Today, the main dish of lunch in the cliff cave was braised pork.
Ning Que squatted at the entrance of the cave, holding a bowl of rice and chewing the greasy fat in his mouth. He looked at the clear view of the precipice and asked vaguely, "Chen Pipi used to come and snatch food whenever he smelled the fragrance of the meat. But recently, he came less often than before. Even if he came, he would leave in a hurry after a short while. What on earth is he busy with?"
Sangsang pushed aside the braised pork in the pot with a spatula, leaving only the gravy soaking in the white rice. She took the bowl and squatted down beside him. After thinking for a while, she said, "I don't know either. But the day before yesterday, Tang Xiaotang mentioned that he often helped her solve her problems in cultivation recently."
Ning Que was startled and remembered the conversation about the beast two months ago. He sneered and said, "Solve her cultivation problems? My teacher asked him to help me, not to help that little girl. Taoism and the Devil's Doctrine are always the same. Let me ask you, who was the beast in the back of the mountain today? "
Sangsang didn't understand what he was talking about.
Ning Que suddenly looked at her and asked, "I heard that the Great Divine Priest of Revelation has been to the Grand Secretary's Mansion?"
Sangsang nodded and continued eating.
Ning Que asked again, "So you didn't go back to the Grand Secretary's Mansion this time?"
Sangsang lowered her head and hummed.
Ning Que looked at her slightly black forehead and asked in a low voice, "What do you think about this? Look at the Divine Hall's behavior. They really take you, the successor of the Divine Priest of Light, seriously. I have never heard of any successor of the Divine Priest being so valued by the Divine Hall. They even sent a Great Divine Priest to pick you up. "
Sangsang said, "Young master, what do you think about this?"
Ning Que said after a moment of silence, "Although I don't like the West-Hill Divine Palace and have never imagined that you would really become the Great Divine Priest of Light, I still think it is ridiculous. But if there is such a chance, I have to admit that it is very glorious and powerful. It will be a pity to miss it."
Sangsang suddenly put down the rice bowl in her hand and looked at him seriously and said, "Now it seems that we should think more about how to break through than these small things."
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The stupid bird finally flew into the forest first, and the stupid man finally got his reward.
After racking his brains for dozens of days, Ning Que once again showed incredible perseverance and patience in the face of a desperate situation. Just like when he walked out of Min Mountain, climbed the old library, and comprehended talismans in the storm, he completed the seemingly impossible task and successfully mastered all the essential characteristics of the aura of Heaven and Earth.
This also meant that he could finally change the Great Spirit in his body into the natural Qi of Heaven and Earth, so that when he walked out of the cliff cave, he would not trigger the inhibition set by the Headmaster.
He was confident that he could do it.
It was also because of this confirmation that when he failed again and was shaken back into the cliff cave by the restriction, his face became extremely pale, and a rare emotion similar to despair appeared on his face.
His judgment was right. The aura left by the Headmaster at the entrance of the cliff cave did not react to the Great Spirit in his body. However, to his surprise, when his right foot was about to step over the line, his body suddenly hit an invisible but indestructible wall!
Why was that?
In the depths of the cliff cave, Ning Que hugged his head and curled up between his knees. It took him a long time to suppress the despair and thoughts of abandoning himself in his heart, and he began to think seriously again.
Suddenly, he understood, but he was really in despair.
The aura left by the Headmaster at the entrance of the cliff cave would trigger the inhibition once it sensed the Great Spirit or the unnatural Qi of Heaven and Earth. It would simply summon the endless Qi of Heaven and Earth between the cliffs, and then condense into a violent sea, swallowing anyone who tried to break through.
And when no one with the unnatural Qi of Heaven and Earth tried to pass through the inhibition, the aura left by the Headmaster would become a wall, a fence!
Compared to the violent sea of Qi of Heaven and Earth, the aura did not seem that scary, but it was, after all, the aura left by the Headmaster. How could it be that easy to pass through?
Perhaps it was really easy.
Even with Ning Que's cultivation at the lower level of the Seethrough State, he could still pass it. This was because he had the Great Spirit and he had learned the method of cultivating Qi recorded at the end of the book "Examination of the Origin". As long as he could cultivate the Great Spirit in his body to a majestic level, or even a little more vigorous, he could probably break through the wall left by the Headmaster.
