Chapter 1: The Seven-Colored Dragon Boat, Azure Pearl...

  "He's just putting on a show!"

  If one hasn't reached the level of being able to float in mid-air, they wouldn't dare walk on it for fear of falling off, let alone try to do something on top.

  Hong Jing and Wen Ning Hou had such an idea in their minds.

  But what made them stunned and slightly stiff was that after Luo Bei said that sentence, he just glanced at them and walked towards the sky.

  Luo Bei walked straight ahead until he reached a precipice that was only about two feet wide and barely allowed one person to stand.

  "Master!"

  On both sides of the precipice, there were deep chasms, with turbulent clouds flying about and fierce gusts howling between the cliffs. The winds blew so strongly that Luo Bei's eyes and nose felt somewhat numb. However, his mental state became even more resolute! In his mind, he recalled the scene when Yuan Tianyi took him to the Forbidden Dead Abyss. "Master, today I am competing with others for strength and victory, but this one stroke of the precipice, a challenge of life and death, will surely make my heart even more determined, just as you said!"

  Taking a deep breath, Luo Bei took a step forward and walked up!

  "Luobei, shidi! Don't!" At the moment Luobei took a step forward, Jian Hang couldn't help but let out an urgent loud cry.

  "It doesn't matter, Brother Lin Hang." Luo Bei turned around and gave a slight smile to Lin Hang before walking away.

  Step by step, walking on that precipice!

  Step by step! Each step is like a knock on everyone's heart in the arena.

  In the blink of an eye, Luo Bei had slowly walked out several zhang!

  He even smiled slightly at Lin Hang before walking away.

  At this moment, this smile and Luo Bei's completely non-hesitant and fearless appearance is the greatest contempt in the eyes of Hong Jing and Wen Ning Hou!

  The eyes of Wen Ning Hou instantly turned red, and his whole body's hot blood surged up to his head.

  "Do you think this will scare me?"

  "I don't believe a new apprentice like you can make it, but I, on the other hand, cannot!"

  Wen Ning Hou also walked straight up a steep cliff!

  Everyone present was almost breathless, watching Luo Bei and Wen Ning Hou walk on the precipice, one in front of the other.

  Suddenly a strong gust of wind blew by, blowing the green silk ribbons into a dance, and the clothes fluttering with a rustling sound.

  "Not good!" Cai Rou's face turned pale in an instant, she saw that both Luo Bei and Wen Ning Hou's bodies were swaying on the edge of the cliff, these few sways made her heart knot up.

  The wind was strong and cold. But in Wen Ning Hou's heart, it was all cold sweat.

  His face was no longer a bright red as it had been at first, but deathly pale.

  As soon as he stepped onto the precipice, his blood surged upwards, and he cast aside all thoughts. In this state of unbridled energy, even ghosts and gods would not dare to intimidate him, let alone a single precipice.

  But he only walked a few steps before being blown by the mountain wind. When he looked at the scenery on both sides of the cliff, his surging blood suddenly sank down.

  This kind of enormous psychological pressure that is a matter of life and death at every step is not something that someone with his innate nature can bear.

  In this case, as soon as a fearful thought arises, it instantly becomes an ocean, engulfing all thoughts within!

  Just a few dozen steps away, Wen Ning Hou's legs were already trembling uncontrollably.

  His entire primordial spirit was like facing some kind of terrifying demon, trembling non-stop.

  The strong gust of wind blew him off balance, and after stabilizing his figure with great difficulty, Wen Ning Hou found that he absolutely could not continue walking.

  Not only was there no way to go on, but Wen Ning Hou didn't even dare to look down, and he couldn't even stand up anymore!

  But Luo Bei was still moving forward!

  Isn't he afraid of death?!

  At the top of the mountain, Hong Jing and others were also sweating profusely. Just seeing Luo Bei walking step by step on the precipice was enough to crush their spirits, making them lose confidence and courage to climb up.

  Luobei walked straight up to the middle of the precipice and stopped.

  After standing still, Luo Bei surprisingly remained in his original position and slowly turned around.

  At this moment, Luo Bei gave everyone present a feeling that he was like a small tree growing on the precipice, looking as if it could be broken and blown away by a strong gust of wind at any time, but with an unspeakable pride!

  Huang Jing and others met Luo Bei's sharp gaze, and their minds went blank.

