Maybe it was Qionɡxiāo's words "The turtle-shaped spiritual master will also help us" that made a difference, or maybe it was the endless sea of spiritual energy that indiscriminately eroded Deng Chanyu's mind and the remaining instincts of the turtle-shaped spiritual mother.
The body is outside, and the mind is inside. The damage to the body is undoubtedly much greater than that to the mind.
Deng Chanyu was very clumsy at first when controlling the Xuanqi turtle's body. There was a significant delay between the moment a thought was formed in her mind and when her body responded to it.
However, this delay was mitigated after leaving the White Mountain for five thousand feet. The higher one goes, the more control one has over the body.
Yuejīnglún paved the way ahead, and Xuanqi swam through the waves with its strength, endurance, and swimming ability all beyond reproach. The only thing that annoyed Deng Chanyu was that Xuanqi's vision was somewhat impaired.
In the natural world, turtles have good underwater vision but become nearsighted when on the surface. However, this Xuanqi seems to be nearsighted whether in or out of water. Could it be because of this that the turtle-shaped spiritual mother cultivated an impatient personality during her childhood? After all, everything looks like a cloud of white mist, so why not just charge in regardless and be done with it? By the time she achieved immortality, her character was already set, and it couldn't be changed anymore?
Deng Chanyu has no answer to this. Perhaps it is because people are born with good vision, but when they take over someone else's nest, they end up losing their sight? This is also possible.
Now, whatever she sees is blurred, as if there were a thin veil in between. Deng Chanyu, who usually has sharp eyesight, finds it very difficult. Even her body lying in Qiongxiāo's arms needs to struggle to open her eyes to help Xuanqi identify the direction.
The innate imprint of the Xuanqi within the body is being continuously consumed, and Deng Chanyu's mind and spirit are also heavily exhausted. Fortunately, she has always been strong in this aspect of her spirit. If her own body's mind and spirit are insufficient, she compensates with her clone. If the clone's consumption is too great, since her own body has rested for a while now, it can take over and continue for a while.
Just like that, they exchanged places. During the exchange, the three times released spiritual energy from the Yuejīnglún in the inner core of the Taoist artifact, which was already damaged during the War of Witchcraft. Deng Chanyu used this Taoist artifact roughly, resulting in an even more obvious crack on its surface.
Deng Chanyu, driving the Xuanqi body, felt that she was close to losing half of her life. She couldn't care about the Taoist artifact. If it could be used, it would be used.
They continued to ascend, as the vitality of the Xuanqi body continually decreased, dropping from the level of Great Dharma to nearly that of a True Immortal. Finally, they broke through the "sea surface" and surged to the very top of the ocean of spiritual energy.
The life force of turtles is indeed strong, but the Xuanqi has already died. Its life force is like a rootless tree, decreasing with every drop. When they reached the "sea surface," the Xuanqi's life force had weakened to an extreme.
Dark red, semi-solid blood constantly flows from the broken shell. Along with the blood, iron gray, clay-like muscle and some shell fragments also flow out.
Endlessly resisting the erosion of the Spiritual Ocean, Xuanqi's eyes became cloudy and nearly blind, and the eardrums and inner ear were turned into a mess by the spiritual energy washing. The body's water content was completely lost, and most of the limbs showed signs of being assimilated by spiritual energy.
Deng Chanyu drew back half of her essence into her original body.
The innate imprints of the Xuanqi that belong to the turtle-shaped spiritual mother have indeed been completely drained, but this body is also on the verge of collapse.
Phoenixes can undergo rebirth, and they can replenish their origin by swallowing precious materials. However, Xuanqi is just long in blood, and its race has no such abilities. Even if Qiongxi is right in front of it, or even if it's not right in front of it, the Xuanqi's body has no value for Deng Chanyu.
Deng Chanyu now suffers great depletion of her essence. Qiongxi is delicate and weak, even with the resistance provided by Yuejīnglún and Xuanqi against the majority of spiritual energy impact, to maintain her fragile Dao base, she continuously consumed elixirs that fortify the foundation and cultivate the essence on the way, now she is also exhausted.
They scanned the surroundings and saw a coastline at the end of their line of sight, causing them to be overjoyed immediately.
There are lands, which means there are places to rest.
Once they rest for a while and restore Deng Chanyu to a state of about 60%, they can start the spatial channel and return to the Huáng Xuān World.
As for the Xuanqi...
Qiongxi could sing and dance, and her expression was full of artistic sensibility at this moment. She said with a slight touch of sadness, "Let the master here rest peacefully. With Yin Yingxing as her tomb, it wouldn't be dishonoring her. Master, thank you."
Deng Chanyu: "?????"
Deng Chanyu: "Huh? That was me using a lot of my own spiritual energy to control the corpse and carry us both onto the sea surface. It has nothing to do with your senior sister!"
However, she is also quite experienced. At this time, it is best not to argue with women, as there is no point to it. What you say is what it is.
The Xuanqi's corpse was "released," and within less than a teacup's worth of time, the shattered body, along with the shell, flesh, bones, and everything else, was broken down and assimilated by the spiritual ocean. Deng Chanyu had been carefully guarding against that demonic qi which now transformed into an almost imperceptible whirlwind, enveloping a massive amount of blood and flesh essence as it swept into an unknown sea.
The demonic qi within the Xuanqi's body was attracted to another demonic qi, and they traveled together swiftly until they converged in a cave that seemed to be made of jade.
The blood and flesh essence and demonic qi were all injected into a massive crystal that was three zhang in height, transparent and as pure as moon-white jade.
Within the crystal, there was a blurred human-shaped shadow. With every surge of the spiritual ocean within the Yin Yingxing, this human-shaped shadow moved in sync, as if this place were the core and center of the Yin Yingxing.
At this moment, there was a black swirling vortex of spiritual energy in the heart of the human-shaped shadow, looking like fluffy willows. The human-shaped shadow was completely unconscious and would eventually be entirely eroded by the black spiritual energy vortex, but this time, the return of the demonic qi not only strengthened the intensity of the black spiritual energy vortex but also brought back a small firebug seed about an inch in size.
The small firebug seed was no match for the black spiritual energy vortex in terms of quality and quantity. It simply ran around and finally took up residence in the head of the human-shaped shadow, where it stood in confrontation with the black swirling vortex at the heart position.
"????" Deng Chanyu, who was swimming towards the shore with Qiongxi, was taken aback.
What the hell is that thing?
Her mind and spirit were indeed completely detached from the Xuanqi's body, but mind and spirit are things that cannot be quantified. She used her mind and spirit to control the Xuanqi's body for so long, which has left her part of the mark on this body.
In normal circumstances, such imprints cannot exist for long and would fade in about ten or fifteen days, but this time, it might be because the demonic qi was so eager to consume the Xuanqi's flesh and blood that it acted so quickly that Deng Chanyu didn't even have time to react, and her mind and spirit had already taken a small corner in another body.
She sensed the extraordinary nature of this body, and even the Phoenix had some sort of response. It's like losing one thing and gaining another - this yet-to-be-born creature looks like it has better qualifications and roots than Turtle-shaped Spiritual Mother, and most importantly, this body has a complete lack of karma.
