Tao and Heaven

Chapter 181: The Golden Elixir Becomes an Immortal, the Death of the Bird in the Cage
Boom!

Below the Temple of Heaven, no one had the will to fight anymore. The aftershocks of every punch thrown on the stage were enough to cause their blood to flow backwards.

For Gu Wen and others, this was a rare battle, and they might not be able to see it again if they missed it.

The Nine-Turn Golden Pill and the Golden Light Mantra, the most powerful magical powers in the world, all rely on the utmost physical strength.

All the laws in the world cannot be solved by force.

Most of the Taoist magic is based on the Five Elements, and the Five Elements are mutually reinforcing and mutually restraining, so all Taoist magic has a solution. And therefore, naturally there will be people who want to create a method that cannot be restrained, so there is body cultivation.

A body cultivator will exhaust the origin of life and the limits of flesh and blood, just for a holy body that can fight against heaven and earth.

But in today's cultivation world, body training has only been a side door to lay the foundation for cultivators. Among the many immortal sects, none of them focuses on body training. The Yujian Sect, which was founded by Chi Ling, is not a body training sect.

Some monsters have strong physiques and they also don't think about how to continue to refine their bodies. Most of them focus on honing their innate magical powers.

Because it is too difficult to sanctify the body, often after spending ten points of effort on refining the body, there may only be one point of effect on the Tao.

Gu Wen refined the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill, but he would not use it to refine his body specifically.

Extremely high costs and extremely low returns. One has to persist until the body becomes holy and reaches the semi-immortal level before the horror can gradually be revealed.

Boom!

Akabaneko's third punch hit Chi Ling in the face, the glazed golden man shattered, and Chi Ling's face, which looked like a young girl, was revealed.

Akabane was knocked away by another punch, his right arm was broken, flesh was spitting out of his mouth, and he collapsed to the ground, struggling but unable to get up.

Gu Wen's heart was hanging in the air. He realized one thing: even if Chi Ling only used half of his strength, and even if Chi Yuzi burst out with power reaching the semi-immortal level, they still could not win.

Because Chi Ling is not an ordinary semi-immortal, the difference between the passing score of 60 points and 99 points is difficult to achieve through hard work.

Now he could only hope that Chi Ling would show leniency or that Yu Hua would be able to come back.

Still weak
Gu Wen clenched his fist slightly, then slowly released it.

If the final result is that Akabaneko dies, he can only accept it, because this is the path she chose and she should bear the consequences.

Also because he had no strength, he could not do as he pleased and let the life and death of a demigod be decided by his own will.

"You lose, my sister, but I allow you to win."

There was a hint of approval in Chi Ling's eyes. It was already very good to be able to achieve this.

It didn't exceed my expectations, nor did it disappoint me.

"My breath hasn't even stopped yet, what are you calling for?"

As the voice fell, Akabane's body, which was lying on the ground, suddenly bounced up, and its speed was several times faster than before, which could not be captured by the naked eye.

A punch seemed to break through the void.

Bang!
Chi Ling clasped her arms to block the punch. Her body was stronger than any other method of protecting the body. This was her first block so far. Immediately afterwards, it seemed that tens of millions of punches flew towards her in a single breath.

At this moment, offense and defense are easy to deal with.

Akabaneko's black hair turned white, and her orange eyes turned blood red. After her magic power and strength were exhausted, her life span came to an end.

She did her utmost to squeeze out her already unattainable lifespan, her eyes seemed to be spitting fire. Her soul was burning, her life was slipping away, just to smash the demon-like figure in front of her.

The body that has reached the pinnacle of perfection does not allow the existence of a broken soul, but she insists on using this broken soul to reach the Golden Elixir Saint in front of her.

Faster, stronger, more intense!
boom! boom! boom!
Cracks appeared on Chi Ling's arms and began to expand continuously, and the Glazed Golden Light Curse cracked like glass.

Then his aura suddenly rose to a higher level, no longer restraining himself from using half of his strength, and with one punch he blasted away Akabane's thousands of fist shadows. When the two collided, the air was squeezed and exploded into flames, sweeping around like a tornado.

She wanted to stop Akabaneko. If she continued like this, her lifespan would burn out and even if her spirit and soul were restored it would be of no use.

Chi Ling threw a second punch with 10% of his strength, lightly and casually, as if everything was already decided.

The half-dead Akabane in front of him also threw his last punch, with a restrained divine light in his eyes, and in an instant he had already stepped into the realm of semi-immortality.

Maybe it's just a moment, but this moment does not contain any falsehood.

Boom!

Akabane hit Chi Ling hard on the face. A drop of blood dripped from her nose. The latter was stunned. She had already used 10% of her strength, but in the end she was no match for Akabane.

"Oh, so you can bleed too."

Akabane staggered back two steps, looking like she might fall down at any moment.

At this moment, his arms were hanging down, drops of sticky blood were dripping, and the golden man was breaking into pieces.

Chi Ling came back to his senses from his daze and looked at Chi Yuzi, who was slumped on the ground with a head full of white hair, with a complicated look.

