Chapter 22: Crossing Threefold Heaven

  Ding Yan was taken aback for a moment, withdrew the Xian Yuan in his hand, and looked towards the newcomer.

  The newcomer was a middle-aged man dressed as a Taoist, wearing a cyan-gray Taoist robe, with a somewhat pale complexion, black long beard reaching his chest, and a purple-golden Taoist crown on his head, emitting an inexplicable aura of detachment from the world.

  "It was originally a young friend who had just broken through the scattered immortal, how, wanting to refine the immortal yuan?" The Taoist saw Ding Yan and first stunned, then smiled.

  Ding looked at the approaching person without saying a word.

  Although it is a spiritual body, there is still an inexplicable sense of oppression emanating from this person's body, enough to prove that this person is extraordinary.

  "That's right. When I first saw this power, I also thought of refining it. However, the Xianyuan is the original power of the immortal, how can we refine it?" The Taoist nodded and smiled as he descended.

  The snowflakes remain.

  "Can't Xianyuan be refined?" Ding Yan's eyes flashed as he spoke.

  "Impossible!" Daoist said firmly.

  Ding Yan was silent.

  His ancient books were mostly about the insights and feelings of crossing the tribulation, and as for the fact that the immortal yuan cannot be refined, he really didn't know. However, it was precisely because of this that Ding Yan mistakenly tried to refine the immortal yuan, and then cultivated a nameless power.

  If it were someone else, they would absolutely never try something like this.

  Because refining Xianyuan is, in their view, just a waste of time.

  "In the eighth heaven, there are tens of thousands of stars. You and I can meet on one star, it's also a fate. Never mind, I'll explain to you and tie a good fate..." The Taoist said, waving his sleeve.

  His eyes didn't see what he was doing, and when he opened his hand again, there was an extra immortal yuan in the palm of his hand.

  Ding Yan saw this and his pupils slightly contracted.

  He spent a lot of effort searching for the immortal yuan, but didn't think that this person could easily obtain one with just a slight movement.

  "Don't be surprised, next time you come here, you'll also be able to do it easily." The Taoist said with a smile, unfolding the immortal yuan in his hand.

  "In this illusory nine-layered heaven, the existence of Xianyuan is almost infinite and endless. No one knows how they appear, but it's known that every scattered immortal can extract Xianyuan from within this illusory nine-layered heaven and take it out. Of course, on the premise that your soul can withstand the Xianyuan brought out by the consciousness body."

  "Soul?" Ding Yan furrowed his brow.

  This is the first time he has heard of this point mentioned by Taoist.

  It seems that book knowledge is ultimately dead, and there are many things that are difficult to understand without the guidance of predecessors.

  Although he was suspicious of this person's origins, Ding Yan continued to listen on.

  "Not bad, soul strength." The Taoist nodded. "We who enter here are all conscious beings, and our existence is illusory. The physical forms we see now are actually just a strand of thought from our own minds. Wanting to use this strand of thought to bring something out of this space naturally has some difficulty. And what determines this difficulty is precisely the strength of your own soul."

  After finishing speaking, Dao Ren took two more Xian Yuan pellets.

  Pinch with your hand at the same time.

  Pfft...

  Xian Yuan exploded, and a terrifying power spread out from the Daoist's body.

  Although it is impossible to mobilize yuanli, using xianyuan will also make one's own strength extremely powerful.

  Ding Yan saw Dao Ren pinch three immortal yuan into dust with one breath, and was slightly shocked in his heart.

  Xianyuan is a kind of power, to be precise, an external force. If the external force reaches a certain limit, it will cause harm to the body, and in severe cases, even lead to physical collapse. And yet, this person crushed three grains with one breath, showing the strength of his physical body. In this illusory Nine Heavens, although they are all conscious beings, these conscious beings are basically also transformed according to their original physical strength.

  "Alright, I'm going to start my cultivation now. You've just become a loose immortal and can already sense the eighth heaven, which is quite good qualifications. Try looking ahead, remember, the deeper you enter, the greater your future potential will be."

