Chapter 395: Cheating Others and Yourself
"For this, I slaughtered millions of mortals, used their spiritual power as firewood, collected thousands of cultivators' spiritual power to build the illusion, and cut off a part of my own spiritual power as the core, so that I could barely build this dream of all living beings." Before Yuan Ming could speak, Master Shura continued, lamenting his own difficulties.
However, Yuan Ming's hair stood on end when he heard this. Even after he had experienced so much bloodshed on his way to immortality, he was still terrified by Master Shura's bloody methods.
"Don't think I'm cruel. As the saying goes, immortals and mortals have different paths, and all living beings suffer. In fact, those monks I killed had some resentment at first, but when they found that the dream of all living beings could satisfy all their wishes, they all worshipped me as a god and thanked me more than once for taking them into the formation. Moreover, if I hadn't done it, three thousand years later, they would have turned into a handful of yellow earth long ago, but they stayed in the dream of all living beings and are still alive today. If you want, I can even call a few people to let you hear their feelings." Master Shura raised his hand nonchalantly, as if he was going to call someone over.
"Senior, no need, I know you are powerful, and they may really be convinced, but I want to ask you, no matter how beautiful the dreams of these monks are, when the souls of millions of mortals are exhausted, will you treat them as firewood? What's more, you are in control of this place, and their life and death are just a matter of your thought. Is such longevity and living like this really enjoyable? Is it really free?" Yuan Ming asked.
"Someone asked me about what you said a few years ago, but after enjoying the beautiful dream for hundreds of years, he no longer had any other thoughts. You are a genius, you have had a wonderful encounter at a young age, and you have entered the stage of Jindan, and are going to embark on a higher and farther road. But for most people, in their lifetime, they can only reach the stage of foundation building or even Qi refining. They spend most of their lives in hard training and have no time to enjoy. Which one is real and which one is illusion, a dream of thousands of years or a yellow beam of rice for hundreds of years? What's the difference? It's better to be at ease and enjoy the wine today. It's fun." Master Shura shook his head.
Yuan Ming was silent, and found that he couldn't find words to refute Master Shura. He also understood that for those monks who have been trapped in the dream of all living beings, it might be cruel to rashly bring them back to reality. In the end, he could only sigh and stop talking.
"In fact, for you, failure in this test I set may be better than success."
"After all, if you succeed, you will only get the magic weapons and skills I have accumulated, and continue to struggle in the cruel secular world, but if you fail, you can enjoy peace in the dreams of all living beings."
"Especially you, there are so many Yuanying period cultivators outside who want to kill you. If you go out, it may not be safer than staying here." Master Shura persuaded me, his words were full of bewitching.
"Thank you for your kindness, senior, but I am not facing a situation where I am sure I will die. What's more, if I can't control my own destiny and indulge in false dreams, for me, this is just a whitewashed death." Yuan Ming shook his head firmly and said.
"True and false, like illusion and reality, life is like a dream, how much joy is there? Are you so sure that you are not in a dream now? Why are you so obsessed with reality or falsehood?" Master Shura said regretfully.
"I would like to ask you, since you think the dream of all living beings is so beautiful, why doesn't your main soul live here? Instead, why does it continue to take risks to find opportunities to go overseas?" Yuan Ming changed the subject and asked back.
Master Shura stared at Yuan Ming blankly, and suddenly raised his finger and pointed at him, laughing:
"Yes, yes! Then why don't I come in myself? Hahaha, I have been in the dream for too long, and I still want to deceive others, but I even deceive myself."
"If we cultivators don't have the heart to fight for our lives, what is the difference between us and ordinary people? Fake is fake after all, and it will never become real, just like this tea, its fragrance and mellowness cannot enter my nose and mouth, it is just deceiving myself."
After saying that, Master Shura waved his sleeves and the tea on the table disappeared instantly.
At this moment, Yuan Ming suddenly remembered something and hurriedly said, "Senior Shura, I wonder if the trials of others have ended and if they have all passed?"
Master Shura glanced at him and smiled mischievously, "Are you worried about your lover? You two have the same idea, which is really enviable!"
Yuan Ming smiled awkwardly and suddenly understood the meaning of Master Shura's words, and hurriedly said, "Senior, do you mean that she has met you?"
Master Shura nodded and pointed to a scroll beside the two of them.
Everything on the scroll was constantly changing. Yuan Ming looked closely and saw Xiying, dressed in black, sitting cross-legged in a secret room, absorbing black mist from the soul-suppressing pot in front of him, as if he was practicing.
"Speaking of which, she was much faster than you. She even solved the test I set in just one chance, which made me curious. So I went out to meet her in person. As a result, she asked about your situation after just a few words. After learning that you were still safe, she took the initiative to give up the reward and asked me to promise her that if you failed the trial, she would not trap you in the dream of all living beings, but send you out of the cave." Master Shura said slowly.
