Master of the Xuanyin Sect of Mount Shu

Chapter 2 Searching for Moonlight
In order to completely destroy Gu Chen's foundation, the Long-Browed Master specially created this forbidden land for him.

In the middle is a spacious cave, lower in the west and higher in the east.

The isthmus to the west descends deep into the lungs, while the passage to the east extends upwards, connecting to the top of the cliff.

The Earth's lungs are located deep within the Earth, encased outside the Earth's core. They consist of countless intricate underground canyons and volcanoes, some containing water, some fire, some wind, and some smoke.

As the terrain undulates, temperatures fluctuate, air pressure rises and falls, and magnetic fields shift, these water, fire, wind, and smoke flows and surges within the isthmus, some leading to the surface and others to the Earth's core, entering and exiting like human lungs, hence the name.

Every night, yin energy "exhales" from the earth's lungs and blows from above the head of Guanminghui.

The wind blew diagonally upwards towards my feet, damp, cold, strong, and biting.

It contained wisps of cold, malevolent energy that blew in through the fontanelle, passed through the whole body, and flowed out from the Yongquan points on the soles of the feet, just like ice water being poured over the head, a chilling coldness washing over one's head, as if countless ice blades were constantly piercing and cutting through his flesh and soul.

During the day, the earth's lungs begin to "inhale," drawing down the fierce winds from the sky above the cliff top.

This fierce wind, mixed with the essence of the sun, is the nemesis of all evil things. Like a divine punishment, it feels as if hundreds of millions of incandescent metal dust are densely hitting you, beating you from your legs upwards to your head and face.

The soul and body were pierced by the sun's essence, burning both inside and out, a hundred times more painful than being burned by raging fire!
Even a thousand-year-old zombie or vengeful ghost would be annihilated and reduced to ashes after being blown around like this for several months.

Master Changmei's goal is to weaken Gu Chen's strength as much as possible, so that even if he is resurrected in the future, he will not be able to regain his former strength. At that time, he can be killed by his newly initiated grand-disciple, which will be a close call and allow him to accumulate experience and merit.

His move was indeed ruthless; the real Gu Chen had already lost all consciousness and spirit, completely disappearing into the world.

Now it's Guan Minghui's turn. Before he transmigrated, he was just an ordinary person. The greatest pain he suffered from childhood was having his nails pulled out by his bare hands. How could he endure such torture that tempers the soul and body!
It was like being trapped in two hells, one frozen and one burning. He was burned by fire during the day and frozen by night, alternating repeatedly. He soon couldn't take it anymore and wanted to give up. He thought it would be better to just die!

But he's already dead, so even if he gives up lying down, he'll still be tortured.

He wanted to unleash a torrent of curses, but he didn't know who to curse at.

Are you cursing the Long-Browed Immortal? The original Demon Corpse Valley Chen was a great scourge to the world, and he certainly deserved to be dealt with like this.

Cursing Gu Chen? At least Old Gu left him so much "legacy" that allowed him to continue living.

Having exhausted all his options, he could only curse himself.
If you have no ability while you're alive, you're nothing.

Now that I have supernatural powers, I am only temporarily imprisoned. As long as I can get through this, overcome this obstacle, and find a way to leave this place, the future will be as vast as the sea and as free as the sky. I will become a sword immortal who can fly through the air and move mountains and overturn seas!
If you're going to give up after such a little pain, then you only deserve to be someone's slave for eternity!
The edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold!
Though the process of sifting through sand is arduous, only by blowing away the sand can gold be found!
A thousand sails pass by the sunken ship, and ten thousand trees bloom before the withered tree!
Whenever he couldn't take it anymore and wanted to give up, he would bitterly berate himself: Useless! Idiot! Trash! Destroyed! Useless scraps of society! Deserving to be enslaved and crushed like an ant...

He cursed harder and harder, until he was driven to desperation, and he kept regaining his fighting spirit in desperate situations.

What could be worse or more unbearable than this?

What cannot be killed will make me stronger!

He forced himself to calm down amidst the pain and began to cultivate the Profound Yin Great Art.

To cultivate this technique, one must use the Xuan Yin Qi.

The Xuan Yin True Scripture records that before the creation of heaven and earth, the primordial energy of the universe was a chaotic void, without distinction between yin and yang.

After the creation of heaven and earth, the two polarities were first separated, and yin and yang began to divide. The mysterious yin energy was born. Part of it rose with the pure energy and condensed into the essence of yin in the heavens, returning to the moon. Part of it descended with the turbid energy and spread throughout the earth's membrane.

