Mysterious mirror hanging high

Chapter 926 Life-saving Item

The First Heaven of the Immortal Realm, Youxuan Valley

The valley is shrouded in mist year-round, like a thin veil separating heaven and earth.

The Immortal Realm is vast and boundless. Even the smallest Heaven, the First Heaven, has countless hidden places that no one has ever set foot in. This [Netherworld Valley] is a secret place that Xiao Buyi accidentally discovered when he was traveling in the First Heaven in his early years.

If we're talking about absolute secrecy, Youxuan Valley is naturally no match for the numerous hidden grottoes and secret realms that roam the vast void.

However, since the laws within the secret realm are incomplete, Xiao Buyi naturally would not choose to ascend to immortality within the secret realm.

The mist within Youxuan Valley seems to have the effect of isolating celestial phenomena, yet it is located within the mortal world, making it a perfect place to ascend to immortality.

He sat cross-legged on a blue stone, his eyes slightly closed, his aura contained and not released, as if he was regulating his internal spiritual energy, making final preparations for ascending to immortality.

Xiao Buyi's breathing was extremely light, and with each breath, he drew upon the spiritual energy flowing within the Youxuan Valley.

The mist that had been drifting in the valley rose and fell, sometimes flowing around him like a stream, and sometimes swirling outwards like a whirlpool.

The Mahayana Realm, also known as the Great Accomplishment Realm, refers to the ultimate development of the inner celestial realm, which eventually reaches perfection and great accomplishment.

Once the inner world within the body is perfected, one can ascend to immortality and reach the realm of immortals.

From then on, even the Nascent Soul Dharma Form was no longer a cultivator's weakness. As long as the cave heaven remained intact, the cultivator could recover from even the most severe injuries by condensing the Dharma Form with the laws in the blink of an eye.

Upon reaching the Immortal Realm, cultivators who practice both physical and magical cultivation also possess the profound mystery of "rebirth through blood," but because their physical bodies are not as easily dispersed as those of the Nascent Soul or Dharma Image, their recovery is much slower.

The price of a resilient physical body lies in this: it is not easily damaged, but once damaged, it is much more difficult to restore.

Unless it is a body-refining technique at the level of a Dao Venerable or Dao Lord, with astonishing recovery ability, it is possible to overcome this deficiency.

Xiao Buyi was not a practitioner of dual cultivation of body and spirit, so he naturally did not have such worries.

His inner world is now complete, and he only needs a single opportunity to open the gate to immortality, transform from mortal to immortal, and ascend to the position of a celestial being.

However, opportunities are hard to find.

He had been sitting here for several days, yet he still felt an invisible constraint preventing him from supporting the cave heaven and hindering his nascent soul from transforming into a celestial spirit form.

"The divide between immortals and mortals is indeed not so easy to break."

Xiao Buyi thought to himself, "Even though I have broken through and rebuilt myself five times, and my aptitude and comprehension are no longer comparable to that of a Qi Refining cultivator with no spiritual root at the beginning... it is still not so easy for me to reach the Immortal Realm."

He was born in a mortal dynasty in Penglai Immortal Continent of the Immortal Realm, and at the age of twenty-six, he was fortunate enough to obtain a chance to become an immortal and step into the world of cultivation.

Unfortunately, his aptitude was terrible; the spiritual root he was diagnosed with was only the lowest grade, unranked spiritual root.

I originally thought that I would only be able to practice Qi cultivation for the rest of my life and would never be able to reach the Great Dao.

However, a robbery and murder completely changed Xiao Buyi's life.

On one occasion, while hunting demonic beasts, he accidentally encountered a calamity cultivator. He fought his way out of the encirclement, but was also seriously injured.

After recuperating, he barely escaped death. Others thought that Xiao Buyi's foundation had been damaged, but they never expected that he would turn misfortune into blessing and his aptitude and comprehension would improve even further.

In the end, Xiao Buyi managed to barely establish a foundation for immortality.