"If you continue like this, I'm afraid you won't even have eight hundred years left."

"I won."

“Even if you complete your soul, you can’t become a semi-immortal within eight hundred years.”

"I won."

"I promised you victory."

"I won!"

Akabaneko repeated it for the third time, her voice distorted by the pitch, and she corrected it hoarsely, not allowing any deviation.

She no longer looked up at Chi Ling, but turned to face the Temple of Heaven. Even though her eyes were already gray, they were still shining.

Facing Gu Wen in the opposite direction, where the monsters were, he shouted:
"Hongchen! Grandma won!!!"

Everyone was silent. Some were shocked, some were puzzled. They couldn't understand how Akabane's last punch could consume his life.

Chi Ling had already promised her victory, so why did she have to pay such a huge price to throw that punch?
Only Gu Wen smiled approvingly and sent out a divine thought: "You win."

Whether it matters or not depends on Akabane's own choice. This caged girl, like a bird, finally chooses to use her last punch to break the cage. In this world where all beings crave immortality, she pays the most tragic price to seize the freedom she desires.

This is also Akabane's spirit and her Tao. This is the only thing that mediocre people cannot understand or reach.

Not free, or rather die.

A chill spread from his waist. Gu Wen lowered his head and his pupils contracted. The Qiankun bag on his waist spread bursts of cold air, and half of his sleeves were covered with white frost.

Within just one day, the Taiyin Order, which had originally had no reaction, underwent two abnormal changes, and the last time, Xuan Yue became older.

He guessed that this thing was related to the life span catastrophe, but the current situation clearly did not allow him to investigate.

But unexpectedly, another change occurred, and this time it was more ferocious than the last time.

hum!
Wisps of throbbing spread between heaven and earth, lasting forever, and the sun that had illuminated heaven and earth for who knows how many years began to dim.

The sky and the earth darkened, no matter where you were, whether you were in the light or not, what the light came from, or whether you were a cultivator or a mortal.

At this moment, everything fell into darkness.

The chill of the Taiyin Order reached its peak at this moment, as if it was going to freeze Gu Wen's mind and make him spend an eternity.

Maybe it's just a moment, or maybe it's a hundred years.

Gu Wen saw an illusory and blurry figure, whose tall and majestic figure was so tall that the sleeves alone could block out the sun.

He opened his eyes from being closed and flipped open an ancient booklet, and thus all living beings in heaven and earth began to have life and death.

He took up his pen to make corrections, and the tip of his pen was like the long sickle of time, so there was no longer any immortality for those who were not immortals.

It was a dream, and Gu Wen regained his sight. When he looked at the others, he did not see surprise, astonishment, or any other emotions. It was as if they had not seen that majestic figure.

puff!
The sound of blood and flesh splattering and the crisp sound of bones breaking reached my ears.

Gu Wen looked up and walked along the golden steps. The girl, who was holding up her arms and smiling, had her chest pierced and her heart was crushed mercilessly by a bloody fist.

She still smiled brightly, as if she was still sharing her joy with him. Having lost her five senses, she could not feel the life she was losing.

The fist was slowly retracted, pulling out the two souls and six spirits that Akabane had worked so hard to restore. Behind the bloody hole was an old face.

Chi Ling's face was dazed. She looked down at her bloody palm, where pieces of heart were still left between her fingernails.

"elder sister?"

Akabane's voice came out a little slowly, and she hasn't changed her words until now.

Only the human soul and spiritual wisdom remained out of the three souls and seven spirits, so Akabane could still exist as a person. Maybe she was a little slow sometimes, and sometimes there were some problems, but she could still think, and still feel joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.

Now only the human soul remains, without any spiritual wisdom.

Her perceptions dulled, and it took Akabane several breaths for her to comprehend the situation, before the last of her emotions came flooding back.

"You lied to me?"

"I am old, and I only have 1,100 years left."

Chi Ling's old voice sounded, and there seemed to be sand in his throat.

She grew old and had only 1,100 years left to live.

She was scared, so she took the soul back and also took away Chiyuzi's last soul, because this would make her immortality more certain.

The bird in the cage, which is always accompanied by death, is not afraid of the length of its lifespan, but the demigod who has lived for ten thousand years is afraid of dying of old age after a thousand or a hundred years.

Chi Ling had laughed at Xuan Yue, but when aging began to appear, when wrinkles began to spread on her face, and when white hair dyed every strand of hair.

We are all the same, ugly ants struggling to seek immortality.

"But you clearly said that you would give me a thousand years to become a half-immortal. One thousand and one hundred years, isn't there still a hundred years left?"

Chi Yuzi's voice was filled with pleading, but Chi Ling's voice suddenly rose, and he said in an old voice: "What if I can't become an immortal within a hundred years? Are you going to destroy my ten thousand years of cultivation?!"

"But shouldn't I be alive? Sister, I don't want my soul to be restored anymore. Can you give me back my spiritual wisdom? Let me go back and help Hongchen and the others kill monsters. Give it back to me, give it back to me, you bastard!"

