Eternal Tranquility

Liu Qinghuan's spiritual stone was not given away in the end. The female nuns were very determined and refused to accept unnecessary favors.

He doesn't force himself. He is very happy to see them get rid of depression and fear and work hard to improve themselves.

She glanced at Yue Weiyang with appreciation. This female cultivator is really not simple. Regardless of whether the sect can be established or not, she inspired their fighting spirit and hope with a common and clear goal. This is what is most urgent and needed now. , but also giving them a sense of security that no amount of spiritual stones can give them.

Liang Jing'an bumped him with her shoulder and laughed softly: "It seems we can go on the road safely."

Liu Qinghuan said speechlessly: "You can go on your way with peace of mind. I will remember to burn paper for you every Qingming Festival."

They stayed in the valley for a few more days, during which the three Jindan monks discussed and worked out the framework and rules of the sect.

Relatively speaking, Liu Qinghuan is the person who has the most contact with the sect among the three, but his contact level is too high, and most of his contacts are with the large sects at the top. On the contrary, there is no such thing as Liang Jing'an, who was born as a casual cultivator, and those who defected from the sect and are in the same category. Yue Weiyang, a casual cultivator, is so familiar with small sects.

The latter two are good at struggling in various ways and surviving in the cracks, while Liu Qinghuan has a grasp of the overall situation and makes the framework more reasonable and perfect from a higher level.

After doing this, Liu and Liang began to set up a concealment circle for this small valley.

Liu Qinghuan was once again lucky that he had a friend from a family of formations, so that he always carried several sets of various formations with different functions, large and small.

After everything was settled, the two finally decided to continue their own trip the next day.

That night, Liang Jing'an, who had been hanging on for dear life, was kicked out, and Liu Qinghuan finally got a moment of peace.

The place where he lives is a newly dug small cave in a relatively remote corner of the valley. Because the valley is full of female cultivators, he naturally has to avoid them as a man and rarely goes out to avoid unnecessary trouble.

I was about to enter the Songxi Cave Sky Map, but I didn’t want someone to visit me again outside the cave.

He rubbed his brows and waved his hand to open the magic circle in the cave: "Fellow Daoist Liang, we are going to set off tomorrow. Now is really not the time to drink...Fellow Daoist Qi!"

The visitor was not Liang Jing'an as he thought, but Qi Wan, who had not been in contact with him much these days.

Qi Wan wore a soft lilac-colored skirt, which made her look even more exquisite and graceful.

She squatted slightly and bowed: "Senior Liu."

Liu Qinghuan paused slightly and smiled bitterly.

Back then, everyone participated in the entrance trial together. He entered the Wenshi sect, and Qi Wan entered the Yinxian sect. They started from the same starting point, but now there is such a huge gap in their cultivation levels.

The last time they met, he remembered that this woman was still at the same level of cultivation as him, but he didn't expect that after so many years, he was already a Dzogchen monk in the late stage of Golden Core, while the other party was still in the late stage of foundation building.

It must be stuck on the difficulty of forming a pill.

He unknowingly released a trace of spiritual power, explored her body imperceptibly, and then quickly withdrew it.

Turning sideways, Liu Qinghuan said: "Come in... Did you come to see me for something?"

Qi Wan glanced in with some hesitation, lowered her eyebrows and quietly walked into the cave, saying softly: "It's nothing else, it's just that I heard from Sister-in-law that Senior Liu will leave tomorrow, so I came here to say goodbye tonight. "

Liu Qinghuan motioned her to sit down in front of the small table aside, stretched out his hand to fetch the tea cup, and slowly began to make tea.

There was only the sound of tea flowing gently between the two of them, and no one spoke for a while.

The only few times they had met before, once was when Liu Qinghuan was running for his life, and twice when Qi Wan was in extreme embarrassment and was in danger, neither of which was a good thing.

Liu Qinghuan regretted letting people in, which put them in an awkward situation. But without knowing whether the other party is okay, it would be too rude to have a conversation while standing at the door.

