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It's a pity that the magic and technique of this elixir of immortality did not have the ability to protect the way, which also laid the groundwork for the old immortal to capsize and be accidentally killed by the peach fruit man who was supposed to be the fertilizer.

But old ginger is still spicy.

Because the old immortal did not leave any written records of the complete [method] and [art], the people of Taoguo only learned incomplete prescriptions and had no idea how to refine the real elixir of immortality.

For this reason, after the old immortal's body was eaten, his head was left behind and parasitized on the pistil of a plant, giving him the opportunity to transform into a ghost immortal.

It is also one of the five immortals of Taoism, ranking below the five immortals. If human immortals can still be evaluated as "the beginning or hearing the great way", then ghost immortals are relatively unbearable.

In the Zhong-Lü inner alchemy practice, ghost immortals are described as transcendent in the underworld, their divine image unclear, nameless in the ghost gate, and nameless in the three mountains. Although they do not reincarnate, they find it difficult to return to Penglai. Ultimately, they have no destination, and their only hope is to be reborn and then be born again.

It is also called: Those who cultivate without understanding the great way, but desire quick success, are like withered wood. Their hearts are like purple ash, their spirits are inwardly focused, and their single-minded focus does not disperse. During meditation, a Yin spirit emerges. These are pure spirit ghosts, not pure Yang immortals. Because their single-minded Yin spirits do not disperse, they are called ghost immortals.

To put it bluntly, it is still a ghost, but if it can take refuge in the mountains and rivers of a place, or obtain incense and offerings from the human world, it can transform into a local god such as the land god, mountain god, water god, and city god. If it enters the underworld and obtains an official position, it becomes a ghost god.

If one cannot become a god of the earth or a ghost, one can still accept blood sacrifices from the world of the living and become a witch, a spirit medium, or some other inferior immortal.

But just like the last sentence says - it only stops at reincarnation and cannot become a god of the earth or a ghost. Ghosts that accept blood sacrifices, even if they practice to the end, can only get another chance to reincarnate.

Unless it is absolutely necessary, people who practice cultivation will often not take the initiative to embark on the path of ghost immortals, unless you have people above and below you and have sufficient background. As long as you become a ghost immortal, you can immediately become a local god or a ghost god.

Of course, this is still a right path. Just like human immortals, in the final analysis, compete with various resources. As long as there are enough resources, immortality is within reach. If you can swallow up the manpower and material resources of a country, you may be able to become a capital immortal. If you swallow up the manpower and material resources of a lifetime, you will definitely become a lifelong immortal. Who can say that this is not a great way?

Similarly, ghosts and immortals compete with each other on the basis of their network of personal connections. As long as their background is strong enough, a village becomes the land, a city becomes the city god, a country becomes the ancestral spirit and the Yintu Dragon Court, and in one lifetime... that is the Son of Heaven and the Ghost Emperor of the Netherworld.

But this old immortal has no background.

He is actually a refugee who has left his homeland.

Escaped from Penglai Island fifty years ago.

This was something Xia Yan had not expected.

The characters in the early boss story of the original main line are actually related to Inuyasha's fourth theatrical version "Crimson Lotus Island" in the evolution of this real "copy" world.

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A raging fire is burning.

The temple on the top of the mountain was set on fire.

Until this paradise opened up by the immortal, along with all the unknown filth, was burned to ashes in the flames.

Naturally, this also includes the head of an old man that was parasitic on the pistil and thrown into the sea of ​​fire.

The moment the flames touched, the 'immortal' who had been forcibly controlled by the mind interference spell woke up instantly and let out a miserable wail.

Then, under the gaze of Xia Yan, Irena, and an expressionless humanoid monkey, the "immortal" trapped in the sea of ​​fire screamed, and his entire head and parasitic plants collapsed and dissipated in a sudden flash of white light.

Then, the old immortal who was still breathing turned into ashes, mixing with the thick smoke rising from the sea of ​​fire.

Then, Xia Yan and Irena, one pinched the talisman condensed out of thin air with Tai Chi energy between his index and middle fingers, one raised the white magic circle inlaid with sapphires in his hand, one summoned lightning to strike, and the other cast a spell to summon dark thunderclouds in the sky.

With the two of them working together, a lightning pillar as thick as a bucket fell and blasted into the "immortal's residence" shrouded in a sea of ​​fire.

next moment.

