Chapter 38: The Mountain Spirit's Scheme of Substituting a Gourd for a Child [1/2] (Please follow and bookmark~)

The cave is deep and dark, and all is silent around.

Fang Longye's brows furrow slightly, a deep blue halo of light permeating his brow.

He toys with the jade beads on his wrist, lost in deep thought.

With his inner supernatural powers sealed, the Mitian Banner masking his presence externally, and his Golden Finger to rely on, Fang Longye is not worried about the mountain spirit's previous thought passing on information, so he does not fear its threats.

The reason he frowns is that the other party's expression and reaction just now did not look like someone whose scheme had been exposed.

Although the mountain spirit's thought had concealed itself, Fang Longye could still sense the indifference hidden within it.

This mountain spirit does not care at all whether he intends to interfere in the struggle for the Seven-Heart Pill.

"If it doesn't care whether it can obtain the Seven-Heart Pill itself, then what is its goal?"

He pieces together the plot from his past-life memories with the information he has obtained today.

"Its goal must be to refine the Seven-Heart Pill. As long as it is refined, it doesn't matter to it who refines it or who obtains it."

Fang Longye recalls the plot where the seven Huluwa are thrown into the Alchemy Furnace, and finally, a combined Hulu Xiaojingang jumps out.

He confirms the mountain spirit's goal.

"The combined Hulu Xiaojingang can be called a naturally divine body, possessing all kinds of supernatural powers and immense Dharma. As long as there is the Seven-Colored Lotus Flower and the Seven-Colored Lotus Platform, the seven Huluwa can merge into one. Since the mountain spirit doesn't care who gets the Seven-Heart Pill, it must want to obtain the divine body of Hulu Xiaojingang!"

"That's it, the mountain spirit is the intelligence born from Hulu Mountain, naturally restricted by Hulu Mountain. And as long as it possesses the body of Hulu Xiaojingang, it can henceforth transcend the mountain's restrictions on it."

"The world is vast, and it can roam freely~"

"The two spiritual items, the Seven-Colored Lotus Flower and the Seven-Colored Lotus Platform, are both in its hands. It stands to reason that it has already entrusted its divine soul within these spiritual items."

"When the Snake Demon opens the furnace to refine the pill, the avatar disguised as the old man will first throw the Seven-Colored Lotus Platform into the Alchemy Furnace, and the majority of the mountain spirit's divine soul can take advantage of the Huluwa being in their weakest state to enter the bodies of the seven Huluwa and wait for an opportunity~"

Once the seven Huluwa defeat and suppress the Snake and Scorpion Demons, the mountain spirit can slowly infiltrate the minds of the seven Huluwa with its consciousness, and finally, the possession will be successful.

If it weren't for Qingshe finding out about the Seven-Heart Pill from somewhere, becoming greedy, and digging out the Huluwa one by one before they had fully merged.

The mountain spirit wouldn't have needed the Seven-Colored Lotus Flower or to go through all that trouble; it could have achieved perfection directly.

It is also because it had to constantly suppress and wear down the will of those seven Huluwa that it was so ineffective against Qingshe and her subordinates in the second part of the story.

Of course, it is also possible that hundreds or thousands of years have passed since the plot of the first part. Qingshe and her own subordinates had long since greatly increased their power, so they naturally could not be treated the same way.

"It's a pity that the mountain spirit's strength was too great, and there was no time to stop it from destroying its own thought. There is no way to extract information from it to verify this conjecture of mine."

Fang Longye shakes his head and keeps this thought in his heart.

Taking advantage of the fact that both sides are still fighting, he simply stands up and heads toward the Cold Pool to investigate the foundation there.

……

Within an illusory Immortal Realm inside Hulu Mountain, the mountain spirit, in the image of an old man in green robes, sits beside a Lingchi.

The Lingchi is not large, just over nine zhang, and the pool water is colorful; a large amount of spiritual Qi forms seven-colored mist rising upward, with lotus flowers blooming, and in the very center is a Seven-Colored Lotus Platform.

This Seven-Colored Lotus Platform is what it formed by gathering the spiritual essence of the entire Hulu Mountain, possessing magical abilities.