As the universe unites and gives birth to all things, these two have evolved over countless years and are now fundamentally different.

Therefore, the source of Xuan Yin Qi is threefold: first, the Xuan Yin of Heaven, which comes from the moon; second, the Xuan Yin of Earth, which comes from the depths of the Earth's core; and third, the Xuan Yin of Humans, which comes from young men and women. The Yin wind blowing out from the Earth's core contains a small amount of Xuan Yin Qi, as well as Black Omen and Earthly Fiend.

Black Odor is a foul and filthy gas formed in the special environment of the Earth's lungs by the ash from a cataclysmic event millions of years ago mixed with groundwater. It is cold, damp, and extremely corrosive to the physical body.

Earthly Fiends are the malevolent energies formed by the earth's veins.

Mountains on the earth's surface, their shapes resembling dragons, are called dragon veins. There are also mountains underground, their energy also gathering to form dragons, but they are hidden under thick layers of soil and cannot be recognized by ordinary people.

The Xuan Yin Great Technique can utilize all three of these items.

Guan Minghui used magic to extract the three elements from the yin wind, drawing on the earth's profound yin to nourish the primordial spirit, repair the damage to the physical body, and allow the body to slowly regain consciousness.

After practicing for a while, I felt the speed was too slow, and I couldn't help but feel frustrated.

Because of the constant tempering by the winds of heaven and earth, his physical and mental state have suffered considerable damage. With one thing increasing and the other decreasing, the recovery speed is extremely slow. It would take at least more than ten years before he could sit up from the stone bed.

He didn't know when the Emei disciples, led by Li Yingqiong, would attack. Simply cultivating using the Earthly Profound Yin method step by step wouldn't suffice. He had to cultivate even faster than Gu Chen in the original story to avoid that calamity of being torn apart by chaotic swords!
To speed things up, it would be best to bask in the moonlight and receive the primordial yin energy of heaven.

But the corpse-suppressing site designed by Master Changmei was something he had foreseen.

During the day, the celestial energy descends, bringing in harmful solar essence.

When the moon came out at night, the Earthly Fiend rose into the sky, and the wind blew outward from the Earth's core, so he could not obtain the moon's essence at all.

Guan Minghui first purified the three energies of Xuan Yin, Hei Shi, and Di Sha that he had collected, then refined them separately using the Xuan Yin Great Method, and finally fused them into a ball according to the proportions, from which he pulled out a strand of Hei Shi.

The newly formed black wisp of smoke is about the thickness of a thumb and looks like a rope. It can be manipulated by thought, extending and turning like a serpent, flying up and down, rotating left and right, and doing whatever it wants.

Once you've collected nine strands, you can knead them together into a ball for refining, incorporating more vital energy, and then re-refining it into shape—that's the second transformation.

There are many people in the world who can refine black silk, but only the Heavenly Lust Master can refine and upgrade it. This is something he invented by drawing on Taoist techniques.

Taoist alchemy emphasizes "seven returns and nine transformations" and "the elixir is completed through nine cycles." This black elixir thread can also be refined nine times, eventually transforming into a thread called black elixir thread. It is finer than a hair, invisible and formless, and can extend thousands of miles away, with endless wonders.

When fighting an enemy, unless the opponent has exceptional magical power or a special counter-magic weapon, you can easily bind and capture them by simply releasing one of these weapons and take it away out of thin air.

The second-stage black venomous silk is about the thickness of a little finger, and its color is lighter than that of the first-stage silk, but its power is more than ten times stronger.

Guan Minghui refined two black serpentine threads, extending their tips upwards and penetrating into the rocks, where they snaked through the mountainside like serpents, constantly rising.

He wanted to try using this magical artifact to drill through the mountain and absorb the moonlight from outside!

However, outside this cave, there was a suppressing talisman left by the Long-Browed Immortal. The power it emitted formed a barrier, and the pressure on the black wisp increased as it extended outwards. After penetrating ten feet, the tip began to disintegrate into smoke.

Guan Minghui retrieved the black wisp and continued to collect more profound yin energy to condense a higher-grade black wisp.

The nine second-stage black filaments were refined and returned, reformed, and became third-stage filaments.

With his current strength and circumstances, he can only reach the third level.

If that doesn't work, we'll have to find another way.

(End of this chapter)