In the world of "Covering the Sky," one can refine Gu (a type of poison) to become an immo

At dawn, as the morning glow bathed the earth, the disciples of Lingxu Cave Heaven rose one by one, each finding a mountaintop to meditate and chant scriptures, contemplating the sea of ​​suffering and experiencing the great sun.

After morning classes ended, the children without connections would start preparing the day's supplies for their seniors and those with powerful backers.

"Have you heard? Another new elder has joined the Cave Heaven!"

"I know, I know. They're the elders of those two kids who stayed at Jingxin Mountain for one day yesterday and then left. Senior Sister Weiwei even picked them up!" someone whispered.

"Hmph, what's that? I was the one who delivered their fasting meals yesterday!"

A young Taoist boy said, tilting his nose upwards.

"Tell me, tell me, what's wrong with those two?"

The others immediately surrounded the young Taoist boy, asking him questions out of curiosity.

"Tsk tsk..."

The young Taoist priest shook his head and clicked his tongue, his expression one of utter disbelief.

"Tell me, tell me, I'll sweep the floor for you today."

Some people, out of curiosity, made a promise.

The young Taoist priest immediately beamed and vividly described Pang Bo's dissatisfaction with the house and food, and how he complained that the red wild berries weren't as delicious as they were after Pang Bo left.

Even though it was only a two-minute interaction, he insisted on talking for a full fifteen minutes.

"Hey, we have to go to the mountains to dig for ourselves if we want to eat it, and people still complain that it doesn't taste good. It really is a fairy seedling, we can't compare, we can't compare..." someone sighed.

"Ah, if I had an elder like that, I would have opened up the divine spring long ago!" someone said unwillingly.

Behind a large tree not far away, Han Feiyu, who was leaning against it, listened to the young Taoist priest's words, slowly opened his eyes, and a hint of excitement flashed across his face.

Not long after, outside the Lingxu Cave Heaven, a gray pigeon flew out.

After a long time, the gray pigeon flew into a secluded, deserted, and inconspicuous cave in the Monster Forest.

"Hahaha! As expected! As expected! What secret treasure? It really was from eating the divine fruit!"

"Heh heh heh, even the magic treasure of the ruler of the Central Continent Dynasty was completely absorbed, what kind of secret treasure could possibly protect someone in the desolate valley forbidden zone! You think you can fool me with a smokescreen!"

A chilling, sinister laugh echoed from the cave, startling a flock of birds nearby into leaving their nests.

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The sun was high in the sky, shining on Pang Bo's face. He opened his eyes and rolled off the bed onto the floor.

He only came to his senses when he looked at the room he had chosen yesterday.

"I'm suing." Pang Bo rubbed his elbow as he walked out of the living room and found a piece of paper stuck to the door.

"Pang Bo, Sha Xiao and I are waiting for you at the top of the mountain. Good morning, love you!"

"I'm suing." Pang Bo instantly recalled the days he struggled in college, a smile playing on his lips. He quickly changed his clothes and opened the door.

"Splash!"

As soon as he opened the door, a bucket of ice water was poured over him. Pang Bo rushed forward in time but only managed to dodge half of it, and his back was soaked to the bone.

"Who is it!" Pang Bo turned around abruptly and saw a little monkey standing on the door with an empty basin in its hand. It chuckled and pointed towards the top of the mountain.

"I'm guessing... okay, okay, you're playing this trick, aren't you!" Pang Bo realized.

He took off his shirt, wrung it out with both hands to dry it, and carefully observed the path leading to the top of the mountain.

"You want to torture me? Grandpa won't let you get away with it!"

Pang Bo smirked, clasped his hands together, and swiftly climbed up the bamboo grove next to him.

"Snap!"

"Ahhhhhhh!!! Sha Xiao—you wait—!"

