The internet is a giant dye vat, where dense information causes premature worldly wisdom.
The Spirit Ginseng baby had maintained the Heart of a Newborn for a thousand years, but just two years after getting a smartphone, its path to immortality lay shattered, and it forgot all about the dream of becoming a celestial being.
"Why pursue immortality when gaming is so much more fun?"
Alas, its talent for gaming was too poor, and its intelligence was clearly lower than that of number six. Even with skillful play, it was stuck in the gold ranks for the long term.
The Spirit Ginseng baby didn’t mind this; it didn’t play gas to win or lose. As long as it could make all its teammates mute their mics, it considered that a spiritual victory.
Since it had no way to top up its account, when teammates couldn’t outdo the Spirit Ginseng baby in insults, they started mocking it for being poor.
Until one day it heard a male teammate, eager to please, offering CP skins. The Spirit Ginseng baby felt like it had discovered a new world.
Transforming into a beautiful girl, it donned extravagant and noble palace attire, and with voice and video conveyance it floated with celestial grace. It sweetly called out to its "little brothers," lting the bones of netizens, and easily received many skins.
When Zhou Yi discovered this, he sternly reprimanded it, admonishing against doing wrong even in small ways, and forbade it from cheating with magic again!
But the Spirit Ginseng baby quickly found another way. It downloaded a video app, posted a few dance videos, and left its ga account information. In just a few days, it had more digital currency than it could spend.
"Mortals are truly foolish; no matter how advanced technology becos, they still crave those inner desires!"
Scanning the crowd of ghostly entities, the Spirit Ginseng baby said, "The Immortal Master has sent you here for a great mission to save humanity, which will be entrusted to your hands!"
The crowd of ghosts imdiately beca solemn, not daring to underestimate Kunlun Wonderland because of smartphones and gas.
Compared to the sacred and mist-shrouded majesty that people imagined, the legendary place where immortals cultivated was indeed connected to the power behind dynastic succession in the Nine Continents.
Who says immortals can’t ga? This is what it truly ans to be unfettered by worldly concerns, to follow one’s heart.
When the strong do sothing odd, there will always be people ready to rationalize it perfectly for them!
"According to the rules of Kunlun, you are all granted one year of cultivation," said the Spirit Ginseng baby.
"After proving yourselves through cultivation, you will scatter into the Nine Continents, gather benevolent lost souls, and form into patrolling ghost soldiers responsible for suppressing malevolent specters and malevolent ghosts!"
"We will heed the Immortal Master’s command."
The crowd of ghosts responded with a thunderous affirmation. In the mortal realm, there were already legends about an underworld, and this call to arms seed similar to the duties of the judges and other officials there.
The Spirit Ginseng baby nodded slightly, solemnly adding, "Before we begin our cultivation, there is a very urgent matter that requires thorough investigation!"
The ghostly crowd listened keenly, afraid to lose this rare opportunity.
"Which ranks do you hold in the Glory of the Nine Continents ga?"
"..."
The ghosts fell silent, unsure of how to respond. So, like Professor Lu Yuan, had never played any gas.
A ghostly figure with the look of a college student raised a hand and replied, "Immortal Master, I am at the rank of Emperor with fifty stars." Read exclusive adventures at empire
"Good!"
The Spirit Ginseng baby’s eyes lit up as it pulled a magic artifact that resembled a smartphone from its sleeve and spoke seriously.
"I have a matter of great urgency that I need your help with!"
...
Everything happening in Kunlun Cave Heaven naturally couldn’t escape Zhou Yi’s Divine Sense.
After the magic artifact smartphone was successfully refined and the Formation and Prohibition that blocked signals were lifted, the intention was to expose the Spirit Ginseng baby to information from the outside world to hasten its intellectual developnt.
Who would have thought it would go astray!
Zhou Yi felt sowhat helpless. Even an immortal couldn’t control the changes in human nature, much less the Golden Core.
"Well, at least it’s beco more lively."
"The Spirit Ginseng baby will instruct them for a year. Afterward, having inherited the traditions of the Ghost King Sect, they will be powerful enough to subdue common lost souls in just one year. Managing ghosts with ghosts and dividing up the lost souls saves a lot of trouble."
"The downside is that it requires a long ti."
"The Nine Continents are vast, and the eighteen lost souls are like a drop in the ocean when scattered. Without trained ghost soldiers for patrolling, they can’t cover a wide area in the beginning."
