Chapter 1091 The Fourth Floor of the Immortal Residence
No one had entered the teleportation array yet.
The teleportation array suddenly emitted a white light, sweeping across the entire hall like a wave.
Everyone had no time to react before being swept by the white light. When the white light dissipated, the entire hall was empty, and the runes on the surrounding walls also disappeared again.
After everyone regained their vision, they found themselves in a beautiful canyon.
A clear stream ran through the canyon, passing through the cliffs at the bottom of the valley and into the mountains. The surrounding area was full of various exotic flowers and plants, and even some spotted deer lived there.
After everyone appeared, the spotted deer seemed to be frightened, jumping and hiding in the woods in the distance, occasionally poking their heads out and looking at everyone curiously.
There is a thatched cottage by the stream. In front of the cottage is a stone table. On the stone table are two stone boxes filled with black and white chess pieces. The stone table is spotless and the chessboard pattern can be clearly seen. At first glance, it doesn't look like no one has played chess here for tens of thousands of years.
"Look, what is that?" Old Man Tiandu pointed to the stone wall above the valley bottom and shouted in surprise.
In fact, even if he didn't say it, everyone's eyes were also cast on the stone wall.
On the stone wall of the mountain rock, there is a piece of jade several dozen feet in size, as smooth as a mirror, and on the jade are densely engraved ancient seal characters, flashing crystal green light from time to time.
At the top of this piece of jade, there are three simple seal characters [Enlightenment Rock] engraved
"Enlightenment Rock? The legendary Enlightenment Rock is actually here?" Shui Shuangyun said with surprise on her pretty face.
"Enlightenment Rock has always been a legend in the world of immortal cultivation. We sisters have always believed that it was just a rumor. We didn't expect it to actually exist, and it is in the third floor of Langhuan Immortal Mansion. For us, it is really a chance."
"It is said that the Enlightenment Rock contains the immortal path. Every person who comprehends it can comprehend different mysteries of magical powers from it. As for what can be comprehended, it depends entirely on one's chance and understanding. It is not impossible to comprehend small magical skills from it."
"In my opinion, Enlightenment Rock is just a scam. We have been practicing until now. Who doesn't have his own main practice method? We can't even practice magical skills, so why bother to learn more? Besides, should we talk to this fellow Daoist Xiao about the previous fight for treasures?" The Immortal Demon looked at Xiao Lin and said with a sneer.
Upon hearing this, the Poison Scholar and the Water and Fire Demon Girl both looked at Xiao Lin with unfriendly eyes.
Xiao Lin heard this, his eyes flashed coldly, and he said lightly: "Xiao still said the same thing, it is impossible to hand over the treasure, you can give it a try, can Xiao take you guys on the road?"
Shui Shuangyun's pretty face also condensed, and her body swayed slightly, and she came not far in front of Xiao Lin, showing her attitude with her actions.
The old man Tiandu did not move, with a neutral look.
Just when the atmosphere was tense and everyone was on the verge of a fight, a slightly old voice suddenly sounded above Wudao Rock.
"In front of Wudao Rock, you can understand the great way, and your mind is not distracted. It has been difficult to turn around in the immortal path since ancient times. Go forward and find freedom. I will protect you in the year of the primordial spirit. Since ancient times, the immortal fate has been unpredictable. Which immortal friend will continue my way?"
After the voice fell, seven green lights suddenly shot down from the rock wall. These seven green lights accurately covered Xiao Lin and the other seven people, and each of them was circled in a circle of light half a meter in size.
Everyone's face changed. The Water and Fire Fairy even released their magic weapons directly, trying to attack the light circle that wrapped around them, but their magic weapons hit the light circle, but they shook slightly and returned to their side again, as if they were teleported back by a force of space.
This shock was not trivial. The Water and Fire Fairy immediately displayed their water and fire magic. Large pieces of flames and waves surged out, but when they shot into the light circle, they seemed to have entered another space and disappeared without a trace like a mud cow entering the sea.
The two women's faces changed drastically, and the others also showed shock.
Seeing this, Xiao Lin showed a thoughtful expression. In his mind, he remembered the poem that the old voice just recited. It seemed that this voice was left by Murong Yuntian.
The words in the poem seemed to remind them that in front of the Enlightenment Rock, it took a sixty-year period to comprehend the great way. As for what would happen after a sixty-year period, they didn't know.
During this sixty years, they could not leave here, and this light circle seemed to be protecting them and defending them from external attacks.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lin sat down cross-legged, his eyes flashing with green light, staring at the ancient seal characters on the Enlightenment Rock.
