Cultivation Methods

Upon hearing this, Su Yao frowned.

Secretly manipulating the Prism to look at the two, Gui Hong didn't find anything unusual. The middle-aged man with the sinister look only seemed vaguely amiss. Looking through the Prism, he could only see five Rainbow Clouds Divine Ability swirling within his body.

Su Yao felt slightly relieved, but a strange feeling still lingered in his heart. Nevertheless, he opened the mountain gate.

The two entered the mountain gate, Su Yao immediately closed it. Then Gui Hong said:

"Let's talk at your cave abode."

After speaking, he picked up Su Yao and flew towards the back mountain.

Seeing this, the sinister-looking man immediately followed, leaving Liu Yunhe standing there at a loss.

Behind the mountain, in front of the cave abode.

As the three landed, they saw the sinister-looking man wave his right hand, and a palace appeared out of thin air, then embedded itself into the mountain next to Su Yao's cave abode.

In the blink of an eye, all of this was completed. Su Yao looked over and saw that a stone door had appeared next to his cave abode.

The sinister-looking man transformed into a streak of light and vanished into the cave abode.

Gui Hong immediately took out a yellow talisman and pasted it above the cave abode. The next moment, the stone door disappeared without a trace, and the mountain returned to its original state.

Seeing this, Su Yao was about to ask a question when he suddenly froze.

"Boom!"

A loud bang came from outside. Su Yao turned around and saw countless white clouds swirling in the sky. Then, Greater Yin and Confucian School Vast Righteousness Qi flowed through the clouds. In a short while, the clouds disappeared without a trace.

Then, even that Vast Righteousness Qi vanished.

But the Greater Yin quickly condensed, transforming into a giant eyeball.

He stared intently at Golden Ao Mountain below, as if searching for something.

Fifteen minutes later, the giant eye still seemed unaware of anything amiss, its gaze filled with ferocity, and immediately began to glow with faint white light.

Then a golden bowl flew from an unknown place, first knocking the giant eye away, then flying back upside down, emitting thousands of golden rays that protected the Golden Ao Mountain. After that, the golden light disappeared.

The giant eye was about to charge again, but suddenly a huge sun appeared out of nowhere and blocked it.

A cold snort came from the giant eye, and then the giant eye and the great sun disappeared.

Su Yao was stunned for a long time before turning his head to look at Gui Hong beside him:

"What are they doing? My little body can't take this kind of turmoil..."

Upon hearing this, Gui Hong smiled without saying a word, and instead pulled Su Yao towards Su Yao's cave abode.

Su Yao almost tripped on the steps when he wasn't paying attention, and staggered a couple of steps before regaining his balance.

Just as he was about to curse, he heard Gui Hong say in a serious tone:

"I'll close the cave abode and then we can talk in detail."

Seeing that his face did not seem to be fake, Su Yao had no choice but to close the cave abode first and then use a great formation to completely isolate the cave abode.

After the two were seated, Gui Hong explained:

If you ask what happened...

He paused, his gaze lingering on Su Yao's face as he continued:

"I don't know either, but all I know is that I was in seclusion healing my injuries when Qingzhu suddenly opened my cave abode and woke me up. I called out, and then a few things were stuffed into my hands before I was ordered to bring that evil spirit here."

Su Yao was taken aback upon hearing this, and asked in a low voice:

"Demons and evil spirits?"

Gui Hong nodded:

"Yes, a demon. I saw him as soon as I came out of seclusion. I thought it was Guangli who had come out of seclusion, but I realized something was wrong. There was definitely a demon on him, or someone was controlling a demon to possess him."

Upon hearing this, Su Yao remained silent. Even Gui Hong, a Purple Mansion Peak cultivator, was unknown to him, let alone Su Yao.

Since Gui Hong mentioned demons and evil spirits, then they are not ordinary demons and evil spirits, but rather... Golden Nature and evil spirits!

The two remained silent for a long time. Gui Hong, seeing that Su Yao was in a low mood, was about to say something to comfort him when Su Yao spoke again:

"Gui Hong..."

Gui Hong was taken aback upon hearing this and asked:

What is it?

Su Yao gave a wry smile:

"Did you already know I was going down the mountain? That's why I suddenly went into seclusion when I was about to seek your help to distract Daozheng's attention?"

