From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

The painting "Guanshan Stealing Bones" depicts the scene of the Feng family ancestors, who were even earlier than Feng Shigu, stealing tombs on cliffs.

The "Viewing Mountains and Viewing Dwellings: Yang Dwellings" depicts the entire situation of the Coffin Mountain in Wuxia Gorge.

The entire Coffin Mountain is surrounded by sheer cliffs resembling coffin lids. The terrain is long and narrow, and the undulating hills inside the coffin resemble a headless corpse.

However, this headless corpse had four arms, as if two "people" were superimposed, which formed an abstract "witch" character.

The village of Dixian is built into the mountainside, and the layout of the houses and courtyards in the village is in accordance with the shape of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams. The place where the tomb in the backyard of the Feng family's house is located is the heart and eye of the headless corpse.

The painting "Viewing Mountains and Viewing Dwellings: Yin Dwellings" also depicts the Coffin Mountain in Wuxia Gorge, but it portrays an underground cluster of tombs, encompassing all the tomb passages in various styles, ranging from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. All are connected by a crisscrossing network of tomb passages, resembling a secret realm existing beneath a village of immortals...

# Chapter 1123 Wuxia Coffin Mountain (Twenty-Three) Another Person Who Treats Metaphor as Statement (Part 2)

Looking at the Yin and Yang diagrams in the "Viewing Mountains and Houses" painting, Zhang Zhiwei suddenly realized and said, "Looking at it this way, I was right about Feng Shigu's character. He's the kind of guy who uses metaphors as statements! And the path he wants to take seems to be somewhat similar to yours."

“It does look quite similar,” Zhen Yuanzi agreed.

Are they not similar?

Leaving aside how Jiang Liu cultivates the Golden Elixir and Sacred Embryo path, in terms of the system, there are two paths: the physical landscape and the mental landscape. The physical landscape refers to the body composed of substances such as skin, flesh, bones, internal organs, primordial spirit, and brain. The mental landscape is the inner landscape recognized by all major sects today, which is the spiritual world.

The Yang dwelling in Dixian Village, which is where they are currently located, is equivalent to the internal organs of a headless corpse in Wuxia Coffin Mountain.

The yin dwellings in Dixian Village most likely correspond to the Mindscape World.

However, this "spiritual landscape" lacks the most important element—

skull.

It is important to understand that the brain is the most important foundation for carrying the spiritual world. Without a head, nothing can grow, thoughts cannot exist, so how can one talk about ascension?

Perhaps Feng Shigu understood this principle, which is why he didn't choose to cultivate into a celestial immortal, but instead wanted to become the "ancestor of terrestrial immortals"!

What is the proof?

The painting "Holding a Candle at Night" depicts a narrow, deep ravine with steep and treacherous terrain. As a whole, it looks as if someone had severed the head of the corpse, but not satisfied, they had also ripped open its heart, preventing the giant from ever coming back to life. The giant could only be buried in the coffin mountain, becoming one with the mountain.

However, the picture also depicts a large group of people carrying lanterns and torches, forming a long, unbroken line, including men, women, young and old, walking along a winding path to the deepest part of the earth.

It corresponds precisely to the location of the lower dantian of this headless mountain of corpses!

Lower Dan refers to the lower dantian.

Take the cultivation of Qi source flow as an example.

After Zhang Huaiyi from another timeline realized this, he used it to forge a Qi infant from the Qi seed, in order to verify the fundamental theory of the union of the infant and the primordial Qi.

However, Jiang Liu followed the path of coexistence between the Heavenly Immortal Wukong and the Earthly Immortal Zhenyuan, in order to nurture the two great spiritual roots of the human body: the Body Landscape Grass Rejuvenating Elixir and the Mind Landscape Innate Ape.

The specific method of cultivation involves combining the metal qi of the lungs and the wood qi of the liver, harmonizing them with the earth qi of the spleen, and then refining them with the fire qi of the heart and the water qi of the kidneys to form a seed of qi. This seed is then integrated into the lower dantian. Finally, through the processes of refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness, and refining emptiness into the Dao, the qi is integrated into the entire circulation of the human body.

However, in reality, besides the Qi Infant and Spiritual Root paths, there is another path, which is to maintain the Qi Seed state, that is, to forge a tangible pill at the lower dantian, balance the physical and mental landscape, and make it continuously circulate throughout the body, thereby preserving the longevity of body and mind.

According to Jiang Liu's deduction, this path can also lead to "longevity." The main principle is that after forging such a Qi elixir in the lower dantian, one's innate Qi will be firmly locked in the body, neither more nor less, thus achieving balance.

