Dongling.
Su Yun breathed in and out quietly, and saw strange phenomena appearing in the palace of the mausoleum. The seventy-two caves in the sky were suspended in the air and kept changing. As various forms of gods and demons were imprinted on the inner walls of the caves, the vital energy surging from the caves also changed accordingly.
And beneath the cave, there is a chasm that is unfathomable, and a Lizhu is brewing in the deepest part of the chasm.
The Li Pearl was formed by the fusion of Su Yun's soul and true essence. At this moment, the Li Pearl was held in the mouth of a huge Zhulong, and the Zhulong was coiled on a Huangzhong.
Behind the vision of the Candle Dragon holding a pearl and circling the Yellow Bell is the starry sky. The real Candle Dragon is coiled on the Bell Mountain, holding a pearl like the core of the Milky Way in its mouth.
It had been five days since Su Yun returned to Tianshiyuan. When he arrived, he was extremely weak, his body was exhausted, and he could hardly wake up. The ghosts and gods who were setting up stalls at the Tianmen Ghost Market sent him down, and the owner of Dongling took him to Dongling for recuperation.
In the past few days, his body gradually recovered, and he practiced by breathing in and out, drawing the energy of heaven and earth. Ever since he saw the scene of the candle dragon holding the pearl, he kept visualizing and hiding the pearl formed by the condensation of his own soul and true essence in the mouth of the candle dragon to practice.
He suddenly felt that his cultivation was constantly improving and his body was recovering faster and faster.
When he slowly dispersed the vitality of heaven and earth, the carriage of the Lord of Dongling who was touring Tianshiyuan just returned. Su Yun went forward and saw Yingying flying down from the back of a dragon horse.
The little book monster was still somewhat excited. She followed the emperor on his tour around the world and was truly majestic. Of course, this was only due to the majesty of the master of Dongling.
Even so, Yingying was satisfied.
On the other side, the dumb senior brother Shi Zhenbei also led many small architects to repair the Dongling. Although the Dongling was the imperial mausoleum, it had fallen into disrepair over the years. After all, Shi Zhenbei was the eldest disciple of the Lou class, so repairing the Dongling was not a problem for him.
They did not die at the Northern Crown Wall.
The so-called total despair refers to their situation at that time.
They were completely desperate and hopeless. Their bodies assimilated with the ashes and turned into two stone sculptures of ash. However, Su Yun did not give up on them and still struggled to drag them out of the Beima Great Wall and Tianmen Ghost Market.
If their souls were assimilated with their bodies, then they would be truly hopeless, but fortunately Su Yun never gave up and left them with the last hope.
In the end, Su Yun awakened their spirits, and they all revived, even the petrified little building people.
The one who suffered the most damage among them was Su Yun. Su Yun traveled a long distance, and in the end, without food or water, he almost consumed all his essence to move forward.
When the owner of Dongling saw him, he almost thought that he would not survive. Unexpectedly, after sensing the vital energy of heaven and earth, Su Yun absorbed the vital energy of heaven and earth at a rapid speed, allowing his dried up soul to recover quickly.
His dual cultivation of spirit and body allowed his spirit to recover rapidly while his body also recovered rapidly, which even Master Dong Ling could not help but marvel at.
Especially since Su Yun had gone through life and death trials this time and cultivated to the Yuandong realm, he also comprehended the method of Zhulong holding the pearl and strengthening the Lizhu!
As the sky was about to brighten, Su Yun asked for his resignation from the Lord of Dongling. The Lord of Dongling tried to persuade him to stay, saying, "I have been guarding this place for 2,500 years. My golden body is perfect and I will soon become sacred. In two days, my golden body will be perfected. After I become sacred, I will leave this place. Why don't you stay and see me off?"
Su Yun was stunned for a moment, then bowed and said, "How dare you disobey my order?"
The master of Dongling laughed and said, "My realm is not as high as that of Mr. Cen. They can let go of everything and ascend to the spiritual realm, but I can't let go, so I can only rely on the golden body to achieve the divine way. After 2,500 years of cultivation, I will finally achieve perfection. The golden body divine way is not the right way, so don't follow my path."
