Chapter 422: The Great Wilderness Monk Becomes a Demon

"The difference—"

"You know, among the monks, I am one of the very young ones, but my family background is pretty good. Plus, I love learning, so I know a lot of things that happened a long time ago."

Lily Jiang played with the cigarette pipe in her hand, with a soft light flickering in her eyes, as if she remembered something warm.

Li Yanmo didn't want to delve into Jiang Baihe's obviously embellished words. "So, what did the studious Sister Jiang read about the Great Wilderness Dao in the book?"

Lily Jiang held the pipe in her mouth and exhaled a breath, along with a word.

"chaos."

"chaos?"

"There is an old saying that the gap between people is greater than the gap between people and dogs. The gap between the cultivators in the Great Wilderness period is even greater than the gap between people," Lily Jiang slowly adjusted her sitting posture and said lazily, "Looking at those Great Wilderness cultivators from today's perspective..."

"Rather than being an immortal, it's better to say that you are cultivating the devil or the demon."

"The older the sect, the less human-like its disciples are. I heard that among the ancient sects in the early days of the Great Wilderness, there was not a single human-like person. Having three eyes, three heads and six arms, and faces like evil spirits, and having no face are all child's play."

"I heard that in some early stages of the Great Wilderness, the three flowers gathered at the top of the head means that the head exploded into three flowers."

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas could only be considered a children's book if it were put into the early days of the Great Wilderness."

"Because the monks were more evil than the demons, the demons were almost wiped out at that time."

It was the first time that Li Yanmo had heard of such a thing, and he subconsciously glanced at Nuyao and Mumei on the foundation-building platform.

One of these two people was a cultivator during the Great Wilderness period, and the other was a demon-immortal who was the first to become an immortal through cultivation.

But these two people looked like human beings. Mumei's sika deer head was just a headgear. Although Li Yanmo had never seen Mumei's true face, he could occasionally see her chin and was sure that she was definitely a human being.

"Oh~ this——"

Nuyao seemed to have remembered something and patted her thigh. "It seems to be true. When I was in my time, many cultivators became neither human nor monster after reaching the golden elixir stage."

"Do you know what the reason is?" Li Yanmo was a little curious.

Nuyao was not only the first person to become an immortal through cultivation, but also the first person to form an elixir. In a sense, she was an encyclopedia. Li Yanmo did learn a lot of information from Nuyao, but the problem was that all the information from Nuyao needed to be triggered.

It is either triggered by certain keywords or automatically triggered when reaching a special environment.

It’s not that Nuyao is the kind of person who won’t tell anything unless asked, but she really doesn’t know what others need to know.

“Maybe… it’s because of me,” Nv Yao scratched her face. “Didn’t I use the golden elixirs of those monster beasts to break through the golden elixir stage? But those were golden elixirs formed by monster beasts. I put the monster beast golden elixirs in my body and used them to break through the Nascent Soul stage and merge with the Spirit…right? It would be strange if there weren’t any problems.”

"Those people are not like me who can repeatedly obtain golden elixirs, so they can only adapt to the monster beast golden elixirs and use the monster beast golden elixirs as the source for their cultivation."

"Then... those who practiced in that way summed up their own practice methods, which were passed down from generation to generation and improved from generation to generation."

"From raising a certain monster in captivity to imitating the habits of that monster, and changing the environment to the same environment where the monster lives."

"Then use the method of transformation to further improve the inheritance. You no longer need to obtain the elixir, but can form the elixir yourself."

"Of course, you know... This method of cultivation is to teach people to cultivate towards the direction of a demon. The so-called method of transformation is also to cultivate towards a stronger form of that demon."

Li Yanmo looked the girl up and down.

"Then why are you..."

"I'm not a fool. I can get the golden elixir without any injury." Nv Yao crossed her arms and snorted. "Of course I fed the monster to adjust it to my own direction, so the supreme golden elixir I fed it is suitable for me, instead of me adapting to the monster's golden elixir."

Mu Mei raised her hand and whispered, "I cultivated immortality by myself through my own summarization and exploration, and I also figured out the method of forming the elixir by myself."

Mu Mei paused and muttered softly, "Those cultivators look scary. I don't dare to cultivate with them..."

Li Yanmo pinched the hair on his forehead and sighed.

Lily Jiang, who had been silent, raised her eyebrows, “So the culprit is you?”

"That's not true. Some people imitated her cultivation method, and some imitated her method of forming the elixir, but none of them imitated her well enough and became neither human nor ghost. Who can they blame?" Li Yanmo took a sip of tea and said lightly, "It was greed that caused the problem after all."

“Even if she tells other cultivators how to cultivate the golden elixir, they will covet the more powerful demon beast golden elixirs and want to take shortcuts.”

“There will be no change in the results.”

Lily Jiang thought thoughtfully, “You see it very clearly.”

"So, why did the Nascent Soul of the cultivators before the Dao Pillar be in the form of babies?"

The Dao Pillar is the starting point for distinguishing the Dahuang Daoist tradition from the Dayu Daoist tradition.

The entire Taoist tradition of Dayu is built on the Taoist Pillar.

Li Yanmo already knew why the cultivators in the Great Wilderness became neither human nor ghost, but the mystery of the difference in Nascent Soul had not yet been solved.

The girl spread her hands to express her incomprehension.

Lily Jiang blew out a smoke ring, looked up at the sky, and after a moment of silence, she said leisurely, "Maybe it's because... the source of the Great Wilderness Taoism is the desire from the heart to get rid of the poor human body and the desire for the power of the monster."

"The immortals in the Great Wilderness are just more powerful people. They are greedier than anyone else, more likely to be obsessed with one thing than anyone else, and more likely to get angry than anyone else."

"The more they practice, the more they realize how insignificant they are. The higher their cultivation level, the more they can clearly perceive how much of a burden their birth has caused to their practice."

"Since they have already taken a shortcut to becoming immortals, they will naturally look for a new shortcut."

"For example, by nurturing a new self in the foundation-building platform, denying one's own birth, and then trying the method of spiritual transformation and fusion..."

Lily Jiang paused and snorted disdainfully.

“Transcendence.”

"Just these two vague words opened up the wilderness."

Li Yanmo crossed his arms over his chest and couldn't help but sigh, "Transcendence... It's really boring to be obsessed with these two words."

Lily Jiang raised her eyebrows, "Oh? Then I'd like to trouble the reincarnated immortal, Sect Master Li, to help me solve my doubts and tell me what transcendence is."

Li Yan picked up the teacup and looked up at the sky.

Looking at the boundless sky, Li Yanmo said lazily.

"There is no such thing as transcendence. It's just a mediocre person worrying about himself."

"There is no such thing as a cage. It is just a refuge created for ourselves when we have nothing to do and don't have the courage to face the emptiness that comes with it."

(End of this chapter)