Although he wasn't satisfied with this kind of life, Ye Qingcang didn't give up on the hope of becoming stronger. It was a chance encounter. An inner sect disciple received a mission to subdue a level four demon beast. That demon beast was extremely cunning. It hid in a cave and was very good at hiding. Someone needed to lure it out. Although these disciples were already at foundation building, no one was willing to be the bait. So after promising benefits, they found the outer sect disciples.
A Rank Four Demonic Beast was equivalent to the early stage of the Gold Core Realm. For the ordinary Outer Sanctum disciples who were in the Qi Refining Realm, it was too dangerous. Although the resources in the Outer Sanctum were scarce, there were very few people who dared to risk their lives. But Ye Qingcang accepted it.
He bet everything on this mission. He risked his life to lure out that demon beast and helped the inner sect disciples to successfully complete the mission. But after that, he didn't ask for the benefits promised by those people. He went back without taking anything.
It had to be said that Ye Qingcang was someone who knew how to invest. He didn't take anything, but a few people owed him a favor for no reason. Their impression of him increased greatly. Usually, they would greet him when they saw him.
And the outer sect was a group of people who were used to sailing with the wind. Seeing that he was familiar with the inner sect people, no one dared to bully him anymore. He could finally start cultivating seriously.
He spent two years to go from qi disciple level one to qi disciple level five. At this time, the bottleneck of cultivation came and his cultivation could no longer increase. He needed a level three pill, a high grade spirit gathering pill, to break through.
But there were very few level one pills in the outer sect, not to mention level three.
But it was such a coincidence. An accident, he received the inheritance of the alchemy sect. Not only did he become an encyclopedia of pill recipes, he also received a pill refining divine tool. He relied on these lost pill recipes to start from scratch and walked on the path of alchemy master. With the divine tool in hand, pill refining was as easy as kneading mud balls. Every day, he ate pills like they were jelly beans.
His cultivation also rose from qi disciple level five to qi disciple level nine.
Then he was stuck again. Although the foundation building pill was already prepared, he didn't get the chance to break through. He also understood that this was a problem with his aptitude. There was no cultivation technique that could break through the limitations of the spirit root.
But as a protagonist, how could he admit defeat so easily? Since there was no such cultivation technique in the world, he would create one. Hence, when Ye Qingcang couldn't break through for a long time, he started to experiment on a new cultivation technique. He really succeeded in breaking through the limitations of his Spiritual Root, allowing him to quickly absorb the five elements of Spiritual Qi. Even those with the Penta Spirit Roots could cultivate like those with the Heaven Spirit Roots.
His cultivation also began to take a qualitative leap. In just ten years, he successfully built his foundation and entered the inner sect.
Later on, in the Inner Sect Competition, he took first place in the Foundation Establishment group. He had also comprehended sword intent in the Grand Competition, and from then on, he had walked on the path of sword cultivation. Such a dazzling counterattack also won him the favor of a Soul Formation Supremacy in the sect, and he was accepted as a disciple.
From then on, it was as if his life had turned on a cheat, and it kept on rising. Fighting demonic cultivators, challenging the secret realm, and obtaining a pet. He even subdued an Ancient Evil Serpent as his mount. It only took him two thousand years to break through to the Soul Formation stage, and from then on, he stood at the peak of life.
He was a person who could distinguish between gratitude and grudges, and was merciless towards his enemies and demonic cultivators. He believed that if you respect me, I will return you tenfold. If you offend me in the slightest, I will exterminate you. However, he took great care of the sect. Although he had suffered a lot in the past, he understood that this was the norm in the cultivation world, and he did not hold any grudges. Instead, he had been protecting Ness Cesary Sect until the end of his lifespan and reincarnation.
That's right, he did not ascend. Even though he had reached the Soul Formation Paragon in the later stages. He never found the opportunity to ascend, nor did he forcefully draw down the ascension lightning tribulation.
Furthermore, he was not like Xiao Yi, who was a stallion who showed mercy everywhere. He was wholeheartedly devoted to her, and had never looked at other women in the eye. Not to mention, he did not have any immoral actions like raising a human cauldron. Zhu Yao silently gave him a thumbs up on this point.
His wife was the chamber disciple of a Nascent Soul practitioner in the same sect, and her name was Qu Yi. That's right, she was the junior-martial sister Qu Yi whom Little Bai had been pining for, the cricket's disciple! In the end, she was the male lead's woman.
As for Little Bai, he was a character in the plot as well. However, he was not a supporting male character, nor was he a supporting male character. He could not even be considered as cannon fodder. He was just a background character. In the plot, he did not even have the chance to appear. The only time he appeared was when Qu Yi was recalling the past, and she casually mentioned this. "When I was young, there was a senior-martial brother Little Bai who took great care of me. Unfortunately, he barged into Tranquil Valley in the end, and never returned." This point was evidently different from what she wrote in the plot, or it was because of her appearance that the plot changed.
