Chapter 803: Heaven and Earth Have Snow, All Things Furnace

Wang Li shook his palms, only feeling that the palm with thin calluses was so vivid and powerful.

Holding the sword hilt, the cold hilt was warmed bit by bit; this tangible temperature was so full of vitality.

It was as if all the muddled, cold, and lonely things before were just an illusion.

But everything in his memory told him that this was not an illusion; he had died once, drifted in the underworld for I don't know how long, and the most vivid memory during that time was just being drawn by a little monster.

"Doctor Xu..."

Wang Li stared at that mixed hole, his eyes firm: "How should the soldiers fight?"

"From the moment you resurrected, the war has already begun!"

Xu Fu was silent for a moment, then pointed to the outside of the Zhou Tian Starship and said firmly: "Do you see it?"

Wang Li looked up and around, only seeing the Return to Ruins Illusion Sea and the figure of the Emperor's Underground Capital Western Kunlun Ruins in the distance, he turned his head and asked puzzled: "See what?"

"This heaven and earth!" Xu Fu said proudly: "The heaven and earth that we Great Fangshi are enemies with!"

"Heaven and earth as a furnace, creation as a worker; yin and yang as charcoal, all things as copper..."

Xu Fu chanted the purpose of the Dao of Creation that he had pursued all his life, and wept sadly, but Wang Li only felt that he was talking nonsense, his iron brows locked: "Xu Fu! Where is the enemy?"

"This heaven and earth is the enemy, don't you understand yet?"

Xu Fu laughed loudly: "Why do you think you resurrected? It is because someone seized the creation of heaven and earth..." 【80

He took out the immortal divine medicine, and the colors in the five-colored medicine mud were mixing. Visible to the naked eye, a reaction that was difficult to fathom was happening.

Xu Fu said: "The immortal medicine that the First Emperor wanted is here. He... perhaps called Qian Chen or something, used me as a worker to refine the immortal demonic medicine, and used the blue sky as a teacher to refine the immortal divine medicine. Now that the divine and demonic medicines are combined, he is still not satisfied. He wants to seize the creation of heaven and earth, and also seize the creation of the people of Immortal Qin!"

"Therefore, the medicinal properties of the immortal medicine turned into a ritual, resurrecting you."

"He wants to..."

Xu Fu opened his hands, intending to embrace the entire heaven and earth: "Encompass the entire heaven and earth, invade and seize all creation. He wants to take us, take Immortal Qin, and refine a furnace of pills. The divine and demonic immortal medicine is the monarch, reversing life and death is the minister, yin and yang chaos is the assistant, and virtual and real changes are the envoy!"

Xu Fu held up the five-colored immortal divine medicine and said to Wang Li: "See that? The medicinal properties of the immortal demonic medicine fell on you, and I gathered with you with the immortal divine medicine. The divine and demonic are combined at this moment. You are resurrected from death, but he is transformed from life to death."

"Now here is a Taiji diagram!"

Xu Fu pointed to their location and that chaos hole that was like a bottomless abyss.

"We are real, he is virtual; we are life, he is death; we are human, he is heaven!"

"So with the rotation of the Taiji diagram, we turn from real to virtual, from life to death, heaven and man offend each other, heaven and man merge into one, and all creation is seized by him."

"This war started long ago! All the creation created by Immortal Qin, all the wisdom contained, and even you and me, are just pill materials in his eyes!"

Xu Fu drew an inverted Bagua, in which Qian was below and Kun was above.

One is like heaven in the dark, one is like man who does not yield, heaven and man are inverted, and then creation is between order and reverse.

"Still don't understand?"

Xu Fu smiled: "It's just a furnace of pills!"

This canvas is the world, time, and matter; that origin point is the essence of the Nascent Soul—the True Self.

And that beam of light is the Nascent Soul Great Dao opened by the Supreme One...

Now the Fangshi shakes the canvas; in an instant, that shadow splits into countless afterimages, and then, based on these afterimages, traces upward to the origin point, finally seeking that beam of light!

"The Nascent Soul traces back to the True Self, so that point must be where the cultivator's True Self resides; therefore, it must use the Myriad Thoughts Heart Fire to divide its different hearts."

"The Nascent Soul is immortal, therefore that point, and even that beam of light, must be located above time! It is precisely because the Nascent Soul's True Self stands above time that the Nascent Soul has endless lifespan!"

"Because the True Self stands above time, then based on time, deducing infinite Nascent Soul shadows to trace back to the Nascent Soul's True Self point does not exist in any possibility!"

"How then should the Great Fangshi trace the Nascent Soul?"

Qian Chen became increasingly curious. The Immortal Qin Fangshi truly had a trick up their sleeve. Also, no matter how astonishing or demonic Qian Chen's wisdom was, he had never attained the Nascent Soul from the beginning to the end.

