Chapter 11: The Thirty-Three Skies of the Immortal Path

  Su Jianxiu pulled Xu Lin and ran out of the Cang Hua Tian Gong, appearing on the Sheng Xian Bridge. Then, Su Jianxiu's small hand beckoned, and her body was instantly filled with red light. A fiery red silk ribbon rose from her waist like a majestic dragon, leaping into the air, flipping several times before stabilizing in front of Su Jianxiu and Xu Lin.

  Xu Lin watched this scene, his heart slightly startled. He had already noticed the red silk wrapped around the little girl's waist earlier, but his gaze only swept over it briefly before falling on the crystal jade pendant hanging from the silk. Only now did he realize that he had misjudged it. This unremarkable red silk was actually a magical artifact.

  "Come, Little Lin, sister will take you to play." Beside her, Su Jianxiu didn't see the surprise in Xu Lin's eyes. She said excitedly, her small hand grasping Xu Lin's, and then she pinched a spell, her voice sweetly shouting: "Red silk, we're going to play!"

  The red ribbon immediately sprang into action, with a bright but not dazzling red light on the red ribbon like flames burning. The red ribbon rolled up and wrapped Su Jianxiu and Xu Lin inside, and suddenly shot up into the sky, carrying the two of them flying away to a distant place.

  After the two left, suddenly a few dozen tiny talismans flew out of the Cang Hua Tian Gong, emitting strange and flickering lights, shooting towards the Dong Tian, and exploding at both ends of the crescent moon.

  Just a moment later, all the true disciples who were cultivating in the Shaking Light Cave Heaven received a token edict. After reading the information on it, they also knew that the Shaking Light Cave Heaven had just gained another disciple named Xu Lin, and the number of true disciples of the Shaking Light Cave Heaven rose to two hundred.

  On the Ziyu Square, the True Heavenly Ranking suddenly flashed a dazzling light, countless time and space rules circulated on the ranking, after a few breaths, the True Heavenly Ranking returned to calm. And below the 199th place, an extra line of words appeared: "200th place, Xu Lin, Cultivation None, Belongs to Gong Yu None."

  In the radiant cave, there was no night, and it was always bright. From this, I felt that time also flowed more slowly than in the outside world. After a whole day, Xu Lin finally stepped onto solid ground and stood before his own palace, "Zi Yun Ge".

  For the whole day, Su Jianxu took Xu Lin to almost every place in Dongtian, except for the cultivation places of each true transmission master brother and sister, even the residences of Tian Gui and Di Ju were visited by them. Originally, they still wanted to continue playing, but suddenly, the True Person of the Sect appeared, pulling Su Jianxu back to cultivate, only then did Xu Lin stop this meaningless sightseeing.

  Zi Yun Ge, located at the right tip of Yue Ya Wan's pointed tail, is extremely far from Cao Hua Tian Gong. Even if Xu Lin can ride the clouds and fog in the future, it will take half a time to fly to Cao Hua Tian Gong.

  In the Radiant Light Cave, if you want to live close to the Creative Heaven Palace, you must take out equivalent cultivation to match it. The higher your cultivation, the closer the cave dwelling will be, and vice versa, the farther away it will be. Xu Lin had just set foot on the Immortal Path and had no cultivation or magical powers, so he could only live in the farthest cave dwelling from the Creative Heaven Palace, which was called Sharp Tail.

  Zi Yun Ge is also a palace, like other Zhen Chuan disciples' caves, it is extremely exquisite and quite large. Inside, there are also practice rooms, study rooms, dan rooms and every necessary room.

  Xu Lin stood in front of the Purple Cloud Pavilion, his head raised to gaze at the palace. His heart was filled with wonder and amazement. Such a magnificent and grand palace would soon belong to him, evoking a deep sense of gratitude within Xu Lin, who had only ever lived in thatched cottages since childhood. This gratitude was directed towards the old Taoist from Xiao Zhang Village, as well as his current master, Fu Yaozi.

  Shaking his head, he threw out some distracting thoughts. Xu Lin secretly made up his mind to work hard on his cultivation, striving to set foot in the fifth step as soon as possible, and then repay Lao Daoren, Fu Yaozi, and... Su Jianxiu.

  He plucked the crystal jade wall from his waist, and with a flick of his wrist, a soft light emanated from it, illuminating the palace gates. With a faint creak, the tightly closed double doors swung open before Xu Lin.

  Xu Lin strode into the palace, and the gate slowly closed after he entered.

  In the study, Xu Lin sat cross-legged in front of a low desk, on which was placed a jade book with four characters written in dragon and phoenix script: "Xian Dao Zhong Men". Without needing any magical power, Xu Lin gently opened the jade book.

  This jade book records the detailed information of the two sacred places in the current Xian Dao, the Five Caves Heaven and the Nine Paths Gate. This is something that a disciple of a major Xian Dao sect must know. In the future, when traveling through various realms of Xian Dao, it can be used.

  The first page of the Jade Book records the two sacred places: Tai Xuan Temple and Tian Gong Academy.

  As for the Taixu Temple, which had appeared in his ears countless times, Xu Lin was always very curious. At this time, seeing that there was an introduction to the Taixu Temple on the jade book, he immediately looked over.

