On the Avenue.

Chapter 640 Primordial Chaos Limitless Innate Skill

Chen Shi closed his eyes, activated his immortal energy, and refined the cup of tea within his body.

After a moment, he opened his eyes and muttered, "It's just an ordinary cup of tea."

He had assumed that the cup of tea left by the Master must contain some secret, and that drinking it would greatly enhance his cultivation or even transform him. However, after drinking it and practicing it, he realized that he had been thinking too much.

Chen Shi surveyed his surroundings. Sitting here felt like sitting in a well; looking up at the sky, it seemed no bigger than the well's opening. All around were verdant mountains covered in vegetation. This place was untouched by outside influences; the air was fresher than anywhere else.

Jin'ao Island and Penglai West are permeated with an unpleasant aura of heretics, which is unbearable for ordinary people and cultivators, and is also an unsuitable place for immortals to live.

“Master can expel heretics! The method he used is not my method of aligning with the Dao,” Chen Shixin said.

On the tea table, the calligraphy brush looked as if it had just been washed, hanging on the brush holder, with a drop of water still clinging to its tip.

The ink from the brush-washing pool slowly spread outwards, and the tea in the pot was warm.

There was another piece of calligraphy in front of him, held down by a paperweight, the ink on the paper still wet.

It seems like just a moment ago the Master was sitting here, painting a picture, washing his brush and inkstone, and brewing a pot of tea while waiting for the ink to dry. But an unexpected event occurred, and he left in a hurry without even having time to drink his tea.

"But why did the Master pour two cups of tea? Who is the other cup for?"

Chen Shi poured himself a cup of tea and looked at the calligraphy and paintings.

The painting depicts a landscape, with the inscription "The wise find joy in water, the benevolent find joy in mountains" beside it.

The mountain was not the mountain of Jin'ao Island; its shape was peculiar. The water, however, was the water of the Dark Sea, pitch black.

Chen Shi was slightly taken aback: "The mountain that Master painted is in the Dark Sea? He has been to the Dark Sea?"

He examined it closely. This mountain must be an isolated island in the Dark Sea. It was beautiful and majestic, with a building on it, a green palace with glazed tiles, only a corner of which was visible under the cover of the forest.

"The Master disappeared, could he have gone to this place?" he wondered.

He examined the landscape painting repeatedly but found nothing else of value. After a moment's thought, he memorized the painting.

Chen Shi sat down at the tea table and calmed his mind.

This place is where Confucius attained enlightenment. The cultivation methods of Jin'ao Island are not passed down in writing. Most of the methods are passed down by disciples who come to the foot of the Sandao Cliff, walk along the Sandao Cliff, and sense the place where Confucius attained enlightenment within the Sandao Cliff.

Different people, standing in different positions, receive different inheritances.

Jiang Guo, Jing Mei, Qiao Gu, and others each practiced different cultivation methods and supernatural abilities.

They received unparalleled inheritance even on the periphery. What kind of inheritance will Chen Shi receive when he comes to the place of enlightenment of the Master?
The moment Chen Shi calmed his mind, he felt as if he had transformed into the Master, comprehending the meaning of Hunyuan and the Great Dao.

He sat at the center of the world, and the world around him began to collapse. The earth shattered, the sky shattered, and the void swirled with surging earth, water, wind, and fire, spinning wildly around him!
Jin'ao Island no longer exists, Penglai West no longer exists, and the Immortal Realm no longer exists.

Only the unified universe, the Great Dao, transcends wind, rain, thunder, and lightning; it transcends the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams; it transcends Yin and Yang and Tai Chi; it is simply the unified universe.

The so-called Heavenly Way, Earthly Way, Human Way, and Sword Way are all encompassed within the Primordial Chaos. Various Great Daos of different attributes merge here, indistinguishable from one another, as if they had no attributes at all.

The concept of Yin and Yang in their primordial state is already extremely difficult to comprehend. All other great Daos also exhibit a state of primordial chaos, merging together, which is beyond Chen Shi's comprehension.

