There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

When Taoist Gray saw the inky extraterritorial energy, he subconsciously stretched out his hand to sense it, and then a trace of extraterritorial energy gathered between his fingers.

"It's like a combination of all the rules of the world, and then using some powerful force to smash them, resulting in a violent energy. Spiritual balance is poison to it, so it is naturally opposed to all balance."

He made a brief comment.

Taoist Jiao nodded and agreed, "That's a very vivid interpretation, but you're also wrong. Extraterritorial energy is the one that truly pursues the ultimate balance. Otherwise, it will collapse at any time. It's just that this kind of balance looks like chaos to us."

Taoist Gray nodded thoughtfully, then looked at Taoist Jiao and said with a smile: "You old man couldn't say a word for a long time, I didn't expect you to have such insights."

This was purely a joke, but it showed that they had a close relationship. In today's world of cultivation, it was a blessing to have such a friend.

Taoist Jiao ignored Taoist Hui's teasing. He looked at the ecological area surrounded by demonic energy and said, "If you have made up your mind, follow me."

After saying that, he rode on the auspicious clouds to disperse the surrounding ice crystals and flew towards the ecological zone.

Taoist Hui gathered all his thoughts and followed Taoist Jiao without any hesitation. A moment later, the two of them were immersed in the surging extraterritorial demonic energy like two stones.

The light in the surging demonic energy was not dim, and gentle black and purple halos could be seen everywhere. They formed countless interwoven thin lines in the void, like cracks after the space was shattered, illuminating everything in the ecological zone clearly.

This ecological zone, which was once bustling with people, is now so quiet that even the sound of people breathing cannot be heard. After Qian Xi communicated with the extraterritorial life forms, the first thing he did was to dismiss all the members of his combat camp, and the people in the ecological zone were also transferred to several nearby ecological zones.

This place can no longer be called an ecological zone, because there is no ecology to speak of. There is only a huge bare meteorite left. The only building is a giant palace. It stands in the center of the side of the meteorite facing the outer space barrier. It is black all over, giving people a sense of oppression that cannot be released. Under the reflection of the purple light that can be seen everywhere, it emits a weird reflection.

Just when Taoist Jiao was about to bring Taoist Hui to descend on the huge black palace, a pale human face suddenly appeared out of thin air in the surging demonic energy, and appeared right in front of the two of them. When the two of them stared at this face, thick blood continued to seep out of the face, and more human faces appeared in the blood, followed by an endless number of twisted bodies.

They were not in regular shape and were biting and devouring each other. The scene was like the bloody hell that people in the Zhongzhou world imagined to scare children. But when it really appeared before their eyes, even Hui Dao Ren and Jiao Dao Ren felt the pressure.

But it was only pressure. As the two stabilized their minds and woke up from their brief shock, the horrifying scene before their eyes disappeared like a mirage.

This is just an illusion, an illusion composed of the most unacceptable images of human nature, but if someone cannot get rid of it, it is no longer just an illusion.

"This way."

Taoist Jiao was not surprised. He looked back at Taoist Hui, swept through the evil energy with the auspicious clouds under his feet, and landed towards the black palace.

The gray Taoist followed silently, and when he landed in front of the palace, he subconsciously looked up at the sky. He saw and sensed some distorted energy consciousnesses turning within the surging demonic energy. They seemed to be cheering, cheering for their love for this material world.

"Let's go."

Taoist Jiao looked back at his friend and walked towards the palace gate while giving instructions.

The gate of the palace was very tall, at least three meters high, and looked very thick. It was half open, with refined pure extraterritorial energy overflowing from it.

When Taoist Gray approached the gate, he withdrew his gaze, a respectful look appeared on his face, and he lowered his head slightly. Then he saw the densely packed magic array runes carved on the ground. These were the most basic spirit gathering runes, but what was gathered here was not spiritual energy.

When he walked into the gate, he found that there were magic runes on the surface of the gate. Gray Taoist could no longer understand these runes, so he just glanced at them and ignored them.

Beyond the gate, one sees a well-lit hall. The abundant light comes from the 'illumination' magic array carved on the dome of the hall, which completely dispels the darkness in every corner of the hall.