And those seven Great Fangshi had all come from the Nascent Soul.

Regarding how to trace the Nascent Soul True Self, crack the secret of immortality, and refine a trace of Nascent Soul Dao Fruit into Undying Medicine, they naturally had their own ideas.

What Qian Chen needed was the experience of this group of Great Fangshi in impacting the Nascent Soul, as well as their reflections on the essence of the Nascent Soul.

Wang Li laughed loudly: "I can't wait to go and do two little girls, doesn't that count as a living person?"

The countless afterimages split from the Nascent Soul had to absorb the various loves, hates, resentments, thoughts, wisdom, rationality, and sensibility produced by the countless citizens of the Immortal Qin in the virtual world opened by the Great Luo Dharma artifact, thrown over by the Immortal Qin Dharma Spirit.

Everything needed to constitute a person, most importantly, absorbing concepts, ideas, and thoughts from the stories created by people, then achieving consciousness.

Ignorance conditions formations, formations condition consciousness, consciousness conditions name and form, name and form condition the six sense bases, the six sense bases condition contact.

Contact conditions feeling, feeling conditions craving, craving conditions grasping, grasping conditions becoming, becoming conditions birth, birth conditions aging, death, sorrow, grief, suffering, and distress...

Therefore, in the Immortal Qin virtual world, the six contacts were all present; the five senses of eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body evolved various 'contacts', finally combining to produce the 'contact' of consciousness, which is the various things perceived by the five senses being connected, deriving 'thoughts'.

'Thoughts' aggregate to produce concepts.

Concepts change consciousness, consciousness changes personality, personality changes the original heart.

Step by step, different hearts were born.

Talismans can follow the laws of heaven and earth, and registers can communicate with ghosts and gods.

Immediately, heart barriers unfolded one by one on these divine souls that originally came from the same source.

Finally, this Nascent Soul was split into tens of thousands of independent consciousnesses and souls.

This contained the great mysteries of the Buddhist five senses and nine consciousnesses.

The profound mechanism of the Daoist Sect creating souls and splitting the Nascent Soul.

The Demonic Path's method of polishing obsessions and shaping various consciousnesses of Yin demons and heart demons to control demons.

Although it was a cultivation principle, in Xu Fu's hands, it also became a part of the Dao of Creation...

Subsequently, it completed an almost impossible achievement: splitting one Nascent Soul into tens of thousands of independent selves.

"Transforming thoughts, dividing hearts, different views, planting consciousness, gathering souls... If flesh and blood were evolved again, it would be a complete creation of tens of thousands of people!"

Qian Chen praised: "The Immortal Qin Fangshi truly dare to think and dare to act. Summarizing these mature methods, I fear they don't know how many Nascent Souls they have tortured like this! I'm afraid there is also long-term, complete observational experience of splitting one Nascent Soul into tens of thousands of people..."

"Among them, there may be tens of thousands of people as one clan, with men, women, old, and young, their causes and effects intersecting, enacting love, hate, and enmity."

"There are also those scattered in various worlds, tempered in the most complex red dust."

"Finally, they would use various methods, including cultivating one of these people to achieve the Nascent Soul, or finding ways to refine their souls and reunite the Nascent Soul. I don't know how many ways of 'one transforming into ten thousand, ten thousand merging into one' they experimented with before summarizing such mature technology!"

"Next, it's time to reunite the Nascent Soul!"

Qian Chen asked curiously: "Let me see exactly what method was used to achieve this?"

Sure enough, using gentle fire to nourish, manipulating the Creation Furnace to accelerate time by about a thousand years, until the countless souls split from that Nascent Soul gradually matured and the outer profile of the souls stabilized.

Xu Fu then switched to fierce fire!

The Myriad Thoughts Heart Fire, mixed with the most stubborn and obstinate concepts of infinite human hearts, transformed into the most explosive Soul-Refining Demon Fire that burned and wore down all divine souls, beginning to erase and refine those souls bit by bit, using the most ruthless method that even the Demonic Path would call torture.

For a time, those overlapping souls, drowned in the illusions they created themselves.

The scholar who topped the golden list and had his wedding night with his lover...

The general who fought in a hundred battles and bathed in blood with the enemy...

The scholar who studied until his hair turned white but achieved nothing in middle age...

The peddler and fisherman who sold fish and killed fish, haggling over every ounce...

The top courtesan who performed in the brothel, pitying and loving herself...

These souls, each with their own self, under the most explosive and cruel coercion, instantly faced the most naked distinction between life and death, everything being tested before life and death.

At this moment, deep within these different selves and infinitely illusory souls, the same persistent longing erupted.

Survival!

Any soul that did not erupt with this intense longing was instantly refined and dissipated by the Soul-Refining Demon Fire; only those souls whose divine souls erupted with this most tyrannical power were preserved.

The heart barriers collapsed...

