Starting Immortal Cultivation from a White Dog

The Ten Thousand Mountains of Southern Xinjiang, the Trapped Mountains.

This place is covered with dense forests and has many underground caves. The interconnected underground caves are dark and deep, hiding countless monsters.

Since the war between the Undying Palace and the Fire God Palace began, the two sides have fought a devastating battle deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, with rivers of blood flowing. Countless demons have been killed or wounded, and even the once high and mighty demon kings have fallen one after another.

Many weak and cowardly demons fled frantically before being summoned by the Undying Palace, and Trapped Sky Mountain was a good place to escape.

Therefore, the already numerous demons and monsters gathered in the bottomless pit of the Trapped Sky Mountain.

The current master of Trapped Sky Mountain is a three-headed, human-faced spider demon.

These three-headed spiders covered the entire underground cave with a dense web, and at the slightest disturbance, they would escape through the intricate, dark cave to deeper and farther places.

Therefore, this bottomless cave in Xiankong Mountain is now also known as the Spider Cave.

The three-headed spider in the Spider Cave calls itself the master of the Spider Cave. It gathers many lesser demons to gather information about the outside world and plunder all kinds of rare and precious materials for cultivation.

A few months ago, the Second Cave Master took in a stray dog. This dog had a very keen sense of smell and could smell demons from a great distance.

If any foreign demons approach, they will be discovered by this dog before they even enter the cave.

The second cave master doted on this wild dog, providing it with plenty of meat and bones on a daily basis, and occasionally rewarding it with some spiritual items, making the other lesser demons both jealous and envious.

They wished they could stew and eat the slick, shiny fur of that stray dog.

But this wild dog is indeed capable; its nose is incredibly sharp. In the past few months, it has detected foreign demons ahead of time three or four times, and once it detected an envoy from the Undying Palace.

The three cave masters, along with their trusted confidants, slipped away to the deepest part of the cave beforehand, escaping the calamity. Only some bewildered little demons who were unable to escape in time were captured by the messengers of the Undying Palace and taken back to report.

Therefore, the lesser demons who knew the wild dog's abilities, though somewhat jealous, usually tried to flatter and fawn over it, hoping that the dog would bark at them the next time it spotted an enemy, so that they could escape with their lives.

If they were captured by the messengers of the Undying Palace and sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder, they would never return.

At this moment, the wild dog, which was favored by the Second Cave Master and envied and fawned upon by many lesser demons, was lying lazily under the shade of trees on Trapped Sky Mountain. It had yellow fur all over its body, short and thick fur, strong limbs, and its tail dragged on the ground.

It's the height of summer right now, and the weather is scorching. Even when it's hiding in the shade of a tree, its ears droop, its tongue lolls out slightly, and it's panting heavily.

Not far away, a pig-headed monster and a yellow-skinned fox were working hard, collecting edible wild fruits and ingredients.

They had already cultivated to some extent, so although they weren't immune to heat or cold, they wouldn't sweat from the sun.

They were busy here, while the stray dog ​​was enjoying the shade under the tree, which naturally made them unhappy.

"Hey, you pighead, look at them. All they have to do is wag their tails at their owners and they can gnaw on bones. They can even come out openly to cool off and eat."

The yellow-skinned fox poked at the pig-headed monster, "Why don't you go and curry favor with the cave master? Maybe he can arrange a good job for you."

Although the pig-headed monster was simple-minded, it wasn't stupid. It muttered, "I'm not going. I'm fine in the kitchen."

The yellow fox said with exasperation, "What's so good about it? You're exhausted every day, and you're dirty and smelly. You have to search for food outside the cave, and you might get caught if you're not careful."

"Only an idiot like you would be willing to stay in the kitchen..."

"Isn't Huang San'er here with me?" the pig-headed monster said with a silly grin.

The yellow-skinned fox was speechless.

It had already cultivated into a great demon in its early years and had obtained many opportunities, so its cultivation progressed very quickly.

However, he was recently conscripted by the Undying Palace to fight on the battlefield, where he was almost killed in a single encounter. If it weren't for his extraordinary talent, which allowed him to sacrifice one of his tails to save his life, he would probably have died on the battlefield long ago.

After surviving the battlefield, it would seize any opportunity to sneak away.

With nowhere else to go, it thought of the Bottomless Cave in Trapped Sky Mountain and its old acquaintance, the Pig-Headed Monster, and came to seek refuge there.

Having suffered severe injuries and lost a tail, he looked like a newly-formed yellow fox spirit, completely lacking the aura of a great demon.

The pig-headed monster is now being kept in the kitchen by the second master of the Spider Cave. The yellow-skinned fox came to seek refuge with him and also stayed in the kitchen as a handyman.

At first, the fox was afraid of dying and being captured by the Immortal Palace messengers, so it was able to behave itself. But as time went on, it became cunning and couldn't help but try to cheat and swindle.

