Rebirth of a Quasi-Immortal Spirit

"This is it, the location the Yun family told me." In the southeastern border of the Yatian City Domain, a Yin Sha Cave disguised as a secret realm has become the talk of the town among cultivators throughout the city, and its fame is beginning to spread to other cities. At this moment, a petite figure stands at the entrance of this Yin Sha Cave, occasionally peeking inside.

"Won't Xiao Ning be angry that I've come uninvited? Will she yell at me for meddling or something?" Thinking about it, Wu Yaqiu Bai chuckled, "Just thinking about it makes me think how cute Xiao Ning is..."

However, Wu Yaqiu's smile froze when she saw the milky white bead hanging around her neck, its color now surging with blood. This milky white bead was no ordinary object; it was a token that she had shamelessly begged Yun Mu Ning to accept, known in the cultivation world as the Soul Bead.

The so-called Soul Bead has nothing to do with the soul, but it can only be used after being dripped with the essence blood of a cultivator. Obviously, Wu Yaqiubai and Yun Muning exchanged Soul Beads containing their own essence blood for each other. Moreover, at Wu Yaqiubai's strong request, both of them hung it around their necks, with the entire Soul Bead close to their respective hearts.

At this moment, the soul bead containing Yun Mu Ning's essence blood was acting out of character, with blood constantly churning within it. Needless to say, the owner of the essence blood must be facing an immense crisis. However, with forty-nine Mahayana cultivators traveling with her, and the leader being Yun Zi Han, who dotes on Yun Mu Ning, how could she allow Yun Mu Ning to be in such a life-or-death situation?

Wuya Qiubai couldn't understand it, but she didn't want to think about it anymore. She directly used brute force to break the restrictions and formations set up at the entrance of the cave. Without thinking, she walked into a teleportation array in front of the entrance. In an instant, the world spun around, and she felt her body suddenly lift into the air, and then she was back on solid ground.

“This place is different from what I heard before…” Wuya Qiubai held the Soul Bead tightly in her hand, trying to use it to sense Yun Mu Ning’s current location.

As for the difference in this cave, it was naturally because the disguise of its secret realm had disappeared at some point. What appeared before her was exactly the same as what the Yun family cultivators with the Eye of Truth and after the formation was set up saw—it was a ghostly tomb. From time to time, some small ghosts would appear in front of her to block her way, but they were all destroyed one by one by the magic ring in Wuya Qiubai's hand. Her steps became faster and faster. She had already sensed Yun Mu Ning's location and the cracks that suddenly appeared on the soul bead like a spider web!

Yun Mu Ning is currently facing the greatest crisis of her life. Originally, after Gao Zhun and Yun Zi Han discussed the matter, they said that as long as they followed their plan, they could convert the Yin Corpse through the nine true words Gao Zhun had spoken. However, they underestimated the Yin Corpse's abilities.

The body of the Yin Corpse cannot leave the Xuanming Ice Coffin, but over tens of thousands of years, this corpse has nurtured another primordial spirit in addition to its own. This primordial spirit is entirely formed from resentment and has some of the memories of Master Jialan in his previous life. The Xuanming Ice Coffin can block the body of the Yin Corpse, but it cannot block the primordial spirit formed from its resentment.

Originally, this Yin Corpse never intended for its fragile primordial spirit to appear outside the ice coffin. After all, it was just a newly born primordial spirit, completely incomparable to the primordial spirit that had once used its last bit of energy to create a sealed Buddhist hall and leave behind a legacy. Although the many Mahayana cultivators present might not be able to handle its body inside the ice coffin, the weakest Nascent Soul cultivator among them could harm its newly born primordial spirit, and might even cause it to completely dissipate and disappear from the vast Six Realms, thus avoiding reincarnation in the Underworld.

However, it did not forget that this was its home ground. Over the past tens of thousands of years, this main chamber had become one with it, and its aura was perfectly integrated with its own. Therefore, it was not difficult to hide from so many eyes present and quietly extract its primordial spirit from the ice coffin without being discovered. So, it did so and successfully invaded Yun Mu Ning's body.

"Get out of Ning'er's body!" The first to notice Yun Mu Ning's abnormality was Yun Zi Han, the person with the highest cultivation level present. The second was Wu Ya Qiu Bai, who learned about it through the Soul Pearl but had not yet arrived.

Yun Zihan's roar made Gao Zhun belatedly realize that the Yin Corpse's primordial spirit had actually evaded its sights and quietly entered Yun Mu Ning's body. Shocked, she also discovered that her Eye of Truth was not omnipotent. At least in the Yin Corpse's territory, her Eye of Truth was severely limited by the environment. In fact, she was even worse off than ordinary people. In this main room, she could only see what the Yin Corpse wanted it to see. In other words, here, her eyes were practically useless, completely blinded by the Yin Corpse.

