There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

Wang Ping knew that Lieyang was asking him whether the one being refined at the moment was really Huishan. In Wang Ping's sight, he indeed saw that in the great net of heaven and earth connected by the 'Tian Tong Fu', the rules of the wood spirit were partially connected to the Yuanshen refined by Lieyang.

Another part is connected to the sick locust tree in front of Wang Ping, another part is connected to Xiaoshan's soul, and the remaining half is himself.

Yu Lian leaned on Wang Ping's shoulder, looked around at the scene, and asked, "Are we going to live here in the future?"

Her tone was full of disdain.

Wang Ping silently looked up at the sky, which was covered with thick smog, as if the sky was about to collapse. The surrounding forests were full of violent energy vortices, and poisonous gas was corroding the spirituality from time to time.

This kind of living environment is even more dangerous than the areas in front of the Misty Sea Underground Palace. Even an ordinary fifth-level star god would be badly hurt if he came in.

The traps set up by the transfer array that can be seen everywhere in the sky and the "confinement talismans" spread all over the earth can show that Huishan has an unusual sense of insecurity deep in his heart.

"With the disturbance from so many Star Gods just now, Senior Huishan had many opportunities to escape, but he didn't do it." Wang Ping said this in response to Lieyang, "I can sense that Senior Huishan has been successfully suppressed by us."

After he finished speaking, he threw a blessing talisman towards the sky. This blessing talisman carried his will and constructed a wood spirit array in the haze-filled sky. As the pure wood spirit aura flowed out from the array, the haze in the sky dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The sunlight from the starry sky instantly penetrated the thin atmosphere gathered by the wood spirit energy, and when it descended on the top of the mountain, it gave people an indescribable sense of comfort.

Then Wang Ping cast several blessing talismans to clean up the pollution in other areas of the planet. However, the pollution would reappear soon after being cleaned up. This was caused by the locust tree on the top of the mountain.

"Why do all this useless work? Let's deal with this locust tree first!"

Yu Lian complained.

Wang Ping responded with a smile: "Didn't you say that the environment here is not good?"

When saying this, Wang Ping exited his state of absolute rationality.

Upon hearing this, Yu Lian rubbed Wang Ping's cheek with her little head.

Wang Ping used the "Tian Tong Fu" to carefully observe the pollution status of the locust tree in front of him, and he had no intention of rushing to take action. After all, this was the physical body of a person in the fifth realm of Tai Yan.

Under the sight of the 'Tian Tong Fu', one can see that the web of heaven and earth connected by this locust tree is in disarray, and one can tell at a glance that two locust trees were forcibly blended together.

Those pollutions are called pollution, but in fact they are not pollution, but another way of expressing wood spirits. Wood spirits not only represent life and vitality, and the ability to observe the world, but also corruption and toxicity.

Currently, Huishan and Xiaoshan’s consciousness cannot reach the locust tree. It is not very difficult for Wang Ping to clean up the corrupt smell of the locust tree. He only needs to slowly sort out the internal spiritual veins and pollution. But the problem is that these are two locust trees, and the internal spiritual veins were more or less damaged when they were merged.

Even with Wang Ping's current cultivation, it would take hundreds of years to get rid of this state, so he looked at Lieyang and Tiangong and said, "Senior Xiaoshan will have to clean up its pollution himself, because it may be easier to continue to integrate this body than to clean it up."

Tiangong and Lieyang did not answer immediately. They looked at each other and wanted the other to speak first.

"This is your Taiyan sect's internal affairs, you can decide for yourself."

Tian Gong was the first to speak out after two breaths of silence.

Lieyang just nodded.

Yu Lian stared at them for a few seconds and said in the spiritual sea: "You can't see through them, so be careful."

Wang Ping could more or less guess what the two were thinking. They were probably afraid that the Taiyan sect would take advantage of the opportunity to become more powerful and cause them to lose their original voice.

To be honest, Wang Ping really had such a plan. After all, in order to realize the series of plans in his mind, he must first gain enough voice, so after the two agreed, he immediately used blessing talismans to temporarily suppress the pollution of the locust tree.

When the blessing talisman carrying Wang Ping's will entered the locust tree, the locust tree quickly stopped infiltrating the distorted wood spirit energy, and the changes in the entire Jupiter were also suppressed.

After doing all this, Wang Ping looked at Huishan's soul that was being refined by flames. Tiangong was right. It would take at least several years to refine it at this speed.

So, Wang Ping suggested: "Why not let Senior Xiaoshan's soul out first, and I will help him integrate his body, maybe he can speed up the process of clearing Senior Huishan's soul."

He further tested the two of them and decided that he trusted Xiaoshan more than his own ancestor because Xiaoshan had a bottom line in everything he did.