After seeing this, Xiao Lin quickly fell into it. The scriptures on the Enlightenment Rock were not a certain kind of practice or magical power, but described some deep principles of immortal arts. The profoundness was even beyond Xiao Lin's imagination.
He finally understood why the Enlightenment Rock was so famous, and also understood why Murong Yuntian became the real first cultivator back then, and the supreme strong man who had never fallen from the altar for tens of thousands of years.
The surface of immortal cultivators' cultivation of Taoism is skills, magical powers, magic weapons, etc., and the deeper level is magic power and realm, but these are also manifestations, representing the depth and level of an immortal cultivator's understanding and perception of Taoism.
The content recorded in Wudao Rock is an explanation of Taoism. Originally, for immortal cultivators, Taoism is a person's level of understanding of the natural world, and immortal cultivators are naturally much better than ordinary people in this regard.
If a person's true understanding of Taoism reaches a perfect state, he may really be able to say what he wants and use the world for his own benefit.
But even a true immortal may not be able to achieve such a state.
The Tao recorded in Wudao Rock is the Tao of mortals, the rules of heaven and earth in this mortal world. If one can truly understand it, he can naturally transcend this world, and ascend to the upper world.
Unfortunately, since ancient times, no one dared to say that he could understand the rules of the mortal world, even Murong Yuntian, who had cultivated to the peak of the transformation of the spirit.
However, with the help of the Enlightenment Rock, anyone who can understand a part of it will be of great benefit to themselves, and it is even possible to reach a higher level.
Everyone who can enter the third floor of the Immortal Mansion has the opportunity to gain enlightenment in front of the Enlightenment Rock.
After seeing Xiao Lin's performance, the others also understood it, sat cross-legged, looked at the ancient seal characters on the Enlightenment Rock, and carefully comprehended it.
Including the Immortal Demon, who originally had a disdainful expression, but after looking at it for a while, his expression gradually became solemn.
There is no time in cultivating immortals.
For an ordinary mortal, a sixty-year period is sometimes a lifetime, but for a high-level immortal cultivator in the Spiritualization Stage, it is just a meditation and a retreat.
In front of the Enlightenment Rock, seven green lights covered the seven people, and the seven people all sat cross-legged, closed their eyes and entered into meditation.
Everyone was shining with a strong spiritual light, swallowing and stretching. Fifty years have passed since everyone entered the third floor of the Immortal Mansion.
The Immortal Demon, who was sitting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes, his face changed, and then with a "puff", he spat out a mouthful of blood, and the devil flames on his body ran wildly, and even burned on his body.
This made him scream involuntarily, and his face turned pale.
He hurriedly pinched the magic spell, circulated the devil energy in his body, and suppressed the scattered devil flames.
At this time, a golden light suddenly shot down from the sky and shone directly on the Immortal Demon. Before the Immortal Demon made any move, the golden light shone brightly. When the golden light dissipated, the Immortal Demon had disappeared without a trace.
The Immortal Demon's condition did not affect the others. Obviously, the others were trapped in a deep state of enlightenment. Unless they woke up by themselves, they could not feel what was happening in the outside world at all with their five senses closed.
But if they knew that the Immortal Demon had gone astray in enlightenment, they would be very surprised. After all, the Immortal Demon was in the middle stage of the Spiritualization Realm. It stands to reason that both his comprehension and understanding of the Tao should be better than theirs.
A few months later, the old man Tiandu suddenly opened his eyes, uttered a muffled groan, and a trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. However, there was no pain on his face, but a hint of joy.
"So that's how it is. I am still at a very superficial level in terms of the innate Yimu Qinglei. It seems that I need to retreat and study it carefully." The old man Tiandu muttered to himself, but as soon as he finished speaking, a golden light suddenly shot down from the sky and shone on him.
When the golden light dissipated, his figure also disappeared without a trace.
A few years later, the green mist on the body of the Tiandu scholar rolled, and his whole body was wrapped in it. Even his face exuded a strange green color, which looked very scary.
Suddenly, his face moved and he opened his eyes. Even his eyes were flashing with green light. When he opened his eyes, he naturally saw the disappeared Changsheng Demon and the old man Tiandu, as well as the four people, Shuihuo Yaoji, Shui Shuangyun, and Xiao Lin, who were still sitting cross-legged and motionless.
Just as he was looking puzzled, a golden light descended from the sky and instantly teleported him away.
Half a year later, Shui Shuangyun, Shuihuo Yaoji and the other two opened their eyes almost at the same time. They were still confused and excited. Obviously, they had benefited a lot from the comprehension of more than 50 years.
