"I was unaware of your arrival from afar, and I apologize for not greeting you properly." The old man, thin and somewhat short, with a yellow wooden hairpin in his hair, appeared under the pine tree.
I didn't realize you'd grown so old.
Gai Jiuyou sighed, looked around, and gazed at the two young men standing behind him. His expression was somewhat dazed, as the vigorous blood energy reminded him of his glorious past.
Unfortunately, even the most powerful abilities cannot defy fate. No matter how strong a person is, they cannot escape the passage of time, and now he is old and frail...
The old Daoist priest remained calm and muttered to himself, "Who in this world can Immortal of the Foreign Realm? Longevity is nothing but a delusion; what is there to say about it?"
" Su Ming greets you, senior."
" Yue Ling greets Senior."
Su Yu adopted a very humble attitude. Although the other party did not reveal their aura, the aura emanating from them was very similar to that of the Divine Silkworm Princess, indicating that they were definitely close to the Great Saint Sage level.
This ancient star is very special. Although the number of Saint and King is not as great as that of Ziwei, the number of individuals from it far surpasses that of Ziwei.
The old Daoist priest glanced at Su Yu, his gaze vacant and brimming with Daoist energy, then smiled and said, "A guest is a guest, fellow Daoist, no need for such formalities."
The four entered the Daoist temple. It was very ordinary, no different from any other Daoist temple, but there was a faint Daoist atmosphere permeating the air, revealing the extraordinary in the ordinary, and conveying a sense of returning to simplicity.
A moment later, the old Daoist priest came out of the house with a small plate containing four cups of tea. The tea was fragrant and the steam was rising gently, giving off a light and refreshing aroma.
Su Yu looked at the tea in the wooden cup. It wasn't spiritual tea, but ordinary tea leaves, seemingly made from pine needles from the pine tree in front of the door...
After drinking the tea, Su Yu moved his five fingers and took out a green wooden box, saying, "I've been so nosy, but I recently obtained a few Enlightenment Leaves, which will come in handy today."
"Please go ahead, fellow Daoist," the kind-looking old Daoist said with a gentle smile.
After obtaining permission from the owner of this place, Su Yu flicked his finger and took out another jar of Divine Spring. This was the Life Spring in the Desolate Forbidden Zone, the most suitable spiritual spring for brewing Enlightenment Tea.
" Divine Spring Enlightenment Tea, I haven't tasted this tea for many years." Smelling the fragrance of the forbidden spring water, the ailing old man's expression changed slightly as he sat on the futon and sighed.
This time, even the old Saint was somewhat tempted. He had lived in seclusion here for thousands of years, diligently cultivating the Natural Dao, and had unknowingly Enlightenment Tea for a long time.
In a short while, the spring water on the stove had boiled. The reddish-brown bronze stove was crystal clear, and the True Solar Fire leaped under it, shimmering with light and color, making it incomparably beautiful.
The clear, bright Divine Spring Water leaped within the red furnace, its Life essence rising and swirling in a hazy, ethereal mist. Around it, phantom lotus flowers swirled, shimmering with a hazy, divine light.
Inside the ancient temple deep in the mountains, four figures sat around a bronze furnace, each with a different expression. The woman in the silver dress had a gleam in her eyes, clearly enjoying the atmosphere.
The gaunt Daoist priest had a natural expression, but his empty eyes emitted a deep, eerie light as he stared at the bright firelight before him.
The sick old man ostensibly looked at the stove, but in reality, he was watching the handsome young man sitting opposite him, someone he had heard a lot about.
Su Yu placed four Enlightenment Tea Leaves into the pot, and immediately a fragrant aroma filled the air, with wisps of tea fragrance rising up. In a moment, all sorts of wondrous sights appeared.
A phoenix cries out, circling in the clear breeze and bright moonlight. Its feathers are like blood jade, radiating a crimson-gold luster, and every scale exudes an exquisite beauty.
