The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 439: Reversal Festival
The working principle of the initial stage of the Jiuyao Ascension Ceremony is to use the formation and magic fire to create eight spiritual energy potential difference channels. Qin Guan and other sacrifices are in high spiritual energy areas because they have complete bodies and souls.

Su Baniang only has a skull and a shadow of her soul, so she is in a low-level psychic energy zone.

Under the influence of the psychic potential difference and with the blessing of the Jiuyao Great Sacrifice ritual, the essence of the sacrifices in the high-level psychic area will automatically converge to the low-level area, and then be seized by "Su Baniang" or the evil demon behind her, and finally the quantitative change will lead to a qualitative change, completing the final demon upgrade.

However, when Chen Shen took away Su Banniang's skull, the original low-level spiritual energy area disappeared, and was replaced by a spiritual energy that gathered most of the essence of the eight sacrifices and contained the chaotic nature of the evil demon itself. The spiritual energy thus mixed was several orders of magnitude higher than that of all the sacrifices.

In this way, Chen Shen only needs to reverse the spiritual energy potential difference channel of the Jiuyao Grand Sacrifice, and the source essence that was originally taken away from Qin Guan and others can be returned, and they can return to their normal appearance. If handled properly, they can even strengthen their foundation, nourish their spirits and prolong their lifespan.

Reversing the psychic potential difference channel is neither difficult nor easy.

According to his understanding of the annotation, Chen Shen used his own spiritual power to suppress the demonic flame above Dong Rong's head into a small flame, and then moved it into Su Baniang's skull.

The intact human skull is naturally endowed with the ability to isolate spiritual energy potential differences. Usually, evil spirits want to harm people through the veil, but they can only use indirect methods such as coercion and inducement to make the deceived people open the door to thieves.

However, once a human is corrupted by evil spirits, no matter how perfect his disguise is, his skull structure will no longer be flawless, and there will always be certain unconcealable mutations.

However, Su Baniang was eroded by the Chaos Demon after her death. The demon might be able to corrupt her soul, but it could do nothing to the skull left behind by her body.

Although Su Baniang's skull is somewhat incomplete, its structure is complete and it is still a pure human skull, so it still has the ability to isolate the difference in spiritual energy.

The isolation of the psychic potential difference is equivalent to a broken circuit. The psychic potential difference channel originally connected to Dong Rong began to stagnate, and the stagnation turned into stagnation.

In the end, because the high-level spiritual energy area of ​​​​the evil spirit on the Xihe star at the other end of the spiritual energy potential difference channel was too strong in the past, the spiritual energy quality automatically began to flow back.

Of course, this is also the original characteristic of the Xihe constellation in the orthodox Nine Stars Formation.

Xihe refers to the sun.

The light shines on the four seas and benefits all living things.

The returning spiritual energy was extremely violent and hit the skull like a tsunami, stirring up a burst of fine bone powder.

This is also the reason why Chen Shen placed the demonic flame in Su Baniang's skull. Without the protection of the skull, the demonic flame and even Dong Rong's soul and body would be torn apart by the violent spiritual energy.

After the returning spiritual energy stabilized, Chen Shen carefully released the demonic flame from the skull.

When the demonic flame came into contact with the returning spiritual energy, it suddenly shone brightly, and a purple flame more than three feet high rose up. Then countless energy substances filtered by the demonic flame were injected into Dong Rong's body.

But all of Dong Rong's missing limbs and flesh began to slowly regenerate, and his blood and bones began to fill up.

When Chen Shen saw this, he was overjoyed and said, "My plan has worked! Mr. Dong, please be patient. When you are back in good health, I will come and release you!"

Then Chen Shen continued to use this method to correct the situations of six disciples of Su's school, namely Chao Buzhi, Huang Tingjian, Zhang Lei, Chen Shidao, Li Di and Liao Zhengyi, at the positions of Kaiyang Star, Yuheng Star, Tianquan Star, Tianji Star, Tianxuan Star and Tianshu Star respectively, so that they could all be nourished by the spiritual energy from the evil spirit like Dong Rong.

Compared to Dong Rong who was tortured and destroyed, Chao Buzhi and others were in a much better situation. At least they did not suffer from the misfortune of having their limbs cut off, their skin peeled off, or their tongues twisted.

In the end, only Qin Guan, who was located in the Wangshu star position, was not saved by Chen Shen. It was not that Chen Shen did not want to save Qin Guan, but the skull of Su Baniang, which was used to protect his soul and the magic flame, had been almost consumed after being used seven times.

