Chapter 430 Body and Soul Return to One!
Across the vast southern three states, the flames of war spread like wildfire, accompanied by the earth-shattering roar of sacred artifacts that resounded throughout the world.
The most intense fighting took place south of Lingzhou in the Central Theater Command.
Beneath that distant and profound night sky, all the laws of the heavens flowed in chaos, and violent energy tore the heavens and earth apart.
Among them, the overwhelming immortal light was condensed into endless sword energy and raged outwards, while the floating celestial book continuously bombarded the viscous night.
This earth-shattering battle was already approaching the Lingjian Mountain's base amidst dodging and pursuit. The intense confrontation caused the entire night sky to tremble violently between flickering lights, with continuous booming sounds of shattering.
Amidst this arrogant roar, Ji You, soaring through the air, sped past this place.
He could naturally see the fierce battle, but he also knew that without regaining his physical body, there was no point in him going there in his spiritual journey of enlightenment.
call--
Amidst the raging torrents, Ji You crossed the dust and sand without looking back, rushing towards Spirit Sword Mountain at the rear of the battlefield.
After the thousand-year-old families joined forces to commit atrocities, Tianjian Peak was leveled by Yan Shuyi wielding the Spirit Mirror. Now, only Xuanjian Peak and Wenjian Peak stand alone in Lingjian Mountain, towering and majestic when viewed up close.
At the front of the entire mountain range, the mountain-guarding array was shining brightly, its killing intent already fully revealed.
At this moment, within the great formation, the disciples of Lingjian Mountain who remained in the mountains were nervously watching the distant battlefield when they suddenly sensed an approaching aura in the sky and immediately looked up.
"Someone's here?"
"Not bad, a very unfamiliar yet very powerful aura..."
As they looked up, the disciples guarding the mountain instantly gripped the longswords at their waists.
With the mountain-protecting formation in place, they believed that no one could enter without being invited. Even if the owner of this unfamiliar aura came with great force, he would surely land in front of the mountain, so they were not too nervous.
At this moment, their only concern was whether the person who suddenly came towards Spirit Sword Mountain was a friend or foe.
If they were friends and not enemies, it wouldn't be so bad that disaster would strike. But the problem is that a fierce war is currently breaking out in the three states. It's unlikely that such a powerful figure would suddenly leave the battlefield and come here.
So when that aura accelerated and rushed towards them, all the disciples silently drew their long swords from their waists.
As the aura drew closer, they began to use their divine senses and easily caught sight of the figure high in the sky.
But the next moment, something unexpected happened to the disciples of Lingjian Mountain.
As they approached the great formation, the figure did not stop or land in front of the mountain gate as they had expected. Instead, it charged straight into the formation with great momentum.
"He actually crashed into us?!"
"Dare to charge into the mountain-protecting formation? Are you courting death?!"
As the night wind howled, many disciples guarding the mountain cried out in alarm.
It should be understood that this great formation is based on the essence of a sacred artifact, which can even stop a near-immortal. Its killing intent is unstoppable. To act in this way is simply courting death.
So, at the instant that figure crashed into the great formation, almost everyone foresaw the scene of that person being smashed to pieces upon impact with the formation, and then crushed into ashes by the killing intent condensed from the heavenly might.
But the reality was quite different from what they had expected.
puff--
A soft sound came from high above, and the person entered the Spirit Sword Mountain without any hindrance, falling straight into its depths.
Their protective mountain formation did not hinder them in any way, and even the killing intent they would have emitted upon sensing an unfamiliar aura did not appear at all.
Upon seeing this, the disciples of Lingjian Mountain widened their eyes, their expressions filled with disbelief.
"They've come in?!"
"How is that possible? How could an outsider possibly get through the mountain-protecting formation?"
"Could it be...could it be that there's something wrong with the grand formation?"
After a moment of stunned silence, all the disciples guarding the mountain changed their expressions and immediately chased after the figure that had soared through the air.
At the same time, Ji You, who had passed through the mountain-protecting formation, landed gracefully in mid-air on the cliff of Xuanjian Peak, and the wind and waves around him blew away the fallen leaves all over the ground.
