I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 664 Primordial Spirit and Yang Spirit (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
The Heavenly Sound Terrace, within the Qin Emperor's Palace.

Jiang Yi was locked in a quiet cultivation room, looking worried and distressed.

She wasn't worried about how to get out, or what the Qin Emperor would do to her, or even about the Qin Emperor possessing her body.

Her current dilemma was whether she should condense her primordial spirit according to the cultivation laws of the Mountain and Sea Realm, or continue to condense her yang spirit according to the cultivation laws of the Nine Provinces.

Although she has been cultivating the techniques modified by the evil body of the Qin Emperor for the past three hundred years, her most fundamental technique, the Sleeping Immortal Technique, has not been abolished. She can continue to cultivate it in the original way, and her sword-nurturing gourd is not lacking in spiritual energy.

The primordial spirit and the yang spirit differ by only one character, but their essence is very different.

The primordial spirit is the core of the soul that a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage transforms into. It is connected to the physical body and takes the form of an illusory spiritual body. It can temporarily detach from the physical body and is the condensation of the cultivator's soul and magical power.

The Yang Shen is a pure Yang body achieved by cultivators in the Refining Spirit and Transforming Emptiness stage after the Five Qi converge and the Three Flowers gather at the top of the head, completely refining all impurities in their bodies.

It is ethereal and intangible yet possesses substance and function. It can manifest a tangible form identical to the cultivator's true self, and can also 'gather to form a shape and disperse to form energy'. Compared to the primordial spirit, its form is purer and more independent, transcending the basic realm of the soul.

The primordial spirit is the core source of power for cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage. It enables cultivators to teleport and create simple clones. It can also assist cultivators in gaining initial insights into the laws of heaven and earth, greatly enhancing the power of spells.

However, the range and ability of the primordial spirit are clearly limited. For example, the strength of the clone is relatively weak, and the soul will be damaged if it is separated from the physical body for too long. It is also difficult to break through the high-strength spatial barrier.

The Yang Spirit's abilities far surpass those of the Primordial Spirit, transcending spatial constraints and possessing powerful transformation capabilities. The Yang Spirit can freely enter and exit the physical body through the Heavenly Gate, roaming freely throughout the world.

It can also cultivate the ability to create multiple clones, gradually increasing from one to countless clones. Furthermore, the Yang Spirit is immune to most of the Five Elements spells, a level that the Primordial Spirit cannot reach.

The bond between the primordial spirit and the physical body is very deep. The physical body is the foundation and vessel of the primordial spirit. If the physical body is damaged, the primordial spirit will weaken accordingly. Once the physical body perishes, the primordial spirit can hardly exist independently for a long time. It will either dissipate quickly or can only rely on special magical artifacts, and will continue to be depleted. In the end, it will most likely perish, and it is almost impossible to survive for a long time without the physical body.

The Yang Spirit can completely break free from the constraints of the physical body and achieve the realm of 'an external body'. Even if a cultivator's physical body is destroyed, the Yang Spirit can exist independently and even choose to abandon the physical body and roam freely between heaven and earth.

A Nascent Soul cultivator with a primordial spirit can live for over five thousand years. However, this lifespan and physical body are interdependent. Once the physical body suffers severe damage or the lifespan is exhausted, the primordial spirit will also come to an end.

Reaching the Yang God realm means that a cultivator transcends the cycle of birth and death. The Yang God itself possesses the quality of immortality. It does not need to rely on the lifespan of the physical body and can continue to exist for a long time by virtue of its pure Yang qualities. There is even a saying that after the Yang God accumulates enough merit, it can directly ascend to immortality.

Jiang Yi lay on the floor with her arms behind her head and her legs crossed, sorting out the advantages and disadvantages of the primordial spirit and the yang spirit in her mind.

Undoubtedly, the Yang Spirit is far stronger than the Primordial Spirit. The Primordial Spirit is a weakened version of the Yang Spirit, which cultivators developed for cultivation after the spiritual energy in the cultivation world gradually became scarce.

If the cultivation world today were able to recreate the glory of the ancient times, everyone would cultivate the Yang Spirit instead of the Primordial Spirit.

That's the crux of the problem, and that's what's troubling Jiang Yi right now.

She can cultivate to the Yang God level in the Nine Provinces, but what if she leaves the Nine Provinces or the Nine Provinces cease to exist? Where will she find the Profound Spirit Qi to maintain the strength of her Yang God level?
Even if the Yang Spirit is immortal, without sufficient power to support it, it would be tens of thousands of times more difficult for the Yang Spirit to advance further than for the Primordial Spirit.

