Chapter 660: Making Yourself You-xian_2
On how to truly relax, probably no one understands better than Elder Luo.
Xiang Beifei doesn't, he always feels like he's never had a break.
Since the Awakening System Ceremony in high school, without a system, he started cultivating. Others got stronger thanks to system tasks and some medicine, but he had to train and comprehend on his own to get stronger.
Whenever he had free time, he was cultivating the Chaos Yin-Yang Formula, training in Rapid Flame, and once in college, learned about spiritual power with Elder Luo—he thought about spiritual power even while munching on sunflower seeds.
He was always on the go, either cultivating or dealing with various chaos, then returning to cultivation.
He was the most gifted across all of Jiuzhou, yet also the most diligent in cultivation.
Maybe, it's time to give himself a break?
Even just a day would do.
Xiaohei and Erha, the two little fellows, had already gone out wandering aimlessly. When Xiang Beifei found them, they were pointing and discussing something in front of a mountain cave, grinning mischievously.
"What are you up to?" Xiang Beifei asked, a blade of dogtail grass in his mouth.
"Woof woof!"
Xiaohei pointed towards the cave.
The cave was roughly carved by some desolate beast but offered protection from the elements, perched safely on a cliff face.
Xiaohei mentioned that he had read many novels in Jiuzhou, where the protagonist tumbles down a cliff, gets caught by a tree, finds a mystical cave, discovers an immortal's skeleton, a scroll, and pills, learns the scroll's divine skill, receives the skeleton's legacy, goes through life and death challenges, and then transforms to dominate the world!
Now, it's contemplating making a cave of its own, disguise it to look like an ancient relic, just like in the Land of Inheritance of the old Giant Spirit.
Set up a powerful formation to make it radiate brilliantly, cause an anomaly, and open it once a year to attract a bunch of Yi Tribe cultivators for exploration and treasure hunting.
We can also pretend to make a Land of Inheritance waiting for destined people!
We don't always have to seek the inheritances left by others; others can also seek ours, right?
Xiang Beifei laughed and said, "So what inheritance do you plan to leave behind? A spiritual power crystal from the Heavenly Connection late stage?"
"Ow ow!"
Erha mischievously suggested on the side: just leave a pile of poop.
Xiang Beifei: "..."
Xiaohei nodded vigorously; this idea was brilliant!
Imagine a swarm of cultivators seeing an anomaly and mistaking it for an ancient inheritance appearing, rushing over excitedly, shouting "To the capable go the treasures," and starting various battles.
All the cultivators are fighting to the death for this cave master's inheritance, and finally, the strongest one emerges, shouting, "Haha, I am the chosen one, the immortal's inheritance is mine!"
He excitedly opens the secret chamber, finds the treasure chest holding the immortal inheritance, and tremblingly opens the box, only to find nothing but a pile of poop, probably spitting blood in anger!
"That's so wicked!"
Xiang Beifei couldn't help but laugh.
This idea is just too wicked.
"But I like it."
Xiang Beifei continued.
Anyway, since today he plans to have a leisure day, being idle is being idle, so let's just do it casually!
Xiaohei and Erha laughed mischievously and immediately started planning. Xiaohei, as the mastermind, had numerous cunning ideas in mind, it had been contemplating this ever since their last trip to the Land of Giant Spirit.
They carved formations and altered the terrain, creating a labyrinthine maze inside the mountain with countless secret chambers, each requiring a challenge before proceeding to the next.
Xiaohei designed eighty-one challenges, including the Myriad Laws Heavenly Thunder Formation, Holy Bone Thousand Fire Formation, Shi Jue Formation, Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, Xian Mu Shi Han Formation, Wind Roar Horse Cry Formation, Slaying Immortals and Seizing Lives Formation...
These formations came from Xiang Beifei's conjured [SR-level Formation System] and were easily laid out with Xiang Beifei basically replicating them directly.
But to make these formations last, their power needed strengthening, so a spiritual power crystal was embedded as the source in each, and Xiang Beifei drew from the Meat-Winged Monster's Netherworld Wanlao Guiding that had trapped him last time—once the main formation was set, all formations had equal power.
"The earlier formations should be simpler, let even those who are post-orifice transforming manage to pass. Set the Heavenly Connection stage later on, and gradually increase the difficulty."
"Woof woof!"
"No, that's too tough, others won't be able to get in. Don't worry, normally no Immortal Realm guys would come here."
"Ow ow!"
"You You You!"
...
Xiang Beifei felt he was truly killing time, spending so much effort on such trivial things.
But since he decided to do something relaxing today, he didn't find anything wrong with it.
They actually busied themselves with formations, taking three days and three nights to complete it!
"We are probably the most bored people in the world."
Xiang Beifei looked contentedly at his masterpiece.
No one could have imagined that four immensely bored individuals would go through such lengths to pull a prank in the vast wilderness.
It must take an incredibly idle person to do such a thing.
But Xiang Beifei soon realized that since he now had [Leisure System], everything he did wasn't meaningless because he was always getting stronger!
[You idly set up the Slaying Immortals and Seizing Lives Formation, leisure value is: three]
[You idly moved a whole mountain, leisure value is: three]
[You idly redirected a river, leisure value is: three]
...
Looking at the values jumping on his system interface, Xiang Beifei found it amusing.
He somehow understood Elder Luo's relaxed mood while counting ducks and watching ants move house every day, that's how life should be, becoming stronger by lounging and yawning every day is also an attitude to embrace.
Then, suddenly, he turned his gaze to those words.
[Leisure value is: three]
Since Xiang Beifei had the ability to conjure others' systems, he found that his Dao-level system differed from others. Others had definite values to grow stronger through system numbers.
But his system value was always "three."
One creates two, two creates three, and three creates all things.
This was the truth about Dao embryo Xiang Qingde had told him, so Three Thousand Great Daos meant Three Thousand System Dao embryos.
Three also symbolized infinity.
Daoist Qingyang mentioned that ordinary cultivators could only comprehend one Dao, but achieving mastery over one's Dao could make someone a master of the Immortal Realm.
He wasn't sure how Xiang Beifei would comprehend the Dao to step into immortality.
Xiang Beifei initially thought stepping into immortality required understanding all Three Thousand Great Daos.
The thought of comprehending Three Thousand Great Daos felt laborious; if that really was what it took, he wasn't sure how long it would take to understand them all.
But now, he suddenly realized something.
Since Three Thousand Great Daos originated from the Yin Yang Two Qi, why obsess over comprehending all Three Thousand Daos instead of understanding Yin Yang Two Qi?
As long as he mastered Yin Yang Two Qi thoroughly, two creates three, meaning comprehending all Daos!
That's why they say simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, and this is likely the way to immortality.
Xiang Beifei sat cross-legged at the deepest part of the cave, contemplating.
Floating from within him, from the Zhou Constellation, came the source energy of Yin and Yang, appearing in the palm of his hand.
Zhou Constellation is the last constellation that can be unlocked at the late stage of Heavenly Connection!
Xiang Beifei didn't know if this was the key to stepping into the Immortal Realm. But as heavenly connection leads to immortality...
He was surprised to think, "Could it be—that Yin Yang Two Qi is the way to become an immortal?"
Xiang Beifei immediately sat down deep within the cave, engaging in deep contemplation.