li Qing's soul pressure was so acute.

Generally speaking, Taoists cultivate the primordial spirit, which is the spiritual consciousness. This consciousness is the sensory touch within the Niwan Palace, formless and ever-changing.

But Li Qing seems to have an even stronger soul pressure? Visualizing the Dharma image in his Niwan Palace and using the Ghost Script as a medium, his spiritual pressure intensity has reached an extremely profound level in the Soul Path, allowing him to freely perceive changes tens of thousands of miles away.
Li Qing remained silent. How could his soul pressure and divine sense possibly sweep across tens of thousands of miles? Even a Yang God could never possess such supernatural power! It was merely a judgment based on observing the two energies of heaven and earth and the energies of the six directions.

Seeing that the shaman was not flustered, Li Qing had no more doubts. She shook her head and scattered a handful of paper cranes from her sleeve.

But then the paper crane fluttered in the wind, and in a moment it took flight, immediately circling around the three of them.

"In that case, we still need to speed things up. In the past few days, I have been communicating with the Huai Lian Soul Book and refining a hundred paper cranes. The source of each of these paper cranes is the fleeing and scattered evil spirits."

"How about the three of us split up and each deal with the horde of ghosts?"

Traveling with three people is making a mountain out of a molehill. This Fairy Mo Ling is a genuine cultivator at the Purple Mansion level, and the Divine Blessing of the Morning is not weak either. It would be a waste of time for the three of them to work together to capture some minor day-wandering and night-wandering ghosts.

By dividing the force into three groups, efficiency can be increased by more than five times, and it is hoped that all cases can be resolved within a few months.

"It will require some trouble from you, Fairy."

After discussing the matter, Li Qing apologized to Fairy Mo Ling again. This female Taoist priest could have chosen not to stay with him. After completing her mission to Yinshan and receiving two million Dao Zhu, she could have left on her own.

I heard that the Jade Spirit God's guidance was actually to send her into the Abyss?
Li Qing was somewhat tempted by this matter. Lin Yuan's foundation was still shallow, and there were only three or four people who had reached the Purple Mansion level. If one more could be added, it would be excellent.

To survive the Northern Dynasty that destroyed the Dao and escape the Heavenly Palace's pursuit with a child in tow, this person must be no ordinary individual. When she saw the Ghost Lord give her the magic weapon, she remained calm, suggesting that she herself possessed a magic weapon.

Li Qing had clearly sensed the murderous intent that the female Taoist priest Mo Ling had towards the God of Morning at that time in Yinshan!
Perhaps we can get to know them a little better. If they seem like a good person, we can invite them to stay.

"It's alright, it's just something I did along the way."

The female Taoist priest waved her right hand, taking more than twenty paper cranes into her palm. She nodded and looked at Li Qing, seemingly indifferent.

The sage of dawn went south to conquer, the female Taoist priest Mo Ling went east, and Li Qing headed west towards the capital, determined to eradicate this demonic scourge in one fell swoop...

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The problem is simply a ghostly disturbance, the key point being the unknown and unpredictable. But after Li Qing obtained the Soul Book, he used paper cranes to guide the way, and the ghosts became like bright lights in the night or candles flickering in the wind, unable to escape.

Over the course of several months, all the ghosts and spirits in the Soul Book were bound. In the end, Li Qing stopped taking action and handed the paper crane to Fei Chang and Wu Mian Chang, letting them do the work for him. Today, it can be considered a temporary end.

At this moment, Li Qing sat alone atop a mountain, refining the hundred ghosts and setting up a three-zhang altar. Together with Linglong Chang, he began to perfect the "Tai Sui Jiazi Chang Dao Ritual".

The Jiazi Tai Sui (甲子太岁) consists of six Jia (甲), six Ding (丁), six Yi (乙), six Bing (丙), six Ren (壬), six Geng (庚), six Gui (癸), six Xin (辛), six Wu (戊), and six Ji (己), totaling sixty deities!
Also known as the Mandate of Heaven, or the Sixty Jiazi Gods.

