Starting Immortal Cultivation from a White Dog

Wu Tian, ​​who was standing close by, narrowed his eyes as he watched the scene unfold before him.

Clearly, Shen Hongyu was attempting to create a world within a gourd by clashing the Taiyin God-Slaying Blade with the Immortal-Slaying Flying Blade.

The Taiyin God-Slaying Blade is pure Yin energy, while the Immortal-Slaying Flying Blade is pure Yang energy, where Yin gives rise to Yang. The collision of Yin and Yang will naturally generate endless creation.

As the blades clashed, the yellow gourd trembled and hummed.

At the mouth of the gourd, two streams of air, one black and one white, intertwined and entwined.

The black energy is the pure Yin energy unleashed by the Taiyin God-Slaying Blade, clear, cold, and profound; the white energy is the pure Yang energy transformed from the Immortal-Slaying Flying Blade, blazing and boundless.

The collision of pure Yin and pure Yang did not annihilate each other, but instead intertwined like two dragons, circling and dancing at the mouth of the gourd.

Every collision gives rise to water, fire, wind, and thunder.

The small gourd hung between heaven and earth, radiating a cool, ethereal light. That light shone upwards into the azure sky, soaring straight to the highest heavens; it also reflected downwards into the netherworld, reaching the deepest hell.

Throughout the Three Realms, no matter where the immortals, Buddhas, demons, or monsters are, as long as they look up, they can see the phantom of that gourd suspended in the sky. At the mouth of the gourd, water, fire, wind, and thunder surge, and the two energies of yin and yang circulate, as if all the laws of heaven and earth converge, collide, and are reborn in that small gourd.

At this moment, almost all the immortals, Buddhas, and saints looked up at the sky, their gazes falling on that gourd.

In the Fire God's Palace, Kong Lingxuan stood in front of the main hall, his hands behind his back, gazing up at the phantom of the gourd in the sky.

"The Golden Immortal..." he murmured, "How difficult it is!"

His fingers tapped lightly on the door frame, making a rhythmic sound. In his deep eyes, there was expectation, awe, and a hint of indescribable complexity.

As the son of the Lord of the Yellow Heaven, he has a deeper understanding of breaking through the threshold of the Golden Immortal realm compared to other immortals, Buddhas, demons, and monsters.

The more you understand, the more you realize how difficult it is.

In his view, Shen Hongyu's breakthrough this time was a death sentence.

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Inside the Jade Pool Palace, Fairy Zixia and several other female immortals stared nervously at the gourd. Their palms were sweaty, and they breathed cautiously, as if afraid of disturbing the woman seated on the lotus throne.

Wu Tian stood at the edge of the jade pool, the gourd reflected in his golden eyes.

After an unknown amount of time, Shen Hongyu slowly stood up from the lotus platform.

Her long, plain white dress fluttered gently in the night breeze, her long hair cascading down like a waterfall, and her bare feet rested on a white jade lotus platform, her toes as white as jade, gleaming faintly in the moonlight.

He glanced at the gourd floating in the air, watching the water, fire, wind, and thunder surging at its mouth, the yin and yang energies intertwined.

Then, she stepped forward.

One step, two steps, three steps.

Her steps were neither hurried nor slow, but calm and firm, as if she were not walking towards a life-or-death situation, but taking a stroll under the moon.

With each step she took, her figure faded a little more. Her long white robes fluttered in the wind, her long hair flew behind her, and her aloof figure appeared exceptionally ethereal in the moonlight, as if she might vanish at any moment.

By the time she reached the ninth step, her figure had faded to almost nothing.

Then, she transformed into a ray of light and disappeared into the gourd.

The gourd suddenly trembled.

Immediately afterwards, the water, fire, wind, and thunder at the mouth of the gourd suddenly became violent. The vortex spun rapidly, emitting a deafening roar, as if a thousand troops were galloping within it.

A faint white figure could be seen emerging at the mouth of the gourd, before being swallowed up by water, fire, wind, and thunder.

Amidst the raging chaos of water, fire, wind, and thunder, Shen Hongyu's pristine white robes transformed into countless white butterflies, fluttering in the flames before turning to ashes; her cascading long hair scattered in the wind, breaking off strand by strand and being swallowed by the lightning; her jade-like skin became transparent under the wash of the true water, then transformed into specks of starlight, dissipating into the vortex.

Her body was completely submerged in water, fire, wind, and thunder, and then completely disintegrated, transforming into endless celestial light.

The celestial light poured down from the gourd's mouth, like a dazzling Milky Way descending from the heavens and sprinkling upon the three realms.

In an instant, the entire Three Realms were affected.

Above the heavens, celestial flowers fell, pure white as snow, crystal clear, each petal shimmering with a faint ethereal light. They drifted down from the ninth heaven, fluttering and covering the entire sky.

Above the earth, auspicious energy abounds. The auspicious energy, formed from the essence of heaven and earth, is colorful and radiant, rising from the ground and spreading among the mountains and rivers.

Flowers fell from the sky, and auspicious omens abounded.