Tiangong looked at Wang Ping with his eyes full of golden lines, and then a warm smile appeared on his face. "Okay, but Xiaoshan's soul must be seriously damaged. If you force him to do this, I'm afraid he will have to sleep for a long time in the future."

"This is his karma. I think Senior Xiaoshan will not refuse." Wang Ping responded with a bow, trying to be as humble as possible.

Tian Gong didn't say anything else. He waved his hand and removed the sealing formation he had set up.

Wang Ping bowed to Tiangong again, and then looked at Xiaoshan's soul. There was a complex talisman on his head, which imprisoned the time and space around him. To the naked eye, this space seemed to be out of sync with reality.

Xiaoshan's soul was aware of extremely painful emotions in the confined space, but because he was confined in time and space, he was unable to show any movement.

Wang Ping quickly removed the "confinement talisman" and Xiaoshan's low cry of pain immediately echoed in his ears.

"I hope you will forgive me, Senior. This is a last resort."

Wang Ping clasped his fists and saluted.

Xiaoshan's consciousness swept over the three people, and his illusory soul instantly solidified, and a set of gray-white wide-sleeved and cross-collared Taoist robes appeared on his body. He endured the pain and first clasped his fists to Lieyang and Tiangong and said, "Greetings to the two True Lords."

Lieyang nodded expressionlessly and corrected: "It's the three True Lords."

"Yes, I have met Master Changqing!"

Xiaoshan bowed to Wang Ping.

Wang Ping was about to say something when he heard Tian Gong say, "Now that the status has been determined, let's get down to business."

After saying this, Wang Ping couldn't say anything more under the gaze of Lieyang and Tiangong. He looked at Xiaoshan and explained what to do next.

Xiaoshan naturally would not refuse. When he was about to merge with the physical body, Tiangong suddenly said, "I have to check first whether there are any thoughts of Huishan left in your consciousness." After that, he took action without waiting for Xiaoshan's consent, and used his complete spiritual consciousness to probe into Xiaoshan's spiritual consciousness. Xiaoshan's active consciousness suddenly stagnated.

Wang Ping glanced at Lieyang and finally chose to remain silent.

The investigation lasted for half an hour before Tian Gong regained consciousness. He clasped his hands together, looked at Wang Ping and said, "Xiao Shan's soul is indeed seriously damaged. Most of his consciousness has been absorbed by Hui Shan. If we hadn't established incense for him in the mortal world in time, I'm afraid he would have been replaced by Hui Shan long ago."

Lieyang continued, "According to the current situation, even if Huishan completely merges with Xiaoshan, he will not be able to suppress the madness in his body. His madness comes from the fact that he is already mad and has no intention of suppressing his madness. The fusion of Xiaoshan is just to make up for the lack of his 'Heaven Stealing Talisman' and physical body."

Wang Ping's eyes were fixed on Xiaoshan the whole time. When Tiangong and Lieyang finished speaking, Xiaoshan clasped his fists and said, "You two True Lords are right. My soul was not nourished by the wood spirit when it was promoted, and I fought against Huishan's madness for a long time. Now I only have 20% of my energy left. I can barely fuse these two broken bodies, but I'm afraid I will fall into a long sleep after the fusion."

When Yu Lian heard this, she couldn't help but ask in her spiritual sea: "Did they do anything to Xiao Shan's soul?"

Wang Ping was not too upset by this and responded casually, "Even you can see that?"

"Is this really the case?"

"I am not sure as well!"

Wang Ping used his cultivation to suppress this thought and said to Xiao Shan, "Let's suppress the pollution of this locust tree first."

He didn't want to create any more trouble. He was mentally prepared for the current outcome, and everything was still within his acceptable range.

To merge the two broken bodies, what Wang Ping had to do was very simple. He only needed to constantly use the "Heaven-stealing Talisman" to define the state of the locust tree, so that Xiaoshan could comb through the messy spiritual veins and pollution inside the locust tree without any scruples.

Wang Ping referred to his own body for the specific state. When the state of the locust tree was defined, the suppressed pollution disappeared instantly.

Xiaoshan's soul merged with the locust tree easily, but this was only the first step. When he tried to restore his human form, he failed.

"It took me more than 200 years to recover my human form. With your current soul strength, I don't think there is any hope. So the first thing you need to do is to fuse the two bodies. When the body and soul are in perfect harmony, you may have a chance to repair your soul. And you need to maintain enough humanity at this stage, otherwise you will be the next Huishan."

Lieyang reminded coldly.

Xiaoshan followed the advice and gave up on restoring his human form. Instead, he sorted out the messy spiritual veins and pollution inside the locust tree and completed the fusion of the two entangled broken bodies. With the state defined by Wang Ping's "Stealing Heaven Talisman", this step was not very difficult.