However, in this way, one's physical cultivation will be unable to improve even slightly, and one's temperament will not change in the slightest, just like a stone.

After all, once such a pill is forged, the amount of innate Qi will remain constant forever. No matter how much you cultivate, it will only remain at that state, and your cultivation will come to an end. How can you improve it further?

Therefore, this path was abandoned immediately after Jiang Liu deduced it at the beginning—while it could indeed lead to immortality, it also cut off the possibility of further advancement.

After observing the "Viewing Mountains and Houses: Yang House", "Viewing Mountains and Houses: Yin House", and "Holding a Candle at Night", Zhen Yuanzi was able to confirm that Feng Shigu wanted to follow the path of forging a Qi elixir in the lower field to balance his body and mind, without adding or subtracting anything.

But unfortunately—

He chose this path, but instead of practicing Qi cultivation, he wanted to use the "lower dantian" of the headless corpse mountain within the coffin mountain to practice external cultivation.

of course.

The creation within this Wuxia Coffin Mountain, that is, the Qi formation, had already been severed before the Xia and Shang dynasties... However, Feng Shigu believed that he had a thorough understanding of the mountains and rivers, and that by blocking the spring in the heart of this headless corpse, making the black spring circulate underground, the universe could be recreated.

In fact.

The approach of using the external world of nature to cultivate the internal world of the human body is indeed feasible, but how can one use "dead mountains and dead waters"?

Not to mention, even though the spring was blocked, the black spring inside had been overflowing for hundreds of years. Otherwise, how could the graves in the outer courtyard have flowed out a liquid that looked like corpse blood just because of Qianhe Daoren's shovel?

That's wishful thinking!

“If that’s true, then the place we came in, which was originally filled with locusts, corresponds to the upper elixir of the corpse.” Daoist Qianhe already understood why Feng Shigu wanted to block the eye of the Black Spring. He then pointed to the empty head of the headless corpse mountain on the Yin-Yang diagram of the “Viewing Mountains and Houses”.

That place is the Scary Soul Platform and the Dragon Gate.

Indeed.

The "head" of this mountain of headless corpses is outside the entire Wuxia Coffin Mountain. However, Feng Shigu probably understood some principles of cultivation and knew that to complete the cycle of the heavens, one cannot do without a head. Since it was impossible to reconnect the "head" of the "headless corpses" inside the coffin mountain, the only option was to spend manpower to open up a "meridian"!

After all, mountains and rivers are not truly living things. As long as the key locations are excavated to allow ventilation, it is essentially equivalent to opening up the key points.

Therefore, Zhen Yuanzi, Zhang Zhiwei, Qianhe Daoren, and Bao Meier pushed bird droppings in, which was the way from the "Upper Elixir" to the "Middle Elixir".

As for the path that Shi Jian, Feng Tianyang, Sun Xuewu, and the others took... it passed between the two left arms of the corpse. To reach this Earth Immortal Village, they would likely have to take many detours.

And Feng Shigu's corpse—

It must be at the lower dantian of this "headless corpse"!

That is to say, we need to go to the ancestral grave!

After determining the location of the body, Zhang Zhiwei rolled up the first four paintings and focused all his attention on the fifth painting, "Encountering Immortals at the Coffin Mountain".

Unlike the previous four pictures, this one depicts the outer coffin of the Wuyang King's tomb.

The painting below depicts the tomb passage in front of the hall, where a hundred or eighty tomb robbers are carrying countless funerary objects.

Looking up, the painting depicts the outer coffin.

The stone coffin in the outer chamber was opened, and six tomb raiders lay around it. They had obviously been killed by the creature inside the coffin. Two of them even had waist tags with the words "Guanshan Taibao" written on them. They must have been brothers or disciples who had raided tombs with Feng Shigu.

Only one person survived.

Needless to say, it must be Feng Shigu, the Protector of Guanshan!

Compared to other tomb raiders, Feng Shigu had a rather refined appearance, with an otherworldly air, as if he had achieved great success in cultivation, truly standing out from the crowd.

Inside the stone sarcophagus whose lid had been lifted, a golden-headed zombie poked half its body out.

The body was headless, but a hideous golden head had been attached to it... It must have been the headless King Wuyang.

The corpse of the Black Sheep King was huge and robust, far exceeding that of ordinary people, with unusually long fingernails, dripping with blood, and covered with bits of flesh... It is likely that those tomb raiders who fell to the ground were all killed by this resurrected Black Sheep King.