At the mountaintop, Sha Xiao raised her eyelids slightly, smiled, and spread her hands towards Ye Fan, who was covered in bruises in front of her:

"I knew Pang Bo would try to take a shortcut. Wasn't that right?"

Ye Fan grinned and pulled a bamboo nail, which had been embedded three centimeters deep, from his arm.

"Forget about shortcuts, just tell me if you've left any path that can be taken."

Sha Xiao chuckled, striking a villainous pose: "Of course not!"

"You two have consumed so many divine fruits, your potential is all stored up inside your bodies. If we don't push you, when will you ever be able to unlock it?"

"Besides, you two are all about physicality; saying it ten times is not as effective as trying it once. Rather than having you sit and painstakingly study the Huang Ting Jing, it's much faster to find that glimmer of clarity in the midst of life and death."

Seeing the wound begin to heal with barely any blood, Ye Fan was surprised but could only admit that Sha Xiao was right.

For physical practitioners like him and Pang Bo, this method of enlightenment is more to their liking.

Sitting in the courtyard, Ye Fan could have a complete view of Qingmao Mountain.

The divine deer cried out, the spirit dog galloped swiftly, and the monkeys caused trouble for Pang Bo along the way, causing the bamboo forest to fall one piece at a time.

Ye Fan could easily imagine how Pang Bo had rampaged through the room.

Looking at the vibrant Qingmao Mountain, Ye Fan asked, "Were all those Gu worms you carried along the way?"

"How could that be? I don't have the energy to care about so much. Those are all naturally born, some are Gu, some are demonic beasts." Sha Xiao took a sip of tea and looked at Ye Fan with amusement.

"Huh?" Ye Fan realized something, stood up abruptly, and looked at Sha Xiao in disbelief.

"Fall down." Sha Xiaoxu pointed at Ye Fan, who indeed fell to the ground.

Setting down her teacup, Sha Xiao slowly walked to Ye Fan, who was completely paralyzed, turned him over, and pulled a needle as thin as a hair from behind her waist, waving it around.

"The mouth of a green bamboo snake, the stinger of a wasp's tail—I never said it was safe just because we arrived. Your current senses are more than enough to evade it. Be careful next time."

An hour later, Ye Fan managed to move his fingers with difficulty.

Half an hour later, he finally managed to get up, but his body was still experiencing alternating hot and cold sensations.

Suddenly, a woman's soft laughter rang out: "Senior Sha really spares no effort in teaching this junior."

Ye Fan turned around and saw that Weiwei had arrived sometime earlier and was having tea with Sha Xiao.

"In a small place like this, they can only resort to these underhanded methods."

Sha Xiao smiled and pushed a cup of tea, which was filled with spiritual energy but had no taste, towards Ye Fan.

"Such spiritual tea is rare even in the Holy Land, let alone in the Yan Kingdom. Senior, please don't be modest."

Vivi felt a surge of bitterness rising within her from the aroma of the tea in her cup and sincerely envied it.

If she had such spiritual tea to drink every day, she would have already broken through the Four Extremes and gazed upon the Great Dragon.

Suddenly, the bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain shook, and increasingly loud screams attracted everyone's attention.

"Damn it! I finally made it out!"

Pang Bo was dressed in beggar's clothes, wielding a large golden centipede in his hand, and stuffing his mouth with all sorts of random herbs.

His back was covered in black, torn flesh, and a large hole had been pierced in his waist by a bamboo spear. A large swarm of blue-eyed bats was chasing after him.

Ye Fan looked at Pang Bo, blinked, and then looked at Sha Xiao in disbelief: "Wow, you're playing this hard?"

Sha Xiao covered her face helplessly: "He must have gotten lost and wandered into a mountain cave. That's for you to refine your bodies after your breakthrough. I'm truly amazed he could get the order backwards!"

Weiwei chuckled, and a beam of celestial light flew from her hand, landing on Pang Bo.

In the blink of an eye, Pang Bo's wounds had almost completely healed.