At this moment, all the split selves suddenly collapsed toward one point.

Qian Chen knew this was what Xu Fu had painstakingly refined and what he himself had been calculating and seeking—the Nascent Soul True Self.

The souls split from that Nascent Soul, each with their own self, each with their own obsessions, infinite different views, infinite different consciousnesses and illusions, in the face of the life-and-death barrier, erupted with the same intense struggle and fluctuation.

That was the essence of the point where the Fangshi found the Nascent Soul aggregation.

When infinite divided souls collapsed toward that point, gathering toward that point in the dark, Qian Chen's wisdom suddenly sank.

The wisdom entrusted in the infinite divided souls also crashed toward that point; he saw a great door slowly open, leading directly to an unimaginable world.

The Gate of the Nascent Soul, suddenly swung open!

"Are you willing to lend your power to me?"

A weary figure stood before Qian Chen, calmly asking the 'me' who had knocked open the Gate of the Nascent Soul.

His hair was already white, his figure hunched, just like an ordinary and plain old man, but a pair of bright eyes like an infant's were full of weariness, even covered in scars.

He whispered: "I traced the long river of time upward, wanting to change everything from the source, but I failed! The Heavenly Emperor stood at the source and beheaded my past life... No matter how I struggled in later generations, as long as he moved at the source, the shadows under time would change."

"I have already lost nine times, my relatives and friends have all left me, and now I risked entering the Nine Nether and finally found it!"

The old man pointed to the chaotic, unspeakable existence ahead, the Dao Fruit in which all possibilities and all existence seemed to be reflected.

"It is the shadow of the myriad realms of the cosmos!"

"In the world of my memory, there is a saying that life is the greatest thing in the universe, because the universe's instinct develops from order to chaos, while life comes from chaos and moves toward order. But if life has a heart, it is an even greater power! Because things without a heart, although they also change, are like the sunrise and sunset, the movement of stars, and the opening of the universe."

"This kind of change is fixed, following a certain Dao!"

"A person's thought can sometimes change the entire universe, causing the long river of time to split into two streams when it reaches that thought."

"Being able to create the universe and change the world, this great power is entrusted to a small thought."

"How is it not a miracle?"

"Above the great power of the universe and time, the exploration of the Great Dao, and all wisdom, I have already lost! Now, I only seek this kind of miracle, this power of change!"

"I call it 'Yi'!"

"The Heavenly Emperor stands at the beginning of time, gathering everything downward; the only thing he cannot change is me. He stands at the beginning, writing the ending. And I am but an obstinate character in his story, a person unwilling to accept his own fate!"

"But I know, I am not the only one unwilling to accept my own fate!"

"There are also you!"

"I will give the power of 'Yi' to you! I stole the infinite possibilities hidden by the Heavenly Emperor from the Nine Nether..."

The old man straightened his spine, lifting the unspeakable Dao Fruit before him.

Toward the upper and lower reaches of the long river of time, toward all living beings in the myriad realms of the cosmos, that was the entire time flow of the Three Realms and the myriad realms of the cosmos thereafter! Those were other worlds cut out by the Heavenly Emperor!"

"The infinite possibilities created by all living beings are contained within!"

"Useless?"

An unimaginable figure stood above time, the existence in imperial robes and jade crown stood with hands behind his back at the origin, calmly saying: "When opening the universe, I already subtracted these parallel spaces from matter, turning them into an illusory shadow. The changes within are like the distortion when light is projected down; they can only twist in the shadow and can no longer interfere with reality!"

The old man was pierced through the chest by the Heavenly Emperor and nailed to the step near the source of the long river of time.

"I am Fuxi!"

"This is my first life!" the old man's shadow slowly said: "Leave 'Yi' to all living beings..."

The old man with white hair and white beard, riding a green ox, watched Fuxi's death with a smile.

From then on, the complete 'me' who attained the Great Luo was beheaded of the 'Yang' half, leaving only a goddess with a snake tail and human body weeping.

"Xi!"

"Fuxi!"

She swallowed the Undying Divine Medicine, raised her head, and faced the Heavenly Emperor.

The Heavenly Emperor watched her calmly and said:

"I cannot violate the laws I have set, so I will not kill you! Nuwa, by my order, create all living beings and your human race!"

The old man with white hair and white beard riding the green ox arrived before the huge Dao Fruit stolen by Fuxi.

"I still believe in the infinite power of all living beings!"

The old man slowly said: "The Heavenly Emperor sealed the possibilities you created in this shadow; he refuses to believe in the miracles you create, establishing a heart for heaven and earth, making all living beings heartless. Relying on his own power to decide the future for all living beings... this is... what kind of ambition and arrogance?"

"God is to bear the responsibility of the future for all living beings."

The Heavenly Emperor slowly said: "I am the Emperor of all gods, naturally I must lead and choose the best future for all living beings!"