And, Ye Qingcang became the sovereign of the cultivation world in the end. No matter who mentioned him, they would give him a thumbs up and call him a true hero! And, because of his iron-fisted policies, an unprecedented period of unity appeared in the cultivation world. Basically, the heretic practitioners who had done all sorts of evil deeds had nowhere to hide. The cultivation world was peaceful for ten thousand years.
The more Zhu Yao read, the more confused she became. How could this person be considered as a bug? At the very most, he could only be considered as an emotional person, right? He completely did not have the slightest hint of taking revenge on society. Not only did the world not collapse, it had instead become even more stable.
That bug imprint, it couldn't have grown in the wrong place, right?
Just as Zhu Yao was puzzled, the scene changed, and it was actually several hundred years after Ye Qingcang's death. Currently, the cultivation world was in a state of chaos. Massacres and blood reeked everywhere, and everyone looked as though they had been injected with chicken blood. For the sake of a single sentence, they could actually fight to the death.
Even Zhu Yao could not believe her own eyes. Was this still that stable cultivation world? She could faintly hear a few words similar to Ye Qingcang's. 'If you respect me, I will return you ten times.' 'If you offend me, I will exterminate you.'
Was this the idol effect?
She finally understood why Ye Qingcang was a bug. It was because of his Dao. He had once been oppressed, and then, he rose up to resist. Hence, he entered the Dao through killing. Towards heretic practitioners or demons that violated the rules, sanctimonious practitioners would never be lenient, and would definitely kill them. Although his Dao Heart was stable, his sins of killing were more than ten times that of others.
Most probably, this was also the reason why he was unable to ascend in the end.
Many people in the future would learn from him, wanting to enter the Dao through killing. Once the sins of killing increased, the malevolent aura they would emit would be heavy. In the early stages, they might give others the misconception that they were powerful, and from there, they would sink into killing. They were a little like those people on the battlefield whose eyes had turned red from killing. However, these people were different from Ye Qingcang. He had his own considerations in his heart, and the people he killed were all people he felt deserved to be killed. His goal was to stop killing with killing. He would never easily start a fight. As for the others, they would kill for the sake of killing.
In the later stages, everyone thought that as long as they killed more people, they would be able to attain the Dao. Ye Qingcang relied on his own strength, and with a bad hand, he played out a good ending. However, unintentionally, he led the people of the world onto the Dao of Devils.
As Zhu Yao read to the end, she could no longer bear to continue watching. There was a limit to the number of people in the cultivation world. If they continued killing like this, in just a few hundred years, there would not be many practitioners left. However, there were still people who remembered the words' enter the Dao through killing ', and had even begun to extend their hands into the mortal world.
As practitioners against unarmed mortals, it was needless to say what the final result would be. The destruction of the world was something that could be done in minutes.
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Zhu Yao woke up from her meditative state. Her head was drenched in cold sweat, as she was frightened by the hell-like scene at the end. After taking a few deep breaths, she finally calmed down. Thinking about the bug this time, her entire being felt terrible.
How was she supposed to fix a bug like this? The bug this time was completely not Ye Qingcang's fault alone! In the end, his three views were normal, and there was nothing wrong with him at all. In the end, the reason why the world was destroyed was because of those people who courted death themselves, right?
Could it be that she had to run over to Ye Qingcang and talk about the truth, kindness, and beauty, so that he would not enter the Dao through killing, but through love?
It would be strange if he did not treat her as a lunatic.
Furthermore, there were three thousand Daos, and every single person had their own Dao. This was decided based on their personal experiences and comprehension. She was basically unable to interfere. Looking at the strong nature of the plot, Ye Qingcang would still walk on the same Dao in the end.
What should she do?
For a bug like this where no one was wrong, she basically did not know how to fix it. Did the missions that Realmspirit gave her have to be harder and harder, hey!?
She felt that her life was facing an unprecedented test!
Just from this plot alone, she completely could not see the slightest bit of problem with Ye Qingcang. She basically could not find a point to start from.
With regards to things that she could not figure out, Zhu Yao could only … put them aside for now!
No matter what, she had to raise her cultivation first. When the time comes, she would befriend the male protagonist, and then help him at the right time. She wanted to see if she could turn him back from the path of killing. The plot also began from the male protagonist facing that fourth rank demonic beast. There was still time for everything. Counting the time, there were still five years left.
She had to take this opportunity to raise her cultivation as soon as possible. Only when she had the strength, would she have the ability to help others.
