Mysterious mirror hanging high

"Breaking the pill and forming an infant? Who is forming an infant here?" Guan Zhen stared at the shadow in the sky and said in a lost voice.

The spiritual energy around suddenly became violent, the spiritual power between heaven and earth was stirring, and the entire [Jitu Yiqi Locking Sky Array] was brighter in dark yellow color. Above the gate of Houtu Sect, a dark yellow cloud appeared that spread for several miles. The cloud turned into brocade, and the strips hung down, surrounding the baby and moving continuously.

This baby's phantom without eyes, ears, nose or mouth sat cross-legged in the clouds. Its translucent body gradually solidified, and one could faintly see a beating ochre heart inside.

Not only Jing Yu and other foundation-building cultivators from the battlefields of the major immortal mountains were watching the strange phenomenon on Wofu Mountain, but even the various Jindan True Immortals who were not far from Wofu Mountain were staring intently at the phantom of a baby sitting cross-legged in the sky with dazed expressions.

"Who is it?" Qiu Wanling asked in surprise.

"Besides Banshan, is there any other cultivator in Houtu Mountain who has reached the great perfection of the late Jindan stage?" Lei Zhizi murmured.

Master Yuehua was stunned in place, and suddenly gnashed his teeth and said:

"Is this, is this Senior Banshan forming a fetus? Then who is controlling the formation now?"

True Man Qingfu of Houtu Sect stared at the phantom of the baby, and turned a deaf ear to True Man Yuehua's questioning, pursing his lips and saying nothing.

"Could it be that my Yunchuan Region is really going to produce a Nascent Soul True Lord?" True Person Hongfu felt a pain in her heart. If True Person Banshan had formed a Nascent Soul earlier, her Huanhuo Sect would not have suffered the disaster of being destroyed!

"No hurries?"

The Hell Ghost Eagle, who had reached the Perfect Golden Core stage, stopped absorbing even the Death Qi. It narrowed its eyes, opened and closed its beak, and said:

"He has only just broken through the pill stage and become an infant. I see that the spiritual cloud condensed by this old master is only a few miles in radius. It can be seen that his foundation is mediocre. He is not some extraordinary genius. I am afraid he may not be able to pass the stage of [Awakening the Spiritual Acupoint]."

The words of the Ghost Eagle of the Netherworld also brought a hint of gloom to Qingfu Zhenren's face. He naturally knew that Master Banshan's foundation was not strong, and the quality of his golden elixir was only medium. He had already exhausted his potential to become a great master, otherwise he would not have dared to try to form a baby at the end of his life.

Generally speaking, a cultivator's elixir must be of top quality so as not to hinder his subsequent path to the Nascent Soul stage. Only a few can achieve the Nascent Soul stage through a mid-grade elixir, and all of them are born with great luck.

If one wants to achieve Nascent Soul, breaking the Golden Core is only the first step. Whether the Nascent Soul inside the core can take shape is crucial. Many Golden Core cultivators even fail at this step and die. It is already very difficult for Banshan Zhenren to pass this level.

Even if the embryonic form of the Nascent Soul is achieved, it is not over yet. One still needs to overcome the calamity of the inner demon and give the Nascent Soul spirituality. External objects can provide very limited help in this calamity, and it all depends on the cultivator's mentality. At this time, Master Banshan has also overcome the calamity of the inner demon. Regardless of what kind of person he is, he is at least a person with a strong desire to seek the truth and a tenacious mind.

After overcoming the calamity of the inner demon, the Nascent Soul is endowed with spirituality and truly becomes the residence of the cultivator's soul, but it is not the end at this point.

Subsequently, at least one [Spiritual Aperture] needs to be opened before the mission is considered complete. If the Nascent Soul has no Spiritual Aperture, it can only be considered a [Dead Infant] and cannot extend its lifespan to two thousand years like a real Nascent Soul cultivator. Instead, it can live for eight hundred years like a Golden Core cultivator.