Only Feng Shigu in the painting possessed some skill; without even calling for help, he cast a net with one hand to bind the corpse, and with the other, he plunged a sword into the heart, from which trickles of red blood flowed…

# Chapter 1124 Wuxia Coffin Mountain (Twenty-Four) The family fortunes of past kings, nobles and generals were confiscated

“If he wasn’t intentionally trying to create an image of Feng Shigu as ‘wise and mighty,’ then he really was quite courageous.”

The Thousand Crane Daoist was mesmerized and murmured, "Furthermore, how can a headless corpse move? If it can move, it's either because the Corpse Gu has taken over the spine and internal organs, becoming a Corpse Demon; or because the internal organs have shrunk under the nurturing of a special energy field, and then grew facial features and limbs, becoming a living pill, thus transforming into a Corpse Immortal."

Considering Zhen Yuanzi's previous remarks about "gods," "another dimension," "the spirit of the Qi," and "the dead souls," it is likely that an unspeakable and terrifying existence is buried here.

"Don't worry, Daoist Qianhe. Once we find Feng Shigu's body, we'll burn it, and that will be the end of it."

Zhen Yuanzi comforted him, “Without a physical body, no matter how terrifying an existence is, it is difficult to descend into the human world. And your senior brother’s purpose is nothing more than the living pill stored in that corpse.”

"Too."

Daoist Qianhe nodded. If ghosts and monsters in the world want to harm people, they must rely on people, things, or places; they cannot interfere with reality out of thin air.

Similarly, for gods to intervene in the human world, they must also possess a physical body.

If one could interfere with reality solely through belief—

Perhaps we need to reach the point where we can replace the will of Heaven with the will of the people.

That level of attainment is probably only something that Lao Tzu and Shakyamuni could achieve!

In fact, this realm is about interfering with reality with the mind. Anyone who awakens the light of the mind and controls the power of the mind can use only the physical body to influence the laws of the world.

Just as Zhen Yuanzi was about to take the five paintings, Zhang Zhiwei withdrew his hand and asked, "These five paintings are the ones I found."

"Alright, it's yours."

Zhen Yuanzi didn't care.

"No, you're not going to buy it?" Zhang Zhiwei was stunned. "This is an antique! It could fill your museum in the future."

"If we're going to open a museum, we'll probably have to cooperate with relevant departments in the future. After all, they can't just be good at fighting, can they?" Zhen Yuanzi said calmly. "Besides, your five paintings aren't really suitable for hanging in a museum..."

"Why isn't it suitable? Uh..."

Thinking about the content depicted in these five paintings—related to tomb raiding—Zhang Zhiwei belatedly realized that these five things were not suitable for display in a museum.

If they actually did that, it would likely be seen as promoting tomb raiding.

"What should we do with these five paintings?" Zhang Zhiwei asked.

“Hang it back up. When Master Shi Jian and the others find this place, they’ll need a map, won’t they? Sun Xuewu has definitely never been here before.” Zhen Yuanzi said, ignoring Zhang Zhiwei’s “I’ve worked for nothing” expression, and went straight to the last floor.

Compared to the two floors below, this floor is not very spacious, and can even be described as narrow, containing only a stone cabinet that resembles a shrine.

The room was decorated with scrolls, vases, and a sheathed sword.

The vase contained some elixirs, now ineffective; the drawn sword, though not a magical artifact, was still sharp, having been transformed to enhance the user's abilities; the remaining scrolls were mostly biographies, depicting the "glorious deeds of tomb raiding" of the Feng family's successive patriarchs. Among them was a book called "Guanshan Excavation Records," which recounted Feng Shigu's discovery of the Wuyang King's tomb, his confirmation that the Wuyang King's body was incorrupt after death, that the sword pierced his body with blood, and that burying him with a life-giving elixir would make him a corpse immortal, among other things. It also recorded some of the strange and unusual events encountered during the tomb raiding process.

After flipping through it for a short while, Zhen Yuanzi put it down and said, "These things are all biographies of the Feng family's ancestors, belonging to Sun Xuewu, so you don't need to take them."

"You're quite principled!"

Zhang Zhiwei put down "The Coffin Mountain Treasure Hunt Record" and teased Zhen Yuanzi, "You didn't inherit Jiang Liu's humor, did you?"

"No, it was Houtu who inherited his humor; as for me..."

Halfway through his sentence, Zhen Yuanzi seemed to be deep in thought, "The roots of the Elixir Herb grow in the fields below, which are connected to the underworld. It's not wrong to say that I inherited some of his humor."

Daoist Qianhe: "..."

Bao Mei'er: "???"

The former marveled at the wonder of Jiang Liu's innate abilities, while the latter, completely bewildered by Zhen Yuanzi's words, asked, "Are we going to the Yin House below next?"