The Forbidden Path to Immortality - Chapter 197

Episode 18, Mirror Clone, Chapter 7, Chamber Pot

With his resolve wavering, Li Xun could no longer resist Yu Sanren’s assault. At this moment, Yu Sanren’s tone softened.

“You still don’t understand… The art of overcoming tribulations requires natural assimilation, seamless integration. Otherwise, the soul and body will be in disharmony, and you’ll survive today, but not tomorrow.

” “My confidence in this technique isn’t based on a belief that my primordial spirit and willpower are far superior to yours. It’s based on meticulous preparation and careful planning. From the moment I decided to use my mirror clone, I began planning for two hundred years… And you, a quarter of an hour ago, did you even consider my existence?”

Still, these words were disturbing!

Li Xun understood clearly, but he couldn’t help but listen.

Yu Sanren seemed to be in a state of intense excitement, even his primordial spirit’s intrusion slowed down. He simply chattered through his mind, “The original plan wasn’t that complicated. After all, even with the planning going back hundreds of years, no matter how much I’ve calculated, I can’t predict every move you make.

” “In fact, I’ve thought of staying in that tiny space for three hundred years, five hundred years, even a thousand years, accompanying a mentally handicapped girl until I go mad… But I never imagined that in less than two hundred years, this heaven-sent opportunity would come!”

Li Xun was quite uncomfortable with Yu Sanren’s current demeanor. Although he had never had a favorable impression of Yu Sanren, legend had it that he was, after all, a world-class figure renowned for his demeanor and bearing. Even those like Master Tianzhi, who held a deep grudge against Yu Sanren, could not help but feel a touch of admiration when describing his words and actions. How could such a person be in such a state of madness?

In their sea of consciousness, the confronting primordial spirits lapsed into a strange state. While the battle of erosion and defense was a constant, the dominant force was the massive transmission of information. Even though Yu Sanren skillfully combined this transmission with the erosion of the soul, it still seemed absurd and unreal.

Yu Sanren was oblivious to this, still caught up in his inexplicable excitement. “You don’t understand the difficulties others face. For two hundred years, everyone has been waiting. I’ve spent my lonely days in this small space, and Ayin has to wait too. She can’t make any plans until Zhong Yin ascends! I also know what opportunity Zhong Yin is waiting for. Pity my dear niece, she’s so ambitious, vowing to turn the world upside down, yet she has to depend on others’ wishes. It’s ridiculous!”

“Wait until Zhong Yin ascends to heaven?”

Li Xun clearly remembered that the Loose Cultivators Alliance was born several months before Zhong Yin ascended to heaven…

To a certain extent, Yu Sanren and Li Xun were in tune with each other, and he laughed suddenly: “After returning from Songjing, the little girl told Ayin a lot about you. Not long after that, she met you on Zuowang Peak. The effect was immediate!”

After a pause, Yu Sanren couldn’t wait to reveal the answer completely: “According to the agreement with Zhong Yin, Ayin can only start her plan after Zhong Yin ascends to heaven. And Zhong Yin also made an agreement with my good Yin’er that after I reincarnate and meet the two of them, and have the capital to gain a foothold, he can no longer stay in this world and must ascend to heaven.

“Hey, with all this interconnectedness, the key is this body! Ah Yin is such a clever person. Now that she’s seen this body, Zhong Yin’s plans must be hidden to her. That’s why the Loose Cultivator Alliance has launched a grand move in the North Pole, essentially forcing Zhong Yin to leave!”

Yu San Ren said, then burst into laughter. He had simply ignored Li Xun.

Now, Yu San Ren’s eyes were focused solely on the bright future that lay ahead. “I know Ah Yin’s intentions perfectly well. If she knew my spirit fragment was hidden within the little girl’s Niwan Palace, this body would be destroyed if she were to eradicate it. But now that she’s learned the so-called ‘truth’ from Zhong Yin, she won’t resort to such ruthless

tactics. Looking ahead, don’t you think she’s placing too much value on a shrewd young man like you?” Unlike Yu San Ren, Li Xun grew increasingly silent, refusing to respond to his incessant chatter. And Yu Sanren kept talking: “Actually, these are meaningless. You just need to know how excited I was when Qixia came back from the human world and talked about you! I was tired of wearing a little girl’s coat and acting shy in front of those women, so I immediately took Qingluan and ran to the human world to take back this body.

“In fact, I had a great opportunity as early as in Songjing City. At that time, your cultivation was shallow and your mind was not strong. As long as you took action, the fusion would be a piece of cake. So I hinted to the little girl to give you the Ice Wind Orb. The Tianming Huayin Orb inside it was my collection in my early years. It was extremely secretive, and even Gu Yin didn’t know about it.

