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Chapter 257 - 122: Breakthrough, Above the Nine Acupoints, There is the Xuan Gate Ancestor Acupoint!_2

Chapter 257: Chapter 122: Breakthrough, Above the Nine Acupoints, There is the Xuan Gate Ancestor Acupoint!_2

Just like that, it dealt a huge blow to Chen Qingyan.

Chen Qingyan grew quiet for a long while.

"Lady Murong."

"How is she?"

Li Guanyi, with a smile, said, "Aunt’s Dharma Form is trapped, but her spirit is still very good. She likes eating pastries and roast goose, and with an iron pot, she has driven away more than thirty little thieves. Very impressive. Aunt’s skills in zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting—I haven’t mastered any of them yet."

Chen Qingyan listened quietly as Li Guanyi spoke of the old times.

It was as if the seventeen-year-old girl, vividly alive, stood before him.

At seventeen, she was already an inheritor of the true teachings of the Murong Family, a master of the zither that nature itself seemed to acknowledge, ranked among the top ten beauties in the Martial World. Yet relying on her sister and brother-in-law, she moved with unrestrained, willful brilliance. That radiant girl, carrying the then-infant Li Guanyi, concealed her name and fled hardships for ten years.

The Princess extended her finger, suddenly pointing towards Li Guanyi’s forehead.

Touching the forehead with her finger, there was a bit of a lingering, unaccustomed feeling.

Chen Qingyan’s actions were slow.

So, that heavy feeling of discomfort at the forehead grew even heavier.

Li Guanyi subconsciously stepped back.

A wisp of frost touched the forehead.

Chen Qingyan’s finger gathered a spike of ice, touching it above Li Guanyi’s forehead.

She faintly said, "Strike here."

Li Guanyi said, "This is..."

Chen Qingyan said, "The Xuan Gate Ancestor Acupoint of the forehead. People pursue cultivation focusing only on the Nine Acupoints, unaware of this place; the Western Regions are filled with tales of the Seven Chakras, mentioning the Third Eye Chakra, specifying its exact location, yet it falls into the lower echelon."

"This place has no specific location, beyond the reach of text."

"Not within the body, not outside the body, not to be explored to open, only to be silently maintained and awaited."

"Apart from the Nine Acupoints, not listed among the chakras, the Taoist school has the direct transmission of the Mysterious Skill ’Essence of Tai Yi’s Golden Light’, focusing solely here. During our travels in the Martial World, we once met a young Taoist surnamed Lv. Your father and he competed in drinking for ten days and nights, eventually making the Taoist vomit, gaining this Taoist Skill."

Li Guanyi was dumbfounded, "Then, my dad he..."

A faint smile appeared on Chen Qingyan’s lips, and then she lightly said:

"Your father vomited even worse."

Li Guanyi grinned.

Chen Qingyan said, "This method is rumored to have been left 800 years ago, not for ordinary people to cultivate. I observe your Primordial Spirit, practiced in the Murong Family’s ’Jiangnan Misty Rain Twelve Layers’ for at least ten years, presumably initiated by Lady Murong after she took you away, leading you through the zither."

"Your Primordial Spirit is strong enough to cultivate this lineage’s Ancestor Acupoint."

"The true essence lies in the word ’ancestor’, where the spirit of one’s body attaches, recognized as the ancestor; like leading a list, the practice named ’Returning Light Observation’, if accomplished, can discern all illusions and secret techniques, keeping one’s own mind and spirit clear."

"With the body’s ancestor, one can control the Nine Acupoints; while its intention stands above the Third Eye Chakra, it can also cultivate the chakra techniques."

Li Guanyi said, "Thank you, Aunt."

Chen Qingyan suddenly stepped forward, and in an instant, a slight breeze brushed his face. Li Guanyi felt his body momentarily turn to frost. As he lowered his head, he saw his body had turned into a thousand-year-old frost, his pupils constricting.

He didn’t consider why Chen Qingyan struck him.

Li Guanyi almost instinctively struggled fiercely, leaping upwards.

He wanted to break free from the frost’s restraint.

Suddenly, he felt a light flash before his eyes.

He jumped out of the restraint.

Li Guanyi saw Chen Qingyan, and also another version of himself.

Still sitting cross-legged there.

Two selves?

No, this is, the Primordial Spirit?

Li Guanyi marveled at the mystery. Chen Qingyan looked up at Li Guanyi’s physical body, three inches above the head, and faintly said, "The body is frozen, the Primordial Spirit slightly stirs, this is what the scripture describes as, most wonderful and least wonderful."

"For ordinary people, the Primordial Spirit only stirs at death, which is not wonderful."

"But if it can stir naturally, then it is the secret of the Taoist Heavenly Heart, not transmitted."

"It is most wonderful."

"Taoists, Buddhists, and alchemists, many cultivate this method, feeling the marvel of the Primordial Spirit; if fully achieved, with many wonderful uses, they naturally consider Martial Artists coarse, but indulged in the lightness of the soul and spirit, yet they struggle to withstand life and death."

"It’s just a moon in the water, a flower in the mirror."

Li Guanyi’s Primordial Spirit returned to his body, his body not turned into thousand-year frost.

Chen Qingyan faintly said, "It was an illusion I imposed on you."

Li Guanyi hesitated, then said, "If you, Aunt, had used your full strength, would the person affected really believe he had frozen to death?"

Chen Qingyan gave no definite response.

Li Guanyi earnestly thanked her, "Thank you, Aunt, for your guidance. I know how to break through now."

Chen Qingyan merely nodded, then lightly said, "Break through."

Li Guanyi, "Ah?"

The woman with white temples pointed ahead, calmly said, "Right here."

Li Guanyi obediently sat down, crossing his legs, and then circulated his breath. He had nurtured his zither playing and listening for ten years without slack, his Primordial Spirit moved, Inner Qi surged, striking at the forehead’s heavenly heart, the heavenly light returning, gradually sensing a splendid golden light before his eyes, unconsciously, his Divine Soul felt a sensation of floating and ascending.

Li Guanyi ’saw’ Heavenly Maidens Scattering Flowers around him, witnessing many strange phenomena.

If it were an ordinary person, he might have already indulged in them, but the youth was silent.

He managed to extricate himself from these boundless wonderful phenomena.

He sighed.

He picked up his sword, sweeping it.

Many strange phenomena shattered, and then the scene before him quieted down again, leaving only the pure golden light.

The youth felt something at his forehead, slowly opened his eyes, outside the window it had moved from sunset to deep night, this meditation session had lasted a full three hours, roughly from seven in the evening to one in the morning by his former life’s time reckoning.

Yet he did not feel his blood stagnate, nor his legs and feet numb.

His spirit was even more clear and refreshed.