The Heavenly Dao has its order, even gods cannot defy it.
Baili An was helpless, so he asked, "Do you know the thod to leave the Abyss Realm?"
Cang Nanyi said, "The Abyss Realm is transford by a powerful space array. To leave, you must master space Taoist techniques. But do you truly wish to leave this realm so quickly?"
Seeing her seeming intent to guide, Baili An humbled himself and asked for instruction, "I seek your guidance, Empress."
"Very well, you will eventually co to Kunlun to offer nine sticks of incense. Today, I shall teach you a bit ahead of ti.
You have died and beco a corpse demon, unable to practice orthodox immortal techniques, but within you reside Yin and Yang Tao seeds, one Yin, one Yang, one life, one death, allowing you to cultivate both Immortal and Demon paths.
Without any guidance, in less than two years since your ergence, you have cultivated from the Seeking Tao Realm to the Integration Realm.
By common reasoning, your physical body should already be unable to withstand such profound realm cultivation, yet you remain unhard. This seems to be related to that second corpse pearl within you."
The second corpse pearl?
Baili An said blankly, "How could I have a second corpse pearl?"
He had not yet awakened to a corpse pearl in his cultivation, and the one in his Qi Sea was given to him by Sister Si Li, snatched from Shebi Corpse.
Cang Nanyi lightly lifted her finger, conjuring a point of light.
Instantly, Baili An felt intense pain in his chest, as if a terrifying force was being forcibly extracted from his heart.
Looking down, he saw a glimr of profound light at his heart, from which a dark golden bead the size of a grain of rice erged, connected to countless blood-vein filants.
Baili An was greatly astonished.
There really was a second corpse pearl in his body...
"So it is..." Cang Nanyi glanced at it, then flicked her finger, sending the bead back into Baili An’s body.
"So you are a death soul."
"Death soul?"
"To beco a corpse demon, one must, at the mont of death, hold great unresolved resentnt, causing the soul to be undying, reborn in the body, eventually becoming a bloodthirsty monster from the fixation and resentnt, but you..."
Cang Nanyi pondered briefly, then said, "But you seem to lack such fixation and resentnt. At the mont of your death, your soul was already gone. With such conditions, it is absolutely impossible to transform into a corpse demon."
"But I..."
Cang Nanyi interrupted him, saying, "But you not only beca a corpse demon, you are also a descendant of Jiang Chen."
Baili An’s mind was in chaos, unable to find a starting point, muttering in confusion, "How can it be..."
Cang Nanyi tapped his chest, saying, "Because Jiang Chen perford an anti-heavenly technique, soone sacrificed their own corpse pearl, refining it into your body, using the pearl as a source, nurturing your body for two hundred years, thus achieving the you of today."
Baili An was even more confused, asking, "Who would be willing to sacrifice their own corpse pearl to resurrect ?"
Cang Nanyi said, "Observing this corpse pearl’s dark golden color, possessing the power to defy heaven and change fate, among all beings in the Six Realms, only Jiang Chen’s pure-blood royal lineage could do this.
Well... A hundred thousand years ago, all fifteen royal blood descendants of Jiang Chen perished under the glory of the blazing sun. By this calculation, the owner of this pearl should be Si Li of the royal family. That little one is truly magnanimous."
Baili An’s heart trembled uncontrollably, and he slowly pressed his lips together.
No wonder back at Ghost Mountain, Arao mocked Sister Si Li for losing her natal corpse pearl.
No wonder after Sister Si Li was injured by the Sword Qi of All Heavens, her blood energy could not recover, and she couldn’t even maintain her demon form, transforming into a human.
Turns out... her corpse pearl had been in his body for these two hundred years!
But why...
Why would Sister Si Li, such a powerful royal of the corpse demons, save soone like him, a naless minor character of the Seeking Tao Realm?
More and more complex thoughts made Baili An’s head throb with pain, and he couldn’t help but hold his aching forehead, feeling increasingly uneasy and lost.
He realized that the mysteries he had to unravel seed to be multiplying.
Ever since parting at Ghost Mountain, he hadn’t seen Sister Si Li again. At that ti, her cultivation had not yet recovered, she was like a mortal, with no power to protect herself. Baili An initially thought that with her ability, it wouldn’t be long before she regained strength.
Today, he heard that her body lacked a corpse pearl, and for corpse demons, the pearl is their source. Without it, even the basic self-healing is extrely difficult.
Thinking of this, an intense worry rose in Baili An’s heart, and he urgently asked, "If a corpse demon loses its corpse pearl, will they die?"
Cang Nanyi glanced sideways, saying, "What a foolish question. For a corpse demon, the corpse pearl is like a human’s heart. Remove soone’s heart, and do you think they can survive?"
Baili An swayed violently, his face turning pale: "I... I must leave here, I must leave now."
Damn!
He always thought that Sister Si Li was invincible. From the first eting at Kongcang Mountain, the powerful side she showed made him always have the illusion that she could not encounter danger.
But who could have thought... who could have thought she would face such a desperate situation!
Cang Nanyi looked at him faintly, "Even if you leave here, what can you do? The corpse pearl of the royal family of corpse demons is unlike a grain of rice; it seems that to resurrect you, Si Li’s pearl has already exhausted its origin.
Back when we were at Xianling City, this corpse pearl was so weak that even I did not perceive it; now that you’ve crossed realms, it remains so small.
Even if you return it, to her it would be nearly useless, not to ntion that your life currently relies entirely on this pearl."
Baili An stood there as if struck by lightning, equally lost for the first ti seen in this youth by Cang Nanyi.
Call him shrewd, and he could be as shrewd as a demon.
Yet at tis, he could be as innocent as a child.
After talking for so long, Cang Nanyi was sowhat tired and did not intend to continue troubling him, saying, "If you are willing, it would be best to nurture this pearl with your own cultivation. Once the pearl is perfected, returning it could then solve Princess Si Li’s pressing need."
As Cang Nanyi spoke, Baili An had already gradually cald down, raising his hand with a pensive expression, gently stroking his chest, nodding.
"Alright, back to the main topic. I do not know the cultivation thods of the Corpse Demon Clan, you must ponder and comprehend them yourself. What I can teach you now is how to grasp the power of the Bronze Gate."
Cang Nanyi, with a lazy posture, stood leaning against the light, his phoenix eyes glancing with a strict and domineering air that allowed no defiance: "The opening of Sword Mountain is a day away, so it’s not too short a ti. I hope you do not disappoint ."
At this mont, Baili An finally understood why the Empress’s forr disciples ended up as they did.
One day to learn to grasp the power of the Bronze Gate.
What a boast that is!
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