My Mythical Path to Immortality in Another World

If asked which race among the existing races is the easiest to cultivate, the answer would undoubtedly be the human race.

Because the first step in cultivation for other races is to go through the process of spiritual communication, which means that the spiritual aperture grows and one gains self-awareness.

The Holy Race and the Divine Pearl do not appear; only the human race is born with self-awareness.

As children grow, their self-awareness can develop autonomously, forming their own logic.

Self-logic is what is called the Dao heart, and only in this way can one ensure that one is not assimilated by the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth during cultivation.

But if you ask which race finds cultivation the most difficult, the answer is undoubtedly the human race.

Humans form a closed logical loop, and it is difficult for them to obtain knowledge beyond this loop.

The limitation of a closed logical loop is the bottleneck.

The nine realms of humanity have nine bottlenecks, which are essentially about breaking the original logical loop and expanding the scope of their cognition.

From this perspective, the simpler the logical loop, the easier it is to break.

The race that finds cultivation or breakthroughs easiest is the God Race, followed by the Saint Race.

When the gods were born, they were given a certain mission by heaven and earth, and this mission is the ultimate logic of the gods.

As long as the gods continue to fulfill their mission, they can continuously break through limitations.

The gods are given a mission by heaven and earth that is continuous, such as the ghosts and spirits of the underworld that are often mentioned.

One of the most important missions of the spirits and deities in the underworld is to guide the souls of the dead into the netherworld.

This mission is sustainable; as long as there is death, there will be a netherworld to guide the dead.

And those who carried out this mission were the legendary Ten Underworld Marshals.

Day and night wanderers, Black and White Impermanence, Ox-headed and Horse-faced, Fish Gills, Bird Beak, Leopard Tail, Wasp.

The two Yin Generals, the Day Traveler and the Night Traveler, record information about the deceased.

The Black and White Impermanence guide the souls of those who performed meritorious deeds in their lifetime.

Ox-Head and Horse-Face guide the souls of those who committed evil deeds in their previous lives.

Fish gills guide the souls of the dead creatures in the water.

The bird's beak guides the souls of departed birds.

The leopard's tail guides the souls of the dead creatures in the mountains.

Wasps attract the spirits of dead insects and the like.

Besides the Ten Great Underworld Marshals, there are also two Great Underworld Marshals with Golden Shackles and Silver Locks, who guide the souls of cultivators who have passed away.

However, the two Yin generals, Jin Shackles and Silver Locks, were more like captures than guides.

After all, cultivators strive to defy fate, and even in death, they wish to live a second life, unwilling to return to the underworld.

This is why the Twelve Yin Generals are rarely seen in the territory of the Earthlings.

Humanity aspires to be an independent race within the universe and to bring all living beings under its rule. Therefore, the powerful beings of humanity are unwilling to subject humanity to the jurisdiction of the underworld, whether they are living beings or the dead.

However, the cycle of life is the natural order, and it is also beneficial to the human race.

Therefore, the human race and the underworld compromised and established the position of City God.

From this point on the planet Earth, the souls of the deceased human race from the sacred land are guided by the City God to the underworld.

Upon arriving in the underworld, the souls of the human race are not judged by the underworld gods, but by the Yellow Springs Emperor.

This adds an extra step, ensuring the interests of the human race.

As Zhao Xuan approached the Burning Star Fire, he would occasionally see tall, imposing figures clad in golden helmets and silver armor, wielding chains, capturing the souls of the dead.

These are the golden shackles and silver chains of the underworld.

The Twelve Underworld Generals are not twelve Yin Gods.

Instead, they were twelve Netherworld Gods tasked with guiding the souls of the dead.

The Twelve Yin Generals are the leaders of the Twelve Netherworld Gods.

Beichuan is the most active area of ​​the Yin Si Yin Shuai on Earth, and reckless cultivators often enter Beichuan in search of treasure.

As a result, his life force was absorbed by the flames of the Burning Star, and he died.

If the Yin spirit does not appear in time to collect the souls of the dead, then after a period of time, the spiritual fire will be absorbed by the fire of the burning stars, turning them into mindless, zombie-like beings.

Since the Flame of Burning Star does not absorb the power of Qi, these zombie-like beings will continue to absorb the power of Qi to strengthen themselves.

This will also cause an imbalance of the three energies between heaven and earth.

Therefore, at the final moment, the spirit of Kitagawa will transform these cultivators who are about to become walking corpses into spirits of Kitagawa.

It helps to regulate the atmosphere of the Beichuan land.

These elves are not without potential. The power of the Burning Star disintegrates once a year, and the essence and divine power released after the disintegration are absorbed by these elves, gradually awakening their intelligence and gaining a second life.

Once they have fully gained a second life, these cultivators will become a different kind of god.

They have no mission bestowed by heaven and earth, but they possess the same supernatural powers and authority as the gods.

This is unfair to all living beings in the world and can easily cause an imbalance of yin and yang.

