Refining the Dao into Godhood: A Tale of the Jie Sect
Chapter 48 [The Way of the Spiritual Farmer, Incense Fire and Hidden Virtues] (Please follow)

Chapter 48: Chapter 48 [The Way of the Spiritual Farmer, Incense Fire and Hidden Virtues] (Please follow)

Golden Turtle Island.

Xuanqing was sitting cross-legged in his cave dwelling, silently drawing in Primordial Qi and integrating it into the "Mountain River Tripod." Instantly, a small cluster of "Pure Essence Soil" manifested within the world of the tripod.

Although he was still a Taiyi Golden Immortal, his physical body, mana, and Primordial Spirit were all at the Daluo level, thus refining the "Mountain River Tripod" naturally didn’t take much time.

This Spiritual Treasure, just as Ying Long described, possessed the mysterious ability to transform "Innate Spiritual Energy" into "Pure Essence Soil" and "Heavenly True Water."

However, it was limited to the Water Element and Earth Element Spiritual Energy!

"This Pure Essence Soil is the solidified form of Earth Attribute Innate Spiritual Energy, indeed very suitable for planting Spirit Plants, only slightly inferior to Nine Heavens Breath Soil!"

"And that Heavenly True Water, also containing boundless Creation Power, whether used to nourish the Physical Body and Primordial Spirit or to cultivate Innate Spirit Roots, brings unexpected benefits, only slightly inferior to Three Lights Divine Water!"

At this moment, Xuanqing’s soul for "farming" burst forth without hesitation, and he transferred all the Immortal Grass Spiritual Medicines he had collected into the small world of the "Mountain River Tripod."

As the Primordial World developed, Innate Spiritual Energy had gradually become thin. In the future, when Buzhou Mountain collapses, Innate Spiritual Energy would further degrade into Acquired Spirit Qi.

By then, many Innate Spirit Roots and Spirit Plants will surely be affected.

This is the trend of fate!

He was unable to change it.

However, with the "Mountain River Tripod," he could prepare early, collecting a large amount of Innate Spiritual Medicines and attempting to cultivate these medicines himself.

He learned the "Alchemy Technique" from Taiching Laozi, and Spiritual Medicine is indispensable. If overharvested, Innate Spiritual Medicines might become extinct.

This time, he couldn’t help thinking about the last time he returned to Kunlun Mountain, seeing the scene where some newly recruited disciples of Jie Sect had stripped Kunlun bare.

"If Spirit Roots are scarce, wouldn’t it be preventable if one could cultivate them oneself?"

In the Primordial midst, many cultivators were accustomed to taking from nature and did not know the principle of moderation, nor was there a specialized "Spirit Farmer’s Path" for cultivating Spirit Roots and Immortal Medicines. Xuanqing felt this was his opportunity.

If he could pioneer and perfect the "Spirit Farmer’s Path," he might not claim to have merited the heavens and earth, but in the future, if he were to practice alchemy, he would no longer lack various Innate Spiritual Medicines!

Thinking of this, Xuanqing immediately used the "Mountain River Tripod" as a foundation to create an avatar to specifically research the habits and cultivation conditions of various Innate Spiritual Medicines.

As for refining the Yellow River’s waters and seeking control of the Huai River’s water veins, these matters were not urgent.

Nowadays, with the great power of the Witch and Demon Clan, it was better for him, a Taiyi Golden Immortal, to keep a low profile.

After all, with Ying Long’s promise, the fate of the Yellow River’s water veins would eventually be his.

Meanwhile, he began to comprehend the various Innate Divine Thunders contained within the "Innate Thunder Pool," intending to turn all these Divine Thunders into his foundation.

Although he could utilize these thunders with the help of the "Innate Thunder Pool," without fully mastering them, he would never be able to advance further on the Thunder Dao!

Cultivation knows no time, and in the blink of an eye, an eon had passed, Xuanqing had thoroughly mastered all the Innate Divine Thunders in the "Innate Thunder Pool," except for the "Purple Cloud Divine Thunder." His comprehension of the Thunder Dao had also advanced leaps and bounds, ready at any moment to breakthrough to Daluo Golden Immortal through the Thunder Dao!

However, his foundation was still in the Refining Dao, and he had no plans to break through using the Thunder Dao.

