Chapter 489: Disperse and Re-gather

Yili Shenjun Master Fuchi's armor was damaged, a simple cloak was draped messily over his body, his arms were filled with divine blood, there were slight wounds on his body, and he possessed an aura that made one dare not look directly at him.

He stood in mid-air, holding his halberd and sweeping across the surroundings.

He swept across the celestial soldiers and divine generals, and swept across the watching immortals.

The celestial soldiers and divine generals in the distance did not dare to move.

However, the Yili Shenjun knew that most of these celestial soldiers and generals were soldiers and generals of the heavens, nurtured into gods by the incense of the mortal world below because of their virtue and conduct. Although they obeyed the Heavenly Lord, they did not necessarily obey only the contemporary Heavenly Lord, so he did not attack them. Similarly, he did not pay much attention to or make things difficult for these immortals who cultivated in the mountains, coming out to watch the excitement only once every hundred or two hundred years, having last met two hundred years ago, and perhaps not meeting again for another two hundred years, or perhaps never again.

He only swept his gaze across the south, taking an extra look at that person and fox.

A mere glance was enough to make one fearful.

Then, with a peal of thunder, the Yili Shenjun disappeared into the horizon.

"Finished watching!"

"Yili Shenjun Master Fuchi's style is still the same as it was back then! I fear that even in another thousand years, there will not be a Husheng Husheng Zhenjun or martial god in the Nine Heavens more powerful than him!"

"I, this poor Daoist, am seeing it for the first time."

"Eh? Fellow Daoists! Even if we don't gather on ordinary days, since we have gathered together again, why not go to my place to drink a cup of tea and discuss the clear breeze and bright moon for three days?" Daoist Qingxia was full of interest.

"Good!"

Daoist Bai Luan and Husheng Husheng Zhenjun Moyu both agreed.

"Senior, I will not go." Lin Jue bowed to him and said, "This cloud of mine is truly unusable. Since I came out of the mountain today and this wind is on the way, I will first go to Yunzhou in the southwest to find a good cloud. Plus, I cultivated mostly in Qinzhou before attaining the Dao, so I will also take a look at Qinzhou along the way."

"Very well! Fellow Daoist, travel slowly!"

"Fellow Daoist must know, clouds are steady in the morning and fast at dusk."

"Many thanks for the reminder."

"Haha, why be so polite..."

Several immortals laughed and soon rode their clouds away.

The remaining watching immortals also dispersed one after another.

The thunder-like drum sounds had long since ceased. Most of the celestial soldiers and divine generals in the distance remained where they were, while a few transformed into streaks of divine light, piercing into the white clouds below to search for the immortals and True Lords who had been struck down.

The fox was very clever, taking small, nimble steps, walking through the air, looking left and right from time to time, stopping to scratch its head with its hind legs, looking up at where the gods in the sky had gone, and looking down, as if watching the celestial soldiers and divine generals active below the clouds, sniffing here and there, just like a wild beast whose habits had not yet faded, smelling different scents, amusing itself in the open space, satisfying its curiosity.

The air was filled with the complex spiritual rhyme left behind by the great battle, as well as scattered divine power, profound mysteries, mixed with the incense of the gods, and the source of shattered souls.

There was also the purest and clearest essence.

These things were rapidly dissipating, returning to heaven and earth.

"Want that disperse and re-gather..."

Lin Jue's lips moved slightly, and he said to it via sound transmission.

The fox's ears moved, but it ignored him.

Suddenly, it found a wisp of clear essence in the air.

The fox opened its mouth, yawned, looked left and right, and took a long breath.

"Let's go..."

The Daoist helplessly urged the fox.

The fox seemed reluctant to leave this place, amusing itself and playing happily, until it saw the Daoist walking far away, and only then did it twist its body and chase after him.

"Naughty."

The Daoist on the cloud said to it, as if it were truly just playing.

Yet he did not expect that this one sentence would lead to trouble—

The white cloud gradually flew far away, traveling a hundred miles with the wind in a moment.

After leaving that area, the fox's rebellious nature flared up, and it began to repeat it to him constantly to express its dissatisfaction:

"Naughty!"

"Did you drink it?"

"Drank it! So full!" The fox said, turning its head to look at him seriously, "Naughty!"

"It was just a way of speaking."

"Naughty!"

"..."

It was a pity that this battlefield of True Lords and martial gods was too powerful and serious, and involved the struggle for the orthodoxy of the Nine Heavens' incense, so no one dared to get close. Otherwise, one only needed to go forward ten miles, and perhaps they would be within the coverage of that sea of golden light and iron, and the barrier of clouds, smoke, and time. However, these two spells sounded like the Five Spirits Great Deity's unique divine abilities, and perhaps the previous owners of the ancient book had never collected them.

Fortunately, there was his own fox.

Contentment brings happiness...

And this "disperse and re-gather" was very much to Lin Jue's liking.

The divine abilities and spells of these True Lords and Great Deities were all too powerful, and his own fox was only at six tails and had not yet become an immortal, so it could only "drink" one at most at a time, and then it would be "full". In this situation, even if other True Lords and gods died here, among so many spells and divine abilities, he had a high probability of choosing this one.

For one thing, although other spells and divine abilities were powerful, Lin Jue either had alternatives or did not need them that much.

Like that "sea of golden light and iron", it looked powerful, but if Lin Jue spent more time and energy on "mountain pressing down", with his current cultivation, he could truly press a small mountain onto a Husheng Husheng Zhenjun, and the effect brought about would not necessarily be worse than this "sea of golden light and iron".