Auspicious clouds billowed, and a Purple Qilin soared through the air, disappearing into wisps of mist. Its body was shrouded in dreamlike colors, imbuing the small house with an aura of sacred peace...
After drinking the Divine Spring Enlightenment Tea, the old Saint looked at the Nine Heavens Divine Jade in his hand, shook his head, and seemed somewhat dazed.
Gai Jiuyou drank the Enlightenment Tea cup after cup naturally, feeling the spark of inspiration in his heart. He became increasingly ethereal, his eyes no longer cloudy, but clear and bright, gazing at Su Yu beside him.
"Emperor's Blood Tempering Body, Wu Shi Inheritance, Eighth Heaven of Severing the Dao... The aura is very similar, but he possesses Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo, not Half-Chaos Body. It seems Cao Yusheng is someone else entirely..."
Sensing the old man's probing, Su Yu frowned slightly, the bell mark between his brows shining brightly, radiating countless rays of immortal light. A wisp of azure smoke flew out, its imperial aura circulating, concealing itself.
After concealing himself, he spoke in a cold and composed tone, neither humble nor arrogant. "I admire your character, senior, but isn't this behavior a bit excessive?"
Princess Yue Ling felt a little uneasy, worried that Su Yu would get into a conflict with the other party.
"Ahem, my apologies for my rudeness."
Gai Jiuyou confessed his sins without any airs of Quasi-Emperor, and recited a passage of scripture.
"Did he figure something out?" Su Yu appeared calm on the surface, but felt a little uneasy inside. He knew that what he had done to Xia Jiuyou could not be hidden from this person.
After all, Cao Yusheng's disguise wasn't Perfect World; Yao Xi, the Jade Lake Saintess, the Guishui Palace Master, and Cao Yusheng were all entangled together.
This kind of person uses the Immortal Medicine as bait, making promises to his disciple. If he were in Gai Jiuyou, he certainly wouldn't have given him a pleasant look either.
"Long confined in a cage, I've finally returned to nature!"
The old Daoist shook his head, savoring the Divine Spring tea with contentment, and recited a passage from an ancient scripture.
Princess Yue Ling was very excited, her heart filled with joy. For Su Yu, two volumes of Saint scriptures meant nothing, but for her, they were nothing.
The minor disturbance quickly subsided, and everyone returned to their proper ways, resuming their tea drinking and philosophical discussions.
As the tea ceremony drew to a close, Su Yu removed the purple-gold gourd from his body, cast a magic seal, and drew out six drops of divine liquid swirling with crimson light.
The phoenix's cry shook the heavens, and magnificent celestial light illuminated the ancient temple. Six small Divine Phoenix circled and danced, rendering the place almost like a fairyland. The fragrance of Divine Medicine was intoxicating, rich and fragrant, radiating dazzling brilliance.
This is not the fragrance of the medicinal liquid, but the aroma of the Divine Medicine that the purple-gold gourd has absorbed.
Six drops of Divine Phoenix Elixir burst forth from the sky and landed in front of the two old men respectively.
Su Yu looked at the old Daoist priest and said solemnly, "I wish to invite you to join the Green Lotus Imperial Dynasty."
Looking at the elixir of Immortal Medicine swirling with Chaos energy before him, the old Saint hesitated, then sighed, "How can I, a mere hermit from the mountains, accept such a great gift?"
Princess Yue Ling was somewhat obsessed, her limbs and bones calling out, yearning for the essence of the Divine Medicine, but she restrained herself.
" The True Phoenix Immortal Medicine." Gai Jiuyou was also somewhat lost in thought, his expression complex.
In his quest for the Immortal Medicine, he traveled to countless ancient stars and spent countless hours searching for it, but to no avail. Finally, he turned to the Qinling, hoping to enter the Immortal Transformation Pool and obtain the Dreamlike Divine Marrow.
The Immortal Divine Medicine is extremely rare; without the right destiny, it is impossible to find, not even for those on the Almost-Enlightened One. Even if one is fortunate enough to encounter it, they still need the Divine Medicine's approval, otherwise they will still be unable to obtain it.
