Chapter 516: Farewell to the Great Sage Tai Qing!

Chapter 516: Farewell to the Great Sage Tai Qing!

December 31, 2024

Huff!

Puff!

In the void, two streams of black and white breaths intertwined and swirled, and beneath them, a figure sat cross-legged, their body seemingly expanding and contracting with each breath.

With every inhalation, the black and white breaths surrounding him diminished slightly, and after an unknown amount of time, the void's black and white breaths completely vanished.

Qin Zheng slowly opened his eyes, witnessing the Yin-Yang Qi forming the Taiji Formation, which instantly concealed itself, revealing his distinct black and white pupils.

"The limit," Qin Zheng whispered to himself.

Before him stood five exquisite white jade gourds, all of which were now open, their insides empty, the great elixirs within completely refined.

These five white jade gourds, containing fifty Creation Great Pills, each equivalent to a hundred drops of the Great Dao Heavenly Dew, meant Qin Zheng had just refined five thousand drops of the Great Dao Heavenly Dew!

Adding to his previous gains, his total harvest now approached six thousand drops of the Great Dao Heavenly Dew!

According to the clues from the Virtue Scroll, ten thousand drops of the Great Dao Heavenly Dew could lead to the Legend Realm, and Qin Zheng's current accumulation was just over two thousand drops away from this goal!

A subtle sense of perfection emanated from his body.

Qin Zheng raised his head and looked around.

Out of the hundreds of great pills, he had only refined five, but he understood that the remaining pills could no longer aid his cultivation.

The 'bucket' was full, and adding more 'water' would only cause it to overflow; the 'bucket' couldn't hold any more water.

The path ahead was clear: either expand the 'bucket' through personal cultivation and refine the remaining pills, or directly refine the Great Dao Heavenly Dew.

Regardless of the method, he was indeed only a fourth of the distance away from the Legend Realm!

Everything in this Daoist monastery had helped him complete six-tenths of the journey!

Qin Zheng assessed his condition, then stood up and returned the five empty white jade gourds to their original places before walking to the purple-gold alchemy furnace in the center.

He clasped his hands and bowed, respectfully saying, "Junior thanks the Great Sage Tai Qing for your assistance!"

After several breaths, Qin Zheng straightened up and turned to leave the alchemy chamber.

He had no intention of taking the elixirs from the chamber, even though there were a hundred kinds of pills in total, and he had only refined five of them, leaving many untouched.

However, the gains were enormous, unprecedented, propelling him from the middle stage of Primordial Boundless to its perfection, completing six-tenths of the journey to the Legend Realm.

Taking the remaining pills would be overly greedy and ungrateful.

At most, he could return after reaching the Legend Realm and see if he could still benefit from these great pills.

Qin Zheng had this thought in mind.

Just as he reached the door of the alchemy chamber, about to push it open and leave, a sudden sound came from behind him.

Qin Zheng turned abruptly and saw the lid of the purple-gold alchemy furnace rising, a strand of blazing flame transforming into a rope that rushed towards him, instantly binding him tightly.

What was happening? Qin Zheng suppressed the urge to resist or flee.

The next moment—

Whoosh!

The blazing flame rope, binding Qin Zheng, instantly pulled him back into the alchemy furnace, and the floating lid closed in an instant.

Boom!!

A heavy rumble echoed, and the alchemy chamber returned to its peaceful state.

At that moment, inside the alchemy furnace, flames raged.

Qin Zheng found himself surrounded by a sea of fire, above, below, and in all directions, an overwhelming blaze.

Even with his current cultivation level, he could distinctly feel the scorching heat within this fiery enclosure.

Simultaneously, he keenly sensed that beneath the fire's embrace, medicinal power began to slowly emerge within his body.

This was the residual medicinal power from the great pills he had refined earlier, including the fifty pills he had just refined!

The purple-gold alchemy furnace had pulled him in to help refine the remaining medicinal power he hadn't fully digested.

Qin Zheng suddenly understood, and the tension he had felt eased.

As he prepared to calm his mind and refine the remaining medicinal power with the surrounding flames, he spotted two figures, one large and one small, amidst the surging fire.

One was a Daoist in a Daoist robe, but his figure alternated between solid and insubstantial, emitting a terrifying aura.

The second one was a stone, but upon closer inspection, its silhouette resembled a curled-up person. Amidst the blazing flames, a sense of perfection emerged from the stone.

Just as Qin Zheng was about to observe more details, the raging flames rose like a tidal wave, instantly engulfing the two figures and then completely submerging him as well.

