thefictionvixens Chapter 3 The Gate of Immortality, Nine Mysteries and Nine Transformations
Chapter 3 The Gate of Immortality, Nine Mysteries and Nine Transformations
Five small trees, each a little over half a meter tall, with broad, crisp, and glistening leaves shaped like human hands, looked like several multi-armed little people standing there.
At the top of each sapling hangs a bright red fruit, resembling a bird, specifically a Vermilion Bird, with the texture of its feathers faintly visible, lifelike, as if about to take flight.
Yuan Qingsu raised her right hand and carefully pinched the sacred fruit, avoiding tearing the skin of this crystal-clear, delicate treasure that looked as if it had been sculpted by the heavens.
A rich fragrance wafted over with his movements, lingering around his nose.
In addition, wisps of light drifted from the small tree and entered Yuan Qingsu's mouth and nose.
This shimmering light is a Daoist essence refined and tempered over countless ages, beyond the reach of ordinary people.
If you look closely, you can "see" an unparalleled figure within this faint light. He has gathered nine mysteries and nine primordial powers from heaven and earth, undergone a complete transformation, and become a celestial king, ruling over a vast and mysterious celestial realm.
After that, a fierce battle broke out, shattering the heavens and earth, collapsing the universe, and obliterating the great Dao.
The Immortal King perished, transforming into an immortal divine herb. Through countless ages, it survived one era after another, only to be divided into nine parts by an exceptionally talented empress with unparalleled magical power…
Those wisps of light intertwined, depicting a miniature historical river about the elixir of immortality, which Yuan Qingsu absorbed into her body as her chest and abdomen rose and fell.
Deep within his mind, the golden-red [Gate of Human Treasures] beneath the Gate of Ten Thousand Gates glowed, intertwining with this Daoist aura to give rise to yet another "gate".
[The Human Body Treasure Gate - Second Derivative Gate - Gate of Immortality - "Blood Phoenix Transformation" of the Nine Mysteries of the Mortal World (Unlocked). The Nine Transformations of the Mortal World grant immortality.]
[First Stage Ritual: Under the influence of the Gate of Ten Thousand Gates, consume the secret medicine amidst the flames of the fourth level or beyond of the Fire Domain. The greater the power of the flames, the better the ritual's effect.]
[Secret Elixir Ingredients: One Vermilion Bird Fruit (one of the nine sacred fruits; alternatively, a portion of the roots of the Vermilion Bird Fruit tree containing fragments of the laws of heaven and earth can be used), 100 ml of the Spring of Life, ten drops of true blood from birds flowing with a thin layer of Vermilion Bird bloodline, or one drop of blood from a true descendant of the Five-Colored Phoenix. The more fragments of laws contained in the blood, the better the effect.]
[First Stage Ritual Effects: Grants an 800-year lifespan, partial understanding of the true meaning of Nirvana, affinity with the Fire Spirit, the ability to unleash the innate power of Blood Phoenix Transformation, and an "immortal body" with supreme healing abilities.]
The Gate of Immortality, eight hundred years of lifespan, Blood Phoenix Transformation, Immortal Body, Nine Transformations in the Mortal World, one can attain immortality... This is the grand ceremony that leads to the final stage and grants one the immortal lifespan in the mortal world!
It's much easier to transform into nine lifetimes than to live through countless lifetimes in the mortal world. It truly lives up to its conceptual level of ability!
Yuan Qingsu's eyes narrowed slightly, but her hands did not stop moving as she directly picked the Vermilion Bird Fruit.
After a moment's hesitation, he resisted the temptation and did not eat the sacred fruit directly. Instead, he sealed it in the jade box he always kept in the Sea of Bitterness and stored it away. He planned to go to the Fire Domain to hold a ceremony after gathering all the necessary materials and begin his journey to immortality in the mortal world.
