Chapter 875: Darkriver, Do You Know Your Crimes (1/2)
“We have to seek out Patriarch Darkriver in order to send Carmine Eternal into the Blood Sea, don’t we?” Lu Yun had never met the personage before, but the name was familiar.
Patriarch Darkriver was a top demonic fiend rivalling Luo Houluo, and he felt a pang of worry when thinking of an assuredly fearsome opponent.
“Don’t worry, Darkriver is as cowardly as a mouse. Mentioning the great and powerful Leize and Huaxu is enough to scare any thoughts of wrongdoing from his mind. Besides, the hundred-and-eight-ranked white lotus is a gift from that man. Once Darkriver sees it, he’ll treat Carmine Eternal like his own daughter.” The little fox was absolutely certain of her prediction.
Past Mount Tai was the real netherdark.
Remains of what’d once been living scattered the vast black land. In stark contrast was the crimson sky above and the bloody sun hung at an angle against the backdrop.
Lu Yun noticed spirits of living souls following in his path and wandering aimlessly into the netherdark. They had died in the great wilderness and wouldn’t reincarnate into another life after entering the world of the dead, but would instead dissipate and return to the world.
“Strange… these souls all possess their true spirits!” Lu Yun voiced his realization.
In the future, living beings in the world of immortals weren’t born with true spirits. Only after ascending to the dao immortal realm could one form their own true spirit with the power of heaven and earth, thus completing their soul.
However, Lu Yun recalled that living beings possessed a complete soul at the inception of the immortal dao. Only after the war that severed the path of cultivation and erased the void realm did the living lose their true spirits, leaving them with only ethereal and corporal soul-parts.
“That’s right. Those in this era are born with a complete soul, containing the true spirit, three ethereal soul-parts, and seven corporal soul-parts.” The little fox added in a quiet voice, “The disappearance of the true spirits was actually God’s doing.”
Lu Yun started. “What?”
God? He was the one who’d extracted true spirits from the living souls?
That doesn’t make sense.
“That’s right.” The little fox nodded. “You’ll understand once you acquire your true spirit, it’s actually a good thing! That earth-shattering battle enabled God to work in secret, separating true spirits from the living’s souls.”
Although Lu Yun’s replica had reached the empyrean realm, his true form remained at the golden core great dao, the equivalent of the peerless immortal realm in the future. Only after ascending to the immortal dao realm could he conjure his own true spirit.
“Do you know why he did it? What was his motivation?” Lu Yun was eager to find out the answer.
“I suppose I can tell you the truth.” After a thoughtful pause, the little fox explained, “The true spirits tempered under the future immortal dao can rival those of the connate demon gods today.
“True spirits are gifts from heaven and earth. Since the chaos realm demon gods were born from nature, their true spirits are the most powerful, granted directly by the world. Their children, the powerful empyrean realm elites, have lesser true spirits. You can follow the logic down the pecking order… Regular living souls who came late into the world are born with unusually weak true spirits.
“Nascent spirits, constitution, and realms can all be improved through cultivation, but true spirits cannot!
“In the future, Demon God Ji Du possesses the true spirit of the Exalted Divine Emperor. Do you think he’s become any more powerful because of it? The divine emperor’s true spirit contained his residue power, that’s why the demon god seems stronger.”
In the future, Ji Du would become the demon god. After countless reincarnations, he’d long forgotten who he was. He’d lose his name and just called himself the demon god.
Of course, his master Luo Houluo had also had a hand in the loss of his identity.