Chapter 70 It Was But a Dream (1/2)

”Senior Apprentice-Brother Sanwen, since your life is coming to an end soon, why don't you ask for an external alchemy pill from the headmaster so that you can extend your life for another three hundred years?” the young Dao practitioner asked in a serious manner.

”Even with the pill, I will only be dragging my life on. I might as well enter into the reincarnation cycle earlier,” replied Daoist Sanwen coldly.

”Does reincarnation really exist in this world? All I ask for is this life and not the next.” The young Dao practitioner stood up and walked out of the door.

The moonlight shone into the courtyard, landing right below of the Daoist Sanwen's feet.

The moonlight accumulated like sand. Eventually, a human shape was formed. It was Daoist Sanwen himself. His physical appearance down to the corner of his clothes was replicated perfectly and was very life-like.

He closed the room door and the moonlight dispersed. The room was quiet and dark.

With an out-of-body-experience, the spirit could take shape and absorb the moonlight which made it as good as a living human. One might wonder how much stronger was it as compared to Shen Lian's spirit.

Of course, Shen Lian could absorb the force of heaven and earth too, such as the moonlight. However, he could not maintain his human shape for long, and it was hard to attain such a state.

If one was referring to the state of the spirit, both of them were similar in essence.

Doubtlessly, Shen Lian could not see the situation here.

As the vital Qi gathered in his body, Shen Lian's strength of the spirit observed the process closely and paid close attention to any possible changes to the body.

It felt as though he was wandering in the desert for a prolonged period of time and was dying of thirst. Out of a sudden, he ran into an oasis which had a water source. He then replenished his body with the water that he found.

That was not the only mystery of the Qi. When the Qi seeped into his spirit, he was caught in a strange state.

Not all the Qi remained within him, some of it leaked out. Shen Lian's spirit too escaped his body along with the Qi.

This was different from all the other times where his spirit was loitering outside of his body. The world was different from what he perceived with his eyes.

It could be the Qi in the bamboo hut was denser than anywhere that he had been. It was as though he was under a magnifying glass and everything that he had never seen before laid bare before him.

This led him to think that the world was made up of eight other immutable forces besides Qi.

It was hard to describe. One moment he would be drifting in the endless sky, the next moment he would be back on solid ground.

He saw the rise of the ground, the accumulation of sand into mountains, the rain and wind, and even thunder from the ninth heaven. Lakes and seas slowly formed as rain flood the ground. The land was covered with forest, and forest fire burned through all of it.

He thought about The Book of Changes - sky, earth, mountain, swamp, water, fire, wind, and lightning.

Eight difference forces were connected by Qi. Through endless permutations, they formed the material realm.

As for the theory behind the permutations and the changes, he did not understand it at all.

He could not utilize these eight forces as well.

The Qi that came out from his body returned to nature, it blended in with the heaven and earth Qi in nature. His spirit returned to its normal state.