Chapter 8 Human and Spiritual Worlds
Ten years ago!
Li Ping, 25, is in the secret room as usual, but he no longer practices hard as before he is 15 years old, and constantly thinks about improving his cultivation. In fact, he has been stuck in the bottleneck of the sixth level of the Qi training period for so many years. Now, a full ten years have passed, and he no longer has any hope for his realm to improve. Although such things that have been stuck in a bottleneck for decades or even a lifetime are very common in the spiritual world, when such things happen to him, he still feels despair.
After all, he was only at the sixth level of Qi Practice, and he had not even started learning the Five Elements Spells. He had just started to start and ended abruptly in the practice.
Looking at the cultivation room that his father spent his whole life building for him, Li Ping felt ashamed.
Perhaps if it were someone else, with such conditions, it might be easy to enter the threshold of the tenth level of the Qi training stage! But for him, there is no use at this moment.
In fact, it is strange. Even though Li Ping has been practicing here since he was a child, he still doesn't know where this place is. Because there are layers of space barriers around the secret room, he probably doesn't have the strength of the Foundation Establishment Stage and cannot break the space barrier here at all. Every time he enters and exits, he relies on a small teleportation array. Although it is quite expensive, it is extremely safe and unexpectedly disturbed.
However, based on Li Ping's observation over the years, it can be roughly judged that the location of this secret room is an extremely unstable area, because many times, this secret room will be in a turbulent situation, like a small boat on the sea encountering huge wind and waves. Fortunately, over the years, although the secret room has often experienced these fluctuations, it remains firm, and its tenacity is far beyond Li Ping's imagination.
In the secret room, the most important formation is the soul-sucking array in the center.
Back then, he heard his father talk about the operating principle of this secret room. He didn't know whether it was because he was too young at that time, or because he lived in such a stable and happy living environment, and he didn't want to care about this matter at all, so he only had some vague memories. His father Li Xian only mentioned it once and stopped mentioning it. Obviously, he also knew that these things were too far away for Li Ping at this time and did not need to understand them at all.
The Xiji Continent itself is a turbulent area in space. It is said that in ancient times, this was a battlefield for war between gods and demons. Countless powerful people fought here, which eventually led to the collapse of mountains and rivers and the destruction of space. The entire Xiji Continent was almost destroyed. According to rumors, this place did not look like this before. In ancient times, the Xiji Continent was a holy place for immortal training with continuous mountains and a hazy spiritual energy.
But this kind of legend is too far away and no one can verify it.
Such an unstable space also makes the Xiji Continent dangerously spread. Tianjue Valley, hundreds of thousands of miles west of Dingyuan City, is a Jedi with cracks everywhere. It is rumored that no matter how powerful a person with advanced cultivation enters it, as long as he touches the cracks in the space, he will be pulled into the void and tear it into pieces, and dies, which is extremely terrible. Because of this, the powerful people of the three major sects have laid layers of magic circles around Tianjue Valley to prevent anyone from entering it.
As for the tiny space rifts in other places, they can be seen everywhere. From time to time, some ghosts from the underworld will rush into the spiritual world through space rifts and fight for disasters. The responsibilities of the three major sects are obviously to defend the security of the Xiji Continent and drive out ghosts that come from across the border.
Of course, Li Ping was just heard of these things. When he was young, he didn't bother to inquire about these things. He just practiced with great concentration. After family changes, he was even more unwilling to do these things. He was confused all day long, just thinking about staying away from this world. If it weren't for the fourth level of the Qi training stage that he could fast and absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to maintain his own consumption, people like him might starve to death in some corner.
This secret room is built in a place where space is unstable. The function of the soul-sucking array is to suck some soul consciousness in the void into it.
It seems that my father said that the interlaced space here is not the underworld like other places, but another world without spiritual energy, a place called the human world or the waste world. Speaking of which, it can indeed be called the waste world. Taking the spiritual world as an example, there are not many cultivators in the spiritual world, but not many. Those with spiritual roots can use magic to guide spiritual energy into their bodies, wash marrow and hair, lose fat and change bones, increase their life spans, and achieve Taoism.
Those who have no spiritual roots are naturally the abandoned children of this world. They are busy with fullness and warmth every day, and gradually age and die of illness.
