Chapter 23: Elaboration of the Original Realm

  However, Guo Fei still had many doubts, the strongest of which was about the mystery of the military symbol. His undead soldiers seemed to remember their martial skills from when they were alive. If a person's soul scattered after death, he shouldn't be able to remember his former martial skills, so why could they?

  "County Master, is it possible that after a person dies, they remember their martial skills from when they were alive, but forget the events of their past life?" Guo Fei couldn't help but ask.

  Zhao Xue's face changed color and he said in a deep voice: "Have you ever seen such an existence?"

  "It's just my guess!"

  "Don't make wild guesses, you'll scare me to death. What you said is true, when a person with heavy resentment and grievances dies, their earth soul will immediately enter the body at the moment of death, devouring the life soul, controlling the seven spirits, and perfectly merging with their physical body, becoming a variant earth soul. If this person was a cultivator in life, it's extremely terrifying."

  According to historical records, a hundred years ago, the Tang Empire had a famous monk named Tang Cheng. Before his death, he killed countless people in revenge and had an extremely heavy killing aura. He was caught by the empire and hanged to death on that day, with resentment filling the sky. Dark clouds covered the entire sky, and it was the hottest summer season, but the sky suddenly snowed black. After his body was collected, it disappeared that night.

  Seven days later, his family and tens of thousands of people in the surrounding area all died. The empire sent a large number of monks to investigate, and found that this person was half-human and half-demon, fond of killing, remembered his martial skills from his previous life, but all other memories were lost.

  Its power is enormous, using the dead energy to drive the pre-life meritorious method. This person was only a martial monk in his lifetime, but after death, he was surrounded by more than a dozen martial emperors, beheaded several of them and escaped, later being surrounded and killed by the Ling tribe, and was defined as a ghost demon, becoming an existence that must be killed.

  The cultivation of the earth soul to the level of ghost guard, I don't know how many years it will take, but 'ghost demon' died for seven days and had such a shocking cultivation. If he wasn't obsessed with killing, but instead devoted himself to cultivating the Tao, I estimate that in another hundred years, there would be nothing that could subdue him. This is an existence against heaven!

  "Ghostly demon!" Guo Fei was taken aback, his own undead warrior had leveled up to become an undead demon, and this situation was extremely similar to his own undead warriors. Before he died, Yang Camp Commander could only release a formless sword energy, but after becoming an undead warrior, the power of his formless sword energy increased, and it even contained a hint of gray death energy, and he could even recall his sword moves.

  Guo Fei listened and secretly took note. He could only wait until Wang Zhi came out of the coffin to see if he also remembered his pre-reincarnation martial skills and sword moves, and if so, they might be similar existences.

  "County master, what is the origin of this place? Can you enlighten me?" Guo Fei handed over another bag of water and a bag of roasted flour from beside him, smiling. Waiting for the evil spirit to disperse here, anyway, there's nothing to do, Guo Fei was generous with his own drinking water and food, as long as he could find out what he wanted to know most.

  Bite the tongue of a benefactor is short, take the hand of a benefactor is short, Zhao Xue has no reason to refuse.

  "Yuan Jing, I never thought you'd know all this, it's astonishing!" Zhao Xue drank a mouthful of water, swallowed a mouthful of noodles, and after swallowing, she smiled brightly.

  Zhao Ba looked at him pitifully, but Zhao Xue didn't even glance at him, without giving him any hint.

  "Yuán jìng is a critical juncture that must be passed through in order to attain the level of Wǔ Zōng or Shù Zōng. Without entering Yuán jìng, one cannot be considered a Five Elements cultivator or a Five Elements practitioner."

  Between heaven and earth, there exist not only the true energy of the five elements, but also Tai Qing Yang and Zhong Qi, as well as some dark and miscellaneous energies. As a result, the energy of the five elements is diluted and balanced. Miscellaneous chaotic energies entering the body cannot have a great effect. Simple qigong methods can only emit formless true energy. These people are called qigong practitioners, but in fact, they are just slightly stronger than ordinary martial artists.

  But once you enter the source realm and become a martial artist among the Five Elements, it's completely different. Even a hundred or so Qi Refining cultivators wouldn't be a match for one Martial Artist. My father is a powerful Martial Artist." Zhao Xue said with some pride as she took a sip of water.

  "This little hoof is deliberately drinking more of my water, deliberately hanging my stomach!" Guo Fei secretly ridiculed in his heart, but on the surface he still looked like a humble and innocent student, staring at Zhao Xue, waiting for her next words.

