Longevity by Grinding Skills

Chapter 514: Chapter 514: Innate Pure and Muddy Qi

BOOM!!!

An indescribably terrifying sound erupted.

The earth was struck violently, like a giant drum.

Brilliant Buddha Light and a heavy mountain silhouette clashed at the point of impact, deadlocked in a cycle of annihilation and explosion.

The shockwave exploded in a ring. Stripped of its protective barriers, the entire Zhenyuan Temple was utterly obliterated. Along with it, dozens of miles of surrounding mountains, rivers, land, and vegetation were wiped out by the clash between these four peak Golden Core Level experts.

The ground caved in, forming a massive crater. At its core, only the charred, solitary remains of the Immortal Peach Tree that Wukong had smashed were left, having not yet been completely erased, but it too teetered on the verge of collapse.

Tang Monk and his three disciples, who had been frozen in place, their Divine Souls nearly scared out of their bodies by the sudden catastrophe, had long since been sent flying far away by the world-ending impact.

If not for Miaodi Bodhisattva’s deliberate shielding, and Master Sanzang desperately activating a Buddhist Sect Protective Treasure at the last moment to form a faint golden light around them, they would have been torn to shreds by the overflowing energy.

Even so, the four were still rocked by the force, coughing up blood. Like leaves in a gale, they were swept far from the battlefield’s core, landing in a pile of rubble dozens of miles away. Their faces were ashen, and their breathing was faint.

Wuneng was so shaken that he began to revert to his pig demon form, oinking and grunting.

Blood trickled from the corner of Wujing’s mouth, and his Crescent Shovel was snapped in half.

Wukong struggled to prop himself up. His Golden Eyes stared wide at the apocalyptic battlefield, a deep sense of fear and bewilderment showing in them for the first time.

Sanzang collapsed limply on the ground, his eyes vacant and filled with despair. He could only mutter repeatedly, "It’s over... It’s all over... The journey east... has ended... Amitabha Buddha..."

The mission bestowed upon him by the World Honored One Tathagata had come to a definitive end. He could now sense that his connection to the World Honored One Tathagata had been completely severed.

The World Honored One would no longer possess him.

This collision between the top Golden Core Stage experts of the Primordial Sect and the Puchen Pure Land was like two massive galaxies crashing head-on, triggering violent atmospheric changes across the entire Eastern Wilderness of the Taihua Spirit Ruins Realm.

The terrifying fluctuations of Law and turbulent flows of energy instantly attracted the prying gazes of countless hibernating experts.

The Wansheng Sword Sect was also watching like a hungry tiger. Given the chance, they certainly wouldn’t mind kicking a man while he was down.

The Three Sects had been at each other’s throats for countless years. They would never miss such a rare opportunity.

While True Monarch Pu Du had cast aside all pretenses and Miaodi Bodhisattva had called for reinforcements, turning the ruins of Zhenyuan Temple into a Forbidden Realm for a Golden Core Level war, a completely different scene was unfolding countless miles away at Cold Crow Pass.

PFFFTTT!!

Deep within the chasm of Cold Crow Pass—a cliff that hung suspended over a sea of clouds, split by a menacing fissure—three massive Grotto Heavens, each like a black hole, collided violently when viewed from the higher-dimensional perspective of a Foundation Establishment Realm Divine Sense.

The Innate Pure and Muddy Qi, which had been accumulating for untold years, erupted once more like a tsunami that had finally found an outlet.

The scale of this eruption far surpassed any before it. The Celestial Spirit Pure Qi—utterly pure and life-giving—and the Earth Evil Fiendish Qi—incredibly dense and destructive—tore at the cliff like two intertwined primordial dragons, rocketing tens of thousands of feet into the air and churning the already gloomy skies above Cold Crow Pass into utter chaos.

For a moment, the Clear and Muddy Qi filled the heavens and the earth, creating a terrifying Anomaly visible for thousands of miles.

At this very moment, Xu Yunfan was sitting cross-legged on a massive, jet-black boulder at the edge of this raging "tsunami." The stone had been polished smooth as a mirror by the Clear and Muddy Qi.

The Magical Power in his body surged wildly. Before him hovered dozens of Jade Bottle Magical Artifacts of various materials, each shimmering with a different precious light.

