Da Xing the Mad Monk seemed to realize something, his heart jolting involuntarily as he stared at Gu Qingfeng with an incredulous gaze, asking in shock, "Gu kid, you...
Your physical body couldn't have...
Couldn't have revived, could it?"
"Yo!"
Gu Qingfeng laughed teasingly, "Not bad eyesight, you actually noticed that?
That's right, this master's physical body has indeed begun to revive. How about it, pretty good, isn't it?"
Sure enough.
Gu Qingfeng's physical body had truly revived.
Although Da Xing the Mad Monk found it hard to believe, and although he couldn't probe the situation inside Gu Qingfeng's body, nor did he know the state of his sinews, bones, or meridians, Da Xing knew that Gu Qingfeng's physical body had indeed, without a doubt, revived.
Because he sensed a vitality from Gu Qingfeng.
A vast, endless, and continuously flowing vitality.
A vitality that burned fiercely like raging flames.
It was just that Da Xing the Mad Monk couldn't understand, no matter how hard he tried, why Gu Qingfeng's perfectly fine physical body would suddenly revive.
It wasn't that Da Xing didn't wish for Gu Qingfeng's physical body to revive; on the contrary, he very much hoped it would.
After all, from the current situation, Gu Qingfeng was probably nine times out of ten doomed. If his physical body revived, perhaps there would still be a sliver of hope for survival.
Even though that hope remained extremely slim, it was still far better than having no hope at all.
The reason Gu Qingfeng's physical body reviving was so unbelievable to him was because it had all happened too suddenly, abruptly, without the slightest warning, not even a tiny hint.
Indeed.
Back in the Li Palace void, Gu Qingfeng's physical body had not yet revived.
Forget reviving, there wasn't even a sign of revival.
How could it have inexplicably revived after coming here?
Could it be because the Breath of Original Sin here was too dense and too pure, and Gu Qingfeng's physical body had devoured a massive amount of it, thus naturally reviving?
No!
Da Xing the Mad Monk felt this was unlikely to be the reason.
Even if the Breath of Original Sin here was as dense and pure as could be, and even if Gu Qingfeng's physical body devoured as much as possible, it couldn't possibly revive in such a short time.
Although Da Xing wasn't very familiar with Gu Qingfeng's physical body and didn't know the specific details, he had personally probed it earlier and clearly understood just how decayed Gu Qingfeng's physical body was—like a stubborn rock sealed away for countless eons, impossible for anyone to budge.
Moreover, any existence reviving required a process, and Gu Qingfeng's physical body was in such terrible condition; it was even more impossible for it to revive in such a short time.
This was like a dead person: even if they took a miraculous elixir that could bring the dead back to life, they couldn't immediately come back to life. First, the soul that had scattered to dust needed to coalesce, then consciousness had to reform, and only then would vitality gradually appear...
It required a long process.
But the feeling Gu Qingfeng's sudden physical body revival gave Da Xing the Mad Monk was as if a dead person, after taking a miraculous elixir, immediately came back to life—not only came back to life but could also speak, walk, and was even lively and energetic, with vitality more vigorous than that of a living person.
Truly so. The vitality on Gu Qingfeng was so vigorous that even Da Xing the Mad Monk felt inferior in comparison. He had never seen such a frenzied, such savage vitality.
Yes.
Frenzied and savage.
The vitality of ordinary people was mostly steady and gentle, like water on a lake's surface, without much fluctuation.
The vitality of those with profound cultivation and formidable strength might be vigorous, but it was merely vigorous—at most radiant and full of spirit. Even those with great destiny and fortune might have vitality burning like flames.
However, this kind of flame burned steadily, similarly without much fluctuation.
But the vitality on Gu Qingfeng was surging and turbulent, burning more and more vigorously, more and more frenzied, feeling as if it had no end.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Da Xing the Mad Monk would hardly have believed it. Even now, witnessing it firsthand, Da Xing still found it incredible.
Unable to hold back, he asked, "Gu kid, how did your physical body revive?"
"How did it revive?
Do you even need to ask?"
Gu Qingfeng replied casually, "Can't you see how pure and dense the Breath of Original Sin is here?"
"You mean your physical body was nourished by the Breath of Original Sin here, so it naturally revived?"
Gu Qingfeng shrugged, neither confirming nor denying.
"Impossible!"
Da Xing the Mad Monk shook his head and shouted, "Even if your physical body was nourished by the Breath of Original Sin here, it couldn't possibly revive so suddenly without any warning!"
"Just because you can't do it doesn't mean this master can't. Who told you my physical body's revival relies on nourishment from the Breath of Original Sin?
Can't you see all the acupoints around my body are frantically devouring the Breath of Original Sin?
After absorbing so much pure Breath of Original Sin, the physical body naturally revived."
"I say, Gu kid, can't you stop messing with this old monk? Do you really take me for a three-year-old child?
Your physical body revives first, then the acupoints can open; after the acupoints open, they can devour the Breath of Original Sin—not the other way around, opening the acupoints first, then devouring the Breath of Original Sin, and only then does the physical body revive!
I'm not an idiot; how could I not know such a simple principle?"
Hearing this.
Gu Qingfeng chuckled wryly, took a sip of fine wine, looked Da Xing the Mad Monk up and down, and said with a playful smile, "Yo!
Da Xing, haven't seen you for a bit, you old bald donkey's grown some skill, huh."
"Cut the nonsense. Tell me honestly, how exactly did your physical body revive?"
Originally intending to brush it off casually, he hadn't expected to fail. Gu Qingfeng could only tell the truth: "Alright, fine, telling you won't hurt. How to put this... this master got stuck in a mental rut, which triggered the deepest bottom line in my heart. Then, stimulated by that bottom line, the lost fighting spirit came roaring back."
"After the fighting spirit returned, I found the Id. After finding the Id, the physical body just revived like this."
After hearing Gu Qingfeng's words, Da Xing the Mad Monk froze on the spot, dumbstruck. He wondered if he had misheard and asked, "What did you just say?
Your fighting spirit returned, and you found the Id?"
"That's right, found the Id."
"You kid...
You kid actually...
Actually found the Id?"
If Gu Qingfeng's physical body reviving made Da Xing the Mad Monk feel hard to believe, then Gu Qingfeng's fighting spirit returning and finding the Id had already struck Da Xing like a thunderbolt.
It was also at this moment.
That Da Xing the Mad Monk understood why Gu Qingfeng gave him a feeling of familiarity yet strangeness.
The reason was simple: Gu Qingfeng had found the Id, found the self that originally belonged to him.
The expression on Da Xing the Mad Monk's face grew peculiar, the corner of his mouth twitching unnaturally, and his body couldn't help but tremble incessantly.