Chapter 335: 197. Different people, familiar “dishes

Between heaven and earth, there are twenty-four solar terms, starting from the beginning of spring and ending with the great cold, the cycle of life revolves repeatedly, akin to reincarnation, but the flower that blooms today will never be the flower that bloomed yesterday.

Thus, when Tan Shuchang broke free from his incarnation of the heaven and earth, understanding the states of the solar terms, he developed doubts about the previous notions of reincarnation.

When humans re-enter the cycle of life and return to this heaven and earth, are they truly the same person as before?

Successful cultivators carry the Dao Fruit within them, their souls unaffected, so they are largely the same person. But what about ordinary cultivators, let alone the myriad creatures?

A blade of grass withers in winter and revives in spring, seemingly the same blade of grass from death to death.

Yet, such a blade of grass is only seemingly so.

The veins in the leaves, the height of the stalks, even the direction the leaves face, all of these are actually different.

It is the same with people as it is with grass.

“So, whether it’s reincarnation or transmigration, after undergoing one death and rebirth, it is a completely new life. I did not expect that my initial understanding of the demonic path would apply to the way of heaven and earth.”

Tan Shuchang thought of this and suddenly had a thought — could it be that the grand Dao of this world is actually the demonic path?

“No, if that were the case, then I, a disciple of the Sacred Gate of the demonic path, wouldn’t just have white-colored luck…” Tan Shuchang shook his head, denying his own guess.

Immediately, Tan Shuchang prepared to check how much time had passed.

Before he could act, however, he discovered a message left by a young girl.

On a flattened, pill-shaped magic artifact, Dongdong informed him that she was about to go into seclusion to attempt Becoming an Immortal and asked him not to disturb her recently, and to prepare a celebratory Immortal’s feast for her.

“It seems that not many years have passed.” Tan Shuchang glanced at the time when the young girl left this message, which was half a month ago.

He then tried to sense and found that in Shenxu Heaven, he was still the only Immortal, so he went to Old State.

Upon his arrival, two Mountain-Sea Beasts quickly emerged.

One was huge in shape, like an ox, standing on one leg, with its body sparking with electric arcs, known as the Kui Ox.

Another Mountain-Sea Beast was a shadow resembling a dragon.

It was indeed the Zhuchen.

“I have a method that can help you break through, although you will be refined by me because of it. Choose between you.” Tan Shuchang got straight to the point.

This was the method he used to bring the Mountain-Sea Beast rooster from the Land of the Four Pillars, originally with many flaws, but this time the understanding of the twenty-four solar terms unexpectedly allowed him to perfect this method.

The Kui Ox didn’t even think before agreeing; the moment it decided to follow Tan Shuchang, forsaking its tribe, it had made the mental preparation to be refined.

After hesitating for a while, the Zhuchen chose to refuse.

Having lived for too long, the Zhuchen was as cautious as a mature water and thunder Jiao from the mountain marshes.

Tan Shuchang was not upset by this, only telling the Zhuchen to wait for another half a Jiazi before attempting to break through. He then waved his hand and took the Kui Ox away.

Before long, when he reappeared, the Kui Ox was already in the Blood Pool.

The blood water instantly submerged the Kui Ox.

Yet it was not refined directly by Tan Shuchang like a ghostly being, but was entwined with strands of blood water, eventually leaving Tan Shuchang’s mark within the powers of the Kui Ox.

From this moment on, all the cultivation and powers of the Kui Ox were attributed to Tan Shuchang, even if the Kui Ox succeeded in Becoming an Immortal, transforming its cultivation into spiritual prowess.

Then, Tan Shuchang took the Kui Ox to Shenxiu Prison Earth.

“Holy Master, what place is this?” The Kui Ox, seeing the mountains covered with Spiritual Medicine upon its first visit to Shenxiu Prison Earth, was utterly stunned.

A massive ox mouth was gaping open, capable of fitting more than a hundred human heads.

“Eat whatever you want, just don’t stray. The cultivators here are very fond of your type of flesh.” Tan Shuchang did not explain further, merely saying this.

Upon hearing Tan Shuchang say this, the Kui Ox was suddenly startled.

It then started picking the Spiritual Medicine from the ground.

This area of Shenxiu Prison Earth was a secluded forest where Body Cultivation was not pursued due to the lack of Spiritual Medicine and precious herbs necessary for Body Refinement, so none of the four veins of Body Cultivators wanted to hunt Mountain-Sea Beasts here.

Although blood meals were a craved item by Body Cultivators, precious herbs were still a bit more important.

If there were any precious herbs necessary for Body Refinement growing in this forest, there wouldn’t only be traces of Mountain-Sea Beasts left.

Although the power of the Kui Ox was not strong, the abundance of Spiritual Medicine allowed it to continue consuming all the way until it reached its bottleneck.

However, it failed during its attempt to Become an Immortal.

Seeing this, Tan Shuchang had to intervene again; initially not wanting to truncate the potential of the Kui Ox, but now he had no choice.

With Tan Shuchang’s help, the Kui Ox finally succeeded in joining the ranks of the Immortals.

“Thank you, Holy Master!”

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The Kui Ox knew it had lost its potential, but it had no choice because, after failing in its first attempt to Become an Immortal, it realized it might never succeed on its own until its death.

Unless it could obtain some transformative opportunity.

“When I Become an Immortal, I’ll help you refine your bloodline, and then you can switch to the path of Body Cultivation.” Tan Shuchang said, because this was the only path still hopeful for Becoming an Immortal.

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