Chapter 1947: Old Uncle

The sunflower regretted in vain!

Memories flooded back.

Each generation of empty regret has its own mission, and disappears when it is completed or when its time is up—this is what Xu Xiaoshou had concluded early on.

But when fishing for Aunt Xiang on the sixth floor of the Dead Sea, an empty regret emerged that broke this “empty regret law.”

As an ancient empty regret that had seen the ancestors of Saint, Dragon, Heaven, and Medicine, it not only survived perfectly to this era, but its power and mind were also preserved extremely completely.

Ultimately, the mission of that generation’s empty regret was to devour the super divine medicine, the Flower of Life, which contained the immortal power of the Medicine Ancestor.

All the speculations at the time pointed to it being a contingency plan "actively" left by the Time Ancestor.

Perhaps for the Time Ancestor's revival, or to recover the Time Ancestor's peak power, or for something else.

Currently, it can still be considered so, as living always leads to more variables.

But is there another possibility, that the Time Ancestor also became passive because of this?

“The sunflower Empty Regret fears the Medicine Ancestor, and thus hides in the Dead Sea, but with the Dead Sea’s forbidden power, if the Medicine Ancestor truly wanted to move it, could it resist?”

“He should have thousands of ways, either to trick it out and kill it, or go in and devour it, for example, by sending Bei Huai to the Dead Sea, the sunflower Empty Regret would have nowhere to hide.”

“But it didn’t, why?”

Could it be a trap within a trap, leaving a mark on that generation’s empty regret, waiting for a critical moment to erupt?

So, what is a critical moment?

At this moment, isn’t there a “critical moment”?

After the time realm reshaped, and Ba Zun’an ascended, the Medicine Ancestor could completely activate the sunflower Empty Regret as a chess piece, using it to influence Yu Mian Shu Sheng Empty Regret, blocking Ba Zun’an’s path back from the time realm, achieving “absolute exile” in another sense?

“This old immortal…”

Xu Xiaoshou was truly astonished by the Medicine Ancestor’s various hidden thoughts and the endless trump cards after seemingly running out of tricks; it was simply impossible to guard against.

And with such ample preparation, under the premise that if Ba Zun’an didn't reset to zero, he would die, and if he did reset to zero, he would be out of the game.

The Medicine Ancestor truly only needed to be a brute.

He was the first to eat the crab; everyone else afterward wouldn't even get to drink the soup!

Thinking of this, seeing that Kong Yuhen was already making a move high in the Lingyu sky, Xu Xiaoshou was about to speak out to warn him.

Suddenly, the "whooshing" sound of wind echoed in his ears.

“You, finally here, otherworldly person…”

At first, he thought this was the voice of the sunflower Empty Regret from his memory.

He never expected this voice could be so real, like someone blowing a cold wind in his ear.

Xu Xiaoshou was slightly stunned, only feeling his consciousness leaving his body, rushing to a certain world.

This feeling was too familiar.

Wasn't this the manifestation he would have when meeting the Ancestor God during super dao transformation, but he hadn't recklessly ascended the Great Dao Disk now?

After the astonishment came sudden enlightenment.

What followed in his mind was one of the three final pieces of advice left by the Ghost Ancestor when the main body pushed the Life Dao Disk past 90, during Jin Ren Bei Ming's encounter with the Ghost Ancestor:

“He reserves the right to see you, always be wary.”

Couldn't avoid it!

No matter how he guarded, he couldn't block the Medicine Ancestor's infiltration!

None of the Ancestor Gods who survived to this day under the highly lethal title of "Ten Ancestors" were simple.

And those dark chess pieces, laid down in ancient times by unscrupulous means for the sake of resetting to zero, were not only difficult to break, but it was also clear that the Medicine Ancestor did not want anyone to easily touch them.

“Flowers, so many flowers…”

“Fragrance, how can it be so fragrant…”

His consciousness rapidly darted, as if traversing endless time and space.

Vibrant colors filled the entire visible "field," and the intoxicating fragrance, like a potent soporific, made his thoughts sluggish.

Soon, Xu Xiaoshou felt himself thrown onto a piece of land, soft and stable, making him feel relaxed and wanting to sleep.

“If I fall asleep, I’ll die!”

Xu Xiaoshou tried to lift his drowsy "eyelids," realizing he had no eyelids and his body was gone.

