The Heavens: A Qing, the Yue Girl at the beginning

In the world of Sword Dynasty, when one's cultivation reaches the eighth level of enlightenment and goes further into this realm, one will naturally discover that the various vital energies between heaven and earth are too thin for the true energy accumulated in one's body, and can no longer support such a being to continue to break through.

In fact, if it weren't for the rare elixirs collected widely from home and abroad, as well as the assistance of the formation, their daily breathing exercises alone might not be enough to match the energy they consumed in meditating and gaining enlightenment every moment, let alone breaking through the realm barriers and reaching the next level.

In the Six Qi Realm, the world was created by the creation of the universe. Zhao Qing can continuously obtain primordial energy from the void to nourish himself, and can utilize all light energy, nuclear energy, etc. This gives him several more sources of income than the practitioners in this world. However, Zhao Qing, who pursues speed in cultivation, is obviously not satisfied with the slow pace of practice.

"Within the crater, there are at least tens of millions of cubic meters of gray bones. The number of people who died that year should be far more than the millions living within the city walls here. It should be tens of millions, nearly 100 million, and there are also cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, and a large number of giant mounts..."

Her mind moved slightly, and she said that she was quite knowledgeable, but the scene of death on this scale could move even her. She marveled at the power of the catastrophe in the past and tried to analyze it. Judging from the destructive effect alone, what kind of battle would it take to blast out such a huge "meteor crater"?
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The slope gradually becomes gentler.

At the end of the sight, the withered yellow grass extending to the foot of the mountain faded away quietly as if completing its mission and disappeared from the sight.

The layer of bone debris on the ground still exists, but it is no longer so despairingly thick. Although one can no longer step on the soil underneath, one can clearly distinguish the ups and downs of the terrain.

The river meandered like a shining silver thread, and its source was obviously from the solitary black stone mountain in the center of the basin. And the closer you got to the stone mountain, the stranger the color of the river became!

In the river section at the edge of the basin, the water was as clear as usual, but from the direction Zhao Qing was passing, the color of the river water in the middle and lower reaches had gradually transformed into an indescribable white, as if what was flowing was not water, but solidified moonlight, or melted top-grade mutton-fat chalcedony.

The wisps of white mist emanating from the river surface were definitely not ordinary water mist. They were the essence of heaven and earth that was ten or a hundred times purer and richer than ordinary spiritual energy!

The pure spiritual energy condensed like a veil, flowing and evaporating lightly on the river surface. The plants on both sides of the river were nourished by it, showing vitality and elegance far beyond their counterparts in the outside world.

The air was filled with a breath of extremely clear and pure energy, full of life force. Every breath was like swallowing nectar, rushing madly into her body.

Zhao Qing's steps naturally followed the milky white river filled with spiritual energy. Every step she took on the thick bone debris on the shore gave off an extremely faint purifying halo. Her slowly walking figure was reflected on the river surface, and her figure seemed to be immersed in the flowing chalcedony.

Reach the utmost emptiness, maintain the deepest stillness. All things come into being, and I watch their return.

Under normal circumstances, to achieve such a crucial breakthrough in a certain realm, one theoretically has to practice in seclusion and set up many restrictions to prevent external interference. Only then can one calm the mind, calm the spirit, forget everything inside and outside, and not be attached to anything. There is no point in traveling around casually. Going on a picnic in the wilderness is simply a dangerous and chaotic act.

But in her current spiritual realm, the so-called movement and stillness are nothing but ignorance. “It is not the wind that moves, nor the flag that moves, but the heart of the benevolent that moves.” This is a case in the Platform Sutra. Only when the heart has the difference between “movement” and “stillness” can one recognize the movement of the wind and flag. If the heart has no worries, the wind and flag will naturally not move, and the same is true for all things in the world.

Therefore, Zhao Qing's current ability to act is much stronger than imagined, and he does not have to stay where he is and stagnate in a corner.

The deeper you go into the basin, the purer the milky white color of the river water becomes, and the thicker the spiritual energy that emanates from it becomes.

The bone fragments around gradually became thinner and finally disappeared completely, revealing the moist and fertile black soil underneath. The fields became wider, and wild flowers spread out like a brocade. And the end of the river was already in sight - at the foot of the black mountain.