Unconsciously, he recalled the Wuji Diagram he had seen in the well of the Earth God Houtu.

That Wuji Diagram integrates the power of the Eight Trigrams of Emperor Fuxi, forming the Wuji image of the Eight Trigrams.

But what we see before us is a scene of primordial chaos.

It goes a step further than the Eight Trigrams and the Limitless.

Chen Shi sat there, contemplating everything the Master had realized. After an unknown amount of time, the surging chaos before his eyes gradually slowed down, and the slowly rotating earth, water, wind, and fire returned to their original positions. Heaven and earth were pieced together like a Lu Ban lock, without a single crack.

All the chaotic and primordial laws of heaven and earth returned to their original state, leaving only Chen Shi sitting there quietly.

Chen Shi gently closed his eyes, recalling what he had just seen and felt.

Within his body, the Hunyuan Dao Scripture became exceptionally active. This cultivation method, originating from Jin'ao Island, was the most widely circulated, and anyone could learn and practice it. However, precisely because it was so widely spread, very few people actually mastered it to its full potential.

"Hun Yuan is the primordial Qi, the Hong Meng, which is the 'One' mentioned in the Daoist scriptures. Achieving 'One' is only the starting point; one must also reach 'Wu Ji' (the limitless). Wu Ji is boundless and limitless, neither born nor dying."

In his mind, the Hunyuan Dao Jing became more vast and obscure. It was no longer Yin-Yang Hunyuan, but Hunyuan Wuji, encompassing all the great Daos he had comprehended, such as Yin-Yang, the Five Elements, the Eight Trigrams of Fuxi, and so on.

The Demonic Path's Profound Yin Nine Heavens Technique, the Immortal Path's Great Wilderness Bright Path Collection, and the Great Shang Dynasty's Undying Immortal Technique were all integrated into the Primordial Chaos Limitless Innate Skill.

In the past, Chen Shi organized various cultivation methods from the True King's Treasury, deciphered various methods from the Great Shang Dynasty, and gradually integrated the cultivation methods from Despair Slope into Hunyuan Wuji, which became the nourishment for the Innate Skill.

The more cultivation techniques one has seen, the more profound the Dao one understands, and the stronger the Primordial Chaos Limitless Innate Skill becomes!

This technique is all-encompassing, seemingly able to integrate and absorb any Taoist method, transforming it into nourishment to enhance the power of innate Qi.

However, Chen Shi encountered difficulties when he tried to integrate the first principle of the external path into the Innate Skill.

His Hunyuan Wuji could not absorb the first Dao principle.

"The demonic path is also an unorthodox path, so why can it be integrated into the Primordial Chaos Innate Skill, but not the First Principle?"

Chen Shi frowned slightly. The first one was the external Dao law that he had comprehended in the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth in Xiniu New Continent. The Earth Immortal Realm did not have this kind of Great Dao, but the Earth Immortal Realm had the Demonic Dao. Could this be the reason?
He continued to sit at the tea table, contemplating the Daoist tradition left by the Master, gradually enriching his innate skills. He only stopped when he had no further insights.

During this time, Chen Shi finished the tea in the teapot, glanced at the landscape painting left by the Master a few times to make sure he hadn't misremembered, washed the teapot and teacups, tidied up the place, and then left.

Uncle Jiao, Jing Mei, and the others were still focused on recovering from their injuries and were unaware that he had been to the Sandao Cliff.

Senior Sister Jingmei was the first to recover from her injuries. As she walked out of Caiwei Palace, she suddenly smelled a strange fragrance. She limped along the scent and soon arrived at the Spirit Garden outside Biyou Palace. She was stunned by what she saw.

In the spirit garden, the dozens of immortal herbs they had planted over the years were now flourishing, and the Ferghana flowers among them were even blooming!

