The Alternative Way of Enlightenment

Chapter 40: The Special Second Level of the Dao Palace

Half a month had passed, and the Xuanhuang essence had completely assimilated the Dragon-patterned Black Gold Sword. There was already a lot more Xuanhuang Qi in the kidney's divine storage.

It's time to break through. Liu Shan began to take out a large amount of source stones and placed them around his body, and also put the divine source and alien source at hand.

He immersed himself in the mind, listened to the great Dao sound in the Dao Palace, and absorbed the vast amount of essence outside the body. Soon, Liu Shan's kidney divine storage reached the state of great perfection.

Liu Shan, who had just opened his eyes, continued to sink into his mind. His consciousness walked out of the Water Palace, and his eyes began to become confused again. Liu Shan distracted himself and circulated the essence in his body, and began to explore the divine treasure of the liver.

Gradually, he sensed the wood energy belonging to the liver's divine treasure. Following the sensation and stepping on the invisible stairs, Liu Shan found the liver's divine treasure.

After finding the liver's divine storehouse, Liu Shan circulated the essence in his body and began to gather it into the liver's divine storehouse. With the help of the essence, a huge Taoist palace began to appear in the liver's divine storehouse. The sound of the great Dao sounded, as if it had crossed time and space and came from the past. The chanting of scriptures continued, and the sound of divine music continued. In a trance, I heard the sounds of sentient beings offering sacrifices and worshipping, and it seemed that the gods were crying.
Then the gods of the Taoist Palace began to appear. Liu Shan did not dare to hesitate and quickly put his spiritual consciousness into the Taoist Palace and began to influence the evolution of the gods. Under Liu Shan's intervention, the gods took shape little by little and became his own appearance little by little.

Finally, he cultivated to the second realm of Dao Palace. Liu Shan asked the Dao Palace deity in the Liver's Divine Storehouse to start practicing the Heaven Devouring Magic Skill, and then Liu Shan poured the Xuanhuang Qi that he had transformed before into the Dao Palace deity in the Liver's Divine Storehouse, causing it to begin to transform as well.

Half a month had passed, Liu Shan had already awakened and was no longer in seclusion. The rest was left to the Taoist gods to slowly evolve.

Then Liu Shan started to go out and wander around, asking people about the whereabouts of Lao Dao Ba Zi. Liu Shan only knew that Lao Dao Ba Zi was in a small town, but he really didn't know where exactly.

However, there are all kinds of monsters in the holy city, and there should be some clues here. Finally, after spending some money, Liu Shan found out the whereabouts of the old knife handle.

It turned out that he was in a small town called Yuancheng near the Holy City. Old Daobazi was a local tyrant there and a popular figure among the monks.

He is very famous in the Holy City and accepts all kinds of business. However, his reputation is not very good and he is a bit shady, so many people know him, but not many are willing to cooperate with him.

After flying out of the Holy City, he came to the small city called Yuancheng. In a dilapidated blue-tiled house, Liu Shan saw an old man with a wrinkled face and calloused hands. He squatted on the ground, smoking a pipe, and his cultivation level could not be seen at all.

This was Liu Shan's target this time, the old knife handle. Liu Shan knew his background, as he was a direct descendant of the Heavenly Court among the three assassin dynasties.

His cultivation is unfathomable, and this old farmer appearance is just a disguise.

Liu Shan no longer hesitated and stepped forward to ask, "Old Daobazi? Can you lead us to the Taichu Ancient Mine?"

"Wait a few days and gather a team of people before setting off." The old knife-holder replied without even raising his head.

"Okay, then I'll give you the money first." Liu Shan said happily.

"There are two of us in total. How much do you want? We'll come and wait for you in two days." Liu Shan asked about the price, then gave the money to Lao Daobazi.

As expected, he was ruthless. Two people needed dozens of kilograms of source stones for one trip. Although this amount of source stones was not worth mentioning to Liu Shan, Liu Shan finally understood why everyone said that Lao Daobazi was ruthless when they mentioned him.

Liu Shan walked away, and then the old knife-holder muttered, "Two more people are here to die."

Liu Shan still heard it through the wind. He didn't know whether it was a reminder from the old knife handle or he said it unintentionally, but he didn't care. For the Phoenix Blood Red Gold Stone, it was worth taking a risk.

Two days later, Liu Shan waited until Ye Fan finished his training, and then they came to Yuancheng together. After waiting for a few more days in Yuancheng, he received a notice from the old knife handle saying that everyone was already there.

When he arrived in front of the blue-tiled house, there were already more than a dozen young people there. They all seemed to be going to die, and Liu Shan thought of what the old knife handle had said before.

Seeing the two coming, the old knife handle who was squatting in the corner smoking also stood up. He walked in front of the crowd, holding his pipe and smoking, and said to everyone: "Everyone is finally here. Let me make it clear that I am only responsible for leading the way, and life and death are taken care of by myself. The Taichu Ancient Mine is full of dangers. Don't blame me if you are summoned, and don't expect me to save him."

