Master of the Xuanyin Sect of Mount Shu

Chapter 21 The Blissful Immortal
Guan Minghui believed that Li Jingxu was incredibly powerful and that since he had killed Lu Min, Li Jingxu would soon come knocking on his door. He was prepared to die.

However, at this time, Li Jingxu was still refining the innate five elements incarnation.

Li Jingxu, the Pure Land Master, entered the Dao slightly later than the Long-Eyebrowed Master.

Around the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Immortal with Long Eyebrows was implicated by his junior brother Deng Yin and reincarnated through physical means. His twelve disciples also perished, waiting for their master to return and guide them.

Li Jingxu received her immortal destiny before the Long-Browed Immortal entered the Dao a second time.

He originally had a childhood sweetheart cousin, Ni Fangxian, but they were separated due to the war. Prioritizing the continuation of his family line, he married Sun Xun, a lady from a prominent family, and later took his wife to the mountains to cultivate Taoism.

Later, she met Ni Fangxian again, and the three of them lived together. Ni Fangxian, with her unorthodox nature, could not calm down in the end, so she ran away from home and became a disciple of another wandering immortal.

Of the three, Sun Xun had given birth to a child and was of poor physical constitution, but she was kind-hearted and had accumulated a lot of good deeds in her past lives, so she was called the Five Blessings Fairy by her fellow practitioners.

For Sun Xun, becoming an Earth Immortal, achieving immortality, and enjoying eternal bliss was easy and pleasant. However, cultivating to the rank of Celestial Immortal and ascending to the celestial realm was extremely difficult.

Ni Fangxian harbored a deep-seated jealousy, which led her to fall into the trap of unorthodox practices, from which she could never truly resolve it. The master she apprenticed under was also an unorthodox immortal, whose higher cultivation level resulted in stronger and more unyielding magical power.

Similarly, while it would be easy for her to live a carefree and joyful life in the mortal world, it would be extremely difficult for her to cultivate her mercury nature to be perfectly clear and attain pure yang. Her path would be even more arduous than Sun Xun's, and she would face many more demonic tribulations.

Li Jingxu himself was not of pure Yang constitution. According to the orthodox rules of the Xuanmen sect, he should have been reincarnated again and entered the Dao as a virgin.

He was unwilling to suffer the pain of reincarnation, and because his beloved wife's cultivation was relatively weak, her nascent soul was always lacking in refinement and she needed his help.

He left his physical body in the Worry-Free Cave of Changchun Cliff on Lion Ridge to accompany his wife Sun Xun in cultivation, while he himself released his nascent soul to accumulate good deeds in the human world.

It is hoped that one can achieve merit in the Tao and conduct oneself in the human world. The former is internal cultivation, and the latter is external cultivation. When both are perfected, one can still attain the status of a celestial being.

In the past, he always flew out as a nascent soul. Later, when he wanted to cultivate an incarnation, he collected the essence of the five elements from all over the place.

Back then, he needed the essence of metal. He discovered a metal vein in the backyard of Lu Min's house in Kuaihuo Village, Jiuhua Mountain, so he descended to the Lu family and lived in their backyard for several months, collecting and refining the essence.

Lu Min had been searching for immortals and seeking the Dao everywhere, and knelt down to beg to become a disciple.

Li Jingxu refused to accept him as a disciple, but because of this special connection, he imparted some profound secrets to him and taught him to master Taoist magic and a set of sword techniques.

Lu Min learned his martial arts from Li Jingxu, but Li Jingxu did not acknowledge him as his disciple, so he was considered an unofficial disciple who had not yet entered the sect.

Although Li Jingxu did not accept him as a disciple, he deduced that his grandson Shisheng would be one of the Seven Dwarfs of Emei in the future, with a very strong foundation and a heavenly appearance. He also had some karmic connection with Li Jingxu in his previous life.

He then used the gold energy he had collected to condense a Taibai Dividing Light Sword, and took out the silk he had collected in the past from his Qiankun Bag to refine it into a Cleansing Bell. He also refined a Two Realms Token that he had accidentally obtained from the Immortal Abode in front of him, and bestowed it upon them all.

According to Li Jingxu's calculations from back then, Lu Rongbo mistakenly smelled the Albizia julibrissin this year and became pregnant, and Lu Min drew her sword to kill her daughter.

The talisman he left behind beforehand would take away the Taibai Dividing Light Sword, seal Lu Rongbo inside the stone wall, and explain the cause and effect.

In the end, Lu Min went to Beihai to die and be reincarnated, while Lu Rongbo was pregnant in the mountains for twenty-one years and gave birth to a child. Because the child was conceived through the essence of a spiritual stone, the child was named Shisheng (Stone Birth).

