In the city of Luoyang, everything is still full of music and dance, every night is bustling with activity. The high-ranking officials and nobles are dressed in brocade, some riding horses with colorful saddles, others driving luxurious carriages with beautiful women, living a life of luxury and extravagance.

  "These mortals only know how to indulge in life and death, who would have thought that this vast universe is just like a huge prison, they are all sparrows in the cage, when time comes, they will turn into dust, leaving no trace in the world."

  Qin Lingyun wore a pale blue long dress, walking among the crowd, but no one noticed her existence. Looking at the bustling crowd, busy with their lives, she couldnt help but feel a few sighs in her heart.

  Cultivation must first cultivate the mind. Cultivating immortality is not just about upgrading ones magical powers, but also about gaining insight into the laws of nature.

  Qin Lingyun felt sorrow for these ordinary people, but they were in a situation where they didnt know themselves. As the saying goes, "The ignorant are fearless", just like the mayfly that is born in the morning and dies at night, forever unaware of the existence of the four seasons. Since they dont know, they dont understand what true sorrow is.

  Thinking of these ordinary people, Qin Lingyun thought of cultivators again.

  In the world of cultivators, although different from ordinary people, the pursuit of immortality is also for fame and fortune. In a sense, the sorrow of ordinary people, cultivators also have, and even more directly.

  "Mortals are ants before cultivators, but can cultivators truly dominate the world? In front of even more powerful existences, cultivators are also insignificant, with only one difference from mortals: a heart that yearns to break free from the shackles of heaven and earth, and grasp fate in their own hands."

  But grasping fate in ones hands is even more difficult, this path of seeking the Way is exceptionally arduous, without a firm determination, it would be better to live as an ordinary person, indulging in life and death.

  "Have I regretted embarking on this path of cultivation?" Qin Lingyun asked her own heart.

  Her heart is like a mirror, reflecting every step of the way she has walked, just like scattered pearls being strung together.

  The hardships of cultivating spiritual power, the terror of encountering zombies in the tomb of King Xian, the confusion and helplessness after killing for the first time, the realization that there is a world beyond the sky, the Great Wei Kingdom is just an ordinary mortal kingdom on the planet Da Yue, the vastness of the planet Da Yue seems tiny in the starry sky. And personally experiencing the nature of the Xianxia world where the strong prey on the weak, all sorts of illusions surge and churn like a stormy sea in Qin Lingyuns consciousness.

  Illusions are rampant, this is the greatest fear of cultivators!

  Qin Lingyun had always relied on the power of dan medicine to forcibly raise her cultivation realm, so her foundation was unstable. Today, she finally could not suppress the terrifying heart demons tribulation that burst out.

  If Qin Lingyun can luckily pass the tribulation of the heart demon, she may be able to stabilize her Dao heart and form her own unique Dao heart. If she fails to pass the tribulation, the intangible and invisible heart demon will devour the spiritual power and primordial spirit within her body, and before her physical body dies, her soul will have completely dissipated.

  The cultivation of Taoist mind is one of the most important things for practitioners to break through the Great Boundary.

  A cultivator with a stable mind will have a higher success rate when breaking through major boundaries, while a cultivator with an unstable mind will find it extremely difficult to break through major boundaries.

  What is Dao Xin, its hard for any cultivator to give a clear answer, at least Qin Lingyun hasnt heard of one yet.

  To break through from the Qi Refining stage to the Foundation Building stage, its not just that ones spiritual power must reach its peak, but also forming ones own Dao Heart is indispensable.

  Many cultivators spiritual power reached the level of twelve-layered Grand Perfection, but they couldnt get past that hurdle. Qin Lingyun had heard before that after reaching the realm of twelve-layered Grand Perfection in Qi Refining, one could take the Foundation Establishment Pill to increase their chances of successfully entering the Foundation Establishment stage.

  However, Qin Lingyun did not understand the underlying reason. The Zhugiji Dan could indeed increase the success rate of foundation building, but the premise was that it must be able to stir up spiritual power and extraordinary phenomena between heaven and earth.

  The key to stirring up spiritual power and extraordinary phenomena lies in the mind of Tao. Without the mind of Tao, one cannot enter the gate of immortality. Thats exactly what it means.

  At this moment, Qin Lingyun opened her eyes and saw a misty scene around her. Suddenly, several figures slowly emerged from the fog. She was stunned: "Its Father, Mother, and also Brother, Sister..."

  They all looked at her with kindness, beckoning to her, Qin Lingyun subconsciously wanted to walk over, but suddenly a ray of light flashed through her conscious sea, and she was shocked awake.

  "Everything is an illusion, they are transformed by heart demons, and are not real!"

  Although she had realized this point, Qin Lingyun was still hesitant. The few relatives were so real that her heart knew they were fake, but her eyes couldnt tell them apart.

  In her moment of hesitation, several relatives suddenly appeared with ferocious expressions and pounced on her with bared teeth and claws.

  She has to make a choice.

  What to do? Is it to wield a sword to cut off cause and effect, or to let it blow past like a gentle breeze?

  Qin Lingyun hesitated for a moment, as the people rushing towards her from all directions were her loved ones. She knew that once she killed them in this illusion, it would be equivalent to cutting off a lifetime of karma, and even if they met again, it would be like strangers passing by.

