Mysterious mirror hanging high

Jing Yu suspected that some of the jade light powder used to open up his sea of ​​consciousness had been left over, and that it had been taken by the Bitter Crossing Treasure Body, which could refine all things. He had unexpectedly made rapid progress, pushing his Body Refining skills from the initial seventh level of Body Forging to the eighth level of perfection! All he needed was a chance to break through this bottleneck and reach the ninth level!

"Thank you, Daojun, for the Dharma!"

Jing Yu bowed respectfully towards the round platform and praised it.

But still no response.

Not long after, a dull metallic voice sounded at the right moment: "You have passed the entry test, and the advanced test will begin!"

Rumbling--

A mottled metal wall in the originally closed room slowly cracked, revealing a long corridor. Looking out from Jing Yu's perspective, he could not see the end of the corridor.

Jing Yu stepped into the corridor and looked around. There were only bumpy metal walls on both sides, the same as in the room, and a bronze lamp embedded in the wall. The wick in the lamp seemed to be about to burn out, but it was still strong and had not gone out.

Jing Yu walked slowly and obediently in the corridor, but the corridor was extremely long and he didn't seem to have reached the end even after walking for half an hour. Being extremely bored, Jing Yu began to ponder the newly acquired [Spirit Condensation Technique] in his sea of ​​consciousness.

The practice of the Nine-Life Taoist Lord is very different from the lengthy and wordy "Suffering Sutra" compiled by the Ten Thousand Longevity Taoist Lord. The wording used is very concise and clear. This also shows that the styles of these two Taoist Lords with longevity personalities are very different.

The effect of [Spirit Condensation Technique] is extremely simple and crude. It helps Qigong practitioners to open up their sea of ​​consciousness in advance and nourish their spiritual thoughts. Moreover, the nourishment of these spiritual thoughts will gradually grow stronger with the passage of time, and there may even be no upper limit!

At least that's what the Nine-Life Taoist said in his technique, this technique was the technique he used to achieve enlightenment and become a Taoist. Now that three epochs have passed, his spiritual consciousness is still growing stronger. When it comes to the strength of his spiritual consciousness, the Nine-Life Taoist is confident that he can be ranked among the top five among all the Taoists in the heavens and myriad worlds!

Moreover, this [Spirit Condensation Technique], in addition to requiring precious spiritual objects such as [Transparent Jade] or [Naihe Flower] to open up the sea of ​​consciousness in advance, usually only requires half an hour of meditation to concentrate the spirit every day. However, practicing the heart formula will consume lifespan. Practicing the heart formula for half an hour every day will consume a full day's lifespan. This is equivalent to the lifespan of an ordinary cultivator who practices the Spirit Condensation Technique being consumed twice as fast as that of an ordinary person. If a Qigong cultivator starts practicing this technique from the womb, he can only live to be fifty years old at most.

This kind of life-threatening technique is a death warrant that is not worth the cost for ordinary cultivators, but for immortal cultivators, it is a perfect technique tailor-made for them.

This also makes the cultivators who have practiced the [Spirit Condensation Technique] far superior to the cultivators of the same level who have not practiced the secret method of spiritual consciousness in terms of spiritual consciousness. They have significant advantages whether it is exploration, controlling objects, manipulating puppets, drawing talismans, refining pills, setting up formations, etc.

The Taoist Lord Jiu Ming even said at the end of the technique that if this [Spirit Condensation Technique] is practiced to a high level, one can even directly abandon the Dharma body and refine the Nascent Soul into a divine consciousness, with which to travel through the universe and roam freely between heaven and earth.

"Wanshou Daojun's [Suffering Crossing Sutra] believes that the physical body and Dharmakaya are the supreme treasure boats for crossing the sea of ​​suffering. It advocates the path of an immortal body, indestructible from all calamities. In order to forge the physical body into a body that is invulnerable to calamities, it even gives the Suffering Crossing Treasure Body a bit of a scoundrelly aura, a 'bone-attaching ulcer', or a 'cowhide plaster'."