Su Yun agreed and stayed in Tianshiyuan.
"The way of the master of Dongling is to absorb the thoughts of all living beings with a golden body, so that he can live in the form of a golden body. When the golden body is perfect, he will become a god, and the golden body will turn into flesh and blood."
Yingying has been observing and recording the golden body of the master of Dongling these days. She said to Su Yun: "The moment he becomes a god, his Dongling vitality will exist between heaven and earth. At that time, he can live forever."
Su Yun didn't understand this. There were many spirits in Tianshiyuan who took the path of the golden body. For example, the Wenchang Emperor, the literary saint enshrined in the Wenchang Academy, also planned to become a god with a golden body. Unfortunately, his golden body was destroyed and he failed.
In history, Su Yun had never heard of anyone becoming a god or demon through this method. The owner of Dongling might be the first one.
"But this is not immortality. Gods and demons have a limit to their lifespan."
Su Yun came to his senses and said, "Did Yinglong, Qilin, Taowu and other gods and demons become gods and demons through similar methods, or were they born from the energy of heaven and earth?"
Yingying shook her head and said, "I don't know about that. But I guess that as long as there is their heavenly energy in the world, they will survive. However, their lifespan also has an end. When their lifespan reaches the end, their heavenly energy will turn into ashes."
Su Yun's body trembled slightly, as if he had grasped something vaguely. He stood there, not saying anything for a long time.
After a while, Su Yun muttered in a dreamlike voice, "The heaven and earth energy of the previous world turned into ashes, and the fire of catastrophe burned, burying that world. This scene is so similar to the death of gods and demons at the end of their lifespan... Yingying, what if a world also has a lifespan?"
Yingying widened her eyes and asked, "What do you mean?"
Su Yun walked back and forth, then suddenly raised his head and said, "Our world also has a lifespan. When the lifespan reaches its end, the vitality of heaven and earth will turn into ashes, and the fire of catastrophe will burn. New vitality will be born from the corrupt vitality! When the lifespan of a new world reaches its end, the vitality will turn into ashes again, and the next world will be born in the fire of catastrophe!"
Yingying smiled and said, "Master Su, I think you're overthinking. How could the world be the same as gods and demons? Look, we saw worlds covered in ash under the Northern Crown Great Wall. They did not give birth to new vitality from corruption. They will be corrupt forever."
Su Yun snorted, it would be better for this girl not to say anything.
However, the vitality of the planets under the Northern Crown Great Wall has been constantly turning into ashes and has been in a state of decay. No new vitality has been born. This is completely different from the world they live in, which is indeed strange.
"Why can't these worlds be reborn?" Su Yun was puzzled.
Yingying said: "The God Emperor of the Western Heaven, his method is somewhat similar to the Golden Body God, he uses faith to cultivate the Golden Body, does he also want to become a god?"
Su Yun shook his head and said, "I think that becoming a god is not his goal. His goal should be to become an immortal and transcendent immortal."
He speculated: "The God Emperor is different from the Dongling stallholders. The God Emperor is not dead, so there is no need to cast a golden body. The sacrifices of the Western people will turn into power to boost his physical body, allowing his physical body to continue to improve and reach the level of gods and demons."
“Among the methods he borrowed from the Jiehui monster civilization, there is probably a method of cultivating the spirit through sacrifice. His physical body and spirit are developing simultaneously. This is another method of cultivating both the spirit and the physical body, and it is also a unified practice.”
Su Yun's eyes flickered, and he continued to speculate: "The Divine Emperor's unified technique has extremely high attainments, but whether it can fight against the Immortal Sword is still unknown. He also needs a war that sweeps across the overseas countries and even Yuan Shuo to promote the Western Heavenly Court to everyone and make himself stronger and stronger!"
"So, the God Emperor should also have a role in killing Yue Liuxi who obstructed the war."
"The real murderers of Yue Liuxi are actually Luo Yujin, Jiang Zushi, the God Emperor, Yu Daoyuan and the Little Saint Emperor."
