Chapter 3: Born in the Dark
The three mountains are half out of the blue sky.
Lu Ye stood on the top of a golden cloud peak in the Qingtai Spiritual Realm, surrounded by blue waves and boundless sea and sky.
Looking into the distance, between the sea and the sky, there was a red cloud peak and a silver cloud peak, standing tall with the golden cloud peak under his feet.
On the top of the mountain, there is a bluestone platform with a square circle, shining and shining, like a smooth and connoisseur of bronze mirror.
Heaven and earth were filled with abundant cyan aura, rising from the surging sea, gathering towards the three cloud peaks, slowly lingering and merging with each other, and finally turning into a part of this golden peak.
At the foot, the rolling golden clouds are condensed into peaks, and the unpredictable weather is ever-changing, and the golden clouds are like flowing mountains and rocks, and the various postures contain the great avenue. The mountain trails and streams are intertwined, and if you look closely, it is a series of rune holy words, like a dragon and a phoenix.
Every time he came to the Qingtai Spiritual Realm, Lu Ye couldn't help but stand on this stone platform for a long time, looking at Yunfeng Haitian for a long time, the envy in his heart was indescribable, and it aroused the ambition of the young man, just imagine that one day he can stand higher and go further than the master of this Qingtai Spiritual Realm!
However, at this moment, he is just a little boy who is hovering at the Peiyuan Stage, and he doesn't know when he will be able to catch a glimpse of the dawn of the Foundation Building Stage.
In the past years, he worked harder than anyone else, but for some reason he couldn't open the trick of the dantian, and he continued to cultivate the precious true qi every day.
He is like a porter, day after day, he keeps pouring buckets of water into the vat, but he doesn't know whether the water tank is bottomless or it was originally a leaky tank, and there is no way to fill it.
Lu Ye raised his right arm and waved his fist vigorously at the vast sea and sky, silently cheering himself up in the bottom of his heart.
Then, he sat down on the stone platform with his knees crossed, his hands formed an immortal mark in front of his lower abdomen, he took a deep breath and slowly closed his eyes and began to cultivate.
The breeze came and the sound was like a song, and the rich cyan aura around it caressed Lu Ye's body, warm and soft like rain in spring.
Lu Ye clarified his thoughts and listened attentively. With the rhythm of one breath and one breath, his mind tends to be quiet and peaceful between hearing and not listening, and the speed and slowness, thickness, depth and length of his breath are all natural, and there is no need to force his mind to dominate.
Slowly, his mind depended on each other, all distracting thoughts were gone, even his breath seemed to no longer exist, and the whole person gradually fell into silence.
At this time, the pores around his body slowly opened, greedily absorbing the wisps of cyan aura in the void, and with the natural and gentle breathing, it penetrated into his body and wandered through the internal organs, nourishing his body and mind like a rain.
I don't know how long it took, a small piece of gold condensed between his mouth and tongue, and poured down his throat like a ball into the dantian.
The dantian trembled slightly almost imperceptibly, and then regained its composure, as if nothing had happened. It's like an insatiable glutton, who can't satisfy his terrible appetite.
Lu Ye also seemed to be unconscious, sitting motionless on the stone platform, his small figure seemed to have turned into a rock on top of the cloud peak, and the wind went away.
There is no sun, moon and stars in the Qingtai Spiritual Realm, and there is no change of seasons, and time is as if it stands still here.
Lu Ye had no distractions and refined it into three Jinjin jade liquids in one go, but Dantian was still like a tsundere princess who ignored him.
Finally, he couldn't help but slam his fist on the stone platform, opened his eyes and looked up at the clouds, and shouted, "Why, why not?!"
The sea and sky are surging, echoing the unwilling cries of young people.
After all, he's just a teenager. No matter how tenacious your character is, if you don't admit defeat, you will inevitably have times of frustration and grievances in the face of difficult cultivation that will never see the light of day.
He didn't want to make his father uncomfortable, so he pretended to be strong, and he didn't want to disappoint his mother, so he worked hard to cultivate.
But for a full six years, under the condensation and perfusion of countless Jinjin jade liquids, his Peiyuan rank did not move at all.
Could it be that in this life, there is really only the life of Pei Yuan Rank?
Is it really impossible to open the box left by my mother?
He bit his lip and sniffed hard to keep himself from crying.
But the chagrin in my heart couldn't be stopped, and tears couldn't help but slip out.
"Don't cry! can't be a coward and let your father look down on you!"
Lu Ye raised his hand and wiped his eyes that were covered with tears, and a voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "Xiao Yezi, are you crying?"
Lu Ye was startled, and hurriedly wiped away his tears and looked left and right, but he couldn't find the figure of the scribe in Tsing Yi.
I heard the voice and smiled: "Don't look for it, I'm talking to you with my divine sense." β
"Oh," Lu Ye suddenly realized, and said embarrassedly: "Uncle Yu, don't tell my father." β
"Okay. Now that I've cried, I've felt better?"
Lu Ye lowered his eyes embarrassedly, and the Tsing Yi scribe continued: "Uncle Yu didn't lie to you, you are only one step away from building a foundation. I've been hesitating these days whether I should help you or not. After all, there is a definite number for everything, and it may not be a good thing to use external forces to forcibly intervene to pull out the seedlings and help them grow. β
Lu Ye was surprised: "Uncle Yu, can you help me?"
