Chapter 240 Dilemma

Yang Ning actually doesn't have a good relationship with Shen Shuibi.

Although strictly speaking, they are biological sisters, conceived by the true lead ding of the sun and the moon and the empress Luofu.

Empress Luofu is best at the transformation of yin and yang.

The True Lead Cauldron of Sun and Moon even absorbs the sun and moon. Eight million worlds of sun and moon rise and fall from his body. He has mastered the path of the sun and moon.

The two of them used their own avenues to intersect, and the essence of the sun and moon that they gave birth to was Chen Shuibi and Yang Ning.

Empress Luofu's surname was Shen, while Riyuezhen Lead Ding gave herself the surname Yang.

However, because they inherited different parts of their avenues, their personalities are also different.

Shen Shuibi is reserved and weak, while Yang Ning is assertive and strong. This contradiction in personality makes Yang Ning always dislike Shen Shuibi's way of living like a plant.

It's really like a tree, stuck in place and swaying in the wind.

But now, something seems different.

Shen Shuibi seems not as soft as before?

That's why Yang Ning asked: "Have you figured it out?"

Shen Shuibi shook her head: "I have always known what to do, but now it's our turn."

"You just know what you're doing, so what? Now that you're back, what are your plans?" Yang Ning put her hand on Shen Shuibi's shoulder and pushed it gently.

With this push, a crack opened up in the cave. The two of them left the cave together and appeared in the spiritual peak outside.

On top of Lingfeng Peak, there is great scenery, beautiful mountains and clear waters, and bright vitality.

Here, Yang Ning found a stone and sat down, looking at the mountain scenery not far away.

Shen Shuibi also sat down next to her and asked proactively: "Have you recovered to the fifth level?"

Yang Ning replied: "My injury is not as serious as yours. Once all the sun essence is refined by me, it should be able to stabilize at the fifth level. In addition to me, Mei Nu is also there... As for the others No one should be able to escape."

"Grandma Mei...it's great that she is still alive." Shen Shuibi sighed.

Luofu Mountain is surrounded by thirty-two heavens, one of which is the first-level and fourth-level world.

The world masters of these worlds are the fourth rank, and Mei Nu is one of them.

In other words, there is still a fourth-grade person alive in Luofu Mountain.

Whether it’s out of emotion or the current situation, this is a really good sentence and comes from the heart.

Then, she continued: "If Granny Mei is still alive, can she repay some of Wushenshan's karma in advance? I still remember many of the methods I developed myself in my mind, which should be able to make up for Wushenshan's understanding of some details of Taoism. , maybe it can make the queen bear a little less burden.”

Shen Shuibi discussed these things.

Yang Ning was surprised: "It seems like you have really figured it out, so what do you think?"

Shen Shuibi nodded and began to explain her thoughts: "I have to tell you what I learned on the road first."

"First of all, I think we should...wait, let me think about it, I forgot a little." Shen Shuibi's words were on his lips, but he was a little stuck.

It's that feeling of forgetting to write when you pick up your pen, and suddenly losing your memory when the words come to your mouth.

Yang Ning's expression immediately turned into suspicion.

She frowned and said in a doubtful tone: "...There's something wrong with you."

Shen Shuibi tilted her head: "Isn't this normal? I've already said -"

She was only halfway through.

But Yang Ning interrupted her directly: "Your thinking has been affected by the long river of time. Falling to the eighth level has had such a big impact on you?"

"Impact? I don't know what the impact is." Shen Shuibi shook his head.

"You and I are both born immortal, but you are not now. You are more impatient than me now." Yang Ning said: "Are you affected by the mind of a mortal?"

"The mind of a mortal...?" Shen Shuibi was puzzled.

"Can you understand this now?" Yang Ning waved her hand and saw countless symbols pouring out.

These symbols are the yin and yang lines that Shen Shuibi is very familiar with.

This kind of yin and yang lines can be arranged in different orders according to different combinations of yin and yang to form different hexagrams, and ultimately express different meanings.

It is a very efficient way of communication, and Taoist communication skills often use this method.

Shen Shuibi is naturally very good at these things, so much so that she can form formations and mobilize the power of nature just by relying on the Yin and Yang Yao.

However, suddenly, she found that she seemed to be having a hard time watching.

