Chapter Fifty-Seven: Rainbow's External Reflection, Peach Blossom's Fallen Petals

  "Big brother, is this what they call Concealed Moon Valley?"

  A gust of wind made her dizzy and disoriented, unable to stand firmly on her feet. Luckily, Shen Zhaoxuan was by her side and lent a helping hand; otherwise, she would have probably ended up sitting on the ground with a thud.

  He asked as he looked around in all directions.

  Yin Yue Valley

  Apart from the valley, everything in front of me was something I had never even thought about before Ning Feng.

  Above the head, the four-sided mountain wall converges towards the center, leaving a gap like sitting in a dry well looking up at the sky. On the four-sided mountain wall, strange rocks and trees grew horizontally, as if they were hands trying to cover up the sky.

  This is more than just covering up the moon, it's almost enough to cover the entire sky.

  Even when the moon is high in the sky and passes over our heads, it will inevitably be blocked by various obstacles and hidden from view.

  "Hmm, hmm, hmm, so this is the Concealment of the Moon technique."

  The attention of Ningfeng shifted to the ground.

  The most peculiar thing about Moon Concealing Valley was now unfolding before him

  Throughout the valley, four-sided blocks of transparent crystal rose from the ground, some as small as a person or as large as a building. These crystals were either pure white, pink, emerald green, or sky blue, dazzlingly beautiful.

  Further away, a valley was planted with peach trees, which were in full bloom. The pink misty haze enveloped everything, as if in a dream, and also as if lost on the way.

  Ning Feng was already suspicious, and as he stood in the midst of the peach grove shrouded in layers of misty peach blossoms, he wondered if he could find his way out.

  "What is hidden is not just the moon, but also its beauty..."

  As he witnessed this scene before his eyes, he thoroughly understood just how thorough the Concealing Moon Valley was in its concealment. It was as if the waters of the Moon Flower had poured into the valley with great difficulty, undergoing countless refractions and transformations through crystal, changing colors and becoming resplendent, yet losing all connection to the moonlight itself.

  "Big Brother..."

  Ning Feng suddenly turned around and grabbed Shen Zhaoxuan's arm, just as he was about to say something, his expression suddenly changed.

  "Not true."

  He suddenly reacted and grasped the arm, but the touch was not right. Although it was a real existence, it had no temperature and no instinctive reaction, just like a piece of wood.

  "Senior brother, you..."

  Ning Feng suddenly turned his head to look, and saw Shen Zhaoxuan smiling warmly as usual. He shook his head and said, "Younger brother, you've discovered it? I'm still on Tianyun Peak, being forced by Master to cultivate the Rainbow Technique."

  Mentioning "Hua Hong Shu", he smiled wryly and lamented, "It's also strange that I, as a brother, had a slip of the tongue and praised Master Hua Hong's unparalleled skills, only to be ordered by Master to undergo arduous training, with no achievements to show for it, and not allowed to leave the sect."

  "Then brother, you now..."

  Ning Feng blinked his eyes, if it weren't for Shen Zhaoxuan's warm smile that made others feel at ease, he would have suspected that the person in front of him was a monster from another world.

  "Where there is rainbow, there I am."

  Shen Zhaoxuan smiled slightly, his hands spread open, and with this movement, his figure rapidly blurred, countless rainbow-colored light points scattered out, as if numerous rainbow-colored insects were dispersing in play.

  Ning Feng subconsciously reached out and grabbed, but grasped at nothing. At this moment, Shen Zhaoxuan was no longer a physical entity.

  "What... happened to Shu Bairong?"

  Ning Feng finally remembered him this time, but it seemed a bit late, he had been in the Concealed Moon Valley for quite some time.

  "Yan Yue Valley is a spiritual place, Shidi must cultivate with an earnest heart, after achieving minor success in refining his Qi, he will naturally be able to find the path out of the valley."

  Shen Zhaoxuan's voice also became elusive as his figure did.

  "As for Shu Bailin... I'll throw him out for you..."

  As his voice fell, Shen Zhaoxuan finally smiled and completely dissipated. The next moment, countless rainbow lights rose to the sky and reformed into a rainbow shape above the Concealing Moon Valley.

  The rainbow stretches across both ends of the valley, like Shen Zhaohuan's smiling eyes with furrowed eyebrows.

