Chapter 410: Primordial Spirit Guidance
"Young folks sure know how to have fun."
In front of the hall, the blind man, basking in the sun, said to the deaf man, "Look at those two little ones, freely splashing their youth, brimming with enthusiasm, full of youthful vitality. They're cultivating together so diligently. Deaf man, have you ever thought about finding a partner?"
The deaf man didn't answer, pointing to his earhole to indicate he couldn't hear what was being said.
"Playing deaf and dumb!"
The blind man sneered, stood up with his cane, and hobbled over to Emperor Yanfeng's side. "In-law, your daughter is cultivating together with my Mu'er... Hey, why are you spitting blood? And you're cursing! An emperor cursing—is there no law? You dare hit me? Think I'm afraid of you or something..."
Qin Mu and Ling Yuxiu attempted again and again. When they'd had enough fun, they finally remembered that if they kept playing like this, they might never perfect the Six Harmonies Primordial Spirit cultivation method in this lifetime.
Only then did they settle down, pondering the cultivation technique of the Six Harmonies Primordial Spirit.
"I think we should start from soul resonance and primordial spirit harmony!"
Ling Yuxiu said seriously, "If two cultivators' primordial spirits resonate and their souls harmonize, they can borrow each other's power to let their primordial spirits leave the body."
Qin Mu nodded, thinking, "But you're talking about the case where the primordial spirit is already formed. What if it hasn't been cultivated yet? Before primordial spirit harmony, the most important thing is the fusion of the spirit embryo and the soul."
Ling Yuxiu said excitedly, "Then let's start from soul resonance! Soul resonance, using the soul to guide the spirit embryo, the spirit embryo and soul combining to form the primordial spirit!"
Qin Mu's eyes lit up. "Then the technique needs to be practiced by two people together! I use my soul to guide your spirit embryo, you use your soul to guide my spirit embryo. At the moment of soul fusion, both leave the body simultaneously, swapping souls with each other, and the primordial spirit forms on its own!"
The two looked at each other, both feeling extremely excited.
The concept of this technique was laid out by them. Qin Mu's soul would guide Ling Yuxiu's spirit embryo, and Ling Yuxiu's soul would guide Qin Mu's spirit embryo. Then came the crucial step—both their souls and spirit embryos would fly out of their bodies. Using soul and spirit resonance, they would seize the opportunity to swap each other's souls, each soul fusing with its own spirit embryo.
At the same time, primordial spirit harmony would ensure the primordial spirit wouldn't separate back into spirit embryo and soul.
This way, the primordial spirit could be cultivated in the Six Harmonies realm!
Ling Yuxiu suddenly frowned. "In that case, the only difficulty is turning this concept into a technique to guide each other's souls and spirit embryos."
Qin Mu pondered, pacing back and forth twice. "This technique requires simultaneously mobilizing the primordial spirit, the soul, and the spirit embryo. The most critical thing is that neither party can be guarded. They must be the closest of kin, intimate to the point of having no selfish motives toward each other, to be able to unreservedly entrust their spirit and soul to the other."
Ling Yuxiu nodded, feeling a sweetness in her heart.
Wasn't Qin Mu saying this meant she was his closest kin, that he trusted her without reservation?
"Let's not worry about who can practice it for now. Let's create the technique first!"
Qin Mu perked up, refined several sticks of Soul-Guiding Incense as backup, and the two used their souls to guide each other's spirit embryos, sensing their own vital energy circulation patterns, then recorded them.
After several attempts, they were both exhausted and had to stop and rest. They had played too many times earlier, leaving them somewhat depleted in spirit.
Over six days, Qin Mu and Ling Yuxiu organized the general outline of the technique. With the main framework established, the rest only required detailed refinement based on that framework.
The Butcher had yet to return from pursuing Xing Han, which worried Qin Mu, Granny Si, and the others. After all, Xing Han was too strong. If he solved the supplement problem and his body returned to normal, the Butcher might not be his match. Xing Han's medical skills were indeed remarkable—otherwise, he couldn't casually swap body parts. Solving the supplement problem shouldn't be particularly difficult for him.
Si Yunxiang, Yan Jingjing, and Fox Ling'er arrived from Shuzhou City on a fast ship, bringing the medicinal herbs, large cauldron, and steamer baskets Qin Mu needed.
Qin Mu set aside the matter of the Butcher pursuing Xing Han for now and immediately got busy, preparing herbs, setting up the large cauldron, boiling medicinal decoctions, and steaming or boiling each injured person, working hard.
Granny Si quickly said, "Mu'er, those with low cultivation can't be steamed or boiled—they'll cook through!"
"I understand."
Qin Mu arranged everything properly, had the deer demons watch the heat, then went to the True Dragon Nest to retrieve the five legs. He said to the Cripple, "Cripple Grandpa, which two of these legs are yours?"
The Cripple examined them and picked out two legs. "These two. Mu'er, with so many legs here, what are you planning to do with them?"
Qin Mu smiled. "Spares. If Cripple Grandpa loses his legs again, the remaining three can still be attached."
"Ptoo, ptoo! Child's nonsense—auspicious words, great luck!"
The Cripple spat twice. Qin Mu immediately set to work, boiling a cauldron of medicinal soup, preparing the Carefree Sword, ointment, and dragon saliva, and attaching the two legs for the Cripple.
After all, he was experienced, having reattached bodies for the Cripple and the Butcher before. Attaching these two legs wasn't difficult; in fact, it was quite easy.
