Chapter Fifteen: Body with Dual Souls

  Just as he was about to devour the remaining soul of his original body, a thought suddenly emerged that could not be suppressed.

  Wishing the Nine Spirits Machine a move, thinking that this soul has lost its memory and even its ability to think, leaving only the pure soul core existing. If a soul can condense a sea of consciousness talisman, what if it adds this group of soul cores?

  Jiǔ's excitement grew, and he temporarily stored the soul core in the Recognizing Sea Symbol Ribbon. The soul core only had instinctual reactions, without any obvious signs of resistance, but it faintly felt a sense of fear.

  After pulling the soul core into the talisman and storing it, Zhu Jiu's thoughts retreated from the sea of consciousness like a tide.

  Zhu Jiu sat on the ground with his eyes open, and the quietness of the practice room made him think for a long time. After repeated consideration, he finally decided to seize the opportunity to try and capture the Double Souls of Shi Hai.

  Jiu got up and walked out, arriving at the door of the practice room, where he stopped again and thought to himself:

  "This matter cannot be known to others, otherwise it may expose the secret that I am a soul attachment, occupying someone else's body. Although this place doesn't seem like anything proper, they shouldn't mind about this matter, but I still want to prevent any possibility, and forever keep my transmigration affair hidden in my belly."

  Jiǔ Xià decided to take a risk, although it was a bit adventurous, but such a good opportunity couldn't be missed. He took out the cultivation room number plate and said directly:

  "A Jade Tablet of the Sea of Knowledge is required."

  After finishing, he quietly waited. In just a few minutes, the sound of knocking came from outside the practice room. Zhu Jiu opened the stone gate, stretched out his hand to receive the small box handed over by the guard, closed the gate, and slowly sat back on the cushion.

  Regulate your breath evenly, close your eyes again, and press the jade slip in your hand tightly against your forehead. The talisman seeds in the jade slip transform into a clear stream that flows directly into the sea of consciousness.

  With a concentrated mind, an idea was transmitted into the original talisman, and the soul core was immediately spat out. The clear stream transformed from the talisman seed collided with it head-on.

  The sea of consciousness seemed to calm down for a moment, and then burst out with the largest shock since the formation of the talisman seal. The entire sea of consciousness shook violently, and the images of gods, demons, ghosts, and monsters appeared out of thin air in the sea of consciousness.

  That mysterious sound seemed to come from the upper realm of the nine heavens, and the wonderful sounds of "life" and "death" also echoed in Zhu Jiu's mind, clear and ethereal, full of mystery.

  The gods and demons of the heavens collectively lifted the chaotic mass formed by the collision of the talisman seeds and the soul core, and together they shouted "yin" and "yang", accompanied by the mysterious sounds of "life" and "death" that seemed to come from nowhere, intersecting with each other in a call-and-response pattern, forming an inexplicable and strange rhythmic sense.

  The four-character sound symbol of "Life and Death, Yin and Yang" in the sea of knowledge merged with the chaotic seed supported by the image of gods and demons, instantly fusing together. Finally, this chaotic ball slowly unfolded, forming a new talisman.

  This newly generated talisman is completely different from the golden-based, red-painted talisman that Zhu Jiu had originally formed. Instead, it has a black base with transparent and hollow strokes, like a black paper-cutting artwork, but its intricate beauty is like a divine object. Except for nature, no one can create such an exquisite work of art that combines dark shadows and transparency into a magical talisman.

  Moreover, there is another difference, that is, those transparent brushstrokes are not fixed and unchanged, but rather appear and disappear from time to time, and can be changed at will.

  There is no normal state, and the strokes of the talisman can be recombined. This is the first time that Zhu Jiu has heard of it, and there is no record of it in the cultivation books of the sect.

  This strange dark shadow talisman generated a faint flutter, slowly approaching the original golden talisman that had already evolved into the Bright Realm.

  As it drew closer, the golden talisman floated nimbly to the back of the other talisman. The two talismans slowly merged together, forming a new talisman with symbols on both sides. The sea of consciousness fell silent in an instant, as if even time itself had stopped flowing.

