Taiyi Dao Fruit

"Yawn—"

Wandering through the dimly lit passage, Jiang Li sneezed and thought to himself, 'Sister must be thinking of me.'

The invisible connection within his Sea of Consciousness was telling Jiang Li that Gongsun Qingyue was approaching if anyone was indeed mentioning him at this moment it had to be Gongsun Qingyue.

He rubbed his nose and looked at the Karma Collection, which was automatically mapping out the route of the passage.

From the Lie Mountain Hall into the stone passage, with numerous twists and turns, the path was quite complicated. But taking Gongsun Qingyue as the reference point, Jiang Li still managed to deduce the direction of the passage.

—This path led inside the statue carved out of the mountain, the Divine Farmer's appearance.

'I should now be at the feet of the statue, about dozens of feet away from the mountainside. Should there be any danger breaking through this distance should pose no problem with the last resort left by Master.'

Having calculated a viable escape route in his mind, Jiang Li relaxed.

Although he knew that the Clan Elder probably wouldn't harm him, it was still his habit to keep a backup plan.

As he pondered, he walked another thirty feet and entered a large hall with a square base, a natural mountain rock wall above, and a floor below carved with complex patterns forming various figures of God Demons and mystical beasts.

And in front, two stone doors three feet high were tightly closed, with the surface of the doors engraved with the rough figure of a man with bull horns, undoubtedly the Divine Farmer's appearance.

"Before our clan moved out from the ancestral land, this was where the Family Head secluded himself for cultivation. Each year when the main family returned to the ancestral land to worship the ancestors, the Family Head would occasionally come here to ponder the wisdom left by predecessors. With your awakened Divine Farmer's appearance, you should be able to gain something from this place as well. Now, go."

The Clan Elder said, pointing to the stone doors in front.

"Don't you have some teachings to pass on, Clan Elder?" Jiang Li asked in surprise, "That Golden Qi Kill—"

"This old man's Innate Golden Qi was honed with the help of Family Head and after decades of arduous cultivation, I realized the 'Golden Qi Kill'. As for the Qi Tomb, I don't know much, if you're willing to spend decades studying it, you might also be able to cultivate the 'Golden Qi Kill'," the Clan Elder said indifferently.

"If this old man knew the entire Qi Tomb, I would have taken the lead myself, would it still be your turn?"

Jiang Li couldn't argue with such sound logic.

He approached the broad stone doors and placed his hands on them, about to push, but unexpectedly the doors slowly opened by themselves as if an Invisible Power from inside was pulling them open.

The surging Primordial Qi flowed out like a tide, wrapping around Jiang Li before violently retracting and taking him inside, and at the same time the stone doors slammed shut with a bang.

The Clan Elder watched from behind with surprise and excitement, trembling with emotion, he excitedly exclaimed, "Indeed... indeed! The Divine Farmer's appearance has opened the door, hope for our clan's revival is at hand, at hand!"

Until this moment, the old man had always maintained a weathered calm and control over his emotions, but now he finally lost his composure, almost to the point of tears.

And on the other side of the stone doors.

The transparent Primordial Qi enveloped Jiang Li like a tide, and upon taking him inside, it did not stop, propelling Jiang Li upward directly.

The space within the stone doors unexpectedly contained an upward passage, with the Primordial Qi carrying Jiang Li surging up about a hundred feet before suddenly expanding into a vast space.

'Based on the size of the statue this should be the Lower Dantian area...'

Wherever he went, Jiang Li familiarized himself with the terrain, and with the Karma Collection's recording function, he could obtain the data of the layout once he traversed it. When he first entered the Lie Mountain Hall, Jiang Li had briefly seen the statue from a distance, and that glance, coupled with his calculations, was enough to estimate the size of the statue.

Thoughts of this raced through his mind, and intricate patterns emerged in Jiang Li's pupils as he scanned his surroundings.

Waves upon waves of Primordial Qi surged from all directions into the spacious room, a total of Eight Qi, each with its distinct attribute—lofty, profound, thick, somber...

Return, Store, Life, Motion, Growth, Nurture, Halt, Kill.

Each of the Eight Qi represented a different meaning.

Heaven, Earth, Wood, Wind, Fire, Water, Mountain, Metal.

Each of the Eight Qi displayed different properties.

As the Eight Primordial Qi surged, Jiang Li's Divine Farmer's appearance was fully revealed, clearly reflecting the attributes and meanings of the Eight Primordial Qi.

At the same time, the Innate Qi within him, in response to the movements of the Eight Qi, began to operate, absorbing the external Primordial Qi and evolving eight different types of Qi, all converging into the Lower Dantian, starting to entangle with one another.

"Not good!" Jiang Li was shocked.

When Qi divided into eight and combined in pairs, there would be sixty-four kinds of changes, but this was not the end—the newly born changes would combine in pairs again, multiplying infinitely, hence Yiqi Turns into Ten Thousand Qi, with the Innate Qi giving rise to infinite Qi.

However, while Innate Qi could become infinite, Jiang Li's human body was finite; now, with the external Primordial Qi entering, his own Innate Qi proliferated wildly. Continuing at this rate, Jiang Li's body was minutes away from bursting.

Jiang Li wished to Returning to the Origin, transforming the Eight Qi back into Innate Qi, but the Qi Mechanism in his Dantian was entangled, making Returning to the Origin impossible.

"That's why 'Qi Tomb' contains 'Nine Springs Heart Technique', its purpose not merely to expand the Qi Sea, but also to divide the Eight Qi into other Qi Seas for easier refinement. It also allows those who haven't cultivated the most orthodox Innate Qi to advance further by transforming the Innate Qi of the eight Qi Seas into eight different attributes."

An understanding dawned upon Jiang Li.

"Nine Springs Heart Technique" was probably not created by Divine Farmer, but added by later generations to resolve the entanglement of Eight Qi. Initially, Divine Farmer would not have had nine Qi Seas.

"Therefore, even without the Nine Springs Qi Seas, there must be a way to solve the problem."

At this critical juncture, Jiang Li's thoughts raced, the crisis sparking his wisdom and greatly enhancing his insight.

"Life and Kill, Motion and Halt—the Eight Qi generate and overcome each other; balance must be maintained..."

Contemplating his inner Divinity Farmer's appearance, he put forth all his effort in employing the Emperor's Qi Observation Skill, frenetically calculating the principles of generation and conquest, striving for equilibrium.

Controlling a portion of the Innate Qi as balance weights, whenever one type of Qi decreased, he would transform that Qi, and the increased Qi would in turn suppress the growth of another. This cycle of expansion and reduction continued until the Eight Qi approached a balance, began to condense, and gradually formed into a spherical shape.

"Could it be that I unwittingly cultivated a Golden Core?"

Jiang Li sensed the change in the Innate Qi and wanted to examine the function of the sphere, but when he tried to mobilize his True Qi, he found the sphere completely unresponsive. The Qi Mechanisms within were entangled and mutually restraining, forming a stable structure, leaving no space for Jiang Li to manipulate.

It looked like a Golden Core, but it was more like a stone.

"Flawless."

Jiang Li murmured softly to himself, yet his mind recalled the defensive maneuver created by Gongsun Qingyue, evolved from "Nourishing Spirit Skill", resembling a turtle's shell.

"Da Yan 50, Tian Yan 49, was this also within your expectations?"

Jiang Li already had the solution.