But his consciousness was present, and his perception was still there. He first surveyed this "space."

Blue sky and white clouds, clear and refreshing breeze.

The sight was filled with vibrant flowers of all colors, stretching towards distant high mountains, leaving no blank space.

This was a sea of flowers.

It was like entering Hua Weiyang’s Flower World, yet it was different.

The Flower World was mainly an “illusion,” where one could clearly feel that everything was virtual, fabricated, a false reality.

This sea of flowers was too real.

The vigorous upward vitality made clusters of sunflowers around him sway left and right, as if about to spit out sunlight.

“Chichi.”

Xu Xiaoxia felt a pain like flesh tearing.

Soon, he found that perhaps due to inhaling too much flower fragrance, this consciousness body had condensed into a brand new physical body.

Unbelievably fast!

He had completed self-propagation!

“Grass…”

The terrifying power of proliferation was truly frightening.

The key was that after flexing his fingers, Xu Xiaoshou also found that the new body was usable, just a human body, without any spiritual energy or special features.

He casually plucked a sunflower beside him.

The sunflower was surprisingly real, and terrifyingly so.

Because of the pain of being cut at the waist, the black sunflower “face” condensed human features, contorted into a ball, incredibly ugly, and screamed as it opened its mouth:

“Ah, it hurts so much.”

Xu Xiaoshou slapped the ghostly face away, goosebumps rising all over him, instinctively stepping back, yet fearing he might step on the "life" behind him.

No!

This ghostly place, he couldn't stay for a moment, it was too creepy!

He immediately wanted to go home, mentally contacting Jin Ren, sending a forced request to "switch," while also searching for Xu Xiaoshou in the Qianshi Emperor Realm, Wuji in Fusang City, Lingqi Avatar in Xingjie, and other existences, wanting to switch back.

The body, it was found.

The problem is, there were too many!

When his consciousness released this new body, Xu Xiaoshou found every single flower, plant, spiritual beast, and human being on the Saint God Continent…

Their life patterns were identical to his original body, even their auras were the same.

It seemed as if every living being had become his main body?

And when he tried to distinguish which was which, which was the original body, and thus switch back.

He found that he was wrong.

His self-consciousness was one, but there were countless living bodies.

A one-to-many connection, constantly undergoing random switching, simply not giving him a chance to discern "which body was his own."

In other words…

It's not an illusionary sword technique, nor a trapping formation.

It's just that with one consciousness, it cannot match the unique self among billions of living beings.

So, he has the extreme realm of the Way of Intent, he has a powerful "self," but he cannot find his way home?!

“The technique of a thousand disordered bodies, specially tailored for you, no need to struggle, just stay and keep this old man company for a while.” An old voice came from ahead.

Xu Xiaoshou suppressed the chilling feeling in his heart and did not give up struggling.

The Medicine Ancestor's move was flawless, surely knowing about his extreme realm of intent and fearing that he would forcefully end the meeting to warn Ba and Kong.

The technique of a thousand disordered bodies was so formidable that even Ba Zun’an, who could "discern self" with ease, might momentarily get confused if he wasn't careful.

In other words…

Hua Changdeng might be completely suppressed by Old Eight.

The three old monster Ancestor Gods, who have lived so long and seen countless fighting styles, still definitely have a fighting chance against the resetting Ba Zun’an!

“Life…”

Xu Xiaoshou’s Way of Life was super-dao transformed, difficult to create techniques, but quick to break them.

Soon, he realized the essence of the "Thousand Disordered Bodies" technique was to misalign body and intent.

This perfectly bypassed "discerning oneself," forcing the opponent to exhaust a large amount of precious combat time in the absurd little game of "finding one's body" through exhaustive enumeration.

Everything was built upon absolute control over the Way of Life.

Of course, it would also be constrained by the Way of Life!

“Not finding myself from the life pattern, but starting from the Way of the Sword, you can't do anything about that, can you?”

Xu Xiaoshou wasn’t just a single super-dao transformed being; he had too many ways to break a little game like “finding a body.”

Two World Forms, Cycle of Reincarnation, unique in the world, one of a kind.

Soon, by anchoring his past self, Xu Xiaoshou located his unique present self.

Breakthrough!

Mere Medicine Ancestor, defeated!