This post-processing is tiring and dangerous. For a great demon like him, even though he has fallen on hard times, it would be too beneath him to do these kinds of jobs all the time.

Especially since he's not even as well-off as a stray dog...

"That mongrel is really lucky, it only has a dog's nose, that's all it has."

The yellow fox muttered to himself, always wanting to secretly bully the stray dog ​​and make him offer his meat bones to Third Master Huang.

If the cave master bestows treasures upon us, we should also offer them as tribute...

As it thought about it, it couldn't help but start drooling.

Since the start of the war, not only have many demons died, but large numbers of birds and beasts in the mountains and forests have also perished.

These beings, who have become sentient, have naturally large appetites, and they must be careful to avoid the messengers of the Undying Palace, so they often go hungry.

On the contrary, that mongrel dog eats and drinks well every day, its fur becoming shiny and glossy, making countless demons envious.

……

The big yellow dog hiding under the shade of the tree was fully aware of the yellow fox's resentment and ulterior motives.

He resurrected Bai Yaochen from the Netherworld using the bloodline inheritance of the Sun-Devouring Heavenly Dog, thus faking his death to escape.

Using that pool of rotten yellow mud, and after being cleansed by the Yellow Springs, he emerged from the Netherworld and, at the cost of the dissipation of the seed of the Heavenly Eye, obtained a body. This yellow-skinned dog was created from the Yellow Springs, the mud, the remains of Buddha, the bones of Bai Yaochen, and the seed of the Heavenly Eye.

Although this yellow-skinned dog looks ordinary, it's actually nothing special...

Uh, it's just a yellowish-brown mongrel.

If we're talking about something special, it's that dogs have a keen sense of smell and can see evil spirits and the lingering souls of the dead.

Aside from that, it's just an ordinary big yellow dog.

Even a single blow from a stick would make them wince in pain.

It was a coincidence that Wu Tian fell not far from Trapped Sky Mountain after he came out of the Yellow Springs.

Relying on his keen sense of smell, he lived a comfortable life in the Spider Cave of Trapped Sky Mountain, which at least made the yellow-skinned fox extremely jealous.

Although he had fallen from a dignified Taoist priest of the Taiqing Temple to a country dog, he felt neither loss nor sadness.

Back then, relying on the system panel, he cultivated himself into a great demon king in just over ten years, awakened five great supernatural powers, and was even able to fight against loose immortals.

Not to mention becoming a naturally auspicious being, the Daoist Master of Taiqing, and later swallowing the image of Buddha—each of these feats made him famous throughout the world.

But these things came too quickly, and involved too many causes and effects.

Because of his auspicious birth, he entered the Taiqing Temple and received many benefits, but from then on, he was also connected with the fortune of the Taiqing Taoist lineage.

Because of Taiqing Daozi's identity and the bloodline of the Sun-Devouring Heavenly Hound, and because of his karmic ties with the Great Sun Tathagata Buddha, Bai Yaochen was reincarnated as the Buddha, which forced him to devour his own son, becoming a vicious dog that was despised by countless beings... The karma of that body was too heavy, tangled into a mess that could not be cut or untangled. If he continued to be entangled in it, he would probably become a pawn in the battle among those powerful Golden Immortals sooner or later.

He used the bloodline inheritance characteristics of the Sun-Devouring Celestial Hound to bring Bai Yaochen back to life from his body.

This would allow him to save his son's life, escape the quagmire, hide in the shadows, accumulate strength, and one day overturn the chessboard.

As for Bai Yaochen, it was already remarkable that he was able to come back to life.

The karma associated with that body, while a burden for him, was also an opportunity and a test that allowed him to grow rapidly.

As for life and death...

Wu Tian, ​​who was hiding in the shadows, naturally couldn't watch his son die in vain.

When those powerful Golden Immortals finally reveal their true intentions, he will surely make his move and tear off a piece of their flesh.

Shen Sheng died while Chong Er was safe while he was abroad; he certainly understood this principle.

As for his magical powers and cultivation, which saved his son's life, he naturally had no reason to be reluctant to part with them.

What's more... there's also the system panel.

Having a second chance, he can not only avoid the detours he has taken before, but also, with his previous knowledge, experience, and insights, he can walk a more solid path.

More importantly, he no longer wanted to cultivate the Taiqing Immortal Light and have too deep a karmic connection with the Taiqing Dao lineage.

If you take something from someone else, you have to return it.

After all, the master did not die, and was even powerful enough to aspire to become the Heavenly Emperor.

During this period, Wu Tian abandoned all the methods he had learned elsewhere and devoted himself to practicing the Nine Forms of the Heavenly Dog Diagram.

Together with Bai Qian, he comprehended a fighting technique that covered the seventy-two orifices of dogs, called the "Nine Forms of the Celestial Dog".

