Immortal Dao is dead, I am the mastermind behind it all.

"In this life, we must change our strategy."

Shen Moyan carefully considered the matter.

In the vast world of mountains and seas, gods and demons roam freely, and a single misstep can lead to utter destruction.

Shen Moyan had only been climbing the cliff for a short time when he was exhausted and lost consciousness, when the locals picked up his body and planted it as ginseng.

It is evident that the people of this vast world are truly simple and honest.

The best choice is not to go to that world, at least not in this lifetime.

"But besides that world, what other cultivation world can I go to?"

Shen Moyan recalled Yun Wangshu's experience; without a suitable extraterrestrial object, one could only lose oneself in the vast world.

"Perhaps we can try Ren Wuchang's Heavenly Demon Sword. After all, it is made of meteorite iron from outer space and may come from a cultivation world."

Shen Moyan secretly set another goal. The Heavenly Demon Sword was easy to obtain; Ren Wuchang was merely a defeated opponent and not worth worrying about.

"It's truly unbelievable, Sendoh is dead..."

Shen Moyan's senses probed in as I had written, and he looked at the bookmark recording "The First Rise of Azure Sun Technique," his expression complex.

"Spiritual energy is poisonous; it should not be ingested whole, as it is mixed with other substances."

Shen Moyan calmly recited these earth-shattering words.

Something unknown happened in the Great World of Mountains and Seas; the spiritual energy that cultivators once relied on for survival and cultivation had become the true culprit that killed them.

If a cultivator draws spiritual energy from heaven and earth into their body, it will cause their spiritual root to mutate.

The spiritual root originates from the dantian and gradually expands throughout the entire physical body.

The spiritual root will extract all the essence of the cultivator, whether it be blood, physical body, or soul.

The spiritual root takes the physical body as soil and blood and qi as sweet spring water, and then grows vigorously under the radiation of the cultivator's dissipated soul.

Ultimately, the entire cultivator was transformed into something akin to ginseng.

High-level cultivators might be able to resist by using certain supernatural powers, but low-level cultivators would die instantly from a single breath.

Shen Moyan was deeply shocked as he read through the records in "The First Rise of the Azure Sun".

"Spiritual root, spiritual root can dwell, is originally a conceptual term used to describe a cultivator's suitability for specific attributes of spiritual energy in the world."

For example, a wood-attribute spiritual root refers to a cultivator's complete affinity with the wood-attribute spiritual energy of heaven and earth, resulting in high absorption efficiency.

Dual-attribute spiritual roots, triple-attribute spiritual roots, quadruple-attribute spiritual roots, and even mutated spiritual roots like wind and thunder, all represent different cultivation aptitudes due to different cultivators' emphasis on and affinity for different attributes of spiritual energy.

But this very conceptual existence has been distorted, becoming so bizarre.

"This kind of conceptual and rule-based pollution is similar to the problem of writing," Shen Moyan pondered, drawing on his own observations and experiences.

People from different worlds use different scripts and languages, yet they all harmonize into one.

In a sense, this can also be considered a form of rule-based pollution.

If we compare people who speak different languages ​​to different colors, then the situation in the vast world of mountains and seas is that someone has mixed all these colors together, so that when people with new colors join in later, they are immediately mixed into that color.

"Regarding the matter of the poisonous spiritual energy, after careful research, the cultivators of the Mountain and Sea World have come up with a reason that can convince the world."

"Among the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, there is a kind of invisible, colorless, odorless, elusive, indivisible, and fully mixed energy, similar to 'elixir energy,' which transforms the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into a toxic impurity."

That's right. If we go by the description of the people from that world, the mixed-in energy is similar to the energy of a pill.

Dan Qi, also known as Dragon and Tiger Qi, is the Qi that alchemists use to enhance the medicinal materials when refining elixirs. It is also the colorful Qi that emerges from the elixir after it is completed.

This energy symbolizes both the perfection of the elixir's completion and the catalytic energy that is used when the elixir material is under-fired.

"This is truly astonishing. If you think about it carefully, there must be a powerful figure behind this." Shen Moyan gasped.

But who wouldn't see something so obvious?

Therefore, in the current world of mountains and seas, cultivators must be people without spiritual roots, or actively sever their own spiritual roots, in order to survive.

Actively eliminating one's spiritual roots is tantamount to uprooting the roots of the old immortal path.

Without spiritual roots, how can one cultivate immortality?

"The New Immortal Path! Transforming the Spiritual Root into a Spiritual Vein!"

Shen Moyan looked at the bookmark titled "The First Rise of the Azure Sun".

