After returning to the village, start chasing the mountain from binding Emei

Chapter 807 Returning After Departure: The Art of Dividing One's Mind!

hang up the phone.

Chen Yang looked up at the moon in the sky and took a deep breath.

This matter concerning the Li family is now considered closed.

With such a commotion, the association might notice.

Next, I need to think carefully about how to deal with Wang Yuanchao's questioning.

The dozen or so people that Li Changfu brought were poisoned by camphor fruit. None of them had high cultivation levels, and some of them were still breathing, but it was clear that they were not going to survive.

This Li Changfu is truly heartless; he brought so many unimportant people here to die for no reason.

As the old camphor tree said, people die for wealth and birds die for food; these are their own choices, and they have no one to blame but themselves.

Besides, it wasn't Chen Yang who killed them.

Chen Yang leaped into the night and headed down the mountain.

under night.

Outside Jianfeng Temple, the ground, which had been completely devoured by the swarm of bone-eating beetles, trembled slightly.

A short while later, a dandelion nearly a meter tall, with tattered branches and leaves, emerged from the ground.

"Are there any survivors?"

A burst of spiritual energy emanated from the dandelion and spread throughout the entire mountaintop.

The night wind blew by, but there was no response.

The dandelion moved into the temple and came to the pit where the old camphor tree had just been.

The wind made its stems and leaves sway back and forth.

"Old man, you've really gotten us into serious trouble!"

"I knew long ago that I shouldn't have gotten involved in your mess. Now look what's happened, I've lost a thousand years of cultivation, and everything has to start all over again."

"Luckily, I had the foresight to do this, otherwise I would have been completely finished here today."

At the edge of the pit, dandelions trembled their leaves, seemingly quite agitated.

Its body withered rapidly, and a red fruit quickly grew from it.

The fruit detached from the dandelion and, carried by a clump of dandelion seeds, flew to a middle-aged man in the courtyard who was still breathing.

It burrowed into the middle-aged man's mouth.

Just a moment later, the middle-aged man who had been poisoned suddenly opened his eyes.

His unfocused eyes quickly regained focus in the pupils.

He stood up and looked at the large pit in front of him. "Old man, you wait. A gentleman takes revenge even after ten years. When I return to the Qinling Mountains, I will find some helpers and come back to avenge you."

"Whoosh!"

Just then, a red light streaked through the air.

The middle-aged man was startled.

I instinctively wanted to react, but it was already too late.

A red rope quickly wrapped around its body.

"Who did you say you were going to avenge?"

A demonic voice suddenly came from behind him.

"what?"

The middle-aged man turned around with great effort.

But then a figure appeared, standing on a low wall not far away.

The moonlight cast shimmering shadows, creating an eerie atmosphere.

It's him?

He actually returned?
The middle-aged man was terrified, his eyes filled with extreme fear.

"I'm asking you a question! Who are you seeking revenge for?"

Chen Yang stood on the low wall, calmly watching him.

Carrying the Mo Dao (a type of long-handled sword), he looked like a Grim Reaper carrying a scythe.

The middle-aged man was momentarily stunned, his body bound by red rope, which greatly restricted his movements.

He knelt down with a thud, pleading, "Young brother, spare our lives! We were just rogue cultivators hired by Li Changfu, and we had no intention of being your enemy. Heaven has a benevolent heart..."

"Still pretending?"

Chen Yang interrupted him, looking at him coldly, "Do you know how terrible your acting is?"

"Young man, I don't understand what you're saying..."

"Heh, luckily I was careful, otherwise I would have been fooled by you. Since you and Old Camphor Tree are sworn siblings and have been to that ruin together, how could you not know the skills Old Camphor Tree possesses? Right, Pu San Niang?" Chen Yang said indifferently.

"you……"

The middle-aged man paused upon hearing this, and from Chen Yang's words, he seemed to clearly sense the approach of death.

When Chen Yang killed Pu San Niang, he felt something was strange because the system didn't give him any rewards.

At the time, he thought that the system might have determined that the eight-winged centipede killed Pu San Niang, since it was the eight-winged centipede that devoured Pu San Niang's primordial spirit.

So, that makes sense.

However, he remained cautious and kept the radar on throughout the return journey.

This radar detection capability constantly sends a large amount of image information back to his brain. Although it doesn't consume much energy, his brain is very tired from processing these images.