A glimmer of hope ignited in his heart, and he thought of what the Tsing Yi scribe had just said, and said worriedly, "Will there be any problems?"
The Tsing Yi scribe pondered for a moment, and finally decided not to tell Lu Ye the truth, but said: "If you want, I will help you now and help you be promoted to build a foundation." β
Lu Ye didn't answer for a while, being promoted to the foundation building rank was a dream for him, and such an opportunity was really an irresistible temptation.
In the end, he still pressed the beating heartbeat, shook his head and said, "Uncle Yu, I want to ...... I'm still on my own. β
"It's good to be on your own. Where are there so many fixed numbers in this world, it's just that you plant melons and get melons, plant beans and get beans. The Tsing Yi scribe was rejected by Lu Ye, obviously not disappointed or angry, and said word for word: "Xiao Yezi, the road of heaven is a lonely road, and you can't understand it now." I only hope that if you can go far one day, you can still remember the original intention of today. β
"Me, far away?" Lu Ye was confused, not quite understanding the meaning of the words of the scribe in Tsing Yi.
"Go!" the Tsing Yi scribe said no more, and let out a low cry from his mouth.
"Hmm-" Lu Ye's body was lifted up by an irresistible invisible force and thrown straight towards the boundless Qinghai at the foot of Yunfeng.
"Uncle Yu!" Lu Ye was taken aback, and he didn't know why.
The scribe in Tsing Yi roared loudly: "When the time comes, heaven and earth will work together, and the sun spirit will be combined with the moonββ"
"Bang!" In the midst of the roar, Lu Ye's body slammed into the turbulent seawater, sinking rapidly and instantly above his head.
After a short panic, Lu Ye found that he didn't feel suffocated at all, and was able to breathe freely in this sea water.
Young people will always be attracted by novelties, Lu Ye opened his eyes and looked around, the sea was not pitch black, but flashing with cyan brilliance, although the hazy was not very bright, but it was enough for him to see the scene within a radius of three or five zhang.
The concentration of aura in the sea water is not higher than that of Yunfeng, but if it is substantially wrapped from all directions, it feels more comfortable and freehand.
Suddenly, Lu Ye's body stopped sinking and was suspended in the seawater, and a familiar voice was heard in his ear and said, "Xiao Yezi, you try to cultivate here." β
Lu Ye was blessed and said respectfully: "Thank you, Uncle Yu!"
He sat up cross-legged in the water and closed his eyes again.
"Don't be in a hurry, feel the fluctuations of the sea around you, and then try to slowly adjust your breath to be in harmony with it. What is Taoism and Nature, and what is the unity of heaven and man? I believe that Brother Lu must have taught you. But to achieve the unity of knowledge and action, we must focus on everything everywhere. β
"Little leaf, you have to understand that the real truth is not in the book, but in your eyes. It is a reason for farmers to plow in spring and harvest in autumn, and it is also reasonable for water to flow to lower places and people to go higher. Truth is everywhere, and the more simple and inconspicuous it is, the more it makes sense. β
Lu Ye listened attentively, and nodded again and again.
"Do you feel the lapping of the water?"
"Hmm. β
"Pay attention to its rhythm, not slowly, like ...... Your breathing. β
Lu Ye didn't speak, and began to pay careful attention to the fluctuations of the sea water around him, gradually adjusting his breathing.
After a while, all his distracting thoughts melted into silence.
The aura that filled the sea water was bubbling and pouring into Lu Ye's body in an endless stream, and then condensed into a golden liquid.
"Bang!" When the gold liquid was injected into the dantian, Lu Ye sensed a slight vibration in the dantian, which was still so light that it was almost imperceptible.
But then something amazing happened.
The dantian moved gently again, extremely subtle and short, but to Lu Ye it was tantamount to the sound of the Imperial Decree.
Again and again, it was like a pulse fluttering slightly.
Lu Ye concentrated, not daring to relax in the slightest, lest this hard-won opportunity suddenly slip away.
For a moment, the light tremor of the dantian, the frequency of breathing and the fluctuation of the sea water remained in a unified and subtle rhythm.
"Don't rush, take your time. β
Lu Ye has said this sentence to himself in his heart many times, but he has never been so confident, full of longing and expectation as he is now!
Another golden jade liquid was successfully condensed.
This time, the movement of the dantian is even more significant. Although the so-called conspicuousness is only Lu Ye's own keen perception rather than a substantial change, it is already a qualitative change.
This shows that his efforts have not been in vain. Hard work pays off, and the harvest may be late, but it will never be absent.
Lu Ye's heart was full of joy, as if he had seen his mother's back.
He didn't realize that a wisp of thought from the Tsing Yi scribe was hovering around him all the time to protect him.
Seeing a bright and pure smile on Lu Ye's face, the scribe in Tsing Yi couldn't help but smile with joy.
"Child, your ordeal has not really begun. No matter what desperate situation you encounter in the future, I hope you don't forget this piece of sunshine in your heart today......"