Primordial Qi

The weather was a bit chilly, and Gu Chenyu didn't know why he chose this time to open the secret realm. The arrival of the people from the three major sects meant that the secret realm would be opened. It was already December, and it was snowing outside the sect formation. Some of the peaks were already covered with snow. Even the sect formation couldn't stop the chill.

Gu Chenyu came every day to transfer his true energy to Bai Yansha, once in the morning and once in the evening, which could allow him to accommodate more spiritual power to the greatest extent. Bai Yansha sometimes didn't understand why Gu Chenyu was so devoted to this old man, which made him feel an inexplicable emotion.

"Why are you so nice to me, little boy? I never treated you well before." Bai Yansha asked. His eyes had lost their sharpness and he looked like an ordinary old man.

"Why are you asking this? You are not a bad person, you have been nice to me. Besides, you and Senior Li have helped me to achieve such a high level of cultivation. I cannot thank you enough." Gu Chenyu answered sincerely.

"What if we didn't give you this cultivation? Would you be in the same situation?" Bai Yansha asked. He wanted to hear Gu Chenyu's answer.

"It's the same, and also different. I definitely can't pass on your inner energy to prolong your life like I do now. I can only watch you from the side, powerless. You gave me the opportunity to help." Gu Chenyu passed on the last bit of inner energy, and Bai Yansha clearly felt that his body had improved a lot.

"Come, take some medicine. Senior Li prepared it. It's good for your health."

After Gu Chenyu had exhausted his true energy, the medicine he had boiled was just ready. He blew it down a little to cool it down before feeding it to Bai Yansha.

Bai Yansha showed a complicated expression and said in a deep voice, "What if you stop here?"

Gu Chenyu paused, his expression froze, but he quickly retracted his expression and said, "That's okay. It's better to have it than not. At least this strength is really great. Sometimes I can even break rocks."

"It's different. What we did to you was more of an experiment." Bai Yansha said apologetically.

"experiment?"

"Correct."

"What experiment?"

Bai Yansha was silent for a while, then slowly said, "Sixty years ago, I went to the Lingmu Sect Secret Realm with Li Tianxuan. The Lingmu Secret Realm is divided into two layers, the outer layer is the spiritual medicine opportunity, and the inner layer is covered by a semicircular magic formation, which looks like a city..."

Sixty years ago, in the Lingmu Secret Realm, Li Tianxuan, Bai Yansha and Ning Yuxi went deep into the secret realm together. They didn't know how far they had walked, but they saw yellow sand all over the sky and fragments of scriptures flying in the air. Li Tianxuan picked up a scripture, which was a method for the body to become holy, but it was just a fragment.

At that time, they had not yet gone deep, but only saw the ancient city hidden in the yellow sand from afar.

They originally thought that it was the edge of a secret realm, with no spiritual medicine, no vitality, and not a place of opportunity, so few people went there. At first, the three of them just went there to see the scenery and buried three pots of strong liquor, not knowing whether it would become a thousand-year-old wine like the spiritual medicine. Until that day, the raging yellow sand stopped, and an ancient city appeared in the sight of the three people. They did not alarm anything, but were deeply attracted and walked forward involuntarily.

So, they entered the city by mistake. The huge magic circle did not repel them, but isolated the yellow sand, preventing the yellow sand from entering again.

With deep doubts, they began to enter the ancient city. Surrounding them were already decayed spiritual medicines, rusted magic tools, and lifeless breath. This place seemed to be isolated from the world, without sound, without spiritual power, everything seemed to have stopped in time, and it seemed as if millions of years had passed.

With this strange feeling, they couldn't help but feel scared when walking on the street. They opened the door of a room and found it empty. The decoration looked like a little girl's boudoir, but there was no one inside.

When the door was opened again, there was suddenly a bright light outside. Countless monks were trading in the city, some were hawking like mortals, and some monks were flying in the air, as if they had arrived at the prosperous time of this ancient city.

The weapons here were extremely sharp. They accidentally cut their fingers and felt a tingling sensation. Then the three of them realized that they were not in an illusion. This feeling was like traveling through time and space.