This fighting technique is based on the six hunting techniques most familiar to dogs: pouncing, biting, locking, tearing, throwing, and barking. It is combined with three static postures: lying down, crouching, and curling up, forming a nine-posture diagram that combines movement and stillness.

He later continuously refined the Nine Postures Diagram, and developed accompanying breathing techniques and visualization diagrams, thus establishing it as a third-grade combat technique.

Although it is of extremely low quality compared to other methods, even inferior to the "White Bone Demon God Method" originally passed down in Skull Mountain, it is the most suitable fighting method for him and for dogs.

"Even the Black Mountain Demon was willing to spend three thousand years to create his own fighting techniques. With my system panel, do you think I wouldn't dare to forge my own path?"

Wu Tian remained calm and composed.

Although he faked his death this time, it was no different from a real death.

He relinquished his physical body, magical power, inner core, supernatural abilities, bloodline, and even the auspicious aura bestowed upon him by nature, as well as his identity as the Daoist Prince of Taiqing. He gave up everything.

Even if someone later realizes that Bai Yaochen is not him, even if someone uses every means to deduce, they will only conclude that he has died and disappeared into the underworld, and that Bai Yaochen has been resurrected from his body.

Because this is the truth.

He died once, and Bai Yaochen was resurrected from his body.

This is a true story, and even a powerful immortal would have predicted the same result.

However, with the help of the all-seeing eye, and perhaps... the system panel... he was given a second chance at life.

They were reborn in the underworld, with no connection or causal relationship to their previous body.

“Yaochen is too young, and I am too familiar with certain people. Even if he has the memories I left behind, it is impossible for him to hide them from everyone.”

“But that doesn’t matter at all. Everyone will think that I gave my life to bring my son back to life.”

"Yaochen will inherit everything from me and continue to walk the world as the Daoist of Taiqing."

"Whether I am the Dao Child of Taiqing is not important at all. What is important is that the Dao Child of Taiqing must be born with auspicious omens and must be the Sun-Swallowing Celestial Dog..."

Wu Tian had already seen everything clearly, so he wasn't worried about Bai Yaochen's identity being exposed. As long as the old Taoist priest acknowledged it, Bai Yaochen would be the true Taiqing Daozi.

What the old Taoist priest wanted was the auspiciousness of birth and the bloodline of the Sun-Swallowing Celestial Dog.

With the old Taoist priest backing him up, no one can change the fact that Bai Yaochen is the Daoist Prince of Taiqing.

……

For the past few months, Wu Tian has been hiding in the Spider Cave, diligently practicing the Nine Forms Diagram, the first level of the Battle Technique.

The six fighting stances of pouncing, biting, locking, tearing, throwing, and barking, along with the lying, crouching, and curling stances, work together in a dynamic interplay of movement and stillness, yin and yang, creating endless mysteries.

This Nine Postures Diagram can be cultivated to reach the seventy-two acupoints of the dog's body, perfectly tempering every corner of the body. The longer one cultivates, the more exquisite the control over the body becomes.

He appeared to be taking a break and enjoying the shade under the trees...

Well, actually I was indeed slacking off.

But at the same time, he was also practicing the Dog-Lying Posture, one of the Nine Postures, lying prostrate on the ground, feeling the pulse of the earth, and his heartbeat seemed to merge with the pulse of the earth.

With each breath, the breath is long and deep, embodying the essence of Tao.

Wu Tian's cultivation was unhurried; after seeing the scenery from the top, he became even less impatient.

The Black Mountain Demon honed his fighting techniques for three thousand years, and the duel between Buddha and Jade Void Celestial Venerable has continued for three thousand years...

The higher one's cultivation level, the longer time seems to pass.

For a dog like him who has undergone a complete transformation, reaching the pinnacle was already a foregone conclusion.

What he needs to do is to take a more steady and solid step forward.

They elevate their combat power to the extreme at every level, laying an incredibly solid foundation.

With his own created fighting techniques, he paved the way to becoming a Demon Saint and a Loose Immortal, forging a path to heaven.

Ding! System notification: Your Dog-Lying Posture training has been completed and can be awakened as a talent. Please choose one of the following three talents.

Option 1, Thick Skin and Thick Flesh, a basic talent, will enhance your fur and physical defense to a certain extent, and slightly increase your strength.

Option two, Born a Vicious Dog, a basic talent: Your mastery of combat skills has become so advanced that it's second nature. In battle, your skills will be more agile and ferocious, with greater destructive power.

Option 3, Sensitive Sense of Smell, Basic Talent: You have discovered a deeper level of talent in your body, making your sense of smell more sensitive, able to detect scents from a greater distance, as well as more subtle lingering scents.

Wu Tian chose the first option directly, since he already had the other two talents.

This time he was determined to hone as many talents as possible.

"The Nine Forms Diagram should have nine talents!" (End of Chapter)