"Have you noticed it? Are you at the eighth level now?" Yang Ning asked.

"Yes...it's the eighth grade. My soul is degrading." Shen Shuibi frowned and said with a slightly sad expression.

Yes, she realized the problem.

I just said it before.

As the essence of Taiyin bred from the True Lead Cauldron of Sun and Moon, she was born immortal.

The passage of time means nothing to her.

As soon as she was born, she was naturally able to resist external influences.

No disease or pain will arise, no evil will enter, and no law will invade.

After the body is refined into a pure body, the erosion of the long river of time from the outside world can be regarded as almost nothing. The regeneration of the body alone can easily resist aging.

But now, things are different.

The Immortal Body is broken, and even if it is barely repaired, it is no more than a leaky house.

The soul is exposed in the heaven and earth, and is subject to the devastation suffered by all mortals.

"Am I... aging?" Shen Shuibi raised her hand and touched her face.

There was nothing special about his face, still as soft as ever, but he could feel something was wrong.

There are some traces of frost on the skin.

Yes, it's time to have frost, after all, she and Li Qi have been traveling outside for nearly two years.

In two years, Li Qi has grown to the eighth rank.

In the past, Shen Shuibi would be in a daze for more than two years. Her concept of time has been completely covered by her immortal nature.

So, she feels that her life in the past two years is particularly fulfilling and she has done a lot of things.

The reason is very simple.

The concept of time of immortals and short-lived species is completely different.

Even if Shen Shuibi thinks that she is still an immortal, she has actually changed.

She can no longer be in a daze for two years.

It is also difficult to continue to look at the world from the perspective of an immortal.

Even her body is the same.

The change in life span will naturally affect the mind.

Ants that are born in the morning and die in the evening are destined not to have the same perspective and think with the immortals who live forever.

In other words, Shen Shuibi became lively, talkative, and able to communicate with others when she was with Li Qi, not because she was amiable.

But because she was gradually becoming a mortal.

Yang Ning stood up, patted Shen Shuibi on the shoulder, and looked worried: "You have a good intention to help, but now is not the time. You have to rebuild. You can't participate in those things now. Leave it to me and Mei Yu."

However, Yang Ning suddenly asked: "Now that you have returned to the seventh rank, with your injuries, can you restore immortality?"

This question was very subtle.

Normally, those who step into the seventh rank can obtain immortality and live forever. As long as they are not destroyed by external forces, the small world of the human body can no longer be slowly beaten and destroyed by the long river of time, or the 'sea of ​​suffering'.

But after Shen Shuibi recovered to the seventh rank, could she return to immortality?

Originally, Shen Shuibi thought it was possible.

But now that she was awakened by Yang Ning, she thought about it carefully.

I'm afraid... there are doubts.

It has been said several times that the physical body is like a boat, and the true spirit lives in it.

The ship sails in an existence that is difficult to detect.

Some people in the Taoism call it time and space, that is, the independent four-dimensional time in the three-dimensional space, which is the root of all movement. Movement causes "chaos" and eventually pushes everything into destruction.

The Taoists call it the long river of time, and the water of time and shadow keeps beating, making everything tend to chaos.

The Buddhists call it the sea of ​​suffering, in which all things sink and cannot be liberated. Only by becoming a Buddha can they transcend.

The Wudao simply regards it as the natural wear and tear of all things in the world, and believes that it is part of the cycle of heaven. The worn parts will sooner or later join other new births, which is the balance of all things.

The reason why the seventh grade can last forever is that there are solutions in the cognition and theory of each Taoist school.

Then, according to the theory of each Taoist school, different methods were developed. Some of these methods can suppress the damage of the ship, or speed up the replacement. There are different ways to make the ship last forever without experiencing major wind and wave attacks.

It is not because you can be immortal when you reach the seventh grade.

But when you reach the seventh grade, you are qualified to learn to use such methods to infinitely improve your life.

This is where the problem lies.

If Shen Shuibi recovers to the seventh rank, can she regain her immortality? Can she repair her immaculate body?

Difficult.

Even if she reaches the seventh rank, her injuries will probably reduce her lifespan, and even if she uses those methods to prolong her lifespan, she can't fill the gap.

The gap in Shen Shuibi's ship is too big, so big that it is probably difficult for ordinary methods to fill it.