“I thought that with your cultivation level at that time, if you didn’t know your own limitations and tried to refine this bead, you would definitely be attacked by the backlash from the bead. I didn’t expect you to be so lucky and actually inherited the Ghost Devouring Shadow Sect, and refined the bead in a blink of an eye… This damn God is making things difficult for me, I accept it!”

He said “accept it”, but the gnashing of teeth and the manifestation of Tonghua’s divine thoughts were clearly transmitted in: “Song Jing failed, and I lost the best opportunity to directly destroy your soul and take back your body before you become powerful. From now on, I must create conditions to connect your vital energy and divine will with this little girl, so that your souls can touch each other and allow me to display my magical powers.”

The more Li Xun listened, the more he understood. He didn’t expect that he had been calculated so long ago.

As Yu Sanren spoke, his emotions seemed to fluctuate with his memories: “There was a time when Gu Yin instigated Yao Feng to take you in as her son-in-law, didn’t he? If it had gone on like this, things would have been much easier. As long as you and Lin Wuyou get married, and you two practice dual cultivation together, your spirits will be connected, and it would be a natural thing for me to get my body back. However,

I didn’t expect that this matter would also lead to complications. Yao Feng, Qing Luan and Gu Yin turned against each other, and the marriage would no longer be possible. “I was almost in despair, but fortunately, my good niece really used the forbidden method taught to her by Zhong Yin. In order to trigger the power of the forty-nine calamities that Zhong Yin intercepted, she had to use Lin Wuyou as bait, and she had to carve forbidden patterns on the girl. She got the complete forbidden map from Qing Yin, and thought it was Zhong Yin’s work, but she didn’t know that the painting also contained Qing Yin’s method of trapping the dragon!

“The Dragon Lock isn’t anything special, but that was information passed on by Guaiguai Yin’er. We’re both very familiar with Ayin’s plan, so we naturally know how to cooperate. Presumably, your divine sense penetrating into the girl’s sea of consciousness was due to her careful guidance!”

Li Xun was speechless.

Now that he thought about it, Qingyin, despite her cryptic movements from the moment she appeared in the East China Sea, had drawn his attention from the very beginning. Then, with every subsequent move, she practically led him by the nose, naturally drawing Lin Wuyou into her sights and even offering him attractive bait, luring him into willingly projecting his divine sense into her sea of consciousness…

How could she have done that without knowing his temperament and behavior so well?

He couldn’t help but feel depressed, and Yu Sanren sensed this all too clearly. His spiritual thoughts continued to penetrate, corroding him. “What’s the point of struggling? With the marks made by the Zuowang Stone, your primordial spirit is inherently restrained by me. Your acquired calculations are no more thorough than mine. Until now, you’ve been trapped in the Niwan Palace, simply waiting to die. In this state, you’re simply clinging to a breath, unwilling to let your consciousness dissipate.

“In that case, I’m willing to give you a chance. If you return this body to me, I’ll let you take over Lin Wuyou’s body. The girl has excellent roots, but her spiritual consciousness was suppressed by my Yuan Shen when it was budding, so it’s only at the level of a child. Even if I don’t devour her, she’s very easy to control… Speaking of which, don’t you think this girl has a good impression of you?”

Yu Sanren couldn’t help laughing as he spoke. “I’ve manipulated the girl’s consciousness to make her feel close to you. Her intelligence is still young, so once she’s attracted to you, she’s very easy to guide. Maybe if you can direct your mind towards her, she’ll voluntarily give up her body to you?”

As he spoke, Yu Sanren couldn’t help but laugh. “That’s a truly brilliant idea. You can occupy the girl’s body and continue your cultivation, or even achieve reincarnation through dissolution. While it’s difficult, it’s still a way out. In my opinion, you might as well spend some time in a girl’s body and see if it leaves a lasting impression on you like it does on me…”

His laughter was off-key, piercing. Li Xun had been silent for so long that he seemed to have forgotten how to speak. He let the laughter echo in his sea of consciousness until the silence within his Niwan Palace spread, and he slowly strangled the man by the neck.

At some point, the laughter faded, and Li Xun slowly channeled his divine consciousness, translating it into a voice: “I’ve always felt strange.”

The manifested divine consciousness possessed unprecedented penetrating power, tearing through the Jade Wanderers’ blockade and clearly conveying his message: “Zhong Yin is definitely not one to be hesitant and soft-hearted. But when he reached the state of no return, he didn’t kill you with a single strike… Now, I almost understand.”

