A thick fog rose from the surface of the sea. The smoke and fire became hazy in the fog. Even the sound was limited in the fog. The center of the fog came from a piece of pitch-black crystal floating on the surface of the sea.
Two figures came to the side of the crystal. They were the Sage of Li Shui, Sikong Ronghong and Yun Shan.
Sikong Ronghong looked at the crystal floating on the surface of the sea and said with a complicated expression, "Endless Karmic Fire burned his body but didn't melt. This human is really extraordinary. No wonder he could attract those at that level to attack him directly!"
Yun Shan frowned. He went up and picked up the crystal on the surface of the sea and flew towards the land.
"Brother Yun, what are you going to do?"
Yun Shan turned his head expressionlessly, "This little guy is half my disciple. I have to find a place for him to be buried."
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The war between the two races continued. Once the Seafolk allied forces went deep into the land, they would be beaten back immediately. The humans couldn't chase them into the sea either. They were in a stalemate for a while. The situation was only broken when a few Great Elementalists of the Seafolk triggered a huge tsunami.
In front of this kind of power, the human army couldn't resist at all. They had to reach a compromise with the Seafolk and cede the Thousand Islands Sea Administrative Province.
Spring went and autumn came. A year passed in a flash. The living environment of the humans became worse. The mutant creatures in the sea frequently attacked the coastal areas. The human countries had to move the industrial areas inland and set up a defense line in the coastal areas. A few large-scale battles also broke out in a few other battlefields.
At the same time, the internal situation of the countries became more and more complicated. The local forces gathered their own forces and the civilians went on strike. Some evil cults began to rise in the human society. These evil cults worshipped evil gods and preached some evil methods of evolution. They gathered believers and became more and more powerful.
Luo Kai's death became a taboo. His body was buried in a cemetery not far from the University of Shangjing. The existence of evil gods couldn't be known to ordinary people. Everything about him was consciously erased by the human leaders. As time passed, people gradually forgot about this new star.
Today was the anniversary of Luo Kai's death. Early in the morning, a beautiful woman came to his grave. She was holding a seven-stringed zither in her hand. She sat by the side and played a tune. The tune was ethereal and melodious, attracting countless birds. They landed on the branches of the surrounding trees and listened quietly. They were not as noisy as usual. Even when they flapped their wings, they were careful not to disturb the sound of nature.
After the song ended, the woman stared blankly at the wordless stone tablet in front of the tomb. She sighed softly and turned to leave.
What no one noticed was that among the weeds on the grave, a small purple flower was gently swaying towards the girl's back. It seemed to want to keep her, but when it realized that it could not attract the girl's attention, it lowered its bud dejectedly.
It was noon. The purple flower welcomed the warm sunlight and gathered its energy. Its roots were deeply embedded in the tomb, and a dark figure was sitting in the tomb.
Luo Kai was not dead. Strictly speaking, his body was dead, but his consciousness was still there.
His consciousness was stored in the flow of particles formed by the Blade of Severance in his mind. It was a place where he could not feel the existence of space and time. It was like a piece of chaos. It was also because of this chaos that he could avoid the detection of the Evil God and avoid real "death".
Time passed little by little. His consciousness was constantly wandering between darkness and light. Sometimes it was clear and sometimes it was chaotic. When it was clear, it was like a plant that could not express its thoughts. When it was chaotic, it fell into nothingness.
In the limited time he had when he was awake, he recalled more deeply the things that happened in his two lives. Even the memories in his mother's womb were very clear. The past completely faded away like smoke. His spiritual realm had finally completed the transformation from the acquired to the innate.
Death was not the end, but a beginning. The great wisdom of the ancient religions had to go through a kind of death experience. The resurrection of Christ in the Bible, the rebirth of Nirvana in Buddhism, the Severing of Three Corpses in Taoism, and so on. It meant the final overcoming of worries, desires, life and death.
He was in such a state now. It was similar to the "Nirvana" mentioned by the Buddhists. It was the elimination of life and death, quiet and stable.
Only by going through the realm of Nirvana could one resolve the cause and effect and be reborn.
Nirvana and rebirth also needed an opportunity. Soon, this opportunity appeared. Zi Lan broke out of the necklace that could not be melted by the purple flame. Her roots were deeply implanted into the crystallized "corpse", and she injected her vitality back into it.
Luo Kai's consciousness had a new carrier. It was difficult for him to set up a body to experience it even though he had achieved a high degree of compatibility with the external energy.
The moment he turned into a plant, everything in the world gave him a different feeling. The first thing that attracted his attention was the majestic pulsation coming from beneath his body. This power was eternal, deep, and thick. This was the power of the earth!
The frequency of his consciousness was instantly in sync with this pulse. The earthy yellow energy swarmed into his body. The earth energy was stable and neutralized, accommodating everything. As long as he was on the earth, he could receive the power of the earth continuously, endlessly, all the time!
Feeling the life force coming from the earth energy, he had a vague guess in his heart. The birth of life had always been a great mystery. All life on earth originated from a single cell, but how did this cell come to be? In this world, there were substances first. Two or countless different substances coincidentally had a chemical reaction together to form the first cell, thus giving birth to life.
According to the ancient legend of Nuwa creating humans by molding earth, the earth energy was obviously the most important carrier in the construction of life.
His consciousness left Zi Lan's body and returned to his original body. As this thought flashed through his mind, his corpse underwent a wonderful change. A layer of flesh and blood cells was built on the outside of the crystallized body. The flesh and blood cells continued to divide according to the genetic information, and finally each had its own function to form various organs, bones, blood, skin …
He did not know how long he had been in a daze. A warm and cool breath rose from his abdomen and quickly flowed to every part of his body. Every cell in his body seemed to be cheering. They were celebrating the complete rebirth of the soul and the body.
Luo Kai opened his eyes and saw a pair of snow-white and tender arms and legs. His body was very big, but his hands, feet, and head were very small. He had become a big baby.
Time passed little by little. His body's organs gradually grew. As his nervous system recovered, his sense of touch returned. However, he had never felt so weak before. The omnipotent and omniscient spiritual power in his consciousness had disappeared without a trace. His body was as fragile as a newborn baby.
Fortunately, he could move now. He crawled out of the grave. The stars were shining brightly outside, and the sweet air was refreshing. The stars in the sky were huge balls of white light, and outside the balls of light was endless darkness. Not only the starry sky, but the entire world had turned into pure black and white.
Luo Kai was stunned. Had he become color-blind and could not distinguish colors?
Then he shook his head. Originally, he needed to see the world with his heart to see this scene. But now, the world had returned to its original appearance in his eyes. There was no longer beauty and ugliness that disturbed his state of mind. As the saying goes, "color is emptiness, emptiness is color." It was the emptiness of all things. It was neither dirty nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing, immortal and indestructible!