Therefore, it is always turned off when not in use.

While cleaning up the battlefield, Chen Yang discovered a dandelion hidden hundreds of meters underground at Jianfeng Temple.

At the time, we thought it was a fish that had slipped through the net, but this guy was hiding too well and was difficult to deal with, so we pretended to leave and waited for it to come out before launching a surprise attack.

This guy fell for the trap.

Chen Yang had clearly heard its mutterings.

It's not hard to guess its identity.

He should have realized it sooner. This Pu San Niang and the old camphor tree are birds of a feather. Since they obtained the Divine Intervention Technique from the so-called ancient cultivator's ruins, there's no reason why the old camphor tree would know this technique while Pu San Niang wouldn't.
Chen Yang stared at him coldly, as if he were a turtle trapped in a jar.

At this moment, Pu San Niang felt utterly desperate.

Unlike the old camphor tree, it had not been practicing the method of splitting the spirit for long, and its second primordial spirit was not yet strong enough. It resided in the body of a spiritual dandelion, and the host body was only at the late stage of the spiritual realm.

Having just been besieged by a swarm of bone-eating beetles, its second spiritual host was seriously injured, so it hid underground to avoid further trouble.

It could have escaped directly and left this place, but the host body was too badly injured, and it feared that it would be buried in the ground forever before it could leave.

That's why, after Chen Yang left, he revealed himself, used a secret technique to condense a Dao Fruit, and chose a human body.

Although it's only a temporary stay, having a human body will undoubtedly be much more convenient for her. Once she safely returns to the Qinling Mountains, she can find a suitable new host for her primordial spirit.

The plan was well-thought-out, but unfortunately Chen Yang saw through it, and now things have turned out this way, which is really frustrating.

"what do you want?"

Seeing that she could no longer keep up the act, Pu San Niang finally seemed to resign herself to her fate.

Chen Yang shook his head. "If you dare to arbitrarily infringe upon someone's personal rights, of course I will act on behalf of Heaven."

"you."

The middle-aged man's face twitched. Was this some kind of attempt to pin a crime on him?
"I'm only temporarily using his body; it won't have any effect on him..."

"Would they be willing to lend it to you? Did you ask their opinion?"

"If you kill me, he won't survive either."

"If he can't live, he can't live. He's no good either, hanging out with you mountain spirits and monsters..."

……

Pu San Niang's face was full of black lines, so no matter what, you have to kill me, right?
Everything else is just an excuse.

Pu San Niang gritted her teeth, her strong will to survive making her try her best to suppress the anger in her heart. "You are not interested in the ancient cultivator's ruins, but I have another secret that I don't believe you are not interested in."

Are they using this trick again?

Chen Yang frowned slightly, finding it somewhat amusing.

Pu San Niang said directly, "My fourth sister, Huang Lian, is not dead either; she also left behind a second primordial spirit."

"what?"

Chen Yang's eyebrows furrowed together.

Coptis chinensis?

Along with the old camphor tree, it was another Dao True Realm spiritual plant that caused the chaos of the Li family's spiritual plant riot.

As far as Chen Yang knew, after that Coptis chinensis plant was killed by the big shots in Panshan, it was divided up directly because of its extremely high medicinal value.

Does it also have a second primordial spirit?
If what Pu San Niang said is true, then this is probably a serious matter. "Where is it?" Chen Yang asked hurriedly.

Pu Sanniang said, "In the Sword Sect, decades ago, it experienced that great calamity. Its primordial spirit was severed and its physical body destroyed. The Li family used the Spirit Awakening Powder to help it create a Coptis chinensis physical body, allowing its second primordial spirit to reside there..."

"It cultivated with its new Dao body for over ten years, recovering much of its strength. However, the side effects of the Qi-enhancing Powder caused its new Dao body to teeter on the brink of collapse after reaching the Creation Realm. Therefore, it used the Dao Fruit Reincarnation Technique to condense a Dao Fruit and, more than thirty years ago, reincarnated into the body of someone in a family within the Sword Sect..."

……

Chen Yang's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and his expression grew increasingly grim.

"Old Monster Zhang personally intervened to conceal its aura, so very few people in the world can discern its true identity. Now, its cultivation has recovered considerably. With Old Monster Zhang and Li Changfu dead, I'm afraid only I know its true identity..."