In other words, he was just short of one breath, the Great Spirit.
However, the more powerful the Great Spirit in his body, the more dangerous it would be to trigger the inhibition when passing through the cliff cave. Once the inhibition was triggered, the sea of Qi of Heaven and Earth would become more violent.
He could indeed turn all the Great Spirit in his body into the natural Qi of Heaven and Earth, but it had already exhausted him for three months, not to mention a larger amount of Great Spirit. He really did not have the energy and determination to repeat the process that he had repeated countless times.
It was precisely because of this that Ning Que had stopped cultivating the Great Spirit in the past two months. And he vaguely understood that if he really continued cultivating the Great Spirit, he would not only be tortured like now, but he might even end up like his Youngest Uncle.
This possibility made him vigilant and even afraid.
This was a contradiction.
This was the last question that the Headmaster had given him.
To see the light in a hopeless situation, but there was a great risk hidden in the light.
At such a time, what would you choose?
Would you continue to wait in silence, waiting for the sky to become brighter, or the sky to never brighten again?
Or would you gamble with your life, bravely or crazily take another step towards the sky?
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Sitting on the cliff cave floor, Ning Que painfully thought for a long time, but he did not come up with an answer. Instead, his mood became more and more depressed, and he muttered to himself, "Is there no end?"
He did not know who he was asking this question to, the Headmaster or God?
His voice was a little louder, but it was still the same four words, "Is there no end?"
He suddenly stood up, grabbed the bamboo chair beside him, and forcefully threw it against the cliff cave wall. With a crisp sound, the bamboo chair broke into pieces and became a pile of rubbish.
He had been imprisoned in the cliff cave for three whole months, seeing hope, then disappointment, and then despair. He kept repeating this process, which was boring and tiresome. At this moment, he finally broke down.
"Is there no end!"
Ning Que shouted angrily, grabbed everything he could grab, and forcefully threw them against the cliff wall, bamboo chair, soup urn, water basin, brush, ink, paper, inkstone, and even the two books. It seemed that this was the only way he could vent the extremely depressed and unresigned sullenness in his heart.
Everything in the cliff cave was smashed by him. A bunch of wildflowers that Sangsang had picked from the waterfall on the other side of the mountain yesterday was scattered on the ground by him.
He fell down among the flowers, looking lonely with his head down, looking extremely pitiful, like a lost child who could never find his way home.
Suddenly, he remembered his first encounter with the Headmaster of the Academy.
It was on the balcony of the Building of Pines and Cranes, and it ended with an unreasonable blow from the Headmaster of the Academy with a short stick.
Ning Que still did not understand why a bigwig like the Headmaster of the Academy would lose his composure like a street vendor, stamping with rage and hitting his own student with a stick.
At this time, he finally understood how the Headmaster of the Academy felt at that time.
It was also that blow from the Headmaster of the Academy that reminded him of the real principles of the Academy.
The Academy taught its students that if they were sure that their actions were correct after careful consideration, then they should not be afraid or evasive when encountering difficulties. Instead, they should move forward bravely and use all means to uphold their own principles. This was the principle of the Academy.
In other words, when the enemy was too powerful to be reasoned with, then there was no need to reason with it.
Ning Que raised his head and looked at the exit of the cliff.
At this moment, he did not think of any predecessor, because the only predecessor on this path was Youngest Uncle, and Youngest Uncle had finally walked down the path of destruction.
He thought of the powerhouses of Haotian Taoism, starting from the Tao Addict Ye Hongyu, to the Great Divine Priest on the Peach Mountain, from the World Wayfarer Ye Su who carried a wooden sword on his back, to the legendary Abbey Dean of the Zhishou Abbey who wore a fluttering indigo robe, until finally his eyes fell on the clear blue sky outside the cliff.
"I will continue to cultivate the Great Spirit, and I will try again. I don't care if I will trigger the inhibition set by you, teacher, and I don't care what I might encounter in the future."
He murmured, "Because I don't want to stay here anymore. I want to go out. Fuck you."
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Sangsang was washing dishes in the hut when she heard the sound of things falling in the cliff cave. She quickly wiped her hands and was about to go and have a look when she heard these words again. She could not help but feel slightly surprised. She thought to herself, "You are locked in the cave for seclusion. How did that Aunt Da De of the Buddhism Sect in the Yuelun Kingdom offend you?"
