**Chapter 479: Analysis, Trouble**
Within a Spatial Rift located between Reality World and Dimensional Space, a cloud, no more than a thousand meters in diameter, floated In the Void. The surrounding Void was desolate and barren.
Above the Cloud Layer, a long table and four long benches were set up. The clatter of Mahjong tiles occasionally echoed among the Cloud Layer.
Wade Wilson pointed a finger at the Mirror of Circular Light suspended not far away, his face full of astonishment, and shouted loudly.
The picture appearing in the Mirror of Circular Light was precisely the meteorite where Frank was standing. Under the Mirror of Circular Light, the shadow that was almost integrated with the meteorite was clearly visible.
Seeing that Frank was about to suffer a sneak attack, Wade Wilson's face was full of worry. He immediately stood up, pressed his hands on the Mahjong table, and secretly palmed a few Mahjong tiles.
When Wade Wilson lowered his head again, he suddenly found that Tang Song, Kane, and Hela were all looking at him in unison. Especially Hela, who had been intercepted by Tang Song several times, her cold gaze seemed as if it would freeze him in the next moment.
Wade Wilson reluctantly put the Mahjong tiles back on the table and obediently sat down.
"Boss! I'll deal with him!" Kane said in a muffled voice, watching the shadow gradually approaching Frank. He squeezed the ivory Mahjong in his hand until it creaked. Killing intent flashed in the eyes of him who hated traitors the most.
At this moment, half of Tang Song's mind was focused on this incarnation. No matter which world, the soul was always a wondrous existence.
Unlike the history of evolution understood by human technology, in the rapidly developing Marvel Universe, the evolution of a civilization is the result of natural selection.
From the most basic prokaryotic organisms, through billions of years of evolutionary selection based on survival of the fittest, it gradually becomes a prosperous civilization—
This is true for Earth, and it is also true for most civilizations in this universe.
However, in the eyes of true higher existences, the mystery of the soul cannot be summarized by evolution theory. In their view, the physical body is merely a vessel, and the soul is the true core of an intelligent life.
Whether or not there is a soul in this world is a matter that many scientists on Earth are debating, but for Tang Song, the existence of the soul is an utterly obvious matter.
Even many Black Wizards in the Marvel Universe are experts at manipulating souls, so the existence of the soul is actually no secret.
It's like 1+1=2, an obvious result that requires no thought.
But where does the soul come from? Six Paths of Reincarnation, Hell, Heaven? No! Whether it's Hell or the Netherworld of the Jambudvīpa World, they are merely Transfer Points for souls. After death, souls enter Hell or Heaven, but what about before Hell and Heaven were born? Where did the souls in the world come from then?! From The Void, or are they products of the Rules of the Heavenly Dao, or perhaps, like a virus outside the human body, they come from outside the world.
The three great philosophical questions of life: Who am I, where do I come from, and where am I going! The wonder of the soul is even more mysterious than the birth of spiritual energy!
The Buddhist Sect views the physical body as a raft for crossing the sea of suffering. In the Jambudvīpa World, many eminent monks and great experts who ascend to the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss also abandon their physical bodies, leaving their so-called golden bodies in temples to bear incense offerings, while their Sarira Transformation into Rainbow fly into the Eight Treasures Lotus Pond in the West, striving for the fruit status of a Golden Body Arhat.
The Taoist School emphasizes dual cultivation of body and soul, but there is also the method of Corpse Release Immortal which involves abandoning the physical body. Many immortal/deities whose physical body foundation is destroyed can still reincarnate and re-cultivate as long as a trace of true spirit remains.
The Asura Demonic Path even regards the soul as a rare type of cultivation resources, like a cook skilled in the Art of Butchery, who has researched a hundred ways to prepare the soul.
They even emphasize the principle of "using the original broth to cook the original ingredients," not only performing Soul Extraction and Refining but also not sparing the sinews, bones, and skin. Various demonic dao magic tools such as the Skeleton Demon, Ghoul White Bone Banner, Heavenly Demon Banner, and Human Skin Bare Body Drum are derived from this situation.
The main principle is not to waste anything. It is even said that some demonic path genius developed a use for women's menstrual cloths to defile the spirituality of others' flying swords and magic treasures.