The geniuses of the cultivation world are as numerous as carp crossing a river. From the Primordial Era to the Ancient Era, and from the Ancient Era to the present day, if there is still a glimmer of hope for cultivating the Yang God, then there must be such outstanding individuals in the cultivation world today.

But no!

This shows that the Yang Shen Dao is not applicable in the current Shan Hai world.

Besides, Jiang Yi had another consideration. If she advanced through the Yang God Path, it would indeed satisfy the Qin Emperor and the others, but why should she satisfy them?
If she doesn't cultivate the Yang Spirit but instead cultivates the Primordial Spirit, will they be hindered by the fact that it's a Primordial Spirit when they try to possess her, thus preventing them from fully utilizing their abilities?

In this way, even if she herself cannot kill Qin Di and the others when she is possessed, she can still buy more opportunities for others.

In the long run, it's still safer to follow the cultivation laws of the Mountain and Sea Realm, cultivate the primordial spirit, and return to the Nascent Soul stage. Jiang Yi suddenly sat up from the ground, deciding to take advantage of the Qin Emperor's anger and absence to secretly condense her primordial spirit. By the time the Qin Emperor discovered it, it would be too late.

There are no other successors of the Qin Emperor in the Nine Provinces. The Qin Emperor can only choose her to possess a body. Even if she is not satisfied, she will have to accept it!
Moreover, since she has reached the Nascent Soul stage here, she shouldn't need to worry about the Heavenly Tribulation.

Jiang Yi pressed her dantian, hesitated for a moment, and then shook her head.

The black and white lotus in Youxian Ferry was originally prepared by her for her own Nascent Soul transformation. Before she set off for this place, the bottle of spiritual spring water given to her by the Kunlun Dao Stele was for the purpose of ripening the lotus, which could produce the Yin-Yang lotus seeds in the black and white lotus, help her comprehend Yin and Yang, increase the success rate of Nascent Soul transformation, and lay the foundation for her to comprehend the laws of Yin and Yang in the future.

But now that she's determined to weaken her primordial spirit, she can't use the Dao Lotus.

"If one is fortunate enough to escape from Kyushu unscathed, and then refines the lotus seeds to strengthen one's primordial spirit, it will only take a few hundred more years."

Jiang Yi sat cross-legged, abandoning all distracting thoughts, and focused her mind on her dantian.

The nascent soul figure sat upright in the center of the dantian, its body shimmering with silver light.

Jiang Yi used his divine sense as a guide, carefully mobilizing the power of his nascent soul's origin, not pursuing the ultimate sublimation of 'transformation into nothingness,' but focusing on the solidification of his soul and the integration of his physical body.

The power of the nascent soul flowed gently into the depths of the sea of ​​consciousness like a warm stream. This process was far less grand and transcendent than the condensation of the Yang God, but rather carried a sense of returning to simplicity and refinement.

……

Emperor Qin's bedroom.

In the center of the empty, cold hall, on an ice table carved from cold jade, a yellowish-brown invitation silently appeared.

The invitation card has an antique texture, with patterns resembling the veins of the earth, exuding a profound and steady aura, which is precisely the symbol of the Kun Emperor.

The Emperor Qin's figure instantly froze in front of the ice table, and with a slight lift of her hand, the invitation fell into her grasp.

"To discuss the important matter of breaking through boundaries and ascending to immortality?"

A flicker of emotion flashed in the Emperor Qin's eyes. Fang Yi had invited the nine of them to gather together, which meant that the time was ripe for the others as well.

As the invitation suggests, even with a physical body and the ability to make up for their shortcomings, it would be impossible for her to truly break free from the shackles of this world and ascend to the Immortal Realm on her own. She would have to gather the power of the Nine Emperors once again, just as the nine of them had worked together to hunt down the Xuanwu back then!
But what about the Azure Emperor...?

Qin Di unconsciously stroked the invitation, weighing the pros and cons of attending the meeting and the timing.

At that moment, she suddenly looked up at the outside of the hall and caught a very subtle fluctuation of spiritual energy.

After examining the matter carefully for a moment, the Qin Emperor suddenly flew into a rage.

"Asshole!!!"

The vessel she had spent three hundred years cultivating, investing countless resources, had actually abandoned the ancient Yang God path at this critical juncture and instead embarked on the low-level path of Nascent Soul.
"Things that don't know whether to live or die!"

The Emperor Qin's figure vanished in an instant, like a blizzard scattered by a gale, leaving only that cold, angry shout echoing in the empty hall.

(End of this chapter)