As expected, the protective formation of Spirit Sword Mountain could not stop him.
This is not surprising, after all, he is the husband of the arrogant ghost, so he is not an outsider. Not only can Lingjian Mountain not stop him, but they should even welcome him.
But in fact, the reason he was able to charge into the formation with such confidence was because of the Spirit Mirror.
The grand formations of all the major immortal sects are based on the power of sacred artifacts, and he is capable of wielding the Spirit Mirror.
At this moment, Ji You slowly raised her head and saw the arrogant ghost's cloud palace right in front of her, like a huge beast crouching in the dead of night.
He had only been to Lingjian Mountain once, more than six years ago, when he came to ask questions with the disciples of Tianshu Academy.
But because he often came to the top of Xuanjian Peak, he was not unfamiliar with the palace of the arrogant ghost.
Bang--
At that moment, Ji You's soul suddenly began to tremble.
As if suddenly pulled, his eyes involuntarily gleamed with gold, and his mud body began to tremble.
He knew that it was the body's response to the soul.
Subconsciously, Ji You, having discerned the source of her feelings, turned her head to look at the north side of the Jianzhu Palace, and then strode away.
"stop……"
"Who...who are you?!"
Suddenly, two figures appeared on the steps of the Cloud Palace under the gloomy sky.
There were two women, both wearing the same long dresses, leaning against the railing, looking at him with wary and timid eyes.
Ji You recognized them at a glance; they were Cui'er and Xing'er, the arrogant girl's maids. So she said softly, "Don't be nervous. I mean no harm. I just came back to get some things."
"Nonsense! This is my master's palace. Not to mention outsiders, even disciples of Lingjian Mountain dare not come here casually. How could your things be here!"
Cui'er's voice was very stern, but her tone was clearly trembling.
However, her rebuke went unanswered. When she came to her senses, Ji You had already vanished from the spot and was rushing off towards the north side of the main hall.
He knew that his current appearance was vastly different from his previous beauty, and that Cui'er and Xing'er would not recognize him. The reason he answered just now was only to ease their tense nerves.
But time was of the essence, and he didn't have much time to explain things to the two of them.
“Hey, you…”
As Cui'er watched him suddenly walk away, she instinctively shouted, trying to make him stop.
But the oppressive aura emanating from Ji You made her tremble all over, and she didn't dare to chase after him.
At this moment, Xing'er, who was standing behind her, clenched her fist: "He went to the back mountain. Quick, Cui'er, we need to inform the senior brothers and sisters who are staying behind!"
Cui'er immediately snapped out of her daze, and together with Xing'er, they grabbed their skirts and hurriedly headed down the mountain from Xuanjian Peak.
call--
In the midst of a gust of wind, Ji You arrived at the north side, the place where his soul had been drawn.
It was a small, square courtyard with a neat wall in front of it and a completely black wooden door. It didn't look like a tomb, but rather like an ordinary family's home, giving Ji You an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
The wooden door wasn't locked, so Ji You easily pushed it open and went inside.
But when he stepped across the threshold and saw the tea table, stone benches, low trees, and even the balcony with bamboo baskets, he gradually understood where that sense of familiarity came from.
This courtyard was built to resemble his own courtyard at the Heavenly Book Academy; its size and furnishings were exactly the same…
Upon seeing this scene, Ji You's heart suddenly felt a pang, and her eyes softened considerably.
The arrogant ghost had said before that she didn't want to be the appraiser. When the spirit appraiser chose its own master, she was very angry because she was chosen, and she sank it into the Xuanhai Sea when no one was around.
The reason she took on this responsibility was because she had witnessed firsthand the bullying of Xuanjian Peak disciples on the mountain.
However, she never said that she didn't want to live the life of a judge, or what kind of life she would actually like.
It wasn't until he saw the scene that he realized that all the girl wanted was a small courtyard with him.
Ji You took a deep breath, then stepped forward and crossed the small courtyard.
