Dao Qi Wu Zang Guan Guan: I became a Daoist Master in the 1990s

Chapter 166 The Chaotic Calamity of Cause and Effect, the Five Internal Organs' Alchemy Furnace, Reawakens! (A massive chapter of 4,000 words!)
That was not true Qi, nor magical power, but an extremely condensed, heavy, and anciently devout blue incense power!
The amount of smoke was far less than the vast amount of white incense smoke billowing from the incense burner, but its quality was extremely high, as condensed as mercury and as heavy as a mountain, carrying a sense of purity and protection that had been refined over the years.

The burst of blue smoke was not violent, but it carried an undeniable majesty.

It expanded instantly like a blue barrier, striking the white incense threads wrapped around the jade slips.

It's sizzling!

Like boiling water poured on snow, the seemingly strong white incense filaments, upon contact with this condensed blue smoke, emitted faint moans, instantly breaking, disintegrating, and dissolving!
Without the pull of the white incense, the jade slip, which was almost completely pulled out, suddenly paused, and then, as if attracted by some great suction force, it disappeared back into Qi Yun's head with a "whoosh".

Immediately afterwards, the burst of azure smoke did not dissipate, but instead, as if it had a spirit, it quickly rolled back and transformed into a thin but tough azure light shield, which adhered tightly to Qi Yun's body and temporarily isolated him from the raging Yin and Yang fires outside!
Although the terrifying pressure of the Yin and Yang Fires still penetrated through the light barrier, making Qi Yun feel as if he were carrying a mountain on his back, the terrifying power that directly refined and extracted his essence, energy, and spirit, and tore apart his soul, was finally greatly weakened.

"what?!"

Xuan Yin, who had always coldly looked down on everything and regarded everything as playthings in the palm of his hand, finally had a sudden change in expression!

That statue-like, icy expression shattered completely, revealing an incredulous look of shock and anger beneath!
He meticulously planned and even sacrificed his own cultivation to forcibly deduce the cause and effect of Qiyun, setting up a shocking killing scheme at the cost of the lives and incense offerings of the people of Yongzhou.

Just as Qi Yun was about to complete his elixir and obtain the jade slip that was crucial to the foundation of the Great Dao, such a sudden change occurred at the last moment!
That blue incense... pure, ancient, and refined!
Who exactly is this person? Where are they? How could they transcend time and space to interfere in his fate at this very moment?!
……

The city of Chuan is shrouded in a hazy, dreamlike night.

In the mid-1990s, the city had not yet been completely overrun by the light pollution that followed, but neon signs were already flashing, injecting new vitality into the ancient city.

However, in the western corner of the city, the ancient Taoist temple Qingyang Palace still maintains its tranquility and mystery amidst the hustle and bustle.

Surrounded by red walls and towering ancient trees.

Qingyang Palace is not open to the public at night. Only a few solitary lamps cast a dim yellow glow in the courtyard, illuminating the outline of the brackets and eaves, creating a solemn and dignified atmosphere in the quietude.

The main hall at the deepest part of the temple is completely silent.

Inside the hall, candles burned continuously, and the enshrined statues appeared even more majestic and profound in the flickering light and shadow.

An old Taoist priest, dressed in a blue robe, with graying temples and a gaunt face, sat cross-legged on a futon in front of the statue of a deity, his breath long and deep, as if he had merged with the tranquility of the hall and entered a state of deep meditation.

Sudden.

"Crack!"

A very faint cracking sound, yet like a thunderclap in the absolute silence, jolted the old Taoist priest awake from his deep meditation!

He suddenly opened his eyes, a glint of light flashing in them, and instantly locked onto the source of the sound, which was the highly revered ancestral master statue in the very center of the main hall!

Without warning, a thin crack appeared between the eyebrows of the statue!

Instead of the expected debris of earth and wood, a pure and condensed cyan light burst forth from the crack!

The old Taoist's expression changed drastically, and he suddenly stood up.

Before he could even step forward to check, the crack spread rapidly across the entire statue, as if it were alive!

In the blink of an eye, countless cracks covered the entire solemn statue!
Boom! ! !

With a muffled thud, the tall clay statue of the god could no longer maintain its shape and exploded!

Debris from the earth and wood flew everywhere, raising clouds of dust.

However, the dust has not completely settled.

Where the statue's heart once stood, a point of blue light illuminated the pervasive dust and mist.

The old Taoist priest flicked away the dust with his sleeve, stared intently, and his pupils suddenly contracted!

There, a jade pendant was floating!
The jade pendant was ancient in style and flowed with a warm and mysterious blue light, which was the source of the light that had emanated from the crack between the gods' eyebrows!

"This...this is?!" The old Taoist was shocked. This statue of the patriarch was an old object. When the Taoist temple was rebuilt, it was brought back from the people for worship. He had never heard of it before, and he never thought that the statue of the patriarch would contain such a jade pendant that was obviously no ordinary object!

