The Northern Qi Mountain is grand and majestic, with towering peaks that stretch for miles, resembling a reclining dragon.
As Chen Yun arrived here, he was immediately led to the arena by the Golden Boy.
In the rear garden, Chen Yun encountered Liudongbing, who was admiring the chrysanthemums in the fall.
Stepping forward, Chen Peng executed a formal bow and greeted, "Greetings, Master Liudongbing. Chen Peng greets you."
Lü Dongbin turned his head slightly, nodded with a half-smile, and said in a teasing tone, "Our Brother Chen certainly doesn't visit the Triple Treasures Palace for no reason. Well then, what brings you here today?"
Chen Yun felt not a shred of embarrassment, and with a full smile, he said, "The junior brother has some questions about his cultivation. He specially came to ask for the master's enlightenment."
Lü Dongbin reached out and stroked the chrysanthemums, "Judging by the aura floating on your surface, I suppose you are here to ask for instruction on how to refine elixirs of immortality?"
Chen Yun said, "Yes, as the junior brother has cultivated a celestial body early on, and the refinement of essence into qi and qi into spirit seems unable to help me in refining the Golden Pill, I want to seek enlightenment from my senior brother."
Lü Dongbin lightly waved his sleeve and turned around, saying, "You asked me about this matter last time. Have you forgotten?"
How could Chen Yun possibly forget? He certainly remembered that Lü Dongbin had said that as long as his qi and essence were plentiful, he would naturally be able to condense Golden Pills.
But his body's qi had become extremely abundant, reaching the late stage of the Supreme Leader realm.
At this stage, an ordinary person would already be able to attempt the condensation of the Golden Pill.
He felt very puzzled and confused within, as he had no signs of it, so he came to seek help.
He said, "Yes, I remember. It's just that the qi in my body is still not condensed into a Golden Pill."
Lü Dongbin examined him from head to toe, and said faintly, "It's just that the qi in your body is not yet sufficient. If your qi is as vast as an ocean, it will naturally condense into a mass, thus forming a sacred fetus Golden Pill."
Chen Yun paused for a moment and said, "I have reached the late stage of the Supreme Leader realm. Is my qi not sufficient?"
Lü Dongbin asked in return, "Do you know why ordinary people can never compete with immortals, even without the help of especially powerful treasures?"
Chen Yun shook his head and said, "I don't know."
Lü Dongbin spoke slowly, "The Golden Pill immortals are countless, in the hundreds of billions of galaxies. They come and go like the wind, invisible and limitless, endlessly changing. They wear the Kunlun Mountains on their heads, carry the sun and moon on their shoulders, hold the divine bell in their hands, and step on the Kuai Long dragon with their feet. Sometimes they appear as small bodies entering microscopic dust particles within a single hair. Viewing great strength and maintaining righteousness law, they have endless transformations. This is truly the might of Golden Pill immortals; how could the power at the late stage of Supreme Leader realm be compared to that of Golden Pill immortals?"
What?
So strong, the Golden Pill immortals?
Chen Yun carefully analyzed the strength of the Golden Pill immortals from Lü Dongbin's words.
Firstly, there's the term "billion upon billion," which is a numeral and a very large one at that.
It is composed of multiple counting units, with the right-to-left order being: one, ten, hundred, thousand, million, billion, trillion, ten-thousand, and yi (a unit of the 100th magnitude).
"Gai" is a very large counting unit, positioned after "Jing."
Therefore, "billion upon billion gai" can be understood as "billion upon billion" followed by a "gai."
Of course, Lü Dongbin uses this word to describe, not to say the number.
He is indicating the immense power of Golden Pill immortals, akin to the boundless extent of "billion upon billion gai."
Secondly, there is the phrase "head adorned with Kunlun, shoulders carrying the sun and moon, hand grasping the emperor's bell, feet stepping on the Kuailong dragon."
It represents that the Golden Pill immortals can easily lift up Kunlun Mountain and even carry the sun and moon on their shoulders.
The emperor's bell is called the Three-Qing bell in Daoism.
