The Fate of Eternal Life

Chapter 1: Vision of the Sea of ​​Bitterness and the Gate to Eternal Life
Edge of the snow area.

Ning Qingyi, carrying his bag, arrived at the foot of the rocky mountain, exhausted. Comparing the clues he had gathered from the surrounding villagers, he slowly walked up the mountain.

"I hope it's here."

His face was tired, but his eyes were firm. Although he seemed wavering in his thoughts, he was incredibly calm deep down in his heart.

During the past two years of searching for immortals and visiting Taoist temples, Ning Qingyi always had a premonition about the outcome, but this time the feeling was completely different from the previous ones - this mountain had what he wanted.

He passed by the ruins of an ancient temple built against the mountain. In the foundation in front of the ruins, there was a huge crack leading to the underground.

Ning Qingyi put down his bag, put on the gas mask and oxygen cylinder inside, and walked into the crack carefully with a flashlight.

The crack was deep and deep, and after twisting and turning for dozens of meters, his flashlight finally illuminated his target—a dragon head. Even though he had been prepared, he was still startled, because the stone dragon head was lifelike and majestic.

Ning Qingyi was filled with ecstasy. He quickly placed the lamp he had brought with him on the ground, and instantly the dark crack was filled with light. He then looked around carefully and found, as expected, a trace of moisture on the ground directly below the dragon head.

A drop of crystal liquid condensed at the dragon's mouth, hanging under the dragon's kiss, seemingly falling.

He quickly dug out a jade bowl of suitable size from his package, placed it on the dragon's mouth, and waited patiently for the liquid to drip. Then he took off his gas mask and smelled a refreshing fragrance wafting from the crystal liquid, refreshing his heart.

"It's really here!"

Ning Qing could no longer suppress the ecstasy in his heart and clenched his fists.

About seven years ago, Ning Qingyi, who had died unexpectedly, woke up in an orphanage in this world. He spent some time grieving his resurrection, then spent five years successfully gaining admission to a top university, becoming the only orphan in the city's orphanage. Not only did he receive a generous reward from his high school, but the local county government also covered four years of tuition and provided standard living expenses.

Just when he was full of energy and ready to enter the Bitcoin market by comparing the development trajectories of the two earths, God played a big joke on him.

He met Ye Fan once during a friendly college basketball match, and also ran into Pang Bo during his elective public course. Furthermore, he encountered campus goddess Li Xiaoman and Zhou Yi from the student union...

A plant that covers the sky!
Ning Qingyi did not give up and carefully recalled the events of that year. He found that many characters were similar to Liu Yunzhi, Wang Ziwen and others, so he believed it about 80%. Then he went to the Ancient Literature Museum to read ancient books and found many words that made him shudder.

Kunlun, Divine Dynasty, Lunhai...

Although they were just fragments and even contained numerous errors and omissions, Ning Qingyi was already convinced that this was the world of Shrouding the Sky.

A magnificent and vast world, filled with mysteries, deeply fascinating. But also filled with blood and fire, embarking on a spiritual journey is like embracing chaos, and hundreds of years later, a dark catastrophe will occur.

Ning Qingyi couldn't sleep for several days. He knew that even if he was the one who covered the sky, as long as he was content with being ordinary, he would definitely be able to live a rich life and die before the dark chaos.

But as he thought about it over and over again and kept writing down the fragments of memories in his mind, the impulsive beast deep in his heart grew bigger and bigger.

One weekend morning, after an exhausting marathon, Ning Qing, lying in a sprawling position on the side of the road, made up his mind.

he demanded!

He made up his mind and transferred to the Archaeology Department in the first semester of his freshman year, with a clear intention to focus on ancient culture, bronze inscriptions and other pre-Qin characters. At the same time, he used his spare time to wander around various famous mountains and rivers in search of immortality.

But until graduation, he hadn't been accepted into the sect. Even in places like Maoshan, where he clearly remembered the existence of a sect, he hadn't found any trace of it. Instead, he was in danger all around and had to stay in the hospital several times.

The east is not bright and the west is bright.

In order to avoid the curse of "archaeology making three generations poor", Ning Qingyi used his foresight to predict the detonation points of successful speculation several times, thereby accumulating a large amount of wealth.

This time he came to this stone mountain, which was the most successful place he had found after a year of searching by using the money-scattering method.

In the original novel, this is the birthplace of Ye Fan’s second disciple Xiaosong. There are two wonders here, one is the earth’s spiritual milk in the crack, and the other is the stone Buddha certificate leading to Lingshan.

At this moment, it seems to be successful?
Ning Qingyi looked at the "Earth Spirit Milk" dripping into the bowl, carefully removed it and replaced it with another jade bowl. With a sudden determination, he licked it directly. As the spirit milk entered his body, he felt a sudden chill in his throat, a chill that snaked into his lungs, his limbs numb, and a faint heat surged in his dantian, like a dormant bud under the spring mud, about to burst.

Faintly, I seemed to hear a grand heavenly sound.

It is like a curse but not a curse, like a song but not a song, it sings out a cry and groan of fate.

In a trance, Ning Qing chanted the unknown syllable, but when the heat dissipated, he suddenly woke up. The syllable was circling in his mind, but he could no longer sing it.

"What is this? Is it my ancestral constitution that has regressed, or is there a great secret hidden within me?"

As a reader of the trilogy, he naturally knew that this world existed a realm beyond the Dao of Sacrifice. It was a supreme being, transcending ancient history, capable of altering the past and future with a single thought. It wasn't impossible for a self that shouldn't exist to be born.

But Ning Qingyi quickly shook his head, thinking that he was overthinking it.