A searing pain pierced his divine soul!

The flames not only scorched his physical body but also his divine soul. The medicinal power not only lingered in his physical body but also in his divine soul.

Qin Zheng immediately averted his gaze, guarding his mind, and fully cooperated with the flames to refine the medicinal power.

Time passed slowly.

The Purple-Gold Alchemy Furnace, used by the Great Sage Tai Qing, had been filled with countless rare treasures and elixirs over the years. Even the 'Nebula' and 'Milky Way', such unimaginable spectacles, had been thrown into it.

Therefore, the furnace also retained an incredibly vast and terrifying essence.

During the process of refining the medicinal power within Qin Zheng's body, the essence transformed into fine threads, slowly merging with his body alongside the blazing flames.

Initially, Qin Zheng felt unbearable pain, but gradually, he found it bearable, and by the end, he even enjoyed the embrace of the flames, feeling warm and comfortable as if soaking in a hot spring during winter.

The flames gradually enveloped him, turning Qin Zheng into a fire cocoon, floating in the sea of fire.

Time passed leisurely.

Crack!

A sound of cracking reverberated.

Then, immediately after.

Crack, crack, crack, crack!

The fire cocoon quickly cracked open.

Boom!

A pristine white fist, akin to jade, punched through the fire cocoon, causing the air to tremble. Suddenly, the entire fire cocoon shattered, revealing what lay beneath.

The previous Qin Zheng, aided by the power of the elixir, had rapidly improved, but he still felt a bit insubstantial. However, at this moment, he exuded solidity everywhere, and the sense of perfection became even more intense.

Qin Zheng sensed his own state, refining the residual medicinal power. It was as if he had increased the 'water' in the 'bucket', but in the sea of fire, the 'bucket' expanded with the increase of 'water'.

Refining the elixir's power in the Purple-Gold Alchemy Furnace, he had achieved the effect of refining the Heavenly Dew of the Great Dao!

However, Qin Zheng realized that this was the limit of the Purple-Gold Alchemy Furnace and his own limit. He couldn't repeat the process of refining the elixir and enduring the refinement within the furnace again.

But the previous harvests allowed him to refine the equivalent of six thousand drops of the Heavenly Dew of the Great Dao, which meant he had traveled sixty percent of the Legend Path.

After enduring the blazing flames' refinement in the Purple-Gold Alchemy Furnace, the residual medicinal power, enhanced by the essence within the furnace, caused the effect of six thousand drops of the Heavenly Dew to surge to eight thousand drops!

In other words, Qin Zheng was now only two thousand drops away from achieving the Legend Realm, having completed eighty percent of the journey.

Qin Zheng's eyes, like translucent gems, reflected the sea of fire, and his emotions surged like the flames.

Boom!

A rumbling sound echoed above his head.

Qin Zheng immediately felt an invisible force pushing him out of the Purple-Gold Alchemy Furnace.

In this final moment, his eyes flashed, and he saw through the sea of fire, spotting the other two figures within the furnace.

The Daoist sat cross-legged, and as the terrifying aura of destruction within him weakened, his own aura strengthened. However, it seemed that eradicating the aura within him would still require a significant amount of time.

The stone emitted a hazy glow, as if breathing, constantly inhaling and exhaling the vast essence from the Purple-Gold Alchemy Furnace, growing stronger with each breath.

This time, Qin Zheng saw clearly that the stone's shape wasn't like a curled-up person but rather a curled-up monkey!

Could this stone be Sun Wukong?!

Qin Zheng's heart stirred, and he couldn't guess the Daoist's identity, but he had a vague realization about the stone's identity.

Having reached his current level, he had encountered countless legendary immortals and deities, and he had personally slain Lei Gong and Dian Mu, the Four Great Heavenly Kings.

Therefore, even if this stone was Sun Wukong, Qin Zheng was only slightly surprised and not overly shocked.

Moreover, the aura emanating from this stone still belonged to the category of Ultimate HuanYuan, but it was incredibly perfect, even closer to the legendary level than Qin Zheng himself.

Qin Zheng's thoughts surged, and in the next moment, his figure was pushed out of the Purple-Gold Alchemy Furnace, returning to the quiet alchemy chamber.

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Bang!!

The lid of the elixir furnace closed once more.

Qin Zheng banished all thoughts and bowed to the Purple-Gold Alchemy Furnace: "Junior thanks the Sage!"

After a few breaths, he stood up, turned around, and walked out, opening the door of the alchemy chamber.