"Master... is it forcibly taking over her body?" Ah Zhong asked subconsciously, seeing the sudden look of pain on Yun Mu Ning's face.

The person who answered his question was not Gao Zhun, but Yun Zihan who said fiercely, "How could I let the primordial spirit formed from the resentment gathered on a mere Yin corpse take Ning'er's body!"

Although Yun Zihan's words sounded fierce, they were rather powerless, because she couldn't find a way to force the primordial spirit of the Yin Corpse out of Yun Mu Ning's body. To be precise, the primordial spirit formed from the resentment had not yet taken shape, so she couldn't try to expel it using ordinary methods.

At the same time, the damage caused to the possessed person by the primordial spirit formed from resentment is greater when it takes over a body, because resentment itself has the characteristic of devouring and polluting the primordial spirit of ordinary people. So even though the primordial spirit of the Yin Corpse is still very weak at this moment, and is even weaker than Yun Mu Ning, whose cultivation is only at the Nascent Soul stage, it is enough to make the latter powerless to fight back.

“Mu Ning, hold on. This primordial spirit is a manifestation of resentment. The nine mantras I learned before are ineffective against it, but I will immediately learn mantras specifically for resentment. Just give me time…” As he spoke, Gao Zhun immediately sat down cross-legged, trying his best to comprehend the mantras for dispelling resentment in the inheritance left to her by Master Jialan. However, although she was indeed destined for Buddhism, she ultimately lacked that bit of wisdom. Although the Gao family's soul talent partially compensated for this, it also limited her speed of comprehension. Seeing Yun Mu Ning's increasingly painful expression, Gao Zhun felt that she couldn't even achieve normal meditation, let alone have ten days or half a month to comprehend it.

“Jialan, are you really going to completely possess her? We know we’re not without options, but we’re worried about her safety. If you insist on doing this, destroying her primordial spirit and taking over her body, I guarantee you’ll be annihilated. Once Yun Mu Ning is dead, we won’t care about her body. And this body is far inferior to your original self. Are you sure you can withstand the wrath of the forty-nine Mahayana cultivators present?” Since they couldn’t expel her from Yun Mu Ning’s body for the time being, Gao Zhun quickly decided to stall for time. Besides, what she said was all true. As long as they could stabilize the primordial spirit of the Yin Corpse, they could have more time to find a way to save her.

As soon as Gao Zhun spoke, Yun Zihan gave her a grateful look, and the internal struggle within Yun Mu Ning seemed to have temporarily ceased. The girl, who had just moments before been suffering the agony of being possessed, was now moving her lips as if she were saying something.

"I hate being threatened more than anything in my life, but little brat, I must say you have threatened me. If your body weren't unsuitable, you would have been my initial target for possession. Because I desperately want to grind you to dust and make sure you, this little brat who always ruins my plans, never be reincarnated!" These were the words Yun Mu Ning spoke.

"Hehe..." Gao Zhun smiled faintly and remained silent. Seeing that his words had worked, his originally chaotic thoughts gradually settled down. Before long, he entered a meditative state, focusing on comprehending the Buddhist mantra for dispelling resentment, and ignoring the external situation.

At this moment, Yun Zihan also placed all her hopes of saving Yun Mu Ning on Gao Zhun. So she led the other forty-nine Mahayana cultivators to protect Gao Zhun's side, so as to prevent the Yin Corpse's primordial spirit from controlling Yun Mu Ning's body and thus doing something to harm Gao Zhun.

At this moment, Wuya Qiubai, who had broken into the cave, gradually approached the main chamber. Similarly, she noticed that although the Soul Pearl was still surging with blood, the cracks were no longer increasing. She had no doubt that if the cracks continued to rage, Yun Mu Ning would never exist again, and she, because she was burdened with the heavy responsibility of reviving the family, would not even have the qualification to accompany Yun Mu Ning to another world.

When Wuya Qiubai arrived at the main room, she witnessed this bizarre standoff. Yun Zihan, who had already noticed that the restrictions and formations at the entrance to the cave had been broken, looked at her arrival with a mixture of shock and disappointment. After all, she had expected that someone from the Yun family who had noticed the anomaly would arrive, but instead, it was just another Nascent Soul stage junior. In the current situation, even she, a late-stage Mahayana cultivator, was helpless; what could a Nascent Soul stage junior possibly do?

It must be said that Wuya Qiubai's wisdom is no less than Gao Zhun's. When she saw the situation in the main room, she automatically imagined what had happened there before, and she decisively launched her specialty, Blood Prison Illusion, at Yun Mu Ning.

"You little brat, how dare you!" Yun Mu Ning roared, but it was like the final struggle of the Yin Corpse's primordial spirit. In a few moments, a wisp of black smoke shot out from her body and disappeared back into the ice coffin. Having lost the Yin Corpse's possession and already severely weakened, Yun Mu Ning fell into a deep coma, collapsing backward.