No one knew which era these cultivators were from. They were simple yet powerful, and even the children had the strength of the Gathering Spirit Realm. The three of them were walking on the road, and a passerby greeted them. Li Tianxuan deliberately bumped into someone and felt a real touch. That person also told mortals to pay attention to safety and not to wander around in the cultivators' city.

It really seems like they have traveled through time to this era.

They walked around the city for a long time. The people here were so real that they thought they had really traveled through time. Panic and anxiety rose in the hearts of the three people.

The sky and earth suddenly became dim, and the monks in the city knelt down one by one upon seeing this. The bright blue sky turned into dark clouds covering the city. This was at least the work of a god.

There was some strange creature rolling in the dark cloud. The three of them felt their blood boiling when they saw such a terrifying thing. The terrifying pressure made them sweat profusely.

This kind of feeling is so oppressive that even the gods cannot give you such a feeling.

The creature that was rolling in the dark clouds landed. It was a giant black dragon, with a snake-like body coiled around the palace in the middle. A man in black stood on the dragon's head.

The man had a blank expression on his face. He looked at everyone in the city indifferently, looking down on all living beings.

This level of cultivation is unfathomable. Just by looking at him from afar, one cannot help but kneel down and lower one's head involuntarily.

In a trance, they seemed to be glared at by that person, and then lost consciousness. When they opened their eyes again, they were horrified to find that they had never entered that gate. Suddenly, their brains flashed, as if they had lost some memory. They were even more horrified to find that they had never even stepped into the city gate, let alone crossed the yellow sand.

The yellow sand was still raging, and the ancient city was nowhere to be seen. Li Tianxuan held the scripture that recorded the method of sanctifying the physical body between his fingers and fell into deep thought. Perhaps they had never really stepped into it, but were just influenced by this scripture.

Hearing this, Gu Chenyu obviously felt something strange and looked at Bai Yansha in confusion.

"Does it sound weird? But it's true. The three of us described our memories, and they were exactly the same. If it was an illusion, our memories would always be different, but we always felt like we had lost a part of our memory, like the feeling of blacking out after drinking too much. Because of this strange phenomenon, the three of us had to believe that we had entered the ancient city and saw that powerful and terrifying man, and even admitted that the real dragon that had long been extinct was really alive." Bai Yansha said. Even today, he still can't forget it.

No one else knew this secret except the three of them. If they told others about it, they would be treated as crazy.

"The world we live in has a lot of secrets. The mysterious ancient city in the Lingmu Secret Realm, the ancient bronze palace in the Tianxing Secret Realm, the huge scripture tower of the Zhanwu Sect, and the fragment of a mirror in the Haoyue Sect, all of these are secrets."

Bai Yansha said slowly that he revealed the strangeness in the secret realms of the four major sects in order to give Gu Chenyu an idea and not to underestimate the things in this world. The main purpose was to let him be careful of the strangeness in the secret realms.

"What does this have to do with your experiment?"

"That scripture is about human Qi refining. Li Tianxuan was lucky to get the first part. You can continue to practice Qi refining without igniting spiritual power. You have a special physique. You can gather spiritual power quickly, but your body cannot bear it. At first, we tried to make the spiritual roots in your body appear, use mortal skills to cultivate a body, and then ignite spiritual power, but strangely, you still can't ignite spiritual power." Bai Yansha took a sip of water and continued: "We saw a possibility in you, that is, to practice this Qi refining method. The Tyranny Technique given to you is actually the Qi refining method over there. We don't let you practice the mental method because we are afraid that if you ignite spiritual power, you will be backfired by this technique."

"If you practice the Qi Refining Technique over there, your cultivation will stagnate, and at most you will reach the level of Old Li. I thought you would step into the spiritual energy cultivation, but I didn't expect you to follow his old path."

"This is like a big gamble. Whether it's right or wrong, we don't know what the benefits are. We just know that your life is not in danger, so we feel relieved."

Bai Yansha spoke all at once, obviously wanting Gu Chenyu to know more information.

"If you don't want to stop moving forward, then you have to step into that ancient city and look for subsequent opportunities." Bai Yansha said tiredly. He said so much at once and was a little tired. He was ready to close his eyes and have a good sleep.

Ancient city? Gu Chenyu's heart sank. He didn't expect that going to the Lingmu Secret Realm was not just as simple as picking herbs, but also required exploring that dangerous place.