Upon hearing this, Gui Hong fell silent.

The cave fell silent for a moment.

After a long while, Su Yao heard Gui Hong sigh and say:

"Alas... At that time, I had already noticed that your mind was on the foot of the mountain. Before I could say much to Daozheng, Daozheng summoned me and Qingzhu and told me to go into seclusion. He said that if it were any other time, he would not have stopped you, but the situation was special. He had already received the Jade Void Immortal Decree. Although the decree stated that everything was permissible, Daozheng was afraid, so he suppressed it."

He paused for a moment, as if organizing his thoughts, before continuing:

"But later you insisted on going down the mountain. Exalted Perfected White Crane was watching from Qixia Mountain at the time. Daozheng had Daozheng choice but to let you go down the mountain. However, the intervention of True Lord and the subsequent series of changes were not his doing. Even the Daoist temple that he chose for you was rejected by True Lord."

Upon hearing this, Su Yao took a deep breath, not dwelling on the topic, and instead asked:

"Regarding the Proclaiming Earth affair, I was personally involved, so I won't say much. So what is it this time?"

Gui Hong shook his head:

"I don't know either. Qingzhu told me that if you look at these things, you'll understand."

After speaking, he took out a Storage Bag and handed it over, saying:

"I don't know what's inside either. Qingzhu placed a restriction on it. If it's not you, anyone who tries to open it will immediately destroy themselves."

Su Yao reached out and took it, about to open it, Gui Hong said again:

I'll go out first.

Su Yao was puzzled upon hearing this:

Why?

Gui Hong remained silent upon hearing this, only shaking his head.

Seeing this, Su Yao understood and immediately escorted Gui Hong out of the cave abode.

Back inside the cave, he locked the cave abode again, hesitated for a few moments, and then opened the Storage Bag.

Without much trouble, the Storage Bag opened the moment his Law Power energy touched it. Su Yao took out the items and saw four Jade Slip and four jade bottles.

After checking each item one by one, Su Yao had a clear understanding of the situation.

The Jade Slip contained four Cultivation Method: the fifth-grade Rainbow Clouds Cultivation Method, "Record of Crimson Clouds Reflecting the Heavens," which, upon achieving the Immortal Foundation, grants the user "Draped in Rosy Radiance of the rainbow); the fifth-grade Cold Qi Cultivation Method," Art of Solitary Cold Condensing on Branches," which, upon achieving the Immortal Foundation, grants the user "Jihan Zhi" (Lodged on a Cold Branch); the fifth-grade Profound Qi Cultivation Method, "Xuanjie Jiuming Shu," which, upon achieving the Immortal Foundation Book of Mysterious Tribulation and Calamitous Fate, grants the user "Jiu Linming" (Calamity Befalls Fate) similar to Yang Xiu's; and the fifth-grade Great Yang Cultivation Method," Chapter of Nine Sunlights Shining Down," which, upon achieving the Immortal Foundation, grants the user " Shining Down Below).

The four jade bottles contain the Spiritual Qi Cultivation Method to cultivate four different techniques: "Rainbow Bridge Dawn Qi," "Pine and Moon Frost Radiance," "Residual Tribulation Ash Qi," and "Golden Crow First Dawn."

At this moment, Su Yao felt the wooden box vibrate again. Su Yao quickly put the jade bottle back in place, took out the wooden box, and saw another poem appear inside:

"Borrowing the spring's hand, exchanging the spring's hand, secretly stealing the roots."

Filth is to blame, turbidity is to blame; I have been a dog in the Pill Furnace in vain.

With the eyes of wisdom opened, with the eyes of Dharma opened, one can see through evil and ugliness.

The wind howls, the rain howls, washing away the filth and dirt.

They scheme here, they scheme there, their plans utterly flawed.

All that effort and wasted time, what a joke!

After reading the poem, Su Yao couldn't help but burst into laughter. He thought to himself, "I wonder which master in the Jade Void Palace wrote this poem. It does have some of my talent."

Outside the cave, Gui Hong, who had previously left a trap inside, was now eavesdropping at the cave abode. Hearing Su Yao laughing loudly, he felt extremely annoyed.