When reason prevailed, he restored the Golden Elixir to me.
When he lost the Elixir, greed once again took the upper hand. In his actions, there was a strong stench, causing the corpse to rot even more and become unable to bear the emergence of the spirit, with the Yin energy becoming even heavier!
The emergence of the Yang spirit has a requirement.
At least, the corpse must be clear and clean, without a trace of Yin energy.
He can no longer manifest the Yang spirit.
Even if he ultimately subdues greed, the Yin energy on his corpse cannot be dispelled.
The limitation of Shidie restrained him.
It's just that without the Shidie (corpses dissolution), he might not have reached today's level. He would have long perished in the underworld.
In an instant, thousands of thoughts flashed through my mind.
"I will lend you a helping hand!"
"Win or lose, at least, you still have a bit of dignity left, and you won't let your fellow sect members kill you!"
My tone is especially heavy with these words.
Without any warning, I lifted my hand and the Gao Tiansword directly pierced towards his mouth!
In fact, even if I acted suddenly, with his soul and spirit now emerging as the Yin spirit, he could still react, dodge, or even knock me away.
This depends on him.
Since he can smell the aroma of the elixir made from the heartflesh of the Imperial Corpse, he knows that it can help him.
He must be able to sense the uniqueness of the Gao Tiansword, which is a weapon that has successfully helped spirits to emerge from the body in the past.
Moreover, there are multiple spirits emerging from the body under the sword!
The arena is completely silent.
Everyone fell silent, looking at my actions in shock.
The moment of piercing the sword.
Liuhong's emerging Yin spirit suddenly leaves his body.
It was also in that instant that his spirit suddenly returned to his body.
The green in his eyes became especially vivid, and the two worms that emerged from his eyes struggled to twist their bodies.
Liuhong suddenly raised his hands, but not towards me. Instead, he pointed his fingers at the eye socket and dug them down with great force!
A slight plop sound, and he had dug out both eyes!
Blood gushed out in spurts, but he didn't show any sign of discomfort. With a flick of his hands, the eyeballs flew out, at least temporarily pushing away the corpse worms in his body.
He laughed, his voice exceptionally bright and clear.
My sword only pierced through in front of him, stopping short of advancing further.
This gesture seems to be more like raising the sword.
"Shidie Mountain, Little Uncle, thank you!"
Liuhong's voice was like thunder, and his body lurched forward, allowing the Gao Tiansword to pierce straight through his mouth!
However, this isn't too deep, and the sword is stuck in his teeth. More blood is spurting out, not just the blood in his empty eye socket, but also the blood between his lips, flowing profusely!
In the bloodstream, there are also countless tiny worms wriggling, which are also of the color upper corpse green. Although they are not as large as before, they are still breeding.
Thump, thump, thump, Liuhong stepped back several steps. He leaped up abruptly, facing us directly and landing in the middle of the inner platform at the top of the high stage.
He raised his head and grabbed the Gao Tiansword with both hands, pressing it down suddenly!
The sword penetrated deeply into his mouth!
Liuhong froze in place.
The towering and dense clouds suddenly dispersed.
The sunlight began to fall again.
The brightest ray of sunlight shone upon Liuhong.
Previously, his body had already been riddled with holes from the corpse spots.
At this moment, the wounds kept darkening and kept emitting white smoke.
The Gao Tiansword was left with only the hilt exposed, and the sunlight caused the hilt to refract a considerable amount of copper light.
He seemed to be burning.
This was actually an illusion; the real situation was just that his body was continuously darkening, as if it were about to become charcoal.
His emerging Yin spirit did not leave.
It did not dodge.
He should not be able to leave, nor should he be able to dodge.
This is because of his own choice, he is enduring it, and it is also because the corpse is the foundation of his being.
The sound of footsteps echoed, and people around began to gather.
The eyes of everyone were mostly fixed on Liuhong.
Nevertheless, a small part of the gazes were still directed at me.
I clenched the female Yijian tightly in my hand, still breathing heavily.
I couldn't quite describe the emotions swirling within me at this moment.
Whether Liuhong can emerge as a Yang spirit in the final moment was still an unknown.
This process made it crystal clear to me how I was battling against both Liuhong and the corpse worms.
This was the first time I had clearly seen the process of a person fighting against the Three Corpse Real Worms, in addition to myself.
He is resisting.
The corpse worms are encouraging.
The encouragement of the corpse worms may not be the worst.
However, once accepted, it may bring a momentary satisfaction but lead to a chain reaction of consequences.
His resistance resulted in him swallowing the sword.
It seemed like death, but in reality, it was a struggle to emerge as a Yang spirit.
I have not yet reached that stage, so my resistance will result in going against the corpse worms!
It means going against that thing that can stir up the corpse worms!
I may not have too many insights, but they are real and practical.
Time flies, and the sun is setting in the west.
The entire platform was dyed a bright red under the setting sun.
Liuhong's corpse was a touch of black amidst the red.
He became a skeleton like charcoal, completely silent, without a trace of his spirit. The spirit that should emerge as a Yang spirit, I could not see it yet.
Or, has he emerged as a Yang spirit?
"It's over," said Liu Zhen with a faint startlement, his eyes filled with even more complexity.
"Uncle...did you succeed?" Liu Yujie's eyes contained a trace of confusion.
Similarly, Liu Taiyin's eyes were full of puzzlement.
I swept over all the Taoists in the arena, and at least their eyes were all filled with confusion without exception.
No one could see Liuhong.
Whether he emerged as a Yang spirit, no one knows.
"A normal emergence of the Yang spirit is described in the classics as the heavens filled with radiant light and auspicious clouds stretching for miles. Even though they are deceased, they smile serenely, and their bodies do not decay or decompose." Tang Wu murmured, "This is a case of first emerging as a Yin spirit and then entering the Yang spirit, going through the process of Shidie. The difficulty of emerging as a Yang spirit for such an immortal is so high that Tian Gong Quan has also become an obstacle."
As everyone saw it, Tang Wu did not have anything to hide or hold back, and directly stated it.
"You are correct that the Yin spirit needs the corpse as its carrier," Tang Wu looked at the priest's successor who was around forty years old, and said, "Xuan Yi, do you understand?"
The priest's successor remained silent for a moment before replying, "First Shidie, then partial Corpse Transmutation, followed by the emergence of the Yin spirit, and finally there will be an opportunity to emerge as the Yang spirit."
"But if the soul realm is sufficient, nurturing the corpse can also yield a Yin spirit, or perhaps it can be done first."
"This is not the path chosen by Yunjin Mountain. We should seek the elixir from the eight households."
"Mm." Tang Wu nodded, and a faint sense of satisfaction appeared in his eyes.
"Wow, the sky is so red today," Wu Jinlun slightly shielded his eyes and whispered, "Isn't this a kind of celestial sign? This late sunset cloud looks like the clouds of dawn just rising, it's death and rebirth."
"Surviving within death, life in the extreme of Yin, and the extreme of Yang must lead to Yin, and within life, there is also death."
"I think, he should have emerged as a Yang spirit now."
Wu Jinlun continued to mutter.
"Too bad, there's no eligible person here. Otherwise, we could have been more certain of the result. Such a great good thing lacks a bit of certainty, making it somewhat uncomfortable."
The three Diao family realms looked at each other without speaking.
Then, they all took a deep bow to me, showing respect.
I was originally going to dodge.
My shoulder was held down by a hand.
It was not He Youtian who held me down, but Tang Wu.
"The Diao family may either have a new ancestor who emerged as a Yang spirit or avoid a great calamity. Whichever, you, Xian Shen, should be honored with a bow," Tang Wu said.