"The scriptures on the Enlightenment Rock are profound and extensive. I have only just understood a very small part of them. It seems that it will take at least hundreds of years to comprehend all these scriptures."
"I actually comprehended the Blazing Flame Burning Heaven Divine Power, which at least doubled my flame divine power. Sister, did you gain anything?"
"Sister, my Raging Waves Calming Sea Jue has entered the eighth level after a period of enlightenment, and the mana in my body has also increased a lot. If I can comprehend here for a hundred years, I will definitely be able to advance to the peak of the early stage of the Spiritualization. What a pity."
As his voice fell, three golden lights fell from the sky. Before the three people could react, the three people disappeared without a trace under the flash of golden light.
On the third floor of the Langhuan Immortal Mansion, only Xiao Lin was still sitting cross-legged, with a white light faintly visible between his eyebrows.
Suddenly, a ripple appeared in the void beside him, and Xiao Hei's figure jumped out of it. He looked up at Wudao Rock, with a trace of confusion in his eyes, and then lay down outside the light circle covering Xiao Lin, yawning, looking drowsy.
A few years passed in a flash, and a white lotus had bloomed between Xiao Lin's eyebrows, emitting circles of white halos.
Suddenly, Xiao Lin opened his eyes, and the lotus between his eyebrows suddenly shot out, flying in front of Wudao Rock, and the runes on Wudao Rock also lit up one by one.
Then, white light circles suddenly appeared on Wudao Rock, and the light circles merged with the white lotus, and then rotated, and actually condensed into a white vortex.
Seeing this, Xiao Lin waved his sleeves, and Xiao Hei, who was still snoring beside him, immediately turned into a black light and entered the beast ring. Then Xiao Lin flew into the air and shot directly into the vortex, disappearing without a trace.
Xiao Lin felt a darkening in front of his eyes. When he could see everything clearly again, he found himself in a stone chamber.
The stone chamber was not big, only a few feet wide, and the furnishings were very simple. There were two bookshelves on one side, which were full of books. On the other side, there was also a bookshelf with more than ten jade slips.
In the middle of the stone chamber, there was a stone table, on which was a jade plate. Inside the jade plate was an ancient book, and under the ancient book was a piece of animal skin, which was covered with dense handwriting.
[Bu Tian Xian Jing]
Xiao Lin saw the ancient seal characters on the ancient book, and after a slight surprise, he couldn't help showing an excited expression, but then he saw that next to the four [Bu Tian Xian Jing], there were two small characters [Volume 1]
Seeing these two words, Xiao Lin immediately understood that this Bu Tian Xian Jing was only a part of the complete version. From this point of view, the five layers of Bu Tian Jing that he had obtained were also derived from this half of Bu Tian Xian Jing.
Xiao Lin took a step forward, picked up the animal skin, and read the contents on it.
The contents were written by Murong Yuntian, and Xiao Lin read them word by word.
Half an hour later, Xiao Lin finished reading the contents on it, put down the animal skin, and couldn't help showing a thoughtful expression on his face.
It turned out that the reason why Murong Yuntian set up four levels of tests in the Immortal Mansion was to find a successor, and this successor must practice the Bu Tian Sutra he left in the Langhuan Secret Realm in the Southern Territory before he can finally enter the stone chamber on the fourth floor.
This is also the reason why Xiao Lin was never teleported out.
Murong Yuntian was actually born in a small country in the Tianlu Mountains. When he was young, he once went into the mountains to hunt and accidentally saw the figure of an immortal cultivator, which gave rise to the idea and impulse of cultivating immortals.
Like Xiao Lin back then, he went deep into the Tianlu Mountains despite the hardships and dangers, and was found by him in the Immortal City, and since then he has embarked on the road of cultivating immortals.
If he had followed the normal path, he would have been like most immortal cultivators, constantly undergoing trials and practicing hard. He would have been satisfied if he could successfully build a foundation in his lifetime.
In the year when he cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining, he had not yet joined a sect. At that time, the sect was not one of the five major sects, but a sect called Tianhan Sect that dominated the entire Tianlu Mountains. Tianhan Sect was also founded by an elder of Kuihan Sect, one of the seven ancient sects in the Southern Territory.
At that time, Murong Yuntian originally wanted to participate in the Tianhan Sect's entry test, but he never expected to encounter an enemy's conspiracy and escape into the depths of the Tianlu Mountains.
And accidentally fell into a very deep canyon, which was the deep valley outside the Langhuan Secret Realm. Even Xiao Lin had never been down that deep valley. He only knew that there seemed to be some kind of restriction below the deep valley, which made people daunting.