Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 219: Her initiative is heartbreaking!
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The echoes reverberated in the quiet mountain cave, carrying a hint of gloom.

The withered corpse trembled slightly, producing a "crack" sound.

A crack slowly appeared between the eyebrows of the mummified corpse.

A hand the size of an infant's fist emerged from the gap and clung to the mummified corpse's forehead.

The palm quickly turned black and merged with the darkness, then the skin peeled away, revealing raw flesh, and then it stretched out with all its might.

With a snap, the gap between her eyebrows widened, and another skinless hand emerged.

With a forceful push from both palms, a tiny, fleshless figure emerged from between the brows of the mummified corpse.

The little man was covered in blood and flesh, and an intoxicating fragrance of blood and flesh, along with the aura of his spirit, permeated the cave.

The sun and moon gems at the top of the cave were relit, and the dark cave became bright again.

At the same time, the two long eyebrows on the mummified corpse gently rose up and coiled into a white lotus platform above its head. The fleshy little man leaped up and sat cross-legged on the lotus platform.

Slightly raising his head, the flesh-and-blood figure looked at Li Wushou, and an aged voice emanated from him.

"Huh? Why did it come to this? I only wanted to find a successor to inherit the Great Dao of Yin and Yang."

Li Wushou sneered, and his reply was a flash of sword light!
With a light swing of his magic sword, the sword light sliced ​​across the lotus platform beneath the corpse, severing its two long eyebrows in response.

The fleshy little figure fell from the lotus platform, landing on the head of the desiccated corpse. It then scrambled somewhat from a pile of disheveled white hair and shouted at Li Wushou:
"You brat, how dare you be so disrespectful to me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the flesh-and-blood figure saw Li Wushou raise his magic sword again.

His eyes twitched several times, and he hurriedly called out to Li Wushou again:
"Stop, stop, stop! I'll teach you the Great Dao of Yin and Yang right now!"

When faced with such a stubborn and unyielding man who would overturn the table and chop people up at the slightest disagreement, Master Xuan Yang was at a loss for words!

Sure enough, after this word of compromise was spoken, the other party stopped drawing his sword.

Master Xuan Yang snorted angrily, and seeing Li Wushou's eyes narrow again, he coughed a few times and continued:

"The Yin-Yang Dao Scripture is located in the cave of my Daoist temple. I need to open the temple now and retrieve the Yin-Yang Dao Scripture from the cave! Besides, we have no past grievances. After you take the scripture, how about we keep to ourselves and not interfere with each other?"

Li Wushou squinted and remained silent. Xuan Yang Shangren felt uneasy under his gaze and his heart pounded. Seeing that he could not get an answer, he no longer cared about putting on airs as a sage and directly sat cross-legged on the head of the dried corpse.

He feared that if he didn't act, the brute in front of him would strike down with his sword again!

Her small face lacked a membrane, making it impossible to discern her expression, but she exuded a sense of solemnity.

She kept muttering to herself, and two long, blood-red eyebrows grew out of her bloodied face. The blood-red eyebrows rose up without wind and swayed lightly in the void, as if trying to catch something.

Li Wushou sheathed his sword and pondered, gazing at the fleshy little figure atop the dried corpse's head.

This was the first time he had ever seen something like this; it appeared to be full of flesh and blood, but in reality, it was not simply a body of flesh and blood.

In Li Wushou's view, it didn't seem wrong to call it a soul.

During this period, he slew three Golden Core cultivators. According to his research, when a cultivator breaks through from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core True Person, the Golden Core of the other party will continuously nourish and nurture more divine soul power, strengthening his own divine soul phantom.

The extent of one's Golden Core cultivation seems to correspond somewhat to the power of one's soul.

For example, among Lingshan, Fufeng, and Jingshui, Lingshan has the strongest spiritual power. After Li Wushou cut off the Golden Core Crown, he could still sense the residual spiritual shadow within the Golden Core Crown.

When fighting against the Six Eyes of Blood Buddha Temple, the opponent also seemed to have used a secret method to condense such a phantom of the soul.

However, the ones from Lingshan are even more solid!