The Gate of Ten Thousand Gates draws upon the essence of the Dao, enabling it to open derivative gates. These conceptual derivative gates possess various abilities and can be acquired through the preparation of secret elixirs and the performance of rituals.
He was very interested in the "Gate of Longevity" derived from the Daoist principles of the Immortal Medicine, and the immortal realm he reached.
After all, immortality was one of his greatest pursuits after becoming a reincarnator.
Especially now, young souls reside within aging and decaying bodies.
The urgency to recover, the desire to remain forever young and vigorous, to maintain one's soul and body at their peak—these feelings are beyond words.
then……
After picking another Vermilion Bird Fruit and sealing it, Yuan Qingsu squatted down next to the sacred tree, which looked like a jade carving. He dug away some of the soil with his bare hands and cut off some of the crystal-clear roots without damaging the tree.
The sap oozing from the broken ends of the roots was fragrant and shimmered with a fiery glow.
He took the divine root to a nearby spring pool about one meter square, brushed it, and then put it in his mouth to chew. He sipped the root and drank the divine spring water, his mouth full of sweetness.
If we're talking about personal motives, Yuan Qingsu harbored greed and wanted to take away all the sacred fruits, sacred trees, and divine springs from here.
But it belongs to someone else after all.
Even though the Ruthless Great Emperor was asleep, the Great Accomplished Holy Body remained, secretly watching over everything.
He has already shown kindness by providing food and drink; to leave him nothing would be excessive and would not be in accordance with his true intentions.
So Yuan Qingsu took two of the five sacred fruits and kept three, drank deeply from the divine spring, and left the mountain after filling his belly with a huge amount of life essence.
Before leaving, he couldn't help but glance back at the abyss not far away.
The land surrounded by nine mountains is like a black hole, unfathomable and capable of captivating one's soul.
With their current level of vision, they cannot yet see the five-colored altar beneath the abyss and the nine-dragon coffin that fell upon it.
But that doesn't stop Gen Kiyosu from longing for this thing.
The Gate of Ten Thousand Gates draws upon the essence of the Dao, giving rise to various conceptual gates. The bronze coffin inside the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin, also known as the Three-Life Coffin, is a treasure trove of Dao essence.
There are so many good things inside.
Unfortunately, he arrived too late and missed the opportunity. The Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin fell to the bottom, and he didn't dare to wander around the door of the ruthless man and the Great Accomplished Holy Body in their dazed state at this time. He could only leave it for another day.
boom!
The intense, fiery life essence within his abdomen swept over Yuan Qingsu's Wheel of Life, making this origin of life even more crystalline. The seven marks within it gradually faded until they finally disappeared.
Eighty minus seven equals seventy-three.
Yuan Qingsu's appearance had noticeably recovered somewhat. Stepping on a Big Dipper Seven-Star Step recorded in the Yao Guang Ancient Scripture, she rode the holy light and flew at a speed unimaginable to mortals in the low sky. Starting from the peak of the holy mountain where the Vermilion Bird Fruit grew, she quickly swept over the remaining eight mountain peaks, and the marks on the Wheel of Life also decreased accordingly.
[The Gate to the Human Body Treasure Trove - Second Derivative Gate - The Gate to Immortality - The "Kunpeng Transformation" of the Nine Wonders and Nine Transformations (Unlocked)], the number of engraving marks has been reduced from 73 to 66.
[The Gate to Human Treasures - Second Derivative Gate - Gate to Immortality - Nine Wonders and Nine Transformations - "True Dragon Transformation" (Unlocked)], the number of engraving marks has been reduced from 66 to 59.
[… "Xuanwu Transformation" (not yet unlocked)], Chapters 59 to 52.
[...Qilin Transformation (Unlocked)], Chapters 52 to 45.
[… "White Tiger Transformation" (not yet unlocked)], chapters 45 to 38.
[...“The Holy Spirit Transformation” (Unlocked)], Chapters 38 to 31.
[... "Thunder Emperor Transformation" (not yet unlocked)], Chapters 31 to 24.
