Primordial Qi

The four major sects have a profound heritage, including the Lingmu Secret Realm, the Tianxing Secret Realm, the Haoyue Secret Realm and the Zhanwu Secret Realm. These four secret realms are different from each other. The one that Old Man Bai went to is the Tianxing Secret Realm.

The Tianxing Secret Realm seems to be a huge teleportation array. People who go there to train feel like they are in an alien star. It is full of all kinds of weirdness. Once you enter the secret realm, it is pitch dark with only a faint light that no one knows where it comes from. When you look up, you can't see any stars. It seems like a dead place.

According to the old man, the space there is strange and devoid of any life. If you step into it, your body will involuntarily float in the air, and you will not be able to land without adding weight to it, such as the Qianjun Talisman. Although there are no magical medicines in the secret realm, the materials there are very rare and are perfect for making weapons.

The secret realm of Haoyue Sect is more about the comprehension of laws. It is a secret realm that only the Venerable can go to. If the comprehension is successful, it can be used as the basis of the laws when breaking through to the heaven and man. There are two most precious laws in the Haoyue Secret Realm. One of the comprehended laws is called the law of tides, which can change the gravity nearby. A task as heavy as a thousand pounds or as light as a feather is just a thought away.

The one that Zhan Wuzong possessed was a secret manual of martial arts, inside which there was a huge tower. The founder of the sect obtained a supreme method from it and thus established a huge force. Because of the name of the sect, it was blackmailed by the Da Wu Dynasty and many of the martial arts secrets were taken away by them.

The secret realm of Lingmu Sect is home to a large amount of spiritual medicines. In just sixty years, one can produce six thousand year old spiritual medicines, so the efficacy of the medicines is extremely strong.

The quality of spiritual medicine is usually described by its age, not how many years it has actually grown. The most important thing about the time law of the Spirit Wood Secret Realm is that it increases the speed at which the medicinal materials absorb spiritual power a hundred times, thus achieving a powerful medicinal effect. However, if a cultivator enters and uses spiritual power, he will age rapidly, or even turn into bones.

The secret realms of the four major sects have their own merits. No matter what level of cultivation one has, anyone from the Zhanwu Sect can go there, and the skills obtained are based on one's own realm. The Lingmu Sect's is suitable for warriors in the Juling Realm, and many spiritual medicines can be obtained from there. The Tianxing Sect's is suitable for masters and venerables. Bai Yansha went to the Tianxing Secret Realm at the age of thirty, and also reached the level of a master. The Haoyue Sect's is for venerables and celestial beings. Ordinary disciples will not get anything if they go there.

Bai Yansha encountered danger in the Tianxing Secret Realm, and several of his fellow disciples died. On that strange star, there was a mysterious and ancient bronze palace.

Speaking of this, Li Tianxuan pretended to be mysterious. He had never been there and only heard the description from the old man Bai.

"So they went in?" asked Gu Chenyu.

"Yes and no. People from the four sects and the Protectorate gathered there. There were more than a thousand of them. But they encountered something strange just by entering the palace gate. Less than one tenth of them came out."

They had no idea what was inside the ancient bronze temple. They only knew that it had become a forbidden area from then on. Anyone who went there would die, let alone a Grandmaster.

It was fate that Bai Yansha saved a young venerable named Ning Yuxi. The two of them later fell in love and became Taoist couples. Ning Yuxi is a rune master and also a good friend of mine.

"Oh my god, the love affair between the sect elders and the disciples?" Gu Chenyu had a look of watching spectators.

"Don't interrupt. She knew me earlier than she knew him. If these two hadn't been secretly together, I wouldn't care about that old man Bai Yansha." Li Tianxuan tapped Gu Chenyu's head, indicating that if he wanted to listen to the story, don't interrupt.

There were several ancient corpses in the ancient bronze temple. After coming into contact with the oxygen of living people, they came back to life and killed many people. The door of the temple was stained red with blood.

After coming out, they encountered another kind of strange insect. There were huge numbers of them, and they specialized in absorbing people's cultivation. They were even more terrifying than the soul-eating insects they had seen before. As long as one of them drilled into the body, the cultivation would be destroyed.

The two of them got out alive and were not sucked by the soul-eating insects, but among the several people rescued, there was a descendant of a celestial being who was infected with this insect and his cultivation was completely eaten away. After long-term contact with them, the two of them were inevitably possessed by this insect.

