My Journey to the West on the Heavenly Road

Chapter 138
Jiang Yuan glanced at the stone table, and picked up a square cake from the snack plate.

Then with a flip of the wrist, the vitality in the body poured into the palm, and the square cake began to fly up and down in Jiang Yuan's palm.

Yu Huazhen, who was a ghost fairy, could tell at a glance that the square cake was fluttering with an invisible air circulation.

Jiang Yuan is demonstrating the circulation of qi in the body.

Yu Huazhen's expression became complicated, he could see that Jiang Yuan's energy was indeed perfect, enough to attack the entrance.

"Cultivation must have a solid foundation and be down-to-earth. That's all!"

Yu Huazhen wanted to give a few words of advice, but looking at the skillful circulation of vitality, he couldn't tell, he was shocked, admired, and faintly jealous.

"I also ask Brother Yu for advice."

Jiang Yuan added another glass of wine for Yu Huazhen, and sincerely asked for advice.

Yu Huazhen drank it silently, and the complex emotions in his heart melted away as he swallowed the wine. He smiled casually, and then looked up at Jiang Yuan, "Friend Daoist is very human."

After a word of praise, he pointed out earnestly: "Why do you want to be obsessed with it in the first place, and rush to the porch from the inside?"

Jiang Yuan was puzzled.

Yu Huazhen pointed to the outside of the pavilion, turned his gaze to the setting sun shining on the pond, and said with a smile:
"The so-called three steps of building a foundation—preserving spirit, feeding energy, and refining energy, in the final analysis, are nothing more than a word, that is, to introduce the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body, refine the mortal body, wash away the dirt, and welcome the righteous fruit of the immortal way with the innate body."

"In short, building a foundation is refining the inside. When it comes to ghosts and immortals, they have to go from the inside to the outside world."

"Since sooner or later you have to blend with the heaven and the earth, why not take a step first? Don't force yourself to rush through the entrance from the inside out, but go the other way, taking advantage of the general trend of the world, exerting force from the outside, and cooperating from the inside."

Jiang Yuan thought for a moment, then asked: "But I haven't returned to the innate, I'm still a mortal, how can I blend into the heaven and the earth?"

Yu Huazhen smiled and said, "Could you know how to meditate at first?"

Jiang Yuan replied: "Of course."

"If you can look inside, why can't you look outside?" Yu Huazhen laughed loudly.

Jiang Yuan lowered his head in thought.

Yu Huazhen stopped laughing, and said calmly: "The trick, at first, I only need to remember six words - 'Guard the spirit inside, keep the sky outside'."

"Keeping God Inside, Keeping Heaven Outside"

Jiang Yuan pondered these words, looked up at Yu Huazhen.

The ghost fairy flicked his whisk and shook his head lightly: "If you say more, it will not be good words, but it will be your karma in the first place."

Seeing this, Jiang Yuan didn't ask any more questions, and refilled himself a glass of wine, then raised his glass, respectfully said to Yu Huazhen, "Thank you, Brother Yu, for your guidance!"

Yu Huazhen accepted Jiang Yuan's glass of wine calmly, and after Jiang Yuan had finished drinking, he leaned forward and picked up the jug, and while pouring wine for Jiang Yuan, he said with a happy smile:
"Since I drank a glass at the beginning, it is considered as breaking the precept, and I must have a drink with me today."

Jiang Yuan made a regretful expression, annoyed: "Oh, I made a mistake."

After the words fell, the two looked at each other and laughed in unison.

When Jiang Yuan was about to accompany Yu Huazhen to let go of his drinking, two Taoist boys with panicked faces came rushing from the front yard.

Yu Huazhen frowned displeasedly, and heard a Daoist shout: "Master, there are many people outside, carrying several scary corpses."

Another Daoist shouted, "Master, something happened to Brother Su Yu."

Su Yu?

Yu Huazhen and Jiang Yuan were both taken aback.

Su Yu was a child of a hunter village at the foot of Sanxianguan Mountain. When he was thirteen or fourteen years old, he climbed the peach-patterned stone ladder and came to seek the Tao alone.

Yu Huazhen was deeply impressed by it.

As for Jiang Yuan, Su Yu was his subordinate. He just met last night, and he gave him a fox tail to make a scarf for his mother.