  "I mentioned earlier that the soul, also known as the human soul, determines a person's five-element attribute. Why is that? It's because within the human body, there exists a 'source' determined by its own soul body. This source is the foundation for entering the five-element cultivation, and it can transform the complex true energy into the original five-element energy of one's own attribute, revealing the true color of the five elements. For example, gold attribute has white or golden colors, wood attribute has greenish-blue colors, water attribute has blue colors, fire attribute has red colors, and earth attribute has yellow colors. Once the true color is revealed, the purity increases by thousands of times, and the cultivation methods and techniques are stimulated, naturally increasing one's attack power." Zhao Xue finished speaking and took a sip of water.

  "Sister, where is the origin?" Zhao Ba unexpectedly didn't know these secret books either, and couldn't help but ask out loud, his voice hoarse like a bellows.

  Zhao Ba, today might be the most miserable day of his life. He was adopted by Ding Guo Gong as a son from a young age and became the deputy commander of the army before he turned 20, which can be described as rising to fame overnight and having everything go his way, looking down on the world with disdain.

  But today his proud heart was thoroughly torn apart. And what pained him the most was the rift between him and Zhao Xue.

  "This question is well asked, and it's also what this young master wants to know. Here, have a mouthful of water and a mouthful of rice!" Guo Fei chuckled, he hadn't prepared to cruelly starve him to death just yet, but neither would he let him recover his strength, barely maintaining his life was enough.

  Guo Fei threw another water bag with only one mouthful of water left to him, poured a handful of fried noodles into his hand and handed it over.

  "Thanks! I'll pay you back when I get home." Zhao Ba bit his lip and thanked him softly. He tilted his head to drink from the water bag, as if he wanted to devour it. The eyes behind the water bag revealed a hint of cold light, then carefully took small sips of the stir-fried noodles.

  "This kid still knows how to survive, didn't swallow it in one gulp." Guo Fei thought to himself.

  Zhao Xue glanced at Zhao Ba, slightly stunned, and continued: "The source is in the body. In the five internal organs of the human body, the lungs belong to gold, the liver belongs to wood, the kidneys belong to water, the heart belongs to fire, and the spleen belongs to earth. Therefore, the 'source' is generally hidden in the corresponding internal organs. For example, I am a water-based person, and the source may exist in my kidneys."

  "Why is it likely, but not certain!" Guo Fei exclaimed in surprise.

  "Hehe. Little brother asked a good question, because some people may not have 'yuan', some people's yuan has undergone variation and is hidden in other organs." Zhao Xue said with a smile.

  "Haha, that's simple! As long as you know your own five elements attribute, it's easy to find the source, right?" Guo Fei suddenly said with a relieved expression.

  "Hehe, if it were that easy, it wouldn't be called 'Kan'. To enter the source realm, there are three heavenly gates to pass through. The first is to explore the source, the second is to open up the source, and the third is to transform the source. Exploring the source means finding the location of the original source; opening up the source means that once you've found it, it's usually covered by turbid Qi in the body, so you need to develop it. Moreover, each person has a different source realm, which requires personal exploration. Transforming the source means guiding the true Qi of heaven and earth into the source, transforming it into the five elements' original power. If your source can't absorb the five elements' true Qi, or if it's solidified and unopened, then you won't have the opportunity to enter the source realm."

  "How did you find out?" Guo Fei asked with great interest.

  "To explore the source, you need a method. For example, the best method for the water element of the five elements is the "Tianyi Shenjing" of the Tang Dynasty. My father once asked Zhao Wang, who was my uncle, to use heavy gold and treasure to ask the Tang family for a volume of its scriptures, but the Tang family refused. This method is only passed down through the direct line of the Tang family."

  "There is no corresponding gongfa, and the source cannot be found. If there is an opportunity, we can only look for some relatively inferior gongfa. However, the probability of finding the source will be much smaller. Even if we find the source successfully, it may affect the state of opening up the yuan." Zhao Xue said with a hint of reluctance.

  "Haha, the young lady hasn't reached the source boundary yet and can already display her magical skills. I remember that the young lady once healed my wounds with magic, wasn't it? It's really surprising!" Guo Fei said with a smile.

  "That's not the five elements of yuanqi transformed from my body, but the credit of this water system source spirit pearl." Zhao Xue said, taking out a small stick from his waist, on which was the blue crystal bead.

  "This Yuanling Pearl can convert the true energy I absorb into water-based yuanqi, allowing me to cast several first-level spells! A Yuanling Pearl like this one cost my father over a thousand mid-grade spirit stones. This is the advantage of being a mage, being able to tap into yuanqi faster than warriors and launch spell attacks." Zhao Xue's eyes revealed deep longing as she thought of her father.

  Zhao Ba's face suddenly flashed with anger upon hearing Zhao Xue say this, but it immediately disappeared.