Under the abundant light, there is a huge and complicated magic circle, which gathers the magic energy of the surrounding starry sky, transmits it to the central core position along the exquisite magic circle lines in the hall, and is locked in a huge energy light column. The energy light column is surrounded by strict barrier runes, and inside is a complex refining magic circle.

Qian Xi sat cross-legged on the east side of the energy light column. His body seemed illusory and real, and it looked like he could disappear in this space at any time. The refined extraterritorial energy in the light column was constantly being absorbed by the Star God Core in his body. During the absorption process, the space around him seemed to constantly switch between reality and illusion.

In this state, Qian Xi doesn't seem to be cultivating the demonic energy from outside the domain at all. If one just observes with the naked eye, one would definitely think that he is an orthodox Qigong practitioner.

When Taoist Jiao took the lead in saluting Qian Xi, Qian Xi, who had closed his eyes, slowly opened them, and his illusory body turned into a real entity in an instant, and at the same time stopped absorbing energy from outside the domain.

"come on."

The sound of Qian Xi echoed in the hall.

Taoist Jiao immediately led Taoist Hui to a place ten feet behind Qian Xi and bowed again with fists clasped.

Qian Xi stood up as the two saluted, raised his head and looked up at the light column in front of him, and said with a smile: "Are you here to inquire about the Sixth Mirror?"

There was exhaustion in his voice.

Taoist Gray bowed his head and said, "I heard from the chief that..."

"There's no need to be so polite. You people in Zhongzhou are good at everything except being polite." Qian Xi interrupted Gray Taoist's politeness and went straight to the point where Gray Taoist was interested. "The secret method of the Star God's Sixth Mirror was not deduced by me, but has always existed. It cultivates energy consciousness, which are the energy life forms you have seen before." As he spoke, he stretched out his right hand and gently brushed the surface of the barrier that imprisoned the energy beam. Immediately, a trace of extraterritorial energy surrounded his fingertips and formed a one-foot-long energy body at the fastest speed. This energy body sometimes turned into pure energy particles, and sometimes gathered into a little man.

"However, when we reached the fifth stage of cultivation, our spiritual consciousness had become extremely powerful. There is almost no energy in this starry sky that can support our consciousness, even the energy from outside the domain is impossible."

Gray Taoist responded softly. The fact that he could say this clearly showed that he had tried this before.

Qian Xi turned around and looked at the Gray Taoist, a smile appeared on his calm face, "You are right, so the key to advancing to the sixth realm is to merge oneself with the energy of the entire starry sky. Originally, under the power structure of the True Lords, we would not have such an opportunity, but now, my outer starry sky has become independent. As long as someone can merge himself with the energy of the outer starry sky, he will be the first sixth realm star god."

Taoist Gray was so smart that he immediately understood the key point. He immediately bowed and said, "How dare I spy on the sixth realm? I just want to make further progress in my cultivation so that I can save my life in the future changes."

Upon hearing this, Qian Xi's smile deepened, and he withdrew his right hand from the surface of the energy beam barrier. Then he gently grasped in the air, and immediately a jade slip appeared in his hand. He handed the jade slip to Gray Taoist and said:

"This is the secret method. It can help you refine the extraterritorial energy in your body and make it work for you. According to Dao Palace's description, it is to increase the harmony between your consciousness and extraterritorial energy. When your consciousness and extraterritorial energy are in harmony to a certain degree, you will not be invaded by its chaotic consciousness."

Just as Taoist Gray was about to take the jade slip, Qian Xi withdrew his hand, stared at Taoist Gray and said, "You have practiced with Taoist Fellow Wei Ling for thousands of years, and you can be considered the direct descendant of our lineage. You only need to listen to what I said just now, but don't take it seriously. The invasion of consciousness by extraterritorial energy is caused by the rules, and it cannot be eliminated by such a small trick. Remember, you must not indulge in it."

"Xiaodao, please remember this!"

Taoist Gray bowed quickly, even though he never believed those words at all, and he felt that as long as he could cultivate to the fifth level, he would not believe those words.

Qian Xi handed the jade slip in his hand to Taoist Hui and said softly: "Refining the extraterritorial energy with the secret method of the jade slip can indeed increase your cultivation, and you can even slowly approach the basic rules of extraterritorial energy."

At this point he changed the subject and said, "You have peeked into dreams and witnessed countless human natures, seeing their ugliness as well as their beauty. You are confident that you understand the human nature of the people in the world. Do you think that what I just said is too simple and no one will believe it?"