“Oh?”

Just then, a surprised sound rang out from ahead.

Under the Cycle of Reincarnation, the unique self he saw in his previous life suddenly transformed into countless existences in countless worlds, each looking exactly the same, all being himself.

Xu Xiaoshou was stunned.

Suddenly, in an instant, goosebumps erupted all over his body, and a chill seeped out.

“Reincarnation!”

The Medicine Ancestor definitely held the authority of reincarnation.

Starting from the Way of the Sword, he indeed didn't react immediately, and Xu Xiaoshou exploited a loophole.

But the Cycle of Reincarnation, after all, involved the authority of "reincarnation"...

Damn it!

This old geezer!

At this moment, Xu Xiaoshou, gripped by terror, almost "sat in meditation to comprehend the Dao" on the spot.

Of course, he wouldn't be trapped like this.

The Way of Life and the Way of the Sword, for him, were only parts, not the whole.

He still had the power of names, and could determine his unique self through names.

At worst, he could try to follow Ba Zun'an's path, determine his self through Zang Ku, and when the sword shifted yin and yang, he could definitely subvert this world of flowers...

But, was it necessary?

Xu Xiaoshou suddenly calmed down, his face showing panic, as if he was so scared by the Medicine Ancestor, who held the authority of reincarnation, that he was about to wet himself. “You, you, you…”

Why be so overly cautious?

Ba Zun’an was still there; would the Medicine Ancestor dare to make a move?

Even if he did, his self-consciousness was restrained, but the present was different from the past; even the Way of Memory couldn't hold him anymore.

What if he simply "abandoned his intent" on the spot, performed a golden cicada shedding its shell, then reclaimed himself from body and spirit, and used the energy from the Wuliang Jizi through "transformation," "endless life," etc., to recover from the injury to his consciousness?

Xu Xiaoshou had many ways to escape.

The Medicine Ancestor, even given ten thousand chances, wanting to capture him just by showing his face, was simply wishful thinking.

But he probably didn’t intend to capture him…

All the alarm was based on the premise that he knew he was strong. From the Medicine Ancestor’s perspective, what kind of trash was “Xu Xiaoshou”?

Just a meeting.

His original intention was to prevent him from calling out to Kong Yuhen and Ba Zun'an.

In exchange for this, couldn't he also extract more information from him?

Moreover, given the unequal knowledge, the Medicine Ancestor's focus was on the demons, malevolent spirits, Ba, Kong, and even the time realm.

How could a mere Xu Xiaoshou attract attention?

Take a chance!

“You, you, you, the Ghost Ancestor was indeed devoured by you?” Xu Xiaoshou trembled, his face pale, pupils wide, staring at the front.

Unfortunately, in his haste just now, he didn't think too much and exposed his ability to escape this predicament through the Cycle of Reincarnation.

If "Xu Xiaoshou" was so strong, then his importance in the Medicine Ancestor's mind would have to be elevated even higher.

Fortunately, through the brief skirmish, he could be certain that the authority of reincarnation was indeed held by the Medicine Ancestor—this old man must also be unbelievably strong, and in the best possible state!

“Rustle…”

The sea of flowers parted in the wind, creating a path.

Not far away, under an old槐 tree, an old farmer in an old undershirt and straw hat was bending over, weeding with a small knife.

Shennong weeding…

Xu Xiaoshou’s eyelids twitched.

He took the opportunity to glance at the槐 tree, finding it wasn't a Grand World槐 tree, without ancestral tree power.

It was just an ordinary, somewhat old槐 tree.

“Fragrant Hometown.”

The old man paused, stopped his movements, and turned his head.

His sallow face was covered in many wrinkles, but his eyes were not cloudy; on the contrary, they were very bright, and his facial features combined to give him a very kind and benevolent look.

It was hard to imagine that the Medicine Ancestor would appear in such an image, or perhaps this was just a form he casually created?

“Seven Severance Taboo, Fragrant Hometown?”

Many things flashed through Xu Xiaoshou’s mind.

Fragrant Hometown was in the Northern Domain, carved out by Hua Weiyang with the Grand Luo Nine Heavens Profound Life Sword. It seemed that Haitang'er, the ninth member of the Saint Slave, cultivated there year-round?

