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Chapter 254: Follow the Way to be a Mortal, Go Against the Way to be a Fairy

"Squeak! Squeak!"

Watching the little creature in her hand struggle frantically and make sounds like a monkey, Feng Xue helplessly turned her head to look at Bige, who had just been freed from the ghostly possession and divine descent, and said:
"Can you make it quiet?"

"No way. In my world, the personality is controlled by the proportion of elements mixed in when the familiar is shaped. Fire element is passionate and violent, wind element is sensitive and playful, water element is fickle and changeable, earth element is calm and serious, light element is gentle and calm, dark element is gloomy and unpredictable, and there are also some composite element variations. It is said that people who are proficient in this can easily customize the personality they want."

"But this familiar is completely different. Its composition isn't even elemental. I have absolutely no idea what you mixed into your guiding goddess. At most, I can reduce its mobility or simply cancel the summoning and let it dissipate. As for anything else, I'm helpless."

Although Bigeley was surprised that Little Bell could actually create such a perfect familiar, she simply couldn't understand this state, which couldn't even be explained using the elements she was familiar with.

Not to mention that even in her hometown, the spirituality or intellect of the elements is something akin to a black box.

Feng Xue sighed. Since she had already replicated it, she could make it again. She squeezed it tightly with both hands, using the immense force to restrain the little bat before using her Qi Observation Technique to examine its basic structure.

"Master, this structure..."

"Yes, I know." As the spiritual light in their vision was interpreted by the Qi Observation Technique, Feng Xue and Xiao Lingdang both showed surprised expressions. However, Xiao Lingdang's expression was due to her personality code, while Feng Xue was genuinely surprised.

Because the "body" of this thing is actually quite similar to his "monster x suit".

It's not a superficial similarity like the materialization of energy, but a more fundamental similarity, akin to the application of willpower.

The problem is that what this little bat is simulating isn't willpower, but rather...

"Primordial Qi... or rather, a state similar to that solidified by the Yuan-gathering technique. Could this primordial Qi really be the primordial Qi? If so, then what is the power of will? Primordial Qi generates ancestral Qi to maintain the heartbeat and pulse, driving the blood. The blood circulates and absorbs the essence of food, transforming it into nutritive Qi. Primordial Qi drives the nutritive Qi, transforming it into defensive Qi. Nutritive and defensive Qi circulate, the organs generate the five elements, and primordial Qi differentiates into the five elements, nourishing the five organs. It refines Qi into spirit, and the soul also absorbs primordial Qi. So, is the power of will born from thoughts also a secondary energy of primordial Qi?"

At this moment, Feng Xue felt a chill run down his spine, yet he also felt as if he had come into contact with some kind of truth, and his whole body felt clear. If he continued to study, he felt that he would touch on questions such as whether the human brain or the soul is the source of intelligence. However, regardless of which one, according to the mysterious system he had learned, they were both generated from primordial energy.

"Everyone is born with a primordial energy, which belongs to the Lesser Yang category, like the day of birth. Physical cultivators use this primordial energy to stimulate defensive energy, using Yang to strengthen Yang, thus cultivating Greater Yang. Mystic cultivators use this primordial energy to nourish their spirit and soul, absorbing Yang to replenish Yin, thus cultivating Lesser Yin..."

Feng Xue was re-examining the rules of the folk world when she suddenly paused, because— "Ghost cultivators belong to the Yin category, absorbing the power of incense offerings or the vital energy of living beings to cultivate the Lesser Yang ghost body… I should have thought of that sooner!"

Feng Xue's eyes widened. He had come into contact with evil spirits who cultivated by absorbing vital energy since the first day he transmigrated, but when he learned that ghost cultivators relied on incense and the power of vows to cultivate, he hadn't connected the two!
No, perhaps it is precisely because he is Chinese, and because he has been exposed to such supernatural tales, legends, movies and novels since childhood, that he has never thought that the two might have the same characteristics.

"Is this the unity of heaven and man?! So, this method in the folk world is actually a cycle. If you really want to transcend, you shouldn't follow the changes of the four elements and go through the life cycle. You can't transcend this cycle. Going with the flow is mortal, going against the flow is immortal. The correct way to cultivate is to do the opposite! Return everything to its origin and focus on cultivating this innate primordial energy. Use lesser yin to nourish lesser yang to achieve yin-yang balance. Only in this way can you return from the acquired to the innate and cultivate the innate primordial energy into innate primordial qi!"

Having grasped the key to this matter, Feng Xue felt completely refreshed. The "Heretical Nascent Soul" method that had previously troubled him was now free of any bottlenecks. His previous ideas were too conservative; using Ghidorah as a soul vessel was, in the end, still the path of a ghost immortal.

He should do the opposite, using his own vital energy as a container for the power of wishes, to absorb the spirituality within those wishes, just like the magic that constitutes this little bat. It is not that the magic has a spiritual essence, but rather that the energy has a spiritual essence and becomes Qi.

"If I have the chance, I really want to visit your hometown!" Feng Xue realized the key point and looked at Bigeley with a complicated expression.

Sensing Feng Xue's gaze, Bigeley shuddered and frowned, saying:
"What do you mean?"

"It's nothing special, I just wanted to see what a world where the primordial Qi has not yet differentiated is like."

Feng Xue shook her head, thinking that Bigeley's world must be very interesting. Living in that world, one might even be able to extend their lifespan just by breathing!
"However, the folk world also has its advantages. The more abundant the world, the more rudimentary the cultivation methods are, because the benefits of honing skills are far less than increasing stats. On the contrary, in resource-scarce worlds like the folk world, where people cannot climb the stat ladder, it is possible to produce such refined cultivation strategies."

As Feng Xue thought this to himself, he couldn't help but sigh inwardly. He never expected that the Xuanwu Co-cultivation Contract, which he had developed with the help of Xiao Lingdang, would be so close to Yin-Yang Co-cultivation. Although it had not yet broken free from the path of "offering", it was already "flat" compared to the normal "following". So as long as he put Ghidorah or any virtual god into it, he could achieve "reversal".

"What's with all this talk about innate Qi? Compared to that, what exactly did you glean from the familiar? We agreed to share our progress. I'll provide the technology, and you'll share whatever you've researched with me, okay?"

Bigeley's blood pressure rose again as she watched Feng Xue start to grin foolishly. If she didn't know she couldn't beat him, she would have liked to hang this man up and beat him to a pulp!
"Alright, alright, as long as you can understand it, you can have it all. No, even if you can't understand it, I'll teach you until you do!"

"Hey! How can you change your expression so quickly? Do you have some other motive?" Bigeley was startled by Feng Xue's sudden change of expression and took two steps back, instinctively covering her chest with her hands and looking at him warily.

However, this cannot be blamed on her. After all, the way Feng Xue looked at Bige at this moment was indeed a bit strange. In his eyes now, this was not a vampire at all, but clearly the foundation of his Great Dao!
(End of this chapter)