The Jade Wanderers hadn’t expected Li Xun’s strange reaction, and for a moment, unable to suppress it, they could only allow the thought to transform into a massive impact across heaven and earth, sweeping over them.

“Are you… really the Jade Wanderer?”

The words came from the sky, like the sound of thunder. Li Xun suddenly burst into laughter, echoing throughout this boundless ethereal space, wave after wave, shaking the entire world. In comparison, the Jade Wanderers’ mockery paled in comparison.

Without giving Yu San Ren any time to respond, Li Xun had already started cursing, “You bullshit Yu San Ren! The Yu San Ren known to everyone in the world, although he was lustful and ruined people’s reputation, still had the status and bearing of a grandmaster. That Yu San Ren died cleanly after being stabbed in the chest by a sword in the Wu Hui Realm. Since then, all that remains in the world is a waste who is self-pitying and begging for food!

“You can’t beat Zhong Yin. Instead of practicing hard to avenge your previous shame, you just rely on the evil ways of reincarnation and hope to reach the sky in one step. For this, not only did you r*pe your own niece, but you also set your sights on an ignorant child…”

Li Xun smiled coldly, “A tall and strong man, actually hid in a girl’s body, doing petty tricks and spreading rumors. All the romantic and dashing people in your previous life have been buried in the mud. Such a despicable, dirty and shameless person is worthy of being called Yu San Ren?

“Compared to that, even if the other two Wanderers became top-tier puppets, they’d be ashamed to be associated with someone like you. By the way, you mentioned a container earlier… I think this body could be a cup for wine, a plate for food, or a chamber pot for excrement and urine!”

As soon as the “chamber pot” idea came out, his sea of consciousness instantly transformed into a blazing lake of magma, seething and roiling with Jade Wanderer’s tangible murderous intent.

No one could endure such humiliation, especially Jade Wanderer, already in a state of extreme excitement!

For a moment, Li Xun almost thought his Niwan Palace would shatter under the attack. The violent concussion, flowing through the pervasive Qi energy there, instantly spread throughout his body. With just one blow, Li Xun’s physical body suffered another severe blow.

However, Li Xun was not surprised, but rather delighted. Jade Wanderer’s overly violent attack had not only exposed the location of his true spirit, but also his attack method.

The Dragon Lock, still the Dragon Lock! This forbidden technique, personally devised by Qing Yin, was no simple “minor restriction” like the one Yu San Ren had described. Yu San Ren relied on it to concentrate his magical energy and launch his attack.

It seemed that in a short period of time, Yu San Ren had refined this technique within his own spiritual power, effectively integrating it into his own power.

Li Xun had previously failed to consider this and continued to defend himself with his spiritual power. This, coupled with his inherent disadvantages, naturally hindered him at every turn. Especially during Yu San Ren’s lengthy speech, the spiritual marks representing the profound power of the Dragon-Binding Lock silently penetrated the depths of his sea of consciousness, densely covering it and nearly completely sealing off the outer layer of his Niwan Palace.

As Yu San Ren’s spiritual power continued to penetrate the Niwan Palace, if this restriction truly permeated the entire area, Li Xun’s spirit would be like a flying insect trapped in a web, unable to escape, and could only watch helplessly as Yu San Ren devoured him.

“As expected of close uncle and nephew, they’re both spiders.”

This inexplicable thought struck Li Xun, and he burst into laughter again. Despite the dire situation, his mind felt even more pure and at peace. Never mind Jade Sanren’s foolish attempt to trap him with forbidden magic. How could he possibly lose to this ugly creature?

Beside Li Xun, Yin Sanren and Shui Dielan had already grasped the gravity of the situation, their expressions grim. Li Xun’s spirit was trapped, his sea of consciousness in turmoil, making it impossible for him to convey any information to them. Fortunately, the two women, both experienced and experienced, remained calm despite their shock. Even though they didn’t fully grasp the underlying situation, after several attempts, they grasped a key point.

Shui Dielan’s earlier illusion had been easily shattered by Jade Sanren’s spirit within his sea of consciousness, using the power of the Jade Repellent. However, this had also allowed them to discover the flow of mana and its causal relationship. Li Xun wouldn’t be foolish enough to dispel his own support. This clearly revealed the Jade Repellent’s manipulation.

Spiritual communication was incredibly swift. While Jade Wanderer’s speech was rambling, it took only the blink of an eye for Shui Dielan and Yin Wanderer to reach their conclusion.

