2025-12-27 01:44:40He smiled as he watched Su Lin go still. The spirit herbs garden maintained by the sect was one of the most guarded locations in the outer sect. And one of the more difficult places to enter.
“And what if I do?” Su Lin said, setting his broom aside as he turned toward him, standing completely straight for once. He struggled to hold his smile back, as his guess was proved right. “I may have something that could benefit both of us,” he said, digging into his pocket as he took out a single Qi refilling pill. He watched Su Lin’s eyes shift toward the Qi refilling pill as they widened in surprise. Outer sect disciples only got elixirs and pills for the first month. If they showed no signs of talent, then their support was cut off. Someone like him carrying pills around had a very specific image from an outsider’s perspective. Su Lin thought he was stealing them. “I’ve got more. But I need spirit herbs. You bring me spirit herbs and I give you five of these. You get to keep one fourth of the money. And if I can trust you, then I also have some more potent pills lying around.” He put the pill back in his pouch, tapping it lightly as he sent a pulse of Qi into it. A strong Qi presence similar to a high grade first circle pill drifted out, and he watched Su Lin’s nose twitch. The bait was set. “Near the second tree, next to the outer walls. Every seven days during the evening’s work,” Su Lin said quickly, turning around as he began walking away without taking a single glance back. He stood at the same spot for a few moments before heading toward his chamber, letting out a sigh of relief. The pill had been a bluff. The Qi refilling pill was the only one he’d successfully crafted in the last four days of work, out of the fourteen times he’d tried making them. Manipulating Qi was ridiculously tough and he still hadn’t found the optimal conditions required to make them. A lot more testing was needed. The single pill he did succeed in making had still barely let him break even on the cost. He still took a loss, which he could not afford, but with time he should be able to narrow down the reaction conditions and sustainably churn out pills. The only problem was gaining a steady supply of spirit herbs. And what the Old Man could afford to give him was very limited. Thus, this alternative method. He tapped his pouch, glad he carried some of the wasted pills he’d made. A pulse of Qi had broken them up, making them release their own Qi, which briefly made it seem like he was carrying a high grade pill. He was glad Su Lin hadn’t attacked him or tried to steal the pills. He was a realm higher than Su Lin, but the difference wouldn’t be much considering Su Lin was more physically fit from his long stay in the sect. It had been a gamble, since he barely knew the guy. But the temptation of higher grade pills seemed strong enough to stop him from acting rashly. It was a good deal too. Su Lin got to triple what he’d earn from selling spirit herbs, with minimal risk. He pushed thoughts of Su Lin aside as he walked into the now familiar chamber, notes spread all around him with small parchments filled with half scribbled notes in English and some in the local language for words he couldn’t translate. Something chittered from under the notes and he frowned. A black figure peeked out from beneath one of the books, a piece of paper in its mouth. On instinct, he lunged forward, jumping as he pinned the creature under the sheet before grabbing it in his fist. He stared at the little rat in his hand as it struggled to escape his grip. No matter how weak he was, he was still a cultivator, and a rat couldn’t break free from his strength. “So you’re the one who’s been eating all those pills, huh?” he said, glaring at the pest as he finally realised what had been chewing his papers and eating the residue from his Qi pills. The rat froze, shivering as if it realised it had messed up. He was about to let it go, unwilling to kill it just for feeding itself, when he noticed the tiny bead of Qi at its core. His eyes widened in surprise as he stared at the rat. The black furred pest squeaked in terror, and a chuckle escaped him. It seemed to realise he could sense what it was. A grin split his face as he stared at the small treasure in his hand. He had just caught himself a spirit rat.
