"Grandpa, Old Gong is doing this for your own good. This thing isn't used like this. Use it sparingly, wait for the right opportunity. We should reduce the side effects and only use what is beneficial. It's not yet the time, but there's nothing we can do about it either. We can only pass it on to someone else, I guess it's just not the time yet." Old Gong shook his head resolutely, looking sighfully at the situation.
Mr. Natural had some doubts, saying that everyone, including the Lord of Golden Wheel and the others, had used it, but why it couldn't be used by Luo Daojie here?
Wu Jinluan also looked puzzled.
Old Gong rolled his eyes again, scanning the group of people around him and said, "The worst thing is people who pretend to know what they don't. You all know very little about the Corpse Dan."
After that, Old Gong explained it once, the Corpse Dan belongs to strong spirit gas, full of vitality. Although it was cultivated in the body, it nourished the sun and moon essence thoroughly. The spirit gas can completely expel the dead gas, and its volume is large enough to support a dragon vein and fissure.
A normal person cannot withstand the vigorous life force of the Corpse Dan; it would result in an explosion and death.
Lord Jinyuan and others can eat a little powder because the Corpse Dan has been consumed, and secondly, and most importantly, they have adapted to the connection of the transformed Corpse Dan. They have absorbed the vitality emitted by it for several months.
Even so, even a tiny amount of powder almost caused them to explode.
Only one type of person can consume the Corpse Dan – those who were supposed to die in the womb but somehow survived by sheer chance. They are completely filled with negative energy, living like a dead person. The Corpse Dan can expel the dead energy while achieving a balance of the yin and yang energies.
If a Taoist wants to consume the Corpse Dan, there must be a hard requirement – they must first die once.
He paused slightly, and Old Gong looked at me before shrugging his shoulders and saying, "Grandpa, I thought White Pine could make you die once. I couldn't have told you this beforehand. If I did, the taste would have changed somehow. He would beat you to a pulp when he had the chance, and then I would feed you the Corpse Dan to disperse the dead energy in your body. This is called 'rebuilding after destruction,' or 'compensating for losses.' Not only will you come back to life, but the Corpse Dan will remain in your stomach for a long time—at least for quite some time."
"If you were to eat it directly, your own life force of the yang spirit is too heavy. Once infused with the life force, you would be shattered into blood mist in no time. Oh, by the way, when you use the heavenly thunder, some of the life force can be volatilized since it's consuming your years of life. It will continuously compensate for you. However, this will cause a phenomenon where the life force forms a focus for attracting thunder. If the heavenly thunder keeps coming, you will also be struck and killed. That's why I said earlier that Juqu Mountain would become a thunder pool."
Old Gong's words can be considered logical and well-organized, with clear information.
All of the gentlemen present reacted with shock, their eyes filled with a sense of horror.
Wu Jinlan seemed to be momentarily stunned, and his expression was tinged with a strong sense of fear.
"Little Wu, focus on practicing your skills with vegetables. Don't think that Old Gong is hiding anything. There must be something. Do you understand?"
Wu Jinluan sighed deeply and bowed deeply, apologizing to both Old Gong and me.
I then signaled that it was all right, not his fault.
Old Gong snorted and glanced at a Yin-Yang Master, saying, "You kid, sure knows how to take advantage. So, does Old Gong's saliva taste bad to you?"
Between his words, Old Gong shot a Corpse Dan into the air, raised his head, and it fell into his mouth with a loud suckling sound.
That Master was the one who had stolen a Corpse Dan earlier. He let out a low groan, as if he were about to vomit, and tightly grasped his trouser legs, trembling in place.
Everyone else reacted with sympathy, their eyes showing a hint of pity.
The man couldn't hold it in any longer; he rushed out of the hall and ran to the edge of the forest to vomit.
Old Gong made a cutting sound with his mouth.
He disappears.
That night, there was no unusual activity. Everyone went back to their rooms to get a good rest, and I sat in meditation in the hall.
Three days passed quickly.
During this period, Wu Jinluan explored the situation in the other Daoist temples through various means.
Indeed, there was no sign of any Daoist temple sending out disciples or elders, let alone immortals. He also couldn't get any information about seeking assistance from Juqu Mountain. This meant that the various Daoist temples had completely ignored it.
In Wu Jinluan's view, this was a result of self-inflicted trouble.
At the time on Juqu Mountain, both Guchang City and Yunjin Mountain took sides. By all rights, the Taoist sects should be connected, and Juqu Mountain shouldn't have been too overbearing. However, they still used their number of immortals to pressure others, even sealing off the outer perimeter of Sigu Mountain. This was completely unyielding in the face of reason.
That's why no one came to help.
Not only did Wu Jinluan secretly gather information, but he also constantly sent two Masters to walk around the town and observe the movements of the townspeople.
Resultingly, they found nothing.
At midnight of the third day, a fire broke out on the top of Juqu Mountain.
The fire didn't last long, only about ten to fifteen minutes, and then it vanished. However, it was enough for us to find something unusual.
If the fire had been overwhelming, it might have attracted the attention of relevant authorities, and it would have been extinguished in time, without any other reactions.
"They did take notice of the impact," Wu Jinluan muttered.
At this moment, we were all gathered in the courtyard in front of the hall, gazing up at the summit.
Wu Jinluan's words left me thoughtful.
A Master expressed deep agreement, saying, "Yes, they have a rare reputation in the realm of yin and yang. They rely solely on their formidable strength and mysterious actions to erase their tracks. I think if it wasn't for their desire to obtain the Corpse Dan and to make the official selection non-legitimate, we might not have even made contact with them. And they might not have directly targeted a Daoist sect either."
"It's imaginable... how valuable Guan Liangfei must be... perhaps even more precious than a transformed Corpse?"
"The Taiyin Body Refining... I think this may be related to the appearance of the Yang Spirit?" Wu Jinluan's eyes showed a thoughtful and analytical look.
"Guan Liangfei was in a certain bottleneck before using the method of 'dying in a phony way' to put himself into a quasi-dead state, swallowing moonlight to nourish the corpse, and then waking up on another day. If he wakes up, his strength will be one level higher than before; if he doesn't wake up, it will be a first-class underground master corpse."
"If he wakes up, does it mean he has a new way to break through to the Yang Spirit?"
"I think that each Daoist temple's immortal might want to study him, but they are reluctant due to his status and the relationships within the Daoist sect. The so-called eight households might not be like that."
Wu Jinluan's words were unexpected.
I merely thought that those straw hat-wearing Taoists, the supposed disciples of the Baizhai sect, used corpses to cultivate medicine and used medicine to refine pills.
I didn't realize that Guan Liangfei had this effect.
To emerge the Yang Spirit...
I have only seen two Yang Spirits in the flesh: Xinbo and Agon Lama.
Xinbo relied on special methods, the inheritance of Black City Temple, and his bloodline to keep taking over other bodies and surviving.
On the other hand, Agon Lama was stripped of the last position of the living Buddha and "reincarnated" into a young monk.
Both of these require a long period of searching. Agon Lama was blessed by the living Buddhas of previous generations, as they have a mature system of reincarnation.
However, the Taoists did not seem to control an entire region to select and cultivate like they did.
Therefore, the Taoists could only find another way.
Is this why Mao You San is so confident in saying that Juqu Mountain will be destroyed?