The mother and daughter lived together for fifteen years. Lu Rongbo completed her cultivation and left behind her remains, ascending to the Immortal Realm with her Nascent Soul.

Halfway there, she encountered the Three Phoenixes of Ziyun Palace passing by. They used magic sand to shatter her ascension aura, forcing her to come down and take her back to the palace to serve. This was the number of days that Li Jingxu had calculated beforehand, and it should have continued according to this set of fixed "numbers." Who knew that Guan Minghui would appear as a "variable," changing the fate of Lu Min and her father, as well as Yang Li and his apprentice.

The innate five elements dharma body that Li Jingxu is trying to refine is one of the top dharma bodies in the world. It is extremely difficult to refine and will take five Jiazi (a unit of time) to complete.

When Lu Min died, he was still collecting Gui Shui essence overseas.

When he passed by Juping Island in the South China Sea, he saw a large area of ​​small, round reefs below. The smaller reefs were made of green coral, while the larger ones were covered with vegetation, resembling many duckweeds floating on the undulating sea.

He suddenly had a premonition, and after a quick calculation, he realized that Lu Min had died at the hands of the demon corpse inside Lingyu Cliff, and that Lu Rongbo had not been sealed inside the mountain wall.

The divine talisman he left behind back then was not triggered, and all the predicted outcomes changed!
Li Jingxu rushed to Mangcang Mountain to check the situation, arriving at Lingyu Cliff.

Although he hadn't reached Rabbit Cliff, even from over a hundred miles away, he could clearly see that Lu Rongbo was all alone in the cave, her large pregnant belly protruding as she concentrated on refining a set of needle-type magical artifacts.

Li Jingxu had reached the point where he could achieve physical sainthood and attain the Golden Immortal status. A golden light flashed and he arrived at the cliff.

Upon seeing the golden light, another beam of green light flew in from the mountains to the east. As it approached, it dispersed, revealing an old Taoist woman with flowing white hair, a high nose, and large ears.

The old woman, leaning on an iron cane with a herbal pouch hanging from its end, bowed respectfully before Li Jingxu, saying, "Junior Hua Yaosong greets the Blissful Immortal."

The Blissful Immortal now appears as a child, only eleven or twelve years old, wearing a light yellow short coat and a gold necklace. He is quite cute, but looks much older than his age.

He nodded: "Yes, you are Tan Wuchen's disciple?"

"Indeed." Hua Yaosong's tone was urgent, without any pleasantries. "Did you come here for the demon corpse, Master?"

The Blissful Immortal said, "So you also know there's a demon corpse inside?"

“Years ago, before the Long-Browed Immortal ascended to immortality, I had the good fortune to meet him. The Immortal specifically instructed me that he had killed Gu Chen, the former leader of the Xuan Yin Sect who had wreaked havoc on the world, with the Seven Swords of Heart-Slaying. Because he was close to ascending to immortality, he did not have time to completely refine him with the Two Elements Micro Dust Array, so he suppressed him in this mountain.”

Master Jile nodded: "Does Fellow Daoist Ren have something to tell you?"

Hua Yaosong felt a lot of pressure. This senior was half a generation older than her master. Although he looked like a child, his aura was very powerful. This was clearly a way of telling her to keep it short.

"Master Changmei gave me three spirit talismans and left a prophecy, saying that a hundred years later, a demon corpse will be born, and at that time, disciples of the Emei Sect will come here with the Purple and Green Divine Sword to slay the corpse."

The master instructed me to establish a cave dwelling nearby, gather herbs for quiet cultivation, and keep an eye on that demon corpse. The three talismans each have their uses, and all will be used a hundred years from now, when the Emei disciples arrive.

"I should have come a few years ago, but my master was about to ascend to immortality, and I was by his side to attend to him. I only came here after seeing him off, only to find that Fellow Daoist Lu of Rabbit Cliff had already met with a terrible fate."

Master Jile frowned slightly and pondered for a moment before saying, "Did Fellow Daoist Ren really tell you that the demonic corpse would not emerge and cause harm until a hundred years later?"

Hua Yaosong said with certainty, "I have memorized every word of what Master Changmei said, and there is absolutely no mistake."

The Blissful Immortal looked towards the Spirit Jade Cliff, his eyes gleaming with golden light, peering through the mountainside at the demon corpse lying on the stone bed inside, and at the entrance to the Earth's Lung, where Cui Haike and his disciples were working diligently, completely unaware of the outside world.

"But according to my calculations, this demonic corpse should emerge within a few decades."

(End of this chapter)