Path of the Five Immortals
Chapter 27

Gui Water True Scripture

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The "Gui Water True Scripture" is the most powerful and core immortal art of the Gui Water Immortal Sect. It, along with the Yi Wood Immortal Sect's "Yi Wood Guiding Immortal Art," the Ding Fire Immortal Sect's "Ding Fire Burning Heaven Art," the Ji Earth Immortal Sect's "Ji Earth Mountain Pressing Skill," and the Xin Metal Immortal Sect's "Xin Metal Shattering a Thousand Armies," are known as some of the oldest, most mysterious, and most powerful immortal arts in the Immortal Spirit Realm. For hundreds of millions of years, countless people have sought to join these five ancient immortal sects, but none have ever found the location of their mountain gates.

The "Gui Water True Scripture" begins with the words, "Heaven has the Five Elements: Water, Fire, Metal, Wood, and Earth. They divide time and nurture, forming all things. They generate and overcome each other, endlessly regenerating. However, Water is the foundation of the Five Elements. It can be as firm as metal, as thick as earth, as flammable as can be, and as light as air." The Five Elements generate and overcome each other, maintaining balance. However, in the beginning of chaos, they were born in a specific order. Water was the first to appear. With water came life, followed by the birth of Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal, until they slowly formed a balanced state of generation and overcoming, circulating between heaven and earth, and enabling the growth of all things.

Water is the foundation of all elements and the head of the Five Elements. If it is eternal ice, its hardness can be comparable to top-tier metals; if it is Qian Zhong Heavy Water, it is like a thick earth mountain; if it is extremely cold, it can become flammable; if it turns into mist, it is as vibrant as the breath of emerald wood. Therefore, among these five ancient immortal sects, their cultivation methods are also divided into strong and weak. However, this strength and weakness is only reflected below the Great Ascension Stage. If these five immortal arts are cultivated to the Great Ascension Stage at the same time, without considering factors such as aptitude and ability, the power and divine abilities of the immortal arts alone are indistinguishable. This aligns with the concept of the ultimate balance and perfection of the Five Elements. Below the Great Ascension Stage, without considering factors such as aptitude and ability, the "Gui Water True Scripture" is the strongest, encompassing all things. The "Yi Wood Guiding Immortal Art" is second, and so on. However, the difference between them is not significant. The Xin Metal Immortal Sect, ranked last, has the fastest cultivation speed and the sharpest attacks, often overpowering the other sects in terms of realm. However, the depth of its spiritual power is not as solid and profound as the other four sects.

Cultivating the "Gui Water True Scripture" uses the Water Spirit Root as its foundation. Each realm culminates in cultivating to a balance according to the Five Elements' generating principle, allowing one to enter the next realm. Taking the first layer of the Qi Condensation Stage as an example, Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal generate each other in pairs, resembling five large vats of varying heights arranged in order. Water is the tallest vat, followed by Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal, with Metal being the shortest vat. Cultivating the "Gui Water True Scripture" begins with the tallest Water attribute vat as the foundation. During cultivation, it is like pouring water. When the Water spiritual power is cultivated to the brim of the vat, the Water spiritual power vat is full. However, unlike other immortal sect cultivation methods, it does not impact the second layer of the Qi Condensation Stage and then advance.

Cultivating the "Gui Water True Scripture" cannot impact the second layer of the Qi Condensation Stage at this time. One must continue to cultivate. The continued cultivation of Water spiritual power has nowhere to be stored because the vat is full. It will continuously overflow from the Water spiritual power vat and pour into the slightly lower Wood spiritual power vat. When the Water spiritual power reaches this vat, it will generate Wood spiritual power due to the generating principle, until the Wood spiritual power vat is also filled. At this time, continuing to cultivate will cause the Water spiritual power to continue overflowing and pouring into the Wood spiritual power vat. Because the Wood spiritual power vat is already full, it will overflow again and pour into the lower Fire spiritual power vat. Similarly, due to the power of the Five Elements generating each other, the Fire spiritual power vat will generate Fire spiritual power. This continues until the final Metal spiritual power vat is also filled. Then, the Five Elements generating each other is complete, and one can impact the second layer of the Qi Condensation Stage.

With each subsequent advancement in realm, the spiritual power vats in the body also continuously expand and grow taller due to the improvement in realm. This requires using higher-level

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mental cultivation incantations to cultivate, once again completing the filling of the Five Elements spiritual power vats, repeatedly.

This highlights the requirements for selecting disciples in these five ancient immortal sects. The importance of the strength and arrangement of the spiritual root attributes in their bodies is crucial. If the spiritual roots in their bodies are not arranged in a decreasing order according to the generating principle, then during the cultivation of this method, the spiritual power in their bodies will be greatly disrupted. The cultivator will be unable to control the spiritual power in their body, and they will die a violent death.