Just as he was filled with doubt and uncertainty, something even more horrifying happened!
He suddenly realized that the incense and prayers that had permeated every inch of the Qingyang Palace over the past few decades of its reconstruction were now surging wildly toward the floating jade pendant, like rivers flowing into the sea!

The jade pendant seemed like a bottomless abyss, generating an irresistible and terrifying suction force.

The incense offerings accumulated within the temples and monasteries are visibly thinning out!
Decades of incense offerings were completely swallowed up by that jade pendant in just a few breaths!
hum!
The jade pendant absorbed a massive amount of incense offerings, and its blue light shone brightly, reaching its peak, as if it had transformed into a blazing blue sun, illuminating the entire hall.

The old Taoist priest squinted slightly as the bright light stung his eyes, his heart filled with turmoil.

However, this ultimate brilliance lasted only a moment.

The next moment, the jade pendant lost all its light and fell onto the altar.

The entire hall, and indeed the entire palace, instantly became “empty.” The warm and spiritual power that had lingered there for years vanished completely, leaving only the cold air and the deathly silence left by history.

The old Taoist priest stood frozen in place, his face filled with shock and bewilderment.

All of this happened too fast, too unbelievably!
But he was a highly skilled cultivator, and he suppressed the shock in his heart. He immediately held his breath and focused his mind, his eyes flashing with the light of deduction and calculation, and his ten fingers moved like lightning.

Trying to glean a clue behind this sudden revelation of heavenly secrets...

……

The core of the alchemy furnace is located in the belly of Nanping Mountain.

The sudden appearance of the cyan light shield, though as thin as a cicada's wing, was exceptionally tough, effectively preventing the direct refining by the Yin and Yang Fires.

Qi Yun was able to catch his breath for a moment. Although his body was still broken and his breath was weak, the jade slip was returned to its place, and the loss of his most essential essence was stopped.

He coughed violently, breathing greedily, trying to gather his remaining strength.

Immediately, an invisible yet immense suction force erupted from Qi Yun's body!
This time, it wasn't about refining his essence, energy, and spirit, but rather... plundering!
Whoohoo!
Like a whale sucking in water, the originally rampant and roaring crimson yang energy and dark blue yin energy surged uncontrollably towards Qi Yun, like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, and forcefully poured into his body through his pores, acupoints, and even his cracked wounds!
This yin and yang energy is the essence of the dead and resentful yin energy of Yongzhou, mixed with the pure yang energy accumulated by the earth veins of Nanping Mountain. It is vast, boundless, and incomparably pure!

The essence, energy, and spirit that Qi Yun had previously refined were being replenished and restored at an astonishing speed by this massive influx of energy!
His withered skin became plump and shiny again, his gray hair quickly turned black and regained its vitality, his hunched body straightened up again, and his aged face regained its youth, even surpassing its former glory! The shocking crimson cracks all over his body rapidly healed and disappeared!
His aura surged, rapidly returning to its peak, and he began to advance towards an unprecedented realm!
However, at this moment, the jade slip suddenly intervened and began to devour the vast power that was surging into Qi Yun's body!
"Huh?!" The "Xuan Yin" high above finally came to its senses from its shock and anger.

He clearly felt that the Yin and Yang energies he had painstakingly set up and gathered were getting out of control and were being frantically plundered by the entity in the furnace that was supposed to become a "pill"!

"That's unreasonable!"

He let out an inhuman roar, his dark golden pupils shone brightly, and his hands rapidly formed hand seals, attempting to regain control of the great formation and reclaim the yin and yang energies.

However, it is useless!

The suction force generated by the jade slip was extremely powerful, as if it contained some higher level of rule power, completely suppressing the control method of this alchemy furnace array!

No matter how he activated the hand seals, the Yin and Yang energies still surged towards Qi Yun and into that mysterious jade slip without hesitation!

In just a few breaths, the vast and powerful Yin and Yang energies within the entire alchemy furnace inside the mountain were completely plundered!
Boom, boom! ! !

Without the support of core energy, the entire main peak of Nanping Mountain began to shake violently, as if it had lost its spine!
Inside the mountain, the array runes supporting the structure flickered in and out of control, and large amounts of rocks collapsed from the top and the four walls, crashing into the increasingly out-of-control energy turbulence below, causing even greater chaos.

This colossal alchemy furnace, formed from mountains and rivers, is about to completely collapse!
At this moment, Qi Yun was suspended in the chaotic center where energy was dissipating, his body shimmering with precious light, and his aura as deep as the sea.

After absorbing a massive amount of Yin and Yang energy, the jade slip inside his body seemed to have had its fill and trembled slightly.

