No hope for eternal life

Chapter 215 Inner Demon

The reason why this step is also the most dangerous is that it is the conclusion drawn by countless generations of monks through personal practice.

Once the Nascent Soul is injected with spiritual consciousness, it will develop independent consciousness, which is what people often call the inner demon!

The inner demon will come into conflict with the cultivator himself, competing for leadership, and sometimes the inner demon will even overwhelm the cultivator's original consciousness. Therefore, in history, there have been countless cultivators whose temperaments changed drastically after breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage. This was caused by the successful invasion of the inner demon.

Just thinking about one's own consciousness being replaced by another is chilling. No one would ever want to have their own consciousness replaced by a strange consciousness, because that would be the same as death.

Mu Changsheng took a deep breath. Even though he was in an illusion, he did not dare to be careless.

After adjusting his mindset, Mu Changsheng began to slowly inject the spiritual consciousness in his mind into his Nascent Soul.

With the infusion of spiritual consciousness, it was not obvious at first, but soon, the lifeless Nascent Soul suddenly opened its eyes, and golden light shot out of its eyes.

After the Nascent Soul opened its eyes, it seemed to have self-awareness and began to actively absorb Mu Changsheng's spiritual consciousness at a speed far exceeding Mu Changsheng's injection speed.

At the same time, the inner demon has quietly arrived.

"Kill!" Mu Changsheng suddenly roared with a ferocious look on his face, which scared Hua Yun and Mu Xun beside him.

Hua Yun was indeed a cultivator at the Tribulation Realm. He was the first to react and said solemnly, "We have finally come to this point."

Whether it is refining Qi to build the foundation or building the foundation to form the pill, the process is relatively simple. Even if the breakthrough fails, there are still opportunities to practice again and break through.

However, the formation of the golden elixir is a mountain that stands in front of every cultivator. The battle between the inner demon and the self is bloodless, and the loser will almost never be able to turn things around.

Moreover, as outsiders, Muxun and Huayun could not help at all.

At this moment, Mu Changsheng's experience was extremely sour and refreshing. His inner demons were extremely violent and filled with all kinds of emotions: joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, love, hate, desire, etc. All the seven emotions and six desires were included, and all kinds of thoughts were breeding in Mu Changsheng's mind, as if they were going to devour Mu Changsheng's own consciousness.

The roar that Mu Changsheng just let out was caused by his sudden loss of mind and loss of control. Fortunately, Mu Changsheng has now regained control.

Faced with this kind of collision of consciousness, there is no absolutely effective way to deal with it in the historical esoteric books. The only thing that can be called a trick is to keep your mind focused and remain unmoved until the process of injecting spiritual consciousness is completed, then the inner demon will be naturally suppressed.

This is exactly what Mu Changsheng is doing now. While insisting on being himself, he is also constantly recalling the past in his heart, for fear of forgetting his memories.

Time passed in a process that Mu Changsheng could not calculate. As time went by, the inner demon in his Nascent Soul continued to grow stronger.

When the collision just started, the inner demon could only use some crude means of thought impact to "attack" Mu Changsheng, but now he can mobilize his magic power to fight against Mu Changsheng, because both sides are one and both have partial control over the magic power.

At the same time, the Nascent Soul Heart Demon was still communicating through consciousness, taunting Mu Changsheng crazily: "You are a hypocritical person who curries favor with the powerful. First you curry favor with Yang Wuque, then you curry favor with Mo Lianyue and Mu Qunxian, and now you want to curry favor with Lingshan Sect. Do you think someone like you is likely to be accepted by Lingshan Sect? Lingshan Sect has seen through you a long time ago. You are destined to fail this assessment."

Mu Changsheng kept his mind focused and had no distractions. Facing the ridicule of his inner demon, he was too lazy to pay attention. He probably understood now that the inner demon was just a replica of himself with the same memories, and he couldn't say anything new.

In other words, the inner demon is invisible, otherwise the inner demon would have been so angry that his teeth were itching. No matter how he mocked, Mu Changsheng was like a coward, leaving him with nowhere to start.

So, the inner demon changed its strategy and said, "Haven't you been troubled by this illusion assessment? I know how to break the illusion. Do you want to know?"

"What method?" Mu Changsheng answered for the first time. The reason why he chose to answer was because he never forgot that he was in an illusion. This inner demon was also a product of the illusion. Maybe the other party really had some clues to break the illusion.

"Hey, it's not such a cheap thing. If you want to know the method, you have to let me control your body for at least one hour. One hour is enough." The inner demon said temptingly.

Mu Changsheng no longer replied. He had no interest in making a deal. Once he handed over complete control to the other party, who knew what the other party would do. Moreover, his inner demon had become very powerful. If he gave up control, it would be a question whether he could get it back.

Instead of asking others for help, it is better to rely on yourself. Mu Changsheng always remembers the four words Yang Wuque gave him: Don't ask outside.

Seeing that Mu Changsheng didn't reply, the inner demon began to get anxious and continued to persuade him: "Half an hour is enough. I just want to experience it. It will take a long time to complete the Nascent Soul. Half an hour is not a big deal at all."

"I really do know a way to break the illusion, and the solution is in Mu Xun. Let me control my body, and I will tell you right away."

"The solution lies with Mu Xun." Although Mu Changsheng ignored his inner demons, he was very interested in this sentence. He didn't know whether it was true or deliberately misleading him.

As time went on, the inner demon became more and more impatient, because once the spiritual consciousness was injected into the Nascent Soul, he would be suppressed and lose the opportunity to fight for control.

"Give me your body." The inner demon screamed frantically in Mu Changsheng's consciousness: "A hypocrite like you will never pass the entrance examination of Lingshan Sect. You will never pass."

"The demons are causing chaos. Now is a time of turmoil. People like you are doomed to not survive in a time of turmoil. Remember, in a time of turmoil, you must do whatever it takes..."

The inner demon's words were suddenly interrupted because the infusion of spiritual consciousness had completely ended.

At this moment, Mu Changsheng's Nascent Soul was finally successful, and the inner demon was suppressed back into the Nascent Soul.

However, although the inner demon was suppressed, it did not disappear, but lurked in the Nascent Soul, waiting for an opportunity to strike. Therefore, the cultivators cultivated their bodies and minds in order to guard against the possible sneak attacks of the inner demon at any time.

Of course, the inner demon's sneak attack is not without cost. It consumes its own strength. So normally, the inner demon will accumulate strength in secret, waiting for the master to fall into crisis and weakness, and then seek an opportunity to strike with one blow.

After the breakthrough in cultivation, the Nascent Soul exhaled, and vast Nascent Soul magic power burst out from the Nascent Soul. This first breath of Nascent Soul magic power after the Nascent Soul stage was the purest.

Afterwards, this Nascent Soul magic power began to roam around Mu Changsheng's body, in order to feed back and cleanse his body. Mu Changsheng would take this opportunity to break through to the fourth of the nine transformations of his physical body - the Internal Qi Transformation.

Mu Changsheng had long realized that practicing in this illusion was also a kind of benefit, as it allowed him to experience the feeling of breakthrough in advance. Therefore, Mu Changsheng not only wanted to break through in his cultivation, but also in his physical body.

So, Mu Changsheng took the Zangqi Pill that he had prepared long ago and began to seek a breakthrough.

The cultivation of the Nine Transformations of the physical body is always full of pain, and this breakthrough is no exception, because Mu Changsheng has to temper his internal organs into something as strong as iron. Just thinking about it, one knows that the process will definitely not be easy.

From Mu Changsheng's own experience, it seemed as if his internal organs were churning and beating, and he was shaking with pain, with veins bulging.