She walked to the entrance of the cliff cave and was about to go in when she saw the mess inside. Ning Que was sitting on the ground with his legs crossed, looking peaceful, like a statue sitting on the ancient ruins.
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In the past two months, Ning Que had been trying to transform the Great Spirit, but he had never cultivated it. The vortex deep in his lower abdomen was as calm as a small pond.
At this moment, the Great Spirit seemed to have clearly sensed his determination and slowly flowed.
Perhaps because he had been lonely for too long, when the Great Spirit flowed, it completely ignored Ning Que's Psyche Power and suddenly began to speed up, faster and faster.
In the end, the vortex in Ning Que's abdomen began to shake and spin almost crazily. The calm small pond suddenly became violent, as if it was about to roll up a storm.
The Qi of Heaven and Earth in the cliff cave came from all directions like a slanting wind and drizzle, and then desperately poured into his body.
Ning Que could clearly feel the current situation and could not help but feel a little frightened. He thought that if he allowed so much Qi of Heaven and Earth to pour into his body, he would very likely explode and die, just like those who were selected as disciples by the Devil's Doctrine and died tragically at the first stage.
For a moment, he wanted to stop the violent vortex in his abdomen.
But he did not know whether it was because he could not stop, or because he was so eager to regain his freedom that he wanted to risk his life to bear the consequences of this sudden situation. Anyway, he did not sit down.
Feeling the Qi of Heaven and Earth continuously pouring into his body, Ning Que's face turned slightly pale and his body trembled slightly. But he still sat firmly on the ground with his legs crossed and did not move at all.
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The breeze between the cliffs seemed to have sensed the abnormality in the cliff cave and swept over with a whistling sound. It turned into a gale with wind and gravel, passing through the cliffside huts and roofed corridors and directly pouring into the cave.
Sangsang held the stone wall at the entrance of the cave and struggled to stabilize her body. She looked inside worriedly and wanted to shout loudly to wake Ning Que up. But in such a strong mountain wind, she could not open her mouth at all.
Ning Que closed his eyes and sat quietly in the cave. His mind was completely focused on the soaring Great Spirit in his body, and he did not know what was happening outside at all. His clothes fluttered like a battle flag in the wilderness.
The mountain wind whistled in the cliff cave, and the pieces of the bamboo chair, brush and inkstone that he had smashed earlier directly floated up and circled around his body in the air. Occasionally, they would hit the wall of the cave and become even finer pieces.
The stone wall of the cliff cave looked extremely hard, but under the intensive impact like a storm, the outermost layer of the stone wall gradually cracked, and many stone chips rustled and fell.
On one of the stone walls, four vague words appeared.
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The Qi of Heaven and Earth between the cliffs entered the cliff cave with the wind and kept pouring into Ning Que's body. In an instant, it filled all the acupoints in his Snow Mountain and Ocean of Qi. Then it poured into his body and kept filling and occupying, unwilling to give up any place, even the smallest acupoint.
Ning Que felt that his body was swelling, as if he had become a bag full of wine. He even felt that his hair and eyelashes were filled with the Qi of Heaven and Earth.
The whirlpool in his abdomen became bigger and bigger, and the speed of the edge naturally became faster and faster. He even faintly felt the pain of his internal organs being cut open.
He knew that if he allowed this situation to continue, he would explode and die from the continuous influx of the Qi of Heaven and Earth. But he still did not stop, and just silently muttered the four words, waiting for the arrival of the last moment.
Just when the Qi of Heaven and Earth completely filled every part of his body and began to invade his real body, in a very short moment, Ning Que used his strong willpower to resist the nausea caused by the shaking of his sense of perception and the extremely terrible pain, and let his Psyche Power fall on the whirlpool in his body.
For many years, he had been constantly meditating because he wanted to cultivate. Whether he could cultivate or not, he meditated to cultivate Psyche Power. He meditated when he was sleeping, when he was in a daze, when he was writing, when he was brewing medicine for Sangsang. He meditated all the time.
He had paid a perseverance and desire that ordinary cultivators could not bear. So after he could cultivate, he had an abundant Psyche Power that ordinary cultivators could not imagine.