Whenever the ritual of the Jiazi Tai Sui Chang Jun took shape in Li Qing's mind, he felt a sense of wonder and couldn't help but think of the "Tai Sui Tian Zun" he had seen in the outer sea who had been driven away by the Hunyuan Immortal Sect. He wondered how that guy was doing in the North Sea. If he had the chance, once he achieved the Yin God status, he might be able to take away his fate and change Linglong Chang's destiny.

At that time, she will no longer be just a tyrant, but a true tyrant god!
Although Li Qing is still some distance from ascending to the Purple Mansion realm, he should at least have some goals.

Without knowing the reason, Tai Sui Tian Zun took over Li Qing's position as "Ji Du," and Li Qing's outrageous law was on the path of seizing his destiny and power. Was this a matter of fate?

However, at this moment, the two have not yet crossed paths.

On the altar, the outlines of paper figures had already taken shape. The toad immortal and the ghost god Cui Ying from the Netherworld sent a large number of Netherworld Pearls and Soul Essence. The Yin Scales that appeared in the world immediately became terrified, extremely afraid of the heavier aura of this world.

Li Qing used Yin blood to burn the talisman, and the Toad Immortal obtained Yin scales to make fish soup. They mixed and refined the Netherworld Pearl as bait and offered it on the altar. On a bright and clear day, the Northern Dipper star shone brightly in the sky, and the Southern Dipper stars shone brightly. The entire starry sky seemed to react to this ritual, projecting its vast stellar authority onto the altar.

On the human skin paper, the seven orifices drawn with cinnabar ink gradually faded, replaced by increasingly straight facial features. The numb gaze gradually began to waver, glancing left and right. The newly formed paper stalk moved slowly on the altar.

The materials used to create these forty-eight paper spirits were all of the highest quality. They had just been consecrated with the power of the Night Wanderer, and each paper spirit had a different appearance. They sat on the altar, looking at the fish soup bait in front of the altar. With a breath, the essence in the soup ball vanished in an instant, turning into a black, dirty mess.

The newly refined forty-eight Jiazi offerings were displayed in a manner more like a wild spirit, untainted by filth or bloodshed, enjoying the sacrificial offerings from a high platform.

Not enough... These mere Netherworld Pearls are not enough for them to squander!

The forty-eight madmen all turned their heads, their blank gazes fixed on the Toad Immortal, which made his legs go weak. He had only practiced basic pharmacology and alchemy for a short time and couldn't even concoct a few pills.

If you want more, there really aren't any left.

Fortunately, Li Qing made a move at this moment, throwing a Yin Scale from a cleansing bowl. Instantly, a Yin Scale Ghost Fish weighing several thousand pounds fell in front of the altar. Its plump body, several feet long, kept jumping on the ground, trying to escape the suffocating Tiandu territory.

However, the hordes of demons on the altar, gazing at the blood-soaked sacrificial offerings, inhaled deeply and soon devoured the blood essence and yin energy of the yin spirit fish.

At this moment, the paper spirit slowly stabilized and stood quietly on the altar with its hands hanging down!

"You all go up too."

Seeing that the Sixty Jiazi Tai Sui Chao had already taken shape, Li Qing nodded slightly and summoned the twelve Chao gods, including Linglong Chao, to the center of the altar.

"Linglong, the Jiazi Tai Sui is your master, but you are cunning and extremely unstable. I have suppressed you for a long time, but I will no longer suppress you from now on."

"But you'd better show some responsibility as the tyrant!"

Li Qing's first glance was directed at Linglong Chang. This Chang Master, who was born with the power of the Law Domain and the ability to create Chang, had been suppressed by him quite a bit, giving up almost all aspects of cultivation and focusing on the "Mountain Ghost Law - Cloud and Rain Law Domain". Now, she is capable of handling things.