  This new talisman has a gold base with blood-colored characters on the front, and a black base with transparent brushstrokes on the back. The two talismans are tightly stuck together, as if they were born as one, without even a seam.

  The two combined, one positive and one negative, the positive symbol majestic and domineering, the negative symbol quiet and cold, and the auras of the two symbols merged into one. Surprisingly, they were both fluctuations of divine power at the level of the Bright Realm, and this mysterious dark symbol had initially directly surpassed the range of the lower levels of the Bright Realm.

  The "yin and yang" wonderful sound in the sea of consciousness rose again, continuously and incessantly. The surrounding divine demon images knelt down on the ground together, kowtowing to this new talisman. After a while, these divine demon images gradually faded away, just like when they appeared, slowly disappearing without a trace from the sea of consciousness.

  Zhù Jiǔ's thoughts leaned against the new life talisman, and upon closer inspection, this talisman was actually still two, divided into yin and yang sides, but tightly stuck together, only Zhù Jiǔ could distinguish, and it couldn't be seen from the outside.

  The new life talisman did not show any other magical aspects, and the dark shadow talisman on the back was almost non-existent, it was hard to see even when looking at it.

  Two talismans combined, except for the newborn talisman being middle-grade at birth, there is no promotion of the original talisman, and at first glance, it seems like nothing else is abnormal.

  But Chui Jiu firmly believed that this new life talisman would not be so simple, although he did not know what specific power it had for the time being, but this did not hinder his joyful mood.

  Zhu Jiu began to try to absorb the essence of heaven and earth with a new talisman, and the power of the stars in the surrounding heaven and earth immediately swarmed into the new talisman. Zhu Jiu silently sensed it, and the speed of absorbing yuan qi was slightly improved, but it was far from reaching the expected double speed.

  Hmm! The secret isn't this, where is it? Zhu Jiu has a faint feeling that the heavenly yuan force absorbed this time is somewhat different!

  Jiǔ's intention is to introspect, and the yuanqi that has been refined by the talisman slowly wanders in his body. He finds that although the quality of these yuanqi and the speed of refinement have improved, it is not obvious, and the secret should not be here either.

  What was the reason? Chu Jiu's thoughts revolved around the observation of the talismans, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He discovered that apart from the refined essence that had wandered into his body, there was also a thin stream of black energy slowly seeping through the dark shadow talisman into the golden talisman with the sunset image on it.

  Could it be that the secret here is actually able to help Xiyang absorb the heavenly and earthly primal energy? But why is this primal energy black, what kind of primal energy is this?

  Jiu's thoughts had been observing for a long time, still couldn't get the gist of it, and finally felt a wave of fatigue coming on, his thoughts slowly retreated from the sea of consciousness like the ebbing tide.

  Jiǔ cóng xiū xíng shì zhōng zhāng kāi yǎn jīng, yǒu xiē jí jié de qǐ shēn, tā xiǎng wǎng huí qù kàn kàn xī yáng, zhè ge gài hòu xī shòu le hēi sè de qì liú hòu huì bù huì yǒu xiē shén qí de biàn huà?

  Translation:

  Jiu opened his eyes in the practice room and hastily got up, wanting to go back and take a look at the sunset. Would this guy undergo some magical changes after absorbing the black airflow?

  As he walked out of the training room, Zhu Jiu took nine steps forward and glanced at the tightly closed door of the adjacent training room. Was that beautiful ice-cold little loli still inside cultivating or had she already left?

  Zhu Jiu paused slightly outside the door, a faint smile playing on his lips. He didn't expect the stone door in front of him to suddenly open. In an instant, Zhu Jiu felt a slight sense of panic. Behind the door was a pair of deep, shining eyes that seemed like distant stars in the night sky. The owner of those eyes also appeared to be taken aback by Zhu Jiu's presence, and for a moment, a flash of surprise flickered across their face.

  Zhu Jiu had already turned around and was about to leave when he suddenly stopped in his tracks, turned back and asked softly: "My name is Zhu Jiu, what's yours?"