The Queen Mother Grass sprite told Shi Feiyang that the Red-Scaled One-Horned Snake had been following him for over three hundred years, and it was a foolish snake, often killing itself; he had resurrected it six tis already!
Though foolish, the snake was well-behaved; he often sat atop the horn on the snake's head and let the foolish snake carry him around to patrol the forest.
Besides raising a summoning beast, he had devised an even more brilliant thod to protect himself.
Beside him, the Black Ganoderma, called the Immortal Mushrooms, resembled Lingzhi in appearance but was actually a herb containing deadly poison. The Queen Mother Grass had specifically chosen it, transplanting it beside himself, and over the years, had watered and fertilized it, making it grow plump and strong.
The spiritual energy of Immortal Mountain was concentrated, yielding abundant spiritual dicines; thus, many people ca here to gather herbs. Often, they would spot the outgoing sprite of Queen Mother Grass and follow him all the way to his ho, or stumble upon his place by mistake.
In such cases, the first thing people noticed was the Black Ganoderma, as large as a wash basin, assuming it to be a pri spiritual dicine, while the Queen Mother Grass next to it seed too insignificant, rely a weed...
When they dug out the Immortal Mushrooms, just a whiff of its juice was enough to kill them instantly. If it was an immortal with so Dao cultivation, they could withstand for a mont, but any mortal who touched the leaves or inhaled its scent would faint.
Dozens of dicine gatherers, both immortals and mortals, had been killed by this sche of Queen Mother Grass.
The Immortal Mushrooms, which he had planted, had been around for over three thousand years. It had been dug up nurous tis, suffering broken roots and torn leaves, yet under the ticulous care of the Queen Mother Grass, it continued to thrive and its toxicity increased. Now, it had grown to resemble a human form, although it had not yet gained sentience.
"Truly a clever creature," praised Shi Feiyang sincerely, "I shall na you; your body is dark as ink, so your surna will be Mo. You love to leap and run, so you shall be called Mo Zhui."
The sprite didn't care what his na was; as a plant, he didn't even care about being male or female. He just wanted to stay safe, but since a powerful new summoning beast had nad him, he grinned and nodded in agreent.
That Immortal Mushrooms was also a three-thousand-year-old spiritual object. Although poisonous, poison and dicine ca from the sa source; used rightly it's dicine, misused it's poison. Shi Feiyang planned to "hatch" it soon, turning it into a little sprite sprinting across the ground.
Thus, each ti he cultivated, he redirected so of the light and heat from the Divine Fire Primordial Pill towards the Immortal Mushrooms and infused it with a burst of Dan Qi.
The next day, the Red-Scaled Strange Snake ca to find Shi Feiyang. Although it had three hundred years of Dao cultivation, it had just been severely wounded by Sikong Hu, with its Primordial Qi greatly diminished. Climbing the barren, towering Dinghu Peak had been an arduous effort.
The Red Snake still wanted to acknowledge Shi Feiyang as its leader. Amongst different species, desires were expressed very directly; it once again expressed its wish for Shi Feiyang's protection, wanting to learn cultivation techniques from him. It was willing to serve Shi Feiyang in any way it could, even prepared to settle on the peak that very night, guarding Shi Feiyang's ho.
Shi Feiyang didn't want a monstrous snake guarding his door; Wei Fengniang would arrive before long, and with the Red Snake's ability, it would again be chopped into seventeen or eighteen pieces.
"I will impart to you a cultivation thod; go back and cultivate. I am facing an ordeal right now; after I overco it, you can return. If you have made progress in cultivation, I will accept you."
He placed his Dragon Claw on the Red Snake's head, infusing a stream of Dan Qi and transmitting a cultivation thod.
Different species were generally foolish and slow-witted, with their minds shut tight. Without teachings, they could only vaguely gather spiritual energy and the essence of the sun and moon by instinct, progressing slowly, and most perished before achieving results from their cultivation.
Shi Feiyang noticed that the constitution of the Red Snake was different from his own, so he devised a cultivation thod for him, teaching him to collect the sunshine at noon every day, absorb the True Sun Fire, and then disperse it throughout his whole body to refine his form and quality.
Overjoyed at receiving the Dan Qi and cultivation technique, the Red Snake kowtowed to Shi Feiyang in thanks, "My benefactor, do you have any impending calamities? Please let know the ti, so I may risk my life..."
"Losing your life will be of no use," Shi Feiyang interrupted him. "Go back and cultivate properly, and we can et again in the future!"