After coughing lightly, he asked: "Fellow Daoist Qi, you and I have known each other for many years, so you don't need to call me senior. You should call me Fellow Daoist."

Qi Wan glanced at him quickly, lowered his head and said, "Okay."

"Ahem, you...you..." Liu Qinghuan racked her brains to think of a topic, but found that she couldn't find it. Ask about the other person’s past experiences? That will undoubtedly make the other party think about the process of being captured and humiliated. Ask the other party why his cultivation has stagnated? That would be even more disrespectful.

He could only ask: "Are you still used to living here?"

Qi Wan said: "Very good."

Seemingly feeling that her tone was too cold, she smiled apologetically, rubbed her pale and slender fingers, and whispered with a dark expression: "It's much better now than before. At least we are all free and have hope. ”

Liu Qinghuan was silent and poured tea for her. The fresh tea fragrance dispersed with the faint water vapor, creating a mist between the two of them.

After a long silence, he asked, "Is there anything I can do to help you?"

Qi Wan looked at him, with various complex emotions flashing through her eyes: "No, you have helped me enough."

She laughed at herself, and her stiff back suddenly slumped: "Speaking of which, I don't have much dignity left in front of Fellow Daoist Liu. Every time, you see me when I am most embarrassed, haha."

Looking at Qi Wan, whose aura changed drastically in an instant, the other person's expression was as bitter as if he had just drank Coptis chinensis water, and he also had the feeling of giving up after being overwhelmed.

Liu Qinghuan couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Fellow Daoist Qi..."

She took a deep breath and stood up suddenly: "Sorry, I'm not that..."

Confused words came out of his mouth quickly. Qi Wan nodded to him indiscriminately, walked quickly to the door, and disappeared as if fleeing.

Liu Qinghuan was stunned, thinking about whether he had said something wrong before, and finally he could only sigh.

Painful, embarrassing, and helpless, life is like a quagmire. The harder we struggle, the faster we die. But we can only struggle all the way, begging for that life-saving straw that we don’t know where to find.

After slowly drinking the tea in the cup, he sat quietly for a while, putting aside all his emotions, Liu Qinghuan closed the cave and entered the Songxi Cave Sky Map.

Everything was as usual in the picture. Liu Qinghuan released Xiao Hei and Chu Yi from the spirit beast bag, looked at the five-tailed fire fox curled up in a ball, and walked into the room where the spiritual materials were stored.

There are rows of shelves in the house covered with forbidden light, on which are placed various spiritual materials he has collected over the years. They are well collected and neatly arranged in wooden boxes with sealing talismans, jade bottles, storage bags, etc. Leave it alone.

Liu Qinghuan came to the shelf where the elixir seeds were placed. She inserted small notes on the new ones and put them into categories. The seedlings were affixed with sealing charms and put aside first, and they would be planted in the medicine field when they were free.

After doing this, he walked out of the small courtyard, followed the mountain path to the mountainside, and followed a forest path through the woods.

Opening the closed magic circle, several rooms hidden behind the forest were revealed.

This is the place where Xun Weng lived back then. After Xun Weng's remnant soul dissipated, this place has been empty. Liu Qinghuan first experienced the breaking of the Qushang Swamp and the ascension of Dayan Taizun, and then entered the Yin Yue Blood Realm. Every day I walked around among the monks from another world with my heartstrings tense, completely forgetting the existence of this house.

After a moment of free time, he finally remembered and came in to check.

After bypassing several empty houses, Liu Qinghuan walked to the back near the mountain wall, where there was a stone door as tall as a person.

All the restrictions above had been opened. They were not opened again when Xun Weng left. Even the stone door was ajar.

Pushing open the stone door, there was a stone staircase going down behind the door. Liu Qinghuan picked up a torch inserted into the wall, lit it and climbed down the steps.

The stone steps are extremely long, leading all the way to the extremely deep underground, and they get colder as you go down. The orange flame of the torch swayed unsteadily, and the flames were suppressed by the cold air and were almost extinguished.

