Resurrection of all mankind

Chapter 286 Too much forgetfulness
Inside the Nostril Cave.

After listening to the old man's narration, Xie Shen guessed, "So, Daoist friend, your purpose of fishing for Emperor Tianye's Dao Fruit here is to use it to clear the black mist in your body?"

"good."

The old man in the fusion stage nodded and smiled helplessly, "It's a pity that I have been fishing here on and off for nearly two thousand years, but I still haven't been able to catch the Dao fruit left behind by Emperor Tianye when he fell."

"When I first came here, it was only more than 6800 years old."

"But now, more than two thousand years have passed."

"All told, I am now more than nine thousand years old."

talking.

A trace of despair suddenly flashed through the old man's eyes, and at the same time, this despair was mixed with a hint of relief.

He continued, “You know.”

"A cultivator in the Fusion Stage can live for ten thousand years."

"According to this calculation, my age of over 80 years is equivalent to that of an old man in his s among mortals."

“I’m too old.”

"I don't have much time left."

“I think that even if I really catch the Dao Fruit of Emperor Tianye in the future, I will not be able to enjoy it. I will not be able to use the Dao Fruit to break through to a higher realm.”

Well.
After hearing this, Xie Shen asked the old man tentatively, "So, you always wanted to help me obtain the Dao fruit of Emperor Ye that day, and then let me complete your unfinished wish for you?"

"What are you thinking about?" The old man laughed and said, "If I really caught that fruit."

"Don't tell me I still have 900 years to live."

"Even if I only have a hundred years left to live, I will never give you the Dao Fruit for nothing."

"I must keep it for myself."

The old man said as a matter of course: "If I really get the Dao Fruit by accident, even if the chance is slim, I will definitely try my best and try every possible way to try to break through to the Return to Void Stage."

reasonable.

The old man's words are exactly what a cultivator in the fusion stage should have.

After hearing this, Xie Shen nodded in agreement.

Then he said with a hint of doubt: "I just don't understand. Since you don't intend to give me the Dao Fruit, why did you tell me that this place has the opportunity left by Emperor Tianye? Aren't you afraid that I will compete with you for this opportunity?"

"You want to argue with me?" The old man laughed, "It's not that I look down on you, fellow Taoist."

"I just said it."

"I have been fishing here for nearly two thousand years, but I have never been able to catch the Dao Fruit of Emperor Tianye."

"You came here and said you wanted to compete with me."

"Could it be that you, Daoist friend, are also planning to follow my method and use Emperor Tianye's nose hair as a fishing rod to fish here for two thousand years?"

this.
Now that the great catastrophe of ten thousand years is approaching, Xie Shen is worried about the safety of the Aldebaran star system.

So he told the old man the truth: "To be honest, I have something on my mind right now, so I really can't calm down and fish here for two thousand years like you did."

"That's it."

The old man had just done all that preparation, seemingly just to wait for Xie Shen to say this.

He then took the opportunity to reveal his true intentions and said, "Since you don't have the patience to spend so much time fishing, and I am old and don't want to waste my time, why don't we just go all out and venture directly into Emperor Tianye's sea of ​​consciousness to find out what's going on, what do you think?"

Enter the sea of ​​consciousness of this giant?

Xie Shen did not rush to agree to the old man, but asked him first: "If we enter the sea of ​​consciousness of Emperor Tianye, will we have a greater chance of finding the Dao fruit left by Emperor Tianye?"

"good."

The old man responded: "The Dao Fruit left by Emperor Tianye is actually an indescribable fish that he personally cultivated after going through untold hardships!"

"Since it is a fish, fishing is not the only way to catch it."

"We can directly enter his sea of ​​consciousness and capture him."

"An indescribable fish?" Xie Shen asked puzzledly, "What is that?"

The old man explained patiently.

"Didn't I tell you this before?"

"After a cultivator breaks through to the Return to Void Stage, he will be hunted down by indescribable creatures due to the original power in his body."

"There are currently three known ways to avoid being hunted down."

The old man introduced them one by one.

"Method one is to surrender directly to the indescribable creatures like the Agent did, and have your soul imprinted by them. Then you will become their slave for eternity. From then on, you will live only to help them extract emotional power from humans."

"If you do this like a dog, you will be able to live forever."

Hearing this, Xie Shen immediately shook his head.

He said disdainfully: "Not right, not right. The purpose of our cultivation as cultivators is to transcend this world one day."

"It's better to die than to live like a dog."

