Longevity begins with alchemy

Chapter 60 Gods and Demons Open the Sky

Next, Shen Mo told Su Yi a story he had heard when he was a child. Shen Mo's voice was deep and magnetic, and the storytelling had a sense of eloquence.

The beginning of the story is the cliche "a long time ago", which should be even "a time ago" than the legendary ancient period.

Before "ancient" was "medieval", before "medieval" was "ancient", and the story took place even before the ancient times, which is indeed very long ago.

"At that time, heaven and earth were not divided, and the world was in chaos."

Su Yi had heard such a "story" in his previous life, "Pangu created the world".

But the story Shen Mo told was somewhat different from what Su Yi had heard before.

"There are two 'true spirits' conceived in the chaos. It is unknown whether they are male and female, male and female, or brothers and sisters."

"What we can know is that one of them absorbs spiritual energy and practices, and the other absorbs the evil energy of the world and practices."

Su Yi heard what Shen Mo said was in line with what he was thinking, so he listened more carefully.

"After an unknown number of years, the two true spirits gradually grew up. The one who cultivated spiritual energy and became mature called himself 'god', and the one who cultivated evil energy and matured called himself 'devil'."

Su Yi somewhat understood that those two true spirits were the so-called "First God" and "Ancestral Demon".

"Gods are born with spiritual energy and are carefree in nature; demons are born with evil spirits and love destruction."

"At this time, the gods and demons have reached a consensus for the first time in a long time, and are ready to work together to break this chaos, because the chaos at this time has become a 'prison' that binds them."

"It's unclear who led or directed this proposal, but they did."

"As the first gods and ancestor demons, the two true spirits naturally have vast supernatural powers and boundless magic power. Working together, they really broke the chaos in one fell swoop."

Su Yi has a huge weakness, that is, his mind is not calm enough.

He originally just wanted to explore the impact of spiritual energy and evil energy on practice, but Shen Mo started from the beginning of the true spirit opening the sky, which made Su Yi anxious.

Shen Mo gave Su Yi some hot tea, and with an expression like "I know you're in a hurry, but don't worry yet", he continued to speak slowly.

"The gods and demons broke through the chaos, the heaven and the earth began to separate, the universe became larger and larger, and the two true spirits left separately."

"The last two true spirits each passed down their descendants. God's descendants follow the divine nature and like to be carefree, so they are 'immortals'; while the devil's descendants follow the devil's nature and like to destroy, they are 'witches'."

Hearing this, Su Yi probably understood something. At this point in the development of the story, the timeline should have reached the "Ancient" or "Medieval" period.

Although there are still no true accounts of this period, there are legends.

One of the legends talks about the origin of various "races" in the world.

For example, for the human race, some say that the human race is the descendant of gods, while others say that the human race is the descendant of demons.

But later it became mainstream to say that humans are the descendants of gods. The main evidence is the human race’s “spiritual service practice”, which is very much the same as “gods”.

Furthermore, the human race has always been known as a "peaceful" race and is emotionally more accepting of the characteristics of gods.

According to the above statement, it is natural that monsters and other spiritual races become the descendants of demons.

After all, from the perspective of the human race, monsters are addicted to killing and destroying. Isn't this the same characteristic as a demon, so it must be a demon cub.However, there is one thing that cannot be explained.

Although the monsters and other spiritual beings absorb "the essence of the sun and the moon", "the essence of the sun and the moon" is just a general term. In fact, what the monsters absorb during their practice is spiritual energy. This... is difficult to explain.

Different from the above mainstream statement, there is also a less mainstream statement, which has even gradually become a "secret."

Unfortunately, the more "secret" it is, the more "communicable" it is. People are happy to talk about this, but they are not good at it or dare not say it openly.

Because in this statement, the human race bears the "original sin!"

In this theory, it is said that the human race, or all races in the world, may be descendants of gods and demons or descendants of gods and demons.

But in the later years, for some unknown reason, whether it was to compete for resources, for development and continuation, or because of different ideas... conflicts arose between the descendants of gods and demons.

In other words, there is a conflict between immortals and witches.

For this reason, the immortals launched a long period of killing against the witches. It can be said that it was a long-lasting battle to slay the demons.

There is even a saying that there is no battle between immortals and wizards. It is clearly a war within the human race to eliminate dissidents. At most, they are just pulling in other races of the same camp.

If this is the case, then it is natural that it is not accepted by the majority of human monks. After all, it is really contrary to the concept of "peace" that the human race has always regarded themselves as.

How could a peace-loving race kill its own kind for some reason, even to the point of "extinction" of another group?

At this moment, Su Yi suddenly felt an inexplicable feeling in his heart. He regarded this feeling as an "early warning."

Su Yi believes that this "early warning" ability was honed through hardships in his previous life, so it can be regarded as an innate talent for him in this life.

He suddenly thought, why did Shen Mo tell him this story?Is there something deep in the story?
Or is it simply talking about spiritual cultivation and spiritual cultivation, and demonic cultivation and evil cultivation, is this reminding me?
Also, Shen Mo knows so many things, which seems to be a bit too much, but it seems to be explainable. If Shen Mo once had a high level of cultivation, then it is normal for him to be more knowledgeable.

Although Su Yi tried his best to control it, his face still showed some strange color due to his sudden change of mind.

This is related to Su Yi's character. His childhood experience has made him insecure and somewhat suspicious. And now he regards Shen Mo as a "sir"-like figure. I'm afraid Shen Mo has other intentions in his heart.

But Su Yi then thought again, "Who do I think I am, worthy of others' concern? I take myself too seriously!"

Thinking of this, Su Yi couldn't help feeling ashamed, a little too suspicious, so he adjusted his expression and continued to listen to Shen Mo's story.

Seemingly noticing the change in Su Yi's expression, Shen Mo replaced Su Yi's cold tea with hot tea, and said lightly, "Don't pay attention to legends like immortals and witches. The point I want to say is not this." .”

"The reason why I want to tell you this story is to explain the difference between the practice of spiritual refining and the practice of refining evil spirits."

"Refining the spirit cultivates the essence and spirit, while refining the evil cultivates the physical body, so the practice of absorbing spiritual energy is a more suitable way for human cultivation."

"Perhaps there is no such thing as a battle between witches and immortals. The extinction of witches or demons is most likely due to poor practice methods. Slowly, the practice method of absorbing evil spirits has been eliminated."

"If Jianwan really absorbs evil spirits and increases its power, then it is very likely that Jianwan is a 'shaman' way of practice."

"As for whether you finally decide to swallow the sword pill to practice, in fact, I can't give any advice, and everything has to be decided by yourself."

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