185: Chapter 184 Human Life is Precious, World Upgrade (5K)

Ye Qingxuan turned his head to look at Qilin and the Three Kings.

"The Fusion of the Heavenly Dao is coming to an end. Next is the Fusion and convergence of the three worlds, which will still take a little time. Now, let's talk about your problems, Qilin."

As soon as Ye Qingxuan's voice fell, Qilin gave a sharp shudder all over, instantly standing straight with a look of obediently accepting criticism.

Kesha, Hexi, and Liangbing, the three of them standing nearby, glanced at each other, a trace of sympathy flashing deep in their eyes.

Looking at this reaction, which was so practiced it was close to instinct, one didn't even need to think to know that Qilin had received plenty of scoldings following Ye Qingxuan in her cultivation over the past few years.

Ye Qingxuan's gaze fell on Qilin, his tone calm: "Fighting this entire great battle, tell me yourself, how many mistakes did you make?"

Qilin lowered her head, her small face tense, muttering softly.

"Senior Brother, I know I was wrong... This is my first life-and-death actual combat since I started cultivation. My heart was nervous, and I couldn't remember to use a large pile of Spells that Senior Brother had taught me."

"Fighting the entire battle from beginning to end, I only knew how to throw Talismans, plus the single move Clearing After Snow, completely wasting all my skills."

Ye Qingxuan gave Qilin a half-smile glance: "Just this?"

Kesha and Hexi exchanged a glance. 'Daoist Ye's standards are truly so high!'

Recalling Qilin's combat, at least in their view, it was very perfect.

As for Liangbing, she thought of something, holding back her laughter as she waited for Qilin's explanation.

Hearing this, Qilin quickly thought back carefully for a long time, turning things over and over in her mind, and truly unable to find any other faults. She could only make a bitter face and cup her fists: "Please correct me, Senior Brother."

Ye Qingxuan looked at her exasperatedly: "You, your practical combat experience is simply too little. Later when we see Master, I must talk to him properly. Even Ximo's contingency response is better than yours."

Qilin's cheeks instantly burned, making her too ashamed to raise her head.

Over these seven years, Ye Qingxuan had often told her about the Shangqing Sect, so she naturally knew who Ximo was.

Ye Qingxuan continued to lecture in a deep voice: "Where are the Sword Control Spell and the Nine-Word Mantra I taught you? What about Heaven and Earth Lose Color? You left the area-clearing Spells unused and went to use Clearing After Snow instead? What were you going for? Was it pretty?"

The Three Kings muttered inwardly, 'It really is quite pretty.'

Qilin's head lowered even further, almost about to bury herself in the snow, wailing in her heart: 'Sword Control Spell? Nine-Word Mantra? It's over!!'

"You've even practiced drawing Talismans in the Void Realm. If you couldn't strike precisely, couldn't you use scattered beans for area-of-effect suppression? You just had to use the Heavenly Thunder Incantation. If someone had interrupted your spellcasting just now, you would have been injured long ago!"

Qilin drooped her head even lower, grumbling softly: "The Heavenly Thunder Incantation is powerful, and besides... haven't I... not officially received my Talisman registry yet... Once I receive the registry, casting these Talismanic Incantations won't require chanting incantations anymore."

Hearing Qilin's soft defense, Ye Qingxuan immediately glared at her: "You still think you have a reason?"

Qilin hurriedly waved her hands and shook her head, speaking in a flustered manner: "N-N-No way! Senior Brother, I was just too nervous in my first practical combat, and all the Spell routines got completely messed up. I will definitely change in the future!"

Watching her appearance of knowing her mistake and admitting it, Ye Qingxuan helplessly nodded and temporarily stopped lecturing her.

He sighed inwardly. After teaching her for these past seven years, he was truly running out of patience.

Forget it. After the worlds fuse, he would directly dump her on Master and Senior Brother to teach. He really didn't want to teach anymore; it was too torturous.