"If you don't want to be a dog, then there are only two other options left." The old man continued.

"The second way for Return to Void Stage cultivators to avoid being hunted down is to never absorb the power of origin for the rest of their lives after the breakthrough."

"If you don't absorb the power of the origin, you won't become stronger."

"Then you will always be just an ant in the eyes of the indescribable creatures, and naturally you will not be hunted down by them."

"Not right, still not right." Xie Shen shook his head again after hearing this and said, "As the saying goes, if you hear the truth in the morning, you can die in the evening."

“After breaking through the Return to Void Stage, I don’t believe there is any cultivator who can resist absorbing the power of origin for eternity.”

“That’s the truth.” The old man in the Fusion Stage nodded and said, “So, Emperor Tianye, who had already broken through to the Return to Void Stage at that time, chose the third path—before absorbing the power of the origin, he first tried to get rid of all the black mist in his body.”

"With the black mist gone from his body, Emperor Tianye will no longer be tracked by the indescribable creatures."

"In this way, he can absorb the power of origin without any worries."

Inside the Nostril Cave.

Xie Shen immediately became interested when he heard this.

He asked the old man, "So how did Emperor Tianye get rid of the black fog in his body?"

The old man slowly said, "Because Emperor Tianye is the first cultivator in our Milky Way to break through to the Return to Void Stage."

"Uh"

talking.

He suddenly changed his words and said, "At least he is the first cultivator I know of who has broken through to the Return to Void Stage!"

"As the first person on the path of cultivation, Emperor Tianye created a technique called 'Supreme Forgetfulness' with his extraordinary talent!"

Supreme Forgetfulness? ?
Xie Shen was inspired after hearing this and said, "Emperor Tianye wants to remove all the black mist in his body by stripping away his own emotions?"

"Smart!" The old man praised Xie Shen and said, "For a planet to produce a large amount of black fog, two prerequisites must be met."

"First, there are indescribable creatures on this planet."

"The second is that the humans on this planet will experience great emotional fluctuations."

The old man continued.

"Following this line of thought, Emperor Tianye at the time had a guess: since the generation of black mist is related to human emotional fluctuations, if he can eliminate all his own emotions, can he also expel the black mist from his body?"

Good idea.
After hearing this, Xie Shen thought for a moment and said, "Based on my personal understanding of cultivation and the black mist, I think Emperor Tianye's idea is correct, and the method he proposed should be feasible. Well, at least in theory." "I guess I'm right?"

"You guessed right." The old man in the fusion stage nodded.

"After coming up with the idea of ​​'Supreme Forgetfulness', Emperor Tianye spent nearly a thousand years torturing himself beyond recognition, and finally created a technique that can eliminate all of one's emotions - the Supreme Forgetfulness Technique."

Inside the Nostril Cave.

When the old man reached this point in his narration, he suddenly placed his hand on the storage bag at his waist and took out a jade slip from it.

He raised the jade slip in his hand to Xie Shen and asked, "Did you see it?"

"I have been fishing here for nearly two thousand years, so it's not like I have caught nothing."

"This jade slip with the Supreme Forgetfulness Technique is one of my gains."

Good guy!
Xie Shen looked at the technique with envy and said, "Since you already have this technique, why bother?"

He hasn't finished speaking yet.

Then the old man interrupted and said, "Don't even think about it. Although I already have this technique, I still haven't gotten the treasure necessary to practice it."

treasure?

Xie Shen said thoughtfully, "The necessary treasure is the so-called indescribable fish you just mentioned, fellow Taoist?"

"correct!"

The old man thanked Shen.

"We humans are born with the seven emotions and six desires. This characteristic exists not only in our bodies, but also in our consciousness and our souls. How can it be completely eliminated with just a Supreme Forgetting Emotions Technique?"

"Even if the Supreme Forgetfulness Technique is practiced to the highest level, it can only eliminate eight out of ten of the practitioner's own emotions."

"This is already the limit of what this technique can do."

The old man continued.

"And then to banish nine out of ten emotions is not enough."

"If you can't completely eliminate your emotions, then you will always have the possibility of being discovered by unknown creatures."

"So in order to completely get rid of his own emotions, Emperor Tianye used the characteristics of the indescribable creature that likes to feed on human emotions to artificially breed a fish that also has this characteristic and likes to feed on human emotions."

"That is, the fish that cannot be described!"

"Or, you can also call it 'Tao Fruit'."

After explaining the whole story clearly, the old man finally made a formal invitation to Xie Shen.

