Comprehension Ability: I Forge a Villainous Longevity Family

Chapter 578: Chapter 451: Reflection_2

"Quickly, quickly, don’t hold back, get the Will Crystal ready, that kid is about to start."

"Goodness... That flame is huge, those creatures in the Spirit Realm really don’t leave any gaps for us to exploit. If it keeps burning like this, such a massive Earth Vein Ancient Tree might be burned out in just a day, right?"

"You think so."

In fact, while chatting, these people were also curious about why such a big event happened in West State, yet the Three Great Sacred Lands, as the local powers, didn’t send anyone to investigate.

But since no one came, they naturally wouldn’t go out of their way to notify anyone.

...

As the chaotic fire seeds ignited the Ancient Tree Spirit Body on the trunk, blazing golden firelight began to rise before Chen Zhixing’s eyes.

Knowledge.

At the moment the firelight ignited, a vast amount of knowledge about the rules and order of the Spirit Realm started to be extracted through Chen Zhixing’s understanding during this grand harvest, converting into knowledge he could comprehend and flooding into his mind.

For instance, the name of this golden firelight, ’Karmic Fire’.

And also the mechanism of its burning, which is actually a rule designed to prevent ’corpse transformation’. Its purpose is not simply to kill the target but to use burning to prevent those who have reached or are at the Longevity Realm from undergoing ’corpse transformation’!

Yes, corpse transformation.

If this process were missing, even if these beings of the Longevity Realm were stripped of their Golden Nature, their remains could still potentially transform into natural carriers similar to ’Celestial Ghosts’, ’Celestial Foxes’, or ’Golden Nature’ entities. If these were to attract Taoist Evil, the resulting Taoist Evil would be extremely difficult to kill and would compete with the Spirit Realm for resources, which is not allowed.

Thus, the Spirit Realm gave rise to the ’ignition’, and the Three Great Sacred Lands established a recovery mechanism.

Because the consequences of not having this step were more severe, the Spirit Realm was willing to bear the risk of having its secrets exposed to the Mortal World. Fortunately, having this step, without the ignition step, even the Longevity True Monarchs in the Mortal World would lose a channel to understand the messages of the Spirit Realm.

And as someone qualified as a Taoist Lord, Chen Zhixing could see even more.

Such as ’After igniting the Earth Vein Ancient Tree, the resulting Tao Practice was surprisingly a slight Cyan Wood, mixed with a large amount of Five Elements, Destruction, Mystic Magnetism, Poison, and other chaotic attributes, which did not match the attributes of the Earth Vein Ancient Tree itself’.

Additionally, the ’ignition mechanism of the Spirit Realm has only a single three-dimensional intersection point with the Mortal World, and it is through this point beyond dimensions that the Spirit Realm accomplishes this ignition process.’

Moreover, Chen Zhixing also discovered an interesting phenomenon within all this.

"This kind of ignition seems unable to burn the entity, and the seemingly golden flames can burn out these chaotic ’Tao Practices’ entirely because the initial fire seeds contained these flames of the Great Tao. The reason for the golden appearance was that many types of the fire of law had condensed together."

Upon realizing this, Chen Zhixing felt a new set of doubts arise in his heart.

Can all the Great Tao form a flame, or are these ignited fire seeds evolved by the Great Tao themselves, or perhaps after becoming a Taoist Lord, one gains the authority to evolve one’s own rules into these ignited fire seeds?

"It seems to be authority?"

After realizing this, Chen Zhixing instinctively began to imitate.

One could say that his open-minded intuition was truly impressive.

But after just three attempts, Chen Zhixing gave up on this foolish endeavor.

Because he discovered that this kind of flame truly belonged to the evolution of the Spirit Realm, inherent to its authority, and could not be generated by the Mortal World.

However, interestingly enough.

When Chen Zhixing based it on the Fallen Heart Flame and added many other types of flames he could wield, he actually created something similar to this golden flame on the outside.

Watching the ’Fallen Heart Flame’ on his palm turn golden, Chen Zhixing’s expression turned a bit peculiar.

"Why do I feel like this fire has a hint of Chaos?"

After trying multiple combinations, he burst out with an expletive.

"Damn!"

It seemed he realized what this golden flame was!

