Taoist priests in the supernatural world

Chapter 11 Even the most vengeful spirits cannot attain sainthood.

In the original novel, the mold growing on Xie Yali's abdomen was actually a method for refining inner elixir.

After the Five-Herb Pill powder is planted into the dantian, one must use the Five Hell Demons method to kill the five kinds of "demons" and then absorb that strange power that lies between life and death, resentment and soul thoughts in order to transform the external pill into the internal pill.

The ultimate goal of external alchemy is internal alchemy.

From the outside in, from false to true.

What Huang Bai truly wanted was never Ying Caihong herself, but rather the elixir that had been nurtured within her body.

"This pill is also known as the bait pill. Once it is formed, there is no need to open the furnace to refine medicine every day, as the inner core will naturally generate medicinal power."

After all, refining external elixirs is too troublesome.

They had to tend the fire day and night, carefully controlling the heat, and also raise toads to neutralize the poison and medicinal effects. The slightest mistake would mean all their efforts were in vain.

As for why they didn't just plant the elixir directly on their own bodies, the reason is quite simple.

Huang Bai didn't want to have a dent cut into his lower abdomen.

Moreover, corpse dissection is inherently risky; the slightest mistake could mean death. Although he was willing to take the risk, he was unwilling to gamble his life on such a thing.

"That's about it."

At this moment, the Heavenly Dao talisman on Huang Bai's left arm became slightly hot, and then burst forth with a brilliant golden light.

This means that the cause and effect in the world of "Mojin: The Lost Legend" has been completely resolved.

"This trip was quite fruitful."

The other shore flower, the sixteen-character Yin-Yang Feng Shui secret technique, and a Five-Herb Inner Elixir.

Either of these opportunities would be considered extremely rare and hard to come by if taken to the outside world.

Based on past experience, he will be guided back to reality by the Heavenly Decree in about an incense stick's time.

Huang Bai looked up and around.

The courtyard was quiet, and the old scene remained unchanged.

There seems to be nothing left to cherish here.

The story of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" should end here.

Just then, the roar of a car engine suddenly came from outside the door.

Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang were sitting in the car, while Fatty Wang was in the back.

In the past six months, Panda Express has been thriving, with branches almost all over San Francisco, and the three of them have started new lives.

Before the car had even come to a complete stop, Fatty Wang leaned out and asked, "Old Hu, do you think Brother Huang hasn't left the house at all in the past six months? Is he still in San Francisco?"

"It should still be there." Hu Bayi looked towards the courtyard gate, his tone somewhat uncertain.

Shirley Yang said softly, "Master Huang has always been mysterious. Who knows, one day he might really ascend to heaven in broad daylight."

After their trip to the ancient tomb, the group no longer dared to regard Huang Bai as an ordinary person.

They might not even doubt that Huang Bai is an ancient monster who has lived for hundreds of years.

The three of them came here to invite Huang Bai back to China to attend Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang's belated wedding in the country.

The group walked to the door and were about to knock.

Squeak.

The main gate opened inwards on its own.

In the courtyard, a man in a yellow and white Taoist robe stood alone, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

"You've come at the right time." Huang Bai looked at the three of them calmly. "I'm leaving. I thought I'd take this opportunity to see you all one last time before I go."

"Go?" Fatty Wang was taken aback. "Where are you going? No, Brother Huang, can't we postpone this for a few more days?"

He hadn't finished speaking.

A sudden change occurred.

Suddenly, a faint golden light emanated from Huang Bai's body. The light first rippled like water, then grew stronger and stronger, enveloping his entire body.

Huang Bai simply nodded slightly at them.

"The mountains are high and the roads are long, farewell."

The golden light vanished in the next instant.

Huang Bai, along with his aura, completely disappeared from the courtyard.

The courtyard was empty, with only the rustling of the wind through the grass and trees.

The three of them stood there, speechless for a long time.

"This...this is becoming an immortal?" Fatty Wang opened his mouth.

Hu Bayi stared at the empty courtyard, speechless for a long time, a vague sense of melancholy suddenly rising in his heart.

He had originally planned to treat Huang Bai to another drink, but he never expected that this farewell would come so suddenly.

Several years later.

With restaurants all over the United States, Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang are now worth billions of dollars, no longer the two tomb raiders who used to travel around and risk their lives.

But whenever they recall that experience, they still remember the young Taoist priest in his robe with blue eyes and square pupils.

"Who would have thought," Hu Bayi said, sitting by the French windows, gazing at the bustling night view, filled with emotion, "that chance encounter in that alleyway would become the turning point in our lives."

At the time, it was only common.

……

After a familiar dizzying sensation, Huang Bai seemed to fall into an abyss.

I don't know how much time passed.

Suddenly, my feet felt solid.

When Huang Bai opened his eyes again, he was standing in that nameless ancient temple once more.

The ancient temple remained silent, with the fragrance of sandalwood wafting through the air. On the altar, the Heavenly Decree once again coalesced, its pure golden light illuminating the entire ancient temple.

The yellow-white figure slowly solidified from the golden light.

"Why."

He glanced around and couldn't help but sigh.

"This godforsaken place is truly my home."

To be honest, he'd rather be cooking in the Panda Express kitchen than stay here for long. The ancient temple, though safe, was far too deserted, like a cage isolated from the world; staying there too long would wear away even the warmth of human presence.

"Um?"

Huang Bai suddenly raised his hand.

He noticed that a spider lily pattern had appeared on his arm without him even realizing it.

