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Chapter 363 - 207: Evil Demon Guards the Path in the Purple Palace, Reversing the Universe with Long Sleeves - 2

Chapter 363: Chapter 207: Evil Demon Guards the Path in the Purple Palace, Reversing the Universe with Long Sleeves - 2

This indicated that Gu Shanhai had successfully broken through to the Purple Mansion Stage.

"Oh, it skipped, no wonder it felt discontinuous, seems like I need to compensate for that."

Gu Shanhai quickly became aware of the problem. The Eight Diagrams are born from Tai Chi through Two Instruments and Four Images; hence Four Images give rise to Eight Diagrams. Gu Shanhai’s was somewhat chaotic, lacking Tai Chi and Four Images, and although it could be compensated by Yin Yang Five Elements, only a complete set could elevate the entire series.

"Looks like for the Spirit Origin Stage, I need to make up for the Four Images."

This was not a difficult task for Gu Shanhai. His entire system was just referencing the cultivator system of the Xuanji Realm, not exactly the same. For other cultivators, it would be unbearably painful, but for Gu Shanhai, it meant no problem; his own system was unconventional, without distinct precedence.

After feeling his own strength, a smile finally appeared on Gu Shanhai’s face.

"The Eight Diagrams are complete, my ultimate state is finally perfected. If I fight desperately now, I could kill a Divine Phase from the Upper Three Realms and even go on par in the Magic Awakening Stage for half an hour."

As for after half an hour, of course, Gu Shanhai would have burst. That extreme state was basically an overdraw, how long he could last all depended on the intensity of the battle.

Peeping Dao Stage is out of the question, the gap is too big, and in the extreme state, winning is not an option.

However, correspondingly, if the extreme state is over, the injuries would also be heavier. It might not be an instant burst, but he would need sufficient time to recover.

The trump card of desperation is not to be used casually, of course, it is for critical moments.

"Spiritual Sense has further improved, and I can also project my soul. Although I could use it before, now the intensity is greater, seems like I count as a Yin God?"

Gu Shanhai tried soul projection, and saw a thin aura of Purple Mansion glowing around him, rapidly depleting.

"Too shaky... But also right, I just broke through, it’s normal." Gu Shanhai quickly returned to his own body.

If the Purple Mansion was established, it wouldn’t be just a layer of glow, but an entire Pocket World protecting the soul projection, with a clear and spirited mind, a soul not scattered, like a dream, shadow-like, akin to a ghost, this being the Yin God too.

At this stage, the soul is called the Purple Mansion Yin God.

In fact, Gu Shanhai’s soul is not truly a Yin God, given the strength of his soul; it was almost catching up to the Spirit Origin Stage, and might even reach the edge of the Heavenly Scenery Stage, with the boost from so many Spirit Plants being not in vain.

Only in the Purple Mansion Stage are the domains of the soul initially involved, hence appearing very fragile. Most people basically would not perform soul projection, although stronger and more mysterious than average, without the protection of Purple Mansion, they could be scattered by the wind, dried by the sun, or penetrated by raindrops.

From the strengthening at Purple Mansion Stage, it showed that the cultivator system had already involved soul enhancement, whereas previously, whether in Qi Refinement or Foundation Establishment, the essence was the body and mana, damage was high, but the soul was not developed.

Of course, the reason is naturally that to develop the soul, you also need sufficient conditions.

That’s not to say the soul is weak, if returned to the body, naturally, it is immensely strong, and can even turn the soul’s spiritual sense into a pressure that crushes the weaker souls into fragments.

"This thing is bare, just a piece of land, how can I build here?" Gu Shanhai looked at his Purple Mansion, just broken through, it was a barren land, oh, his was still good, others might not even be land, but a platform. This land was formed by the Divine Skills of the Heart Demon.

However, atop this barren land, the essence of three Divine Skills lay dormant.

The Nine States Instrument lay dormant like a mountain and river vein, Qimen Dunjia and Taiyin Divine Number as if the great sun hung high.

If there was another rotation of the sun and moon, the alternating of black and white would be even more like a small world.

"Next, the cultivation could be fast or slow," Gu Shanhai felt somewhat helpless. To establish the Purple Mansion, there were many methods, the fast naturally was to throw in heavenly treasures and mana straightaway. In less than a month, Gu Shanhai could consider spending about a decade to accommodate the Spirit Vein.

