Chapter 549: The Inner Demon Clone
The hair tie on the hilt of the sword represents Xiao Chujing's crazy longing.
Xiao Chujing made a strategy and executed it immediately. He didn't want to waste even a second.
"I must control at least one ghost messenger."
"Through the Ghost Envoy, we can obtain first-hand internal intelligence. As long as we study the direction in which the Ghost Kings are concentrating their forces to capture the little junior sister, we can determine her exact location."
"I can also use the power of the ghost messenger to summon the ghost soldiers."
Lao Gui knew that this kid always had some tricks up his sleeve, so he let him go.
[Within ten steps to the right, there is a fierce ghost following you.]
[Tsk, the trend of mutual devouring in the ghost world is even more rampant than that of the demon clan. It seems endless.]
Xiao Chujing's mind was always open, and he had noticed the small movements of passersby. His expression did not change: "I know."
He did not choose to blend in with the ghosts to shake off the pursuit, but went directly to the south gate of the city. After leaving the city gate, there was a deserted land.
The weeds were tall enough to reach a person, and there were occasional collapsed houses on the roadside. The place was so remote that not even a wandering ghost could be seen.
Xiao Chujing used his sword to push down the weeds blocking his way and continued to move deeper into the desolate areas.
The breath following him from behind was approaching rapidly, sending out signals to call friends along the way. After a while, five or six ghost auras gathered together.
Ding-ling, ding-ling.
On the thick branches of the weeds in front of him, strings of fruit shell bells were hung at some point, ringing without wind, like ghostly whispers, and the sound could disturb the mind of a cultivator and drive him crazy.
Looking closely, I found that those bells were not nutshell bells, but strings of eyeballs.
One, two, three, four, five... six heads emerged from between the grass leaves, sticking out long red tongues. They were a group of hanged ghosts.
The hanged ghosts laughed miserably and threatened: "This road is blocked. If you are willing to cut off your flesh and blood..."
The old ghost appraised Xiao Chujing's opponents this time: [The leader is as strong as you, and the rest of the rabble have also reached the middle stage of Qi training.]
The sword flashed.
Suddenly, the dark clouds dispersed, and the grass within a radius of ten steps was cut down to only a piece of grass stalks exposed in the soil. In front of Xiao Chujing, the land where the hanged ghosts once gathered and made a lot of noise had turned into a dark deep pit. In the pit, there was a sword mark running through the center.
The grass leaves cut by the sword energy fluttered down like a green snow.
The opponents didn't even have time to leave a last word before they disappeared into thin air. The ghost cores scattered on the ground were proof that they once existed in the world.
Xiao Chujing put away his sword and the ghost core flew into the air.
He used his palms to absorb the essence of the ghost core through the air. The black mist evaporated and twisted into black lines, rushing into his body frantically, and then being absorbed indiscriminately by his golden elixir.
The quality of that dull, lower-middle-grade golden elixir improved slightly because of this tiny bit of nourishment. However, if one wanted to improve the overall quality, this tiny bit of plundered origin was like a drop in the bucket.
The ominous ghost energy entered Xiao Chujing's dantian, stimulating his hidden demonic nature. The roots of his long hair showed signs of turning white, and a bloodthirsty red light swirled in his eyes.
Just before the evil spirit erupted, Xiao Chujing made a hand gesture and a thin shadow peeled off from his body, standing silently to the side.
The shadow's eyebrows and body shape have begun to take shape, and they look exactly like Xiao Chujing.
Its white hair was disheveled, its face was pale, its eyes were closed, and it was silent with its head down. Scarlet curse patterns were flowing on its black clothes, and it looked like the image of Xiao Chujing who had been possessed by a demon.
It stood upright with its palms folded, supporting the shadow of the Emperor Sword. Life force flowed around its body, and it was obviously not an ordinary puppet.
Xiao Chujing drew out his negative emotions, including killing, violence, resentment, anger... and injected endless black energy into the shadow's body.
The shadow's white hair was flying wildly, and the pale facial skin was cracked with black lines like porcelain, and the dark aura on his body was even stronger.
The old ghost watched Xiao Chujing's actions and solemnly warned him, "You must control your inner demons and not let them get out of control."
The shadow is the inner demon that Xiao Chujing has removed.
Looking at the world of cultivation, there are three ways for cultivators to create their own clones.
The most mainstream method is the "Nascent Soul Method". After high-level cultivators enter the Nascent Soul realm, they can cultivate a Nascent Soul clone, which is equivalent to cultivating a second life. After the main body dies in a natural disaster, battle or due to the exhaustion of lifespan, the Nascent Soul will automatically inherit the original body's memory and cultivation and continue to survive.
This is also the safest method.
The second method is the "body-splitting method", which is a characteristic of the ghost world and is also used by some evil practitioners who also practice strange ways.
The principle is to use the ashes to cultivate an avatar. The avatar will grow up from a baby as a brand new person, and will have completely different values, personality and life experiences from the original.
Different from the Nascent Soul of the first method, the avatar is equivalent to the "clone" of the end times and has its own unique thoughts.
Before the clone meets the main body, it does not know that it is a clone; when the main body needs to use its own blood to refine medicine and swords, it can capture the clone and use it as a medicine guide.
The significant disadvantage of this method is that the clone is often not satisfied with being a substitute. Once it has the ability, it will fight a life-and-death battle with the main body for identity.
The Ji family took advantage of this and killed the Ghost King of Shenglidi.
The third method is the "Mirror Creation Method" that Xiao Chujing is currently using. Many monks who practice the ruthless way, in order to obtain a pure heart of the way and reach the state of emptiness and clarity, will strip off their own dark personality and create a new human body.
After becoming strong enough, he would kill the dark personality with his own hands to strengthen his mind and prove his truth.
It seems very beautiful, but once the main body is unable to restrain the dark personality, there will be endless troubles.
A famous tragic example is the Immortal Wuya.
Wuya, the Immortal Venerable, was originally a renowned sword master who practiced the Way of Mercilessness, revered by sword practitioners throughout the world. In pursuit of a higher realm in the Way of Sword, Wuya separated his inner demon.
The inner demon secretly went down the mountain and took in countless Taoist companions under the name of Wu Ya. When Wu Ya discovered this after his retreat, he already had hundreds of children in the human world.
Hundreds of bloodlines gathered at Jianfeng, demanding to be recognized as their ancestors and receive the treatment that descendants of the Jian Sect deserved. Wuya refused to acknowledge them and drove all the bloodlines down the mountain gate.
There were some with extreme personalities in the bloodline who could not stand the insult and offered themselves to Wuya's enemies in anger. The enemies made their skin into a death drum and their flesh and blood into a curse on close relatives. In this way, they used Wuya's descendants to curse Wuya to death.
Xiao Chujing is currently practicing the Fate-Defying and Heaven-Breaking Scripture.
Practitioners go against the will of heaven, break the rules of heaven and earth, and reshape their own destiny by devouring the cultivation, souls, and even the power of heavenly tribulations of others.
Xiao Chujing did this in order to forge his low-grade golden elixir again.
The principle is the same as refining elixirs. If ordinary cultivators produce unsatisfactory elixirs, they can only convince themselves to accept the reality and give up. However, Xiao Chujing never accepts his fate. He regards himself as a furnace, breaks his golden elixir, adds natural treasures, and creates another furnace.
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