Chapter 1199 - 1299: Rotating Spiral Seal

Upon hearing this, everyone felt it was reasonable. If it was merely a matter of sealing these people, perhaps within their lifetime, they could be retrieved.

Even if they couldn't be saved completely, as long as their Spiritual Power, their Divine Sense, could be retrieved, they might find a living dead or a pregnant woman.

They could channel their Spiritual Power into the body of the living dead, or into the unborn child's body within the pregnant woman.

After all, the living dead have no Spiritual Power left, thus lacking any consciousness, and the unborn child, not yet born, hasn't developed Spiritual Power or consciousness, so occupying their bodies isn't considered an evil deed.

However, everyone tried not to seek out pregnant women and avoided occupying infants' bodies, as doing so would be like killing a young life, which is, naturally, concerning for the parents.

Because if one occupies an infant's body, the child will likely not babble as usual; instead, the moment it is born, it will start speaking and be taken away by members of their sect.

To the parents, it would be as though they have lost a child. After ten months of pregnancy, to have the child taken away immediately after birth and never returning would make anyone extremely distressed, or even despairing.

So, the righteous path practitioners aimed to avoid causing such despair among these couples, and instead mostly sought out living dead bodies, or those who had died recently and whose flesh had not yet decayed. This way, occupying the body wouldn't affect anyone.

Of course, not just any body can be occupied; compatibility needs to be considered, and once a new body is taken, it doesn't possess the same cultivation level as the old one, requiring training anew, possibly with poor innate talent even if the body is compatible.

Thus, occupying a body isn't so simple; it might take decades or even centuries to find a body fitting the criteria.

Naturally, whether this situation could succeed remains unknown. It is uncertain whether those people, already turned alien, still retain their original consciousness.

Even if the original consciousness is retained, it won't be complete, just fragments of it.

If consciousness isn't intact, even rescuing them wouldn't make them the same as before, as more than half of their memories might be lost.

Meaning, what might be rescued could be akin to a newborn child.

For instance, if only ten percent of a person's original consciousness remains, even if you rescue it and find a suitable body, the person might not move or even remember how to speak soon after the consciousness is transferred to the new body, for their mind is a blank slate.

It might even be that, no matter how long you teach, it remains blank, akin to a fool.

Thus, while everyone hoped for the best outcome, they understood in their hearts that sealing them is a fantasy they kept alive, convincing themselves that as long as this fantasy wasn't broken, their friends were still living.

Without any accidents, they likely wouldn't break this seal, leaving it intact here.

Who would be foolish enough to break the seal and attempt to save the consciousness of their friends and relatives? That would truly be cutting off their own retreat.

Because, even if consciousnesses were saved, it would be just a fragment, not even enough to help them stand again.

Moreover, if a consciousness is too weak, it will gradually dissipate over time.

In other words, within the seal, everyone holds onto the fantasy of their survival, and once they're rescued, gradual dissipation of the consciousness could collapse the savior's mental state, as they might feel they caused the downfall.

Those with weaker minds could even commit suicide to atone.

After all, to try rescuing the sealed indicates a weaker mind, one unable to bear their loved ones being sealed. The higher the hope, the greater the disappointment, leading directly to psychological collapse.

Naturally, not attempting a rescue results mainly in unease, not collapse, as without a definitive outcome, it's simply worry without other consequences.

But when the result emerges, a person may immediately release their long-held anxiety, only to have all previous concerns rapidly amplify their inner pain.

This explains the rapid psychological collapse.

It's like pulling a relative from intensive care to try a new treatment, failing, and inadvertently causing their immediate death.

While the relative in intensive care held onto life, the intervening opportunity disrupted this survival, thereby leading to immediate death.

The intervener, who deeply loved this relative, may feel they inadvertently caused the death, leading to psychological collapse, as accidentally killing a beloved senior is extremely painful.

"Next, let us position ourselves correctly. We're employing the Rotary Spiral Seal I specifically invented. I'll hand over the Array Banners to you adept at handling seals, and together we'll seal the surroundings. Once we gain enough strength and discover a solution, we'll unseal them one by one and heal them. Only by taking this step can we focus fully on exploration rather than sinking into sorrow," Zhen Chu said, as he distributed the Array Banners.

Zhen Chu knew this seal would be semi-permanent, since no one would likely return here to reseal, as this issue is nearly unsolvable unless one ascends to the Immortal Realm.

Even ascending to the Immortal Realm might not solve this problem completely.