Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 220 Borrowing a Divine Soul? Controlling the Profound Yang!

Three Immortals Pavilion
The black-skinned little man and the flesh-and-blood little man sat side by side in front of the incense table.

The incense smoke, as light as smoke, seemed like a mountain to them.

It swirled around them, rendering them unable to move.

Under the suppression of the incense's power, the two little figures slowly stuck together and began to merge back into one.

A moment later, a strange young man sat cross-legged in the Three Immortals Pavilion.

It's about the size of an adult's arm, and it looks like what Master Xuanyang looked like when he was young.

His skin had a translucent, fleshy sheen, neither black nor red, but a darker gray than most people's. His eyes, however, were somewhat unusual; the left was white, the right black, as if containing yin and yang.

However, at this moment, the other party's yin-yang eyes flashed with terror, as if he wanted to say something but could not utter a word!

Chen Gou'er sat on the square table, looking sullen, while the old beggar picked his ear with little interest.

Both of them had some objections to Li Wushou stopping them from sharing the flesh-and-blood figurine.

The old beggar looked down on Li Wushou's nonsense about immortality from beginning to end, while Chen Gou'er was simply greedy.

Li Wushou's solution was simple: he gave each of them a blood seed, and the two of them instantly felt better.

After all, once Li Wushou's body and flesh were fully formed, the blood seed mixed with his essence and blood tasted very sweet.

Several times, Chen Gou'er thought of getting up in the middle of the night and pretending to sleepwalk to bite Li Wushou, but each time Li Wushou's bones blocked his mouth, which made him very frustrated.

After calming the two down, Li Wushou walked up to Master Xuanyang.

Three talismans were taken out one after another from the Yin-Yang diagram.

The "Divine Control Talisman" was drawn on two pieces of blood-stained longevity paper, and the "Divine Capture Talisman" was drawn on a piece of human skin.

These two spirit-controlling talismans respectively imprison the abdominal spirit, the white-boned cicada body, and the old snail spirit.

The human skin inscribed with the God-Catching Talisman actually imprisoned the true form of the Abdominal God.

During this time of year, the old beggar would take the time to study this belly god. Not long ago, he got an itch to do it and separated the belly god from the parasitic old snail spirit.

After witnessing the condition of Xuan Yang Shangren and several Golden Core cultivators, Li Wushou's worries were confirmed.

A strong soul is absolutely an indispensable condition for the later stages of immortal cultivation!
But Li Wushou didn't!
He has no soul. Although his vision is more acute than that of a typical Golden Core cultivator, he has no soul. Without this basic premise, how can he develop a soul?

Li Wushou had no answer, but he did not give in and thus abandoned the path of immortality.

His two greatest wishes are to grow a physical body like an ordinary person and to become an immortal!
Has one of the two been completed so far?
I'd say half of it!
He has indeed fully grown his physical body, but whether he is like an ordinary person is another matter, since he doesn't even have a living soul.

There's another one: becoming an immortal!
Becoming an immortal is crucial to the Three Immortals Pavilion's grand ambition of being well-fed, well-drinked, and living a carefree life; he could never give it up!

So he's been preparing for the worst all this time.

If all other conditions for achieving the Golden Core are met, and he still cannot transform his divine soul by then, then he will find a way to borrow one!

When essence, energy, and spirit are united as one, essence and energy belong to oneself, but it doesn't mean that spirit must also belong to oneself, right?
As long as you can control it, who cares whose god it is!

Similarly, if all the conditions for becoming a Nascent Soul are met in the future, but you still cannot transform into a Nascent Soul, then you can borrow another Nascent Soul!
Li Wushou refused to believe it. Could he really be trapped in front of the Golden Core?

Therefore, even though the Belly God and the Old Snail Yin God looked delicious, Li Wushou resisted eating them.

Li Wushou also did not intend to consume Xuan Yang Shangren's nascent soul this time.

Who knows, these might become my Golden Core, Divine Soul, or Nascent Soul in the future!
In addition, the four essential elements of the Golden Elixir are: essence, qi, spirit, and method.

Setting aside the already perfected "essence" and the clueless "spirit," he now needs to focus on improving "qi" and "method" to their best.

