Chapter 77: Chapter 76: The Path to Attainment, Mountain and River Human Race

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[I devoted myself to cultivation on Purple Bamboo Mountain, perfecting the "Cyan Heaven Great Sun Burning Qi Scripture," and after attaining immortality, I headed to the East Sea to seek the Mountain and River Seal.]

[Would you like to use ten points of fortune to rewrite this Chapter of life?] 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Ning Xunqiu’s eyes lit up, "It only requires ten points of fortune."

"Rewrite it."

[Rewriting begins, fortune decreases by ten, current fortune: nine~seventy-eight.]

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[I set my primary goal—to attain immortality.]

[In the hundredth year, with eight hundred years of Dao practice, my primordial spirit condensed a Dharma Seed, encompassing the Five Elements and Yin-Yang. If I could peacefully pass through that Three Calamities, the path to immortality seemed within reach, yet I was still utterly confused about how to truly attain it, so I went to Jade Sky Immortal Island to seek my master’s enlightenment.]

[My master said, "Attaining Dao is where the ’end of your Dao’ lies."]

["The end of my Dao?" I was deeply puzzled.]

[My master continued, "Within Zhou Tian, the Five Immortals each have their unique characteristics: Celestial Immortal, Earth Immortal, Immortal, Human Immortal, and Ghost Immortal. Although they are all ranked as True Immortals, their magical power and Divine Techniques differ vastly."]

[Among them, Celestial Immortals and Earth Immortals are considered the upper echelon, known as "Top-Grade Celestial Immortal Dao," "Immortal Golden Immortal Dao," and "Carefree Immortal." They cultivate into Great Divine Techniques and, through further cultivation, aspire to attain divine status.]

[Meanwhile, the Immortal, Human, and Ghost Immortals are considered lower-grade.]

[However, there are still two paths to follow: one is through reincarnation, enduring tribulations, accumulating Great Merit, and eventually attaining the "Top-Grade Celestial Immortal Dao" again.]

[This is also the orthodox cultivation path experienced by disciples of the Divine Land Orthodox Sect, which usually offers a chance for the Heaven and Earth Immortals to attain Dao every hundred tribulations.]

[If one cannot attain Dao in this life, they can choose to become an Immortal or Ghost Immortal, accumulating merit for the Dao Lineage, and in the next life, with guidance from mentors, re-enter the path of cultivation until they attain the "Top-Grade Celestial Immortal Dao."]

[The second path is to directly attain divine status through immeasurable Great Merit and Great Fortune between heaven and earth, along with the blessing of the Celestial Mandate.]

[A typical Qi Cultivator with a thousand years of Dao practice, possessing any one of the Five Elements, Yin-Yang, or Golden Core, can invoke the Three Calamities, refining their Primordial Spirit and Spiritual Acupoint Heaven and Earth, transforming the acquired into innate, forging an "Innate Spirit Body," which is a True Immortal.]

[That is, Human Immortal, True Dragon, Ghost Immortal, Immortal.]

[I have the "Cyan Mountain Heaven and Earth," using it as the foundation of the Great Dao, I can directly attain the highest grade of "Carefree Immortal," becoming a master of the Blessed Land like "Master Liuli." So, in the last five thousand years of my previous life, I have been perfecting Cyan Mountain Heaven and Earth, and only then did not attain Dao.]

[The time to attain "Carefree Immortal" is too long, I don’t know the exact time of Duan Hong’s reincarnation, but it is at most within this thousand years.]

[I must seize the time to enter the Mountain and River Seal to gain the advantage.]

[This time, I decided to become an ordinary True Immortal within a thousand years.]

[Master Liuli, seeing this, gifted me several treasures of Dao attainment and insights, and Master Linglong, upon learning, volunteered to guide me.]

[From then on, every few decades, Master Linglong would come to see me, increasingly so, with each visit in her perception of time, equating to "everyday."]

[Too enthusiastic indeed.]

[I understood the reason; the "Nine Bends of the Flowing Clouds, Star River and Exquisite" within Cyan Mountain Heaven and Earth was too hot to handle.]

[Under Master Linglong’s personal guidance, in the four-hundredth year, I constantly gained enlightenment in the mysteries of star rotation, easily elevating my Dao practice to a thousand years, passing through the Three Calamities, and condensing a middle-grade Innate Spirit Body—"Flowing Cloud and Flying Star Body."]

