How can one cultivate immortality without learning modern knowledge?

Zhou Wenju took a deep breath of the air of freedom.

We arrived at the foot of the cliff, where there was a natural cave surrounded by withered branches.

With a flick of his wrist, a sheet of gold paper and a precious writing brush appeared in his palm.

With a stroke of the pen, imbued with literary flair, a single word was written: Fire!

The words were written down, and the fire burned.

He lit dry branches and built a fire on the western hill, then sprinkled salt on the rabbit meat and roasted it until it smelled delicious.

He was excited as he roasted the rabbit.

After Wenxiu entered the literary world, he began to possess some supernatural abilities; the words he wrote could manifest the great power of the Heavenly Dao!

For those hikers who didn't bring a lighter, take a look. I don't need a lighter at all, nor do I need to learn how the ancients made fire by rubbing wood together. I can start a fire simply by writing a word!

Have you given up yet?

He was smug and self-satisfied there.

If anyone else saw him like this, they'd probably beat this smug kid half to death!

Your mother is treating gold paper like it's nothing!

You're wasting money!

Gold paper is not circulated in the market at all.

Of course, there are ways to buy them, as long as you're willing to pay a high price.

What constitutes a high price? At least ten taels of silver per piece!

In other words, the cost of Zhou Wenju's dinner was equivalent to an ordinary person carrying bricks for half a year...

After finishing the delicious rabbit meat, even greater excitement awaited him.

This excitement came from the "Five Elements Diagram" by the Immortal Physician.

In the eyes of medical students, the "Five Qi Initial Diagram" was a failed attempt by the Holy Ancestor. Although it is said that failure is the mother of success and failure runs through the life of any sage, it is not surprising, but it is by no means a precious thing.

However, things in this world depend on your perspective.

For example, the "Five Elements Initial Diagram" that Zhou Wenju saw was an enormous opportunity...

He first encountered the name "Five Qi Initial Diagram" among the ancient texts remaining at the foot of the cliff in Huding Mountain, accompanied by a legend of a sage attaining enlightenment...

It refers to the Sage of Medicine.

The Sage of Medicine's surname was Wan, and his ancestral home was the ancient Kingdom of Daluotian.

This person was exceptionally intelligent from a young age. He could read at three, compose poetry at eight, and treat illnesses at ten. At twenty-one, he became the top scholar in the imperial examination.

Just as a literary superstar was about to rise from the ashes and illuminate the literary world, suddenly, the sky collapsed!

What happened?

The invasion of the demonic path directly destroyed the Great Luo Heaven Ancient Kingdom.

Even though the country was destroyed, with his literary talent and cultivation, he could have made a difference.

However, the demonic energy altered that world, leaving the literary path unprecedentedly weak. Those who cultivated literature faced immense difficulties in communicating with the Heavenly Dao and drawing strength from Heaven, and were almost all rendered useless.

If it were an ordinary person, faced with such a change, they would probably only have one choice: to flee this dark and hopeless homeland and go to another country, where, with their extraordinary literary and moral knowledge, they could still make a name for themselves.

But are sages ordinary people?

He didn't take the usual path.

He actually abandoned his pen and turned to pulse cultivation!

In the world of literati, pulse cultivation is looked down upon. The medical sage, a top scholar, turned to pulse cultivation.

It shocked everyone present.

What surprised them even more was yet to come...

The Sage of Medicine did not follow the common path of pulse cultivation. Instead, he drew inspiration from ancient Taoist and medical texts and created a new exercise called "Five Qi Gathering at the Origin".

The theme is grand and boundless.

The so-called Five Qi Returning to the Origin is to establish the five basic points of the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys by borrowing the concept of "human body universe" from medical and Taoist schools, and to completely break out of the limitations of the dantian to carry out cultivation!

This practice resulted in a remarkable phenomenon in cultivation.

The Sage of Medicine quickly entered the Dao Mountain realm.

This Dao Mountain he created was not a mountain formed within his dantian, but a massive Dao Mountain, or even a continuous mountain range, formed based on the five jiaos of the human body.

What's so special about this Daoshan?

That means he'll be invincible throughout the Daoshan region!

In a truly unprecedented and unparalleled way, he was invincible in the same realm!

It seemed that this exceptionally talented scholar, now a cultivator who had crossed over to other realms, was about to embark on his invincible path, but...

A sudden change loomed before him, becoming an insurmountable obstacle in his life and bringing him his first major setback.

What is frustration?

His path was blocked!

He did indeed borrow from Taoist and medical concepts to establish the prototype of the "human body universe," which also formed his invincible Taoist power. After entering the realm of Taoist mind, he also became an invincible Taoist mind.

However, it can't bloom!

Why?

The flowers of Tao that bloom in the "Human Universe" are spiritual flowers!

True Qi is merely mortal Qi!

Mortal energy cannot nourish spiritual flowers.

Even with extraordinary abilities, it's impossible for the Dao flower to bloom on his Dao heart...