  Yanyue Valley can cover up the moon's shadow and moonlight, but it cannot cover up the dazzling beauty of Rainbow Bridge at this moment.

  "Thrown outside... Thrown outside..."

  Ning Feng withdrew his gaze, shook his head, and silently mourned for Shu Bailin for a moment before stopping.

  "All right, with Old Shu's keen insight into human affairs, by the time I leave the Moon Valley, I suppose you will have found out about what happened at Liu Family Village."

  Ning Feng simply put aside external matters, walked around a few times, found a good spot, and sat down cross-legged.

  Sitting cross-legged in the valley, looking around, countless crystals and colors, each reflecting its own scenery, as if there are thousands of Ning winds here, practicing meditation.

  Ning Feng took a deep breath, and suddenly felt all the pores on his body open up, greedily inhaling together, making his whole body feel comfortable.

  "It's indeed a great place for cultivation, full of spiritual energy and free from external disturbances."

  "Then let's start cultivating here and achieve small success."

  Ning Feng slowly closed his eyes, and in his mind, the Taohua Golden Gate Divine Chapter began to flow, the True Sun Scripture left by the senior fellow of the Spiritual Palace.

  In the Sun Method, apart from visualizing the Sun God Palace and casting the true transmission of the Sun Bone, there are also methods for practicing Qi, building foundations, Golden Elixir, and other breakthrough realms that directly point to the Great Way, which is also the top of this realm.

  "Qigong period, one divides into ten, first to third layer is the initial stage, fourth to sixth layer is the middle stage, seventh to ninth layer is the later stage, tenth layer great perfection."

  Ning Feng suddenly thought of what he had heard outside the door, which was related to the boundaries of the Qigong period, and then connected it with Shen Zhaoxuan's previous words, where he didn't understand.

  "What is referred to as 'small achievement' is breaking through to the third layer of the Practicing Qi period and completing the initial stage of Refining Qi."

  "Tsk tsk tsk, at the initial stage of Qi cultivation, in the eyes of my senior brother and master, it's just a small achievement in Qi refinement. This statement is truly domineering!"

  Have to admit, Ning Feng really likes this way of speaking.

  So far in his life, among the loose cultivators he has seen outside of the Divine Palace, almost none have exceeded the initial stage. Among the countless army of loose cultivators, people within this realm are also the most numerous.

  But this is just a trivial matter in some people's eyes, a small achievement that is taken for granted.

  "It feels great to have a strong backing!"

  Ning Feng smiled slightly and calmed his mind, focusing all his attention on the Taiyang True Classic, specifically on the practice methods for the Qi Cultivation stage.

  Slowly, peach blossoms floated down, drifting with the wind, landing on his head, shoulders, and knees, bringing fragrance and beauty, but he was completely unaware.

  "Hoo hoo hoo~~"

  A faint breeze suddenly arose, sweeping up all the fallen petals, yet not going far away, forming a whirlpool that surrounded Ning Feng.

  The wind is invisible, colorless and intangible. If it weren't for the drifting peach blossoms, it would be impossible to see.

  At this moment, amidst the pink delicate flower petals, and tinted with colorful crystal halos, the spiritual whirlpools surrounding Ning Feng's body are more beautiful and resplendent than the clouds in the sky at sunset.

  Placed in its midst, calm and serene.

  A day and night's time has passed.

  During this time, Ning Feng's scholar robe puffed up repeatedly and then subsided again, sometimes fluttering left and right, twisting like a whirlpool.

  If it weren't for the One-Day-Three-Changing Daoist Robe, but rather ordinary clothes, I'm afraid by now they would have been torn to shreds under the influence of countless surging spiritual energies.

  Take a deep breath!

  Cast into a crystal body, forged with solar bones, forever dwelling in the divine palace, circulating divine light, all previous accumulation bursting out at this moment.

  For ordinary people, the first hurdle on the path of cultivation is nothing more than a threshold that can be stepped over with one foot, and doesn't even require a second glance.

  "Boom!"

  Twelve hours past the critical point, the spiritual vortex collapsed, countless peach blossoms fell silently as formless energy, pressing tightly on Ning Feng's body.

  A scholar's robe, embroidered with peach blossoms.

  Qigong period first layer, breakthrough!

  Ning Feng's eyelids twitched slightly, as if they were about to open. The next moment, he felt even more spiritual energy pouring in, his body had long been expanded, and the meridians that had experienced the grinding of the Sun God's light were like a dry riverbed, hungry and thirsty.