The heartless girl shed her last tear, as crystal clear as glass.

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Chi Ling was deeply hurt, but she still retreated to avoid the staggering Chi Yuzi. She dragged her broken body towards her, but she was even more terrifying than when she was fighting desperately.

Having lost her spiritual wisdom, Akabane's emotions were rapidly fading away, as if she was losing an emotion with every step she took. In the end, even hatred was a luxury for her.

Suddenly, she stopped, her face expressionless, and said, "Sister, after you become a fairy, can you help Tiannv and Hongchen?"

"You've only known each other for less than half a year. Is it worth it?"

“I just know them.”

The question and answer reveal Akabane's lonely and short life.

I left home at a young age to practice in the Yu Jian Sect in order to survive. The sect regarded me as a sacrifice, and my fellow disciples regarded me as an alien. Practicing is to breathe, and everything that a young person should have is outside the cage.

She is the most talented person since the founding of Yu Jian Sect, she is in the top five on both the human and earth lists, and she is a favored daughter of heaven admired by thousands of people.

She is a cripple with only one soul and one spirit. She has achieved all the above with this soul and this spirit, but she is still a bird in a cage.

The only glory in this miserable life began in the Luodu Tavern, when Gu Wen poured a bowl of wine to the elders of the sect.

I know, this is how I should live.

thump.

Akabane fell down helplessly, and her already grey eyes became even dimmer.

It's like a dream, even the bird in the cage should be covered with a black cloth.

hum!
The Temple of Heaven shook slightly. Chi Ling turned his head and looked below the Temple of Heaven. A dark red color swept across the entire cave. A red dragon was roaring hysterically. The dragon's roar shook the earth, and its momentum was even higher than that of the green dragon that Ao Heng transformed into.

It only takes a few breaths for a red dragon to grow from ten feet to a hundred feet. The size of the Dharmakaya is a small level for every ten feet, and a large level for every hundred feet.

Appearances are created by the mind, and Dharma appearances are the externalization of the mind. Gu Wen said nothing at this moment, but he said everything.

kill!kill!kill!

These half-immortal bastards, the rats living in the gutter, and the old guys who have lived for who knows how many years all deserve to die!

He finally understood that these so-called powerful and semi-immortal beings were extremely vulgar, and each of them behaved in an ugly way in their quest to become an immortal.

Chi Ling is not even as ambitious as Chi Yuzi. Perhaps just like his master Qing Cang, he is the shortest-lived immortal but also the most powerful immortal in the world.

Gu Wen seemed to have an iron face, his voice was without any ups and downs, and he said coldly as ice: "A thousand years, I think it's too much."

It would take the master eight hundred years to become an immortal, but he doesn't need eight hundred years.

The killing intent was revealed nakedly, and there was also a flash of killing intent in Chi Ling's eyes. Gu Wen's talent was too high, and he might be another Qing Cang, but she couldn't do anything.

He has already become an immortal, and the other party has Qingcang and the immortal sword to protect him. It is easy to lose more than you gain if you attack at this moment.

As for my sister's pleading, it is not even half as effective as becoming an immortal at this moment.

"We'll talk about it when you become an immortal. If you don't, you'll just be an ant forever."

Chi Ling waved her sleeves and turned around. She walked step by step towards the golden gate at the end of the Temple of Heaven. Rays of light began to shine around her, and a power that did not belong to a demigod burst out.

He once again transformed into a nine-foot-tall golden man of glazed glass, used all his strength to push the door, and ascended to the fairyland!

Rumble!
The cave was shaking slightly, and the glimmer of brilliant light coming through the golden gate had already caused many weak-willed people to rush towards the Temple of Heaven regardless of everything and step onto the ninety-nine steps in one step.

The tremendous pressure crushed them in an instant. Without the Nine-Transformation Golden Pill and the Golden Light Curse, it was impossible to set foot on it.

The desire to become an immortal is almost insane.

Except for Gu Wen, everyone, including Chi Ling, expressed their desire.

The old face revealed naked desire, saliva could not stop flowing from the corners of his mouth, and a silly smile accompanied it.

Finally, she took a step forward and entered the golden gate.

In a flash, outside the heaven and earth, in the void.

A point of golden light suddenly appeared, flickering slightly in the endless darkness, and then endless golden light spread out in all directions, reaching thousands of miles in an instant, like a golden sun.

In the scorching sun, Chi Ling regained her youth. The madness and ugliness on her face seemed to disappear with aging, and she became calm and composed again.

The mysterious sound from his mouth spreads thousands of miles and illuminates the heaven and earth.

"I am an immortal on the Golden Elixir Road. I hold the universe in my hands and my fists move the sun and the moon."

The sound reached the place where immortals were born, the cave.

The demons all cheered, and the Demon Saint Bashe and Tu Shanyun sensed an opportunity, and all of them revealed their naked murderous intentions.

Gu Wen ignored them and walked towards the Temple of Heaven step by step. He could feel that Chiyuzi was still alive.

I just don’t know whether it will be a corpse or a puppet when I get it back.

(End of this chapter)