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Chapter 77 The Creation of Life
Beneath the Enlightenment Tea Tree, a gentle breeze blows, and the verdant tea leaves sway softly in the wind, exuding a refreshing and serene Daoist charm.
Two cups of spiritual tea steamed on the white jade table, their aroma mingling with the surrounding water and fire energies, transforming into a faint five-colored haze.
Xuan Yao and Jiu Tian Xuan Nu sat facing each other, their powerful auras swirling silently in the void.
Although he did not deliberately display his supernatural powers, the faint resonance of the laws emanating from the depths of the void had already made the disciples standing below listening to the lecture feel very calm, and even the slight stagnation in their daily cultivation seemed to have dissipated considerably.
Xuan Yao raised the jade cup, gestured slightly to Xuan Nu, and then slowly spoke:
"Senior sister, since I crafted these thirty-six Zhou Tian Sha Banners, I have been nurturing them with my own magic power day and night. Although I have been freed from the battles, whenever I return to the mountain and look at the spiritual roots and people of all races covering the mountains and plains, I often feel a few doubts in my heart."
"In my view, the way of formations is not merely a technique for killing and conquering enemies, but rather the fundamental foundation for governing a place, gathering the fortune of the sect, harmonizing water, fire, yin and yang, and settling all living beings."
Xuan Yao pointed to various places in the mountain and explained his plan in detail:
"Without the adjustment of the formation, the innate fire virtue of my Fire Phoenix Tree and the top-grade Ren water of the Peach Blossom Branch will inevitably clash within this mere mountain, and may even completely tear apart the earth veins of the entire mountain range."
Without the protection of a powerful array, the violent thunderous energy spewed from that Xuan Yin Wind and Thunder Water Eye would never have been able to integrate so peacefully into the water system of Qinghei Mountain.
More importantly, in my Qinghei Mountain, there are now Daoist soldiers and children from Xikunlun, as well as the White Fox clan who have come to rely on us, and 300,000 Yanyuan people who have just migrated from the Eastern Pole, along with that Xuanshui Old Dragon.
The various races have different origins and cultivation methods. Without this invisible formation to restrain them and establish rules, sooner or later, conflicts will arise among the disciples over the abundance of spiritual lands, resource allocation, and even the superiority of their bloodlines, thus corrupting the mountain's fortune.
"Therefore, in setting up these formations over the years, I do not seek to display much power in the outside world, but only to transform this entire Qinghei Mountain into a huge cultivation furnace that can circulate and repeat on its own."
May all living beings that enter this mountain find a peaceful haven within this furnace.
As Xuan Nu listened to Xuan Yao's eloquent speech, the smile on her fair and jade-like face gradually deepened.
She took a small sip of the Enlightenment Tea, then set the jade cup down with a clear, soft sound.
"Junior Brother's understanding of using formations to govern the family is truly commendable, and it is no wonder that Master has such high regard for you."
You were born with the Black Tiger lineage, naturally inclined towards killing and conquest. Along your cultivation journey, you have destroyed evil paths and slain Golden Immortals, leaving your hands stained with the true spirits and blood of countless cultivators.
Therefore, when you deploy your forces, your core focus is naturally on the word "suppress," on the word "lock," and even more so on the ruthless killing intent to "put people in a deadly situation."
The Mystic Maiden extended a slender finger and gently touched the air.
There was a hissing sound.
Several mysterious array patterns, interwoven with crimson and blue, suddenly appeared in the void.
The array patterns rapidly intertwined and evolved in mid-air, sometimes transforming into a fierce battle formation of tigers descending the mountain and iron horses charging into battle, and sometimes into a gentle atmosphere of flowing water and spring breeze.
"You should watch closely; this is the principle of movement and stillness being interdependent, and emptiness and fullness being mutually generative."
Xuan Nu pointed to the ever-changing array patterns and incisively pinpointed Xuan Yao's weakness:
"Your thirty-six Zhou Tian Sha Flags can indeed transform into the Tian Gang Sha Formation during battles, trapping and killing powerful enemies."
However, within the temple, when you use it to suppress the earth's veins and pacify water and fire, you are mostly using your own magical power and the might of the innate spiritual treasure to forcibly suppress it.
While this approach might keep the mountains peaceful for a short time, ultimately, the formation remains ineffective within the mountains.
"A dead formation is easy to break, but a living formation is hard to predict."
A killing formation may defeat a temporary power, but only a life-giving formation, with its inexhaustible vitality, can withstand countless calamities without collapsing.
"A truly supreme formation, when used for battle, can transform all the mountains, rivers, plants, and trees of this world into divine weapons in the palm of one's hand."
When there is no trouble, the operation of the great formation should be like the changes of the four seasons, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, silently benefiting all things.
The goal is to ensure that none of the 300,000 living beings, or even a single blade of grass or tree, within this formation can sense its restrictive power.
On the contrary, within the balanced operation of the formation's yin and yang, each element can draw upon its own spiritual energy and receive nourishment; this is the true path.
"If you want to use this set of evil flags as the foundation for your future advancement to Taiyi and your inquiry into Daluo, you must not let them only know how to seal the void and suppress enemies."
Instead, they should truly become the vital hub for the continuous flow of life between your green and black mountains, water, fire, wind, thunder, blessings, and evil spirits.
