On the Avenue.

Chapter 639 One Sword Overturns All
The healing medicine from Jin'ao Island was of poor quality. Chen Shi, Uncle Jiao, and the others lay in bed for four or five days before their injuries had only healed by about 20-30%, but the elixir in the jade bottle had already been used up.

Without any healing elixirs, they could only activate their own immortal energy to promote wound healing.

Chen Shi asked, "Is our Jin'ao Island so poor? You don't even have enough medicine for injuries."

Uncle Jiao said, "It's not that we're poor, it's just that we don't have any money."

Chen Shi glanced at Jiang Guo lying beside him; Jiang Guo had said something similar.

It is evident that Jiang Guo learned from his senior brother Jiao.

Senior Sister Jingmei explained, "Penglai West is the Jade Purity Holy Land, rich in Jade Purity spiritual energy, with immortal plants everywhere and countless kinds of precious minerals and rare stones. However, the crisis back then caused the holy land to be polluted. Although there are many immortal medicines and rare treasures now, they have either become withered or been contaminated by heretics and can no longer be used. The reason why Jin'ao Island can still be maintained is because of the help from several senior brothers who are outside."

Jiang Guo, who was lying next to her, said, "Senior Sister, you can earn a lot of money by working as a Heavenly Soldier in the Heavenly Soldier Camp. The Heavenly Soldier Camp pays quite well. I worked there for more than half a year, and after my daily cultivation, I still had a surplus of my monthly salary."

"Really?" Jingmei and Qiao Gu were both pleasantly surprised.

Qiao Gu said, "I've heard people say that unless one is desperate, who would become a heavenly soldier? The food is poor, the work is heavy, the monthly salary is low, and it's dangerous. Li Tianwang of the Heavenly Court is no good person. I heard that when he led his troops into battle, 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals were eaten by demons in one bite."

Jiang Guodao said, "I didn't encounter these things when I was in the Heavenly Army Camp. On the contrary, I had nothing to do and just received my monthly salary on time."

Jingmei and Qiao Gu were very interested. Jingmei said, "If there is nothing wrong on Jin'ao Island, we will go to the Heavenly Army Camp for a while."

"Senior Sister, the Heavenly Soldiers' Camp also provides elixirs; I can't even finish them all," Jiang Guo said.

Chen Shi struggled to retrieve a spiritual pill from Fuluo Village, focused his mind on refining it, and concentrated on sensing Xiniu New Continent. After a while, Xiniu New Continent gradually became clear, floating above him. Chen Shi said, "Longyou Sanren, Mudaozi, gather some earth-treasure spiritual roots and refine some healing medicine."

Xiniu New Island.

Longyou Sanren, Mudaozi, and others were already immortals who had attained the Dao and held extremely high positions. On this day, at the gathering of the immortals, Longyou Sanren was giving a sermon and imparting the Dao to the immortals when suddenly the sky opened up, the clouds appeared, and Chen Shi’s loud voice came from within the layers of golden clouds.

Upon hearing this, Longyou Sanren bowed and said, "I obey the decree."

He hurriedly left the gathering of wandering cultivators and arrived at Qianyang Mountain. Mu Daozi, Shao Niangniang, and Pei Sanren had already arrived there. The four wandering cultivators gathered together, picked local treasures and spiritual roots, prepared medicinal materials, and then lit the Crimson Yuan Pill Furnace to refine spiritual pills.

Half a day later, they finished refining the elixir. Lady Shao burned incense and prayed, "Master, the elixir has been refined. Please accept the elixir."

The incense smoke rose gently, and Chen Shi sensed her prayer. With a slight thought, he saw the elixir float in the air, flying faster and faster until it disappeared.

Chen Shi raised his hand and made a grasping motion, and many elixirs flew over and landed in his hand.

He distributed the pills to everyone. These pills were extraordinary, made from earth-treasure spiritual roots, and their effects were many times better than those of the pills from Jin'ao Island. Before long, everyone was able to get up and move around.

Two more days passed, and they were moving around as usual, but they still needed to rest more.

