Chapter 332 Simulation: Su Jie's Saga - The End (12) – The Night of Returning Souls
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"This is impossible!"
The Tao-Master trembled, his mouth quivering as he looked at Sun Shisheng with unsteady eyes.
How could a strike, fueled by the power of heaven and earth, be so easily broken?
And this method of breaking it—
Vanished into thin air!
This was a power only the Heavenly Dao possessed.
Could it be that the person before him was the incarnation of Heaven's Will?
Impossible!
Heaven's Will has clearly been...
"This is quite possible," Sun Shisheng said unhurriedly, "I have taken over the Heavenly Dao and occupied the space of Heaven's Will, so naturally, I am the new Heaven's Will of the Cultivation World. And for this, I have to thank your Alliance Hierarch... ah, the former Alliance Hierarch."
The Tao-Master's face turned extremely unsightly.
If what the other party said was true, then all his attacks would be unable to harm him.
Because this is the Cultivation World!
All cultivation is based on this Semi-Dimension, and aside from souls descending from the void, any energy attack would be dissolved by him and rendered ineffective.
To compete in soul power...
The fact that the other party occupied the space of Heaven's Will meant that even just a fraction of Heaven's Will was far beyond what his own state of Oblivion could compare to.
"Don't worry, I won't kill you," Sun Shisheng said with a smile, "Give a message to the current Alliance Hierarch of your house: 'Do not interfere with the mortal dynasties' alterations in the Cultivation World for two hundred years, or I will personally go there and extinguish her. Having obtained the Great Emperor's Relic but incapable of refining it, she's no match for me.'"
The Tao-Master was shocked, then bowed deeply: "Your words will be conveyed to the Alliance Hierarch without omission."
The Tao Demon Alliance.
When the Tao-Master returned, he immediately relayed Sun Shisheng's words verbatim to Hua Youmeng: "[... Having obtained the Great Emperor's Relic but incapable of refining it, she's no match for me], that's what the person said."
Hua Youmeng's face was as cold as ice, her presence like a timeless mountain, oppressing all the cultivators in the hall so much that they couldn't breathe. Even some cultivators in the Embryonic Breathing Realm had their minds and realms shaken, causing loss of cultivation and physical bodies to crackle.
The Great Emperor's Relic!
How did that guy know about it?
The space of Heaven's Will occupied by someone else!?
"If that's the case, we shall close off the mountain for two hundred years," Hua Youmeng finally spoke, dissipating the oppressive aura in the hall. Everyone let out a sigh of relief, but did they really have to close the mountain off?
Although cultivators and mortals exist on two parallel lines and normally never intersect, for a saint like the Alliance Hierarch, the souls of mortals are indispensable.
And to think, the mighty Tao Demon Alliance being threatened by a Loose Cultivator, wasn't that a huge joke?
"If any of you objects, you may go and discipline that person," said Hua Youmeng, understanding the thoughts of those present, in a calm manner.
For her, two hundred years was but the flick of a finger.
Even during these two hundred years, who's to say she couldn't refine the Great Emperor's Relic and the Heaven's Will within it?
Hearing that they had to go themselves, the other cultivators immediately lost their fighting spirit.
Don't they see, even the Tao-Master returned defeated?
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If they go, won't they be walking right into a trap?
Don't go!
"Heh!"
Hua Youmeng let out a disdainful chuckle, left the main hall, and entered the training room. With her spiritual mind, she connected to the Great Emperor's Relic and asked, "Heavenly Dao, your Heavenly Dao space has been occupied. Who do you think it is?"
The Heavenly Dao was a chaotic mix within the Great Emperor's Relic, moving irregularly and resisting the relic's absorption. As it heard Hua Youmeng's mind transmission, it suddenly trembled.
"The Heavenly Dao space has been occupied?"
"You don't know?" Hua Youmeng frowned, "Could it be the extraterritorial Heavenly Demons?"
Upon hearing the words "extraterritorial Heavenly Demons," the Heavenly Dao suddenly paused, as if it remembered something, its formless body trembling chaotically, "It must be them! Taixu Illusory Realm!"
Hua Youmeng said, "Heavenly Dao, you wouldn't want your 'body' to be controlled by the extraterritorial Heavenly Demons, right?"
"You can give up on that idea!"
The Heavenly Dao's icy voice rose from the depths of Hua Youmeng's mind, "Although you were born out of my instinctive contingency and helped me deal with Meng Daozhen, I will not let you assimilate me!"
Compared to being assimilated by Hua Youmeng, it preferred to be managed by the Taixu Illusory Realm.
At the very least, it had once had a brief "exchange" with the Taixu Illusory Realm's "Heavenly Dao," obtaining some information... Becoming an avatar for the Taixu Illusory Realm, it might still retain its own independent consciousness, but if it were assimilated by Hua Youmeng, it would truly have nothing left.
"Hmph! Refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit!" Hua Youmeng blocked the spiritual connection, contemplating her next move. Being obedient and cultivating hard within the alliance was not her style. Rеаdеr suppоrt аt М*VLЕМ*РYR mаdе this trаnslаtiоn pоssiblе.
Being plain and honest, one cannot reach the state of 'forgetting' in cultivation, nor can one achieve sainthood!
"You wouldn't agree to me honestly staying here and cultivating hard, would you, my dearest Daozhen! Hahaha!" Hua Youmeng muttered to herself and suddenly burst into loud laughter as if she had gone mad...
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Two days later.
Jieguo.
The golden crow sets in the west.
The citizens within the country were joyfully preparing for the Hungry Ghost Festival, lining the streets with yellow petals from the other shore flowers, ready to welcome back their deceased family members.
However, this Hungry Ghost Festival was different from those past, as the spirits of the ancestors truly followed the petals back to their homes, celebrating the festival with their living relatives.
Accompanied by the other shore flower petals on the ground, countless spirits slowly emerged from the void, returning to their former homes. Though their hands couldn't touch objects, they could manifest the shape of touched items, as if they had taken the souls of the items.
Su Jie looked at the spirits filling the streets, observing the golden-red halo around them, and asked, "Headmaster, that halo around them is what's protecting them from external environmental influences and even blocking the Heavenly Dao space's pull on them, right?"
"That's right," Sun Shisheng said, "That's Soul Light, which can also be considered Meritorious Golden Light."
The so-called Meritorious Golden Light was not the kind from the three realms, but rather an energy created by Sun Shisheng utilizing the Heavenly Dao space, which could be used to offset damage and the pull of the Heavenly Dao space.
According to what the spirits had done during their lives and applying the corresponding mortal laws, they were judged and then granted this light.
"Kind of like currency," Su Jie realized.
"To be more exact, it's like an ID that allows them to travel between the worlds of yin and yang. But it can also be used like a bank card," Sun Shisheng said unhurriedly, "Giving these spirits the chance to come back once a year is also for them to be able to dream-send to their descendants, subtly influencing their morals and cultivation."
Su Jie said, "This method seems a bit superstitious."
"This is not superstition at all."
Sun Shisheng smiled, "Blind faith in the existence of ghosts and gods, that kind of fanatical worship, is superstition, while dream-sending is a form of Sympathetic Resonance, similar to a phenomenon, and it's very scientifically explainable."
Su Jie was speechless, "I never thought I'd see the day when I'd consider dream-sending and soul-returning as scientific, rather than superstitious."
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