Cultivating with Symbiosis Panel-Chapter 671 - 378: If Life Is Unbearable, Then Let It Be Unbearable for All
In this simple abode.
Piled up... were fragmented Nascent Souls.
But they hadn’t died, their eyes still held an undispersed divine light, only it appeared incredibly dazed, even more difficult than simply dying.
If I were to live in such a state one day, Li Ye would rather end it himself than live like this.
Indeed, it’s quite horrifying.
Nascent Souls, no matter where they are, aren’t low-tier cultivators.
Yet the outcome is still like this.
If this scene were painted with essence added, it might shatter the Taoist hearts of some cultivators.
Even Li Ye was startled.
"What are these...?" He looked at the ancestor with the surname Yue, but the other party seemed entirely uninterested in introducing himself, merely saying:
"Didn’t I say it?"
"Smell it and you can only live for three hundred and sixty years."
"Only by eating one... can you live for forty-seven thousand years."
Ancestor Yue’s eyes were complex, unable to determine if it was sentiment or sarcasm, he laughed: "Only pity, they don’t want to eat people, so they can only turn into this state."
He didn’t give Li Ye time to ponder.
His speech was rapid: "You must have been kidnapped by the jade when you achieved Nascent Soul. If you don’t want to become like this, unless you break through Nascent Soul.
Or go outside to find someone who can give you a ginseng fruit.
Only then can you survive.
Don’t look at me, I’ve got to feed that guy."
Listening to this made Li Ye’s mood even more complex—he didn’t believe this ancestor with the surname Yue was unaware the Four Seasons Sect would do everything to save them.
Yet he still said this.
That indicated:
The Four Seasons Sect likely can’t come to save them.
That’s very bad.
Moreover, he doesn’t know why, but looking at this ancestor with the surname Yue, he doesn’t feel the relaxation he has before elders within the sect.
Even now.
He still feels somewhat dazed, and quite uncomfortable, like an instinctive drive to stay away from this ancestor.
Such a "spiritual light" among cultivators should have a reason.
So he smiled slightly on his face but stepped back:
"Then this disciple must certainly plan carefully."
"Ancestor, please send me back to that town."
"I can’t just stay under your protection like this?"
If it were within the sect, he would never say this, but he already mentioned, it feels very wrong.
He’s even started to forcefully mobilize the "Demonic Qi" within—his current form as ginseng fruit means he can’t use his spiritual power, but he can still leverage powers related to the demon path.
The only problem is...
If he uses Demonic Qi this time, he estimates it’ll be very difficult to balance his spiritual power and demonic qi again, possibly he himself could be eroded by the Demonic Qi.
This feeling appeared baselessly but surfaced in his mind.
It’s also the outcome of a flash of insight.
"..."
Ancestor Yue showed a slight smile.
"Heh heh."
"Naturally good, I’ll send you away now."
"Remember—break through Nascent Soul or find a ginseng fruit to swallow, that’s the only way, no other method."
Saying this, he proactively stepped aside to let him pass.
Then quietly watched as Li Ye retreated from the dilapidated abode, standing motionless in the corner.
What’s happening here?
It definitely feels off.
Alarm bells rang in Li Ye’s mind, just like the sole danger he encountered upon entering this world—being discovered by the Earth Desire Fox Race.
Without hesitation, he released the Demonic Qi.
Blue-black lines representing the essence of Demonic Qi immediately appeared on his "body," exuding ominous and profound vibes, enveloping him as he turned into a streak of light, flying outward.
Unexpectedly.
Ancestor Yue didn’t stop him.
Instead, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a slight smile, and once Li Ye left, he got up to close the door.
Not the door of the abode.
But the gate of this small courtyard.
As the courtyard gate closed with a "creak,"
Rusty copper-covered branches suddenly extended out of the void, crisscrossing to envelop the entire courtyard, in an instant as though it had undergone countless eras.
The whole courtyard became dilapidated.
The last scene Li Ye could see was:
The only stone table and chairs inside weathered into sand by time and age, and the seemingly comfortable stone recliner also collapsed in an instant.
Lying on it with a long sword in hand, the "ginseng fruit" also...
Rotting into an indistinguishable pile of gray ashes, barely hinting the silhouette of a human figure.
Only the long sword in this silhouette’s hand emitted a flicker of bronze light, lightly trembling as if mourning.
Then returned to silence.
All of this happened in the moment Li Ye used Demonic Qi to escape, within just one or two breaths.
He didn’t even have time to think through the reasons.
Before he landed in the distant mountain woods of the estate, where his glowing and Demonic Qi-ridden tattoos began to gradually erode the surrounding environment.
"What is going on here exactly?"
At this moment, Li Ye genuinely couldn’t stay calm.
He didn’t question any decision he made, because he indeed sensed something wrong about Ancestor Yue just now, and he didn’t regret that the Demonic Qi inside his current body can’t be balanced.
The only thing he can’t understand is... why?
He even felt Ancestor Yue intentionally let him be "frightened," then release Demonic Qi.
The annoying feeling and the trace of resentment brought by Demonic Qi made him want to overturn a table—though his spiritual power indeed couldn’t be mobilized, the Taoist heart planting the demon is inherently a symbiotic coexistence of Taoism and demonism.