After experiencing numerous life-or-death crises, Xiao Buyi seemed to undergo a transformation each time he recovered, eventually standing at the pinnacle of the Immortal Continent and becoming the renowned "Penglai Heavenly Lord".

He even became the first cultivator in the Immortal Continent to successfully ascend again after the descent of the giant star and the break in the cultivation civilization.

Memories of the past surfaced in his mind, bringing Xiao Buyi greater peace of mind:

"No rush... At this moment, my condition, foundation, and state of mind are all at their peak. I just need to wait quietly for that one opportunity to ascend to immortality. Opening the gate to immortality will be a natural thing... At worst, I can sit here in seclusion for a hundred years. I have plenty of time."

However, the next moment, the void in the valley trembled, and a raven broke through the void, flapped its wings and flew out, landing next to the large blue stone where Xiao Buyi was sitting cross-legged, with a jade slip and a jade box in its beak.

The raven glanced at Xiao Buyi, confirmed that his spiritual aura was correct, then put down the jade slip and jade box in its mouth, and then vanished into the void.

Xiao Buyi stared in shock at the scene before him, his mind reeling.

"how is this possible?"

"Why were the Void Crows of the Void Crow Palace able to find the [Mysterious Valley]!"

He hadn't told anyone about this place, not even the other ascended cultivators in the Immortal Continent, no matter how close they were. The Void Raven Palace's mailing business required a specified destination, meaning the sender must have known he was here.

But this is simply unbelievable. Who on earth has such extraordinary abilities?

Xiao Buyi took the jade slip into his palm and probed it with his divine sense—

[Senior Xiao, there are reborn beings within the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty. The exact location of your Ascension Ground has been revealed. Please leave immediately!]

[If there's no time to spare and you encounter the Celestial Immortal of the Divine Cauldron... please open the jade box. Inside is a life-saving item that might save you from this calamity.]

[Respectfully submitted by Daoist Xuanjing.]

Xiao Buyi looked slightly dazed, somewhat confused.

"So it's young friend Xuanjing..."

Over the years, Jing Yu had frequently corresponded with him. Xiao Buyi also greatly admired this exceptionally talented, quick-witted, and studious junior who had ascended to immortality, and had long regarded him as a close relative, like a nephew or niece.

No matter how talented Xuanjing was, he was only at the Nascent Soul stage. How could he find the place he had carefully chosen to ascend to immortality?

As for items to save one's life...

Xiao Buyi opened the jade box, only to find it completely empty.

"Empty?" Xiao Buyi's expression of doubt deepened.

With extraordinary abilities in the art of destiny, Jing Yu is probably the only cultivator in the world who has mastered the Dao of Destiny to such a profound degree. Naturally, Xiao Buyi could not see the shimmering purple light of the Xuanming Destiny Pearl flying from the jade box into his body.

It is engraved with four ancient seal characters—

【The Nine Lives of a Tanuki】.

Just as Xiao Buyi was stunned, he suddenly realized that the surrounding void was sealed off by some unknown force. The mist that had been floating in the sky above Youxuan Valley suddenly dissipated, and five streaks of light descended from the sky, their magnificent aura soaring into the heavens!

Xiao Buyi's expression changed drastically.

Because among these five people, the one in the lead is none other than the founding emperor of the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty, Emperor Ying Taizu!

Of the five cultivators who descended from the sky, four, including Ying Taizu, were at the early stage of the Heavenly Immortal realm. The other cultivator standing beside Ying Taizu had a spiritual pressure that was so intense it was almost tangible, making it difficult for Xiao Buyi to breathe.

The man was disheveled, covered in filth, and his bloodshot eyes were almost entirely filled with countless veins. He seemed to be teetering on the edge of madness and sanity.

Xiao Buyi sensed a flaw in the Heavenly Dao within him, suggesting that his immortal body was inherently somewhat abnormal.

Xiao Buyi knew the man's identity almost immediately.

"A wandering immortal! This is a wandering immortal!"

"But I wonder how many tribulations this person has undergone to become a wandering immortal?"