Aperture-Opening Pill
On the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the new Immortal Calendar 4037, in a thatched hut on the northern edge of the Dragon-Gazing Lake Desert the Purple Mother Continent.
Tang Yuan sat on the wooden stool, looking at the ten [Aperture-Opening Pill] in the brocade box, his brows slightly furrowed.
Sitting to the side, the Earth Flood Dragon Hou Fei, who had manifested as a woman in yellow, snorted softly, "Tang Yuan, what are you still hesitating about?"
Of your six children, apart from the two younger ones who are still unknown whether they are Aperture Opener, it is now known that your other four children are not naturally Aperture Opener and therefore cannot cultivate immortality.
I meant well, using the Demon Realm's [Nether Bureau] Cultivation Method I learned, expending my own Law Power, plus fifty years of your lifespan and a thousand strands of [Moon Jade Radiance] Spiritual Qi, and using this [Dragon Skeleton Jade Mud], I finally managed to create these ten [Aperture-Opening Pill].
"Once your four children take the [Aperture-Opening Pill], they will open their [Innate Aperture] and be able to cultivate immortality."
"Hmm, thank you, Hou Fei. Let me think about it some more." Tang Yuan nodded and fell into deep thought.
Tang Yuan now has six children:
The eldest son, Tang Tiansong, is seventeen years old.
The sixteen-year-old second daughter: Tang Tianlan
Fourteen-year-old twins: Third daughter: Tang Tianzi; Fourth son: Tang Tiandong;
The five sons, aged seven: Tang Tianya;
Born in November of the 4032nd year of the New Immortal Calendar, the youngest son, Tang Tianshu, is five years old this year.
Tang Yuan has been back in Dangwu Village on the northern slope of the Dragon-Gazing Lake Desert for over a month. In order to minimize any connection with his family and prevent being divined by powerful beings, Tang Yuan has not lived in his home in Dangwu Village for over a month. Instead, he has built a thatched hut on the edge of the Dragon-Gazing Lake Desert, about a hundred miles south of Dangwu Village, and lives alone.
Over the course of more than a month, Tang Yuan only managed to return home once to visit his elderly mother, wife, and children, during the nights of fierce storms.
All mortals are born with Spirit Root, but mortals are innate "Heavenly Aperture" beings. Only their own Spirit Root can connect with the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, and only then can they cultivate immortality.
Among ordinary people, those who are born with innate intelligence (Aperture Opener) number less than three in a thousand.
The nine orifices of a person are: eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth, genitals, and anus.
All things are born from the void and chaos, and all originate from Qi.
The Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth is all called Qi, which is the Acquired Qi.
All things possess their own Qi, and the Qi within the human body is called Innate Qi, also known as the Spirit Root.
Cultivators absorb the Spiritual Qi of heaven Acquired Qi —into their bodies and merge it with the Innate Qi within their bodies, thereby increasing their own Qi.
Cultivators absorb the Qi of heaven and earth through breathing exercises, comprehending even a fraction of the three thousand Heavenly Dao principles. This allows them to transform their internal Qi into chaos, their physical body into emptiness, escaping the material Principle governing all things, achieving what the physical body cannot, covering a thousand miles in a single step, and attaining eternal life in all forms...
Nine orifices are blocked, but one is open.
One orifice is ignorant, but nine orifices are open.
When a person is in the womb, their eyes, ears, nose, mouth, genitals, and anus are all closed, and the nine orifices are not open, making it impossible to communicate with the outside world. The only connection to the outside world is through the umbilical cord, which passes through the mother's body. This is called "one orifice open, nine orifices closed".
When a baby is born, the umbilical cord breaks, forming the navel. About half an inch below the navel is the [Innate Aperture].
At this point, one aperture—the [Innate Aperture]—is blocked, but the nine apertures are open.
The Innate Aperture is invisible to the naked eye of mortals.
For the vast majority of people, their Innate Aperture are closed at birth.
When people eat and drink, listen to the five tones, distinguish the seven colors, taste the hundred flavors, urinate, and defecate, they block the channels of Qi in the nine orifices, preventing the Qi of heaven and earth from entering the human body and merging with the Innate Qi, thus making it impossible to cultivate immortality.
Of those less than three out of a thousand, the Innate Aperture below the navel is open at birth; these are called those with Aperture Opener."
In this way, the Spiritual Qi of heaven Acquired Qi —can enter the human body through the [Innate Aperture], merge with the Innate Qi within the body, and thus cultivate immortality.
