After waiting at the cave abode's entrance for a while, the tall, green-haired man who went in to deliver the message walked out and said, "Master asks that you come in with me."
"Thank you, senior." Hua Qianluo bowed. Patriarch Stone's gatekeeper had a terrifying aura. It seemed to be on par with Patriarch Xie, whom she met at the Ends of the Earth Tower.
Following the green-haired man into the cave abode, they soon arrived at a quiet room. Hua Qianluo heard the man say, "Go in and greet the master."
Hua Qianluo nodded and entered carefully. She did not notice the fear on the Green Wolf's face.
The room was furnished simply and quietly. A man in a plain green Daoist robe sat on a bed.
Hua Qianluo did not have the time to size up the man on the bed. She quickly bowed respectfully. "Disciple Hua Qianluo greets Patriarch Stone."
"No need for formalities." A calm but gentle voice entered her ears. Hua Qianluo's anxiety and worry seemed to be soothed. She could not help but look up at Patriarch Stone.
"Ah?!" Hua Qianluo gasped. Her face was pale as she took a few steps back. Patriarch Stone's appearance was too terrifying.
The old man's face was rotting, and his eyebrows, eyes, nose, and mouth were all incomplete. This was nothing. To Hua Qianluo, a Golden Core grandmaster who had dealt with the Hades Sect and killed a few Ghost Dao cultivators, she had seen even more disgusting and hideous scenes. For example, a rotting face with white maggots crawling all over it.
She should not have had much of a reaction to this, but as soon as she saw Patriarch Stone, she felt as if her Jindan, mind, and thoughts were rotting away. An extreme fear rose up in her heart, and she could no longer suppress it.
"You have a shapeshifting Dharma treasure. It's evolved from the Minor Chiliocosm's spatial door, right?"
Before Hua Qianluo could steady herself, that gentle voice rang out again. This caused her heart to tremble, and all the pores on her body suddenly tightened. She looked at Ancestor Stone warily. Her greatest secret had actually been directly seen through! If she were a normal person, she would have broken out in a cold sweat.
"Heh, I have one too."
Hua Qianluo hadn't even thought of what to say when he heard Ancestor Shi's mocking words. He couldn't help but be taken aback. "What?"
"This kind of treasure is similar to a grotto-heaven treasure; each has its own merits, but for cultivators above the second Heaven's Blight, it isn't very useful. Also, the I Heaven Earth Mountain River Diagram should be recorded in the sect's records." Shi Xuan laughed and said, "Haha, little girl, your fear of decay should have dissipated a lot, right?"
Hua Qianluo was stunned once again. He was the great Jindan Grandmaster, but why did he feel like he could not keep up with Ancestral Master Shi's thoughts?
When she discovered that the feeling of decay and decay had indeed dissipated a lot, and her extreme fear had also weakened a lot, she suddenly realized that Ancestor Shi had pointed out her biggest secret in order to frighten her from another aspect. He wanted her to be on guard against this matter, so that she could get rid of her state of palpitation.
Only then did she recover her former elegant demeanor, and a smile appeared on her face as she teasingly and curiously said, "Ancestor Shi, disciple was almost scared to death just now. Are you going through the third Heaven's Blight?! "
Limited by her realm, Hua Qianluo couldn't come into contact with many high-level records, so she didn't know much about the situation above the Primordial Spirit Realm. However, seeing Ancestor Shi's appearance, it was easy for people to think of the word blight, so she asked.
But as soon as the words came out of her mouth, she was shocked. "Speaking of which, Ancestor Shi has only been through the second Heaven's Blight for a thousand years!"
"Yes. This backlash contains a sense of corrosion, which is very suppressive to cultivators below the Heaven Realm. It's already very good that you can barely restrain it. You're even stronger than Green Wolf. " Shi Xuan smiled and said, "And this treasure of yours can use part of the Minor Chiliocosm's power, which is comparable to a supreme spiritual treasure, but it's not easy to pass the Heavenly Tribulation."