Su Yun said calmly: "As for Shen Tu Fei Lian and Yu Yi, they are just the ones who wielded the knife."
Yingying asked, "Now that Yue Liuxi is dead, should Daqin start a war? Who will they blame for Yue Liuxi's death?"
She said this and looked at Su Yun's forehead.
Su Yun touched his forehead.
Yingying blinked her eyes and said, "If we put the blame on Yuan Shuo, the leader of Tongtian Pavilion, and put the blame on Yuan Shuo, then the Western countries will have the same reason to use military force against Yuan Shuo. Dividing up Yuan Shuo should be a piece of cake!"
Su Yun snorted and did not refute.
Yingying continued, "Western countries can even continue to frame people, saying that it was the Yuanshuo people who spread the Jiehui disease. All they need to do is have the God Emperor send a dream to the people, and then the people will definitely believe it."
Su Yun continued to snort coldly and said lightly: "Before they take action, I will go to Daqin Yundu first and fight with the Little Saint Emperor!"
They lived in Tianshiyuan for several days, and finally welcomed the day when the master of Dongling's golden body was perfected. In Dongling, golden lights gathered and merged into the body of the master of Dongling.
All the ghosts and gods in Tianshiyuan came to Dongling to observe this rare golden body becoming a god.
Various strange visions and sacred shadows appeared in the sky, and various treasure imprints emerged in the void, making people dazzled.
The vital energy of heaven and earth rolled in from the void and flowed into the body of Master Dong Ling. Su Yun even saw that Master Dong Ling seemed to have turned into a brand, a rune, compatible with the vital energy of heaven and earth!
This is the path to becoming a god. After five thousand years, someone has finally succeeded!
“But this is not true immortality.”
Su Yun and a group of ghosts and gods came forward to congratulate him, and silently said in his heart: "The real Dongling master has long been dead, and the Dongling master who has become a god now is actually just his spirit, his spiritual imprint. This is a false immortality, so the vitality of heaven and earth will turn into ashes and decline one day. What is the real immortality?"
The ghosts and gods of Tianshiyuan harnessed the imperial chariot, with Longxiong and Feifeng as mounts, and were about to carry the great emperor on a long voyage.
The owner of Dongling invited Su Yun and others to board the imperial chariot together. He wanted to tour the four seas and inspect Yuanshuo for the last time before heading to the Beimian Great Wall.
On the imperial chariot, Su Yun saw the beautiful mountains and rivers of Yuanshuo. The owner of Dongling led them through the mountains and rivers of 56 states and 360 counties, passed through the mountains, passed through Yuanshuo's countless treasures, and passed through the mist emitted by the treasure. The strange vision of the treasure dazzled their eyes.
They sailed along the mighty rivers that flowed eastward, saw fish and dragons dancing in the rivers, flew over the lakes, and sailed across the North Sea.
In the morning, the imperial chariot circled the Western Capital and the Eastern Capital. In the evening, it crossed hundreds of thousands of miles to Lingnan. Su Yun drank tea and talked with Qiu Shuijing, the director of the Jiehui Factory. Late at night, they arrived at the East China Sea again.
At dawn the next day, the imperial chariot of the master of Dongling stopped at the dock of Daqin, and Long Xiang saw Su Yun, Shi Zhenbei and others off the car.
The Lord of Dongling waved to him from the imperial chariot: "I will go to the Northern Crown Great Wall to follow the footsteps of the Old Saint. If I can cross the Great Wall, maybe we will have a chance to meet again in the future!"
Su Yun bowed deeply to the ground, and when he raised his head, the imperial chariot and the owner of Dongling had disappeared.
"Mr. Su, where are we going now?" Yingying asked.
"Go to Yundu, the imperial city."
Su Yun's clothes fluttered in the wind, and he looked up at Yun Du who was high above him: "The dispute over the Pavilion Master should be settled!"
——The Tennis Association meeting will not end until tomorrow, so I guess the update will not be on time tomorrow~