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Chapter 59: Determination
It was late at night, and Pingting, who was on night duty, had fallen asleep on the small bed next to her.

The room was quiet. The girl's breathing was slow and gentle. The extinguished incense still exuded a soothing scent.

Su Daoshan's soul followed the Tao seed into the spiritual realm.

At first, it was a feeling of rising, as if the soul was leaving the body. Then, as if breaking through an invisible barrier, the rising feeling suddenly turned into a feeling of falling weightlessness. He only felt a black screen in front of his eyes, and when his vision returned, he found himself in a primitive jungle.

The surrounding forests were deep and lush. Although there was no sun in the sky, the eternal blue-white light made the forest not seem dark, and everything seemed to be covered with a layer of white light.

The air was filled with the unique smell of the jungle, a mixture of decay, dampness, and the fragrance of grass and trees. The sounds of birds, flowing water, wind, and swaying leaves mixed together, one after another, like the tide, making people feel a surging vitality.

In the sky, a huge floating mountain blocks out the sun.

Almost as soon as he entered the spiritual realm, Su Daoshan felt a sense of weakness and fatigue coming from his real body.

"This is the reaction and price of entering the spiritual realm..." Su Daoshan thought to himself.

Although he had known for a long time that he had to pay a considerable price every time he entered the spiritual realm, he still didn't expect that the price he paid would be so direct. It was like a healthy person who was full of energy and vitality, but suddenly his vitality was drained away, and he became weak, sickly, and old.

If a quantitative standard is given to the consumption of vitality, Su Daoshan feels that entering the spiritual realm each time will shorten one's life by at least five years!

Of course, the calculation is not so absolute.

"According to Mr. Xie, as long as there is enough time and sufficient spiritual millet and medicine to regulate each time after entering the spiritual realm, the impact on life span can be minimized. Under normal circumstances, an extraordinary warrior can enter the spiritual realm twice a month. Four times is the limit.

"But even so, this is different from the fatigue after exercise. No matter how much you rest and recuperate, it will still damage your vitality. The only way is to obtain enough spiritual essence to make up for it. You can completely ignore the problem of vitality. But the problem is that spiritual essence is not so easy to obtain..."

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly a bright beam of light fell from the sky and landed on Su Daoshan.

Su Daoshan felt as if his consciousness was shrouded by something. Then came pairs of eyes and noisy whispers in his ears.

"Here it comes!" Su Daoshan held his breath.

Surrounded by this beam of light, Su Daoshan felt as if he had entered a space filled with only light. Everything around him disappeared, and the world had no boundaries, only endless light. And in that dazzling light, it seemed as if countless eyes were looking at him.

Then, Su Daoshan discovered that he, who was originally just a subjective thought, seemed to be given life, and a body appeared from the void.

Su Daoshan was not surprised by such a change, because he knew that this was a process that every extraordinary warrior who entered the spiritual realm would inevitably go through.

What enveloped him at this moment was nothing but the will of the spiritual world.

In this will, Su Daoshan could not feel joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness, nor could he feel any subjective emotions. It seemed to have existed from eternity. There was no good or evil, no sadness or joy. And his body was the embodiment of it.

As for those eyes that were examining him, they came from the long history of the Lanzhuo continent, from the distant past.

That is the gaze of the holy spirits of the ancient sages!
While the real world is changing day by day, and dynasties after dynasties are reduced to ruins in the mud, civilization continues and accumulates in the deep sea of ​​consciousness of the spiritual world.

Hard metal may rust and sculptures on rocks may weather, but the heritage of civilization will never.

Greatness is remembered. Although the ancestors who created these great things have long died in reality, they still exist in the spiritual world as holy spirits. Unless one day human civilization is extinct and history is forgotten.

Su Daoshan was being scrutinized by these eyes that traveled through history, and he could still hear their whispers. Although he couldn't hear what they were talking about, he could imagine a group of old ghosts who had been dead for who knows how many years pointing at him and chattering.

They even seemed to be arguing about something.

"Mr. Xie said before that people with strong spiritual perception can feel the gaze of the Holy Spirit, but he didn't say that they can hear their voices..."

Su Daoshan lowered his head and looked at himself.

In the field of vision, the body manifested by the will of the spiritual realm is exactly the same as the one in the real world, and it is impossible to find any difference.

There are two differences though.

First, the skin.

On the surface, the skin looks normal, but if you focus carefully, you will find that the skin seems to be covered by a layer of flowing light film.

This is the eternal fog that the will of the spiritual realm bestows upon everyone. Everyone can only see themselves clearly, but cannot see others clearly.