"Could there be a sacred land within Junior Brother's Dao Realm?"

Qiao Gu inquired, "Does your holy land perhaps contain many precious earth spirit roots? I've heard that precious earth spirit roots are extremely rare and valuable."

Chen Shi humbly replied, "I am somewhat famous outside because of my earth-treasure spiritual root."

Jiang Guo praised, "Junior Brother ranks first on the Zhuxian Ranking! Second place goes to Black Pot."

Qiao Gu said, "I have heard of this matter."

He looked envious: "My ranking on the Immortal Execution Ranking isn't as high as yours, Junior Brother."

Senior Sister Jingmei asked, "Junior Brother, do you have quite a few disciples in your Dao Realm?"

Chen Shi said, "I don't have many disciples, but the population is in the billions."

Everyone was shocked.

Chen Shi asked in confusion, "Senior Sister, are there no mortals in your Dao Realm?"

Senior Sister Jingmei said, "There are some, but very few. Our Dao Realm is in the west of Penglai, a place polluted by heretics. It's difficult for people there to survive. Only after becoming a Dao Realm cultivator does life get a little better. But as long as the heretics aren't eliminated, life will still be difficult."

Chen Shi's heart stirred slightly. His ability to restrain the Yuan Worm was to unite with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, which might be able to solve Penglai West's predicament.

A few days later, everyone's injuries gradually healed. Chen Shi had no distractions and focused on deducing the Hongmeng Split move.

This time, risking total annihilation, he finally got a glimpse into the mysteries of the primordial chaos's division, no longer completely in the dark. With a clue, deducing the division of the primordial chaos became much easier.

"The Hongmeng splitting is in line with the Hunyuan Daojing. It turns out that the Hunyuan Daojing, when cultivated to the Hunyuan state, is the Hongmeng."

Chen Shi suddenly realized that the discussion of Hunyuan in the Hunyuan Dao Jing could be corroborated by the division of Hongmeng.

"The Daoist scriptures say that in the past, heaven and earth were about to compete, and the days and nights were chaotic. Dragons and snakes were angry with each other, and the sea and mountains collapsed and ran away."

Chen Shi fell into deep thought, reciting softly, "All movements are stirred and disturbed, turning into a turbulent flow. When the numbers reach their extremes, the struggle subsides, and the great harmony steams the primordial chaos. Suddenly, one breath splits into two, erecting the heavens and the earth. This one breath suddenly splits into two, the two being yin and yang, then what is the one?"

"Zheng——"

A sword rang out, and a mysterious yellow sword aura descended from the sky, stopping between his fingers and palm. Chen Shi stared at this sword aura.

The Xuanhuang sword energy has been repeatedly tempered in the sword-nurturing gourd, and now it has been refined into the shape of a pool of water, except that the water is sometimes turbid and sometimes clear, and its color is ever-changing.

“From the primordial primordial energy of Xuanhuang, the two energies of Xuanhuang are born. These two energies evolve into heaven and earth. These two energies of Xuanhuang are the energies of Yin and Yang. Therefore, the state of the primordial primordial energy of Yin and Yang is the innate primordial energy.”

His eyes flashed, and he comprehended four states from the Yin-Yang principle: harmony, transformation, mutual assistance, and primordial chaos. Master Zhang comprehended a fifth state: rootlessness.

However, being rootless is more like a cultivation of one's Daoist heart, allowing the Dao of Yin and Yang to evolve naturally without human intervention, thereby obtaining the true essence of the Great Dao.

The "One Qi" mentioned in Taoist scriptures refers to a state of primordial chaos.

"That's it, that's it."

He had a profound awakening, integrating all that he had learned and understood before. He immediately sat cross-legged and, with the mindset of a rootless tree, began to circulate the Primordial Dao Scripture once more, allowing the Yin and Yang energies to evolve from harmony to transformation, then to mutual assistance, and finally to primordial chaos.

When the state of primordial chaos is reached, the mind of the rootless tree allows the primordial chaos to evolve autonomously. Yin and Yang flow together, indistinguishable from one another. The state presented is similar to that of the primordial energy of Xuanhuang, seemingly chaotic and vast, yet containing infinite possibilities.