Pang Bo let out a long breath, looked up at the mountaintop, and gave Weiwei a thumbs up:

"As expected of a fairy, she's much better than that old man."

After all that fuss, Ye Fan and Pang Bo finally sat down in the pavilion and listened to Weiwei explain the Daoist scriptures, which are said to be the most powerful basic teachings in the world.

The Daoist scriptures are indeed profound and extensive ancient texts, containing endless profound principles and explaining cultivation in the most exquisite way.

From how to open the sea of ​​suffering, to identifying and excavating the life spring, to how to open it for different body types, and how to build the divine bridge and what effects it will have.

Almost all situations are explained clearly. As long as you can master them, the only constraint on your cultivation path will be resources.

Cultivation knows no time; simply explaining the Taoist scriptures once took six days.

These past few days, Ye Fan and Pang Bo have been doing extreme challenges every morning, constantly putting themselves in danger to hone their sixth sense.

On the fourth and fifth days, respectively, the two people, on the verge of life and death, realized that stillness within movement, cast aside distracting thoughts, gazed at themselves, and found the wheel of life.

After the two found it, Weiwei began to mobilize her immortal energy to guide them out of the sea of ​​suffering.

Pang Bo had already created a small opening in the sea of ​​suffering on the very day he realized it.

However, three days have passed, and Ye Fan's Sea of ​​Bitterness remains unmoved, as solid as divine iron.

"Difficult indeed, no wonder it's the Ancient Sacred Body, even the Holy Lands have given up on it."

Weiwei withdrew her hand from three inches below Ye Fan's navel, her brows furrowed.

"Ye Zi..." Pang Bo looked at Ye Fan, feeling somewhat anxious.

Ye Fan remained quite calm about this.

He knew that if a divine body were easy to cultivate, it wouldn't have been eliminated by the cultivation families here.

"It's alright. I haven't come away empty-handed these past few days; my arm strength has increased, hasn't it?"

Weiwei couldn't help but nod as she thought about Ye Fan's increased strength over the past few days:

"Indeed, I have never seen such a powerful physique as yours. In just three days, your arm strength has tripled. You can now throw a 3,000-pound boulder with one arm, which is stronger than many cultivators at the Life Spring stage."

Pang Bo recalled the characters the three of them played in the game on Earth, and said with a mix of amusement and comfort:

"I understand. Ye Fan's physique is like that of a barbarian, purely focused on strength and constitution."

"Eh!" Sha Xiao put down her tea, raised her index finger, and exclaimed in surprise, "Pang Bo, have you been possessed? How could you guess correctly?"

"Huh?" The three of them looked at Sha Xiao in surprise.

"The name 'Ancient Sacred Body' cannot fully capture its power. I'll tell you its other nickname, and you'll understand. Before the ancient era, it was also called—'The Indestructible Golden Body'."

Sha Xiao said with a smile.

Pang Bo muttered, "Undying?! What arrogance! What immense power!"

Weiwei stared in astonishment at the handsome child beside her, her eyes gleaming.

In the world of spiritual practice, there are only wrong names, not wrong nicknames.

The title of "Undying" is earned by fighting through an entire era and accumulating a glorious reputation after confronting all physical types!

Ye Fan clenched his fist, glanced at Pang Bo, and suddenly realized, "No wonder my wounds are mostly healed before I come up every time I attempt the same challenge. Indestructible, indestructible, so that's why."

"You can't kill those you can beat, and you can't beat those you can't beat at all. You're the perfect golden sticky candy." Sha Xiao chuckled and teased Ye Fan.

Ye Fan snapped out of his daze and rolled his eyes in exasperation.

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A few days later, after they had learned most of the Taoist scriptures and their bodies were gradually returning to normal, Sha Xiao began to explain the cultivation philosophy of Gu Dao to them.

"Humans are the spirits of all things, and Gu (a type of poison) is the essence of heaven and earth..."

