Chapter 597: Is Everyone a 'Transmigrator'?

Mission World 5.

A figure in a blue-green wide-sleeved robe, posture upright and tall, sat cross-legged in the void.

It was none other than Gao Wuwang of Jishi Valley.

At this moment, he was staring intently at a three-legged cauldron before him.

Inside the cauldron, true fire burned fiercely; as the flames surged, countless stars seemed to flicker in and out, with stardust-like motes of light flowing endlessly.

A long while passed…

Gao Wuwang shifted the hand-seal in his grasp and gave a soft cry.

"Come!"

Whoosh!

The true fire, overflowing with stardust radiance, suddenly surged and churned, and actually flung the stardust-like motes of light straight out of the cauldron's true fire.

The true flames died out.

Fine, dense motes of light hung quietly before Gao Wuwang, like a projection of the Milky Way, flickering in and out.

Each mote was incomparably tiny; one had to employ a divine ability to observe carefully before its true form could be discerned.

These tiny motes were clearly individual pale-blue pills—round, crystalline, sparkling with resplendent light as if breathing.

"Hoo~" Gao Wuwang let out a long breath.

He raised his right hand, drew one pill from the countless before him that resembled a projection of the Milky Way, and made it hover at the tip of his index finger.

After observing it carefully for a while, a trace of a smile finally surfaced on his face.

"Heart-Severing Pill… at last, it's done."

Then he returned the Heart-Severing Pill hovering at his fingertip and waved his hand to stow the cauldron before him.

Only after finishing all this did he finally look toward the vast, boundless continent ahead of him.

A pale-golden ring encircled the entire continent, emanating an invisible force that compressed and fused the whole landmass together.

Above the continent, the cloud layers were thick, imbued with gang winds and divine thunder, like a natural barrier severing inside from outside.

The instant Gao Wuwang's gaze pierced through the clouds!

The mist churned, as though stirred by a pair of invisible great hands.

It was as if every living being on the continent looked up at him in unison, converging into a colossal, sinister and terrifying twisted consciousness.

It stared fixedly at Gao Wuwang, brimming with boundless malice.

Faced with that hair-raising sensation, Gao Wuwang remained utterly composed.

After all…

This wasn't his first time dealing with it.

"The dark side of the consciousness…"

When he had first arrived in this world, a slight miscalculation on his part had nearly let this world's 'unified collective consciousness' take him out in one wave…

(ーー゛)-

Fortunately, he reacted in time and dodged the disaster.

Afterwards, he evaded the unified collective consciousness while seeking a solution.

At first, he used the auxiliary module to split off some sub-bodies from the unified collective consciousness, but those consciousness sub-bodies had an extremely strong self-destructive tendency.

Before Gao Wuwang could even help them restore their forms, they perished on their own.

With no choice, to complete the mission, he had to think of another solution.

After a period of observation, he finally discovered the unified collective consciousness's weakness.

Negative emotions, or rather, 'desires.'

To maintain its own existence, the unified collective consciousness would actively expel the negative emotions it generated.

In other words, the existence of 'desires' would affect the unified collective consciousness's own existence.

So, he used the auxiliary module to secretly conceal himself, quietly gathered the negative emotions expelled by the unified collective consciousness, and selected a portion of them—

Using 'greed, hatred, and delusion' and other desires as the primary ingredients to refine pills.

After spending a long time and making numerous arrangements, he finally caused the entire unified collective consciousness to collapse.

After that, he traversed the entire world, gathered the shattered stellar fragments and cosmic dust left by the unified collective consciousness's destruction, refined them into the continent before him, and through ecological modification techniques, made the whole continent habitable.

Once all preparations were complete, he finally used Body-Shaping Pills to reshape their forms.

Incidentally.

These Body-Shaping Pills could shape the most suitable body according to the soul's true aspect.

They were the most economical choice for many cultivators whose bodies had been destroyed—due to failed breakthroughs, accidents during exploration, and so on—leaving only remnant souls, when reshaping their bodies.

The higher one's realm, the more expensive the Body-Shaping Pill.

However, development had currently only reached the Soul Transformation stage.

After all, advancing from Returning Void to Harmonizing with the Dao involved 'Dao Wounds,' which simply could not be resolved by a pill of the Body-Shaping Pill's caliber.

Of course, Body-Shaping Pills worked best for the human race.

But other races could take them too; the effect would just be somewhat inferior…

Back to the main point!

After expending great effort to reshape the human race of this world, Gao Wuwang had thought he could finally begin transmitting the Dao and let them cultivate.

But the reshaped humans had been influenced too deeply by the pills; nearly every one of them had become lecherous, pleasure-seeking, murderous, and brutal.

With no choice, he had to gather once more the positive emotions that scattered when the unified collective consciousness collapsed, refine them into pills, and have them take it.

Only then did the positive and negative emotions of those reshaped humans reach a balance.

Just as he thought everything was over, yet another accident happened—again, and again, and again!

Because the positive and negative emotions had reached a balance, memories from before becoming the 'United Unified Consciousness' resurfaced, making every reshaped human believe they were a 'transmigrator'.

Moreover, the already collapsed United Unified Consciousness actually showed signs of revival.

Limited by the fact that the now-reshaped humans had become independent individuals with their own thoughts, It could no longer encompass all consciousness as before, understand everything, and wantonly toy with the world's rules.

It could only become the dark-side consciousness of all reshaped humans, peeking into the real world when human consciousness was at its most blurred.

In order to restore its former glory.

It hid deep within the consciousness of every reshaped human, weaving their dreams to construct an incomparably vast consciousness network.

Then, it would seize the moment when a human's spirit was extremely tense, or their body was on the verge of death and their consciousness defense was at its weakest, dragging their consciousness into the consciousness network.

Then it would subject those people's consciousness to all kinds of horrors, devouring it once their psychological defenses collapsed.

Moreover, the dark-side consciousness hid deep within every human's consciousness, so even Gao Wuwang couldn't think of a good way to stop it.

Spreading the dharma was useless too; the dark-side consciousness would use methods like 'psychological suggestion' to make the reshaped humans subconsciously disbelieve in the existence of cultivation methods.

He couldn't just extract everyone's soul and refine their spirits either…

Thus, after years of bitter contemplation, Gao Wuwang finally researched the current 'Heart-Severing Pill'.

The reason the 'dark-side consciousness' existed was because the humans now reshaped were all once part of the 'United Unified Consciousness'.

Although they had become mutually independent individuals, there were still faint connections between them, and their souls still carried a trace of the 'United Unified Consciousness's' characteristic.

Therefore, as long as the connection was severed and that trace of characteristic obliterated, the dark-side consciousness would be split into countless parts and naturally perish.

"Go!"

With a wave of his raised hand, the 'Heart-Severing Pills' before him, like a projection of the Milky Way, were swept by magic power and sent falling toward the distant continent.

Seen from afar, it was like a meteor shower tearing through the clouds.

Rumble rumble~!

Thunder roared, clouds surged backward, as if some colossal beast were bellowing.

It was the dark-side consciousness trying to stop the 'Heart-Severing Pills' from falling on the continent.

Having devoured quite a bit of consciousness during this period, It could once again interfere with reality!

However…

It didn't cause any effect on the falling rain of 'Heart-Severing Pills'.

Against a complete 'United Unified Consciousness', Gao Wuwang indeed couldn't match it.

But a dark-side consciousness that had only just gained the ability to interfere with reality — that he could still handle with ease!

Just like that, Gao Wuwang watched the pills fall onto the continent.

"Finally…"

He flicked a spark of fire from his finger, following the countless falling Heart-Severing Pills.