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Chapter 557
"No, they are fundamentally opposed to certain things. But that’s still the easiest problem to fix. You can make them work together. Perhaps you better than me because I have longer history, much more complicated history. But even if you do that, do you think the emperor would’ve gone yes please take the divine beast that my empire hinges on and then take away my immortality for which you need to kill me and all my divinities and then destroy the world as I know it, shatter my empire, burn it to the ground ashes and then salt it for good measure before establishing this new one of your own. That sounds lovely,” Yang Shen said, and I did not have a good response to that.I understood now what I would’ve had to do, had I wanted to pursue that route.“You can say all of this because I took on that burden, because I fought this war. I gave you all the convenient ways out, to not have to make the hard choices, to not have to actively decide any of this. But that’s fine, I’m not holding a g
Chapter 556
“But do you know what happens to people who arrive as souls? People like you and me? People who had already died before they got here? We don’t get to just move on Yuan. There is nowhere to move on to. And so the thing that brought us here, it just repeats the process. And you’re reborn, again, and again, and again,” the demon said, taking another gulp.“The people who come here with their own bodies, for them it’s easy. They are tied to their bodies in a way we aren’t, so they mostly just go down, with the rest of everyone else. That’s what’s been happening for so long. They all move down, and then they slowly start to change, and like annoying mushrooms, they pop back up but as demons. What you see here, all of this is just a mere slice of everything down there. They stay there, mostly because it’s nice there, the surface is hostile to them. Qi doesn’t like Gu and Gu doesn’t like Qi so the two are content to remain separated. It’s a solid system, as long as it works,” Yang Shen said
Chapter 555
Yang Shen raised his hand as a gourd appeared in his hand and he lifted it taking multiple gulps as the liquid dripped from his lips. Letting out a breath that reeked of potent alcohol, he set the gourd on the ground between us and then sat down, crossing his legs and seating much the same way I sat.He pushed the gourd towards me.I looked down at the gourd in front of me.“Thousand year old Baiju. Each drop is worth gold,” the demon said.I believed him. I knew he was not trying to poison me.I reached out and grabbed the gourd and then lifted it, putting it to my lips. A burning sensation ran down my throat, as I drank exactly three gulps, before putting the drink down.I felt the baiju swirling in my stomach, feeding me the Qi it had soaked over my thousand years.A drop of this just a year ago would’ve been enough to make me have a breakthrough.Taking the full drink would likely be enough for someone to touch the cusp of Transcendence.It barely made a dent in my soul in this mo
Chapter 554
My world changed within an instant.I felt the heavens shudder, the last chain breaking as the Divinites vanished around me. I continued to meditate, the edge of harmony humming in my soul. I was not truly here, not truly in this situation. I was simply an observer, watching the world happen around me. And yet I ached at the deaths I saw around me. Two of the three divinities soul came to me, becoming a part of the cycle. The last one, it had died a worse kind of death.But I did not linger on it. I could not. Time had lost its grip on me, I no longer knew how long I’d been here, but it had been quite some time now. I’d watched as the battle had concluded. Even now the armies fought around the walls, but a different battle had also been taking place, and I’d felt it end just now, as the chains tying the heavens were finally undone.The heavens themselves opened up now. The last anchor of immortality was dead, and I felt the Divine Tree expanding itself outwards, reaching towards the h
Chapter 553
Shie Zhuihu had not thought of death many times before. It was a distant thing for her, a concept that did not enter her life all that often. She knew mortals died. Quite a few of them did in the time she had been alive, including some that she’d known and liked as well. But it was not something that had to be considered for her. Even before becoming a Divinity, before touching upon that nebulous threshold of power and the mantle that weighed upon her shoulders, she’d found herself above death.Perhaps that had been arrogance, but she’d always known it in some way inside of herself that death was not going to be a hindrance to her, not in the way it was to many others.And yet now, she no longer felt that certainty. She moved through the the battlefield, eyes taking in the expanse all around her.Zhuihu moved through the terrible forest around her that resisted her will, rising all around her to pull her into itself. Thorny vines laced with potent poison tried to reach for her. She al
Chapter 552
Yue Zian was having the best time of his life. He roared with the power of the ocean, pelting rain and crashing waves rising from behind him as he struck at the demon- no not even a demon. This thing was a spirit, a spirit of winter that he’d sometimes heard of. Creatures of death and malice, though at times also of kindness as they’d shelter people lost in snow storms.Yet this one wasn’t normal. He didn’t know how she had gotten with demons, or reached Divinity, but there was a clear madness in her eyes. The kind of madness that you did not return from, the kind that broke your psyche till there were nothing but pieces left. He’d seen it before, it was a sickness of the mind and spirit, and it had brought many before. The sickness of the body one could cure with medicine, but often the sickness of heart and mind were not so easily cured.He felt for her, felt for her pain, whatever suffering she must have endured, whatever her story had been. But despite all of that, despite those f
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