"Rise and speak," Shi Yi waved his hand.
"Yes."
The old man in green clothes with white hair didn't say much, slowly standing up from the cold ground.
"This small town is located deep within the Great Wilderness, very close to that mountain range. How many people are currently fighting for that Mountain Treasure?" Shi Yi asked.
"Immortal, the mountain range where the Mountain Treasure appeared is already in chaos. Countless fierce beasts and human forces are fighting there. It can be said that corpses litter the fields," the old man in green clothes with white hair respectfully replied.
Although in his eyes, Shi Yi's own strength was only so-so and not his match, the other party had a backer, and it was a backer that his own backer could not afford to offend.
Leaving Shi Yi's backer aside for now.
The backer of the old man in green clothes with white hair...
Legend has it.
A long, long time ago, the first Offering Spirit of Stone Country was a stone. Later, it cultivated into a deity. Now, in the Lower Realm's Eight Regions, all stone-type Offering Spirits are its descendants.
This is why stone-type Offering Spirits cannot be insulted.
Because a deity stands behind them.
"Have the major tribes in this town also sent people to snatch the Mountain Treasure?" Shi Yi continued to ask.
He wasn't asking about the few stragglers in the town, the old and young with their families, but whether the major tribes behind them had sent people to snatch the Mountain Treasure.
"Immortal, the people in this town are just bringing their descendants out to see the world and gain some experience. The true experts have already gone deep into the Great Wilderness."
The old man in green clothes with white hair was meticulous, directly stating what he knew.
"Old man, you attained enlightenment as a stone-type being. Do you know what the so-called Mountain Treasure is?" Shi Yi asked, puzzled.
"Mountain Treasure..."
The old man in green clothes with white hair fell silent, as if he had something difficult to say.
Just as Shi Yi thought.
When the old man in green clothes with white hair found it inconvenient to speak, he slowly said, "Immortal, the so-called Mountain Treasures are just treasures passed down from the Upper Realm. It's just that many are buried in the endless Great Wilderness, hidden from sunlight, and cannot be detected without special means. Every few hundred years, one or two Mountain Treasures will appear."
What Shi Yi didn't know was.
The old man in green clothes with white hair's silence just now wasn't because he had something difficult to say, but because he didn't understand why Shi Yi would ask about something that everyone in the Upper Realm knew.
However.
Although Shi Yi appeared ignorant in this regard, the old man in green clothes with white hair did not doubt Shi Yi's identity, nor did he need to. The glowing willow branch in his hand was enough for him to do as he pleased in the Lower Realm's Eight Regions.
"Now that the Mountain Treasure has appeared, aren't the four great fierce beasts of the Great Wilderness snatching it?" Shi Yi asked, not understanding.
"Immortal, since the Vermillion Bird and Zhu Yan left, the Heaven Swallowing Sparrow and Qiongqi have remained dormant, but they have been secretly watching the Mountain Treasure," the old man in green clothes with white hair replied.
"I see. Thank you for your trouble, old man."
Shi Yi didn't ask any further questions; it would be impolite to do so. He waved his hand, allowing the spiritual body of the old man in green clothes with white hair to return to his main body.
A spiritual body is different from a Law Body. A Law Body is a non-human race transforming into a human form, while a spiritual body is a clone.
A spirit body is primarily nurtured through a Grotto-heaven and generally possesses strength one realm lower than the main body.
Generally speaking.
Only after reaching the Human Supreme, which is the Venerable Realm, does one have enough power to nurture a spirit body to walk the world in place of the main body, avoiding some uncontrollable dangers.
Nurturing a spirit body is not complicated. It can be nurtured based on the main body, or it can be nurtured using cultivated Precious Techniques. For example, the Qilin Treasure Technique can nurture a Qilin spirit body.
But the foundation of all this is the Grotto-heaven.
The Grotto-heaven is the true foundation of a cultivator.
So now, Shi Yi also understood that his previous idea of breaking through with Nine Celestial Passages was very naive.
It was thanks to the Willow Deity's promise that he gritted his teeth and broke through to Ten Celestial Passages with supreme perseverance.
"Vermillion Bird, Zhu Yan, Heaven Swallowing Sparrow, Qiongqi. Now Zhu Yan and Vermillion Bird have left, and Heaven Swallowing Sparrow and Qiongqi are hiding behind. I don't know what they are planning."
As he thought.
Shi Yi suddenly remembered that since he could analyze everything he had seen in his previous life through his Double Pupil—people, events, objects—and recall the Daoist scripture he had only glanced at, he had opened up completely different Ten Celestial Passages with the help of the true Daoist scripture.
So now.
Could he use his Double Pupil to recall the details of the perfect world?
What good things were hidden inside the Mountain Treasure that was currently being fought over?
People who might become his enemies in the future?
Great opportunities that had not yet been discovered?
