Master of Strange Dao

Taking advantage of this young boy named Gou Dan's sleep, Yu Ziqing comes to investigate every night.

He wants to try, if he hasn't tracked it down, and no fragment of his imprint appears, whether he can find out what's abnormal about this boy.

However, he has even glimpsed into the boy's Divine Soul, almost splitting it open for examination, yet found no abnormality at all.

The boy was inherently slow witted due to unopened heart orifices—it's congenital.

Generally, any living being with complete spiritual wisdom must possess Nine Orifices.

The first explanation of these Nine Orifices is the eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth, and the two below.

That is, using humans as a model or according to Yu Ziqing's understanding, mammals.

This is the most straightforward explanation.

Because many living beings essentially don't have such appearances.

Demons, devils, spirits, monsters—there are many, and the most straightforward, some plants that gain spirit don't have this complete Nine Orifices appearance.

Therefore, opening Nine Orifices is the most critical step in the cultivation of some alien species.

Ancient tree spirits, initially with low spiritual wisdom, though as the realm advances, their spiritual wisdom gets higher—thus they open the Nine Orifices.

Some Demon Clan change into human form purely because it's easier to cultivate this way.

And this human form is merely human form with Nine Orifices, standing upright, having a torso and four limbs—not transforming into humans.

For those Demon Clan with a monster head, actually, in their view, it is a very normal look.

Some Demon Clan completely transform into human appearance solely due to a series of prevailing trends brought on by the strong presence of the Human Clan.

For example, studying at the Human Clan, doing trade and a series of things alike, naturally, it is more convenient to transform into the Human Clan look.

If monkeys were now strong overall, then some Demon Clan would completely change their appearance to monkey-like.

Besides the commonly understood Demon Clan, even a stone, as long as it possesses Nine Orifices, absorbs Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth, Sun and Moon Essence, there is hope for it to develop spiritual wisdom.

Nine Orifices opened for eight orifices, placed here among human clans, it's called unopened orifice.

Generally, this unopened orifice is the heart orifice.

Because without the opening of the other eight orifices, one cannot survive; would have died early.

Finally, surviving with no problem in the body, no problem in Divine Soul, seemingly undamaged, yet still foolish.

Now this Gou Dan, on the surface, seems slow in reaction, far from complete foolishness, yet he is in the state of unopened heart orifice.

Yu Ziqing cautiously observed for another year, basically confirmed, Gou Dan's mental growth at this stage is at its limit.

On the day Gou Dan grasped the wooden sword to kill robbers, it was the most momentous growth.

He inherited no experience related to Sword Dao, perhaps just some almost instinctual talent.

If he were a normal person, this talent could even be considered very average.

To progress further, unless he opens his heart orifice.

Otherwise, even if Yu Ziqing speculates, even if Qingping's plan goes very smoothly, his self-awareness will never have the day of revival.

There is also a very important issue, Qingping transforms into a complete human form, as a result, Gou Dan is merely a mortal.

With unopened heart orifice, living to fifty or sixty is already very difficult.

As Gou Dan's lifespan exhausts and dies, Qingping will also be completely obliterated along with him.

On the bright side, at least Qingping's goal is achieved, he dies as a human.

Born of a sword, simultaneously incarnated, amidst overlapping layers, wanting to truly become human, no matter how much he plans, it's useless.

Now this scene is his tribulation.

Under normal circumstances, this is a death tribulation.

Unless someone finds him in this mere decades and helps him open his orifices, then there's a slight chance for him to cross this tribulation, to truly transform successfully.

According to Yu Ziqing's understanding, Qingping would absolutely not tell anyone about this, it's buried in his heart, might even be, most times, he himself might suppress this information, making himself unaware as well.

Only when the plan truly has a chance to execute, what's buried in the heart might emerge.

Oh, thinking this way, it was quite normal for Qingping, when he met Han Dong, not only did he not run away but even actively sought hatred.

If he didn't tell anyone, and no one came to guide him, would he really dare to blindly gamble on that faint stroke of good luck?

What's one thinking, old Yang switching races, it's practically defying heaven, akin to modifying pi, a great blasphemy.

Even the simplest Transformation Tribulation of Demon Clan's Fourth and Fifth Tier gets complicated like a Ninth Tier tribulation-crossing.

With Qingping's actions, how could there not be calamity?

Yu Ziqing has been observing here for ten years, sensed nothing at all, even few cultivators above Sixth Tier passing by were sensed.

Where would there be a guide...

Thinking of this, Yu Ziqing paused, glanced around, reached out to condense a water mirror in front, reflecting his face.

Looking at himself, Yu Ziqing fell silent.

Could it be possible, this guide is himself?

At the moment Qingping shattered, he seized the chance to leave one of his own imprints, which also disappeared along with Qingping's shattering.

Later, his imprint shattered too, yet he could still clearly sense it in that moment, and only at the instant he sensed it did the fragments completely obliterate and disappear.