From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Jiang Liu then considered whether he could introduce the innate Qi into the corpse's body to complete the "borrowing a corpse to return the soul".

By completing the Hetu diagram with his physical imagery and understanding the principles of the Luoshu diagram with his mental imagery, Jiang Liu gained a deeper understanding of the generative and transformative numbers of heaven and earth.

Observe the corpse-like creature and the jade-winged, golden-scaled mermaid. Although the corpse-like creature has lost its bones, it is still maintained by the sea air, which still confirms the principle of the generation of the human body and the universe.

The three gates and nine orifices, as well as the eight extraordinary meridians, are all intact. Furthermore, due to the circulation of the Guixu Sea Qi, the innate Qi is in harmony with the Guixu Qi formation. As long as a wisp of innate Qi is injected, the mermaid may be able to be resurrected by using the body of the corpse.

In this way, it can not only confirm Jiang Liu's understanding after completing the Hetu and Luoshu, but also help him figure out how a jade-winged golden-scaled mermaid, who clearly only has the flow of primordial Qi and no Yin spirit, can retain consciousness and still communicate with him in a simple way.

"You're really bold."

Having learned about the general situation of the Jade-Winged Golden-Scaled Mermaid and Jiang Liu's thoughts, Duanmu Ying looked at Jiang Liu with surprise, but also with interest in her eyes. "There is a problem right now, which is how to guide the innate Qi in the Jade-Winged Golden-Scaled Mermaid into the Corpse Demon's body?"

"I said, you want to resurrect a mummy?"

Jonathan stared longingly at the jade-winged, golden-scaled mermaid in Jiang Liu's hand. "Don't break this treasure! If you don't want it, you can give it to me!"

"You wish!" Jiang Liu pushed Jonathan away from his side, holding the innate divine statue in one hand and drawing a talisman in the air with the other, using Qi to construct a talisman that resembled both a fish and a bird.

The moment the talisman was completed, the surrounding sea air rose and converged into it, before being pressed into the jade-winged, golden-scaled mermaid by the river.

In an instant.

The primordial energy within, connected with the talisman, flowed with the ocean currents, entered the mortal's brow, pierced through the nine orifices, reversed the eight meridians, stimulated vitality, and circulated throughout every cell of its body. After completing one cycle, the mortal opened its eyes, revealing a pair of clear sapphire-like eyes, with a halo resembling ocean waves.

"The mummy has come back to life!" Jonathan shouted, backing away as if afraid the ghoul would bite someone the moment it revived.

But the corpse-like creature only opened its eyes.

Although his eyes shone with spiritual light, they showed no emotional fluctuations, remaining completely empty. The innate Qi had activated the life force of this corpse, but to truly complete its revival, the innate Qi that had entered the corpse body after birth needed to fully adapt to this body.

【Thanks!】

Could you help me find a clam shell?

Just as Jiang Liu was pondering how long this process would take, he received another message from the mermaid, who asked him for another favor.

Looking for clam shells?

Jiang Liu was initially somewhat confused.

However, upon seeing that the Corpse-like creature's bones did not harden again after being infused with innate Qi, they understood that even if the Corpse-like creature were to truly revive, it could only live in the sea, and only within the sea area of ​​the Guixu Qi Formation. Once it left, unpredictable changes would likely occur.

After all, this is a process of using the Guixu Qi Bureau talisman as a medium to infuse the innate Qi of the Jade-Winged Golden-Scaled Mermaid into the Corpse-like creature. It also requires the circulation of sea Qi to maintain the balance of life activities between this innate Qi and the Corpse-like creature.

However, Jiang Liu is now certain of one thing: the innate Qi of this jade-winged, golden-scaled mermaid contains information about the soul and life!

Jiang Liu believes that the primordial Qi is something that constantly cycles and transforms with nature. It maintains the normal life activities of the human body and is constantly dissipated from the moment a person is born until the moment a person dies, at which point the primordial Qi in the body completely returns to nature.

The so-called Qi cultivation mainly refers to the cultivation of one's life force, not the cultivation of primordial Qi!

In other words, the soul and the primordial energy are two different concepts. The former refers to abstract concepts such as thought, spirit, and mind generated by the activity of the primordial energy, while the latter is an objectively existing energy that sustains the basic life activities of the human body.

In the shamanic definition of the soul, the so-called reincarnated soul refers to the primordial Qi as defined by Taoism.