Previously, after refining the elixir and then refining himself in the Purple-Gold Alchemy Furnace, a total of twenty years had passed. For Qin Zheng, this was the longest period of closed-door cultivation he had ever experienced.

When he pushed open the door and stepped out of the alchemy chamber, he saw the shadows of trees swaying in the distance, and a grand hall appeared in the distance, with a path leading from the alchemy chamber directly towards the hall.

It turned out that the alchemy chamber was not far from the main hall of the Daoist monastery. Qin Zheng took a few steps forward, heading towards the main hall.

His harvest was sufficient, and Qin Zheng's mind relaxed, and he strolled leisurely, enjoying the scenery.

Before he had taken a few steps.

Buzz!

A special aura appeared.

Qin Zheng felt something and turned to look outside the monastery. He saw the nebula and the Milky Way shrinking and collapsing, transforming into a vast essence that surged towards a certain direction.

Accompanying this was an incredibly thick and powerful aura, slowly emerging between heaven and earth.

Who has ascended to legend?

Qin Zheng's eyebrows raised slightly.

He paused to observe for a moment. Perhaps it was too far away, or perhaps the monastery had the ability to isolate auras, as he couldn't sense which legend had ascended.

He withdrew his gaze and continued towards the main hall.

His own harvest was so great, and he was only a tenth of the way from becoming a legend, not to mention the already perfected Daoxing Celestial Venerable and the reincarnated True Martial Emperor. It was normal for them to become legends.

Moreover, no matter who ascended to legend, it was a good thing.

Qin Zheng thought as he walked slowly, with a gentle breeze brushing past him. The trees swayed, and the fragrance of the plants and trees filled his nostrils.

Soon.

The majestic main hall of the monastery came into view.

In front of the hall was a square paved with green bricks, and in the center of the square stood a bronze elixir furnace. At this moment, the lid of the furnace was constantly being pushed up, and large pills seemed to want to escape from the furnace.

However, the furnace seemed to have a binding force, and even though the lid was pushed open, the pills inside couldn't escape. Only the fragrance of the pills continued to overflow and spread out.

Qin Zheng paused, looking at this scene, especially at the pills that wanted to escape, a hint of surprise appeared in his eyes.

These pills had become sentient?

Hmm~

The hall's door slowly opened.

Qin Zheng turned to look, and inside the hall, he saw a Daoist sitting there. When their gaze met, the Daoist's gaze also turned towards him.

The two gazes met for an instant.

Boom!

Qin Zheng felt a thunderous shock in his heart.

When he came to his senses, he found himself standing in the hall, but the figure of the Daoist had disappeared, replaced by a ball of floating light in mid-air.

Qin Zheng didn't dare to touch this ball of light, and at this moment, his mind was replaying the image of the Daoist from earlier.

That gaze was difficult to describe, ancient and powerful, containing too many things. But upon further reflection, he felt that the gaze was pure and flawless, without any impurities.

At the same time, the appearance of the Daoist also became increasingly blurred in Qin Zheng's memory, eventually becoming completely unrecallable.

Great Sage Tai Qing, Daode Tianzun! Even though Qin Zheng had never met this sage, he could be certain that the Daoist he had just seen was the master of this Eight Scenic Palaces, a top-tier Beyond Shore, one of the Three Pure Ones!

Perhaps the Great Sage Tai Qing he had just seen was the imprint left by this sage in the monastery, and upon sensing his aura, the sage had manifested?

And the light left behind was the creation the sage had given him?

Qin Zheng thought this in his heart, and as he looked at the ball of light in front of him, a glimmer of hope appeared in his eyes.

What a sage left behind must be extraordinary!

Qin Zheng immediately reached out his hand and extended it into the light.

Whoosh!

In an instant.

The dense light burst forth.

Qin Zheng felt his vision turn into a white glow, and when the light contracted, what appeared was a faintly familiar path.

This was the place where he had refined the Tai Qing divine statue and obtained the Dao Scripture of Purity!

Would he have to repeat the process from last time?

Qin Zheng's mind filled with doubt, but in the next moment, his expression changed slightly, and he quickly lowered his head to look at himself while raising his hands.

His body had come too!

Last time, he had only had a perspective, without a physical body. He had waited in place for over a hundred years before the sage riding a green ox upside down had arrived.

Now that his body had come too, and he could move freely, wouldn't this time be even more significant?

For example, he could take the initiative to speak to the sage riding the green ox upside down, after all, he was the Great Sage Tai Qing himself!

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