Chapter 419 Both Ends of the Red Line

In the northwest of Zhongyuan Continent stands a majestic pass, with a plateau in the west and a cliff in the east, named Hangu Pass.

In ancient times, in the legendary fairyland, a Taoist Tianzun wearing a Hun Tian Taoist robe once descended to Zhongyuan Realm in his incarnation. This Taoist Tianzun had great magical powers, and he could break a river with one hand and move mountains with a breath. When he left Zhongyuan Realm and returned to the fairyland, he passed through this Hangu Pass.

Some people say that this Taoist Tianzun once left a book "True Daode Tianjing" to enlighten and educate the people of Zhongyuan Realm to practice Taoism, and Taoism rose in Zhongyuan Realm from then on. It became a belief of the prosperous generation. But no one has ever seen the original copy of "True Daode Tianjing".

Some people also say that this Taoist Tianzun did not leave, and his body turned into nine real lotuses 800 miles north of Hangu Pass, leading the great way of heaven and earth and cleansing the evil spirits. In the end, the nine real lotuses turned into the current Zhenlian Mountain to guard the northwest border of Zhongyuan Continent for generations.

Zhenlian Mountain, also known as Qinglian Mountain, has nine peaks that look like lotus flowers. It is the location of the "Qinglian Daochang", a major Taoist sect in Zhongyuan Continent. On the ninth peak of Qinglian Daochang, there is a Taoist lotus pond, which is a source of blessings left by the Taoist Tianzun. After being baptized by the Taoist lotus pond, several Taoists have walked out of the Qinglian Daochang. Therefore, Qinglian Daochang is also commonly known as the Zhenlian Daochang by the world.

In the Taoist lotus pond, green lotuses are lingering all year round, colorful and full of Taoist atmosphere.

At this time, surrounded by many green lotuses in the center of the lotus pond, a young man with star-like eyes was sitting on a lotus leaf. The young man had a simple long hair tied behind his head, and a water-blue long gown lightly hung on the water, but without any water stains. It was Liu Haiyu who returned to Qinglian Daochang and was granted permission by Qing Guzi, the supreme head of Qinglian Daochang, to practice here.

Liu Haiyu has been meditating and practicing here for a full forty-eight days.

If the time in the Taoist Lotus Pond exceeds forty-nine days, there will be a Taoist catastrophe. Those who are in it will be assimilated into lotuses by the seven-colored mist, lose their souls, and their Taoist fruits will be taken back by the Taoist Lotus Pond. Only those who can comprehend the great Dao of heaven and earth can recast their souls and break through this Taoist catastrophe of turning into a green lotus, so that they can have green lotus roots as bones, lotus leaves as clothes, lotus pods as heads, and lotus seeds as eyes, and cultivate into a real lotus body, and then have the opportunity to become a Taoist real person.

There are four levels of Taoist real people: primary level, intermediate level, advanced level and ultimate level. Usually the corresponding cultivation realms are Daoming Realm, Tianjie Realm, Xuxian Realm and Shenyan Realm. Breaking through the ultimate level means breaking through the void and entering the fairyland.

The surface of Liu Haiyu's body in the Taoist Lotus Pond was covered with circles of crystal blue ripples, and the whole person was flashing like a blue body of water.

Through the blue light, you can actually see the Yuanying who is also sitting cross-legged in meditation in his purple mansion space. The golden colored glass-like Yuanying has a baby appearance, and his eyebrows and eyes are about 70% similar to Liu Haiyu's original body. Between his eyebrows, a blue water eye ripples with the spirit of the sea.

Yuanying pinched out the lotus seal with both hands, as if holding a colorful real lotus, emitting colorful, lotus petal-like brilliance, pure and holy. And Liu Haiyu also pinched out the lotus seal with both hands, and his slender white fingertips moved like flowing water, as if a real lotus was blooming.

"The Tao can be said, but it is not the Tao. The name can be named, but it is not the name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of all things. Therefore, always have no desire to observe its wonders. Always have desire to observe its boundaries. These two come from the same source but have different names, and are both called mysterious. Mysterious and mysterious, the door to all wonders..." Liu Haiyu silently recited the supreme heart method of Taoism in his heart, without distraction.

The Taoist broad-minded method that Liu Haiyu recited was said to be an evolved version of the "True Daode Tianjing" left by the Taoist Tianzun who came out of Hangu Pass, and was called the "Tao Te Ching".

This "Tao Te Ching" was learned by ordinary mortals without spiritual veins, and also by Taoist masters who had reached the highest level of cultivation. As long as you are sincere, believe in Taoism, and silently recite the "Tao Te Ching", your soul will enter the realm of Tao in your heart.

It's just that everyone's understanding is different, and the effect is also very different. Everyone's realm of Tao is different. Some are a clear stream, some are a turbulent river, and some are the vast ocean. Some are a mound of earth, some are a hill, and some are a towering mountain... It varies from person to person, and the world is as big as your heart.

At this time, Liu Haiyu also entered his own realm of Tao.

His realm of Tao turned out to be a vast star field.

It was an infinitely large area, with clusters of stars, and the light and shadows flowed like the galaxy of millions of miles, with brilliant brilliance.

Liu Haiyu's soul turned into a projection, and he was in this brilliant galaxy. His eyes were like stars, and his blue clothes were like water, as if he had merged with the brilliant galaxy. Maybe he was a star, maybe seven stars, or even a collection of tens of millions of stars.

Mortals have mortal eyes, and immortals have immortal eyes. In Liu Haiyu's eyes, each of the countless stars in this brilliant galaxy is a result of a Taoist fate. The heart of Taoism gives birth to the fate of Taoism, and the fate of Taoism gives birth to the fruit of Taoism.