This reminded Su Daoshan of a saying from his previous life. It is said that when a person is dreaming, he or she can clearly know who the person in front of him or her is, and even after waking up, he or she can still clearly remember her or his or her appearance. But in fact, no one can really see the other person in a dream by "seeing".

Everyone's face in the dream is blurry.

Who the other person is and what he looks like are all determined by the dreamer's brain. What identity you give him is what identity he has. What appearance you give him is what appearance he has. Everything is just imagination produced by the brain.

Even when I was dreaming and confused, the person I originally dreamed of turned into another person without me noticing, and the dream continued smoothly without me even realizing it.

And comparing it with what is happening in front of him... Su Daoshan feels that maybe this is really a dream deep in the consciousness of this world.

The extraordinary warrior simply joined this dream through a spiritual connection.

Secondly… Su Daoshan felt it and felt like he had traveled back to the original world. The inner energy, martial arts, extraordinary perception and special skills that he had gradually become accustomed to in the past few days, all disappeared at this moment.

This body that represents the spiritual will is not his real body of flesh and blood, and its strength is only equivalent to that of an ordinary person.

The spiritual realm has its own rules...

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly, Su Daoshan felt that the spiritual will that enveloped him suddenly pressed down on him in an irresistible manner.

This will rushed into his body, as if taking over everything.

However, this feeling was only fleeting, and the next second, Su Daoshan saw the Tao seed in his sea of ​​consciousness appear before his eyes.

It appears and disappears, as if it is in a space superimposed with this world. When you need it, it is here, clear and distinct. And when you don't need it, it automatically disappears into the void, as if it never existed.

In my mind, Xie Xunbai's words came back to my mind.

"In the spiritual realm, all beings are equal. Even if you are a first-class warrior or even a heavenly realm extraordinary warrior, you can only be indistinguishable from the crowd here.

"The rules here are very simple - the stronger the Dao Seed, the stronger you will be! In reality, Dao Seeds do not participate in battles. But in the spiritual world, Dao Seeds are everything to a warrior.

"The Dao Seed has two functions here. The first function is the Heart Furnace. The Heart Furnace can use the Spirit Essence as material to refine artifacts. As long as you have enough Spirit Essence and relevant attainments, you can use visualization to refine any artifact you have seen that is allowed by the rules.

"And the second function is a fighting spirit. In the spiritual realm, Dao seeds can fuse with the souls of spiritual beasts. As long as you find a suitable spiritual beast, capture its soul and fuse it with the Dao seed, the Dao seed can become a fighting spirit and possess the abilities of this spiritual beast.

"There are tens of thousands of spirit beasts in the spirit realm, and the war spirits they form are also different. A powerful war spirit that suits you is your greatest reliance in the spirit realm. Moreover, the heart furnace and the war spirit complement each other. The weapons and equipment refined by the heart furnace can give the war spirit stronger combat power. Of course, refining equipment requires a lot of spiritual essence. Without spiritual essence, don't even think about touching it..."

Su Daoshan stared at his Dao Seed with bated breath, waiting nervously, feeling a little uneasy for a moment.

He knew that now was the critical moment.

Xie Xunbai's voice continued to echo in his mind.

"It can be said that the Tao Seed is everything we have in the Spirit Realm. However, the quality of each person's Tao Seed is different. And the quality depends on your Tao Heart. The stronger your Tao Heart is and the more it matches you, the more you will be recognized by the will of the Spirit Realm and the holy spirits of the sages, and the higher your quality will be..."

"The level of Dao Seed is evaluated by the sound of the bell in Tiandao Mountain. The lowest sound is the one-bell level. As for the highest, no one knows. It is said that the strongest Dao Heart known so far can reach the eight-bell level!"

Su Daoshan remembered that he had asked, "What is your rank, sir?"

But in the end, Xie Xunbai patted him on the back of his head and said, "Everyone's Dao seed and rank are their own secrets. You are not allowed to ask such questions casually."

At this moment, what made Su Daoshan most uneasy was that when he first established his Dao heart, he just used the four sentences of Hengqu on a whim. But if he really wanted to talk about his own heart, how could it be consistent?
I am nothing more than a swindler, greedy, and lustful citizen in the original world. I have no ambitions, I am not a bad person, I don't have all the five vices, but I have all the problems that ordinary people have. What is the purpose of establishing a heart for the world and a life for the people? Even I don't believe it.

Now, this heart is subject to scrutiny...

Su Daoshan felt as if a bug was crawling up his back, and goose bumps appeared all over his body. He was afraid that he would be seen through in the next second.

I don’t know how long it took.

"when!"

Su Daoshan heard the bell...

(End of this chapter)