Immortality Cultivation: Fellow Daoists, please live for two more episodes!

After retrieving his items, Pei Changgeng did not choose to return to the area where the outer disciples of Shuiyue Sect usually stayed. Instead, he headed north and went straight into the abandoned old mine north of Wanku Mountain.

The spiritual energy here is usually scarce, and even the servants are reluctant to come.

But at this moment, it is undoubtedly the most suitable place for him to recuperate.

He randomly found a dry mine shaft, crawled inside, sat cross-legged, and first took out a pill from the oilcloth bag.

The "Spirit-Destroying Pill" is probably the most top-tier pill at the Qi Refining level.

In the past, just one of these pills could be worth thousands of points; it was Pei Changgeng's last resort.

After all, he was once among the top three in the outer sect of Shuiyue Sect. To be honest, if the other party hadn't acted so quickly and viciously, directly knocking him to the bottom and preventing him from ever recovering, he would have been in serious trouble.

He should never have ended up in this situation, but it doesn't matter now that he's out.

Anyone who can get by in Shuiyue knows the principle of seeking revenge for every little thing.

As the medicine entered the body, a warm sensation spread along the meridians. Wherever it passed, the veins, which had been riddled with holes from two years of absorption, were like a parched riverbed receiving spring water, gradually becoming moistened.

Silently recite:

"Heaven and earth have five elements, the human body has five internal organs, and the internal organs house five spirits. When the spirits are asleep, the vital energy is depleted; when the spirits are awake, the vital energy is flourishing."

"To enter the realm of the Yellow Court, one must use one's own spiritual energy to awaken the dormant spirit within the body, so that the inner landscape and outer landscape are in harmony, and the five energies return to their origin, only then can one glimpse the gate of the Great Dao."

"The Wood element is rooted in the liver; its spirit is blue, its color is green, and its nature is benevolence."

"To knock on the spirit within the liver should be like the spring thunder awakening the insects, a knock that penetrates the heart of a withered tree, causing it to sprout anew in spring..."

As Zhou Youyuan listened to the other party silently recite these words, although his cultivation was entirely due to inheritance, he had been in the cultivation world for quite some time and had roughly figured out what Pei Changgeng was going to do next.

In this world, the Qi Refining Realm is divided into three barriers:

The first three layers break through the barrier of the mysteries, open the meridians and blood vessels, and are the threshold for ordinary people to enter cultivation.

The fourth to eighth levels of the Yellow Court are called "Knocking on the Yellow Court," which means awakening the dormant spirits in the five internal organs. Each awakened spirit advances one level.

Upon reaching the ninth level of the Heavenly Palace, the soul enters the Niwan point, the roles of host and guest are reversed, and divine consciousness arises.

Pei Changgeng once traversed the Heavenly Palace and reached the ninth level.

However, he was later framed and imprisoned. In two years, he faced two major setbacks, one involving selling his property and the other a fine, and fell from the heavens back to the depths of despair.

Now all he has to do is reopen the Yellow Court and awaken the Azure God within his liver.

On the light screen, Pei Changgeng had already found his rhythm and began to circulate the "Rooting Technique" that he had been studying.

The spiritual energy circulated along the path of the cultivation technique, passing through the dantian and converging along the liver meridian to the right side of the ribcage, where the liver is located and where the Azure God sleeps.

Outside the light screen, Zhou Youyuan quietly circulated his spiritual power. This was a new function of the "Record of Sending Off the Dead" that he had recently figured out. By circulating his spiritual energy and gathering it in his sea of ​​consciousness, he could get a different view.

As the spiritual connection shifted, a cluster of bluish spiritual energy appeared deep within Pei Changgeng's liver, but it was extremely dim, like withered roots buried in frozen soil in winter. Although not completely dead, it was almost devoid of life.

Those are the traces left by the once-awakened Azure God.

Pei Changgeng began his second attempt to kowtow to the Yellow Court.

The spiritual energy condensed into a thin thread as fine as a needle, piercing deep into the liver along the old path that the Azure God had traversed when he awoke.

hum.

The meridians of the entire liver trembled.

The dim, cyan aura trembled slightly, as if something beneath the frozen earth had turned over.

Then it sank again.

This is what cultivators call "the divine response is unique," and there are specific rules to follow when it comes to contacting the divine.

Your evil spirit will grant you face and help you open the Yellow Court and break through the barrier of Qi cultivation.

