Eternal Life: I Can Sell Everything

Above the white clouds, a small river flowed.

On the river, Song Ciwan listened to the fisherman preach the Dao—the Ancient Golden Core Path!

The fisherman spoke leisurely, "This Golden Core Dao is the Path of Ascension, the Path of Longevity!"

This opening declaration alone would cause a sensation, even sending shockwaves through the Great Zhou Cultivation Realm outside.

After all, while there were Immortals in the Great Zhou Cultivation Realm, the concept of longevity was unheard of!

The Cultivators of Great Zhou didn’t refine a Golden Core; they cultivated divinity!

All of their Cultivation was for the sake of the divinity within their hearts.

So-called longevity, on the other hand, was considered a fantasy.

Song Ciwan couldn’t help but press, "Senior, you say the Golden Core Dao is the Path of Longevity. Does longevity truly exist in this world?"

To be honest, while Song Ciwan’s Cultivation goal had always been longevity, that was only because she possessed the Heaven and Earth Scale, making lifespan easy for her to obtain. As such, she had set her sights high from the very beginning.

But in reality, did simply accumulating lifespan guarantee longevity?

How long a lifespan counted as longevity?

A thousand years didn’t. What about ten thousand?

If ten thousand years wasn’t enough, what about a hundred thousand, a million, or even ten million years?

...

However, everything in the world was subject to constant change.

Ten million years was far, far too long.

For instance, even if Song Ciwan could live for ten million years, could this world... could it even exist for that long?

Forget ten million years; just look back ten thousand years from the perspective of the current Great Zhou—the history from that long ago was practically a blank slate.

Lately, Song Ciwan had read numerous books and collected a great deal of information, but the furthest back she could find historical records was five thousand years.

Anything further was either vague, erroneous, or simply a void with nothing at all.

Song Ciwan didn’t usually dwell on it, but at times, a faint doubt would surface in her heart: ’What exactly is longevity? Does eternity exist in this world? Is an endless lifespan equivalent to an eternal life?’

No one could answer these questions for her, not even herself.

But the fisherman said, "Longevity naturally exists in this world. We Immortal Seekers first learn of Immortal Techniques, then seek an Immortal Pill. By consuming the Immortal Pill, we build our Tao Foundation. Then, we perceive the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, using our bodies as a furnace and the heavens and earth as kindling to internally refine a single Golden Core. This is the very foundation of longevity!"

As he spoke of the Path of Longevity, the fisherman’s face was radiant, his eyes shining with a brilliant light. Though he was still poling the boat and had not yet become an Immortal, a wisp of Immortal Energy seemed to drift from the endless sea of clouds, surrounding and supporting him.

At this moment, the fisherman was like the very embodiment of the Immortal Dao. His every word and action inspired admiration and yearning.

Song Ciwan quickly pressed him for details about his Immortal Dao, and the fisherman held nothing back, answering all her questions exhaustively.

According to the fisherman, the Cultivation Method of the Golden Core Dao and the Divine Method that Song Ciwan knew were two completely different paths.

The first step in the so-called Divine Method was Refining Essence and Transforming Qi. This involved the Refinement of one’s own essence, drawing in the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, using one’s essence as a guide and the Primordial Qi as fuel to generate self-circulating True Qi. That was Refining Essence and Transforming Qi.

Only after successfully Refining Essence and Transforming Qi could a person be considered to have truly stepped onto the path of Cultivation.

But at this point, a "Human" was still a "Human" and could not escape their mortal coil. Therefore, during the Qi Transformation Stage, one’s lifespan was still bound by mortal limits.

In other words, a Qi Transformation Stage Cultivator could live for one hundred to one hundred and twenty years at most.

Some well-maintained mortals could also reach this lifespan.

After Refining Essence and Transforming Qi came Qi Refining and Divinity Transformation.

The Qi Refining Stage was Song Ciwan’s current level.

It required refining the True Qi in one’s body until it flowed as smoothly as one wished, its weight controlled at will.

One had to be able to practice Lifting Heavy as Light, as well as treating the light as heavy. When True Qi overflowed and divinity was born spontaneously, the life of a mortal would undergo a fundamental sublimation. This was the Qi Cultivation Stage!

Therefore, the lifespan limit for the Qi Cultivation Stage was two to three hundred years.

However, no matter how much the mortal body was transformed, if the divinity within did not grow, the flesh would ultimately decay quickly.

At that point, one needed to proceed to the next step of Cultivation: Divinity Transformation!

The spontaneous birth of divinity was the initial phase of Divinity Transformation—a step Song Ciwan had actually already achieved ahead of time.

So, for Song Ciwan, cultivating from the Qi Cultivation Stage to the Divinity Transformation Stage should not be a problem.

Whether she could achieve Divinity Transformation was only a matter of when.

Also, she still lacked the Third Layer of the Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting.

But these were not major issues. In short, Song Ciwan already had a clear path in her mind regarding the Cultivation of Qi Refining and Divinity Transformation.

Refining Essence and Transforming Qi, Qi Refining and Divinity Transformation, Refining Spirit and Returning Void, Refining Void and Merging Dao.

This was the common path in the Great Zhou Cultivation Realm today—not Refining Golden Core, but only cultivating divinity!

The Golden Core Dao, however, was completely different. According to the fisherman, their Golden Core Dao required one to first find an Immortal Pill to build a Tao Foundation, then use that as a base to gather Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and refine a Golden Core.

Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Soul Emergence, Divine Division, Integration, Ascension!

Hearing this, Song Ciwan finally understood.

The greatest difference between the Golden Core Dao and the Divine Method was that the Golden Core Dao had a path to Ascension, whereas there was no such concept in the Divine Method of the Great Zhou Cultivation Realm.

The Cultivators of Great Zhou didn’t need Ascension. They only needed to cultivate to the Divine Refining Stage to be called Earth Immortals by the world.

At the Returning Void Stage, they were Celestial Immortals.

At the Refining Void Stage, they were True Immortals.

As for the Harmonization Stage—it was said that no Harmonization Stage Cultivator had ever existed in the world. Therefore, whether Harmonization truly existed had always been mere speculation.

The Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty was a world where Immortals and mortals lived side-by-side.

It was just that the Immortals of Great Zhou did not have longevity.

Song Ciwan couldn’t help but ask the fisherman again, "Excuse me, Senior. You said that after Integration, one must undergo Ascension. Ascend to where? The Immortal Realm? Isn’t this place, isn’t it..."

Song Ciwan suddenly stopped herself.

She had been on the verge of asking: ’Isn’t this place the Immortal Realm?’

An inexplicable impulse urged her to ask this question. She couldn’t say where the impulse came from. Perhaps it was because the world they were in was clearly a world above the clouds?

’If a world above the clouds isn’t the Immortal Realm, what else could it be?’

Of course, Song Ciwan quickly regained her composure.

She felt that her emotions were slightly off. It was hard to say whether she was leading the fisherman’s answers or if he was leading her questions...

In any case, everything in this Secret Realm was incredibly strange.

The fisherman, however, paid no mind to Song Ciwan’s pause. He chuckled and said, "Naturally, one ascends to the Immortal Realm. That is a world completely different from our Spirit Realm."

’So this world above the clouds is what they call the Spirit Realm!’

A look of yearning appeared on the fisherman’s face. "The Immortals of the Immortal Realm are free from all worries, all hardships, and all attachments. Once you become an Immortal, you will naturally attain longevity. You will have an endless life. As long as the heavens and earth do not perish, the Immortals will not perish. As long as the heavens and earth exist, the Immortals will exist!"

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