"Watching chess until the axe handle rots, chopping wood with ringing blows, I stroll by the valley mouth beneath the clouds. Selling firewood to buy wine, I laugh wildly to delight my heart. Autumn rises over the mossy path; facing the moon, I pillow my head on pine roots and sleep until dawn. Finding the familiar woods, I climb cliffs and cross ridges, axe in hand to sever withered vines. Gathering a shoulder-load, I sing my way to market and trade it for three measures of rice-"
As the Immortal Song rang out, Jiang Ming knew he had finally found Mount Lingtai Fangcun.
Jiang Ming had worried that he would not be able to find Mount Lingtai Fangcun. Throughout those ten or so years of seeking immortals and asking after the Dao, he had relied almost entirely on Stone Monkey's instincts. This better accorded with the rules governing the Heavenly Dao.
Over those ten years, Jiang Ming had unknowingly entered the Quasi-Saint realm, achieved another breakthrough in the Hongmeng Evolution Great Dao, and completed an Evil Corpse Severing.
But Jiang Ming had long since ceased distinguishing between good and evil. The corpses he severed through Three Corpses Severing were no different from his true self. He simply treated it as a cloning technique.
In this, Jiang Ming had drawn on Laozi, Taiqing Daode Tianzun's One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones technique. Everything had now fallen into place.
Jiang Ming eagerly anticipated what would come next. He wanted to see whether this monkey could leap off the chessboard of this Karmic Tribulation, transform from a chess piece into a player, and overturn the entire game.
"Greetings, immortal brother!"
Seeing the woodcutter, Jiang Ming immediately rushed over in delight and greeted him in imitation of human etiquette from the Great Tang.