My Dreams Connect to Ancient Times-Chapter 59 - 58: Creation Peach, Visitors from Jade Void

Chapter 59: Chapter 58: Creation Peach, Visitors from Jade Void

Lu Xuan continued to watch the flowers bloom and the trees turn green with Yan Jiangxue. Once class began, he returned to his state of multitasking six ways.

For some reason, Ji Boduan seemed to think Lu Xuan had agreed. Full of himself, he began to walk with a confident swagger.

The day passed quickly with no further incidents. Even the weekly Monday cultivation class was unremarkable; Lu Xiuyuan only explained some of the most basic points of Transforming Essence and Qi.

After school, Lu Xuan watched Yan Jiangxue get into her car before slowly making his way back to the shantytown.

For the next few days, he went to school not to attend lectures, but simply to accompany Xiaoyan and experience a school atmosphere he had never known. By multitasking six ways, he ensured his cultivation progress didn’t fall behind.

At night, he would use Creation to form a single grain of Spirit Rice, swallow it, and continue to focus on his cultivation. This cycle repeated until the end of the month.

Strangely, he hadn’t entered the dreamscape once in the past half a month.

Meanwhile, Yan Jiangxue diligently kept up with her diary, which always contained the name Xiaolu.

[March 19, Friday, Sunny.]

[Today, Xiaolu brought me glutinous rice cakes. I’ve never had them before. They were delicious.]

[Ji Boduan is so annoying. He keeps calling himself Xiaolu’s big brother and wants us to go to his house next month for his birthday. There will be so many people there. Even more annoying.]

[March 24, Wednesday, Sunny.]

[The institute’s director told me that more and more outsiders are coming to East Sea City lately, and there’s going to be trouble. I don’t like it.]

[Today, Xiaolu brought me two roasted sweet potatoes. So good. I love them.]

[I had dinner with Xiaolu, and we even went strolling through the shopping district. It was my first time. Such a strange and wonderful feeling.]

[March 28, Sunday, Light Rain.]

[The news said the Taibai Star has started acting erratically, just like the Ying Huo Star. I called Dad to ask, but he wouldn’t say anything. I’m not happy.]

[I was supposed to go to the amusement park with Xiaolu, but we canceled because of the bad weather. Now I’m even more unhappy.]

[Xiaolu patted my head today. He said I look cute when I’m pouting and unhappy. That made me happy.]

[March 30, Tuesday, Heavily Overcast.]

[Today is the second-to-last day of March. The sky has been extremely gloomy all day, with layers of dark clouds and the scattered rumble of thunder.]

[Xiaolu said it’s a sign that a huge storm is coming. A really, really, really big one.]

......

「The next day: Wednesday, March 31st.」

「The pre-dawn hours.」

Inside his room, Lu Xuan sat cross-legged on the bed with his eyes shut tight. Beads of sweat trickled down from his forehead.

Thanks to the miraculous nature of the Supreme Foundation Establishment Chapter, he had spent the last ten-odd days tempering his lungs to near perfection. However, he still had no clue how to uncover the great secret of the final organ: the kidneys.

The heart made his qi and blood surge. The liver purified his body. The spleen produced a full measure of precious blood. The lungs made his breath long and sustained—a single breath was enough to let him dash for three miles, and a single exhalation could form an arrow of air, capable of killing from a kilometer away.

’So what about the kidneys?’

’What is the purpose of their great secret?’

He felt under his pillow. He wasn’t in a hurry to consume the small beads Xiaoyan had given him, though he had already finished all of the unknown dried meat.

’According to Xiaoyan, these little beads are beneficial for cultivating the kidneys. I should probably wait until I’ve uncovered their great secret before taking them...’

At this thought, while Lu Xuan maintained his breathing exercises and slowly continued Transforming Essence and Qi, the majority of his consciousness sank into his Spiritual World—the ocean of his mind.

During this period, though his Primordial Body cultivation had stagnated at a superficial level, he had already comprehended eighty-three of the one thousand Great Dao Texts for "Extermination."

As for Mediation of Creation, he had comprehended ninety-nine of its texts.

He had a premonition that once he fully deciphered the one-hundredth Great Dao Text, his mastery of the Mediation of Creation would reach an entirely new level.

The longer he cultivated and the more he learned, the more Lu Xuan realized the terrifying power of the Mediation of Creation.

Creating something from nothing was incredible enough, but the objects it produced were all of the Innate level!

A single grain of rice contained Innate Essence that could greatly nourish the body. A single drop of water could expand into a vast mist, blanketing East Sea City in a torrential downpour or even making rain fall across the entire Langya Province!

According to Senior Brother Zhang, the very origin of humanity lay in the Mediation of Creation. A supreme deity named Nuwa had used this very Dharma to sculpt humanity into existence.

"Mediation of Creation..."

After steadying his mind and suppressing all stray thoughts, Lu Xuan entered the state of Supreme Forgetting Emotions. His aura took on a supreme quality as he became perfectly rational, his mind utterly clear.

The one-hundredth Great Dao Text of the Mediation of Creation was deconstructed bit by bit. Lu Xuan gently peeled back its impossibly complex and profound outer shell.

Ultimately, the Great Dao Text unraveled into countless threads and wisps, every single one of which the young man comprehended completely.

At that moment, a hundred brilliant, golden Great Dao Texts aligned themselves, circling Lu Xuan’s True Spirit and shining with spectacular radiance in his Spiritual World!

"To mediate Heaven and Earth, to fathom the mystery of Creation, to bring something from nothing, to evolve the cosmos..."

Lu Xuan opened his eyes, murmuring the words as he slowly opened his palm.

