Hermit in the Mountains

Starting the day after the end of the spiritual energy tide, various breakthrough phenomena began to erupt throughout Mount Kurong.

A beam of light shot into the sky from the center of the hundreds-of-miles-long Golden Thunder Bamboo Forest, causing the surrounding Golden Thunder Bamboo to sway left and right, making a 'whooshing' collision sound.

A thousand-meter-tall statue of the Knife-wielding deity stands above the bamboo house.

The Dao Zun's appearance is seven parts of Su Xinghe's, wearing a simple long robe and a knife hanging at his waist;

The Dharma Image was surrounded by sharp blade energy protecting its body.

Behind the bamboo house, a giant golden thunder bamboo, ten meters thick and a thousand meters tall, swayed its branches.

An invisible array barrier enveloped the bamboo house, protecting the surrounding golden thunder bamboo from the damage caused by the overflowing sword energy.

Seeing that the Dharma image had dissipated, the Golden Thunder Bamboo King removed the protective shield and focused his attention on promoting the growth of bamboo roots.

The Green Bamboo King, the Blazing Tree King, and the Mysterious Ice Bamboo King followed suit. The four siblings discussed for a while and came up with a plan.

Their main root must extend through the other three forest areas and finally return to their respective territories;

The main root forms a closed loop around the longevity peak.

Plan ahead.

This time, the spiritual energy tide caught the siblings off guard.

Fortunately, three of the four siblings were the fastest-growing bamboo species, which was able to keep up with the expansion rate of Mount Kurong.

Otherwise, the Four Seasons Illusionary Spirit Formation would have been forcibly dismantled, forming four independent formations.

The agarwood forest area was almost missing one person because a new bamboo forest had grown from the bamboo kings on both sides of the agarwood forest.

They, the four siblings, were not the most miserable.

The siblings Peach Blossom and Plum Blossom suffered a terrible fate, being torn in two, separated by a thousand kilometers.

The Yin-Yang Grand Array has become two independent arrays, and the outer array barrier of Mount Kuru Rong is temporarily ineffective.

The four siblings only needed to have the formation cover the Longevity Peak, which had a diameter of one hundred kilometers.

The Yin-Yang Array, controlled by the siblings Peach Blossom and Plum Blossom, needs to cover the Ku Rong Mountain, which has a diameter of one thousand kilometers.

Compared to them, the four siblings don't seem to have suffered at all.

There were four of them, but the siblings Peach Blossom and Plum Blossom only had two people, yet their workload was ten times that of the others.

The word "miserable" hardly does it justice.

The growth rate of peach and plum trees is not as fast as theirs.

The comparison made me feel much better.

The peach and plum blossom forests that stretch for thousands of kilometers around the mountains are missing, and it's unknown how long it will take for them to fully bloom.

Peach Blossom and Plum Blossom, brother and sister, are currently looking for someone to confide in; they are suffering terribly.

They were so busy that they were even hallucinating from urging new saplings to grow.

The hibiscus, laurel, and star tree are not to be underestimated either, as their main bodies are located on the mountaintop;

This time, the three peaks of Ziyang, Yinyue, and Ziwei have risen to an altitude of 100 kilometers, and their main roots must grow to a length of more than 100 kilometers to connect with the mountain protection array.

This spiritual energy tide was like a super growth stimulant, with a vertical distance of three hundred kilometers from the foot of Mount Kuru to the summit of Mount Changsheng.

The distance between the east and west, and north and south of the foot of the mountain is one thousand kilometers.

Originally, Mount Kurong was 15 kilometers high. With the Blue Star expanding a hundredfold, Mount Kurong should rise to 1,500 kilometers.

However, Mount Kuru only expanded twenty times, and the excess energy was transformed into the essence of Mount Kuru.

The title of "Number One Sacred Mountain Under Heaven" sounds impressive, and it inevitably becomes a battleground for various factions.

Gu Changsheng chose to conceal his talents and focus on improving the inner strength of Kurong Mountain.

The eighty times the power of the earth veins and the spiritual energy that disappeared have transformed into a dragon vein and a primordial spiritual vein;

The core area of ​​Mount Kurong gave rise to the Mountain Spirit Realm, where dragon veins and innate spiritual veins are hidden.

The true form of the mountain spirit is a dragon vein, and its physical body is the withered and flourishing mountain.

Innate spiritual veins can continuously gather, purify, and transform spiritual energy into pure spiritual liquid, and can also condense into top-grade spiritual stones;

In the future, the innate spiritual veins will be able to generate even higher levels of energy - innate spiritual energy.