She was once a fifth rank, and she immediately realized this after Yang Ning's reminder.

Her expression became heavy.

At this time, Yang Ning said to Shen Shuibi: "You still need the help of Wushen Mountain, otherwise, your aging may not be suppressed. It's best to calculate your remaining lifespan, but I guess it should not exceed 500 years."

Five hundred years sounds like a lot, but for them, this is already a matter of life and death.

Hearing this, Shen Shuibi anxiously grabbed Yang Ning and said, "No, we can't go to Wushen Mountain. We have to find a way ourselves!"

"The karma that the queen has shouldered is too heavy. If we continue to ask Wushen Mountain for things, I'm afraid there will really be no Luofu Mountain in the future, only the Luofu branch of Wushen Mountain." Shen Shuibi said anxiously.

"What can we do? It is said that there are still 500 years of life, but you know how difficult it is to reverse aging?" Yang Ning glared at her and scolded.

Aging is difficult to reverse.

Why do many practitioners look old?

Because when they practiced to immortality, they have aged beyond recognition. Some of them are too lazy to change their appearance, so they walk in an old appearance. Some of them love face and reshape their bodies to look younger.

Yes, they can reshape their bodies.

What about the true spirit?

The physical body is just a boat. The boat is gradually damaged, and the passengers inside are injured, that is, the consciousness and thinking, the so-called "a little true spirit".

The body can be reshaped, but the aging of the true spirit will definitely affect the speed of thinking.

For example, Shen Shuibi.

She has only aged for two years, but she already has some difficulty in interpreting the Yin and Yang Yao, and even forgets the words when she picks up the pen.

This is a very scary thing for someone like her who is born immortal. Their true spirits should be in the most perfect state.

But now this perfect state has been broken.

The aging of the true spirit due to the damage of the physical body and exposure to the long river of time is normally irreversible.

Although it can be restored through some means, those means are extremely difficult without exception.

Either it requires the help of a great man or the treasures of heaven and earth, anyway, it is not easy.

Yang Ning knew that Shen Shuibi meant to give up treatment.

That's why she was so angry.

However, Shen Shuibi replied, "A few years is irrelevant, we can find a way."

Yang Ning was immediately furious and scolded unceremoniously, "A few years? The queen will sleep for at least a hundred years. What will you do then? A hundred years, what can you do? In this hundred years, I can't even refine that big sun! I can't help you!"

Shen Shuibi seemed to be a little angry. She used to be weak and timid, but she bluntly said to Yang Ning, "Then what do you want me to do?"

"Seeking help from Wushen Mountain now will only make the queen bear heavier karma. How do you want the queen to pay it back?"

"What is left in Luofu Mountain to repay these karma? Do you want to use the cave master's avenue opportunity to repay?"

Shen Shuibi was not as emotional as Yang Ning. She was more like a soft nail. There was no particularly angry tone. She just asked back calmly.

But this sentence choked Yang Ning, and Jinwu was speechless.

What to pay with?

Use the avenue opportunity of the Sun and Moon True Lead Cauldron?

Can she say this?

The two fell into silence.

The wind blew around the two people, ruffling their hair and blowing up their clothes, bringing a bright sunshine.

But it couldn't dispel the haze in their hearts.

After several minutes, Shen Shuibi sighed and said first: "It's better to do more things now, when my true spirit is only partially slow."

"I will start refining pills recently, and then compile the martial arts documents and the Dao veins of the Dao that I didn't write down in the past and kept in my mind into a book. These things should allow us to live here without being criticized."

In fact, no one criticized it at all. Wushen Mountain longed for the opportunity of the Dao, but it was not so stingy in such a place and was not prepared to accept their money.

But living under someone else's roof has its own feelings. Even if the host didn't say anything, Luofu Mountain still has its own face.

Now, it's Shen Shuibi who is ready to use her previous savings to pay the "rent".

Yang Ning used to only like fighting and killing, and didn't know how to study.

Only Shen Shuibi had studied these things all day, but at that time it was out of interest and hobby. She kept many of her studies in her mind after finishing them and did not plan to tell others.

But now, she is ready to sell all these hobbies that she had worked so hard on.

It should be said that she still rushed to finish a chapter and did not stop updating. She was too responsible and failed to ask for leave.