Zhou Yi’s Divine Sense swept across Immortal Capital City and found a dozen or so malevolent spirits hidden in various secretive places.
Many of them were stained with blood and malevolence, clearly having consud the life essence of the living.
"The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is so thin, yet so many lost souls have ford. It’s different from the Age of Dharma’s decline."
"In the era of revival, the Spiritual Energy is light and sprightly, intimate with living things, making cultivation far easier than in the past. Those old monsters who willingly sealed themselves are thinking of using the tide of revival to break through to even higher realms!"
"That being so, it also indicates that the Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts is even more terrifying than in the declining years of the law!"
"Perhaps in the eyes of heaven and earth, the extinction of the human race is not a big deal; after all, countless years later, a new human race will still erge..."
Zhou Yi, being a mber of the human race, naturally thought that humanity was different from the others, but how could heaven and earth, which regard all things as re straw dogs, treat any one race especially?
"Another reason is that the modern people’s resentnts and malevolent energies are growing heavier by the day!"
The ancient people, whose wisdom had not yet developed, were muddled and habitually endured submission passively; should they beco vengeful spirits or fierce ghosts, they were inevitably the result of extrely vicious cases.
Over the past year, Zhou Yi encountered many souls, among which many ordinary people who died normal deaths had beco fierce ghosts under the influence of Spiritual Energy.
Reality exceeds dreams, desires outstrip possessions, the fast pace of life, increasingly fierce competition, the growing gap between rich and poor, the oppression of intangible material things all allow resentnts and malevolent energies to breed in the depths of the heart.
"The more you know, the more pain you endure!"
Zhou Yi could be said to be the person who knew the most secrets in the Nine Continents. Even though he was proficient in Buddhist and Taoist scriptures and strove to maintain his nature, sotis he couldn’t help but fall into hardship and doubt.
For example, handing over machinery to Zhu Kang years ago and stepping into modern tis over the course of several centuries was originally a very good thing.
As a result, with the initial revival of Spiritual Energy, the overabundance of ghostly entities occurred, and with the rise of modern firearms, the foundations of martial arts were severed, making Martial Artists arguably the fewest in history.
Under the mutual influence of the two, the number of people dying might not decrease.
"Every drink and every peck is predestined!"
Zhou Yi silently recited the Clear Mind Mantra, pushing down his fluttering thoughts; he wouldn’t impose causality on himself.
At this mont.
Within the range of his Divine Sense, a retired professor from the history departnt of Immortal Capital University had died from exhaustion of his lifespan.
Zhou Yi had been secretly observing this man for a long ti, his identity and profession were just right for the requirents, and finally, the day had co; he took out the divination cylinder and perford the Minor Severing Heaven Technique.
The Spirit Ginseng landed steadily on the ground.
"As a Daoist, I exist outside of predestined fate, I am that one who has eluded it!"
...
Immortal Capital Hospital.
Inside the special care ward.
Children and grandchildren ford a circle, their expressions filled with sorrow.
Students of the professor stood outside the ward to send off their teacher, among them was Xiao Ran.
On the sickbed.
The emaciated old man had few hairs remaining and his eyes peacefully closed, evidently, he had few regrets in life, clutching in his hand a peculiar Stone Bead, an ancient artifact discovered for the first ti during an archaeological dig.
Seeming like a stone but not a stone, as hard as steel, it was difficult to determine its exact age.
Suddenly.
The Stone Bead flickered with a seven-colored light, a ray of spiritual light emanated, rging into the old man’s body.
The children and grandchildren, who had their eyes fixed on the old man, naturally saw this strange phenonon and were about to shout in astonishnt.
The old man’s eyebrows twitched, and he slowly opened his eyes.
A sharp gaze swept over his family mbers, a terrifying aura manifested, scaring them into silence.
"Where is this?"
His son answered tremblingly, "Immortal Capital."
The old man’s brows slightly furrowed, then inquired, "Where is Immortal Capital located in which continent?"
"Cloud Continent!"
At this ti, the Stone Bead was still shining with spiritual light, the withered hair began to grow back, the wrinkled skin quickly smoothed out, and in a blink of an eye, he went from an old man to looking in his fifties or sixties.
"How has only a little over a thousand years passed?"
Ignoring the fear of his children and grandchildren, the old man tore off the various equipnt tubes, stood up from the sickbed, and declared,
"I am, Heavenly Monarch Yuanling!"
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