"Then just follow the wishes of fellow Taoist."
"After Fellow Taoist Yan returns home, I will give you the method of refining the Red Soul Banner. You can collect other auxiliary materials first to avoid wasting too much time in the future."
The little boy responded nonchalantly. As his figure swayed, his illusory body gradually dissipated into the air.
Hearing this, Yan Yun was of course overjoyed.
Then he waved his sleeves, and the cyan light on his body suddenly showed a dazzling brilliance.
The escape speed increased to the extreme, turning into a soft green light that penetrated the atmosphere.
In an instant, it disappeared above the surrounding sea level.
A few months later, Yan Yun finally returned to Tiannan through the ancient teleportation array.
He pocketed all the six-winged frost centipedes guarding the teleportation array, then destroyed the teleportation array again and quietly left the underground cave.
In the next two months, Yan Yun set foot on the Yunmeng Mountains of Xi Country again.
He only told Lu Luo the news that he had returned through the transmission talisman, and then flew straight to Zimu Peak without meeting the elder Lu.
At this time, Nangong Wan was in retreat.
Naturally, Yan Yun would not choose to disturb Nangong Wan's practice.
For practitioners like them, a brief separation in just a few years is actually like a snap of a finger.
The entire Tiannan cultivating world, including those who were watching the situation, had no idea that he, the leading cultivator in Tiannan, had stayed outside the Luoyun Sect for a short period of time.
Lu Luo couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that Yan Yun had returned.
At this moment, Luoyun Sect is relying on Yan Yun's prestigious reputation to maintain its status, unless there are three or four more Nascent Soul stage monks in the sect.
Otherwise, except for Yan Yun, Luoyun Sect's status as a super large sect seems to be a bit shaky.
However, as soon as Yan Yung returned to the cave, he immediately sent a jade slip to Liu Yu by means of a flying sword.
It recorded in detail all the auxiliary materials needed to refine the Red Soul Banner, and asked her to try her best to help collect them during her retreat.
Then, he stepped into the secret room and began to practice the last level of the Qingyuan Sword Technique with all his strength and to refine the Five Cold Flame Demons at the same time.
Time flies, time flies!
In the blink of an eye, another fifty years have passed!
During this period, Yan Yun noticed that Nangong Wan was out of seclusion, so he immediately interrupted his practice and went out to spend quality time with his lover, and walked hand in hand for half a year.
During this journey, Yan Yun enjoyed Nangong Wan's gentle care. When the two of them returned to Zimu Peak again, they naturally began to live a boring life of retreat.
In fact, this is also a kind of helplessness as a practitioner. On the one hand, they possess vast magical powers and extremely long lifespans that are unmatched by mortals.
On the other hand, they must practice unremittingly before their limited life span, just to pursue the almost unattainable wish of immortality.
If you are born with extremely high will and determination, they may not think that cultivation is a painful thing, but for most practitioners, this situation is undoubtedly a dilemma.
Continue to pursue the supreme path of spiritual practice, but the future seems increasingly far and long.
It is really hard to face the fact that the spiritual life in this life is limited to boring meditation and retreat.
If we don’t try further to practice, we will miss the precious opportunity to embark on the journey of self-cultivation in this life.
No one can give up easily even if the chance of finding the road is slim.
Besides, every time you break through a realm, you can enjoy the huge benefit of doubling your lifespan, which undoubtedly urges many immortal cultivators to strengthen their determination.
Therefore, in this world of immortality cultivation, we can clearly see serious polarization.
Standing at one end are those middle and low-level monks with mediocre qualifications and low cultivation. Although they have just completed their studies, they know that the possibility of advancing again is slim.
But they are not willing to spend the rest of their lives on the path of seclusion and practice. They prefer to live an idle life of romance, wives and concubines.
Some people even decided to return to the secular world, establish their own large families, and become local rulers.
On the other hand, those high-level monks felt that they were very close to the road to immortality.
They race against time, devote themselves wholeheartedly to their practice, and turn a blind eye to everything else.
Yan Yun and Nangong Wan undoubtedly belong to the latter group.
Nowadays, they are in the realm of late Yuanying and middle Yuanying respectively, and they can be called top monks in the human world.
As long as they successfully ascend to the spirit world, they can approach the true path to immortality.
Therefore, although they have a deep relationship after becoming partners, they are quite restrained in pursuing sexual pleasure.
Although the dual cultivation method has a positive effect on improving cultivation, the exercises they practice do not involve such content.
And this increase in power seems almost inconsequential to them at the moment.
