At this time, Zhong Li didn't know that the Xuanling Realm had come out in full force because of her. She was still absorbed into the ghost formation diagram.

The Ghost Cave Formation wanted to refine her body and use her spiritual energy as its own supplement. How could Zhong Li let him slaughter her? The two of them secretly used their spiritual power to fight against each other, and with the help of Ge Xunzi's heart to suppress them, both sides were in a stalemate for a while.

Ge Xunzi's regretful heart watched her sitting cross-legged, her body surrounded by purple auras that resisted the invading black mist. He said with some disdain, "It seems that you, an old woman, have regressed a lot over the years. Even a thing like this can give you so much trouble."

"Shut up, old man!" Zhong Li glared at him, and a burst of purple lightning shot out from his fingertips and hit him.

This thing couldn't take his life, but it was naturally able to restrain spirits. The lightning struck his remaining soul, making a series of crackling sounds.

"Hiss~ You really are the most vicious woman. We know each other after all. I was chatting with you, but you retaliated with lightning."

"Do you see the person at the center of the formation? That's my apprentice. If you keep talking nonsense, I'll feed him your heart."

Zhong Li narrowed his eyes and glanced sinisterly at his real body behind him.

Don't think she doesn't know that his remnant is attached to the heart that is beating at that moment. This thing is a great tonic for spiritual practitioners like Chen Changsheng who have merged with ancient demon spirits. Eating it is equivalent to a hundred years of practice.

This was a naked threat. Ge Xunzi put away his rare sense of humor and kept quiet for a while before asking curiously, "Judging from his age, this kid still seems to be nursing? His physique is indeed good, but if his strength is put aside, even the menial workers sweeping the stairs in my mountain are enough to beat him ten times."

"Has the Xuanling Sect fallen to this point now? You're even allowed to accept such a crooked seedling?"

He had been trapped in the Baopu Ding for thousands of years, and finally had someone to talk to, so naturally he talked a lot.

"He has an ancient demonic spirit within him. If he is not guided correctly, he will go astray in the future."

Zhong Li disliked his chatterbox and simply replied, "This is not our world. If I'm not mistaken, this world is the origin of our ancestors and the pinnacle of all illusions."

"Yes, this is indeed the only real place."

Ge Xunzi nodded. He had seen a full map of Kunlun in the Tomb of the Fallen Immortal. The final point there connected to the origin of the world of cultivation.

He came here because when he was trying to break through the secluded place, he was ambushed by the spirit of Baopu Ding at the critical moment and was struck by thunder and sent to this place.

Zhong Li had angered the Heavenly Dao, and his barrier was cracked by thousands of thunders, and his soul was teleported to the place of origin of his ancestors.

A spiritual source fault appeared here tens of thousands of years ago.

It was not until the pre-Qin period that Qigong practitioners went west out of Hangu Pass.

It is recorded in the historical book Su Wen - Discussion on the Innocence of Ancient People that people in ancient times lived to be a hundred years old and were still active.

Those who come later, those who are in their fifties and whose movements have weakened, have completely exhausted their spiritual energy.

Ge Xunzi reminded her, "Our plane of existence is not the only true world, but rather an illusion. The so-called immortality is ultimately nothing more than transforming the Tao into emptiness, returning to illusion."

At that time, he had been in the Tomb of the Fallen Immortals and faintly heard the roar of the sage when he was dying.

The infinite sorrow and resentment revealed in the sadness, and the indignation when the truth is discovered, are like a series of advices, warning those who come after them not to repeat the same mistakes.

"I have personally heard the message from the immortals. The plane world is nothing but a deception."

"In the past, cultivators in the Ancestral Land acted recklessly, killing innocent people at will. Demons ran rampant, devouring children for food, and all living things treated human life as worthless. This caused ordinary people to suffer unspeakably, living in fear from day to day. If this continues, the human race will be extinct, and weak creatures will be unable to survive."

"Later, a sage known as the All-Seeing Saint established a grand plan to divide the heaven and earth into two, with Kunlun as the boundary. The land of the ancestors is the only true land, where ordinary mortals can rest and recuperate."

