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Chapter 462 Cultivation of the Yin Spirit

Feng Jin lifted the roof of the wooden house and leaped out.

After landing, he saw Xia Youjie floating over.

"Hehe, how does it feel?"

Xia Youjie said with a smile, his gaze towards Feng Jin filled with increasing satisfaction.

He had previously told Feng Jin that the matter of the Yin spirit leaving the body was simple, but it was not.

For a dying person, it is indeed very simple for the spirit to leave the body, and there is no need to worry about the physical body at all.

But for those who still want to live, it's not so easy for their spirit to leave their body.

In the ancestral land, there are many living members of the Xia family, but very few can successfully hatch on their first try.

Most of them hatch successfully on their second or third attempt.

Each time the hatching process fails, the body and mind suffer double damage. If it weren't for the special fruits grown on Qingnang Mountain, those who have failed once wouldn't be able to hatch a second time after waiting a year. Instead, they would have to wait ten or twenty years, or even never be able to hatch a second time!

Although Feng Jin has already acknowledged his ancestors and returned to the clan, if he fails to hatch this time, it is basically equivalent to having no chance at all, and he will have to deal with the damage he suffers on his own.

Fortunately, things didn't turn out badly.

"It feels strange, like... like I'm not in control of my own destiny."

Feng Jin frowned as she spoke.

After leaping out of the cabin, he realized something was wrong; his body was still his body, and he could control it.

But for some reason, he always felt like he was walking in a mecha suit.

The person and the soul seem to be separate, with a delay.

"Although I became a spirit after my death, I am aware of your situation."

"Let's talk as we walk."

Xia Youjie led the way, with Feng Jin following closely behind.

"Xiao Jin, what do you think the Yin spirit is?"

Feng Jin shifted her attention away from her body.

"Spirit? Soul?"

"They're all pretty much the same. You can think of the Yin Spirit as a powerful soul, or as a special existence after spiritual sublimation, or you can think of the Yin Spirit as your true self, with the physical body just being a shell."

Xia Youjie continued, "In fact, everyone has a Yin spirit. The difference is that we free the Yin spirit from the 'cage' of the physical body."

"Of course, it's a bit of an exaggeration to say that everyone has a Yin spirit. In reality, what ordinary people possess is a Yin spirit that has not yet fully formed."

"Based on our family's exploration over the past two hundred years, the Yin Spirit will become more and more powerful as a person grows up. Even when a person is old and frail, the Yin Spirit will continue to grow."

"If human lifespan is a thousand years, then everyone can have their spirit leave their body."

"Unfortunately, people don't live that long."

Xia Youjie's tone carried a hint of a sigh.

Upon hearing this, Feng Jin suddenly realized something.

"So, do those who cultivate and those who don't have the same Yin spirit?"

Xia Youjie stopped, looked at Feng Jin, and said with a smile, "Xiao Jin, your reaction is very sharp. Indeed, there is a difference between the Yin spirit of cultivators and non-cultivators."

"After a cultivator's physique and blood become stronger, the vitality within their body becomes more abundant. Of course, I'm referring to Yang cultivators."

"Speaking of which, have you ever thought about something? Why is it that Yang Xiu's physique is so strong, yet his lifespan is mostly not much different from that of ordinary people? At most, the proportion of people who live to be ninety or one hundred years old is a bit higher."

Feng Jin tentatively asked, "Is it because of the Yin Spirit?"

"That's right!"

"Although we still do not understand what the life force in the human body is, we can be sure that the life force promotes the development of the Yin spirit."

"The more vigorous a person's life force is, the faster their Yin spirit grows, and correspondingly, the more life force they consume."

"As a result, although cultivators have abundant vitality in their bodies after cultivation, in reality, they are not much more than ordinary people in the end."

Upon hearing this, Feng Jin immediately realized something.

"In other words, the stronger a cultivator is, the stronger their Yin spirit becomes. After reaching a certain level, without going through what I just experienced, their Yin spirit will naturally leave their body?"

“That’s right!” Xia Youjie continued walking forward. “Unfortunately, even if the eighth version of the Body Strengthening Exercise is cultivated to its peak, it is still impossible to directly condense a complete Yin God. According to the clan’s speculation, even if the ninth version is deduced, it will not be able to achieve that.”

"If the ancestral land is not discovered, it may take many years for the body-strengthening exercises to be perfected by generations of brilliant individuals before we can reach that point."

"In a way, our Xia family took a shortcut and skipped what could have been a process that took ten years or even a hundred years."

Feng Jin remained silent.