The ground at the foot of the mountain was shrouded in a halo of milky white spiritual energy. There was no grass growing on it, and the rocks were a deep purple-black color, as smooth as a mirror. The ground was no longer covered with mud or bone fragments, but was covered with scattered metal fragments!

Broken armor plates, broken spear heads, twisted weapon fragments, shattered talisman parts...all kinds of materials, from ordinary iron to rare fine gold, all reflecting a cold or dull luster under the light of spiritual energy.

What is even more bizarre is that these fragments are not piled up randomly, but are like those melted at high temperatures and then flowed and cooled on the ground, blending with each other to form strange "river"-like traces of large pieces of molten and solidified metal, winding and entrenching. The killing of the years and the cruelty of war are eternally engraved here.

In the center of this strange metal ruins, several springs of various shapes are gushing out.

The most eye-catching one is the hot spring pool located in the center, where the milky white spiritual energy is the most concentrated. It is only more than ten feet in radius, the pool water is warm, hot steam is rising, and the gurgling spring water gushes out, carrying the purest life energy.

It is the entire spiritual river, and it is also the source of the pure spiritual energy that is omnipresent in the entire basin and nourishes all things!
If measured by the concentration of vital energy, it can be said to be as high as a million times that of ordinary areas in the outside world! Ordinary people can't even imagine it!

The color of the pool water is exactly the same as that of the river, pure milky white and as thick as fat, exuding a life energy that is intoxicating both physically and mentally and seems to be able to cleanse the dirt of the soul.

A snow-white tiger was lazily soaking in the water, with only its head exposed; two jackals with fur like dry mud were napping on the edge of the pond; a few fat white geese were floating on the water, preening their feathers.

The law of the jungle does not apply here, and all birds and beasts maintain an almost sacred silence and peace.

Suddenly, a shrill scream tore through the silence! High in the sky, a giant iron-feathered eagle with a wingspan of several feet was circling in the wind, its momentum was fierce, and its sharp claws were still holding the struggling prey.

Just as it flew over Zhao Qing's head, the huge wings that supported it to fly for thousands of miles suddenly froze! It was as if an invisible hand instantly pulled away the wind law that it relied on to fly, and then forcibly sucked away all the true energy in its body.

The giant eagle screamed in fear, not understanding why its instinct to soar in the sky suddenly betrayed it. Its huge body spun like a broken stone and smashed into the milky white river surface below!
"Plop!" Water splashed everywhere.

A few white deer drinking water from the dry grass on the bank looked up in panic. In the middle of the river, the giant eagle fluttered in panic, its right wing collided with a rock and bent back behind it, its feathers pierced by the white bone, and its abdomen was cut open by its own claws. It struggled to raise its head, and its golden eyes reflected the slowly approaching figure.

"Has the law of vitality been distorted, interfered with, or covered up?"

Zhao Qing looked at the wailing fifth-level raptor thoughtfully, knowing that the means that the other party was familiar with, which were to control and sense the trajectory of the flow of the vital energy of heaven and earth, had completely failed, making it unable to fly normally within its range of influence, and it became no different from a first-level raptor.

If this effect falls upon a human practitioner, it would be equivalent to having their realm temporarily sealed. Not only would many powerful skills and sword techniques be unable to be used, they would even cause a backlash of their true essence, causing their combat power to plummet. This is equivalent to a domain suppression aura, and only a grandmaster who has reached a certain level of the Qi Tian realm can resist it.

If she took the initiative to seal the town and infect some practitioners with the laws, even if the other party was a seventh-level master, he would immediately fall to the same level as the first level and become as weak as an ordinary person.

What is even more amazing is that the passive or active infection of the law is not just short-term. If she wants, the deep distortion can definitely last for decades or even hundreds of years, causing a small-scale "extinction" event against practitioners in a certain area, turning it into a "forbidden zone". Of course, this kind of interference and coverage of the law of vitality is still based on the ability of more essential rules, depending on the difference between the world opened up by Zhao Qing and the external environment, and still follows the life and death of yin and yang and the five elements, but with slight differences in "law potential energy" and "law flow density", adjusting its strength state.