But he didn’t say it out loud, choosing instead to keep cursing internally:

’This thing is actually unformed Chaos, merely forcibly completed with some divine method... and even contains some rules of categorization. Amazing! Can it really be done like this!’

The fire of law, or rather, it could also be said to be a multifaceted array engraved within these tiny flames!

Its core was as identified by Chen Zhixing — ’Burning’, ’Incineration’, ’Decomposition’, ’Purification’, ’Classification’, ’Recovery’, among others, plus a bunch of leftover chaotic breath from fires Chen Zhixing couldn’t recognize.

’Too outrageous, given how many years those Taoist Lords in the Spirit Realm haven’t eaten for nothing, and for how long has the Immortal Emperor Venerable been dead, that they’ve come up with so many variations of His corpse fire?’

Indeed, Chen Zhixing recognized the roots of these golden flames.

They were the corpse fire left behind after the death of the Immortal Emperor Venerable!

The original use of this thing was for the Emperor Venerable to forcibly devour others’ paths. Now, after being modified, the Spirit Realm uses it to cleanse and reclaim these dying great cultivators, all in the pursuit of energy efficiency and cleanliness!

’And next comes this recovery channel.’

Upon realizing the essence of the golden flame, Chen Zhixing didn’t dwell further, shifting his focus to the Tao Practices being extracted by the Spirit Realm.

This time, he observed for a long time.

Only when the Earth Vein Ancient Tree before him ’burnt out’ and the golden flame was extinguished did Chen Zhixing have to acknowledge a slightly absurd conclusion.

’It’s actually gravitational cohesion? Could it be that within the Spirit Realm, there is a massive source of the Tao whose Gravity Tao can seize Tao Practices from the hands of each Taoist Lord... otherwise, such a situation shouldn’t occur!’

Indeed, gravitational cohesion.

This was the answer Chen Zhixing finally arrived at after long observation.

It’s not the rule extraction he initially assumed, nor a manual extraction by someone, but rather... a natural phenomenon exploited by someone!

Just like how a magnet attracts iron.

A compass points towards the North and South Poles.

And the Tao Practices, like iron being drawn by a magnet in the Spirit Realm, fly into the Spirit Realm upon being extracted.

’No, that’s not right; it should be flying into the Spirit Realm, because the ’quantity’ of Tao Practices in the Spirit Realm is more than in the Celestial Profound Realm, resulting in a ’flowing into the sea’ phenomenon. But once these Tao Practices ’enter into the sea of the Spirit Realm’, they are divided among the Taoist Lords inside according to their attributes... is a Taoist Lord also a kind of source within the Spirit Realm?’

Suddenly, this idea struck Chen Zhixing’s mind vividly.

And in that instant, deeply rooted, it allowed him to understand many truths that had eluded him before.

For those on the path of cultivation, a Taoist Lord is like a giant magnet!

Iron attracts iron, copper attracts copper, and the same goes for gold and silver!

And this rule of absorbing Tao Practices, even they themselves cannot resist!

But... after absorbing so much, are they still themselves?

Or do they directly become embodiments of that particular Tao?

’Golden Nature, Tao Practice, Taoist Lord, Embodiment... should faith be added as well?’

’No, that’s wrong, there’s no faith! Faith is poisonous! For the Taoist Lords as the sources of the Tao, faith is completely unnecessary, as such faith is poison in relation to their human nature!’

Upon further reflection, it seems the entire Celestial Profound Realm lacks the concept of faith, and even the Three Great Sacred Lands do not worship ancestors... Chen Zhixing understood the relationship between these four.

’So, if you want to stay in the Spirit Realm, aside from Tao Practice, do you also need to maintain enough humanity?

Yes.

If humanity is lost, what happens?

Do you become a Taoist Evil or merge into the Great Tao to become a wooden statue, or even more straightforwardly, be devoured by the Great Tao, leaving the Taoist Lord position to successors?’

To this end, Chen Zhixing had a hunch that the most likely outcome was the third.

It’s just that the process of a Taoist Lord losing humanity should be lengthy.

By his reckoning, even without being addressed, this process of being assimilated by the Great Tao should last tens of thousands of years.

"Wait, ten thousand years?"