Immortality Path: From the Blind Man at the Pharmacy
Chapter 257 - 149, 150. Return, Social Death, The Mysterious Reappear World (Major Chapter - Subscription Requested)

Chapter 257: 149, 150. Return, Social Death, The Mysterious Reappear World (Major Chapter - Subscription Requested)

Song Cheng didn’t know where his elder sister-in-law had gotten the idea that "Reappear Calamity required resistance," but based on his observations, her idea was likely incorrect because there was no such thing as resistance.

As for the principle of how the soul became stronger, he had also roughly guessed it.

If a Soul Refiner could become stronger by consuming "Soul Strengthening" type pills, then... for a Noble Family Child with an Innate Ghostly Soul, in reality, "Ghostly Soul" was both the starting point and the endpoint.

To break through, one had to rely on the power of evil spirits.

To rely on the power of evil spirits, one naturally needed to comprehend and accept Reappear.

This was very similar to the "transcending tribulation" often found in the cultivation novels Song Cheng read before his transmigration.

Heavenly lightning was a tribulation, yet it could forge the body.

Reappear was a tribulation, yet it could strengthen the soul.

One and the same principle.

Since one needed to accept, then where did the idea of resistance come from?

Amidst heavenly tribulation, if you didn’t endure the heavenly lightning, how would you become stronger?

Contained within Reappear Calamity was "the nourishment of evil spirits," if you didn’t "consume" it, how would you become stronger?

Therefore, the proper way to transcend tribulation, although not like his method or the one his elder sister-in-law was using now, must necessarily involve first enduring the calamity and then breaking free at the final moment when "death and turning into a ghost" was imminent, rather than resisting and not enduring the tribulation from the start, or like Su Houzhang before who had directly thrown himself onto the evil spirit.

How to break free?

I don’t know.

At this time, Song Cheng, following his own understanding, sat on the branch and watched his elder sister-in-law.

The isolated island, though solitary, was not barren; green grass like a blanket, wind blew flowers drifting like sleet, the elder sister-in-law with disheveled hair, crawling on the ground in such a state, presented a beauty full of wilderness and temptation.

But in reality, this was an utterly inhuman torment, and no matter how beautiful or arousing, Song Cheng would not look...

If it wasn’t the world of Reappear, he would probably have already started to observe, analyze, and prepare to take someone’s life.

Although he wasn’t excessively kind-hearted, this so-called "Extreme Joy World" was too much.

As for taking advantage of a woman in an "unconscious state" to do something indecent, he couldn’t do that.

If he didn’t need to watch over Su Mengzhen and ensure she wouldn’t encounter life-threatening danger during the tribulation, he wouldn’t be here at all and would choose some place to comprehend power, waiting to regroup with his elder sister-in-law after she finished transcending the tribulation...

Afterward, the Reappear of the Human Skin Ghost unfolded scene by scene.

A cultivation similar to raising gu began on the deserted island.

One by one, children who were already cooperating in playing the role of animals for survival were still thrown into the sea, the remaining children crazily continued to act...

They completely forgot their human identity.

In this gu-raising style cultivation, the first to be perfected was a boy, Leopard Man with leopard skin implanted.

The leopard had no name.

However, the people on the island, celebrating his perfection, named him "Zi," the first of the twelve two-hour periods, marking the end of a day and the beginning of a new one.

Soon, "Zi" was taken away by the Mysterious Doctor responsible for the skin grafting.

The second to be cultivated was the Leopard Woman familiar to Song Cheng.

The people on the island followed suit and named her "Chou."

The Mysterious Doctor appeared again, briefly inspected her, but shook his head, indicating that the Leopard Woman who had been cultivated was far from qualifying...

And the name "Chou" was directly stripped from her.

This Leopard Woman did not deserve it.

Before leaving, the Mysterious Doctor casually fed the Leopard Woman a pill.

This was Song Cheng’s first time witnessing the Reappear of the Human Skin Ghost.

Seeing that same Mysterious Doctor appearing over and over again, he felt a sense of oddness in his heart.

Reappear was a segment of the life experiences of the evil spirit before death; this segment would inevitably involve other people, most of whom were passersby, yet a figure like the Mysterious Doctor was extremely rare.

Song Cheng even felt that the Mysterious Doctor might be conducting some kind of experiment.

And "Zi" that he had taken away was obviously a much more perfect being than Leopard Woman.

Where had he taken him?

What for?

With such curiosity in mind, Song Cheng leapt down from the branch and followed the departing Mysterious Doctor...

However, "Reappear" was just a world "centered on the perspective of the evil spirit before death, shining in a certain range..."

The world beyond this deserted island was nothing more than a circle of darkness just a few miles away.

The Mysterious Doctor disappeared into the darkness.

Song Cheng stopped in his tracks, looking ahead.

The deep blue sea turning black was faintly visible with teams of colorful fish swimming, but whether it was the seawater or the fish, once they reached the boundary, they seemed to fall into another world, turning into pure darkness.

The area of darkness was not the sea, but the place where one forcibly left the Reappear World.

The precondition was being able to walk far enough.

The Mysterious Doctor was never a person from the "Reappear World" to begin with; he was merely a shadow imprinted by the strong mental fluctuations of the Human Skin Ghost.

A shadow that had not died, whose motives and purposes were unknown yet who did not exist here.

And his appearance was that of an ordinary, benign old man, no matter how you looked at it...

Very likely he had changed his appearance.

Song Cheng narrowed his eyes, took mental note, and then returned to his original position.

The "Leopard Woman," having consumed the unknown pill, suddenly regained consciousness; she remembered a lot, remembered she was not a leopard...

Intense pain surged up.

But to survive, she had to keep persevering, keep pretending.

This perseverance brought unimaginable torment to both body and mind.

Yet after Leopard Man left, Leopard Woman’s performance was quite outstanding.

Although she wasn’t favored by the Mysterious Doctor, she nonetheless surpassed all other beings on the island.