381: Chapter 381 The Path of the Taiyin Ghost Immortal, the Path of the Corpse?

Above the Heavenly River, specks of white spiritual light gathered.

Two Zifu True Persons and one spiritual Cultivator keenly sensed a primitive and pure life aura surging within these white spiritual lights.

"Is this a water Qi spiritual Cultivator?"

Pure Lotus blurted out somewhat uncertainly.

Such a pure, primitive extraordinary life form was probably being seen for the first time.

Seeing this scene, all three of them felt varying degrees of shock.

Because in the past, whether it was the increase in the planet's primordial Qi concentration or the first Great Age of Wood Element spiritual aura, extraordinary traits always evolved on the basis of existing life.

Now, this ability to directly give birth to spirituality, and even spiritual Cultivators, from lifelessness—or even purely from water Qi—was undoubtedly launching another evolutionary craze.

After observing for a moment, the three of them withdrew their gazes.

Lu Tianxin summoned the Eighteen-Tier Exquisite Pagoda, and the light of Law enveloped all three of them.

The Heavenly River Water parted, and they sank toward the bottom of the Heavenly River, where Wang An was located.

Entering this Six Laws Heavenly River, even Lu Tianxin did not dare to extend her Divine Thought.

The water of the Six Laws Heavenly River connected the Netherworld and the waters of the Yellow Springs; it had the effect of dissolving Souls and washing away memories, and it also contained the powers of purification, life, and death.

Without the protection of Laws and Magic Treasures, even Zifu Cultivators would not dare to barge in casually.

The three of them sank downwards and discovered that deep within the Heavenly River, there were more and more pure spiritual life forms composed of water Qi and wood Qi.

They drifted randomly, intentionally or unintentionally, absorbing the primordial Qi and spiritual aura of the [Taiyin Ling Hua] in the Six Laws Heavenly River.

Their spirituality grew, transforming into Soul bodies, and with blossoming wisdom, they actively gathered lunar essence to refine their Souls and temper their wits.

As they continued to sink, a figure whose presence they could barely feel yet seemed omnipresent came into view.

His posture was ethereal, with profound Qi flowing around his body. Just by taking a single glance at that mighty Five Elements imagery, all three of them gained immense benefits.

However, it was only a glance before these images quickly vanished.

A regretful sigh could not help but flash through the hearts of the three.

Wang An opened his eyes, looked at the three people standing before him to pay their respects, and smiled reassuringly.

"There is no need to feel regret. You must not look at my imagery too much; the Laws mixed within it are too vast, and absorbing too much might risk contaminating your Dao Foundation and altering your imagery."

Lu Tianxin was fine upon hearing her Master say this, but Jinghua and Pure Lotus were left with lingering fear.

"Come, sit down and let's chat slowly."

Wang An had conversed at length with Li Mingxiao and roughly understood his direction of Cultivation before speaking calmly.

"Now that you have advanced to the Purple Mansion, you can address my other four Disciples as Senior Brother or Senior Sister."

"Naturally, I will not shortchange your rightful status here."

Immediately, Wang An raised his arm, and countless Daoist knowledge intertwined to form five hundred Law mantras, which flowed into Li Mingxiao's mind.

"This is the Cultivation Technique for the Purple Mansion stage of my Heavenly River Daoist orthodoxy, containing a Yin God Soul-cultivation and refining method, a general outline for Purple Mansion Divine Abilities and Spells, as well as imagery diagrams regarding the Five Elements Laws."

"From now on, you are Inner Sect Disciples under my tutelage. You may address me as Teacher and will have opportunities to ask questions and receive guidance."

Li Mingxiao suddenly received these Law mantras containing an immense amount of information. He had originally prepared to fall into a deep sleep to digest them, but he discovered that most of these Law mantras were sealed, leaking no profound secrets even upon careful study.

For him at present, just taking a single glance at the few dozen unsealed characters made him feel somewhat dizzy.

However, since Pure Lotus was a natal spiritual plant Cultivator, she could help him share the pressure as much as possible, quickly suppressing the interference of the Daoist knowledge.

Li Mingxiao and she immediately stood up and bowed deeply, saying, "Disciples Li Mingxiao and Pure Lotus pay respects to Teacher."

"Mhm, rest assured and adapt to this Realm."

"The current Blue Planet is still not enough to support the continuous Cultivation of all six of you Purple Mansion Cultivators."

"Shortly, follow Tianping and Tianli to the [Cangming Jinghui Star Realm]; that is the place suitable for your growth."

The speed of time's passage does not transfer according to human will, or rather, it is unaffected by weak life forms.

