Hou Wenjie looked at the bizarre structure on the verge of collapse and sneered:
"You want to learn? I'll teach you after you're completely dead!"
Having said that, the giant black python swept across the sky, its aura becoming even more unparalleled. Before the strange woman could say anything more, it swallowed her whole.
Then, the giant python returned to its sea of consciousness and spat out the strange woman.
Inside the Lingtai (spirit platform).
Hou Wenjie's sea of consciousness spun into even larger waves, vast and mighty, like a world-destroying millstone, grinding the strange creatures imprisoned tonight into tiny fragments of black light.
Above the sea of consciousness, the light of nature shines like a blazing sun, illuminating the spiritual impurities that have separated from those strange things.
Under the light of sex, Hou Wenjie saw a reflection of a love he had longed for but could not have in his youth, which, after being completely eroded by the eerie light, transformed into the most greedy possessiveness.
Within A Lei's mental remnants lies a reflection of his poor academic performance due to congenital visual impairment. He gave up on himself and used his school money to buy piglets, only to be ridiculed by everyone he knew and neglected by his mother for the next ten years. After the eerie memory completely eroded this period, it transformed into extreme malevolence and a frenzied desire to kill.
Within Ah Kun's mental remnants lies his childhood infatuation with his sister-in-law. This affection intensified like a raging fire a few years after his elder brother's death. After the eerie world completely eroded this memory, it transformed into a frenzied sexual desire.
Looking at these images, some real and some imagined, that existed in their personal memories, Hou Wenjie suddenly had a realization.
Restrained desires are the source of human struggle, while unrestrained desires are the source of all strange occurrences.
These three kinds of spiritual remnants were quickly burned away under the sexual light, and Hou Wenjie seemed to be able to see the three of them liberated souls in the invisible flames.
He discovered three strange occurrences.
One is the Painted Skin Ghost, which can transform Hou Wenjie into any form.
One is the Shadow, which can shrink and stretch.
One is the Evil Eye, which can grow a web of blood from its own eyes.
Hou Wenjie pondered how to better explore these three strange abilities.
Then, he discovered that the strange woman who claimed to be a god couldn't hold on and her spirit was shattered.
The light of sexuality began to shine upon these minds, and then he obtained one memory fragment after another.
By piecing together some of the fragmented memories, Hou Wenjie roughly understood the origins of this strange woman.
This woman's name is Yuan Caiwei. She used to be a Taoist priest, and she also practiced the Lesser Heavenly Circuit method.
The Small Heavenly Circuit method was the mainstream practice in the Taoist cultivation world at that time.
The spiritual energy is drawn in through the Ren and Du meridians and enters the lower primordial energy sea.
This practice of Taoist methods indeed refined Yuan Caiwei's spirit. Through daily cultivation, she formed a Yin spirit in her lower dantian.
She can control the spirits of the underworld to travel at night, but apart from that, the spirits of the underworld do not have any other particularly special abilities.
She must eat when she's hungry, see a doctor when she's sick, and die if she gets stabbed.
Most importantly, the Yin spirit cannot live forever.
The practice in the cultivation world at that time was to actively let the Yin spirits control the strange phenomena!
Because the Yin Spirit is sufficiently condensed, the erosion of the Yin Spirit by the supernatural will be very slow. Moreover, after mastering the supernatural, one will gain many supernatural abilities and be tainted with the supernatural's immortal aura. This is an irresistible temptation for cultivators.
The practice of condensing the Yin spirit and then controlling the supernatural had become common knowledge in the cultivation world at that time.
After mastering the supernatural, Taoist priests will try their best to be deified!
This kind of deification usually involves a Taoist priest demonstrating supernatural abilities to persuade the local government to bestow a divine title upon him.
The advantage of deifying gods is that people only need to worship these gods, which will generate the power of incense offerings.
In essence, the power of incense is also a collection of spirits. Taoist priests who were granted deities could consume the power of incense to make themselves almost immune to the corruption of evil.
