Under One Person: My Inner Realm Connects to All Worlds!

Chapter 111 The Hidden Dragon Technique

After Han Yun observed the white chess piece with his Heavenly Eye, he finally realized what tricks Ancestor Chen Tuan was playing.

The selection of disciples in Taoism has always been strict, with some even saying that the teachings will not be passed on to anyone who is not a highly accomplished person.

Han Yun's ability to see through the initial chess game using his Heavenly Eye requires a certain level of spiritual cultivation.

The Qi contained within those black and white chess pieces is extremely profound, like containing Mount Sumeru within a mustard seed. Ordinary extraordinary people cannot even discover it, let alone let it sink into their minds.

Moreover, even if one were to immerse oneself in the game, the chess game within was set up by Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Tuan, who were extremely powerful extraordinary individuals at the time. How could the spiritual cultivation of ordinary extraordinary individuals withstand the clash of their vital energies?

If one is not careful, one can become so engrossed in the chessboard that one cannot extricate oneself. Only someone like Han Yun, whose cultivation of life force is so profound that it is beyond compare, can completely ignore its influence and simply watch the two play chess as an observer.

Then, following the meaning of the hexagram, we arrived at the entrance to the Western Mysterious Cave Heaven, above that bottomless abyss. Its appearance was only for a brief moment; if we hesitated even slightly, the entrance would vanish.

This tests a person's ability to seize opportunities and their willingness to take risks.

Having arrived at this Western Mysterious Cave Heaven, and encountered this chess game again, this game will test one's life force and cultivation level.

That white chess piece was clearly refined; this small piece weighed a thousand jin (approximately 25 tons), like a miniature mountain or river, making it difficult to lift.

Moreover, the chess pieces on the board were also very special. The black pieces were connected by a single energy, forming a dragon-shaped pattern, like a ferocious black dragon about to devour and kill the white pieces.

If Han Yun wants to defeat the black pieces, he must inject a powerful amount of primordial energy into them, so that the white pieces on the entire board can overwhelm the black dragon, thus securing victory.

This is truly a difficult task for a perfect person!

Han Yun took a deep breath, and the innate Qi within his body surged like a river. He stretched out his right hand, and a wisp of golden Qi gathered at his fingertips, which he gently touched the floating white piece.

"rise!"

The white piece suddenly burst forth with dazzling light, emitting a trembling sound like a dragon's roar.

Han Yun felt an immense force rebounding from him, but he still held up the chess piece as if it were nothing, maintaining the connection between his fingertips and the piece.

Only the bluestone ground beneath our feet was cracked like a spider web.

"Thirty thousand catties of mountains and rivers for you, what a generous gesture!" Han Yun chuckled.

As the primordial Qi is continuously infused, the jade-like texture on the surface of the white stone gradually fades, revealing the flowing gilded cloud patterns inside.

When Han Yun placed the chess piece on the center position, the black pieces on the chessboard suddenly trembled violently, and the black dragon pattern rose into the air from the chessboard, opening its blood-red maw and rushing towards the white pieces.

"town!"

Han Yun shouted and the white piece landed heavily in the center of the chessboard.

In an instant, the weather changed dramatically. Golden clouds of energy covered the entire chessboard, linking the white pieces and causing the board to light up with star-like patterns.

The fallen white piece transformed into a five-clawed golden dragon, which engaged in a fierce battle with the black dragon.

As Han Yun channeled his abundant Dan Yun Qi into the chessboard, the black dragon let out a reluctant roar and transformed back into 360 black pieces.

Meanwhile, the platinum dragon shadow held by Han Yun coiled into a Tai Chi pattern and slowly disappeared into the gate of the Taoist temple.

"Squeak-"

The vermilion gate, sealed for a thousand years, opened by itself, revealing a courtyard filled with purple mist. Just as Han Yun was about to step out, a deep and ancient voice suddenly came from inside the temple: "The thousand-year-old impasse is broken; those with destiny will arrive."

In front of the Taoist temple, a white-haired Taoist priest stood with his hands behind his back. His robes fluttered, his face was thin and his eyes were deep. He was none other than the legendary Patriarch Chen Tuan!

