Chapter 9: Sitting in Penglai, Refining and Separating the Body

  The green python looked at Li Yi, who suddenly turned into two people. Although he knew that one of them was his own family's ancestor with a supreme divine ability, he still felt somewhat at a loss.

  Especially when looking at the main statue, those cold and ruthless eyes, a clear and cold face, make people think of the ancient ice in an instant, and the cold air comes, making one involuntarily shiver.

  Li Yi felt the new body he had just obtained, but it wasn't very harmonious yet, and there was still a bit of awkwardness. It would take hundreds of millions of years to truly merge with his soul.

  This is normal. Even if it's a very ordinary vessel, it would take thousands of years to fully merge, let alone the previous body being a twelve-attribute Qinglian, such an extraordinary vessel.

  It is often said that with one gain, there must be a corresponding loss. The higher the level of the medium, the more complex its structure, the greater the potential of its underlying framework, and the longer it takes to naturally harmonize, after all, the body is not one's own, and it takes time to relearn and merge.

  Actually, Li Yi didn't need to spend hundreds of millions of years just to control his body, but during his retreat, when he analyzed his own strengths and weaknesses, he found that the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm was not perfect, and there were many things he knew but didn't understand.

  Just as many people know that exercise can train the body, but they don't understand its principles. Professional athletes, on the other hand, can train every single muscle block.

  Cultivation is something that cannot be faked, the more transparent one's understanding of oneself is, the more solid their foundation will be, the deeper the underlying momentum will be, and the greater the force with which they can impact higher realms.

  So, Li Yi would rather spend hundreds of millions of years to thoroughly understand the grinding and polishing of Qinglian than rush to advance his avatar. After all, food is eaten mouthful by mouthful, and if you're too hasty, you might end up getting indigestion. Last time, he discovered a problem with his realm because his main body was focused on life and death, and the laws related to immortality, which didn't affect other things that didn't require special research.

  After sensing his own condition, Li Yi looked at Ben Zun. Although he knew that after separating from the soul, Ben Zun would become an iceberg, but when he really faced it, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. Li Yi had known for a long time that even if Ben Zun dominated the body when coexisting with the separated soul, it would still have some influence on Ben Zun and wouldn't be so cold.

  Indeed, once the soul was separated from the body, the absolute rationality of the true self was fully revealed. The calm and collected face was like a carved stone statue, without any emotional fluctuations. Since many emotional factors were separated along with the soul, this characteristic even became strong enough to affect physical changes, with eyes turning silver and hair becoming white as snow.

  After the separation of the soul and body, the original realm has some fluctuations, but the foundation is deep and the impact is not great. It is still in the realm of Daluo Jinxian, while Qinglian's separated body only has the peak realm of Xuanxian. I estimate that when Qinglian's separated body merges with its spirit and understands its origin, it will attain the Golden Immortal position. Compared to others, it also needs to refine the acquired true spirit into the innate true spirit. Li Yi is much easier in this regard.

  In fact, this is also beneficial to Li Yi. If he were to become a Golden Immortal directly, who knows how much time it would take to make up for the foundation, after all, there would be less tempering and enlightenment, let alone that the foundation is hard to make up.

  Although the Xuanxian realm is low-key, this way, Li Yi can make his foundation thicker.

  "Your Honor, it seems that you still need to stay here and guard for over a hundred million years. After I refine the Green Lotus body, you can go and execute the plan."

  The master simply nodded indifferently, threw the Qinglian ancient sword to Li Yi, and flew towards the main peak summit, without looking back.

  "Ah, ah, oh", Li Yi was speechless. Facing Ben Zun, even a stranger would be intimidated to death. "I really don't know if Ben Zun appeared in the later generations, whether he could get a girlfriend." As soon as Li Yi thought of it, the scene of a beautiful girl nagging beside a paralyzed man who was wandering outside, felt strange.

  Shaking his head and shaking off these unnecessary thoughts, Li Yi noticed the dazed green turtle beside him. Speaking of which, it had been almost 300 years since Li Yi took the green turtle as his mount. Since he gave him a manual, he hadn't had time to care for him, and he felt a little guilty about it.

  "Qing Jiao, why haven't you transformed yet?" Li Yi asked in surprise. After all, Qing Jiao was already at the peak of the Heavenly Immortal realm and should have been able to transform long ago.

  "I think it's pretty good, it's strong enough," he said, and then deliberately swung that long python body, causing the water to churn and boil.

  "Alright, since you like it that way, then so be it. Anyway, your major is dragon body, and this will also help you understand the nature of water," Li Yi said with a sigh, patting the dragon's head.

  In fact, Qing Jiao had his own little thoughts. According to his not-so-clever mind, Li Yi's reason for taking him as a mount was probably because of his unique dragon body. Otherwise, why didn't he take Jin Lin as a mount? After all, Jin Lin's true form was also quite large.

  Also, what if after transforming, I become Li Yi's servant? There are rumors in the Mount world that a certain powerful deity had his mount transform and then took it as a servant, letting it cultivate at the residence while taking on another mount. The new mount was much smarter and refused to transform, relying on its owner's guidance to quickly surpass the original mount, making the transformed mount regretful to the point of vomiting blood.

  So the green snake has reached the peak of Tianxian, but it is unwilling to transform, and instead decides to become the greatest mount.

  Li Yi never thought that Qinghui had such a strange idea, he just thought that he hadn't taken care of him for a long time and was just pointing it out to him.

  So Li Yi stayed on Penglai Island, tempering his body and comprehending the sword path information carried by Qinglian Ancient Sword, occasionally pointing out a few things to Qingxiao.

  The master, however, quietly pondered the issues of soul, consciousness, will, rules and laws. After a long period of deliberation, he finally sorted out the relationships, and consciousness and will are both part of the soul, just manifesting in two different forms, just like water's other two manifestations, steam and ice.

  The spirit emphasizes scanning and perception, with strong inclusiveness, while the will emphasizes persistence, extremely overbearing and single-minded, like some people look fierce and others appear gloomy.

  And the rules are subordinates of laws, just like the relationship between constitution and local law, the constitution is the general outline, while the local law is specific and detailed.

  Such days are calm and fulfilling, but the vast continent is secretly turbulent, with a storm brewing.