Ten years passed in the blink of an eye.

Compared to the time of the Wood Element spiritual aura, the descent of [Taiyin Ling Hua] nowadays had likewise stirred up considerable turmoil.

Heavenly Fire's Yin fire manifested as clear lunar radiance and the light of spirituality.

Precisely because the Jiyi Taiyin was transformed from the light of the sun, it looked cold and desolate on the surface, but in reality, it contained Yin within Yin, remaining pure and flawless, making it extremely easy to catalyze spirituality and nourish the Soul body.

Consequently, a path of immortality flourished because of this—precisely the Way of Ghost Immortals.

Whether it was the most orthodox Corpse-Dissolution Ghost Immortal of Taiyin body-refining, sword-dissolution or staff-dissolution relying on objects to manifest forms, or tribulations of water, fire, and weapons borrowing the appearance of calamity to fake death, all were extremely prevalent.

Over two hundred years into the New Era, an increasing number of Qi Refining Cultivators who lacked the courage to climb to the Dao Foundation were reaching the ends of their lifespans.

Now that Taiyin was flourishing greatly, the Ghost Immortal's path of Soul Refining yielded twice the result with half the effort, and many Qi Refining Cultivators chose to bury themselves, successfully transforming their Soul bodies through this method.

With their mortal lifespans exhausted, they survived on nether lifespans to continue Cultivating.

Therefore, ghostly occurrences emerged endlessly in the mortal world.

Fortunately, most Ghost Immortal Cultivators fled into the Netherworld Realm and served as ghost messengers to maintain the order of Yin and Yang, which prevented complete chaos and the blurring of lines between humans and ghosts.

However, this peaceful situation only lasted for ten years before plunging into chaos once again.

Blue Planet, Pacific Ocean, Mariana Trench.

As a deep-sea region exceeding ten thousand meters in depth, under the current environment where extraordinary energy covered the entire planet, it was also exceptionally extraordinary.

A deep-blue Soul body reeking of chilling Evil Qi was seen silently crossing layers of natural formations and penetrating deep to the twenty-thousand-meter bottom.

The ground was a vast expanse of white bones; upon closer inspection, they were all bones left behind after the deaths of giant marine creatures.

Before the Old Era, people would at most marvel that this was a graveyard for marine life.

But now it was different.

The deep-blue Evil Qi Soul body returned from the outside world, heading back to a place sheltered by an artificial formation array.

A coffin made of first-tier Yin locust wood was firmly protected inside the formation array.

[Xuanming White Bone Water Evil] enveloped the Yin locust wood coffin.

The Evil Qi Soul body slightly inspected and checked the condition of the formation array, pulling out a handful of corpse Qi "borrowed" from certain Fellow Daoist peers, as well as a bottle of lunar essence painstakingly collected.

Swallowing the corpse Qi in one gulp, it immediately lay into the coffin to merge with a cyan-black corpse.

For a time, the corpse Qi and Evil Qi opposed and fused with each other, subjecting the deep-blue Soul body to extreme devastation during this transformation.

However, the lunar essence placed on the coffin slightly emitted a silvery-white light, healing the tattered Soul body bit by bit.

Tempering and devastation, screams and tearing, as well as an aura that had never appeared before yet made normal creatures tremble, were breeding.

Forty-nine days passed.

A hundred-meter-long blue whale at Qi Refining Perfection swam past a certain corner of the trench and discovered a chillingly bone-piercing blue-black vortex rotating, with Evil Qi and corpse Qi entangling and flowing around each other, its power far exceeding Qi Refining Perfection.

After being eroded a few times, the blue whale lost its ability to resist and plummeted deep into the trench, crashing right toward that area of the artificial formation array.

The trench's complex natural formation array repelled all life from entering.

In just a moment, the blue whale's corpse was torn apart, and its blood Qi and death Qi slammed toward the formation array.

Just as the Evil Qi and corpse Qi were merging, the barrier protecting the formation array shattered, and the blood Qi and death Qi participated in the Fusion without any obstruction.

Inside the locust wood coffin, the cyan-black corpse abruptly opened its eyes, its lingering Soul glow revealing a trace of panic: "Not good, how can there be blood Qi and death Qi?"

But it was already too late for regret; the entire advancement ritual was approaching its Peak, and the fourfold Qi was being refined and fused deep within the trench.

This kind of terrain and topography implicitly matched certain destiny principles.

The corpse and the Soul body were soon plunged into the boundless Evil Qi, unable to awaken.

Long afterwards, a dark red Dao Foundation was forged within the green-faced and fanged corpse.

[Blood Evil Corpse]