"How about it?"

"According to my investigations over the years, I know that the indescribable fish cultivated by Emperor Tianye is most likely hidden in his sea of ​​consciousness."

"I wonder if you are interested in going with me to catch that unspeakable fish?"

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The old man suddenly threw the jade slip in his hand to Xie Shen and said, "To show my sincerity, no matter whether it succeeds or not, I will give you this supreme forgetfulness technique directly."

"Take it!"

Xie Shen was delighted to have obtained a martial art for free.

After he put the jade slip into his storage bag, he clasped his fists towards the old man and said solemnly: "My name is Xie Shen. May I ask your name, fellow Taoist?"

The old man looked reminiscing as he said, "Over the years, my relatives and friends have all died one after another."

"It's been a long, long time since anyone called me by my name."

"And I don't want anyone to call me by my name anymore."

"So, Brother Xie, just call me by my Taoist name."

"My Taoist name is 'Kong Kong Taoist'."

The name is just a code name, Xie Shen doesn't care about it.

He continued the previous topic and asked Taoist Kongkong: "Since entering the sea of ​​consciousness of Emperor Tianye will give us a greater chance of finding the indescribable fish he left behind, why did you keep fishing with a fishing rod?"

"If you had gone directly into the sea of ​​consciousness, wouldn't you have caught the fish long ago?"

"You don't know, fellow Daoist." Taoist Kongkong explained, "In the sea of ​​consciousness of Emperor Tianye, there is a residual soul left after his death."

“Although that remnant soul has no self-awareness and can only act on instinct, its mental strength is completely inherited from Emperor Tianye, who has reached the Return to Void Stage.”

"Because the residual soul has the strength of the Return to Void Stage."

"So even if it only acts on instinct, I am only at the Fusion Stage, and I am far from being its opponent."

“I need a helper to work with me.”

Taoist Kong Kong told Xie Shen his plan: "When the time comes, after entering Emperor Tian Ye's sea of ​​consciousness, I will be responsible for holding back the emperor's remaining soul."

"And you, take this opportunity to search for the indescribable fish that can absorb human emotions in the sea of ​​the Great Emperor's consciousness."

"is that OK?"

Xie Shen still didn't quite trust Taoist Kongkong.

He questioned, "Why do you have to choose me? Can't other cultivators in the Spiritualization Stage or the Fusion Stage be chosen?"

“A cultivator at the Spiritualization Stage won’t do that.” Taoist Kong Kong shook his head and said, “A cultivator at the Spiritualization Stage has too weak spiritual power. After entering the consciousness sea of ​​Emperor Tian Ye, I’m afraid they will be forced to leave before staying for more than ten breaths due to exhaustion of energy.”

"As for the other fusion stage monks..."

Taoist Kongkong looked at Xie Shen and said speechlessly: "Do you think that cultivators in the Fusion Stage are cabbages? You can find them everywhere, right?"

this.
Xie Shen could not see anything suspicious in Taoist Kongkong's answer.

So after struggling for most of the day, he nodded and said to Taoist Kongkong: "Okay, I promise you, I will go with you to the sea of ​​consciousness of Emperor Tianye to find the so-called indescribable fish."

talking.

He asked again: "So how can we enter Emperor Tianye's sea of ​​consciousness?"

"That's easy." Taoist Kongkong said without hesitation: "After Emperor Tianye died, not only did his body form a world of its own, but countless immortal sects, cities and villages of mortals were built on his body."

"Even his sea of ​​consciousness has also turned into a pure spiritual world."

"If you want to enter, you just need to release your spiritual consciousness and then probe towards Emperor Tianye's head."

"like this."

Inside the Nostril Cave.

Taoist Kongkong said this, and then he sent his spiritual consciousness towards Emperor Tianye's head in front of Xie Shen.

During the whole process, he was not on guard against Xie Shen at all.

It seems like he trusts him extremely.

Seeing that Taoist Kongkong was so frank, Xie Shen didn't think any more about it.

He sat cross-legged on the ground, and imitating Taoist Kongkong's method, he also probed his spiritual consciousness towards the emperor's head.

Seeing Xie Shen and Taoist Kongkong's consciousness leave their bodies, Yi Xiao, a cultivator in the Spirit Transformation Stage who had been silent all the time, stepped forward and spoke.

"Two seniors, let me protect you."

talking.

He then activated the black mist in his body, generated a simple version of the spiritual light formation in front of him, and sat cross-legged in the center of the formation.

(End of this chapter)