“Afterward, I will pass it on to you, and this is not counted as part of the repayment.” Holy Spirit shook his head, having determined Bai Lu's character, his strategy towards him had to change quickly.

Seeing his relationship with Kui Ling, as long as he maintained a good relationship with Kui Ling afterward, everything would be fine.

"Then... I want the sect to fully support my cultivation of the Thousand Faces Sword Codex until I reach the peak, with all the necessary resources, is that okay?" Li Cheng Yi said.

"Alright! But first, a reminder: even I myself have not cultivated the Thousand Faces Sword Codex to its peak. This divine skill was left behind by Old Ancestor Chi Yuan. The complete skill has nine levels, but in reality, it can be infinitely extended for cultivation."

Holy Spirit mentioned simply.

"Theoretically, there is no end to the cultivation of the Thousand Faces Sword Codex, and there is no so-called peak. Because the fundamental idea is a thousand faces for a thousand people. You can integrate any perceived personality, consciousness, or emotion into a Yuanshen sword.

The more consciousness, emotions, and will you have experienced, the stronger the Yuanshen sword will be, and all the Yuanshen swords, located in the Yuanshen Sword Palace, will collectively transform into a part of your own Yuanshen."

"This is a technique for condensing the strongest weapon for attack. And because we have already refined our Yuanshen essence into a sword shape in the foundation-building technique, the more Yuanshen swords we integrate, the stronger we will become."

"I see..." Li Cheng Yi didn't expect the Thousand Faces Sword Codex to be such a powerful technique in terms of its concept.

"Actually, techniques that can achieve great transcendence are similar in that they have no upper limit," Qing Yang Zhenren said, agreeing with a sigh.

"Just like my sect's supreme Heavenly Heart Holy Codex is also like this... using the comprehension of different subtle aspects of the Heavenly Heart Dao Law to cultivate oneself, so as to return to the origin and trace back to the source, and transform oneself into various different primitive and complex powerful bloodlines... the more bloodlines, the stronger oneself becomes."

Li Cheng Yi understood.

From this perspective, the Yin Codex of Tianju Pavilion seems to be a similar technique, openly allowing disciples to create and evolve the path that best suits them.

This seems to be a unique characteristic of the most superior forces and sects.

No wonder this place could nurture such terrifying monsters as the Faceless Scholar.

"In addition, we call such techniques transcendence methods. You must not be greedy for too many transcendence methods and can only focus on one, otherwise the techniques will conflict with each other, leading to adverse consequences. Please be careful," Qing Yang reminded.

"Thank you," Li Cheng Yi nodded earnestly.

"We have some of the resources needed for cultivation in our hands, and we will give them to you first. As for the rest, we will gather them as much as we can in the next few days. The Thousand Faces Sword Codex mostly requires various perceptions, feelings, and grasps of people's hearts. The first nine levels of cultivation are actually about nine different methods of condensation, and there is no distinction between high and low levels of power. Strength and weakness only depend on how many Thousand Faces Yuanshen Swords you have condensed and how strong they are."

Holy Spirit added.

"As soon as possible. I come from the Profound Sea, and now I can vaguely feel Pan Guang's rejection of me," Li Cheng Yi said. "Perhaps it won't be long before I have to leave here completely and go to the Profound Sea."

As soon as these words came out, Kui Ling's lazy expression changed, and she looked at him intently.

"How could that be?"

"Mother, would you like to leave with me?" Li Cheng Yi looked at her with a smile.

"..." Kui Ling opened her mouth, but fell silent for a moment.

After a few seconds, she slowly spoke.

"Can you still come back?"

"Of course, I can come back anytime. As long as you still welcome me," Li Cheng Yi said with a smile.

"That's good, don't scare me..." Kui Ling said helplessly, her expression relaxing.

"May I ask... are you... transcending?" Qing Yang Zhenren asked cautiously.

"No, I'm far from reaching that realm. To be honest, I escaped to Pan Guang to escape my pursuers. Now that I have a bit of confidence to escape the pursuit, I plan to go back and give it a try. After all, I still have former friends, teachers, subordinates... family..."

Speaking of the last part, he looked at Kui Ling. Over the years of getting along, he had truly regarded this woman who treated him sincerely as his own family.

"I'll introduce you to my godmother when I have the chance. Although I wasn't born to you, you're still my only godmother," Li Cheng Yi said with a smile.

"Is that so?" Kui Ling felt relieved, and the emptiness she felt before finally settled.

Next, Holy Spirit Taoist passed on the Thousand Faces Sword Codex to Li Cheng Yi using the method of mental transmission.

The transmission was very simple, just raising a finger and pointing forward.

Then everyone temporarily left the main hall, leaving Li Cheng Yi alone to comprehend the content of the technique.

Although this technique seemed very powerful and could be cultivated infinitely, with each sword being a yuan seal,

Li Cheng Yi, after receiving the transmission, did not see any hope of transcendence in it.

No matter how he comprehended and condensed the Thousand Faces Yuanshen Sword, they were all consciousness, emotions, and will that were inherent in the beings of this realm. It was unlikely that these things could truly get rid of dead ends and entanglements.

And Holy Spirit Taoist had cultivated for so long and had even ignited the True Fire, but he still couldn't see a trace of hope for transcendence, which was proof of this.

After comprehending for half a day, the sky outside turned dark.

