Chapter 73: Life (Part 2)

  Refine your nature and let your consciousness enter the Golden Elixir, then use the Golden Elixir to observe all things, becoming fully immersed in them.

  Cultivate your destiny with Golden Elixir as the foundation, true energy circulates, and life is endlessly reborn.

  How about half-cultivating Xing and half-cultivating Ming? This seems to be the choice of most cultivators, but for thousands of years, those who have passed the small heavenly tribulation are mainly cultivating Ming and assisting in cultivating Xing. Their breakthroughs rely on enlightenment. The realm is quite elusive, some people can participate in one day, while others have no results throughout their lives. If they cannot be enlightened, then mainly cultivating Ming and assisting in cultivating Xing will not reach Yuanying for a long time. If you don't enter Yuanying by the age of 50, you will never enter Yuanying. Some Qingxiu cultivators start to cultivate Xing after building their foundation, and after breaking through Jindan, they specialize in cultivating Xing, all the way to small heavenly tribulation. Not cultivating Ming means no Yuanying.

  Some geniuses are mainly cultivating their nature, while others cultivate their destiny and quickly enter the yuan ying. People on the right path who cultivate their true self say that if you want to achieve something quickly, you won't be able to reach it. Even if they have entered the yuan ying realm, their cultivation is still not as good as the middle period of the golden elixir. If it's an evil path, there are evil methods, and after mainly cultivating one's nature into the yuan ying, one can still cultivate one's destiny into the yuan ying. However, when using evil methods to enter the yuan ying, the yuan ying is incomplete and cannot be perfected.

  For someone like Lin Fan who entered the Golden Elixir before the age of twenty, their sect would usually offer some advice. The Cloud Clear Sect divides into three natures and seven lives, the Demon Sect into two natures and eight lives, while Mount Penglai is divided into six natures and four lives, and the Purple Bamboo Temple into four natures and six lives. However, San San Zhen Ren never offers any advice. After Lin Fan came out of his closed-door training and asked about it, San San Zhen Ren replied: "Dividing into nine parts or one part is all the same; there must be gains and losses. Many people only see what they lose when making a choice, but don't see what they gain. Unless you want to cultivate for ten lives, I'll kill you first; otherwise, how you cultivate is up to you."

  Lin Fan said: "Master, what advice?"

  San San Zhen Ren smiled: "Yun Qing Men's outstanding disciples' three natures and seven lives theory is quite reasonable. At the age of nine, they refine their energy; at sixteen, they lay their foundation; after a hundred days, they complete their foundation; and by eighteen, they perfect their foundation. Within four years, they enter the Golden Elixir, followed by the three natures and seven lives. By around thirty, they can complete the Golden Elixir. If they can enter the Yuan Ying before fifty, that's considered laying a good foundation for becoming a top-notch master."

  "Then I will enter Jindan at eighteen?"

  "Lin Fan, this is the fate, no one knows how to cultivate the three natures and seven lives. Two thousand years ago, the founder of the Zixiao Temple opened the sect, mainly cultivating life, and secondarily cultivating nature. At the age of 24, he entered the yuan ying, but he told his disciples that he regretted not having cultivated four natures and six lives more urgently, which resulted in him still being too low when entering the yuan ying. One of his disciples remembered this in his heart, during the golden elixir period, nine lives and one nature, resulting in a strong golden elixir cultivation, but after fifty years he still did not enter the yuan ying, and was unable to participate with his heart, ending his life still in the golden elixir. There was also another disciple, the second-generation ancestor of the Zixiao Temple, nine lives and one nature entered the golden elixir, at the age of 45 he participated in the yuan ying. In the end, he cultivated a strong and fierce small heavenly tribulation, great heavenly tribulation, becoming the only person in the Zixiao Temple to ascend to heaven in broad daylight."

  Lin annoyed nodded: "This is fate!" That's just dog shit luck.

  The three true men nodded: "You already have the answer, I won't say anything else."

  Lin Fan chuckled and said, "You're the one who allowed me to be carefree, so why are you saying I shouldn't say anything?" Since we're being natural, then it's only natural that our natures are free. Being able to cultivate to the Yuan Ying stage is a blessing, but not being able to do so is also a blessing. The heavens' will is unpredictable; even if one can't follow the heavenly path and instead follows the human path, they'll still be in harmony with it. Lin Fan asked again, "Has the Sect Master reached the Yuan Ying stage?"

  "Mind your own business and let me play." San San Zhen Ren added, "I can cultivate myself to success, but it's not necessarily the case for you, understand?"

  "I understand."

  "Also, practice Tianmang Heart Method diligently, don't be lazy."