Afterward, Ye Qingxuan turned to look at Kesha, Hexi, and Liangbing, saying: "You three, this poor Daoist has something I want to discuss with you."

Kesha: "What kind of matter could it be that even requires you, Daoist Ye, to use the word 'discuss'?"

Ye Qingxuan slowly spoke: "When the Three Realms completely fuse, would your Angel Tribe be willing to submit to Huaxia and become the fifty-ninth ethnic group?"

As soon as these words came out, Kesha and Hexi instantly went wild with joy. Was this a pie falling from the sky?!

Liangbing was, after all, the Revelation King of the Angel Tribe, and she still had the Angel Tribe in her heart. She couldn't wait to speak: "I agree on behalf of Kesha!"

The reason they only temporarily resided on Earth waiting for Ye Qingxuan to return rather than integrating into Earth's Yanhuang was because the Yanhuang of this world was too weak; the strong would not actively attach themselves to the weak. However, Huaxia with Ye Qingxuan was not among them.

Just as Kesha's voice fell, Hexi beside her suddenly thought of a key issue and hurriedly pursued the question:

"Daoist Ye, our Angel Tribe originally has no Yanhuang Bloodline. If the entire clan integrates into Huaxia and intermarries and reproduces in the future, I'm afraid Huaxia's territory will be full of descendants of angels everywhere. Aren't you afraid that our Angel Tribe will assimilate the native Yanhuang Bloodline?"

Hexi's question was also Kesha's deepest concern in her heart.

She had always worried that once the angel Bloodline took root on a large scale in Huaxia, Ye Qingxuan would mistakenly believe that the Angel Tribe harbored malicious intentions and wanted to reversely assimilate the Huaxia civilization.

Just at this moment, a soft chuckle of "Pfft" suddenly came from the side.

Kesha and Hexi turned to look, only to see Liangbing covering her mouth, her entire face flushed red, her shoulders shaking incessantly, desperately suppressing her amusement, utterly failing to hold it back.

Ye Qingxuan glanced at her: "Liangbing, you come and explain to them."

Receiving permission, Liangbing immediately lifted her chin and spoke with a hint of banter: "Kesha, you bitch, you don't use your brain. Hexi, you aren't enlightened either. You've stayed on Earth for seven years, and you haven't even figured out this most basic principle?"

As soon as these words came out, Kesha and Hexi's complexions instantly turned dark, and they immediately rolled up their sleeves and flexed their muscles, looking like they were going to team up and beat her up.

Liangbing panicked inwardly and hurriedly retreated step by step.

She was indeed a Demonic Path Cultivator; fighting one Kesha was no problem, but the current Hexi was even slightly stronger than both her and Kesha. She definitely couldn't beat the two of them combined.

She quickly raised her hands to surrender: "Don't attack, don't attack! I'll explain properly!"

Kesha / Hexi: "Speak!!"

"You've gotten the Foundation of Yanhuang wrong! Yanhuang never looks at Bloodlines, only at cultural identity!"

"The so-called Yanhuang Bloodline has never referred to physical Bloodline, but to the backbone of civilization and cultural belonging! As long as you recognize Huaxia culture and integrate into the civilizational inheritance of this land, no matter whether you are an angel, a demon, or even a former person of Liyang, as long as you sincerely naturalize, then you are a Yanhuang person!"

After listening to Liangbing's explanation, Kesha and Hexi were instantly stunned. The most core Foundation of Yanhuang civilization was cultural identity?!

Ye Qingxuan nodded in satisfaction. It seemed this Liangbing wasn't illiterate; Lin Lei was saved.

"Huaxia civilization has always established its ethnicity through culture rather than drawing boundaries by Bloodline. In ancient times, ten thousand regions came to pay homage, blending a hundred clans and ultimately converging into Huaxia. With carriages sharing the same axle tracks, books sharing the same writing system, and conduct following the same ethical norms, those who shared this identity were all subjects of Yanhuang."

