Chapter 1 An Uninvited Guest

A bright moon hung high in the sky, its light cascading down, illuminating a white-robed Daoist who dominated the entire scene.

It was a mountain peak, not particularly high, among a range of others.

On the jagged summit, the Daoist in white sat bathed in starlight and moonlight, facing the deep, dark night alone, an overwhelming sense of desolation and solitude rising from his heart.

The sky was high, the earth vast, and the night boundless, but at that moment, his eyes were fixed solely on the Daoist.

It was as if he were at the very center of the world’s feng shui, the core of everything.

The surrounding feng shui aura and the earth's energy seemed to converge around him.

"Such a powerful state of mind..."

Chang Lin Daoist’s heart trembled.

In his hundred-plus years of cultivation, he had seen countless cultivators, but he had never witnessed such a sight. This was not reliant on magic power, but the infectious power of his state of mind.

There might be beings in the world whose pure state of mind had reached such a level, but one who could infect his soul without any fluctuation of magic power at all?

Probably not.

At the same time, he recognized the white-robed Daoist.

A figure so outstanding would be hard to forget even after a century, let alone a mere three or four months.

Boom!

Boom!

As he was filled with surprise and doubt, he heard a series of earth-shattering roars.

Mountains appeared out of thin air from the void, crashing heavily to the ground, followed by shockwaves that sent dust billowing in all directions like giant waves.

Subsequently, the earth's energy, previously isolated by the incense fire domain, erupted once more.

Invisible to the naked eye, the earth's energy beneath the ground snaked and writhed like dragons and serpents, rolling in from the distance in layer after layer, converging within the mountain range.

At this point, one could see the brilliance of these City Gods.

The incense fire domain was both illusory and real, rooted in the Netherworld, existing between Yin and Yang. Using it to transport mountains required little effort and, crucially, did not sever the continuity of the earth's veins.

Now, mountains of varying heights landed in their respective positions, and an indescribable force of earth veins filled the world.

Chang Lin Daoist observed carefully. These mountains came from different counties, some even from halfway across Liang Province, but now, they were all centered on the mountain where the Daoist was sitting, spreading out in layers.

A single glance encompassed no less than three hundred miles.

The nearby villages seemed to have been relocated long ago. Even An Nuo County had been shifted thirty miles to avoid being surrounded by the mountains.

"This is…a formation?"

While shocked, Chang Lin Daoist also noticed something amiss.

The mountains were not placed randomly, but according to extremely strict positions. Centered on the mountain where the Daoist sat, they spread outwards, with eight centers. These eight centers diverged,

transforming into sixty-four feng shui nodes.

Based on these sixty-four nodes, they further diverged into three hundred and eighty-four nodes!

Layer upon layer, circle upon circle, it was clear that these many mountains were the points, and the earth's energy was the tentacles, forming a vast formation that he could not even imagine at this moment.

"Such a grand formation?"

Chang Lin Daoist increased his altitude, looking down from the clouds, and the more he looked, the more terrifying he found this great formation.

The eight eights created sixty-four, which then produced three hundred and eighty-four. This was not the end, but the beginning. An invisible, imperceptible aura spread out, seemingly endlessly, reaching into the distance.

Subsequently, an even more turbulent aura converged.

"This, this..."

In a certain mountain forest, a fox Daoist who had just awakened from deep seclusion was somewhat dazed as he looked at the surging aura all around.

"Ancestor, ancestor, the mountain beneath our feet is flying, flying!"

"It's flying so fast!"

A group of little red foxes chirped and gathered around him.

"The mountain is flying? The Great Mountain Moving Spell?"

The fox Daoist’s heart trembled violently. He stepped out of his seclusion and looked up to see more than two hundred City Gods in the air, and he was immediately dumbfounded.

What, what is going on?

"Wang Quan Zhenren, First Nine,

Nine Two,

Nine Three,

Nine Four,

Nine Five, Upper Nine, the mountains in all positions are in place!"

"Wang Quan Zhenren! First Six,

Six Two,

Six Three,

Six Four,

Six Five, Upper Six, the mountains in all positions have also gathered!"

"The mountains have arrived, now it's up to the Zhenren's skill!"

The many City Gods emerged from the incense fire domain, speaking in unison.

In truth, they were also curious, for they did not know what this Wang Quan Zhenren intended to do.

It was only that the method of prolonging life had been verified by the City Gods of various prefectures, so the transaction could naturally be concluded.

"What exactly does he want to do?"

Within the incense fire domain, Gong Liang Shen watched this scene, his mind filled with thoughts.

He had been forced to accept the constraints of the City Gods, and naturally he would not forget the instigator of all this.

But even now, he did not know why he had exchanged such a precious method of prolonging life for moving mountains and gathering energy, rather than something more valuable.

After all, no matter how many mountains there were, they were just mountains, and no matter how great a formation was set up, it was only an external thing.

"Huff!"

On the mountain peak, An Qisheng slowly opened his eyes, a flash of black and white passing through the depths of his pupils.

At the same time, the stars in the sky appeared, and the flowing starlight momentarily overshadowed the high-hanging bright moon, illuminating the mountains.

"Success or failure depends on this one move."

A ripple arose in An Qisheng's heart, but it quickly calmed down.