So Li Qing lifted the Soul Banner without clothes with her right hand, amidst the half-apprehensive, half-expectant gaze of the Linglong Crazed Master.

This soul banner is extremely powerful. It has been nurtured for hundreds of years by the White Bone Ghost Talisman within the Five Mountains Talisman, and combined with the "No Clothes" talisman diagram, it is already among the strongest of all magic treasures. Unfortunately, after Li Qing's Life-Extending Spirit Lamp spell was activated, this treasure was no longer suitable for his combat needs.

At this moment, Li Qing intends to present this item to Linglong Changzhu as the grand banner for the Jiazi Tai Sui Chang!
"nature."

Linglong's eyes narrowed into crescent moons as she laughed, took a few steps forward, and accepted the soul banner with both hands.

The instant she held the staff and the soul banner, countless messages directly invaded her soul sea—the authority and methods to mobilize troops and travel between Yin and Yang.

Li Qing did hope that his rampant demons and ghosts would be more valiant. Perhaps because he had become accustomed to the presence of Yin Gods and True Men from an early age, these demons were now quite good-natured...

"You have already gone through several talismans and seals. Now that the Jiazi Tai Sui has been fully formed, on this auspicious day, our sect will bestow upon you a great fortune!"

But then Li Qing made a gesture with his right hand, and a Five Ghosts Shifting Technique was extracted from the Five Wei Suppressing Ghosts Divine Power. This technique contained the true text of a minor divine power, and was inherited from the ghost script cultivated by Li Qing. In the blink of an eye, it differentiated into sixty seeds of the "Five Ghosts Nail Head Technique" minor divine power.

Li Qing sliced ​​her palm open with one finger, spilling sixty drops of essence blood to envelop the true seed of divine power, and then imprinted them all into the brows of those rampant bastards.

The Five Ghosts Shifting Nailheads?
Cui Ying, who was secretly observing the rituals of the Great Demon King, raised an eyebrow, secretly surprised. "Isn't this my supernatural power? How does he know it too? And he even gave each Great Demon King a seed of a minor supernatural power!"
Isn’t this too much?
This supernatural power is an optimization of the Five Ghosts Great Shift. It adds the soul-destroying power of the Five Ghosts Nail Head to the unorthodox supernatural power of teleportation, head removal, heart plucking, and internal organ stealing. It is already a very good minor supernatural power. Even Li Qing has relied on this technique more than once in battle.

But even the best supernatural powers can't withstand being overused. Cui Ying pouted and immediately became unhappy.

If she knew that this supernatural power was originally obtained by Li Qing from her East Garden, she would be even more furious!
The gods have good digestive abilities. The divine runes extracted from Li Qing will be excellent seeds, becoming a formidable fighting force for the Jiazi Tai Sui in the near future.

However, he clearly underestimated the strain that separating the divine power texts and essence blood would place on his body. Although it was only a few of the smallest divine powers, it was still cleverly imprinted by mixing immortal sect talismans and ghostly script. But Li Qing still couldn't help but turn pale, having lost a considerable amount of vital energy.

"I received the Five Thunder Divine Power Seed from the Five Streams Dragon Lord, and I originally wanted to try to condense the divine power seed. I succeeded, but I also failed."

He succeeded in separating and imprinting the true meaning of the minor supernatural power and giving it to others, but it was just a true text, not a seed of supernatural power containing certain insights.

True texts are ancient documents that convey and transmit the Way; they are merely texts that convey the Way.

However, spell seeds and supernatural power seeds are the mainstream in the modern era, simply because supernatural power seeds can contain certain insights and understandings of the practitioner. Once passed on, they will have the potential to condense spell seeds.

However, every cloud has a silver lining.

If Li Qing dared to condense sixty minor divine power seeds, he would probably die on the spot with his Dao foundation collapsing. He is really too reckless!

Without profound cultivation in the Purple Mansion, one cannot condense the seed of magic. Without a perfect Purple Mansion, who would dare to condense the seed of minor supernatural power?
(End of this chapter)