The Shock of Taoist Baiyun

Chapter 18

Baiyun Mountain, Baiyun Temple.

"You've been gone for half a year. I didn't expect you to come back so soon," said Li Changmeng to himself. As he arrived in front of the Baiyun Temple, the urgency in his heart subsided a bit, and he regained his calm.

"Brother Changmeng!"

Lin Xiaocui was looking at the snow outside the house. As soon as she saw Li Changmeng carrying a bag on his back, she ran over with her feet swinging.

"Cuiniu, you've also started to cultivate," Li Changmeng said. With his Hundred-Eyed supernatural power, he detected the spiritual power in Lin Xiaocui's body.

It wasn't much, just a dozen or so wisps, at the first level of Qi Refining.

"Yes. After reading the book given to me by Master, Master began to guide me in cultivation," Lin Xiaocui nodded. She showed off by snapping her fingers, and a flame swayed out in the wind.

"Amazing, right? This is a spell I just learned," she said.

"Amazing, amazing. Is Master in the temple?" Li Changmeng casually perfunctorily replied to Lin Xiaocui and then asked.

"Master is in the temple. Brother Changmeng, since you've just come back, the most important thing is to pay your respects to Master," Lin Xiaocui said sensibly and stepped aside.

Li Changmeng was quite surprised. This little girl seemed to be much more sensible than before. At this moment, she was no longer like a young child at all.

When he entered the Baiyun Temple, Li Changmeng found Taoist Baiyun reading a book in the side room.

"Disciple has reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining. I already know a little about the subsequent matter of forming the Golden Core, so I came back immediately, hoping to help Master break through!" Li Changmeng stood outside the door, saluted, and shouted towards Taoist Baiyun in the room.

Taoist Baiyun closed the book. "Changmeng, I didn't expect you to be so fast... What's going on?!"

Halfway through his words, Taoist Baiyun was stunned.

Yes, he did have an apprentice who was out there. He hoped that after his apprentice achieved something in cultivating the side path cultivation method of the Incense Path, he could verify the path to forming the Golden Core.

But he remembered that his well-behaved apprentice was a cute and tender child. Looking at the person in front of him, with just one glance, he could see the pink and white vine-like things tightly coiled under the ordinary clothes.

"What kind of demon dares to deceive your Taoist Baiyun?!"

"Wait a minute, I'm Li Changmeng, Master!" Li Changmeng thought something was wrong. He was afraid that his mutated supernatural power had made Taoist Baiyun misunderstand him, but it was already too late.

Then, Taoist Baiyun flicked his hand, and a small piece of white mist blew over.

Li Changmeng didn't care about anything else. The tentacles coiled around his body exerted force, tore through his clothes, and protected his whole body.

The mist arrived in the blink of an eye and stopped a foot in front of Li Changmeng. A golden light shield covered Li Changmeng, and the mist couldn't get any closer.

"Are you really my disciple Li Changmeng?" Taoist Baiyun recognized the protective golden light he had set up. The person in front of him who looked like a demon seemed to be really his disciple.

"Master, withdraw your spiritual power. I'm really Li Changmeng. I'll explain it to you in detail later," Li Changmeng said.

Even with the protective golden light, Li Changmeng could still check some information about the mist through his Hundred-Eyed supernatural power.

[Bone-Dissolving Cloud] [Death upon Contact] [Second-Rank Spell]

He really didn't hold back with his move. He wasn't afraid of killing the wrong person!

Fortunately, Taoist Baiyun quickly dispelled his spell and looked at Li Changmeng scrutinizingly.

"Changmeng, how did you end up like this? There should be a corresponding image of the spiritual embryo in that cultivation method, right?"

This was also the reason why Taoist Baiyun thought Li Changmeng was some kind of demon when he saw him. No matter how his apprentice thought about it, he wouldn't make his divine statue look like a demon.

Leaving aside the impact on himself, when spreading the faith, such an ugly god would hardly gain the power of the incense.

