After the al, Lu Xuan, along with the taciturn Qing Ping and the ever-observant Qing He, followed the siblings to their ho.
Chen Ye pushed open the door, flicked on all the lights, and turned back with a wave.
"The beds in the guest rooms are already made, so you can go right to sleep. Don’t worry about anything else..."
As she spoke, she glanced curiously at the taciturn, middle-aged man beside the young man and added with a smile,
"By the way, why is Uncle Qing Ping so quiet?"
Qing Ping hesitantly raised his eyelids and spoke haltingly.
"I am a man of few words."
Chen Ye and Chen Shu froze, exchanging bewildered glances.
Qing He stepped in to smooth things over, chuckling.
"Ah, that’s just how he is. You’ll get used to it."
As they talked, a clamor of footsteps could be heard from the street below. Chen Shu walked over to the window, craned his neck out for a mont, and said,
"It’s that training hall next door. Looks like they’re getting ready to open... I heard the master of the hall is a Grandmaster."
"A training hall?"
Lu Xuan asked, his curiosity piqued.
"Why would a training hall be set up in a city? Especially in the middle of downtown..."
"It’s perfectly normal." Chen Ye pulled open the curtains and poured a few cups of hot water. "Aside from the ancient Daoist Lineages, most of the new sects and lineages established these days are in cities. After all, they have to register with the Federation..."
"Oh?"
Lu Xuan’s interest was piqued. ’My master did tell that after becoming a Celestial Human, I should consider establishing a Daoist Lineage in the Current World. I don’t know why, but since he asked, I should just do it...’
With this in mind, Lu Xuan asked,
"What are the requirents for establishing a Daoist Lineage? And what’s the procedure?"
Chen Ye gave him a surprised look, her eyes appraising the handso young man with his perfectly harmonious aura. "Hmm..." she said, intrigued.
"Junior Lu, don’t tell you’re thinking of starting one?"
"The thought has crossed my mind," Lu Xuan replied candidly.
Now it was Qing He and Qing Ping’s turn to be startled, though they didn’t say anything. ’Even though the young master has joined Guangcheng Palace, the palace doesn’t forbid its disciples from establishing their own sects.’
At that mont, Chen Shu, who had been staring out the window for so ti, pulled his head back in and said with a grin,
"Brother Xiaoluo, you’ve got so big ideas... Establishing a Daoist Lineage requires a Celestial Human, and even a temporary training hall needs a Grandmaster’s cultivation level!"
Lu Xuan nodded pensively.
After a bit more small talk, Chen Shu, at Chen Ye’s instruction, showed Lu Xuan and the others to their rooms.
「Night fell quickly.」
Lu Xuan sat cross-legged on the bed, silently breathing in the purest Primordial Qi of heaven and earth. He guided it through his internal organs and all the Acupoints of his body, letting it seep into the space between his physical form and Divine Soul. From there, it surged up the Supre Jade Steps and into his True Spirit and Soul, tempering them.
At this point, his True Spirit was clear and his Soul was like jade. Both were entwined with a faint Innate Primordial Ancestral Qi, exhibiting so of the unique traits of an Innate life form.
But Lu Xuan didn’t stop there. While cultivating his breathing, he multitasked, simultaneously observing the various profound and esoteric Great Dao Texts within the sea of his consciousness.
As the ti neared dawn, a thought suddenly struck him.
’I’ve stored up about three hundred wisps of Bodhi Fruit Skin. With Qing Ping and Qing He around, I don’t need to worry about any major enemies for now. Perhaps I can try exploring my Acupoints again?’
Over this period, each ti Lu Xuan used diation of Creation to produce Bodhi Fruit Skin, he had set aside about a tenth of it. He would wrap it in Primordial Qi and store it in his stomach for ergencies.
’And it’s unlikely anything major will happen anyti soon...’
Deciding to act on the thought, Lu Xuan retracted his focus. He stopped his cultivation, ceased observing the Great Dao Texts, and attempted to enter the special state of Supre Forgetting Emotions.
In an instant, an aura of extre coldness enveloped him, like the vast, majestic firmant—unmoving, unshakable, and utterly impartial.
In the state of Supre Forgetting Emotions, his entire consciousness grew tranquil, and he beca perfectly rational. His awareness sank into the deepest reaches of his body, where three hundred and seventy Acupoints glittered like stars.
Of these, three hundred and sixty Acupoints had been naturally refined. Five more originated from his five major internal organs. The final five, while called Acupoints, were completely different from the other three hundred and sixty-five; they had no physical form and were an ineffably profound and mysterious existence.
Ignoring the Five Divine Passes for the mont, he subrged his entire consciousness into the Acupoint in his left hand—the very first one he had attempted to pioneer.
The hazy Chaos on the surface of this Acupoint seed to have healed slightly, but a crack remained. Through this fissure, he could perceive the emptiness, nihility, and dead silence within.
In a trance, Lu Xuan felt that the scene within the Acupoint was sohow faintly similar to the Origin.
’Strange...’
As he murmured to himself, he tried to pour his Divine Thought through the crack. The instant it entered the Acupoint, Lu Xuan was overco with a sense of dislocation. Everything felt hazy and dreamlike, both bizarre and marvelous.
But imdiately, the absolute calm of Supre Forgetting Emotions allowed him to gather his scattered thoughts. Without hesitation, Lu Xuan calmly guided his own vitality, Primordial Qi, and Spiritual Will, activating the diation of Creation.
RUMBLE!
A colossal roar, audible only to him, exploded within the Acupoint. The hazy Chaos Shell covering it fractured once more, unleashing vast, endlessly roiling shockwaves from within.
His vitality plumted. Primordial Qi drained away like a bursting dam, and his Spiritual Will was rapidly depleting!
The three hundred wisps of Bodhi Fruit Skin stored in his stomach were instantly consud to replenish his losses and sustain the diation of Creation.
Ti ticked by. Lu Xuan thodically continued the diation of Creation. Following the blueprint in his mind, he attempted to bring forth a creation within this single Acupoint... a sun.
That’s right. A sun.
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