  After finishing speaking, Daoren was no longer in a rational state of mind, his body transformed into an ice sculpture and entered a state of dormancy.

  A casual remark, to a Daoist, is just a temporary whim, like a billionaire walking down the street, seeing a beggar and casually tossing him a check. To himself, it's utterly insignificant.

  "This ice sculpture is formed by the condensation of three sacred yuan, with no equal power, and it's fundamentally impossible to break open..."

  Ding Yan glanced at the ice sculpture of Dao Ren's transformation and then turned around to leave.

  At the same time, I recalled the last words of the Taoist.

  "The deeper you enter, the greater the potential? This illusory Nine Heavens, it turns out there's still such a meaning..."

  Half a day later.

  Ding Yan found a whirlpool leading to the next layer on top of a snowy mountain.

  The moment she stepped into the whirlpool, Ding Yan felt as if her soul was about to split apart. Besides the endless burning sensation, even her consciousness was affected, and a flame that existed between reality and illusion ignited.

  A long corridor.

  Ding Yan sat in the whirlpool, surrounded by flames all over his body.

  The pain that tore at his soul made Ding Yan's face grow paler and paler, and gradually, even his consciousness began to blur.

  Pffft... Pffft...

  With great difficulty, he opened his eyes to find that the lower half of his body had completely disappeared. The remaining part of his body also became blurred.

  "Qian Kun Dao Jing!"

  This way, Ding Yan knew that his consciousness would eventually be consumed by this nameless flame. Thinking of this, Ding Yan simply stopped using his consciousness to resist the flame and directly circulated the Qian Kun Dao Jing within his body, with both hands, right hand in the middle, he punched out a virtual handprint.

  This handprint is a incomplete seal technique that Ding Yan gained insight into from the Ninth Layer of Void Heaven.

  The way is circulating, handprints flickering.

  Suddenly, Ding Yan felt a cool sensation in his body.

  It's that nameless power!

  After discovering this, Ding Yan was overjoyed in his heart and closed his five senses to cultivate the Qian Kun Dao Jing.

  If someone knew that Dīng Yán was cultivating while crossing the Nine Heavens, they would absolutely think that this person is either an extraordinary old freak or a stone man who has cultivated to the point of having no feelings. Because it's not just Dīng Yán, every single loose immortal, when their consciousness crosses the illusory Nine Heavens, will feel this scorching sensation originating from their soul.

  This burning sensation will increase with further penetration.

  The longer one persists, the more resolute this person's mind becomes. This is also why there are rumors that the deeper you enter a level, the greater your potential will be.

  It was unknown how long it took, but Ding Yan opened his eyes to find himself already through the illusory whirlpool and appeared on a vast expanse of land.

  "The Seventh Layer of Void Heaven......" Ding Yan stood up, just about to set off, when unexpectedly in front of him, that terrifying whirlpool appeared once again.

  Without any warning, he was sucked in directly.

  Enter the passage leading to the sixth layer of Void Heaven!

  ......

  Inside the sixth layer of the tunnel, the flames' scorching became even more apparent. The purple flames were almost substantial.

  Ding Yan did not hesitate for a moment and once again began to cultivate the Qian Kun Dao Jing.

  Arrived at the Sixth Heaven!

  Similarly, without half a moment's stay, the whirlpool reappeared...

  The Fifth Heaven

  Ding Yan has now traversed the Five Layers of Void Heaven!

  But just as Ding Yan had just stepped into the fifth layer of Void Heaven, the vortex appeared once again.

  "Ah!!"

  At the moment of entering the whirlpool, Ding Yan clearly heard a terrifying cry. Opening his eyes, he saw a handsome young man in front of him not far away from the whirlpool, turned into ashes and disappeared into the sky with a faint consciousness.

  "That person... is also like me..." With just one glance, Ding Yan saw that the handsome young man was also like him, both of them were crossing the Illusory Nine Heavens for the first time.

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