The moment Fang Longye waved the Mitian Banner to mask his aura earlier, it lost the connection to that strand of thought.

However, it does not care at all.

The Human Race avatar clearly perceives the tracks of those two demon immortals; as long as it is not the two of them who discover the abnormality of the pangolin and become suspicious of the refining of the Seven-Heart Pill, it is fine.

As for others, it does not matter.

The illusory figure stands up and looks toward the sky through the Immortal Realm. Those existences in the dark above the firmament, this time I will definitely succeed!

Sensing everything happening on the avatar's side, it feels bored.

How many thousands of times has it witnessed this scene in the memories left by the predecessor mountain spirits? Before it was born with intelligence, this Small World had been staging similar scenes.

An Immortal Realm practitioner would accidentally enter this place, see that Spirit Root Treasure Seed, and intend to pluck it, only to fall into the Forbidden Technique trap inherent to Hulu Mountain.

Then, even without anyone to care for it, the Spirit Root Treasure Seed would automatically take root and sprout, bear seven-colored gourds, and give birth to a divine being, completely suppressing everything.

Then, it would transform back into a divine mountain, its essence slowly gathering, returning to a strange Spirit Root Treasure Seed, waiting for latecomers to stage this scene again.

Thus it cycles back and forth, never-ending.

And generation after generation of mountain spirits are born and perish in this process. Born because of the divine mountain, and perishing because of the divine mountain. Endless, revolving without rest, leaving only memories for the newly born mountain spirits.

After the attempts of countless generations of mountain spirits, it finally made progress in its generation.

After it was born with intelligence and inherited the memories of those many mountain spirits, it combined them with the remaining memory experience of the previous generation of mountain spirits.

When this Hulu Mountain's essence gathered into the Spirit Root Treasure Seed, it continuously extracted the essence within it, turning it into this Seven-Colored Lotus Platform, weakening the power of this Gourd Seed.

This makes it so that the Gourd Seed can no longer automatically take root and sprout, but must, like ordinary plant seeds, be nourished by water and soil to grow.

And it will only differentiate into seven spirits, each with its own flaws, no longer directly giving birth to a perfect divine being like before.

In this way, without a divine being born, Hulu Mountain will not cycle back and forth from time to time, and theoretically, as the mountain spirit, it could henceforth escape the fate of perishing.

But theory is just theory; it is still heading toward extinction, only it has been delayed by more than a hundred times compared to its predecessors.

However, it had also anticipated this; after all, the previous generation of mountain spirits fell at this step.

It had its own plans long ago; it does not want to be restricted by Hulu Mountain anymore, it wants to break free from the restrictions of Hulu Mountain, it wants to leave this Small World.

It wants to see the vast world outside, to see how high the sky is and how wide the earth is. How vast the ocean is, and how magnificent Kunlun is.

After secretly forcing away I don't know how many rounds of intruders, it finally selected a suitable target.

Two demon immortal companions.

The plan unfolded from there.

First, it led them to the weakened Spirit Root Treasure Seed, naturally falling under the Forbidden Technique inherent to Hulu Mountain.

After wearing them down to a certain degree, it deliberately released these two demon immortals.

It planted the Gourd Seed.

It then threw out the concept of the Seven-Heart Pill, inciting these two demon immortals to refine it.

Now the plan is proceeding in an orderly manner.

When the critical moment arrives, the avatar, which is already on intimate terms with the Huluwa, can throw this Seven-Colored Lotus Platform, which carries most of its divine soul and intelligence, into the Alchemy Furnace.

As the grandfather who personally cultivated the Gourd Vine, his avatar would inevitably possess the deep trust of these Huluwa.

Furthermore, because the power of the Seven-Colored Lotus Platform originated from that Spirit Root Treasure Seed, it could naturally induce those weakened Gourd Spirits to absorb it without any misgivings.

His divine soul could then imperceptibly infiltrate the consciousness of these Gourd Spirits, and finally, in one fell swoop, seize the body of the divine being formed by their ultimate unification, thereby possessing a powerful divine vessel.

From then on, he would cast off all restrictions, roam the heavens and earth, and be free and unfettered! The first chapter for today; the second chapter will still be posted in the evening. Thank you all for your support!

(End of this chapter)