"If your Angel Tribe is willing to integrate into Huaxia, observe Huaxia rites and Laws, and abide by Yanhuang morality, then from now on, the Angel Tribe shall be the fifty-ninth ethnic group of Huaxia."

"As for Bloodline assimilation, that is even more sheer nonsense. Huaxia's ancient inheritance encompasses all things and has never feared the integration of alien races. What can be assimilated has never been Bloodline, but civilization. My Huaxia civilization will exist for eternity, and it will only assimilate all races, never being assimilated by them."

After hearing these words, Kesha and Hexi completely let go of all their psychological knots, and the heavy stones in their hearts finally hit the ground. They had seized the future of the angels!

Kesha: "My Angel Tribe is willing to submit to Huaxia as a whole!"

Hexi was somewhat curious: "Isn't Huaxia 56 ethnic groups?"

Ye Qingxuan couldn't be bothered to explain: "You'll know after the worlds fuse."

Liangbing stood to the side, smiling without speaking. Ever since she accepted the Demonic Path Legacy, she had been half a Yanhuang person; now she was just missing a formal Master-apprenticeship ceremony. In this regard, she was ahead of Kesha.

Kesha earnestly asked: "Daoist Ye, I have another question. Most of our clansmen have comprehended cultivation methods, but they are still unable to guide Qi into their bodies. Why is that?"

Among the tens of millions of people in the Angel Tribe, even after listening to Ye Qingxuan expound on the Dao, only a mere few people like Hexi, Yan, Leng, and Lingxi had successfully cultivated and truly stepped into the threshold of cultivation.

Most of the other angels could only walk Bai Yuekui's path of evolution and could not touch the true cultivation methods.

Ye Qingxuan only said a single phrase: "A human body is hard to obtain."

Kesha and Hexi instantly understood.

The human body is a natural miniature world, a natural Dao body, born with the ability to draw in the primordial Qi of heaven and earth.

Birds, beasts, and Essence Spirits that want to practice the Dao must bitterly Cultivate to transform into human form before they can smoothly circulate the great celestial cycle and conform to the rules of heaven and earth;

The Human Race is born as a complete Dao body, naturally carrying its own Foundation for cultivation.

But angels have a pair of wings more than the human body; the balance of the complete miniature world is broken, and those who can enter the threshold are very few.

The practice of the Great Dao emphasizes the Perfection and balance of the miniature world of the human body. From head to toe, limbs, trunk, meridians, and internal organs, the human body perfectly conforms to the circulation of the Five Elements grand celestial cycle of heaven and earth, not having a thread too much nor lacking a single hair—it is the Dao body determined by the Heavenly Dao.

As for the Angel Tribe, born with double wings, they look sacred and magnificent, but in reality, they have two extra physical structures, breaking the balance between the Physical Body and heaven and earth.

For most angels, even if they comprehended the method, the Spiritual Qi when guiding Qi into the body would be disrupted by the aura of their wings, causing it to divert and scatter.

The Spiritual Qi cannot return to the Dantian, and the celestial cycle circulation is completely disordered, naturally preventing them from entering the threshold of cultivation.

Hexi suddenly understood: "So that's how it is! It's a problem with our Innate physical form!?"

Ye Qingxuan: "In Daoist Sect cultivation, the Foundation is the human body. Orthodox immortal Dao entirely relies on the complete humanoid miniature world to circulate primordial Qi.

You angels are born with double wings, and your internal worlds are unbalanced, so only a few people have entered the Dao."

He turned his head to scan Liangbing and continued:

"Of course, if you are willing to switch to cultivating the Demonic Path, this little physical shackle is not much of an issue. The Demonic Path inherently takes an unconventional path and is not bound by physical orthodoxy; all paths lead to the same destination and are all about seeking the Dao. If you want to learn, Liangbing will definitely be willing to impart everything she knows."

"The Buddha Dao is also not a problem; after all, the Buddhist Sect has the Eight Legions, which also have various physical forms..."

