The Dark Turbulence

Chapter 32 The Old Man Chopping Wood
Qin Fan, holding the bronze immortal sword, once again embarked on the road of progress in the universe.

After he advanced to the quasi-emperor, he first obtained the most mysterious human-shaped immortality elixir at the ruins of the ancient heaven.

Then, near the ancient star Mars, he killed the evil spirits of the Kunlun descendants, brought out the great evil Chaos, and relied on the Huangta to suppress an unparalleled bronze immortal sword.

The elixir of immortality and the magic weapon are already there, and achieving enlightenment seems to be just around the corner.

At this point, Qin Fan began to walk along some abandoned sections of road in deep space, and saw many different roads along the way.

These abandoned ancient roads are basically ancient starry sky roads left over from the mythological era.

Time passed quickly, and another sixty years passed. A hundred years had passed since he set out from the ancient Taiyin Star, and he had now reached the fifth level of Quasi-Emperor.

In a hundred years, he advanced four levels in the quasi-emperor realm. This is absolutely amazing. He is a genius among geniuses.

It should be noted that in the realm of quasi-emperor, advancing one small realm requires sufficient accumulation. These are the last few levels before enlightenment and are extremely difficult.

On the road, walking and stopping, flowers bloom and fade, streams flow, and Taoism also progresses naturally.

Following the ancient road, Qin Fan arrived at an ancient life star.

The spiritual energy here is thin and the avenue suppresses it, making it very unsuitable for cultivation. However, there are many human beings here. These humans work from sunrise to sunset and rest at sunset, and have not entered a higher stage of civilization.

Qin Fan had been to a place before. Although it was suppressed by heaven and earth and not suitable for practicing, the technological civilization there was very advanced. Warships could go into the sky and into the earth and were omnipotent. The people there drove the warships to fight.

He walked on the land of this ancient planet of life and did not see a single cultivator.

However, on the cliffs of some ancient mountains, he had seen some stone carvings that recorded the path of cultivation. The carvings were mottled and it was unknown how long they had been there.

Until one day, Qin Fan arrived at an ordinary small village.

In the countryside, white sheep are grazing leisurely on the slopes, and a shepherd boy is leaning against the rocks with a contented look on his face. By the stream, several women are holding clothes and washing them in the clear water. In the fields not far away, farmers are rolling up their trouser legs and bending over to work in the fields.

He took a quick look with his spiritual sense and found nothing unusual. Just as he was about to leave, he discovered something strange.

At one end of the village, an old man was chopping wood. He didn't use much force and his axe was blunt, but he managed to split the thick tree trunk into neat pieces of firewood.

The most special thing is that the frequency of his swinging the hatchet seems to be fixed and has never changed from beginning to end. Every time the hatchet is swung, there is a rhythm of Taoism in it.

Qin Fan concealed his own realm, but the old man still looked at him, with a hint of abnormality in his eyes.

Qin Fan already had a rough guess in his mind.

So he stepped forward and said to the old man, "Old man, what kind of wood are you chopping?"

"What kind of firewood is this? This is just ordinary firewood. Can it be the firewood of the great way?" The old man said slowly, continuing to wave the axe in his hand, and the firewood fell down.

Qin Fan understood, and then said with a smile: "Then may I ask, old man, what is your name?"

The old man raised his head and looked into Qin Fan's clear eyes. Then he shook his head and said, "A name is just a code name. I have long forgotten my name. Perhaps you can call me the woodcutter."

Sure enough, it’s him!

Fighting against the Immortal Queen at the ruins of the ancient heaven, and chopping the wood at the quasi-ninth-level peak of the emperor with a knife.

Qin Fan laughed and said, "A dignified peak Quasi-Emperor, actually chopping wood here to gain enlightenment?" The woodcutter's expression changed slightly, and then he said calmly, "There are billions of roads in the world, and it doesn't matter which road you take. It's just that some roads lead to farther places, while others are short and narrow."

Then the woodcutter continued, "It's just like the road to immortality. There was no such road in the world, but when more people walked on it, it appeared."

Qin Fan's eyes showed strangeness. The old man chopping wood did know many secrets that were not recorded in ancient history.

The Empress once said: The path that generations of people have taken to become immortals is the path to immortality.

Qin Fan first said goodbye to the old man who was chopping wood, and then walked towards the mountain west of the village. He planned to see if there were any stone carvings there.

Xishan is not far away. It is an ordinary hill. If the time is right, there should be stone carvings left by an old man who chopped wood.

Sure enough, Qin Fan found a stone wall near the halfway point of the West Mountain, with some ancient pictures engraved on it.

Qin Fan looked at them one by one. The first four pictures were very ordinary, including a picture of chopping wood and a picture of feeding horses. They were very simple and plain. It was not until the fifth picture that things became a little different.

The fifth picture shows an old man sitting on a real dragon and ascending to heaven. The sixth picture shows the supreme coffin buried above the nine heavens in the mythological era.

The seventh picture shows a heavenly sword flying across the sky, with a stone egg underneath the sword. The eighth picture shows nine dragons pulling a bronze coffin floating in the universe.

The ninth picture was actually destroyed, just like what Ye Fan saw in later generations.

"Hey, my friend, how did you find this place? These are just some of the things I saw and heard in my past life on the False Immortal Path. I don't know how many millions of years have passed since then."

With a soft sigh, the woodcutter came up behind Qin Fan and said slowly, "I was about to leave. I never thought that you would discover the stone carving before I left."

Qin Fan was shocked. This stone carving was so old, it must have been millions of years old. But why was the old man chopping wood still here? He should have already returned on a dragon.

Qin Fan stepped forward and said seriously, "Senior, among the nine pictures you carved, what exactly does the ninth picture record? It's even more mysterious than the sixth, seventh, and eighth pictures."

The Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin has been floating in the boundless starry sky for eternity, and quite a few people have witnessed it.

However, the Immortal Sky Sword and the Immortal Phoenix Egg appeared out of nowhere, and there were definitely not many people who saw them. Is the ninth picture even more mysterious than this?
The old man chopping wood sighed and said, "The last picture should not have appeared in the world. After some hesitation, I finally erased it."

"Please tell me in detail, senior." Qin Fan was thirsty for knowledge. He already knew the other eight pictures, leaving only the ninth picture as an unsolved mystery.

"I am about to leave and embark on a journey of immortality with no return. It is fate that we meet, my friend. I will restore the ninth picture to you."

The old man chopping wood said softly, and then his whole body was filled with the aura of Tao. He flicked his right finger and shot out a ray of divine light, which hit the ninth destroyed stone carving.

In an instant, heaven and earth turned upside down and the universe changed drastically.

The sky and the earth roared, lightning and thunder flashed, wind and rain appeared, and then, there seemed to be ghosts crying and gods howling, and the sky suddenly became dark. A divine light rushed out from the ninth stone carving and hit the void.

Then, some images appeared in the void, which were extremely shocking.

In the midst of the immortal light, an extremely tall and majestic figure appeared, with an ancient seal floating above his head. The imperial law erupted, and nine golden dragons rushed out from the seal, fighting on the immortal road!
There were actually several figures vaguely fighting with him. This was a battle between supreme beings, so vague that it was impossible for the stone carvings to record it clearly.

Then it seemed as if a fairy phoenix flew out, crying out to the sky, severely injuring the tall figure!
Qin Fan looked at the scene in the air, his heart filled with shock. Of course he recognized the seal, and it was now on his body!
In that case, the majestic figure conquering the immortal road would be the Human Emperor Taiyin!

(End of this chapter)