Infinite true path

Anyone born in the Three Realms and being one of the Six Paths can have both a soul and a body. However, the soul is always there, but the body is not necessarily always there.

For example, the sinful spirits in hell do not have a complete body, but only a spiritual body to endure torture. As for those lonely ghosts wandering on the Yellow Spring Road, or even wandering in the wilderness of the Three Realms, they have no body, only a soul.

It is not difficult to see from this that, in fact, for any creature in the Six Paths, the soul is the most important thing, the real backbone. If the soul is lost, then the self is completely lost, but if only the body is lost, there may still be salvation.

To put it more extremely, in fact, many evil cultivators often make a living by taking over bodies, and relying on their powerful souls to change bodies frequently, that is simply commonplace. From this, we can also see the importance of the soul and the status of the body to a creature.

In the final analysis, the body is just a shell, not completely impossible to abandon. But the soul cannot be lost, absolutely not.

So when a person dies, it means that his soul has entered reincarnation or has been shattered. And everything in the underworld is only related to the soul. If a person's body dies, especially if a cultivator's body is destroyed, it is basically impossible to judge the cultivator's death based on these.

However, there are too many changes and uncertainties in the three realms and the six paths. So there will be special circumstances and unexpected exceptions in any matter - just like what Xuanwu said now, "the body is dead."

What Xuanwu said at this moment, "the body is dead", is completely different from the traditional sense of the body decaying or being destroyed. For ordinary bodies to decay or be destroyed, as long as the cultivator's soul is strong enough, the body can be replaced by taking over. However, Xuanwu can't do this now.

Because the way Xuanwu chose to commit suicide was a very extreme way, which was equivalent to beating himself to death. In this way, his body was petrified and became Turtle Back Mountain and was thrown here by Luohou.

The original soul is gone, which means that the original capital for taking over another body is lost. As for the soul that Xuanwu has gained after his rebirth, it is a soul that was reunited based on his petrified body by chance. Such a soul is completely tied to Xuanwu's body, and it has a subtle taste of the body being the main and the soul being the secondary. In this way, Xuanwu's soul must enter the original body now, and has lost the qualification to take over other bodies.

In this way, Xuanwu has now lost the ability to take over another body, and can only rely on his soul to re-enter the original body to truly be reborn. However, his body may have been petrified for too long, and even experienced some hardships and twists and turns over the past hundreds of years, and has lost its vitality, even his soul cannot reawaken it.

In this way, although Xuanwu now has a soul, he only has an empty soul. The body that must be this way refuses the integration of his soul, and he will never be able to unite his soul and flesh and complete a true resurrection.

In other words, for Xuanwu now, his physical death is different from the physical death of ordinary cultivators. Ordinary cultivators can still use corpses to revive after their physical bodies die. But once his physical body dies, his soul can do nothing, and he is truly dead.

This is the special nature of "the physical body is dead" in Xuanwu's mouth. The death of his physical body can in turn completely deny the possibility of his resurrection. Even if his soul does not enter reincarnation, from now on, without a physical body, he can only be a lonely ghost at best, unable to reproduce the glory and strength of Xuanwu in the past.

Huanyin naturally knew what Xuanwu meant by "the physical body is dead". It's just that this situation is so rare and special that even Xuanwu himself never thought of it, so how could Huanyin think of it?

However, this is also reasonable. Because the reunion of Xuanwu's soul and soul is an extremely rare thing, then the physical death at this moment is not too strange.

Huanyin was stunned for a long time, and finally his face became extremely ugly. Seeing that Xuanwu's return was just around the corner, but it just couldn't happen, Huanyin was not only sad for his old friend, but also unwilling to accept the whole thing.

In the end, Huanyin finally said: "Old man, you may have made a mistake, why don't you try again?"

Unfortunately, Xuanwu shook his head, and said with a darker face: "My lord, I have just used all my strength, and my judgment of my physical body... I am afraid it is not wrong."

Huanyin fell silent, and didn't know what to say. After a long while, he squeezed out a sentence from his mouth: "Is there really no way?"

Huanyin really didn't want to accept this fact. If there was really no way, then Xuanwu would only have one way left now-enter reincarnation and become a human again. After all, that is better than being a lonely ghost. However, that also means that Xuanwu will no longer be there, and Huanyin's fate with him will be separated by reincarnation from now on, and one of his four guardians will never return to his side again.

"I'm afraid..." Xuanwu shook his head and sighed, his face full of helplessness and despair. But halfway through his words, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at Huan Yin and said, "Maybe... there is still a glimmer of hope!" Huan Yin heard this and quickly asked, "What's the solution? Tell me now!"

Xuanwu said: "I was born in the North Sea and was nourished and raised by the water of the North Sea. The North Sea is my foundation, and the water of the North Sea is my source. If a drop of water from the North Sea can enter my body, maybe ...Maybe the petrification of my body can be broken, and my dead body is not completely impossible to revive!"

"Water of the North Sea!" Huan Yin repeated, but then the hope in his eyes gradually dimmed, and he continued: "The North Sea has dried up for countless thousands of years, and the North Sea has long become a part of Mount Sumeru. , filled with mountain peaks, how can there be such a thing as the water of the North Sea today?”

Xuanwu said: "Before the Lord arrived, my soul was wandering around in the South for Eight Days, and I accidentally got a piece of news. It is said that a very powerful traveling merchant team will come to the South for Eight Days in the near future, and This team of traveling merchants will secretly hold an underground auction for eight days in the south, and the grand prize at the auction will be a drop of North Sea water!"

"The water of the North Sea is too important to me. Even if it is not used to revive the physical body, it can also increase my power of cultivation. Therefore, I paid great attention to this news at the beginning and even tried to dig deeper. As a result, I almost This confirms the authenticity of the news, and I also got this jade token. This jade token is a token of participation in the auction. If you don't hold this jade token, you will not be able to enter the auction."

At this point, Xuanwu handed a somewhat special-looking jade plaque to Huan Yin. Huan Yin took it and looked at it, then put it away and said: "If this really happens, I will hold on to this jade sign and win the water of the North Sea for you."

Xuanwu said: "It is said that the traveling merchant team holding the auction this time is not only extremely strong, but also extremely cautious. The one with the highest cultivation among them seems to have reached the peak of the Four Sources. At the same time, in order to ensure that the stronger ones are not allowed to The monks disrupted the situation and even robbed them of their treasures. They strictly screened the recipients of the jade tokens and did not invite any monks who were stronger than the Four Sources realm."

"If I read it correctly, Your Majesty's cultivation has exceeded the limit. Therefore, Your Majesty needs to disguise yourself. Otherwise, if you are seen to be too strong, you will not be able to enter the auction venue even if you hold this jade slip."

Huan Yin smiled and thought that since he came to the heaven, what he has done most is to hide his true identity and aura, so it should not be difficult to deceive the detection of a traveling merchant team, so he nodded.

Then, I heard Xuanwu say: "Also, I think there are people who are in the same situation as your Majesty. After all, the name of the water of the North Sea is too famous and too tempting. Maybe, that auction In the end, the traveling merchant team will be unable to cope with the situation, which is extremely dangerous. Your Majesty, you must take care of yourself and not harm yourself for the sake of the water of the North Sea. "

Huan Yin nodded: "Don't worry, I'll leave this matter to me."