Comparing the Gate of Time and the Grotto-Heaven Treasure, once it was upgraded, it could use half of the Minor Chiliocosm's power. If it passed the fourth Heavenly Tribulation, it could use all of it, but it couldn't change the laws of heaven and earth inside. Moreover, the Heavenly Tribulation was very difficult. Shi Xuan had never heard of this type of treasure that had passed the third Heavenly Tribulation.
Hua Qianluo was shocked to see Shi Xuan admit it, but then she remembered that Ancestor Shi was a heaven-defying person who had passed the second Heaven's Blight in less than a hundred years, so it wasn't strange for him to be like this. So she said naturally, "Ancestor Shi, disciple obtained this transformation treasure in the West Wilderness. With it, disciple can fight against Yin God Supremacy when I was at the Divine Soul Stage."
She secretly heaved a sigh of relief. The treasure that she regarded as unparalleled in the world didn't seem to be of much use in Ancestor Shi's eyes. Now that she had an explanation, she didn't need to worry about anyone else in the sect.
"If the treasure is too strong, it will sometimes delay your training. In the future, unless it's a matter of life and death, try not to use it. Especially when it directly adds the power of the Minor Chiliocosm to your Dao, it will greatly reduce your control over the Dao, making the road in the future difficult and bumpy."
Shi Xuan said solemnly, "The best time to build a foundation is below the Primordial Soul Stage. If you miss it, it will be very difficult to make up for it. You might even lose your cultivation and be reincarnated."
Because Penglai's scale had more than doubled in the past few thousand years, after becoming a Celestial Being, Shi Xuan had taught more than two hundred Upper Grade Jindan Grandmaster, but only three of them had become Primordial Soul Stage. But Shi Xuan didn't feel depressed because of this. He still taught the Upper Grade Jindan Grandmaster with all his heart. The Three Disasters of Cultivation were not for nothing. Behind every barrier, there were countless corpses accumulated by failures.
Hua Qianluo thought for a while and nodded. "Your disciple will remember the Ancestral Master's teachings."
Shi Xuan carefully taught Hua Qianluo for a while, and finally asked her about her adventure with great interest. Unexpectedly, he found an acquaintance. "Mo Jingqiu also came to the West Wilderness a few years ago."
…
In the quiet room with the restriction activated, Shi Xuan sat cross-legged, expelling the power of the backlash.
But all of a sudden, the originally calm backlash force suddenly surged violently, as if a dam had burst, surging forth with unstoppable force.
The Chaotic Hole formed by Shi Xuan's Primordial Soul was rapidly corroded, retreating step by step. Turning everything into the power of chaos was like trying to dry up a basin of water by lighting a few candles.
In less than two seconds, the results of Shi Xuan's forty years of hard work had completely disappeared. The Chaotic Hole Primordial Soul became the size of a palm again, but the power of the backlash did not seem to stop. It was endless, as if it could completely corrode Shi Xuan's Primordial Soul in the blink of an eye.
Shi Xuan's heart was as clear as a mirror. He knew that this was the final counterattack of the Blight Tribulation. He relied on his strong control over his body to make the Chaotic Hole Primordial Soul shrink bit by bit, instead of collapsing at the first touch.
The size of a palm, the size of a mouth … the size of an eye. Under the strenuous effort of the Chaotic Hole Primordial Soul, the backlash from the Great Dao seemed to slow down.
But it was only a little slower. The corrosive power was still strong and endless. Shi Xuan's Chaotic Hole Primordial Soul slowly but uncontrollably shrank. The size of a thumb, the size of a pea … the size of a rice grain.
It seemed that if there were no other changes, it would be very difficult for Shi Xuan to hold on until the backlash dissipated!
Shi Xuanjia understood this very well, but he did not panic at all. With just a thought, he started to move.
