Dao Equaling the Heavens
Chapter 175 - 137: As Long as a Breath Remains, Undying and Indestructible (Two in One)

Chapter 175: Chapter 137: As Long as a Breath Remains, Undying and Indestructible (Two in One)

A head was set on fire, Gu Wen and Jun Yan surrounded it like gathering around a source of warmth.

Gu Wen asked, "I remember you said you don’t like killing people, right?"

Having regained his breath, Jun Yan sat cross-legged to recover while explaining to Gu Wen,

"In the triad of heaven, earth, and humanity, it’s only the causality of humans that is the most intricate. Killing someone is the most direct method of resolving causality, but conversely, it is also a factor that complicates causality. There is natural causality, such as when a sect is annihilated, if a single disciple escapes, they can gather the entire sect’s Qi Fortune."

"Qi Fortune can be transferred like that?" Gu Wen showed a surprised expression and curiously asked, "Doesn’t that mean you can’t just kill people randomly?"

"It’s not that mysterious. The sect is destroyed, a successor escapes and then seeks revenge—a scenario that’s just a rare exception."

Chi Yu Zi descended from the sky, with threads of spirit light shimmering in her tangerine-colored pupils, her aura had even strengthened slightly.

"Those rare cases are repeatedly mentioned, but out of ten annihilated sects, does even one manage to get revenge? Talking about predestination like that, do you still believe in fate even after all the cultivation?"

Her tone was thick with disdain and contempt, and that’s how she was when it came to the topic of fate, a crucial part of cultivation.

Gu Wen could understand why Chi Yu Zi thought that way; were he to reach the pinnacle of geniuses with his Heavenly Defect body, he wouldn’t believe in fate either.

Jun Yan shook his head and rebutted, "The struggle between Qi Fortunes is different. When sects assault each other and annihilate doctrines, the successful ones are always Major Sects. Otherwise, sects with equal standing can only win but not annihilate doctrines."

Chi Yu Zi clenched her fist and said, "If my punch could clear away the heavens and earth, like Immortal Qingcang did with his earth-shattering power back then, would there still be any Qi Fortune?"

"Yes, that year Immortal Qingcang destroyed the majority of doctrines in the Cultivation World, claiming to be the sole doctrine under heaven. But once he died, those eliminated doctrines sprung up like bamboo shoots after rain, and now the Three Religions still stand tall."

Jun Yan revealed secrets unknown to Gu Wen to substantiate his view.

"A single doctrine extends to internal powerhouses and prodigies, countless Magic Treasures and Taoist Soldiers, as well as external obligations, relationships built over thousands of years, and missing sect ancestors unknown. Everything is a bottomless abyss that keeps deepening with the passage of time."

A strategic depth in cultivation?

Gu Wen vaguely began to understand.

Qi Fortune truly exists, but it’s not that mystical. For example, Ao Tang particularly likes to ramble about relationships and obligations.

"That’s why I don’t like killing people because killing people is concentrating Qi Fortune. If I kill a sect’s successor, then the Qi Fortune transfers to the next successor. The world never lacks geniuses, only Qi Fortune."

"Heresy."

Chi Yu Zi turned her head towards Gu Wen and asked, "Red Dust, what do you think?"

Gu Wen spoke earnestly, "I think both of you make sense."

Spiritually, Chi Yu Zi deserves praise, but the Way of Fate indeed exists. However, this has nothing to do with him; he’s just a good Fellow Daoist.

"So why did you kill the sect behind the Nanchun Army?"

Gu Wen changed the subject, and Jun Yan shook his head slightly, "It’s not the time to say. Wait until you help me kill some Demons, then we can talk. But you can trust me, it’s harmless to you, since our relationship is more important than personal grievances."

"Since you’re unwilling to say, I won’t press the issue."

Gu Wen wasn’t fully convinced, but he didn’t dwell on it, instead turning to continue collecting Spiritual Medicine.

He asked, "Chi Yu Zi, can I pluck ones that aren’t mature yet too?"

"Of course you can, but you mustn’t waste them."

Chi Yu Zi nodded without hesitation.

Spirit Medicine Island wasn’t limited to a few strains of Spiritual Medicine, but generally, Sword Control Sect’s successors would consider a millennium as the maturation period, with at least a hundred years needed.

Although the sect had no restrictions on harvesting, they didn’t bother with the common weeds. They grow back after a while; the focus is on their age because only then can they absorb sufficient medicinal properties.

-----------------

And so another day passed.

"I can’t eat anymore, Taoist Master, I just can’t eat anymore."

Gu Wen lay on the ground, stomach round and bulging, with some Spiritual Medicine spilling from his Qiankun Bag, a few petals of Spiritual Medicine showing, the Qiankun Bag around his waist resembling a maiden’s sachet.

The Sword Control Sect’s small world’s Spirit Island was approximately ten thousand acres, equivalent to over a hundred Jiang Family Villages and their fields, and every inch of this land bore Spirit Grass and Spiritual Medicine.

According to Chi Yu Zi, this secret realm gathered Spiritual Energy from a thousand miles around. And one inch of soil in Immortal Land was equivalent to a hundred times that of the cultivation realm’s soil, creating an equivalent secret realm outside would require a territory of a hundred thousand miles.

Even then, the Spiritual Medicine grown wouldn’t necessarily speed up Taoist foundation cultivation.

But Gu Wen encountered a problem, similar to when he previously ate medicinal fruits and Luodu ate earth’s fruits.

Though plentiful here, each strain of Spiritual Medicine added very few portions of Heavenly Marrow; basically, it took ten plants to add one portion of Heavenly Marrow, and for some weed-like plants without age, dozens needed to be consumed for one portion.

Initially, Gu Wen was somewhat embarrassed to pluck greedily, but after he finished collecting all the ’mature’ herbs with Chi Yu Zi and swallowed them to gain ten portions of Heavenly Marrow,

That was all, and naturally, he had to eat voraciously.

After two relentless days of effort, his Heavenly Marrow had increased from one hundred and seventy portions to...

[Heavenly Marrow two hundred portions]

And that’s including the millennium Spiritual Medicine Chi Yu Zi shared with him, meaning binge-eating for a day yielded only ten portions of Heavenly Marrow.

Neither a lot nor a little, but the taste was bitter.

Yu Hua came over, bent over to caress Gu Wen’s belly, and the feeling of bloating vanished in a moment.

She asked softly, "Feeling better?"