Under Xu Yunfan’s precise control via his Divine Thought, these Jade Bottles seemed to possess a Spiritual quality of their own. Their mouths opened wide, greedily devouring the gushing Innate Pure and Muddy Qi.

Lustrous light flickered across the surfaces of the bottles, faintly forming miniature Arrays designed to gather and forcibly compress the vast Primordial Qi.

Xu Yunfan’s face was a little pale from overexerting his Divine Thought, but his eyes shone with irrepressible excitement.

’Excellent! This Innate Pure and Muddy Qi has endless uses. Even if I just use it to nourish my own Dao Foundation, it’s a supreme treasure. Using it to forge a Divine Dao Foundation will surely build an unparalleled base.

My clone’s foundation will also rise with the tide. It’s just a shame about that Immortal Peach Tree...’

Thinking of the Treasure Tree that Wukong had smashed into charcoal with a single swing of his staff, Xu Yunfan felt a pang of regret. ’How wonderful it would have been if I had it in my own hands.’

But the feeling was instantly washed away by the immense sense of gain before him.

He calculated silently in his mind, ’Just one more incense stick’s worth of time, and the first batch of the Clear and Muddy Qi’s core will be refined! I can’t miss this chance!’

However, in the instant his Heart and Spirit relaxed ever so slightly...

A terrifying tremor, originating from the Eastern Wilderness and filled with ferocious pressure and a destructive will, seemed to cross an immense distance of space and time to slam violently into his Heart and Spirit.

SPURT!

Caught completely off guard, Xu Yunfan’s Heart and Spirit trembled violently, as if he had been struck head-on by a giant hammer.

He abruptly spat out a mouthful of blood. The Jade Bottles hovering around him instantly spun out of control, their light flashing chaotically, on the verge of being blown away by the raging Clear and Muddy Qi.

At the critical moment, he waved his hand. The Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi spread out, instantly enveloping the area and stabilizing everything.

"What was that?!"

Xu Yunfan’s expression was grave as he forcefully suppressed his roiling qi and blood and his chaotic Magical Power.

With a flicker of thought, he immediately connected to Wukong’s perspective.

In an instant, his vision was flooded with a kaleidoscope of brilliant colors.

The collision of Immortal Light and Buddhist fire.

The crumbling of mountain silhouettes and Dharma Seals.

The entire world was being torn apart like a tattered piece of cloth.

A considerable portion of the Eastern Wilderness was being wiped from existence.

Accompanying this destruction were the Dharma Aspects of the three descended Bodhisattvas and two incomparably terrifying True Monarchs, which stood like sky-propping pillars in the four corners of the Eastern Wilderness.

HISS!

Even with his resolute will, Xu Yunfan couldn’t help but suck in a sharp breath of cold air, shocked by the world-ending battle he was witnessing indirectly through Wukong’s eyes—a conflict that far exceeded the limits of his current Realm’s comprehension.

This level of power was far beyond what a Foundation Establishment Daoist Master could even imagine.

’So this is cultivation,’ he thought. ’It truly is a new heaven with every step. Crossing each major Realm brings about an earth-shattering transformation.’

The battle at Zhenyuan Temple had actually evolved into an apocalyptic collision between two top-tier Sects.

However, the aftershocks of the battle were quickly receding.

It wasn’t that these True Monarchs cherished the world, but that if the destruction spread too far and ruined a vast expanse of land, the Celestial Dao of this realm would naturally inflict boundless negative karma upon them, clouding their minds and will.

To put it simply, they would fail at everything they tried to do.

If they wanted to undergo their tribulation to become a Great True Monarch, they couldn’t get around the Celestial Lord above. With His interference, their chances of success would drop to absolute zero.

It was like the dealer rigging the game.

His thoughts raced, and Xu Yunfan immediately understood that the explosive developments at Zhenyuan Temple had far exceeded his plans.

The Primordial Sect was deliberately instigating a major war, seemingly wanting to detonate the coming calamity ahead of schedule.

Just as Xu Yunfan’s Heart and Spirit was reeling, while he struggled to stabilize the Jade Bottles absorbing the Clear and Muddy Qi and sort out the implications of this turn of events...

WHOOSH!

A figure appeared silently not far behind and to the side of Xu Yunfan, as if it had flowed out from the shadows of the cliff itself.

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