Liu Qinghuan made a gentle seal, and a layer of faint green light emerged, isolating the coldness from the outside.

After descending for a while, we finally reached the end of the road, and another stone door stood in front of us.

Liu Qinghuan inserted the torch next to the door and pushed it open.

The stone door slid aside easily, and he used his consciousness, only to find that there was only an empty room behind the door, with nothing else except the sarcophagus in the middle.

The cold air overflowed from the jade coffin. Liu Qinghuan first used his spiritual sense to explore it, then walked in and stopped next to the stone coffin.

"This is?"

The lid of the sarcophagus was pushed to the middle. The whole thing was as big as a bed. It was square and square without any cracks. It was obviously carved from a single piece. There is also a slight bulge at one end, carved into the shape of a round pillow.

After waving away the rising cold mist, Liu Qinghuan touched it with his hand. It felt cold to the bone, like ten thousand years of ice, yet as delicate and smooth as jade, glowing with a faint yellow glow that looked extremely warm.

Slowly stroking along the long and rolling lines on it, he had already guessed what material the sarcophagus was made of, and he was shocked but felt it was natural.

You must know that Xun Weng's remnant soul has survived from the first sealing war to the present, which spanned tens of thousands of years. Without external support, this is simply impossible.

If he guessed correctly, this is probably the longevity stone that only exists in the fairy world.

On the stone of immortality, you will never grow old. The body does not decay and the soul does not disperse. Don’t enter reincarnation, don’t bear the burden of cause and effect.

If Xun Weng had not left the sarcophagus of immortality, his remnant soul might still be able to survive. But, he went out.

Liu Qinghuan remembered that when he had just obtained the Songxi Cave Sky Map, Xun Weng was sitting in a mountain pavilion playing chess. Later, he saw him sitting in the pavilion many times.

Perhaps he was tired of living with his remaining soul, so he walked out of the immortal sarcophagus, preferring to let his soul power slowly dissipate. It wasn't until he knew that the Second Seal War was coming that he waited for an opportunity before returning here.

Monks seek immortality for the sake of the supreme path and freedom. If they can only be locked in a sarcophagus, they don't want immortality.

Liu Qinghuan felt a little sad, but then slowly felt relieved. If I encounter a situation like Xun Weng's, I would rather let it go.

Death is not scary, fear of death is. If you are not careful, you may even form a knot in your heart and fall into the devil's way, forgetting the original intention of cultivating the Tao.

His expression changed, and he suddenly remembered something.

Straightening up, Liu Qinghuan quickly left the house, followed the stone steps to the outside of the mountain, and returned to the small courtyard at the top of the mountain.

"Mother Sakura."

The five-tailed fire fox lying beside the spring of spiritual eyes moved, raised its head from under its tail, and stared at him with dissatisfaction.

Liu Qing smiled happily: "Ms. Ying, come with me. I found something that may be useful to you."

Saying that, regardless of whether she believed it or not, she turned around and walked down the mountain.

Behind him, after thinking for a moment, the five-tailed fire fox straightened his legs and followed with graceful fox steps.

One person and one fox quickly reached the mountainside. Liu Qinghuan took the lead and entered the stone gate on the mountain wall. As he walked down, he said: "Don't you need the soul-melting Fu Shenmu? Your soul must be injured and needs to be recuperated, right?" But I’ve been looking for the Soul-melting Fu Shenmu for so long, and I can’t even find a trace of it. I’m really sorry for you. But I found something today that should be of use to you.”

The five-tailed fire fox chuckled, but there was some caution in his eyes.

When he entered the stone chamber and saw the sarcophagus carved from the longevity stone, the fox, who had always been elegant and calm, had the gorgeous and fiery red hair all over his body exploding, and his five tails were stretched straight!

Liu Qinghuan was startled, and was whipped out by the tail of the five-tailed fire fox. The woman's angry scream rang in his ears: "Liu! Qing! Huan! How dare you keep hiding the immortal coffin without taking it out!"

