Demon Sword Immortal

"Roar! Roar!!!"

The demon tiger howled madly, but the pressure on Bai Xiang's sword did not lessen. She even added another hand to the blade, changing the angle from a cleavage to a horizontal one, causing the demon tiger to slide continuously on the yellow earth. Even Yu He, who was retaliating against the surprise attack, could not do it.

"This thing is filthy!" Yu He quickly jumped away after finishing his sword strike to avoid having his blood blown onto his face by the gale. Seeing that Bai Xiang was still locked in a stalemate with the demon tiger, he reminded him again, "Be careful of assimilation!"

Actively induced pollution is generally less dangerous than passively induced pollution.

Because passivity means 'complete disorder,' meaning 'a terrible concept that one cannot contain even with one's own best efforts is about to break free.'

Actively inducing it is much better, as it avoids 'complete disorder', but beginners should still be careful not to be assimilated by the surging, violent spirit.

That's true—it's not necessarily that troublesome. Otherwise, any cultivator could use this to threaten others, and in the end, the results of their hard work wouldn't even be as profound as the fear caused by the pollution, which would be a huge joke.

Experienced veterans aren't afraid of this, but when novices face it at close range, they might be caught off guard and become affected by its frenzied demonic power.

In other words... without realizing it, they also began to try to unseal the Demon Pool, no longer using swords, but using their own bodies as the vessel for its rebirth.

But she seemed completely unaffected.

Yu He looked at Bai Xiang and felt that the external force she released was still as normal and stable as before.

Relieved, he stopped being distracted, circled behind the demon tiger again, and thrust his sword at its rear, intending to inflict some 'real damage'.

But at that moment, the last piece of cloth on the tiger's back suddenly burst open.

In just a moment, the huge tiger head that was originally facing Bai Xiang suddenly caved into its chest and then protruded from its back, glaring fiercely at Yu He.

"Kaka..."

Not only that, at this moment its joints also twisted in the opposite direction, transforming into the recurved structure of animal joints, and instead used Bai Xiang's force to rush towards Yu He!

Fuck!

Yu He cursed inwardly and was about to raise his sword to block when he heard the demonic tiger roar again from in front of him.

"Roar--!!!"

This time is different from before.

The tiger's roar seemed to carry some special power. After being affected by the sound wave, Yu He's entire body stiffened, as if he had been frozen in place. Even his mind and thoughts stopped!

"Squeak—~~~!"

In that critical moment, he heard a clear cicada chirping from afar.

Startled awake by the cicadas' chirping, Yu He was immediately confronted by a demonic tiger pouncing on him, its heavy sword almost pressing against his throat.

A sword is a double-edged sword!

This blow, if it hits him head-on, would actually have his trachea cut open by the blade of his own sword!

screw you!

Yu He simply lay down on the ground, stretched out his legs and kicked towards the tiger's teeth, his body sliding out from underneath like an eel, just as the tiger's head snapped away.

The next moment, Bai Xiang finally caught up.

She hadn't anticipated the demon tiger's sudden turn, causing a momentary pause in her pursuit. Once she caught up, she coldly plunged her sword into the demon tiger's back, causing it to howl in agony. She then swung her sword to cut an 'L' angle into its body, intending to extensively damage its internal organs.

Scalding demon blood splattered at close range. Remembering Yu He's instructions, Bai Xiang used his Qi Sha to shield his body and swept the incoming demon blood to both sides.

suddenly!

The demonic tiger's upper body and waist were ripped apart, and it sprang out of its body like a bent spring! It flew several meters into the air and turned its face to face Bai Xiang!

Time stands still.

Bai Xiang rolled his eyes at the ferocious tiger head, glancing at its fallen, mangled body out of the corner of his eye.

Instead of pursuing, she stepped back to the side.

Pfft!

A large number of wind blades, enveloped by demonic energy, revealed their hazy outlines, like crescent-shaped sword energies cutting into the yellow earth. Wherever they passed, they were like mortar shells, directly covering an area of ​​seven or eight meters, including Bai Xiang.

Before the smoke and dust had cleared, the spine that had supported the tiger's head as it soared into the sky lost its grip and tilted to the side, crashing to the ground along with the tiger's head.

Om-!

A burst of sword energy suddenly parted the smoke and dust!

Bai Xiang instantly stepped in front of the tiger's head, and before it could open its mouth, he stabbed it in the forehead and between its eyebrows with his sword. His wrist and even the "Fei Xiang Tian" were blurred for a moment.

"puff!"

The demonic tiger showed no unusual movement from the front, but its head split open like a watermelon, spraying out large amounts of blood and grime in a radial pattern.

Bai Xiang still wouldn't let it go, twisting his wrist to make horizontal and vertical cuts, and in an instant, he dismembered the tiger's head into eight pieces.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on this abandoned construction site, where one could see the surrounding land, stained and polluted by demon blood, evaporating and rising in purplish-red smoke.

Yu He approached, still shaken.

Bai Xiang finally had a moment to ask him, "What is this?"

“It’s pollution, or disorder,” Yu He sighed. “His demon pool is not simple… but its cultivation is too weak, far from enough to support the demon pool to truly take form through flesh and blood.”

"What a pity—oh, it should be just right! Otherwise, if he had been raised into a complete 'Benling Tiger,' it would have been something that could even be called a 'demon'!"

Is that why only one *** is protruding?

Bai frowned.

"Are you sure it's a Benling Tiger?" She looked at the wreckage on the ground again.

"Did you see it freeze me like that?" Yu He said, still a little scared. "Sound Suppression Technique, one of the Four Great Divine Powers! That's the 'Sound Technique' and 'Suppression Technique' working at the same time! It even suppressed my soul!"