Before this, his comprehension on the "Plague Great Dao" and "Fire Great Dao" had also greatly advanced, the former due to completely integrating Pan King’s legacy, and the latter because of a breakthrough in the "Incense Fire Dao."

Incense is also fire!

This kind of Acquired notion, combined with "Sui Fire," immensely benefits in refining various Innate Divine Fires and tracing back to the origins of the "Fire Great Dao."

"Sui Person" had even used this to carve out an illusory Incense Fire Daluo Heaven on the "Sui Ming Tree" to carry the True Spirits of fallen humans.

Currently, as reincarnation has not been established, after a cultivator falls, they cannot be reborn in another life but will, depending on the circumstance, fade into nothingness or exist in the form of "ghosts."

A person dies and becomes a ghost, a ghost dies and becomes hence, hence dies and becomes hope, hope dies and becomes quiet, quiet dies and becomes subtle, subtle dies and becomes formless.

Just like the ancestor Pan King in the past, even if he fell, residual thoughts still linger between heaven and earth.

These beings, only a few can maintain their sanity, while most are eroded by Tribulation Qi or Evil Qi, turning into vengeful spirits that only know destruction and slaughter.

"Incense Fire!"

"Yin Virtue!"

Xuanqing had a realization: "The path of the Heavenly Immortal was pioneered by the teacher and two grandmasters, and the Earth Immortal’s by Zhen Yuanzi. Why can’t I pioneer the path of the Ghost Immortal?"

As a founder of a path, he would be endowed with great fortune, and achieving the status of a Quasi-Saint would just be a matter of time.

If he could gain the recognition of the Heavenly Dao, he might even receive the Heavenly Dao Merit.

He did not possess the same ability as Houtu to transform into reincarnation and illuminate the path for all beings, but by contemplating the Incense Fire Dao, he also vaguely glimpsed a path of the "Ghost Immortal," rooted in "Incense Fire" and "Yin Virtue," which could give those fallen spirits, yet uncorrupted by Evil Qi, a chance to live a second life.

"Becoming a revered master in one move!"

Xuanqing knew that in the future, there would be five orthodox paths: Heaven, Earth, Humankind, Divine, and Ghost.

Yet today, aside from the path of the Heavenly Immortal and the Earth Immortal, the other three paths lack not just a complete system but even a clear concept,

And this, was his opportunity!

He left Golden Turtle Island again and began to travel through the Primordial lands, searching for the opportunity to open the path of the Ghost Immortal.

One day, he saw a skeleton in the wilderness and suddenly had an epiphany: "To open the path of the Ghost Immortal, I must first become a ghost spirit, indeed!"

Xuanqing didn’t wish to die; he simply understood the key to pioneering the "Ghost Immortal Path."

Thinking this, he immediately separated a part of his "other-self spirit light" and attached it to the skeleton, trying to draw in the Yin Qi between heaven and earth to enhance his cultivation.

He wandered into an ancient battlefield, where traces of the great Dragon Han calamity remained.

Gradually, using the skeleton as a base, Yin Qi as blood, Evil Qi as flesh, and assisted by the Creation Skill, he constructed a new body for this other-self incarnation.

He constructed meridians, a Dantian Qi Sea, and a Mud Pill Palace, enabling this bit of "other-self spirit light" to rapidly grow stronger.

He felt his strength was gradually increasing, but he couldn’t help shaking his head.

"It’s not right!"

"The method of cultivation must be universally applicable. How many cultivators like me, who have comprehended the Creation Skill, can construct a suitable physical body for themselves?"

Boom!

The painstakingly constructed physical body exploded in an instant, leaving only a bit of "other-self spirit light," drifting helplessly between heaven and earth like a remnant soul.

After an unknown time, this "other-self spirit light" fell into a valley full of dead air, where there were countless remnant souls and "Yinming Grass!"

This "other-self spirit light," attaching itself to a "Yinming Grass," began to experience the cycles of growth and decay of plants, intending to nurture a bit of vitality in this desperate situation.

"The Yinming Grass is a condensation of the ultimate dead Qi, yet from extreme Yin comes Yang, transforming the endless death Qi into a plant form that symbolizes vitality!"

"Interesting!"

"Truly interesting!"

Xuanqing’s "other-self spirit light" could not help but be immersed in the ineffable natural transformations of heaven and earth, from death to life, understanding the true essence of life and death, and Yin and Yang.

What is death?

And what, then, is life?

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