  As soon as he met Luo Bei's gaze, Wen Ning Hou could no longer hold on and actually trembled all over before falling to the ground.

  The Wen Ning Hou, whose mind had been completely crushed by fear, didn't even dare to walk back, and only dared to crouch down in front of Luo Bei, slowly backing away!

  Lin Hang, Ling Dongshan, even Miao Mu and Xuan Wuqi, who had been hostile to Luo Bei, felt as if they had a lump in their throat, and couldn't help but want to throw up their arms and shout wildly.

  "Bring it here." Cao Yu suddenly smiled and stretched out his hand to Hong Jing. This smile was dazzling, full of the flavor of turning things upside down.

  "What?" Hong Jing, who was in a state of shock, didn't react for a moment. When he saw Zhu's gaze fixed on his hand, he clenched his fist and handed the Xuanhuo Lei beads one by one to Zhu.

  "From now on, with him around, you surprised and arrogant disciples, it's better not to come looking for trouble again." Chuai took over the Xuanhuo Lei Pearl and turned around, no longer looking at Hongjing and the others. However, as she gazed at Luo Bei standing on top of Yi Jian Tian, Hongjing and the others understood her meaning: unless they could also calmly walk back and forth on Yi Jian Tian like Luo Bei in the future, otherwise, they would always be losers!

  "This time, I had a rivalry with Hong Jing and others, and we walked on the blade of the sky once. As Master said, we challenged the boundary between life and death again, and indeed benefited a lot."

  "It's just that this kind of cultivation of the spirit and willpower can only be achieved by coincidence, if I try to do it deliberately again, it might not have the same effect."

  At night, in his own Tianhao Peak's room, he was again drenched in sweat, as if he had just been pulled out of the water, and Luobei slowly let out a breath, thinking to himself with some surprise.

  Although every time he practiced the "Mystical Nian Tian Chang Sheng Jing" he had to go through the pain of meridian rupture and tempering, Luo Bei still persisted every day. Every night, he would stop practicing only when he was completely exhausted, unable to even enter the first step of quieting his mind and forgetting himself.

  According to the method of the Wild Thought Heaven Longevity Sutra, after absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and circulating it through the ten heavenly cycles, one will begin to refine and strengthen their meridians and bones. This process is like being placed in a crucible for constant refinement, producing boundless suffering that requires expending large amounts of mental and physical energy to counteract. In the past, after Lo Bei circulated the ten heavenly cycles, he could at most persist for another ten cycles before his mind and body would reach their limits, making it impossible to continue practicing cultivation.

  But today what surprised Luo Bei was that he actually persisted for a full fifteen weeks before finally reaching his limit.

  Moreover, now that he had stopped cultivating, although his body and mind were exhausted, there was a kind of clarity and freshness that he had never felt before, as if he was floating on air. After resting for a moment, Luo Bei suddenly felt the energy in his body surging and overflowing, as if the strength in his hands and feet was about to burst out. With a "crack", Luo Bei casually snapped off a corner of the wooden table in front of his bed.

  "It seems that the cultivation of these days, plus walking back and forth on Yibiantian today, has tempered my divine soul, tempered my will, and with the help of the Bixuan Xian fruit, my Wild Sky Longevity Sutra has made some breakthroughs."

  "The master said that cultivating the Longevity Scripture of the Heavenly Vow requires going through nine deaths and one life, enduring suffering that ordinary people cannot tolerate. Now I have such a realization, it seems that it's not that my cultivation is wrong, but rather that cultivating the Longevity Scripture of the Heavenly Vow is originally like this."

  "Why is it that my cultivation progress is so slow when I have been following the correct Daoist principles?"

  Luobei rested for a moment, then concentrated his mind and looked inward. He found that the original energy of the Tian Changsheng Jing, which had been a faint golden mist in his sea of consciousness, had now condensed into many thin strands of golden energy, entwining and circling each other like a loose golden thread ball. However, Luobei also discovered that the green energy formed by his cultivation of the Cui Xu jue, compared to the first day of his cultivation, had only increased by a faint dozen or so threads.

