I was selling peach wood swords on a live stream, how did I become a Taoist ancestor?

Inside the main room, the old Taoist priest first offered incense to the ancestral tablet and silently prayed for a moment.

Another year has passed.

After he sat down, he stared blankly at the occasional flashes of fireworks outside the window.

"Mm." Li Jun served his master rice. "Master, after the New Year, I will..."

"I know, I'm going to Kunlun." The old Taoist priest interrupted him, picking up a piece of cured meat with his chopsticks. "Go early and come back early, be careful, it's cold there, wear more clothes."

The words were ordinary, but Li Jun could hear the concern in them.

"I'll be careful." He nodded emphatically.

The master and apprentice ate their meal in silence.

A gentle mountain breeze carried faint sounds of distant laughter.

After finishing the meal and cleaning up the dishes, it was completely dark.

Whoosh! Snap!

A red firework exploded in the night sky, like a signal to charge, illuminating half of the hilltop.

The sounds of fireworks and firecrackers began to intensify down the mountain, and clusters of red, green, and gold lights bloomed in the night sky. Although not grand, they were full of joy.

Li Jun did not return to his room. Instead, he walked alone to the main gate of the Taoist temple and gazed into the distance.

Thousands of lights shone like stars fallen to earth.

Brilliant, warm, noisy.

That is the mortal world, the everyday life, the ordinary yet real lives of countless people.

Qingfeng Temple is located on the mountainside, quiet and lonely, as if it stands apart from this bustling area.

But when Li Jun looked at that sea of ​​light, he felt no loneliness, but rather a strange sense of peace.

He thought of the border guards in Kunlun, the Night Watchmen who were working on the front lines, Jin Hao, Yin Jian, his mentor, and those "silly netizens" in the live stream who had never met him but trusted him...

Everyone is in their own place, striving to live and protect what they have.

The bustling scene at the foot of the mountain is due to someone carrying a heavy burden, keeping the danger and darkness out of sight of ordinary people.

And he, seemingly without realizing it, has become... a link in this protective chain?

This realization left him somewhat bewildered.

Once upon a time, he was just an ordinary person who wanted to supplement the Taoist temple's income by selling handicrafts and occasionally joking around.

But now...

The jade pendant, the evil-suppressing sword, "An Introduction to Magic," the awe shown by Jin Hao and his companions, and the respect shown by the higher-ups of the Night Watch...

Everything was pushing him toward a direction he had never imagined.

"What will the future be like?"

The question flashed through his mind and was quickly suppressed by Li Jun.

unimportant.

It doesn't matter, at least not now.

The important thing is that he gained the ability, even if it came out of nowhere. The important thing is that he saw the hidden side of this world and the people who were protecting it in the dark.

So, do something within your own capabilities.

As this thought arose, Li Jun felt the already full and round qi in his dantian, which was as perfect as a full moon, suddenly tremble slightly.

It is not a process of operation, but a mysterious resonance.

It was as if some kind of enlightenment within him triggered a response from the power within his body.

He subconsciously looked inward at himself.

In the center of the dantian, the warm and solid ball of energy, about the size of an infant's fist, was now faintly glowing.

The light was soft and not dazzling, yet it carried an indescribable vitality.

Refining Qi into Spirit?

A thought flashed through Li Jun's mind as the description of the next realm in the "Basic Qi Refining Technique" came to mind:

When the vital energy is abundant, the spirit arises; when the thought arises, it is achieved.

He hadn't yet made a proactive attempt, but at this moment, on New Year's Eve, as he gazed at the lights of countless homes and felt a surge of emotion, the opportunity for a breakthrough arrived on its own.

Without further hesitation, Li Jun turned around and quickly walked back to his room.

"Master, I'm going back to my room to cultivate."

He hurriedly said something to the old Taoist priest drinking tea in the courtyard, then closed the door, sat cross-legged on the bed, facing upwards, and closed his eyes.

The old Taoist priest paused, his hand holding the teacup still. He looked at Li Jun's tightly closed door, his eyes flickered, and finally turned into a barely audible sigh.

inside the room.

Li Jun cleared his mind of all distractions and focused his attention on his dantian.

He didn't deliberately guide it; he simply observed quietly, sensing the spontaneous changes in that energy.

The speed of the rotating gas cloud gradually increased, and the light grew brighter and brighter. Gradually, at the center of the gas cloud, an extremely tiny but incredibly condensed point of "light" began to form.

That was not a visual light, but a perceptual "bright spot," a nascent form of highly concentrated essence about to sublimate into "spirit."

At the same time, Li Jun felt that his perception of the outside world began to change.

No need for eyes, no need for ears.

He could "feel" the air movement in the room, sense the slight spiritual pulse of the demon-suppressing sword on the table, and even faintly "touch" the trajectory of the night wind outside the window and the faint ripples dissipated when fireworks exploded down the mountain.

Perception is expanding, becoming more refined and expansive.

This is... the process of refining Qi into Spirit?

When consciousness first arises, can it observe the inner world and perceive the outer world, and sense heaven and earth?

Li Jun understood immediately.

He tried to focus his mind on the "spirit" that was being nurtured in his dantian.

boom!!!

The instant his mind made contact with it...

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth seemed to be summoned by some invisible force, and began to converge madly towards Qingfeng Temple and the room where he was!

At first it was just a gentle breeze.

But soon, the wind picked up.

Oh oh oh!

Outside the Taoist temple, in the mountains and forests, the treetops began to shake violently, making a rustling sound. Invisible air currents swirled up fallen leaves and dust from the ground, forming small whirlwinds that swirled around Qingfeng Temple.

In the sky, the originally sparse clouds seemed to be stirred by an invisible hand and began to gather over Luxian County!

The bright moon and stars in the night sky dimmed, seemingly obscured by the invisible spiritual pressure that was gathering.

Invisible to the naked eye, but if a cultivator were present, they would be horrified to discover that the spiritual energy above Lu County was forming a huge vortex, with its center pointing directly at Qingfeng Temple!

The vortex spun faster and faster, and its absorption range expanded!

One hundred li... two hundred li... three hundred li...

The spiritual energy surged forth like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea!

inside the room.

Li Jun was completely unaware of the unusual celestial phenomena outside; his entire mind was immersed in the astonishing transformation within his body.

The energy cluster in the dantian had disappeared, replaced by a point of brilliant, star-like, and incredibly condensed "divine light".

As soon as the divine light was born, it automatically followed a mysterious trajectory, slowly ascending, passing through towering buildings, crossing the Magpie Bridge, and heading straight for the ancestral aperture between the eyebrows!

Li Jun was visibly shaken!

There seemed to be something illuminated or opened up between his brows.

A completely new and crystal-clear "picture" appeared before his "eyes".

It's not a picture seen with the eyes, but a 360-degree, three-dimensional image perceived by the divine sense!

Every speck of dust moving in the room, the grain of the wood on the walls, the master's tense fingers gripping the teacup outside the courtyard, even the trajectory of startled birds taking flight in the distant mountains and forests... everything is within your "eyes"!

Divine thought has begun to take shape!

Refining Qi into Spirit, Break Through!

And at the very moment Li Jun successfully broke through...

hum! ! !

An invisible yet vast wave suddenly spread out from him, sweeping across the heavens and earth!

Above Qingfeng Temple, the massive vortex of spiritual energy suddenly stopped, and then its rotation speed increased more than tenfold!