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Chapter 829: 'Star Sea' Explains Yuan Wu

Although the spiritual bodies and flesh bodies created by the demon race are pure, because of this, their spiritual bodies and flesh bodies are like dead objects. Using the primordial spirit to reshape the vitality of the flesh body is as difficult as advancing to the fourth realm. If you are not careful, the flesh body will turn into a puddle of mud.

At the beginning, Taoist Tongyu merged his spiritual body and physical body at the cost of falling asleep, using his primordial spirit to slowly nourish and cultivate the compatibility between the physical body and the primordial spirit. At the same time, he also had to reshape the qi sea and meridians for the physical body. However, now that he has the "Netherworld Body" provided by Wang Ping, his success rate will be greatly improved. However, whether he can be promoted to the fourth level depends on God's will.

If the five sects of Xuanmen want to obtain a spiritual body that matches their own primordial spirit, they have to implant spiritual veins into the body. Otherwise, after the fusion of the primordial spirit and the body, the body will rot within no more than half a year because it has no spiritual veins and cannot withstand the strength of the primordial spirit.

This is the most difficult thing. Otherwise, cultivators in the world can use the spirits and bodies of the demon race to revive infinitely.

Of course, this is also a hope. With sufficient resources and the assistance of fourth-level monks, the success rate will be greatly improved, so this thing is so popular and ridiculously expensive.

The price of such resurrection would be the consumption of the cultivation of the primordial spirit, and since it is not one's own physical body, the life span would be greatly reduced, and there is also the possibility of being contaminated by spiritual creatures and turned into a true spirit at any time.

However, there is another way, which is to temporarily use the spiritual body created by the demon clan as a carrier so that the soul will not dissipate so quickly. In this way, the soul can be maintained for at least a hundred years, leaving a legacy for oneself.

The one hundred years limit that Wang Ping mentioned is the limit of the physical body of the spirit created by the demon race, as well as the limit of the cultivator's own soul. If this limit is exceeded, there will be no chance of retaining consciousness and being made into a puppet.

After hearing Wang Ping's suggestion, Ruan Chunzi responded without any hesitation: "You misunderstood me. I just want to retain my consciousness to see this world and the future of Zhongzhou, and leave my own heritage. If I understand it one day, I will leave on my own."

Yu Lian landed on the side of the coffee table, looked at Ruan Chunzi and said, "The puppet can indeed preserve your spiritual consciousness. We can even use the puppet as a magic weapon to refine your spiritual consciousness and the puppet together. This is very simple, but in that case you will no longer be yourself, and it will be completely meaningless."

“But it makes sense to me.”

Ruan Chunzi clasped his fists and saluted Wang Ping again, which was a request.

Wang Ping looked at Ruan Chunzi and felt his trust. This was the only outsider he trusted besides his master and disciples.

"Okay, I promise you."

As Wang Ping spoke, he patted his storage bag and took out a puppet with its internal qi sea and meridians intact. He looked at Ruan Chunzi and reminded him, "I'll start now."

Ruan Chunzi nodded, clasped his fists again, and said, "Thank you, Lord!"

As he bowed in thanks, his soul left his body which was about to collapse.

At the moment when Ruan Chunzi's soul left his body, the crazy consciousness of the spiritual veins in his body burst out. First, fine sunflower patterns appeared out of thin air.

But the next moment, it was penetrated by a strong breath of wood spirit, shattered into countless fire spirit veins, and was dragged into the ground by vines that emerged from the ground to become nutrients for the earth.

When Wang Ping's eyes fell on Ruan Chunzi's soul, he stood up and sacrificed the 'Tian Tong Fu', first marking the puppet beside him with the aura of Heaven's approval, then stretched out his left hand and grabbed Ruan Chunzi's soul through the air, forcibly using the power of the 'Tian Tong Fu' to temporarily seal Ruan Chunzi's consciousness, and then began to refine his soul.

The fire salamander next to them had stopped fighting with the calico cat. Perhaps because Ruan Chunzi had communicated with him in advance, he did not disturb Wang Ping. He just lay on the spiritual grass and watched quietly, with obvious sadness in his round eyes.

Yu Lian built a water spirit barrier to prevent anyone from disturbing Wang Ping.

The refining process lasted for ten days because Wang Ping had to try his best to preserve all the memories of Ruan Chunzi's soul consciousness, otherwise it would only take half a day to complete.

When everything was confirmed to be correct, Wang Ping used the "enlightenment technique" to inject the refined soul consciousness into the puppet body that had been prepared long ago.