What is the law of vital energy? Today, Zhao Qing can finally give his own answer to this seemingly metaphysical question.

"The destiny of heaven mediates, and the qi changes and flows. The bellows of the great void are stretched but not relaxed, and there is a fixed number between opening and closing. The gods travel the universe but the mysterious female does not leak, the origin changes all things and the great essence exists forever."

After she broke into the Six Qi Realm and glimpsed the truth of heaven and earth, all her previous vague perceptions suddenly became clear, and the meaning of the "Original Qi Law" became clear in her mind. To put it in more standard theoretical language, it can be seen as a kind of "inertia" and constant field of Original Qi that prevents its own form from being changed by external forces.

For example, with the law of fire energy woven into it, this area is more suitable for fire energy and inflammatory energy to maintain their stability, and makes the system's behavior tend to maintain the current state or mode without external intervention.

Obviously, this statement is quite similar to Newton's famous first law. In fact, it is indeed possible to further extend several new laws, calculate and manipulate them in a scientific and quantitative way, and deduce guiding general principles and thousands of skills.

Just like a rolling iron ball, if there is no external force to change it, it will continue to roll; a piece of dissipated cloud, if there is no wind and sun, it will maintain its hazy shape - this inertia itself is one of the simplest and most fundamental laws between heaven and earth.

The power that practitioners "borrow" and the "Tao" that they comprehend are based on the understanding and familiarity of this huge inertia. They can "move the whole body by a single hair" in the subtle details and pry open every thread in this magnificent field of rules to use for their own benefit.

Advanced practitioners can simulate, shape, and even partially modify the manifestation of this potential field manifold to a certain extent. A single thought can change all things, and the five elements of yin and yang can be reversed.

"Original Qi is not born, and it is not destroyed." She silently recited some deeper understanding, "Its flow and change follow this 'web of laws' that wraps, penetrates, and maintains everything. It gives the primordial Qi a 'form', a 'momentum', and a trajectory of change. Practitioners perceive it, use it, control it, and even... tamper with it, all in an attempt to leave their own mark on this 'web'."

"'Heaven and earth are intertwined, and all things are transformed.' There are countless laws in the world. Metal and iron are sharp and hard, fire is scorching and diffuse, and water flows softly - these are all superficial. The root cause is that different clusters of vital energy have different 'inertial preferences' at the level of their combination and movement, forming 'potential barriers' and 'flow paths' in specific areas."

"When billions of different 'inertial preferences' are intertwined and consolidated at the macro level, they become the unbreakable laws of heaven and earth that we perceive. The so-called creation of the world, the so-called breaking of the cage, first of all, is to see through, measure, and even reweave this 'stubbornness' from a cognitive perspective!"

“This is the true meaning of riding on the righteousness of heaven and earth, controlling the debate of the six qi, and traveling in the infinite!”

She flicked her fingers lightly, and a wisp of immortal qi wrapped around the dying falcon and threw it into the central spring.

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The white mist enveloped the eagle's body like a living thing. The moment the spring water touched the wound, fine granulations appeared on the rolled flesh, and the broken wing bones made a teeth-grinding sound of growth.

After just three breaths, the giant eagle suddenly broke out of the water, and its wet wings flapped out water droplets all over the sky.

It circled over the pond three times, then flew away with its long cry through the clouds.

The other creatures in the pool seemed unaware of this and were still immersed in their own peace.

To a certain extent, the "Fountain of Youth" is also a source that can emit unique vital energy laws, diluting the "pollution" near Zhao Qing, thus releasing the giant eagle from its confinement. It also has an environment that soothes the soul and allows all kinds of life to coexist peacefully. Its essence is no less than that of the Eight Realms.

Long before the Wu clan, the Donghu clan and the Yue clan, there had been a legendary unified empire in the wastelands and deserts outside the Great Wall, called Tianliang. Its territory was almost as large as the combined area of ​​the four dynasties of Qin, Chu, Qi and Yan today. It could be called the most powerful country outside the Great Wall and was also the origin of many tribes and countries on the grassland today.