Li Cheng Yi slowly came back to his senses from his meditation and opened his eyes. The others had already left.

'Old Ancestor Chi Yuan definitely had another opportunity back then to achieve the ultimate transcendence and freedom. It's impossible to transcend relying solely on this technique!'

He affirmed in his heart.

"You should have seen it too..." Huo Qing Kong's voice sounded again. "The Thousand Faces Sword Codex, although strong, does not have any hope of transcendence."

"Yes... It's a good thing I'm not a person of this realm... otherwise..." Li Cheng Yi frowned.

'I can explain this. The biggest reason why Chi Yuan was able to transcend back then was that he killed a monster from the Profound Sea and replaced his own body with the other party's. Then he lived like that for many years. In the end, he successfully used that body to generate a completely new self-awareness.' The Demon Emperor sighed.

"In fact, in the end, he was no longer himself... Consciousness is just an aggregation of countless flesh and blood wills. If all your flesh and blood are completely replaced, the newly generated countless consciousnesses will also replace the former Yuanshen. Such a person did transcend, but is such a Chi Yuan really still Chi Yuan?"

"Is there no other way?" Li Cheng Yi frowned.

"Yes, the Profound Sea is boundless and infinitely mysterious, and it definitely has other ways. It's just that we don't know them," said the Demon Emperor.

Li Cheng Yi wanted to continue asking.

Suddenly, a clamor of voices came from outside, and someone seemed to be screaming in terror.

And a trace of cold aura that felt unusually familiar to him faintly permeated in from outside through the array.

Li Cheng Yi's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly got up and walked out of the main hall.

Looking down from the high ground of the Faceless Plaza.

He saw a group of disciples gathered around a female disciple lying unconscious on the ground, discussing among themselves in an open space between the pavilions of the Sword Sect.

The female disciple was emitting a familiar coldness from her body.

The view was blocked from here, making it impossible to see clearly. Li Cheng Yi's body flashed with black light, and he instantly appeared at the edge of the open space.

Before he could squeeze into the crowd, he was discovered.

"It's Senior Brother Bai Lu!"

"Senior Brother Bai Lu is here! Make way, make way!"

A group of disciples became excited and took the initiative to make way.

Bai He was also on the side. After hesitating for a moment, he still greeted him.

"What's going on?"

When Li Cheng Yi saw the appearance of the female disciple, he was also surprised and asked aloud.

Because the female disciple was none other than Zhao Yuan, one of the Four Little Swords who had rushed out earlier and transformed into a monster, and also the number one beauty of the Sword Sect!

Moreover, at this time, Zhao Yuan seemed to have luckily recovered from that twisted monster form and returned to her original state.

It was just that her face after recovery was twisted, and her flesh squirmed, as if it was changing into another appearance.

Someone used a small healing spell on her, but it didn't work. Under the illumination of the light, Zhao Yuan's changes seemed to be stimulated, and the speed was even faster.

Before long...

The head of this shapely and beautiful girl completely turned into a huge black and thick pig's head!

Thus, Zhao Yuan completely turned into a shapely girl with a huge wild pig's head on her shoulders.

The coldness on her body also intensified and radiated out as the transformation was completed.

"My face! My face!!!" Zhao Yuan slowly woke up and seemed to have noticed something was wrong. She burst into tears while hugging her pig's head.

"When we found her, she was lying on the open ground outside. There's ice everywhere outside now... The temperature is very low, and there are quite a few similar cases. Many nearby animals and servants have experienced more or less mutations. Only when they return to the Sword Sect's residence will they slowly stop. Senior Brother Bai Lu, do you know what's going on?" Bai He said helplessly from the side.

Li Cheng Yi didn't speak, but he felt a little guilty.

Because the coldness emanating from Zhao Yuan's body was exactly the familiar deterioration that would occur under the original earth dyeing of the Flower God Robe state.

The so-called deterioration had been mentioned by the Evil Flower in the previous barrage of explanations.

There was no unified standard for the appearance of deterioration. All living beings, after staying on the original earth for a long time, would turn into the ugliest appearance they believed in their hearts.

And their minds would become bloodthirsty after staying for a long time.

And killing would gradually allow them to devour each other, gain more power from the other party, and ultimately become the ultimate weapon driven by the Flower King.

This was the original earth.

The only way for the giant aboriginals of the original earth to be freed was to strive to be selected and become a member of the royal city, receiving the Flower King's gift, so as to escape from the sea of ​​ugliness, transform from a cocoon into a butterfly, and become a beautiful Qianye Army or a Hundred Flower God General.

"Pig's head!! What's going on!? How did Zhao Yuan become a pig's head!?"

Someone exclaimed in shock.

"I just killed two wild boars outside and roasted them to eat... wait, if they are also..."

A group of people looked terrified, and the sounds they made made Li Cheng Yi laugh and cry.

He waved his finger, and a yellow light instantly wrapped around Zhao Yuan, turning her into a round bead and falling to the ground.

After stepping forward to collect the bead, a sense of urgency rose in his heart.

If the evil earth here was not controlled, it might spread on a large scale in the future, leading to more troublesome scenes.

The method of controlling the evil earth was also in the Flower God Robe information, but only the Qianye Army and Flower God Generals could have access to it.

So...

An idea rose in Li Cheng Yi's mind.

(End of this chapter)