That's why the underworld comes to Beichuan to collect the souls of the dead.

Zhao Xuan habitually used the Golden Flower Spirit Transformation technique to brush twice over the Yin Spirit he encountered.

They received two streams of Yin energy.

After that, he was targeted by a pair of golden shackles and silver chains, who kept following Zhao Xuan.

This made Zhao Xuan a little agitated.

When Zhao Xuan rebuilt his foundation and established the Nine Qi of Heaven, he pondered how to choose between Yin and Yang powers.

However, compared to forces such as the Five Elements, the Yin-Yang Force is too general.

Every force has two sides, yin and yang, so it is difficult to define what yang energy is and what yin energy is.

Therefore, after reaching a consensus, the aura of living beings was defined as yang energy, and the aura of the dead was defined as yin energy.

However, the Human Immortal Realm is a world of living beings, and some of the powers in the Human Immortal Realm exist for the sake of living beings, so they can all be called Yang energy.

Therefore, Zhao Xuan took the power of the sun as Yang and the power of the moon as Yin.

However, the Yin aspect of the Moon Spirit's power is determined in relation to the Yang aspect of the Sun Spirit's power.

In other words, all of Zhao Xuan's power is actually inclined towards the power of Yang.

If we were to truly define Yin energy, it would be the power of the underworld.

The underworld is where the dead are reincarnated, and through reincarnation, they are transformed into living beings.

The death aura of all spirits accumulates in the Netherworld. This accumulated aura and turbidity, after several fusions and upgrades, become Yin energy.

All power can be used for fighting and killing, only yang energy and yin energy are different.

The killing effect of yang energy is a process, such as being burned to death. Burning is such a killing process.

This process can be stopped or terminated.

Pure Yin energy, however, does not undergo this process; Yin energy and Yang energy can cancel each other out.

Once the yang energy is completely neutralized, the living beings die.

This process only has a beginning and an end, not a process between the beginning and the end.

Yin energy is a force that goes against the order of living beings.

The birth of a living being is a long process, and so is its death.

Essence gathers to form the physical body, and spirit gathers to form one's spirituality.

The divine essence, through its own spirituality, enters the physical form formed by the gathering of vital essence, and the vital energy connects with it, giving the physical form vitality.

The physical form and the continuation of one's spirituality are then maintained by the power of Qi.

This is a complete living being.

The death of living beings also goes through the opposite process.

First, the vital energy of a living being will dissipate, which is commonly referred to as the cessation of life.

Without the support of the power of fortune, the physical form will dissipate, and the self-spirit will also dissipate.

The process of physical dissipation is the decay of the flesh.

The dissipation of one's spirituality is the dissipation of one's soul and spirit.

This process is also very long. Under normal circumstances, the dissipation of a physical form can take several years, while the process of bones can take thousands of years.

This process applies to ordinary living beings. However, for cultivators, whose physical forms become extremely powerful after cultivation, the process of dissipation will be much longer.

Once the self-spirit takes over the physical body, it is protected by the body. Only after the physical body dissipates does the self-spirit begin to dissipate.

In other words, the complete death of a living being is a very long process.

The lifespan before death is the life of the living, while the lifespan from death to the dissipation of the soul is the lifespan of the dead.

After the breath ceases, part of the living being merges into the physical form, while the other part escapes out of the physical form as the vital energy dissipates.

If the escaped spirituality contains a significant amount of egoistic spirituality, it will become a ghost.

Those with weak self-awareness and low spirituality will become wandering spirits.

The latter is what the underworld guides, while the latter is what the underworld spirits hunt down.

With these escaped spiritualities, the underworld can gather the spirituality within the physical body into the netherworld in advance.

However, the self-spiritual will instinctively try to maintain its own existence, so the dissipation of the self-conscious spirituality is a long process.

This is why, during the primordial era, those departed souls caused trouble and plagued Earth.

Whether it's the judgment of the underworld or reincarnation, it's all about accelerating the dissipation of the spiritual self-consciousness.

It is often said that a day in heaven is equivalent to a year on earth, but no one knows that a day on earth is equivalent to a year in the netherworld.

This is not about the different passage of time, but rather that the primordial energy in the celestial realm is hundreds of times greater than that in the human realm, and this primordial energy can stimulate accelerated thinking.

It looks as if time in the heavens is as joyful as happiness on earth.

The Netherworld is the exact opposite. The primordial energy in the Netherworld is only a fraction of that in the human world. Without the maintenance of primordial energy, the rate at which one's spirituality dissipates is hundreds of times faster than in the human world.

That's why the rule of the soul returning to the underworld was established within the rules of the Great Dao.

Yin energy is the exclusive power of ghosts and spirits in the underworld, and it is not allowed to be controlled by the living.

Zhao Xuan seized a wisp of Yin energy from the two Yin Gods, thus crossing the bottom line of the Netherworld.

