What kind of Journey to the West is this?

An Yanxia collected some aged herbs and threw them into the Sumeru mustard seed, and then began to refine the precious medicine.

The girl sat cross-legged under the Fusang tree, practicing the Xuanyuan Great Elixir Technique to move the essence, energy and spirit in her body and transform the essence of water and grain.

After practicing for a day and a night, eighty-four thousand pores opened slightly, emitting rich spiritual energy.

A body of turbid flesh and blood turns into light and floating spiritual energy, which eventually gathers and disperses at the will of the heart and changes unpredictably. This is the characteristic of an immortal.

An Yanxia has not yet become an immortal, but she already possesses immortal bones.

But he hadn't reached that realm yet, unable to reach the point where he could gather and disperse at will. As for the idea of the Yang Spirit ascending to heaven, transforming his entire body into a stream of innate energy, An Yanxia couldn't even begin to compare.

Calculate your Taoist practice and there are four steps to refining essence: open all meridians, refine water and grain, lock Yuan Yang, and subdue the white tiger.

An Yanxia had a golden elixir protecting her body and locking up her yang energy. She also drank the emperor's juice and ate the thousand-year-old medicine when she was hungry, so she was extremely well-fed.

He crossed two thresholds at once and reached the final step, "Subduing the White Tiger".

The key to subduing the White Tiger is to conquer the evil desires in the Kidney Palace, so as to reach the point of “doing whatever one wants” without being affected by the outside world.

This is also the first tribulation in becoming an immortal: the tribulation of lust.

A moment of negligence, a moment of indulgence in lust, will lead to the loss of true essence and the destruction of the immortal path. If you are lucky, you can repair it and play a second round, but if you are unlucky, you may only be able to take the path of Tuan Gang Lian Sha or even the path of corpse transformation to become an immortal.

Good fortune and misfortune are merciless and not obvious, and disasters always come in secret. An Yanxia was not worried about this and continued to practice the Xuanyuan Great Pill Technique.

Click your teeth 32 times, and sweet saliva will appear on your cheeks, which you can swallow in one gulp.

The essence and energy thrive, and refining the essence is effective.

At this time, the Flying Canal Cart transports the true essence from the Kidney Palace, drops it to the Dantian, and goes straight to the Yongquan point on the bottom of the foot. It flies along the Du channel through the Jiaji and Yuzhen, and goes straight to the Niwan point in the brain palace.

——Replenish essence and nourish the brain.

Essence, Qi, and Spirit influence each other. True Essence is the Huachi Gold, the Emperor's Flowing Pulse, and the innate Yang Qi. When you replenish your Spirit with Essence, the heavy Three Souls and Seven Spirits feel lighter.

When An Yanxia finished her training and stood up, she felt as if two mountains had been lifted off her shoulders, and she felt like she was about to fly into the sky at any moment.

Pretty much the same actually.

An Yanxia floated under the hibiscus tree, looking at the back of her head in confusion.

No, why did he suddenly disappear from his body?!

She looked at her physical body still sitting cross-legged on the ground, and without thinking too much, she simply flew out, intending to experience the feeling of leaving the Yin spirit.

In the past, people would light incense and candles to passively release the evil spirit, which would come out in a daze and go back in a daze.

This time she felt that she could enter and exit with ease, so she simply flew out of the cave and arrived at Yuwang Mountain.

As expected, one does not know the time in the mountains. She did not sense it in the cave, but seven or eight days had passed outside and it was already dark.

There is a mountain over there, shrouded in clouds and mist.

It was difficult to go up with the physical body, so the Yin soul left the body and flew there in the blink of an eye, just like teleportation.

On the edge of the cliff on the mountain, a little deer was looking up at the moon and breathing in its light, when suddenly a cold wind blew behind it.

"Chirp!"

The little deer felt a vague gaze observing him, and looked around fearfully, but could not find anyone.

.........................

After An Yanxia finished teasing the little monster here, in the blink of an eye, she arrived at the stream where she had recuperated.

The stream gurgles, with occasional frog croaks, and it is very quiet.

But standing here, An Yanxia could faintly smell the scent of a white fox.

——At least it tastes similar.

