Wang Daoyuan didn't need to explore for a long time like the last time he came across a place with no spiritual energy.
The treasure map left behind by Zhao Baoguo's master recorded the way to enter the Five Elements Daoist's cave, as well as the location of the entrance.
He came to the foot of the South side of the short mountain and found the entrance to the cave recorded on the treasure map.
This door didn't look like a door at all, it was just a huge rock.
The rock had white, blue, black, red and yellow colors. He put his hand on the rock, at the same time injecting the spiritual energy of the five elements into the rock.
Then, extremely pure spiritual energy of the five elements came out of the rock.
The pure spiritual energy circulated in his body for a cycle, some of it was absorbed by his spiritual roots.
The spiritual energy returned to the rock, and the rock moved to the right, revealing the door behind it.
Wang Daoyuan entered the door, and the rock blocked it again.
Inside the door was a huge stone room. On the back wall of the stone room, the original manual of the Five Elements Primordial Technique was inscribed.
On the side wall, there was also a brief introduction of the Five Elements Daoist's life.
Zhao Baoguo's master should have obtained the technique and the Five Dragon Soul Chasing Whip from here.
At the bottom right corner of the back wall, there was a door more than three meters wide and six meters high.
On the side of the door, there was a carving: "Five Elements Primordial Technique can enter this door and inherit this old man's inheritance."
He walked in front of the door, and put his hand in a dent on the door.
A surge of spiritual energy of the five elements came from the door, and entered his body through his palm.
This spiritual energy followed his meridians, and then went into his dantian.
Finally, the spiritual energy merged with his body, and disappeared.
With a rumble, the door shook.
The dust that had accumulated for who knew how many years began to fall down. He used the Stainless Technique to sweep away all the dust.
The door finally opened. Inside, there was a passage dozens of meters long, and at the end of the passage, there was a stone room.
Wang Daoyuan walked in front of the door, and pushed it with his hand.
The door didn't have any restrictions, and with a gentle push, it opened.
Looking inside, there was a stone couch in front of the back wall of the stone room.
A skeleton was sitting cross-legged on the couch, the clothes on its body had already decayed and turned to ashes.
Below the couch was a praying mat. Apart from that, there was nothing else in the stone room.
He had heard many stories about high-level cultivators who passed away in meditation and left behind their legacies to attract cultivators of the younger generation to seize the opportunity to possess them.
It was hard to say whether the Five Elements Spiritual Master was sincere in leaving behind his inheritance or if he wanted to possess him.
The previous two doors had been tried by Zhao Baoguo's master. There was no danger, but the situation inside the stone house was hard to say.
After releasing a few Soul-chasing Bees, he didn't find any traps or restrictions.
He summoned his doppelganger, Zhao Baoguo, from the space within the spiritual pearl.
Although more than three hundred years had passed in the space of the Spirit Pearl, the lifespan of the living things in the space was still calculated according to the time in the outside world.
After all, the space of the Spirit Pearl could only be considered a special secret realm in the great world.
The length of one's lifespan was determined by the laws of the great world, and the mystic realm could not change that.
Therefore, the clones in the space were still alive and well.
However, as they were refined into clones, their souls were severely damaged, and their cultivation progress was slow.
The slowest clone, Qi Yun, was originally at the early-stage Qi Refinement realm. Now, it was only at the sixth-stage Qi Refinement realm.
The fastest clone, Liang Zixing, was already at the peak of Qi Refinement realm.
The clone, Zhao Baoguo, was now at the ninth stage of Qi Refinement realm and was about to break through to the peak of Qi Refinement realm.
It just so happened that he also cultivated the Five Elements Primordial Technique, so he could be a pathfinder.
Although his soul would also be finished if his doppelganger was possessed, at least it was better than him being finished.
The clone, Zhao Baoguo, walked into the stone house and searched carefully, but he didn't find anything like an inheritance.
There was only a futon on the ground, facing the remains. Could it be that he wanted someone to kowtow?