Tianliang originated from the ancestral mountain, which had many spiritual veins. Tianliang naturally rose slowly from the wilderness, but it was only strong for a hundred years. One day, a meteorite fell from the sky, landed on the ancestral mountain, and smashed into the spiritual veins, then turned into a fountain of youth, which contained amazing medicinal power that could revive bones and give birth to flesh and blood.

In Zhao Qing's understanding, the spiritual energy and medicinal power of the Fountain of Youth obviously mainly come from meteorites from outer space and the remains of a person who is suspected to be an immortal in the Ninth Realm. According to her careful perception, the spiritual energy output in this basin is completely equal to the sum of all the spiritual veins in the entire Chu Dynasty, which can be called a holy place for cultivation.

What kind of energy density is this, gathering the spiritual energy spread over a vast country and compressing it into liquid? But in fact, it is just the result of the residual energy of the meteorite that had been flowing for decades before it was sealed by the Tianliang rebels, and then dissipated and evaporated for hundreds of years.

In other words, the spiritual essence contained in the Fountain of Youth at its peak state is at least several times more than it is now! Even ten or a hundred times is not an exaggeration!
"After all, it has been isolated for hundreds of years. Even if the 'Immortality Pill' had some law contamination or consciousness assimilation ability, not much would remain... After absorbing some secondary products, I should be able to fully filter and purify them with my current cultivation level of the 'Lower Six Qi' realm. There is no need to worry about the true essence and magic power being contaminated..."

Zhao Qing looked at the hot spring carefully, thinking deeply, and evaluated its comprehensive value. He said that his originally planned "North Gas to South" project might have to be cancelled, because among the six yin and yang energies of the earth that need to be refined in the lower six qi realms, this place seems to be able to provide two.

That is, the cold water energy of the sun and the wet earth energy of the moon.

"The six qi are the descending of heaven's qi and the rising of earth's qi, which interact with each other and give rise to all things."

When practitioners step into the realm of six qi, the "yin and yang six qi of the earth" that they refine are not the external water, fire, wind and thunder, but refer to the fundamental destiny hidden in the mountains and rivers of the earth, and deep in the veins of the earth, which can carry the sky and give birth to life, and is a storage unit of the mysterious rhyme of Tao.

It is divided into: Taiyin wet earth, Taiyang cold water, Shaoyang phase fire, Yangming dry gold, Shaoyin monarch fire, and Jueyin wind wood.

"The sun is cold water, its image is winter storage, its nature is dormant. Extreme coldness generates the power of closure and storage, sealing up vitality; the virtue of water contains the power of moistening and transforming, breaking down solid objects and eliminating stagnation. Water is cold but yang in nature, yin on the outside but containing true fire on the inside, hiding vitality in silence, and is the basis for growth and development."

"Taiyin is the image of the most yin, and governs the earth. Moisture is its qi, its nature is moist, its virtue is broad, it governs transformation and nurturing, governs growth and nourishment, regulates the harmony of the earth, is good at tolerance and bearing, can dispel the harshness of the dry and fierce metal, and transform the dead silence of war into a garden of vitality."

Sensing the fluctuations of essence flowing from the core of the spring, Zhao Qing couldn't help but sigh softly: "The cold water's yin embraces the vitality's yang, and the wet soil's yang carries the spring's yin. The two are strangely intertwined and fused here. It is really an excellent resource for me to cultivate the Dharma body and Dharma appearance according to the 'Twelve Meridians Canon' after I pass the Zi and Chou meetings!"

As far as she knew, apart from the core of the meteorite from outer space, whose depth was unknown, there were also many treasures left in the Tianliang Zushan that might be used to refine the "Six Qi", such as the skeleton of Taotie, dormant chaos insects, Tianyou crystals, two-life flowers, magic arrays that could expand and contract and cut through space, and the energy sources of the magic arrays.

It was not a big problem for Zhao Qing, who already knew the plot, to just break into the depths of this ancestral land, defeat the "immortalized" Wushuang Fengyu Sword, and get the "elixir of immortality". Her strongest point now was her defense, so she could just head forward, because the "elixir of immortality" was indestructible anyway.

However, maximizing resource acquisition and "protecting" the environment from damage remains an extremely challenging task.

...(End of chapter)