Chapter 2222: The Most Peculiar Demon Immortal

Experiences and memories shape personality.

He Lingchuan's gaze shifted slightly: "Conversely, if the Bright Lamp Wick hadn't been used, the memories from possession or inheritance would be... missing?"

"Or they would continue to slumber, continue to be sealed." Regarding the Bright Lamp Wick, Mou Di could be called rich in experience, "If memories don't awaken, the true 'you' won't awaken either."

"Awaken... won't awaken..." He Lingchuan's gaze flickered slightly, "Then what about power? Would the power slumbering along with the 'true self' awaken together?"

"Truly a good question." That he asked so meticulously surprised Mou Di somewhat, but he still answered, "I'll tell you plainly, yes! But there will be reduction, incomparable to when you were in your original body."

Having received this definite answer, He Lingchuan only then felt slightly at ease.

"Why, do you want to solve the mystery in the womb for someone?" Mou Di acted very magnanimous, "I still have a few Bright Lamp Grasses stored in my palace; if you need them, I'll send someone to deliver them."

This is a priceless treasure; the ancient Bo Kingdom was destroyed because of a single Bright Lamp Grass, but in Mou Di's hands, he can take it out as a gift without batting an eye, lightly and casually.

He Lingchuan didn't decline either: "Then many thanks, Lord Xin."

Speaking of this, his heart stirred. The Mou Di before him was actually an old monster who had lived from ancient times to the present, with extensive knowledge; why not take the opportunity to ask for enlightenment.

"Right, there's one more piece of intelligence to share with Lord Xin: the Great Heavenly Demon Jialou Tian of the Lingxu Crowd recently captured a True Immortal, called 'Hidden Spirit Lord.' Does Lord Xin recognize..."

Before the question was finished, Mou Di's face changed color:

"What! Hidden Spirit Lord? Is your intelligence source reliable?"

This was the first time he lost composure before He Lingchuan, causing the latter's heart to sink.

"Reliable!"

"To think even He fell victim!" Mou Di sighed, "Hidden Spirit Lord's true form is a powerful and mysterious sea demon, usually lurking in the deep remote seas; even in ancient times it rarely surfaced, so the world knew nothing of its existence. During the ancient great war, it appeared only two or three times total."

He Lingchuan nodded. No wonder Naluo Tian hadn't heard of Hidden Spirit Lord's name before; this demon immortal really liked diving too much.

Mou Di pondered: "I only know that after the heaven-earth calamity, the dragon race suffered heavy damage and gradually disappeared; Hidden Spirit Lord seemed to have taken over a deep sea dragon palace."

"Lingshan invited Him many times before, but He ignored them all. The deep sea truly is the best hiding place, but I never expected He would be besieged by Heavenly Demons at this time! Alas, truly a single tree cannot hold up the building."

"From the sound of it, this Hidden Spirit Lord has a solitary temperament?" He Lingchuan asked curiously, "What is His original form?"

What human can live in the deep sea; Hidden Spirit Lord certainly isn't human.

"Creation is wondrous; there are always some individuals who defy common sense and become immortals — for example, wood spirits becoming immortals, stubborn stones becoming immortals, and some things difficult to classify can also cultivate to success; we collectively call them anomalous spirits."

"This Hidden Spirit Lord is an anomalous spirit. His peculiarity is possibly unique in heaven, earth, and sea." Mou Di clenched his wrists in regret, "That He was harmed by Heavenly Demons is truly too regrettable."

He Lingchuan just waited at the side, watching how long he would keep his appetite suspended.

"I specially researched it before. One of Hidden Spirit Lord's original forms is a semi-transparent soft gelatinous substance, neither like animal nor plant, but capable of endless proliferation. It spreads across the seabed, picking up any food; living creatures in the sea that touch the gelatin get stuck, then devoured."

He Lingchuan nodded; this sounded like some kind of fungus.

"This soft gelatin likes to stay near seabed volcanoes and xuan crystal veins. Hidden Spirit Lord found two large xuan crystal veins there and settled down, allowing its body to continuously grow stronger." Mou Di recited like counting his own treasures, "Five thousand years before the ancient great war erupted, it encountered another strange creature invading. Those were tube-shaped worms barely visible to the naked eye, but they acted in swarms; they could secrete hard shells. These two..."

With his experience, he also spent several breaths finding a suitable term:

"These two creatures warred for two to three hundred years, and in the end actually turned weapons into jade and silk, developing a strange symbiotic relationship. That is, the worms could burrow into the soft gelatin, feeding on nutrients within it, but simultaneously secrete hard shells. Tens of thousands of worms cooperating could sculpt an internal skeleton for the soft gelatin!"

He Lingchuan couldn't help pressing his forehead.

Originally a soft limp blob of giant fruit jelly, suddenly growing bones — just imagining it felt like the scene was too beautiful.

"So it could stand up?"

"Correct." Mou Di coughed once, "Hidden Spirit Lord was thus born."

"So it's actually an aggregate of two creatures?" He Lingchuan also couldn't help sighing; the world is vast with no lack of wonders.

Actually those tube-shaped worms sound a bit like coral polyps.

"Yes." Mou Di said, "With the internal skeleton's support, Hidden Spirit Lord could not only leave the seabed and swim, but also transform into avatars of different shapes."

This sentence made He Lingchuan instantly alert:

"Wait, transform into avatars?!"

"The soft gelatin could originally shape itself at will; now with the addition of bones that change at will, it can simulate various deep sea creatures, even the forms of demons." Mou Di recalled, "I personally saw it transform into a grouper avatar, staying in a giant grouper school for two days without being discovered, then it killed two giant groupers in succession, each four to five hundred jin-weight."

"By the time Hidden Spirit Lord became an immortal, the transformation arts were even more remarkable. But it's a solitary case; I've never heard of a second of its kind."

He Lingchuan asked in wonder: "This kind... these two creatures, can also become immortals?"

Humans are the spirit of all things; to become immortals they go through countless hardships, needing methods, cultivation, dao heart, and karmic obstacles. How do these anomalous spirits cultivate into immortals?

"The path to immortality is actually diverse, not only human methods. Look at the many demons in the world; once enlightened by imperial nectar, they naturally know how to cultivate. That is talent, or exceptional endowment, a gift bestowed by heaven." Mou Di shook his head, "Humans instead receive no such heavenly gift, all relying on themselves to explore, summarize, experiment. And because human thoughts are too heavy, distracting thoughts too many, they also give rise to heart demons, three corpse worms and other obstacles. One can only say, gains and losses."

Heaven views all things as straw dogs; each has its own fortune. Humans are too clever, and in this aspect are instead greatly lacking.

The question returns to: Heavenly Demons capturing Hidden Spirit Lord — what do they want to do?

Hidden Spirit Lord hides in the deep sea, unknown to the world; finding His whereabouts must be extremely difficult.

He Lingchuan frowned: "Back when Miao Zhantian ambushed the Upside-Down Sea, one important reason was to seize True Person Qianhuan's body, to generate a humanoid external dharma body!"