Therefore, from any perspective, controlling Xuan Yang Shangren's nascent soul is more cost-effective than directly consuming it!
After all, one can inherit both "qi" and "law" and use them as a reserve of one's nascent soul.

If none of these work, then we can just eat it later. This stuff shouldn't spoil, right?
Having made up his mind, Li Wushou took out a blank spirit control talisman, intending to collect Xuan Yang Shangren's nascent soul, but then stopped.

He tore a piece of skin off his thigh and asked the old beggar to redraw it.

Although Master Xuan Yang's nascent soul seems to have suffered a great loss of vitality, it is still extraordinary after all, so it is better to be on the safe side!

After the old beggar finished drawing the divine control talisman, Li Wushou thought for a moment and then tore off a piece of skin and handed it over.

"Draw me another God-Stealing Talisman!"

After speaking, he ignored the old beggar's disdainful look, his blood essence surging as he repaired his skin. At the same time, he took the newly drawn human skin control talisman and walked towards Xuan Yang Shangren's nascent soul.

Ignoring the horrified look in Xuan Yang Shangren's eyes, Li Wushou sat cross-legged under the incense table.

His expression was solemn, and his hands formed a mudra in front of his chest.

The old beggar taught him this hand seal technique, saying he learned it from watching Losang demonstrate it.

However, Li Wushou had seen Losang perform hand seals, and the two movements were quite different.

To Li Wushou's surprise, after trying it a few times, the results were quite good, so he didn't ask any further questions.

As long as it works, who cares about anything else!

As the hand seals were performed, a crimson glow appeared on the talisman, the human skin slowly dissipated, and a complex and mysterious network of crimson inscriptions floated in the void.

With a raised finger, the crimson inscription rushed towards Xuan Yang Shangren's nascent soul.

Immediately following, just as Xuan Yang Shangren burrowed into Li Wushou's brow, the crimson inscription net burrowed directly into Xuan Yang Shangren's brow. Streams of crimson light emanated from his body, layering over Xuan Yang Shangren's entire body like blood vessels and meridians.

After a long while, the bloody light subsided, and a diamond-shaped drop of blood appeared between Xuan Yang Shangren's eyebrows, like a gemstone embedded in his forehead.

Li Wushou's mind stirred, and Xuan Yang Shangren slowly got up and started walking around the Three Immortals Hall. He waved his hands and feet, twisted his waist, and even did a somersault when he was in high spirits. Chen Gou'er laughed and shouted, "One more time!"

This God Control Talisman is indeed very useful, as if it were part of my arm!
Master Xuan Yang walked up to him, and Li Wushou touched the other's brow. A drop of blood disappeared into the brow, and Master Xuan Yang collapsed to the ground, staring at Li Wushou in terror and shouting:

"what did you do to me?"

Li Wushou gave the other party a half-smile and replied:
"Didn't you want to become one with me? But if we really do, you won't be happy?"

Master Xuan Yang struggled to get up, wanting to say something more, when suddenly a red light flashed between his brows and a drop of blood reappeared. He had once again lost control of his nascent soul, and then, somewhat shamefully, he uncontrollably stood upside down.

At this point, he finally understood his fate!

I have been enslaved!

He was unwilling to accept this and wanted to self-destruct, but as soon as the thought arose, an excruciating pain, as if a thousand ants were gnawing at his heart, surged into his mind. Could he not even beg for death?
Despair began to grow in my heart!
an hour later
In the empty cave, Li Wushou sat cross-legged on the stone bed, looking down at the stone table.

The mummified corpse had completely decomposed shortly after Xuan Yang Shangren left his body, leaving behind a new Yin-Yang Daoist robe.

Li Wushou hasn't refined it yet, but according to Master Xuanyang, this Taoist robe is obviously much better than the one Li Wushou is wearing.

As for Master Xuan Yang, he was standing on the stone table at that moment.

Pointing to the stone slab, he gave Li Wushou a long and detailed explanation of the purpose of this Tai Chi dojo.

Behind him were two Taoist scriptures, one on Yin and Yang, and the other on Taiji!
Another hour later, Master Xuan Yang finally finished explaining the Tai Chi Daoist Temple and the two volumes of Daoist scriptures.