'ha--'

A desperate scream emerged from the thunder.

Then everything became quiet.

"Is that disgusting old thing dead?"

"He's probably dead. A ghost immortal is still a ghost after all, and is already restrained by lightning. Not to mention that he hurriedly used his remaining body to nourish his soul. The success rate of forcibly transforming into a ghost immortal is not high. He can't survive being struck by our combined thunder."

As he spoke, Xia Yan turned his head and looked at the human-machine monkey standing there unmoved.

"Furthermore, there's the intelligent NPCs' assistance in combat. If that old thing hadn't been completely annihilated, Monkey Brother wouldn't have stood still."

You know, the human-machine monkey can basically be regarded as the complete Monkey King in Black Mythology, which means that it is not just an ordinary monkey, it is a monkey with merit, a monkey who has been conferred the status of Buddha...

...Okay, that's a bit off topic. As a monkey who can fully display all the magic power and supernatural powers of the Monkey King, it is not difficult for him to enter and exit the underworld. There is indeed an underworld in Inuyasha's world view. If that "immortal" escaped the disaster, he could have escaped into the underworld by becoming a ghost immortal.

Then, Xia Yan felt that he would be able to see a real-life version of the rampage in the underworld, and given the background of the passing of the myth of the Inuyasha world, let alone the underworld of this island country, it was estimated that the underworlds of all regions on the entire planet might not be able to find a single move that could withstand the human-machine monkey.

"what's next?"

Irena glanced at it.

"You don't intend to follow this old man and his disciples and eat 'humans' to cultivate, do you?"

"What are you thinking about?"

Xia Yan picked up a book and began to read it while comparing it with the translation of "The Error of No Return".

"I've already chopped down that demonic tree. This method of immortality is too inferior. However, the [Tao], [Fa], and [Spell] of this kind of human immortal are still worth learning from. As long as you don't go astray, it might be a great path... But if possible, I still don't want to follow this path of human immortality. The limitations are too great."

Looking at the words in the book, Xia Yan shook his head slightly. The biggest limitation of this path to immortality lies in the level of spiritual plants and the way of Qihuang, and it is extremely time-consuming.

Having said that, those who tend to practice classical cultivation are all big time-wasters. The more orthodox it is, the longer it takes. If one wants to practice the path to immortality that he has obtained, it is best to stay in a world with extraordinary soil and practice in the way of a capital immortal.

For example: In the modern world of Type-Moon, find a spiritual plant with extraordinary background, plant it in a certain vein, bind the spiritual plant to the vein, and support it with the power of a place or a country. Eventually, you will cultivate it into a capital immortal (singularity) among human immortals. If you can support it with the power of a lifetime, then you will become a final immortal (lossbelt) among human immortals.

However, if he did so, there was a high probability that he would be killed by a foul whistle from the two inhibitory forces, or a crown succubus would be attracted.

As for the real world... unless Xia Yan can figure out why he is the only one who can ignore the influence of the extinction of extraordinary things in the real world and promote the revival of spiritual energy on Earth, or learn how to convert conventional energy into extraordinary energy, he should stop daydreaming... Oh, he also has to spend a lot of time planting trees.

Not as good as what he gained from the 'copy'.

"Compared to this path of human immortality, I actually care more about ghost immortality..."

With the help of Irena's mental interference and control, Xia Yan extorted the complete method of transforming into a ghost immortal from the old immortal's mouth. After reading about this path which was far simpler than that of a human immortal, and the old immortal's personal demonstration just now, he suddenly thought of the cultivation system in a novel he had read before the world line changed.

"...Do you think it's possible that a ghost immortal could cultivate a path to heaven simply through their spirit?!"

"Ok?"

"I have an idea I'd like to try."

Xia Yan looked at the [Great Holy Grail].

"A Ghost Immortal must achieve 'keeping his spiritual consciousness within, maintaining a single-minded focus, and releasing his Yin Spirit from within' to be considered a preliminary success... But can I cheat by using a Servant?"

"Uh huh huh???"

"Look, Heroic Spirit Servants are, after all, demons too. Calling them demon immortals wouldn't be an exaggeration. If I could use the Greater Holy Grail to create my Servant one after another, and then use the incomplete Third Law in you to integrate all of them with me... what do you think?"

Xia Yan recalled a cultivation system in a certain novel, which happened to be called "Ghost Immortal". The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was worth pursuing.