Two breaths later, the puppet opened its eyes. Those eyes were extremely turbid at first, but soon became clear, and then filled with rich emotions and thoughts.

"It's amazing. I felt like I had slept for a while, but when I opened my eyes again, I was reborn!"

The puppet started to speak, with a sharp tone at first, but it soon became normal, and by the end it had resumed Ruan Chunzi's tone of voice.

Wang Ping looked at him and said, "I have injected your Yuanshen directly into this puppet. Your Yuanshen cultivation is still there, but I have temporarily sealed it. Otherwise, this puppet will not be able to withstand your power. If you can cultivate the spirit veins of this puppet to the third realm, those seals will naturally be lifted."

Ruan Chunzi seemed to have no interest in cultivation, and said, "Let's take a look first. I have no plans to practice for the time being."

The salamander quickly crawled over, circled around Ruan Chunzi's feet twice, and then climbed up his calves to his shoulders. Ruan Chunzi looked at the salamander and said, "It will be enough for me to have him protect me in the future."

After hearing this, Wang Ping didn't say anything more.

Yu Lian then removed the water spirit barrier she had set up, and Ruan Chunzi took the opportunity to say goodbye.

Wang Ping did not try to keep him.

"Are you going to give him the place in the fourth realm of Zhenyang Sect?" Yu Lian asked after Ruan Chunzi left.

"No, just let him have a good rest." Wang Ping shook his head.

As he spoke, he looked up at the sky. The sky over Qianmu Temple was still clear, but it was still raining around. The scorched earth around Zhonghui City was gradually recovering, and the dry riverbed was gradually coming back to life.

At this time, a familiar breath came from the direction of the front hall and appeared in front of Wang Ping in an instant.

It's Hu Qianqian.

"Master~"

Hu Qianqian was wearing a gray-blue narrow-sleeved Taoist robe and had a furry tail wrapped around her waist. When she saluted Wang Ping, the tail spread out and shook gently.

Wang Ping glanced at Hu Qianqian and felt a rare lack of energy in her mood.

"Come over for tea."

Yu Lian greeted.

Wang Ping glanced at the coffee table, which was a mess, so he performed a "cleaning spell" and then sat down next to the coffee table.

"Master, the dojo in Baishuifu has been destroyed."

Hu Qianqian was the first to say this. Wang Ping asked, "Are your people okay?"

Hu Qianqian's furry ears flipped back upon hearing this, and she said with a bit of sadness, "Only the two juniors who were placed in Qianmu Temple are still alive. Of the others, only Hu Lin escaped the disaster because of the 'Armor Talisman' that Master gave him last time, and later he hid next to the ancient corpse at the bottom of the lake and survived."

Wang Ping sighed inwardly. This disaster really made him feel helpless. He was not good at comforting people, so he could only remain silent.

Yu Lian glanced at Wang Ping and said to Hu Qianqian: "This is a blessing. This is how the world is. You have practiced for so many years, you should understand this principle, right?"

Hu Qianqian nodded and said, "Disciple understands."

She didn't say much.

Yu Lian added: "The dojo is gone, so we will rebuild it. Remember the sacrifices made by our people this time and practice well in the future."

Hu Qianqian nodded slightly.

Afterwards, Yu Lian started chatting with Hu Qianqian in a low voice. Yu Lian, who often communicated with believers, was actually very good at comforting people and speaking, but apart from believers, there were very few people who could make her speak like that.

Wang Ping silently boiled water and made tea.

A quarter of an hour later.

Hu Qianqian said goodbye. She came here to report on the matter of Baishui Lake. Knowing that Wang Ping should be very busy now, she did not disturb him too much.

"I wonder how long it will take for Baishui Lake to recover?"

Yu Lian asked softly.

Wang Ping said: "It was only a few decades ago, but with the foundation of Qianmu Temple, it will probably be restored in a few years."

When he said this, he took out the 'Star Sea' because he sensed the energy permeating from the 'Star Sea'. Then, the immortal figure appeared again.

"Yuxiao has always promoted the idea of ​​mortals governing mortals and monks governing monks, but she didn't expect that the world would remain the same as before."

"Xinghai" said this.

Wang Ping was stunned for a moment before he realized that he was continuing the previous topic and summarizing a series of events that had occurred on the Zhongzhou continent during his absence of nearly two thousand years.

