Mysterious mirror hanging high

"Stop talking nonsense and go down. My backup plan is under that stone tablet."

"This Tai Sui meat fungus won't attack people, right?"

Yunding Tianjun said helplessly: "This piece of rotten flesh is now driven only by instinct. How can it hurt anyone? Hurry up."

Jing Yu calmed himself down, took out the [Imperial Seal], and his aura rose steadily, and soon he reached the realm of Nascent Soul perfection. Then he approached the stone tablet next to the meat ball step by step.

"I will teach you a spell, and you can hit the stone tablet with it."

Jing Yu did as he was told. The next moment, the stone tablet emitted a faint light. Following a slight vibration, the stone tablet slowly cracked, revealing a crack that was wide enough for one person to pass through.

"Is the noise a little too loud?" Jing Yu looked up worriedly, afraid that a guard would come down to check what was going on.

"Don't worry, the Tai Sui Meat Ganoderma is the greatest secret of the Shen Ding Imperial Clan. Not to mention that the guards of the eighteenth level of the Ghost Prison above can't even find the entrance to the nineteenth level, even if any guard is lucky enough to accidentally break in and see this piece of rotten meat, it will definitely be a heinous crime punishable by the death of all nine generations of the clan! By then, they will be too busy to take care of themselves, so how can they care about us?"

Following Yunding Tianjun's urging, Jing Yu and Yuan Ji slowly walked into the crack, turned several times, and came to a secret room deep underground.

The furnishings in this secret room are quite simple, with a stone table, a few stone benches, and a pile of bottles and jars on the stone table. No one knows what is inside them.

Jing Yu came closer and picked up a jade bottle. He opened the stopper and a dark breath hit him in the face. He looked closely and saw that the jade bottle contained a mass of black, constantly flowing gelatinous substance. It was obvious that it was not a legitimate spiritual object.

"What the hell is this?"

"Hehe, these things are very harmful to ordinary cultivators, but they are all very beneficial to Ghost Dao cultivators. I collected them specifically for my Ghost Dao cultivation. They almost drained my family's wealth."

"Boy, now that we're here, why don't you let me out?"

Jing Yu was silent for a moment. He and Yunding Tianjun swore a great inner demon oath to each other. Although this inner demon oath was useless to him, it was a strong constraint on Yunding Tianjun, so nothing would go wrong. Upon hearing this, he released the confinement of his sea of ​​consciousness. The next moment, a transparent ghost flew out from the back of Jing Yu's head and turned into a misty old man with a white beard.

"Huh... the long-lost breath of the outside world."

Yunding Tianjun greedily breathed in the spiritual energy from the outside world, staring at the bottles and jars on the stone table. He said, "Boy, the success rate of switching to the ghost path is not very high. No matter how high your cultivation level is, there is still a possibility of failure... I only have a 10% to 20% chance of success."

"Back then, I left two backup plans. One is in the [Cloudtop Palace], and the other is right here in the [Ghost Prison]... Actually, the materials prepared in the [Cloudtop Palace] are three or four times as much as here, but even after consuming all those spiritual objects, they still haven't succeeded. While the materials in the [Ghost Prison] are few, there is a Netherworld rift here that will gradually emit a dark aura that will change the environment."

"So, from a geographical perspective, the blessing of Ghost Absolute Prison is much stronger than that of Cloudtop Immortal Palace... Calculating the probability, the two backup plans are about the same."

Jing Yu hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help asking:

"Senior Yunding, I have another question. Why did you insist on switching to the ghost path? Instead of choosing to reincarnate and cultivate again?"

"After all, if your soul is reincarnated, it will be equivalent to a new person, and the lifespan that was originally consumed will be reset. After you pass through the [Mystery in the Womb] and recover your memories of your past life, it should be easy for you to cultivate back to the Nascent Soul stage, not to mention returning to the Spiritual Transformation Realm, right?"

Moreover, because the [Master of Samsara] had attained enlightenment first, all cultivators in the world had a chance to reincarnate without damaging their spirituality. If Yunding Tianjun had not reincarnated before, he should still have this opportunity.

Of course, the matter regarding the [Master of Samsara] was a secret of the upper realm. After learning about it from the Buddha Lord Pudu, Jing Yu naturally never mentioned it to anyone, so it was naturally not convenient to say it clearly at this time.

Yunding Tianjun shook his head and said, "How can it be that easy?"

"Reincarnation is not like [taking over another body]. It requires pregnancy from the mother's womb, and the fetus in the womb cannot be conscious before it can enter the body."

"First of all, the [Mystery of the Womb] is not something that everyone can decipher. Some cultivators, after reincarnating and cultivating again, have never been able to decipher it in their entire lives. Why don't you tell me?"

"Besides, reincarnation and re-cultivation present a huge problem. You were reincarnated while still a fetus. How do you know you will have spiritual roots in your next life?"

"Forget about choosing a family of immortal cultivators to reincarnate from. Even if you have a way to circumvent it, even the offspring of a cultivator who has reached the Divine Realm might not have spiritual roots. It's hard to predict."

Yunding Tianjun sighed, "After all, spiritual roots only slowly manifest after the age of six. If you were reincarnated as a mortal, you would have all your knowledge but no way to put it to use, and could only watch yourself slowly grow old... Not everyone could endure that."

Jing Yu was slightly stunned. He really hadn't thought of this.

"Yes, those who have destiny must have spiritual roots!"

Jing Yu suddenly realized that for people with a certain destiny, reincarnation and cultivation will be 100% possible. So when Zhu Shentong reincarnated as Song Qingya, it was not just luck. For him, being able to enter the path of cultivation again was a necessity.

However, Yunding Tianjun has no destiny. If he wants to reincarnate, according to the proportion of spiritual roots, the probability of having spiritual roots is only one in hundreds of thousands or even millions!

From this perspective, the risk is indeed too great, and the success rate is far lower than that of switching to the ghost path.

"Alright, I'm going to start the ceremony, boy, protect me!"

Yunding Tianjun, who was in soul form, raised his hand, and the bottles and jars on the stone table slowly flew up and surrounded his body.

Countless spiritual creatures emitting dark energy flew out and transformed into dark black gases, wrapping up the almost transparent soul of Yunding Tianjun, and gradually turning it into a black cocoon half the height of a person.

After about a quarter of an hour, the black cocoon suddenly burst, and a baby with grayish-white skin emerged from it.

"Success!"

A look of joy appeared on the baby's face, and a faint aura of darkness emanated from his body. Judging from the strength of his spiritual pressure, he was about at the foundation-building stage.

"Congratulations, Senior." Jing Yu asked perfunctorily, "Senior was a Divine Transformation cultivator in his lifetime, after all. How come your aura is so weak..."

"Although the soul is a spirit, I have never been exposed to the ghost way before. The fact that I can mention the foundation-building spiritual pressure is already a manifestation of the soul's extremely high nature."

"Speaking of which, Senior, you've returned to the Ghost Path. How do you calculate your current realm? Can you still enter the living world and attain Divine Transformation again?"

Yunding Tianjun said dejectedly, "Of course not. When I achieved the status of a god, I also refined the incomplete laws of heaven and earth into my soul when I was enlightened. This old man's title of "pseudo-god" can no longer be taken away."