Assisting the male protagonist to become a god: The first spiritualist

After that day, Huaijin did just as he had said, setting off back to the Painting Immortal Clan that very day.

Before leaving, he told Fusheng that besides talking to the Huaxian clan about Chongming and preparing for battle, he also had some personal matters to attend to and might not be able to return to Shenque for a while.

Fu Sheng naturally knew that the so-called private matter referred to A Jiu's pregnancy and impending childbirth.

Previously, Su Yun and Huai Jin had a major conflict because of A Jiu, so Huai Jin would not mention A Jiu in front of Su Yun unless absolutely necessary.

Fu Sheng still remembered what Huai Jin, who had become a skeleton in the Tomb of the Gods, said: Back then, A Jiu had a difficult childbirth, which coincided with Chong Ming leading his troops to invade the Immortal Realm. As a result, A Jiu rushed to the Immortal Realm to fight after giving birth. Because her body was too weak, she was unable to fully exert the power of Zhu Jiuyin and suffered serious injuries.

Fu Sheng originally wanted to remind Huai Jin, but when she was about to say it, she felt it was unnecessary.

This is not time travel, but rather being trapped in an illusion. What we are seeing now is merely a reenactment of what happened back then, and even if we talk about it, it won't change the real reality.

What she needed to do now was to take another path that didn't involve forbidden arts, instead of using her so-called 'prophetic abilities' to take shortcuts, since Su Yun at the time was unaware of these things.

After Huaijin left, Fusheng continued to handle the affairs of the immortal realm as the God Lord, just as before.

But it was fine before she regained her memories. Now that she has regained her memories, Fu Sheng finds it somewhat difficult to handle official business.

Fu Sheng was so confused by the memorials that he felt his brain was completely useless. Later, he simply used the excuse of a headache to choose a trustworthy and intelligent immortal minister to handle the matter.

She then went to look through that forbidden book again.

It wasn't that Fu Sheng wanted to cultivate anything, but rather that she was really bored and kept thinking about taking another look at the information on 'Qingming'.

The meaning of a book becomes clear after reading it a hundred times; what if she discovers something else?

However, the information about Qingming was only a few pages long. She read it over and over again, word by word, and even memorized it, but she still had no clue.

In the end, Fu Sheng chose to give up, but since there was nothing else to do, he began to look through the forbidden books and read about other forbidden techniques.

As expected of an ancient forbidden book, the records were as obscure and difficult to understand as reading classical Chinese in modern times. Some of the forbidden techniques were so complex that Fu Sheng didn't even understand what they were saying after reading them once.

But some of the superficialities can still be understood.

You wouldn't know until you read it, and it really shocked her.

Some forbidden techniques have abilities that are truly jaw-dropping. For example, they can turn an ordinary person into a powerful cultivator overnight, or they can summon the souls of deceased relatives to meet them, even if the other party has already been reincarnated.

However, these forbidden techniques all come at a price.

For example, the forbidden technique that allows one to cultivate to the level of a Mahayana expert overnight comes at the cost of only having a one-day trial period. After that day, the user's soul will be scattered, and they will not even be able to enter the cycle of reincarnation.

The price for summoning the souls of deceased relatives is that after a brief meeting, one's own soul must also depart with the deceased.

—Isn't that ridiculous?

Fu Sheng found it outrageous. The price paid for these forbidden techniques far exceeded the benefits they brought, making it far from an equivalent exchange.

Is it really possible for someone to resent their ancestors to this extent?

Fu Sheng thought no one would be that stupid, but when this thought came to her, she remembered that several times Yan Su had also sacrificed his life to forcibly increase his cultivation to save her.

Yan Su's cultivation level didn't increase that much, so the price she paid wasn't as severe as this forbidden technique, but in essence, they were the same.

Some people are willing to pay a price far exceeding the rewards in order to achieve certain goals.

Thinking this way, Fu Sheng put aside the idea that 'only fools would learn these forbidden techniques' and began to read them seriously.

Fu Sheng discovered that, aside from the price to pay for forbidden techniques, many forbidden techniques are not something one can learn at will. The conditions for learning some forbidden techniques are very demanding, taking into account physical condition and cultivation level. Even if both are met, one still needs to study hard to learn them.

As Fu Sheng was browsing through the documents, the name of a forbidden technique suddenly made her pupils tremble—

'The Phoenix.'

The moment Fu Sheng saw the name of this forbidden technique, he stopped breathing.

She knew that name all too well.

When she overexerted herself and died in the battle against the Immortal Alliance, Qiqi resurrected her using the 'Phoenix'.

When Qiqi gave her the 'Phoenix', she didn't find it strange. After all, she thought it was a world in a book, and Qiqi was still a system in her eyes. It wasn't surprising that a system had these extraordinary abilities.

But when Fu Sheng later learned that this was the real world and that Qi Qi was not a system, he began to rethink this issue.

After all, if this were the real world, her death would be a true death, and it's quite unbelievable that Qiqi could revive her.

So when Fu Sheng saw the name of this forbidden technique, he subconsciously associated it with Qi Qi's 'Phoenix'.

The description of the phoenix in this forbidden book is also related to resurrection.

Within a month of death, anyone whose soul is still intact can be resurrected by the Phoenix. However, a person can only be resurrected once. Those whose bodies are still intact can be resurrected directly in their original bodies, while those whose bodies have perished can also be resurrected by reshaping a new body. However, the reshaped body is completely new, and both cultivation level and strength will start from zero.

—This technique is almost identical to the Phoenix technique that Qiqi gave her back then.

Fu Sheng's heart pounded, and he immediately went to see the price he would have to pay for using this forbidden technique.

And in the section on the cost, seven large characters were prominently displayed: "To be offset by ten times one's lifespan."

The following annotations provide a detailed explanation of these seven characters. In simple terms, it means that for every year the resurrected person lives, the life of the person who used the forbidden spell will decrease tenfold. Furthermore, if the person who used the forbidden spell dies, the resurrected person will also die.

For example, if a mother resurrects her son, and the mother is thirty years old and the son is five years old at the time of resurrection, then for every year the resurrected son lives, the mother will age ten years. That is, when the son is ten years old, the mother will be no different from when she was eighty years old, both in appearance and physical function.

If an eighty-year-old mother dies of old age, her ten-year-old son will also die, unable to survive on his own.

This is also a transaction where the gains and costs are extremely disproportionate.