So, can we infer that the higher a person's level of cultivation, the more solid their soul becomes, until in the end they look almost like a real person?
Reaching that stage should be like breaking through the Golden Core and becoming a Nascent Soul True Lord, as described in Wu Zhuangyuan's stories, right?
According to Scholar Wu, the Nascent Soul is shaped like a child, capable of leaving the body, harnessing the power of heaven and earth, and controlling a region of the void.

This is somewhat similar to the current state of Xuan Yang Shangren's flesh and blood figure, but if it is a Nascent Soul, then what is the reason for this flesh and blood?

If it weren't for the fact that the other party didn't have the sinister smell of a Yin spirit, Li Wushou would have thought that the other party was the true spirit in the neck of the Flying Skull Ghost!

Just as Li Wushou was pondering, after some exploration, the flesh-and-blood figure that Xuan Yang Shangren had transformed into seemed to have finally determined something.

Two long, blood-red eyebrows rose up and pointed at the void above his head.

A yin-yang symbol slowly emerged from the sky, with Xuan Yang Shangren's two blood-red eyebrows corresponding to the sun and moon in the yin-yang symbol.

The instant the two connected, each blood-red eyebrow split in two, one half connecting to the Yin-Yang Tai Chi in the void, and the other half corresponding to the black and white jade pillars in the stone slab.

The crimson figure slowly floated up, its two blood-red eyebrows connecting the yin-yang symbolic image and the yin-yang stone slab.

All three are perpendicular to a single line!
Li Wushou carefully watched the blood-red figure perform its actions. He also wanted to see how the stone slab was opened, since he had not yet seen the so-called Upper Cultivation Cave. The only place he had not explored was the palace inside the stone slab.

The crimson figure urged the crimson eyebrows to continuously adjust the position of the Yin-Yang Tai Chi phantom until it completely overlapped with the Yin-Yang diagram in the stone slab.

Li Wushou's mind stirred, and in his vision, the stone slab slowly unfolded like a scroll, and the Yin-Yang Daoist Temple where he had just stood appeared before him like a mirage.

Furthermore, under Li Wushou's observation, that void was constantly transforming from illusion into reality. The blood-red figure formed a hand seal in front of his chest, opened his mouth and uttered a Daoist phrase, causing the cave to tremble incessantly.

"The Way of Heaven is on the left, the Way of Earth is on the right. I cultivate the Yin-Yang Immortal Path, and shall become a Yin-Yang Immortal, rotating left to open Yin and Yang!"

Upon hearing this, the world changed color! The yin and yang energies within the cave surged, the stone slabs crackled, and the two protruding black and white jade pillars sank directly, making the entire stone slab flat and uniform!

The blood-red eyebrows connecting the stone slabs rolled up the palace on the white jade pillar, and a tiny palace made of gold and silver paper was rolled out and landed on the stone table.

The next moment, something unexpected happened!

The blood-red figure raised its eyebrows and glanced at Li Wushou with murderous intent!
A force of yin and yang rose from the stone slab, interacting and resonating with the yin and yang forces within the cave.

The moss, pebbles, and mud covering the stone slabs, the earthworms and leeches living in them, and the physical bodies of the sacred mountain and still water on the white jade platform were instantly obliterated into nothingness by the power of Yin and Yang.

The stone slab was as smooth as new, with the blood and evil spirits contained within, and the yin-yang symbol on it turned into black and white.

With a forceful pull, the illusory Yin-Yang symbol in the sky fell into the Yin-Yang diagram on the stone slab, and the Yin-Yang diagram within the stone slab began to flow slowly.

The two blood-red eyebrows merged back into one, like two arms, raising the stone slab high and shining it towards Li Wushou!
Seeing Li Wushou reflected in the image, Master Xuanyang laughed heartily, feeling quite pleased.

"This is the true Tai Chi Daoist practice! Essence blood and Yin evil spirits are merely means to activate it, a last resort! Do you feel like you can't move an inch no matter how much you struggle? Hahaha... Boy, hand over your physical body. You should feel honored to be the vessel through which I, the master, was reborn!"

The moment he finished speaking, Master Xuan Yang stepped on Yin and Yang and rushed towards Li Wushou's brow.

