Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

181: Chapter 181 Ah Lan, how come there’s a monkey inside this rock?Supreme Creation Small Luo Grotto-Heaven.

The Xuan Chenzi of the Taiyi Dao Sect, Xuan Chenzi, and the Grand Elder, Yun Chenzi, were currently sitting in a pavilion on the mountain behind the Sect, drinking tea.

A game of Go was set before them, but neither had made many moves; they were simply chatting idly.

These two were famous in the Taiyi Dao Sect for balancing Cultivation and leisure perfectly.

After Cultivating seriously for a while, they would surely come out to get some fresh air, drink tea, play Go, and shoot the breeze.

In their own words, this was called ”maintaining a balance between tension and relaxation,” as the Dao of Cultivation emphasized combining work with rest.

Of course, coming from the mouths of these two old fellows, it sounded somewhat like an excuse for their own laziness.

”The sunlight these past few days seems a bit different.”

Xuan Chenzi picked up his teacup, squinted at the sun in the sky, and then looked at the flowers and trees outside the pavilion.

”I always feel like something isn’t quite right.”

Yun Chenzi also looked up, pondered for a moment, and said, ”I wouldn’t have noticed if you hadn’t mentioned it.”

”The sunlight is a bit richer than usual, and the moon as well—when I was stargazing last night, I noticed the moonlight was much clearer and brighter than before.”

”It’s more than that.” Xuan Chenzi set down his teacup and pointed at a Spiritual Plant outside the pavilion.

”Junior Martial Uncle, look at that Seven Star Grass. A few days ago, it was just a seedling, but looking at it today, spiritual light is already flowing over its leaves. I’m afraid it’s about to develop sentience.”

Yun Chenzi looked in the direction he pointed and indeed saw the Spiritual Plant glowing with a faint light, its leaves trembling slightly as if it were breathing.

He looked around again and found that it wasn’t just this one plant.

Many Spiritual Plants and flowers were undergoing similar mutations.

Some had even begun to emit faint Divine Soul fluctuations.

The two looked at each other, seeing the same thought in each other’s eyes.

This was likely another good deed done by Longevity Dao Lord without them realizing it.

”The Dao Lord’s methods are truly unpredictable and divine,” Xuan Chenzi lamented.

Yun Chenzi nodded in deep agreement. ”That’s why I stopped trying to figure it out long ago.”

”If you can’t understand the Dao Lord’s business, then don’t think about it. Anyway, it only brings us benefits and no harm.”

After some discussion, the two immediately summoned the Disciples of the Taiyi Dao Sect and the members of the Heaven and Earth as One Great Love Alliance to inform them of the matter.

The instructions were simple: There have been changes in the celestial phenomena recently, and spiritual flora are acting strangely. If anyone senses Spiritual Plants, flowers, stones, or trees developing sentience, they must not pick or disturb them; just let them grow naturally.

The Disciples received their orders and dispersed.

It must be said that both the people of the Taiyi Dao Sect and the Great Love Alliance were very good at being obedient.

This wasn’t because they were naturally well-behaved, but because after staying in the Supreme Creation Small Luo Grotto-Heaven for so long, everyone had reached a consensus.

Everything here belongs to Longevity Dao Lord.

You use what the Dao Lord gives you, and you’d better not touch what he hasn’t given.

The logic was simple, just like how you shouldn’t rummage through the things in your father’s study when you were a child.

Rummaging might not necessarily cause trouble, but if it did, it would be a huge problem.

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Supreme Creation Small Luo Grotto-Heaven, Southeast Sea Region, an unnamed island.

The island wasn’t large, only a few dozen miles in circumference, with lush trees, white sandy beaches, and crystal-clear water.

This place was far from the Taiyi Dao Sect’s mountain gate and rarely visited, making it a great spot for certain Spirit Beasts to frolic.

At this moment, a deep Blue True Dragon was coiled around a large tree, its tail hanging down and idly sweeping the ground.

It was Blue.

Beneath the tree, an ink-black Qilin was lying next to a large rock, boredly pawing at a pebble.

It was Mo Xuan.

Speaking of the name Mo Xuan, it had actually gone to the Hall of Longevity itself to ask Gu Yan for it.

After meeting Blue that day and discussing their identities, it felt a bit slighted because Blue had a name while it did not.

So, it trotted over to the Hall of Longevity, lay down before Gu Yan, and looked at him expectantly—its meaning couldn’t be clearer.

Gu Yan was Cultivating cross-legged at the time and was quite speechless at being interrupted by the Qilin.

He glanced at the ink-colored Qilin, thought for a moment, and said, ”Black as ink, mysterious and profound. Let’s call you Mo Xuan.”

Having received its name, Mo Xuan ran off joyfully.

Gu Yan watched its departing figure, thinking that the Qilin might have started seeing him as its father.

But it didn’t matter; one more or one less didn’t make a difference, so he would just keep it.

As for how Blue and Mo Xuan met, it all started when Gu Yan noticed the Eternal All-Heavens Tree growing its second leaf and sent Duke Dragon to investigate the new world.

After Duke Dragon left on his mission, Blue became bored.

It used to pester Duke Dragon every day, not for any other reason but because Duke Dragon carried the scent of the Dragon Clan, which was quite rare in this Grotto-Heaven.

Now that Duke Dragon was gone, Blue was restless and started wandering around the Grotto-Heaven world on its own.

Then, it happened to run into Mo Xuan.

The Dragon and the Qilin stared at each other, sizing one another up for a long time.

Blue spoke first, ”What kind of thing are you?”

Mo Xuan tilted its head. ”I am a Qilin.”

”What is a Qilin?”

”...I don’t know either,” Mo Xuan replied honestly after thinking about it.

Blue thought this dark fellow was quite interesting and asked again, ”Are you also Master’s Spirit Beast?”

”Spirit Beast?” Mo Xuan didn’t quite understand the term yet, but it remembered being summoned by the person sitting on the prayer mat, so it nodded.

Blue immediately became happy; it had been in this Grotto-Heaven for so long and had never seen a Spirit Beast with a stronger aura than its own, except for Duke Dragon.

From then on, the Dragon and the Qilin became playmates, wandering all over the Grotto-Heaven every day, climbing mountains, scaling trees, and catching fish in the sea, living very freely.

At this moment, as Mo Xuan was lying there, its nose twitched twice, and it looked toward the center of the island.

”Blue, do you smell that?”

Blue poked its head down from the tree and sniffed. ”Smell what?”

”There’s a strange scent.” Mo Xuan stood up, its four hooves treading on faint auspicious clouds as it walked toward the center of the island.

Blue slid down from the tree and wiggled its body to follow behind.

The center of the island was a rocky beach, with stones of all sizes scattered around, washed smooth and round by the sea.

Currently, dozens of monkeys were gathered around a large rock, chattering incessantly as if they were looking at some rare object.

When Mo Xuan and Blue approached, the monkeys sensed the aura of the Dragon Clan and the Qilin and scattered in a panic, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

Mo Xuan walked up to the stone and tilted its head, looking at it for a long time.

It was a multicolored stone about the height of a person, smooth all over with radiance flowing across its surface.

Inside the stone, a blurry outline could be vaguely seen curled into a ball, looking like...

Mo Xuan blinked and looked back at Blue, saying:

”Blue, why is there a monkey inside this stone?”