  "With a 'hout', Luobei concentrated his mind and struck out with a punch, his heart following his will. Luobei felt his qi and blood surging, this punch was full of energy, striking the air and producing a faint explosive sound. The green primordial energy inside his body also circulated, passing through the meridians of both hands. However, Luobei saw that on his hand, only a weak green glow emerged, this weak green glow was far inferior to the burst of green light that Cai Tuo and Hong Jing brought out when they fought, and even compared to Ling Dongshan and the others, it was still greatly lacking."

  "Could it be that they didn't listen to Dan Ling Sheng's words and secretly practiced at night while resting?"

  "This is against the teachings of our ancestors, and if discovered, we will be severely punished. I'll secretly ask Cai Shu and Ling Dongshan about it tomorrow."

  Luobei, who had already felt hungry, took a steamed bun from the table and chewed it slowly while thinking like this.

  At this moment, Luo Bei had no idea that his progress in cultivating the Great Way of Direct Pointing to the Azure Void was slow, not because he practiced for a short time, nor because his method was incorrect. In fact, with his firm, brave and diligent heart, the speed at which he absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, if he only cultivated the Great Way of Direct Pointing to the Azure Void, he would probably be the fastest progressing person in Mount Shu for hundreds of years.

  His great way points directly to the secret of Cui Xu, so why is his progress so slow? It's just because he cultivates the wrong idea that longevity comes from the Heaven!

  At the beginning of the first cycle of refining the body in the Longevity Scripture, nine parts out of ten are used for tempering and one part is used for nourishment. The nine parts of original energy are used to temper and repair the damaged meridians and flesh, while the remaining one part of true energy is used to slowly nourish. This one part of original energy can barely moisten the meridians and flesh, which are like parched land lacking rainwater. The original energy condensed by the Great Way's direct pointing to the Cui Xu secret, born with warmth and nourishment, flows through Luo Bei's body, just like a piece of land lacking rainwater suddenly encountering sweet dew - what reason is there not to absorb it desperately?

  So the Great Way directly points to the Yuexu Jue condensed yuanqi, 90% of which is absorbed by Luo Bei's meridians and body in an invisible form, leaving only 10% remaining. As a result, Luo Bei's cultivation speed with this technique has naturally decreased by about tenfold.

  However, this nourishment had a very good auxiliary effect on the cultivation of the Wild Heavenly Longevity Sutra. A night of tempering, combined with a day of full nourishment, made Luo Bei's progress in cultivating the Wild Heavenly Longevity Sutra possibly even faster than Yu Tianyi had imagined.

  Even Yu Tianyi did not expect that the group of people from Luobei would be directly granted the Great Dao Straight Pointing Qingxu Secret Art, nor did he expect that this secret art would have such a strong auxiliary function for the Wild Thought Heaven Longevity Sutra.

  The reason why Shu Mountain directly taught Luo Bei and others the Great Way of Direct Pointing to Cui Xu is also related to him. Therefore, the cause and effect of this world, past and future, are indeed impossible for anyone to see through.

  Even Lian Luo Bei himself didn't know that he had already broken through the first layer of the Wild Thought Heaven Longevity Scripture, Refining Blood and Marrow, in just under a month.

  After reaching this realm, Luo Bei's qi and blood throughout his body will be stirred by the golden yuanqi condensed from the Tian Chang Sheng Jing in the sea of consciousness, constantly churning and surging. The qi and blood will become heavy and refined, with the nourishing effect on the body increasing several times over, and his internal energy will continue to grow.

  After breaking through the first layer, the next second layer will be to mobilize the yuanqi and move the blood, practice bones and practice skin. At that time, Luo Bei's physical body will become extremely strong and resilient, and even ordinary warriors who do not cultivate Taoist techniques may not be able to harm him.

  At the same time, starting from the first refinement, the Longevity Scripture of Deluded Heaven has been constantly tempering Luo Be's meridians. Practitioners of internal alchemy usually refer to themselves as furnaces, likening their bodies to containers that hold the primordial energy being cultivated. The most mysterious aspect of the Longevity Scripture of Deluded Heaven, this unique and unparalleled bodily ascension technique, lies in its constant transformation of this "furnace", allowing it to contain more and more primordial energy, until finally merging into a single entity, indistinguishable from one another.

  If Luo Bei knew this, and then entered the quiet inner contemplation, he should be able to discover that his golden yuanqi and cyan yuanqi mud ball recognition sea were already much more empty than when he first started cultivating.