Ye Qingxuan didn't elaborate, and they also understood—the Buddhist Sect's Eight Dragon Kings, Asuras, Garudas, Kinnaras, and so on.

As his voice fell, Liangbing's eyes instantly lit up, staring at Kesha and Hexi with anticipation all over her face.

Mentally fantasizing about the scene of Kesha and Hexi begging her together, she couldn't help chuckling foolishly.

Seeing this, the corners of Keisha and Hexi's mouths twitched fiercely.

As the dignified Holy Angels, if all of them switched to cultivating the Demonic Path, in the future when Angel warriors went into battle against enemies, as soon as they circulated their energy, Devilish Qi would surge all over their bodies—that scene was simply unimaginable.

The two of them hurriedly looked at each other and shook their heads, refusing to choose this path even if it killed them.

Buddhism was even more impossible. To make a group of holy and beautiful little angels shave their heads and become monastics? To observe strict precepts and commandments and act as Buddhist nuns? That was even more impossible!

Keisha could only turn to look at Ye Qingxuan and asked with anticipation, "Daoist Ye, you definitely have another way, right?"

Ye Qingxuan pondered for a moment and slowly spoke, "What you are practicing now is the same method as Bai Yuekui. I have deduced it, and it is viable. All Daos lead to the same destination by different paths; no matter what Dao it is, the ultimate goal is Immortal Ascension, and Immortal Ascension is merely the starting point of everything."

"If you truly want to practice Immortal Cultivation, there is one last path—Transformation."

"Transformation?!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the few people present exclaimed in surprise simultaneously.

Even Qilin, who had been watching the drama unfold from the side the entire time, froze instantly with an expression of complete disbelief:

"Senior Brother, aren't only Essence Spirits belonging to birds and beasts, or aquatic, terrestrial, and botanical categories the ones that need Transformation?!"

As she spoke, she couldn't help but secretly glance at the wings behind the Three Kings.

Muttering inwardly to herself, Angels are born with twin wings, and their Physique is different from ordinary people. When all is said and done, their Physique is no different from the abnormal entities of the Yao Race.

If Angels were treated as abnormal Yao bodies, and the Yao Race's Transformation method was used to shed their wings and reshape a perfect human body, that could indeed completely resolve their cultivation problem!

Ye Qingxuan glanced at Qilin with a hint of appreciation. "Not bad, it seems your 《Records of Shangqing Omissions》 is remembered quite solidly."

After speaking, his gaze fell back onto the Three Angels Kings, focusing on Keisha.

Hexi had already entered the threshold of Immortal Cultivation; it's just that compared to a human body, her early-stage cultivation speed was slower, but after reaching the Void Return Stage, there would be no problems.

However, Keisha and the vast majority of Angels had always been stuck by their Innate Physique.

Ye Qingxuan: "If you want to go further in orthodox Immortal Cultivation, you must have a perfect Dao body. The path of Transformation is indeed suitable for your Angel Tribe. Just as Qilin said, the Transformation method has belonged exclusively to the Yao Race since ancient times; it is a method for abnormal entities to reshape their Dao bodies. If you wish to walk the orthodox Immortal Dao, I can impart the complete Transformation method to you."

As soon as these words were said, Keisha and Hexi fell into hesitation.

Liangbing didn't care at all. Her eyes lit up as she hurriedly asked, "Daoist Ye, can my Demon Race warriors also rely on Transformation to advance their cultivation Realms?"

Ye Qingxuan first nodded, then shook his head. "There's no need for the Demon Race. What you Cultivate is the Demonic Path, taking a biased and unconventional sword path; Transformation is optional for you."

He looked once again at the deeply conflicted Keisha and Hexi, explaining patiently, "I will make the pros and cons clear to you; after Transformation, you will possess a perfect Dao body, in harmony with heaven and earth, with your cultivation proceeding without obstruction."

"Your original Angelic true forms will become true-form dharma idols. Usually, you can maintain a humanoid Dao body for cultivation, and during battle, you can still revert to your Angelic true forms. Your strength, appearance, and talent will not disappear."

