"Will I be trapped here forever? Should I find a way back?"
As Ning Beichen pondered in a daze.
Suddenly, he felt his consciousness become unstable, the surrounding scenery began to collapse, and he was like a candle flame about to be extinguished.
"Not good, my Zhou Tian Lu is collapsing!"
Ning Beichen's expression changed drastically.
"Will? It must be my own will negating my belief in myself, which is why this situation is happening, as if I'm denying myself."
Ning Beichen immediately closed his eyes and took a deep breath, beginning to strengthen his resolve.
Indeed, after Ning Beichen solidified his belief, the surrounding scenery stopped collapsing, but it still sent a cold sweat down his back.
The situation he had just experienced was actually a case of Dao Xin Zhong Mo in Taoism, where once the Dao Xin collapsed, the person would be ruined.
Fortunately, Ning Beichen discovered it in time and adjusted immediately.
However, this incident was not entirely bad for Ning Beichen, because from then on, it would make his belief even more solid.
Ning Beichen's expression was determined, and he held the bronze ancient sword towards the end of the abyss.
At the end of the abyss, there was light, like a flame. Ning Beichen walked steadily to the light and found a large door made of giant stones.
Mysterious golden runes were carved on the door, and there were things like red blood vessels connecting to the edges of the door, making it look very mysterious.
"Shackle!"
When Ning Beichen saw the door with mysterious golden runes, the word "shackle" immediately popped into his mind.
"Could it be that the shackle refers to this door, and the shackle is not in heaven and earth, nor in the world, but within oneself?"
Ning Beichen muttered to himself, sounding somewhat excited.
"Perhaps the shackle is within Zhou Tian Lu. If I open this door, will I be able to break the shackle?"
Ning Beichen's eyes sparkled as he looked at the stone door.
"Open!"
Ning Beichen stepped forward and pushed, only to find that he couldn't move the stone door at all. He tried a few more times, but the stone door remained unmoved, not as simple as he thought.
Ning Beichen calmed down and looked at the golden runes on the stone door, feeling that these golden runes were the key to opening the stone door.
So Ning Beichen began to patiently ponder the relationship between the golden runes and the stone door.
"If I am truly on Zhou Tian Lu, then where am I on Zhou Tian Lu at this moment?"
Ning Beichen pondered while observing the golden runes on the stone door.
Suddenly, an image appeared in his mind. The more Ning Beichen looked at the golden runes on the stone door, the more they resembled the navel chakra, and the navel chakra was located at the position of his own dantian.
If Ning Beichen was currently on Zhou Tian Lu, then his current location would be at his dantian.
But a problem gave rise to countless problems.
Why would his dantian be a shackle?
If it were a shackle, why could his internal energy circulate through the Zhou Tian, and why wasn't it blocked?
One doubt after another appeared in Ning Beichen's mind, making him feel the mystery of humanity even more.
Soon, Ning Beichen made up his mind. No matter how many doubts he had, as long as he could open this stone door, he would be able to prove whether the dantian was a shackle.
Ning Beichen looked at the golden runes on the stone door and murmured.
"Shackle, it must be broken with force, broken with courage, broken with my heart, without asking for cause and effect, without asking for life and death..."
After Ning Beichen finished speaking, he pointed the bronze ancient sword at the golden runes.
He did not use the Songshan Sword Art, but with the courage of facing death, he used his sword to pierce the navel chakra.
With a bang!
The golden rune radiated golden light, spinning like a Tai Chi fish. Ning Beichen first felt a pain in his abdomen, and then felt as if he had opened a door to the unknown.
A vast power surged into his body. Ning Beichen first saw darkness, and then after an unknown amount of time, light began to appear in the darkness. Following that, he seemed to see the universe and felt that his body had become a part of the universe.
"Unity of Heaven and Man!"
"This is the Unity of Heaven and Man I have always dreamed of."
"So the dantian navel chakra is the great door to the Unity of Heaven and Man."
Never before had Ning Beichen felt so powerful. Although there was no concrete evidence, and no one told him, Ning Beichen just knew that he had already advanced to the realm of Unity of Heaven and Man.
He was now a transcendent being, and with every movement, Ning Beichen could feel that he was at least a hundred times stronger than he was before.
Besides feeling powerful, the most obvious change was that Ning Beichen felt his vitality was growing stronger, and his lifespan was doubling.
Although there were no detailed data.
Ning Beichen felt that he could live for two hundred years without any problem.
And this was just the beginning.
After an unknown amount of time, as if countless eons had passed.
Ning Beichen finally woke up from this profound and mysterious state.
The starry sky in front of him had disappeared, and Zhou Tian Lu was nowhere to be seen. His consciousness had returned to his physical body at some unknown time.
He was sitting in the stone building, as if everything that had happened before was just a beautiful dream.
But Ning Beichen could clearly feel himself becoming stronger. With every breath, it was as if he could resonate with the universe.
And the vitality in his body told him that he was not dreaming; everything that had happened was real.
He was now in the realm of Unity of Heaven and Man, and his every movement exuded powerful strength.
If he had to face that leopard again, or the massive monster he encountered in Zhou Tian Lu,
Ning Beichen had absolute confidence that he could easily kill them without using the bronze ancient sword and the Songshan Sword Technique.
"Beichen, you've finally finished your cultivation. You don't know how scary you were before. A large amount of blood suddenly gushed out of you, and your breathing even stopped..."
When Liu Yilin saw Ning Beichen open his eyes, she hurriedly said to him with concern.
"I'm sorry for making you worry. By the way, how long have I been cultivating?"
Ning Beichen knew the situation she was referring to. That situation should have been when he was fighting the abyss monster in Zhou Tian Lu. There were several times when he was truly close to death.
"It's been almost three months. If you hadn't woken up soon, I would have decided to carry you out."
Liu Yilin said to Ning Beichen with a slight hint of grievance.
Originally, she thought Ning Beichen would only cultivate for a few days, at most ten days. Who would have thought that he would cultivate for three months without eating or drinking.
During this period, there were also dangerous situations like bleeding and stopping breathing, which frightened Liu Yilin to the point of helplessness, and she didn't know what to do.