Volume 2: Achieving the Nine Heavens and Breaking the Cage Chapter 251 True Spirit
Gu Xiaoxing could hardly imagine how hot the pillar of fire that suddenly erupted from the ground was. He only knew that his Thunder Gallbladder Turtle Shell could no longer withstand it and shattered in the next moment.
If he had not reacted quickly and covered himself with the Nine Seas in an instant, even if Gu Xiaoxing had a strong body, he would have been seriously injured by the terrifying pillar of fire.
When the power of the fire pillar was exhausted and dissipated, Gu Xiaoxing had already been blasted hundreds of miles into the sky. Looking at the Five Elements Formation below, he was still frightened.
Although he expected that the Body Refining Sect could not just have an extraordinary protective formation and must have some other trump card, he did not expect that this trump card would be so shocking. The attack just now was definitely comparable to that of the Nascent Soul. If he had not tried his best, he really would not have been able to withstand it.
But then, Gu Xiaoxing saw an even more shocking scene. The ground below was shaking, and the five mountains began to sway. A huge hand stretched out from the ground. It looked like a human hand, but it was extremely huge, reaching a thousand feet.
The five peaks also rose higher, as if something was carrying them out from the ground.
When Gu Xiaoxing saw the figure crawling out from the ground, he couldn't help but be shocked, "What the hell is this?"
Also shocked were the group of people from Yunfeng City who were watching the battle from afar. However, this group of people was obviously much smaller at this moment, and they were all on guard. If they found something wrong, they would retreat immediately.
In fact, when Gu Xiaoxing broke through the protective formation of the Body Refining Sect and rushed in to kill people, it was not only the people in the Body Refining Sect who were frightened. Those who were standing outside the Body Refining Sect to watch the battle were also afraid. Many people had already run away, and those who dared to stay and watch the battle at this moment were all brave people.
However, there are exceptions, for example, the shopkeeper of Dahao Treasure Pavilion, he stayed here not because he was brave, but because of his powerful background. He was sure that neither Gu Xiaoxing nor the Lianti Sect dared to do anything to him. The status of Dahao Treasure Pavilion was far beyond what ordinary people could imagine.
After watching the battle, the shopkeeper of Dahao Treasure Pavilion had mixed feelings. He initially thought that Gu Xiaoxing would be easily killed by the Body Refining Sect, but the result was far beyond his expectations. He could never have imagined that Gu Xiaoxing would be so strong. Even if he was placed in the Jiutian Domain, there would not be many people who could surpass him in the Jindan realm, right?
This even made this shopkeeper, who had seen a lot of the world, feel that perhaps Gu Xiaoxing could really destroy the Body Refining Sect. However, when he saw the figure crawling out from the ground, he immediately attributed the previous feeling to an illusion!
At this moment, the shopkeeper showed a look of extreme shock for the first time, and he murmured in disbelief: "Is this... a true spirit?"
"No...!" Fortunately, the shopkeeper soon discovered the clue and breathed a sigh of relief. "This True Spirit is headless. It should be just a True Spirit puppet left over from ancient times. That's right. According to rumors, any True Spirit that is not a juvenile has at least a cultivation level above the Divine Transformation. How can it be controlled by a Body Refining Sect..."
“But even if it’s just a True Spirit Puppet, it’s definitely not something a Jindan cultivator can contend with. This kid… is in trouble!”
Inside the Body Refining Sect, there was currently standing a terrifying figure that was ten thousand feet tall. It looked like a hunchbacked man, but without a head. On its hunchbacked back, there were five mountains on its back. These were the five-colored mountains that originally stood in the Body Refining Sect. Who would have thought that those five mountains were originally standing on the back of a gigantic monster.
Although this headless monster carrying the mountain has a hunched back, it is still thousands of feet tall, like a terrifying giant. It stands on two feet with its hands hanging straight down, giving people an indescribable feeling of oppression.
Except for the owner of Dahao Baoge, no one knows what this thing is, or even whether it is alive or not, not even Gu Xiaoxing is an exception!
The monster stood on the ground, while Gu Xiaoxing stood high in the sky. He stared at the giant carrying the mountain, feeling his scalp tingling, and did not dare to act rashly.
The two women naturally saw it in the seven towers on Gu Xiaoxing's waist. Xiao Zhuhuo felt that the giant was too terrifying, so she didn't even dare to look at him directly and hid behind her aunt.
Xu Qianxing was not too scared. She stared at the giant. At first, she was shocked that there was such a monster buried in the ground of the Body Refining Sect. But soon, as if she remembered something, she became extremely frightened and raised her head and shouted, "Xiaoxing, hurry up, this might be a real spirit!"
Gu Xiaoxing looked down in surprise and glanced at the seven small towers on his waist, but he did not choose to leave. Instead, he asked, "What is a true spirit?"
Xu Qianxing was anxious. The reason she knew about the existence of true spirits was because she saw it in an ancient book handed down by the Yu Jian Sect. She quickly used her spiritual sense to tell Gu Xiaoxing everything she knew about true spirits.
Gu Xiaoxing suddenly realized that the so-called true spirits were actually similar to demon spirits. Both were special creatures born in the world, but there were essential differences between the two.
Demon spirits refer to natural things that were originally lifeless. Under the nourishment of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, they have evolved for countless years and finally gave birth to spiritual life, such as mountains, rivers, stones, drops of water, or even a cloud. They are originally natural things. If they can further give birth to spirits, they are called demon spirits!
But the true spirit is completely different!
The true spirit is born with nature and is born with spirit. The birth of the true spirit is a process from nothing to something, so it is also called ... the innate true spirit!
At the same time, no one knows what conditions are needed for the birth of a true spirit. It is as if it does not rely on any laws in the world, like creating something out of nothing. In other words, the birth of a true spirit is a kind of law!
Even the ancient book of the Sword Controlling Sect that records the true spirits still describes many questions. For example, demon spirits will not exist in human form unless the demon spirit takes over another's body like Cang Jiuding did in the past.
However, true spirits all exist in human-like forms, because ancient books record that from ancient times to the present, all the eighteen known true spirits are like this without exception.
In the ancient book of the Sword Controlling Sect, eight of the true spirits are described in detail. One of them is a hunchbacked giant carrying a five-colored mountain on his back. This is why Xu Qianxing was able to recognize the true spirit.
But when Gu Xiaoxing looked at the giant below, he began to feel confused, because in the information Xu Qianxing passed to him, it was clearly recorded in ancient books that each true spirit was extremely powerful, and some of the most horrifying ones were even born with strength above the level of a god, which was simply abnormal.
But the giant in front of him didn't seem that terrifying at all. Moreover, it was different from what was described in ancient books. Not only did it have no head, but it was also much smaller in size...
This made Gu Xiaoxing suspicious.