"The only problem is that the title sounds unpleasant, which is equivalent to the entire Angel Tribe henceforth being classified as Yao Race abnormal entities." (Though it's pretty much the same anyway)

"Of course, you can also continue walking Bai Yuekui's Dao. That path can likewise lead to Immortal Ascension, but it is simply not as comprehensive in Immortal Cultivation methods as orthodox cultivation. The choice is entirely up to you."

After hearing this, Keisha and Hexi were completely dazed. With two kinds of Dao placed before their eyes, they couldn't make up their minds for a moment.

"There's no rush; go back and consider it slowly. The world is about to completely undergo Fusion."

Keisha and Hexi exchanged a glance, immediately deciding to go back and discuss it thoroughly with all the little angels within their clan.

Walking Bai Yuekui's Dao to its end could likewise lead to Immortal Ascension.

It's just that orthodox Immortal Cultivation methods were more numerous and the path was broader. The final choice had to be left to those little angels to decide.

Keisha cupped her hands in salute: "Since that is the case, Daoist Ye, we will take our leave first."

"Wait a moment." Ye Qingxuan opened his mouth to stop the two of them.

"After this world Fusion, the world will be upgraded into the Middle Thousand Worlds. By then, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi will surge violently, and Dao regulations will be perfected. All living beings in the world will receive gifts from the Heavenly Dao, and their cultivation, Physique, and Foundation will skyrocket."

"Go back and tell your clansmen that when their Realms advance by leaps and bounds at that time, there is no need to make a fuss."

Keisha nodded: "Understood! Let's go, old vixen."

Hexi retorted back: "You tomboy, think about it slowly yourself. Anyway, I've already entered the threshold."

...

Watching the two walk away, Ye Qingxuan turned his head to look at Liangbing. The meaning was very obvious: do you still have business?

Liangbing chuckled and spread her hands: "I don't have any business, I just purely wanted to see that bitch Keisha's deflated and disappointed look."

Ye Qingxuan couldn't be bothered to listen to her babbling; he directly grabbed Qilin and vanished via teleportation.

Seeing this, Liangbing couldn't help but curl her lips. Covered in Devilish Qi, she soared into the air and flew straight toward her base camp.

At the same time, she also felt a bit of anticipation inwardly: "I'm about to see that little brat soon; why am I feeling a bit excited?"

Presently, Liangbing's Demon Race garrison was located in the former Eastern Island. The entire island was saturated with Heavenly Demon Qi, becoming a Daoist arena for the Demon Race.

Ye Qingxuan brought Qilin and teleported back to Mount Mao, where he witnessed a scene that left him neither laughing nor crying.

Dozens of young Taoist priests were lying all over the ground in disorder, every single one of them bruised and swollen.

In the very center of the plaza, Xiujing had a dark face, clutching a dust whisk in his hand and whipping his little Disciple's butt stroke by stroke.

That little Disciple shrieked in pain at the top of his lungs, sounding just like Tom the Cat. The entire plaza was filled with a chorus of rising and falling wails.

Ye Qingxuan didn't even need to think to know the reason.

Earlier, he had kicked Xiujing directly back to the mountain gate from the battlefield. His disheveled appearance upon landing had been seen crystal clear by his Sect's Disciples.

Xiujing couldn't save face, so he simply grabbed his own Disciple to vent his frustrations. He didn't dare hit the Ancestral Master... mainly because he couldn't beat him, but couldn't he beat the rest of them?

With a sweep of Ye Qingxuan's Divine Sense, all the Disciples only had superficial injuries and nothing was seriously wrong with them, so he couldn't be bothered to care.

Afterwards, he brought Qilin and walked straight toward the back mountain.

"Sit down."

Qilin obediently sat cross-legged.

Ye Qingxuan looked toward the Void Realm: "During this world upgrade, the Heavenly Dao will gift living beings. Your Foundation is considered fairly solid, and there is a high probability you can directly Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, or even Soul Transformation. When you Breakthrough later, steady your mind and don't let your Dao Heart fluctuate."

