I have been bound in a forbidden place for five hundred years. Why are you crying when I am a casual

Three days later, Zhongzhou.

North Gate Pass.

This pass is located in the extreme north of Zhongzhou, and is also an important fortress separating Zhongzhou and Beiming. In the history of several battles between good and evil in Zhongzhou and Beiming, Beimen Pass has always been the top priority. Therefore, Beimen Pass is located in a naturally dangerous place, easy to defend but difficult to attack. In addition to the extremely powerful forbidden magic circle inside the pass, there are usually disciples from major sects in Zhongzhou stationed there.

Of course.

In fact, after the Yuntian Agreement that year, when the Zhongzhou and Beiming sects reached an agreement, the Beimen Pass is no longer ready for war at any time as it was in history. Instead, it actually serves as an important channel for communication between the two regions.

But this time, the Heaven-sealing Change came.

Beimen Pass was reopened again.

Communication between the two regions began to be subject to severe restrictions. Although travel was not yet banned, the security at the North Gate was extremely strict.

"It seems that the impact of the Sealing Heaven Incident is even greater than I imagined." Jiang Ruochu, who had disguised himself to hide his cultivation, had just passed the city gate inspection and said to Gu Xiu, who had also transformed into a pale-faced scholar.

"We have been to the North Gate before, but it was not as strict as it is today."

"The Sealing Heaven Incident had a profound impact. All previous Heavenly Dao oaths were nullified, and the Yuntian Covenant naturally became invalid as well. Zhongzhou and Beiming already had an endless blood feud. Now your two wives didn't leave Beiming and followed you to Zhongzhou. It must be to avoid unnecessary disputes."

Jiang Ruochu emphasized the word "wife" on purpose, and looked at Gu Xiu with a hint of teasing.

Just a pity.

Gu Xiu pretended not to hear what she meant and simply asked, "Now that we've arrived in Zhongzhou, what are your plans?"

"Of course, it's to travel the world!" Jiang Ruochu said.

Gu Xiu looked her up and down and asked, "With your current strength, are you ready to venture into the martial arts world?"

"Yes." Jiang Ruochu nodded and replied:

"With the arrival of the Sealing Heaven Change, even the Three Immortal Islands are eager to emerge. You can imagine how much this world will change. Those peerless geniuses and even secret weapons from various sects and dynasties who used to stay indoors will surely begin to emerge. This is a great opportunity to challenge our opponents."

"You haven't reached the Supreme level yet?" Gu Xiu asked.

Jiang Ruochu replied: "Not even close."

A little bit?

Gu Xiu nodded.

"I didn't suppress my realm to wait for you like Ye Wentian did. Do you have any complaints?" Jiang Ruochu asked with a smile.

Gu Xiu smiled and said, "It doesn't matter whether you wait or not, because I will catch up soon."

"Tsk tsk tsk, not bad, not bad. Five hundred years have passed, and you're still so high-spirited. I've always believed you could return alive." Jiang Ruochu exclaimed, then said, "Come to think of it, you've met Ye Wentian, right? He must have challenged you to another fight, right?"

Gu Xiu nodded.

"Let me remind you, even though Ye Wentian has been stuck at the peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm and seems to be waiting for you, he has been making progress all the time during the past five hundred years. I suspect that with his current true combat power, he can easily suppress an ordinary Void Refinement Realm cultivator." Jiang Ruochu reminded.

Gu Xiu smiled and said, "I have also been making progress in the past five hundred years."

This is from my heart.

Although he has started over again and resumed his cultivation path, the accumulation of five hundred years of fighting is still a valuable accumulation. In fact, the effect of this accumulation is greater than anyone can imagine. Perhaps the old friends from five hundred years ago are also making progress.

But he.

Still fearless!

Jiang Ruochu nodded: "Okay, with this confidence, I am looking forward to your battle even more. From now on, I will rely on you to take care of me on my journey through the martial arts world."

"Lean on me... to take care of you?" Gu Xiu noticed the implication: "Aren't you going to venture into the martial arts world?"

