Chapter 387
: Cultivate the golden elixir and become an immortal
Inside the coffin made of golden nanmu wood, a brilliant light shone forth, and two deep, dark eyes suddenly opened, shooting out lightning-like black light.
The cracks on the Tai Chi Corpse-Suppressing Stone rapidly expanded, eventually turning into countless fragments.
The immortal corpse slowly sat up, its deep, abyss-like eyes revealing a trace of confusion, but when it looked at Zhou Sheng, it instantly turned into hatred.
He seemed to have forgotten many things, but he still remembered that this person had set up a great formation to forcibly suppress him and pierced his heart with a divine sword, taking away a certain treasure.
Humiliation, hatred, murderous intent, and violence spread through his heart, making him wish he could tear the person in front of him to pieces immediately, swallow his blood, and eat his flesh.
However, an instinctive sense of danger prevented him from doing so.
The opponent's cultivation level was very high, and he was surrounded by a power that made him extremely wary. The power was not obvious, but it made him feel more dangerous than those powerful golden flames.
hum!
The divine sword is sentient; it will fly to its master immediately upon sensing danger, even at the risk of being eroded by time.
The sword's cry soared into the sky, and within the dazzling golden light, the faint image of a three-legged golden crow could be seen, flapping its wings and uttering warning cries.
The immortal corpse glanced at the supremely masculine divine sword, then at Zhou Sheng, whose golden body shone brightly as he sat motionless amidst the flames. After a few moments of brilliance, it turned and left.
Unlike ordinary zombies that burrow underground, he transformed into a beam of light and flew through the sky, showing no discomfort under the blazing sun.
After it had gone far away, the Pure Yang Divine Sword finally breathed a sigh of relief. However, a trace of rust had appeared on its originally bright blade.
It immediately flew away from Zhou Sheng and went to the whetstone in the courtyard, where it sharpened its own sword and wet it...
A moment later, the sound of sharpening the sword stopped, and the trace of rust had disappeared, restoring its bright and clear appearance to the point where one could almost see their reflection.
The divine sword was finally satisfied, and seemed to breathe a sigh of relief as if it were human, before disappearing into the void.
……
Under the Great Dao of Time, the originally fatal Xuan Yang Tribulation was ultimately overcome without serious danger.
The moment the second great sun in the sky dissipated, the aura of the Great Dao emanating from Zhou Sheng became even more intense, to the point that his body was constantly rotating and undergoing all sorts of miraculous changes.
He began to age at a visible rate, his black hair turned white, and even his once flawless skin became dull and wrinkled with age spots.
When Yao Taifeng rushed over, she could hardly believe that the frail, elderly man before her, who looked as if he had run out of fuel, was the same spirited and vigorous Zhou Danshan.
Her eyes instantly turned red, and she tried to step forward but was stopped by the Pure Yang Divine Sword.
It wasn't about protecting Zhou Sheng, but about protecting Yao Tai Feng.
Within a ten-zhang radius of Zhou Sheng, time seemed to flow in turbulence. Grass and trees grew and withered, and the walls were sometimes mottled and cracked, as if they had withstood hundreds of years of wind and rain, and sometimes they were brand new, as if they had just been built.
Finally, Zhou Sheng, who was extremely old, also ushered in his new life.
He began to grow younger rapidly, becoming radiant and handsome at a visible pace, and even continued to shrink, from youth to adolescence, then to childhood, and finally to infancy.
Yao Taifeng was almost stunned. After the initial shock, she looked at her beloved's tender eyebrows and rosy cheeks. While worried, she couldn't help but want to laugh.
Is this Zhou Sheng as a child?
Fortunately, not long after, Zhou Sheng began to grow up again, from infancy to childhood, adolescence, and finally stopped growing old.
He sat by the window, his profile bathed in the warm glow of the morning light.
He was still as handsome and dashing as ever, but there was a streak of frost on each side of his temples, hidden among his dark blue hair, like the first rays of the sun peeking out from the tips of pine needles after a snowfall.
