Chapter 316: The Path to Ascension Through Merit

After the secondary soul rushed out of the vortex and fled far away, a dark and shiny black lotus grew in the rolling black water in the center of the vortex.

The palm-sized lotus was not noticeable in the huge black water vortex, but it made the black water frenzy that tore the world apart and caused turmoil tremble.

The black lotus stayed in the black water, and as the light flashed, the petals opened one by one, revealing an old and frail figure, only three inches in size, with lightning-like waves sweeping out when his eyes opened and closed.

The secondary soul, who was running away, instantly sensed the secondary soul in his body turbulent.

The means by which the secondary soul controls the spirit puppet is very different from the normal human sea of ​​mind. In order to allow the secondary soul to control it as if it were an arm, the soul power of the secondary soul is spread throughout every corner of the spirit puppet.

To say that the sea of ​​mind is the sea of ​​mind, the entire body of the secondary soul is the sea of ​​mind. To say that there is no sea of ​​mind, it can also be regarded as nothing.

But at this moment, when this divine thought attack exploded, strange and difficult energy rolled into various parts of the secondary soul.

The secondary soul's whole body felt numb, and the movement of running slowed down by two steps.

However, the green light on the secondary soul's body lit up, and the mysterious runes derived from the green light suppressed the numbness on the body, and then turned into a stream of light and disappeared among the mountains and valleys.

...

At this moment, the shadow on the floating lotus was slightly condensed, and a rotating head appeared on the hunchback of the old figure.

"It seems that this person does not know the Black Water Thousand Curse Forbidden, otherwise it is impossible not to use the countermeasure."

The head on the back spoke.

"The ancestors of the Good Department died, but it does not mean that they did not leave behind any inheritance. We still need to observe this person more."

"The petals fell in the secret realm, most likely because of this person."

The head on the shoulder turned half a circle strangely and looked at the back.

"It's just a soul-catching slave. As long as there is enough blood and resentful souls, it can be cultivated at will in the Zhaoling Qianshi Tower. In comparison, we still need to find out the origin of this person."

"If the meritorious person controls the karmic fire, it will be both a disaster and a fire of hope for us."

The head on the hunchback smiled and nodded. It was just a soul-catching envoy, just another one.

"It's not so easy to control the karmic fire. Didn't the ancestor of the transformation of the gods burn himself to death?"

The shoulder head turned half a circle again and looked in the direction where the secondary soul left.

"The Tiannan cultivation world is a marginal place after all. If you can't become a god, you are just a dog in the eyes of the ancestor. You can be manipulated and discarded at will, just like a petal that has been crushed to death."

"If there is the help of the karmic fire, it is possible to eliminate this karmic power and start again..."

For a while, the two heads were silent.

If it weren't for bad luck, who would want to become a monster that is neither human nor ghost, and be entangled by all kinds of resentment.

There are rumors among them that the ancestors of the good department, who had received the fire of karma, were ready to burn away their remaining karma, transform themselves into bodies without karma and obstacles, and ascend to heaven through merit.

Unfortunately, things did not go well. When the fire of karma burned the karma, the fire was on fire but could not be extinguished.

Coincidentally, after the ancestors of the good department were burned by the fire of karma, there was another news.

It was said that the ancestors of the good department had ascended to heaven by practicing the method of merit, and the road was already clear. There was even a ladder hanging down from the nine heavens, colorful light descended from the sky, and golden lotus emerged from the ground.

The final failure was because the ancestors of the evil department secretly added some ingredients to the ancestors of the good department.

The fire of karma is the divine fire that burns the power of karma. The ancestors of the evil department were surrounded by evil thoughts, and it was too easy to throw some karma.

This rumor is still somewhat true.

In short, not only was the path of the ancestors of the good department closed, but they were also burned to death.

There are also rumors that another reason why the ancestors of the good department were burned to death by the fire of karma is that they were not pure in their six senses. They pretended to be infinitely virtuous, but in fact they were even more evil than the ancestors of the evil department.

The fire of karma is infinite, and nothing can escape, so the ancestors of the good department were cremated.

In short, after the ancestors of the good department of Qiu Tiandao were burned to death by the fire of karma, the path of merit and ascension that was previously popular in the world of cultivation was cut off at once.

There are still cultivators who take the path of merit and ascension, but they are no longer on a large scale.

Nowadays, there are large and small resentful cursed places in the marginal areas of the great cultivation world, and these resentful places are the active areas of soul catchers.

The Tiannan Xiuxian World is one of the four extreme places in the world of cultivation. In the east, west and north, there are huge resentful miasma places like the wasteland.

Therefore, the power of the soul catchers in these four extreme places is the strongest.

But the strongest one is useless. The restrictions in the soul are controlled by the old ancestor of the transformation of the spirit. As long as the old ancestor has a thought, they can be annihilated into nothingness.

For the hunchback monks, the fire of karma is the only way they can think of to get rid of the control.

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In the mountains and fields.

The secondary soul turned into a stream of light and shuttled through the miasma. His body was flashing with green light, constantly colliding with strands of black silk threads.

The silk threads were like slender pythons, trying to strangle his body.

However, the secondary soul did not stop.