After saying this, Xinghai revealed a pair of dark eyes, looked at Wang Ping and said, "I can feel that you have a lot of doubts. You can't understand the logic of the actions of the True Lords, such as what Yuanwu wants to do. You are even worried about your own smooth cultivation. Are you worried that all this is deliberately arranged by someone? Right?"

Wang Ping looked into Xinghai's dark eyes and said, "Yes, I have had such thoughts before, and they come up from time to time. Can you help me solve this puzzle?"

'Xinghai' shed his dark eyes, shook his illusory head slightly, and said: "I don't know much. I can understand these problems just because I am good at thinking. When I was practicing with Yuxiao, I often helped him think about some problems, but most of the problems were no longer interesting to him after I figured them out."

Yu Lian opened her eyes wide and asked, "How long does it usually take you to think about a problem?"

'Xinghai' looked at Yulian and answered sincerely: "Sometimes it takes a few days, sometimes a few years, decades, or even hundreds of years!"

Wang Ping: “…”

Yu Lian: “…”

After Xinghai answered Yulian, he looked at Wang Ping and said, "I don't know most things, because I am often thinking about problems and don't have time to understand, but I know a little about Yuanwu Zhenjun."

"Yuxiao once said that Yuanwu looks complicated, but it is actually very pure. He helped you, on the one hand, so that he could continue to use Taiyanjiao to do things for him, and on the other hand, to stabilize Muling. Especially when Huishan fell into madness, Xiaoshan was probably promoted under his instigation. His promotion was destined to be sacrificed. Only by sacrificing him can the successor be achieved."

"The five elements and yin and yang are the foundation for maintaining the rules of this world. He may need a stable Taiyan Zhenjun. Looking at the entire cultivation world, you are the only one who is most likely to be promoted to Zhenjun."

"He said he would give you a thousand years. Perhaps this is the maximum that the Star God Alliance can tolerate. According to you, there are many cultivators in the Star God Alliance now, and they control the resources of outer space. After so many years, many people are probably impatient to wait, and even Yuan Wu can no longer suppress them."

Yu Lian couldn't help but ask: "Can our promotion solve these conflicts? This is impossible, right?"

'Xinghai' replied: "Of course it's impossible. The purpose of the Star God Alliance is very clear. Yuanwu gave you this time just to give the world some insurance. He has experienced the destruction of civilization several times and knows what the five True Lords of Xuanmen mean to the world, but some newcomers in the Star God Alliance may not know."

"Some people don't care even if they know, and there are still many such people. But Yuan Wu is not that kind of person. He is very attached to this world. He was the one who drove away the demons, and he was also the one who preserved the last trace of the demons' bloodline, because he believed that only in this way could the world be complete."

Wang Ping frowned slightly, "So, Yuanwu Zhenjun's goal is just to have someone come forward to repair the world when it is destroyed by fighting in the future?"

Facing Wang Ping's doubts, Xinghai said, "To some extent, the Five Elements and Yin and Yang have the ability to recreate the world. This is what Yuxiao once said. I know your doubts, but I can't resolve them. You can only find the answers yourself. Human nature is selfish, so many things you see will be full of contradictions."

"Yu Xiao also said that most people in this world have a world-weary mood, even the True Lords. He made a very appropriate analogy. He said that a child holding a wooden stick would involuntarily destroy all the flowers, plants and trees in his sight. The True Lords are more than just holding wooden sticks, but they have to suppress their inner desires and cannot even use force easily."

“There are countless people in the Star God Alliance who have reached the fifth realm. All of them have their hands tied and can only vent their desires on creatures from outside the domain.”

He revealed his dark eyes again and stared at Wang Ping. "Don't you have any desires? Just like this disaster, you must be very angry and want to vent, right? But you can't do that. You can only use your cultivation to suppress the negative emotions in your heart."

"Perhaps everyone can suppress their inner desires in a short period of time, but what if this time is hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years?"

"I believe you should understand the hardships of a person who starts from Qi Gathering and cultivates to the fifth level. But when they reach the fifth level, they find that the True Lords have already set the rules. They can only survive under such rules like prisoners under surveillance. Do you think they really dare not resist?"

After he finished speaking, his dark eyes disappeared again, and he whispered softly, "Yu Xiao told me this when he was preparing to go to the Misty Sea. He said his chances were slim, but he had to take this step, otherwise the people behind him would have no chance."

After saying this, his illusory body disappeared.

Yu Lian looked at the metal ball and said to Wang Ping, "What he said makes sense."

Wang Ping remained silent, then put away the metal ball.

(End of this chapter)