  "In the central state, there is a mountain of immortals called Taiyue. On the mountain, there is a Taoist temple called Taixu Temple, which is a large sect of Taoism passed down from countless years ago. The master of Taixu Temple cultivates the Cloud and Flower Scripture, practicing the primordial heavenly way of creation."

  "Hongmeng Creation Heavenly Way!" Seeing this, Xu Lin's heart moved, and he took out the "Creation Heavenly Scripture" from his arms, and after shining it with a crystal jade wall, the four ancient transmission characters gradually disappeared, and then a new text appeared, with few words but full of ancient meaning. And at the beginning of the scripture were written four words: "Creation Heavenly Way".

  At this time, Xu Lin seemed to have thought of something and quickly flipped through the Jade Book of the Xian Dao Sect to the Tian Dao Annotation Chapter. He then carefully read on and indeed, Xu Lin saw what he wanted to know.

  "The Heavenly Way, since the dawn of time, has been formed by the convergence of all heavens. When Xi Huang and Wu Huang established the rules of heaven and earth, they also determined that each heaven would have its own way. Therefore, within heaven and earth, there is not just one heavenly way. Upon closer examination, there are the Causal Heaven, the Great Luo Heaven, the Supreme Heaven, the Mysterious Heaven, the Three Pure Heavens...and so on, totaling thirty-three heavens. Correspondingly, there are also thirty-three kinds of heavenly ways. However, the Primordial Creation Heaven does not belong to these thirty-three heavens, but is a mysterious existence. Legend has it that when all thirty-three heavens gather together, the Primordial Creation Heaven will appear."

  "This world actually has thirty-three kinds of heavenly ways!" Xu Lin was shocked when he saw this, and it was clear that the world he had known before was not the real world. To see this world clearly, one must cultivate to an extremely high level."

  Closing the Jade Book, Xu Lin had never yearned for cultivation like this before. This was a beautiful and wonderful world, where only the immortal path could be seen clearly. Moreover, the calamity of Xiao Zhang Village also reminded him at all times.

  Closing his eyes, Xu Lin did not look at the foundation of the Canghai Tianjing, but instead silently operated the top-level Taixu Guanding "Yunhua Miaoyan True Formula" that had existed in his body for many years.

  "Yunhua Miaoyan Zhenjue" is the foundation of Tai Xu's observation, and when cultivated to the extreme, as long as the opportunity is sufficient, it may be possible to upgrade to "Xi Hua Zhen Jie", which is a high-ranking Dao among the 3,000 great Daos, capable of absorbing the "Xi Hua Zhimiao Zhi Qi" from the four highest airs. The preciousness and rarity can be imagined.

  Xiao Yao passed on this precious true secret to Xu Lin, obviously not just wanting to establish a good relationship with Xu Lin. Later, he even handed over the Taihuo Xianqi "Tai Xu Fa Lun" to him, and also spent thousands of years of his life span to perform the "Tian Yun Shen Quan" for Xu Lin. This series of actions has created a significant causal relationship between him and Xu Lin. In the future, when Xu Lin grows up, he will have to repay this great causal relationship.

  Time is fading away, once you enter the practice, time can no longer be called time. As the saying goes, "A day in the cave, a thousand years in the world", a cultivator practices once and wakes up again, and from then on, he has no idea how much time has passed.

  Xu Lin sat quietly, countless dense and thin mist-like heavenly and earthly primordial energies rolled in and surged towards Xu Lin's body. And at this moment, Xu Lin's body was like a bottomless pit, the majestic heavenly and earthly primordial energies poured in continuously, but no matter how much they poured in, they couldn't fill up Xu Lin's small body.

  The first step of cultivation: laying the foundation. This foundation is the foundation of the Tao. Only after laying the foundation of the Tao can there be an opportunity for further progress. Laying the foundation also involves three steps: guiding the breath into the body, transforming the breath into yuan (original energy), and clouds and mist rising. When the yuan energy in the lower abdomen forms a lake, and a ray of light flashes after that, only then can the foundation of the Tao be truly laid.

  The majestic energy of heaven and earth continued to surge into Xu Lin's body. And time slowly passed, one day, two days, three days!

  In the past three days, Fuyaozi had been to Ziyun Pavilion more than once. The small seal at the entrance of Ziyun Pavilion couldn't stop him. He was now already at the middle peak of Tianming Step, and his understanding of spatial laws was almost perfect. With one step, he could cross countless spaces. Just one step, and he could directly appear beside Xulin.

  However, after seeing Xulun start cultivating, Fuyaozi didn't go to disturb him. He just quietly watched for a while, then waved his hand and left three bottles of elixir for Xulun before leaving. He had already obtained Su Mingyue's permission to enter the Canghai Heaven Palace for a month of cultivation. A month in the Canghai Heaven Palace was equivalent to thirty years, enough for him to transcend the Heavenly Mandate, step into the eighth stage, and reach the realm of Longevity Epic.

  After leaving the elixir for Xu Lin, he believed that after a month, when he came out of the Causal Heaven Palace and saw Xu Lin again, Xu Lin would have already succeeded in laying the foundation and become a true cultivator.