Chapter 1317 Water From the North Sea

Anyone born in the Three Realms and being one of the Six Paths can have both a soul and a body. However, the soul is common, but the body is not necessarily common.

For example, the sinful spirits in hell do not have complete bodies, but only a spiritual body to endure torture. As for those wandering on the Yellow Spring Road, or even wandering in the wilderness of the Three Realms, they have no body, only a soul.

It is not difficult to see from this that, in fact, for any creature in the Six Paths, the soul is the most important thing, the real backbone. If the soul is lost, then the self is completely lost, but if only the body is lost, there may still be hope.

To put it more extremely, in fact, many evil cultivators often make a living by taking over bodies, and they often change their bodies with their powerful souls, which is commonplace. This also shows the importance of the soul and the status of the body to a creature.

In the final analysis, the body is just a shell, not completely irreplaceable. But the soul cannot be lost, absolutely not.

So when a person dies, it means that the soul of the person has entered reincarnation or has been directly shattered. And everything in the underworld is only related to the soul. If a person's physical body dies, especially if a cultivator's physical body is destroyed, it is basically impossible to judge the cultivator's death based on these alone.

However, in the Three Realms and the Six Paths, there are too many changes and uncertainties. So there will be special circumstances and unexpected exceptions in any matter - just like what Xuanwu said now, "the physical body is dead."

What Xuanwu said at this moment, "the physical body is dead", is completely different from the traditional meaning of physical body decay or destruction. For ordinary physical bodies to decay or destroy, as long as the soul of the cultivator is strong enough, it can be replaced by taking over the body. However, Xuanwu now can't do this at all.

Because the way Xuanwu chose to commit suicide was a very extreme way, which was equivalent to beating himself to death. In this way, his body was petrified and became Turtle Back Mountain, where Luohou threw him.

The original soul was gone, which meant that he lost the original capital to seize the body. As for the soul that Xuanwu obtained after his rebirth, it was a soul that was reunited based on his petrified body by chance. Such a soul is equivalent to being completely tied to Xuanwu's body, with a hint of the body being the main and the soul being the secondary. In this way, Xuanwu's soul must enter the original body now, and lost the qualification to seize other bodies.

In this way, Xuanwu now lost the ability to seize the body, and can only rely on the soul to re-enter the original body and truly be reborn. However, his body may have been petrified for too long, and even experienced some hardships and twists and turns in hundreds of years, and has lost its vitality, even his soul cannot reawaken it.

In this way, although Xuanwu now has a soul, it is just an empty soul. The body that was indispensable refused to accept his soul, so he would never be able to unite his soul and body and complete the real resurrection.

In other words, for Xuanwu now, the death of his physical body was different from the physical death of ordinary cultivators. When ordinary cultivators died, they could still use their corpses to revive. But once his physical body died, his soul could do nothing, and he was truly dead.

This was the peculiarity of "the physical body is dead" in Xuanwu's mouth. The death of his physical body could in turn completely deny the possibility of his resurrection. Even if his soul did not enter reincarnation, from now on, without a physical body, he could only be a lonely ghost at best, unable to reproduce the glory and strength of Xuanwu in the past.

Huanyin naturally knew what Xuanwu meant by "the physical body is dead". It's just that this situation is so rare and special that even Xuanwu himself never thought of it, so how could Huanyin think of it?

However, this is also reasonable. Because the reunion of Xuanwu's soul is extremely rare, the death of his body at this moment is not too strange.

Huan Yin was stunned for a long time, and finally his face became very ugly. Seeing that Xuanwu's return was just around the corner, but it couldn't be realized, Huan Yin was not only sad for his old friend, but also unwilling to accept the whole thing.

In the end, Huan Yin finally said: "Old man, you may have made a mistake, why don't you try again?"

Unfortunately, Xuanwu shook his head and said with a gloomier face: "Your Majesty, I have tried my best just now. I am afraid that my judgment of my body... is correct."

Huan Yin fell silent, and he didn't know what to say. After a long while, he squeezed out a sentence from his mouth: "Is there really no way?"

Huan Yin really didn't want to accept this fact. If there was really no way, then Xuanwu would only have one way left now-enter reincarnation and become a human again. After all, that is better than being a lonely ghost. However, that also means that Xuanwu will no longer be with him, and Huanyin and his fate will be cut off by reincarnation, and one of his four guardians will never be able to return to his side again.

"I'm afraid..." Xuanwu shook his head and sighed, his face full of helplessness and despair. But halfway through his words, his eyes suddenly lit up, and then he looked at Huanyin and said: "Maybe... there is still a glimmer of hope!"

Huanyin heard this and hurriedly asked: "What is the solution? Tell me quickly!"

Xuanwu said: "I was born in the North Sea and was nourished and raised by the water of the North Sea. The North Sea is my foundation, and the water of the North Sea is my source. If a drop of water from the North Sea can enter my body, maybe ...Maybe the petrification of my body can be broken, and my dead body is not completely impossible to revive!"

"Water of the North Sea!" Huan Yin repeated, but then the hope in his eyes gradually dimmed, and he continued: "The North Sea has dried up for countless thousands of years, and the North Sea has long become a part of Mount Sumeru. , filled with mountain peaks, how can there be such a thing as the water of the North Sea today?”

Xuanwu said: "Before the Lord arrived, my soul was wandering around in the South for Eight Days, and I accidentally got a piece of news. It is said that a very powerful traveling merchant team will come to the South for Eight Days in the near future, and This team of traveling merchants will secretly conduct an underground auction in the south for eight days, and the grand prize at the auction will be a drop of North Sea water!"

"The water of the North Sea is too important to me. Even if it is not used to revive the physical body, it can also increase my power of cultivation. Therefore, I paid great attention to this news at the beginning and even tried to dig deeper. As a result, I almost This confirms the authenticity of the news, and I also got this jade token. This jade token is a token of participation in the auction. If you don't hold this jade token, you will not be able to enter the auction."

At this point, Xuanwu handed a somewhat special-looking jade plaque to Huan Yin. Huan Yin took it and looked at it, then put it away and said: "If this really happens, I will hold on to this jade sign and win the water of the North Sea for you."

Xuanwu said: "It is said that the traveling merchant team holding the auction this time is not only extremely strong, but also extremely cautious. The one with the highest cultivation level among them seems to have reached the peak of the Four Sources. At the same time, in order to ensure that the stronger ones are not allowed to The monks disrupted the situation and even robbed them of their treasures. They strictly screened the recipients of the jade tokens and did not invite any monks who were stronger than the Four Sources realm."

"If I read it correctly, Your Majesty's cultivation has exceeded the limit. Therefore, Your Majesty needs to disguise yourself. Otherwise, if you are seen to be too strong, you will not be able to enter the auction venue even if you hold this jade slip."

Huan Yin smiled and thought that since he came to the heaven, what he has done most is to hide his true identity and aura, so it should not be difficult to deceive the detection of a traveling merchant team, so he nodded.

Then, I heard Xuanwu say: "Also, I think there are people who are in a similar situation to the king. After all, the name of the water of the North Sea is too famous and too tempting. Maybe, that auction In the end, the traveling merchant team will be unable to cope with the situation, which is extremely dangerous. Your Majesty, you must take care of yourself and not harm yourself for the sake of the water of the North Sea. "

Huan Yin nodded: "Don't worry, I'll leave this matter to me."