The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 569 - 325 111

Nascent Soul Stage or higher Cultivators, when severely injured or on the verge of a soldier’s death, will extract their essence blood along with their Divine Soul to roam outside their body, seeking another suitable physical vessel. However, it’s not easy for a person to live a lifetime, so who would willingly give up their body for another to inhabit? Therefore, a battle and friction are inevitable between the cultivator and the soul that currently resides in the new body. Even if the Cultivator has profound cultivation, without a physical body, the Divine Soul is merely somewhat stronger than ordinary people and has drifted in the air for a long time, while the soul in the new body has the advantage of the home ground, thus it is uncertain whose hand the deer will fall into.

Only Soul Cultivators, the oddities among cultivators, can infiltrate other people’s bodies to erase and imprison the original consciousness. Hence, ordinary cultivators wishing to take over a body usually have to reach an agreement with the original host, such as avenging the host’s enemies or ensuring the host’s family’s prosperity for a lifetime—tasks the original owner couldn’t complete—in order to successfully perform soul possession. However, this promise is not empty. If unfulfilled, the Divine Soul will suffer backlash.

Most importantly, even if the soul possession is successful, a Cultivator’s entire cultivation will vanish with the death of their physical body, and they must start from scratch. Therefore, soul possession is the last resort for cultivators, a tactic not used until they are utterly desperate.

After hearing of this bewildering method of soul possession, Ning Xiaoxian couldn’t help but think, isn’t this just what people commonly refer to as "borrowing a corpse to revive the soul"?

During the last wrongdoing by Senior Brother Chen, Tu Jin was not present to observe. He had only briefly met him in the Gold Storage Tower just now, without paying much attention, therefore, only now did he notice the clues.

"Which Golden Core Stage or higher fellow would be so bored to seduce women every day after soul possession? Could it be that the original owner of the body wished to charm all the beauties in the world?" She peeled a broad bean and popped it into her mouth. To possess a body, one’s cultivation must be higher than theirs. "Senior Brother Chen" is at the Foundation Establishment Stage, so the person who performed the soul possession must definitely be at least at the Golden Core Stage.

Tu Jin’s face revealed a bizarre expression: "The strange part lies here. The one who took over the body has extremely weak power, only at the Qi Refinement Realm, not even reaching Foundation Establishment!"

The cultivation of the Qi Refinement Realm, yet capable of possessing at least a body at the Mid-stage Foundation Establishment? This is simply inconceivable. Not to mention others, the strength of a Qi Refinement Realm cultivator’s Divine Soul is barely stronger than a mortal. Once extracted from the body, it flutters like a candle in the wind, barely maintaining existence, let alone squeezing into someone else’s body to contend with a higher-leveled opponent?

"This is highly unusual." Those two individuals were walking fast and were about to disappear at the end of the street. Ning Xiaoxian stroked her chin and said with a smile, "I smell a conspiracy, let’s follow and see!" She was particularly interested in matters related to souls.

minutes passed.

An hour passed.

Ning Xiaoxian deeply regretted her decision. Indeed, curiosity comes at a cost; the red-robed woman and Senior Brother Chen talked and chatted for nearly an hour, with much of the conversation bitterly criticizing her for grabbing the mirror. And she just had to move closer to listen to the scolding, finding herself utterly depressed. Qi Zai and Qiongqi struggled to hold back their laughter, not daring to let her hear.

However, Miss Chun is not always the villain. Along the way, a four or five-year-old beggar boy pretended to be clumsy and bumped into them, aiming to steal a silver bag. Cultivators keep their silver in Storage Rings, so obviously, there was no silver bag for him to pickpocket, hence Miss Chun caught him and gave him a lesson. To everyone’s surprise, in the end, she even stuffed a silver ingot into the little thief’s hand before chasing him away.

Senior Brother Chen, standing beside them, always managed to echo in in timely agreement and diligently offered a drink. The drink was a juice made from locally harvested Golden Purple Cactus Fruit, golden purple in color, sweet and with a refreshing fragrance, suitable for all ages. However, the fruit’s surface is covered with reverse-hook shaped spines, making them hard to harvest and taking up to four years to grow. Thus, in various Desert Cities, it is an expensive beverage for the rich.

Cultivators drinking this was naturally effortless. However, the bottle containing the juice was open-mouthed, and soon Ning Xiaoxian and others smelled a familiar sweet fragrance. Their expressions became somewhat peculiar after exchanging glances.

Indeed, Senior Brother Chen was audacious to the extreme, even daring to intervene with the daughter of the Gold Storage Tower owner?

Having chattered along the way, Chun Yijing also became quite thirsty and inevitably drank more than usual. Soon after consuming the juice, she felt a mild heat and fatigue in her body and her head felt slightly dizzy. Cultivators have robust bodies and rarely faint due to natural causes, so the aphrodisiac concocted by Senior Brother Chen was truly sophisticated, only promoting affection, making the woman believe she couldn’t restrain her emotions, but not actually causing her to faint.

She had never been treated this way before, so unsuspecting of others, she simply let Senior Brother Chen support her into a guesthouse by the roadside.

Ning Xiaoxian stared blankly at the entrance of the guesthouse for quite some time.

Go in? Not go in?

Her expression was extremely unpleasant. Chun Yijing had not spared any harsh words along the way, anyone hearing such insults wouldn’t look good either. However, if she didn’t follow, this flower would be tainted by filth. In reality, this situation was like a girl going to a nightclub and then being drugged with hallucinogens—the perpetrator is to blame, but ultimately the victim herself too. This Miss Chun, being careless, if she truly lost her purity to Senior Brother Chen, it surely couldn’t be blamed on anyone else.

Recalling the scene where Chun Yijing gave money to the beggar, she hesitated for a short while but eventually led Tu Jin and others inside.

Although Chun Yijing was tired, the young lady’s standards for accommodations were still high; the guesthouse was small but exquisite, each room having windows. Senior Brother Chen could only close the windows, so Ning Xiaoxian couldn’t peep inside from them. Fortunately, her Divine Sense was now quite strong. She immediately chose a room next to the two, extended her Divine Sense, and was able to monitor every move they made, nearly no different from seeing with her own eyes. Normally, individuals sensitive in spiritual awareness could easily detect being surveilled by another’s Divine Sense, so Ning Xiaoxian wouldn’t dare use this method against ordinary cultivators beyond the Golden Core Stage. But the two inside, one being weak and the other dizzy and swollen-headed, failed to notice. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)