After speaking, Master Xuanyang looked up at Li Wushou with considerable trepidation.

Having experienced despair in the Three Immortals Pavilion, Master Xuan Yang originally thought that no matter what Li Wushou asked, he would refuse to speak. At worst, he would die and his cultivation would be extinguished. Nothing was more terrifying than death!
But to everyone's surprise, Li Wushou didn't ask anything, but simply waved his hand and threw himself to the naked child.

A mere quarter of an hour later, Master Xuan Yang's Dao heart shattered.

Have you ever had your pants pulled down?

Have you ever had your butt wiped like toilet paper?

Were you tied to a desk with your limbs spread out like a bullfrog?

He discovered that there were many things more terrifying than death, so he gave in!
After explaining everything, Master Xuan Yang asked for nothing more. He would rather Li Wushou kill him right now, as long as he was no longer allowed to play with that naked child.

Li Wushou ignored Master Xuanyang and stared at the Taiji Daoist altar on the stone table, his eyes deep in thought.

After absorbing a large amount of essence and life force, the Tai Chi Dojo was cleansed of all its impurities and restored to its original appearance.

According to Master Xuan Yang, this Tai Chi Daoist temple is his natal Daoist treasure for cultivating both his life and his body.

Not only can it absorb the Yin and Yang energies to accelerate cultivation, but it also nurtures a world, which is the foundation for his transformation into a deity.

In a sense, this Tai Chi dojo can be considered the prototype of a new world.

At this moment, Li Wushou finally understood what realm Xuan Yang Shangren truly belonged to.

He was indeed not a simple Nascent Soul cultivator, but rather someone who had already broken through to the halfway point of the Divine Transformation stage.

More than a hundred years ago, he passed through Huazhou and sensed an opportunity for a breakthrough. So he settled deep in the Wulianling Mountains to wait for the chance to break through to the Nascent Soul stage and become a Deity.

He failed halfway through the breakthrough, and the Taiji Dojo, which he used for cultivating his life and spirit, was also affected, becoming damaged and covered in dust.

Fortunately, with the protection of the Tai Chi Dojo, he preserved his nascent soul and did not die from the defeat!
It was the training ground that brought it success, and it was also the training ground that caused its downfall.

Although he did not die, he was trapped in the temple, and his vital energy was constantly draining away.

Therefore, he exerted a great deal of effort to open a passage in the secluded cave of the Tai Chi Dojo.

According to his original plan, after the Paper Goddess discovered the Yin-Yang Dao Scripture he left behind in the cave, she would definitely be unable to resist wanting to cultivate it.

Even if she doesn't understand, I can guide her a bit later, and it shouldn't be a big problem.

As long as the Paper Goddess cultivates the Yin-Yang Dao Scripture, he can possess her mind and spirit.

At that time, they will go out to find offerings and make lavish sacrifices to help him recover his vitality. At the same time, they will use the Yin-Yang Daoist scriptures to cultivate and find a new body to possess.

But no matter how much he planned, he didn't expect that opening the passage would cost him so much energy and leave him in a state of silence.

When he woke up, the Paper Goddess had already run away with his Yin-Yang Taoist robe and Yin-Yang diagram.

Unfortunately, he didn't cultivate the Yin-Yang Daoist Scripture, and didn't even take it out with him.

This thwarted his plan to parasitize the mind, and he remained trapped in this Tai Chi dojo for over a hundred years.

Li Wushou was both amused and exasperated upon hearing this, and could only say that this was the fate of Master Xuanyang!

With a thought, Master Xuan Yang transformed into a stream of light and returned to the Tai Chi Dojo.

Following the manipulation method of Master Xuanyang, the Tai Chi flow within his dantian resonated with the Tai Chi Dao field, causing the Tai Chi Dao field to tremble slightly before rapidly shrinking and rushing into Li Wushou's divine aperture.

The Yin and Yang energies flow through the divine apertures, nourishing the Tai Chi practice space!

Li Wushou composed himself and focused his gaze on the two Daoist scriptures, Yin Yang and Tai Chi.

Old Li is about to reach the Golden Core stage. What do you all think Old Li's Golden Core will look like?
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