Wu! A name full of mystery. In the Jambudvīpa World, the progenitors of the Wu Tribe, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, were formed from Pangu's physical body! However, as Tang Song's cultivation base grew higher, the brand of the Yanfu World Source deep within his true spirit became clearer, or rather, he could understand it better.
If Tang Song obtaining the root source imprint before was like getting a math workbook from elementary school to university, complete with answers in the back,
then wanting someone with only an elementary school education to understand advanced mathematics is undoubtedly a pipe dream—
His previous actions of refining the Taiji True Form Diagram, the Twelve Yama Banners, and counterfeiting the Eastern Emperor Bell were, frankly, just copying the answers.
Now Tang Song has learned little by little from elementary school to high school (Golden Immortal). Next, he can try to learn advanced mathematics at the university level. With a foundation, the answers he couldn't understand before are gradually becoming clearer.
The identities of the Twelve Ancestral Witches do not seem as pure as he initially saw. Take his current body, for example, is he Zhulong, one of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, or the ancient Candle Dragon, one of the Dragon Progenitors?
In the brand of the Yanfu World Source, the Twelve Ancestral Witches perished together with the two Demon Emperors of the ancient Demon Court, but what about the Candle Dragon? It has been alive all along—
If Zhulong is like this, what about the others? If it's really as Tang Song suspects, just thinking about how many aliases those Great Divine Ability Users have makes Tang Song, who is suffering from severe paranoia, shudder.
Fortunately, this is the Marvel Universe, separated from the Jambudvīpa World by who knows how many Chaos Seas. Otherwise, Boss Tang wouldn't be able to sleep soundly, even in his dreams, suspecting that his several cross-dimensional travels were plotted by some old geezer!
Getting back to the main topic, when it comes to the development of the soul, the ancient Wu lineage is much earlier than the Buddhist and Taoist Schools. From minor arts like Zhuyou techniques, rituals for ghost gods, and ancestral spirit dances, to the Six Paths of Reincarnation formed by the Ancestral Wu Houtu.
The ancient Wu lineage is definitely expert-level in the development of the soul, and their utilization of these souls is also pushed to the extreme.
Blood sacrifice and slaughter of nearly a thousand civilizations, hundreds of billions or even trillions of souls were devoured by the Twelve Capital Sky Nether King Banner!
Those souls were crushed by the Twelve Capital Sky Nether King Banner into the purest true spirit particles, gradually supplementing the true forms of the Twelve Ancestral Magi constructed by Tang Song.
If Tang Song relied on the brand in the Yanfu World Source to replicate a true form framework of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, then these true spirit particles are the flesh and blood filling these frameworks.
Thanks to the wonder of soul particles and the special nature of the true form diagram, Tang Song's twelve true form diagram incarnations at this time are like twelve constantly self-improving computer programs!
And in the self-improvement of these incarnations, the essence of the Twelve Ancestral Witches' strength is also being analyzed and displayed before Tang Song little by little.
In the Marvel Main Universe, within the Great Luo Heaven Heavenly Palace that has been completed, in the palace where Tang Song's main body is cultivating in seclusion, a golden bell shield enveloped the entire great hall!
Within the translucent golden bell shield, black and white radiance faintly shot out from the great hall. Within the black and white Taiji Diagram clouds, golden flowers were vaguely visible, beaded netting fell like rain, golden dragons meandered, and jade phoenixes danced, while immortal music faintly drifted out.
Beneath that magnificent display of dragons flying and phoenixes dancing, billions of believers could simultaneously be seen prostrating in worship.
In Tang Song's Sea of Consciousness, the Twelve Capital Sky Nether King Banner floated and sank. Large amounts of five-colored qi flow were continuously absorbed by Tang Song's nascent divinity. These were the insights from the Twelve Ancestral Witches perfecting their main body, and these insights flowed into Tang Song's heart through the twelve incarnations.
The Rules of the Great Dao of Metal mastered by Rushou, who has a human-faced tiger-bodied and wings growing from his shoulders.
The Rules of Wood mastered by Jumang, who is green wood colored all over, has a bird-faced human-bodied, and steps on two azure dragons.
Gonggong, who has a python-headed human-bodied, steps on two black dragons, has an azure great python coiled around his hand, black scales all over his body, and masters the Great Dao of Water.
The Rules of Fire mastered by the Ancestral Wu Zhurong, who has a beast-headed human-bodied, two fire snakes piercing his ears, steps on two fire dragons, and has fiery red scales all over his body.