However, the situation of this jade-winged, golden-scaled mermaid was beyond Jiang Liu's imagination. It actually used the primordial Qi to carry its own thoughts, intentions, spirit, and mind!

what is this?

It completely plundered a portion of the primordial energy from the natural cycle and permanently used it as the vessel for its own soul.

Do not!

This is not plunder!

The amount of primordial energy in the universe and the natural cycle is constant; it will neither increase nor decrease. If one completely entrusts one's soul to a portion of primordial energy, it will ultimately just be a ball of primordial energy. As long as there is no carrier, it will still be distributed among all living things in the natural cycle. However, a ball of primordial energy with self-awareness may have more choices and may even remember past life memories.

Am I like that?

Jiang Liu inexplicably thought about his identity as a transmigrator, but immediately cut off his distracting thoughts and focused his gaze on the jade-winged golden-scaled mermaid in his hand, which had lost its innate Qi. He realized that this mermaid might not have been a newborn "young fish" in its previous life, but rather a person who had been possessed... no, it should be an individual after reincarnation.

Possession, or "body snatching," likely refers to the act of interfering with another person's soul through mental or willpower abilities, replacing the mind of the person whose body is being possessed, and thus taking over their place.

After all, the primordial Qi cannot be used to carry life and soul information under normal circumstances; it is merely an essential energy for maintaining basic life activities.

Therefore, possession is based on the alternation of will, spirit, and mind.

By merging one's life and soul information into the primordial Qi, and following the natural cycle, the old body dies and is carried by the natural cycle into the new life—

This is equivalent to being reborn with memories of a past life!

# Chapter 494 First come, first served? Did you ask the owner?

Thinking of this.

Jiang Liu developed a strong research interest in the corpse-like creature infused with the innate Qi of the Jade-Winged Golden-Scaled Mermaid—if he could figure out how this creature managed to completely integrate its life and soul information into the innate Qi, he might be able to understand the connection between "Wu Cheng'en" and him.

of course.

That's secondary.

The key point is that Jiang Liu had a premonition that this form was similar to his idea of ​​unifying the physical and mental landscape and refining the golden elixir and sacred embryo within his body.

"She won't move?"

Seeing that the corpse had opened its eyes but made no other movements, Jonathan tiptoed forward and cautiously inquired.

But his gaze remained fixed on the jade-winged, golden-scaled mermaid in Jiang Liu's hand—those golden scales, in Jonathan's eyes, were gold!

Jiang Liu put the jade-winged, golden-scaled mermaid into his storage ring, lifted the corpse-like creature, and placed it into the conch-shell coffin, saying, "Let's settle her here for now."

This coffin is shaped like a snail shell. It was created by the ancient Hentian clan based on the energy flow of the Guixu. It can spontaneously connect with the sea energy and help the corpse communicate with the sea energy.

The purpose of placing the corpse-like creature inside was to preserve its barely perceptible vitality.

This time, the corpse-like creature received the innate Qi of the Jade-Winged Golden-Scaled Mermaid, giving it a glimmer of life. It could be perfect for it to be nurtured within this snail-shell coffin.

Even setting aside the method that allows her innate Qi to carry life information, Jiang Liu has now fulfilled the mermaid's two major requests:

She was rescued from the innate divine statue and placed into an unclaimed body.

And they found her a clam shell—a coffin made of conch shells is much better than a clam shell from the seabed.

"I found this first... first come, first served?" Jonathan realized that the coffin and the corpse inside might be priceless treasures, and he couldn't help but have an idea, preparing to discuss it with Jiang Liu.

"First come, first served? You say that in front of the host? No wonder you're a Western robber!"

Jiang Liu chuckled, pointed at Gu Qian and Gu Kun, and said to Jonathan, "This is their hometown! Apart from those sunken ships, everything here belongs to them!"

After saying that, he picked up the two short swords on the ground, threw them to Gu Qian and Gu Kun, and asked, "Can I have this conch shell coffin and the corpse-shaped coffin?"

"can."

Gu Qian answered without hesitation.

The corpse-shaped pearl was a pearl used by the ancient ancestors to snatch the elixir from the mouth of the deep-sea clam ancestor. However, the clam ancestor is now rare, and they plan to give up their life on the boat. Therefore, this pearl used to snatch the elixir is of little use. In addition, the river saved their lives, and this is not even enough to repay the life-saving grace!

