The Master of Mount Mao was truly unprepared for such a situation. No wonder Ji Xiang had repeatedly confirmed with him before!
He had naively thought the other party was being humble!
Turns out, he wasn't being humble at all!
"Raiding a household wouldn't be like this!"
How dare you sever my sect's脉? You, a Ascended cultivator, I suspect you're lacking virtue in all five elements!
Seeing the pale expression of the Master of Mount Mao, Ji Xiang naturally knew what he was thinking. He offered comfort:
"Don't worry, don't worry. Since I could take away the formations, I can also put them back for you. It's just that I'll need to borrow some incense and offerings from Mount Mao."
With that, he took out the Mingguang Heavenly Book. Incense and offerings emerged from his fingertips, and upon contact with the book, a surge of Taixu Feixuan energy erupted. In an instant, lightning flashed, forming a canopy the size of a palace, covering the stone forest. Ji Xiang wrote the incantations to drive the formations on the Heavenly Book, and the Thunder Pool Formation immediately materialized!
The Master of Mount Mao was greatly astonished!
"This is the Thunder Pool Wuyue Formation! You took my Mount Mao formations and immediately learned them?"
Ji Xiang laughed heartily, "I have indeed fully grasped the essence of your Mount Mao formations. Although I understand them by heart, it will take time to master them. Look over there!"
Ji Xiang pointed his finger, and one of the dim Heavenly Formation stone pillars suddenly emitted fierce lightning. The Thunder Pool in the heavens and earth was sealed into it by Ji Xiang's single point, and the formation returned to its original state!
The Thunder Pool pillar surged, the formation restarted, and the earth rumbled with thunderous roars!
Seeing the formation restored, the Master of Mount Mao finally breathed a sigh of relief, but then he was filled with endless astonishment, his expression constantly changing:
"I've never seen anything like this before. Is this the power of the Ascended realm?"
"It seems that in the future, I shouldn't easily show classics and formations to others!"
Ji Xiang remained noncommittal. Tongtian Mingyan was something belonging to the Son of Heaven, and there was no need to explain this in detail to the Master.
After all, the Daoist Registry Office's primary goal was stability. At the very least, they needed to display a few shocking skills.
Ji Xiang secretly pondered at this moment.
After this trip to Mount Mao, if Mount Mao lifted its mountain closure, his method of freely acquiring skills might lead others to drive him away like a plague god.
No matter if your sect's ultimate techniques were in books or formations, with Tongtian Mingyan and a blank divine tablet, and if that wasn't enough, add the Hell Mark and the Heavenly Lord's small window, and he could seize any spell.
This was like smelting a hundred schools of thought into one, giving him the satisfaction of learning all seventy-two Shaolin techniques and then showing off in front of the Shaolin monks...
"Master, I'll borrow your Mount Mao incense and offerings!"
Ji Xiang activated Mingyan, spreading it in all directions this time. Countless incense and offerings were swept over. Ji Xiang opened his hands to the heavens, using a large amount of Mount Mao's incense and offerings to reshape the formations and seal them back into the stone pillars!
This power was like recreating heaven and earth, astonishing the Master of Mount Mao!
"How can mortal incense and offerings be so obedient, to be driven at will!"
These incense and offerings converged in the heavens and earth. Ji Xiang casually grasped them, pouring a large amount of incense and offerings onto the Mingguang Heavenly Book. All formations within the five elements could be rewritten on the Heavenly Book!
After all, the incomplete parts of this Heavenly Book were in the Three Origins, not the Five Elements. The Three Origins, simply put, involved spells related to curses, salvation, karmic fire, underworld salvation,赦罪, blessings, and the sun, moon, and stars, which could not be written on the Heavenly Book.
"Fortunately, these great formations of Mount Mao do not involve this part. It seems that the formations involving this part are within the confinement formations and earth formations."
Heavenly formations unleash lightning, great formations move mountains and seas, and killing formations extinguish life.
