Chapter 1: Whose Scenery is Whose!

  It disappeared in such a strange and bizarre way into the spiritual vein.

  When Ye Xuan came back to his senses once again, he found himself in a stone-made secret chamber, and his body was no longer in the spiritual vein from before.

  At a glance, this secret room was completely sealed off, and could only be discerned by the faint green glow that seemed to emanate from nowhere.

  "The conditions I set back then were so simple, but it's surprisingly difficult to wait for a Five Elements cultivator. After waiting for some years, my physical body might disappear soon. However, I finally waited for one. Kid, welcome..."

  "Cloud Emperor Cave, Third Transmission!"

  "Who!"

  Ye Xuan got up from the ground, brushed off the dust on his body, and upon hearing this voice, he furrowed his brow instantly. He looked around to locate the source of the sound, only to discover that someone had appeared in front of him at some unknown time.

  This is an old man.

  Wearing a black robe with a yin-yang diagram embroidered on the front, standing with hands clasped behind his back, and sporting a small mustache that gives off an amiable and affable impression.

  "Who are you!" Ye Xuan was startled for a moment.

  He couldn't feel the old man's presence.

  With spiritual insight, a blank slate is revealed.

  He could see the old man with his eyes, but he couldn't feel even half a degree of body heat from him, as if the old man was a ghost.

  "Are you human or ghost!" Ye Xuan asked aloud.

  "A ghost? If I were a ghost, I wouldn't be here. I'm just a divine being!" The old man in black smiled kindly.

  "What is a divine being? What is a divine being!" Ye Xuan felt that the old man did not have any intention of killing him, and he also calmed down a bit.

  Moreover, if someone can quietly pull me here from the spiritual vein, I'm afraid my own life is no longer under my control.

  So, being timid is of no great use either.

  The old man in black saw that Ye Xuan was not afraid at all, and smiled with narrowed eyes: "You kid is really ignorant. The Divine Lord is the divine body transformed from the divine consciousness, when the divine consciousness grows to a certain extent, it can transform into shape, and when it reaches a certain height, it can transform into human form. This human-shaped divine consciousness can be endowed with spirituality, hence the Divine Lord! And I am this Divine Lord!"

  "Divine consciousness... divine consciousness can take human form!" Ye Xuan's expression changed in an instant.

  He had never heard of it.

  He only knew that the divine sense could transform into silver needles to make moves that were difficult to detect, attacking the enemy's soul, but he had never heard of the divine sense transforming into a human form.

  "Heh heh, you wouldn't know anyway, so I'll just tell you. Don't think that the Five Xuan stages are a low-level phase. Let me tell you, the first four stages of the Five Xuan - Li stage, Ti stage, Qi stage, and Shen stage - each one is crucial beyond measure. If the Flying Heaven stage is a filtering stage, then any one of these four stages contains boundless mysteries!" The black-robed old man said with a smile.

  "Does every one of them contain infinite mysteries?" Ye Xuan blinked his eyes.

  "Right, these four represent the four methods of enhancing one's strength!"

  "Cultivate strength, refine the body, cultivate energy, and cultivate spiritual awareness."

  "Cultivators of strength, with boundless power, some cultivators' great abilities can cause mountains and rivers to collapse and the earth to shake with just one punch. Cultivators of body refinement have physical defenses comparable to high-grade magical treasures. However, cultivating internal energy is still the mainstream, as there are hardly any cultivators of strength or body refinement left, after all, the number of strength-cultivating techniques and body-refining techniques is too small!"

  Ye Xuan listened seriously.

  Strength position, body position, air position, brain god position.

  Representing four ways to enhance one's strength!

  The old man in black robes laughed and said, "Nowadays, cultivators generally cultivate their qi, and more broadly, they cultivate both their qi and spiritual awareness. Usually, cultivating qi is the main focus, while spiritual awareness is secondary. However, some extremely talented individuals can divide their attention to cultivate three aspects simultaneously. As for those who cultivate all four - body, qi, spirit, and strength - it's extremely difficult, almost impossible! The key issue is that there are too few techniques for cultivating strength and the body. Even if there were some, they would be poorly explained and not very useful!"

  Ye Xuan heard what the old man in black said and was deep in thought.

  Double cultivation, triple cultivation, quadruple cultivation!

  Four acupuncture points represent four cultivations!

