Dao Companions Help Me Live Forever

In the year 5814 of the Jiuyang calendar, on June 12th, the weather was cloudy.

It has been thirty-three years since the beginning of this wave of beasts.

On Mingyue Peak.

A withered man lightly shook off the nonexistent dust on his body, then casually summoned a water mirror.

In the mirror, there was a figure that appeared to be in his twenties, but with disheveled snow-white long hair, and eyes that carried an indescribable weariness and desolation.

In the final three years of his cultivation, he burned nearly 1,200 years of his lifespan.

"So this is the taste of reaching the limit of lifespan, the instinctual fear of life itself."

Yu Xian carefully felt the aging of his body.

Although his cultivation at this moment was incredibly powerful, just one step away from the Soul Formation Realm, even stronger than the Pure Yang True Monarch of the past, the Pure Yang True Monarch did not have his panel, which allowed him to see in detail the gap between himself and the Soul Formation Realm.

And he was only one step away from the Soul Formation, the last point of cultivation.

[Name: Yu Xian]

[Cultivation: Soul Formation·Pseudo (8.8e/8.9e)]

[Soulmates: Yulan, Luo Han, Yue Jiu (3/4)]

But Yu Xian could also perceive that his current body was like a bucket full of small holes, constantly losing his own essence.

No matter how high his cultivation was, he couldn't suppress the footsteps of death approaching him step by step.

This year, his actual age was 182.

Adding the lifespan he actively burned, it was close to 1,400 years, not far from the lifespan of a Nascent Soul True Monarch.

Of course, the instinctual fear of the fleshly body could not affect Yu Xian's true heart.

Because he had infinite confidence in his own breakthrough.

This is the most basic quality that a man with a hanging heart should possess.

"Now... only the final step remains."

Yu Xian stood up, his divine sense sweeping across the entire city, his figure gradually disappearing.

At the same time.

A familiar voice came to Yulan's ear as she was bathing and changing in her room.

"Yulan, I need your help in my cultivation!"

...

After that moment of trembling.

Yu Xian opened his eyes and looked around, and the world was different again.

First of all, his divine sense became even stronger. The sensing range that used to be a thousand miles in radius could now be swept away with a single thought, reaching tens of thousands of miles.

He focused his gaze and directly transmigrated through space, vaguely seeing the scene outside the entire mountain gate of the Profound Yang Sect.

But there was a thin film outside that blocked his gaze from penetrating.

Thinking of the Profound Yang Sect's mountain guarding formation being a Rank Five formation, possessing the power to defend against a Soul Formation Venerable, Yu Xian withdrew his gaze.

There was no hurry now.

Once he stabilized his cultivation and understood the situation, such as whether he could escape from the hands of the Soul Formation cultivators of the Jiuyang Immortal Sect, or even contend with them, it would be the opportune time for him to recommend his wife to become the sect master.

All that nonsense about the Immortal Sect's envoys and the Immortal Boat Plan belonged to the spiritual stones of the Xuan Yang Realm cultivators. Not a single piece could be taken away.

And he, Yu Xian, the current Great Love Venerable, unilaterally declared himself the spokesperson for these cultivators!

At the same time, at the Profound Yang Sect.

They were discussing the second phase of the Immortal Boat Plan in the main hall, and both the Great Sun True Monarch and the Immortal Sect's envoy suddenly felt a chill, as if they were being stared at by a fierce beast.

"What's happening?"

The Great Sun True Monarch and the Immortal Sect's envoy exchanged glances and said in unison.

"I seem to have sensed a great malice."

"So did I."

An old man with white hair condensed a virtual image in front of them, expressionless, and said:

"Reporting to the Immortal Sect's envoy and the acting sect master, it seems that a Soul Formation Venerable glanced at the Profound Yang Sect's mountain gate just now, but was blocked by the formation."

The pupils of the Great Sun True Monarch suddenly contracted.

A Soul Formation Venerable!

The nearby envoy of the Immortal Sect was also not in a good state, and there was even a hint of fear on his face.

He came from the Profound Yang Immortal Sect, and he understood the authority of a Soul Formation Venerable even more clearly than the Great Sun True Monarch.

One realm, one heavenly level.

The higher the cultivation level, the greater the difference in strength brought by the realm.

A Gold Core cultivator could still fight on par with a True Monarch who had just entered the Nascent Soul stage, relying on First Grade Divine Abilities, top-grade techniques, life-saving secret techniques, and innate bloodlines.

But in the history of the Immortal Cultivation World, there has never been a Nascent Soul True Monarch who could fight against a Soul Formation Venerable.