’This time, I want a complete fruit.’

He remembered a dream from two or three years ago. Senior Brother Zhang had told him that in the heavens, there was a type of peach called the Peach of Immortality, and it was the most delicious fruit of all.

Senior Brother Zhang had always longed to eat one, but unfortunately, the peaches were apparently exceedingly rare, and he never got the chance.

What Lu Xuan wanted to bring into existence was a Peach of Immortality.

’I want to taste it for myself. What is this Peach of Immortality that made Senior Brother Zhang’s mouth water?’

The void trembled and great ripples spread through it, as if something was about to manifest from thin air.

But Lu Xuan quickly realized something was wrong. His own mind, qi, and blood were all rapidly draining away, like a great wave receding from the shore.

His expression changed drastically. He tried to stop creating the Peach of Immortality, but it was too late. His Essence, Qi, and Spirit were being consumed at an alarming rate. The nascent form of a Peach of Immortality appeared in the void, only to immediately compress, and then compress again.

Finally, it became a single sliver of peach flesh, lying quietly in Lu Xuan’s palm.

The instant the peach flesh appeared,

The dark clouds that had gathered in the sky all day trembled. Heavy rain began to fall, quickly growing into a torrential downpour. The incessant rain was like a thick, dense curtain, washing over East Sea City until the entire metropolis was a blur.

Amidst the dark clouds, fierce thunderclaps roared and boomed.

The flashes of lightning illuminated the wooden house, and with it, Lu Xuan’s paper-pale face.

He gazed at the sliver of peach flesh in his hand and sighed.

’It wasn’t that my mastery of the Mediation of Creation was lacking, but that my own power is too weak to create it... The Peach of Immortality... just what level of Spirit Fruit is it?’

Feeling the terrifying depletion of his qi and blood, Lu Xuan was shaken. If he hadn’t stopped in time, he likely would have been drained completely dry.

After all, he had cultivated the Primordial Body. Even if his mastery was only superficial, when combined with the foundation from the Supreme Foundation Establishment Chapter, the breadth of his Dao Foundation was simply inconceivable.

’And even with all that, I only managed to produce a barely perceptible sliver of peach flesh?’

After a long moment of contemplation, Lu Xuan popped the sliver of peach flesh into his mouth with a smack of his lips and muttered resentfully,

"What a total loss!"

However, the instant the sliver of flesh entered his stomach, an infinite torrent of Divine Essence erupted. In that moment, the young man’s body shone with a blinding brilliance, like that of a Great Sun.

......

The rain fell harder and harder.

In some low-lying areas, the water had already risen past an adult’s knees. Many underground parking garages were flooded, and the owners of many small insurance companies were tearing their hair out.

The harder it rained, the more cars were damaged by flooding, and the more money they would have to pay in claims.

In a storm the likes of which hadn’t been seen in several years, perhaps even a decade, the most bustling streets were deserted. Not a soul was in sight; the streets were empty, filled only with the sound of the rain, which roared like a tidal wave.

The rain continued all the way until morning with no sign of letting up.

It was at this moment that four Daoists appeared at the entrance to the shantytown, standing in the middle of the storm.

None of them held an umbrella. They simply stood there, motionless, as the torrential rain failed to budge them in the slightest.

"Martial Uncle, is this the place?" a young Daoist asked. "The location described in the Celestial Book... I can’t. This is too bizarre. I still find it hard to accept."

A younger girl in a Daoist Robe nodded in agreement.

"I agree. Even after rushing all the way here, I’m still skeptical. An ancient box, sealed for who knows how many years, containing a Celestial Book passed down from countless years ago... and it points directly to modern times? To this very day?"

"Exactly!" a look of confusion crossed the young Daoist’s face. "If a being powerful enough to see this very day from the Ancient Times truly existed, then why did all the Immortals and Buddhas disappear? Why was that golden age of antiquity severed from history? It makes no sense..."

As they spoke, the old Daoist raised his eyelids slightly. He chanted the name of the Infinite Celestial Venerable before speaking.

"According to the fragmented records in our ancient texts, the Jade Void Lineage of our Guangcheng Palace was a first-class Daoist Lineage during the Ancient Times. We don’t know the venerable title of the Jade Void Ancestor Master, nor his status among the Immortal Gods, but it’s not impossible that he could see through all of eternity. Perhaps he truly performed a divination thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago to predict this very day."

After a pause, he added,

"I know you have followed your senior brother in seclusion at Guangcheng Palace for many years, and that your hearts yearn for the Red Dust. After this task is complete, I will not forbid you from walking through the Human World to experience the secular realm."

The three younger Daoists exchanged an excited glance and replied respectfully in unison,

"Yes, Martial Uncle."

The old Daoist said no more, simply leading the three into the shantytown. They had only taken a few steps when they saw a small figure holding an umbrella, running quickly through the rain.

"Young benefactor!" the old Daoist called out softly. His quiet voice pierced through the thick, ceaseless downpour and landed precisely in the small figure’s ears.

Wu Xiaoxu stopped in his tracks. He tilted his head in confusion, and upon seeing the four Daoists clearly, he shouted,

"Excuse me, can I help you with something?"

His voice was drowned out by the rain.

The old Daoist strode forward and said in a gentle voice,

"Young benefactor, we have come from Guangcheng Palace on Ancient Kongtong Mountain. We are looking for someone and were hoping you might be able to help us."

’Ancient Kongtong Mountain? Guangcheng Palace?’

Wu Xiaoxu was baffled. He didn’t think he had ever heard those names before.

’Are they from some minor Daoist Lineage?’