The Six Desires Strike
Bai Qiuran initially thought Lou Yueming, with her ethereal and otherworldly demeanor, would be a woman as Mortal World worldly affairs as her image suggested.
Unexpectedly, it was so direct. As Consciousness Demon, she could have used a more elegant method to expel the remnant soul of the Immortal Emperor Shuhua from her body, but this Consciousness Demon girl simply found a corner and vomited it out.
Watching her wipe the glistening liquid from the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand, Bai Qiuran could imagine what the remnant soul would look like when it was spat out, covered in digestive juices.
Even knowing that the Consciousness Demon is Consciousness entity, one can still feel disgusted when the urge arises.
"No matter how disgusting you are, can you be as disgusting as Shuhua himself, who was swallowed and then vomited up?"
At a crucial moment, Jiang Lan spoke a fair word.
"Hurry up, don't waste time."
"All right."
Bai Qiuran reluctantly accepted the remnant soul, took out various materials from the Underworld Ghost Realm from his Storage Bag, built an altar, and prepared to begin casting a spell.
Bai Li, Su Xiangxue, and Jiang Lan also took some materials and, under Bai Qiuran's direction, helped him build the altar.
The altar was quickly set up. Bai Qiuran placed the fragments of the Immortal Emperor Shuhua's Souls on the altar and then began to cast a spell to reassemble his Three Souls Seven Po.
This was something no one could have done before, not even Bai Qiuran in the past. But after starting to study Consciousness Demon and deeply analyzing the relationship between the physical body, Souls, and mind, Bai Qiuran successfully deduced the constituent elements of the Three Souls Seven Po.
However, this is still not enough to reconstruct a Souls that has been scattered and is now only fragments. Long before Bai Qiuran, in the more than 300,000 years since the establishment of the Underworld Ghost Realm, many talents in the Ghost Realm have already analyzed the structure of many Souls.
The prodigies among them, such as the Puppet Venerable, have even touched the edge of thought, but they still cannot reunite their Souls.
Because the rules of Life and Death Reincarnation are not something that everyone can challenge, and even if they are given the authority to reunite their Souls, they still cannot do it, just as it is impossible for a person to restore a collapsed sand sculpture to its original state without missing a single grain.
Reuniting the Souls is like reshaping a sand sculpture, except that the sand used in this sand sculpture must be exactly the same as the sand used before it collapsed, without any difference.
Within the known scope of the Void, only Bai Qiuran could accomplish such a feat.
He not only understood the structure of the Souls, but was also the Ghost Emperor of the Ghost Realm, in charge of Life and Death Reincarnation. At the same time, he also comprehended the Divine Ability of Time Reversal from the time-related Divine Script of Eastern Emperor Taiyi.
Bai Qiuran ascended the altar and began to perform rituals. As his True Essence was Void activated, some profound and mysterious power of rules began to gather on the altar under his command.
Time began to flow backward, and shimmering particles of light began to appear around them, fragments of Consciousness even smaller than sand and dust—the very substances that once formed the Souls of the Immortal Emperor Shuhua.
Under Bai Qiuran's manipulation, these substances slowly gathered near the fragments of the Immortal Emperor Shuhua's Souls, reshaping his Three Souls and Seven Po. From Taiguang and Shuangling to Youjing, from Shigou to Choufei, finally, the Immortal Emperor Shuhua's Souls was completely reshaped, becoming a soul body with the appearance of a young man shimmering with a faint light, quietly floating above the altar.
"Shuhua..."
Lou Yueming and the First Heavenly Emperor strode to the left and right of the altar. Lou Yueming covered her mouth and looked at the figure floating on the altar, her eyes filled with tears. The First Heavenly Emperor was also in tears.
Looking at the two weeping Consciousness Demon, Jiang Lan whispered to Su Xiangxue, "I didn't expect Consciousness Demon to have tear glands."
"Alright, the Souls reconstruction is complete."
Bai Qiuran clapped her hands and said to the two Consciousness Demons, "Stop crying. If you want to cry, wait until he wakes up."
I lost my composure.
The First Heavenly Emperor wiped away his tears and quickly recovered, while Lou Yueming anxiously asked, "Next, is it the so-called Reincarnation? How do we do it? Do we need Shuhua's corpse?"
"No need, let's keep the physical body for now."
Bai Qiuran glanced at her. Immortal Emperor Shuhua was able to be resurrected, Lou Yueming no longer hesitated to use his body.
"Reincarnation can only be done after returning to the other side of the Consciousness Barrier; here... there is no system for Life and Death Reincarnation yet."
This topic also reminded Bai Qiuran that as the Immortal Realm's offensive in the Consciousness Demon Domain Immortal Realm, the Life and Death Reincarnation in the Underworld Ghost Realm must also keep up.
These beings in the Material World, ravaged by Consciousness Demon Souls, have only two choices after death: either fall into the Consciousness Domain and become food for the Consciousness Demons, or wander forever in a corner of the Material World, gradually dissipating in an unknown place and time.
Introducing a system of Life and Death Reincarnation can also alleviate the great suffering of these material beings.
"Then let's leave without delay."
Bai Qiuran asked Lou Yueming, "Miss Lou is going back with us, right?"
"Um!"
With the Souls of the Immortal Emperor Shuhua reunited, Lou Yueming naturally had nothing else to say. She nodded and said directly, "I'll go and help you put away the Immortal Palace."
"She's in such a hurry."
Bai Qiuran casually put away the altar and the Souls of the Immortal Emperor Shuhua, stood beside Jiang Lan and Su Xiangxue, and watched with them as Lou Yueming hurriedly walked over to the entrance of the Immortal Palace.
Perhaps considering that his partner was Consciousness Demon being unable to cultivate True Essence, the Immortal Emperor Shuhua specially set up a simple Formation when designing this Immortal Palace, which allowed people to turn the Immortal Palace into a model and store it away without needing True Essence.
Lou Yueming simply pressed lightly on the Garrison Tribe totem on the stone at the entrance, and the entire Immortal Palace transformed into a small model in a burst of light, about the size of a figurine, which Lou Yueming held in his palm.
It didn't even need the True Essence of a cultivator like me Virtual Foundation Stage Cultivator.
Seeing this, Bai Qiuran felt somewhat disappointed.
However, just as Lou Yueming was putting away the Immortal Palace, the shrinking size of the Immortal Palace revealed the whereabouts of something that had been hidden Immortal Palace.
It was a fleshy ball suspended in mid-air, with dense tentacles growing from its base, and on the ball itself was a cracked eye filled with bloodshot veins.
Lou Yueming stared at him in astonishment for a moment, then exclaimed, "Oh no, it's an incarnation of the Six Desires— "
She struck out with her palm, and a burst of black light obliterated the eye, but it was too late.
"You were a step too slow! Traitor!"
A terrifying wave of Consciousness swept in from the sky. Above the Shadow Dimension, a dimensional rift was forcibly torn open by countless enormous and terrifying tentacles.
On the other side of the rift was an enormous ball of flesh, covered with all sorts of organs and limbs: pupils, a giant mouth, nasal cavity, ears, and even hands, feet, and internal organs.
All the sensory organs on that fleshy ball were now spinning rapidly, all aimed at Bai Qiuran and the others in the Shadow Dimension.
Around the fleshy ball, countless bizarrely shaped Consciousness Demon formed a terrifying army.
"As expected, my Intelligence were correct—"
The immense power of the Consciousness Demon Consciousness pressed down upon them.
"That meteor from the Borderlands was indeed a lowly being from the Material Realm sneaking in. Perfect, Heavenly General wipe you all out!"