Immortality Path: From the Blind Man at the Pharmacy-Chapter 417 - 224. Born into the world, suckled, imprisoned in a cell with the Red Pagoda Visualization (4.2K - Please Subscribe)
Chapter 417: 224. Born into the world, suckled, imprisoned in a cell with the Red Pagoda Visualization (4.2K - Please Subscribe)
Before transmigrating, Song Cheng had watched some popular science documentaries and sometimes, he would vaguely feel that "life" and "world" had a mysterious connection.
Life seemed to be like a small world.
And the world, like a huge living being.
This notion was reflected in myths like "Pan Gu created the world by splitting heaven and earth and his body transformed into the world" and "Kua Fu chased the sun until he was so exhausted that he turned into a peach forest".
Back then, he often marveled at the ancient people’s incredible imagination, shocked that "the world could actually be transformed from human beings".
But now, such a thing was actually happening to him.
The Blue Sea before his eyes had become a deep abyss, turning into a vast canyon that one could not see the end of, while the Blue Sea that once teemed with Demon Beasts had now become his body.
After several attempts, Song Cheng discovered:
His running did not cause any changes to the small world inside him.
His strikes did not bring about any tremors in the small world, either.
However, if he was injured, disasters would emerge in the small world...
If he absorbed power, the small world would flourish.
The flourishing small world would then make his power stronger.
What would become of the small world if he died, however, remained unknown.
Towards his own small world, Song Cheng was truly, thoroughly omniscient and omnipotent; with a single thought he could reach any place, and without a thought, he could sense any change.
He could see the patterns on the deep-sea grass, watch colorful fish swim in the crevices of the abyssal rocks, behold the giant sea creatures leaping above the surface of the sea;
He could also see Madam Tong, Song An, Zhao Lingxue, and some others who had followed her, settled by the seaside.
These people were diverse and varied.
There were Noble Family Children who served Madam Tong in hopes of obtaining an Immortality Peach from Song Cheng, there were fortunate Martial Artists who had come along for the journey, there were ’miners’ responsible for collecting "Wood Crystals" around the small world’s Blue Sea for the Dynasty to take, and even some of the people from the Pearl Mountain Taoist Temple...
The condensation of Immortality Peaches had become something easy for Song Cheng, hence he had created a batch of Ghostly Souls early on.
For these lives, they could hardly sense anything.
Yet Song Cheng could attach his consciousness to any of them, even manifest directly, or take over the "human bodies" originally stored in the Blue Sea, thus roaming in his own world.
As for the "end of the world", it did not exist.
Because when the Blue Sea transformed into his body, it formed into a sphere.
Any creature that could not transcend his body, even if they kept walking in one direction tirelessly, would only find themselves back where they started.
After a brief experiment, Song Cheng truly felt a sense of surprise.
But as the novelty slightly dissipated, an intense feeling of hunger came again.
This time, the sense of hunger was much stronger than before.
It was a thought that if he did not eat, he would truly "die of hunger".
With just a bit of perception, Song Cheng felt his True Self’s consumption was terrifyingly huge, and the little bit of Yin and Yang Dual Qi he had stored was constantly being depleted.
When the Blue Sea was outside, it relied on the Yin and Yang Dual Qi from the heavens and earth.
But inside Song Cheng’s body, it could only rely on his.
’Hungry...’
’So hungry...’
The sole thought occupied Song Cheng’s mind and body.
Song Cheng’s figure moved swiftly, passing through realms, stepping into the Reappear World, and then with a single thought, directly entered the Yin-Yang Illusion Realm.
If the Reappear World was an ink painting world, a freehand world that still had exquisite shapes reflective of the Human World, then... the Yin-Yang Illusion Realm could only be described as being extremely dull and monotonous.
Black Sea.
White Sun.
Beyond that, nothing else.
However, the Black Sea had waves known as the Taiyin Illusionary Sea, where even slightly bigger waves could promote a Ghost Tide;
And the White Sun had light known as the Sun Phantasmal Space, whose dazzling white could instantly blind those who gaze upon it.
The Black Sea was heavy, the White Sun was flighty.
Song Cheng conducted the "Taiyin Guiding Technique" with his left hand and the "Taiyang Guiding Technique" with his right, the Yin and Yang Dual Qi guided forth, balancing his body in mid-air, black and white encasing him in the center as if spinning a cocoon.
Immediately after, a process like a "caterpillar spinning a cocoon in reverse" occurred.
The black and white energies began to surge crazily toward Song Cheng’s body.
After an indefinite amount of time, Song Cheng felt relief from his hunger.
After yet more time, Song Cheng saw that there was an additional patch in the sky above his True Self that was connected to the Sun Phantasmal Space and deep in the sea bed, a new patch of dark water connected with the Taiyin Illusionary Sea had appeared.
At this moment, he truly felt like a "newborn infant", eagerly awaiting nurturing, instinctively absorbing the breast milk, but unlike a mortal infant, this process of absorption was clearly much prolonged.
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"Mother, I feel like this sea has changed," Zhao Lingxue said as she raised her hand to her eyes, gazing at the sky.
There, the sunlight was brilliant, slanting down and casting the Blue Sea in a shimmering golden light.
After being subjected to the Spirit Servant Technique by her father-in-law, she had chosen to become an ancient tree spirit in this Blue Sea.
As a tree spirit under the Spirit of Mountains and Rivers, she could sense the changes in the world more discerningly and reap benefits from them.
Song An agreed, "Lingxue is right. Our cultivation speed has increased a lot."
The former Emperor of the Great Song had chosen to become an island spirit.
Madam Tong’s beautiful eyes moved, looking around as her perception was the most evident.
Because Song Cheng had personally acted to turn her into a water spirit.
And to the Blue Sea world, a water spirit was almost akin to a water god.
If there was a "principle of distribution" for the power drawn from a world, then... being a water spirit, Madam Tong was certainly the one who got the most out of it.
Unlike An Chenyu and Zhao Hua, many in Madam Tong’s line had grown weary of the glamorous mortal world, so they chose to settle down when they first journeyed to the Blue Sea, rather than return.