Thinking of this.
The mysterious and unfathomable Double Pupil appeared in Shi Yi's eyes. The vast and boundless pupil power surged into the depths of his soul, beginning to unravel and flip through the people, events, and objects he had seen in his previous life.
He forgot to mention.
Shi Yi was not a show-off. Due to his cautious personality, he usually kept his Double Pupil hidden and it would only appear automatically when needed.
So normally, Shi Yi was no different from an ordinary person. His eyes had only one pupil. If he didn't say anything, no one would know he had Double Pupils.
An hour later.
Shi Yi rubbed his sore eyes, a hint of speechlessness on his youthful face. He didn't quite know what to say.
Should he say he was stupid?
Should he say he was foolish?
Should he say he was bad?
I really...
Am I that lustful?
Do I only know how to look at women?
Seriously.
Shi Yi really wanted to slap himself and bang his head on the ground to make a few holes.
He used his Double Pupil to carefully examine his soul memories back and forth, especially the part related to the Perfect World.
In the end, Shi Yi had to accept the reality that he was just a casual observer, someone who seemed to understand but actually knew nothing.
In his soul memories, he hadn't read a single chapter of the original novel, and had only watched less than half of the anime. However, he had watched quite a few colorful videos of the female leads and supporting characters from the Perfect World.
But this couldn't be entirely blamed on Shi Yi. He didn't know beforehand that he would transmigrate, much less that he would transmigrate into Shi Yi of the Perfect World, who shared the same name.
Also.
With a full-scale nuclear war breaking out, who the hell would still update anime?
On that Azure Blue Planet, Shi Yi had only watched up to episode eighty-five, where the Sun God Tree ascended to the sky. After that, the terrifying nuclear war broke out.
Therefore.
Shi Yi really regretted it. If he had known earlier, he would have just casually glanced at the original Perfect World novel. Then he wouldn't be completely ignorant of the future.
Now he only knew that his younger brother Shi Hao was the future Desolate Heaven Emperor, Willow Deity was a powerful backer, and Yun Xi and Moon Chan were exceptionally beautiful.
The only thing worth celebrating was.
Although Shi Yi hadn't read the original Perfect World novel, he was a true fan of the Vast Desolate genre novels. During the time he was cultivating to the point of going mad, he even specifically studied the Daoist scriptures for this purpose.
Although Shi Yi had only skimmed most of the Daoist scriptures and hadn't read them in detail at all.
But during that time of going mad, he had read through the Thirteen True Scriptures of Daoism.
However.
After the initial surge of going mad passed.
Shi Yi could only barely remember six words.
The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name.
But now.
Shi Yi was no longer the Shi Yi of the past. With his Double Pupil, even if he had only glanced at the Daoist True Scriptures, he could recall every single character in the scriptures completely.
For example, now.
Shi Yi only needed to simply close his eyes, and the thirteen scriptures emanating with the true meaning of Daoism could automatically appear in his mind.
[True Scripture of Dao and Virtue]
[True Scripture of Nanhua]
[True Scripture of Chongxu]
[True Scripture of Tongxuan]
[True Scripture of Dongling]
[Scripture of Constant Purity and Stillness]
[Scripture of the Yellow Court]
[Scripture of Great Peace]
[Scripture of Salvation]
[Jade Emperor Scripture]
[Yinfu Scripture]
[Heart Seal Scripture]
[Zhouyi Cantong Qi]
These thirteen Daoist scriptures, ever since Shi Yi unearthed them from his soul memory through his Double Pupil, transformed into thirteen incomparably profound scriptures suspended in Shi Yi's sea of soul.
One by one, these supreme scriptures radiating the true meaning of Daoism floated in Shi Yi's sea of soul, forming a circle that protected Shi Yi's not-yet-powerful soul in the center.
At the same time.
It was also these thirteen true Daoist scriptures, with their Daoist sounds echoing in Shi Yi's soul, that successfully allowed Shi Yi to open his Ten Celestial Passages, distinct from the Ten Celestial Passages of this world.
The forces of Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Nine Palaces, Eight Trigrams, Yin and Yang, Five Elements, and the foundation of the Universe's Chaos, a Grotto-heaven mixed with various powers, laid the foundation for him, which could be called the strongest.
"I can't rely on my past life memories. As for the people in this town now, they are just bringing their juniors out for experience and won't go deeper into the Great Wilderness."
Shi Yi's gaze was deep. He saw that these people already had the idea of returning. Although he had traveled with them, he still hadn't obtained any useful information about the Mountain Treasure from their mouths.
Perhaps, they themselves weren't aware of the Mountain Treasure's secret.
"It seems I can only walk the rest of the path alone."
Thinking this.
Shi Yi walked out of the courtyard alone, walked out of the small town alone, at a steady pace, heading towards the place where a bloody storm was erupting.
"Mountain Treasure..."