This is a strange phenomenon that occurs when a cultivator transcends death and dissolves their body. The immortal body returns to heaven and earth, and with the essence of heaven and earth abundant, strange phenomena will naturally arise.

This is the first hurdle to overcome in the Golden Immortal realm, the Feathering Gate, which is also known as the Corpse Dissolution Gate.

By dissolving their immortal bodies and returning them to heaven and earth, the karmic ties between them are severed. For heaven and earth, the dissolution of an immortal's body leads to an abundance of vital energy, naturally giving rise to extraordinary phenomena—this is ascension to immortality.

This step is extremely dangerous. If one's cultivation is insufficient or one's foundation is inadequate, the slightest mistake will result in complete death and the annihilation of one's cultivation. To dissolve the immortal body without damaging one's inherent nature requires extremely abundant cultivation and extremely precise control.

In the Xuanhuang Heaven, the Golden Crow saw the celestial flowers falling from the sky and its expression relaxed slightly.

"Ascension Gate...passed."

Although he had only met Shen Hongyu once, the woman in red drinking wine under the moon left an extremely deep impression on him.

Shen Hongyu gifted him the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife, which allowed him to escape with his life from Guan Zizai's grasp.

It can be said that the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife was crucial to his ability to cultivate the Devouring Heaven Dao and even kill Guan Zizai.

Whether it was out of gratitude for her or his admiration for the woman, he hoped that Shen Hongyu would succeed.

Huo Huang looked up at the sky with him, her face calm and expressionless, revealing neither joy nor anger.

"It's just the first hurdle," she said softly. "The road ahead is still long."

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Inside the Jade Pool Palace, Wu Tian looked up at the sky, watching the celestial light pouring down from the mouth of the gourd, his heart filled with indescribable emotions.

"This is ascension!"

"Only by severing the cause and effect between heaven and earth can there be a glimmer of hope."

"The path to becoming a Golden Immortal is indeed fraught with danger at every turn."

Under the watchful eyes of countless immortals, Buddhas, demons, and monsters in the Three Realms, the gourd suddenly trembled.

The water, fire, wind, and thunder at the mouth of the gourd suddenly exploded, turning into a rain of light that splashed in all directions.

Amidst the rain of light, one could faintly hear a woman's clear, cold voice. The voice was not loud, but it clearly reached the ears of every living being in the Three Realms.

"The form is the dwelling place of the spirit, and the body is the instrument of the Way."

"The form perishes but the spirit remains; the body perishes but the Dao is born."

"Wandering beyond the heavens, I forge a celestial realm and cultivate to become an immortal!"

The voice was clear and melodious, like a mountain stream, yet it carried an indescribable solemnity and reverence, as if it were not speaking, but reciting some ancient scripture.

As soon as he finished speaking, the gourd shot into the sky.

It transformed into a beam of white light, soaring straight into the ninth heaven.

Chaos reigns, the azure sky...

He rushed through the first six heavens in one go, and continued upwards with unstoppable momentum.

Even the vast and boundless Starry Sea could not stop it.

They surged all the way up to the ninth heaven.

The ninth heaven is called the Sun and Moon Heaven.

In this heaven, the sun and moon shine together, and yin and yang coexist.

The sun and moon hung simultaneously in the sky, casting endless radiance. This radiance was no ordinary light, but a manifestation of the principles of Yin and Yang, the convergence of the two most fundamental forces in the universe. The instant the gourd plunged into the Sun and Moon Heaven, the sun and moon suspended in the sky trembled simultaneously.

Then, the light of the sun and moon shone down.

The principles of heaven and earth converge, and yin and yang give rise to each other, like a giant millstone enveloping the gourd, slowly rotating to crush it.

This is the second barrier to breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm: the Outer Heaven.

To establish a complete celestial realm, one must leave the Three Realms and venture into the primordial chaos beyond the heavens.

However, all living beings born from the Three Realms are naturally bound to the Three Realms by cause and effect. That cause and effect is like a chain, and once any immortal or god tries to open the portal of the Three Realms to go beyond the heavens, they will be bound.

The harder you struggle, the more you charge forward, the greater the backlash will be.

The gourd spun rapidly within the Yin-Yang Millstone, and fine cracks began to appear on its surface. The crushing force of the sun and moon's light was too terrifying; even the gourd transformed from the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife could not withstand it.

However, the gourd did not stop.

Despite being crushed by the Yin-Yang millstone, it continued to surge upwards.

One inch, two inches, three inches... With each inch forward, the gourd's surface cracks more and its luster dims.

However, it was about to burst forth from the heavens and the earth, to break free from the sky...

Suddenly, the entire Starry Sky roared, as if a decaying gate that had not been opened for ten thousand years was turning with a rumbling sound.

Three hundred and sixty-five ancient stars that have been suspended in the Starry Sky since ancient times simultaneously radiated incomparably brilliant celestial light, with all kinds of laws intertwined and the power of heaven and earth converging.

In an instant, the sun and stars appeared.