"Take it slowly, no rush, I have plenty of lifespan."

"Just right, let’s first try out the Divine Skills of the ’Qiankun’ in my sleeve."

Gu Shanhai smiled to himself, thinking about the Divine Skill combination he possessed.

With a wave of his sleeves, the inside of his blue robe looked like a dark hole, drawing in a large amount of objects from a distance.

"Using it to store inanimate objects is indeed fine, but it seems a bit of a waste for small uses," Gu Shanhai said as he released the items.

His ’Qiankun in the sleeve’ was naturally not the same as Immortal Zhenyuan’s; he developed it himself, involving Spirit Plants and innate talent.

If one truly were to categorize it, his ’Qiankun in the sleeve’ would be attributed to Cause and Effect, Heavenly Mystery, and Heart Demon, not a spatial attribute.

Its main purpose was to capture and imprison.

If an enemy were captured within his ’Qiankun in the sleeve,’ Qimen Dunjia and Taiyi Divine Skill would cause confusion in their calculations. To escape, they would have to either find the Gate of Life or forcefully break out. However, each method was overly complicated as they involved the Yin Yang Five Elements and Eight Diagrams, not to mention that Gu Shanhai had set up 4,320 scenarios and another 1,080 variable scenarios, interlocking and applying to each other.

Moreover, mixed with the Taiyi Divine Number and incorporating dark arts like Yin Escape and Yang Escape, Five Elements, Six Epochs, and other Heavenly Mystery changes.

Additionally, with the Nine States Instrument and Azure Dragon guarding, even Gu Shanhai as the original creator would be confused within, struggling to find a way out.

Furthermore, during this period, Heart Demon substitutes and Heart Demon protecting the way were connected, employing lowering of intelligence and disturbing the mind among other tactics, capable of trapping a person to death.

Hence, looking for the Gate of Life was almost no different from courting death.

As for brute force, it was slightly easier than finding the Gate of Life, but only slightly so.

With so many Divine Skills, Spells, and Spirit Plants, along with Gu Shanhai’s presence, capturing someone in the Xuanji Realm would require them to be at least in the Upper Three Realms.

This was already defying the heavens; previously, Gu Shanhai could capture someone at his limit while fighting someone from Upper Three Realms, now he could do so without reaching his limit.

"Next, by incorporating the Mana aura, setting up a Nine Curves Yellow River Formation, Ten Absolute Formation, and other Arrays, once you go in, don’t think about coming out."

Because of the involvement of Previous Life Biluo’s fate, to a certain extent, this ’Qiankun in the sleeve’ of Gu Shanhai qualifies as a pseudo-definite hit skill, and with the blessing of this life’s fortune, it also dissolves the opponent’s Qi count upon entry, causing them to face a streak of bad luck.

"Wait, if I add these, wouldn’t that mean it can no longer store items?" Gu Shanhai swore to himself.

This Purple Mansion naturally could not store objects; after all, despite being called a personal Pocket World, it was essentially an existence hovering between illusion and reality, incapable of storing anything—who uses their Dantian for storage?

"I can only look for a spatial attribute Spirit Plant to help, but these things are too rare; even the Chengyun Sect couldn’t find one," Gu Shanhai felt somewhat helpless.

Whether it was a Storage Ring or a Qiankun Order, such storage items were crafted from unusual ores into magical treasures.

Most plants generally did not live long, and the chances of becoming a heavenly material or earthly treasure were slim, let alone a spatial one.

It wasn’t that the Chengyun Sect didn’t have them; they were just processed into herbs with all the moisture dried out, dead as can be.

He could cultivate a spatial attribute Spirit Plant himself, but selecting the appropriate plant was not simple, akin to looking for a needle in the ocean, with cultivation and experimentation nearly similar, and requiring sufficient resources and time.

Gu Shanhai didn’t have the leisure for that; storage and similar tasks weren’t that important to him.

As for Prophetic Divination, it could not directly produce results; it was inherently reliant on Gu Shanhai’s choices for progression. Direct prophetic divination, with a high cost to his lifespan, was unbearable; according to Gu Shanhai’s estimation, directly filtering would cost tens of millions of years of life to filter out suitable plants. Directly divining where he needed a Spirit Plant, would cost at least several million years of his lifespan—it was not at all worth it.

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