  Jīn dān xìng mìng zhī fēn nǐ dōu bù guǎn, nǐ jiù lèng tóu qīng de jì zhe tiān máng xīn fǎ, zhè ràng lín fán gèng jiā qíguài, cóng lín fán shàng shān yǐ lái, sān sān zhēn rén jiù yǐ suí xìng jiào dǎo, jī hū bù guò wèn lín fán de shì. chú le zhè tiān máng xīn fǎ, yì zhí cuī cù zhe liàn, lín fán wèn: "zōng zhǔ, nǐ shì bu shì rèn shi wǒ diē niáng?"

  "This question has been answered. Go away, go play by yourself, don't disturb me." San San Zhen Ren waved his hand impatiently and issued a dismissive decree.

  Once the Nine Lives and One Nature were confirmed, Lin Fan's cultivation advanced rapidly. The True Person of the Three Mountains looked from afar at Lin Fan setting up a needle array to kill a small rabbit on the mountain top, still somewhat satisfied. As he said, with gain there must be loss; in the Golden Elixir stage, one fears that their mind is not firm, worrying about gains and losses. First it was Nine Lives and One Nature, then worrying about the realm, exchanging Nine Natures for One Life - that would be like pouring water into a bamboo basket, all for nothing.

  Thirty-three true people didn't tell Lin Fan that Lin Fan's foundation was perfect, it was obtained through the trials of life and death, and it was a rare strong attack and defense foundation. This Golden Elixir is also obtained by seeing the Heavenly Tribulation, even if you have nine lives and one nature, your progress will not be slower than ordinary people with seven lives and three natures. This is the creation of heaven, the heavenly tribulation, how many people can see the heavenly tribulation, the dragon's transformation into a dragon, the heavenly tribulation, it can be compared to the Mahayana heavenly tribulation.

  ……

  In the mountains, a quiet repair, several months passed, some people can feel that Yun Qingmen has undergone some changes. The master drew out four or five people in groups to go out and practice. There are those who chase and capture injured monsters, those who find the source of the plague, and those who subdue fierce ghosts, etc. Those drawn out are all young disciples between the foundation period of one hundred days after building the foundation and twenty-five years old.

  Yun Qing Shan's young disciples of this generation are quite remarkable, apart from the closed-door disciples of the Hidden Immortal Sect. The personally taught disciples of each sect master are also quite outstanding. However, their numbers are still relatively small, even the Heaven Traveling Sect, which has the most people, only has about ten. Among them, Gu Yan of the Heaven Traveling Sect is naturally the leader, his cultivation having already reached the middle stage of the Golden Elixir.

  Qingyuanzong cultivates formation methods and extraordinary skills. White Mu Yuan's foundation is solid, and he can also enter the top three rankings.

  Ye Wushuang is no longer needed, as he has already become the guardian of the Purple Bamboo Forest. However, Mie Xingzhe is somewhat worried that Ye Wushuang only focuses on studying the scroll and relies too heavily on it.

  Also, Lin Fan was still in a hurry, San San Zhen Ren didn't report it, nor did he let Lin Fan go to register, and Lin Fan still hung up the boundary of building foundation to the main hall.

  In another ten or so days, it would be the day of the banquet hosted by Zixiao Temple for both the Orthodox and Devil Sects. The excuse was that Zhengdian Temple had been renovated and completed, but everyone knew that the real purpose was that Zixiao Temple wanted to wash away its reputation as an evil sect of Lihuo Teaching. Ye Wushuang would attend this banquet in his capacity as a protector of the sect, representing Yunqing Gate.

  Qian Yu Zhenren handed over a handwritten letter to Ye Wushuang, in fact she and the Purple Cloud True Person of the Purple Bamboo Temple had exchanged letters several times. The intention of the Yun Qing Men was very simple: they did not object to the Lihuo Sect taking on the name of an evil sect and becoming the tenth sect of the Purple Bamboo Temple. The matter had already been settled, it was just a matter of sending someone to go through the motions.

  Four people led by Xin prepared to set off, Qian Yu Zhenren reminded: "This is the exchange between the orthodox, guests follow the host's convenience, repeatedly giving in. If there's anything, you can ask Lin Fan first."

  The other three looked at Lin Fan together, and Lin Fan smiled: "I have dealt with Zixiao Temple before."

  "Go!"

  Four people came out, and another group of people went in. This group was known as the Yun Qing Four Show, consisting of two men and two women, all with the character "Show" in their names. They were going to the Demon Sect, where a notorious prisoner had escaped from the Demon Sect's Heavenly Prison and had already entered the Western Continent. As the Demon Sect was not familiar with the Western Continent, they would be accompanied by some righteous sects to pursue the escaped prisoner together.

  Lin Fan said: "This is probably a task set by the Demon Sect and the Gate Master together."

  Ye Wushuang asked in doubt: "Why say that?"

  "To pass through the Tianmen Pass into the inner gate, one must either have a method to turn the world upside down and hide their figure without being detected, or else they won't be able to get through. And the four young disciples of the Demon Sect are also obviously setting up an arrangement for the Four Fairies to temper themselves."