"Add to that one's Qilin and Golden Crow Divine Medicine, and a damaged Divine Medicine. Who could have imagined that that lineage would have reached such a peak tens of thousands of years ago?"
The sick old man sighed softly, flicked his finger, and Taichu Light flew out, covering the outer layer of Imperial Qi again, sealing the six drops of Immortal Medicine.
Hearing the old Saint's words waver slightly, Su Yu's lips curled into a smile. A wisp of time-related Dao patterns flew from his fingertips as he gently said, " The Green Lotus Imperial Dynasty is not backed by the Ancient Emperor Clans, but by the Purple Mountain Lineage, and has nothing to do with the Ancient Clans."
"You're overthinking it. I don't care about that." The old Saint shook his head, his gaze lowered, his mind racing, and his tone softened.
"This is a fragment of a Heavenly Technique created by the Carefree Heavenly Venerate Venerable!" Su Yu tossed out another jade slip, his expression calm.
The old Daoist priest frowned, remaining silent as he considered what he had learned.
"I once heard the woodcutter's song, 'No one will teach me the secret of Longevity, so I will sing a long song in the spring of the mountains.' This is the secret technique of Undying created by the Longevity Heavenly Venerable — the Zhe Character Secret!" Purple light flashed in Su Yu's eyes as he waved out a red rune, which condensed into two crimson gold divine tablets, which landed in front of the two of them.
" The Nine Secrets: Zhe'!"
The old Saint's gaze sharpened, his eyes falling on the crimson-gold divine tablet before his knees, his expression complex.
As a cultivator who entered the Saint Realm in the Dharma Ending Age, he also possessed a proud spirit and firmly believed in his own Dao. However, after a thousand years of wasted time and his lifespan was nearing its end, he stopped on this path and ultimately failed to enter the Great Saint Realm.
If it weren't for this unexpected turn of events, he would have passed away in two or three years, turning into a handful of dust in this world.
Gai Jiuyou, on the other hand, did not share his concerns. He was enjoying his Divine Spring Enlightenment Tea, completely absorbed in the Dao Realm.
After setting down the Azure Heaven Divine Jade Cup, the sick old man glanced at the old Saint and said, "Fellow Daoist, you should agree. The great era is about to begin, and now that the time is ripe, why hesitate?"
"Forget it, in the end I still haven't seen through it all. I might as well go into the mortal world and take a look!"
The old Daoist priest sighed deeply, waved his sleeve, and accepted the jade slip, gold slip, and Divine Phoenix Elixir. He then stood up, bowed to Su Yu, and accepted Su Yu's invitation.
Having received the assurance of this Saint King's existence, Su Yu rose, nodded slightly, and chuckled, "Senior cultivates the Dao of Nature and may have a fondness for gardening; you could achieve great things in the Green Lotus Imperial Dynasty!"
He remained calm in the face of the Ancient Saint sage's sympathy, and was not worried that the other party would betray him.
Although this person was also a descendant of the Cai Family, in the original work, when he passed away, he looked towards the Qin Sect with a melancholy expression. He never obtained the "Soldier" secret before his death, and he was clearly in a hostile state with the Qin Sect. There may have been a love-hate relationship between them.
Moreover, with the Purple Mountain Lineage at his back, he was powerful enough to subdue everything and win over this Ancient Saint sage.
To recruit a Saint King for the Green Lotus Imperial Dynasty, Su Yu looked at Gai Jiuyou and bowed, saying, "Senior, the time for the Qinling Immortal Transformation Pool to appear has not yet arrived. Cao Yusheng left some things with me for you."
"The time is not right..."
Gai Jiuyou was somewhat lost in thought. He nodded and agreed to Su Yu's request. He pointed his fingers to form a sword, and a blue light bloomed in his hand. One after another, Dao lotuses bloomed and withered, and their clear light fell, passing on an ancient scripture to Su Yu.
In his view, this recruitment was also a message to him: now that he had benefited from others, he indeed needed to help them avoid trouble.