It was possible. The first door was to see if the successor had the penta spiritual roots, and the second door was to see if the successor could cultivate the Five Elements Primordial Technique to greater success.
Both of these Daoist Gates tested one's aptitude, and this test was likely to test whether the successor had the heart to respect the master.
If the Five Elements Spiritual Master really only left behind an inheritance and didn't have the intention to possess him, then what he wanted was nothing more than a reputation.
He definitely hoped that his successor would respect his master and spread his name.
He controlled the clone to go over, kneel on the futon, and kowtow three times.
A crack appeared on the stone floor where the clone knocked his head.
The stones near the crack began to move, and the crack became bigger and bigger. Finally, a half-foot square pit appeared.
There was a protruding stone in the pit. The clone pressed the stone with his hand, and the stone wall on the right of the stone house began to vibrate.
After a while, a door appeared on the stone wall.
It was very similar to the door to the mystic realm he had encountered in the east of the Hundred River Lake. There were obvious spatial fluctuations.
Behind this door was very likely another mystic realm.
Following the principle of "releasing the Soul-chasing Bees if there was no solution", he released more than 20 Soul-chasing Bees and entered the door.
Soon, the Soul-chasing Bees sent back news that there was no danger inside.
He let the clone walk in front to block the sabers while he followed behind.
After entering the cave, they walked through a section of the cave and finally arrived at a spacious place.
This was a stone room. There were only two bookshelves in the stone room, one on the left and one on the right. They were placed on the walls of the stone room.
There were books on the left bookshelf, but there weren't many of them. There were only four books.
One of them was similar to the book that recorded the Golden Roc Wrestling Dragon Technique. It was made of some kind of metal, and the contents were directly inscribed on it.
The others were beast-skin books similar to the Ten Thousand Spirits Atlas. The contents were probably also recorded with spiritual sense.
There were many things on the right bookshelf, but they were all jade slips. There were nearly a hundred of them.
If they were all cultivation techniques, spells, and the like, he would have made a huge profit.
How could the things collected by a Golden Core Daoist Master be lacking?
He didn't dare to look directly, as he had to guard against the possibility of being possessed.
He ordered the clone to put all the jade slips and books into a storage pouch. He then put the storage pouch into the space of the spirit pearl.
He had the three clones in the space of the spirit pearl check what was recorded in these jade slips and books.
After some investigation, he found that the metal book recorded the main cultivation technique of the Five Elements Daoist Master — the 《Five Spirits Immortal Art》.
With this book, this trip was worth it.
The three beast-skin books didn't record cultivation techniques or spells.
The names of these three books were 《Biography of the Five Elements Daoist》, 《Experience》, and 《Records of Beiyuan》.
《Biography of the Five Elements Daoist》 was the record of the Five Elements Daoist's life experience.
《Experience》 was his cultivation experience, including the process of his creation, cultivation, and improvement of cultivation techniques.
There was also the experience of practicing the various arts of cultivation, including the inheritance of formations, refining tools, and refining pills.
Among the three major arts of formations, tools, and pills, the inheritance of formations was the highest, reaching the fourth rank upper grade. The inheritance of refining tools was at the third rank middle grade, and the inheritance of refining pills was only at the second rank upper grade.
Generally, Golden Core cultivators would minor in other arts in addition to their main arts.
The Five Elements Daoist's main arts were formations, and his minor arts were refining tools and refining pills.
《Records of Beiyuan》 was the encyclopedia of Beiyuan Xiuxian. It recorded the history of Beiyuan Xiuxian, the geography, the major powers and their inheritances, as well as all kinds of spiritual items.
These four books could be said to be the Five Elements Daoist's life's work.
As for those jade slips, Wang Daoyuan almost died of heartache.
The era that the Five Elements Daoist lived in was too long ago.
And jade slips were the simplest recording tools. They couldn't withstand the test of time, and most of the contents of the jade slips had already disappeared.
A few jade slips that were better preserved only had a few sporadic sentences or even a few words left. They couldn't be cultivated.
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