There's also the dying 'Storm Cutter'.

Bai nodded.

Is it 'wind' and 'cut'?

This does seem quite accurate.

But if it really is the Benling Tiger...

She frowned.

Then the opponent's goal is not to fight, but to commit suicide in this form and buy time.

On the one hand, it gives his companions a chance to escape, and on the other hand, it prevents him from being captured alive by the other side.

This kind of awareness is practically that of a suicide squad member.

Could it be—

"He is not one of Benling's people."

Yu He seemed to know what she was thinking and shook his head beside her.

"It's really similar."

“But he wasn’t using the Benling Sword Technique.”

Chapter Forty-Two: Life Fire

Yu He described what happened in the group chat. Tao Shuohua took it very seriously and asked them repeatedly if anyone was injured or affected by the rampaging spirit.

"That's good!" She breathed a sigh of relief after confirming the situation. "Then please stay there and keep watch for a while longer! Cao Chuan will bring people over to collect the body soon."

Typing would be too slow in this situation, so she simply created a voice group so that several people could speak freely.

There are just a few people; so far, there are only the three of them.

Cao Chuan was there just now, but he's gone to get a car and call someone. The others are all gone, I don't know what they're busy with.

"Aunt Tao," Bai asked Tao Shuohua while Yu He went to the restroom, "I want to learn more about the 'Rampaging Soul'."

"Old Fish Head didn't tell you? He's really lazy." Tao Shuohua chuckled. "Actually, you could probably guess pretty much the truth. This is also due to the influence of the Illusion God of the Demon Pool."

"The Demon Pool is naturally formed and contains many mysterious secrets." She gradually became serious. "There is a saying that has been passed down from ancient times, which is that the Demon Pool and the demon beasts are actually equivalent to the soul and the body."

"quite?"

“That’s right—the Demon Pool is equivalent to the soul, and the demon beasts are equivalent to the physical body. The latter is not a derivative of the former, but rather an integral part of the two.”

"Then why..."

"You want to ask why these two are distinguished?" Tao Shuohua's tone changed slightly. "I don't know either."

"As I said, this is just an ancient saying. Its name is 'The Theory of Demons and Gods,' which argues that demons are strange creatures that are punished by heaven for not conforming to their destiny. They are split in two by the will of heaven, and from then on, the pure and the impure are separated and can never meet again, which makes it impossible for the Demon Pool to merge with demons and beasts."

"What I mainly want to tell you about here is another one—'The Theory of Fire of Life'."

"The fire of life is the fire of the soul. Many people know that the ancients compared the world to a boundless sea, the physical body to a boat, and the soul—that is, the inner essence of the mind—to the person standing at the bow of the boat to cross the sea. But few people who do not cultivate the Tao know that they also said, 'The body is the candle, and life is the fire of the soul.' This means that the soul, as the core essence, is maintained at the cost of the physical body as fuel and candle, by consuming life."

Life fire?

Soulfire?

That's a novel way of putting it.

Bai had only ever associated the physical body with a wooden boat, and the soul residing in the body was like a person crossing a river by boat. He never considered that there was another perspective.

Is the body a soap candle?

Upon closer examination, this "Treatise on the Fire of Life" is far more cruel than the "Treatise on the Boat of the Body."

According to the "Treatise on the Body and Soul," the body and the soul complement each other and have the potential to cooperate and work together to achieve the Great Dao.

But the "Theory of Life Fire" is different. This theory directly points out that the body and the soul are natural enemies!

If one side is feeding on the other, what else could they be but natural enemies?

What's even more interesting is that Bai thought about the two theories many times and found that they each had their own logic.

Because it cannot be disproven.

Throughout history, no one has attained immortality and ascended to heaven, which means that no body is immortal.

Without such evidence, how can one refute the "Theory of Life Fire"?

Those who firmly believe that the "Theory of Life Fire" is correct can, of course, infer that it is precisely because the soul draws too much nourishment from the body that the body ages and dies!

"What is Aunt Tao trying to tell me by telling me this?"

Bai Xiang had many ideas, but she wasn't sure, so she chose to ask Tao Shuohua.

"If the body is a candle and the soul is fire, what happens if the candle encounters other fires?" Tao Shuohua asked her in return.

Bai Xiang frowned: "It'll probably catch fire too."

“That’s right.” Tao Shuohua sighed. “Although it hasn’t been confirmed, quite a few people do believe that the Demon Pool can use a human body as a candle to ignite demonic fire, and use the demonic fire to influence and assimilate the soul’s life fire.”

"They believe this is the reason behind pollution and disorder."

That's just metaphysical nonsense.

Bai Xiang would give a conclusion privately.

After all, no one actually saw whether it was popular or not; it was just speculation.

“I don’t really like these things myself,” Tao Shuohua said. “The reason I’m telling you this is to warn you in advance so you don’t get involved.”

"Both perspectives have their merits and can be used as a reference on the path of spiritual practice, but they should not be blindly believed. One must never doubt the path one has chosen."

Of course.

Bai Xiang finally realized.

Because the swordsmanship of the Great Yu is very strange.

It is impossible for an ordinary person who has not practiced the way of the sword to control the demon pool, so why can the way of the sword allow it?

It depends on the heart.

But the concept of mind is also a mysterious one. It is an aggregation of wisdom, experience, and state of mind, and it is not as simple as a power system.

Bai Shengju's cultivation has been stagnant for many years after his mental state was broken, which is a unique manifestation of the mystery of the mind.

Therefore, it is not important to cultivators which of these arguments is true.

You can believe whichever argument you choose.

The important thing is not to doubt your own beliefs.