But that human world is different. Whether it is the chosen son of the God-selected with spiritual roots or ordinary people without spiritual roots, they are all the same, because there is no spiritual energy in that world itself, and even people with spiritual roots have no spiritual energy available. In this way, all living beings in the world are busy just for food, drinking, living, and travel. After a short life, they return to the cycle of reincarnation. The Soul Returning Formation absorbs the spiritual consciousness of those who have spiritual roots but have not practiced, and refine their spiritual consciousness into divine essences and supplement their own cultivation.
Because these soul bodies have spiritual root qualifications, although they have not been cultivated, they also have innate spiritual essences. For those with low cultivation, they are naturally a great supplement, even far beyond ordinary spiritual medicines. However, it is not a simple matter to build such a soul return array. Not only must they be at the intersection with the human world, but they also need natural space cracks. Otherwise, not to mention a late-stage foundation-building cultivator like Li Xian, or a Jindan-stage cultivator like the ancestor of the Li family, it is absolutely impossible to have the ability to break the interface.
There are many space cracks connected to the underworld on the Xiji Continent, but there are actually no cracks connected to the human world. From this we can imagine that Li Xian had to wait for his son's practice. Unfortunately, luck made people so hard that Li Ping's cultivation was stuck at the sixth level of Qi training, which also made his father's efforts waste.
On the edge of the Soul Revelation Array, there is a small array called the Soul Revelation Array, which is actually just another reverse channel made in the same space crack. Because the soul body without spiritual roots has no effect on the spiritual cultivators, and the souls that kill mortals are easily damaged by the Taoist heart. Therefore, once such a soul body mistakenly enters the Soul Revelation Array, it is necessary to send it back from the Soul Revelation Array so that these soul bodies can return to the human world and enter the cycle of the underworld.
It seems complicated to say that it is just a Shura field with spiritual roots in the human world. The monks are a natural choice among the world, and the strong survive. However, the chosen sons of the human world have too bad luck and do not have such conditions for cultivation. After death, they can still escape the fate of making wedding clothes for others. Even though this is just a small crack, on the way from the human world to the underworld, only a small number of souls will be captured by the Soul Return Array. However, in recent years, there have been nearly a hundred souls that have been absorbed by Li Ping's Lili.
Li Ping doesn't care about this, just like a spiritual monk suppressing ghosts in the underworld, it's just a habit and natural thing.
On this day, Li Ping still grabbed the soul bodies in the Guiyuan Formation as usual, blocked them into the bottle, and then wiped out the spiritual consciousness and practiced it into the soul.
However, when he habitually searched the soul and understood the life experiences of these soul bodies, Li Ping read the memory of a man named Chen Tong. As he learned more and more, the more he knew, the more he felt in his heart. In the end, even he himself didn't know why he re-encrypted Chen Tong's memory in the spirit bottle, but he was already in tears.
In the human world, those with spiritual roots are often slightly higher in intelligence than ordinary people because of the existence of innate souls. Although such a less obvious intellectual gap does not have a great impact on a person's life, it is undeniable that most of those who stand at the top of society are those with spiritual roots. Or that is, the so-called 99% sweat plus one percent talent.
Often, sometimes, that one percent of talent is the important point that determines where you end up standing.
Over the years, he has read more than a hundred memories of his soul and learned about his life experiences and past. These so-called successful people in the human world are actually people who are loyal and courageous in times of suffering and share the joys and sorrows. When life is difficult and difficult, they can often show amazing patience and a calm personality far beyond ordinary people, and fight hard in difficulties and become prosperous. But once they become successful, people who hold great power or have a wealthy family will lose their original nature and become greedy and despicable.
He saw too many tricks of abandoning his original wife and marrying his mistress, and saw too many people who betrayed his brothers and friends for money and power. Those who worked with him when he was in trouble are just stepping stones on his road to success. Those wives who never left him when he was poor and difficult eventually became stumbling blocks for their greed for beauty. When he started to enjoy life, he mostly had to enjoy it alone. How many people could be with his brothers and friends? With his original wife?
After seeing such things for a lot, he couldn't help but sneer. Obviously, whether in the spiritual world or the human world, the bad roots of human nature are the same. When refining these "dirty" souls, he would not feel any guilt or uneasiness. Obviously, he felt that this was a kind of revenge for those abandoned people.
Chapter completed!