Earlier, Li Xun had embedded the Jade Repellent into his left chest to dispel its interference with the Blood Shadow Demon’s body. Now, Yin Wanderer’s fingers, curved like a hook, forcibly penetrated Li Xun’s chest, breaking through his physical defenses and attempting to wrench the Jade Repellent free from its embedded pectoral muscles.

At this moment, just as Li Xun was determined to fight back, Yu Sanren, in order to consolidate his own primordial spirit, was about to quickly draw the Xuanmen pure energy from the Jade Repellent for his own use. However, he forgot that there was also a trick under the cauldron to remove the firewood. Caught completely off guard, his strength was exhausted, and the operation of the Dragon Lock was slightly sluggish. Li Xun seized the opportunity, took advantage of the momentum to stimulate his primordial spirit, and aroused his spiritual consciousness like a sword, forcibly tore a hole in the weakest point of the restriction. Then, he stopped clinging to the Niwan Palace and…

jumped out!

When the divine will changed, although the human body is also a vast world, the Niwan Palace is connected to the spiritual energy of the whole body, like the center of the human world. The primordial spirit here can control the whole body and grasp the changes of the world. However, in the current situation, Yu Sanren’s spiritual consciousness permeated everywhere. Even if Li Xun held on to it, he would sooner or later be eroded by it and could not help himself.

So, Li Xun leaped forth, his absolute confidence in the forbidden technique, ready to assault the barrier with all his might, determined to sever the source of Yu Sanren’s primordial spirit’s supernatural powers.

But he had other plans.

Yu Sanren hadn’t anticipated Li Xun’s determination. Coupled with the sudden loss of the Jade Exorcist’s pure, profound energy, he was caught off guard, losing his sense of control and becoming enraged.

Li Xun ignored the unholy fire and simply harnessed his primordial spirit, unleashing every magical power he had learned to widen the narrow breach. Yu Sanren’s primordial spirit roared like thunder in his sea of consciousness, intent on controlling the restrictions and trapping Li Xun, forgetting to seize the Niwan Palace and effectively sever Li Xun’s power.

The balance quietly tilted in the other direction.

Li Xun’s mind grew calmer. The primordial spirit is an innate spirit, born from the vast universe, unlike the acquired consciousness. Those who cultivate the Dao, gathering essence and refining qi, purifying their primordial spirit, can either return to the void and become an infant, or possess the power of spirit to control the universe. Although they gradually transform their primordial spirit from the void into the concrete, developing supernatural powers, their innate spiritual nature remains unchanged. Yu Sanren’s rising evil fire easily obscures his true nature, while Li Xun, from beginning to end, has maintained his spiritual clarity. The difference between them is obvious.

Of course, Li Xun never forgot his inherent disadvantages. Due to the Zuwang Stone, his spirit was particularly vulnerable to Jade Wanderer’s attacks and erosion, especially after escaping the Niwan Palace. From the outset, he had adopted an offensive strategy that disregarded so-called “defense.”

After breaking free from the “Dragon Lock,” Li Xun quickly reestablished some connection with his physical body’s vital energy. He also discovered that Jade Wanderer hadn’t completely lost his mind. While eroding his spirit, he was actively gathering the energy, meridians, and blood within his physical body, preparing for complete control.

However, Li Xun’s unexpected counterattack disrupted Jade Wanderer’s momentum.

After countless pursuits and attacks, Jade Wanderer finally regained some clarity from his burning state and realized what he most needed to do.

Immediately, Jade Wanderer’s spirit converged and he plunged into the now-empty Niwan Palace, intent on seizing control of the body’s core.

However, at this time, Li Xun had already controlled several of the most critical acupoints of the Qi channels. While Yu Sanren was busy opening up all the joints, he poured his soul into it and, with a bang, ignited the blood in his heart.

The dirty blood light flashed brightly, and it was born with the power of corrosion and explosion, instantly penetrating the whole body.

The body that had been tempered by this supreme demon day and night responded in this way. All the bones, tendons, muscles and blood were swept by the flames, hissing and shining, emitting a dark red rainbow light, turning from solid to virtual, and transformed into a ball of blood mist, rolling endlessly in the void.

Outside, Yin Sanren was trying hard to pull out the jade evil-repelling weapon from Li Xun’s chest muscle. Suddenly, there was a “bang” sound, and the resistance on her hand lost, but a blood light came up. She just steadied herself when she saw a long blood-colored rainbow rising from the ground, instantly breaking through the barrier of the mist-hidden cave and flying into the air. Seeing this, Yin

Sanren and Shui Dielan said nothing and caught up at the same time.