The Yin Spirit directly calls upon the Conscious Spirit, which is the three souls and seven spirits. Her perception is very sharp, and she will never hear it wrong.

Rustling, rustling.

A dark figure walked out of the bushes, with his hands behind his back.

"Tianguan, is the fox ghost in the cave dead?"

Yan Xia narrowed her eyes before she saw who was coming.

The middle-aged scholar who had taken shelter from the rain with her.

The transformation and illusion could not block the eyes of the out-of-body Yin Spirit. An Yanxia looked at the nine-tailed old fox and said, "Dead! Are you related to that fox?"

The old Fox King walked out slowly, waved his folding fan, and said with a smile:

"I have some connection with her, but there's no need to panic, Tianguan. I'm not here to cause trouble. That white fox's obsession is too deep, and it's difficult to overcome the tribulation.

"She thought that by transforming her body from Yin to Yang, she would be able to cultivate and become an immortal. However, she didn't expect that this transformation would actually become a demonic obstacle that tripped her up."

Perhaps thinking of the past, the old Fox King looked up at the moon and couldn't help chanting softly: "Refine the medicine furnace, the furnace hurts the medicine, sail with the current, the current can overturn the boat. Who knows that losing a horse is not a blessing, but controlling the universe can bring freedom."

Seeing that he really wasn't looking for trouble, Yan Xia also let down her guard and sighed, "It's greed after all."

"I want to hear the Heavenly Official's opinion."

"Well, I don't have any great ideas. You can recite a poem for her and I will give her one in return."

"Please come in, Tianguan."

"Good or bad fortune has never been related to each other, all you need to do is think about it. After all, there is nothing else to do with the kite shoulder, and how can you easily remove the sheep shoulder and pig liver?"

The old Fox King shook his head and laughed, "The Heavenly Official is putting all the blame on that fox. But how could anyone else know of her 2,600 years of suffering? Ultimately, we owed her this—and of course, that's all forgiven now."

This is talking about the old fox king presiding over the construction of Yuwang Cave Heaven. If Yuwang Cave Heaven had not been built, the white fox would not have been trapped in the cave for two thousand six hundred years.

Yanxia shrugged.

This has nothing to do with her!

"Fox King! If you have something to say, just say it. Don't be so sharp."

"Excuse me, I'm going to die."

"what?"

An Yanxia looked at the old fox. She knew that this fox had lived for almost ten thousand years!

The Qingqiu Fox Clan was gathered together by this old fox.

The fact that the man-eating nine-tailed fox is still alive today is also thanks to the efforts of the old fox.

It can be said that if it were not for the support of the Thousand-Year-Old Fox King, the Qingqiu Fox Clan would immediately fall apart.

But she did hear from Hu Feiyun that "Qingqiu is going to split up."

The Fox King said, "I want to choose a burial site, Tianguan. I heard you are a professional."

An Yanxia twitched the corner of her mouth and said, "I'm from Miaoyan Palace, not a feng shui master."

There was a smile in the eyes of the Long Live Fox King, and An Yanxia always felt that she was seen through.

This look is like the teasing look in your friend's eyes when you brag to him/her, "Come on, I don't know you yet."

A thought arises:

Oh no, could it be that this old fox has seen his past and present lives?

The fox, a thousand years old, is connected with the sky.

The Xuan Zhong Ji of the Eastern Jin Dynasty said that when a fox is fifty years old, it can transform into a woman; when it is a hundred years old, it becomes a beautiful woman and a witch... It can know what is happening a thousand miles away, and is good at bewitching people, making them confused and losing their minds; when it is a thousand years old, it can communicate with the sky.

This fox is so lucky, who knows, it might really have such a method.

An Yanxia quickly cut off this dangerous thought and whispered:

"After I choose the burial site, you won't bury me with it, right?"

Good Cultivation in the Mortal World: Chapter 213 [The Minotaur is Me, I Am the Minotaur]

The world today is not the same as it was 2,600 years ago.

Even if the old Fox King wanted to sacrifice a human being, he couldn't do it. Just like the Great Sage, in the last years of Wude, when the chaos was just beginning to subside, it was difficult for him to stir up trouble.

A good saying is: When the time comes, heaven and earth will work together; when the luck is gone, the hero will not be free.