Or like that "barrier of clouds, smoke, and time", if Lin Jue comprehended "taking life and granting longevity" to a profound level, the effect would probably not be worse than it, and instead, it would have the effect of harming the opponent and benefiting himself in an emergency.

Moreover, both "mountain pressing down" and "taking life and granting longevity" were very suitable for Lin Jue's cultivation. The probability that "sea of golden light and iron" and "barrier of clouds, smoke, and time" would be simpler and easier for him to cultivate and comprehend than the first two was extremely low.

As for that "three heads and six arms" and "great ruyi", even if he learned them, it would be very difficult to use them in combat.

Against other True Lords and martial gods, no matter how many arms he grew, he could not wrestle with them; no matter how many heads he grew, it would not be enough for them to slash; and becoming larger would only make him a living target. If fighting other gods and immortals, it would certainly be a matter of meeting moves with moves and comparing spells and magical power, so he imagined there would be few scenarios where he would use them.

That "golden body dharma form" seemed very powerful, though.

Secondly, this "disperse and re-gather" had deep origins. When the ancient book recorded "break and re-connect", it mentioned this "disperse and re-gather". The two were one for refining the body and one for nourishing the spirit, one for the physical body and one for the divine soul, perfectly complementing each other.

The ancient book also mentioned a sentence: when both are cultivated to great success, one is near immortal and indestructible.

Ji Xianren and indestructible...

It corresponded exactly to today's Yili Shenjun Master Fuchi!

It was just that the immortal and indestructible between the two were clearly different—

What the ancient book said was "near immortal and indestructible". He did not know how Yili Shenjun Master Fuchi's divine ability was, but Lin Jue thought that adding a "near" would be more rigorous. After all, he was not a true immortal or saint, and even the saints of alchemy had their own falls. And this immortal and indestructible meant that if you killed my physical body, it could grow back, and if you scattered my divine soul, it could re-gather. Yili Shenjun Master Fuchi's immortal and indestructible meant that no one could harm his physical body or damage his divine soul.

The former clearly sounded inferior to the latter.

This was not hard to understand.

Yili Shenjun Master Fuchi's immortal and indestructible could be called a supreme divine ability; even if "break and re-connect" and "disperse and re-gather" were added together, it would be difficult to compare.

However, in Lin Jue's view, there was still a chance.

"Break and re-connect" relied on vitality; as long as vitality was not cut off, the body would not perish. "Disperse and re-gather" was the same principle; it was just that the vitality maintaining the divine soul and the vitality maintaining the physical body were slightly different. The two roughly corresponded to the yang longevity and yin longevity of humans and ghosts, but Lin Jue happened to have learned a "taking life and granting longevity", which was exactly related to vitality and longevity.

"Break and re-connect, disperse and re-gather, taking life and granting longevity, golden cicada shedding its shell."

With these four added together, the effect might not be much worse than Yili Shenjun Master Fuchi's immortal and indestructible. If he fused them and continued to comprehend them, perhaps he could also comprehend a supreme divine ability.

That would be Lin Jue's own supreme divine ability.

"Haha..."

Lin Jue looked up and laughed; contentment truly brings happiness.

Beside him, the fox was still calling him naughty.

The white cloud flew further and further, lower and lower.

That Wei Shui was winding under his feet.

It was said that the struggle between the North and South had also spread to this Wei Shui. The gods in the river, just like the orthodox gods of the Nine Heavens, had chosen sides one after another. The former Wei Shui Yili Shenjun, because of old ties with the Northern Commander, chose to help the North, while that Wei Woman did not choose the Great Jiang imperial court, but instead chose the Southern Yue King.

Lin Jue looked down carefully, wanting to find the figure of an old friend, but only saw the green waves flowing, reflecting the blue sky and white clouds.

He imagined that the position of the Wei Shui Yili Shenjun would also be decided as the dust settled on the mortal world's situation.

Riding the cloud westward, he did not realize he had already arrived in Yunzhou.

Between massive mountains, hardworking people had reclaimed terraced fields with great height differences, a paradise no less than a divine miracle.

It was much warmer here than in Qinzhou, and winter felt like spring.

In an uninhabited place on the mountain peak, even the local people did not know when a small hut made of branches and thatch had appeared.

A Daoist sat here all day long.

Facing east in the morning, watching the sunrise over the sea of clouds, facing west at dusk, watching the sunset glow, waiting for a fated immortal cloud.

The white clouds that gathered ordinarily were truly not enough to use.

If it were just a bit slow, that would be fine.

The biggest flaw was that it could only carry himself and the fox. If he wanted to bring his junior sister, bring Ziyun, bring that disciple who had not yet entered the gate, or bring protectors like Wan Gong and Daoist Tao, it would not work.

And a cloud full of spirituality could not only carry himself and bring people, but could even split off a cloud for his disciples to use. By then, even if they had not attained the Dao, and even if they knew nothing of the method of riding clouds and mist, they could still experience some of the fun of the immortal family.

This place was not something Lin Jue had specifically sought out.

He had just been riding the cloud, not knowing where to go, only wanting to fly to a place with higher terrain, when he happened to pass by and look down—

It was not the season for farming, so they were filling the fields with water. Therefore, every terraced field was filled with water. It happened to be the morning, and the water-filled terraced fields were like countless mirrors embedded in the mountains, reflecting the blue sky of the morning, and because of the duckweed and moss, they presented colors of green and red, like nature's palette. Clouds and mist surged and rose below the terraced fields, vaguely revealing some houses, the thatched roofs like mushrooms, quiet and peaceful, not knowing how high the mountains were or how deep the clouds were.

Lin Jue immediately flew down.

It was just right for learning the newly acquired "disperse and re-gather". ===== CHAPTER 490 =====