Alas, poor Haitang'er…

His throne realm seemed to have been inspired by Fragrant Hometown, even a one-to-one reproduction, even the name was the same…

And even so, it was likely that in the Medicine Ancestor’s eyes, Haitang'er was merely an earthworm beneath the black soil, so insignificant that he didn't even qualify to be a mere contingency plan…

Tsk, there are traps everywhere!

The Saint God Continent, is it truly a cage everywhere?

“Junior Xu Xiaoshou, greets Medicine Ancestor.”

Xu Xiaoshou faced the Ancestor, his face pale with fright, extremely terrified, and quickly bowed with crossed hands.

When he lowered his head, he saw that he was still naked…

He quickly covered himself.

“Put these on.”

The old man was understanding, throwing him a set of clothes.

Only after the junior put them on did He fully turn around, sitting cross-legged in the shade of the槐 tree.

Then, maintaining a kind smile, with a hint of satisfaction at the corners of his mouth, He stared fixedly, making one's back prickle as if being watched by a ghost.

Have I become your contingency?

Am I the second choice, or the top choice?

No, old man, don't look at me like that, I'm scared!

“Old man… ah no, Medicine Ancestor!” Xu Xiaoshou’s face twisted in bitterness, “May I ask, Medicine Ancestor, for what purpose have you summoned me?”

“You know the answer!”

The old man was clearly a seasoned schemer.

These lowly tricks might fool Rao Yaoyao, but the old man scoffed at them.

“I’m an old man now, I won’t bother with these things, and I don’t plan to waste words with you either.”

“How about this, I’ll speak, and you just make your choice… Young people charge forward, dare to fight, dare to venture, dare to reset to zero, it’s not easy to get tangled up.”

He put down his small weeding sickle, and with a sweep of his hands behind his back, as if by magic, pulled out something.

Then he opened his left hand to reveal a chestnut:

“Kong Yuhen reshapes the time realm with the Six Gates, the Eight Ancestors enter the realm, helping me find the Heaven Realm, providing a foundation for those who reset to zero.”

“As for me, I will make a move against Kong Yuhen, temporarily severing the path back to the time realm.”

“Once this old man resets to zero, cleans up the demons and malevolent spirits, and handles all the loose ends, then I will welcome the Eight Ancestors back.”

He slightly raised the chestnut, his expression calm as if he were talking about something as simple as eating and drinking: “Everyone will be happy.”

Xu Xiaoshou’s heart sank.

The Medicine Ancestor didn’t even need to pretend; his exquisite plan was the basis of his unparalleled confidence.

And from his perspective, even if Ba Zun’an reset to zero, he couldn’t completely eradicate all traces of the Medicine Ancestor’s existence on the Saint God Continent.

Thus, Ba Zun’an became a sword.

His significance in resetting to zero lay in paving the way for the second Ancestor God to reset, clearing the path for them.

—The Medicine Ancestor’s sword!

“It’s a very fragrant roasted chestnut, it must have been peeled already…” Xu Xiaoshou’s lips trembled, his eyes fixed on the chestnut, shivering.

He seemed to be controlled by the Medicine Ancestor’s powerful words, so terrified he was incoherent.

The old man rolled his eyes, saying nothing more, simply opening his right hand. This time, a peanut appeared in his palm:

“When the time realm is reshaped, I’ll act slower, reset to zero slower, but the Demon Ancestor will act, and the path home will still be cut off, Ba Ancestor will be out.”

“Crushing the river of time, collecting all Empty Regrets, I am not curious about the Time Ancestor’s secret of resetting to zero, but He is very curious; I do not covet spatial-temporal power, but He covets it intensely.”

“The Flower of Life, Empty Regret, is useless in His eyes, after all, Shennong only tastes hundreds of herbs, he doesn’t understand strategy or calculation, and was the first to be eliminated in the divine war, still not two-in-one.”

“Demon Ancestor, I’ll deal with Him. You are responsible for blocking Sui Yin for one hour, using all your… chess pieces.”

The old man weighed the peanut, pursed his lips, and still chuckled:

“Like Kui Lei Han, Gui Men Guan Shen Cheng Shen, Shen Gui Mo Ce Dao Dian Zhu, and so on.”

“Of course, and yourself…”

He paused, his expression becoming serious: “Name Ancestor, did I get that right?”

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