The giant mountain then fell into silence. Time passed quickly in the silence, and the pollution on Jupiter slowly faded away in the silence.

Half a year passed in a flash. The star ring formed in the starry sky around Jupiter became dimmer because the surging wood spirit energy was suppressed. The drifting locust flowers also turned white. The tree roots and vines intertwined throughout the mountain were buried underground, and were replaced by a dense forest of spiritual trees.

During the past six months, Xiaoshan has also straightened out the complicated spiritual veins inside the two broken bodies, and the pollution has naturally disappeared along with the new wood spirit energy. At this moment, Xiaoshan is using the connection with Huishan's consciousness to suppress Huishan's resistance, which has greatly accelerated the progress of Lieyang's refining.

In the final stage, Tiangong also used the golden spirit energy to restrain Huishan, so that the final refining was completed in less than half a year. Wang Ping acted as a guardian during this half year, mainly because Tiangong and Lieyang did not intend to let him participate in dealing with Huishan's soul.

When the last bit of Huishan's soul's energy was refined, Lieyang and Tiangong breathed a sigh of relief, but then they all fell into a silent state, the kind in which even the soul's consciousness was silent.

“I remember when I first met Huishan, he had just condensed the fake pill and was studying various spiritual medicines all day long. Later, every time I was injured, I would go to him.”

Master Tiangong's human consciousness suddenly became active, but this active state only lasted for a moment, and then returned to silence again.

Lieyang smiled and said, "He is lucky that we are here to see him off. We may not be so lucky when we leave."

After he finished speaking, he looked at Wang Ping and said, "Fellow Daoist Changqing is young, and I will surely die before you. When the time comes, please don't let me die in vain."

Wang Ping was a little uncomfortable with this topic and didn't want to think about it because his goal was to achieve immortality. In response to Lieyang's words, he just bowed silently.

Seeing that Wang Ping didn't say anything, Lieyang didn't continue the topic. Instead, he looked at the Yuanshen of the hill in front of the locust tree and asked, "Huishan had a chance to escape at that time. Did you hold him back?"

Xiao Shan clasped his fists and responded, "In reply to Master Lieyang, Senior Huishan's consciousness has become even crazier in recent years. After sensing your aura, Senior Huishan was even very expectant, as if he was waiting for something, but then everything changed too quickly."

Tian Gong said, "In the past hundred years, the magic array we set up on Zhongzhou Star has sensed his appearance in the Misty Sea twice. When I probed your consciousness a year ago, I didn't find this memory. What happened?"

Xiaoshan was equally confused and responded, "I don't know."

There was a moment of silence. After more than ten breaths, Tian Gong turned to look at Wang Ping. His serious expression eased a lot and he said, "Xiao Shan's situation is rather special. Don't let him leave this planet."

After saying this, he looked at Lieyang and said, "This matter is settled, and I should go back. You can talk to Daoist Changqing about the rest."

Lieyang nodded.

Tian Gong said nothing more. His body turned into golden light and merged into the golden spiritual energy and disappeared.

"My mental state is very bad and I will soon fall into a deep sleep."

Xiao Shan looked at Wang Ping, not dwelling on what Tian Gong had just said, or maybe he didn't have the energy to dwell on it right now. He still hadn't gotten used to Wang Ping and his own identity, so he just bowed when he spoke to Wang Ping, but didn't address him. "I can help you stabilize the wood spirit while I'm asleep."

He left a promise, bowed to Lieyang, and then disappeared into the locust tree.

Wang Ping and Lieyang were both observing Xiaoshan. Until Xiaoshan's aura and the wood spirit died down, Lieyang spoke up and said, "This is the best outcome. The fact that Xuanmen and Tianmen have seven seats for the True Lords cannot be changed in any way."

"I see!"

Wang Ping gently stroked Yu Lian's head and responded.

Lieyang continued, "Xiaoshan has merged with Huishan's consciousness for a period of time, so he can understand Huishan's memories and thoughts. Since you have spoken, we can't refute you, but you should know the seriousness of this matter. In addition, I heard that you asked Yuanwu to pull Yuxiao out of the misty sea. Do you want to send him out of the domain?"

Wang Ping nodded and responded, "I do have this idea. I don't understand this ancestor of Qianmu Temple. Many of the things he did were harmful to others and not beneficial to himself. I don't think it's safe for such a person to be placed in the Misty Sea."

Lieyang's eyes showed admiration, and he said to Wang Ping: "The fact that you think so proves that we were right to let you come up, but some things must be done thoroughly. Use your puppet to erase all traces of his existence." (End of this chapter)