This is the primordial energy.

A state of spiritual energy that existed before heaven and earth!
His immortal essence and his great Dao were constantly transforming towards the innate realm, and his Dao field was also slowly transforming into an innate Dao field.

Those still healing in Caiwei Palace suddenly sensed that Chen Shi seemed different, but when their gazes fell upon him, they found no change. In Daoxu, Emperor Changchun, Lady Yuanjun, and others felt a connection and looked in the same direction—that was where Chen Shi's Dao realm was located.

Their cultivation was powerful, and they seemed to be able to see through Chen Shi's Dao realm. They saw that there was a natural and complete Qi in that Dao realm, like the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, flowing in the Dao realm, which made them all somewhat surprised and uncertain.

What happened at the landlord's house?

They were very curious, but without Chen Shi's invitation, they could not enter Chen Shi's Dao Realm to see the changes that had occurred there.

If they were to force their way in, it would likely incur Chen Shi's displeasure. After all, Chen Shi was still the local lord of Daoxu and deserved due respect.

In Chen Shi's other Dao Realm, the Demon Realm in the Well, a Primordial Qi also formed, like the morning glow hanging on the Blood Tree. Even though the Blood Tree's external power was astonishing, it could not shake the Primordial Qi.

In Xiniu New Continent, Chen Tang, Yang Bi, and others also looked up and saw the Primordial Qi descending from the sky and falling into the mortal world.

They rushed over, and when they arrived, they saw that the strange spiritual energy landed and formed mountains, floating like immortal mountains. When it touched the grass and trees, it turned them into Ganoderma lucidum, full of immortal energy. When it fell into the streams and springs, it turned into spiritual springs and streams.

A sacred place for cultivation was thus formed.

Master Zhang also arrived at this place and saw the scene of the primordial energy landing and transforming into a sacred land, full of spiritual energy. He couldn't help but praise, "Master Chen has made another step forward in his state of mind under the Rootless Tree. He truly deserves to be the top scholar of Xiniu New Continent. It is commendable that he has made such progress in such a short time."

Upon hearing this, Chen Tang, Yang Bi, and the others were all shocked. Yang Bi said, "This sacred land is the creation of King Chen Zhen?"

Master Zhang shook his head and said, “It cannot be called creation, but rather the manifestation of his Great Dao. This Xiniu New Continent is his Dao realm. The method he cultivates is to combine the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth with my Dao. Therefore, when his Dao achieves something, the Dao will nourish Xiniu New Continent. He comprehended the wonders of the innate, which is why the innate Qi fell down and transformed into an innate holy land.”

Only after he said that did everyone understand.

Yang Bi's expression shifted between light and dark. After a moment, he said, "I cultivate within Chen Shi's Dao Realm. No matter how hard I work or how high my talent and comprehension are, I can only comprehend his Dao. I can never catch up with him, let alone surpass him. I should leave Xiniu New Continent and seek another path to find the Dao that transcends him."

Li Tianqing said, "I'll go with you!"

The two could have already achieved Dao and ascended to immortality long ago, but the reason they haven't done so yet is that they feel that Xiniu New Continent is Chen Shi's Dao realm. If they were to achieve Dao in Xiniu New Continent, wouldn't that be equivalent to achieving Dao in Chen Shi?

They were proud and arrogant, so naturally they were unwilling to do so.

They had initially hesitated to leave Xiniu New Continent, but after witnessing the fall of the innate energy and its transformation into a sacred land, they made up their minds to leave.

“We can first merge with the Dao in Xiniu New Continent, and after ascending to the Earthly Immortal Realm, we can disperse the Dao merging ground in Xiniu New Continent and merge with the Dao in the Earthly Immortal Realm.”

The two discussed, "At that time, we will be immortals of the Earthly Immortal Realm, not immortals of Xiniu New Continent."

They had already made their plans and would each meet at Xiniu New Island.

After they completed their Dao integration, the two looked longingly at the sky. There was no ascension glow in the sky, nor any strange power that crossed time and space to pull them to the Earthly Immortal Realm.