Pu San Niang's meaning was simple: if you let me go, I'll tell you the answer.

"Do you know what kind of person I hate the most?" Chen Yang said calmly.

Upon hearing this, Pu San Niang's expression turned sour; that ominous feeling returned to her.

Chen Yang said, "I hate those kinds of people the most. They act like brothers on the surface, but stab you in the back. Yes, I'm talking about you..."

"I?"

"That's your sworn sister! How could you sell her just to save your own life?"

"I……"

Pu San Niang is a bit confused. I took the initiative to tell you the situation, and instead of praising me, you scolded me.

I was just trying to save my life by saying a few words to you, how did that become betrayal?

Even if I were to betray you, so what? Don't you humans always say that it's better to die for your fellow Daoists than for yourselves?
"I'm too lazy to tell you!"

Chen Yang shook his head, walked up to Pu San Niang, and placed his hand on the middle-aged man's head.

"No, you can't kill me. Are you curious about everything I've told you?"

"My hometown is in the Qinling Mountains. I've collected many rare and precious herbs and medicinal treasures. As long as you..."

Pu San Niang pleaded in terror.

"Go in peace. In your next life, don't be like those people who swear brotherhood."

"boom!"

A surge of thunderous power emanated from Chen Yang's palm and poured down onto the man's head.

Arc flashes.

Pu San Niang's second primordial spirit was already weak, at most only at the twentieth level of cultivation. Under the impact of the extremely strong and yang lightning, it could not withstand it for more than two seconds before it vanished into thin air.

"Ding! Hunted SS-level spirit plant [Dandelion], rewarded with [Sword Offering Stone]*1, experience points +100000."

A message appeared in Chen Yang's mind.

This is right.

After putting away the red thread, the middle-aged man, his body charred black, collapsed to the ground.

Compassion, compassion.

Chen Yang was also helpless. He glanced at the people lying on the ground, almost all of whom were already silent.

After instructing the bone-eating beetles to handle the scene, Chen Yang called Li Chunxiao again.

It's unclear how credible Pu San Niang's words were, but before the eight-winged centipede reads its memories, it's better to believe it than not.

If Li Chunxiao were to take action against the Li family at this time, he would likely be in danger.

He roughly analyzed that if there really was a second primordial spirit left behind by that Coptis chinensis plant back then, and it used some kind of Dao Fruit Reincarnation Technique, and chose someone as its host body.

It's highly likely that they will choose someone from the Li family of Jianmen.

As someone who knew the situation, Li Changfu would certainly not let such an opportunity slip away, and would definitely be very happy to let the younger generation of the Li family serve as the host for that Coptis chinensis plant.

Therefore, there is a very high probability that this person is a member of the Li family; they have simply been hiding.

Before making the call, Chen Yang even had doubts about Li Chunxiao.

After all, Li Chunxiao also shares the surname Li.

However, upon closer examination, this possibility is almost nonexistent.

Li Changfu is an insider. If Li Chunxiao is this person, how could he have been excluded from the core of the Li family all these years?

Most importantly, Chen Yang had met Li Chunxiao more than once, and he had also checked Li Chunxiao's information using the system. If the person Pu San Niang was talking about was Li Chunxiao, then Li Chunxiao's name would definitely not be on the system information.

Chen Yang was quite confident in the system's capabilities in this regard.

After making the call, Chen Yang explained the situation again.

Before figuring out who this person is, it's best for Li Chunxiao's side not to make any rash moves.

Li Chunxiao was originally waiting for news from Chen Yang in Lingjiang County. After receiving news from Chen Yang, she was already preparing to return to Mangshan overnight to gather several capable people and go back to Jianmen to make a strong comeback, take back control of the Li family, and seize all of the Li family's assets with lightning speed.

Now that Li Changfu is dead, no one in the Li family can pose a threat to Li Chunxiao. She is the strongest and most senior. Before his death, Li Changfu contacted her many times, asking her to take over the family business. It is only natural that she would go back and take over the Li family business.

But to be honest, Chen Yang's message to her was a bit of a surprise.

"I'll come to Jiapigou tomorrow, and we'll talk when we meet."

She was driving and was almost on the highway when she immediately turned back.

"Ah."

Chen Yang didn't say much, just responded and hung up the phone.

