I attained immortality in the real world.

Chapter 123 Immortality
Dragon veins, spiritual objects, and the spiritual world are all forms of wealth.

The dragon vein is located on Luoshan Mountain and cannot be moved. The spiritual world belongs to Yaojing for development. Fang Xin asked for the spiritual object, white stone, as payment for the journey to the underworld.

Yao Jing turned her gaze to Lai Ming, who said, "I have no objection."

The fee paid by Yaojing for the fortune-telling was for the knowledge gained during the trip, including familiarity with the three arts of witchcraft, feng shui, and qimen, as well as information on Taoist organizations such as Tianyuan, and for establishing an understanding of heaven and immortals.

This knowledge can be purchased through the cultivators' forum; one hundred million can be easily thrown in, and some of the knowledge is even non-saleable.

"It's not the way to make friends if you can't get enough of taking advantage," Chen Jing chimed in, "I have no objection either."

Fang Xin glanced at the white stone in the cold pool, smiled and thanked her, saying, "If you two want to make statues of the Outer Gods, you can go to Wu Xian's Laboratory. We guarantee they will be lifelike and will not harm the spirit of the creatures."

"........."

At the crossroads of the cold pool, in the vast expanse of the earth.

Lai Ming set up a strange formation, and once the instruments were activated, there was no need to keep an eye on them.

Chen Jing and the other three were sitting on a broken rock, looking up at the clouds, watching them drift and roll. Once the Yuan Realm devoured the Earth Luo Tian, ​​the four of them would go their separate ways.

During this free time, the four of them gathered together for a chat.

Yao Jing picked up a stone and played with it, breaking the silence first: "Having met the legendary immortals and experienced their methods, what is your opinion on immortality, fellow Daoist?"

Lai Ming recalled the old man in front of the bronze cauldron, whose eyes were glazed over and whose consciousness was muddled, and felt that he could no longer be considered a human being!
He said, "The Immortal of Boiling Stones has indeed lived for nearly two thousand years. No, it should be said that he has survived from the early Tang Dynasty to the present. Only a spiritual body remains. If a person is a mountain, then he is just a small piece of broken stone left behind."

Fang Xin shook her head, thinking that immortals weren't that bad, and retorted, "How is it not better than freezing them up and using them as waste?"

“A thousand years is a very long time. Even according to the Qingdi calendar, civilization is only about seven thousand years old.”

"If the spiritual body remains in good condition, given the current speed of technological development, it is not impossible to revive the immortals, or even regain their bodies and live a second or third life."

Chen Jing looked at the clouds in the sky and was not attracted by the immortality illusion woven by Fang Xin. This rhetoric could only be used to attract investment.

He retorted, "Immortals have extremely weak abilities to interfere with reality. This ability will gradually become known to the world. Even if one has the conditions for resurrection after becoming an immortal, one still has to depend on the whims of future generations to be able to resurrect."

"Moreover, immortals exist by relying on the heavens. The ancients would sever the connection between heaven and earth and could not tolerate immortals causing trouble. How can people today tolerate immortals residing high in the heavens?"

"Leaving aside the methods to become an immortal, I'm more interested in knowing how the heavens operate and why they have been able to exist for thousands of years."

Heaven, as a simulated spiritual world, consumption is inevitable, and naturally it needs something like incense to replenish it.

Fang Xin looked at Yao Jing, who paused for a moment before answering, "I do know some things. In ancient times, the heavens were maintained by the land's terrain, dragon veins, and the sacrifices of living people."

There are several theories about the formation of dragon veins. Some say that when a person dies, their soul returns to heaven and merges with the earth, thus forming a dragon vein. Others say that the subconscious of a group of living beings attaches themselves to the mountain, and these living beings become the dragon vein.

"The offering of sacrifices to the living does not refer to burning incense, but rather to a royal pardon."

Dragon veins and imperial pardons are both Confucian methods derived from the social system. It is not surprising that Yao Jing, as a second-realm geomancer, knows these things.

Fang Xin added, "Dragon veins will change with the terrain, and dynasties will perish. Famous heavens will be severed from the earth, while unknown heavens will usually weaken and eventually disappear over time."

"Now there's another way: the primordial realm can sustain the existence of the heavens. If we continue to develop the virtual world, it's truly possible to achieve immortality now!"

Lai Ming shook his head again: "Immortality? Just by becoming an immortal and transforming into a spiritual body?" "Putting aside the lack of methods for becoming an immortal, shouldn't immortals be granted human rights? If people today cannot accept the guidance and rule of the ancients, future generations will absolutely not accept people today either."

"Whether it's the dragon vein or the imperial edict, the source that sustains the heavens is humanity. To be reborn as an immortal means to break away from one's race and transform from a producer into a parasite."

"Parasitism means you are destined to never leave your tribe, but your tribe can leave you."

"The world is constantly changing. If we lose the ability to keep up with the pace of global development, how can we ensure that we are not replaced by newer and outdated technologies?"

"Unless there is another global nuclear war that causes a break in the transmission of knowledge and the false gods become true gods, immortals are destined to have a short lifespan."

"The immortality you speak of is nothing more than jumping from one system of death to another; it's just a mirage."

Fang Xin pouted: "Your standards are too high! How many people throughout history have ascended to immortality?"

"As long as there is a way to become an immortal, and one possesses the characteristic of not losing oneself as an immortal, wouldn't that be the best seed for evolving into silicon-based life?"

Lai Ming sneered: "You piece of junk. If you had the storage and computing power of an intelligent spirit and could do the same as me, you would have already surpassed the level of a celestial being. Why would you need mechanical ascension?"

"........."

After a moment's thought, Chen Jing decided not to join the two's battle of wits.

Turning to Yao Jing, he asked, "After capturing Di Luotian, what should we do next to transform the immortal into a divine power?"

Yao Jing did not participate in the argument between the two, and said, "The Earthly Luo Heavenly General will be devoured and transformed into a corner of the Azure Sky. Using the spiritual world as material, a virtual reality spiritual realm will be created."

"Then we searched for information, found the real-world prototype of the immortal, and created a similar virtual reality character as the vessel for the immortal."

"The closer the virtual character is to reality, the greater the chance that the immortal will come to life."

"If they were set to be omniscient, like the Queen Mother of the West, an elf who could process a large amount of information in an instant, then they would never survive."

"Once an immortal gains a clear consciousness and possesses the abilities of an immortal, he can bestow supernatural powers upon others."

The dimensional pod is driven by consciousness, and it can roughly guess where the mineral deposits that the dimensional pod supplies to the heavens are mined from.

The previous generation of mad cultivators did not disappoint; they really pulled off something amazing.

Chen Jing replied, "Replenish the soul? Relying on the nourishment of the Yuan Realm to transform the virtual character settings from illusion into reality? Using the remnants of immortals in the spiritual world as material to create data immortals?"

Yao Jing nodded: "You could say that. If it's not too much trouble, please give me a detailed explanation of the Stone-Boiling Immortal."

Chen Jing thought of Xuanzang from the New Tang Dynasty world and asked curiously, "No problem! Supernatural powers can only be obtained through 'Catching the Heavens'?"

Yao Jing continued to explain, "No, the Spirit Realm is somewhere between virtual data and the spiritual world. The world consciousness doesn't have a high degree of control over the Spirit Realm and can't control the data immortals that have come to life."

"Immortals have the right to choose whom to bestow their supernatural powers, so if you want to receive their blessing, you have to catch their eye."

"Being a Celestial Catcher simply means having priority; you can communicate directly with immortals and create spiritual realm nodes to sell."

(End of this chapter)