The pattern was only the size of a thumb, shaped like an unopened flower bud, with a dark color, faintly revealing a mysterious sense of life and death intertwined.

However, the other shore flower meteorite he brought back from the world of "Mojin: The Lost Legend" has disappeared without a trace.

"Could it be... that it turned into this thing?"

With a slight thought, Huang Bai's consciousness sank into the patterns.

In an instant, a sudden realization dawned on me.

【resurrection】

This item is a one-time consumable that can reverse life and death at the moment of death, allowing the user to be reborn once again.

The red spider lily exists between the realms of Yin and Yang, growing at the boundary between life and death. If one falls into a state of death, the red spider lily will bloom in the face of despair, bringing the dead back to life.

"It's a life-saving trump card."

Even more ideas immediately came to mind.

If my practice of external alchemy deepens in the future, and my condition of having blue eyes and square pupils worsens, I will eventually have to face the challenge of corpse liberation.

If one can preserve their physical body by using the patterns of the red spider lily, perhaps they can find another path.

"Perhaps... this can even preserve my physical body."

Lü Zu once said: "If you cultivate your nature but not your destiny, your spirit will find it difficult to attain sainthood even after countless eons."

Although the spirits of countless eons are beings that mortals can only look up to and cannot reach.

But who among those who cultivate the Tao doesn't want to cultivate both body and spirit, refining both the primordial spirit and the physical body, ultimately achieving a perfect harmony of spirit and form, and a complete unity of body and spirit?

"Cultivating both body and spirit, physical training..."

Huang Bai shook his head.

"Difficult, difficult, difficult."

Cultivation is not the same as the cultivation in online novels. It's not about obtaining a magic formula and then achieving instant success.

Throughout history, countless sages and great figures have perished on the path of cultivating both body and mind.

Even in the mythical Heavenly Court, those who truly cultivated both body and spirit and achieved physical sainthood were all top-tier warriors.

After a moment of reflection, Huang Bai went to the lamp, opened the Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique, and studied it carefully.

The ancient temple was silent, with only the soft echo of turning pages reverberating through the air.

In his spare time, he took out the Five-Ganoderma Inner Elixir and placed it in his palm to feel the flow of its medicinal power.

Huang Bai played with it for a while, then suddenly had an idea and swallowed the Five-Ganoderma Inner Core.

The pill entered the abdomen, but instead of falling, it remained there like a spirited spark.

Wow!

Huang Bai suddenly stood up, feeling light and refreshed, as if he had been reforged.

With a single step, he lightly leaped several meters away.

"Excellent pill!"

Huang Bai spat out his inner core, looked down at his hands, and a strange look appeared in his eyes.

After swallowing the Five-Herb Inner Elixir, his physical attributes improved by at least twice as much. His strength, speed, and reaction time were all far superior to what they had been before.

"In the world of 'Ghost Blows Out the Light,' Shirley Yang's maternal grandfather, Partridge Whistle, once swallowed a centipede's inner core and gained amazing abilities."

"Now, my skills may not be inferior to his."

In the blink of an eye, Huang Bai reached out and pressed his hand against the magic sword at his waist.

Clang!

The magic sword is drawn.

Inside the ancient temple, the Taoist priest's figure flickered, soaring through the air like a white crane. In his nimble movements, sword light flashed, the cold gleam connecting and illuminating the entire room.

The sun and moon are divided within the cauldron, and the Daoist secrets are revealed within the garment.

With one scholar and one warrior, they could finally be considered to have begun to resemble Taoists.

I don't know how much time has passed.

The celestial edict on the incense table suddenly lit up with golden light again.

Huang Bai sheathed his sword, turned around, and looked up.

A new line of text slowly appeared on the talisman:

Head to the First Commandment and slay the Demon King.

"The First Commandment? The Demon King?"

"Good heavens, there's a Ghost King in this world?"

He had naturally seen the movie "The First Commandment".

The story is about police officer Li Guoqiang who, after killing the murderer Chen Fulai, witnessed a female corpse come back to life and was transferred to the so-called "miscellaneous affairs department." His superior, Inspector Huang, repeatedly warned him of one rule: there are no ghosts in this world.

In reality, the Miscellaneous Affairs Department was a department specifically for handling paranormal events.

After Chen Fulai died, he became a vengeful ghost, capable of possessing the living and continuing to kill. Li Guoqiang and Inspector Huang investigated all the way, only to discover in the end that the real Inspector Huang had actually died long ago, and the one who had been working alongside him all along was merely a vengeful ghost using his body.

The film's ending is utterly hopeless.

After killing Inspector Huang, Li Guoqiang gave a strange smile to himself in the mirror, signifying that the ghost had won a complete victory and that people's defenses had completely collapsed.

This is an extremely dangerous world.

Ghosts can possess people, and once possessed, the original person is essentially dead.

Humans will never know whether the passersby they brush past, the officials sitting in their offices, or the drivers smoking on the street are human or ghosts.

Even more terrifyingly, the upper echelons of humanity in this world may have already been completely infiltrated by ghosts.

But now, the Heavenly Decree tells him that in this world already teeming with evil spirits, there is actually a Ghost King hiding there.

Huang Bai squinted, his mind racing with calculations.

How can he face the Ghost King all by himself?

Ghosts fear Taoist magic, and they themselves fear guns and cannons.

"Never mind."

Huang Bai made a decision quickly.

"Go in first, deal with each situation as it arises, and then figure out a solution."

For Huang Bai, these vengeful ghosts that lurk in the darkness, possessing and harming people, are also prey.