It is said that the size of the Tao realm in the heart means the size of the achievement of Taoism. But some people have different opinions. Often, Taoist disciples with too large a Tao realm in their hearts find it difficult to break through the bottleneck of cultivation.

"Is this the Tao realm in my heart?" Liu Haiyu's soul projection murmured to himself.

"Where is my Tao? Among the many stars in the sky? Maybe one, maybe ten, maybe a thousand, maybe this entire galaxy."

Talent, understanding, and Dao heart, there is no doubt that Liu Haiyu is at the top. Just as his master Qing Guzi had high hopes for him. Talent, understanding, and Dao heart determine the vision of a Taoist practitioner. In the vast Milky Way, chasing a star, or thousands of stars, is far away and ethereal. But Liu Haiyu's vision is so broad that the entire Milky Way suddenly becomes infinitely small in his eyes.

It is so small that he caught a piece of residual red with his palm beside the peach tree.

It is so small that he touched a drop of crystal with his fingertips under the waterfall.

It is so small that he sniffed a touch of freshness with his nose at the top of the ten thousand feet peak.

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With the perception of his soul projected in the Dao realm in his heart, Liu Haiyu, who was sitting cross-legged, made rapid progress in his cultivation. He was originally in the first level of the Yuan Soul Realm. In these forty-eight days, he successfully broke through to the second level of the Yuan Soul Realm, and then broke through to the peak of the Yuan Soul Realm, almost touching the threshold of the Dao Ming Realm.

One day, maybe Liu Haiyu can really use the power of the Taoist Lotus Pond to achieve the body of a real lotus, and thus break through to the Daoming realm.

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In an unknown simple cave in the True Lotus Dojo. A quasi-real person with white hair and a childlike face, a blue robe with wide sleeves, holding a thousand-thread Tai Chi whisk in his right hand, is staring at a bronze mirror on the opposite wall.

The bronze mirror clearly reflects the shadow of Liu Haiyu who is practicing in the Taoist Lotus Pond. At this time, Liu Haiyu, dressed in a blue robe, floats rhythmically, and his body radiates thousands of thin water lines from the inside to the outside. Although these water lines are numerous, they are gentle and orderly, and are meticulously cleansing his physique and body, making it free of a trace of dust, just like the real lotus petals surrounding him, spotless, or purer than those real lotus petals.

"My beloved disciple really didn't disappoint me. His Tao heart is clear, his Tao affinity is deep, and his Tao fruit is solid. He has great hope of achieving a true lotus body tomorrow. His future is limitless." Qing Guzi, the supreme master of the Qinglian Dojo, whispered to himself with a satisfied look on his face. He waved the silver thousand-thread Tai Chi whisk in his right hand in a chic manner, bringing out a cheerful rainbow of light out of thin air.

Seeing that Liu Haiyu's practice was going smoothly, Qing Guzi was about to turn around and leave, but suddenly his eyes seemed to catch something on the bronze mirror? He frowned and locked his eyes on it.

It was an extremely thin red line, tied to Liu Haiyu's heart. With the gentle cleansing of the water line released by Liu Haiyu, it was like a red thread among thousands of blue threads, making it extremely difficult to detect. The other end appeared and disappeared, and no one knew where it was.

"Could it be a trace of worldly affinity?" After seeing the thin red line clearly, Qing Guzi's frown relaxed.

The Taoist lineage does not reject worldly affinity. On the contrary, a worldly bond is a Dao bond, and the perfection of worldly bond is a Dao fruit.

"The first love is the beginning of the Dao of heaven and earth, so it's okay." Qing Guzi whispered, while pinching the other fingers with his worried thumb.

The art of usurping life is generally beyond human power.

After the cultivator's cultivation reaches the realm of virtual immortals, he can get a glimpse of the fur of the thousands of laws in the Dao of heaven and earth. Maybe one law, maybe two... not many, but there is the capital to peek into the heavenly way. This is different from the fortune tellers in the mortal world who pull the banner to tell fortunes. Most of those fortune tellers use the deceptive "mind reading" to deceive the person's request and thoughts by using the induction of words, and then they can naturally calculate some. The art of usurping life of the cultivator requires a deep cultivation to be activated by secret methods.

As the supreme master of the Qinglian Daochang and Liu Haiyu's master, Qing Guzi has already reached the realm of virtual immortals, and even has half a foot in the higher-level realm of Shenyan. But even so, using the art of usurping life to spy on the way of heaven and calculate future events is also extremely risky. Once you accidentally touch a major event that defies the heaven and changes your fate, you will be punished by the power of the interface. At the least, you will be covered with bruises, and at the worst, your cultivation will fall. Some of the art of usurping life touches the dragon's reverse scale of the power of the interface, and the caster will be directly wiped out by the power of the interface, and the fight will not end until death.

But Qing Guzi wanted to help his beloved disciple Liu Haiyu successfully cultivate into a true lotus body and lay a solid foundation for the future success of Taoism. He did not hesitate to use the art of usurping life to calculate the fate at the other end of this red line. What will it bring to Liu Haiyu? Even if it is a trace of crisis, it is something Qing Guzi is not happy to see.

Qing Guzi narrowed his eyes slightly and put the thousand-thread Tai Chi whisk in his right hand on his left hand. He exhaled deeply, then the thumb of his right hand moved up and down regularly on the knuckles of the other four fingers, and tapped gently. Every time he tapped, a milky white light popped out, like the eye of a star.

After a moment, Qing Guzi retracted the life-tampering finger technique and said to himself: "The woman on the other end of the red line is being trapped by a formation. If something happens to her at this time, maybe my disciple will know about it, which will affect his state of mind and eventually affect his Tao fruit. It is better to let Hai Yu go to rescue her and complete this fate."