Ascending to Immortality by Slaying Spirits

Chapter 147 Entering the Five City Pass
"Qingli, is the Daoist Instruction manual something you were born with, or was it given to you by that Daoist priest?" Lin Le asked Qingli, who was standing beside him.

"The Taoist priest gave it to me," Qingli replied, then asked with a puzzled look, "Is there a problem?"

"There's a problem," Lin Le said. "Isn't the cultivation technique for the Dao Guiding Realm called the Tuanqi Jue?"

"Yes," Qingli admitted. "Is this the technique you practiced during the Qi Refining Realm?"

“Yes.” Lin Le nodded. “Was it twenty or thirty years ago when you met that old Taoist priest?”

"Yes." Qingli asked with some surprise, "Your parents had some connection with that old Taoist priest?"

"Most likely," Lin Le said.

Twenty or thirty years ago was indeed the time when his father had a miraculous encounter.

In other words, that old Taoist priest was active in Yizhou twenty or thirty years ago.

'What's it to you?'

Lin Le suddenly remembered Song Shiyin, whose hair turned white in three moves; her background seemed to be quite extraordinary.

Shaking his head, Lin Le stopped thinking about it. He only needed to know that his cultivation of the Qi Condensation Technique and Dao Guidance was just a coincidence within a certainty.

"Continue your cultivation," Lin Le said.

He was about to launch a full-scale assault on Wucheng Pass.

A day later, Lin Le absorbed all the mid-grade spirit stone in his hand and immersed his mind in the Spirit Platform Secret Realm.

Lin Le focused his mind on the towering pillar, looked at the city gate before him, and began to move forward step by step.

The pressure, like waves, relentlessly crashed against him.

But Lin Le's body was as sturdy as a ship, breaking through layers of waves to reach the fifth city gate.

With a single punch, Lin Le pierced the fifth gate of the city.

The city gate opened, and a ray of light flew out, enveloping Lin Le's mind.

Lin Le then felt his spiritual sense rapidly increasing.

The fifth city gate is called "Qin" (寝), which means to sleep.

After opening this city gate, people no longer need to sleep, and their energy and mental strength recover much faster.

Lin Le looked at the sixth gate at the end of the road. The gate was called "Decline". Opening it would lead to the Jade Capital and becoming a True Person.

The True Person, a perfect being, embodies the first impression mortals have of immortals. They exist in this world without needing to eat, sleep, or breathe, and are free from illness and disease, and remain eternally young.

Although Lin Le can now open the sixth city gate and ascend to Baiyujing, the extraordinary phenomena are not yet complete and the spiritual objects are not yet in place. Becoming a Golden Core cultivator now would be destroying his own foundation.

Above the Five City Passes and below the Jade Capital, there are actually four more limits, which are related to the quality of one's Golden Core cultivation.

These four limitations are the limitations of magical power, physical body, spiritual consciousness, and the ability to devour spirits.

The first three limits are easy to understand; they refer to the limits of one's magical power, physical body, and spiritual consciousness when they reach the Foundation Establishment stage.

These three limits are difficult for ordinary people, but simple for Lin Le. After all, after opening the five city gates, his divine sense and physical body will reach their limits.

His magical power was no longer a problem after he completed the Foundation Establishment Chapter of Dao Guidance.

However, the limit of devouring spirits is a bit more troublesome, because it is not about seeking inwards, but about seeking outwards.

It requires obtaining rare and precious items from heaven and earth and refining them.

Although the quality of the rare and precious items needed for refining does not need to be too high, the difficulty in finding them and the suitability of them are the two major problems that trouble ordinary people.

This would also trouble Lin Le, since he was not a disciple of a major sect and his sect would find suitable items for him to establish his foundation.

Hopefully, I can find a suitable match in the capital.

Lin Le thought to himself, and then he opened the fifth gates of the Heavenly Gate and the Yellow Court in turn. As he expected, after fully adapting to the changes brought about by the fifth gate, his physical strength reached the limit of the Foundation Establishment Realm—the power of ten elephants, and his divine sense also reached the limit of the Foundation Establishment Realm, which could be extended outward by a thousand feet.

As if sensing something, Lin Le stepped out of the carriage. Then the sky changed color, turning blood red, and an extremely solid figure descended, along with a mountain of corpses.

Dragon Sparrow Slaughtering the World
That's the name of this strange phenomenon, and the blessing it brought to Lin Le was...

