Chapter 564 Yin Yang - Live and Death (1/2)

Ah Lian was in her astral form. Although in a certain sense, that meant that she was immortalized and she somehow felt rather regretful. She could not leave too far away from the lotus lantern and also, her daughter disliked being near her after she lost her physical body. Owing to the radiation of heat from her, her daughter, Fuhao was scorched by her during the day and left with burnt marks.

Although her daughter did not mention it, she was still heartbroken.

Shen Lian was willing to build her another physical frame and Ah Lian was more than willing to accept the offer.

After Shen Lian told her, he returned to Mount Mei to Qing Xuan Cave. He still could not get attuned to the stifling scent of incense. After all, this was his first attempt at dwelling with the creation and it would be almost impossible to succeed upon his first try.

However, he was still eager to try. Although he had never truly set foot in the state of Taiyi, if he were to succeed, he would embody the characteristics of a Taiyi.

It was foretold that Nüwa created mankind with water and clay in accordance with her own appearance. She sculpted the clay figurines, endowed them with spirituality – this was the birth of humans.

Legends were difficult to attest to, but it shed light on the key to creation. Clay belonged to the element of earth, which was the product of fusion with other four elements, metal, wood, water and fire, thus it encompassed the Five Elements. This also explained the reason of life encompassing all of the five elements inherently. Since water shared similarities to morality, utilizing water to moderate the formation of clay would naturally bestow mankind with the sense of morality in which thousands of other living things lack.

Therefore, amidst the ancient forms of worship, both the God of Earth and God of Water were highly respected by a large proportion of the human population.

Various tribes of the Eastern Barbarians provided Shen Lian numerous Spirit Fountains. The Boyi tribe even offered their Wine Spring. Thus, there was sufficient water element, not to mention Shen Lian also had one Spirit Fountain in Mount Jieyang that was usable.

With regards to the earth element, Shen Lian was reluctant to seek help from others and decided to adopt the True Samadhi Fire to formulate it.

The previous deadly hit on Feng had created stone rubbles, which was the best ingredient to be used.

Given that Feng was someone with years of cultivation, his spiritual energy would naturally be channeled into the rubble after his demise. Shen Lian extracted the essence from the stones and was able to create spiritual beings of the earth element.

As Shen Lian had experienced life and death, he did not worry over such matters. He did whatever that came to his mind, utilized the True Samadhi Fire, and extracted the essence rapidly. He then applied a small flame to it for it to simmer over a span of three days. He finally attained one bowl of yellow colored sand, where each of them was filled with spiritual elements.

According to legend, it was mentioned that Buddha once formulated a bowl of Gold-steel sand, to represent its firm and stern nature. Though Shen Lian felt that his own formulation of yellow sand shared similarities to the works of Buddhas, he was certain that the sand would be indestructible, not even affected by the power of divinity. Hence the spiritual body that it creates will definitely be extraordinary.

In the following days, he used water from the Soul Fountain to homogenize the yellow sand and sculpted a human figure thereafter. Nevertheless, it seems that a crucial factor was missed out in the process because no matter how careful Shen Lian paid attention to each detail, without fail, the mud-made figurine exploded towards the very last moment when the holy will was channeled into it.

Shen Lian exhausted all the ingredients he had. There were not many viable methods. Even after he switched several ingredients, the same result recurred.

Until one day, he stopped trying.

Shen Lian suddenly had thought in mind. He utilized the Eight Trigrams for prediction and realized that there was an impending, deadly fate in Mount Meng. This was an omen on the war between the Dongyi Coalition from Yunyang and the Xia Army. It was a war that would have affected the world. Yunyang cannot bear to lose, neither could Emperor Xia afford a loss.

Shen Lian had waited for this moment for a long time. Therefore, he immediately transformed into a puddle of clear water, slit through the sky and briskly arrived at the position where the two troops crossed fire.

However, the speed of Dongyi Coalition failing had far exceeded Shen Lian's expectations, since Yunyang was courageous enough to spearhead a conflict with Emperor Xia. Apart from the support by the demon lord, it was expected that he should have in hand, other trump cards.

Nonetheless, the truth was, when Shen Lian arrived, Yunyang had lost miserably, saved by the demon lord, and was nowhere to be found.