"Tai Yi, you slaughtered all living beings, trampled on all living beings, and refused to repent; how dare you say you believe in the infinite power of all living beings?"

Tai Shang slowly stepped off the green ox and walked into the illusory Dao Fruit.

Looking back for the last time: "I believe that everyone is a 'god'! Everyone has the wisdom and power of a god, everyone has the possibility of becoming a god; this is the 'Nascent Soul'!"

He left a sentence: "Walking into the illusion you beheaded, pursuing more possibilities left to me by all living beings... Heavenly Emperor, standing above the origin does not mean you can decide everything! Even if you modify the source countless times, even if all living beings despise me, they will eventually follow me to create more possibilities! Until surpassing the origin, surpassing reality, this is my Dao of Tai Yi!"

"All living beings are the Supreme, I am the Only One!"

"One day, I will exhaust all futures in the illusory shadow you abandoned, opening up the Infinite for all living beings! From that Nine Nether, my Tai Yi Dao Fruit will rise!"

"At that time, my Dao Fruit will encompass all possibilities, respecting the choices of all living beings!"

"I will behead the dust, leaving only a sincere heart, opening the path of the Nascent Soul for all living beings. At that time, this Tai Yi Dao Fruit will entrust the most real self of all living beings, evolving the infinite possibilities they create; as long as they are firm enough, all paths will open for them, all possibilities will be created by them!"

Is this the secret of the Nascent Soul?

Qian Chen was already incomparably shocked in his heart; he saw a force erase everything from the source of the long river of time, and this scene seen by his consciousness was constantly erased by this great force, yet constantly reshaped.

The essence of the Dao Dust Pearl was too high; even the power of the origin could hardly erase his memory...

"Outside heaven and earth, there is a Tai Yi Dao Fruit, encompassing all futures!"

"All living beings possess the power called 'Yi', which can create infinite possibilities from the heart. And most possibilities have no 'persistence'; only the True Self, only things that are always persisted in among infinite possibilities, can allow the infinite possibilities in the Tai Yi Dao Fruit to gather in one direction, allowing that powerful force to descend into reality, or even directly confront the karma of countless people and modify reality?"

"No, there is no need to confront infinite karma at all; he only needs a heart, a heart that can move Tai Shang!"

Qian Chen suddenly understood what Tai Shang's merging with the Dao was for.

That was his promise when attaining the Tai Yi Dao Fruit, and also why Tai Shang was so resolute in beheading his emotions.

He saw the sinking of all living beings and the destruction of the universe after he defeated the Heavenly Emperor, so he picked up everything and beheaded his reluctance.

Tai Shang merged with the Dao, leaving only reluctance, yet it was for all living beings!

When Tai Shang observes all possibilities and observes the future evolved by everyone's 'heart', as long as someone constantly implements their True Self in those infinite possibilities, pursuing the future they urgently want.

As long as his heart moves Tai Shang, then everything will be realized.

Just like the Foolish Old Man moving the mountains, like the Taihang and Wangwu mountains moved by the Heavenly Emperor, the source of all divine abilities, magic power, and Dao practice is the heart.

Only when the heart moves can there be heaven-turning and earth-flipping changes, and can everything be changed.

And now the Great Dao has a heart, named Tai Shang.

Using the heart to connect with the heart, therefore it can have infinite power, and the Great Dao follows.

The so-called Nascent Soul is to implement the True Self, using a sincere heart to gather the infinite scattered possibilities in the Tai Yi Dao Fruit. Allowing infinite 'other selves' to become the self, opening up the future they want within the Tai Yi Dao Fruit.

Then these various futures, along the path of the Nascent Soul opened by Tai Shang in the Tai Yi Dao Fruit, bless reality!

Qian Chen saw the point of the Nascent Soul of the Profound Heaven Sect in the Tai Yi Dao Fruit.

At this moment, it had already differentiated into infinite 'selves', these selves opened infinite possibilities on the timeline, working hard in one direction, exhausting all changes, and not giving up.

That is—"Living!"

At this moment, the infinite selves in the Tai Yi Dao Fruit overlapped with the True Self in the Creation Furnace, and the magic power rose as if it had no source and no end!

At that moment, the infinite futures he created in the Tai Yi Dao Fruit, the timelines opened in the direction of living, all descended silently around him along with the Tai Yi Dao Fruit.

That point of the Nascent Soul exhausted all changes, and amidst Xu Fu's crazy strangulation and wearing down—it lived.

Even if it was erased by the absolute power and absolute Dao of the Dao Fruit, that Nascent Soul was still alive.

The infinite selves it split made the future it created on the timeline even more complex; this was originally a ruthless method to wear down the Nascent Soul True Self, making the infinite futures in the Tai Yi Dao Fruit 'other-transformed', where the 'I' in every future no longer thinks I am 'I'.