At the end of the courtyard was not the living quarters, but a square stone chamber, no more than a few feet in size. Its four walls were bare, and the whole room had a desolate gray-white tone, as if all color and vitality had been swallowed up by the stone walls.
He raised his hand and pushed open the heavy stone door. The moment the door opened, the feeling that had been drawing his soul in suddenly became incredibly clear.
It was as if an invisible rope had bound his soul, pulling him toward the depths of darkness with an irresistible force.
Ji You did not resist this pull. She stepped into the darkness, passed through a long and silent stone path, and finally saw an ancient stone platform standing quietly at the end.
And lying on that stone platform was his long-lost physical body.
Having lost his soul, his physical body appeared grayish-white, but clean and tidy, unchanged from before. This was likely because his physical strength had reached its peak.
Of course, this is also because he has a stubborn, arrogant guy who is obsessed with love and didn't bury his body. Otherwise, he would have to dig him out of the grave.
Ji You paused for a few moments in front of the stone platform, not immediately stepping forward.
Seeing himself lying opposite him from a distance gave him a very strange feeling, as if he were truly observing himself from an objective perspective.
Wow, he's so handsome! No wonder he's got so many women swooning over him.
Ji You muttered to himself, then suddenly raised his arm.
In an instant, a powerful surge of energy erupted from his body. Where the energy passed, a series of cracking sounds erupted around him, and cracks spread wildly like a spider web from his core.
Before long, the cracked mud body could no longer maintain its original state and began to tremble violently. Large chunks of mud fell off and hit the ground with a dull thud.
What was revealed where the soil had crumbled was not flesh and blood, but a dazzling, pure, and flawless divine light, like a bright moon that had been sealed away and was finally seeing the light of day again.
Just before the clay body completely collapsed, Ji You's soul, following the pull from the physical body, transformed into a stream of light and, like rivers flowing into the sea, suddenly plunged into the silent body on the stone platform.
The moment his soul and body reunited, his spirit and flesh began to merge wildly, and a fiery power awakened from the depths of his limbs and bones, surging out like a bursting dam.
Buzz!
Just then, Ji You felt a resistance.
The resistance was like a barrier at the beginning of time, ruthlessly standing between the soul and the body, accompanied by an extreme sense of pressure like breaking through a realm, crashing fiercely into Ji You's consciousness.
In an instant, all was silent, and all five senses were lost.
He lost his sense of touch, his hearing, and all his perception of the outside world, plunging once again into boundless darkness.
But Ji You was not alarmed, because he knew that his soul had been separated from his body for so long, and his realm had risen from the Profound Realm to the Divine Wandering Realm, and he was no longer the same as before.
Previously, his enlightenment level was insufficient, and his soul was locked by his physical body. Now that his enlightenment level is equal to his physical body level, it is time for a battle.
boom!!!!
Under endless pressure, Ji You's soul suddenly threw a punch, just like when he first woke up from the illusion, intending to smash everything with his fist. But the difference was that this time, the thousands of laws he had comprehended before began to surround his soul and resonate with the force of his punch!
With a thunderous punch, the laws of the universe roared wildly, and this punch instantly caused the sense of oppression in front to rise rapidly to its peak.
However, to Ji You's surprise, those laws of power were instantly crushed into endless fragments, which then merged into all directions.
That law was not simply crushed by the pressure of the physical body; to be precise, it was the combined force of his soul's fist power and the domineering power of his body.
Then came the second punch, which shattered another law that surrounded his soul, embedding itself into his darkness, merging amidst sparks like the forging of iron.
The third punch, the fourth punch...
Ji You's spiritual aura began to surge and rise, constantly merging with the myriad laws of the universe, gradually becoming a raging storm in the darkness.
So that's how it is, the training methods behind the Night's Watch's legacy...
Ji You fixed his gaze on the ground and continued to throw a punch, slamming the surrounding laws into the void.
Pure Enlightenment cultivators begin to separate their souls from their physical bodies at the Divine Travel Realm. Later cultivators truly begin to gradually detach their physical bodies, allowing their souls to become independent entities, thereby comprehending the Dao to the greatest extent possible.