"Sigh, Master, I think there was something wrong with my cultivation, or there might be some problems with the cultivation method. This led to my supernatural powers being so strange. Not only did I grow tentacles, but my hands are also covered with eyes," Li Changmeng said as he spread out his hands. All the eyes on his hands opened, emitting golden light.

[Taoist Baiyun] [Peak of Foundation Establishment] [One of the Descendants of the Yun Pulse of the Three Peerless Sect]

One of the descendants of the Yun Pulse of the Three Peerless Sect? There was indeed some other background.

Thinking about the information obtained from the Hundred-Eyed supernatural power, although he didn't know what the Three Peerless Sect and the Yun Pulse were, he at least understood that his master had some origins.

The Hundred-Eyed supernatural power, after Li Changmeng's frequent experiments, was somewhat similar to divination.

The information obtained was random, whether it was useful or not was also random. As for the truth of the information, it had been verified to be correct several times, so it was basically reliable.

Putting aside the defect of the randomly growing eyes, it was actually an extraordinary supernatural power, and the spiritual power it consumed when used was also very little, just a few wisps.

Moreover, Taoist Baiyun didn't seem to feel that he was being probed. He was just surprised by the golden light.

"I don't even know what to say about your supernatural power," Taoist Baiyun said. After looking at it for a long time and not finding anything, he could only let out a long sigh. It seemed that the cultivation had gone wrong.

"Master, don't sigh. Although there was something wrong with my cultivation, I still know some records about breaking through to form the Golden Core in my cultivation method. Maybe it can be helpful to Master. I just hope that Master can bestow a righteous cultivation method on me later so that I can change my cultivation and not go further and further down the wrong path," Li Changmeng said.

"It doesn't matter. You can change to cultivate the cultivation method of our Baiyun Temple later. It's also good to cultivate with Xiaocui and take care of each other. Follow me to the backyard and let's first take a look at the method of forming the Golden Core you mentioned," Taoist Baiyun nodded. As long as he could break through to form the Golden Core, what was it to promise a cultivation method? Moreover, Li Changmeng had good talent.

He had reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining in just half a year. Although it was due to the quick success of the side path cultivation method of the Incense Path, it was enough to show that his talent was also astonishing.

Taoist Baiyun led Li Changmeng to the courtyard, and the two sat opposite each other at the stone table again.

Just like the day when Taoist Baiyun bestowed the cultivation method, but this time, Li Changmeng spoke first.

"Master, forming the Golden Core is also called the Jade Liquid Returning to the Golden Core. The so-called Jade Liquid Returning to the Golden Core means condensing the spiritual power in the body. When it reaches the extreme, it solidifies into a Golden Core. The Golden Core is the achievement of the Tao. If there is only a Golden Core without the Tao, it is a false Golden Core. Therefore, to form the supreme Golden Core, one must build the foundation of the Tao, build it with the method, seal it with the spirit, and let the spirit enter the Golden Core like an egg. Then, one can emerge from the chaos and become a divine being..." Li Changmeng didn't know how to describe it, so he simply said it according to the records in the cultivation method.

"The Tao? So that's it. The Golden Core Formation Realm actually involves the level of the Tao! No wonder every time I tried to form the Golden Core, it was like a duckweed in the water, with no basis at all. It turns out that I need the Tao to serve as the foundation of the Golden Core!" Taoist Baiyun's face was filled with fanaticism. It was as if he had understood something, and he directly sat cross-legged on the stone bench. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth around him rushed in, forming a powerful spiritual pressure.

Was he having an epiphany?

Li Changmeng felt a sense of unease. He felt that the surrounding spiritual energy was so violent that it was almost tearing his skin.

Without much hesitation, Li Changmeng quickly stepped back and went outside the courtyard.

The spiritual energy in the entire Baiyun Temple rushed in, directly forming a spiritual energy siphon. It was as if there was a bottomless pit in the courtyard, frantically absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy.

"Is this what a Foundation Establishment cultivator is like? Just by absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, they can create such power," Li Changmeng said enviously as he watched the changes around him. The spiritual energy whipped up the wind, giving the feeling that the sky was changing.