Liu Shan and Ye Fan looked at each other and said nothing. They had been to the ancient forbidden land and knew that the Taichu Ancient Mine, which was also a forbidden land, must be full of dangers, so they were mentally prepared.

The dozen or so young people didn't care. They were still discussing in a low voice how impressive it would be to go to the Taichu Ancient Mine.

When Liu Shan heard these words, he thought of what Lao Daobazi said about committing suicide, and felt that Lao Daobazi was really prescient.

A group of people started out. Under the leadership of Lao Daobazi, the group walked for ten days and passed through a large uninhabited area.

Liu Shan guessed that they had already arrived at the outskirts of the Taichu Ancient Mine. Because Liu Shan could already feel a strange aura spreading. He didn't know when his mind had become tense. Liu Shan didn't like this feeling very much. He felt very depressed.

The old knife-holder also stopped at this time, turned around and said to the people who followed him, "This place is less than a thousand miles away from the Taichu Ancient Mine. You must control yourselves, don't be impulsive, don't take risks, don't look around and don't talk nonsense."

Liu Shan and Ye Fan looked at each other after hearing the old knife master's repeated instructions, and they took it more seriously. "Hehe, we are all cultivators, how can we be afraid of demons and ghosts?" A fearless young man retorted.

The old knife-holder's face darkened, and he said loudly: "A few years ago, there was a group of people who were unrestrained. In the end, only two people and I survived. No one knew what happened during the whole process. After everything was over, there were only dozens of pools of blood."

Then he turned to the man who had just spoken and said, "If you want to die, don't take us with you. If you say anything more, don't blame me for kicking you out of the team."

Someone advised, "Forget it, everyone just be quiet and keep moving forward."

When the young man saw how serious the old knife-holder was, he stopped talking even though he was not convinced.

A group of people flew towards the depths. Less than a hundred miles away, they saw some stone pillars and stone foundations on the ground, which looked like the ruins of a remaining palace.

Liu Shan used the Yuantian Divine Eye to look around, and sure enough, there was a black mist covering the ground, and there were complete divine patterns and some strange runes on the ground.

"Be careful, this should be a broken formation." Liu Shan said to Ye Fan.

Ye Fan nodded, and he also used the Source Heavenly Eye to observe the surroundings, "These formations are still working."

After flying for another hundred miles, Old Knife Handler took the lead and stopped.

"This is already the edge of the Taichu Ancient Mine. I suggest that you don't go any further and just take a look here." The old knife-holder said to the people behind him.

"There are still more than a hundred miles to go. Let's go a little further. It will be more exciting and we can see more clearly." Someone suggested.

"Let's go a little further. I came here hoping to dig out some stones. If we're lucky, we might even be able to dig out the divine source." Someone said fearlessly.

When the old knife handle heard this, his face turned black. He angrily threw a bag of source stones at the man who just spoke, and then said: "I'm returning the source stones to you, get out of here quickly, don't take me with you to death."

When Liu Shan heard someone talking about mining, he was also shocked and thought to himself, "As expected, they are here. There must be no shortage of people who are not afraid of death but have bad mouths."

There are many taboo words that cannot be said around the Taichu Ancient Mine, such as ghost, death, weirdness, mining, divine source, etc.

Liu Shan secretly told Ye Fan all this, asking him to pay attention to the surrounding situation and wait for the sudden change to occur.

Gradually, the wind started to blow around them. The wind became stronger and stronger, and it began to be like a sandstorm. The fierce wind rolled up red sand and dust, red as blood, and there was a strange sound in the wind, just like the howling of evil spirits.

In the red dust, one black whirlwind after another, with large shadows, surrounded everyone.

These black whirlwinds gathered together and formed a huge vortex, surrounding everyone in the middle.

Just now the sun was shining brightly, but in the blink of an eye, everything around was blurred. The huge black whirlwind and the small whirlwinds it brought with it were like scalpels.

In just a moment, the young man who said he was mining was cut into pieces, and soon only a pool of blood was left on the ground.

Although Liu Shan and Ye Fan were mentally prepared, they were still shocked by the scene like everyone else.

Liu Shan used his spiritual sense to investigate and could only vaguely sense that there were monsters with powerful auras in the black wind.

Liu Shan didn’t know whether these were creatures with ancient bloodlines, or monsters created by the ancient emperors in the forbidden area to guard the forbidden area.

The black wind was growing stronger and stronger, and the people around him could hardly be seen. Liu Shan quickly took out the Lihuo God Furnace.

The Lihuo Divine Furnace grew larger the moment it appeared. Liu Shan signaled Ye Fan not to resist. Then he put himself and Ye Fan into the Lihuo Divine Furnace. After all, the Lihuo Divine Furnace was a divine artifact used by Emperor Hengyu in his early years. It should be no problem for him to protect them.

After Ye Fan entered the Lihuo Divine Furnace, he still felt uneasy, so he took out his Xuanhuang Mother Qi Cauldron and put himself and Liu Shan in it as an extra layer of insurance.

Liu Shan and Ye Fan didn't care about the others. It was already very good that they could protect themselves at this time.

(End of this chapter)