"Junior Han Yun greets the Ancestor." Han Yun bowed respectfully.

Ancestor Chen Tuan smiled slightly, flicked his sleeves, and all the black and white pieces on the chessboard flew up, transforming into a landscape painting in his palm.

"This game is called the Mountain and River Chess, which was left by me when I discussed the Dao with Zhao Kuangyin. He played black as the dragon, intending to conquer the world with his fierce power; I played white as the lock, using the Dao of Yin and Yang numerology to balance his power."

With a light tap of his fingertip, the scroll unfurled, revealing the image of Zhao Kuangyin, full of vigor and high spirits, wielding a dragon-patterned staff.

"Unfortunately, although he was born of a dragon, he was ultimately a dragon that devoured a young dragon and usurped the destiny of the dragon, destined not to last long."

Han Yun's heart stirred, and he asked, "Did the Ancestor leave this situation behind so that someone later could break it?"

Ancestor Chen Tuan slowly said, "That's right. Over the past thousand years, only a handful of people have been able to trigger the image of the chess game, and you are the only one who can break this game."

With a wave of his hand, the landscape in the painting suddenly transformed into a vast star map.

"This is the secret of the Western Mysterious Grotto-Heaven. The Grotto-Heaven is not fixed in one place, but changes with the flow of Qi in the world. Therefore, I created the 'Preface to the Yi Dragon Diagram' to mark its location using the methods of numerology and divination."

"Heaven is above and is the origin of the Way; Earth is below and is the foundation of the Earth. The third stem is the second stem, and the fourth stem is the third stem. If it is in Yang, it should avoid isolated Yin; if it is in Yin, it should avoid isolated Yang... Only those who can understand the hexagrams can find the gateway."

Han Yun stared at the star map and discovered that the arrangement of the stars perfectly matched the trajectory of the white pieces on the chessboard. Chen Tuan, the ancestor, truly lived up to his reputation as a master sorcerer.

"So that's how it is. The white pieces on the chessboard are the gateways to the grotto."

Ancestor Chen Tuan nodded with a smile: "Now that you have broken the deadlock, you are a destined person. Everything in this Western Mystic Cave Heaven can be used by you."

Just as Han Yun was about to ask another question, he saw the figure of Ancestor Chen Tuan gradually fade away, turning into a wisp of green smoke and dissipating into the world.

"Ancestor?!"

"This humble Taoist is but a wisp of divine thought, left for those with affinity. Today, our affinity ends; you may depart!"

Han Yun cupped his hands in greeting to the spot where the illusory figure of Ancestor Chen Tuan had vanished, and then entered the Taoist temple on his own.

This temple is named Xixuan Palace and is the core of the grotto heaven.

Purple mist filled the palace gates. There were no statues of gods in the hall, only a huge Tai Chi diagram hanging in the center, with a bamboo scroll placed at each of the yin and yang eyes.

The bamboo slip in the eye of the right-hand Yang fish is entirely black, with the five characters "Zhelong Shuidan Gong" written on it; the bamboo slip in the eye of the left-hand Yin fish is as white as jade, and is titled "Shenxian Fushi Jing".

Han Yun first took out the "Hibernating Dragon Sleeping Elixir Technique" and unfolded it. The opening read: "The dragon returns to the primordial sea, the yang hidden in the yin. People call it the hibernating dragon, but I hibernate my heart. Silently conceal its function, and breathe deeply..."

This is actually a supreme method for cultivating one's spiritual nature, emphasizing the hibernation principle of "mind and breath depending on each other, spirit and energy interacting." Upon reaching mastery, one can transform their soul into a hibernating dragon, roaming the vast void without perishing.

The soul is always weak, but there are special methods to temper the soul and produce a spirit, such as the Quanzhen Longmen sect.

This Hidden Dragon Sleeping Elixir Technique is also a way of manifesting the Yang Spirit, but it has more offensive methods and is even unafraid of thunder and fire.

When a cultivator is in deep slumber, their Yang spirit returns to their body, allowing them to continuously nourish their soul and hone their inner strength, like a dragon hiding its sharp edge in a sheath, or a dragon lurking in the abyss.

(End of this chapter)