He then spat a strange wind from his mouth, sweeping up the Red Snake and blowing it off Dinghu Peak, rolling it over and over until it landed in Alchemy Creek.
The day of shedding his skin was approaching, and while Shi Feiyang engaged in cultivation, he also practiced alchemy. The millennia-old Queen Mother Grass had the incredible ability to reattach severed limbs, bring the dead back to life, and even reattach severed heads.
He explained his predicant to the dwarf Mo Zhui, who, without a word, drew blood from his arm for Shi Feiyang's alchemical needs.
With the juice of the millennia-old Queen Mother Grass, several types of Immortal Pills could be made; Shi Feiyang managed to obtain two small cups of it, and besides Scraping Immortal Pill, he also concocted a furnace of Angry Mysterious Pills for ergencies.
Sikong Hu's physical body was blown apart by him that night, and his Primordial Spirit was captured. Shi Feiyang forced him to recite the original texts of two Daoist books.
By this ti, Sikong Hu had lost his previously arrogant deanor and obediently recited the "Twenty-Eight True Scripture" and the "Three-Seven Scripture" verbatim. Then he pleaded with Shi Feiyang to release him, "I was blind and provoked the might of the True Dragon... Now I have already died once and have learned my lesson. Please, Dragon God, pity my years of cultivation and allow to reincarnate..."
"That sounds familiar," remarked Shi Feiyang as he morized the contents of the two scriptures and deliberated them, asking Sikong Hu to explain the annotations. Sikong Hu had refined these two books for over sixty years, knew them inside out, and had developed insights for every character, presenting explanations far exceeding the original text.
Shi Feiyang listened to the entirety of the scriptures and their interpretations, compared them with the Heavenly Book Supplent and the Golden Seal on the rock walls, pondered for half a day, suddenly laughed, and told Sikong Hu, "You fool, to have misinterpreted the true essence of these Daoist scriptures into sothing entirely unrecognizable and yet dared to frivolously claim the title of Sword Immortal!"
Dissatisfied, Sikong Hu had, together with Pu Miaomiao, delved deeply into these two Daoist books for many years and, following the teachings of the book, achieved swordsmanship and divine skills, making a na for himself as a Sword Immortal. How could he have possibly misinterpreted the True Scripture?
He couldn't help but interject, "You say I lack comprehension and haven't fully grasped the deep aning within the scripture, which is true. However, I believe I have understood seventy to eighty percent of it..."
"No, no!" Shi Feiyang interrupted him, "You were wrong from the beginning! I suspected sothing was odd when I first heard your nephew ntion it; he hadn't learned it completely. Now that I've heard you explain both books completely, I finally understand that you fundantally misunderstood from the beginning."
Sikong Hu wanted to leap up and bite the dragon but forcibly restrained himself, "Then please enlighten , where exactly did I go wrong?"
With a hint of pride, Shi Feiyang explained, "You say 'two' represents Yi Wood, and 'eight' represents Xin tal, thus the Twenty-Eight True Scripture is actually the Yi Xin Scripture, practicing the Wood and tal Path, which is wrong! You say 'three' represents Bing Fire, and 'seven' represents Geng tal, thus the Three-Seven Scripture is actually the Bing Geng Scripture, practicing the Fire Gold Dao, which is even more incorrect! It's a sheer travesty! Combined with the whole context of the scripture and the arithtic adjustnts, it should not be derived from the Heavenly Stems Yin Yang Five Elents!
Let tell you, 'one' represents Sun, 'two' represents Shaoyin, 'three' represents Shaoyang, and 'four' represents Taiyin, these are the birth numbers; 'six' represents Taiyin, 'seven' represents Shaoyang, 'eight' represents Shaoyin, and 'nine' represents Sun, these are the completion numbers. Birth and completion recycle and ascend in a spiraling Four Symbols, understand? 'Three' is Shaoyang as birth number, and 'seven' is Shaoyang as completion number; the Three-Seven True Scripture is actually the Shaoyang Scripture, cultivating the Shaoyang True Qi!
'Two' is Shaoyin as a birth number, and 'eight' is Shaoyin as a completion number; the Twenty-Eight True Scripture is actually the Shaoyin Scripture, cultivating the Shaoyin True Qi! Shaoyang belongs to Wood as genuine Yang, Shaoyin as tal is True Yin, when tal and Wood combine, they match Yin and Yang, this is a Daoist alchemical scripture for cultivating the inner core! Do you know what 'Over Five' is? Do you understand what 'Seven Returns Nine' even ans?"
Upon hearing all this, Sikong Hu was left dumbfounded!
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