[The Flowing Cloud and Flying Star Body had no combat power, but it excelled in speed, and with the Escape Technique of Master Caiyun, a beam of light traversed the entire sky, granting me the freedom to wander the world.]

[I attained Dao much faster than the estimated thousand years, spending three years to stabilize my Dao practice; during this time, my junior sister refined the Spirit Pearl and became pregnant, so I left the "Cyan Mountain Seal" on Jade Sky Immortal Island and set off to the "Linyuan Sea Territory" to seek the Mountain and River Seal.]

[My primordial spirit conducted a thorough search in that sea territory, completely unable to sense the situation of the Cyan Mountain Dao Lineage branch.]

[Has the Cyan Mountain Dao Lineage branch perished?]

[Thirty years yielded no result.]

[Fifty years yielded no result.]

[In the five-hundredth year, while I continued to search for the traces of the Mountain and River Seal Heaven and Earth, a faint call echoed in my ears—Cyan Mountain is still there!]

[Following this subtle sensation, I crossed thirty thousand miles of sea territory and finally re-entered the "Mountain and River Seal Heaven and Earth."]

[The Mountain and River Seal Heaven and Earth had unexpectedly expanded hundreds of times larger, with its peak reaching as high as fifty thousand miles. Beyond the sky, barren stars dotted the cosmos, and the sea territory stretched endlessly. Clearly, over the years, the Mountain and River Seal had been silently evolving by itself.]

[Even more astonishing, a trace of Spiritual Qi had been birthed within this world, enough to nourish Qi Cultivators to retreat here for dedicated cultivation and achieve remarkable feats.]

[I left the sea territory, contemplating returning to Cyan Mountain first to visit my disciples and grand-disciples, and then seek an accounting with "Duan Hong." As I traveled through the air, amidst the unfolding and folding clouds, I caught sight of high towers on the continent, piercing the sky; at that moment, I seemed to traverse through time and space, back to that distant past life, with astonishment and trance filling my eyes.]

[What happened here?]

[Subtly utilizing the Transformation Skill, I quietly blended into the crowd and began gathering information about the outside world. It turned out only five hundred years had passed outside, yet within this Mountain and River Seal Heaven and Earth, time unknowingly had elapsed for five thousand years.]

[Five thousand years!]

[The Mountain and River Human Race continued to evolve, and the fabled Seven Kingdoms had long turned into the dust of history, replaced by the unified realm of "Qin Country."]

"..."

Seeing this text emerge, Ning Xunqiu fell into silence.

"The Mountain and River Human Race managed to, in the mere span of five thousand years, evolve a path of technology thoroughly distinct from the orthodox Qi cultivation civilization of the Qingxu Realm. Was it some of the concepts I left in the Cyan Mountain Transmission that subtly influenced their developmental trajectory?"

"Moreover, the disparity in the flow of time between the Mountain and River Seal Heaven and Earth and the outside world is so pronounced..."

Ning Xunqiu felt a mix of emotions, finding it truly difficult to determine if this sudden change was a blessing or a curse.

"But undeniably, my entanglement with the Mountain and River Seal has deepened. No wonder Duan Hong, in his attainment of Dao, made it a point to draw me into the Mountain and River Seal; it turns out this realm indeed cannot do without me."

"Are the three complete faces of the Mountain and River Seal in Duan Hong’s possession, with the last one being the prosperous civilization forged by the Cyan Mountain Dao Lineage?"

Ning Xunqiu, having a Cyan Mountain Seal himself, was exceptionally curious about the evolution of the Mountain and River Seal.

He continued to watch the transformation of life’s record in the Celestial Derivation Volume.

[In the national library "White Cloud Hall" of Yunzhou, I reviewed the changes of the Mountain and River Heaven and Earth over five thousand years.]

[Jin Country was overthrown by the people and ended in its second generation; the land saw countless cycles of unity and division, and after Jin Country, seven unified kingdoms had arisen.]

[Meanwhile, the Cyan Mountain Transmission always stood atop the civilization, one Lineage of Seven Saints and eighty-nine wise men.]

[Seven Saints—Civilization, Thought, Peace, Self-reliance, Unification, Martial Dao...]

[Eighty-nine wise men—Medical Skill, Script Creation, Potatoes, Hybrid Rice, Clothing, Houses, Gourmet Food, Water Conservancy Projects... Generations of wise men trained on the mountain and then practiced a lifetime below, improving the clothing, food, and housing of everyone under the sky...]

[But due to breaks in the legacy, only a few have their life records preserved.]

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