"Yes." Jiang Ruochu nodded and said confidently:

"I'm going to look for that last spark of opportunity. Continuing to remain in seclusion is useless. I need to overcome my conscience, so I need to venture out into the world."

"But where is the Jianghu?"

"I thought about it and there was only one answer."

"There must be some Jianghu around you!"

"Let's not even talk about the journey we took five hundred years ago. Even now, you possess immense blessings. There's no way the Three Immortals Island will really let you go, and Anyou will do everything they can to find you. Isn't this the Jianghu? So I've decided to travel the world with you!"

I?

Equal to the underworld?

The issue is……

As if seeing through Gu Xiu's thoughts, Jiang Ruochu said:

"Don't look at me. The tribulation of conscience that I'm about to go through will suppress my cultivation level, so don't expect me to be a super expert who can protect you."

"Quite the opposite."

"If I meet someone you can't defeat, I will definitely run away faster than you."

These words left Gu Xiu speechless. He could see that Jiang Ruochu seemed to be hiding something, but he didn't ask any more questions.

However, he felt a little more curious about the questioning of one's heart during the Refining Void Realm. He had always known that the questioning of one's heart was required during the Refining Void Realm. However, he had no idea what this questioning of the heart was specifically about and what the process involved was. He had only heard that the questioning of one's heart during the Refining Void Realm was a highly risky calamity of life and death.

But at the same time, it is also a division between heaven and man.

If you succeed in self-examination, you can strive for supremacy.

If one fails to examine his conscience, at best his cultivation will stagnate for the rest of his life, at worst his cultivation will be completely wasted, or he may even die.

But soon, Gu Xiu shook his head. The tribulation of self-examination was a bit too far away for him, a Nascent Soul cultivator who had not even succeeded in the transformation into a spirit. His most urgent task was to break through to the transformation into a spirit.

Thinking of this, Gu Xiu calmed down and glanced at his sea of ​​consciousness.

there.

The purple palace of his soul that was originally floating in the sea of ​​qi in his dantian has now entered Gu Xiu's sea of ​​consciousness. However, his sea of ​​consciousness at this moment is more like a deserted pond. This is naturally because Gu Xiu's transformation into a spirit has not yet been completely successful.

The process of Nascent Soul impacting the Spiritual Transformation is actually difficult, but also not difficult.

Just like opening up the Dantian Qi Sea during the Qi Refining Stage, if one wants to formally reach the Spirit Transformation Stage, in addition to cultivating one's own Nascent Soul to the Great Perfection State and fully opening up the Godless Palace, one also needs to use the power of the final Palace of Longevity to open up one's own Nascent Soul Divine Storage, which corresponds to the Sea of ​​Consciousness between the eyebrows.

Once the sea of ​​consciousness has expanded to the size of a pond, it can be considered that one has completely advanced to the Divine Transformation Realm.

this process.

It’s not complicated, but it’s not simple either.

Because no matter how you practice, when it comes to the time to strive for the transformation into a spirit, the most important thing is no longer your own bones, but whether your own spiritual power is strong enough and whether your spiritual talent is outstanding enough. In addition to the blessing of the experience of predecessors, most people still have to fight with their own spiritual power in the end.

This is also a kind of talent.

But it is this very talent that has become a stumbling block for countless cultivators.

Some people, incredibly gifted, can reach the Nascent Soul Great Perfection in just fifty years, only to be trapped there their entire lives, unable to advance an inch. Others, after five hundred years of cultivation, reach the Nascent Soul stage, yet easily push open that door at the Nascent Soul Great Perfection, achieving instant Divine Transformation within half a day.

All of these things are possible.

Gu Xiu was close to the latter back then. When he broke through to the God Transformation stage five hundred years ago, after stabilizing his Nascent Soul stage, it took him only two days to successfully advance to the God Transformation stage, completely stepping into the God Transformation stage.

So this time when renovating, Gu Xiu was full of confidence.

He does have the capital to be confident.