Senior Sister Jingmei remembers seeing this Ferghana flower on the day she entered the sect. At that time, the Ferghana flower was sickly and withered, and that was ten thousand years ago.

For the next ten thousand years, this Fagopyrum plant remained sickly and never bloomed!

On Jin'ao Island, the elixirs are made by picking the remaining leaves of the plant, one leaf at a time, for fear that picking even one more leaf will kill the plant.

I never expected that the Fagopyrum cylindrica would bloom, and there was more than one flower!
It bloomed with five flowers! "The Dayuan flower is used in medicine for its petals, not its leaves! Five flowers, how many batches of Golden Immortal Dao-Attaining Pills can be made from them?" Senior Sister Jingmei's heart pounded wildly.

She also saw other celestial herbs growing incredibly vigorously. These herbs used to be sickly and looked like they could die at any moment, but now they are not only growing strong, but even flowering and bearing fruit!
"Jingmei, this is..."

Senior Sister Jingmei turned around and saw that Qiao Gu's injuries had improved a lot. He had appeared behind her at some point and was staring blankly at the spiritual garden.

Senior Sister Jingmei shook her head and said, "I don't know what happened in the Spirit Garden either. When I came here, I saw these immortal herbs in this state... Oh right, the Immortal Void Well!"

She hurriedly limped towards the celestial well beside the spirit garden. This well was called Celestial Void, and it was rich in celestial energy, an extremely high-level celestial energy. Legend has it that looking into this well, one would not see the surface of water, but another celestial realm, hence the name Celestial Void, meaning that there is another celestial realm within the well.

However, after being polluted by heretics, the spiritual energy produced by the Immortal Void Well became quite mixed, containing various kinds of strange spiritual energy, including demonic energy, evil energy, and bad luck, making the well water undrinkable.

Well water would not be used to irrigate the cemetery unless absolutely necessary.

But when Senior Sister Jingmei arrived at the well and looked into it, she saw that the well was sparkling with light, and there was a fairy light emanating from the water, with fairy mountains floating in the air, as if there was another fairyland!
Senior Sister Jingmei was stunned.

At this moment, Qiao Gu's voice came from another direction, trembling as he said, "Junior Sister Jing, come quickly!"

He was so excited that he aggravated his old injury and started coughing violently.

Senior Sister Jingmei rushed over to the sound and saw Qiao Gu standing blankly in front of the Jade Purity Spring on the other side of Biyou Palace. At this moment, the Jade Purity Spring was clear, and the water droplets falling from the sky were as crystal clear as jade, containing a rich immortal aura.

Just by smelling the moisture, Senior Sister Jingmei felt warm all over, and all 84,000 pores on her body opened to absorb spiritual energy.

She also heard various strange Taoist sounds, as if she were about to gain enlightenment.

Her voice trembled with excitement: "Has Yuqing Daoquan regained its former glory?"

"should be."

Qiao Gu tried to absorb a drop of Dao Spring water and immediately felt his immortal energy surge. A single drop of immortal liquid contained boundless power. If it weren't for his unfathomable cultivation, this drop of immortal liquid would probably have caused him to burst!

At the same time, the Daoist chanting that reached his ears was even more magnificent. This chanting was the Daoist practice he was cultivating, but it was even more profound.

This is precisely the wonderful use of Daoquan water.

He had only heard of this wonderful use, but had never seen it before; this was the first time he had ever seen it.

Why did this happen at the Jade Purity Spring and the Immortal Void Well?

They looked at each other in bewilderment when suddenly Jiang Guo's scream rang out. The two rushed over and saw that on another mountain peak, the Heavenly Origin Dao Tree on Jade Mirror Peak had become lush and verdant, and the Heavenly Origin Dao Flowers on the tree had bloomed in full glory.

This Heavenly Origin Dao Tree was half-dead before, and sometimes it would act strangely, sneaking up to the main peak in the middle of the night, intending to "absorb" a few of its fellow disciples from Golden Turtle Island to fatten itself up.

