Oneness
Changxia waited until the hour of You.
Just after that time, the water suddenly became agitated.
Chang Xia's eyes darkened.
She remembered Zuo Qin once telling her that the mirage flies, which could not transcend suffering, were a mysterious species between beasts and spirits. Many people, because they could only perceive mirage flies with their spirits, thought they were not living creatures, but they were not.
Zuo Qin said that mirage flies were originally evolving into real living creatures, but because their existence was too short, they were stuck in the middle of this evolutionary path.
In other words, they are trapped in time.
This also makes them easier to control than ordinary spirits. Subduing a baby is always easier than subduing an adult. Even if babies have no thoughts and can't understand commands, they also have no power and can't resist.
The moment Changxia's spiritual power invaded thousands of mayflies, she suddenly had a strange feeling. Those tiny insects seemed to have become puppets in her hands, and the spiritual power threads she put in were the puppet threads that controlled them.
It seemed as if she could become their king with just a thought.
Changxia's eyes darkened slightly.
This little thing actually has some basic knowledge of illusion.
She waved her hand, and the surrounding spiritual energy was cut off by the sword energy, and those arrogant thoughts dissipated from her mind.
All I can say is that these mayflies have brains, but not many. No normal person would want to be the king of a group of insects.
It's not like she has nothing to do.
However, the illusion that could affect her mind did make Chang Xia somewhat concerned. These mirages had no cultivation base, so according to common sense, no matter how sophisticated their illusions were, they could not affect the Half-Step Tribulation.
This is a difference in "quality".
But they did it anyway. Even though Changxia woke up quickly, they did shake her mind.
When did they appear? Three thousand years ago or four thousand years ago?
Soon Changxia had no time to think about these things.
She found that the little bugs were devouring and merging with each other.
Changxia's spiritual power thread was still in her hand. She sensed the ripples in the water and felt those weak mayflies gradually gathering into several large mayflies that had practiced qigong. They began to have a "shape".
Then they continued to devour, and their momentum and cultivation continued to rise.
After reaching the Nascent Soul stage, they suddenly turned into a human.
Chang Xia was stunned. What just happened?
It was clearly a thick, paste-like mass just a moment ago, but how did it turn into a human in the blink of an eye? According to her deduction, for the insects to barely have a "human" shape, they should be in the fusion stage.
Nascent Soul Stage...I'm afraid the spiritual power is not even enough to maintain the illusion.
She frowned and looked at the "person".
The insects, used to being mayflies, were clearly unaccustomed to the human body. He raised his hand, but it seemed broken, hanging down in a twisted position. Then, looking helpless, he scratched his head with his other hand. He seemed to lose control of his hand, and his once round head exploded as if crushed by a heavy object.
No disgusting blood and brain matter popped out, but instead turned into moths and scattered in all directions.
It will take three quarters of a second before new growth slowly forms.
There was still clear stupidity in his eyes.
Changxia: ...
Don't tell her that this thing is the smooth and flowing Ye Shuxing tea you made yesterday.
Soon Changxia discovered that these strange behaviors seemed like learning, as if someone had forced all kinds of messy knowledge into this "person's" memory. He swallowed it whole and could only digest it in the most reckless way, growing rapidly.
After falling ninety-eight times, breaking his arms fifty-nine times, his legs forty-one times, cutting himself in half seventeen times, and being completely finished three times.
This wonderful life formed by the combination of mirages and mayflies finally began to resemble Ye Shuxing whom she met.
Changxia looked at the young man who was still adjusting the details of his body with a complicated expression. If the truth of the matter had not been figured out yet, she really wanted to pat him on the shoulder and say, "It's not easy for you either."
She urged the spiritual power thread, and the spiritual imprint of the beast tamer easily penetrated Ye Shuxing's consciousness along the thread. She knew nothing about taming beasts, but her cultivation was high, so she could just crush any resistance she encountered.
Anyway, she is not a very kind person, and it is hard to say what this thing in front of her is.
After doing all this, she returned to the cabin. Ye Shuxing's tea set was still neatly placed on the table. The tea in it had already gone cold. Changxia took a cup and played with it in her hand.
She was wondering when Ye Shuxing would come back and how he would face her.
I hope he can tidy himself up a little more like a human being.
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After Chang Xia blocked Xie Fengxue's message, his face turned completely dark.
He hadn't felt angry for a long time - of course not towards Changxia, he would never be angry with his junior sister at any time.
The young man's hands tightly grasped the kite, and even under such circumstances, he managed to control his strength very well. When he released his grip, the fragile kite was still intact.
After calming down, he bit his finger and used the blood to draw intricate patterns.
A moment later, Zuo Qin's face was reflected in the air. The indifference and impatience on the likable boy's face were very inconsistent, making people want to unconsciously solve his troubles.
Xie Fengxue, however, was not moved by this face at all. He asked coldly, "You said you wouldn't let Xia Xia get involved in these things."
