6 Refining Qi and Soul Formation

Yuyang County City, West Side.

The City God's Temple was deserted at dusk. Only the sound of the temple attendant snoring could be heard.

In the City God's office, the City God statue sitting at the top, the Civil and Martial Arts Magistrate statues on both sides below and the mud statue of the Chiefs of the Three Divisions, all emitted a spiritual light.

Six officials in brocade robes walked down. They looked rather dignified and their appearance was the same as the statue.

The leader was dressed in a green official's uniform with a round collar and big sleeves. He had a leather belt around his waist and wore a turban. He was wearing a pair of black boots with horns. There was a faint spiritual light rising from his head. It was as if there were hundreds of fireworks hidden inside.

Taking a step forward, he stood in front of the temple and looked at the distant Yao Mountain. In the air, a spiritual sea with a radius of dozens of kilometers rolled endlessly like a river pouring down. Its aura was extremely shocking.

"What do you think of this phenomenon?"

The leader frowned slightly and asked loudly.

There was a whispered exchange. One of the gray-coated officers added:

"Sir, this phenomenon is too shocking. We've never heard or seen anything like it yet it's peaceful and quiet. It doesn't seem like an evil aura."

"Yao Mountain is under Yuyang. We have to take a look. Hurry up and invite the local god."

The Martial Arts Magistrate accepted the order and went underground. A moment later, the ground in front of the City God Temple surged and emitted a green smoke. The Martial Arts Magistrate and an old man holding a staff appeared.

"Greetings, City God Zhao. Do you know what's happening on Yao Mountain?"

"Thank you, Local God Jiang. I too just woke up and don't know the situation yet. I was waiting for you to go with me."

"I will go with you."

City God Zhao, who was the leader, waved his sleeve and activated the divine power of incense. In the next moment, they appeared on Yao Mountain. They were still one to two kilometers away from the place where the spiritual river flowed in but they could already see the spiritual energy that filled the sky falling like a waterfall.

Even though they were one to two kilometers away, the group did not dare to go forward. They only felt that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth here was like a ferocious flood beast of a terrifying demeanor.

"Magistrate Xu, where is this place?"

"City God and Local God, this is where the Mystic Wood Sect is located. The sect master, Wang Muxuan, is outstanding in martial arts. He is loyal, kind, and benevolent. He abhors evil and has a heroic reputation. He was not far from the Connate realm but he died in a feud in the pugilistic world. A few days ago, the messenger of death led him to the local underworld. He refused to stay, left the local county gates of Hell and is missing."

A Magistrate with a Yin Book and a Spirit Brush immediately responded.

"Oh? That's a pity."

City God Zhao pondered for a moment and said: "I've only been Yuyang City's City God for less than a hundred years. On the other hand, Local God Jiang has been in charge of the area for nearly two hundred years. I wonder what you think of the phenomenon in front of you."

"City God Zhao, look at the spirit river flowing backwards and the sky changing color. Could it be that there are immortals cultivating in the Mystic Wood Sect?"

Local God Jiang looked at City God Zhao solemnly.

'Immortal?'

This term was too abstract for anyone present. Even City God Zhao had never seen one before.

"Have you ever seen an immortal cultivate like this?"

Local God Jiang just shook his head and replied: "I am only in charge of a county and there are no Blessed Lands in our territory. How would I get to see one? Even people from immortal sects are rare. It's just a guess."

Everyone saw that the spiritual river was still flowing down from the sky. It was clearly spiritual energy but it was surging with the aura of a river.

The commotion was huge but it did not destroy the feng shui of Yao Mountain, nor did it damage the buildings of Xuan Wood Sect. They could even vaguely hear the sound of reading. Smoke rose from the roof, so they discussed and decided to stay put. They did not approach and just waited.

Although both gods were virtuous and the foundation of their cultivation was the incense of the people and the worship of thousands of families, they were not fools. It was fine if this phenomenon was a good thing but if it was a bad thing, they would be courting death if they rashly went up.

In this situation, there was no evil aura at all so everyone felt a little relieved.

Given the distance, they could quickly escape with their powers if anything abnormal happened.

Just like that, six hours passed. It was already early in the morning and it would be dawn in another two hours.

"Hoof ~"

Yun Su slowly opened his eyes. He could not suppress the pressure in her mouth and spat out. The black room lit up as if it was daytime.

Just now, the Spirit River flowed backwards and her dantian formed a sea. At first, it was very smooth. With the Mystic Sutra, Yun Su had already refined the pure Qi in her body. Then, she drew the Qi into her body and refined it into a liquid that flowed into her dantian sea.

The water in her dantian sea was increasing. Just as it was about to be filled, a strange suction force came from her mind. At that moment, Yun Su's dantian sea, which he could originally communicate with a little, instantly lost control. It rushed into her mind and entered the mysterious place where the Longevity Cloud Platform was.

A vast, raging ocean suddenly appeared in the originally vast mysterious space. Then, it continued to absorb even more majestic spiritual energy into its body.

The spiritual river in the sky flowed backwards and the space was not wasted at all. It all entered Yun Su's body and was sucked into the Longevity Space, turning into the water of the spiritual sea.

The speed at which he absorbed the spiritual energy this time far exceeded the scale of his dantian's spiritual sea just now.

After a long time, when Yun Su's consciousness accidentally sank into the spiritual sea, he felt a strange itch. He wanted to scratch it before realizing that it was in his mind.

In the next moment, with a puff, the consciousness that had entered the Spirit Sea suddenly turned into a human figure. It shot out of the Spirit Sea and landed on the Longevity Cloud Platform, turning into an illusory figure with blurry facial features that was extremely similar to Yun Su.

The spiritual river flowed backwards and his dantian turned into a sea. In the blink of an eye, it was sucked into his sea of consciousness, turning into a vast sea under the Longevity Cloud Platform. It even turned into a mysterious little person.

Yun Su focused slightly and his consciousness fused into the little person. Compared to when his consciousness had transformed into an illusory little person and sat on the cloud platform, this time, it felt more real. He closed his eyes and felt as if he was sitting on the platform in person.

As soon as this sea of consciousness was formed, the mysterious little person sat on the cloud platform. Yun Su felt an unprecedented amount of majestic power. The Mystic Sutra mentioned that dantian was a place to store magic power. At that moment, it was empty. With a thought, ripples appeared in the sea of consciousness.

WHOOSH!!

Yun Su exhaled softly. The dark room lit up. This stream of air surged towards the front wall of the house in front of him. An area of several feet in radius around the wall instantly seemed to be obliterated. The night wind blew and more green bricks turned to dust. An entire wall was almost gone.

At that point, only one room in the main hall was intact.

Yun Su recalled the last sentence of the Enlightenment Chapter.

"To reach the realm of the immortals, one has to refine one's Qi and form one's soul."