After leaving the strange and terrifying demonic land, Fan Wu Jie and the others finally understood why the will left behind by the World One to seal the demonic land was the only way out. The demonic land was on a different level from the normal world. There was no end to the demonic land. It was more like an illusion, or a message.
As they slowly saw the truth of the demonic land, they gradually delved deeper into it. Finally, this illusion turned into reality, trapping them inside.
Now, after the Revered One of the World's severe warning, Denglong was defined as a yin demon, and the real Sealed Dream Land became an illusory mirage. After getting rid of this illusion, they only needed one step to step out of this world that was neither real nor illusory.
Master Fajing was the first to take the first step. He turned around to look behind him, only to find that there was no trace of the Demonic Earth at all. Similarly, he could not see the path he had come from … Even the path back to the Blood Sea of Calamity Eye had disappeared.
This was a path of no return!
Fa Jing put his palms together and sighed, "So the demonic land of the Sealed Domain is actually the will of the Single Tree for Lonely Garden. It's hard to tell the real from the real. Reality and illusion are two sides, we still fell for it!"
The group of demon monarchs followed closely behind. Burning Soul Demon Monarch said with lingering guilt, "This godforsaken place is actually an illusory place. It scared me so much that I thought the Demon Ancestor had really moved the sacred place where the World Venerables imparted Dao away!"
Yuan Yu shook his head, "This is not an illusory place. The Demon Ancestor had indeed moved away the sacred place where the World One lived for twenty years. If we understand the Single Tree as a yin demon, then this is obviously an illusion of an external demon. But if we accept the Demon Ancestor's understanding of the Single Tree, then it's hard to say which of the two Single Trees for Lonely Garden is real! "
Fan Wu Jie said with a strange expression, "Then of the two Single Trees for Lonely Garden, which one is real?"
"Both of them are real!" Yuan Yu sighed and said, "To great beings like the Revered One of the World and the Devil Ancestor, anything unimaginable could happen. Not to mention two Gibbons for the Garden of Solitude, even if hundreds of primeval worlds and countless generations of primeval continents coexisted, it would not be inconceivable. Their realm has long surpassed the limits of our imagination."
"All the common sense in the world is useless against them!"
"Because common sense is defined by them. Reversing cause and effect, redefining concepts, and even tampering with the Great Dao of the universe is as easy as eating and drinking to them. If it weren't for the fact that there's more than one powerful being in the world, then all living beings in the universe would just be toys in the hands of powerful beings."
"Is Daira really that terrifying?" Fan Wu Jie found it hard to understand. He said doubtfully, "But the Daira I've seen, even though Asura King Shemori is very powerful, he hasn't reached this level!"
Yuan Yu smiled but did not reply.
"Demons, filthy creatures, ambitious wolves!" Master Fajing glared angrily at Daira. Behind him, the old monks stood in a row, all with murderous looks on their faces. They faintly blocked the escape route of the demonic cultivators, blocking them in front of the destructive tribulation tide. Compared to when they first entered the Sinkhole, more than half of the old monks were gone.
Many of them had been killed by the Demon Monarchs in the Land of Sealed Cacao.
If the demonic cultivators hadn't attracted the evil thoughts of all the Buddhas, they wouldn't have lost more than half of their people. Although the demonic cultivators had also lost some members, with all the Demon Monarchs below the Dao Monarch level dead, and the old Demon Monarchs who had been assimilated in the Land of Sealed Cacao, two Demon Monarchs failed to subdue the yin demons. Instead, they were controlled by the yin demons and turned into yin demons.
However, both the Xue Tu King and Ajati had a vague suspicion in their hearts. With the cunning and insidious nature of the Demon Monarchs, even if they seemed to be defeated … no one could be sure that they weren't acting. At least, it was a little strange that an old schemer like the Corpse God could be so easily brainwashed by the murderous thoughts.
Although it wasn't impossible, it was a kind of illusion that made people feel it was a little fake.