[... "Immortal King Transformation" (not yet unlocked)], from twenty-four to seventeen.
The Daoist essence absorbed from each sacred tree is building the "Gate of Longevity" within the perfected Yuan Qing Su mind space. With each part perfected, a new transformation occurs.
Similar to picking the Vermilion Bird Fruit, he only took two or three of each type of fruit, and then cut off a small amount of the roots to take with the Life Spring.
......
Meanwhile, the urban youths who had crossed the void from Earth had scattered, most of them finding a corner and using the dense vegetation as cover to relieve themselves.
Ye Fan and Pang Bo had already solved this problem on Mars, so they separated from the others and went to the mountaintop to search for food. A few dozen meters away from their landing site, the two discovered a spring pool about one meter square, as well as thirteen strange and mysterious small trees.
Each sapling is topped with an egg-sized red fruit, its fragrance intoxicating, even more so than that of aging fruit in a thousand-year-old cellar.
The fruits at the tops of two of the small trees were already gone. A young man in white stood with his back to them at the sacred spring, surrounded by clusters of bright flames, looking sacred and extraordinary, like a legendary being who had stepped out of mythology.
Hearing the noise, he turned his head. The firelight, like fluttering banners, gradually faded from his face, revealing his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, outlining a handsome face of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old, almost godlike.
It is precisely the source of purity.
"you......"
"Who is it...?"
Ye Fan and Pang Bo were surprised to run into someone here. They pointed at him and almost shouted.
"Shh..."
Yuan Qingsu raised her hand and held up a long, slender index finger between her lips, signaling the two to be quiet. After they shut up, she pointed to the eleven red fruits left on the sacred tree. With a swift movement, she vanished like a streak of light, leaving only a faint breeze that caused the grass and trees to sway gently.
Now he possesses a great treasure. He has picked all the fruits from the nine mountains of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, which together are equivalent to one or two immortal divine medicines. If word gets out, it will be enough to attract the emperor of the Immortal Divine Dynasty of the Central Continent, as well as those old monsters in the Holy Land whose lifespans are not long, to take action.
Even once the news is released, no one else needs to take action; the old master in black robes and the Holy Son of Yaoguang will act directly.
Therefore, Yuan Qingsu did not want anyone to know.
For a cultivator who was originally at the Dao Palace level, hiding their tracks among mortals would be incredibly easy.
He had sensed Ye Fan and Pang Bo's movements early on and was preparing to leave.
But just as he was about to leave...
As Yuan Qingsu pulled out a tattered old bronze lamp from his bosom and examined it closely, he recalled the sound of the iron chains rattling as the lamp was thrown from the abyss surrounded by nine mountains and landed in front of him, as well as the feeling of being watched by an ancient, primordial beast in the dark. A chill ran down his spine.
That kind of unseen gaze is terrifying.
Is it the Great Accomplished Holy Body? Or the Empress? Why throw a bronze lamp over?
No one knows.
It was this unexpected little incident that interrupted his departure and led him to meet Ye Fan and Pang Bo.
"Fate is a fickle river. I thought I knew the original trajectory, but the reality is that the Empress and the Great Accomplished Holy Body are living beings here, not NPCs that only react when the player touches them. Just because the protagonist can do something doesn't mean I can. Acting rashly will lead to endless variables..."
Yuan Qingsu was secretly alarmed and exerted even more effort to control the holy light, riding the wind and passing over the dense forest.
Splash...
The canopies of the old trees surged like waves. Lin Jia, who was shy and kept her distance from her classmates in the bushes beside her, felt her hair being blown by the wind and felt cool. When she looked up, there was nothing but dense shadows of leaves.
On the other side, Li Xiaoman, who was squatting, also looked up in the drizzling rain. Unlike ordinary people, her beautiful black pupils were filled with specks of gold, and her expression suddenly became much colder. Looking at the swaying branches above her head, she seemed to be staring at that unseen figure.