Chapter 1555: Chapter 964: Supreme Withering and Flourishing Path
The Yellow Springs Hall is a ghost cultivator force, founded by the powerful Ghost King, Yellow Springs Ancestor, located at the southernmost tip of the Western Regions, more than twenty thousand miles from the Yunxiao Mountain Range.
The Yellow Springs Hall is so far from White Cloud Immortal City. Logically, Yellow Springs Hall should not be causing trouble, but Luo Cheng is very certain that this is the unique method of Yellow Springs Hall.
The Corpse Ghost Skill is actually a spell used by ghost cultivators to control corpses, including the Corpse Puppet Skill, Rebirth Skill, etc.
Luo Cheng handed Luo Fengya’s corpse to Luo Fengxia, "He is already dead, that was just the Corpse Puppet Skill of the ghost cultivator!"
Thinking about the Corpse Puppet Skill, he finally understood why everyone misunderstood and attacked each other.
Earlier, he noticed these familiar figures, and their aura hadn’t changed much. If not extremely familiar with them, one wouldn’t even notice their abnormalities.
With such a method, those ghost cultivators can naturally easily stir up discord among various forces.
Thinking of the Corpse Ghost Skill, Luo Cheng suddenly thought of the Rebirth Skill.
Rebirth is not the act of seizing a body but a spell where ghost cultivators disguise as living people using corpses.
It allows ghost cultivators to walk among immortal cultivator settlements as living people, and ordinary cultivators find it hard to see through this disguise.
"Zhao Tianhai! So that’s how it is?" Luo Cheng thought of Zhao Tianhai.
Zhao Tianhai’s death was full of mystery, but no one could pinpoint what was mysterious about it.
Thinking back now, Zhao Tianhai was very likely a case of the Rebirth Skill by a ghost cultivator.
The reason Zhao Tianhai was so arrogant and tyrannical in the Ten Thousand Treasures Store was that he wanted to be rejected by others, to avoid excessive contact, and prevent exposure of his condition.
The reason Zhao Tianhai wanted to die at the hands of Yun Ge was naturally to create a rift between the Ten Thousand Treasures Store and White Cloud Dao, so that when White Cloud Dao faced trouble, they would find it difficult to seek help from the Ten Thousand Treasures Store.
His goal indeed succeeded; during the demon beast siege, Cloud Sea never sought aid from the Ten Thousand Treasures Store, not because Cloud Sea didn’t know the Ten Thousand Treasures Store had powerful forces to hold back the Demon King, but because Cloud Sea knew the Ten Thousand Treasures Store would refuse his request due to Zhao Tianhai’s incident.
The Ten Thousand Treasures Store has its rules; a Seventh Rank Guest Elder was killed innocently, and the Ten Thousand Treasures Store must seek justice for him.
If White Cloud True Monarch wasn’t also a Guest Elder of the Ten Thousand Treasures Store, the Ten Thousand Treasures Store would have already taken action against White Cloud Dao.
And at that time, the refusal of the Ten Thousand Treasures Store to assist White Cloud Dao was also within reason.
After understanding all this, Luo Cheng’s mood became heavier. He looked around the forest, finally resigning himself to a deep sigh.
"Let’s go!"
"What should we do next?" Wen Yu asked.
"First, go to the Ten Thousand Treasures Store!"
Luo Cheng said in a deep voice.
Although the Ten Thousand Treasures Store didn’t suffer any losses this time, the calculations by Yellow Springs Hall were equivalent to a slap in the face for the Ten Thousand Treasures Store, so perhaps they would feel angered and target Yellow Springs Hall.
Luo Cheng placed his hopes on the Ten Thousand Treasures Store, mainly because he didn’t have any other methods now.
The Yellow Springs Hall is not an ordinary force and is not something they, the couple of immortal cultivation families, can handle.
Moreover, there are forces within the city that have already secretly pledged allegiance to the Yellow Springs Hall; under such circumstances, it’s even harder for them to launch an effective counterattack against Yellow Springs Hall.
So Luo Cheng could only rely on other forces, and the Ten Thousand Treasures Store was undoubtedly the best choice at present.
However, Luo Cheng was ultimately disappointed, as the Ten Thousand Treasures Store did not make any actions against Yellow Springs Hall.
After receiving the information and evidence provided by Luo Cheng, Mo Hai and Lady Ziteng took it very seriously, but since this involved Yellow Springs Hall, it wasn’t their decision to make, so they passed the message back to Taoyuan Mountain.
However, the response from Taoyuan Mountain was simply to not meddle in others’ affairs.
It was clear that Heavenly Treasure True Monarch didn’t want to stir up more trouble.
Of course, Luo Cheng’s actions were not meaningless. At the very least, he found the mastermind behind it all and exposed the culprit to the world.
After confirming that the mastermind was Yellow Springs Hall, many forces in White Cloud Immortal City first panicked for a while, but then they let go of their previous grievances and united together.
Strong external pressure prompted the forces within the Immortal City to start banding together for mutual support.
With White Cloud Dao absent, White Cloud Immortal City formed a management structure led by the Cloud Wild Alliance, assisted by the Thousand Array Alliance.
Although White Cloud Immortal City hasn’t regained its former prosperity and stability, at least the city is no longer so chaotic.
Moreover, with everyone now vigilant against Yellow Springs Hall, external conflicts have significantly reduced.
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Several months passed once more.
In the Spirit Source Land, within a Quiet Chamber.
Yang Zhenshan sat cross-legged, the aura on his body constantly fluctuating between vitality and decay, at times with azure light flickering, full of vitality, at times with gray air rising, filled with an aura of death.
His eyes were tightly closed, his heart spirit fully immersed in the Dao Intent of the Path of Life and Death.
"Tai Chi gives birth to two energies, and the two energies transform into four symbols. Spring’s prosperity emerges from Qingyang, Autumn’s withering returns to Taiyin. The virtue of wood passes through the four seasons, cycling, and the soul’s essence rides on Yin and Yang to reveal reincarnation. Thus, the grass and wood’s one autumn reveals the mechanism of life and death; the morning fungus at dusk hides the key to the path of life and death."
"The living is the beginning of prosperity but not eternal life; the dead is the extreme of withering but not eternal silence."
"Heavenly Dao holds balance, reincarnation never fails. If one sees two trees with four states of withering and prosperity, neither withering nor prosperity, neither birth nor extinction, this is named the Supreme Withering and Flourishing Path."
"Neither rejoice in prosperity nor grieve in withering. Forget both prosperity and withering, life and death flow together."
It is unknown how much time had passed when he suddenly opened his eyes, his left eye with three inches of azure light, the right eye with three inches of gray air, appearing particularly strange.
But the azure light and gray air only flashed momentarily, revealing a pair of clear eyes.