On the contrary, they are worried about overindulging in it and thus damaging the foundation of spiritual practice. Therefore, they do not deliberately force matters between men and women, but only touch it lightly.
However, because they jointly pursue the same path of heaven, the relationship between the two naturally reaches the state of a loving couple who are connected and in harmony.
Therefore, when they retreat again, they will no longer easily leave the cave.
Until one day, a deafening thunder suddenly came from the sky above Zimu Peak, and then with the peak as the core, the vitality of the heaven and earth for hundreds of miles was violently shaken.
Countless colorful fist-sized auras of light.
They emerged without warning from the underground, rocks, and trees of the nearby mountains, and then quickly gathered towards the Zimu Peak.
In the end, they condensed into a huge bright spiritual cloud over the mother peak, covering an area of several acres, flickering and rotating high in the sky.
This spiritual cloud happened to be located under the cave where Yan Yun was.
Such a spectacular sight instantly attracted the attention of the disciples of Yanyun Sect on Zimu Peak, and also attracted the attention of Nangong Wan who was in retreat.
They looked up to the sky in astonishment, observing the omens before them.
Since Zimu Peak is very close to Luoyun Sect, the higher-ups within the sect will naturally receive such information.
They immediately sent out more than a dozen dazzling rays of light, which shot out from the Luoyun Sect's prohibition formation and rushed straight towards the Zimu Peak.
Lu Luo and another woman surnamed Song who had advanced to the Nascent Soul stage were the first to bear the brunt. Their faces were solemn and extremely worried.
Among the figures who arrived later, a woman wearing a white robe was seen with a happy face. This person was Liu Yu.
Although her cultivation has not made significant progress over the years, because she represents Yan Yun.
His status within the sect has surpassed most of the Yuanying stage elders, becoming the first person under the Yuanying stage elders.
Even Lu Luo and the woman named Song had to remain in awe of her.
Liu Yu felt a little excited in her heart. If Yan Yun could really go up to the next level, her status would be improved and it would bring endless benefits.
She was once so powerful that it would be difficult for her to taste all the benefits and go back to practice again.
Now in the secular world, his status is on par with monks of the same level and even old monsters in the Nascent Soul stage, which makes him extremely intoxicated. She knew that her talent was mediocre, and after successive attempts at Nascent Soul failed, she gave up her dream of forming a baby, and devoted herself to assisting Master Luo in creating a reserve world.
Although he failed to understand the great truth, he was not willing to spend the rest of his life in an ordinary way.
Therefore, Chujie's rapid rise is partly due to her hard work.
This move made Master Luo happy and gave her more power.
However, when everyone arrived outside the mother peak, they were blocked by restrictions.
Seeing that the spiritual energy vortex was about to descend on the mother peak, Liu Yu anxiously sent a message to the forbidden area.
Soon, the fog at the entrance dissipated, and everyone quickly passed through. As soon as they came out of the fog, they saw Mu Peiling holding a yellow flag and waiting respectfully.
"Two elders, Miss Nangong has been waiting here for a long time. Please come with me."
Mu Peiling put away the yellow flag and pointed to the distant sub-peak. No one at the scene had any objections and immediately followed him towards Zifeng.
At the top of the sub-peak, Nangong Wan was wearing a pure white dress, like a fairy coming to the world. She stroked her brow and glanced at Lu Luo and others, her eyes flickering.
There are two male and female monks beside him, namely Tian Qin'er and male disciple Shi Jian.
They both took elixirs decades ago, and Tian Qiner took the beauty elixirs, which kept her appearance as before. Therefore, she remained as beautiful as a flower for many years.
After meeting the woman surnamed Song and Lu Luo, the two quickly returned behind Nangong Wan and stood by respectfully.
"Elder Nangong, can Junior Brother Yan break through the bottleneck of the Divine Realm on his own?"
When Lu Luo arrived, he asked Nangong Wan.
"Except for breaking through the realm of gods, ordinary bottlenecks can't be so powerful. It's just that this celestial phenomenon has been going on for a while, and it seems that the progress is not ideal."
Nangong Wan answered slightly worriedly.
"Why is the progress not good? The celestial phenomenon caused by Junior Brother Yan is so amazing, can progress still be slow?"
Lu Luo said in surprise.
"If we can summon the spiritual cloud to come to the top of the mountain and merge with my husband, we are 90% sure of this breakthrough."
"However, the landing process of Lingyun is quite difficult, which shows that the way of the vitality of heaven and earth has not yet been mastered, so the outcome of this breakthrough may not be smooth."