Master Jiao called it possession.

“This Taoist tree has been invaded by heretics and is possessed. It is sometimes lucid and sometimes confused,” said Master Jiao.

It seems that Tianyuan Daoshu's possession by evil spirits has been cured!
"Junior Brother Jiang, what's going on?" Qiao Gu asked.

Jiang Guo was also bewildered, shaking his head and saying, "I don't know either. When I came here, the Heavenly Origin Dao Tree was already like this."

At this moment, Master Jiao's voice came: "The evil dragon of Longyuan seems to have come back to life!"

They rushed over and arrived at the Dragon Abyss between the two mountains. There they saw a monstrous dragon at the bottom of the abyss, its body ferocious and its back bulging. Using its bony spikes and barbs, it slowly crawled through the abyss, guarding the treasure land below.

There is a rumor on Jin'ao Island that Longyuan is an extremely important place in the Western Holy Land of Penglai. It is the place where the Three Pure Ones refined treasures, and a wicked dragon guards the treasure land, waiting for the magical treasures inside to mature.

However, later, external forces polluted the spiritual energy of this place, ruining the sacred site. The evil dragon died in the deepest part of Dragon Abyss, and its magical treasure was probably destroyed long ago.

Unexpectedly, that evil dragon actually came back to life!

"If the evil dragon comes back to life, then the magical treasures crafted by the Three Pure Ones..." Qiao Gu's heart pounded as he spoke.

Master Jiao said, "The treasure lands on Jin'ao Island are all reviving; there must be a reason. Let's go and take a look at other places!"

Each of them took flight and arrived at the next treasure land, which was called Chuihua Pavilion. From a distance, it looked like a hanging flower tower, but upon closer inspection, it was actually flowers blooming in the air, growing in the shape of hanging flowers.

The flowers in the original hanging flower pavilion had long since withered, but now they are in full bloom, a truly beautiful sight.

"Go to Huangtiedao Mine!"

They rushed to the mine, only to find that the mineral deposits, which had been polluted by outsiders, had once again regained their ethereal beauty!

"Could it be that the influence of heretics on Penglai Xi has dissipated?"

The group hurriedly took flight, standing high in the sky, looking in all directions. They saw that the western part of Penglai was vast and boundless, the Daoist temples were all dark and gloomy, demons were everywhere, and black winds were rising. There were also immortal cities guarding each place.

The heretical sects of Penglai West have not disappeared.

"It must have been done by Chen Shi."

Master Jiao's heart stirred slightly as he recalled the changes in Jiang Guo's small village. He said, "Chen Shi has the ability to resolve the heretical forces. It must have been him who restored my Jin'ao Island to its former state."

He was filled with emotion. Chen Shi had not even officially become a disciple of Jin'ao Island yet, but he had already brought about such great changes to the island, making him feel inferior to him.

Today, Jin'ao Island is truly a sacred place, no less so than the sacred place of the Sanqing Sect!
If the pollution of the heretical sects in the entire western part of Penglai can be cleansed, this place will definitely be the top holy land in the Earthly Immortal Realm, in no way inferior to the Three Pure Ones Holy Land!

"But where is Junior Brother Chen now?" Senior Sister Jingmei asked.

The group searched frantically, but only found the black pot and the gourd dog; they did not find Chen Shi.

Jiang Guo, who had observed more carefully, said, "Junior Brother Chen must have gone to Penglai West to try to find more treasures. You see, after he left Jin'ao Island, he also dealt with a heretic outside."

As everyone looked, they indeed saw a place that was different from the others. The heretics had been eliminated, and the place had become a beautiful and pleasant place.

Senior Sister Jingmei's expression changed instantly, and she leaped into the air: "Penglai West is extremely dangerous, I'm going to find him!"

—Thanks to Mr. Zhao the Passerby, Minzi, Wind Blows Through the Martial World, and Abyss Walks Alone for their generous donations.

(End of this chapter)