  Because her loved ones are her hearts desire, the demon comes from within, this kind of demon originally appeared out of thin air from her soul.

  Heart demon is also a cause and effect, a cycle of reincarnation. In the world, there are causes and effects for everything. The causes sown in the past will bear fruit today.

  Eliminating these demons is equivalent to cutting off cause and effect.

  "Is it worth it?" Qin Lingyun couldnt help but ask herself, she knew that if she didnt cut off the cause and effect, she would be devoured by these heart demons, and end up with a soul-dispersing fate.

  Qin Lingyuns hand conjured up a long sword, but it was like grasping a thousand-pound heavy rod.

  Qin Lingyun remembered a Buddhist scripture she had read in the charity school, which said: "If you want to know the cause of your past life, look at what you have received in this life; if you want to know the result of your future life, look at what you are doing in this life."

  The cycle of cause and effect is the law of the heavenly way, just like a big net woven by the heavenly way, which captures all things in the world.

  Gradually, Qin Lingyun put down her long sword. In her eyes, the heart demons transformed relatives were no longer ferocious and terrifying, but had turned into black auras surrounding her.

  "Since you are the cause, I am the effect. If the cause is gone, how can the effect exist?" Qin Lingyun murmured to herself.

  As if she had grasped some great truth, Qin Lingyuns eyes grew brighter and the dark energy gradually transformed into clear energy, which poured into her sea of consciousness. The clear energy entwined together, forming a virtual image sitting cross-legged, seemingly real yet illusory. A faint halo enveloped the virtual image.

  Qin Lingyun did not know that she had already formed the Dao heart that the cultivators had been dreaming of!

  Qin Lingyuns causal Dao heart is like a seed that will eventually grow into a towering tree.

  In an instant, all the illusions vanished into thin air, and Qin Lingyun was still standing in the crowd on the street, surrounded by various noises rising and falling, everything looked so real.

  If she had just taken the sword to kill the heart demon, she could have naturally broken through the tribulation of the heart demon, but it would not have formed a causal Dao heart. Usually, when cultivators encounter this situation, most will take the sword to kill the heart demon. Some who do not kill the heart demon may not have gained insight into the Dao heart and already been swallowed by the heart demons primordial spirit. Therefore, Qin Lingyun was able to successfully form a Dao heart, which can also be considered lucky.

  The cause and effect of the Taoist heart are now complete, Qin Lingyun clearly feels that her cultivation is stable, and her divine consciousness has become even stronger. Originally, her primordial spirit was already much stronger than that of fellow cultivators at the same level, and now it has made significant progress on its original foundation.

  The benefits of a strong spiritual gathering will be felt by Qin Lingyun later on.

  "Drip... drip..." The sound of horseshoes echoed, and Qin Lingyun raised her eyes to look.

  Only to see a large group of soldiers and horses turning from the street corner, this is a group of soldiers escorting more than a dozen prisoner carts, ferocious soldiers holding knives, guns, and clubs in their hands, pedestrians dodging in all directions.

  Qin Lingyun flashed to one side, and the murmurs of those passersby occasionally pierced her ears.

  "Its really pitiful, who would have thought that a king who loved his people like his own children would end up being overthrown and having his entire clan exterminated."

  "Speak softly, lest the whole familys heads be at risk if overheard."

  "King Rui was a good person, unfortunately he was beheaded a few days ago, and today its the turn of Young King Wang, alas, this is the way of the world."

  "What happens in the imperial court is beyond our understanding as ordinary people; its more important for us to stay safe."

  “……”

  Having heard all the rumors, Qin Lingyun secretly smiled in her heart: "It turns out that its the same old play, to keep ones own throne, find a reason to kill the imperial uncle and his family. The struggle between emperors has always been bloody and cruel."

  Qin Lingyun was about to leave, she had many things to do and no time to linger here. Suddenly, her divine sense swept across, sensing a fierce pure yang energy.

  Such a pure and serene aura is extremely rare, she recalled the old demon who was killed before, in his jade slip, it was recorded that if such a pure yang aura was collected in sufficient quantities, refined into a small still dan, and taken with the foundation establishment dan, it could increase the success rate of establishing the foundation by 70%.

  "Let me see where the pure Yang energy comes from." Looking around, Qin Lingyun was slightly stunned, and it turned out that the pure Yang energy came from a prisoner with disheveled hair sitting in a prison cart.

  The pure Yang energy was mixed with extremely thick resentment, causing the originally pure and refined pure Yang energy to be contaminated.

  "It seems that in order to collect the pure yang energy, we must first eliminate the resentment energy. Lets find an opportunity to rescue that prisoner and then talk about it."

  The pure yang energy must be accompanied by the persons willingness, Qin Lingyun can use a specific formation to collect the pure yang energy, so she cannot immediately rescue him, it is best to save him when he is in extreme despair, so that he will be grateful.

  The team escorting the prisoners cart rushed in the direction of Caishi Kou, Qin Lingyun followed the onlookers to Caishi Kou, where the soldiers escorted the prisoners from the cart to the execution platform.

  On the table above, several officials with tall hats and wide belts sat behind, led by a big-eared official who seemed to be smiling, but his eyes flashed with cruelty from time to time.

  "Bring the convicts forward, the executioners are waiting on the side. When the time comes to three oclock in the afternoon, behead them immediately without any mistake."