This world was full of all kinds of helplessness to begin with.
Before Zhenyuan had truly and thoroughly destroyed Wind Spirit, he had hated it to the bone. This was an energy body that had transformed from his inner demon, and had the same memories and abilities as him. Even after it had taken on a physical form, it had the same appearance as him.
Wind Spirit's existence was like a mirror, except that it reflected the darkest side of Immortal Zhenyuan's heart.
Everyone had a dark side. Even the peerless cultivators and the righteous swordsmen who roamed the Jianghu with swords all had dark sides.
Because where there was light, there was always darkness.
There were also places where light couldn't be found …
However, when it came to dark things, people's first instinct in the depths of their hearts was always to escape. That was their most unreal self, and also their truest self … Thus, after the primordial qi had filled his body, the inner demon had evolved into Wind Spirit, and Immortal Zhenyuan had always thought of a way to kill it.
However, after Wind Spirit had truly been reduced to ashes, he had felt a little lonely in his heart …
It was a very strange feeling that he couldn't put into words.
But the moment he had killed Wind Spirit, the red-haired young man had felt a little heartache.
This scene also made the incorporeal Wang Ling ponder deeply.
But after destroying the inner demon, did it disappear completely?
Of course not …
The inner demon always existed, and couldn't be completely destroyed.
A lot of the time, powerful cultivators in high positions would choose to go into seclusion for a long time, not to advance their realms, but to stabilize their minds and suppress their inner demons.
Desires were always endless; after reaching a new height, they would always want to break through to the next level.
As long as you were on the path of cultivation and growth, you would definitely encounter all kinds of things that would prompt the birth of your "inner demon."
Immortal Zhenyuan's inner demon was just a product of an accidental mutation, and it wasn't just because the primordial qi had cleansed his mind. This was just one of the reasons, and the specific reason for it was unknown …
But this incident gave Wang Ling a wake-up call.
Did he have an inner demon?
Of course he did …
It was just that the primordial qi was currently controlling his emotions.
If the primordial qi was truly controllable one day, an inner demon would be born.
The greatest courage a person could muster at this time was to face their own darkness head-on.
And the hardest thing for a person to break through was to surpass himself.
He wondered how he would deal with an inner demon like "Wind Spirit" in the future.
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To be honest, after dealing with Wind Spirit, it wasn't just Immortal Zhenyuan; even Wang Ling and Loopy Toad sank into a long melancholy.
This lesson was very real and very profound. Sometimes, the lessons brought about by a battle were far more profound than what was taught in textbooks or in class.
As the saying goes, true knowledge comes from practice.
The same logic applied to cultivators now …
But in a society where the rule of law was universal, the younger generation of cultivators in Wang Ling's generation basically learned mostly theory. Apart from the "agriculture", "military training" and "actual combat classes," which were arranged by schools every year, there were really too few opportunities for them to engage in actual combat training.
Moreover, the most important premise of these officially arranged practical training was "safety".
But this was precisely the most insignificant part.
Not so long ago, heroes had always been born in troubled times in the cultivation world … Every year at the National Cultivators' Congress, representatives would propose increasing the number of opportunities for practical training and setting the difficulty of it. As long as it wasn't fatal, it didn't matter if one was seriously injured. Because no matter how serious an injury was, modern cultivation technology and all kinds of elixirs could be used to recover without leaving any sequelae.
A lot of people felt that the younger generation of modern cultivators were mostly flowers raised in a greenhouse.
Although it was a pretty good era of peace now, who could guarantee that this peace would last forever?
The red-haired young man floated in the air. After exterminating Wind Spirit, his palm didn't fall, but stared in the direction in which it had disappeared and pondered for a long time.
During this time, Wang Ling had already collected the energy source on Drought Star according to the designated coordinates using the energy harvester he had given to him. Wang Ling didn't know whether this abnormal energy source was primordial qi or some other special kind of energy.
Furthermore, it was too thin and there were a lot of other gases mixed in here. Wang Ling couldn't make an accurate judgment, and would only know after Wang Ming compared it with the equipment.
When Wang Ling came back with the energy, he noticed that the red-haired young man who had been deep in thought in the air was actually holding a red diamond-shaped crystal in his hand.
The red-haired young man broke out in a sweat as he asked Loopy Toad, "Senior Dog, do you know … what this is?"
The red-haired young man had also suddenly seen this crystal. Not long after Wind Spirit had been exterminated, he had noticed glittering dust gathering in the air, and then slowly coalescing into a crystal like this.
The corners of Loopy Toad's mouth twitched. "Sage … Sage Stone?"
Wang Ling: "…" Goddamn Sage Stone!
Wang Ling felt that this crystal looked a little familiar. He searched his memory bank based on the crystal's structure, and then found something called a "heart demon stone" which was very similar to this crystal.
He sent a telepathic message to Loopy Toad, and it was responsible for passing on the message. "Do you know about the heart demon stone?"
"Heart demon stone?" Immortal Zhenyuan was blank. In order to find a way to restrain Wind Spirit, he had looked up a lot of information on heart demons, and it seemed that he had seen some information on this "heart demon stone."
Unfortunately, all the information he had looked through were ancient texts, and there wasn't even a single picture of it!
Now that he was reminded …
Very quickly, the red-haired young man recalled something. "So this is the heart demon stone …"
This was an energy crystal obtained after eliminating the heart demon. It was mainly composed of ninety percent solid primordial qi and ten percent rare metal elements.
According to the ancient texts, the heart demon stone could be used for cultivation! After defeating the heart demon, you could cultivate with the help of the stone. If you held the stone in your mouth during a battle, you could even directly increase the concentration of your primordial qi and increase the power of your spells.
The heart demon stone was very rare …
Furthermore, basically anything that could be found in ancient texts from that era couldn't be bought in the modern cultivation world.
Immortal Zhenyuan sighed. This was his only gain from eliminating Wind Spirit this time, but for some reason, he still couldn't be happy.
At that moment, the red-haired young man suddenly turned his head to look at Loopy Toad. "By the way, how did Senior Dog get here?"
Loopy Toad looked away, not daring to meet the red-haired young man's gaze. "I just happened to pass by …" Nonsense! It couldn't answer that it had been brought here by the toilet, right?
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