Blood-red eyebrows stretched forward against the wind, seemingly about to pierce through Li Wushou's brow and drill directly into his divine aperture!
Li Wushou calmly watched Xuan Yang Shangren rushing towards him. The incense smoke that had been wafting from the Three Immortals Hall within his divine aperture was sent back by Li Wushou.

Is this an attempt to possess my physical body?

The opponent was indeed at least a Nascent Soul cultivator, because in the storybook that Wu Zhuangyuan had mentioned before, there was a story about a Nascent Soul True Lord whose soul left his body and whose physical body was destroyed. He then possessed someone else's body and was reborn.

But taking over one's own physical body?
Li Wushou was speechless for a moment. If he had known that the other party had this idea, why would he have bothered to turn the world upside down in the Yin-Yang Dojo?
In the past, when the Three Immortals Pavilion was starving, the old beggar even used Li Wushou's body to lure out the Yin spirits, but the success rate was not high. Most of the Yin spirits and evil spirits wanted to eat Li Wushou in one bite.

This was the first time Li Wushou had ever seen someone as proactive as Master Xuanyang.

If the other party had told him earlier, he would have cooperated long ago!

He thought the other person wanted to eat him; he was just scaring himself!
Li Wushou, who had originally intended to borrow the power of the Three Immortals Hall's incense offerings, instead opened his door wide after confirming the other party's purpose.

In Xuan Yang Shangren's view, this was even more a manifestation of Li Wushou being suppressed by the Taiji stone carving.

Overwhelmed with joy, he could no longer contain himself. Once he seized the other's body, that earth-shattering magic would be his own. Thinking this, his mood soared, and he couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Be good and become one with me, hahaha...!"

Bloodbrow pierced straight into Li Wushou's brow, and then Xuan Yang Shangren seemed to melt away and directly burrowed into Li Wushou's brow.

This also shows that the other party's condition is not as simple as flesh and blood.

Master Xuanyang entered Li Wushou's brow and hovered in his divine aperture.

After looking around, he was first stunned, then burst into unrestrained laughter!
"To think that I was born with divine abilities fully developed! Excellent! Heaven is helping me!"

After circling around, Master Xuan Yang searched for Li Wushou's true spirit mark as he climbed the low mountain.

Along the way, I was amazed. Not only was he born with divine abilities, but he also possessed the essence of heaven and earth. Amazing!

The smile on Master Xuan Yang's lips froze when he stood in front of the Three Immortals Hall.

Low hills are natural features, so why are there houses on them?

Wait a minute? This is the Three Immortals Pavilion?
Looking to the side, sure enough, they found another shanty-like Taoist temple made of white paper!

Master Xuan Yang's lips twitched. What were all these things?
After hesitating for a moment, Master Xuan Yang walked into the reed courtyard, pushed open the door of the Three Immortals Hall, and went inside.

As soon as I stepped inside, the room filled with a misty atmosphere, and the old beggar and Chen Gou'er from the Three Immortals Pavilion greeted me at the door with smiles on their faces.

His enthusiasm overflowed from the corners of his mouth.

Master Xuan Yang was greatly surprised. How could there be someone else here?
Just as he was about to turn away, he found that his body felt as if it were filled with lead, and he could not move an inch!

"You...you people...where exactly is this place?"

The old beggar smiled without saying a word. Chen Gou'er leaped up and closed the door of the Three Immortals Hall. Then he turned around and kicked Xuan Yang Shangren in front of the incense table. The whole action was done in one go!
At the same time, another small black figure silently appeared behind Li Wushou's head.

This is the black skin that Master Xuan Yang shed when he emerged from between the eyebrows of the mummified corpse, taking advantage of the darkness in the cave.

The dark-skinned little man was about to burrow into the back of Li Wushou's head and unite with the flesh-and-blood little man, completely taking over Li Wushou's body.

The moment the flesh-and-blood figure was suppressed, he sensed something was wrong and quickly retreated to the rear.

But then his body tensed up, as if he were surrounded by a dark shadow.

Then it was forcibly stuffed into Li Wushou's head!
(End of this chapter)