Longevity starts with learning.

Chapter 1081 Puppet
Time flies by, and it seems like just a blink of an eye, and decades have passed.

Over the decades of the Spring and Autumn Period, this Shenji City has not changed much.

The majesty of the Holy Emperor Palace remains. At least in this Shenji City, no one dares to challenge the majesty of the Holy Emperor Palace.

The Zhenjie Pavilion, located at the entrance of a remote alley, has also stood in this Shenji City for decades.

Compared with high-level cultivators, decades of spring and autumn are insignificant.

But compared to low-level cultivators, decades of spring and autumn will undoubtedly be a huge period of time in life.

The Zhenjie Pavilion is located in a remote place where low-level cultivators gather. Over the past few decades, even though Chu Mu did not spend too much time on it, the name of the Zhenjie Pavilion has slowly spread among the low-level cultivators in Shenji City.

Chu Mu, a Jindan realm cultivator, has undoubtedly become unquestionable in Shenji City as his fame spreads.

After all, there is obviously a world of difference between the attention a Jindan realm cultivator receives and a Dharmakaya realm master.

A strange Jindan realm cultivator is extremely common in this spiritual world.

The world is so vast, and the resources are so abundant that even a pile of spiritual objects can easily bring a mortal to the Nascent Soul realm under the rules.

As for the great power of Dharma, it is obvious that it cannot be achieved by simply piling up resources.

When it comes to the comprehension of rules, it is more about understanding and spiritual body rather than ordinary so-called qualifications.

It is late autumn now, and the climate affects the sky. Leaves are falling all over the city, and there is already a sense of desolation.

The Zhenjie Pavilion was still bustling with people coming in and out continuously.

The cabinet is spacious and bright, and the furnishings are not complicated, with only a few rows of shelves and a counter.

The shelves were filled with bottles of pills labeled with their effects. Behind the counter, Chu Mu was leaning back in a recliner, looking lazy.

The pills sold in Zhenjie Pavilion were not specially refined by him. They were all low-level pills collected from the lower realm and the Qingqiu treasury.

It has been piled up in the storage space for a long time and is of no use to him. It would be a pity to throw it away, so it can be said to be useless.

Selling them in Zhenjie Pavilion can be considered as recycling waste.

Although he didn't care about the spirit stones he earned, it allowed him to come into contact with more people, and in a more detailed way.

After all, his public identity is that of an alchemist and also a pharmacist.

The so-called pharmacist is also a cultivator of the hundred arts, which is extremely similar to alchemy.

Be familiar with the properties of medicines and use them to treat diseases and heal injuries.

Although immortal cultivators are immune to all diseases, getting injured is undoubtedly a common occurrence in the immortal jungle.

When cultivators are unable to cure many injuries and chronic illnesses on their own, they need to use external forces such as elixirs or other spiritual objects.

And the pharmacist is one of these external forces.

If you are proficient in the properties of medicine, you can use spiritual objects to treat the injuries in a targeted manner.

It can be said that a good pharmacist can definitely become a good alchemist, but being an alchemist does not necessarily mean he will be a good pharmacist.

Although the two are extremely similar, there is obviously a big difference in their core key elements.

After all, one is refining the elixir by rote, while the other is open-minded and applies what one has learned.

Of course, for Chu Mu, this so-called gap naturally does not exist.

His understanding of alchemy has long gone beyond the scope of rote learning.

The reason why he took on the role of pharmacist in the Zhenjie Pavilion was certainly not because he had a burst of benevolence and righteousness, but because he had nothing to do.

In the final analysis, it all comes down to his practice of the Nine Transformations of Mysterious Art. The key to the practice of the Nine Transformations of Mysterious Art is the comprehension and control of the rules of heaven and earth.

For him, this is no longer a problem, at least before he reaches the sixth level of the Dharma Realm.

But according to his research, if one wants to speed up the progress of practicing the Nine Revolutions of the Mysterious Art, after the requirements at the rule level are met, what is more important is the understanding of the world.

In other words, the understanding of the world as a cage and the word "transcendence".

After all, the core purpose of the Nine Transformations of the Mysterious Art lies in the word "transcendence".

As for the so-called detachment, merely recognizing one's own detachment will undoubtedly easily lead to being blinded by one's own shortcomings and making it difficult to see the truth.

Therefore, he chose the identity of pharmacist, established the Zhenjie Pavilion, and took the initiative to contact the countless cultivators coming and going in the Shenji City.

The world is like a cage, and all the creatures in the cage are like ants.

But from another perspective, all these living beings are just puppets bound and restricted by the world.

If you follow the will of heaven, heaven will reward you. If you make mistakes, heaven will punish you and you will be abandoned...

There is obviously some mystery in this that he cannot understand at present.

In other words, if he could fully understand the mystery of it, he would probably be not far from true transcendence.

He established the Zhenjie Pavilion and took on the identity of a pharmacist in order to clear his own identity.

Secondly, that’s the point.

Just like a bystander, observing all living beings, and understanding the mysterious fate among them...

After many years, it seems like I have gained something, but also like I have gained nothing.

Chu Mu had no idea whether he had gained anything or not.

However, the practice of the Nine Revolutions of Mysterious Skill entered the fast lane under this kind of observation where it was difficult to distinguish true from false.

He practiced hard in Qingqiu Cave Heaven for hundreds of years, but he only practiced the Nine Revolutions of Xuan Gong, from the Qi training stage to the middle stage of Nascent Soul, and then he stagnated.

And in this Shenji City, in this Zhenjie Pavilion, he didn't even devote his full attention to the hard work of practicing the Nine Transformations of the Mysterious Art. In just a few decades, his progress in the Nine Transformations of the Mysterious Art was from the middle stage of the Nascent Soul to the perfection of the Nascent Soul. He was only one step away from the Divine Transformation.

The key, of course, lies in this mysterious perception.

"Heaven's secret... fate..."

Chu Mu glanced at the monks coming in and out of the store, and a hint of thought flashed across his eyes.

The so-called world, the constraints of heaven and earth, and the connection with living beings are obviously not real, and there is even no trace of them.

All of this can be called the rules of heaven and earth, or the unpredictable secrets of heaven. For living beings, it can also be called the unpredictable fate...

It is as if everyone has an invisible and intangible thread that connects them to the world of heaven and earth, and in an unconscious way, they are influenced by the world of heaven and earth.

This was just like the Son of Destiny that he had known through his glimpse into the heart of heaven when he was in the lower world.

When the world is in danger, the son of destiny comes and is blessed with the luck of heaven and earth. He rises rapidly, turns the tide, and saves the collapsing building.

The connection between them is obviously the invisible and intangible thread that is at work.

He was once trapped in the ruins of the Heavenly Palace, in that endless cycle of reincarnation, when the Holy Beast of Heaven descended and directly revealed his identity as a visitor from another world, and the explanation that it had used his body to hide, which seemed to confirm a certain connection between the world, humans, and living beings...

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(End of this chapter)