Yuan Yu was sure that although the Corpse God had indeed been assimilated by the Land of Sealed Cacao, it definitely wasn't like what he had said. He hadn't been able to deny the murderous thoughts in time and had been assimilated by the murderous thoughts. The Corpse God came from the Corpse Demon bloodline. He had created a shocking and amazing artifact like artificially burned relics, which was favored by the Slaughter Demon Ancestor.
It was strange no matter how one looked at it, for him to be so easily plotted against by the Slaughter Demon Ancestor.
Based on Yuan Yu's understanding of River Styx's evil tastes, the fake relics that the Corpse God had created must be especially suitable for this young Demon Ancestor. With the Demon Ancestor's blessing, the Corpse God wouldn't be so easily tricked.
No matter how one looked at it, it felt like the Corpse God had deliberately put himself in a hopeless situation.
Yuan Yu saw a shocking transformation on the ancient tree that the old man Corpse God had transformed into. He seemed to be transforming his life form, from a human to a tree, from life to death, from a ghost to a Hou, from a Hou to a Yin Devil, from a Devil to a Buddha … Yuan Yu could see through the several major transformations that the old man Corpse God was going to perform with the help of the almighty experts in the Sealed Land of Fiend Earth.
First, he allowed the murderous thoughts to transform him, changing his life form into an ancient tree. Then, the ancient tree gradually withered and turned into a Tree Ghost. Then, the ghost body changed again and turned into a Hou Ghost. Then, with the smile of Lord Kasyapa, he found the murderous thoughts of the Revered One and was defined by the Revered One as Yin Demon. With the smile of Lord Kasyapa, he was enlightened by the Revered One's Buddhist nature and turned into the Buddhist Dao …
Yuan Yu couldn't see the subsequent transformations.
However, according to Yuan Yu's speculation, the Corpse God was going to change his life form nine times to open another path of Daira Dao.
If Yuan Yu's guess was correct, after the Corpse God received the favor of the Slaughter Demon Ancestor, the Ancestor River Styx passed on a forbidden technique of the Demon Dao, the supreme secret technique of the Demon Dao. Legend had it that when Goddess Houtu created the reincarnation to open a path for all living beings, the River Styx drove the sea of blood to drown the reincarnation and discussed the Dao with Goddess Houtu. They defined the reincarnation and added the ideology of the Demon Dao to the reincarnation.
At that time, the River Styx proposed the Nine Questions of Hell. Each question was a supreme secret technique of the Demon Dao that involved the great secret of reincarnation.
According to the legend, the Nine Questions of Hell were nine flaws that involved the essence of reincarnation. In other words, they were the weak points of the concept of reincarnation. By mastering the Nine Questions of Hell, one could find the weak points of reincarnation and surpass reincarnation to achieve immortality. They would no longer be restricted by the Netherworld and the three lives of reincarnation, reaching the terrifying Dao Fruit of immortality.
Each question was a different path of Daira Dao.
However, because the Nine Questions of Hell directly attacked the weakest flaw of reincarnation, in other words, the Nine Questions of Hell was the Nine Imperfections of reincarnation. If there were too many Daira that used the Nine Questions of Hell to achieve Dao, or even nine of them, it might shake the foundation of the Netherworld. Therefore, the Netherworld was wary of it. If one wanted to cultivate the nine great techniques of the Nine Questions of Hell, they would definitely suffer the backlash of the Netherworld. The counterattack of reincarnation was extremely terrifying.
It might even be cursed by the Twelve Witch Gods. Even a Heaven Immortal like Daira wouldn't be able to get away with it.
Not to mention a mere Dao Lord that was preparing to achieve Daira Dao!
Therefore, the Nine Questions of Hell was also a forbidden technique of the Devil Dao.
In a debate back then, Lady Houtu and the Patriarch of River Styx fought to a draw. The Patriarch of River Styx used the Nine Questions of Hell to determine the boundaries of reincarnation and won by a small move. However, according to some ridiculous rumors, the reason why the Patriarch of River Styx could win by a small move in Lady Houtu's territory and occupy a land of the Netherworld for the Blood Sea was because of the secret support of the Three Pure Ones and the Buddhist Sects. They suppressed reincarnation and restricted the authority of the Primordial Reincarnation.