On the night the strange phenomenon of the Sword Master's Dharma Image ended, the Dharma Image of the Moon God appeared on Silver Moon Peak;

The image of the Moon Goddess holds a jade bottle in her left hand, with two moon discs hanging on her back, exuding holiness and nobility.

No unusual phenomena occurred on Ziwei Peak, only starlight shone down at night.

The next morning at dawn, a crimson divine bird appeared on Ziyang Peak, standing atop the crown of the Fusang tree and letting out a long howl towards the east.

The most tranquil place is Changsheng Peak, where Diyuanzi, Shanling, Dahuang, and Qingniu are deeply influenced by Gu Changsheng's Taoist teachings.

They all disguised themselves as ordinary people, their auras completely concealed.

Inside the courtyard of the Diyuan Palace, Diyuanzi itself is just an ordinary tree ten meters tall, without any spiritual energy surrounding it or any tempting fruit.

The spiritual energy fluctuations he generates during cultivation are all rooted in the roots; the tree trunks on the ground are very deceptive.

Needless to say, the mountain spirit is hidden in a secret realm protected by an innate formation, absorbing the power of the earth's veins and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from dozens of kilometers underground.

Dahuang and Qingniu learned the Innate Breath Concealing Technique from Gu Changsheng, and they had long since mastered the ability of this technique to conceal and shield themselves.

To outsiders, they are just big, muscular yellow dogs with mutated fur, or blue-haired water buffaloes.

After Qingniu learned the Innate Breath Concealment Technique, the mysterious patterns on his body were hidden, making him look like a water buffalo with mutated fur.

As the most cautious Gu Changsheng, he used to be unable to control his power when breaking through, and would release his Dharma form, domain, and aura outwards.

But things are different now.

He possessed two innate treasure embryos, hidden within the Pure World White Lotus, and enveloped by the power of the cave heaven. No matter how big the noise of his breakthrough was, there were no unusual phenomena in the outside world.

Even the overflowing momentum and shockwaves were blocked by the Pure World White Lotus.

A week after the spiritual energy tide ended, Gu Changsheng, who was sitting cross-legged inside the Pure World White Lotus, woke up.

The lotus platform, three meters in diameter, resembled a crystal palace, and Gu Changsheng was in no hurry to open the lotus petals;

He sat quietly inside the lotus platform, familiarizing himself with the power he had gained after breaking through to the next realm.

A gray-green Dao flower sprouted from the withered and flourishing Dao Tree within his body, exuding a rich power of withering and flourishing;

The eighteen annual rings inside the trunk of the Dao tree merged into twelve.

The 40th cycle of flourishing and decay (the fourth transformation of the Dao Flower Realm) brings the lifespan limit to 120,000 years.

His lifespan is almost as long as that of an immortal.

When the Dao Tree breaks through to the Dao Flower stage, its lifespan increases tenfold.

Each cycle of flourishing and withering in the Dao Flower Realm brings an additional harvest every four thousand years.

The body's various organs, capillaries, bone marrow, and meridians are engraved with twelve layers of withering and flourishing armor patterns;

The power of Qi and blood surges through the blood vessels like a flood;

The surging waves of qi and blood generate a certain frequency that resonates with the physical body, constantly tempering its strength.

The power of divine sense can cover a radius of 40,000 kilometers, and perception can cover a radius of 4 million kilometers.

Gu Changsheng released his divine sense and took the lead in probing into outer space.

Having probed to a location of 100,000 kilometers, he discovered the gale layer. He did not act rashly, but released a wisp of divine thought to test the power of the gale.

The moment a wisp of his divine thought entered the gale layer, it vanished instantly.

He continued to strengthen his divine sense and even used his protective qi to protect himself, but he was obliterated after entering the gale layer by one meter.

The power of the gale has already exceeded the scope of the Dao Flower Realm;

He couldn't even determine the thickness of the gale layer, so he gave up on the idea of ​​continuing to probe and decided to focus on cultivating on the ground.

In the future, the water in the starry sky will only get deeper and deeper.

He glanced at the enormous sun, then his consciousness returned, and he explored in all directions.

Despite having a four million-kilometer limit for sensing, the East China Sea was not detected.

He also learned that during this spiritual energy surge, Blue Star had expanded a hundredfold.

The original borders of China have expanded twice due to planetary expansion, with an east-west distance of at least five million kilometers and a north-south distance of over six million kilometers.

If the diameter of Earth were to expand a hundredfold, the land area would only expand even more.

His current perception cannot even fully cover the Chinese mainland, let alone the sea.

Gu Changsheng withdrew his divine sense and investigated the changes in Kurong Mountain.

Unbeknownst to him, his divine sense probe had attracted the attention of some of the true spirits hidden within the secret realm.