Foundation Establishment Is Impossible; I'll Never Establish My Foundation in This Lifetime
"This is outrageous!"
Within the dark space, the Black-Robed Figure's chest, which had withered for many years, heaved with rage. He stretched out his bony hand and slammed it heavily onto the ground.
With a snap, the force of the recoil broke his arm, which was already as stiff as a dead tree, but he was completely unaware of it.
What happened on the light screen was just too absurd.
Everything was perfect after entering the Trial of Unfulfilled Desire. Bai Qiuran opened the Secret Manual.
Just as he was about to Body Seizure, this guy suddenly raised his hand and smashed the Secret Manual and the entire platform, which was dozens of feet high, into pieces.
Through the light screen, the Black-Robed Figure couldn't see what was written on the Secret Manual, but he could clearly see the name of the Secret Manual.
That was clearly a Foundation Establishment technique. He had encountered a similar situation during this trial. The Wisdom Immortal Cave Abode gave him a Secret Manual that taught him how to take his cultivation to the next level in the Earth Immortal Realm, which almost led him astray.
In the usual procedure, in situations like the "Trial of Unfulfilled Desire," the Wisdom Immortal Cave Abode would first use Formation to read the desires of the person undergoing the trial. Then, the Cave Abode would search for the various Secret Manual stored Cave Abode, extract the Secret Manual that best met the requirements, and only show half of it to the person undergoing the trial, causing them to be confused and experience the pain of Unfulfilled Desire.
To draw a rough analogy, the Cultivators's feelings at that time were probably like those of a reader who had just read a good book that had been interrupted. If one cannot let go of the pain of Unfulfilled Desire, one will never be able to escape the trial space of Unfulfilled Desire.
So here's the question: judging from the light screen, what Bai Qiuran is asking for is nothing more than a method for Foundation Establishment. Although the Black-Robed Figure doesn't understand why someone who cultivates unorthodox paths would go to such lengths to Foundation Establishment, the Wisdom Immortal Cave Abode contains not only secret methods for Foundation Establishment, but also a few methods from the immortals.
Logically speaking, the Foundation Establishment Secret Art in Bai Qiuran's hand should be the best Foundation Establishment Methods that was only half-written. After reading it, he should have been scratching his head and trying to Unfulfilled Desire, but instead of suddenly smashing the Secret Manual and the trial ground to pieces.
His reaction was as if... as if there were insulting words written in that book.
But will the trial mechanism of the Wisdom Immortal Cave Abode implement this operation?
Could it be that the entire Wisdom Immortal Cave Abode, which holds nearly an entire era's Wealth of wisdom and treasures, couldn't even provide him with a Foundation Establishment Method?
The Black-Robed Figure felt utterly confused, his thoughts a jumbled mess. He sighed softly, "Father Emperor, my heart aches so much..."
From the darkness beside him came a gloating laugh from the Skull. The Black-Robed Figure composed himself, snorted coldly, and reached out to snatch it back into his hand.
Immediately afterwards, he laboriously moved his already decaying body, made a Magic Incantation, and vanished into a thick fog.
Like the Black-Robed Figure, Bai Qiuran also feeling extremely aggrieved at this moment.
The pain of three thousand years has been mocked once again by an Illusion Realm, but fortunately the Secret Manual was destroyed and the trial of [Unfulfilled Desire] was automatically passed.
Beside the Floating Island that Bai Qiuran had slapped from the high platform into a platform, a bridge appeared, connecting to the depths of the night sky.
Bai Qiuran, with a sour face, stepped onto the bridge. After taking two steps, she thought for a moment, then turned around and kicked the Floating Island platform.
With a deafening roar, the platform floating in the night sky shot out like a rocket, disappearing into the depths of the night, its destination unknown.
After venting his anger, Bai Qiuran calmed down and strode confidently across the bridge into the mist, leaving that space behind.
Back on the cliff, Bai Qiuran found herself almost touching the bottom of the mountain.
All that remained before him was a thin Cloudmist. Through this Cloudmist, Bai Qiuran could even Cloudmist below, where a vast expanse of green land lay, dotted with pavilions, towers, palaces, and halls.
"Next, it should be the final suffering [the Five Blazing Aggregates], right?"
Bai Qiuran scratched his head.
"What kind of mess will this idiotic Cave Abode make of the final challenge? I have a feeling I can smell some treasure in it."
Unable to figure it out by just thinking, Bai Qiuran thought of the three mentally challenged trials she had faced before, and decided to rely on her superior skills and daring, so she recklessly walked straight into the fog.
This time, the sensation wasn't the spatial dislocation feeling of Teleportation to another dimension like before, but rather the feeling of gravity flipping that one experiences upon first entering the mountain.
As Bai Qiuran walked through the mist, he suddenly saw that the land beneath the mountains had suddenly been suspended in the sky. The pavilions and towers had all turned into Floating Island, and the land had become a sea of clouds. The mountains were also hanging upside down, as if viewed from Ten Lands of Jiuzhou.
Bai Qiuran passed through the Cloudmist and found herself in front of a tall Heavenly Gate. Behind the Heavenly Gate was a long corridor carved from white jade, connecting the various Floating Island in the sea of clouds, which looked just like the legendary Immortal Realm.
He stepped back slightly and looked up at the Heavenly Gate Heavenly Gate, where four large characters were carved with bold strokes, as if by some unknown person.
The Five Blazing Aggregates.
Just as Li Jinyao and he had guessed, this final trial was different from all the other trials before.
The Five Blazing Aggregates Five Aggregates of clinging. The Five Aggregates of clinging are the five physical and mental aggregates of form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness.
According to Buddhism teachings, everything a person hears, sees, thinks, encounters, and feels in this world brings suffering; the very existence of a person in this world is suffering.
But that's a Buddhism viewpoint, and the Earth Immortal certainly wouldn't fully agree with or accept it. Not to mention the Earth Immortal, even Bai Qiuran wouldn't agree with this viewpoint.
Life is indeed full of suffering. For example, Bai Qiuran has been unable to Foundation Establishment for three thousand years. Whenever he thinks about this, he feels pain in his heart. Tang Ruowei was born with Vertical Armor. When she sees other women with Sloped Armor, she also feels pain. But if life is only suffering and nothing else, what is the point of living in this world? It would be better to die.
The Buddha said that all things are suffering, but there is another saying: to find joy in suffering.
If there's one thing that's common ground among the Earth Immortal, Buddhism, Bai Qiuran, and Cultivators and Buddhist practitioners in this trial of Five Blazing Aggregates, it's that they all believe in changing their lives through cultivation.
But it's unclear how the Wisdom Immortal Cave Abode will express this viewpoint.
With this question in mind, Bai Qiuran stepped through the Heavenly Gate and entered the Cloud Top corridor carved from white jade.