Chapter 309: Reason

In the dream.

Li Fei looked at the life-bound magic tool left behind by True Person Qingding—the Dragon Source Elixir Furnace.

From a magic tool to a life-bound magic tool, the most critical point lay in nurturing a true spirit, allowing the magic tool to possess spirituality.

Therefore, the realm of a True Person was called the 'True Spirit Realm'.

After the owner of a life-bound magic tool died, the true spirit within the life-bound magic tool would also dissipate, turning back into an ordinary magic tool.

Therefore, after True Person Qingding died, his Dragon Source Elixir Furnace would soon shed its 'spirituality', and the elixirs inside would also be affected.

True Person Qingxu was also out of this consideration that he would take out the Longevity Elixirs in the elixir furnace at the first opportunity.

But what he did not expect was that True Person Qingding had integrated a wisp of his true soul into the Longevity Elixir in advance.

This was a kind of attempt by True Person Qingding; if it succeeded, he could better steal the Son of Heaven's dragon Qi.

Originally, he intended to tell True Person Qingxu about this matter today, but as a result, before he could speak, this change occurred.

Therefore, True Person Qingxu also did not know that True Person Qingding had integrated a wisp of his true soul into the Longevity Elixir.

The so-called true soul was something only a True Person possessed, and was the product of the combination of the self-consciousness and one's own true power, similar to a person's soul.

It was just that an ordinary person's soul was an ethereal existence, and only a mage who had practiced void thought could allow their consciousness to be preserved for a period of time after death.

Only after practicing void thought into true power could one condense a true soul.

The true spirit of a life-bound magic tool integrated a part of the True Person's true soul.

After a True Person died, the true soul could exist for at most seven days!

And if there was something that could house the soul, the time the true soul could persist would be longer.

Of course, such things that could house the soul were very rare.

The Longevity Elixir refined by True Person Qingding was not suitable for housing the soul; he just wanted to use his true soul as a 'transport tool' to better steal the Son of Heaven's dragon Qi.

True Person Qingxu did not know this beforehand, and made a move to kill True Person Qingding, destroying his true body and extinguishing his true soul, thinking that he had completely exterminated True Person Qingding.

Yet he did not expect that True Person Qingding had integrated a wisp of his true soul into the Longevity Elixir in advance.

True Person Qingding dared to do this, so he had to ensure that the true soul he hid would not be discovered; after all, there was also a True Person Xiang Yunshu on the imperial court side.

Therefore, True Person Qingxu also did not discover the wisp of true soul hidden in the Longevity Elixir, and just like that, he put all these elixirs into the box.

Immediately following, True Person Qingxu cast illusion techniques, transforming into the appearance of True Person Qingding.

He cast a streak of true power, and a few minutes later, Ning Shi and another martial artist in the Dao foundation stage wearing a Daoist robe walked into the elixir refining room.

"Master."

The two bowed to True Person Qingxu, who had transformed into True Person Qingding.

True Person Qingxu did not speak, but just glanced at the two.

The next second, Ning Shi and the other martial artist in the Dao foundation stage were stunned.

True Person Qingxu's eyes had purple light flickering, and Ning Shi and his senior brother Ning Qi both had blank eyes, their hearts and minds shaking violently.

The memories of the two were being tampered with!

This scene made Li Fei's scalp tingle.

True Person Qingxu's illusion techniques were actually so strong that they could reach the point of directly tampering with other people's memories?!

And the people whose memories were tampered with were still a Great Mage in the Attachment stage and a martial artist in the Dao foundation stage!

In this way, did they not become puppets on strings in other people's hands?

Soon, Li Fei learned about this method of True Person Qingxu through the dream.

The stronger the mental power, the harder it was to have memories tampered with, and memory tampering must have traces to follow and conform to logic.

For example, Ning Shi and Ning Qi had both been ordered by True Person Qingding over the past few years to secretly replace the materials sent by the imperial court under the pretext of refining the elixir of immortality.

Therefore, True Person Qingxu did not need to tamper with the memories of the two on a large scale at all, and only needed to 'modify' some key parts, remove the content related to himself, and then 'persuade' the two to attack the person who came to collect the elixirs.

"Take these two talisman papers with you; they can cover up the heavenly secrets."

Inside the elixir refining room, True Person Qingxu took out two talisman papers and handed them to the two.

The two took the talisman papers and then left the elixir refining room.

Subsequently, True Person Qingxu's image changed again, turning into the little Daoist whom Li Fei had seen in that great hall.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, True Person Qingxu got up and walked out of the elixir refining room, arrived at the great hall in front, and met Ai Liangshan, who had come to collect the Longevity Elixir.