For example, if a person with Mixed Spirit Root has the best Water spiritual power sensing, they need to cultivate the "Gui Water True Scripture." However, if their other spiritual power sensing is arranged as Fire, Earth, Metal, and Wood, then when he fills the Water spiritual power vat of the "Gui Water True Scripture," and continues to cultivate, the spiritual power overflowing from the Water spiritual power vat will pour into the Fire spiritual power vat. However, Fire spiritual power cannot be generated by Water spiritual power. The result will only be a violent rampage caused by spiritual power repulsion, and there will be no other outcome. In the end, there is only a miserable death.

This type of Five Elements cultivation method seems complicated and difficult to cultivate. Others only need to cultivate one attribute to quickly advance, while they need to cultivate all Five Elements to advance to the next stage. It seems that it takes several times longer than others, which is the biggest taboo in the Cultivation World. Cultivation, cultivation, is about time. Otherwise, if you haven't cultivated to the Foundation Establishment Stage in a few decades, you won't have time to advance to the next stage and increase your lifespan, and you will die of old age first. However, this is not the case for the Five Immortal Sects. This is also the strength of these five ancient cultivation sects. They use the generating principle. Except for the first layer of the Qi Condensation Stage, which requires cultivating the Five Elements spiritual power from scratch, once you have cultivated the final Metal spiritual power in the first layer of the Qi Condensation Stage, you will complete a self-sustaining Five Elements cycle. At this time, Metal can generate Water, which will drive the accelerated generation and flow of Water spiritual power. The faster Water spiritual power will drive the other attribute spiritual powers to accelerate generation again, which will gradually make the cultivation speed faster and faster.

The second benefit of the "Gui Water True Scripture" is that the spiritual power in the bodies of cultivators in the same stage is three to five times that of other cultivators in the same stage, except for the Five Immortal Sects. However, this depends on the size of the spiritual power vats in your body. This allows for longer duration during battles and greater power when using spells.

The third benefit is that one can cultivate immortal arts of different spiritual power attributes. Although cultivators of other sects other than those with Saint Spirit Root can also cultivate or use immortal arts of other attributes at the same time, very few cultivate more than two attributes at the same time. This will greatly extend the advancement time, which is not what they want. Even if there are a few special cultivation methods, they can only cultivate two attributes at the same time, and there is a distinction between strong and weak. Usually, they still focus on their main cultivation method. Unlike the immortal arts of these five ancient sects, the spiritual power is generated from each other. There is no strong or weak relationship when using them. For example, if you want to use an Earth attribute immortal technique, and the spiritual power is insufficient, you can pour Fire attribute spiritual power into the Earth attribute vat to convert it into Earth spiritual power. The Wood spiritual power will continuously generate Fire attribute spiritual power to replenish the Fire spiritual power. In this way, there is no embarrassing situation where the power of a certain type of immortal technique is weak due to the scarcity of that attribute's spiritual power. Of course, the premise is that you have time to cultivate various attribute immortal techniques.

This is the true terror of the five ancient sects, and what the major sects in the Immortal Spirit Realm do not understand. The terror of their immortal arts comes from the generating principle of the core power.

Seeing this, Li Yan also remembered the strange smile Dong Fuyi gave when he said he would cultivate to the peak of the first layer of the Qi Condensation Stage. Now he understood its meaning. In this way, Military Advisor Ji absorbs the internal energy of others. Because he is only at the third layer of the Qi Condensation Stage, the person being absorbed cannot exceed his maximum tolerance limit, which is that the spiritual power cannot exceed the peak of the first layer of the Qi Condensation Stage. Otherwise, they will die from the backlash due to the opponent's spiritual power being too large. However, with the "Gui Water True Scripture" cultivation method, when he cultivates to the peak of the first layer of the Qi Condensation Stage, the spiritual power in his body is at least three times that of ordinary cultivators. If Military Advisor Ji absorbs it, the one who dies in the end will not be himself, but Military Advisor Ji. Secondly, if he changes the attribute of the spiritual power output when absorbing his spiritual power, and it is not the Wood spiritual power cultivated by the "Black Night Curtain Azure Skill," then if it is absorbed into his body, the result can be imagined.

However, the premise of these two results is that he must cultivate the "Gui Water True Scripture" to a certain extent.

After Li Yan finished reading this opening summary, although he had not seen what other immortal cultivation sects looked like, he could not help but sigh, "There is such a monstrous cultivation method in the world. It is truly not allowed by the Heavenly Dao. No wonder the inheritance is so difficult. The cycle of the Heavenly Dao has its own principles."

Then, he focused his mind and looked back. There were only a dozen lines left, which were the cultivation incantations for the first layer of the Qi Condensation Stage. Li Yan's spirit was lifted. The great path had arrived.