Even being able to withstand a single move from a Soul Formation Venerable would be enough to be passed down through the ages and boast about for a lifetime.

The Profound Yang Sect has actually caught the attention of a Soul Formation Venerable?

The envoy of the Immortal Sect suppressed the urge to abandon the mission and run away, and it took him a while to calm down.

"Perhaps it's just a passing Venerable who found the formation of the Profound Yang Sect interesting, so they took a closer look. After all, this is the formation personally arranged by the Nine Profound Venerable back then. Heh, hehe..."

The envoy of the Immortal Sect forced a few laughs, comforting the Great Sun True Monarch and himself.

To be honest, he had never thought about facing the risks of a Soul Formation Venerable or a Monster Race Venerable.

After all, as the first line of defense arranged by the Nine Yang Immortal Sect back then, the Profound Yang Sect had a Rank Five formation and an ancient teleportation formation inside, which, together with the four directions, would trap any Monster Race Venerable who attacked here. Then, with the help of the formation, several human Venerables could be sent over, with a chance to kill the Monster Race Venerable.

Such things have happened in the wars between humans and monsters.

It can even be said that most of the deaths of human Venerables and Monster Race Venerables in the wars of recent years have occurred in such intense battles.

In a battle in the open wilderness, if you can't win, you can just run away, and no one will die.

So, even for a Monster Race Venerable, the Profound Yang Sect was an extremely difficult bone to chew.

The border between the Nine Yang Domain and the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range is millions of miles long, but there are only three war fortresses like the Profound Yang Sect.

If it weren't for the fact that his faction had a considerable influence within the Nine Yang Immortal Sect, he wouldn't have been assigned such a lucrative task.

After all, when war comes, the border needs to be cleared, and the population needs to be relocated, and those are all shiny spirit stones.

Cultivation is a method of accumulating wealth, and wealth comes first.

The critical point of the ten-thousand-year catastrophe is only within the past few hundred years, and a war that will engulf the entire Immortal Cultivation World is about to happen.

Even if the Azure Phoenix Venerable is not dead, it is impossible to stop it.

So he needs to save more spirit stones, whether it is for his own cultivation in the future or to support a certain Dao Child's breakthrough, he needs to offer enough benefits.

But now, the envoy of the Immortal Sect found himself a little too happy too soon.

A thought suddenly popped into his mind.

The Difficult Dao Sect received news that the Monster Race's Monster Sovereign had plans to attack the Profound Yang Sect, so they specially invited a certain Venerable to come and set up an ambush.

This Venerable just greeted them and reminded them a moment ago.

Ever since he arrived at the Profound Yang Sect, the Great Sun True Monarch had been looking down on them in various ways. He was extremely arrogant. But now, he was scared by a glance from the Soul Formation Venerable, and his fear was not much, but rather suppressed excitement.

The Soul Formation Venerable, his disciple would soon become one too!

The news about the Dao Body is the highest secret of the human race. Even the envoy of the Immortal Sect does not have the authority to know unless he is informed voluntarily or the Soul Formation Venerable personally controls the Rank Five formation to know everything.

At this moment, the Great Sun True Monarch's desire and longing for the Soul Formation Realm were even stronger.

But if breaking through the Soul Formation Realm were so easy, it wouldn't have such power.

Yu Xian didn't know that a casual glance from him made the two highest powers of the Profound Yang Sect unsettled and started to speculate.

He continued to study his newly acquired power.

The spatial lines that could only be sensed by his Nascent Soul form were now fully displayed in front of him, even more profound. With a thought, it was as if a finger lightly plucked a string.

In the next instant.

The space changed, and his true body had already crossed the nine thousand meters of high altitude and appeared in the legendary Gangfeng Layer.

It is said that there are nine heavens, and by passing through the nine heavens, one can shatter the void and forcefully ascend to another world.

And the Gangfeng Layer is the first obstacle.

This Gangfeng is called the Bone-Eroding Gangfeng, targeting the physical body. Body Refining cultivators often enter this layer to enhance their physical strength.

However, even a Rank Four body cultivator cannot stay in the Gangfeng Layer for long.

Because the damage from the Bone-Eroding Gangfeng is cumulative.

If the damage on the first day is one, then the second day is two, the third day is four, and by the eleventh day, it is one thousand and twenty-four.

So after practicing in the Gangfeng Layer, one must digest it.

But Yu Xian didn't even want to practice normal cultivation, so naturally he wouldn't come here to suffer for no reason.

If it weren't for testing his own strength this time, he wouldn't have thought of coming here.

