Chapter 197

"No, I mean my name is Bu Yao Lian (Don't Want Face). Bu from cloth, Yao Lian from don't want face." The Decayed Immortal was beaten into submission, answering every question and having a very good attitude.

The Immortal Fairy frowned: "Why do you have such a strange name?" Lu Yang thought to himself, what right do you have to say someone else's name is strange?

The Decayed Immortal sighed: "I don't want to be called this either, but it's a long story to explain this problem."

"Take your time." The Immortal Fairy conjured a small stool, sat on it, and held her head with her palm, wanting to hear what the Decayed Immortal had to say.

Yun Zhi and Lu Yang also listened quietly on the side.

The Decayed Immortal said truthfully: "I don't know where my consciousness came from, nor do I know how I was born. A long time ago, I produced my first consciousness. The consciousness was very faint, only able to vaguely perceive my own situation, like looking at flowers in the fog, not seeing them very clearly."

"I felt power from unknown sources continuously gathering on me, making me stronger bit by bit, but my consciousness was still hazy and blurred, unable to distinguish things in the outside world."

"I could also feel many memories filling my consciousness, but I didn't have the ability to think at that time, just blindly accepting memories, unable to organize and process these vast memories."

"My consciousness gradually became powerful, and faint voices sounded beside my consciousness, shouting 'Decayed Immortal'. I had the word 'Decayed Immortal' in my memory, but I still couldn't process the memory and didn't know what 'Decayed Immortal' was."

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"I don't know how long it had been, perhaps hundreds of years, perhaps thousands of years. In short, my consciousness suddenly became clear, like a drowning person being fished up, restoring my perception of the outside world."

"And the first sentence I heard after my consciousness became clear was—Great Decayed Immortal Bu Yao Lian, please save your devout believers, save this world."

"'Bu Yao Lian' became my name. I didn't have a name originally. It was the Sect Master who called me 'Bu Yao Lian' that I obtained a name."

"As I obtained a name, I was finally able to process the vast memories from before and know the meaning represented by those memories."

"In the memories, I saw someone accidentally discover a secret realm, enter it by mistake, and know that there was an immortal in ancient times who protected the human race, called the Decayed Immortal. The Decayed Immortal possessed the Decayed Dao Fruit and could be resurrected from the dead. After that person left the secret realm, he founded the Decayed Sect, attempting to resurrect the Decayed Immortal."

"The Decayed Sect became strong, and more and more believers joined the Decayed Sect, using slaughter to please the Decayed Immortal, calling the immortal's true name, and resurrecting the immortal."

"At that time, I understood that I was the Decayed Immortal resurrected by the Decayed Sect. As long as someone truly believed in me, prayed to me, and worshipped me, I would obtain their memories."

"The Sect Master prayed to me, and I appeared in the world through the statue, responding to the Sect Master's expectations."

"I possessed the Sect Master's memories, and everything the Sect Master knew, I knew. I saw that he was seriously injured and needed a hundred years of quiet cultivation. Considering that he was my most devout and powerful believer, I took action to treat him."

"As I obtained a name, I could feel that I was mastering a golden light. Combining it with memories, I guessed that this was the Decayed Dao Fruit."

"I used part of the Decayed Dao Fruit's ability to treat the Sect Master's injuries."

"But I don't know if I am really the Decayed Immortal. My earliest memory comes from the first believer, which is a memory from more than ten thousand years ago. I don't have a single bit of memory about ancient times."

"For example, when the Sect Master asked me who on earth refined the sky full of stars, I couldn't answer this question, but I couldn't say I didn't know, so I told him that this matter was at a very high level and not something he could know."

"I wasn't sure how the believers would react if they knew my state, so I could only pretend to have awakened from the long ancient times."

"And I had always been in a soul state, which definitely wouldn't work in the long run, so I told the Sect Master that I wanted to possess someone, return to the peak, and save the world."

"The Sect Master believed my words and gathered all the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stage cultivators to hold a competition, from which I chose a suitable object for possession."

"And then you chose me?" Lu Yang asked.

The Decayed Immortal nodded helplessly. That's right, I shouldn't have chosen anyone else at the beginning, but my eyes weren't good, and I chose you, only to be beaten up.

If I had changed to someone else, my possession would have succeeded.

The things the Decayed Immortal confessed explained some problems, such as why he didn't know ancient moves, why he wanted to possess someone, and why he was called Bu Yao Lian.

But there were still some problems that even he couldn't explain clearly.

For example, who on earth was he? Where did he come from? How did the Decayed Dao Fruit appear?

Lu Yang looked at the Eldest Senior Sister and the Immortal Fairy with expectant eyes. At this time, it was necessary for the knowledgeable old seniors to take action.

The Immortal Fairy frowned, not knowing what problem she was thinking about, looking like she wasn't very reliable.

The Eldest Senior Sister had been listening quietly to the Decayed Immortal's experience from beginning to end, distinguishing whether these experiences were true or made up by him.

The Eldest Senior Sister believed that the general experience should be true.

She noticed Lu Yang's gaze and knew that this little junior brother still had many questions and hoped to get answers from her. She said: "The Supreme Elder of the Tiance Sect, Dao Yan Shangren, once proposed a hypothesis, saying that there was no Decayed Immortal in the world originally, and no Decayed Dao Fruit. The Decayed Sect is creating an immortal."

Lu Yang nodded secretly. The old senior was indeed very reliable.

Upon hearing Yun Zhi's words, the Decayed Immortal raised his head suddenly. Where did Dao Yan Shangren pop out from? How dare he question that this fairy's Dao Fruit doesn't exist.

Do you know how much effort I spent to form the Dao Fruit! The four of them, Ying Tian and the others, were all very envious!

Lu Yang suggested that the Immortal Fairy listen to the Eldest Senior Sister first and then settle accounts with Dao Yan Shangren afterward.

Yun Zhi continued: "Where the soul comes from and where it returns to is a difficult problem that the Cultivation Realm has been unable to explain so far. Dao Yan Shangren believes that human thoughts are a kind of power. As long as human thoughts are numerous enough and powerful enough, it is possible for a soul to appear."

"Of course, this is a hypothesis, and it cannot explain how the first soul was born, but your situation fits the situation of this hypothesis."

"From the establishment of the Decayed Sect to the present, it has been fourteen thousand years. In fourteen thousand years, at least millions of believers have been praying to the non-existent Decayed Immortal. In such a long time, with massive thoughts, it is completely possible to create a soul, which is you, the Decayed Immortal."

"However, for your appearance, perhaps one more condition needs to be added—killing."

"Have you ever thought about where the power you just unleashed, those demonic Qi carrying resentment, came from?"

"Humans are the leaders of all things and the darlings of heaven and earth. They possess 'spirituality' as soon as they are born. The practice of demonic cultivators is to strip away human 'spirituality' through slaughter and turn it into their own power."