Sha Xiao recited the text from memory for several days. Apart from Ye Fan, who seemed to understand something, not to mention Pang Bo, even Weiwei frowned.

After a moment's thought, he immediately realized that the problem lay in the fact that the Daoist techniques of the several immortals were too direct and too subtle.

It's like a top student explaining a problem to a struggling student, subconsciously omitting many steps that, in their view, only require writing "therefore, it can be concluded" and are self-evident.

He could observe the memories of the Immortal Venerable and teach them step by step, so he naturally knew everything. Ye Fan and the others could only rely on their own deductions.

"Please wait a moment."

Sha Xiao pondered for a moment, then raised his hand and ignited a Dao fire.

Even though he didn't make any move, the spirit apes below the mountain seemed to have received a command, and they all cut down a large amount of spirit bamboo and picked up some black jade from the stream and carried it up.

Sha Xiaoxian threw the spirit bamboo into the water and extracted a snow-white light from it.

Then, black jade was placed inside, allowing the black and white colors to collide and interact.

"Bamboo Gentleman, come!" Sha Xiao waved and called out.

To the astonishment of the three, a green bamboo worm, clutching a bamboo slip, leisurely crawled out of the bamboo.

It sang, "Jade can be broken but its whiteness cannot be changed; bamboo can be burned but its integrity cannot be destroyed," bowed to the crowd, and then jumped into the sea of ​​fire, blending black and white into one color.

The branches of an ancient tree beside the pavilion stretched in and were suspended over the fire.

To everyone's surprise, the ancient tree next to the pavilion was actually sentient.

Before long, the ancient tree was charred black by the smoke, and glistening oil dripped into the fire.

The flames suddenly blazed higher and darker, making it impossible to see the changes inside.

They only saw Sha Xiao unleash another dazzling display of hand gestures, footwork, and magical power.

After a long time, the flames died down, and a Gu worm shaped like a green bamboo scroll and a black jade knife landed in Sha Xiao's hands.

"I've got it. These are the Four-Turn Six-Meridian Gu and the Three-Turn Pen-Eliminating Gu."

"With these, I can modify parts of my memories and transfer them inside. You can view them simply by placing them on your foreheads."

As Sha Xiao spoke, he activated the Gu worms, forming a four-stage channel killing move—"I Annotate the Six Classics."

He first inserted the scroll into his head in front of the three people to input the memories.

As he inputted his memories, the bamboo slips turned from verdant green to withered yellow, with black characters engraved on them, exuding a Daoist charm.

"Ugh! This looks a bit disgusting," Pang Bo was the first to complain.

"I think your cultivation method is quite profound. Once you understand the Great Dao, you can easily forge the items you need."

"Although it is not as effective in combat as a single weapon to overcome all other methods, in terms of convenience, adaptability, and assistance, it far surpasses them."

Weiwei watched Sha Xiao's actions intently with her bright, ethereal eyes, determined to remember everything.

Then, Sha Xiao picked up the ink knife and carved on the black bamboo slip for a while, and the bamboo slip turned back into a green and yellow color.

"Okay, I've converted the memory format into a format you're familiar with, so it should be easy to understand."

Ye Fan put it in his mind and saw "On the Differences and Advantages and Disadvantages between the Gu Dao and the Beidou Secret Realm Method".

"It's such a familiar format." Ye Fan couldn't help but smile wryly.

What Pang Bo saw was a 2D text-based game guide: "Gu Dao Skill Point Allocation and Underlying Structure".

"Hey, now that you mention it, I'm interested. Let me see how this game works." Pang Bo's eyes lit up, and he became completely absorbed in the game.

As Weiwei listened to celestial music such as "Humans are the spirits of all things, and Gu is the essence of heaven and earth. The Great Dao is formless, and things leave their marks..." she gradually fell into enlightenment.

"Huh, I get it! I get it!" the three exclaimed in unison.