Sometimes, especially at times like this, Fu Chaosheng would wonder if the "pain" of people he couldn't personally feel was exactly the same as the "pain" he could clearly feel, or was there some difference? And in the end, was the "pain" stronger and more difficult to endure, or was it the "pain" that was stronger and more difficult to endure
In the past, I only thought about it, but didn't care.
But at this moment, he actually had an unprecedented curiosity: he wanted to know what "pain" felt like. Would it be like him being a mayfly but wanting to be immortal and reverse reincarnation
His old friend stood beside him.
He could clearly see her and feel her, and even his hands were still stained with the warmth of her fingertips, but he felt as if there was a barrier between them. This barrier did not come from a change in their positions or a estrangement in their relationship, but only from a lack of empathy.
I can't understand her pain.
In particular, the danger and murderous intent just revealed were so strong, but they were completely suppressed in an instant, and it was so calm that not a single ripple could be caused.
This state reveals a more disturbing depression.
It was as if it had boiled to its peak and then suddenly stopped.
After the meeting in the meeting hall yesterday, he was full of curiosity about his unfamiliar state, and was also full of doubts about Jianchou's sudden attempt to test him.
But he got no answer.
Kun told him that "curiosity", especially curiosity about feelings, was a very dangerous state for him as a demon.
But why does this state mean danger
Fu Chaosheng never quite understood many of what Kun said. Even though he had gathered the memories of the entire mayfly clan, they were mostly about what they had seen and heard about all things in the world, but they lacked many things related to humans.
He looked at her and slowly withdrew his hand.
The withered elder of the Ghost King clan in front had not noticed the details happening behind him, nor did he realize that he had been to the gates of hell. He was still narrating to everyone about the origin of this charity cemetery and what they needed to do next.
The method of refining soul puppets that Emperor Song came up with was unprecedentedly bizarre, as well as unprecedentedly cruel and vicious. Also, because Qian Xiu had an extremely high level of cultivation during his lifetime and his soul was not weak, the required refining methods were extremely complicated.
After the soul puppets are put together, they must be made to obey orders.
This depends on strong domestication and control.
The purpose of recruiting elite ghost cultivators from Fengdu City this time is for the final "taming" and "control", so the qualifications of their souls have been tested with the Soul-Appraising Cup in advance, and then they have been ordered to practice soul-controlling techniques, and only brought here after they have passed the test.
It only takes seven days to completely refine the soul puppet.
By then, this elder of the Ghost King clan and "Li Han" who is in charge of this refining will have accomplished their mission and will return to the Hell Palace to report.
After explaining the essentials of refining, the elder raised his hand and opened a blood coffin. Lying in the coffin was a human-shaped soul puppet!
He looks like a male cultivator.
But apart from the face that looked relatively intact, the body below the neck was broken into pieces! It was exactly the same as the Zhong Lanling that Jianchou had seen during the Jiyu Ding Contest!
One piece at a time…
Although this soul puppet looks no different from a cultivator, its body is made up entirely of soul fragments from different people!
The gaps between the fragments are winding and tortuous, like one ugly scar after another!
Jianchou was standing far away, watching with his heart's eyes. He felt extremely sad and nauseous. He felt as if he had swallowed a thousand filth and wanted to vomit!
However, at the end of anger, there is peace.
She was even puzzled as to how she could still pretend to be nonchalant, standing there as if nothing had happened, and then watching the elder demonstrate in front of her how to tame a soul puppet, watching the soul puppet made up of countless residual souls and spirits of Yashan's disciples move like a living person under his soul-controlling technique...
After the demonstration, the elder casually threw the soul puppet back into the coffin, pointed to the area within the charity cemetery, and said, "What you need to tame are the 100 soul puppets in this charity cemetery. Within these three days, anyone who tames a soul puppet must not step out of the charity cemetery without a special order, and must not touch any blood coffin outside the charity cemetery. Those who disobey the order will have their souls shattered! Do you remember all this?"
"Remember the elders' teachings!"
When everyone heard these stern words, they were all startled and responded one after another.
Then the elder closed his wrinkled eyelids, bowed to Fu Chaosheng who was standing at the back, and walked out of the charity cemetery.
Li Yan and several other elders then arranged for everyone to choose a soul puppet to refine.
But when it was Jianchou's turn, Fu Chaosheng waved his hand and said, "Her cultivation is not enough, so there is no need."
Li Yan and the other three elders understood immediately that Lian Zhao had not passed the soul-testing cup test that day, and that Li Han wanted her to come in, so it was inappropriate for her to come here to do the soul-refining thing. However, they could not help but wonder: Why did this guy not do his job properly, but brought Lian Zhao here, was he here to flirt and kill time in this boring place
Of course, this is just what I said in my heart.