Power supports the state of mind, and the state of mind determines your power. When the state of mind arrives, the power naturally follows.

Would the invincible state of mind he had forged with the invincible power of one lifetime simply vanish upon changing worlds and bodies?

For more than four months since coming to this world, he had been adapting and comprehending the differences between the heavens and earth here and those of Xuan Xing and Jiu Fu Realm, preparing for this moment.

Besides this, there was naturally also the reason of the 'future' he had seen in Sa Wu Ling.

With a slight closing of his eyes, many profound principles emerged in his mind: the various fist techniques of Xuan Xing, the Daoist and Buddhist scriptures, the many martial arts and mental cultivation methods of Jiu Fu Realm, the Twenty-Four Divine Embodiment Method perfected by the successive war chiefs of Wang Quan Dao over three thousand years, the Yellow Court Twenty-Four Dao Diagrams...

And of this world, such as the Incense Fire Divinity Path, the White Bone Demonic Art, the Great Sun Tathagata Sutra, the Heavenly Dao Nine Questions Sutra, the Myriad Sword Art...

The cultivation methods of three lifetimes were combined into one, and then transformed into his own 'Taiji Induction Chapter'.

Rumble!

Heaven and earth shook violently.

The expressions of the many City Gods in the air all changed, for this sound did not resonate in reality, but exploded from the depths of their souls.

With a single explosion, as if struck by lightning, the bodies of the many City Gods all trembled.

Immediately, they involuntarily moved away.

It seemed that the mountains beneath the night sky were still, but in their perception, these mountains seemed to have transformed into a vortex, a funnel, attracting and spitting out the invisible aura in the eyes of heaven and earth.

But what made them strange was that this aura was not any of the auras of the Daoist, Buddhist, demon, or ghost paths, and it was not even related to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

It seemed to be a certain aura possessed by all living things in heaven and earth.

"Feng shui? Fortune? Aura?"

Within the incense fire domain, Gong Liang Shen could not help but be shocked. This scene could not help but remind him of one thing.

That was a legend.

According to legend, before the birth of the Netherworld Monarch, there was no concept of incense fire and wish power in the world. It was the Netherworld Monarch who devoured heaven and earth and opened up the path of incense fire, which then gave rise to the Netherworld.

However, even they, these City Gods, were skeptical about this matter.

But at this moment, seeing the scene of the Daoist on the mountain peak attracting some kind of aura by some method, he could not help but associate it with this legend.

"I'm thinking too much."

But in an instant, he shook his head again, feeling that he was thinking too much.

How could he compare this person with the Monarch? Throughout history, there had only been one Netherworld Monarch every ten thousand years. How could the countless heroes, geniuses, and founders of schools of the ancient times, each shining for a time, compare with the Netherworld Monarch?

Buzz~

Buzz~

Buzz~

Gradually, a humming sound that grew louder and louder rang in everyone's hearts.

This humming sound carried a power that penetrated the human heart, causing everyone to unconsciously look at the Daoist in white.

Under the night sky, on the mountain peak, the Daoist's body began to glow.

From weak to strong, until finally, it was like the descent of the Great Sun, dazzlingly boundless.

In an instant, the darkness between heaven and earth was cleaved open.

Intertwined with the light that erupted but did not spread, like a heavenly sword cutting through the sky, formed a black and white Yin-Yang pattern with distinct boundaries!

The Taiji Diagram!

Pei Yuanhua’s heart trembled. He had seen this scene once in An Nuo County several months ago.

But the fluctuations that time were far from comparable to this time!

Power!

Power!

Between closing his eyes, An Qisheng's clothes fluttered without wind, and he felt the power surging in.

The magic power that directly acted on the cellular level, under the infusion of the earth's magnetic field and the blessing of his mind, began to burst forth.

Without needing to temper his body, his physique was undergoing transformation at an unimaginable speed.

All horizontal training methods proceed from the outside to the inside, from tendons and bones to flesh and blood. However, An Qisheng's transformation at this time began from the cellular level.

The reflection of this was that An Qisheng's body was glowing.

The light came from the palaces of flesh and blood within the five internal organs, from the vaguely visible embryonic forms of the gods within them, and also from the countless subtle acupoints all over his body.

Everyone thought that this light was one, but only An Qisheng knew that this light was not one.

But twenty-four!

These twenty-four divine lights erupted from his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, brain, teeth, and other twenty organs, combined into one, like a heavenly sword piercing the sky.

His Taiji Induction Chapter was only in its initial stages, but the method of condensing his twenty-four embodied gods had been initially perfected over three thousand years in Jiu Fu Realm.

In An Qisheng's vision, if there were various acupoints, they could become various gods.

Every organ could be cultivated into a god, and even evolve into all kinds of incredible supernatural powers. The twenty-four gods were only the first step, and cultivating three hundred and sixty-five gods was the true great accomplishment.

At that time, in Daoism it would be the innate Dao body, in Buddhism it would be the indestructible golden body, and in martial arts it would be the body of a human immortal.

Amidst the divine light, the mud pill sat cross-legged like the Jade Emperor, and the five internal organs surrounded him like the Five Emperors, like the six imperial gods of the gods. When the six emperors were completed, the gods would return to their positions!

And An Qisheng's body, like the heavenly court in myths and legends, would bear the weight of the gods and be the king of the gods!