Journey to the West Creation Technique

The spiritual root is the gateway to all wonders, and the foundation for mortals to become immortals, Buddhas, or saints.

However, not everyone in the Middle-earth possesses spiritual roots.

Lu Chengjun had been investigated by cultivators.

He had no spiritual root at all; he was just an ordinary mortal.

However, nothing is absolute.

Master Cai Yiheng, who came from the Qingyun Sect, once said: According to the theory of the unity of heaven and man, there are 365 days in a year, so there are also 365 acupoints on the human body, and each acupoint can contain spiritual roots.

However, being located in the Central Plains, only 361 acupoints can correspond to the stars in the sky.

If one goes to the Southern Desolate Continent, where the stars shift and the sky changes, perhaps... one's spiritual root will manifest.

Lu Chengjun was deeply shaken. Looking at the water buffalo before him that was speaking human language, he asked with a slightly excited expression, "Master Buffalo, are you saying... I have a spiritual root? In which cave is it located? And which constellation does it correspond to?"

The water buffalo gazed wistfully: "In the Water Curtain Cave."

"Ah..." Lu Chengjun looked astonished: "Where is the Water Curtain Cave located on the human body? Please, Master Niu, impart to me the wondrous method to help me ascend to the path of immortality."

The water buffalo nodded slightly: "Everyone possesses spiritual potential, but it is obscured by the dust of time, preventing its true nature from being revealed..."

"So what should I do?"

"Please be patient..." The water buffalo turned around, facing the sea, and slowly began to speak: "In the Eastern Continent of Divine Victory, there was a country called Aolai. In the country, there was a mountain called Flower Fruit Mountain. On the mountain was a strange stone, left behind by Nuwa when she mended the sky... Suddenly one day, bang! The stone exploded, and a monkey jumped out of it..."

"Huh?" Lu Chengjun looked completely bewildered. "You mean cultivation techniques for immortality?"

"Of course!" the water buffalo said with certainty. "This is a top-tier Taoist technique that leads directly to the path of immortality."

"May I ask what the name of this cultivation technique is?"

"Journey to the West," the old ox replied, tilting his head.

Lu Chengjun: "..."

"Once you hear my explanation, you'll naturally understand its profound meaning. Where was I?"

"You said there was a strange rock on Flower Fruit Mountain, from which a monkey jumped out."

The water buffalo looked on with reminiscence and slowly said, "Although that stone monkey had an extraordinary origin, he didn't consider himself a special species. He hung out with the ordinary monkeys of Flower Fruit Mountain, spending his days petting each other's tails and armpits, just aimlessly passing the time... Until one day, a group of monkeys happened to find a waterfall, which was extremely magnificent, a hundred feet wide and a hundred feet deep... They made a pact that whoever jumped into the waterfall and survived would become the Monkey King."

"And then?" Lu Chengjun asked, engrossed in the conversation.

"Hehe...Those monkeys may be agile, but none of them actually dared to jump."

"Could it be that the stone monkey dares to jump?!" Lu Chengjun guessed the plot.

"That's right! The stone monkey jumped right in."

"Did the stone monkey die from the fall?"

"No." The buffalo shook its head.

"The stone monkey is so hard, it didn't even die from falling from a hundred-foot waterfall?" Lu Chengjun exclaimed in amazement.

"It's not that he's hard, but there's a cave behind the waterfall, and inside is a hidden world."

"Such an extraordinary encounter?" Lu Chengjun exclaimed excitedly.

"That's right! You're just like that stone monkey. Your spiritual root is obscured, and you only see yourself as an ordinary mortal. In fact, as long as you dare to leap into the waterfall and enter the Water Curtain Cave, you can see your true nature, find your spiritual root, and embark on the path of cultivation. Immortality is within reach." The water buffalo changed the subject.

Lu Chengjun's expression changed: "So, 'Journey to the West' actually hides profound martial arts techniques within the story?"

"Hehe... The top-tier Taoist techniques are obscure and difficult to understand. Who can remember them if they aren't turned into stories?"

What does "Flying Spring" refer to?

"The Flying Spring Waterfall represents your chaotic and disordered thoughts, like an inverted Milky Way, isolating you from the outside world. You must shut off your external senses, ignore the roaring of your blood and the waterfall of distracting thoughts, sever all hindrances, and leap into it. In the darkest and deepest part of your spiritual platform, there lies the Water Curtain Cave, which is where your spiritual root resides..."

