Chapter 27

The departure of the Yin-Yang Jade Pendant left Gu Fei feeling both anxious and reluctant to let go. He tightly closed the cave door and sat on a mat in the center of the main hall of his cave abode, finding it difficult to enter a deep state of cultivation again.

The cave abode was quite simple, with no lavish decorations. In the vast hall, a portrait hung on the wall directly opposite. The portrait depicted an old Taoist with a purple robe, a figure of great spiritual and moral integrity. Below the portrait was an altar, on which, apart from two incense burners on either side, there was nothing else.

The old Taoist in the portrait was the ancestor of Gu Fei's lineage in the Tai Xuan Sect. The founding ancestor of the Tai Xuan Sect had passed down nine lineages, and these nine lineages had continued to take on disciples and open their doors to teach. Over a thousand years, this had formed the nine branches of the Tai Xuan Sect.

However, among the nine branches, the lineage to which Gu Fei belonged had begun to decline several hundred years ago. The reason was simple: an ancestor of this lineage had obtained an ancient cultivation technique for physical refinement and turned away from the Taoist path to pursue martial arts.

This directly led to the decline of a lineage that could have once stood on equal footing with the other lineages. At the time, no one knew how difficult it was to cultivate this ancient technique.

Moreover, once one started cultivating, it was hard to stop, always wanting to break through the cultivation barrier to see if it truly possessed the immense power that could shock the heavens and move the spirits.

After several generations, the disciples of Gu Fei's lineage began to dwindle, and gradually, no one was willing to join this lineage. By the time of Gu Fei, there were only he and his master, Wan Xiancheng.

After the death of his master, Wan Xiancheng, the lineage of the Tai Xuan Sect was on the brink of losing its tradition of cultivation.

However, with the help of the mysterious Yin-Yang Jade Pendant, Gu Fei's cultivation rapidly advanced. By the time he was not yet twenty, his cultivation had reached the peak of the Sixth Heaven of the Awakening Realm.

This was an unprecedented achievement. Normally, to cultivate the skin, flesh, tendons, and bones, to unblock the entire body's meridians, to connect all the body's acupoints, to refine essence into qi, and to generate the fundamental Five Elements essence from the blood and flesh, one would need at least thirty to forty years of hard work to achieve this.

The fundamental Five Elements essence is endless, and then one must use the sound of the Heavenly Drum and Thunder to refine the bone marrow and blood, which is considered just touching the surface of the martial path. The body must undergo a transformation to become stronger, capable of withstanding the powerful eruption of the fundamental force.

However, the loss of the Yin-Yang Jade Pendant meant losing a significant aid in cultivation. It was absolutely impossible for Gu Fei not to feel a sense of loss.

"Where there is gain, there must be loss, and where there is loss, there may also be gain. Why should I be overly concerned with gains and losses?" Thinking this, Gu Fei, seated on the green mat, gradually calmed his mind, becoming as still as an ancient well, his spirit becoming clear and enlightened, gaining insight.

The moon has its phases, and people have their ups and downs. Nothing in the world is absolutely perfect, and one's life cannot always be smooth sailing.

Between gains and losses, it all depends on how one chooses. At this moment, Gu Fei's spirit was completely open, allowing his thoughts to wander in the void, discarding all cultivation worries, pointing directly to the essence of his heart, simplifying his complex thoughts.

At this moment, Gu Fei's spirit approached the realm of a child's pure heart, tending towards perfection. Only with a child's pure heart can one observe the world with an unprejudiced eye.

A child's pure heart is a manifestation of returning to oneself, which aligns with the pursuit of martial arts. Martial arts also point directly to the essence of oneself, then reverse the innate, open the body's treasures, and allow the fundamental force to be infinitely released.

As time passed, a series of rumbling sounds began to emanate from Gu Fei's body. Then, the essence of heaven and earth around him began to gather in rhythm with the sounds, flowing into his dantian.

The fundamental Five Elements essence surged and surged in his meridians, and a faint five-colored glow appeared on his body. Waves of the Five Elements essence, oscillating with the sound of the Heavenly Drum and Thunder, merged into his tendons, bones, and blood, washing away impurities and expelling them from his body.

Strands of the Five Elements essence began to penetrate the bones and seep into the bone marrow, refining the bone marrow and blood.

At the same time, Gu Fei's dantian seemed to become a bottomless pit, generating a powerful suction force that even drew the essence of heaven and earth from Cui Ling Peak, converging like a hundred rivers into the sea, all toward the cave abode on Cui Ling Peak!

Finally, a massive surge of the Five Elements essence from Gu Fei's rapidly flowing blood and qi condensed into a brilliant five-colored light point in his dantian.

The rich life essence slowly circulated in his dantian, and the vigorous fundamental essence made his skin glow with a radiant five-colored light. Upon inner inspection, he found that his flesh and bones were filled with five-colored light.

As the sky began to brighten, everything on Cui Ling Peak returned to calm, and the essence of heaven and earth no longer converged. Then, Gu Fei's body shook violently, and a loud rumbling sound, like thunder or a drum, erupted from his chest and abdomen. A brilliant light burst from his dantian, and he broke through in this situation!

Gu Fei opened his eyes, and two beams of five-colored light shot out from his eye sockets, extending several feet before gradually fading and disappearing into his eyes.

After half a year of arduous cultivation with no progress, a single moment of enlightenment had broken through the cultivation barrier, entering a new realm of cultivation.

Gu Fei felt a surge of power in every inch of his skin. The Five Elements force surged in his organs and washed through his bone marrow, making his body feel as if it were cast from fine steel, giving him a sense of rebirth. He had successfully broken into the Seventh Heaven of the Awakening Realm!

The five-colored light on his body gradually receded into his body, and Gu Fei stood up from the green mat. His mind was calm, his spirit clear like a mirror, and he remained in the pure, unadulterated realm of a child's pure heart.

A night of enlightenment was absolutely more valuable than years of hard work. This transformation was of great significance to Gu Fei. It was a spiritual enlightenment that pointed directly to the essence, but it was also the beginning of a major transformation of his body.

Refining the bone marrow and blood was like being reborn. Although he was still a flesh and blood body, the essence had changed, and the treasures hidden in his body were being unlocked, gradually shedding his mortal form.

"Seventh Heaven of the Awakening Realm, I am probably the youngest disciple in the sect to reach this realm in several hundred years!" Gu Fei thought, his confidence greatly increased, and the dream of breaking through to the Transcendent Realm was no longer distant!

At this moment, a familiar fluctuation suddenly came from the tightly closed stone door of the cave abode, and Gu Fei was greatly startled, his clear and pure state of mind immediately lost.

Then, his eyes widened in shock and disbelief.

A ripple like water waves spread from the stone door, and a fist-sized, black and white light orb penetrated the door and rapidly flew toward him.