In fact, if the spiritual orifice cannot be opened, it can be considered a failure in forming a baby.

The lifespan of a cultivator who can only form a [dead baby] is the same as that of a Jindan Zhenren, and he does not have the magical power to travel through the void. At best, the quality of his magic power is stronger than that of a Jindan cultivator, and he has some advantages in combat power, but it is not insurmountable. His status can be said to be quite embarrassing.

Later, many cultivators also felt that the name "dead baby" was not pleasant to hear, so the Nascent Soul without spiritual orifices was also called "fake baby". Such cultivators could only be respectfully called "Fake Infant True Person" and could not regard themselves as True Lords.

Condensing the Nascent Soul and opening the spiritual orifices, the upper limit is nine orifices, which are divided into a pair of eye orifices, a pair of ear orifices, two nose orifices and one mouth orifice, a total of seven [Yang orifices], and two [Yin orifices] in front and back.

Different types of spiritual orifices have different magical effects. The more orifices you open, the more magical they are, and naturally the greater your potential for the subsequent path.

[Greedy Demon] Tang Tan stared at the shadowy figure of Banshan Zhenren's Nascent Soul in the sky, his eyes showing greed, and said with a smile:

"No, no, this old master has exhausted his potential. If he doesn't have any more tricks up his sleeve, he'll truly be a [dead baby]... Hehe. But even if it's just a dead baby, this spiritual Nascent Soul is still a great tonic for my demonic path!"

[Angry Demon] Tang Chen's eyes blazed with fire as he shouted, "What a waste! What a waste! This old cultivator never had the hope of forming a Nascent Soul in the first place, so why would he waste so many Nascent Soul spiritual objects, even Nascent Soul Pills? If they had been given to me, the Tiannan Demonic Path would have already gained another True Lord! I'm so angry!"

[Devil of Delusion] Tang Chi still stared blankly ahead. Suddenly, he clapped his hands and said with a foolish grin, "Conceive a baby? What for? This Immortal Who Moves Mountains only has two or three years left to live. With so little time left, why bother making such a fuss? It's better to just die like this, just die..."

The Hell Ghost Eagle glanced at the three Tang Family demons with a rare look of disgust in his eyes. He then returned his gaze to the Nascent Soul shadow in the sky and said calmly:

"It's just that there's another False Infant cultivator, and one who's about to die... At worst, the Tiannan Demonic Path can just hold off on their attack. When the time comes, this False Infant cultivator will die, and the Yunchuan Region will still be in jeopardy."

But just when the Jindan Zhenren thought that the Banshan Zhenren's plan was unsuccessful, the entire [Jitu Yiqi Locking Sky Array] suddenly took on a blood-red color under the ochre light. A large amount of essence and blood that came from nowhere shot out from the immortal mountains of Houtu Sect, transformed into essence and blood chains, and flew towards the direction of Wofu Mountain.

The originally translucent shadow of the Nascent Soul in the sky instantly turned blood red. The baby, who had been endowed with spirituality, knelt down in pain, his body shaking constantly.

The Hell Ghost Eagle was stunned and muttered, "I was wondering why the bodies of those cultivators were sucked into this formation. I thought you were using them to increase the power of the formation and turn them into nutrients for its operation... I didn't expect you to use them here!"

As the Hell Ghost Sculpture finished speaking, the blood-red Nascent Soul shadow in the sky raised its head. A blood-red beam of light shot from the Nascent Soul's face into the sky, and a mouth-like acupoint slowly took shape...

"Wow...wow..."

Finally, a loud cry of a baby resounded throughout the Houtu Sect. The master Qingfu of the Houtu Sect burst into tears and actually knelt on his knees, kowtowed in the direction of Wofu Mountain.

The blood-red color of the Nascent Soul shadow above the sky gradually faded away, and it turned into a pure white baby. This baby still had no eyes, ears, or nose, but only a mouth, which was greedily absorbing the earth-type spiritual energy between heaven and earth.