"The soul can be divided into multiple thoughts, each of which has substantial power. Each of my thoughts is the 'I' of a Servant. The 'I's' of multiple Servant's are integrated with me to form a single 'soul'..."

"If we use the incomplete third method, wouldn't every 'I' be able to materialize its soul..."

"Furthermore, they are all me originally. Even if multiple 'I's' materialize their souls and then actively transform into spiritual bodies and return to my own body, forming a single thought within my 'divine soul', it will not have any effect on me..."

"The most important thing is that I can ignore the environment. Even in the extraordinary and extinct magic-free environment of the real world, as long as it is a part of me, it will not be affected by external environmental factors..."

Xia Yan seemed to be lost in thought.

"...In a sense, there's now another 'me' within me, completely fused with me...Compared to human immortals who require resources, time, and an environment, ghost immortals and I are a match made in heaven!"

(PS: I've said before that the protagonist's upgrade system will be very complex, and now it is... Simply put, the protagonist's idea can be understood as the power of a single "Servant (I)" is limited, but if ten, a hundred, a thousand... can be integrated into a single "Spirit", then this limit can be exceeded without changing the original foundation of the extraordinary framework... That's about it.)

Third copy: 89. Ghost Immortal Visualization Method - The Monkey King (4k+)

In the classical system of immortal cultivation, the more righteous the technique or magical power, the more time-consuming it is to cultivate, and there are no shortcuts...

...Oh, there are exceptions such as the second generation of immortals, those who have reincarnated and cultivated again, the sons of luck, the talented geniuses, etc.

Generally speaking, nine out of ten shortcuts are full of hidden dangers, and the remaining one is likely to be a bait deliberately thrown out by an old devil to fish, or a weird thing used to cultivate leeks for harvesting.

As for the cultivation method of the ghost immortal path.

Although turning yourself into a ghost sounds weird, and normal practice only results in one chance to be reborn, which seems even more unreliable, this is indeed an orthodox practice method of the classical immortal cultivation system.

It is even much more orthodox than the Shangqing realm of Tai Chi Xuanqing Dao that the system instilled in Xia Yan.

Therefore, cultivating ghost immortals also takes a lot of time. After reading through the methods of cultivating ghost immortals, Xia Yan asked [Wugui's Error] to build a data model for calculation, and concluded that an ordinary person with some qualifications would have to spend at least sixty or seventy years before he could get started.

But it's just a possibility.

"No wonder, among the five immortal ranks, ghost immortals are considered the lowest and least respectable. Those who cultivate ghost immortality are ridiculed as 'not understanding the great truth at first, but wanting quick success'. Finally, they are further dissed with the line 'Although they are called immortals, they are actually ghosts'..."

Xia Yan sighed:

"...It's truly a case of cultivating for a baffling reason, a path to certain death. The average person cultivates to prolong their lifespan, but the Ghost Immortal's cultivation method is far from perfect. Not only can it not lead to longevity, it also doesn't lead to freedom from illness or disaster. By the time they achieve success, their entire body will be as withered as a tree, their heart as dead as ashes. A normal person cultivates their entire life only to cultivate themselves to death. This is truly beyond the reach of ordinary people."

In short, to highlight an unclear point, even the magical power of ghost immortals, as long as they don't cultivate to death, they don't have it when they are alive -

——That’s right, without magic power, since you want to cultivate to become a ‘ghost’ immortal, your cultivation level will naturally have nothing to do with you while you are still alive.

Therefore, ghost immortals are the lowest level of immortals. Human immortals and earthly immortals may not necessarily acknowledge that ghost immortals are on the same level as themselves~!

"Fortunately, I can catch bugs."

For others, or those who have a little bit of cultivation, it is absolutely impossible for them to take the initiative to embark on the dead end path of cultivating into a ghost immortal unless it is absolutely necessary.

But Xia Yan was very happy to take this desperate path on his own initiative.

With the foundation of Shangqing Realm cultivation given by the system, it was basically not difficult for him to switch to the practice of the Ghost Immortal Path.

No more, no less, after forty-nine days, which is the number of days that Tian Yan has lived, Xia Yan finally got the hang of it.

At the moment of success, he could feel that his spirit, consciousness and thinking seemed to be condensed into a whole. It was no longer just various electrical and chemical signals transmitted in the network composed of billions of neurons in the brain, but became another complex "system" that was attached to the neural network and could also exist independently.