"Sit down quickly, cross your legs, close your eyes, and focus your mind on your dantian." The water buffalo's tone was extremely serious.

Lu Chengjun did as instructed.

A gentle night breeze blows, and the sky is filled with stars.

The desolate Southern Sea Continent, by the sea.

The water buffalo raised its head to look at the sky and spoke in a human voice, which was far-reaching: "Journey to the West, Chapter 1: The spiritual root is conceived and the source flows out; the mind and nature are cultivated and the Great Dao is born."

It turned to look at Lu Chengjun: "I'll lend you a hand."

The old ox murmured, "An iron bridge spans before the Water Curtain Cave, a ten-thousand-foot waterfall emerges from the stone cave."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Chengjun suddenly heard a series of booming sounds.

He was now in the illusion.

He was on Flower Fruit Mountain, beside a cliff, by a waterfall, and on an iron bridge.

Ahead, his blood energy and the accumulated turmoil of his life condensed into a terrifying blood-red waterfall.

The waterfall is a hundred feet wide and a hundred feet deep, cascading down from the sky.

The deafening roar made it seem as if taking just one more step would plunge one into an abyss of blood, leaving no trace of death.

"Soar to the heavens and seize destiny, contend with the heavens for power and ghosts and gods will flee!" The water buffalo's voice came from the void, urging him to leap into the waterfall of blood.

Lu Chengjun walked slowly forward along the iron bridge.

Suddenly, he stopped in his tracks.

The iron bridge leads to the waterfall, but it abruptly ends halfway.

This is a broken bridge.

He stood on the edge of the broken bridge, with a bottomless abyss below.

The stone monkey in "Journey to the West" leaped into the Water Curtain Cave from here and became the Monkey King.

If it stops here, it's just a wild monkey in the mountains.

If I stop here, I will not only be a mortal, but I will also surely die.

This is the desolate Southern Underworld, a place fraught with danger at every turn.

Not taking the path to immortality is the path to death.

Even if there is a bottomless abyss beneath your feet, even if a blood-red waterfall hangs like an inverted Milky Way, there is only one way: to leap!

After figuring it out, Lu Chengjun took a few steps back, ran up, accelerated, and leaped into the blood-red waterfall!

In an instant, countless distracting thoughts surged forth like a tide.

Madness, resentment, lust, regret!

Qiao Zhi hugged him, wanting to spend the night with him.

In the blink of an eye, he grabbed his neck again, intending to kill him.

Qiao Zhi suddenly smiled, transformed into her mother, and held him in her arms.

Father returns from work.

The family sat warmly at the table.

In the blink of an eye, her mother died unexpectedly, leaving her overwhelmed with grief and unable to control herself.

A flood of emotions surged forth, bringing with it all the regrets and resentments of his life, things he seemed to have long forgotten, all of which resurfaced before his eyes, tearing at his soul again and again.

They made him regretful, made him hysterical, and made him almost want to give up and let the waterfall of blood engulf him.

Falling down the waterfall of blood, one enters a bottomless abyss!

"Innate Qi is the spiritual root; the Great Dao is inseparable from the Mysterious Female Gate!"

The old ox's voice pierced through the waterfall of blood, each word like metal and stone, transforming into a golden light that exploded in his ears.

"Enlightenment leads to instantaneous enlightenment, while delusion results in eternal damnation!"

"If one can cultivate true qi with a single thought, one can extinguish all the dust and impurities of the universe."

The voice transformed into dozens of golden swastika symbols, which solidified into a golden iron bridge beneath his feet, emerging from nothingness and spanning the waterfall of blood.

He stepped on something solid and stopped falling.

Take this opportunity and hurry over!

His soul was almost torn apart, and the excruciating pain nearly made him faint, but he gritted his teeth, stepped on the golden iron bridge, and quickly crossed the waterfall of blood.

He leaped over it!

The next moment, everything fell silent.

Before me lay an extremely secluded cave, isolated from the hustle and bustle of the outside world, where all distracting thoughts were kept at bay.

A clear spring flows gently through the cave, the stone walls are smooth and lustrous, and in the center stands a stone platform, ancient and serene.

He naturally sat down on the stone platform.

The primordial spirit returns to its rightful place, all dust is removed, and the spiritual root naturally manifests.