If it weren't for the sudden appearance of the underworld, if it weren't for his position as the director of the bureau, if it weren't for his mother's surname being Xia.

He may never know what a spirit is until he dies.

After calming herself down, Feng Jin asked, "Grandpa, how exactly did the ancestral land allow our Yin spirits to grow to the point where they could emerge from their shells?"

"Well, I can talk to you about that."

Xia Youjie thought for a moment and continued, "In the ancestral land, there are actually seven attributes: the Five Elements and Yin-Yang. The other five surnames each occupy one of the Five Elements, but my Xia family alone controls Yin-Yang!"

"Although the five elements of the other five surnames each have their own characteristics, in reality, they are just serving my Xia family."

"Whenever someone in our Xia family is about to have their Yin spirit leave their body, the Five Elements Lands of the other five surnames will send the power of the Five Elements to our Sun and Moon Island. Then, Sun and Moon Island will transform the power of the Five Elements into Yin and Yang power and send it to the central location for our Xia family members to break through."

"The power of Yin and Yang is very special. It can be used not only as a means of attack and defense, but also for various other unique purposes. You will learn about them later."

"One of these abilities is the ability to give birth to Yin spirits!"

"But there are always risks involved in induced birth. If you're not careful, the Yin Spirit might be induced to a certain extent but fail to emerge from its shell, which could lead to a backlash!"

"The so-called backlash is when the life force is devoured by the already unbalanced Yin spirit, resulting in a weakening of the physical body's life force."

"In mild cases, the body will be weakened for ten years; in severe cases, it will lead to death."

"However, with the fruits from Qingnang Mountain, there is no need to worry about dying."

"As for why it was said before that people who are about to die are more likely to achieve the Yin Spirit, it's because people who are about to die don't care about their physical bodies at all!"

"But this kind of Yin spirit is also subject to many limitations. For example, if I leave the Xia family's island, my Yin spirit will collapse and I will be unable to improve."

Xia Youjie said with a smile, showing little disappointment.

After all, someone who was supposed to die anyway has lived so many more years and is even able to see their grandson; that's already more than enough.

"As for your current situation, it's because after the Yin spirit was born, your physical body couldn't adapt to it for a while, which is why you're not in control of your own body."

"Either wait a few months, or you can go to the Five Elements Lands of the other five surnames to promote the harmony between your body and the Yin Spirit with the power of the Five Elements."

"You are now the Director of the Bureau of Public Opinion Research. Time is precious. Someone will take you to the other five clans' places later."

Feng Jin nodded. If that's the case, then that's good.

In turbulent times, being unable to exert one's own strength is definitely not a good thing.

"Grandpa, how does one cultivate the Yin Spirit?"

Feng Jin asked.

He discovered that his Yin spirit was stronger than Xia Youjie's.

"As mentioned before, the Yin spirit devours life force within the human body, but after leaving the body, the growth of the Yin spirit is no longer related to life force, but rather to Yin and Yang attributes."

"Everything in this world is divided into Yin and Yang. Logically speaking, Yin spirits can cultivate anytime and anywhere."

"But in reality, if you want to help the Yin spirit achieve success in its cultivation, you have to find an existence with strong Yin and Yang attributes. Otherwise, the growth rate of the Yin spirit will be much slower than before it was born."

"According to our family's research, Yin attributes can be obtained from ghosts and spirits; Yang attributes can be provided by the cultivator's own cultivation."

"Therefore, if you want your Yin spirit to be strong, you not only need to cultivate your Qi and blood, but you also need to hunt down ghosts and spirits!"

"Oh, right, the Xia family has a Yang attribute bloodline. If someone with this bloodline cultivates, they will gain Yang attribute very quickly. Your younger brother has this bloodline."

Feng Jin had long suspected Feng Yang's bloodline, but at this moment he was more concerned about something else.

Hunt down the elusive creatures!

"Grandpa, can the Yin Spirit completely kill ghosts and evil spirits!?"

Xia Youjie glanced at Feng Jin and shook his head.

"I don't know, and neither does my family."

"But the family has discovered that those who successfully astral projection can absorb certain Yin-attribute substances from the place where the ghost died after killing the ghost's soul with their Yin spirit."

"This yin-attribute substance may be the origin of ghosts and spirits, or it may be something else."

"The family suspects that perhaps after hunting down enough of the same ghost, they can finally kill it completely."

"The family has also conducted similar experiments, but without success."

"After a Yin spirit hunts down a ghost, the Yin-attribute substance it absorbs will never be all of the ghost's essence... Well, let me give you an example to help you understand better."

Xia Youjie thought for a moment and said, "It's like a cake. If you eat half of it every time, ideally you can eat it countless times because you can never finish it."