"Nine-Life Daojun, however, sees the physical body as a burden, believing that no one, save the Dao Zun who already stands at the pinnacle of the myriad realms, can possess an immortal and indestructible body. Otherwise, why would a Daojun, who is responsible for refining his body during the epochal catastrophe, need the Dao Zun's protection? It would be better for him to completely transform into a divine thought and escape into the void. Instead, he would no longer need to worry about the catastrophes that arise in this world. Even without the Dao Zun's protection, his chances of surviving the catastrophe would be greatly increased..."

"No wonder the Nine-Life Daoist Lord looks like a white jade puppet. That's because he has long since abandoned his physical body and Dharmakaya. Whichever puppet he possesses becomes his Dharmakaya!"

"No wonder he disdains Wanshou Daojun's method of achieving enlightenment. In reality, it's the same disagreement as among immortal cultivators over whether to 'enter the world' or 'retreat from it'. It's all just a dispute over ideologies..."

Jing Yu's realm is low now, and he can't tell which ideas among the Taoists are better or worse, so naturally he won't waste time on this issue. Now that the road to cultivating immortals has just begun, there is naturally no such thing as too many wonderful methods. He will practice them first and then talk about how to make choices in the future. That will probably be a matter of tens of millions of years.

After walking for about another hour, we finally reached the end of the corridor. The sky was bright at the exit in front, and it seemed that there was an open landscape outside.

Jing Yu walked out and found that there was indeed an open-air square outside. In the center of the square stood a huge puppet statue that was hundreds of meters tall. The image of this puppet was exactly the same as the puppet that the Nine-Life Taoist possessed in the Changsheng Palace that year!

However, this time the puppet statue was sitting cross-legged in the square, with its right hand turned up and the back of its hand touching the ground. In its palm was a small sky gate. At this time, twelve jade beads were inlaid on the top of the sky gate, seven of which had been lit, while the remaining five beads were still dim.

In the square, dozens of monks were sitting cross-legged. As the square was very large, these monks were scattered around, mostly in groups of three or five, and some were walking alone. It was obvious that they were divided into small groups.

Jing Yu's appearance at this time just happened to attract everyone's attention, and dozens of eyes swept towards this newly appeared cultivator.

"Uncle! This way!"

A familiar voice sounded, Jing Yu looked in the direction of the voice, and sure enough, he saw his nephew-in-law Mu Shan near the center of the square!

"Old Mu, why are you here too?" Jing Yu had a vague guess in his mind, but still wanted to confirm it.

"Alas, everyone who has made it here has stumbled into the secret realm's entrance by mistake," Mu Shan sighed. "Uncle, were you walking down the road when suddenly the world spun around, the scenery changed dramatically, and you ended up in a sealed room?"

"Exactly! I was wondering!"

"Hasn't there been a rumor in Wushan Market in recent years that there's a Sumeru Cave Heaven floating in the void near the market? There's even a number of cultivators who have received Qi training-level puppet inheritance in this cave Heaven? So it seems this is the place!"

Mu Shan said, "Generally, the entrance to a secret realm like Xumi Cave Heaven is constantly moving and invisible. Entering depends entirely on luck. Without a token or something like that, even a Jindan Zhenren or Yuanying Zhenjun wouldn't be able to track it down."

Jing Yu suddenly realized, "So that's what happened? I went to look for my third sister this morning, and ended up running into this on the way to the Spiritual Plant Garden."

"Perhaps this secret realm has recently been stranded in the void, and the original cave heaven has overlapped with the real world, which is why the entrance has become visible. I was originally taken in from the retreat room in the Deacon Pavilion of the Spirit Plant Garden. I didn't expect that in less than a few hours, the entrance has moved to the official road outside the Spirit Plant Garden?"

Mu Shan said worriedly, "If this entrance moves towards the market town, it's fine. But if it turns around and moves towards the wilderness outside the market town, I'm afraid it will be bad!"