“Fangcun…”
Li Shun could not help but reexamine the aning of these two words.
His consciousness moved in and out of the Fangcun space again and again, carefully sensing the subtle differences between his state inside and outside it.
The more he observed, the more certain he beca of his earlier discovery.
“Fangcun does not rely store external puppets. It also preserves one’s true self.”
“No matter what kind of doctrines or influences wash over my physical body, within Fangcun, I remain in my most fundantal and purest state.”
“Fangcun… Fangcun…”
“It is both a square inch, and the heart itself.”
At the very mont this realization surfaced in Li Shun’s mind, a sudden transformation erupted within the Fangcun space. At the central core region, where the puppet “Li Shun” and the two statues resided.
The puppet “Li Shun” had originally appeared as he did when first replaced, only twenty-nine years old yet already showing clear signs of aging.
But now, a heaven-shaking change was taking place. As if he had successfully borrowed lifespan, in an instant, the puppet reverted into a youth of seventeen or eighteen!
More than that, a familiar aura of cultivation from the Spring-Autumn Brush lineage now flowed within the puppet, granting it strength at the mid-tier of the Mortal Physique Realm.
“So this is… synchronization between the puppet and the outside world.”
Li Shun’s consciousness imdiately descended into the puppet “Li Shun,” observing the changes firsthand.
“This synchronization is not automatic. It requires my active control.”
“For the past twenty-seven years, my real body has steadily aged and declined, while the puppet remained fixed at the mont it was taken. Synchronizing back then would have done more harm than good. But now, things are different.”
“In reality, I have borrowed two hundred years of lifespan and formally stepped onto the path of cultivation. Synchronizing is now purely beneficial!”
“And it’s not just ‘Li Shun.’ ‘Fang Xun,’ and any future puppets I obtain, can also undergo this synchronization.”
“That ans…”
“Even after becoming puppets, they can still cultivate.”
“Puppets within Fangcun are like snapshots of a person at a certain mont in ti. Even if they are destroyed in the outside world, they can revert to their preserved state within Fangcun.”
“And if they make progress in cultivation, that progress can overwrite their stored state within Fangcun.”
“Hiss…”
Li Shun’s thoughts raced rapidly. As everything clicked into place, his heart surged with uncontrollable excitent.
This discovery completely solved the problem of puppets becoming obsolete as his own strength increased.
“A re mortal using Spirit Division and Life Transformation, versus a prodigy who has borrowed two hundred years of lifespan… just how great is the difference?”
Within the spirit field, the puppet “Li Shun” imdiately used its own blood essence to begin nurturing a sprout of Lengshan Grass.
Since the puppet’s state remained anchored, there was no need to worry about excessive depletion of vitality. At seventeen, when blood and vitality were at their peak, even a slight activation caused a vast surge of life force to erupt like a living volcano.
The tender leaves of the Lengshan Grass seedling seed to awaken instantly, growing vigorously.
Li Shun kept his consciousness within the Fangcun space, closely watching the changes.
Sixteenth day of the sixth month.
After observing for most of the day, Li Shun reached a conclusion.
“A normal person can nurture one leaf per month, producing one stalk of Lengshan Grass per year.”
“In the past, the puppet ‘Li Shun’ was five tis as efficient, producing five stalks per year.”
“But now, after synchronization…”
“It can nurture one leaf per day. A complete stalk forms in twelve days.”
“Three stalks per month. Thirty-six stalks per year. More than seven tis the previous efficiency!”
“This speed… is truly terrifying. But…”
Li Shun slowly shook his head.
“It is still not enough.”
To cultivate a single stalk of Lengshan Venerable Grass, one would need at least thirty to forty stalks of Lengshan Grass.
Activating a single Threefold Self-Reflection reversal now required a minimum of twenty stalks of Lengshan Grass, or alternatively, two stalks of Lengshan Lord Grass.
And even then, Lengshan Grass only had a one-in-five chance of mutating into Lengshan Lord.
“Lengshan Lord is nothing more than a larger variant of Lengshan Grass. In essence, there is no qualitative transformation.”
“Only Lengshan Venerable might temporarily et the requirents needed to repair the stone statue.”
“Perhaps only those Yin-Yang secret arts capable of accelerating the flow of ti can truly solve the shortage of Lengshan Grass.”
Li Shun shook his head faintly, his thoughts returning once more to the puppet itself.
Even now, he had yet to fully understand the relationship between the puppet “Li Shun” and the physical body that existed in reality.
“The puppet ‘Li Shun’ was created the mont I transmigrated here and took over this body.”
“In the past, I only regarded it as a puppet. But now…”
Li Shun’s perspective suddenly rose, overlooking the three central core regions within Fangcun.
“It can synchronize with my real body, yet at the sa ti, it can manifest independently in the outside world…”
“anwhile, ‘Fang Xun’ corresponds to nothing more than a single physical shell.”
“Fangcun, ‘Li Shun,’ Li Shun…”
His thoughts churned, eventually settling once more on the two words:
“Fangcun.”
“Fangcun is the mind.”
“In theory, as long as Fangcun still exists, even if my physical body in the real world is reduced to ashes, I can be reborn through the puppet.”
“The reason the puppet ‘Li Shun’ and my real body can appear simultaneously…”
“…is because, deep down, I do not consider myself to be Li Shun of Great Qian.”
“I am simply myself. The soul that ca from beyond the heavens, not that laborer born of the imperial tombs, destined to toil away his entire life in Lengshan.”
“So…”
Li Shun fixed his gaze on the puppet that continued tirelessly executing the Spirit Division and Life Transformation technique.
“This position… should belong to .”
The mont this thought arose, the figure of “Li Shun,” along with the field of Lengshan Grass, vanished instantly.
In the next mont, it reappeared in the fifth vacant plot at the outer edge.
anwhile, the central core region that the puppet “Li Shun” once occupied was left completely empty.
“And more than that…”
“These other two regions as well… they should also belong to .”
Li Shun did not imdiately take his seat. Instead, he turned his gaze toward the other two stone statues occupying their respective domains.
Under the pressure of his will, the empty region suddenly expanded outward on both sides. Like the thunderous rumbling of heaven and earth being split apart, waves of collisions echoed endlessly as the domains occupied by the two statues were forcibly compressed.
And then…
From the complete statue, countless strands of razor-sharp killing intent erupted.
From the Threefold Self-Reflection statue, a phantom figure suddenly erged.
It was as if both had awakened at the sa ti, jointly resisting Li Shun’s attempt to seize control.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
An explosion of sound, a hundred tis greater than before, resounded instantly. It was as though hundreds of millions of collisions occurred in a single instant. The entire Fangcun space trembled violently.
“Pff!”
His divine sense felt as if it had been struck by lightning. Li Shun was overco with dizziness, his vision plunging into darkness as he lost all perception of the outside world.
In reality, Li Shun abruptly spat out a mouthful of blood, his face pale as paper. His attempt at expansion had been forcibly halted just as it began.
After an unknown amount of ti, Li Shun slowly regained consciousness.
He looked toward the two statues still standing quietly in the distance. His will descended gently as he took a seat within the vacant region.
What manifested there was his original appearance from before his transmigration.
He sat facing them from afar.
A vague and fragnted scene surfaced within his mind.
Two figures, though heavily wounded, were still locked in a desperate battle, as if contending for sothing.
At the critical mont, a streak of light descended from an unknown origin.
A violent collision followed.
“So that’s how it is…”
“I was the outsider all along!”
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