The various great formations returned to their positions one by one, with immense momentum. The entire Shengyou Mountain rumbled and shook because of this. This land seemed to be about to hang in the sky, and the vast incense and offerings accumulated by Mount Mao were rapidly being consumed!
Although the Master of Mount Mao felt immense heartache watching this, at least the formations were back. If the incense and offerings were depleted, so be it. Who told him to make such a bold statement at the beginning, which led to this situation?
Seeing his continued heartache, Ji Xiang considered helping the other party overcome his ascension tribulation. However, upon reflection, this secret was unknown even to Old Zhang, who only thought Ji Xiang was remotely guiding him through some means in Fuli, unaware of the true situation. Therefore, there was no need to expose this secret for the sake of showing off.
Once this secret was exposed, it would be extremely dangerous.
It would be equivalent to mass-producing Ascended cultivators. If he wanted to do this, he would need to possess the strength to suppress all the Pure Yang cultivators in the world, and even several Ascended realm cultivators.
Moreover, whether the exam paper of the Great Heavenly Demon could be revised again was uncertain.
The formations returned to their respective stone pillars, and the incense and offerings were spent in astronomical figures. The day and night in the underworld were not obvious; it was the light and darkness formed by projecting the sun and moon onto the mountains and rivers.
Ji Xiang stopped casting his spells and turned his gaze to the confinement formations and earth formations.
The Master of Mount Mao immediately became nervous.
Ji Xiang quickly appeased him, "Don't rush, don't rush. I've thought about it, and I won't take these two types of formations. Because I might not be able to restore these formations."
The Master of Mount Mao immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
If you copied everything, Mount Mao would have no unique ultimate formations left.
In the future, he would have to be more careful when bragging.
"So I've decided to learn about how many formations in the confinement and earth formations involve curses, blessings, soul salvation, underworld salvation, and karmic fire赦罪?"
Ji Xiang inquired. The Master of Mount Mao thought for a moment and replied, "There are eighty-one confinement formations, of which twenty-five are of this type of Yin and treacherous formations; there are one hundred and sixty-five earth formations, of which fifty-one are of this type of Yin and treacherous formations."
"Confinement and earth formations are formations that can be learned after achieving some cultivation. Therefore, most of them are not difficult to learn."
Ji Xiang approached the Azure Dragon Scarlet Blood Formation and the Profound Yin Honglu Formation, comprehending and understanding them. At this time, Ji Xiang's blank divine tablet reflected the operational principles of these formations and much detailed information.
The information for the Profound Yin Honglu Formation was slightly different from what he had seen before, but it was generally consistent. The key to manipulating these formations lay in the "Mount Mao Profound Treasure True Scripture."
"By the way, these types of formations seem to originate from the Mount Mao Profound Treasure Scripture. Can you lend me..."
"No, absolutely not!"
The Master of Mount Mao immediately reacted strongly and refused!
"I mean, only people from Mount Mao can learn this scripture. Although you are Ascended, please don't make it difficult for us..."
The Master of Mount Mao forcefully offered an explanation.
He was afraid that Ji Xiang would also replicate the important contents of the True Scripture on the spot.
Ji Xiang also felt his request was a bit excessive. The Mount Mao Profound Treasure Scripture was one of their sect's foundational scriptures, their core skill. To learn the formations without joining Mount Mao and then ask to see the True Scripture was indeed rather dishonorable.
"Then I'll trade something for it? What do you think?"
The Master of Mount Mao was stunned for a moment. "Trade something for it? This Treasure Scripture is Mount Mao's exclusive secret technique. What do you have that's worth this price?"
Ji Xiang reached out and conjured a pile of golden sand.
The Master of Mount Mao was stunned. Just as he was about to laugh, he suddenly focused his gaze, and his breathing quickened!
"This, this is?!"
The golden sand, at first glance, seemed ordinary, but soon its color changed to fiery gold, and it emitted a blazing purple flame!
The Master of Mount Mao, being a seasoned Pure Yang cultivator, was shocked beyond words!
