Above the source of Tao

Where is this place?

I don’t know how much time had passed before Yun Ping’an woke up. He looked around in a daze and saw that his whole body was wet and he was on the shore of a small pond.

He shook his head, trying hard to recall what had happened before.

I remembered that I was fighting with the coyote on the edge of the cliff and fell down together. This should be the bottom of the cliff. I saw something not far away. It was...

Yun Ping'an was about to get up to check, but he clearly felt a sharp pain in his thigh. He touched his thigh and it was extremely painful, as if it was broken!

He reached out and hooked the vine beside him to pull it into silk, and then took a few wooden boards to bandage himself. After checking, he found that except for his thigh, other parts of his body were also in pain.

He endured the pain and climbed up. He felt around his chest and found that the elixir his grandfather had left for him was not thrown away.

He was lucky, not dying at the hands of the coyote, nor falling from such a high place. He stood up with difficulty, dragging his injured thigh towards the thing not far away. He looked closely and saw that it was the coyote, which was already dead and lying on the ground motionless. He looked up and saw that the sky was covered with white mist.

"This coyote is not as lucky as me. It fell on a rock and died." Yun Chang'an murmured.

Looking around, I found that this was an abyss. There was a waterfall on the mountainside in the distance to the east. The waterfall kept flowing upwards and gathered at the bottom to form a small pool. The water was not deep, only a few feet.

Yun Chang'an searched everywhere for a way out of the abyss, but he couldn't find one. He only discovered that there seemed to be a faint light flickering under the waterfall on the east side. If it weren't for careful observation, it would be impossible to detect it.

"There seems to be something there."

Yun Chang'an walked into the light and found that it was actually a cave. The space inside the cave was not big, only a few feet in radius. In the middle of the cave there was a broken wooden table. On the table stood an ancient lamp with a strange shape like a gourd. On the top of the gourd was a small round plate with a drop of silver-gray liquid in it. The light just now was emitted from here.

It was not until we walked deeper into the cave that we saw a stone chair at the very end of the cave, on which sat a dried corpse with a broken sword stuck in its chest. The corpse was leaning to one side, and it was unknown how long it had been dead.

Yun Chang'an was a little scared, but he still plucked up the courage to approach the corpse. After a closer look, he found a package next to the corpse, which was bulging with some things.

Yun Chang'an then took three steps back, placed his hands in front of his chest, bowed deeply to the corpse, and said respectfully, "I was in danger today and accidentally entered the place where the immortals passed away. I apologize for disturbing you, senior."

Yun Changan stared at the package for a long time before deciding to pick it up. There was very little in the package, only a tattered book and a short knife.

I opened the book and saw "Liu Shan Yunyou Zhi" written on the title page. "It turned out to be the diary of the senior, which records the life and deeds of the senior Liu Shan. He was originally the son of the Liu family, born with a natural fire element bone, and worshipped Taoism to embark on a journey of seeking immortality. But he was indifferent to fame and fortune all his life, and liked to travel around and make friends. He recorded his life experiences in this book "Liu Shan Yunyou Zhi"."

Turning to the back of the travelogue, it wrote about the strange stories he encountered in his life. On one page, the book wrote, "I have a close friend named Huang Daoyou. I also heard that there is a secret realm, so I took my friends to explore the secret realm. This secret realm is very dangerous and I was almost dead. Fortunately, Huang Daoyou risked his life to protect me and I escaped from danger. I got an ancient lamp from the secret realm. After I left the secret realm, I was targeted by a group of evil people. They asked us to hand over the ancient lamp. I refused, so they joined forces to attack us. I fled all the way here and was seriously injured. I know that I am seriously injured, my soul is shattered, and my Taoist bones are broken. I will not live long. I hope that someone with a destiny can take this ancient lamp away from here. Finally, it says that you must not enter this secret realm unless you return to the unity!"

I turned the page again, only to find that the writing had stopped, the page was blank, and there was a trace of blood on the paper.

"Is it the lamp on the table? Is there anything special about this lamp? And what is Guiyi?"

After studying it for a long time, Yun Chang'an didn't find anything special, but the silver-gray liquid on the top of the lamp was about to slide into the gourd.

Afterwards, Yun Changan found a torch from somewhere and lit it, and the liquid on the top of the ancient lamp happened to fall into the gourd. He looked with one eye, but he didn't see the drop of liquid in the gourd lamp, it disappeared out of thin air.

I looked for a long time but couldn't find where the drop of liquid went.

"Forget it. I haven't taken the pill my grandpa gave me yet. My grandpa said that this elixir can make a mortal who has no primordial bones grow primordial bones. I don't know if it will work." So he took out the small square box from his arms, put the dark red pill into his mouth and started chewing it.

“That’s nothing.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he began to feel hot inside and his bones felt like they were being punched intentionally.

Yun Chang'an was in great pain, his face was horrible, he curled up on the ground, rolling from side to side.

After the pain in his spine, he felt a burning sensation in all the bones in his body. This body now felt as if someone was cutting his flesh and scraping his bones with a knife. The slightest movement would bring him excruciating pain.

But after a while, the pain of scraping bones suddenly disappeared, and Yun Chang'an lay on the ground, gasping for breath.

Is this bone replacement? It was so painful. It took a long time for the pain to go away. I checked myself and found that I seemed to be stronger. The injury on my thigh also healed and no longer hurt.

The energy between heaven and earth seems to exist and not exist, which may be the benefit brought by this pill.

Then, he picked up the ancient lamp gourd and observed it. Senior Liu Shan lost his life for him. What was so special about this lamp? There was a hole on the top of the lamp. He looked inside with his eyes. In an instant, a silver light entered Yun Changan's eyes, and then he fell to the ground and fainted.

At this time, in a palace of Yang Sect on Qingyun Mountain, a faint purple light flashed on the boundary monument of Kaiyuan Bone. After a while, the purple light dissipated, and an extra line of words appeared in the list of boundary monuments - there is a Kaiyuan Bone in Shanglin City.

In Shanglin City, another young man gave birth to Yuan Gu. When the elder guarding the monument saw this, he murmured in his heart, "What's wrong with Shanglin City? Several people have given birth to Yuan Gu in the past few days. It's strange." Without further delay, he notified the head of the sect to send disciples down the mountain to take these young men to participate in the sect entry test.

The elder guarding the stele whistled to call a magpie, and put a letter in the magpie's mouth. After receiving the letter, the magpie spread its wings and flew away to deliver the message.