This kind of baseless, sinister, and malicious rumor would naturally not be acknowledged by the Buddhist Sects, Daoist Sects, or the Devil Dao. Even the shameless and malicious rumormonger was suppressed by the Patriarch of River Styx in the Blood Sea, never to be reincarnated.
He received the retribution he deserved. As the saying goes, the Skynet is vast but not leaky. Good and evil have their retribution!
Yuan Yu didn't know much about the Nine Questions of Hell. This was because the more he knew, the more flaws and weaknesses he knew about reincarnation, and the easier it would be for him to take advantage of reincarnation. However, Yuan Yu happened to know a little about the question that the Old Man Corpse God got. It wasn't much, just a rough idea. It was also the reason why the people of the Underworld gave him a small lesson back then.
The question that the Old Man Corpse God got was: Who is the True Self in the Reincarnation Past Life?
In other words, it was the boundary of the individual in reincarnation. The True Spirit was the boundary of the soul in reincarnation. This question was a variant of the Ship of Theseus. It referred to the problem of how to define reincarnation in the endless changes of the self. The Ship of Theseus talked about the definition of one's self. However, after Houtu created reincarnation, reincarnation had the problem of defining one's self. The definition of one's self was a philosophical problem, while the definition of one's existence in reincarnation was a problem of the laws of the world.
Take the Ship of Theseus as an example.
River Styx proposed the Paradox of Identity and Paradox of Continuity: A ship could sail for hundreds of years on the sea, thanks to continuous maintenance and replacement of parts. As long as a piece of wood rotted, it would be replaced, and so on until all the functional parts were no longer the original ones. The question was, was the ship that was created in the end still the original Ship of Theseus, or was it a completely different ship? If it wasn't the original ship, then at what point was it no longer the original ship?
A cultivator who cultivated the soul would constantly replace the elements of his soul until all the elements of the soul were reconstructed! Was he still the original him?
If he was, then his lifespan would be limited by reincarnation. After his lifespan ended, he would still be pulled into reincarnation.
If he wasn't, then at what point was he a completely new individual?
Houtu couldn't answer yes at all, because if she answered yes, it meant that there was no limit to the individuals defined by reincarnation, and the entire Untainted Land could be seen as a division of Pangu. If she answered yes, did it mean that all life in the Untainted Land was just a reconstruction of Pangu? One day, if Pangu didn't want to reincarnate, would it mean that the underworld would destroy the world? To control everything in the Untainted Land? This meant that the authority of reincarnation would expand infinitely, and it would be impossible to get the support of the Great Mediums.
If not, then what limit would be reached to be considered a completely new individual?
River Styx created a magical power for this — the Nine Death Reincarnation Deceiving Great Spell. The cultivator could shed his own soul and the elements of existence, even a part of himself, just like shedding his skin. Every time he transformed, he replaced the components of his own existence. After nine transformations, the cultivator would be unrecognizable. Other than the connection of karma, he would be a completely different individual from his past self.
Then, here came the question for Houtu … Would such an individual be judged as a completely new individual by reincarnation?
Was the transformation a change in the self, or was it an inheritance and continuation? Was such an individual the same and continued?
Of course, this question was comprehensive. River Styx also created magical powers such as the Three Lives Reincarnation Great Spell. By constantly shedding and transforming himself, he could cultivate a person into three people. He also created the Three Corpses Great Spell. By continuously cutting off one's elements, emotions, desires, karma, and inherent attributes, he would become three corpses. In the end, he would only be left with the original "self", which was like the original "self".
What about the existences who cultivated these strange magical powers? How would they be considered as individuals?
The Nine Death Reincarnation Deceiving Great Spell asked what boundary a person had to reach in order to be considered a completely new self.