"How is this possible? This is actually Jambunada Gold!"
He was astonished, and his composure could no longer be maintained!
Precious gold was an important resource in cultivation, and the gold before him did not belong to the mortal world; it was gold from the Dharma Realm!
This thing should not have appeared in the mortal world!
"This gold is produced from the sands of the Jambunada River below Mount Meru in the legendary Northern Continent, hence its name. Only those who achieve Buddhahood possess this golden color. Jambunada is also called South Jambudvipa, which is the real world where all sentient beings reside according to Buddhism!"
"This gold is only possessed by ancient Buddhist sects in the mountains and rivers. They use it to forge the vajra indestructible body for the holy Buddhas. How do you have it? Did the imperial court raid the Buddhist sect?"
The Master of Mount Mao had to think this way.
After all, Ji Xiang had just raided Mount Mao in front of him.
Ji Xiang: "It's not to the extent of raiding, do you remember the black finger I showed you earlier?"
"This golden sand, like that black finger, was brought by me from Avici Hell."
When Ji Xiang said these four words, he spoke them lightly, without feeling anything unusual. After all, the Hell Mark was like a money-making machine in Ji Xiang's eyes. He would occasionally throw some ghosts into it to exchange for gold.
But to the Master of Mount Mao, it was deafening, like thunder roaring!
"Avici Hell?! That's a place comparable to the Eastern Blood Lake. How did you get golden sand from Avici Hell? Can even Ascended cultivators do such things?"
The Master of Mount Mao even felt a hint of fear.
To be able to enter Avici Hell was an extraordinary matter. To enter Avici Hell meant one could enter Fengdu Ghost City, and to enter Fengdu Ghost City meant one could enter Mount Tai's Underworld, and to enter Mount Tai's Underworld meant one could enter the Eastern Blood Lake of the Great Heavenly Venerate of Salvation!
You're not an Ascended cultivator, you're a rescuer!
If someone was beaten to death, you could go down and pull them out, turning a Celestial Immortal into a Ghost Immortal on the spot, and then continue fighting after returning to life.
"The cycle of life and death, nirvana and rebirth, rewarding good and punishing evil, how can such heavenly rules be easily broken? Many hellish Dharma Realms have existed since ancient times. The birth of each great Dharma Realm is the concentration of boundless vows and the blessings of successive wise individuals, which are then connected, and pure lands are continuously opened within them."
"Remarkably, this person before me can actually enter Avici Hell?"
The Master of Mount Mao expressed doubt, but Ji Xiang had no intention of elaborating.
He felt a bit uneasy about this. He hadn't expected that Ji Xiang, this Ascended cultivator, when his cultivation was not damaged, was already so powerful that he could disregard the rules of life and death, tear apart Dharma Realms with his bare hands, traverse yin and yang, and use evil spirits as laborers?
Others mine for gold in the mountains, but you mine for gold directly in Avici Hell.
Is this the realm of a master?
"Alright, is this golden sand enough? If not, I have more."
Ji Xiang conjured another handful. The Master of Mount Mao looked at the golden sand with difficulty.
It would be a lie to say he didn't want it.
Although the Daoist sect also had various divine golds, such as Geng Gold, Xin Gold, and Mao Gold.
In ancient times, the state of Chu also had treasures like golden wood and jade arrows. There was also the gold of Mount Hua, the gold of Mount Ge Tian Lu, the gold of Mount Yong Hu, and the gold of the Li River... but these were all earthly golds, while Jambunada Gold was gold from the Dharma Realm, and it was the highest grade of gold in the Buddhist Dharma Realm!
The Daoist sect refined golden elixirs. Gold is something firm, strong, and indestructible. Whether it is Daoism or Buddhism, the requirements for gold are extremely high. This precious gold can help oneself cultivate and even break through existing limitations, making it a rare treasure in cultivation.
