The Thought-Splitting Technique
The Thought-Splitting Technique is extremely difficult, at least dozens of times more complex and difficult than Thought Possession.
Even with the template for the Spirit-Splitting Method in hand, Bai Qiuran and Wisdom Immortal felt incredibly complicated, even finding it difficult to know where to begin.
Thought is a mysterious and intangible thing; it cannot be seen or touched. Only when one uses Thought Possession can one truly feel the existence of one's own thoughts.
When Bai Qiuran and Wisdom Immortal tried to analyze the concept of thought, they couldn't help but marvel at how many geniuses had emerged from the Human Race over the past hundreds of thousands of years.
The Immortals who created the Thought Possession's body—just considering this alone, he is a figure worthy of being remembered in history.
Fortunately, after several years of repeated trials, Wisdom Immortal and Bai Qiuran figured out the method through repeated attempts at out-of-body experiences.
After several years of summarizing and improving, Bai Qiuran and Wisdom Immortal did their best to compile it into a book and simplify it as much as possible to make it easier to promote. But even so, it is still extremely difficult to learn Thought Splitting and only people with extremely high comprehension can learn it.
But in the end, he successfully turned his idea into reality.
He will keep a copy of this Cultivation Technique in the Ghost Realm Grand Library, and will also have someone send a copy to the Central Immortal Realm.
He also didn't need to worry that someone who learned this Cultivation Technique would break through the Puppet Venerable's Spirit-Splitting Technique and pose a threat to her, because he had already completely altered this Cultivation Technique beyond recognition based on the Spirit-Splitting Technique and Thought Possession.
Even with Thought Splitting, a normal Immortals who can learn this Cultivation Technique can at most split off one mind to control another Souls that does not possess a mind. Using this Divine Ability, they cannot perform Thought Possession.
This Divine Ability of his was specifically created to allow people to simultaneously control their physical body and their Consciousness Demon Body.
Moreover, mind-based Divine Ability are even more elusive than Time-Type Divine Ability. Learning such Divine Ability is already extremely difficult, let alone reversing the original Spirit-Splitting Technique splitting and Thought Possession.
If Bai Qiuran herself didn't know, she wouldn't even know that this Divine Ability was related to those two other Divine Ability. If someone really figured it out, then Bai Qiuran and Wisdom Immortal could only admit defeat and call that person "awesome."
From exploration and creation to perfection and improvement, Bai Qiuran spent more than ten years in seclusion.
This is nothing to Cultivation. Back then, Daoist Zhufeng went into seclusion for several hundred years in order to break through to the Tribulation Crossing Stage and withstand the Heavenly Tribulation.
After receiving news that Bai Qiuran emerged from seclusion, Jiang Lan, in her capacity as Imperial Consort, rushed to the Ghost Emperor Hall with Li Jinyao and Tang Ruowei.
Bai Qiuran has emerged from seclusion and is currently in the courtyard of the Ghost Emperor Hall. The Puppet Venerable, one of the Three Venerables of the Ghost Realm, has also sent an avatar here to observe the effects of the Cultivation Technique created by Bai Qiuran.
When Jiang Lan and the others arrived, Bai Qiuran was sparring with a Wooden Puppet. The Wooden Puppet was extremely crude, with no face carved out, just an oval shape. It looked like an evolved version of the wooden stakes used by martial artists in the mortal world for practice. However, its limbs and joints were well-carved, and it moved without any hindrance, as nimble as an ordinary person.
This incredibly simple wooden puppet, seemingly devoid of any fighting ability, is now engaged in a sword duel with Bai Qiuran, the Ancestor of the Azure Nether Sword Sect. Both are using ordinary iron swords, and Bai Qiuran is not using his cultivation, suppressing his power to the level of a mortal in the Body Tempering stage. However, even so, Bai Qiuran is a sword ancestor who has lived for over three thousand years. The sword techniques of the Azure Nether Sword Sect, which are invincible throughout the cultivation world, were basically improved or created by him.
This grandmaster of Sword Dao was now fighting a Wooden Puppet Person to a standstill, with the exquisite sword techniques displayed by both of them dazzling the onlookers.
Moreover, when the Wooden Puppet wielded the sword, it always gave people a sense of familiarity, as if Bai Qiuran on the side was two people wielding the sword.
"We lost."
After observing it for a while, Li Jinyao sighed, "This Wooden Puppet's sword is incredibly powerful."
After a series of clanging sounds, the Iron Sword in the hands of the man and the puppet couldn't withstand the impact. After one clash, they broke apart with a crisp sound, the tips spinning as they fell to the feet of the man and the puppet.
Clap clap clap clap clap
The Puppet Venerable clapped his hands and said, "As expected of His Majesty, you've succeeded!"
"I'd say it was a success."
Bai Qiuran threw away the hilt of her sword, and the Wooden Puppet opposite her made the exact same gesture.
He nodded to the Wooden Puppet with satisfaction, then noticed the three girls standing to the side.
"Oh, Lan'er, Jinyao, Ruowei, you've arrived."
"Um."
Jiang Lan nodded to him, walked over, looked at the Wooden Puppet, and asked, "Qiuran, what's this? Have you started playing with puppets lately?"
Although Jiang Lan didn't like to move around, as an Immortal Emperor, she still had basic sources of information. She had heard from the female immortals who visited the Fusang Immortal Palace that in the Heavenly Worlds under the Immortal Realm, there were some people who were very interested in these exquisite dolls made of wood or plastic, and even had feelings for them no less than for their wives and daughters.
Some people call these people "Figure Collectors." They cherish their puppets very much, and they get very angry if anyone hurts their puppets.
There have even been cases where people divorced their wives because their dolls were taken care of by them.
Jiang Lan didn't think much of these people; at most, they just had unusual hobbies. It was only natural for them to be angry when someone damaged their things, including when his wife cleaned up their dolls. Jiang Lan believed that there must have been some discord in their marital relationship that led to their divorce.
However, Jiang Lan had also heard that many men who liked dolls later lost interest in real women, which was what worried her the most.
Putting everything else aside, Bai Qiuran wasn't interested in women, he would at least wait until she and Su Xiangxue had a child.
However, when faced with her question, Bai Qiuran shook his head. Then he walked to the Wooden Puppet, put his arm around the Wooden Puppet's neck, and the Wooden Puppet put its arm around his neck in return.
"This is not a puppet."
Bai Qiuran replied, "This is me, or rather, another version of myself."
Has it gotten that serious? Are they blurring the lines between themselves and puppets?
Jiang Lan looked at Bai Qiuran with a worried expression.
All she knew recently was that Bai Qiuran was busy dealing with the Consciousness Demon, but Bai Qiuran hadn't told her or Su Xiangxue what the specific experiments were.
For some reason, Bai Qiuran has been avoiding the two of them lately, and when they get together, besides being affectionate, they discuss having children.
Li Jinyao, who had participated in the experiment and knew a thing or two about Bai Qiuran's plan, understood the meaning behind Bai Qiuran's words and asked, "Senior, is this Thought Invasion? No, it would be more accurate to say Thought Splitting?"
"That's right."
Bai Qiuran nodded in satisfaction.
"Jinyao is indeed clever."