River Styx created several kinds of life to ask about reincarnation from this aspect. There was the Reincarnation Heavenly Silkworm — through continuous transformation, it lived one life after another, and through shedding its skin, it created a small reincarnation cycle. There was the Nine Changes Dragon Soul Worm Grass. When a worm dies, it becomes a grass, when the grass grows, it becomes a worm, and when the worm becomes a dragon, it reincarnates continuously between the life forms of a dragon worm and a grass.
They were all asking the same question. There were endless ways for life to continue. Some split themselves, some changed their form, and some molted into a new form.
Then, what was reproduction? What was living?
In other words, what was inheritance? What was continuation?
We don't know what expression Lady Houtu had when faced with all these questions and paradoxes. We only know that after River Styx asked this question, the entire Witch Tribe besieged the Blood Sea for three Periods. We only know that the cultivators who cultivated these strange magical powers would often encounter strange and ominous things from the depths of the Nether World.
Every single one of them had died in an extremely unpeaceful manner. Their corpses had undergone bizarre changes, growing hair of various colors, flesh scales, and bone spikes. Most of the time, their corpses were still twitching even after tens of thousands of years. Sometimes, not even the suppressing talismans drawn by Grand Luo could suppress them, and not even Daoist Monarchs could hold down their coffins. Even the blessed land where the Primeval Phoenixes landed could not bury them.
Even the Ancient Heaven couldn't pardon them!
If they didn't dare to bury them, they could only be cremated. The cremation burned fiercely! Strange blood flames and red lotuses appeared in the Nether World. Sometimes, we could even see spider lilies and the Netherworld in the fire. When they were burning, the corpses were still howling and emitting yellow smoke. The smoke reached the Heaven, symbolizing the great evil in the world. When buried, there would be drought demons, and when cremated, there would be Hou.
These were the great evil beasts in the world mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Sometimes, the blood flames didn't burn through them even after several Periods. Even after they were burned, they couldn't be buried. Wherever they were buried, it would become a place of extreme evil. Wherever the ashes were scattered, even the Fengshui Treasure Land would become a place of great evil. Wind would blow from the Nether World and bring countless souls to dance on the grave. When it was almost over, his family said that the place where the grave was located often had many strange things for no reason, including but not limited to ghosts hitting the wall to the eighteenth level of hell. Black smoke billowed out, strange monsters grew, and all kinds of horrible ghosts appeared.
These cases couldn't be investigated because it would touch upon a very terrifying primeval secret. It was the real Ancient Taboo — Lady Houtu held a grudge!
Those who knew were all dead!
Whether they died peacefully or not, the examples were as above!
In the end, the result of the discussion was that the Nether World marked every living being with a True Spirit Mark. The True Spirit Mark represented the limit of reincarnation. If the True Spirit didn't change, no matter how it changed, it would only change the outer outline of the soul. Once the True Spirit changed, it would be a brand new individual. The True Spirit represented the limit of the individual recognized by the Nether World and entered the Nether World to continue the next life.
The True Spirit was the label that the Nether World attached to every living being.
This was the previous life that Lady Houtu and Patriarch River Styx revolved around in the Nether World. Which was the True Self? The debate of this question … Of course, the True Spirit couldn't solve all the problems of this question. This represented some loopholes that could bypass the Nether World. For example, some powerful demonic cultivators had the same strange thinking as Patriarch River Styx — I don't care which one the Nether World thinks is me. The one I recognize is me.
Therefore, they created a substitute with the True Spirit to replace them in the Nether World. They would then live their next life in a brand new form. However, the prerequisites for this kind of deceiving supernatural power were very harsh. First, they had to understand themselves. For this kind of continuation to exceed the definition of the Reincarnation True Spirit, that person had to be extremely crazy.
They had to be as crazy as River Styx!
The crazy Nether World didn't mind them using this loophole — why bother with a crazy person!
As for how Yuan Yu knew the meaning of this question? The Nine Questions of the Netherworld was a real taboo. Knowing it would offend Lady Houtu and even the entire Nether World.