An Yanxia and the old fox king wandered around and found a low hill thirty miles west of Yuwang Mountain.

This small hill is no more than 80 zhang high, and when viewed from the sky, it looks like a steep slope.

When An Yanxia chose a burial site, she didn't even choose one on the mountain. Instead, she chose a depression filled with water at the foot of the mountain.

The old Fox King couldn't help but frown and said, "I've heard that all mausoleums in the world are built on high ground, with the elevation as the most important. Why did the Heavenly Official choose such a place?"

An Yanxia rolled her eyes: "This is called doing the opposite of what you do."

"All rivers flow into the sea, and water flows to the lowest places. Old Fox King, you were so high-profile in life, but you should keep a low profile after death! Otherwise, your grave will be dug up."

The old fox king laughed and said, "I want to see who is destined to meet me in the tomb."

He joked with himself and looked at the depression, but the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.

He always felt bad because the place was full of water.

The fox clan in the sky is called the Heart Moon Fox, and they all respect the Heart Position Li Fire as the most respected.

The water and fire do not mix together, which is very unlucky.

An Yanxia didn't bother to explain the Five Elements or Gossip, but spoke directly from a practical perspective: "Dry for a thousand years, wet for ten thousand years, and neither dry nor wet for half a year."

"Dig a hole, smear it with white and green plaster, bury the coffin, and seal it with ash. You can call yourself 20,000 years old!"

"Hahaha! I wouldn't dare to do that!"

The old fox king laughed heartily and said, "I, an old fox, do not cultivate the Way of Heaven. Living to ten thousand years after a single catastrophe is already deceiving Heaven. How dare I borrow ten thousand more years from Heaven and Earth?"

Immortals also have their own lifespans.

But it is different from the calculation used by ordinary people in the secular world.

The Old Fox King is a fox demon from ancient times, and his life story may be traced back to the era of the Three Sovereigns.

There were no immortals back then. An Yanxia saw that he hadn't become an immortal yet, so he must have eaten something precious to live so long.

"Well, I see you're still strong. Are you going to die?"

An Yanxia had seen many dead people, and many dying people as well, but even Xiong Fengxian, who was the best at health preservation, was not as healthy as the old Fox King before her death.

The Fox King said, "I have been blessed by heaven and earth, and now it is time to return to heaven and earth."

"Can't become a god? Each of the foxes will light a stick of incense for you. I think it should be quite easy for you to become a god."

"The foxes of Qingqiu need to be self-reliant, not a statue in a temple."

An Yanxia couldn't deny it, "The Qingqiu Fox Clan will probably fall apart in an instant."

An old person in the family is like a treasure, and this is not empty talk.

Yanxia used to have a big family with dozens of relatives and friends, and the family would be very lively during the Chinese New Year.

When did Chinese New Year become so deserted?

After grandma passed away.

But the old Fox King saw clearly, "When I was alive, neither of us lived happily together. I heard that Feiyun even took his brothers and sisters and moved out early. It's obvious that they were already alienated from each other. My death will give them a legitimate reason to split up the family."

"Children have to grow up. They can't always be supervised by a strict father. As for Qingqiu, let it become their dream hometown."

"The only thing I'm worried about is my little daughter, who's only a hundred years old. I'm afraid she'll be kidnapped."

An Yanxia was very moved when she heard the first half, but her expression changed when she heard the latter part.

Long live the Fox King’s youngest daughter, she is less than a hundred years old and still very strong!

She leaned over and asked, "Do you have any secrets to staying healthy?"

The Fox King laughed and said, "Drink wine, eat meat, and look at beautiful women!"

An Yanxia was satisfied, "Then it seems that I can live for at least ten thousand years."

She likes looking at beautiful women the most.

"A thousand-year-old turtle is worth ten thousand years of age. It's better for the Heavenly Official to ascend to heaven early. If you live for ten thousand years, you'll really become an old turtle."

The old Fox King smacked his lips and said, "The Heavenly Official has been working so hard for me for so long, yet he hasn't paid me. Why don't you come to my Qingqiu Holy Land to have a chat? I'm also having a Longevity Banquet, and many talented people are coming. Perhaps there's someone the Heavenly Official knows."