"Legend has it that this was created by an unfathomable being from the celestial realm and passed down to the mortal world. After the collapse of the old immortal path, it allowed future generations to tread the path of immortality again, with the hope of achieving longevity, and even becoming an immortal was not a problem!"

"Unfortunately, the 'Azure Sun Rising Technique' only mentions it briefly and doesn't go into detail."

The cultivation method that Shen Moyan obtained only recorded two realms: Qi Gathering and Mortal Transformation, which correspond to the Qi Refining and Foundation Building of the old immortal path.

"In the vast world of mountains and seas, the existence that imparts the new path to all living beings is so powerful that even the major sects have never seen His face."

"But just as the spiritual energy crisis erupted, a stone tablet descended from the sky, piercing through heaven and earth, and piercing straight to the center of the world!"

"That stone tablet records all the realms and cultivation methods of the New Immortal Path, all completely open source! Not a single detail is kept secret!"

Thinking of this, Shen Moyan judged others by his own standards, and if we disregard their true intentions, that being had actually done a good deed.

"Furthermore, that preaching stele cannot be moved by anyone, and powerful beings from all over the world made copies of it, spreading it to every corner of the Great World of Mountains and Seas."

"If I have the chance, I must go and observe," Shen Moyan thought to himself.

The "Azure Sun Rising Technique" is a new method of immortal cultivation. Shen Moyan only remembered the cultivation realms of Qi Gathering and Mortal Transformation. He still needs to go to the Great World of Mountains and Seas to find the remaining realms.

"Well, since things have come to this, let's try cultivating first."

Shen Moyan pushed open the door, used his lightness skill to silently leave Shaolin Temple.

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Ziyang Mountain.

Ten-year-old Shen Moyan stood on the mountaintop, gazing at the sea of ​​clouds and looking down at the majestic mountains.

"The new immortal path draws upon the mysteries of heaven and earth, condenses the essence of the sun and moon, and brings all the power of the world to its own body."

"Before the spiritual veins are opened, in order to avoid the effects of poisoning from impure energy, it is necessary to differentiate and collect specific spiritual energy from heaven and earth."

"The so-called Qi is divided into nine grades, and only those of the first six grades can transcend the mortal realm and establish a foundation."

In this world, the true qi cultivated by the heroes of the Great Qi martial arts world belongs to the ninth rank, which can only stop at the threshold of transcending the mortal realm.

Even though Shen Moyan himself reached the pinnacle, possessing a pure and supreme internal force far surpassing ordinary martial artists, he could only barely transform to the eighth rank and still could not completely transcend the mortal realm and establish a foundation.

Following the instructions in the "Biyang Chusheng Jue", Shen Moyan sat in meditation on the mountaintop.

He opened his mouth and inhaled, drawing in an invisible energy as the sun rose. It was scorching hot, as if he were holding a small sun in his mouth.

In this exercise, the Qi gathered in the Qi Gathering Chapter is the essence of the sun, which ranks in the middle of the third grade.

Cultivators need to gather the first ray of sunlight radiating across the heavens and earth at the moment of sunrise.

Gathering wisps of breath, nine breaths combine into one breath, and nine pure breaths of the sun are collectively called one essence of the sun.

Then, eighty-one streams of solar essence flowed through the five internal organs, six bowels, and four limbs, remaining in the Niwan Palace, opening the spiritual meridians of the cultivator from top to bottom.

That's right, cultivators have changed their reliance from spiritual roots to spiritual veins.

Spiritual roots are innate, while spiritual veins are developed later through specific cultivation methods and the gathering of vital energy.

Logically speaking, as long as everyone has perseverance and finds the highest level of Qi, no one should be limited by their innate talents and can freely determine their own talents.

Because Qi exists in the myriad worlds of mountains, seas, and heaven and earth, all you need to do is gather it.

"Qi gathering is also divided into nine levels according to the degree of opening of the spiritual veins."

"Wait, if that's the case, then it will take a very long time to gather Qi."

Shen Moyan finished his cultivation, gazed at the rising sun, and fell into deep thought.

One can only meditate and cultivate for a short time each day. Once the auspicious time of sunrise has passed, the breath of the sun can no longer be used. To condense the essence of the sun, one must use the first breath of the rising sun.

"This kind of cultivation is energy-consuming and takes a very long time."

"If you want to speed up your cultivation progress, you still need to..."

Shen Moyan looked at the annotations in "The First Rise of the Azure Sun" and couldn't help but gasp.

"Gather ginseng, collect its spiritual energy, incorporate it into medicine to make pills, and then consume them!"