Chapter 377

Chapter 377: Life-Affirming Object

Inside this world, Jiang Yun encountered "life" that only consists of spirits. When the spirits die, they turn into Soul Stones without leaving behind a body. Clearly, these two bodies came from the Mountain-Sea World along with Jiang Yun.

Although Jiang Yun woke up alone, he believed that there must be others who were also sent into this world by the whirlpools.

Now these two bodies are the best proof of that.

Jiang Yun carefully examined the two bodies and noticed that one had a black ghostly mask on its face, indicating they were from the Ghostly Samsara Hell.

The other body had a red pill hanging from its waist, showing they were from the Grand Medicine Sect.

Scattered next to the two bodies were several Soul Stones.

After inspecting the wounds on the bodies, Jiang Yun could easily guess that these two had fought each other for the Soul Stones and ended up perishing together.

Looking at the body of the Grand Medicine Sect disciple, Jiang Yun remembered Elder Shen telling him, when he left the sect, to take care of the Grand Medicine Sect disciples in Mirage.

So Jiang Yun punched the ground, creating a deep hole, then with a sweep of his sleeves, placed the Grand Medicine Sect disciple’s body inside and filled the hole with soil.

As for the disciple from Ghostly Samsara Hell, Jiang Yun didn’t even bother looking at his body. He reached out and picked up a few scattered Soul Stones on the ground.

Inside the Soul Stone, there is life fire. With his Flameless Puppet Lantern, Jiang Yun could use it. But he couldn’t figure out why others would fight over this Soul Stone.

Could there be something strange inside this Soul Stone?

Thinking about this, Jiang Yun crushed the Soul Stone in his hand. However, he still saw a strand of life fire in front of him.

"You are really silly!"

At that moment, Bai Ze, who had been ignored by Jiang Yun all along, finally found a chance to speak up without hesitation, mocking, "Do you think everyone can see life fire?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yun suddenly realized!

Bai Ze had told him before that only people with a very strong divine sense or the Fire clan, who are naturally attuned to fire, can perceive life fire.

Jiang Yun could see it because he had the innate talent of the Fire clan, while others indeed could not see the existence of this life fire.

Jiang Yun played with the Soul Stone in his hand and asked, puzzled, "What do others see in it?"

"It’s a life-saving object for cultivators!"

"If this Soul Stone belongs to the demon race, they will see their own demon blood; if it belongs to humans, they will see their own spiritual essence!"

"Moreover, it can be directly refined and absorbed for personal use!"

Jiang Yun’s face showed a look of sudden understanding.

A life-saving object is extremely important for all living beings.

Lifelong essence is the foundation of life, very precious. Once it’s lost, it can never be fully replenished even with the most potent elixirs.

The only way is to refine and absorb the life-saving object of others!

Initially, Xue Qing spat out her life essence demon blood to protect Jiang Yun. Even though he managed to rescue her in time, the damage to her essence persisted, preventing her from fully recovering.

However, if a person already has their own source of life energy and then absorbs more life energy, it will only help them live longer!

For spiritual practitioners, even though they live much longer than regular people, they are not immortal. Therefore, the longer-lived practitioners are, the more they desire to increase their lifespan.

The life energy cannot be directly obtained from other creatures. Otherwise, those old monsters would not hesitate to kill a lot to replenish their lifespan.

Surprisingly, the Soul Stones inside these spirit beings contain the life energy that can be directly obtained. It is clear that after being discovered by the practitioners, they are highly valued.

In fact, all the practitioners from the Mountain-Sea World probably see this life energy as a great opportunity in this world, which is why they are fighting fiercely to seize it.

Bai Ze continued saying, "However, a Soul Stone contains a meager amount of life energy. Even if absorbed, it won’t have much effect. Only when a certain amount of life energy is gathered together can it be effective!"

Jiang Yun nodded and said, "Just because of this life energy, I wonder how many more people will die!"

With a wave of his hand, Jiang Yun crushed all these Soul Stones, turning them into life fire, which he then put into the Flameless Puppet Lantern.

Rather than the intangible increase in lifespan, he needed tangible life fire that he could see and touch!

Once Jiang Yun consumed Huo Yanghui’s life fire, he gained control of the Flameless Puppet Lantern and understood how to use it.

Jiang Yun had no interest in any other uses, except for one particular use that intrigued him!

This use could potentially save his life at least once, so he needed a large amount of life fire to fill the Flameless Puppet Lantern.

Jiang Yun could not bring himself to kill innocent beings for life fire, but as Bai Ze mentioned, these spirits had already dissipated, leaving behind life fire as ownerless.

Taking it, Jiang Yun felt no guilt or remorse.

Jiang Yun continued moving forward, and before he knew it, three days had passed.

As he delved deeper into this world, he encountered more and more spirits.

Indeed, the spirits were growing stronger.

At first, Jiang Yun could defeat a spirit with a single punch, but later on, he had to use magic.

Of course, this made him realize that the place where he first came into this world was probably at the edge, so the evil spirits there were not very strong.

Although the evil spirits became powerful, Jiang Yun still gained something, because he also discovered that the stronger the evil spirit, the more vigorous the Life Fire hidden in the Soul Stone.

Besides encountering evil spirits, Jiang Yun also noticed more and more corpses.

Some died from killing each other, and some died at the hands of evil spirits.

Especially when he saw the body of a disciple from the Seeking-Tao Sect among these corpses, he fell silent.

Unable to preserve the bodies, Jiang Yun could only take the token representing the disciple’s identity and bury the body.

In this world, he was busy with his own affairs and couldn’t even protect his fellow disciples, which was the most he could do for them.

However, in the next few days of travel, his brow furrowed deeper, his expression colder, and the aura of death around him grew stronger.

Because, in the first three days, he saw bodies from various sects, but in the following days, he mostly found bodies from the Seeking-Tao Sect and the Grand Medicine Sect!

And this made him realize that in this world, the disciples of various powers may no longer be fighting on their own, but have formed alliances.

He even knew which sects had formed alliances.

"Ten Thousand Demons Cave, Ghostly Samsara Hell, and Sea clan, you can form alliance without my interference, but if you want to join forces against my Seeking-Tao Sect, then I will show you that my Seeking-Tao Sect is not easily bullied!"