The three celestial beings exhausted all their strength to kill the alien insects in their bodies, but the remaining parts seemed to have merged into their bodies and could not be removed, causing their cultivation to regress.

The descendant of that celestial being was fine, but his cultivation was gone. The worm was not in his body, he was just cultivating again.

Within three years, Bai Yansha's cultivation disappeared completely, and he went to the Herb Picking Hall and was taken in as a younger brother by Li Tianxuan. Ning Yuxi struggled for seven years before becoming a mortal. In the end, the three of them went to the Lingmu Secret Realm together.

It is not known whether Ning Yuxi was seriously injured, or whether he had lived too long and turned into a mortal, but died when Bai Yansha was in his seventies. Their descendants still enjoyed a high status in the Lingmu Sect, and one of them was a disciple of Tianren, which was a great honor.

One studies runes, the other studies pharmacology. The two of them are living a happy life with Li Tianxuan. Only Li Tianxuan, a single dog, has been eating dog food for decades.

Listening to Li Tianxuan talking about the past, Gu Chenyu couldn't help laughing. The three of them were very close and had a very good friendship. The runes on Li Tianxuan's body were carved by Ning Yuxi, and later Li Tianxuan continued to study them and painted them all over his body.

After they became mortals, they worked in the Herb Gathering Hall. They went to the Spiritual Wood Secret Realm to snatch opportunities. They also got opportunities there and were commended by the sect. They even got spiritual medicines that could repair meridians and rebuild spiritual roots. It was a pity that even though the alien insect was dead, it still devoured spiritual energy, so the two of them gave up cultivation and lived the rest of their lives as mortals.

"So, Old Man Bai was a romantic figure in the past?" Gu Chenyu said. The two of them couldn't sleep, so they chatted for a long time in the yard.

"Not really. After Ning Yuxi's death, he seemed like a different person. He drank all day long and studied pharmacology when he was sober. His son is in seclusion and probably won't be able to see him anymore." Li Tianxuan said.

"In seclusion? His father is dying, can't he see him again?" Gu Chenyu asked puzzled.

"There is a difference between immortals and mortals, and he didn't want to become a burden to his son, so he handed him over to that celestial being to raise as soon as he was born. The couple could only pretend to be servants and watch from afar when his son was cleaning the cave." Li Tianxuan felt full of pity. He had also seen that child come to the herb collection hall to get medicine. He was a little taciturn.

"Fortunately, the kid has good character and is very nice to them. Even when they were just pretending not to know each other, he treated them with courtesy. He knows etiquette, practices diligently, and has become a Grandmaster at a young age. He is now striving to become a Venerable and is preparing to participate in the Tianjiao Competition."

There was a hint of envy in Li Tianxuan's tone. He had no offspring, so he showed more care for Gu Chenyu. But he did not regret not leaving any offspring. He still had a long way to go. Even if he encountered setbacks and his cultivation stagnated, he still felt full of hope. He was over 260 years old and was at the age of daring to fight and struggle. He was not afraid at all.

"What's his name? If there's a chance in the future, I'll look after him for Old Man Bai." Gu Chenyu said. He didn't know why he had the confidence to say that.

"You? Your cultivation is not as high as others. You don't think that you can defeat the Venerable just by fighting with that Wu Ming. He practices both Dharma and body, but his physical cultivation is at most the tendons and bones realm, not even as good as a grandmaster. You still have a long way to go in your cultivation." Li Tianxuan said earnestly, fearing that this kid did not know his place.

"It seems so." Gu Chenyu scratched his head and said somewhat embarrassedly.

"It's okay. You may still have another chance to practice." Li Tianxuan comforted him, fearing that Gu Chenyu would lose confidence.

"It's okay, but you have to tell me the story of Old Man Bai. I want to hear it." Gu Chenyu said.

Li Tianxuan did not refuse when he heard it. He talked about their acquaintance and their heart-to-heart talk. In the end, the two old men depended on each other. Although he seemed to be in a high position and had great power in the herb-picking hall, he was actually a lonely man. He just looked at the elixirs every day and his life was boring.

Listening to Li Tianxuan talking about their past, Gu Chenyu slowly fell asleep. He was actually very tired.

Looking at the sleeping Gu Chenyu, Li Tianxuan smiled. In his eyes, Gu Chenyu has always been a child at heart, no matter how old he is.