Chapter 2752: Meeting

————I'm too tired today, I won't make it for this chapter, I'll make it up tomorrow~

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With the Electromagnetic Gun, a weapon of mass destruction, the battle ended quite quickly. Of course, this also had to do with the fact that current High-level Cultivators do not have many offensive means; a single external object was enough to seal the victory. In the future, as Matrix technology continues to develop, such external objects will become more and more numerous.

However, the end of the battle did not mean the end of the mission. There was still a very important matter that Li Yong and the others needed to handle, and that was the Primordial Spirit of the High-level Cultivator.

Under the circumstances of being besieged by three people, and with surrender and pleading proving useless, Jiamai'er could only watch helplessly as his Dharma Power and Primordial Spirit Power were exhausted bit by bit. His heart was filled with despair, but despair could not make him wait idly for death.

He kept jumping between Earth and the Kunlun Continent, hoping for a mistake from his opponents, but until the bullet pierced his brain, he was unable to escape.

For a High-level Cultivator, the death of the physical body does not mean the end. When Jiamai'er was shot through the brain by the bullet, his Primordial Spirit emerged immediately without any hesitation. It was just that he was not a practitioner of Sitting and Forgetting; all his Dharma Power was ultimately an external object, and only a little Primordial Spirit Power remained, but it had already been consumed at a cost.

At this moment, what appeared before Li Yong and the others was a ball of light emitting a faint glow, expanding and contracting as if it were breathing. Li Yong was stunned and subconsciously looked at the others.

The others were also full of astonishment, "Is this a Primordial Spirit? How should we handle this?"

They all had Primordial Spirits, and some even often let them leave their bodies to wander around, but we had always assumed that High-level status was based on the physical body, that when a person dies, the light goes out. If the physical body is destroyed, can the Primordial Spirit still exist?

Hearing Elder Xingyao's words, Li Yong and Jiamai'er subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief and asked the question we were most concerned about, "Elder Xingyao, this method of Refining the body—"

What's more, what about the bodies of others?

Li Yong and the others watched with interest as Elder Xingyao collected Yin Jianhua's Primordial Spirit into a seemingly wooden Magic Artifact, listening to Elder Xingyao's explanation.

Dahuaguo, Jingcheng.

"Did the mission go smoothly?"

In an office with complex decorations, Li Yong sat opposite a middle-aged woman with a dignified demeanor.

Adding the final seal to the Magic Artifact, Elder Xingyao continued, "In fact, the technological potential on your Earth is enormous. In the future, you may not be unable to achieve such repairs. And as long as they are repaired, you can then use the Primordial Spirit to re-Refine the body, and they can be completely resurrected."

"Then you are mistaken. Exchanges between the two worlds haven't been happening for just a day or two. Has anyone on your side successfully cast a Three Saints Realm Spell? Not a single one. To use your words, the systems are incompatible. Stop thinking about it and hurry back to turn in your mission."

"Elder Xingyao, can a Primordial Spirit seize someone else's body?" Li Yong asked the question Jiamai'er was particularly concerned about.

Elder Xingyao descended from the sky with a gust of wind, pointed at the light-shaped human figure, and said: "Do not be deceived by him. His body has not completely perished; it can still be repaired at this moment."

At the same time, they clearly felt the information coming from Yin Jianhua's Primordial Spirit: "Let me go! Let me go!"

Li Yong and the other two looked together at Yin Jianhua's corpse a few steps away. Clearly, the brain had already been pierced by a bullet, and the bullet, which had become abnormally scorching hot due to friction with the air, had even scorched the internal tissues of the brain, leaving a cavity that went straight through from front to back.

Even though the heart was still beating at this time, Li Yong and the others did not believe that this body could still be resurrected!

"Everything went smoothly."

Dahuaguo has legends of possession and borrowing a corpse to return the soul, and Yinzhou Country also has legends of soul transfer—that is, after a person dies, they can change bodies and start over, or even without waiting for death, they can change whenever they want, whether due to aging, illness, or injury.

On Earth, the relationship between people is not as "the strong prey on the weak" as in novels; basic human rights and equality still exist. Even though Li Yong is now a High-level Cultivator, he cannot help but worry for ordinary people. After all, even if he is a High-level Cultivator, his family and friends are not.

Although Jiamai'er had some fantasies in his heart, he felt even more horrified.

Li Yong and the others were greatly shocked, not only because of Elder Xingyao's understanding of Earth, but also because of their shock at the survival capabilities of High-level Cultivators. If Elder Xingyao had not been present today, not to mention whether they could have successfully killed Yin Jianhua, at the very least, his High-level Primordial Spirit would have been completely unmanageable.

But Li Yong was only temporarily seconded to the Magic Network Research Institute; future arrangements would depend on what the higher-ups said. Although the High-level Magic Network had not yet been successfully developed, there were no shortage of people coming to win over those five High-level Cultivators, and Li Yong was used to it.

"I heard you even brought that corpse back?"

Li Yong could only nod in agreement. The person in front of him was not his direct superior, but she was a high-ranking leader who supervised Matrix technology. She was very concerned about and covetous of High-level Cultivators with military backgrounds, and would occasionally find him to chat, with an attitude so kind that it was impossible to refuse.

And Li Yong and the others only then noticed that a few bold guards had approached nearby. Thinking that they were still on the battlefield, they quickly left.

"You, though this can be considered a good thing. Yesterday, the country where Yin Jianhua was located already had people protesting to us. They think too highly of themselves; they didn't come when the Covenant Organization was established, and only now do they think to protest. There's no such cheap thing."

Elder Xingyao put away the Magic Artifact and chuckled, "How could that be? A Primordial Spirit is sublimated from the foundation of one's own body. Are you not afraid of backlash from seizing someone else's body? In your Earth terms, this is called an immune rejection reaction."

After Elder Xingyao finished speaking, he flew straight in the direction he had come from.

So the Primordial Spirit can exist independently of the body!

Whoosh——

Just as they were hesitating, Yin Jianhua's light-ball-shaped Primordial Spirit suddenly increased its expansion and contraction amplitude, and immediately after, a nearly transparent, light-shaped Yin Jianhua appeared before them.

"It is like this—" Elder Xingyao explained while casting a Spell to collect the Yin Jianhua Primordial Spirit he had bound, "There have been cases in the Three Saints Realm where a High-level Cultivator's body was torn to pieces but eventually repaired. In fact, this ability is not considered rare. In our history, almost all such people eventually survived."

This is actually because the time that Earth's cultivation civilization has existed is too short, and the time they have possessed High-level Cultivators is too short, so short that not a single High-level Cultivator has died naturally or unnaturally, until it was discovered here with Yin Jianhua—

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"Hmm, I feel like I can give it to the Biology Institute for research, so I just brought it back."

Before leaving, Li Yong did not forget to take away Yin Jianhua's body. Regardless, the first High-level Cultivator's body would always be of some use.

"What?!"

"The human body of a practitioner can be repaired through Dharma Power and Primordial Spirit Power. Don't you have meridian theory on Earth? By strengthening a certain meridian, you strengthen the corresponding tissue; repair works on the same principle. As long as the meridians remain, it can be repaired. This situation is known in our Three Saints Realm as Vitality Not Severed."

And hearing Elder Xingyao's explanation, Jiamai'er actually thought of even more: if one left a portion of stem cells somewhere beforehand, then after the body died, the Primordial Spirit could quickly escape and clone a new body—wouldn't that mean infinite resurrection?