"Soul, that's not right... According to the cultivation method of the Ghost Immortal Path, it should be called Yin Shen."

Xia Yan closed his eyes and sat cross-legged, comprehending the 'system' that could be independent of the brain. He silently recited the formula of the Ghost Immortal Method in his mind, imagining himself sitting still and then standing up and walking around.

After a while.

He suddenly felt his body lighten, as if he was floating gently, and the world in front of him was covered with a hazy mist.

Then, Xia Yan realized that he had not opened his eyes at all and should not be able to "see" the surrounding scenery.

Looking back, he suddenly saw himself sitting cross-legged on the ground with his eyes closed, breathing weakly and his eyes closed, as if he was sleeping or fainted.

"The Yin spirit leaves the body."

Xia Yan suddenly understood.

Because it is relatively old and based on a romance drama, the cultivation system in the original Zhu Xian novel is more inclined towards classical cultivation, but it cannot cultivate the primordial spirit in the classical cultivation system, nor does it have the Nascent Soul that is required in the spiritual root system commonly used in underworld cultivation themes.

Even though it is said that telekinesis is used to control swords and objects, simple thoughts cannot be transformed into substance without one's own magic power. Even those who have reached the Taiqing realm of Tai Chi Xuanqing Dao are still mortal. Although they can easily live for hundreds of years under the spiritual root system, the lifespan is comparable to that of a Jindan or Golden Core cultivator. For example, Qingyun's Qingye Patriarch is set to live to be 750 years old, and Daoxuan, who later reached the Taiqing realm, also lived for more than 300 years.

And this is based on the fact that both of them have used the Zhuxian Ancient Sword, and were attacked by the vicious aura of this magic weapon, paying the price of having their essence and blood sucked away.

If they cultivate their moral character, do not fight with others, and do not use the ancient sword of Zhu Xian, Qingye and Daoxuan may not be able to live to the thousand-year lifespan of Nascent Soul cultivators under the spiritual root system.

However, even though Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao can be said to be the strongest Taoist method outside of the Heavenly Book in the original plot of Zhu Xian, it has not yet cultivated the primordial spirit or primordial infant, and cannot ensure that the soul can remain in the world for a long time after the physical body is destroyed, or even be reborn in another body.

To be precise, Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao can prolong life, can invoke the power of heaven and earth, can fly in the sky and hide in the ground, can control objects in the air... If you calculate carefully, it is not inferior to the exercises of the Jindan or Golden Core period under the spiritual root system, and it is even superior in many aspects. At least in the vast majority of works on the theme of underworld cultivation that use the spiritual root system, there is no normal Golden Core ancestor who can withstand the attack of a behemoth of the scale of the Black Water Mysterious Snake... The protagonist is an exception.

But at the level of the soul.

Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao is almost blank.

Under the spiritual root system, starting from the Jindan stage, the cultivator's physical body is destroyed. If prepared, the soul can usually be preserved, and a chance to take over another body and rebuild can be sought. The Yuanying ancestor can even escape at any time with his soul condensed into a Yuanying to take over another person's body, and can retain some magic power without the need to rebuild.

And now.

"Am I considered a half-Nascent Soul monster now?"

Xia Yan carefully experienced the novel feeling of his soul leaving his body. After getting used to this clear and spiritual state of the soul, he looked at the outside world under the "soul's vision" with great interest.

He vaguely felt that as his Yin Spirit left his body, a certain gap seemed to appear between him and reality.

The Yin Spirit does not need to breathe or eat or drink, but it is also extremely "loose" and must concentrate at all times to maintain its form.

Moreover, under the interference of that barrier, it would become very difficult for him, who is in the soul state, to interfere with things in reality.

Not only that, Xia Yan could also feel that something was pulling and tugging at his Yin Spirit, trying to drag him over. As long as he did not resist and actively accepted it, he could immediately cross space and distance to reach the source of gravity.

"The Netherworld, the Underworld... Could it be the world after death?"

Of course, he would not actively accept that kind of traction or pulling force, but that did not prevent him from making guesses about it.

Then, putting aside the 'Call of the Afterlife', Xia Yan turned his head and began to look elsewhere...

...For example: the monkey that stayed by his side from beginning to end.

"Fuck-!"