Mysterious mirror hanging high

"The beautiful house and fragrant forest are opposite the high pavilion, and the new makeup and gorgeousness are truly stunning."

"She stood in the window, gazing at me with a beauty who did not enter, but came out from behind the curtains, smiling and welcoming me..."

Jing Yu sat on a stone bench, crossed his legs, humming a tune softly, looking at the figures gathering at the foot of Coal Hill. Those figures were all holding weapons and dressed as soldiers. It was unknown whether they were the defeated defense army or the civil uprising army that had entered the imperial capital.

There was even laughter from far away.

"What is that sound?"

The eunuch bowed and said, "It sounds like the cheers of the people opening the city to welcome the rebels..."

Jing Yu closed his eyes: "Okay, now that you're saying this... are you hinting at my unpopularity?"

"I dare not... Your Majesty, but now the situation is hopeless. We, we..."

The eunuch glanced at the white silk hanging on the crooked tree again, and seemed to be about to say something but stopped himself.

Jing Yu ignored the eunuch, just closed his eyes slightly, leaned on the railing in the pavilion and dozed off, and turned a blind eye to the approaching rebel army that was searching the mountain.

"Your Majesty! At this time, there is still an intact body!" The eunuch suddenly looked ferocious and gritted his teeth.

"Wait a little longer."

Jing Yu didn't even raise his eyelids, but said lightly: "Wait a little longer until you consume more spiritual power."

call--

The surrounding scenery quickly faded away, and the eunuch who had just bowed down straightened his back and turned into the appearance of Yunding Tianjun. Jing Yu just opened his eyes at this time and found that he had returned to the isolated island in the center of his sea of ​​consciousness.

Yunding Tianjun said in a cold tone: "Boy, how about we talk?"

Jing Yu laughed and said, "Senior, your spiritual power is almost exhausted!"

"I spent all day hunting geese, but in the end, I was blinded by a goose..." Yunding Tianjun said in a muffled voice, "You didn't fall into the illusion from the beginning. Do you have some secret method or treasure to preserve the truth and dispel illusions, or some kind of innate Taoist body that can see through the illusions?"

"Boy, don't think that this is all I can do. After all, I am a Divine Transformation cultivator. The essence of my soul is far superior to yours, a Golden Core cultivator. If we fight to the death and my soul self-destructs, your sea of ​​consciousness will also be severely damaged. It may even damage your foundation, and you will never make any progress in your future cultivation!"

Jing Yu frowned, not knowing whether what Yunding Tianjun said was true or not. He just responded calmly:

"What do you intend, Senior? You don't want me to give up this physical body, do you?"

Yunding Tianjun shook his head. "How about we both take a step back? I will no longer try to take over your Dharma body, but you also shouldn't kill me... Once we leave Yunding Celestial Palace, find a superior body for me to take over, or find a way to allow me to return to the ghost path..."

Jing Yu curled her lips and said, "What if the junior doesn't agree?"

Yunding Tianjun said solemnly: "Then I will directly explode my soul, and no one will have an easy life!"

Jing Yu was silent for a long time before he slowly spoke, "Senior, this matter can still be discussed, but I have a few questions... Senior, you were said to have failed in your attempt to seize the throne, and you were seriously injured and retired here. Why didn't you just reincarnate and cultivate again? Why did you waste these three thousand years trying to take over someone else's body?"

"As far as I know, possessing another body is very different from reincarnation. Reincarnation means being reborn as a human, and the lifespan of the soul starts from zero. However, possessing another body is very different. Once the lifespan of the soul is up, even if the body has not decayed, it is still difficult to escape death."

"Reincarnation and cultivation? That won't work."

Yunding Tianjun said with a bitter face, "I have already reincarnated once. If I reincarnate again, my soul and spirit will no longer be perfect. I will never have the opportunity to reach the pinnacle of the great Dao in this lifetime. Cultivating immortality will become a dead end. It is better not to cultivate at all."

"So, I can only take over someone else's body, or turn to ghost cultivation to prolong my soul's lifespan. Maybe I can even have a chance to make a comeback."

"Back then, I was at the middle stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, with a lifespan of seven thousand years. Before my death, I was only twenty-seven hundred years old. Three thousand years have passed since then, and I still have one thousand three hundred years left in my soul's lifespan... If I fight hard, I might be able to return to the middle stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm before my lifespan runs out. Or even go one step further and enter the peak late stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, adding another three thousand years to my lifespan."

"Three thousand years ago, I retreated to the Cloudtop Immortal Palace, severely injured and near death. I had intended to cultivate the Ghost Immortal path, but unfortunately, something went wrong and I ultimately failed. Otherwise, I wouldn't have fallen into this predicament today..."

"Boy, if you are willing to help me find a good body, or if you can help me convert to the ghost path, I will definitely reward you handsomely. For example, the spiritual resources I have accumulated for thousands of years have actually been hidden by me..."

Jing Yu lowered his head and pondered for a long time, unable to guess how much truth there was in Yunding Tianjun's words. In the end, he just raised his head and said softly:

"Senior, please stay in my sea of ​​consciousness for a while. We can discuss the rest later..."

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Jing Yu opened his eyes and found that Yuwen Baoge was still groping for the remains of Yunding Tianjun, hoping to find the secret treasure he left behind; while Yuanji was squatting at the foot of the wall, bored, studying the brick wall that could shield and absorb spiritual fluctuations, as if he was preparing to use some means to dig a piece off.

The battle between soul and spirit took place at the conscious level. Although it took a long time in the sea of ​​consciousness, it was only a blink of an eye in the real world. Therefore, no one noticed Jing Yu's abnormality.

"Damn it, there is no such thing as a relic of the God Transformation!" Yuwen Baoge said angrily after searching for a long time without any results.

"Sir, have you searched other halls in the Celestial Palace?"

Jing Yu asked.

"That's not the case...but logically speaking, the relics of Yunding Palace should be placed together with the remains of Yunding Tianjun's divine transformation, right?"

Yuwen Baoge searched the entire Yunding Fairy Palace without giving up, but still found nothing.

"You'd better persuade this young man not to waste his time!" Yunding Tianjun's gloating voice came from Jing Yu's sea of ​​consciousness: "Before I prepared to switch to the ghost path, I had already hidden all the spiritual resources I had accumulated throughout my life in an absolutely secret place. No one knows about it except me, so he naturally can't find it... But if you are willing to help me continue my journey, then I may be able to give you that spiritual resources..."

Before Yunding Tianjun finished his words, Jing Yu directly closed his sea of ​​consciousness, isolating this old thing from three thousand years ago. The reason why there is no turning back for cultivators who have taken over another person's body is because if the possession fails, unless the person whose body is taken over is willing to let him go, he will be trapped in the sea of ​​consciousness forever. Yunding Tianjun's spiritual power is almost exhausted now, and there is no way to replenish it. Jing Yu is not worried that something bad will happen to him in his sea of ​​consciousness.

"No, I have to look for it again."

Yuwen Baoge was still unwilling to return empty-handed, so he said to Jing Yu and Yuan Ji:

"The three of us will split up and search the Cloudtop Fairy Palace again..."

So the three of them separated and agreed to meet in the hall an hour later.

Jing Yu had already learned from Yunding Tianjun that there weren't many hidden treasures in the palace, so he naturally didn't waste any more time. After pretending to search for a while, he simply found a secret room and began to carefully inventory Yuwen Baoding's storage bag...