"Spiritual practitioners are oppressed by the laws of heaven. All humans or demons who go beyond the laws must be suppressed by heaven and are not allowed to cause chaos in the land of the ancestors."

Zhong Li's face turned pale, and she looked at him with some disbelief. "So, the ancient saints created the plane world, using Xuan Xiu to become immortal as a guide, and brought all potential threats into the plane world we live in?"

"Indeed, if my guess is correct, the so-called path to immortality is nothing more than the body returning to emptiness, the soul returning to the ancestral land, and becoming a mortal, thus giving rise to the concept of reincarnation."

"What a huge deception! They're using the common people as bait, relying on the common people as a great way, to strangle them to death."

At this point, Zhong Li finally figured out why her cultivation in the plane world had clearly reached the critical point, but she was still unable to take the last step.

If what Ge Xunzi guessed was true, then her soul entering the ancestral land could be considered another form of immortality.

After all, even if she only had one-third of her cultivation level in the Plane World, there were still very few spiritual practitioners here who could rival her. In that sense, wasn't she another kind of "immortal"?

When the two were communicating, the spirit of the Baopu Ding could also hear the conversation.

"No, you are talking nonsense. This is just a lie you made up because you can't become immortals."

Baopu Ding roared, and the black vortex vibrated wildly.

He started as a soulless magical instrument, slowly cultivating to become a spirit. After spending thousands of years, he finally cultivated into a physical body by devouring the essence of Ge Xunzi's spirit body.

The purpose is nothing more than to embark on the path to immortality with the body of an artifact spirit.

Now the two of them say that the path to becoming an immortal is nothing but a scam. How can he accept that his thousands of years of obsession has come to nothing?

"Humph! Since you say becoming an immortal is fake, I'm determined to prove it's true."

"Once I have absorbed your spiritual essence, I will then use this world for my own benefit and embark on the path to immortality."

Baopu Ding went crazy and spat out the Ghostly Formation Diagram, stirring up the wind and clouds. The area around Zhong Li was instantly buried in black fog.

Yin Yuan's body continuously spit out black silk, which wrapped around Zhong Li as if it had tentacles.

The ghost formation needed to absorb nutrients, and the white spiritual energy was constantly peeled off from Chen Changsheng, Li Xuan and others, and was sucked into the eye of the formation.

Seeing that some souls had their essence sucked out and turned into ashes, and even Chen Changsheng's body began to gradually become transparent, Zhong Li's face changed, and he hurriedly made hand seals to cover all the spirits in the shield.

"If you don't take action, I will pierce your heart into a hornet's nest."

Zhong Li stared at the black heart in the center of the formation and gave a cold warning.

Ge Xunzi sighed, "It's not that I'm unwilling to take action, but I'm powerless. These Yin Source entities grew from my heart. They were the evil thoughts I abandoned during my transformation, which were refined by them to form the core of the ghost array."

He said it helplessly. Although this thing was a part of him, he was now just the residual mental power attached to the heart, coexisting with the evil heart, but unable to resist.

Zhong Li was almost pissed off at him. The Baopu Ding obscured the heavenly secrets, preventing her from calculating even a glimmer of the future.

It turned out that this unreliable guy was just trying to chat with her and couldn't help her at all at the critical moment.

"Since you can't do anything, just get out of the way and don't get in the way."

Zhong Li stood up, and with one hand he used the Taoist Guixu Seal, injecting spiritual energy into Chen Changsheng. With the other hand, he transformed the Xuantian Finger, his fingertips changing unpredictably, using purple energy to resist the encroachment of the Ghostly Den Formation Diagram in the black mist.

"You are an ancient demon spirit. Your master is in danger. If you don't wake up now, when will you?"

She shouted loudly, and the sleeping Chen Changsheng's body shook. His originally limp body slowly stretched out under the entanglement of the black silk net.

"roar~"

With a beast roar, the image of the spiritual beast slowly emerged from his back. The black silk net on Chen Changsheng's body struggled violently, and black energy surged in the center of the ghost array.

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