  "This world is divided into three eras, the first era was countless years ago, when people mainly cultivated strength, and the second era mainly cultivated physique, but in the end they all gradually declined and were replaced by those who cultivate energy, so it's still better to cultivate energy!" The old man in black robes chuckled.

  His eyes narrowed.

  Looking at Ye Xuan.

  After a while, he said: "The divine consciousness is divided into five stages. The first stage is generally transformed into a needle. Tsk, tsk, your divine consciousness is not even up to the first stage!"

  Ye Xuan couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time.

  His own consciousness couldn't even transform into a needle.

  The old man in black robes seemed like an old naughty child, explaining: "However, your talent is still passable. The most important thing is that you can comprehend the sword intent at the Five Xuan position, which is not bad!"

  "What you're saying is that a senior is an incarnation of a divine being, a physical form transformed from a person's divine consciousness. Then what about your true self?" Ye Xuan asked in confusion.

  "The master? He's dead..." The old man in black robes stood with his hands behind his back, saying calmly as if it was a matter of course: "Life and death are the way of the world, life and death are the ultimate truth. It's just that some people live their lives gloriously, while others live in humility."

  This old man in black robes obviously did not want to reveal his own death wish.

  Ye Xuan was astonished and said: "The main deity is dead, can his divine consciousness still remain?"

  This is against common sense!

  "You don't understand, there are many things. Once the divine body is formed, it controls all the divine consciousness power of the original body. As long as the original body hands over all its divine consciousness to me to control, I can survive in this world. However, my survival time is limited. In a place with abundant spiritual energy and no light, I can live for so long. If it were a place with insufficient spiritual energy or where there is light, I would have died long ago!"

  At this point, the old man in black robe let out a breath and was very indignant.

  The old man in black said, "Before the host died, he left this secret room and passed it down to three rooms. Each room has different things. The host set a simple condition for entry at that time: you must be of the Five Xuan rank or below; if you exceed the Five Xuan rank, you cannot enter. It's as simple as can be, but he waited for so long and only waited for one person - you! I'm also suffocated to death!"

  Ye Xuan was stunned.

  It's no wonder the old man in black is angry.

  It's probably a difficult task for even a fifth-rank cultivator like the black-robed elder to come to this spiritual vein.

  Because this spiritual vein was sealed by the first person, Ba Hua Chi's pool master, and later set up rules, only the pool master of Ba Hua Chi can come to practice here.

  Any pool master of Baihua Pool is at least a solid foundation in cultivation, and most are actually at the Qi Sea Realm level. Where can you find a Wu Xuan position?

  And this setting can only be the five elements position, it's no good if it's higher!

  Where can I find this kind of freak who can become a pool master with just five mysterious positions?

  But I didn't expect that when I came to this spiritual vein to break through the Solid Origin Realm, I would still encounter such a thing.

  "Senior brought me into this secret room, what for?" Ye Xuan wondered.

  The old man in black robes smiled and said, "What else can be done? Of course, it's to pass some things on to you!"

  "Is it something in one of these three rooms?" Ye Xuan asked.

  "You think it's beautiful, but with your current strength, you can only go to the first room. Only when you become stronger can you go to the second room. And hey, don't think things are that simple, in the first room there is a secret technique passed down from the origin, if you can't learn it!"

  "What if I don't learn it!"

  Ye Xuan was startled.

  He felt that there was nothing good in this world.

  Such a powerful figure can even transform his divine consciousness into another person, and even if the original body dies, the divine body will not be destroyed. Can the things left behind by such a figure be obtained so easily?

  "It's... death!"

  The old man in black robes didn't sound the slightest bit angry.

  Ye Xuan furrowed his brow.

  The old man in black robes said faintly: "Don't think that everything is so wonderful, if you can't learn it, but still know the secrets of this tradition, what's the point of keeping you?"

  "I'll work hard!" Ye Xuan took a deep breath.

  He didn't say anything ominous.

  This world is like this, every step, there may be a crisis.

  "Come with me, the things left in these three rooms are actually of similar value, but the conditions for entering are different. The first room can only be entered by those who have reached the Five Elements Realm and must have a good foundation in the Five Elements!" The black-robed old man said calmly.

  He took a step forward at once.

  The door of the first room in the secret chamber opens.

  The old man in black and Ye Xuan entered one after another.

  It feels good, so let's collect it!