"The Yin spirit obtains Yin-attribute substances from the body of ghosts and spirits in a similar way. So, currently, the Yin spirit cannot kill ghosts and spirits, but it can weaken them."

"When the Yin attribute power within that ghost is weakened to a certain extent, the ghost will shrink back into its original body, similar to how it needs to heal from an injury."

Upon hearing this, Feng Jin suddenly remembered something.

Every year, the Bureau of Investigation collects ghostly entities from all over Great Xia. In addition to storing a portion in the warehouses of each branch office, a significant portion is sent to headquarters.

The portion of the ghostly entity belonging to the headquarters will be sent to a special place for containment.

Feng Jin didn't know where that place was.

Because it was a request from the six clans of the Great Xia Dynasty, he didn't ask any questions.

Now that she heard about the cultivation method of the Yin God, Feng Jin seemed to understand something.

"It seems you have some suspicions?"

Xia Youjie looked at Feng Jin and said with a smile, "That's right, some of the ghostly entities that the Great Xia Bureau of Investigation contained were used by the Xia family for cultivation."

Feng Jin nodded, not angry at being deceived.

Being able to deal with the true form of the evil spirit is not a bad thing.

But why only a portion?

The true nature of the sinister forces within the headquarters is far more than just that!
Feng Jin voiced her question.

"The reason there is only that part is because after the Yin God's strength increases, the lower-level ghosts can no longer provide the Yin God with what it needs for cultivation."

"The classification of Yin gods is similar to that of ghosts and spirits, starting from fierce ghosts to the Black Abyss. The four levels of Yin gods are represented by the first to the fourth rank respectively."

"A first-tier Yin spirit can only absorb vengeful ghosts and spirits of higher rank, and breaking through to the second tier requires annihilating malevolent spirits."

"A second-tier Yin spirit can only absorb malevolent spirits and ghosts of even higher tiers, and breaking through to the third tier requires the extermination of a blood calamity."

"By the same token, for a fourth-order Yin God to break through to the fifth order, he needs to kill... the God of Turbidity!"

"But that's only one aspect. Yin spirits also have different talents."

“Some Yin Gods can only advance to the third level. Even if they kill a Turbid World God, they still cannot consume the Yin-attribute substances left behind by the Turbid World God.”

"So far, only three people in the Xia family have reached the peak of the fourth-tier Yin God. They are only one Turbid World God away from becoming true Yin Gods!"

"Unfortunately, the God of Turbidity is not so easy to deal with. Even the three peak fourth-order Yin Gods can only fight the God of Turbidity to a draw. It will be very difficult to advance further."

A god of a turbid world?
Is the Xia family already plotting how to hunt down the God of Chaos?
Feng Jin was shocked.

In this way, it seems that the underworld is not invincible to the Xia family after all!
“Xiao Jin, you are now the director of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics. You have a lot of personnel at your disposal. The ghost’s true form is not difficult for you.”

"The talents of Yin Gods are unknowable. Each Yin God is like a blind box, so you have to work hard to cultivate and see where your limits are."

"If you become the fourth peak fourth-tier Yin God in our Xia family, then the Xia family may very well change."

"With you, our Xia family can hunt down the first Chaotic God, and then snowball that way to create four more True Gods!"

Feng Jin fell silent after hearing Xia Youjie's words.

He knew that his relatives all hoped their offspring would become successful, but in reality, most of them could only become worms.

The Xia family must have produced at least tens of thousands of Yin Gods in the past two hundred years, right?
That's how there were three fourth-tier peaks. Feng Jin didn't think she was that lucky.

Afterwards, Feng Jin had many more conversations with Xia Youjie and learned a lot about Yin Shen (the spirit realm).

In the end, Feng Jin was taken by the Xia family to the territories of the other five surnames and received the baptism of the five elements.

The state of being unable to control one's own destiny has finally disappeared.

The Xia family also taught Feng Jin the eighth edition of the exercise routine.

Feng Jin had been stuck at the peak of the seventh level for a long time, but in just one day she broke through to the eighth level, and her qi and blood surged.

Overjoyed, Feng Jin naturally wanted to share her happiness with her closest family and friends.

The person closest to him here was not Xia Youjie, but Feng Yang.

But just when Feng Jin had searched all over Sun and Moon Island but still couldn't find Feng Yang, he finally got some news from Xia Xianfeng.

A piece of news that made his eyes widen in fury.

Fengyang was sent to the underworld by the Xia family.

Because the underworld wants to create a sun in the netherworld!
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(End of this chapter)