So when the Qi of Heaven and Earth had poured into his sense of perception, squeezing out the last bit of space and dispersing almost all of his Psyche Power, he could still maintain the last bit of clarity and Psyche Power.
When the Psyche Power fell, a light suddenly flashed in Ning Que's already muddled sense of perception.
The light was like lightning, and it woke him up instantly.
He thought of the simple aura left by the Headmaster at the cliff cave.
That simple aura could summon all the Qi of Heaven and Earth between the cliffs, and then compress and condense it into a square rain sea, isolating the cliff cave from the outside world.
Since the Qi of Heaven and Earth could be compressed, then the Qi of Heaven and Earth in his body could also be compressed.
The three months that he was imprisoned in the cliff cave turned into countless images that quickly flashed in front of his eyes.
The inhibition at the entrance of the cliff cave, the violent sea of Qi of Heaven and Earth, the forbidden book called Origin of Qi of Heaven and Earth, the last Qi Cultivation Skill in the forbidden book, the nameless book recorded the Academy's No Boundary Spirit, and countless kinds of Qi of Heaven and Earth. These fragments of information kept colliding and combining, deconstructing and reconstructing.
It turned out that to be free, one needed freedom.
Ning Que no longer worried about whether his body would explode, nor did he care about the dizziness and pain. He just calmly looked at the whirlpool in his body, letting it freely spin and expand at a high speed.
The most critical moment came.
The majestic Qi of Heaven and Earth occupied Ning Que's body.
At this moment, a wonderful scene happened.
The rapidly expanding Great Spirit Whirlpool that was about to break through space seemed to have become a little thin because of the extreme expansion. Although it would soon be filled by new Qi of Heaven and Earth, at that moment, the number of the whirlpool itself seemed to be unable to resist the gravity of the center of the whirlpool, and there was a slight tremble.
Then the whirlpool began to shrink!
Although the speed of the whirlpool's contraction was very slow at the beginning, it accelerated very quickly. In a split second, it had actually shrunk to only half of its original size!
This was no longer a contraction, but a collapse!
Before Ning Que had time to react, the majestic Great Spirit Whirlpool had completely collapsed into the center of the whirlpool, turning into a small black dot!
The Great Spirit in his body flowed back with the collapse of the whirlpool, leaving every bone, every nail, every strand of hair, and every eyelash, all pouring into that small dot!
There was only silence in the empty space. There was no sound, no movement.
There was only a drop of water-like liquid, suspended in the center of the space.
The drop of liquid had no color, crystal clear, and was as pure as water.
Ning Que looked at the drop of water, and his mind moved slightly.
The transparent drop of water suddenly began to shine with golden light.
It was extremely beautiful.
Every ray of light contained the Great Spirit. Wisps of them flowed through his body like a spring breeze and drizzle, moisturizing every part of the dry land.
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The cliff cave returned to peace.
There was no more storm of Qi of Heaven and Earth.
The mountain wind that swept from between the cliffs gradually stopped.
The pieces of the bamboo chair, brush, and inkstone fell on the ground.
Only the bunch of wild flowers that Sangsang had picked was torn into pieces by the wind, and now the petals were relatively light. They slowly danced with the breeze around Ning Que, like countless butterflies.
Ning Que slowly opened his eyes.
The petals fell on his body.
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The cliff cave was full of wreckage.
Ning Que picked off the petals on his body and walked to the cave wall that had a crumbling outer wall.
There were four words on the stone wall, drawn like a sword, full of unyielding pride.
It must have been written by Youngest Uncle when he was imprisoned in the cliff cave, but somehow it was covered by the stone wall.
Ning Que had also said these four words before he decided to take this gamble.
At this time, looking at the four words left by Youngest Uncle on the cave wall, Ning Que finally understood what the key to breaking the inhibition of the cliff cave was when he recalled his emotions when he said these four words.
The breath that he had been lacking was not the Qi of Heaven and Earth, nor the Great Spirit, but the breath of unwillingness towards the heaven because of his yearning for freedom.
Looking at the four words on the stone wall, he seemed to see the angry and unwilling Youngest Uncle, and could not help but laugh happily.
He walked out of the cliff cave and gently hugged Sangsang.
Then he walked to the edge of the cliff, looking at the cliffs, the flowing clouds, the bottomless abyss, and the blue sky in front of him. He put his hands behind his waist and shouted, "Fuck you."
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