  Involuntarily, the spiritual energy within him began to circulate along the route of the second layer of the Taiyang True Classic's Qigong practice.

  "Then, let's continue!"

  A thought flashed through her mind, and Ning Feng's heart calmed down again. Her trembling eyelids returned to normal, as if she had fallen asleep.

  Innumerable peach blossom petals, some of which had fallen earlier and new ones floating in, continued to adorn a whirlpool of peach blossoms and halos, swirling endlessly.

  Before you know it, another day has passed.

  "Boom!"

  At the height of its power, a spiritual vortex twice as large as the previous one collapsed again, and Ning Feng stood in the middle, bearing the influx of countless spiritual energies with his body, and finally opened his eyes.

  "Ah..."

  The wind inadvertently made a sound.

  "The feeling of cultivating, it's actually like this... it's really comfortable!"

  Breaking through to the second layer of Lianqi, it's like a long drought meeting a sweet rain. The dry meridians and empty Dan Tian greedily devour the spiritual energy, bringing an unutterable sense of satisfaction that surges from the soul to the flesh, surpassing any worldly pleasure.

  Issuing such a soul-stirring voice, Ning Feng's old face turned red, and he glanced around, fortunately, there was no one.

  "No wonder, no wonder, when they cultivate, they all have to close their doors and retreat from the world, even their own family members don't dare to disturb them."

  "I thought it was for safety's sake, but now it seems... I just can't bear to lose this person."

  Ning Feng suddenly remembered a dignified and elegant, immortal wind-like, senior cultivator, a generation's strong man, who had unexpectedly let out a soul-stirring cry, his face instantly becoming deathly pale.

  "Stop it right there, this is too disrespectful, stop it once and for all."

  He took a deep breath and prepared to continue fighting.

  "It seems that my foundation is indeed solid, three years of external door training, and the introduction to the Sun Law. This thick foundation is far from being fully utilized, plus the unique environment of the Concealing Moon Valley, if I don't cultivate to the level of Small Completion, how can I have the face to see my senior brothers and masters?"

  ？”

  Ning Feng's thoughts hadn't even finished turning when he closed his eyes again, the third layer of the Taiyang True Classic's breathing technique circulating in his mind and through his meridians.

  The days and months of cultivation are gone, this time the time spent is far more than before.

  Before he knew it, Ning Feng had entered the Concealed Moon Valley for seven days already.

  On the seventh day, the morning sun broke through the mist, and a brilliant golden light burst into Xuan Yue Valley, piercing every crystal and dyeing Ning Feng's body, which was covered in peach blossom petals, a deep gold color.

  You can't hide the moon, and where can you hide the bright sun? You can't be arrogant.

  "Ahhh~~~~"

  When the first ray of morning light fell on Ning Feng's body, he suddenly opened his eyes, stood up straight and let out a long whistle.

  Standing in the center of Concealing Moon Valley, he was like a sea of eyes, and also like a whirlwind, swallowing and spitting out spiritual energy to form a wild gale, shattering the falling petals on his body.

  Third layer of Qigong practice, breakthrough.

  "Good job!"

  The wind grasped his fist and stopped his long sigh, that moment of intoxication could not be forgotten for a long time.

  Relying on the thick accumulation, relying on the peak method, in the Concealed Moon Cave Heaven, within seven days, directly breaking through three layers, achieving small success in Qi Refining.

  This is just the first step, but Ning Feng saw a big door opening from it, and saw a magnificent gate on the fairy road, with a corner of the cloud peak sky revealing a majestic corner.

  Just like that, at the edge of the Moon Concealing Valley, peach blossoms misty and hazy, under the shock of spiritual energy, layer by layer dispersing, revealing a winding small path.

  "You can go out now."

  Gently smiling, she takes a step forward.

  A whole peach blossom falls and scatters, in one day the Taoist robe changes three times, dust cannot stain its subtlety. The scholar carries his book bag, stepping out of the Peach Blossom Spring.

  All the way out of the Moon Valley, after passing the last flower tree, Ning Feng turned back to look, but saw that the misty haze had enveloped everything again, hazy and dreamlike, as if it was the source of a dream.

  "Master, you've finally shown up!"

  A cry of utter despair and desolation pierced the air, and in the next instant, a figure pounced over like a starving tiger.