Li Chunxiao wouldn't be able to go back in peace until this person was found.

This is quite simple. Once the eight-winged centipede wakes up, it can easily find out everything by going through Pu San Niang's memories.

……

-

After the bone-eating beetle finished feeding, Chen Yang descended the mountain under the moonlight.

"Elder Tree, may I ask you a bold question? Where did you learn your technique of splitting your spirit?" Chen Yang asked the Three Corpse Divine Tree on the way down the mountain.

He was somewhat curious about this method of splitting the spirit, which involved dividing the primordial spirit into multiple parts and cultivating them simultaneously. This method should be considered some kind of secret technique.

Since the old camphor tree and the others obtained it from the so-called ancient cultivator's ruins, where did the Three Corpse Divine Tree get this kind of strange technique from?
The Three Corpse Divine Tree said, "It was passed down by Lord Stone back then."

"Oh."

Chen Yang was speechless. This legendary Stone Lord was someone who could rival the entire Panshan region of Shu.

It would be perfectly normal for him to know some extraordinary skills.

“If you want to learn, I can teach you. However, your current primordial spirit cultivation is too weak, and it is not suitable for you to cultivate this secret technique,” ​​said the Three Corpse Divine Tree.

"I just asked casually; I wasn't really interested." Chen Yang was well aware of his own limitations.

His primordial spirit is only around the hundredth grade, and he's already splitting it in two? What is he thinking?
“No, you just don’t feel like going now, but you’ll be interested in the future,” said the Three Corpse Divine Tree.

"Oh? What do you mean?" Chen Yang asked.

Five Thunder Immortal continued, "The Heavenly Path is broken; no one has emerged from the Celestial Realm for four hundred years. Elder Tree means that when you reach the late stage of the Dao True Realm and find that you can't advance any further, cultivating a second primordial spirit is an effective way to continue improving your strength..."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yang suddenly understood.

Nowadays, there are no Celestial Realm experts. The late stage of Dao True Realm is already the peak of the cultivation path. What if you cultivate to the maximum level and can't go any further?
Create a new account, use a secret technique to create a second primordial spirit, and continue cultivating.

If you level up your alt account to the same level as your main account, the combined strength of the two accounts will be far more than just one plus one equals two.

It's no wonder that Pu San Niang's second primordial spirit is so weak. Her main body is only at the mid-stage of the Dao True Realm and has not yet reached its limit. Her main focus is still on nurturing her main body, so she has neglected leveling up her secondary body.

but……

Chen Yang seemed to have thought of something, "Elder Ye, do you know this technique of splitting the mind?"

"I won't."

The Five Thunder Immortal directly denied it, saying, "I have only heard of such techniques, but I only truly saw someone who could separate a second primordial spirit after I met Elder Tree."

"A cultivator's primordial spirit is fused with their consciousness. It is very powerful, but also very fragile. To split it in two, to turn one person into two, is really hard to imagine. The process must not only be dangerous, but also very painful, right?"

"Ah."

The Three Corpse Divine Tree responded, "The process of splitting the spirit is indeed very painful, but once the primordial spirit is successfully separated, it's actually not that bad. As for the feeling, it's similar to the feeling in the left and right hands, but a bit more advanced..."

However, it made the two of them feel distracted while learning science.

However, its description is inadequate; without truly experiencing it, one cannot imagine that feeling.

Chen Yang asked, "If a person possesses a second primordial spirit, is there a way to distinguish between them?"

The Three Corpse Divine Tree said, "After the primordial spirits are divided, they can sense each other. This sense is almost imperceptible by distance. In other words, there will always be an information bridge between the divided spirits, and information will be transmitted at all times..."

"But information doesn't just transfer without a reason. Ordinary cultivators might find it difficult to sense the existence of this bridge between the two, and it would be almost impossible for them to feel this information transfer..."

"However, I am different. I am familiar with this kind of energy transfer. If there is anyone in front of me who has cultivated the method of splitting their soul, I will definitely be able to see through it. Moreover, as long as I am willing to expend my primordial spirit energy, I can even follow the clues and find the location of their second primordial spirit..."

……

The Three Corpse Divine Tree spoke with great confidence. It had cultivated the art of splitting the soul, so it naturally understood this technique best and had the most authority to speak on it.

(End of this chapter)