Journey to the West: Cultivation Begins at Jindou Mountain

Chapter 202 Sweet Dew
The top of Jindou Mountain.

Niu Ping and Niu Feng were picking the bountiful harvest of spiritual peaches and tangerines this year, while Niu An was gathering precious tea leaves in front of the tea trees.

As the quality of spiritual roots has been continuously improved over the years, the peach and orange groves no longer yield three harvests a year, but only one harvest a year, and the number of spiritual fruits produced is also much smaller.

Of course, these spiritual peaches and oranges will also have a richer spiritual energy and taste better.

For those little bull demons at the Lesser Demon and Greater Demon levels, eating a spirit peach or spirit orange is almost the same as eating a elixir. Even the wine brewed from it is full of spiritual energy.

As for the Nine-Leaf Treasure Orange of the Gold Grade, it still only ripens once every twenty years. The orange is of great benefit to Niu Feng and his group.

On the pond, Ao Xuan, Jin Feng, and Jin Yun sat cross-legged on the blooming lotus flowers, meditating with their eyes closed.

The dragon energy emanating from Ao Xuan was constantly nourishing the two children behind him and the fish in the water, causing the golden horns on Jin Feng and Jin Yun's heads to grow continuously, and they were already quite noticeable.

However, at this time, the two children, Jin Feng and Jin Yun, had already been tainted by Ao Xuan's dragon aura, and in the future they could only follow Ao Xuan's lead. When facing Ao Xuan, they would not be able to muster any thoughts of resistance.

Not far from the three boys, a blue gourd was floating and spinning in mid-air; it was Niu Yi's Chaos Blue Gourd.

Inside the gourd, Niu Yi sat cross-legged amidst chaos, quietly sensing the surrounding chaotic energy.

The Chaos Green Gourd contains boundless chaotic energy. Apart from the 30,000-zhang space that Niu Yi has opened up over the years, other places are still shrouded in this chaotic energy.

Niu Yi slowly opened his eyes, his body radiating an earthy yellow aura. He pointed forward, and the earthy aura around him continued to condense.

The earth-elemental Daoist energy rapidly transformed into dust and sand, continuously coalescing together. In just a few breaths, a thousand-foot-long floating landmass solidified in front of Niu Yi.

As the earth element Dao aura continued to spread around Niu Yi, the floating land continued to expand. At the same time, the metal and water element Dao auras also spread from Niu Yi's body.

Slowly, Niu Yi's figure arrived above the land. At this time, the land was already tens of thousands of feet wide, with mountains, rocks, and flowing streams.

A moment later, the Daoist aura around Niu Yi quickly dissipated, and the ground beneath him, enveloped in chaotic energy, floated quietly, looking lifeless.

Niu Yi remained calm, as he had anticipated this matter.

The power within the earth and the creative power he comprehended both originate from the earth's veins. Therefore, no matter how severe the problems that arise in the earth, they can be repaired on their own as long as the earth's veins remain intact.

The continent he conjured was merely a giant "rock" formed from sand, but he did not come away empty-handed.

"If we take the Five Elements Dao as our foundation, is it possible to create a naturally evolving world within this Chaos Green Gourd?"

Niu Yi kept calculating various possibilities in his mind. In particular, he was involved in many major paths, and even in the Heavenly Court, there should not be many gods who could compare with him, which made his knowledge quite extensive.

From his perspective at this moment, using the pure and turbid energies to support a world, and using the Five Elements as the foundation to create the prototype of a world, is a fairly feasible method.

As for what followed, it was filled and perfected with the great Dao such as the sun, moon, and stars, until a perfect world was created in this boundless chaotic energy!

A glint flashed in Niu Yi's eyes, but after a long while, he slowly closed his eyes and rubbed his temples wearily.

At this time, he had not yet gathered all five elements, and was still missing two of the five elemental spirit pearls, not to mention the other great Daos such as the sun, moon, and stars. Now, deducing these things was quite a mental strain.

Even so, within this chaotic green gourd, he could freely rely on the Great Dao to deduce various spells and supernatural powers and continue to delve deeper into the Great Dao, making it incredibly convenient compared to the outside world.

Niu Yi flipped his hand, and a jade bottle with cloud patterns the size of a palm appeared in his hand. Niu Yi felt that the jade bottle was heavy; it didn't look big, but it was extremely heavy. This jade bottle was a gift from the Jade Emperor to him.

"I have long heard that the jade bottle in the hands of Guanyin Bodhisattva of the South Sea can hold a whole sea of ​​water. The sweet dew in it, along with the willow branch that is stuck in it, contains boundless creative power. Even if it is put into the Eight Trigrams Furnace and burned, its vitality cannot be destroyed. It will recover soon after being put back into the jade bottle. Even the dead spiritual roots of heaven and earth can be revived with the sweet dew. It is incredibly miraculous."

"The Great Celestial Venerable gave me this jade bottle, which seems to have some similarities, yet it also seems to be different."

"To be honest, the Great Celestial Venerable seems to have been too kind to me. And when I first met the Great Celestial Venerable, my master also told me that it was alright."

"It seems that Master and the Great Celestial Venerable must know each other."

"There is no love or hate without a reason in this world. When you think about it carefully, you will find that there is a cause and effect."

"Even if the Great Celestial Venerable admires me greatly, he shouldn't have gone to such lengths. So, this can only be because of my master."

Niu Yi looked at the jade bottle in his hand, his eyes filled with thought.

This jade bottle was also a treasure whose grade could not be discerned. When he put it into the East Sea, he filled a lake with seawater, but he could not see the bottom. It seemed that there was only a thin layer floating in it.

In recent years, he has either been studying the Great Dao or learning the transformation methods of the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts from Brother Yang in Meishan, and has not studied this treasure much.

Now, we can finally take a good look at this treasure that is closely related to the Waterway Avenue.

Niu Yi slowly closed his eyes, and the azure water-based avenue spread around him. A water-blue spirit pearl flew up from the top of Niu Yi's head, enveloping Niu Yi and the cloud-patterned jade bottle in front of him.

Qianyuan Mountain, Jinguan Cave.

Taiyi Zhenren sat in the courtyard, holding a wine jar with great care. He slapped open the mud seal, and a fragrance of peach blossom wine immediately wafted out of the jar.

Taiyi Zhenren twitched his nose and nodded in satisfaction.

"Hmm~ Not bad, not bad~ It tastes just like before, even better~"

"I also planted a few peach and orange trees, but the wine I brewed wasn't as refreshing as Fellow Daoist Guangyi's. It seems that if I want to drink it in the future, I'll have to ask Fellow Daoist Guangyi for some."

Taiyi Zhenren didn't care about anything else and started drinking directly from the wine jar. He drank half of the jar in one go before putting it down, having thoroughly enjoyed himself.

He flicked his whisk and looked at the numerous wine jars beside him, which had been piled up like a small mountain with all the wine Niu Yi had given him. Just looking at them made him happy.

Just then, a golden talisman suddenly descended from the sky and landed on the head of Taiyi Zhenren.

"Taiyi, your master instructed me to inform you that you must go to the Mi Luo Palace in ten years to meet with your master and have your cultivation tested. If you fail, you will be punished by being forbidden from drinking alcohol for a hundred years."

Upon hearing the deep, resonant voice emanating from the talisman, Taiyi's expression stiffened.

A hundred years of prohibition against drinking alcohol! ? ?

But then Taiyi flashed and disappeared from the spot in an instant, returning to the house. He closed the door and began to cultivate cross-legged.

(End of this chapter)