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Chapter 836 580: Magic That Manipulates Time_2
"So, do you have a way to maintain humanity?" Chen Zhixing asked directly.
However, the answer given by the residual soul made Chen Zhixing unable to help but frown.
"Yes, but also no," the residual soul said glumly, "maintaining one's humanity is the common enemy of all cultivators. In the face of endless time, no matter how strong we are with our outer shell and Dharma Image, no matter how powerful the energy we possess, humanity is still a fatal flaw for us."
Immortals fear losing their humanity, whether they can cultivate into a Golden Immortal is based on humanity as one of the three foundations. It can be said that throughout the ages, how to stabilize one's humanity has always been a subject that immortals spend a lot of effort researching. Through countless experiments over thousands of years, only some methods that are not perfect but are useful have been derived.
Of course, these methods cannot allow one to eternally maintain their humanity. In fact, they are merely stopgap measures.
"What exactly is the method? You can just say it."
"Slow down the flow of one's consciousness, allowing one's consciousness to detach from the time traces experienced by the physical body, creating a state where the physical body has been through thousands of years in the external world, but for your consciousness, only a few to tens of years have passed."
The residual soul spoke plainly: "As I've said before, it's a stopgap measure that merely deceives one's consciousness. But for those of us seeking longevity, maintaining humanity can only be delayed by such a method... After all, as long as one lives long enough, they will come up with new methods one day."
After hearing the words of the residual soul, Chen Zhixing and Yimiao's bodies nearly trembled simultaneously!
Especially Chen Zhixing! This statement is so familiar!
When Chen Zhixing was an ordinary person, he found it unbelievable and somewhat incomprehensible when he read in certain novels that the difference between the Celestial Realm and the Human Realm was a day in heaven being a year on earth, and he couldn't understand why the immortals in those stories would choose to do this!
Clearly, a day in heaven equates to a year in the mortal world, and there's so much one can do in a year's time, why compress a year's time into a day?
It sounds very strange, doesn't it?
Think about it, for example, attending school: everyone in the same high school, and your classmates have completed three years of study in seconds, but you've only studied for three days... Then when you all take the college entrance exam, wouldn't your failure be a matter of course?
The same applies to immortals and mortals.
No matter how great the advantages of immortals are, as long as this rule doesn't change, then wouldn't the immortals in those novels being surpassed by mortals be just a matter of time?
How dumb must the immortals in those novels be to choose to do this?
Now, the residual soul has provided an answer to this question.
It's not that they want to do it this way, but they must do so!
Even if the physical body and soul can withstand the baptism of time, their humanity itself cannot endure the endless erosion of time.
Therefore, the Immortal Race can only stabilize the state of their humanity through the detachment of the physical body and consciousness from time.
Listening to what the residual soul said, it seems that this method doesn't slow down the progress of physical cultivation but rather effectively delays the decay of humanity!
"What method?" X2!
In that instant of realization, Chen Zhixing and Yimiao spoke again simultaneously, and after speaking, they both saw eagerness in each other's eyes.
Yes.
Yimiao's humanity is also starting to decline, and because she is older, at over six thousand years old, even Yimiao has found herself almost unable to withstand the erosion of time, thus urgently hoping to obtain the Immortal Race's method of delaying the decay of humanity through detachment of physical body and consciousness!
Chen Zhixing, needless to say, has been troubled by the decay of humanity from the beginning to the end.
Compared to the worries of cultivation and longevity, for Chen Zhixing, insufficient heart is the ultimate crisis he will need to face in the future.
And the Immortal Race's technique seems to precisely make up for Chen Zhixing's deficiency in this regard.
"36 Celestial Spirits Transformations, this technique began spreading in the Penglai Immortal Island 570 million years ago as a technique for detaching physical body and consciousness from time. Of course, the 36 Celestial Spirits Transformations is not just a detachment technique for consciousness and physical body. You can also practice this technique as a primary cultivation, or as a top-tier Divine Technique," the residual soul spoke in its cold voice.
What can be said? For an old monster who has lived for who knows how many years, upon discovering that Chen Zhixing and Yimiao are eager to maintain their humanity, it no longer holds doubts about whether it can free itself.
As long as Chen Zhixing and Yimiao wish to know the 36 Celestial Spirits Transformations from it, they must help it escape the current plight!
If that's the case, it naturally doesn't need to rush.
The storyline unfolds just as the residual soul predicted.
"Teach me!"
"I can, but you must first help me escape my current plight."
"Teach us half first!" Chen Zhixing squinted: "Otherwise, how will we know you're not deceiving us?"
"I have already paid half the technique to your companion."
"Hmm?" Chen Zhixing looked at Yimiao.
Seeing this, Yimiao nodded to indicate that the residual soul was telling the truth, and then pointed her finger directly at her own forehead, pulling out a portion of her memory to give to Chen Zhixing.
After checking it out, Chen Zhixing began reading this portion of memory.
A moment later.
Chen Zhixing opened his eyes again, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.
He found that this technique called "36 Celestial Spirits Transformations" wasn't quite what he imagined, as this technique had little to do with cultivation and Divine Techniques, but rather contained a lot of records on how to hypnotize one's own consciousness through changes in form... In other words, this 36 Celestial Spirits Transformations is more of a great technique, or a method to hypnotize oneself rather than a cultivation technique...
However, after watching it carefully for a while, Chen Zhixing had to admit that this method indeed can succeed, and if it really does as described, once this 36 Celestial Spirits Transformations reaches the top tier, one can even achieve the outrageous effect of external world passing ten thousand years while one's consciousness experiences only a few days!
The person who created this technique is simply a genius!!!
Chen Zhixing acknowledges that this method of circumventing the decay of humanity is truly straightforward, rough, and effective, tempting him to directly dive into it.
Unfortunately, the first half of the record has only a small portion that can be practiced, and if one really wants to achieve this effect, one needs the complete technique.
"We rescue you, and you teach us the complete technique." Finding this is indeed the technique he needs, Chen Zhixing decided decisively.
At this moment, the safety of the Celestial Profound Realm, the potential threat posed by the rescued residual soul, all seemed to become less important.
"Deal!"
...
As proved, breaking a world isn't an easy task.
Take the Flying Star where the residual soul is for example, it's clearly just a small realm with an area only one-twelfth of the Celestial Profound Realm, but even such a small world, Chen Zhixing took nearly a month to barely 'dig' the core Spirit Vein of the Flying Star Realm out from the earth's core using the full-bodied giant Emperor Ziwei Venerable Dharma Aspect for mining.
Of course.
This doesn't mean that it's really that difficult for Chen Zhixing to destroy a world, but he needs to be cautious not to damage the Spirit Vein of the Flying Star Realm. He cannot directly mobilize Starlight Power in the Star Sea to burst in. He can only carefully mine a bit at a time.
The whole process is like dismantling a corpse.
It requires extracting all the blood vessels from the body without damaging them.
The difficulty is great, and even for Chen Zhixing today, it is a very painful task.