Centered on the sun and moon, 365 ancient stars slowly rotate along some mysterious trajectory, weaving together to form a star map.

The Zhou Tian Star Array.

This is the oldest, most powerful, and most insurmountable barrier in the Three Realms.

It is connected to the cause and effect of the Three Realms and coexists with the laws of heaven and earth.

It is the manifestation of the laws of the Three Realms, guarding the gateway to the Three Realms, but also firmly binding all living beings born from the Three Realms.

The deeper the karmic connection with the Three Realms, the greater the binding and suppressing power of the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Array will be.

This is why the first hurdle to breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm is ascension to immortality and corpse liberation.

Without dissolving the immortal body and transforming into the Dao within heaven and earth, the heavy karma would bind them tightly within the Three Realms, making it impossible for them to leave the heavens.

Only by achieving immortality and dissolving one's physical form can one hope to ascend to heaven and have a glimmer of hope for survival.

Shen Hongyu has cultivated for thousands of years and has been blessed with great fortune to obtain the Kunlun Mirror. How deep is her karmic entanglement with the Three Realms?

If she hadn't abandoned the Kunlun Mirror, her immortal body, and severed most of her karmic ties, the Sun and Moon Mill alone would have crushed her to death, let alone allowed her to pass through the Zhou Tian Star Array.

Even so, faced with a star map composed of 365 ancient stars, she couldn't help but feel incredibly heavy-hearted, even...despair!
At this moment, all 365 ancient stars began to rotate, each one radiating dazzling starlight and exuding terrifying pressure.

The starlight intertwined, and the endless laws of heaven and earth transformed into an invisible giant net, enveloping the gourd within.

Suppression.

Endless starlight surged in like a tidal wave.

Under the suppression of the Zhou Tian Star Array, the gourd spun around, but could no longer move forward even an inch.

The gourd's surface was cracking more and more, and its luster was growing dimmer. The once dark yellow gourd had become mottled and old, as if it were about to break at any moment.

Just when everyone thought Shen Hongyu was about to stop there.

A faint sigh suddenly echoed between heaven and earth.

"It's still not quite there yet!"

Almost at the same time that sigh rang out, a clear, bright blade of light shot out from the gourd.

The moment the blade flashed, the stars dimmed and the sun and moon lost their light.

The entire Three Realms seemed to fall silent in an instant.

With a flash of sword light, the stars vanished.

The starlight emanating from those 365 ancient stars melted instantly before that blade of light, like ice and snow meeting fire.

One by one, the ancient stars dimmed.

Even the sun and moon, which hang high in the sky, paled in comparison at this moment.

Even time seemed to stand still at that moment.

With a single stroke, time is severed, and cause and effect, destiny, and all are extinguished.

That was Shen Hongyu's highest achievement in her life's cultivation, the ultimate expression of her combining the Taiyin God-Slaying Blade and the Immortal-Slaying Flying Blade. This strike was originally prepared for the creation of heaven and earth, and was her greatest reliance for breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm.

At this moment, she used it to cleave open the Zhou Tian Star Array.

The entire Starry Sky was dimmed by this one strike.

The increasingly mottled and ancient yellow gourd spun around and burst out of the Starry Sky, out of the Nine Heavens, and out of the Three Realms.

It disappeared into the vast sky.

Outside the Jade Pool, Jiang Shu, who had been fighting with the Golden Mother, suddenly stopped. He put away the Heavenly Emperor Bell, stood with his hands behind his back, looked up at the sky, and stared in the direction where the gourd had disappeared, remaining silent for a long time.

"Why bother?"

He spoke softly, his voice low, yet carrying an indescribable sigh.

He saw it clearly.

Shen Hongyu's strike was originally intended for the creation of the world, a foundational strike to carve out a celestial realm within the chaos. However, after using this strike to cleave open the outer heavens, she had already exhausted most of her own resources.

With the remaining reserves of that yellow gourd, it would be absolutely impossible to create a new world in the chaos beyond the heavens.

She's...dead.

Jiang Shu watched the gourd resolutely disappear into the sky, and for a moment, he didn't know what to feel.

He knew that Shen Hongyu was doomed.

The third barrier to breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm is called the Chaos Barrier.

To carve out one's own immortal realm from the chaos beyond the heavens requires immense foundation and accumulation. It necessitates using one's own Great Dao as the foundation and a lifetime of cultivation as fuel to carve out a world of one's own from the chaos.

Success brings eternal glory, making one a god; failure brings annihilation, leaving no trace of existence.

Given Shen Hongyu's current condition, there is not a shred of hope.

The Golden Mother stepped out from a beam of blue light and looked up at the sky.

The gourd had vanished into the sky, leaving only a faint white trail that was slowly dissipating.

Her expression was complex, a mixture of admiration, regret, and a touch of heaviness.

"Golden Immortal..."

She murmured softly.

All the immortals, Buddhas, demons, and monsters in the Three Realms turned their gazes toward the heavens.

Above the sky, the gourd had vanished, leaving only silence.

Everyone is waiting for the result. (End of Chapter)