Longevity: Starting from Refining Gu-Chapter 142 - 109: The Chapter of Fairyland - The Waning Moon Shines Over the Well, Revealing One’s True Nature (Three in One)_3
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He walked over, and the Light Butterfly inside him flew out, circling this new sprout a few times before returning to his body.
Chen Qing felt the change within and believed his understanding of life had deepened.
As they traveled again, they saw a distant mountain with a winding path leading to the summit.
"Going up this path, we might discover something," Chen Qing pointed at the road.
After only a few dozen steps, they saw ahead, asleep on a large tree, a black hawk as tall as three people.
The hawk’s feathers were like cold iron, each one extremely sharp, and its talons were like curved blades.
The three of them immediately lightened their steps, cautiously bypassing the hawk, and followed the path, nearly overtaken by wild grass, to the mountain top where they found a cave.
After a thorough investigation, they found no danger and boldly entered the cave.
As soon as they entered the cave, Chen Qing saw an inscription on the cave wall:
"Immortals never die, great thieves never stop!"
Nie Fei also looked at this phrase with some confusion, "Could it be this person once joined our Jiguang Sect?"
Glancing around, the cave was filled with bookshelves, high pavilions, and study tables, with the floor covered in various crumpled drafts.
Picking up a clump, it turned to dust in his hand.
Chen Qing went to the study table and opened a drawer, finding an ancient book without a title, but he didn’t dare to pick it up, fearing it would crumble to dust.
Telling the other two not to move unnecessarily, Chen Qing left the cave and hunted a Black Bear, burying it in the ground.
The youth crawled out from the Black Bear’s corpse buried in the soil and said, "Li Chonghuan and Li Xuetang seem to have gone to that place that can discern if one is an abnormal person, but they are still looking for the entrance."
"I still can’t figure out how to get in, but once they do, I’ll come and fetch you."
Chen Qing nodded, leading the youth back into the cave, pointing at the unnamed ancient book, "This ancient book is the best-preserved one; the other books on the bookshelf have all decayed, leaving only this one."
"I can’t pick it up; if I do, it’ll shatter. Can you somehow see its contents?"
The youth approached, and an unusual wave emitted from his hand as he placed it above the book, closing his eyes to feel it carefully.
After half a moment, he finally spoke, "The heavens give fifty, the great evolution is forty-nine, leaving one out."
"The one is the anomaly of heaven and earth, yet also is one, thus one gives birth to two, two births three."
"Fifty minus one is the gap, leaving one out is the gap."
"So am I the gap of heaven and earth?"
"Creating from the gap, two begets three, and leads to all things?"
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The youth opened his eyes and said, "What I just recited is the summary of what’s on this book."
"This person has gone crazy seeking the grand path, but his judgment holds some truth, that abnormal people could really be the gap of heaven and earth."
"Because the abilities of abnormal people don’t conform to the rules of this world."
Chen Qing remarked, "My understanding is that the heavens give fifty, of which forty-nine are the immutable numbers of ancient times, leaving change as the anomaly."
"Or perhaps, it’s not just the abnormal people; maybe there are other anomalies."
The youth said, "Perhaps, the path of the Ancient Cultivators will help us understand more. I’ve been exploring the island constantly and have received some news about the path of the Ancient Cultivators."
"The people who came before, in pursuit of their own secrets, have discovered many mysteries."
"I can confirm one thing, which is if the existing Gu on this land are used for Foundation Establishment, it eliminates that one, the anomaly, merging with this world, becoming part of its rules."
"But the cultivation of Ancient Cultivators seems not to require the use of Gu to establish a Dao Foundation."
"Back then, they called Foundation Establishment ’Entering Dao.’"
Chen Qing asked, "Entering Dao?"
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The youth nodded and continued, "Indeed, Entering Dao, Gu are originally a derivation of the grand path, building a foundation with Gu as the Lifebound is in itself a form of Entering Dao."
His eyes were bright as he looked at Chen Qing, "Have you ever thought that we, ourselves, might be a completely new kind of Gu, a Gu that has never appeared before?"
"Or perhaps, a new kind of Gu is gestating within us, just not fully developed yet."
"Once we use another Gu as our Lifebound Gu to Enter Dao, it’s akin to abandoning our own path."
"That’s why after Foundation Establishment, one loses their original abilities."
Chen Qing found this possible; his coming had indeed opened a door to the void.
But why could the void see through all the information about Gu, it made no sense!
"My situation is quite complicated, hard to explain."
The youth was indifferent, "Abnormal people are like that; if they had an ordinary background, how could they be abnormal?"
"I’ll come find you once I find a way into that place that can discern if someone is abnormal."
After speaking, the youth left, and Chen Qing, along with Nie Fei and Xuanping, searched the area before leaving.
Nie Fei and Xuanping belonged to the Jiguang Sect, and the Jiguang Sect could be said to be the sect that least rejected abnormal people.
They weren’t too surprised about Chen Qing and the youth’s abnormal identities.
Instead, they found it quite normal.
Nie Fei said, "Abnormal people are categorized into two types; one is those born with a Gu automatically contract and, without knowing it, possess some special abilities, thus believed to be abnormal."
"And the other type is similar to this youth’s situation, in these abnormal people, no Gu can be found."
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