But now, facing the Bone-Eroding Gangfeng, Yu Xian only felt a gentle breeze on his face.

It seemed that his physical body had already become immune to the damage of the Gangfeng Layer.

This is not because his physical body is particularly strong, after all, he has never deliberately cultivated his physical body, relying solely on the automatic tempering of his mana. Even though he has now broken through the Soul Formation Realm, at most, his physical body can only be comparable to a top Rank Four body cultivator.

What truly makes him immune to the power of the Gang Wind Layer is a kind of energy that seems to be innate to him after breaking through Soul Formation.

Yu Xian couldn't describe his current feeling for a moment.

After all, up until now, he was just a newcomer to the Immortal Cultivation World who had been practicing for 152 years.

One hundred and fifty-two years is a lifetime for a Foundation Building cultivator, but for a Soul Formation cultivator, someone who is called a Venerable by the world, this amount of time is too short, perhaps just a period of seclusion, studying a profound spiritual technique or the Immortal Law.

Moreover, the Soul Formation inheritance in this Immortal Cultivation World is extremely rare.

Even for a top sect like the Profound Yang Sect, which seems to be close to the Soul Formation level, the inheritance of Soul Formation is only mentioned in passing, and it is all part of the secret transmission of the sect leader, not to be spread outside.

But it doesn't matter.

Yu Xian is not worried at all.

He has the Heavenly Dao Grandmaster teaching him online, and he can go back and study it carefully to create his own unique inheritance.

"Primordial Spirit."

With a thought, a real and solid Primordial Spirit condenses in front of Yu Xian.

The omnipresent Gang Wind is also unable to harm the Primordial Spirit.

"The ancient texts say that the Nascent Soul cultivated by a Nascent Soul cultivator can at most be considered a Yin Spirit, unable to exist independently and sustainably outside, and must find a physical body as a support. But after breaking through Soul Formation, this Primordial Spirit can become a Yang Spirit, even under the shining of the sun, it can still move normally, its power will not diminish, and it also possesses various supernatural abilities. Now it seems that although it is not complete, it is quite meaningful."

Yu Xian carefully ponders and realizes that his evolved Primordial Spirit is not simply evolved from the Nascent Soul. It is a fusion of his Nascent Soul, Law Domain, and a special energy, almost equivalent to a smaller version of himself.

"The Law Domain has disappeared, but not completely disappeared, but has Integrated Union with the Primordial Spirit in a peculiar way, producing a certain kind of wonderful reaction between the two, allowing me to control a special power."

"This power seems to be an interpretation of the rules of heaven and earth. Without any spiritual techniques or cultivation methods as a medium, I can directly borrow the power between heaven and earth. Perhaps it can be called... the Law!"

"The two words 'Soul Formation', could it mean the clarity of the soul and the mastery of the rules between heaven and earth?"

Yu Xian, who has just gained control over the power of Soul Formation, gradually touches upon the essence, as if he is slowly understanding it.

However, he also feels that the power of the law contained in his Primordial Spirit is not strong. If he were to describe it with a tangible object, the first thing that comes to his mind is a seed.

His True Monarch Law Domain and Divine Ability Law Domain have both turned into a seed of the law, taking the Primordial Spirit as the foundation, and taking root in his body.

And the cultivation of Soul Formation is to allow this seed of the law to continuously grow and eventually grow into a towering tree.

"In that case, the Primordial Spirit is the foundation of cultivators. Its power is real and almost like another self. The physical body becomes less important?" Yu Xian shook his head secretly.

Although he had a short cultivation time and was ignorant and indulged in pleasure, he still knew the basic rules of cultivation.

As the ancients said, only cultivating the destiny without cultivating the nature is the first problem in cultivation.

Only cultivating the ancestral nature without cultivating the elixir, the Yin spirits of Myriad Tribulations cannot enter the realm of the saints.

Whether it is the Primordial Spirit or the physical body, advancing together is the right path. Cultivating only one path is cutting off the path and cannot reach the ultimate longevity of the Great Dao.

Yu Xian continued to explore.

After several hours.

He had a look of sudden realization on his face.

"Indeed, the experience of the predecessors is always useful. Although the Primordial Spirit is powerful and its power does not diminish over time, it can even recover on its own, but there is a limit. If you want to continue to increase your strength, you still need the physical body as the foundation, rooted in the heavens and earth, absorbing nutrients.

If the Primordial Spirit is the fruit on the tree, then the physical body is the branches and roots of the tree.

Whether this fruit will end up shriveled or full depends on the nourishment from the physical body."

"At this stage, the difference in physique is not that important anymore. What matters more is one's own comprehension and understanding of the rules of the heavens and earth."