But the Night Watchers' cultivation is different; this lineage actually follows the path of tempering the spirit and the body, integrating countless laws into their bodies.
In other words, his soul seems to be that of a blacksmith, with laws as the raw material and his physical body as the vessel and furnace.
The destruction brought about by the blows here is meant to dissolve everything into a more delicate existence, but they do not disappear; instead, they begin to merge, intertwine, and embed themselves in each other.
In other words, he was forging an unparalleled version of himself using the laws of nature as raw materials.
At this moment, Ji You, who was in endless darkness, suddenly took a step forward and threw a punch with all his might, causing the surrounding area to tremble and the laws to shatter. His sense of touch gradually returned and began to strengthen.
The cold stone platform beneath his body, the dust floating in the air, the surging energy in his blood—everything became incredibly clear, as if a thin veil that had always obscured his senses had been removed.
At the same time, on the calm stone platform, the eyes of the still body began to tremble, as if they were about to open.
"Senior Brother Yan Hao, Elders, that person is just ahead!"
"The summit?"
"Yes, it's to the north of the Emperor's bedroom. Please follow me."
On the mountain path of Xuanjian Peak, Cui'er and Xing'er led a large group of Lingjian Mountain disciples hurriedly up the mountain.
Leading the way was Yan Hao, the grandson of the Heavenly Sword Peak Master and a disciple of the Heavenly Sword Peak lineage skilled in using the Mother-Child Sword technique.
During the battle of the Heavenly Dao Society, this grandson of Tianjian Peak, on whom high hopes were placed, was defeated because he encountered someone he should not have met, and failed to enter the sacred land of the sages. After that, he returned to Tianjian Peak and went into seclusion for a long time.
To be honest, that defeat wasn't really his fault, because what happened afterward proved that the person he encountered was a complete monster, and it would have been the same no matter who was in his shoes.
At the time, however, Yan Hao's defeat, as the grandson of Tianjian Peak, undoubtedly dealt an unprecedented blow to Tianjian Peak's reputation, so much so that the number of people choosing Tianjian Peak in the following year's enrollment was reduced by half.
In order to reverse this situation and salvage their image, Tianjian Peak allocated almost half of all the resources of its disciples to support his cultivation in the following years. Even the annual share of spiritual herbs from the Dan Sect was first obtained by him.
Now he has finally reached the peak of the Dao Fusion Realm, and is only one step away from the Heavenly Realm.
The battlefield of the remnant clans was too dangerous, where life and death hung in the balance. As a descendant of the main lineage, the people of Tianjian Peak naturally dared not send him to the battlefield, so they left him in the mountains to guard the mountain gate.
Just now, the disciples guarding the mountain gate rushed over to report that someone had broken into Lingjian Mountain. They were searching the whole mountain when they unexpectedly encountered Cui'er and Xing'er, who were hurrying down the mountain. They learned that the person had gone to Xuanjian Peak, so they hurriedly followed.
On the mountain path, Yan Hao turned to Cui'er and asked, "What's on the north side of the Master's palace?"
“It’s… a small courtyard,” Cui’er replied after a moment’s hesitation.
"What courtyard?"
“It’s a small courtyard, but it’s actually Young Master Ji’s tomb.”
Yan Hao's eyes narrowed suddenly: "Ji You's grave?"
Cui'er swallowed hard: "Yes..."
"It's one thing to bury an outsider in Spirit Sword Mountain, but to bury him on the summit? Does the Master know that this is a privilege reserved for the Sect Leader? Although she is the wielder of the sacred artifact, how can she disregard ancestral rules and act so recklessly?!"
Upon hearing Yan Hao's words, the remaining disciples of Lingjian Mountain couldn't help but frown.
They didn't understand the Appraiser's choice back then, and now that disaster is imminent, they feel even more that if they had joined forces with the Dao Asking Sect, things wouldn't be so difficult today. Now that they hear that the Appraiser buried Ji You on the mountain, they feel even more resistant.
