Chapter 399: Chapter 37: The Celestial Emperor’s Path: Divine Gate Celestial Pass (3/3)

"By invading and influencing the body through its shadow in reverse..."

"Is this considered an unusual curse?"

She gazed at the shadow beneath Gou Xing’s corpse, which was continuously twisting and changing.

Xiluo could clearly see the Shadow Evil Dharma Aspect originating from Li Boyang deconstructing and replicating the [Monkey Mask], until it became identical to Huo Ji’s Shadow Evil Dharma Aspect.

"It’s not really a curse, and there’s no need for it either."

Li Boyang calmly snapped his fingers, and the Shadow Evil Dharma Aspect wearing the [Monkey Mask] obediently squatted down.

"That Huo Ji has the divine power of the Guhuo Bird for Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, making him highly adaptable to things like ’curses’."

"So instead of going through the trouble to curse him, it’s better to understand what happened to Gou Xing."

As if to validate Li Boyang’s words.

The opposite Shadow Evil Dharma Aspect suddenly twisted and changed again, ultimately reverting back to Gou Xing’s shadow.

However, unlike before, as the shadow returned,

Gou Xing unexpectedly opened his eyes again, as if he had come back to life.

"What did you do?"

This time it wasn’t Xiluo asking, but the equally shocked Cyan Bird.

Even now, Gou Xing’s body lacked any vitality, like a puppet being manipulated in a daze.

Only those eyes, reflecting the stars and heavens, gave a particularly eerie feeling.

"Didn’t I say it already?"

"Understand what happened to this Daughter of the Celestial Emperor."

Li Boyang said after snapping his fingers again.

In the next moment, countless scenes were mirrored in Gou Xing’s pupils.

"A complete corpse, a whole brain, can reveal far more information than you might imagine."

"Not to mention, I have also seized her shadow that was controlled by Huo Ji..."

"Perhaps what we can see is not only the past of the Daughter of the Celestial Emperor but also some events from Huo Ji and even the Huai River Dragon Maiden."

Xiluo, not doubting Li Boyang’s ability at all, blinked curiously.

"So how do we understand it now? Is it with your telepathy?"

"Or have you created some new divine power?"

Xiluo watched Li Boyang’s every move closely, seemingly wanting to discern some trickery.

But Li Boyang merely waved his sleeve calmly, and the surrounding scene changed in an instant.

It was like time flowing backward...

Or just a simple illusion...

In an instant, the originally dilapidated Hook Star Palace was restored to its complete state.

Then White Jade City, turned into ruins, was restored, and eventually even the entire Celestial Emperor’s Capital returned to its most glorious period.

The originally silent Celestial Emperor’s Capital began to become lively and noisy.

The sounds of heaven and earth, mingled with the clamor of the gods, left Xiluo and Cyan Bird dumbfounded.

"Welcome to Gou Xing’s ’Memory Palace’."

"Next, we will relive her life from the perspective of this Daughter of the Celestial Emperor."

"No, more accurately speaking, we are now entering Huo Ji’s perspective, seeing the life of Gou Xing that Huo Ji glimpsed."

As Li Boyang narrated faintly, the surroundings changed again.

The Hook Star Palace began to disappear, replaced by a dignified, benevolent woman gently caressing her belly.

In that woman’s belly, a new god was being nurtured and already had a consciousness probing outward.

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Over ten thousand years ago, Star God Lingxi, the most dazzling star in the sky, greatly admired Emperor Hao.

So even if it risked death, she was willing to bear a child for Emperor Hao.

This child was Gou Xing, a goddess with the power of both the sun and stars.

The year Gou Xing was born, Emperor Hao restrained his divine power for the first time.

He let the eternal night hang in the sky, connecting the starry river across the firmament.

It was a year of extreme darkness, a blessing from Emperor Hao to his young daughter.

Born under perpetual night and consuming Immortal Grass, almost no one could kill Gou Xing beneath the night sky.

Until Emperor Hao, in anger, destroyed the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu and commanded ten suns to scorch the earth.

That was the first time Gou Xing, who had been showered with abundant love since childhood, saw her father god’s furious side.

Especially the threat of death hidden beneath such anger.

This was the first time in her life that Gou Xing realized the fear brought by death.

Gou Xing was afraid of dying; she didn’t want to die under her father god’s wrath.

So she quietly fled the Celestial Emperor’s Capital, seeking a way to never die in the Lower Realm.

As Emperor Hao’s most beloved daughter, Gou Xing was never just a decorative vase but a goddess with enough ambition and capability.

Call it a case of different paths leading to the same destination or serendipity.

When teaching his daughter, Emperor Hao once mentioned the concept of the "Divine Gate Celestial Pass."

If a Celestial God wished to become a Great Celestial God,

one must knock on the Divine Gate, cross the Celestial Pass, to achieve an unparalleled status across the ages.

The Divine Gate is the starting point, the Celestial Pass the destination.

Only by first knocking on that door beyond the Celestial God can one qualify to pursue the path of a Great Celestial God.

Since the entire theory was too complex and just a summary of Emperor Hao’s experience,

Gou Xing only remembered the Divine Gate had two levels, each corresponding to different paths of the Great Celestial God.

One is the Body Gate, which, once knocked, leads to an indestructible body.

The other is the Soul Gate, which, once knocked, results in an immortal divine soul.

Emperor Hao said he took the Body Gate path, while the Lord of the Mansion from the Underworld took the Soul Gate path.

This bears an ingenious similarity to the Three Paths of Essence, Qi, and Spirit proposed by Li Boyang.

Gou Xing, who constantly consumed Immortal Grass, naturally and effortlessly stepped into the Body Gate, possessing an undying body envied by the gods.

But Gou Xing knew better than any god that her talent did not lie here.

The Immortal Grass only helped Gou Xing step into the threshold of the Body Gate, but the Celestial Pass was still eons away, not to mention crossing it.

Compared to her ten exceptionally talented brothers,

Gou Xing felt she might never cross the Celestial Pass of the Body Gate in her lifetime.

If that was the case, Gou Xing had to find another route, seeking a way for her soul to be immortal.

Under such circumstances, Gou Xing met the original Guhuo Bird in the Lower Realm.

Becoming a Guhuo Bird was never forced on Gou Xing.

She proactively requested to become a split soul, seeking the Guhuo Bird’s divine power actively.

As for how Gou Xing maintained her unwavering original mind?

Gou Xing’s approach was actually quite simple—kill the original Guhuo Bird.

As long as she devoured the Guhuo Bird’s soul, making it part of herself, she would be the only Guhuo Bird in the world.

If so, what does it matter about the original mind? Isn’t it all up to her own words?

One could say this idea of Gou Xing’s was simple and crude, and also very naive and ignorant, fundamentally blurring the concept of the "original mind."

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