"That's not what Xiao Dao meant."

Gray Taoist denied it.

Qian Xi didn't seem to hear the Gray Taoist's denial. He continued with the previous topic and said in a warning tone: "Sometimes you think people are too smart and human nature is too complicated. Sometimes it is actually very simple."

After that, he seemed to lose interest in speaking. He waved his hand and said to Jiao Daoist, "You can also study the secret method. I still say the same thing, don't get addicted to it. We are spying on its power, while they are spying on our bodies and consciousness."

At this moment, he behaved like a wise man, who seemed to understand everything. However, human nature is the simplest and also complex. Understanding and imagination are completely different things. This is the purpose of practicing Taoism.

Taoist Hui and Taoist Jiao did not stay for long. When they left the hall and saw the unrefined surging demonic energy outside, they felt the difference between inside and outside. The strong contrast gave birth to an unreal sense of fantasy in their hearts.

When they rose into the sky, they saw two slender figures on the immortal platform in the distance, dispersing the rolling evil spirits falling from the surrounding starry sky. They were Zi Bo and Huai Feng. There was only one reason why they appeared here, the same reason why Gray Taoist came here.

When the two saw Taoist Jiao, they immediately smiled ingratiatingly and came forward to greet him, completely ignoring Taoist Hui who was standing beside them. Taoist Hui didn't care either and didn't greet Taoist Jiao. He walked to the teleportation channel alone and activated the teleportation channel back to Twin Star City.

Taoist Gray originally planned to pay Wei Ling another visit, but Wei Ling did not see him. He thought about it and decided to return to his own ecological zone first.

His eco-zone was the same as other eco-zones. A grand transformation array was under construction, several temples were being built in the residential area, and there were many Qigong practitioners preaching divine arts on the streets.

When Taoist Gray landed in front of the gate of his own Taoist temple, Taoist Lin Shuang appeared in the dark area and said, "You have already given your all before the True Lords even made a move. Do you think this war still needs to continue?"

"If there hadn't been this war, would you have had the chance to appear before me?" Gray Taoist said with a smile, "Everyone and everything has its own necessity to exist. Wei Ling and Qian Xi have their own purposes, and so do the others."

As he spoke, he entered the front door. Behind the door was a hall with distinct black and white light. The floor of the hall was made of polished white marble. When he entered the hall, his clothes changed into loose linen Taoist robes in the flickering light, and his leather boots on his feet disappeared. He walked barefoot to the cloud bed in front and sat down.

"It's more comfortable to sit in my own dojo."

Taoist Hui sighed, then shook his head and said, "This place cannot be considered my dojo. I just borrowed it temporarily." He looked at Taoist Lin Shuang who followed him in and said to her, "Qian Xi did deduce the secret method of the sixth mirror with the help of the extraterritorial life form."

As he spoke, he took out the jade slip and scanned the contents with his soul. Under the gaze of Taoist Lin Shuang, he copied the secret method on a blank jade slip. He then handed the first jade slip to Taoist Lin Shuang and said, "Isn't this considered as completing your mission?"

Taoist Lin Shuang was not polite. She took the jade slip and said, "This is just an insignificant thought for them." Then she changed the subject and said, "My main task is to investigate the lurking extraterritorial life forms. They are the real threat to this starry sky."

Gray Taoist responded, "Qian Xi and Wei Ling cannot be extraterritorial life forms, this can be confirmed. They also seem to be investigating those lurkers. For now, their attitude towards extraterritorial life forms is to use each other. If you want to take their relationship to the next level, you will have to put more pressure on them."

Taoist Lin Shuang put away the jade slip and after hearing what Taoist Hui said, he commented on him, "You are really cold-blooded." Without waiting for Taoist Hui to respond, he asked, "Have you, the True Lords, ever had any contact with life outside the realm?"

Gray Taoist shook his head, "I'm not sure yet, but this kind of thing is unlikely to happen."

Taoist Lin Shuang did not elaborate on this issue, but stared at Taoist Hui and reminded him: "This time, the events on the outer planet gave me the same feeling as when True Lord Lieyang burned down Zhongzhou. Don't underestimate True Lord Changqing."

Gray Taoist smiled and responded: "I dare not underestimate him." (End of this chapter)