As for who attacked him, he had already made a judgment.

When he was in the secret realm before, he was still a cultivator of merit and virtue who was feared by everyone. After coming out, he was targeted by evil thoughts.

It seems that merit and virtue are not 100% safe. If you meet a guy who is not afraid of everything, he doesn't care about bad luck at all. If he wants to kill you, there is nothing you can do.

He ran tens of thousands of miles in one breath, not even entering the caves previously arranged along the way, but chose a deep valley as his shelter. "

After sitting down cross-legged, he began to mobilize the power of merit to eliminate the black threads of resentment.

This thing is like a venomous snake. It takes one bite and penetrates three-thirds of the flesh. It also wants to run around in the body, with a posture that is outlined towards the rune pattern.

"Curse, or spiritual ban?"

Although Shen Lian himself was thousands of miles away, he controlled all aspects of the sub-soul. He sensed that the black threads were not running around in the sub-soul, but spreading in an orderly manner.

The power of merit has many mysteries. It can calm the riots of resentment when it transcends resentment, and it can block and dissolve resentment.

But at this moment, these black threads have a posture that can compete with the power of merit.

You must know that the power of merit is the embodiment of the order of heaven and earth, and it can slightly compete with the power of merit. This kind of power cannot be achieved just by saying it can be done.

"I pray that Heaven's way of doing things can be passed down for such a long time. Sure enough, there are a few brushes."

Fortunately, although the energy of the black silk thread was strange, it was not very powerful, and was squeezed out of the deputy soul's body bit by bit by the power of merit.

Then, after the thunder and fire burned for three days, it turned into black smoke and dissipated between heaven and earth.

The deputy soul immediately left a few image stones and then left the place.

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Thousands of miles apart.

In the belly of a mountain, the deputy soul waved his sword and cut out a cave that covered several acres.

After arranging the formation and protection, he started to get busy.

The harvest from the secret realm was pretty good this time.

A total of four fourth-level corpses were recovered, two of the demon clan's thunder-scaled marten and pheasant, phoenix and spirit-crested bird.

The other two bodies were a female cultivator with the Five Elements Brilliant Pearl, and one from the Sea Clan.

In addition, there are three fourth-level cathode spiritual objects.

It's a pity that the anode spiritual object that I have been looking forward to is still not available.

In the secret realm, the deputy soul did not have time to check, so the deputy soul began to check one by one.

Among the four corpses, the female corpse is the strongest, and should be even stronger than the three-eyed demon corpse obtained before.

Even though he has been dead for a long time, his body still has a crystal luster, especially in the Dantian, where there is still a pool of five elements of spiritual power that has not dried up.

On the five elements of the Dantian, a Nascent Soul, as thin as cicada wings, curled up into a ball, exuding a strong death aura.

The skeleton of this female cultivator is slightly different from that of the human race. There are several ribs that are similar to bird wings, and there are faint traces of phoenix patterns on them.

In addition, this female corpse is not a pure-blooded human race. It seems to contain a trace of phoenix blood, which can be sensed in the flesh and blood in her body.

Even after long years of cover-up, there is still a trace of heat left in the flesh and blood.

During the inspection, the deputy soul flashed between his eyebrows, and a small figure jumped out and got into the dress of the female corpse in front of him, and began to further inspect it.

Every inch of his body was carefully inspected several times, and he even fired two more phoenix claws towards the female corpse to prevent any lingering resentment from the female corpse.

Less than half an hour later.

The spiritual thought was withdrawn from the female corpse, and the abdomen of the female corpse lit up with colorful auras, and the Nascent Soul that had curled up into a ball was slowly taken out.

"Buzz!"

Spreading out the Nascent Soul, which is as thin as a cicada's wings, it looks like a lifelike picture scroll, with a touch of sadness on its pretty face.

"The natal soul puppet I created with the Myriad Spirit Immortal Puppet Technique uses pure energy. I don't know if I can have a second natal puppet."

Shen Lian increasingly felt that this female corpse cultivating the Five Elements was a good embryo for a sacrificial puppet, which was even better than the three-eyed demon corpse.

Preparing another clone was not just out of his imagination.

But after the spirit puppet clone cultivated merits and met the Soul Catcher, the Cang Qing tribe, and the fat man Qian Dai, the different attitudes he showed gave him a sense of crisis.

The power of merit is a kind of energy that comes from rules and order after overcoming resentment and bringing peace to the world.

Now that we have taken the road of merit, it is best not to take too many actions in the future. It doesn't matter if we kill monks who are full of resentment like the Soul Envoy, but we must not kill them indiscriminately.

But there is no way to avoid things like fighting and killing. Just like when he was practicing Qi and building foundations, he ran away from danger, but some murders still happened to him.

A monk cultivating merit can't kill a villain and gain +1 merit, but accidentally kill a relatively innocent monk and gain -1 merit.

Playing with the order of heaven and earth.

If people who practice meritorious deeds kill people indiscriminately without any reason, the karma accumulated will be even greater.

Although this is what Shen Lian is guessing at the moment, he feels that he should be more cautious.

From now on, the deputy soul puppet will be dedicated to Guang Weizheng's work, and he cannot let the order of heaven and earth catch his little tail.