Chapter Six: The Sixth Layer of Profound Qi

  A thick fog enveloped the secluded mountain peak, and Ye Jia's backyard was surrounded by willows and cliffs. Ye Xuan lay alone on the cliff edge, basking in the sun. He began to miss his life on Earth, thinking about his glory days as a street racing champion, wondering if he would ever have the chance to return. This thought seemed so distant to him.

  Ye Xuan's hand dug into his pocket and pulled out an oval-shaped stone egg, which was not the soft stone egg he had taken from the Blood Toothed Mole's den. Ye Xuan looked at the soft stone egg and suddenly felt like this stone, just like a bird's egg, but it wasn't a bird's egg.

  Yexuan picked up the stone and said: "Brother Stone, I shouldn't deprive you of your freedom. I'll return you to nature."

  As soon as he finished speaking, he raised the stone and threw it towards the foot of the mountain cliff. The moment the stone left his palm, a strange thing happened. The stone suddenly emitted a seven-colored light, which quickly turned into a strong airflow with suction power, instantly sucking in Ye Xuan's palm. The stone and Ye Xuan fell off the cliff together.

  Ye Xuan was shocked and scolded: "Shi Tou brother, don't play with me, I gave you freedom, not to murder you."

  Ye Xuan cursed non-stop.

  After a while, Ye Xuan originally wanted to shout loudly, but suddenly heard the sound of "dang" as stones fell to the ground. He then felt his feet touching solid ground and looked up to see that the mountain was high and endless. He thought to himself that he must have fallen to the bottom of the cliff, the real bottom of the cliff, not just halfway down the cliff wall.

  Saw the soft stone egg under his feet, at this time there was no longer a seven-colored glow, and it had returned to its original appearance. Ye Xuan was puzzled, he fell from such a high cliff, but didn't die, apparently it was because of this stone. Ye Xuan picked up the soft stone egg and put it in his pocket, thinking that this stone must not be ordinary.

  Ye Xuan thought to himself, but how was he supposed to get up? He could only follow the bottom of the cliff and move forward. After walking for a few hundred meters, his foot suddenly stepped on something, almost tripping him over. Ye Xuan took a closer look and cursed, "Damn, someone's already taken the sofa."

  But he suddenly thought, what if this person fell down and couldn't climb back up, starving to death. Ye Xuan involuntarily shook his head, hoping it wasn't so. After all, he didn't have a single thread of spiritual energy on him right now, wanting to scale the rocky cliff to the top was simply a pipe dream. Ye Xuan looked around and suddenly discovered a hidden cave in the weeds ahead.

  Ye Xuan suddenly thought of Zhang Wuji from Jin Yong's novel and burst out laughing, saying: "I'm coming for the Nine Yang Scripture."

  Ye Xuan arrived in front of the cave, and the weeds outside were lush and almost covered the entire entrance.

  On the stone wall of the mountain cave, two characters "Tian Gang" were carved. When Ye Xuan came to the cave, he was greatly disappointed. There was no gold, silver, or jade treasure, nor any secret martial arts manuals, only a black stone statue.

  The stone man had long hair, and two eye sockets that made the whole stone man look particularly hollow. The entire face below the eyes could no longer be seen because of the passage of time. Ye Xuan ran his hands over the stone man from top to bottom but didn't find anything good.

  Ye Xuan looked at the stone statue with a puzzled expression, only to see that the position of the stone man's heart was sunken, as if his heart had been dug out. Moreover, his two eyes were also sunken. It seemed that someone had dug out the stone man's eyes and heart.

  The stone man without eyes and heart looks particularly desolate and bleak.

  At this moment, the soft stone egg in his pocket lit up again, with seven-colored lights flashing. His mind suddenly flashed: heart, soft stone egg, soft stone egg, heart. He took out the soft stone egg and carefully placed it in the recess of the heart, which was exactly the same size.

  At this time, the stone man trembled and scared Ye Xuan to jump. Ye Xuan took a step back and jumped to a place not far from the stone carving.

  Only the stone-carved face was visible, and cracks appeared all over the body. The cracks spread rapidly, accompanied by the entire stone person's trembling, and soon turned into a pile of broken stones.

  The scene was too unbelievable, but he soon found his soft stone egg from the rubble. The soft stone egg hadn't turned into rubble either. Ye Xuan walked closer and reached out to pick up the soft stone egg, but as soon as his palm touched it, the soft stone egg began to tremble and suddenly transformed into a seven-colored light that drilled into Ye Xuan's palm.

  Ye Xuan felt the strange light flow along his palm to his lower abdomen, where it stopped. Ye Xuan sat cross-legged, closed his eyes and focused his mind. He saw the light spinning rapidly in his lower abdomen before gradually slowing down.

  He took a deep breath, and felt a surge of gas rushing towards the meridians all over his body. He felt that the meridians in his body were slightly rejecting this gas, but it still kept invading the meridians. Ye Xuan felt that this gas was somewhat familiar, yes, it was the Xuanqi!

  The colorful light of the Soft Stone Egg finally stopped, and Ye Xuan found that the Soft Stone Egg had turned into a shallow gray open door with six faint cracks on it. Two words flashed in his mind: Mystic Gate!

  When a person enters the path of cultivation, at first the mysterious gate is light gray. Each time the level increases by one grade, there will be an additional crack. When the light gray mysterious gate turns into a black mysterious gate, it means that one has entered the Star Mysterious Mirror and only then can they truly be considered a cultivator.

  The Xingxuan Mirror is called a true cultivator, and it is because the person's Qi and body meridians have fully merged with the Xingxuan Mirror. The bones become as hard as iron, known as Xuan Gu. The nine layers of Xuan Qi before the Xingxuan Mirror are actually a process of strengthening the body through refinement. When the refinement is complete, the body's meridians and Qi have fully merged, and new Xuan Gu has been born, the body can adapt to cultivating the Xuanmen Heart Method.

  Ye Xuan sat cross-legged, a thought in his mind, and the mysterious energy began to flow through his body's meridians. This feeling of being able to do as he pleased excited him greatly. Moreover, he felt that the Mysterious Gate was connected to his heart meridian, and with just a thought, he sensed that the Mysterious Gate was a light gray color with six cracks on its surface.

  "Ha ha, it's back! So this is the Sixfold Mystical Aura."

  Overjoyed, Ye Xuan suddenly remembered the broken stone left by the Stone Man. He had recovered his strength thanks to this Stone Man, although he didn't understand what the reason was. He thought that although it was a Stone Man, there must have been a person before, and he must have been an expert.

  He took out the dagger given by Dongfang Yan, looking at the two words "duò mìng" on it, and couldn't help but think of Dongfang Yan's delicate and pretty face, and he smiled to himself. He used the dagger to dig a hole in the ground, put the fragments left by the stone man into the hole and buried them, making a small mound.

  Ye Xuan knelt down and kowtowed three times to the grave, thinking that since he was brought into Jianghu, he would use Jianghu's rules to pay his respects.

  After kowtowing, Ye Xuan suddenly remembered the pile of white bones outside the cave and wondered if those bones were this stone man's.

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