Although the entire skull still maintained its corresponding structure, its bone wall was only a thin layer like an eggshell, and it was so fragile that even Chen Shen could tear it apart with just a slight scratch. Such a fragile skull could hardly withstand the impact of the violent spiritual energy backflow again, and the consequence of the skull being torn apart by the spiritual energy backflow was that the protected person would suffer the fate of being torn apart.

If Chen Shen fails to save Qin Guan, it will not only be Qin Guan who will be in trouble. Dong Rong, Chao Buzhi and others will also suffer. After all, whether it is the Nine Stars Ascension Ceremony or the Reversal Ceremony, they are all a systematic and overall ritual. If one suffers, all will suffer. If one prospers, all will prosper. If there is a problem in any link, all will have to bear the consequences.

The wear and tear of the skull could be said to be the only problem that Chen Shen had not considered at first. It was not until he turned the tide for Dong Rong that he noticed this problem. But at this time, Chen Shen was already in a dilemma and could not interrupt the entire process of the reversal ceremony and then look for a replacement for Su Baniang's skull.

At the same time, Chen Shen finally understood the meaning of the note in the "Shou Fa Shu" that "the skull of a non-blood relative cannot be used."

Even if Chen Shen had the opportunity to interrupt the Reversal Ceremony to find a replacement for Su Baniang's skull, he would not be able to do it, or it would be difficult for him to do so.

Because the only thing that can replace Su Banniang's skull is the skull of someone who is related to Su Banniang by blood.

Among them, the skull of Su Baniang's son had long lost its function due to its degeneration and corruption. The only skulls left as replacements were those of Su's relatives, namely the brothers Su Shi and Su Zhe and their parents and children.

Su Ba Niang brought this upon herself (perhaps she was forced to do so), so there is nothing wrong with her skull being used here, but the other people in the Su family were innocent. If their skulls were used, even if the reversal ritual was completed, it would plant the seeds of "rebellion" in the hearts of Qin Guan and others, and they would sooner or later be eroded and corrupted by evil spirits.

Chen Shen finally looked at Qin Guan who was suffering, and he was in a dilemma. He could only sigh and said, "Lord Qin, I am now in a dilemma. If I don't save you, the reversal of the great sacrifice will not be complete, and you will all be in trouble. If I save Lord Qin, this head may not be able to support it, and your spirit will be torn apart by the spiritual energy tide. There will be no body left, and you will not be able to escape! If I advance, I will be defeated, and if I retreat, I will be defeated. What can I do!"

Qin Guan looked at Chen Shen with a pleading look in his eyes.

Chen Shen knew what he meant, so he just said, "I just want you to die quickly."

Chen Shen said: "Mr. Qin, you will die if you advance or retreat. It is better to fight to the death. I will join forces with you to resist the tide of spiritual energy!"

After saying that, Chen Shen resolutely compressed the demonic flame above Qin Guan's head into a candle flame and hid it in Su Baniang's skull. Then Chen Shen wrapped it with his own spiritual energy and cast seventeen spiritual energy defense barriers.

Suddenly, the spiritual energy rushed back, and the spiritual energy defense barrier that Chen Shen set up on the outermost edge was unable to even play a defensive role, and was torn into pieces like paper.

As the master of psychic energy, Chen Shen couldn't help but vomit blood.

The spiritual energy returned like a torrent of a river, destroying the seventeen spiritual energy defense barriers set up by Chen Shen like a rotten wood in a whirlwind, shocking Chen Shen so much that blood spurted out of all his seven orifices and his whole body became soft like mud.

The eighteenth line of defense is Su Baniang’s skull, which is as thin as an eggshell.

I don’t know whether it was because the momentum of the backflow of spiritual energy was greatly reduced after breaking through seventeen barriers, or because Su Baniang’s skull was strong enough, but it finally withstood the final impact.

As pieces of bone powder fell, Su Baniang's skull had become as thin as paper, almost transparent.

A skull like this would shatter with just one touch.

Chen Shen endured the severe dizziness and headache, and tried his best to use spiritual energy to maintain the integrity of Su Baniang's skull. Until the reflux of spiritual energy was completely calmed down, he released the magic flame candle representing Qin Guan to slowly nourish Qin Guan.

In this way, the process of Chen Shen's reversal ceremony was preliminarily completed.

If someone looks down from a great height, they can see eight devil flames arranged in the positions of the Nine Stars, constantly drawing the source of evil spirits from the position of the Xihe star to replenish the eight directions.

(End of this chapter)