Chapter 185.
Chapter 185: Climbing to the Top
After another failure, Xu Chuniang opened her eyes and shook her head helplessly.
After so many failures, she finally realized that that state was something that could be encountered but not sought.
The more deliberately one pursued it, the harder it was to achieve instead.
Xu Chuniang inhaled deeply, emptying her mind of distracting thoughts, and tried her best to preserve her focus on practicing as one.
She slowed down the running speed of her gongfu, feeling the flow of aura in her body, refusing to let go of every nuance.
In this kind of cultivation, she was gradually getting better and better, almost on the verge of forgetting who she was and what she was doing, only running the gongfu by instinct, capturing every strand of aura’s movement.
She didn’t know how long it lasted, but she suddenly had a sense of clarity, as if she had seen the sun through the clouds, and the fog in front of her eyes instantly dissolved.
At the same time, from the top of her head, there seemed to be a clear and empty qi coming from the place of the Hundred Club, sprinkling and all over her body.
In this state, Xu Chuniang’s senses became incomparably sharp, and her Yuan Shen was even able to emanate and detach itself from her body.
She suddenly looked towards the top of the Endless Mountain, if the body couldn’t climb the mountain, then could the Yuan Shen give it a try?
With that thought, Xu Chunniang’s Yuan Shen left her body and floated towards the mountain.
The Yuan Shen was invisible, drifting up dozens of steps in a single bound, and in just a few breaths, she had left the others far behind.
She continued toward the mountain, and the higher she went, the more silent the surroundings became, as if she was the only one left in heaven and earth.
Xu Chuniang’s Yuan Shen traveled forward, and after an unknown amount of time, she finally traveled halfway up the mountain.
But at that moment, she felt an unspeakable loneliness.
Cultivation of this road, is to go to the end of the so what, friends and relatives without a word, leaving her alone, in this long road of cultivation alone.
Three thousand worlds, where is the way back?
Throughout history, countless pride, and how many people to prove the truth, in the end, is the mirror flowers and water and moon an empty.
Xu Chuniang stops her footsteps sadly, although she has the determination to rise to the challenge, but the cultivation of no years, can really endure this long loneliness?
And after endless years of cultivation, what would be ushered in would most likely not be proof of the Dao and attainment of the truth, but rather a failure to advance to the next level and re-entry into the cycle of reincarnation.
In that case, what is the point of practicing?
No, I have a dream, to cultivate the Way to seek eternal life!
The confusion in Xu Chuniang’s eyes dissipated, revealing a renewed look of determination.
Even if she was the only one traveling alone on this path, so what? There were so many people of the same path who had set foot on the path of cultivation, and this path was never alone.
Even if the foundation failed to promote so what, the essence of cultivation is to seek life to death, constantly breaking their own shackles, metamorphosis to pseudo.
She will only firmly believe in the heart, adhere to the original self, out of their own Avenue.
The moment this thought appeared, countless breaths came out from the Endless Mountain, sweeping towards her and disappearing into her Yuan Shen.
Xu Chuniang’s Yuan Shen instantly solidified and grew several times larger.
After absorbing these breaths, her Yuan Shen continued to head towards the mountain at an even faster speed than before.
As time passed, Xu Chunniang felt the power growing.
She had an intuition, as if she was able to move mountains and level the sea with a wave of her hand and a snap of her fingers.
She stopped and gently waved her hand towards the bottom, and saw that the endless mountains beneath her feet actually collapsed directly, annihilating inch by inch.
Xu Chuniang’s movements were gentle, as if she had merely brushed the dust off her clothes.
She hung in mid-air, looking up at the sky as if she could easily slice through it by moving her fingers.
When she did, the sky was slashed with a huge gash, revealing the void beyond the heavens.
Xu Chuniang felt disinterested, after possessing such great power, she could tear apart this tiny secret realm in front of her with her hands, but so what.
Power was never the end of cultivation.
The moment she had this thought, the torn void was instantly restored to its original state, and the Endless Mountain under her feet was even more stable as before, as if it had never crumbled in the slightest.
Xu Chuniang pondered, this Endless Mountain was truly extraordinary, able to unintentionally pull a person into an extremely realistic illusion, exposing the true nature of his own self. Perhaps, this was likewise a part of the examination?
She thought faintly in her mind, raising her head to look at the peak of the mountain near her eyes.
The Yuan Shen body was extremely fast, and without realizing it, Xu Chuniang had already arrived close to the top of the mountain, and with just a few more steps, she would be able to reach the top.
But these last few steps were as insurmountable as eternity.
No matter how hard she tried, she could never reach it.
Between her and the mountaintop, there seemed to be an invisible barrier separating the two.
After an unknown amount of time, a voice appeared.
“Give up, Endless Mountain Mountain is endless, you can never reach the top, a stone’s throw away is the end of the world.”
Xu Chuniang’s heart moved slightly, “Are you the spirit of this mountain?”
But after she asked, the voice did not appear again.
“It’s hard to ask me to give up.”
Xu Chuniang took the words into her own hands, “I’m too stubborn, to put it bluntly, I’m just a stick in the mud, and it’s hard to change what I’ve recognized.”
Relying on the body to go up Endless Mountain was difficult, but after the Yuan Shen left the body, it was easily done.
It was hard to want to surpass this distance, perhaps because she hadn’t found the right method yet.
As long as she found the method, why worry about not reaching the top.
Xu Chuniang felt something and looked towards the bottom of the mountain.
Without the cover of clouds, overlooking the past, the entire secret realm was in front of her eyes.
To the east was a turquoise valley, and to the south were several lakes of various sizes.
To the north were low hills, and to the west was an endless desert of yellow sand.
The top of the mountain is the top of the mountain, and there is a view of the mountains.
She has some feelings in her heart, although she has not climbed to the top, but here is where it is, and what is the difference between climbing to the top?
As long as there is a mountain in your heart, where can’t you reach the top?
As long as the heart has the road, where can not practice?
One thought, she realized that the insurmountable distance, I do not know when has disappeared.
At this moment, Xu Chuniang was already standing at the top of Endless Mountain.
“You are the fourth, to step onto the top of the mountain.”
The Endless Mountain Soul finally appeared, and it looked at Xu Chuniang with a look of astonishment in its eyes.
“I didn’t expect that someone from the tiny Qian Luo Realm would be able to climb this Endless Mountain. Wanting to climb to the top of this mountain is no easy task, finding the correct method of climbing alone is difficult for ninety-nine percent of people.”
Xu Chuniang thought deeply that the ubiquitous resisting force on the mountain would only make it harder and harder for people to walk. Only when the Yuan Shen transcends the world can one transcend the resistance.
And the spirit of the spirit out of the body, is not a qi cultivator can easily do things, a little carelessness will be destroyed.
I’m afraid to enter that kind of subtle meditation state, so that the spirit naturally out of the body, is the right way.
Seeing what Xu Chuniang had in mind, Endless Mountain Soul nodded slightly.
“The body of Endless Mountain is a stone of enlightenment, and only those with a firm heart of the Dao and notable enlightenment will have the chance to enter the realm of the Void Extreme, thus condensing their already body and having their Yuan Shen leave their body.”
So that subtle state was known as the Realm of the Void Extreme?
Xu Chuniang silently wrote this down, and then remembered the Endless Mountain Spirit’s earlier remark about her being the fourth person to reach the summit.
“Before me, were there three others who had ascended to the top?”
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