Qilin nodded heavily with force: "Senior Brother, I remember!"

As soon as those words fell!

The entire heaven and earth suddenly shook, and roars echoed!

Countless figures flickered around; they were the members of the Shangqing Sect on Blue Star. The three Earths were currently undergoing Fusion.

Ye Qingxuan's Divine Sense spread out instantly, clearly perceiving that the entire world was crazily expanding, transforming, and sublimating.

The heaven and earth Laws upgraded rapidly, and the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi directly surged dozens of times at this moment. The Spiritual Qi in some blessed grotto-heavens became so dense it was almost turning into mist.

The original Earth—no, now called Blue Star.

The myriad Realms, all the Blue Stars, Earths, and Terrestrial Stars originated from the ancestral star Earth of Ye Qingxuan's past life, and their Origin was all the same.

This Fusion was not a simple one-plus-one addition, but a geometrically multiplying surge and expansion.

Under the shroud of Ye Qingxuan's Divine Sense, the volume of the brand-new Blue Star instantly surged by a full dozen times!

Mountains, rivers, earth, dragon veins, and blessed grotto-heavens all expanded and were reborn. A brand-new Middle Thousand Worlds had taken shape!

Blue Star—

At the peak of Mount Mao, Ye Qingxuan quietly overlooked the entire heaven and earth, silently watching the drastic changes of the world.

Just a moment ago, he had seen it crystal clear.

On Blue Star, countless illusory figures flashed past; they were all the figures of those people from the Super God World and Ling Cage World.

The Earths of the two worlds were completely fitting toward Blue Star.

In the brief instant when space and time overlapped, Ye Qingxuan caught a glimpse of the scene in a parallel spacetime where his Clone and Qilin were talking in the back mountain, except that the light and shadow flickered and dissipated in a flash.

Master Yuanxin, Qingming, Qingmo, and a host of high-tier Cultivators also saw the countless figures flashing through the Void Realm, and one after another walked forward.

Qingming asked, "Qingxuan, how is it? Has the Fusion ended?"

Everyone present was at least at the Void Return Stage, yet they could not perceive the more subtle changes.

Ye Qingxuan raised his eyes to look at the sky and slowly spoke, "The Fusion is finished, and the world is completing its final upgrade; it will be over right away."

As soon as those words fell!

Boom—

A loud noise that shook the entire firmament exploded!

All Cultivators at the Void Return Stage instantly and acutely captured the earth-shattering changes of Blue Star.

Their own cultivation also rose slightly by a section, but to Fanxu Masters, this bit of increase was like a mosquito's leg, negligible.

However, all Cultivators below the Void Return Stage completely boiled over!

Everyone's cultivation crazily surged out of control, and their Foundation and heritage directly multiplied by a dozen times!

Cultivators nearing a Breakthrough directly broke through to the next Realm on the spot.

Yet the rules of cultivation were unchanged; the thresholds of Soul Transformation and Void Return Stage could not be raised by resources, remaining completely motionless.

All living beings across the entire Blue Star were completely dumbfounded.

Cultivators in the streets and alleys, mountains and Sects, and military units were all exclaiming and roaring wildly.

"What the fuck! What is the situation?!"

"My body is automatically growing stronger! My strength is surging wildly!"

"I was clearly only at the tenth layer of Qi Refining! I broke straight into the eleventh layer!"

"I've established my Foundation! And it's still rising! It simply cannot stop!"

"I was originally in the Middle Stage of Blood Refining! Now I've directly reached Perfection!"

The entire populace was boiling with excitement, everyone was terrified, and no one could figure out the sudden drastic change.

Just as all living beings were clamorous and in chaos, a cold, vast, and solemn Heavenly Dao will instantly transmitted into the minds of every living being on Blue Star.

[The Three Realms return to one, the world is upgrading, all living beings calm your minds, do not panic or fall into disorder]