Lin Le glanced at the grass and trees at his feet; they were already withered and dying, as if something was draining their life force.

Lin Le knew that it was he who was extracting the funds.

This is the blessing brought by the Dragon Sparrow Slaughtering the World, which continuously absorbs the enemy's life force and feeds it back to Lin Le, with an absorption range of one thousand feet!

That was exactly the limit of Lin Le's divine sense.

After withdrawing the strange phenomenon "Dragon Sparrow Slaying the World," Lin Le internally examined the inner landscape of his divine power, consuming a two-patterned Human Lotus Seed.

Nine years passed in a flash. Lin Le cultivated the Foundation Establishment chapter of Dao Yin. Just as he had expected, after opening the Five City Gates, he continued to cultivate the Foundation Establishment chapter of Dao Yin, and his progress was indeed unstoppable.

After consuming another two-patterned Human Lotus Seed, Lin Le completed the Dao Guiding Foundation Building Chapter. He also had some spare time to deduce the Burning World Chapter of the Burning World Scripture and obtained two more spells.

The Thunder Pool combines the power of life with the power of thunder; the Heavenly Punishment Strike combines the power of death with the power of thunder.

After completing the Dao Guidance Chapter, Lin Le did not hesitate. He used another two-patterned Human Dao Lotus Seed to achieve enlightenment, determined to push the cultivation technique to its ultimate perfection.

However, achieving the Great Perfection is indeed quite difficult, and Lin Le did not succeed in achieving enlightenment in one go.

But it doesn't matter. If one isn't enough, just have another. Lin Le doesn't have much else, but he has a lot of merit in humankind.

Fortunately, after consuming another one, it was enough for Lin Le to enter the Great Perfection stage.

Lin Le circulated his Dao Guidance, and his magical power rapidly transformed, becoming viscous like mercury paste, radiating a constant light.

The most basic transformation of magical power has caused changes in the three secret realms.

In the Yellow Court Secret Realm, the crimson dragon broke free and chased after the round bead formed by the Golden Light Divine Mantra; in the Spirit Platform Secret Realm, the strange phenomenon of the dragon and sparrow slaughtering the world reappeared; in the Heavenly Gate Secret Realm, dark clouds covered the sky and lightning continuously descended, splitting out a three-hundred-zhang-wide lightning pool centered on the towering pillar.

Lin Le's physical body was being cleansed by magical power, and there was a faint halo around his body, as if something was about to break free from his body, but because of insufficient foundation, it remained inside.

Lin Le felt something and used the Two-Patterned Human Lotus Seed again. He used the Dao Guiding Foundation Building Chapter to suddenly comprehend a new life force, called the Vigorous Life Force.

After the three life forces were perfected and nine years of refinement, Lin Le successfully used them to unlock the true meaning of life known as the True Meaning of Immortality.

The True Meaning of Immortality resided in his body, and the halo on his physical body radiated completely, forming a layer of clear light. This was an unusual phenomenon inherent to the cultivation technique, called Taihao Universal Illumination, covering a ten-zhang radius centered on Lin Le.

Under the all-encompassing light of Taihao, any spell will be weakened.

'As expected of a sacred cultivation technique, upon reaching its peak, one is endowed with a unique phenomenon.'

Lin Le felt a surge of emotion.

Then, Lin Le unleashed all his extraordinary phenomena:

A strange phenomenon at the spiritual platform: The dragon and sparrow slaughter the world, wielding the power of life and death;

The extraordinary phenomenon in the Yellow Court: a true dragon playing with a pearl, all laws possess spirit;
Strange Phenomenon at the Heavenly Gate: Thunder Descends from the Sky, Trembling All Spirits;
The Dao guides extraordinary phenomena; the Supreme Lord shines universally, and all laws cannot invade.

As Lin Le felt the blessings bestowed upon him by various extraordinary phenomena, an idea suddenly popped into his mind.

As the Three Realms Spiritual Fire Technique was activated, the four strange phenomena suddenly twisted, as if a fire were burning through them.

The four strange phenomena twisted into a ball, forming white, red, blue, and black rays of light that converged behind Lin Le, creating a backlight.

The backlight is shaped like a flame, and a lotus flower blooms within the circular halo (the ring behind the head). The petals are as red as fire, and there are thirteen black and white lotus seeds inside the blue lotus seedpod, arranged in a left-handed swastika pattern.

Primordial Phenomenon: The Undying Wheel of the World-Burning Mysterious Lotus

(End of this chapter)