Immediately, it flew out from between Qi Yun's eyebrows and hovered above his head.

The jade slip was no longer simple and unadorned, but became translucent. Inside, red and blue energy streams could be seen, like two playful dragons, slowly swirling and flowing, exuding a supreme Daoist charm of the beginning of chaos and the harmony of Yin and Yang.

It tilted slightly, its tip pointing towards the void below.

That place was the core of the Yin-Yang Twin Dragons vortex, and also the true "heart" of this alchemy furnace.

The jade slip trembled slightly the next moment.

The extremely pure Yin and Yang energies that it had just devoured seemed to have undergone some kind of extreme refinement and transformation, turning into a chaotic flow of energy that was both perfectly integrated and clearly contained the ultimate Yin and Yang origins, which was poured into the "heart of the furnace" with immense power!
hum! ! !
The entire alchemy furnace, which was on the verge of collapse, suddenly shuddered as if it had been injected with an unimaginable energy core!
On the furnace wall, the ancient runes that had dimmed and even begun to crack due to the depletion of energy were stimulated by the incomparably pure chaotic yin and yang energy and lit up one by one!

The light was no longer the eerie blood red or dark blue of before, but a pure light that was righteous and peaceful, yet contained the great power of creation!
Runes lit up one by one, spreading rapidly until they covered the entire inner wall of the furnace. The light flowed and intertwined into a net, temporarily stabilizing the collapsing mountain and slowly calming all the chaotic energy.

This malevolent alchemy furnace, which was originally meant to refine Qi Yun, has now been taken over by the jade slip and infused with the purest energy, as if it is about to be... restarted?!

Or rather, being led in some unknown direction!
"Do not!!!"

"Xuan Yin" let out a roar of extreme anger, the overlapping in its voice becoming more pronounced, and its cold, stone-like face was distorted by extreme rage!
He stared intently at the floating jade slip and the furnace core beneath it, which was beginning to emit a profound aura. His dark golden eyes were filled with incomprehensible horror and rage.

"Who is it?! Who on earth is this?! Transcending countless ages, to ruin my path to enlightenment, to disrupt my destiny!!!"

His roar echoed through the violently shaking, collapsing mountainside, filled with the madness and resentment of failing at the last hurdle.

At this moment, the azure light surrounding Qi Yun had dissipated.

He stood in the energy center, which was gradually calming down but shining brightly. Looking at the jade slip above his head that was acting on its own, at the ancient runes that were lighting up all around him, and at the auspicious cloud above him that was in a fit of rage and could barely maintain its "Mysterious Yin" form, he was filled with shock and bewilderment.

All these changes have completely exceeded his expectations and understanding.

However, before he could figure it all out, the jade slip changed again.

It seemed to have completed some kind of "injection" mission, and its radiance slowly receded.

Meanwhile, the furnace core below, which was infused with chaotic yin and yang energy, shone brighter and brighter, eventually transforming into an incomparably dazzling source of light!

The intense light swallowed up everything in sight.

Qi Yun felt an irresistible, gentle yet immense spatial force enveloping him.

The deafening roar of the mountains collapsing and the furious roar of Qingyun quickly faded into the distance, becoming indistinct...

The surrounding scenery began to distort, deform, and fade, like shattered glass, turning into countless fragmented pieces of light and shadow, which were eventually swallowed up by endless darkness...

……

It felt like a long time had passed, yet it also felt like only a moment.

When Qi Yun's five senses returned, the violent energy shock, the deafening roar, and Qing Yun's inhuman roar all disappeared.

Instead, there was a deathly stillness, and a pervasive, bone-deep atmosphere of burnt and desolation...

He blinked, adjusting to the light.

Then, he froze.

Before them, the eerie and terrifying alchemy furnace in the mountain's belly was no longer there, nor were the collapsed boulders and shimmering runes.

He was standing on a familiar pile of ruins.

This is... Shenxian Mountain, the Five Organs Temple.

It is the starting point of all his stories, and also the end point of every story!
He actually came back at this time?
Qi Yun stood there in a daze, looking around. For a moment, he felt somewhat dazed, as if the thrilling, life-or-death battle in the alchemy furnace was just a bizarre and fantastical dream.

But not far in front of him, the dark, murky alchemy furnace was undergoing an astonishing transformation!
hum!
The alchemy furnace emitted a deep yet vibrant hum.

On the furnace body, the ancient runes that had long been dim and blurred by the erosion of time and flames lit up one by one, from bottom to top, like plants that had been parched for a long time and were now receiving rain!

The light was not particularly dazzling, but it was exceptionally firm and steady, exuding an aura of ancient vastness.

Runes flickered and flowed, like a colossal beast that had slumbered for millennia, slowly awakening.

Inside the furnace, something seemed to be beginning to gestate, beginning to sprout life...

(End of this chapter)