Chapter 765: A Fine Moment, A Beautiful Scene
Qi Xuansu felt as though he had been dreaming for a very, very long time.
His mind was conscious yet separated from the real world by a thick barrier, like trying to view flowers through the fog or frosted glass. Everything was hazy and indistinct. He could hear some sounds beyond the barrier, but they were muffled, fragmented, and unclear.
The key point was that Qi Xuansu had lost control of his body. He was merely a spectator.
In truth, after the divine descent, Qi Xuansu’s consciousness had withdrawn into the Longevity Stone Heart. This was why he felt surrounded by a dense barrier. With the protection of the Longevity Stone Heart, even a Pseudo-Immortal would find it difficult to harm his soul, unless they were willing to plunge their own soul deep into the stone to seek him out.
Back then, the Golden Horde Imperial Preceptor had forged the Longevity Stone Heart and used it to survive his first heavenly tribulation. Afterward, his strength was greatly diminished, and he was slain by Xu Wugui and Tantai Yun in a joint attack. His soul then hid within the Longevity Stone Heart until many years later, when the Holy Xuan finally annihilated it completely.
In this respect, Qi Xuansu’s Longevity Stone Heart was no different from Li Changge’s. They both functioned to protect the soul.
This was precisely why Madam Qi and Sage Donghua had no qualms about choosing Qi Xuansu as the vessel for the divine descent.
Just like many elders or parents in the world, they only needed the child to follow the prescribed path. There was no need to explain everything, as they had already calculated all the odds.
Of course, one could put it another way. Sage Donghua and Madam Qi had long anticipated that the Anchor the Monkey operation would leak, just as the Imperial Court’s Wuxing Mountain plan had. That was why only the architects of the plan knew its core details, and everyone else was but a chess piece.
In short, Qi Xuansu had completed a divine descent while being completely unaware and unprepared.
Due to the Manly Immortal lineage’s deep study of the human body, the Daoist Order had long compiled comprehensive principles for every organ, from which they developed various artificial substitutes. As such, the Longevity Stone Heart shared some of the heart’s physiological functions.