[Those Aperture Opener] are, in fact, the vast majority of people have mediocre Spirit Root.
Among those Aperture Opener Innate Aperture are not yet opened, there is a probability of less than one in ten million that they possess an exceptional Heaven Spirit Root.
Whether for the future of the sect or for their own benefit, cultivators who encounter those with Aperture Opener Heaven Spirit Root will give them "Aperture-Opening Pill" to open their "Innate Aperture," allowing them to cultivate immortality.
However, refining this [Aperture-Opening Pill] requires not only spiritual materials and precious medicines, but also consumes more than a hundred years of a cultivator's lifespan.
At the same time, the cultivator's cultivation level must be above the [Purple Mansion] realm.
The [Aperture- Aperture-Opening Pill Aperture-Opening Pill] was a legendary existence in the Human Realm, but Hou Fei, the Earth Flood Dragon in the Mystic Spoon, actually managed to create one by reading the autobiographies, miscellaneous notes, and Cultivation Method manuals of cultivators borrowed by Tang Yuan.
To create an [Aperture-Opening Pill], Hou Fei not only needed to consume her own Law Power, but also [Dragon Skeleton Jade Mud], five years of Tang Yuan's lifespan, and one hundred strands of [Moon Jade Radiance] Spiritual Qi.
Making ten [Aperture-Opening Pill] requires one thousand strands of [Moon Jade Radiance], which is why Tang Yuan spent two thousand five hundred Spirit Stone to buy Spiritual Qi from Wu Ningning.
However, every gain comes with a loss. The Earth Flood Dragon's "kindness" in creating ten [Aperture-Opening Pill] for Tang Yuan's children to consume, enabling them to cultivate immortality, came with conditions:
First, among the children or descendants of Tang Yuan who took the [Aperture-Opening Pill], one of them will later have their body possessed by the Earth Flood Dragon.
To prevent the person taking the elixir from going back on their word, they must hand over half of their soul and one part of their spirit to the Earth Flood Dragon for safekeeping.
Secondly, because the Earth Flood Dragon no longer has a physical body in the Demon Realm and can only hide in the Mystic Spoon, it will fall into a deep sleep whenever it returns to the Demon Realm. Therefore, if Tang Yuan doesn't want his descendants who consume Tang Yuan pills to constantly worry about being possessed by the Earth Flood Dragon in the future, he must capture a Nascent Soul Realm Demon Beast in the Demon Realm for the Earth Flood Dragon to possess...
"You should start cultivating immortality as early as possible," Hou Fei reminded her from the side.
Tang Yuan sighed softly, "Whether my four children want to take the [Aperture-Opening Pill] or cultivate immortality is up to them to decide."
Tonight, I'll go back to my Dangwu Village.
Hou Fei nodded. "However, I also want to remind you that if your children decide to take the [Aperture-Opening Pill] to cultivate immortality, you should stay away from them as much as possible and help them as little as possible."
They have their own destiny and fate; you should interfere as little as possible.
If you contact them too much and offer them too much help, some of the karmic consequences you bear may harm your children.
I understand...
"After all, I am a disciple of the Holy Cardamom Sect the Demonic Clan, and I will inevitably make many enemies in the future." Tang Yuan nodded in agreement...
A few days ago, Tang Yuan discovered a century-old crayfish in Three Graves Mountain, north of Dangwu Village. Instead of killing it directly, he used a mysterious light to stun the crayfish, rendering it unable to attack.
Although Tang Tiansong's four eldest children are currently unable to cultivate immortality, they possess some martial arts skills, which are more than enough to deal with a Crayfish Beast as large as an ox that is in a state of dizziness.
Tang Yuan told his eldest son, Tang Tiansong, about the information, Tang Yuan instructed him to kill the crayfish and share the meat with the whole village, which would enhance Tang Tiansong's prestige in the village.
At this very moment, in Dangwu Village, a hundred miles to the north, Tang Yuan's sons are distributing crayfish meat from house to house...
when!...
The crisp sound of the gong echoed through the crisscrossing paths of Dangwu Village.
It's better to share happiness than to enjoy it alone.
Fellow villagers, the Tang Household invites you to try crayfish tofu.
"Hurry up and bring out your bowls to serve!" Five-year-old Tang Tianshu banged on a gong, happily walking at the head of the four Tang Household brothers' procession...