Not to mention that he had walked this path before, Gu Xiu himself had his own experience. When he was treating his spiritual injuries later, because of the dual blessings of Diyunya and Mi characters, his spiritual power had actually grown to an unimaginable level.

Not to mention.

Later, he was helped by the woman in the sedan chair and the Queen of the Underworld.

Logically speaking, Gu Xiu's opening up of his sea of ​​consciousness and advancement to the realm of spiritual enlightenment should be extremely smooth this time.

that's the truth.

With so much help, Gu Xiu's sea of ​​consciousness was opened up extremely smoothly, even three days ago when Gu Xiu said goodbye to everyone, left Chiyun City, and planned to break through to the God Transformation Realm.

In less than a moment, his sea of ​​consciousness had been opened up, and he was about to enter the realm of spiritual transformation.

But rather...

Just as he was about to become a god, the purple palace of his soul floating in Gu Xiu's body suddenly left his sea of ​​​​qi, rushed into his sea of ​​​​consciousness, and sat directly in the center of his sea of ​​​​consciousness.

If it were just that, it would be fine.

However, after the purple palace entered the sea of ​​consciousness, the sea of ​​consciousness that he had already opened up suddenly changed.

Like now.

When Gu Xiu repeatedly expanded his sea of ​​consciousness to the size of a pond and was about to reach the standard of transformation into a spirit, a purple aura suddenly spread out from the purple palace of his soul. Under the nourishment of this purple aura, the sea of ​​consciousness that Gu Xiu had originally opened up suddenly shrank.

It transformed into wisps of light purple smoke and floated into the purple palace of the soul.

Re-open your eyes.

The sea of ​​consciousness seemed to have never been opened up at all. Except for the purple palace, the rest was still in chaos and needed Gu Xiu to open it up again.

just like……

Trapped in a cycle.

Gu Xiu had never heard of or seen such a problem before, and he even consulted Suixing about it. Unfortunately, Suixing didn't know much about it either: "I'm not sure about the origins of this Purple Palace, but since it has helped you several times before, it means that this Purple Palace definitely has no ill intentions towards you."

In desperation, Gu Xiu asked Sang Shoudao again, but even Sang Shoudao couldn't explain it clearly:

"The soul returns to the Purple Mansion. There have been rumors about this Purple Mansion since ancient times, but no one has ever been able to clearly explain its origins. Even at my current level, I still cannot understand what the Purple Mansion truly is."

"But according to what you said, this Purple Palace is constantly disintegrating the sea of ​​consciousness you have opened up..."

"Is it possible that this Purple Palace feels that there's something wrong with your way of developing it, and so it keeps disintegrating your Purple Palace?"

"or……"

"The purple energy that feeds back may make your sea of ​​consciousness stronger. You need to constantly reshape and disintegrate it until you reach a certain level."

This guess seems reasonable.

But the problem is...

If I really want to feed back and strengthen my sea of ​​consciousness, how many times will it take?

As for the problem with the way he opened up his sea of ​​consciousness...

Gu Xiu was even more puzzled by this. After all, the method of opening up the sea of ​​consciousness borrowed the experience of the woman in the sedan and Youming, combined with some of Gu Xiu's own perceptions. At least he couldn't see any problem with it. What's more, the most important thing in opening up the sea of ​​consciousness is the final result.

It's like digging a canal.

No matter what method is used for digging, no matter whether it is fast or slow, good or bad, as long as the canal is successfully dug in the end, that is enough.

How can we fill up the river and dig it again just because the digging method is wrong?

This was the first time that Gu Xiu encountered confusion in his practice since he resumed his cultivation.

The key is.

No one can solve this confusion.

Helplessly, all Gu Xiu could do was to constantly mobilize his strength as soon as his sea of ​​consciousness was disintegrated, and concentrate on rebuilding his sea of ​​consciousness. He continued to rebuild it amidst the constant collapse, and hoped that in this process, he could find the opportunity to completely take the step towards becoming a god.

but.

Just when Gu Xiu was still worried about this.

A giant sword as big as a door panel suddenly flew into the air and stabbed heavily into the ground in front of him.