We are all smart people and dare not say it out loud.
So everyone started to refine their souls one after another, but Jianchou just stood aside and watched.
Watching blood coffins being opened one after another, revealing various soul puppets with different appearances inside, and then watching "them" perform all kinds of strange actions under the control of ghost cultivators, but without any consciousness, like clay puppets...
Dead.
When Emperor Song ordered their souls to be shattered and divided, and their wills to be worn away by the fire of karma, the owners of these broken souls died completely.
Even if reincarnation resumes in the future, they will no longer be seen in this world.
After realizing this cruelest point, Jianchou Moming laughed. She finally didn't want to torture herself any more and walked out of the charity cemetery.
Outside the miasma, there was no one.
The blood-red Yellow Spring water flows through the river bank, making a gurgling sound.
She stopped and slowly sat down on the river bank that had witnessed countless fights and deaths and washed countless bones and souls.
Fu Chaosheng followed her out silently and stopped beside her.
I was speechless for a moment.
After a long time, he finally thought of what he wanted to say: "Once this matter is finished, we can go to the Eight Directions Yama Palace with good reason to find out what King Qin Guang is planning and where Shao Ji is. By then, old friends can also avenge the old grudge at Yashan without having to suppress it like they do now."ωＷＷ.166xs.cc
It sounds like comfort.
Jianchou certainly knew that they had more purposes in sneaking into the polar region, such as the ghost axe that had not been sensed so far, the god Shao Ji who mysteriously disappeared in the snowy region without a trace, and whether there were other unknown secrets in Bafang City...
That's why she was able to restrain the urge to kill just now.
Jianchou's eyes drifted over the river surface, and he blinked, as if he had no emotion: "I know the severity of the situation. But judging from your past fight with Shao Ji, his cultivation is also extremely terrifying. When you were in the Snow Region, you could sense that he went to the Extreme Region. Now, can he also know that you are in the Extreme Region, or is it 'Li Han'?"
"If He is stronger than me, he can sense it naturally." Fu Chaosheng shook his head. "It has always been the case that the strong can sense the weak. Since I can sense Him, I am stronger than Him. And you people have a saying, the devil is one foot high, and the Tao is ten feet high. I was born against the rules of heaven and earth, so I have the ability to be an exception to heaven and earth. Anyone covered by the blood of the demon is like destroying the way of heaven, and the way of heaven cannot detect it. What's more, this world has its limits. His and my strength are far beyond the cultivators of this world, but we can only use three or four of them."
"But three or four?"
Jianchou never asked how powerful Fu Chaosheng really was. He only felt that although he was restricted by the rules of the mayfly clan that they were born and die in the morning and his abilities changed several times in a day, he was still far superior to most cultivators. He was not afraid even in front of Kunwu Hengxu Zhenren.
Now, this is the first time I heard him talk about his abilities.
So I became a little curious: "What do you mean by the limit of this world?"
"My old friend should know that the Nineteen Continents, the Polar Regions, the Isolated Island on Earth, and the East and West Seas are all within the stars, and are called 'this world', and are named 'Original Beginning'. This world is the world of mortals, and the world of cultivators is the 'secular world'. When the power and Tao of cultivators reach a certain level, they will surpass the limit of the power that this world can bear, and will be guided by the rules of heaven and earth to ascend to the upper world, which is also called the 'Upper Ruins Immortal World'."
"As long as they exist in this world, their power cannot exceed the limit."
"So after the monks from the lower realms ascend to the upper realms, they often cannot return. And this Yuanshi Star is even more special..."
When he said this, Fu Chaosheng paused, as if he was thinking about something, and said, "Kun said that this world has a Yuanshi Heavenly Punishment, called the 'Yuanshi Tribulation Punishment', which is a punishment specially set by the ancestor of mankind, Pangu. Whenever there is a power that exceeds the limit of this world, the 'Yuanshi Tribulation Punishment' will be bestowed on the person who possesses the power that exceeds the limit and destroy his body."
Yuanshi Jie Punishment...
Each world has its own limit of power. This is very easy to understand and can be guessed with a little speculation, but this so-called "primordial punishment" is somewhat puzzling.
It does not exist in other worlds, but it exists in this world.
So what is so special about this world that it can have such special protection
Jianchou glanced at the fish-shaped jade pendant hanging around his waist and slowly frowned, obviously feeling that something was a little strange.
The fish-shaped jade pendant remained motionless, and Kun obviously had no intention of speaking.
Fu Chaosheng said, "That's what's said, but it seems that it has never happened. When I fought with Shao Ji, he was weak, so his strength did not exceed the limit of this world, and I can't prove whether it's true or not."
After all, it's just an ancient legend.
For ordinary people, there is actually no need to be afraid; but Fu Chaosheng is different after all, his cultivation is too high, so he needs to be cautious.