Li Yan slowly opened his eyes. He was still in the stone house, still sitting cross-legged on the bed. However, he had an additional incantation in his mind. He had just repeatedly memorized these dozen lines of incantations in his Sea of Consciousness several times. After confirming that there were no mistakes, he wondered how to get out. Then, with a thought, he withdrew from his Sea of Consciousness.

Li Yan closed his eyes again, thought about the method of entering and exiting his Sea of Consciousness, and concentrated his mental power on his forehead again. After a blur in front of his eyes, he came to the small lake again. Then, he used his will to drive himself out of this space. In an instant, he returned to the real world.

He stood up, standing on the ground, and could not help but reveal a trace of a smile on his face. He had finally mastered the method of entering and exiting his Sea of Consciousness, and had also obtained the cultivation method of the "Gui Water True Scripture." Then, the next step was how to escape this Valley of Savage Beasts.

After lunch, Li Yan came to the door of the first stone house with brisk steps. As usual, the gentle voice of Military Advisor Ji came from the house, "You've come. Come in." Li Yan smiled slightly and pushed the door open.

Military Advisor Ji was still sitting cross-legged behind the low table as if he had never changed. However, his face looked a little uncertain. Looking at Li Yan who came in, he calmed his mind and casually pointed to the carpet in front of the table, "Sit."

After he came back, he sat cross-legged and meditated for a while as usual, calming the restlessness in his chest. Recently, the Fire Poison in his body had become increasingly difficult to suppress. It was better not to use spiritual power, but once he used it, he felt a sense of chaotic aura. When he rescued Li Yan outside just now, he used spiritual power several times and felt that his aura was a little unstable. "Time is running out. At this rate, I estimate that I won't be able to suppress it for one or two years," he thought in his heart. Then, </di>

he habitually reached out with his left hand from his sleeve, and his eyes casually looked at the two-layered book. "But I can't put all my hopes on that kid. It's just that this book should have been set with a profound restriction, hmm." He was thinking about things in his heart, but the scene in front of him could not help but make him stunned. He immediately stood up from the ground. The book was still the two books that were stuck together, but the book from one-third downwards was no longer the familiar light yellow color. Originally, the upper one-third of this book was jade white, and the lower two-thirds were light yellow. Since obtaining this Jade Slip and Jade Book, in order to facilitate reading, he used mana to stick the two together. It had been like this for so many years, the book never left his hand, and he studied it diligently every day. But now it was no longer the scene he was familiar with. The upper one-third was still jade white, as always, but the lower two-thirds had turned gray-brown, as if it had lost its luster. This change could not help but shock him.

He hurriedly took the two books that were put together to his eyes and carefully observed them, turning the books over and over again several times, and viewing them from different angles. Finally, he confirmed that the books had indeed changed. He carefully turned the book to one-third of the way down. The cover of the original light yellow Jade Book was now lifeless, like a withered and decayed wood. He silently circulated his mana and poured it into it. After a while, he only heard a clear "poof" sound. The gray-brown book was actually successfully penetrated by his mana. Military Advisor Ji was overjoyed and thought, "Has the restriction on this book been lost with the years? Today, this color should be the power of the restriction failing." Then, he hurriedly released his Divine Sense and cautiously approached and penetrated it little by little. After a moment, he found that there was nothing wrong, and increased the power of his Divine Sense and slowly delved into the Jade Book. Immediately, he saw an unexpected scene. The book was a vast space, but in the very center was a map suspended in the air that was slightly twisted by the wind. From a distance, he could see several winding lines and some markings on it.

At this time, he did not forget to carefully approach the map with his Divine Sense. After a long while, his Divine Sense finally stopped in front of the map, and no unexpected situation occurred. This made him breathe a sigh of relief, but he still only approached the map with his Divine Sense and did not touch it. This seemed to be a route map. Several different routes converged from several directions of the map to an area in the center, and finally stopped at a place similar to a lake, with a few flashing blood-red characters on it: "Grand Poisonous Life-Creating Art." He stared blankly at these words. "Grand Poisonous Life-Creating Art, Grand Poisonous Life-Creating, this should be a Poison Cultivation immortal art or a Poison Usage immortal art. Heaven has not forsaken me, Heaven has not forsaken me, haha." A person like Military Advisor Ji, who was so city-like, was now ecstatic. After the ecstasy, he carefully studied the map.

After a long time, Military Advisor Ji withdrew his Divine Sense from the Jade Book, his face showing a mixture of joy and anger. He had just carefully studied the map, and finally hardened his heart and touched the map with a trace of his Divine Sense. The result was that nothing unexpected happened, which completely put his mind at ease.

He seemed to have been to the place marked on this map, but some of the terrain and landforms were not the same. In his impression, this should be more than 10,000 miles west into the Great Green Mountains, and then turn north for about 4,000 miles. There was a long and narrow valley with a lake that was somewhat similar to this map, but the scenery around the lake on the map was different from what he remembered. For a time, he was a little unable to determine it.

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