The Ancestral Wu Houtu, who has a human-bodied snake-tailed, seven hands behind her back, holds two Tengshe (Mythical Flying Serpents) in her hands, and masters the Great Dao of Earth.
Tianwu: The Wind Ancestral Wu with eight heads, a human-faced tiger-bodied, and ten tails.
Xuanming: The Rain Ancestral Wu with bone spikes all over his body.
Qiangliang: The Thunder Ancestral Wu with a tiger-headed human-bodied, holding two yellow snakes in his hands.
Xizi: The Lightning Ancestral Wu with a human-faced bird-bodied, two azure serpents hanging from his ears, and holding two red serpents in his hands.
Dijiang: The Space Ancestral Wu with a human-faced bird-bodied, four fleshy wings on his back, six claws on his chest, abdomen, and legs, and red scales all over his body.
Zhulong: The Time Ancestral Wu with a human-faced snake-bodied, fiery red all over his body, and in charge of the movement of the sun and moon.
Shebishi: The Qi Ancestral Wu with a human-headed beast-bodied, wearing two azure serpents in his ears.
The Rules mastered by the Twelve Ancestral Witches are like the Infinity Stones and the Marvel Universe, representing the most fundamental rules of the entire universe.
Heaven is black, Earth is yellow, the universe is vast and in its primordial era.
These rules represent the unfathomable Heavenly Dao, and are also the foundation upon which all living beings in heaven and earth can survive.
Western medicine's understanding of neurology and human body anatomy comes from dissecting corpses one by one. Similarly, the most direct method to comprehend a rule great dao is none other than dissecting a true pioneer.
Of course, this dissection is not in the physical sense! The Twelve Ancestral Witches clones continuously devour these soul particles, perfect themselves, and undergo transformation little by little towards a true Ancestral Witch body—
This blatant process of perfect evolution is much clearer to Tang Song than dissection. Moreover, these twelve Ancestral Witch bodies are all his own clone incarnations.
Tang Song compared the process of perfecting the Ancestral Witch body with his own cultivation methods, comprehending the Twelve Ancestral Witches' Dao of controlling the power of rules.
These insights were like a needle, piercing through some obstacles covering his eyes, suddenly making his mind feel clear and bright.
This sudden enlightenment greatly increased his body's vitality, and the Nine Cycles Profound Cultivation Method began to break through towards a higher level.
A small portion of the Milky Way Galaxy, the dark matter, magic particles, and essence of sun and moon from countless dimensional realms were absorbed by the Thirty-Six Heavens Heavenly Court, this massive spirit gathering array, transforming into the purest spiritual energy and converging above the Great Luo Heaven.
At the same time, the spiritual energy of the entire Great Luo Heaven continuously converged towards Tang Song's body, steadily transforming into his cultivation base.
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Kane, Hela, and Frank cast their doubtful gaze towards Tang Song.
They saw countless illusions appearing around Boss Tang. Kane and Hela had higher cultivation bases, and they seemed to vaguely see a colossal figure, tens of thousands of feet tall, appearing faintly behind Tang Song, with a human-faced snake-bodied and vermilion hair.
Hela looked at Tang Song's eyes opening and closing with surprise and suspicion, and at the faintly visible halos appearing around his body. She reached out to touch these halos.
The next second, her hand was caught by Tang Song.
"Don't touch it, this is the Time Ring I condensed from comprehending the Dao of Time!"
Tang Song smiled and shook his head at Hela. "The flow rate inside my Time Ring is different from the outside world. In an instant, it can turn a beauty into white bone, or make an elderly elder directly return to infancy!"
"Really? I don't believe it!"
Hela looked at Tang Song haughtily. At this moment, she was like someone who refuses to believe, reaching out to touch the Time Ring in front of Tang Song, refusing to believe.
The moment Hela's hand touched the Time Ring, every cell in her body, her entire body's magic power, and even her soul began to reverse. And this temporal reversal happened silently.
Only four or five seconds passed. By the time Hela noticed and released her hand, she was astonished to find that she had somehow turned into her childhood appearance.
"Why did I turn into this?"
Hela looked at her small hands, reached out and drew a blood-red mirror, looked at her chubby face, and glared fiercely at Tang Song.
"My Time Ring can instantly erase 128.6 million years of a person's lifespan, or reverse 128.6 million years of time on a person!" Tang Song explained with a smile.