"Mu'er's skills are getting better and better!" the Cripple praised.
The Deaf Man beside him raised an eyebrow. "That's because you've been chopped up so many times, giving him plenty of practice opportunities."
The Cripple was furious. Qin Mu picked him up and soaked him in the medicinal soup, and the Cripple was still spitting at the Deaf Man: "Ptoo, ptoo—old man's nonsense, great luck!"
As the two bickered, Qin Mu took a jade dragon bowl and found the Blind Man. "Blind Grandpa, which of these divine eyes are yours?"
There were over a dozen eyeballs in the bowl, all divine eyes collected by Xing Han. Without being activated, it was impossible to tell which two contained the Nine Heavens within; these eyeballs looked no different from the outside.
The Blind Man reached into the bowl, felt around, and picked out two eyes. Frowning, he said, "It's been a long time since my eyes were gouged out. The wounds have completely healed. Is there still hope of reattaching them?"
Qin Mu threw the other eyes, along with the jade dragon bowl, into the True Dragon Nest and carefully examined the Blind Man's eye sockets, looking very seriously.
The Blind Man's expression was calm, and he smiled. "It's okay if they can't be reattached. I'm used to how I am now."
"They can be reattached, but some of the eye nerves have withered. I need to treat Blind Grandpa for a few days first. Maybe I can use medicine to stimulate the nerve activity..."
Qin Mu looked up and smiled. "Blind Grandpa, rest assured. Although my medical skills aren't as good as Medicine Master Grandpa's, I'm at least second in the world."
He thought for a moment, then immediately prepared herbs and refined medicine for the Blind Man. The nerve plexus in the eye was more complex than the heart and as fragile as the brain. Qin Mu had to be cautious, ensuring every medicine was absolutely pure, had no side effects, and was gentle yet capable of stimulating nerve plexus activity.
This was also a great test for him.
Qin Mu prepared multiple methods to enhance the eye nerve plexus activity. Besides oral administration and external application, he also made a small machine that fit over the eyes, containing medicinal soup that could automatically heat up and turn the soup into steam to moisturize the Blind Man's eye sockets.
Additionally, after repeated refinement, the medicinal liquid was injected into the half-dead muscles around the Blind Man's eyes using hollow silver needles—a multi-pronged approach.
After several days of treatment, the Blind Man felt his two eye sockets growing hot, as if many thin tentacles were growing inside them. Only then did Qin Mu proceed to reconnect the nerves of his eyes, then wrapped some crushed spirit pills in a silk band and tied it around his head, covering his eyes.
"Blind Grandpa, once the eye muscles and nerves have fully healed, you can remove the silk band."
Qin Mu gave instructions, then called over a tree demon and instructed it to change the Blind Man's medicine on time. The tree demon nodded repeatedly, rooted itself in front of the Blind Man, and waited for the medicine-changing time.
Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief and checked the Dragon Nest. "If I pieced together Xing Han's body parts, I could assemble a god's body. It's a pity I don't know what strange technique Xing Han cultivates. He must still have his own body, or his primordial spirit, otherwise he couldn't survive. Strange—what part of his original body remains?"
When fighting Xing Han, this terrifying being had swapped his head, and naturally his brain as well. His divine blood, heart, legs, and feet—all had been swapped.
Even more terrifying, he had different primordial spirits, as if even his primordial spirit could be replaced!
When he fought Yu Zhaoqing, he used his own primordial spirits, attacking Yu Zhaoqing with different ones, severely wounding him!
His original body must still have some part that hadn't been swapped. His life should be anchored in that part. All other body parts could be discarded, but not that one.
That was his vital point!
Only by destroying that vital point could he be killed!
"He's swapped every part of his body, but he absolutely cannot swap his soul."
Qin Mu's eyes lit up. He found Granny Si, and the two studied the matter. Granny Si's research on the soul was deeper than Qin Mu's. She said, "The soul is divided into spirit and soul. The spirit includes the heavenly spirit at the brow, the earthly spirit at the tailbone, and the life spirit at the navel. The seven souls are the celestial soul at the crown, the lurking arrow at the brow wheel, the sparrow's yin at the Adam's apple, the devouring thief at the heart, the non-toxin at the navel, the expelling filth at the perineum, and the stinking lung in the lung chamber. Logically, if these parts were swapped, his soul would no longer be complete, yet his soul is clearly intact."
Qin Mu racked his brain. According to Granny Si's reasoning, Xing Han's head, dantian, spine, neck, lungs, heart, and intestines all had to be preserved, otherwise he would need to parasitize his soul onto the bodies he seized.
But the Blind Man and the others had destroyed Xing Han's heart, flattened his head, and even knocked his spine out of his body, yet Xing Han's soul wasn't severely damaged. He could still repair his body.
"This means Xing Han's original head, dantian, spine, neck, lungs, heart, and intestines are still there. His soul remains in his original body, only parasitizing the bodies he seizes when needed! So his original body should be hidden..."
He and Granny Si looked at each other, both blinking. Xing Han's chest!
Xing Han's original body, housing his soul, should all be hidden in that chest.
Whether the Butcher, by splitting that chest open, had also killed Xing Han's original body remained to be seen.
"He still has weaknesses."
Qin Mu steadied himself. "Even if Butcher Grandpa can't kill him, as long as we see whether he still carries a chest the next time he appears, we can confirm my guess!"
Granny Si nodded. "If he appears next time still carrying a chest, it means his original body is hidden inside, and he's not invincible! Killing him will be much easier!"