As an expert in the transformation stage, Nangong Wan shared her insights.
After hearing this, everyone turned to look at the spiritual cloud high in the sky. They saw that the spiritual cloud tried to descend to the mother peak several times, but was unable to do so due to an invisible force that hindered it.
This made everyone's hearts sink to the bottom. Lu Luo had no time to study it carefully, and could only focus on the sky in the distance.
Although the woman surnamed Song did not say a word, her eyes were flickering, and her heart was far less calm than her appearance. The moods of other immortal cultivators are complicated and rich.
But facing the two Nascent Soul elders, no one dared to speak casually and could only wait in silence.
At this time, the spiritual clouds high in the distance suddenly vibrated, making a weird low-frequency buzzing sound.
Then, the whole cloud rolled and rolled, accompanied by a shocking loud noise.
It exploded with a loud bang, and colorful lights instantly dissipated into the air.
At the same time, the spiritual energy and light groups that were continuously coming here gradually became illusory and unreal amidst the elegant sigh of the mother peak.
In an instant, the area around Zimu Peak returned to its original state.
When Nangong Wan saw this, she smiled a little regretfully and said:
"Senior Brother Yan has almost reached the threshold of becoming a god, but unfortunately he failed."
"However, Senior Brother Yan's current strength is enough to prove that he has enough potential. As long as he works harder, he will soon enter the stage of becoming a god."
"Indeed, Junior Brother Yan's strength is enough to support his many attempts. Entering the realm of divine transformation is by no means unattainable."
Lu Luo expressed deep regret, but still nodded in agreement.
"Having said that, my husband is acting steadily. If he decides to try to break through to become a god, he must be fully prepared. His cultivation must have reached a bottleneck before he chose to take this final step."
"It seems that unless there are other opportunities, even if you try many times, it will probably be in vain."
Nangong Wan thought for a moment and smiled helplessly.
Lu Luo and the woman surnamed Song knew the truth. What they just said were just words of comfort. It was inconvenient to say more after hearing Nangong Wan's words now.
Liu Yu's heart was also full of regrets. Just when she was about to express her opinion, Yan Yun's clear voice came from the mother peak:
"Wan'er! Now that Senior Brother Lu and Junior Sister Song have arrived, please go to the cave to have a talk."
"I failed to break through to become a god this time. I may have to leave Tiannan for a while. There are some things that I need to explain clearly to them. By the way, Liu Yu is also invited to come."
"Senior Brother Lu and Junior Sister Song, let's go to Mother Peak together."
Nangong Wan frowned slightly, then smiled slightly and looked at Lu Luo and the female cultivator named Song.
The two understood each other and immediately cast spells, turning into several beams of light that quickly swept towards the mother peak.
The remaining Tian Qin'er and Shi Jian were not invited by Yan Yun, and their faces showed disappointment, so they had to wait in the field.
All disciples in the Dan Formation Stage carefully obeyed the orders, and no one dared to leave without permission.
At this moment, the female cultivator surnamed Song had disappeared from the mother peak, and everyone started to talk a little bit.
At this time, several monks who were familiar with Shi Jian and Tian Qin'er invited them to talk together. The two were in a happy mood and were quite talkative.
Although I have been cultivating elixirs for a long time, I have been practicing at Zimu Peak all year round and have received good feedback from my interactions with everyone.
Nangong Wan and others stayed at Yanyun Cave for several hours without seeing anyone return, which aroused everyone's suspicion...
Three months later, a green light was seen rising from the Luoyun Mountains and disappearing without a trace in an instant.
A few days later, news came from Luoyun Sect that Elder Yan had left the sect and embarked on a journey again.
The destination and travel time were vague, and no one could give a clear answer.
However, many sects seemed to be secretly grateful for this matter, because they had already known that Yan Yun's attack on the transformed god was unsuccessful, and their worries were resolved with this matter.
Although Yan Yun has become the leading expert in Tiannan, after successfully transforming into a god, his life span will be increased to more than 2,000 years.
Such a long period of time is undoubtedly too heavy for some sects who have ambitions to get rid of oppression.
So while Yan Yun had not completed his breakthrough, his journey seemed natural to outsiders.
Judging from past experience, simple practice often cannot break through the bottleneck, and seeking external opportunities is an inevitable choice.
However, the possibility of success is extremely low, otherwise the three great monks of Tiannan would not have been stagnant in the late Nascent Soul for hundreds of years. (End of chapter)