[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-treasure-immortal-basin":3,"chapter-the-treasure-immortal-basin-the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-162":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Treasure Immortal Basin",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2355345,4608,"Chapter 162","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-162",162,"\u003Cp>“You have nothing you want to say to me?” The old man looked at He Pingsheng and asked calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng had now regained his composure; he gave a cold smile: “A mere ant fights for its life until death—what’s there to say?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You won, I lost. That’s all there is to it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kill me or cut me up—do as you please!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pah…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pah!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pah!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elder extended his hand and clapped a few times, the sound sharp and loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good! A true hero, upright and honorable!” The frail body of Tai Xu straightened again; he slowly paced twice around He Pingsheng and said: “So now, am I the victor, and you the loser?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng said nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tai Xu continued: “Then, you, the loser, can you tell me why you tried to flee?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have I ever wronged you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng said: “Why play dumb, Master?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tai Xu said: “I insist on playing dumb—please, Young Master He, enlighten me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng pointed behind him: “The entire Grand Void Gate won’t let me leave, confines me here—what are your intentions? Don’t you know?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned his arm and pointed to the unfinished array on the ground: “This is clearly a soul-replacement array!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re going to steal my body—do you really think I won’t run?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tai Xu was stunned: “Soul… soul-replacement?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at himself, then at the array beneath his feet, and nodded: “You think this is a soul-replacement array?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng shot back: “Isn’t it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, yes, yes…” Tai Xu nodded wearily: “If you think it is, then it is. After all, you’re the loser now, and I’m the victor!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In a single thought, I can crush your spiritual sense!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There’s no escaping now!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Interested in making a deal with me?” The Grand Elder Tai Xu smiled, turned his back to He Pingsheng, and slowly walked toward the large and small circular arrays.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a few quick claps, array flags landed precisely in their positions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soul-replacement array grew more complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng asked: “Kill me or cut me up—do as you please. Why make a deal with me now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boring, boring…” The old man shook his head like a rattle: “How much do you know about soul-replacement?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng said: “Not much.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grand Elder Tai Xu asked: “Do you know the success rate of soul-replacement?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Success rate?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng froze—he truly didn’t know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before he could answer, the old man arranging the array muttered to himself: “Soul-replacement defies the Dao of heaven and earth—its success rate is extremely low. Even with my Nascent Soul cultivation, overpowering you, a mere beginner, my success rate is less than one percent!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So my deal is this: trade one percent chance of death for a future of smooth cultivation. What do you say?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng said: “I don’t understand.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh…” Tai Xu smiled: “When this array is complete, I will initiate soul-replacement. Of course, my chance of success is only one percent. If I succeed, you vanish from this world—I take your body and continue cultivating.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I fail, my life ends—and I give you… this…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pointed behind him: “The entire Grand Void Gate. How?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All the resources in the left hall are prepared for you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And the Grand Void Gate itself—I give it to you… you’ll be its new master!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng felt no temptation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His own life—even a one-in-a-hundred chance of death—he wouldn’t gamble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could gamble on the Dao, on fate—but never on his own life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can I refuse?” He Pingsheng asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man shook his head: “No. A loser cannot refuse the victor’s terms.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sit here. Calm your soul. Restore your spiritual sense.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That way, your chance of winning increases.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After speaking, Grand Elder Tai Xu lay back down and resumed arranging the array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long after—about half an hour—the Grand Void Hall revealed two emerald-green light membranes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cold winds swept in, as if rising from the deepest netherworld.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boundless yin energy surged from the array, drifting through the hall, then violently scattered by the Nine Yang Array already set up around the hall’s perimeter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So it is!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng’s eyes narrowed: everything before him matched his earlier suspicions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nine Yang Array was meant to suppress yin energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Begin!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grand Elder Tai Xu spoke calmly—and He Pingsheng felt his body lose control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was entirely manipulated by Tai Xu’s spiritual sense, forced into the soul-replacement array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soul-replacement array had two circles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One large, one small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The large circle represented the primary position; the small circle, the guest position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng landed in the primary position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grand Elder Tai Xu stood in the guest position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soul-replacement was a forbidden art that reversed guest and master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master… Master…” He Pingsheng panicked, pleading: “Don’t do this… I beg you… I’ll do anything—just don’t steal my body!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enough!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grand Elder Tai Xu’s gaze darkened: “Don’t speak now, or your death rate rises.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tai Xu’s spiritual sense erupted, engulfing He Pingsheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under this overwhelming spiritual control, He Pingsheng could no longer move his body, could not even circulate his internal energy or speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only watch helplessly as Tai Xu’s spiritual sense slowly, inch by inch, invaded his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With overwhelming soul-force, he offered no resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Excellent… you possess such a miraculous fortune… heh heh… I didn’t choose wrong!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You even have the Treasure Basin?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hahahaha… truly a child of heaven—your future will surpass mine!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng’s vision suddenly went black—he lost all awareness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He drifted in darkness for an unknown time, then woke again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flash of light pierced endless black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the pitch-black night, rain poured relentlessly, a torrential downpour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thunder rolled across the sky; lightning occasionally split the darkness, illuminating the deep valley.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On a slightly elevated spot in the valley stood a three-story wooden pavilion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside, lights glowed brightly; a tall man in a white Daoist robe stood at the railing, his face heavy with sorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng shuddered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He recognized this man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasn’t this Tai Xu?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No… this must be young Tai Xu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A young woman in a greenish Daoist robe stepped quietly from the pavilion—her beauty unmatched, yet her face bore the same faint sorrow as Tai Xu’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At last, He Pingsheng understood why he was seeing this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soul-replacement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During soul fusion, each soul contains the other’s memories—they can both see each other’s past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This… is Tai Xu’s memory?\u003C\u002Fp>",1062,"2026-06-21T04:08:57.694Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","016e6d920dcd514738958c766adfcb974f5b06fe081f6b93c730c5396a466436","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-163","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-161",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-treasure-immortal-basin-cover.jpg"]