The words spoken by the Mysterious Woman were as grand and majestic as the sound of a great bell.
Xuan Yao sat on the Dao platform, as if struck by lightning, staring blankly at the ever-changing array patterns in the void, momentarily lost in thought.
He had always thought that the Zhou Tian Sha Flag was his greatest weapon of mass destruction, used to suppress Qinghei Mountain, and also to guard against external enemies and conceal the secrets of heaven.
But they never thought of letting this evil flag truly participate in the creation and life of the dojo.
"If the Demon Banner could be used as both a killing formation and a life-saving formation."
When defending against enemies, it can slay immortals and demons; in ordinary times, it can nurture mountains and rivers.
Only then can these thirty-six evil banners truly bear the Yin and Yang essence within my body, and only then are they truly qualified to become my ultimate treasure for achieving enlightenment!
With enlightenment, Xuan Yao felt that the path before him had been infinitely broadened in that instant.
He suppressed the turmoil in his heart, immediately rose from his seat, and bowed deeply to the Goddess of Mystery:
"Senior sister's words have awakened me from my dream; I have learned a great deal!"
The goddess smiled slightly and gestured for him to sit down.
In the years that followed, the two of them would spend their time under the Enlightenment Tea Tree, enjoying cups of warm spiritual tea, and engaging in long discussions about the Dao.
This discussion lasted for a full nine hundred years.
For nine hundred years, the fragrance of incense and the sounds of Taoism have lingered within Qinghei Mountain.
The Mysterious Woman generously shared her knowledge, using her mastery of military formations to fully demonstrate the intricate workings of the earth's energy.
Xuan Yao, on the other hand, uses his own blessings and virtues to ward off evil spirits, and the way of Nanming Ren Water, constantly deconstructs and clashes with Xuan Nu, mutually verifying each other.
Below the cloud steps, the disciples who were listening in, although their cultivation levels varied and they could not all understand the profound truths of the Golden Immortal, each of them received unimaginable and astonishing good fortune.
Lingxiao, with her snow-white hair, stood at the forefront, listening to Xuan Nu's explanation of the essence of military formations, including their advances and retreats, and the interplay of reality and illusion.
Her eyes, like those of a bird, blazed with a mixture of thunder and fire.
She vaguely comprehended a Wind and Thunder Escape Array that integrated her own wind and thunder escape speed with the array's trajectory.
Only then did I realize that extreme speed in the world is not just mindless, rapid flying.
Rather, it is about using the interplay of reality and illusion in advance and retreat, leaving the enemy unable to even touch the hem of their clothes—a subtle and mysterious skill.
The ancestor of the white fox clan, from those intricate and interwoven array patterns, sensed a thread of cause and effect, a connection to fate and destiny.
He secretly planned that when he returned to the valley, he could use this set of principles to sort out the grudges and causes among the mountain demons more properly.
Ancestor Yanheng listened with rapt attention.
He had been worried that the Yan Yuan clan, having just moved here, was integrating too slowly with the original earth vein energy of Qinghei Mountain.
Now, after hearing about the operation of the Water and Fire Harmony Formation, more than a dozen methods for shifting earth veins and allowing the Western Regions to be more perfectly integrated into the superior methods of Qinghei Mountain suddenly appeared in his mind.
As for the two boys, Qingya and Yuanguo, they have also made great progress in the cultivation of spiritual herbs and in patrolling mountain formations.
However, among all those present, those who gained the most profound insights and made the greatest contributions were not the veteran cultivators who had practiced for many years.
Instead, it was the youngest disciple with red hair and blue eyes, sitting in the center of the group of disciples—
Yan Yuanzi.
This little fellow was born from the primordial ancestral tree, with pure and clean roots. He was born with an astonishing sensitivity to the purest water, fire, yin, and yang energies in the world, a sensitivity that is unmatched by others.
Furthermore, after joining the Xuan Yao sect, he was nourished day and night by the innate fire essence in that red copper fire gourd, and his comprehension had already far surpassed that of ordinary acquired beings.
Those who heard the Dao were listening to the changes in the array patterns and the flow of Qi described by the Mysterious Woman.
However, to Yan Yuanzi's ears, those profound array principles spontaneously sketched a grand picture of the birth of water and fire, and the beginning of the universe, deep within his sea of consciousness.
"Water nourishes wood, wood nourishes fire, fire returns to earth, and earth gives birth to all things..."
The little guy silently muttered to himself.
In his large, clear blue eyes, the light of crimson fire and pale blue water began to flicker alternately.
On the day of the seven hundredth anniversary of the discourse.
Suddenly, a fine, cool rain began to fall from the sky.
Yan Yuanzi, who had been listening quietly to the teachings, suddenly trembled slightly.
Large streams of pure, crimson and deep blue light began to gush forth from the pores of his body.
Beneath his chubby bare foot, a somewhat immature water-fire yin-yang array pattern began to slowly unfold inch by inch along the stone platform.
As soon as the array pattern took shape, the wind, thunder, and water vapor that had been howling in the mountains instantly quieted down.
Xuan Yao and Jiu Tian Xuan Nu, who were discussing the Dao, stopped talking at the same time.
The two powerful figures turned around simultaneously, their surprised and admiring gazes falling on the youngest disciple.