As Zhulong, who masters the Dao of Time, combined with holding the Time Stone, this ultimate time treasure of the Marvel Universe, his current understanding of the Dao of Time alone makes even the Ancient One seem like a child before him.
"Quickly help me turn back!" Hela glared at Tang Song, huffing.
However, that face, like a child of a few years old, full of baby fat, only gave Tang Song a sense of a child pretending to be an adult, a kind of cuteness. Especially the baby fat, which made Tang Song want to laugh.
Even the steady Kane couldn't help but twitch his mouth when he saw Hela like this. Deadpool Wade, seeking death, was holding his belly and laughing hysterically.
He completely failed to notice Hela's murderous gaze sweeping over him fiercely.
Looking at Tang Song, who was also smiling exceptionally brightly, Hela, feeling that most of her magic power had disappeared, angrily raised her foot and stomped fiercely towards Tang Song's foot.
"Hey, hey, hey?"
The next second, little Hela was lifted up like a cat held by the scruff of its neck. She didn't even understand what had happened yet? She struggled in Tang Song's hands, kicking her feet, and made a sound like a kitten:
"Let go of me, let go of me, Tang, what are you doing?"
Tang Song looked at Hela in his hands, whose mind seemed to have regressed to infancy, smiled, and placed her on his shoulder. He reached out and pinched her baby-fat cheek: "Sit still obediently. After I deal with the matters here, I'll help you recover. Otherwise, you can just obediently stay in the Great Luo Heaven and be a fire-stoking girl refining pills!"
Hearing Tang Song's threat, Hela immediately obediently shut her mouth.
Tang Song turned back to look at Beelzebub in the Mirror of Circular Light, who was preparing to sneak attack Frank. He slowly stood up, his entire body's joints crackling loudly.
"Hell creatures inherently have no credit to speak of. It's survival of the fittest, and stabbing each other in the back is common. I understand his behavior, but coming here means you have to follow the rules!
I already gave the Old Demon Dragon one chance, hahaha. Now, if I spare this Beelzebub again, won't others think I'm weak and easily bullied!"
Tang Song laughed, but there was no smile at all. His entire body was cold, like a statue of a god.
Kane, standing beside him, looked at Tang Song seriously and said, "Boss, how should we deal with him? I'll do it!"
Tang Song glanced at Kane with satisfaction. At this moment, he was just like he was back then. Tang Song remembered when they first started their business, a group of Mexican drug dealers tried to take over their bar. Kane just waited for his order, and in just one night, that group of drug dealers who had smuggled themselves in from Mexico became materials for the Corpse Nurturing Ground.
Of course, he also took the opportunity to extort a cleaning fee from the New York Police Department (NYPD), killing two birds with one stone.
Tang Song patted Kane's shoulder, looked up at Beelzebub in the Mirror of Circular Light, and smiled slightly, "You don't need to act. He can't escape my palm!"
Turning his gaze, Tang Song's gaze fell upon Thanos in the Mirror of Circular Light, who was being beaten badly by the powered-up Clark Kent, his expression somewhat playful.
"Dealing with this guy is a bit of trouble! From the timeline I saw, all of Thanos's actions seem to be guided and pushed by Death."
"He is just a piece used by Death to balance life and death, a plaything. The grand environmental ideal surging in his chest is merely a product casually instilled by Death."
"The seemingly powerful Thanos is just a little lapdog at Death's feet. Tsk tsk, this is the final outcome for a simp.
But the trouble is, although in 6,753 futures, the possibility of killing Thanos and attracting Death's intervention is only 31! But women, this kind of creature, really cannot be measured with ordinary thinking. Even being able to see the timeline isn't foolproof!"
Deadpool Wade interrupted Tang Song's thoughts: "Boss, no matter what method you use, if you don't act soon, Frank is going to die?"
Tang Song glared fiercely at the gloating Wade Wilson, wondering if he should put a Golden Hoop spell on this chatterbox's head to try it out.
Tang Song's fingers moved in a hand seal. He originally intended to directly activate the Golden Hoop Restriction on Beelzebub, but his gaze swept over Hela on his shoulder, who was puffing out her cheeks angrily. He flicked his finger, which was forming a hand seal, and several streams of golden light flew out from his fingertip, piercing through The Void and shooting into the Reality World.
(end of chapter)