Curse Reply: I'm going to fight the Myriad Corpse Immortal, the highest level one!

To be born, and then to die.

Death, and then life.

The cycle of life and death has no end.

Xia Jie felt that her consciousness was like a school of salmon migrating upstream, only to be swept downstream again and again.

The thought of failure was discarded, turning into nourishment along with the decaying old self.

The idea of ​​success is sown, and the newly transformed self is lifted high into the sky.

The weary, the retreating, the abandoned—this is the self-sacrifice.

Those who are resilient and enterprising are promoted; this is a transformation of the self.

I came here for my ideals, for my desires, and for my growth. Along the way, I have gained a lot and lost a lot.

Like the Ship of Theseus, which is constantly updating its parts, it moves towards something new, vast, and even magnificent, but also gradually drifts away from its original self.

The agony of being annihilated by the lightning tribulation at this moment was something he couldn't accept at the beginning, which is why he reacted so violently when the mantis curse spirit chopped off his head.

Xia Jie once thought that as long as he gathered all the matter, energy and information he had used, and bound his own space and time together, he could avoid the Ship of Theseus paradox.

Later, he discovered that the human mind is also a ship of Theseus, but since humans cannot remain unchanged, he chose to embrace his original self and rediscover his mortal heart.

Later, yearning for the ambiguous, vague, and bewildered warmth of humanity he had felt as an ordinary person, he came to the world of "Under One Person" and temporarily became a mortal.

However, Xia Jie, with her remarkable attention to detail, keenly perceived a fact: the need to transform oneself into a mortal to maintain humanity meant that one's own normal state of being was detrimental to mental health.

Therefore, he confronts the desires of all beings and tries to find the answer in the growth of the soul.

The solution he sought was to subdue his own desires with his own mind, and then use those desires to subdue the desires of all beings. His spiritual power increased dramatically, and his position as a demon-Buddha became truly real.

But this answer, like the demonic law of the Otherworldly Realm that he had come to understand, was still skewed.

Has he truly come to his senses?

As if enlightened.

Even now, driven to his current despair, he only feels relief, not the fear and rage he felt when he first experienced death, as when the mantis spirit severed his head.

The shock of discovering Tengen's corruption, the passion of fighting alongside Gojo Satoru and Sukuna, and the thrill of battling Makura into space—all of it is still vivid in my mind.

But he could no longer find that same passionate and vibrant emotion.

Even if you actively create variables, allow the birth of the Great Father, and participate in a cosmic battlefield far exceeding the scale of the Tianyuan War, you still can't find the original sense of purity and excitement.

He has the same worries as Saitama, the invincible character in One-Punch Man.

After all, in terms of mentality, he has already reached the same position as Tianyuan back then.

He is no longer a hero, but a great demon king whom the protagonist group could only defeat by shouting out love and bonds through tears after suffering heavy casualties in order to save the world.

Ultimately, it was because he used the bondage of the curse and the wish of the cupid to acquire too many and too comprehensive talents.

Although this sounds rather pretentious, and even like someone who doesn't understand the situation, it gives the impression that Jack Ma doesn't like money.

But he still wanted to say:

I, Xia Jie, want to return to my original, naive self and experience once again the hope and despair between life and death.

Simply put: South.

He had to defy the salmon's instincts, drift downstream, and pick up the salmon that fell halfway down the river, piecing together the original, humane version of himself.

He wanted to transcend his divinity, to transform from a god-man back into a human.

"So that's how it is! This is the true core of 'Painting My True Self'!"

"I have grasped the core of my true self!"

Within the Thunder Prison, Xia Jie's eyes suddenly became clear after his resurrection, and then his eyeballs were annihilated in the innate thunder that united yin and yang.

The raging lightning and fire enveloped and burned his flesh, but failed to leave a single scar on his skeleton deep within his flesh.

To be precise, the soul within the bones and even the body of mortals has actually been burned away by thunder and fire.

The remaining colorless and immaculate semi-transparent skeleton ignored the heavenly lightning attack as if it were ethereal, and could still bear Xia Jie's self like a soul.

A hundred kinds of martial arts, this is—

Uh... I don't know.

Having abandoned external talents and relied solely on his "true self" to understand and comprehend, Xia Jie himself was not entirely clear about his own situation.

It feels like spiritual power, but I don't know why it wasn't locked by the Heavenly Lock.

If I had to put it in a way, it would probably be that the heart is the bone, forming an immortal and indestructible heart-bones structure.

The Mind Lock remained intact, but... a little bit of something invisible and imperceptible had seeped out from it.

It seems he didn't go astray this time.

The old powers and supernatural abilities gradually "died" within the Heavenly Lock of the Mind, while new powers were conceived, sprouted, and grew from within the Heavenly Lock.

The total amount of force begins to weaken, falling from "infinite" to "finite".

The essence of force begins to advance, leaping from "finite" to "infinite".

Outside the golden celestial sphere, within the chilling celestial formation, Heavenly Soldier A and Heavenly Soldier B were secretly chatting telepathically.

The 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals stationed here are replaced only once every hundred years. This is only the eighth minute since the garrison began. For the rest of the time, besides practicing their internal energy, they only have chatting to pass the time.

"Hey, tell me, what exactly is sealed inside this giant turtle shell? Even when Sun Wukong was trapped under the Five Elements Mountain, it wasn't sealed this tightly!"

"I don't know, and I can't know."

The heavenly soldier replied telepathically:

"Didn't Master Yang say that the more people know about it, the more powerful that thing inside is? We'd better not even try to guess, or things will go wrong if we guess right."

"That makes sense..."

The Heavenly Soldier A agreed, his eyebrows twitching slightly as if he wanted to say something more.

Then he frowned and gripped his weapon tightly, and the other heavenly soldiers reacted in the same way.

Because the originally planned safe and stable presence for a century was disrupted by an accident in the very ninth minute.

A heartfelt message emanated from the thick seal, reaching the very souls of the heavenly soldiers and generals.

The voice sounded like a vast, heavenly sound, yet also like someone else's whisper, and yet also like something that came from one's own heart;

The Four Great False Combinations of Correction and Rejuvenation

True nature is immortal, and a golden body is formed.

Due to a confluence of circumstances, the five elements depart.

Heaven and earth were originally nothing but emptiness.

"Disaster! Disaster! Quickly go to the Heavenly Court and invite Laozi!"

One of the heavenly generals in the formation exclaimed in surprise, "A person who can break the seal on his own is obviously a ruthless character like Sun Wukong, who can easily deal with them."

While still discussing specific matters of stationing, Erlang Shen, who had not yet left, gripped his three-pointed double-edged sword and opened his third eye on his forehead to send a message to the Heavenly Court.

Just nine minutes after the completion of the Yin-Yang Refining Furnace, crafted from celestial gold, the number one villain of the inner universe's fantastical realms—

Demon Buddha Xia Jie has broken free from its seal!