At that time, Yuan Caiwei was a relatively famous disciple of the younger generation of Louguan Dao. Li Boyang, the City God of the Capital at that time, was also the founder of Louguan Dao, and he conferred upon her the title of Xianghe River Goddess.
Later came the story of the alien king taking over the Central Plains. At that time, Yuan Caiwei, who was a god, did not not consider using her strange powers to kill all those alien people.
However, the founder of a dynasty is truly favored by the Mandate of Heaven. Such a person gathers the power of the dynasty's dragon vein into himself, and his prestige can be added to the army.
Whether it be the supernatural or the divine, they will all be forcefully suppressed in the face of such a person and his army.
Afterwards, all the Han gods were knocked off their altars, and all the cultivation manuals were burned.
Later, the foreign king felt it was not safe and burned almost all the surviving books.
Those deities who lost their incense offerings all suffered severe backlash.
Some were completely transformed into monsters, suppressed by the dragon veins of the alien king.
Some, in a state of extreme weakness, completely seal themselves off using the Lingtai acupoint.
Others search for legendary grottoes in hopes of slowing down the strange erosion.
From these fragments of memory, Hou Wenjie learned that the so-called grotto-heavens were actually the spiritual platforms and physical bodies left behind by Taoist celestial beings who had attained the Dao fruit and whose Dao bodies roamed the universe.
And the grotto-heaven, at the time of midnight when the heavens open each day, can receive the light of heaven!
The celestial light drawn in by the grotto-heaven is not as violent as the energy of the dragon vein. It can not only repair the Yin spirit to a limited extent, but also suppress the eerie.
It can be said that the grotto heaven is a place that all Taoist practitioners dream of.
After reading Yuan Caiwei's memory fragments, Hou Wenjie has gained a clear understanding of the eerie and its resurgence today.
Lines of text appeared above his sea of consciousness.
The acquired consciousness, aided by spiritual energy, condenses into a Yin spirit!
The primordial spirit, through the [Heavenly Heart], [Intentional Soil], and [Nature Light], forms the Yang Spirit Elixir Embryo!
The deathly energy of all things condenses into something eerie through desire!
The vital energy that gives rise to all things is called spiritual energy, which is acquired energy.
The primordial energy is heavenly light in the heavens, dragon energy on earth, and human nature light in humans.
There are also terms like "incense" and "grotto heaven".
Throughout history, very few cultivators have mastered the Great Circulation of Qi, leaving behind only the legend of the Thirty-Six Grotto-Heavens, each representing a Daoist who has attained the Dao fruit.
The method of the Great Heavenly Circuit is extremely difficult! Therefore, those who cultivate the Tao devised the method of the Small Heavenly Circuit, which does not cultivate the Lingtai, Tianxin, or Daqihai, but focuses on cultivating the Xiaoqihai below the navel, thus mastering the mysterious and achieving acquired deities. This is much simpler.
As long as the incense continues to burn, the gods will live forever.
From Yuan Caiwei's memories, Hou Wenjie also learned the specific reason for the strange occurrence.
The source of the eerie energy is the death energy of all things.
This aura of death is not so simple!
The death of an ordinary person or animal does not produce an aura of death; their spirit may completely dissipate within a week of their death.
Those Taoist priests who received spiritual energy but failed to cultivate into Yin spirits, and those animals that absorbed moonlight but failed to become spirits, after their death, their spirits are easily transformed into the death energy of all things!
Furthermore, when a true Yin spirit dies, it transforms into an even more powerful and eerie entity.
Therefore, the birth of the death energy of all things is closely related to spiritual energy.
The more spiritual energy a person or animal absorbs, the more likely they are to transform into a ghost after death.
Life and death are inherently interdependent!
Use spiritual energy to form a Yin spirit, and use the Yin spirit to control the strange!
If they cannot become Yin spirits, they will quickly transform into strange beings after death!
"How profound is the transformation of Yin and Yang between heaven and earth!" Hou Wenjie sighed inwardly.
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