This was because Yuan Yu was proficient in the Art of Transformation. Guess what was the highest realm of the Art of Transformation? It was to transform oneself into another person without any hidden dangers. One transformation, one life. It was nothing to deceive the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations, but it was amazing to deceive the Nether World and the Nether World!
Yuan Yu vaguely guessed that the forbidden supernatural power that Old Man Corpse God had obtained should be the Nine Deaths Reincarnation Deceiving the Heavens Great Technique. It allowed one to continuously transform oneself, shed one's True Spirit nine times, deceiving the Heaven Reincarnation, and be reborn nine times without changing. This allowed one to completely break away from the boundaries of the Nether World and achieve another kind of immortality. By exploiting the loopholes in the Nether World, one could prove the Dao through the Nether World.
This was the Daira who achieved the Dao in a different way.
In the myriad worlds, or even in the Great Desolation, cultivating this kind of supernatural power was courting death. The consequences could be seen from the previous unpeaceful deaths. Only when the Nether World no longer existed and the River Styx left the cultivators of the Nine Questions of the Netherworld with a slim chance of survival, could they avoid the curse of the Nether World and have a chance of succeeding in their revenge.
Obviously, the only slim chance of survival for cultivating the Nine Deaths Reincarnation Deceiving the Heavens Great Technique was the strange and terrifying demonic land of the Sealed Dream Land.
Here, one could transform into nine different life forms and undergo nine shocking transformations to prove the Daira Dao. The ninth transformation should be carried out in the Daira Heaven. After all, the Daira Dao that relied on the Nether World's reincarnation was still unstable. The only place in the world that could prove the Daira Dao outside was the Eternal Daira Heaven. After the eight transformations, Old Man Corpse God would walk out of the Sealed Dream Land and head to the Returning Ruins, where the Daira Heaven would undergo the final transformation.
"Indeed a profound plan …" Yuan Yu sighed with emotion. Thinking back to his own experience of proving the Dao, and then looking at the other party's plan, Yuan Yu couldn't help but sigh … He was just a blind cat running into a dead mouse, and it was all due to some mysterious luck. Yuan Yu couldn't help but feel a little ashamed at this thought, but he quickly threw it to the back of his mind. After all … he still had the strength.
It was just that it wasn't obvious!
On this side, the Buddhas and Devils were facing each other, and the atmosphere was very tense!
Fan Wu Jie, on the other hand, saw a building wreckage in the distance. It seemed to be a collapsed palace, and it seemed to be an ancient heavenly palace that had collapsed for some unknown reason!
From the wreckage of the palace, one could see that its outer wall seemed to be made of green jade condensed by dense immortal energy. The polishing of the cosmic light and the destruction of the tribulation power could not damage this green jade wall at all, which showed how extraordinary it was. However, such an extraordinary palace had two pillars in front of it broken, tilting and collapsing. The wreckage pointed to the sky, and it was covered with scorch marks and weapon wounds.
Fan Wu Jie's divine sense spread out, and he frowned and said, "Everyone, let's put down our previous grudges first. There is the aura of the Annihilation Devil Disciples here."
Great Master Fa Jing also shone the purple gold alms bowl and saw the faint destruction tribulation power in the void. He reached out and stopped the old monk behind him, saying in a low voice, "Junior Martial Brothers, don't be in a hurry to settle the debt with the Devil Dao. It is more important to take down the Annihilation Devil Disciples first … I don't know what method they used to bypass the strange Sealed Dream Land, but they are one step ahead of us!"
"Devil bastard!" Fa Jing glared at them fiercely, "We will remember this debt first … When we face the Annihilation Devil Disciples and the remnants of Rho, don't be a coward!"
The Bloodsoaked Demon Monarch scolded back, "If a dog barks again, I'll beat the shit out of their Infinite Eons Tribulation! Don't be a coward, bald dog! "
"Hmph!" Great Master Fa Jing snorted coldly, but he didn't bother to answer.
Therefore, the two sides temporarily stopped fighting, and split into two groups, heading towards the mysterious palace wreckage in the distance …
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