The two of them didn't delay any longer, they immediately got up and walked out. As soon as they arrived at the front yard, they heard the noisy voices and heart-piercing cries from outside.

In the peach forest under the setting sun, there is a circle of people, outside are the alchemists of the Three Immortals Temple, and inside are a group of ordinary people, men, women, old and young, all of them are full of grief.

There were eight or nine stretchers on the ground, and a stiff body was lying on each stretcher.

Jiang Yuan walked out of the gate and immediately saw Su Yu's body. Yesterday there was a lively young man talking and laughing, but today he was lying there with a pale complexion, his eyes closed, lifeless.

"How is this going?"

Striding up to Su Yu, Jiang Yuan asked anxiously.

Lying beside Su Yu were a woman and a girl with braided hair. Both of them had sad faces and were sobbing.

Hearing the words, the girl raised her head wiping her tears, just as the setting sun was covering Jiang Yuan's body, shining the golden light rendered by his ocher-yellow robe, in the eyes of the girl, he looked like a god-man.

"Master Immortal!"

The girl's heart was shocked, she came back to her senses, and immediately rushed to Jiang Yuan's feet, crying and begging: "Master Immortal, please save my father and my brother!"

Su Yu's sister?
Jiang Yuan glanced at the girl in surprise, then turned to look at the woman next to her. This one should be Su Yu's mother.

Also, Jiang Yuan's eyes fell on the middle-aged hunter lying next to Su Yu. Was this the murder of both father and son?

"I'm your brother Su Yu's friend, I saw him yesterday, how did it become like this overnight?"

Jiang Yuan quickly asked the girl.

Brother's friend?The girl looked at Jiang Yuan in disbelief.

When Su's mother heard this, she raised her haggard face, as if she had found a savior, she rushed towards Jiang Yuan excitedly: "Please save my son and my husband."

Jiang Yuan supported Su's mother, helped the girl, and said in a concentrated voice: "Don't cry, tell me the situation, so I can help you."

Su's mother was choked with sobs and could not speak, but the girl wiped away her tears with all her strength, and told the situation in a stumbling manner.

".My brother rode a big tiger into the mountain to find my father. There was no news until midnight. Several people who went into the mountain with him ran back in fear, saying that they had encountered a demon."

"This morning, the whole village mobilized together, and finally found my brother, my father, and other villagers, but this is the case."

As the girl talked, she could no longer suppress her suppressed emotions, and cried with her mother.

"A monster that kills everyone?"

Jiang Yuan frowned, squatted down and touched Su Yu with his hands. His body was very cold, he had no pulse, and there was no life in his body, just like a dead body.

But Jiang Yuan always felt that something was wrong.

Yu Huazhen on the other side also figured out the situation, and then picked out a few young people from the crowd: "That monster is so powerful, how did you escape?"

Those pale-faced youths trembled with fear when they thought of what happened last night, their eyes glazed over.

"Speak!" Yu Huazhen shouted, and used his mana.

The young men trembled all over, finally came back to their senses, and stammered back:
"After Su Yu was killed by the monster, we completely lost our minds and just ran away without knowing anything. When we regained some sense, we had already run back to the village."

One of them calmed down, and suddenly said: "When Su Yu cast the spell, the demon seemed to yell. Maybe it was injured, so it couldn't care about us."

Jiang Yuan came over, and after listening to the young man's words, he asked Yu Huazhen, "Brother Yu, what do you think?"

Yu Huazhen put his whisk on the dust and pondered for a moment: "Su Yu and the others should have taken away their souls."

Jiang Yuan nodded, "Brother Yu's words confirmed my guess, and I think that demon should be able to absorb people's souls by calling people's names."

"I just don't know how it will deal with Su Yu's souls. If they are swallowed, it will be terrible."

Yu Huazhen shook his head and pointed to the dead body on the ground: "I can feel that these people still have a little life, so their souls have not dissipated."

Jiang Yuan didn't notice the vitality, it seems to be the skill of ghosts and immortals.

"But the soul has been out of the body for too long, once it turns into a ghost, it will completely lose the chance to return to the sun."

Yu Huazhen looked serious, and turned to look at Jiang Yuan: "Their souls must be returned to their bodies as soon as possible!"

"How?" Jiang Yuan asked in a deep voice.

"It's going to be dark, I will use the Yin God to search, please protect me at the beginning."

(End of this chapter)