Living beings possess the power of death, which means they control death.

If living beings do not die, then the existence of the underworld would have no meaning.

Of course, that wisp of Yin energy was not enough to control death. The two underworld spirits were actually waiting for Zhao Xuan to be killed by the Burning Star Fire so that they could withdraw their Yin energy.

There is a saying that mortals are also plagued by yin energy, but this yin energy is not the yin energy of the underworld.

It is turbid air.

For cultivators, turbid energy is merely a different kind of power, but for ordinary people it is extremely harmful.

Two Yin Gods followed behind Zhao Xuan, and Zhao Xuan didn't want to do anything about it.

The underworld is called the Yin Si, which is the organization of the underworld.

Unlike ghosts, beasts, or vengeful spirits, the Yin spirits of the underworld are beings whose names are recorded by the three realms of Heaven, Earth, and Man. Harming a Yin spirit will be punished.

Of course, humans will not be bound by these rules and regulations.

If you can't kill him, you can lure him into a formation to trap him, or even use someone else to kill him.

These underworld beings are doomed to be associated with Zhao Xuan.

Zhao Xuan's information is not recorded in the Book of Life and Death in the future.

After Zhao Xuan comprehended the strong interaction force field, his personal information was completely contained within himself, and would not be leaked or captured by the underworld.

These underworld officials had no way to report to their superiors except by following Zhao Xuan.

Zhao Xuan's target was the Burning Star Fire. The outer Yin beings could withstand the damage from the Burning Star Fire, but even the Yin gods in the inner circle could not withstand it.

Once out of sight, these spirits have no way of determining who stole their yin energy.

Zhao Xuan walked another 100,000 miles inside and then felt a warm aura.

This is the principle of reversal at the extreme.

The flames of the Burning Star absorbed the light and heat of Kitagawa into its own body.

Unable to control so much light and heat, most of the energy from its self-collapse was channeled by the formation to the Central Plains to nourish the human race.

A small portion of them forms a highly vibrant ecosystem around themselves.

After hundreds of thousands of years of adaptation, this ecosystem has developed rules and mechanisms to protect itself from the absorption of fiery energy.

Over time, this ecosystem has developed into a very high-end gathering place for spiritual practice.

The reason it's considered high-end is that beings below the Lesser Perfection Saint Body level simply cannot reach this point.

Zhao Xuan wandered around and actually found quite a few good things.

They discovered a piece of Jianmu wood remains the size of a palm.

Jianmu is also known as the Heavenly Jianmu.

In ancient times, the roots of the Jianmu tree led to the underworld, its branches grew in the human world, and its leaves grew in the heavens.

It is an important passage connecting the three realms.

The reign of the Great Emperor Zangtian is known as the Nine Emperors Reigning Together.

The Nine Emperors are: Human Ancestor Sui, Human Ancestor Chao, Human Ancestor Zi, Human Emperor Xi, Human Emperor Yan, Human Emperor Ji, Emperor Zangtian, Emperor Huangquan, and Human Emperor Xu.

The Human Emperor and his allies drove the Gods and Saints to the Heavenly Realm and the Ghosts back to the Netherworld, thus isolating the territories of the Gods, Saints, Ghosts, and Humans.

The Great Emperor of Burial Heaven established the first Heavenly Court of the human race atop the Tongtian Jianmu Tree, suppressing the passage between the Heavenly Realm and the Human Realm.

The Yellow Springs Emperor established the first underworld for humankind at the root of the Tongtian Jianmu tree, suppressing the passage between the Netherworld and the human realm.

In order to give the human race more time to develop, Emperor Xu of the Human Empire, with the instructions of the Emperor of Burial Heaven and the Emperor of Yellow Springs, severed the Heaven-Connecting Tree, making the separation of the Three Realms even more thorough.

It was precisely because the Heavenly Tree was severed that the three races of gods, saints, and ghosts above the Holy Realm found it difficult to enter the mortal world.

However, it left a loophole that wouldn't cause a major upheaval, preventing the three races from going all out.

Thus, the three races that entered the human realm were all below the Saint Realm, or even lower.

Humanity then began its most adept practice: assimilation. After several years of assimilation, the younger generation of these three races became human beings.

The fragments of the towering Jianmu tree became the cultivation resources for the human race.

The towering Jianmu tree, reaching to the heavens and penetrating the earth, is a testament to its immense size.

Such a massive tree, reaching to the heavens, possesses a spiritual power that should not be underestimated.

So even after so many years, with the blessing of the spirits concealing their true nature, the fragments of the Tongtian Jianmu tree have not been exhausted, and many are still hidden between heaven and earth, their fate unknown.

Every now and then, those with great fortune would discover fragments of the Tongtian Jianmu tree.

In fact, a spiritual object like the Tongtian Jianmu was of little use to Zhao Xuan, but it was no less useful to the Serpent Vine than the Source Blood Treasure Tree and the Enlightenment Tea Tree.