This scene was abnormally familiar to Li Fei.

True Person Qingxu handed the box in his hand to Ai Liangshan.

The reason why he wanted to hand over the real Longevity Elixir was because he did not want to create extra complications.

In case something unexpected happened when Ning Shi and Ning Qi went to rob and kill Ai Liangshan, at least the elixirs would be fine.

Subsequently, Ai Liangshan took the box containing the Longevity Elixir and left True Person Qingding's Daoist temple.

In this process, True Person Qingding's true soul absorbed all the medicinal power of the Longevity Elixir, using the medicinal power to strengthen his own true soul.

Therefore, without Ai Liangshan noticing at all, the elixirs in the box all disappeared.

This was why Li Fei had elixirs in the box he got in the dream, while in Ai Liangshan's memory, the box was empty.

After absorbing the Longevity Elixir, True Person Qingding's true soul chose to attach itself to Ai Liangshan at the first opportunity.

He also had no better choice; if a wisp of true soul had no host, the dissipation speed would be very fast, and he also did not know if he would have another opportunity to come into such close contact with a Daluo Sect disciple whose cultivation realm was not high.

After all, there were restrictions everywhere in the Daluo Sect, and these restrictions were simply too dangerous for True Person Qingding, who only had a wisp of true soul left!

Under Li Fei's 'bystander' view, this wisp of true soul of True Person Qingding just like that attached itself to Ai Liangshan.

After that, Ai Liangshan was attacked by Ning Shi and Ning Qi.

This was something True Person Qingding had not expected; his struggle experience was not rich to begin with, and he simply had not expected that True Person Qingxu would use the loss of the Longevity Elixir to set a trap.

Ai Liangshan was only a martial artist in the peak of the Qi Transformation stage, and being attacked by a Great Mage in the Attachment stage and a martial artist in the Dao foundation stage, he naturally had no power to fight back.

Because True Person Qingding's true soul had already silently attached itself to Ai Liangshan's self-consciousness, so when Ai Liangshan died, his true soul wandered outside with a part of Ai Liangshan's self-consciousness.

In this situation, True Person Qingding had no way to find another person to 'reside' in.

First, his true soul power had almost been exhausted, and he had no strength to perform such an operation again.

Second, his true soul had already been stained with a part of Ai Liangshan's self-consciousness, and going to 'reside' in someone else would cause a conflict.

One of the items in this world most suitable for the true soul to reside in was a life-bound magic tool.

In the Daluo Sect, such life-bound magic tools were not few, but the problem was that these life-bound magic tools all had owners.

It was just like every room already had people living in it, and there was no empty room for True Person Qingding's wisp of true soul to live in.

And besides life-bound magic tools, there was another kind of magic tool that was also very suitable for the true soul to live in—a True One magic tool.

A True One magic tool was something that had fallen from a magic treasure; the true spirit of the magic treasure had gone silent along with the owner's death, and in the end, only a shell of the magic treasure remained, which was a True One magic tool.

This was like a naturally ownerless empty house, and it was the kind that was extremely luxuriously decorated!

But True One magic tools were all very rare; the Daluo Sect's True One magic tools were either in the hands of True Person Qingxu, or had already been refined into life-bound magic tools by other True Persons.

The only ownerless True One magic tool was the Dao-Listening Bell, which was guarded by experts all year round, and True Person Qingding simply had no opportunity to occupy it.

Even if he occupied it, he would soon be discovered and then cleared out.

Therefore, True Person Qingding's wisp of true soul could only keep floating in the Daluo Sect, and did not even dare to run elsewhere; once it touched some kind of restriction, it would instantly turn into ashes!

Just when True Person Qingding thought that this wisp of true soul of his would slowly dissipate, representatives from thirteen universities arrived at Daluo Peak to jointly discuss the Martial Arts Exchange Tournament.

Li Fei also came, and was also carrying the Dream-Command Token.

For True Person Qingding, the True One magic tool Dream-Command Token was a rare 'empty house', and had a natural, strong attraction to him!

Therefore, after his true soul sensed the existence of the Dream-Command Token, it entered it at the first opportunity.

Li Fei watched the entire process from the sidelines in the dream.

Only then did he know that it turned out that on the first night he arrived at Daluo Peak, a wisp of true soul had appeared in the Dream-Command Token!

PS: I went to see a house with my girlfriend during the day today; I didn't intend to buy it today, but suddenly met a landlord who lowered the price by more than 100,000, allowing us to pick up a bargain on the spot, so I signed the contract and paid the deposit directly tonight, and have been busy until now, so I can only update once today.

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