Immediately, Jonathan's face turned as red as if he had swallowed a fly. But no matter how indignant he was, this Ruins of Return was the ancestral land of the Dragon Otters. Since Gu Qian had spoken, he naturally could not refute him anymore.

"Not put it in the storage ring?"

Duanmu Ying pointed to the coffin with the snail shell and asked.

"This coffin is connected to the sea air. If it is placed in the storage ring, it will be separated from the sea air, so it cannot be placed here for now."

As Jiang Liu spoke, he once again sensed the direction of the Guixu Qi formation and discovered that after the bronze figure was placed on the bronze stake and the jade plate on it was adjusted to the Zhen trigram position, the Guixu Qi formation underwent some changes, and thousands of streams of air converged towards the Jianmu tree at the center of this circular black mountain.

This scene could also be observed by Jonathan, an ordinary person—because the dragon fire in this space also flowed with the Qi, making the entire space shine brightly.

Countless streams of light were converging on Jianmu, making it finally resemble the legendary divine tree.

tall!

Magnificent!

"What a nice view!"

Even a greedy person like Jonathan focused all his attention on the ancient tree standing there, sighing sincerely, and then said, "If we could move this ancient tree out, we could definitely sell it for a good price!"

In an instant.

The beautiful atmosphere was completely ruined.

"Did you do something?" Jonathan asked, seemingly unconcerned by the disdain Jiang Liu and the others showed him, and inquired about the cause of the incident.

Jiang Liu described the ancient coral reef, natural stone cauldron, coral iron tree, and four-armed bronze man below, and stretched out his hand, saying, "To get out, you should make a contribution, Jonathan. Take out all the pearls you picked on the Mary Shannu."

"What? Absolutely not!"

Jonathan immediately covered his hand with the fanny pack hanging at his waist, involuntarily took seven or eight steps back, and shouted, "Don't even think about it!"

Do you still want to go out?

Jiang Liu countered, "I can go out anytime, but taking the entire crew of the Alexander with me would be a huge burden!"

Upon hearing this, Jonathan pursed his lips, his expression uncertain, but in the end he sighed, reluctantly took out his fanny pack, and said, "Here you go!"

Jonathan valued his life more than his wealth.

“I think the crew of the Alexander will thank you.” Jiang Liu took the fanny pack and added, “By the way, shouldn’t the old captain be the one to say this?”

Jonathan looked speechless and said, "The people on the ship might not necessarily be grateful to me."

"Then you'll have a reason to cause trouble for that group of people in the future." Jiang Liu replied while unzipping the fanny pack and pouring out the pearls inside. Upon closer inspection, he found that among the nearly sixty pearls of varying sizes, only thirteen were perfectly round and contained essence. The rest were just ordinary pearls, which he thought would be of no use even if they were inlaid into the mouths of the mermaids that drilled out of the hundreds of holes on the bronze man's body.

Seeing that Jiang Liu only took thirteen pills and the rest were thrown back, Jonathan was overjoyed, but also asked, "Thirteen pills are enough?"

“We need a hundred pearls, and of the sixty pearls in your pouch, only these thirteen are up to standard,” Jiang Liu said.

"how is this possible?"

Jonathan objected, taking out a pearl with a diameter of over three centimeters and comparing it to the pearls in Jiang Liu's hand, which were only one or two centimeters in diameter, saying, "Apart from being a bit rounder, which of the thirteen pearls you have is larger than these in my bag?"

“It has nothing to do with size. These thirteen of mine are the finest pearls, Moon Pills, nurtured by the moon's essence and infused with the life force of the Guixu Qi Formation. They are rich in vital energy and are the key to activating the Jianmu mechanism. The pearls you have left are just pearls.”

Jiang Liu put the thirteen Moon Pills into his storage ring, gave Jonathan a brief explanation, and then said to Duanmu Ying, "Next, we'll wait for the old captain and the others to return and see how many Moon Pills he has."

If that's not enough, we'll have to go back into the water to get more..."

Before he could finish speaking, Gu Qian immediately interjected, "Gu Kun and I can go into the sea to seize the pill!"

When I was fighting with those merfolk, I saw a clam-infested area on the south side of the ancient coral reef. There was even a clam that was seven or eight times bigger than a person. It must have been an ancestor of clams!

If we can retrieve it, we can definitely find no fewer than a hundred Moon Pills!