"The Dao borrows from the myriad things of the heavens and earth to exist. We cultivators comprehend the principles of the laws. Perhaps, in the end of cultivation, we can control the heavens and earth and even become a kind of existence similar to a creator god."

"If one truly reaches such a realm, oneself becomes a world, living as long as the heavens and earth. It can be considered as longevity in the conventional sense."

"Damn, I'm really a genius!"

Yu Xian was originally worried that he would have a difficult time in his cultivation after Soul Formation, and could only rely on the insignificant amount of spiritual energy from the heavens and earth. After all, even with his aptitude, cultivation in the Nascent Soul realm was quite difficult, let alone the Soul Formation Realm.

Cultivators who can achieve Soul Formation are all naturally born with a Dao Body. At the very least, they must have a top-grade Profound Body to have a slight possibility.

And the gap between his level and the Dao Body was a big one.

His secret technique of burning lifespan was based on his own level of cultivation. In other words, the cultivation points he gained by burning one year of lifespan were only a little over a hundred thousand. But if it were a top-grade Profound Body, it could be a million cultivation points, and if it were a Dao Body, it could be several million or even tens of millions.

But now, the gap in physique has been greatly reduced, and the importance of comprehension has been greatly increased.

So he was no longer anxious.

In terms of comprehension, who can compare to Lord Tian Dao's online teachings?

Other cultivators' cultivation and understanding of the principles are like blind people feeling an elephant, gradually outlining the appearance of the Dao based on their own comprehension. But he not only opens his eyes wide to look left and right, up and down, but he can also ride on it and touch it freely.

Yu Xian looked at the green panel in front of his field of vision and felt quite pleased.

[Name: Yu Xian]

[Cultivation: Early stage of Soul Formation (666/60e)]

[Soulmates: Yu Lan, Luo Han, Yue Jiu (3/5)]

"I declare that from today onwards, I am the number one genius in the Immortal Cultivation World—occasionally."

...

In the room.

Yu Lan turned her tired body and reached out her hand conditionally to touch beside her.

"Husband..."

She murmured softly, containing infinite affection.

Over the years, she had witnessed her husband's arduous cultivation. The gradually whitening long hair was like growing seaweed, tightly entwining her heart, making it hard for her to breathe.

But she would never dissuade her husband from giving up.

She would never interfere with any decision her husband made.

Regardless of whether the decision was good or bad, all she needed to do was to support and follow.

In these years, she had also intermittently worked hard and diligently cultivated for her husband.

But there were some things that couldn't be achieved through effort alone.

The more she cultivated, the more she felt the gap between herself and those geniuses.

If effort was useless, who would be willing to lie down and be mediocre all the time?

So the only thing she could do in the end was to offer her insignificant tenderness to her husband when he was exhausted.

Yu Lan thought that this time, as usual, she would come up empty-handed.

But the warm and solid touch of muscle surprised her, and her eyes widened suddenly.

"Husband! Your hair?!!"

Yu Lan covered her mouth, as if she had discovered a great secret, suppressing her voice tightly.

"Black and shiny, smooth and sleek."

Yu Xian picked up a strand of hair, scratched Yu Lan's nose, and smiled.

After breaking through the Soul Formation stage, although he couldn't replenish the thousand years of lifespan he had burned, he gained an additional four thousand years and restored his youth. It was not difficult.

The lifespan of the Soul Formation stage starts at five thousand years.

If he slept for a few more years, it shouldn't be difficult to make up for the burned thousand years of lifespan.

He could feel the missing part of his essence and origin, like a small piece missing from a ball.

Since there was a deficiency, there was a possibility of making up for it.

The most difficult thing was when everything was already complete, and it was hard to add anything.

"And I've become younger."

Yu Lan's spirits immediately lifted.

With her cultivation level, she shouldn't have shown signs of exhaustion. It was just the accumulation of pressure in her heart that affected her body.

Now that the pressure was gone, she quickly regained her vitality.

Yu Xian stroked his chin and nodded in agreement.

"You have a good eye."

With a lifespan of five thousand years in the Soul Formation stage, he was only two hundred years old, equivalent to one twenty-fifth, or a hundred-year-old person compared to a four-year-old child.

"Go back to sleep. You've been worried these past few days, and I'll always be with you."

Yu Xian said softly.

"Mm."

Yu Lan answered happily and soon entered dreamland with a smile.

That night, Yu Xian had another dream.

In the dream, he seemed to have truly become a child, sucking on a milk bottle with relish, allowing him to grow strong.

A completely new power was gestating in his body.

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