With just a thought, a scarlet gourd phantom immediately appeared in Shi Xuan's Primordial Soul, which had been suppressed to the size of a needle tip. A stream of Clear Qi emerged from the mouth of the gourd, directly transforming into the Yin-Yang Chaotic Hole Divine Light and integrating into the Primordial Soul!
The Clear Qi Gourd could only be used after being refined by one's own fundamental cultivation method. Otherwise, it would not be able to nourish the Primordial Soul.
With the strong support of the tribulation transcendence treasure, Shi Xuan's Primordial Soul suddenly swelled up. A dark Chaotic Hole expanded, transforming the power of the backlash of the Great Dao into the aura of chaos. It grew from the size of a needle tip to the size of a head.
However, the Clear Qi of the Clear Qi Gourd was limited after all. Soon, it felt that it was insufficient. The backlash once again suppressed the power of everything returning to chaos. Bit by bit, it firmly corroded and shrank Shi Xuan's Chaotic Hole Primordial Soul, reducing it to the size of a thumb again.
The remaining Clear Qi continued to emerge, transforming into the Yin-Yang Chaotic Hole Divine Light to nourish the Primordial Soul, allowing Shi Xuan to hold on bitterly.
Two moments later, the slowly weakening backlash finally turned from the initial torrential flood to a beautiful stream.
But before Shi Xuan had time to relax, the scarlet gourd phantom suddenly shattered, and the Clear Qi of the Spirit Transformation Realm was exhausted!
The backlash continued to corrode Shi Xuan's Primordial Soul, which had no replenishment, from the size of a pea … to the size of a rice grain …
Finally, when Shi Xuan's Primordial Soul became the size of a needle tip, the exhausted backlash slowly turned from a stream to a calm lake. The corrosion and the power of returning to chaos were in a stalemate.
Shi Xuan's remaining Primordial Soul quickly recovered, but the power of the Great Dao's backlash was no longer supported, so it became weaker and weaker.
Very soon, on the cloud bed, within the chaotic aura, a black and white light suddenly appeared. Then, it shone brightly, and a huge chaotic hole appeared. Then, it turned into Shi Xuan's figure. He looked exactly the same as before.
Shi Xuan only felt that the trace of Primordial Soul that was entrusted to the Great Dao was more compatible with the Great Dao, and the integration was closer. His control over the Primordial Soul had reached another level, and he could even directly feel the laws of heaven and earth in his Minor Chiliocosm!
The third Heavenly Blight, the Blight of the Primordial Soul, had finally passed!
"I still haven't tempered myself enough. The Blight of the Primordial Soul, which should have been the easiest, has instead become the most difficult of the previous three blights. Just like the Lord Of Heaven, each blight is difficult." Shi Xuan sighed softly.
…
A hundred years later, Shi Xuan stood in the air above Penglai, leisurely looking at the seven peaks and twenty-eight mountains. Beside and behind him stood all the Perfected Persons of Penglai's current sect.
"Master, are you going to open a Grotto-Heaven?" Chu Wan'er, who had gone through the third Heavenly Tribulation and was practicing celestial techniques, asked expectantly.
Shi Xuan did not answer, but looked at her with a smile. "Wan'er, although it has been smooth sailing for you, you must not be careless. The fourth Heavenly Tribulation is the biggest and can even be regarded as the only test of the Primordial Soul stage. I'm afraid you will have to face death like when you reached the Primordial Soul stage."
"Your disciple will remember," Chu Wan'er nodded hurriedly.
Perfected Jiang and Xu Zhenjun, who was already preparing to watch from the top of the Nine-Tiered Heaven Imperial Court, were quite excited. Seeing that Shi Xuan did not make a move and was only guiding his disciple, they could not help but laugh and scold him at the same time. "Quickly open a Grotto-Heaven, don't make us old fellows anxious."
Shi Xuan smiled and nodded. He stretched out his right hand and gently waved it.
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