On the surface, this is not a good thing.
But right now, their biggest opponent in this battle may be hidden in this polar region. Fu Chaosheng needs to be wary of him, and the other party must also be wary of him, so his strength will be roughly limited.
It is very beneficial for monks.
Jianchou figured out the trick and said, "That's a good thing," and then fell silent again.
I really don't feel like talking here and now.
But Fu Chaosheng felt uncomfortable.
It was clear that in the past, when I went to see Jianchou and borrow his eyes from the sky, we went boating on the river and didn't say anything to each other, and I didn't think there was anything wrong. But now that I was standing next to her, I felt that I had to say something.
Maybe she noticed his feelings at the moment, but after a long silence, Jianchou finally sighed and said slowly: "I'm fine, but sometimes I feel that humans are not as good as monsters."
Fu Chaosheng looked at her.
But her face was calm, and she continued, "If you have no emotions, no feelings, and no perceptions, then you will have no worries, no troubles, and no pain. I know clearly that the people I saw in the past and today were not my disciples of Yashan, but clay figurines put together by the Eight Directions Yama Palace with sinister intentions. I should not be shocked or upset. But as a mortal, I cannot avoid the vulgarity of mediocre people. My heart was shocked, my emotions were upset, and I even had all kinds of hatred and murderous intentions. This made Daoist Chaosheng worry about me."
Worry
Fu Chaosheng silently repeated these two words, but he felt puzzled. Thinking of his previous curiosity and confusion, he asked, "Just now, was your old friend feeling pain?"
pain.
Only Fu Chaosheng could ask such a question.
Jianchou retracted his wandering gaze, closed his eyes, and said, "I guess so. Mortals in the world have seven emotions and six desires. If we pursue the seven emotions and six desires, we will suffer a thousand pains and hundreds of sufferings. If we have emotions, we cannot avoid suffering. So every time we think about it in times of trouble, the way that Xie Buchen has cultivated may not be without reason. Without emotions, there will be no suffering."
"Love, I asked my old friend before, if I had 'love' after swallowing that heart, but he said no. I have no love, I only have 'desire'." Fu Chaosheng was confused, "How do you distinguish between the two? My old friend said I have 'desire', how should I interpret it?"
When I opened my eyes, the sky was thick with darkness.
Jianchou stared for a long while, paused for a moment, and then replied: "Love and desire are always difficult to separate. If you force them to be separate, love is the concern of the human heart, and desire is the fetter of the human body. One is deeply rooted in the mind, and the other floats in the body. Everything you feel is love, and everything you want is desire. You want to reverse the cycle of reincarnation and change the fate of the mayfly clan, which is born in the morning and dies in the evening, which is desire; when you felt close to me that day, your body changed and you couldn't control it, which was also desire."
That means he is truly heartless and only does what he wants.
Old friends are naturally affectionate.
only…
Fu Chaosheng also sat next to her. This moment was just like when they first met on Tian Island, except that he was the confused one: "Do old friends also have desires?"
"… "
Jianchou turned his eyes and stared at him for a long while, then he laughed strangely and answered frankly.
"Of course there is."
Fu Chaosheng frowned and asked, "Why is my old friend unhappy?"
Although he is a demon, he can still perceive some things.
Ever since Jianchou tested him that day, the way she looked at him was strange, which made him vaguely feel that this "desire" did not seem to be a good thing.
But doesn’t Jianchou also have this thing
Although he only asked one question, and asked why she was unhappy, Kan Chou easily heard the series of doubts hidden behind these words, so he shook his head and said, "'Love' and 'desire' are often born together. Although you only have 'desire' now, you are originally a wise seed of heaven and earth, and there is no guarantee that you will not be able to draw inferences from other things in the future, because 'desire' gives rise to 'love'. Since ancient times, monks have said that 'love' and 'desire' are the worst way, which makes people hurt, make people suffer, and make people crazy. Therefore, people have three souls and seven spirits, and the soul is good while the spirit is evil. The two words 'love' and 'desire' should be divided into the 'seven spirits', which are considered 'evil love' and 'evil desire', and the way of heaven is good, so..."
At this point, the voice suddenly stopped.
There was a flash of inspiration in my mind!
Fu Chaosheng stopped talking halfway through, and was a little surprised: "So what?"
But Ke Shuo couldn't hear anything. His mind was full of the sudden burst of thoughts. He even recalled the story he heard from Fu Dao Shan Ren after he subdued the Di Jiang Bone Jade and killed the Di Jiang evil spirit...
That story of "the good soul and the evil spirit"!
The fingers on his knees trembled suddenly, and Jianchou muttered in a dreamlike voice: "The soul is good, the spirit is evil, the way of heaven is good. Daozi, spirit, seven parts of spirit..."