" The Deliverance Scripture." Su Yu raised an eyebrow, feeling as if the other party was about to see right through him.
The Ruthless One Lineage often retreats to dragon's lair, specializing in digging up ancient tombs, Gai Jiuyou, they give him this ancient scripture...
A million-word reflection
Let me explain here.
The previous chapter was simply a response to those who said Xiao Ye only updates once a day; it wasn't meant to elicit sympathy or anything else.
Xiao Ye has a clear understanding of the path of writing novels. Maintaining an average of 500 subscriptions per month (with a monthly attendance bonus of 1,000) means that she has initially embarked on this path.
Currently, the book has 29,058 favorites and an average subscription rate of 668. In other words, a total of 667 people have subscribed to the entire book, leaving only Xiao Ye herself as the sole subscriber.
The subscription rate is very low; perhaps the "clone" trope is really addictive. Maybe the author is a little greedy, wanting all the goddesses from the original work.
In the recent chapters of Big Dipper, I want to write a Xiao Ye about Lin Jia, Ji Biyue, Princess Yue Ling, and later Xia Jiuyou, but this would create a sense of disconnect in the plot.
Swallowed Star a masterpiece of the clone genre, where the protagonist has clones all around him, making the main storyline very clear. Su Yu will also return to that mode later on.
During the reign of the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor, there were Seven Heroes of Heaven-Chaos; in this Lifetime, there could be Four Heavenly Lords.
The Chaos Dao Lord – Su Yu's true form, the Chaos Body, descended upon the Shrouding the Heavens Realm with the Chaos True Spirit, and cultivated the " Indestructible Heavenly Art " to transform into Acquired Chaos Body.
Dao Bing: Chaos Dao Sword, the future Immortal Palace and Immortal Sword will merge into one, forging a unique true weapon.
Spacetime Dao Lord: Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo (True Blood), cultivates the " Wushi Scripture ", and embarks on the Spacetime Great Dao.
Immortal Phoenix Dao Lord: An incarnation of the Immortal Phoenix, who replenished his origin with the Demon God Flower, comparable to Ancient Emperor, and cultivated the inheritance of the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
The Two Aspects Dao Lord: This incarnation has not yet appeared. I plan to be born from the Taiyin Physique ( Jiang Tingting ) and the Sun Body (Sister Ye Tong ), carrying the innate Yin and Yang energies. I will retrace the Chaos with the Dao of Yin and Yang, mutually verifying with my original body, and refining the supreme Chaos Dao fruit.
At that time, all the clones will merge into one, and the weapons will also merge into one. The sword and the palace will become one; the Immortal Palace will be used to travel through the River of Time, and the immortal Immortal Sword will be used to kill enemies!
It's still a matter of personality; the author is somewhat greedy, always wanting everything, but in the process, he encounters many troubles.
I originally wanted to write more about Xia Jiuyou, but I'll leave that for the future. I'll leave her two Emperor Scripture; we'll meet again if fate allows.
The next plot involves annihilating all the saints, occupying the Ziwei Ancient Star, devouring and digging up graves along the way, and bringing Duan De to Ziwei to work as a laborer, no longer treating him as a human being.
Let's take it slow. Even if the average daily subscription drops to 500 in the future, this book will still be finished. However, updates may be much slower then, since I won't have perfect attendance anymore, and daily updates might stop.
The beginning of this book has major flaws. It was Xiao Ye's first time signing a contract, and the beginning was a mess. The later parts were unbearable to read. She patiently revised it extensively, but it was still beyond saving. This is equivalent to a congenital deficiency.
Even so, despite all the stumbles and falls along the way, he still managed to write a million words, which can be considered a small goal in his life. More than ten years ago, Xiao Ye wanted to write a novel, and now he has fulfilled his wish.
These past few days, with the school under lockdown, the nights raining, and the heat, I've been feeling a bit down. I used to think I could make a living by writing online novels, but that's just wishful thinking. Let's encourage each other and wait for tomorrow.