And what did you do? You ended up selling them out to someone else?

Don't those filthy gods have any dignity?!

This is why the third to fourth level of Qi cultivation is also a critical juncture, because once you fail, you may never have another chance to break through.

If you try to knock on the door again, they might not open it.

But Pei Changgeng also had his own methods.

He changed his energy circulation path, no longer stabbing straight in with a needle, but dispersing his spiritual energy, which seeped into every inch of the liver's meridians like countless fine roots, slowly enveloping the dim blue spiritual aura.

The essence of the "Root-Penetrating Technique" lies in the word "root-penetrating." It's not about breaking down the door or forcibly knocking on it, but about penetrating it little by little.

The roots penetrate the soil silently, but once they're in, they can't be pulled out.

hum.

There was another tremor, slightly stronger than before.

The withered, bluish-green aura suddenly shone, like withered roots beneath frozen soil gently stretching in the first warmth of spring.

Zhou Youyuan could see clearly from this new perspective that Pei Changgeng's filthy spirit had moved.

As expected of someone who was once a top-three favorite in the outer sect, they really have some skills.

Pei Changgeng also sensed it; his breathing quickened for a moment, but he quickly regained his composure and continued to penetrate, to continue his work.

Spring thunder has not yet arrived, but the withered trees already know it.

Judging from this progress, it's highly likely that Pei Changgeng will re-depress Huang Ting.

Zhou Youyuan was engrossed in watching when the edge of the screen suddenly flickered.

Something is moving in the direction of the mine tunnel.

Two figures crept along the mine tunnel in the dark, using concealment and lightness talismans to make their movements almost imperceptible.

He wore the clothes of an outer disciple, but the magical artifacts hanging at his waist were not the standard outer disciple style.

The leader held a small triangular flag, about the size of a palm, with a flickering light on its surface.

It's a tracking flag. He'd seen it at Manager Lü's place; it's specifically used to find people by following fluctuations in spiritual energy.

Pei Changgeng's release from prison was discovered by his old rival.

In the light screen, Pei Changgeng was still tapping the Yellow Court, his spiritual power fully activated, his whole being focused on the inner landscape.

Moreover, now that he has sold the Heavenly Palace, he has no divine sense and his perception range is pitifully short, so he cannot detect any activity outside the mine.

The two men, clearly with ulterior motives, had already reached the entrance of the mine. The leader made a gesture, and they crawled in, one on each side, close to the mine wall.

Pei Changgeng was still practicing his internal energy with his eyes closed when the spiritual energy deep within his liver shone brightly once more.

Zhou Youyuan gripped the corner of the blanket tightly.

The horrific image of Chen Changsheng's death resurfaced in his mind.

isn't it? !

He had been out of the prison for less than a day.

one day!!

Even Chen Changsheng lasted for more than one night.

Don't tell me that he went through countless hardships, and Fellow Daoist Fan Xiao even risked his life to find this top-grade spiritual root, a promising stock.

Can't even last a day?

……

Meanwhile, while Zhou Youyuan was still worried about Pei Changgeng, little did he know that an "old acquaintance" had quietly come knocking on his door.

Shuiyue Branch, Miscellaneous Service Market.

After the "Na Ling Jue" incident, this place is no longer as prosperous as it once was.

First, the gluttonous servants killed each other, and then the outer disciples sent by the higher-ups to deal with the "Spirit Gathering Technique" searched the place thoroughly.

Fortunately, the man in black robes in the black market had anticipated this and, through some unknown means, not only survived the ordeal but also profited handsomely from the opportunity.

However, this is normal. Just like in the stock market, players can never beat the big players. Since he sent people to set this fire, it's impossible for it to easily burn him.

But even the oldest fox can go blind one day, just like now.

"I...I really don't know, please spare my life..."

Even the once-formidable man in black robes could not maintain his composure in the face of a life-or-death crisis.

Faced with the refined young master before him, he emptied his entire fortune, hoping only that the other party would spare his life.

However, the refined young master of today, the former Chen Wendao, looked down on this pile of scrap metal: "I don't want money, I just want you to repeat what you just told me."

"Say it again?"

"Yes, I'll say it again, are you sure the guy you just told me about, the one who asked you to distribute this 'Spirit Gathering Technique' three or four months ago, is named Chen Changsheng?"

"Yes, it's Chen Changsheng!"

"Heh, Chen Changsheng? That's quite interesting..."