They couldn't even sense the Immortal Realm!

Yang Bi and Li Tianqing looked at each other in disbelief; they had never expected things to turn out this way!
"There is only one way now: we build a ship and leave the Dark Sea!" Yang Bi said decisively.

On Jin'ao Island, Chen Shi had just mastered the Innate Qi. Suddenly, the images of Yang Bi and Li Tianqing appeared in his mind. He was surprised and wondered why he had suddenly thought of these two people.

He sensed it carefully, and after a moment he realized that it was Tianji Ce who sensed that the two had merged into immortals, which triggered his senses.

"The Heavenly Secrets Mark has such effects?"

Chen Shi didn't take it to heart. He raised his hand and pointed, and the Xuanhuang sword energy in front of him flew up with his fingertip.

Chen Shi steadied himself by putting his other hand behind his back. His sword energy surged forth, and instantly the surrounding earth, water, wind, and fire collapsed, the heavens and earth were overturned, the Great Dao ceased to exist, and he transformed into a primordial state!
He unleashed his sword technique, splitting the primordial chaos, and boundless Dao power erupted from the sword light!
Uncle Jiao, Qiao Gu, Jiang Guo and others were alarmed and came out of Caiwei Palace. They saw a vast and chaotic scene in front of Caiwei Palace, with earth, water, wind and fire in disarray. Suddenly, a sword light tore through the chaos and opened up the sky.

That light was brighter than countless suns, splitting the primordial chaos, separating the black and white, and evolving heaven and earth!

It was a sword strike that contained boundless vitality, yet its power was so terrifying!
"He really figured it out," Master Jiao murmured.

Chen Shi sheathed his sword, turned to look at them, and gave them a gentle look.

"Fellow senior brothers and sisters, I'll teach you this sword technique." His voice came.

Uncle Jiao opened his mouth. Chen Shi was a disciple of Jin'ao Island who had not yet entered the sect. He had not yet passed the assessment and was not yet considered a disciple of Jin'ao Island, yet he was going to teach them swordsmanship!

"study!"

Master Jiao gritted his teeth, thinking to himself, "Why not learn it if it's a waste!"

He swallowed his pride, leaned on his cane, and limped along behind the crowd to Chen Shi's side, where he listened to Chen Shi explain the relationship between the Hunyuan Daojing and the Hongmeng split.

However, when Chen Shi shared his knowledge and insights, the audience still found it difficult to understand him at first.

Chen Shi had no choice but to start by explaining the two energies of Yin and Yang, gradually moving from the basics to the more complex ones.

Even the Yin and Yang energies are extremely profound subjects, but the people of Jin'ao Island have already gained some understanding of them. In addition, everyone's talent is frighteningly high, so it is not very difficult for them to comprehend them.

"This year's senior students are not difficult to manage." Chen Shi was very pleased.

However, it is not something that can be accomplished overnight. Chen Shi was able to perform this move not only because of the Rootless Mind State taught by Master Zhang, but also because of the Xuanhuang Dao Pattern of Empress Houtu.

It is not easy to understand these two things.

The people of Jin'ao Island worked day and night, diligently studying the Hongmeng Analysis. Chen Shi, having nothing else to do, simply came to the Sandao Cliff alone and once again walked into the cliff face.

This time it went even more smoothly than the last time. He fought his way through and arrived at the ninth move, the Primordial Chaos Split.

Chen Shi offered his sword, which collided with the sword light on the cliff. He used the principle of "Hongmeng splitting" to counter "Hongmeng splitting". When the sword lights were annihilated, the cliff returned to calm.

Chen Shi sheathed the 108 sword energies and stepped into the Master's place of enlightenment.

The brush-washing pond came into view, the ink stains not yet dispersed. Beside the pond was a tea table with brushes, ink, paper, inkstones, a pot of tea, and two teacups, each containing tea.

Chen Shi raised his hand and touched it; it was still warm.

He picked up his teacup, drank it all in one gulp, and sat down.

(End of this chapter)