Zhu Yao began to focus on her cultivation. She did not know if it was because of that transparent spiritual energy in her body, but her cultivation speed was not much different from back then when she had the single Lightning Spirit Vein. Furthermore, she realized that no matter which type of spiritual energy in her body, they were all especially close to that transparent spiritual energy. There was completely no situation where the other five types of spiritual energy were incompatible with water and fire.
She silently guessed that this transparent spiritual energy, was like the World Favourable Impression ability in the past, a cheat that Realmspirit had stuffed into her? When she thought of this, she had a feeling that she would be scammed in the future.
Five years later, her cultivation level rose to the middle stage of the Foundation Building realm, but before she could go looking for someone,
Just when she woke up from her meditative state, the side of her waist suddenly shone, and a white light flashed. She opened her storage pouch and took it out. It was a familiar-looking sound transmission talisman, and a familiar male voice sounded from within.
"Yu Yao, I'm Jian Shang. Where have you been? If you hear me, hurry and reply, there's a big business! "
Profiteer?
She suddenly recalled that back then, when she reached the third stage of the sect, Jian Shang had stuffed a sound transmission talisman into her hands.
Hence, she sent a strand of spiritual energy into it, and replied.
"It's me. What's the matter?"
The sound transmission seemed to instantly light up again, and Jian Shang eagerly asked. "Daoist Yu … You finally replied to me. I've been looking for you for two years. Just where have you been? "
"Uh …" Could she say that she had long forgotten about him? "I went into closed-door training, and just came out."
"No wonder …" He heaved a sigh of relief. "Oh right, which mountain did you enter in the end?"
Zhu Yao pondered for a moment, and decided not to speak the truth. "Talisman Spiritual Mountain."
"Ah! Talisman Spiritual Mountain! Didn't I say that you aren't allowed to enter that place? You … Haah, forget it. "He said with a regretful tone. "There's a big business, do you want to come?"
"What business?"
He said mysteriously. "One of my senior-martial brothers accepted a mission, and the reward is four hundred pieces of mid-grade spirit stones. He simply has to subdue a fourth rank demonic beast near Key Forest. Coincidentally, you're proficient in the art of taming beasts. With you around, this mission will definitely be a piece of cake. "
Fourth rank demonic beast! Key Forest. It couldn't be such a coincidence, right? Wasn't this the first time the male lead left the mountain?
"Daoist Yu, how is it? Including you, there are only six people in total. We can earn a few dozen mid-grade spirit stones. "
"Alright, I'll go!"
"Alright, we're already at the mountain gate. Hurry and come over! "
"Mn."
Just as she was worrying about how to approach the male lead, she never expected that Jian Shang just happened to be one of the people who accepted the mission.
She left Skybond Peak, and immediately walked to the mountain gate. From afar, she could already see a few people gathered there, and Jian Shang was standing right at the side. He had evidently seen her as well, as he waved his hand at her agitatedly. Just as Zhu Yao was about to greet him, a shocked voice sounded from the side.
"Grandma!" In front of her, a youth dressed in a green robe had just come down from his sword, looking as though he had just returned from a mission outside. He looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, had a very tall figure, and his face looked a little familiar.
"Little tyrant!" Zhu Yao was startled for a moment. After not seeing him for five years, his head had grown a little too quickly.
"Grandma, why did you come out of closed-door training? Sect Master …" Zhu Yao covered his mouth, stopping him from continuing his words. Though she was forced to become Qu Jiang's senior-martial aunt, there were not many disciples who had actually seen her before. However, there were only a few disciples who had actually seen her. She still wanted to be familiar with the male protagonist.
"Junior-martial sister Yu, this is?" Jian Shang coincidentally came over, and looked at the two of them suspiciously.
"Hoho …" Zhu Yao laughed. She definitely could not let little tyrant expose her identity, or else she wouldn't be able to leave. "This is … a distant relative of mine." Zhu Yao blinked at Little Bai, and then lowered her hand.
Little Bai frowned, his face was filled with disapproval. However, he still cooperated and replied. "Bai Zhiyuan."
"So it's junior-martial brother Bai!" Jian Shang looked at Zhu Yao and said. "Is he going on the mission as well?"
Just as she was about to refute, Little Bai spoke up first. "Yes, I'm going with grandma." After saying that, he even gave her a 'if you don't let me go, I'm going to snitch on you to the principal' expression.
Zhu Yao had no choice but to grit her teeth and endure it. This spoiled brat had grown up, and his wings had hardened!
Jian Shang was a little hesitant, but Little Bai said. "If I'm not going, grandma won't go either."
Only then did they reluctantly nod.
"Junior-martial brother Jian, is the person you mentioned here yet?" The four people who had been waiting the entire time surrounded them as well. Two men and two women. A Foundation female practitioner who seemed to be the leader sized Zhu Yao up a little suspiciously. "She's the one you're talking about?"
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