So, throughout his life, his ultimate goal in cultivation was the Dao Heart. No matter how strong his Dao Heart was, it was still just the Dao Heart. Even if he could go against the tide and ascend, he would still struggle against a Dao Flower expert, and if he encountered a Dao Fruit expert, he would still have to go a hundred miles away to get his teeth out with just one slap...

The path of the medical sage's cultivation came to an abrupt end at its most glorious and splendid moment.

He eventually returned to the starting point from the end, returning to the path of literature. After a hundred years of struggle in the human world, he finally gathered a century of experience and wrote the sacred medical classic, breaking through to sainthood in one fell swoop. A single silver needle flew across thousands of miles, slaying the Demon Saint and achieving his sainthood.

After becoming a saint, he had a deep and unforgettable memory of this wrong path.

He spent a long time perfecting the "Five Qi Initial Diagram," revising its original purpose so that it was no longer a cultivation method but an aid to his medical practice.

Having said all that, what is the connection between the "Five Elements Initial Diagram" and Zhou Wenju?

Good question!

Zhou Wenju came into contact with the "Five Qi Initial Diagram" because Lao Can was influenced by it and established his own Mo Dao Guan (Ink Dao Temple).

This old man's logic chain goes like this...

The Five Qi Gathering Technique created by the Sage of Medicine was effective in its early stages; at least he truly achieved invincibility within the Dao Mountain and Dao Heart realms.

What were the reasons for the failure?

The true energy of mortals cannot nurture the spiritual flowers on Mount Wudao.

So, if we use the Mohist art of craftsmanship to break through the barrier between heaven and earth and replace the true energy in a person's body with literary energy, wouldn't this literary energy be able to nurture the spiritual flowers on the Five Paths Mountain and produce spiritual fruits?

If this path of craftsmanship is successfully followed.

The process that follows is so exciting to think about.

His excitement was the same as Zhou Wenju's excitement!

Because only he himself knows.

His physical barrier had been breached by the "Penetrating Needle" back then, and the true energy flowing through his body, from the moment he entered Moqing Lake, had become a "literary aura" that was "overflowing with the fragrance of books"!

The biggest constraint on the "Five Qi Gathering at the Origin" technique has actually been overcome.

The bottleneck that had troubled the Sage of Medicine for many years, and the pioneer of the Mohist school of thought, Lao Can, for many years, was not a bottleneck for him!

Therefore, he was willing to contribute part of the "Huangdi Neijing" in order to obtain the "Five Qi Initial Diagram" drawn by the Sage of Medicine before he attained enlightenment.

I have the pictures now!

He was completely focused, his consciousness highly concentrated. In the "Five Qi Initial Diagram," the meridian connecting the kidneys gradually became clearer and extended towards his dantian...

Time passed minute by minute, and finally, everything fell into place.

Zhou Wenju used the "Dispelling Illusion Needle" to pave the way, piercing through the meridian in one go...

With a soft hum, his meridians opened, and his kidneys emitted a faint seven-colored light, signifying that his "literary energy" had traversed a path that ordinary people would need months of arduous cultivation to complete.

His eyes snapped open, filled with surprise.

Although his cultivation level was still only at the "Dao Altar" stage, and he had only mastered "one of the five elements," he clearly felt changes in his body. The most obvious change was that the slight chill he could feel last night was gone today.

The whole body is filled with abundant qi and blood.

The kidneys govern qi and blood!

It was already broad daylight!

Although he hadn't slept all night, his steps were light and he didn't seem to feel the slightest discomfort.

As he stepped down from the West Mountain, his feet barely touched the ground, and his movement technique was already on par with that of ordinary Dao Mountain Realm cultivators.

Stepping into the fog-free circle, the feeling became even more pronounced!

Yesterday, when he entered this Daoless Circle, he needed to concentrate all his mind to fight against the omnipresent infiltration of the Daoless. But now, his blood and qi are surging, and the Daoless qi that has entered his body is being expelled spontaneously.

This is the wonderful application of the "Five Qi Gathering at the Origin" technique in connecting with the "One Qi".

Because of this wonderful use, today I will try my best to "remember" more, so that I can give back more to the descendants of the Sage of Medicine!

The courtyard gate was knocked open, and the healer smiled. As soon as she smiled, her illness seemed to lessen by a third.

She opened the door and retreated to the edge of the cliff, everything seemed the same as yesterday.

However, there are also differences.

That is, she poured him tea.

Zhou Wenju took it, slightly suspicious...

The healer seemed to sense his doubts and smiled gently: "Don't worry, this tea was left by the villagers that day. The tea from over there is not contaminated by the evil energy."

Zhou Wenju took a sip.

As expected, there was no infection from the evil energy.

A slight ripple stirred within him.

The tea leaves were probably left behind by the villagers.

But what about water?

All the water on this mountain peak carries an aura of evil, making it unsuitable for entertaining him. Drinking it would cause more than just diarrhea.

So, yesterday, regardless of whether he was so thirsty from preaching, he didn't drink a single drop of water.

There was water as soon as I entered the door today!

Where did this water come from?

There is only one source: down the mountain!

A scene seemed to appear before his eyes: under the starry sky, a frail woman, carrying a large bucket of water, struggled up the mountain, just so that today, he could have a cup of tea...