Ethereal sky, Lishu Mountain.

Those who cultivate the truth also use the fake to cultivate the truth. In Taoism, learning and practicing the Tao is to seek the true self, and to remove the false and preserve the truth is to "cultivate the truth". The name of Xiuzhen has existed in ancient times, and it is also called "cultivation".

What is the truth? The truth is the true immortal, not the self-styled flaunt, but the approval of the Heavenly Dao, and the seal of the upper realm.

Immortals, those who have attained the Tao naturally in the law and the world. Throughout the ages, all those who cultivate the Tao continue to cultivate the sense of qi, attract the natural aura of heaven and earth into the body, absorb the essence of the sun, moon and stars, and borrow the power of the avenue of heaven and earth to cut down the hair and wash the marrow, and shed the mortal womb, in order to break away from the heavenly law of mortal birth, old age, sickness and death, and ascend to the fairy world.

Daozu said: "Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law, and the Tao is the nature." In the final analysis, since the existence of "immortals", there is really no one who can break away from the laws of heaven, completely cut off the connection between his body and the outside world, and become an immortal alone.

Cultivating immortals is originally a move against the sky, but in the end, if you want to be independent and ascend to the immortal realm, you still have to rely on the way of heaven. It is a great irony to pursue detachment on the one hand, but the means of detachment are integrated.

But no matter what, if you want to ascend to the upper realm, you can only comprehend the way of heaven, which is the common sense of cultivating the truth, and it cannot be ignored. In this way, as the aura of heaven and earth that is free between man and Tao, the essence of the stars, their role is very important.

On the one hand, after these worldly energies are poured into the body and transformed into their own true qi, they can help the monk remove impurities from the body and help him reinvent himself to strengthen himself, on the other hand, while the monk continues to absorb these spiritual energy, it can also help the monk integrate into the Tao and deepen his understanding of the Tao.

In this way, the so-called "absorbing the aura of heaven and earth and collecting the essence of the sun and the moon" has become a daily compulsory course for every cultivator (whether human, demon, ghost, or demon).

Although, according to reality, although the aura of heaven and earth is not as endless as the power of the stars, it can also be regarded as a "renewable resource". However, because of the frenzied absorption of countless cultivators every day—especially after the flourishing of metaphysics in the late Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin dynasties—the self-circulation of Reiki was finally unbalanced. From the beginning of the Middle Tang Dynasty, the aura of heaven and earth began to decline sharply because the consumption was far greater than the amount of production, and by the Ming Dynasty, to be precise, it was 1453 AD, and since that year, the aura of heaven and earth will never be produced on its own.

Since then, the aura of heaven and earth has really become a resource like oil—and it is a scarce resource that is countless times more precious than oil—and every trace absorbed, there will be a trace less, and no new aura will be generated.

In addition, with the continuous passage of time, hundreds of years later, people rushed into the "industrial age" with the roar of steam engines, and began to plunder the endless and crazy plundering of the natural world. As a result, not to mention hoping to find new spiritual veins and spiritual springs in the mortal world, just inhaling the foul air of the mortal world is enough to make some monks who love cleanliness sick for days......

If one day comes, when there is no longer the slightest aura in the world, then it is estimated that the cultivators will be extinct from now on. Myths and legends have really become "legends".

In the face of such thorny problems, the major cultivation organizations, whether they are families or sects, have almost tacitly taken the same measures.

The ancients had a saying: "The mountain is not high, but the name is immortal." ”

Those who can be favored by those who cultivate the truth and open up them as cultivation cave talismans naturally have their own extraordinary. Not to mention anything else, but in terms of aura content, although it is also decreasing year by year, it is always much better than the outside world.

As a result, various sects and families have opened enchantments at the mountain gate where their headquarters are located to protect the place full of spiritual energy and cut off the connection with the outside world, although it cannot increase the content of spiritual energy, but it can greatly delay the speed of spiritual energy consumption.

In fact, many high-ranking sects that have been inherited for more than a thousand years, especially Xiang Kunlun and Penglai, which existed before the Daxing of the Daomen of the human world (the establishment of secular Taoism in the late Han Dynasty), have developed the mountain gate enchantment to the extreme, and they have even united a large number of famous ancient sects to connect each other's worlds, and use the great magic power to emulate the Pangu Zun God in the ancient place to open up the world, and build these connected enchantments into a parallel world that can be said to be completely independent of the mortal world - Ethereal Heaven.

In the vague trace of Xuanyan, there are true immortals outside the world.

Since the establishment of the Ethereal Heaven, the cultivation realm has been divided into the hidden realm and the manifest realm.

And the core part of the "Shushan Immortal Sword Sect" with the "Kunlun Jade Void Palace" and "Penglai Lingyuan Pavilion" and the "Three Sects of the Hidden World", "Li Shu Mountain" is in the ethereal sky.

Although the official establishment time of the Immortal Sword Sect has been after the great prosperity of the secular Taoist sect in the world, the heritage of Shushan itself should not be underestimated, and the entire Shushan is a sacred object left in the mortal world to suppress demons and evil spirits before the ancient gods escaped from the world. In other words, Shushan itself is a huge artifact, and the aura contained in it naturally cannot be taken lightly. Therefore, although the founding time of the Shushan Immortal Sword Sect was much later than that of the ancient sects such as Kunlun and Penglai, if we really want to trace back to the origin, I am afraid that the cultivation tradition and heritage of Shushan are no worse than these sects.

Therefore, such a sect is of course qualified to participate in the creation of the Ethereal Heaven, and it is natural that it can have a place in the Ethereal Heaven.

And when Yang Jian and other gods and Buddhas who had not appeared in the mortal world for a long time gathered in the homeland of the Nordic god clan "Divine Domain Asgard", the giants of the Huaxia cultivation realm were also rushing towards the ethereal Lishu Mountain.

Speaking of which, the form of the cultivation realm is really good now.

For a long time, suffering from the problem of insufficient spiritual energy, all cultivators did not dare to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to cleanse themselves, and the serious consequence of this was that no one in the cultivation world had been able to get rid of the half-immortal body of a cultivator for hundreds of years and cultivate into an immortal body.

But fortunately, God opened his eyes, and since the so-called December 21, 2012 in the Western calendar, all the monks were shocked to find that the spiritual springs that had been depleted for many years in various places had actually regained their vitality!

What kind of "apocalypse" is this? This is clearly the "gospel of salvation"!!

For a while, the cultivation realm became a sea of joy.

However, it was obvious that in this wave of almost madness, the various sects that stood at the peak of the cultivation realm had maintained the greatest degree of restraint.

It is clear that they are all waiting.

They believe that this is an opportunity, a unique qi machine, for ordinary monks, and even more so for them and these wealthy factions!!

Those in the sect who suffer from limited aura and have not been able to break through, and even more unable to feel the Heavenly Tribulation, are estimated to be about to start crossing the Tribulation and become immortals.

Sure enough, a few months after the aura of heaven and earth resumed its growth, just today, Chengyu Zhenren, the head of the Xia sect of the Shushan faction, announced that just today, Shushan with the ethereal sky would undergo the baptism of the "Ninety-Nine Tribulations" and meet the last test before becoming an immortal!