Zuo Qin smiled a little at this time, and asked in return: "If you only have three chances in battle, you use them to ask me this?"
"If it's gone, I'll just make another one. Your apprentice just brought me a bunch of ruler stones."
Xie Fengxue's expression was still cold. "Why let her go to the Unbearable Suffering? If Xia Xia gets involved, her future will be cut off just like ours. Then what's the point of what we are doing now!"
He paused, and his voice suddenly became grim.
"Zuo Qin, neither you nor I are as kind-hearted as my master, and we cannot do things that would benefit others."
Zuo Qin did not refute Xie Fengxue's statement that Song Jia was his apprentice. He lowered his eyes and a look of self-mockery disappeared in an instant. When Xie Fengxue wanted to take a closer look, he had returned to his calm appearance.
"I didn't want to lie to her, so I pointed out the way for her. Buduku does have the whole truth, but it can also easily lead people astray.
Don't worry, something will soon occupy her mind..."
"When she knows everything, we..."
Zuo Qin looked at the dancing fire in the forge, his gaze suddenly becoming profound: "By then, whether she blames us or not won't matter to us."
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Changxia waited until the hour of Wu this time before she saw Ye Shuxing coming back from outside with wet sleeves and a fish in his hand.
Seeing her sitting there, Ye Shuxing was not surprised at all. Instead, he smiled and showed her the fish: "Miss, we are having fish tonight."
What a hospitable young man! If Changxia’s spiritual thread hadn’t sensed that the fish’s belly was full of mayflies.
In the past, she hadn't harbored much aversion to mirages, as doctors often used spirit beast insect poison as medicine. She loved fighting and was often injured, so she could drink Xie Fengxue's brewed her medicine, which contained all sorts of strange ingredients, without batting an eyelid. Furthermore, when someone mixed mirages, invisible creatures, into tea to induce dreams, she simply dismissed them as a new form of illusion, praising their ingenuity.
But when she saw these bugs devouring each other and finally becoming as stupid as Ye Shuxing, she lost her good impression of these little bugs.
She was afraid that if she ate too much, she would become as stupid as the bug.
Chang Xia put the water cup on the table and asked calmly, "Do you need help?"
Ye Shuxing smiled gently and said calmly: "No need, I'm very good at cooking fish."
...After all, we've been neighbors for so many years, right?
Changxia didn't say anything else.
The kitchen of the small wooden building was downstairs. Changxia was on the second floor, looking through the railing at Ye Shuxing busying around in an orderly manner. He thought to himself that he didn't look like the flustered man he was just now by the stream at all.
The learning speed is really amazing.
Changxia closed his eyes, pulled the thread of spiritual power, and his spiritual consciousness invaded Ye Shuxing's sea of consciousness.
Ye Shuxing below suddenly paused in his movements, his mind went blank for a moment, but he couldn't find anything strange, so he continued to cook.
Chang Xia glanced at his sea of consciousness while branding his spirit. The name "sea of consciousness" was given in the world of immortal cultivation for a reason. From the outside, the depths of a person's consciousness looked like an endless ocean, with every drop of water representing a memory of a moment.
But Ye Shuxing’s is different. His “sea of consciousness” is like a beehive, and there is a mirage living in each beehive.
Together they form the individual "Ye Shuxing".
This biological evolutionary direction was once proposed by the Qingyang family of the Eastern Territory. Their family, descended from divine beasts from a time before the Heavenly Path was extinguished, possesses a natural ability to communicate with spirits. Even more remarkable, they have escaped the stagnation of aristocratic families. Instead, they have recruited numerous disciples, fostered innovation, and are now at the pinnacle of Cangxuan beast control.
They observed the lifestyles of bees and ants and once proposed a conjecture that bee colonies and ant colonies all obey the command of the queen bee and the queen ant, and the other members follow the instructions. Then, can the entire bee colony and ant colony be regarded as an individual, with the queen bee and the queen ant as the brain, and the colony as the body and limbs?
Finally, this concept only exists on paper, because theoretically, this "whole" that is gathered together will cause the sea of consciousness to collapse due to slight differences between individuals. The crazy individuals will affect other individuals, leading to the final demise of the whole.
Even if the demon race was used for practice, it was still too cruel, so the elders of the Qingyang clan stopped it.
I didn't expect to actually see this kind of creature.
Changxia looked at the densely packed beehive and couldn't help but wonder, even if the mayflies have simple thinking, different individuals are still different individuals. How do they manage to coexist peacefully in Ye Shuxing's mind?
unless……
Changxia's eyes darkened, unless they were originally one.
For some reason, she suddenly thought of the Chishi in the Luhu Secret Realm and the crimson river, which looked very much like a person's blood.
She remembered that both the ruler stone and the mirage appeared about four thousand years ago.
At that time, a major event happened - the ladder to heaven was broken.
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