The Master of Mount Mao couldn't help but sigh, "The 'Baopuzi' states that one must refine ordinary earthly gold into immortal golden liquid, melting the essence of four hundred thousand catties of gold to form a dose, which can turn a person into an Earth Immortal on the spot."
"However, mortals cannot withstand this substance. If they eat it randomly, they will die."
"Gold comparable to this Jambunada Gold is only the thousand-year-old Yellow Dragon. The 'Huainanzi' states that gold nurtured for a thousand years transforms into a Yellow Dragon... or the Golden Paste of the Son of Zhou, the Jade Pool Golden Nectar of the Queen Mother of the West, the Hundred Refined Azure Gold of Mount Fangzhang, the White Tiger Gold of Mount Hai Yong, and the most difficult to obtain Purple Milled Sacred Gold... But these precious golds are all relics of the past, never seen in this era."
"Of course, I want this Jambunada Gold, but as the Master of Mount Mao, I cannot sell scriptures and classics for a mere treasure. Please take it back."
The Master of Mount Mao suppressed his greed and dared not look at the gold anymore. This made Ji Xiang somewhat admire him. The temptation of precious gold seemed immense to Pure Yang cultivators, perhaps it was one of the keys to breaking through their barriers, but to be able to suppress this temptation was a commendable integrity.
"Alas, it is destined that I will miss this scripture. I will think of another way to deal with the Song Dynasty in the Yin world. With the thirteen Heavenly Formations in hand, I believe I can easily break their Yin spirit formations."
"Master, I give you this precious gold as compensation for taking away these formations."
Ji Xiang still gave the precious gold to the other party. However, since he didn't want Mount Mao's scriptures, the Master breathed a sigh of relief and was willing to accept it.
With these precious golds unseen in the world, the previous consumption of incense and offerings could be completely ignored!
Ji Xiang then thought of another matter and said meaningfully:
"If one can obtain Jambunada Gold and achieve an indestructible body, then perhaps, in the near future, there will be many indestructible people in the world."
Jambunada Gold was obtained from the Hell Mark, which originated from the Vajra Wisdom King. It could be inferred that this mark left in the mortal world was not the only one.
The mass appearance of masters with indestructible bodies was not a fantasy; perhaps it would be seen soon.
The Master of Mount Mao was somewhat confused about this but dared not inquire further. He invited Ji Xiang to the Grand Yuanbao Hall. The hall had a unique interior, with golden pillars and green halls, and books hung on both sides. He took out a book, which was the introductory foundation of Mount Mao's formations.
"My Mount Mao scriptures cannot be shown to you, but this 'Shangqing Formation Dao Secret Essentials' can be given to you for perusal. The key to formations is to find the spiritual points of heaven and earth and make various arrangements at these points. By reading this book, one can master human formations. Once human formations are mastered, learning to arrange earth formations will not be far off."
Ji Xiang accepted the book and said, "Thank you."
"There is one more item, please look..."
The Master of Mount Mao repaid Ji Xiang's kindness for gifting gold. And Ji Xiang saw a painting hanging deep in the Grand Yuanbao Hall. At this moment, the blank divine tablet within his inner world shone brightly!
"This is...!"
"The True Spirit Rank Chart!"
Tao Hongjing, the ninth-generation patriarch of Shangqing, once painted a chart of the ranks and positions of all heavenly deities, divided into seven tiers. This was also the earliest systematic chart of immortal Dao that classified the ranks of gods!
At this moment, a mysterious power gradually emerged from this chart!
The matter of enlightenment came as it came. Ji Xiang felt that there was an extremely powerful wish in this chart, and in his eyes, countless phantom images of heavenly gods gradually appeared on the chart, like the missing forms and spirits of those divine tablets in Fuli!
At the same time, the blank divine tablet showed abnormalities, and without floating any text, it began to shake within his inner world.
At this moment, as the Master of Mount Mao was about to explain, he suddenly received a message. He raised a talisman and listened, and his expression immediately changed!
The Daoist disciple of Mount Mao suddenly began to dissipate his cultivation and fell into a coma!