He left the lamp behind and returned to the surface. He then spent the afternoon testing various stone Buddhas, finally locating a small one near the cave entrance. This small stone Buddha had no obvious features, only the size of a palm, and the carving was blurred, yet it weighed over a thousand pounds, clearly defying common sense.

Ning Qingyi pitched a tent nearby. Not long after, the sky darkened, and stars dotted the sky. A silver disk appeared. At this time, the stone Buddha also showed abnormality. The moonlight was absorbed and condensed into silver paste, which condensed behind the head to form a ring of cold halo, and Sanskrit appeared faintly in the flow.

He was overjoyed, but then he was troubled again.

In addition to being the proof of access to Lingshan, the stone Buddha is also a rare treasure that assists in cultivation. However, even though it has the resources, it still lacks scriptures.

When he was worried, Ning Qingyi suddenly thought of the syllable in his mind. After thinking about it, he gritted his teeth, sat opposite the stone Buddha, and chanted the syllable.

In just a moment, the moon behind the stone Buddha was moved, and the moonlight turned into essence, which floated over and entered Ning Qing's mouth and nose. But at this moment, he was in a mysterious state, neither awake nor asleep.

It was unknown how long it had been, but a faint halo appeared around Ning Qingzhou, and strange noises came from his body, and even a faint rainbow light flashed!
Soon, the sun rose and the moon set, the stone Buddha gradually lost its magic, and Ning Qingyi also woke up.

He subconsciously stretched his waist, and felt his muscles and bones working together. With just a light jump, he jumped a long way, without any stiffness from sitting cross-legged all night.

"I did it?!"

Ning Qingyi was a little bit in disbelief. He tried hard to recall and felt that the vision that happened to him last night was a bit similar to the description of opening up the sea of ​​suffering in the book, but without the scripture, the sea of ​​suffering could not be opened up. With the help of that mysterious syllable, the essence transformed from the spiritual milk and the stone Buddha only penetrated into his limbs and bones.

I have a premonition that even without scriptures, after a period of time, the essence in my body will automatically overflow, and then the sea of ​​suffering will open up by itself.

So, Ning Qingyi stayed in this small village, practicing standing meditation by day and facing the stone Buddha at night. In the blink of an eye, the hundredth day had arrived. During these hundred days, his spirit and energy gradually became more complete, his physical strength grew stronger, and he even had a trance in which he could see the rise and fall of the Wheel of Life below his navel.

Taoism has the saying of "building the foundation for 100 days".

Yin Xi Zhenren once said: "The practice of building the foundation is to adjust the medicine to replenish the essence, refine the essence into qi, and calm the mind to return to emptiness. This is the secret of calming the mind, consolidating the essence, and nourishing the qi. Only when the essence and qi in the body are full and the bone marrow is strong can one enter the room to practice and seek the way to return."

The Danjing says: "When Qi is full, the Ren and Du meridians will open naturally."

Under the moonlight, Ning Qing sat on the ground facing the Buddha statue.

The moonlight in the sky was drawn by the Buddha statue, then gathered into streams of energy that sank into his body. He chanted mysterious syllables, and from within, a vast force, intertwined with the fate of all living things, pierced the void and descended into this world.

Ning Qingyi sensed the area where the Wheel of Life lay gradually boiling. He suppressed his excitement and remained calm. Although he hadn't learned the method of cultivation, he had heard that the Wheel of Life is like a piece of soil. With energy, spiritual herbs, and careful care and cultivation, the seeds will surely take root and sprout, and flourish.

Although we now lack the hoe of cultivation, as long as the soil of the Wheel of Life is full of vitality, the seeds will break through the ground!

He showed a resolute look, took out the accumulated earth spirit milk, and swallowed it in one gulp.

boom!
In a trance, Ning Qingyi saw the dark blue sea of ​​suffering. A part of the sea surface gradually undulated and began to boil. His body was surrounded by a radiant glow, and the divine light within the sea of ​​suffering was brilliant and dazzling.

"Rumble..."

Above the surging dark blue sea of ​​suffering, bursts of thunder and lightning were heard, interweaving with the raging tsunami, shaking the entire world. Where the sea and the sky met, a mirage gradually appeared.

No, not an illusion!

Above the Sea of ​​Bitterness, there was a mixture of rosy clouds and the emergence of purple air, and a contour gradually emerged in the mirage.

That's the outline of a portal!

He was like a gigantic creature breathing, inhaling and exhaling chaos, conveying an ancient and long-lasting aura that was simply unimaginable, containing endless mysteries. Indistinctly, one could see the immortals bowing their heads, gods and demons praising, Buddha chanting, and even real dragons, phoenixes, unicorns and other immortals wandering around.

Among the hazy figures, only the sixteen ancient characters on the doorposts and doorplates were shining brightly, emitting endless brilliance. A divine will from somewhere engraved the truth into Ning Qingyi's mind.

"Heaven and earth decay, but I am immortal"

"The sun and the moon will perish, but I will not perish"

"eternal life"

At some point, mysterious syllables resounded throughout the sea of ​​suffering, and Ning Qingyi suddenly realized the true identity of the giant creature above the sea of ​​suffering.

He murmured, "Legend has it that the Minor Fate Technique is a sign of the appearance of the Gate of Eternal Life."

That’s right, this is the source and beginning of everything in the world of immortality. It explains everything, evolves everything, suppresses everything, and is the door to immortality that carries all mysteries and all answers!

At this moment, falling into the sea of ​​suffering of this visitor from another world, he turned into an unprecedented supreme vision!
I am a newbie on the road, and I hope all the handsome readers will take care of me.

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(End of this chapter)