Hearing this, Yuan Ming felt warm in his heart and immediately said: "Senior Shura, since I have successfully passed the trial, her words do not count. Please give her her reward again. If it is not in accordance with the rules, cancel my reward."
"Hey, why do you young people think that I am a bad person? It's just a trivial matter, so why should you sacrifice your own rewards?" Master Shura seemed to be dissatisfied and knocked on the table.
Yuan Ming coughed twice guiltily, not daring to tell his true thoughts.
Master Shura didn't seem to care much about this. Seeing that Yuan Ming had no reaction, he continued.
"Okay, let's stop talking here. As the only person who can let me show up in person, I allow you to proactively propose the type of reward you need, whether it is a magic weapon or a skill. If you don't want anything in particular, Then it’s up to me to choose the one that suits you.”
"It all depends on the seniors." Yuan Ming said immediately without thinking.
Master Shura seemed to have expected that he would say this. With a little finger, a stream of light instantly flew into Yuan Ming's body.
Immediately afterwards, Yuan Ming immediately noticed that there was a secret method in his mind called "Splitting Soul and Combining Pills".
"I see that you are a dual cultivator of magic and soul, so this secret method is the most suitable. It should be noted that the magic cultivator needs to fuse his soul with the golden elixir before he can break the elixir and become a baby. However, all magical powers in soul cultivation are in the soul. Among them, if you follow the conventional method to form a baby, you will inevitably lose all your abilities, and your strength will not be as strong as the monks in the pill formation stage," Master Shura said eloquently.
Yuan Ming was startled. After all, he had just entered the pill-forming stage and didn't know much about the process of forming a baby. He didn't expect that there was such a particular detail in it.
"According to senior's opinion, this "Soul-Splitting and Combining Pill Technique" can solve this problem?" Yuan Ming asked while distractedly checking the secret technique.
"This "Splitting Soul and Combining Pill Technique" can split one's own soul into two, and then integrate the split part of the soul into the golden elixir. In this way, one can retain one's soul cultivation without affecting one's own birth." Shura The Master said so.
When Yuan Ming heard this, he recalled Xi Cangqiong's secret soul-splitting technique, which was quite similar to the "Splitting Soul and Combining Pill Technique", except that the souls formed by the soul-splitting technique have independent consciousness. Once they develop and grow, they can easily cause hidden dangers. .
The split soul in the "Split Soul and Combined Pill Jue" is different. It has no hidden dangers and is one and the same with the main soul. Only then can it be used to condense the Nascent Soul.
"Having said that, the "Soul-Splitting and Combining Pill Technique" is also extremely dangerous to perform. This technique is different from the ordinary soul-splitting method. It has to completely copy the seven emotions and six desires of the main soul, which is a hundred times more dangerous than the ordinary soul-splitting secret technique. Before I got this technique, many masters became idiots because of practicing this technique. You need to be very careful before practicing it, and never use it lightly unless it is absolutely necessary." Master Shura warned again.
When Yuan Ming heard this, his expression was unmoved, but he was a little happy in his heart. He had already had a split soul by chance, and he had a lot of experience in split souls.
Moreover, every time he separates his soul, the heat flow of wish power in the Heaven Stealing Cauldron will be automatically repaired, which is much safer than other people practicing this technique.
However, Yuan Ming still put on a rather reluctant look on the surface: "Senior Shura, since this technique is so dangerous, is it unjustifiable to use it as a reward? I am just interested in taking the path of soul cultivation, and I don't necessarily have to do it here. This road has gone too far, so let’s try another one.”
"Well, to tell you the truth, I do still have a lot of skills and treasures here, but with your strength in dual cultivation of magic and soul, I'm afraid even those in the pill-forming stage will look down upon you, but those in the Nascent Soul stage, you You can't break through the Nascent Soul but it's useless. After all the calculations, this is the best one for you." Master Shura was also a little helpless.
Seeing that Yuan Ming was still about to complain, he immediately added: "Of course, since I took it out, I won't let you suffer. The black key you got before is the key to the operation of my cave. Getting it is equivalent to I have obtained the entire cave, but it is a pity that you are not as powerful as others and cannot keep it with you. In this way, I will give you another talisman, which can replace the black key and help you gain partial control of the cave, and can also help you fight for it. Gain some advantages when using Lingbao.”
After saying that, he pointed his finger again, and a ray of blood disappeared into Yuan Ming's eyebrows. After a moment, it turned into a mark like a vertical eye pupil, which flashed twice and then disappeared.
"Ling Bao? Dare I ask, senior, what exactly is a Ling Bao?" Yuan Ming was very happy with the extra gains, but he still had some doubts about this "Ling Bao", so he simply asked.
"The so-called 'Lingbao' is a treasure that can be refined after the return to void stage. Compared with magic weapons, its biggest feature is that it awakens spiritual wisdom to a certain extent, so it is called a spiritual treasure. Of course, it is powerful. It is also very different from ordinary magic weapons," Master Shura explained.