The young appraiser of Lingjian Mountain has always been regarded as a fairy with unparalleled talent and extraordinary intelligence, which is why the disciples of Lingjian Mountain regard her as their spiritual idol.
Such a disregard for rules and arbitrary actions will naturally cause these disciples to gradually lose their trust and worship of their master.
"The question is, why did that person go to Ji You's grave? Did he say anything when he went?"
After pondering for a long time, Yan Ye and Yan Qingchi couldn't help but ask a question.
Cui'er, who hadn't dared to respond to Yan Hao's words, immediately spoke up after hearing the question: "He told us not to be nervous, that he just came back to get something."
"return?"
That's what he said.
Upon hearing this, Yan Ye and Yan Qingchi exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with deep confusion.
The summit of Xuanjian Peak belongs exclusively to the Master of Lingjian Mountain. Apart from the Master, no one should use the word "come back." Why would that person speak like that?
Just then, they heard a clanging sound, and Yan Hao, who was walking in front, and several disciples beside him had already drawn their swords.
Yan Ye and Yan Qingchi snapped out of their daze and realized they had reached the summit. They drew their swords from their waists and followed Yan Hao.
The group crossed the long open space in front of the hall and the clear lake at the summit. The small courtyard on the north side gradually came into view.
"To deceive yourself by making the tomb look like you're still alive?" Yan Hao sneered, suddenly gripping his longsword tightly. With a cold look in his eyes, he stepped forward. But just as he took a step, a loud bang was heard, and the entire mountain peak suddenly began to shake!
In an instant, a scorching aura rolled in, like a fire refining a sacred mountain, stirring up a surge of energy that spread across the entire mountain.
Meanwhile, deep within the mountain peak, a magnificent celestial light burst forth from the cracks in the mountain, instantly engulfing the entire mountaintop like a bursting dam in the Milky Way!
The most terrifying thing was that along with the heat wave, an extremely powerful pressure crashed down like a mountain collapsing. Everyone felt as if their bones and muscles were about to break, as if they were being tightly gripped by an invisible giant hand.
But what puzzled them was that the oppressive aura seemed to deliberately avoid Cui'er and Xing'er, only pressing down on them, leaving the two girls standing there dumbfounded, as if they hadn't come to their senses.
Just then, a figure emerged from the tomb that resembled a small courtyard.
He was a very young man, with the appearance of a scholar. He looked slender and tall, yet he possessed an overwhelming aura. His body was burning hot, and there was wind and thunder all around him. Amidst the bursts of mysterious light, he seemed like the rising sun.
"I'm not dead, so why would you say I'm buried on the summit of Xuanjian Peak?"
Ji You stood at the entrance of the small courtyard, looking at them, and spoke softly.
At this moment, everyone who saw his face clearly trembled violently, their whole bodies shaking, especially Yan Ye and Yan Qingchi.
Because they finally understood why that person used the word "come back," since that was the appraiser's husband, and if he used those two words, how could there be any ambiguity?
As for Yan Hao and the other Lingjian Mountain disciples, their eyes were filled with disbelief, and their faces turned pale instantly.
It was Ji You. This enormous impact was like a thunderbolt exploding in his mind.
"How could you not be dead?!"
"If Heaven cannot take me away, I will naturally return."
"Heaven cannot take me away," Yan Ye and Yan Qingchi exchanged a glance, thinking to themselves how arrogant it must be to say such a thing.
Just then, Ji You suddenly turned his head to look in the northeast direction, and then a surging fighting spirit rose in his eyes. His sword aura soared straight into the sky, and his powerful fighting strength made everyone tremble.
Then, the group struggled to carry his breath and followed his gaze. They saw that in the distant night sky, the radiant spirit mirror and heavenly book were being suppressed by the darkness. Their hearts trembled slightly.
That was a duel between supreme experts, and their judges were among them. Judging from the state of the spirit mirror, the judges were actually in dire straits.
In such a battle, anyone who went in would face a near-certain death, but they sensed a familiar sword intent, just like when he tore open the Heavenly Dao Sacrifice and recklessly entered to kill Chu Xian.
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