Zhou Sheng slowly opened his eyes. There was no piercing light in his eyes, nor any dazzling brilliance, only a deep and clear coolness. But when he looked at Yao Tai Feng, a faint smile appeared in that coolness.
With that glance, a sense of tranquility flowed through the person, like light ink slowly spreading on rice paper.
In the dantian, a round, golden pill the size of a longan floated quietly, radiating dazzling golden light like the sun, turning the entire dantian golden.
The once boundless ocean of magical power has vanished; five hundred years of cultivation have all been condensed into this golden core, the size of a sun's core.
Compared to the boundless ocean of magical power, it seemed less imposing, but Zhou Sheng knew the terrifying power that this tiny golden core could unleash. Stretching for thousands of miles wasn't impressive; what truly mattered was the ability to condense such immense magical power into a single point and create a qualitative change.
The magic power itself did not increase much, but its power was no longer the same.
"Three years have passed, and I have finally succeeded in overcoming the tribulation."
Zhou Sheng spoke slowly, his calm voice carrying a subtle undercurrent of emotion.
As soon as he spoke, the turbulent flow of time in the courtyard immediately returned to calm and disappeared.
"The Tao you have comprehended is..."
Yao Taifeng guessed some of it, but still found it hard to believe.
Zhou Sheng got up and walked towards her, casually picking a withered branch from an old plum tree along the way. When he reached Yao Tai Feng, the branch had already sprouted buds and blossomed, a beautiful sight.
He presented the flowers to the other person with a slight smile.
"My way is called time."
Yao Tai Feng looked at the strand of white hair in his hair, her eyes flashing with heartache, and couldn't help but reach out and gently stroke it: "You can make flowers bloom, why can't you turn this strand of white hair back to black?"
Although this strand of white hair made Zhou Sheng's temperament calm and unfathomable, and gave him an indescribable and strange charm, it also diminished his youthful spirit, which was as bright as the rising sun.
It was as if, in that short period of time, he had experienced countless trials and tribulations, and witnessed the vicissitudes of life all by himself.
This always made Yao Taifeng feel a strange sense of sadness.
"To cultivate the Great Dao, one must always pay a price. He just looks a bit more mature, but it won't affect his lifespan. Look at this face, he even looks better now."
Zhou Sheng stretched out his hands and spun around, jokingly saying with a smile.
"Pah, narcissistic!"
Yao Taifeng glared at him, but secretly breathed a sigh of relief. At least for this moment, she found that familiar feeling in Zhou Sheng again.
"Congratulations on overcoming three tribulations in a row; you've truly ascended to the heavens in one step."
She looked at Zhou Sheng with bright, sparkling eyes, filled with an indescribable pride and joy, as if she were even happier than when she herself had overcome her tribulation.
Zhou Sheng shook his head and laughed, "It's a pity. I could have passed the fourth tribulation in one go, but my cultivation level is still a bit lacking."
He was telling the truth. If the Luoshu is the key to unlocking the Great Way of Time, then the Dragon Vein is the key to unlocking the Luoshu.
Each additional dragon vein allows him to see more of the mysteries of the Great Dao of Time.
Now that he possesses four dragon veins, he should theoretically be able to transcend four tribulations and cultivate to the peak of the Human Immortal realm. However, his own cultivation accumulation is still slightly weak, so he had to give up in the end.
"You're getting a good deal and still acting innocent. You've survived three tribulations in one day. I wonder how many people will be envious of you. Speaking of which, from now on, my man, Yao Tai Feng's man, will be a dignified immortal!"
She slightly raised her chin, her face glowing.
But then it dimmed again.
"It's glamorous, but this will probably make it even more difficult to conceive..."
Zhou Sheng shook his head and smiled. Just as he was about to speak, he heard the divine sword ring out, as if urging him on.
He turned his head and slightly raised his eyebrows.
The immortal corpse in the coffin... has disappeared?
...(End of this chapter)