Soul-preserving Immortality Coffin. It turns out that this sarcophagus has a name.

Liu Qinghuan shook his head and got up from the ground, once again startled by the fox's fiery temper.

The stone in the stone chamber was also extremely hard. After he hit it hard, it just shook without any cracks. It can be seen from this that the five-tailed fire fox whose cultivation is equivalent to the Nascent Soul stage is completely merciful.

He said with a bitter face: "My aunt, you should at least ask for the reason before beating me. This sarcophagus used to belong to someone else, and it was only recently vacated."

Xun Weng's existence was naturally sensed by the five-tailed fire fox. She suddenly transformed, and a woman with picturesque features and stunning beauty appeared on the spot. A red mole between her eyebrows shone with a bewitching light.

An indescribable fragrance floated faintly, and when I smelled it just a little, I felt my blood and energy floating, and my body was restless.

The woman's eyebrows raised slightly with anger, and an unstoppable enchantment hit her face. Even Liu Qinghuan felt dizzy for a moment.

He quickly held his breath and stood in the corner farthest from Ying Niang.

"That person has been gone for several months, and you just took it out now. Why didn't you hide it?" Ying Niang said, her voice gentle and delicate. It was obvious that she was messing around, but she didn't feel angry at all.

Liu Qinghuan was secretly happy. He still remembered that the fox ignored him at first. Now when he spoke like this, he obviously regarded him as one of his own.

This is the five-tailed fire fox with the ability to crush the pulse soul. If he can be driven by him, he will have more help in the future.

"Ha, haha." Liu Qinghuan said with a dry laugh: "I was busy before, so I forgot about it for a moment. I only remembered it today, and I called you right away when I saw it was the soul-preserving immortal coffin."

He hurriedly stood next to the sarcophagus and said, "Is this useful to you?"

"Of course!" Ying Niang gave him a look that made him quickly look away, not daring to look again.

The vixen, even when she stares at people, seems to be teasing and flirting, she is really very seductive! This was revealed by her unintentionally. If she had done it deliberately...

This was the first time he saw Ying Niang's transformed appearance, and he was really shocked.

Ying Niang has walked to the sarcophagus, searching around with her slender jade fingers, showing a very happy look: "The Immortality Stone! It's really the Immortality Stone... Although the Immortality Stone has no other functions, it only has the characteristics of the body being incorruptible and the soul being immortal. , then you can be ranked as a fairy. I don’t know where you, the boy, got such great luck, but you found it in the lower world..."

She looked at Liu Qinghuan with disgust and expelled: "Okay, I will live here from now on. You big man, please go away. However, you still have to find the soul-melting Fu sacred tree quickly! Although the longevity stone can preserve the soul, The power is not lost, but it has no soul-nurturing effect. And the longer you are in contact with this stone, the more dependent you will be on it. Once you leave it, the soul power will be doubled. "

Liu Qinghuan was startled. He didn't expect the longevity stone to have such terrifying properties.

Ying Niang continued: "Although your soul is intact, it is best not to have too much contact with it. Although the longevity stone is a fairy, it is not a good thing for monks with intact bodies and souls."

She shook her head: "I don't know much about the details, so you'd better stay away. Immortality can't be obtained with just a stone."

Liu Qinghuan was shocked and couldn't help but take a few steps back.

But I heard Lady Ying turn her head and mutter: "Well, this room is too deserted. It seems that it needs to be decorated properly."

Liu Qinghuan composed herself: "Ms. Ying, are you okay with the contact?"

"I only have my soul body left, what else can I do!" Lady Ying swung over with a sharp look: "This will be my boudoir from now on, why don't you leave quickly."

Liu Qinghuan was stunned and quickly lowered her head: "Okay, okay, I'll leave now."

"Next time I see you, I hope you have found the soul-melting Fu Shenmu." The vixen's lazy and seductive voice came from behind.

Liu Qinghuan couldn't help but speed up, until he came out of the Songxi Cave Sky Map, he seemed to still be able to smell the faint fragrance.

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