Chapter 174 Dual Cultivation

Ye Li suddenly opened her eyes and saw Xie Sixing standing by the bed, looking down at her.

Seeing that she was awake, he raised an eyebrow. "Daoist Master, you've been sleeping for three days. Are you still sleeping?"

"I slept for three days..."

"Wait, how come I'm not dead yet?"

Seeing Ye Li's shocked expression, Xie Sixing crossed his arms and nodded with a smile, "Now I believe you didn't mean anything by it before."

Ye Li looked down at her hands and tried to activate her spiritual power again, but her body showed no abnormalities.

While she was examining herself, Xie Sixing had already sat down on the tatami mat opposite her.

Ye Li discovered that not only was she not dead, but her soul was also light and her spiritual meridians were unobstructed.

Xie Sixing propped his head up to look at her, "How are you feeling? Did the medicine cure you completely?"

Ye Li hesitated before nodding. Not only was the damage to her soul body gone, but she also broke through to the late Nascent Soul stage, only one step away from the Deity Transformation stage where she could materialize her soul.

Although she could continue using Jiang Li's body, she couldn't stay trapped in someone else's shell forever.

Just as Ye Li was feeling relieved, she noticed Xie Sixing's unusual behavior.

"Wait, why is your spiritual energy still draining away? You haven't done anything?"

"I did it. Didn't I fix your soul?"

Xie Sixing had finished all his dried fruit and was now boredly picking at the table.

Ye Li frowned. "Didn't you say you were going to use my soul? Why aren't you using it?"

Xie Sixing feigned surprise, "I didn't expect the young Taoist priest to be so reluctant to let me die, even at the cost of his own life, to let me live. I have no way to repay this kindness, so I can only offer myself to him..."

When he made a move to put his arm around Ye Li, Ye Li immediately dodged away, her brows furrowed. "Can't you be serious for once? You'll exhaust your spiritual power and die if you keep going like this."

Xie Sixing didn't care that he hadn't found anyone, and smiled knowingly, "If my spiritual power were really that easy to exhaust, the Heavenly Gate Sect wouldn't have gone to such lengths to lock me up here."

Indeed, this amount of spiritual energy consumed is insignificant compared to maintaining the Chaos Realm and consuming those magical beasts.

But his previous consumption of spiritual energy was his own business, while his current consumption of spiritual energy was to help her heal Dahei, which made it impossible for her to ignore.

Hearing her words, Xie Sixing chuckled, "Daoist Master, you really are a good person."

Ye Li felt that he was definitely not praising her, given his teasing tone. Sure enough, he slowly added, "Good people don't live long. No wonder you died young."

She knew it!

Ye Li said coldly, "Stop talking nonsense, what exactly do I need to do to help you?"

Xie Sixing's smile faded slightly, and his gaze as he looked her over revealed a hint of unfathomable calculation. "You really want to help me?"

"Um."

Their eyes met, and the air was still.

Xie Sixing's pupils narrowed slightly. In that instant, it was as if he had shed some of his playful facade and was scrutinizing her.

However, the next second, he reverted to his unserious demeanor, reluctantly saying, "Since you're so reluctant to part with me, then I'll tell you. That Spirit Void Soul Control Technique isn't actually complete."

The "Spiritual Void Soul Control Technique" only records the cultivation methods of soul cultivators and how to possess a corpse to return to life.

But in fact, soul cultivators can control not only corpses, but also souls.

In other words, as long as the soul is strong enough, it can possess another person's soul, just like a spiritual cultivator possesses another person's body.

Xie Sixing was sealed in this chaotic realm and could not leave.

But if he possesses her soul, then there will be no such restriction.

Upon hearing this, Ye Li became even more puzzled, "If that's the case, why didn't you possess my body?"

Xie Sixing suddenly moved closer, a slight smile playing on his lips, and said, half-jokingly, "Because I can't bear to part with you, Daoist Master."

Before Ye Li could dodge, he straightened up and said, "Besides possession, there is another way."

Ye Li's eyes lit up. "What method?"

She felt she could accept whatever method was used.

It's better than dying, after all.

Xie Sixing whispered two words in her ear.

Ye Li's face burned like fire. She jumped up instantly, pointing at him and shouting, "Shameless!"

Xie Sixing looked at Ye Li with a calm expression. "You were the one who asked me. Why are you still scolding me after I've already told you?"

"Who told you to talk nonsense!"

Xie Sixing shrugged. "I'm not making this up."

He even circled around Ye Li twice, asking, "Or is it that the Daoist priest is not satisfied with my appearance?"

Xie Sixing was handsome and flamboyant, with an enigmatic smile always playing on his lips. He had the kind of appearance that made people feel dangerous just by looking at him.

If he were in the Tianmen Sect, he would probably have a hundred times more romantic entanglements than Feng Jingxuan.

Even if he were as handsome as Pan An, she could never be with him...

Ye Li gritted her teeth, "If this is really the only way left, you might as well just take my life."

Hearing Ye Li's resolute tone, Xie Sixing clutched his chest, looking hurt. "I never expected that you, Daoist Master, would despise me so much, preferring death to dual cultivation with me. It really breaks my heart."

However, the next second, he changed his tone, "Alright, since you don't want to cultivate together, then let's form a contract."

"To form a bond?"

“That’s right. Besides possessing a soul, I can also share a soul with you. This way, it can also slow down the rate at which the Chaos Realm consumes my soul.”

Why didn't you say so sooner?!

This whole dual cultivation nonsense almost made her lose her will to live. "So how do we form a bond?"

Xie Sixing took out his "lover's mirror," gestured with his chin towards her storage pouch, and indicated that she should take it out as well.

The moment Ye Li saw the mirror, her gaze turned cold.

She should indeed be grateful to Xie Sixing for everything he helped her with, but undeniably, he also deceived her.

After taking out the mirror, Ye Li suddenly asked, "Does the Soul Nourishing Mirror mean you can use my soul to nourish it?"

Xie Sixing seemed oblivious to the coldness on her face, and shook the mirror in his hand. "This mirror has two sides. Before it is activated, it is only used as a communication tool. But if blood is poured into it, it will be awakened, and one side can then control the soul of the other."

No wonder Xie Sixing was able to use her body to go shopping that day.

It turned out to be a chain reaction after she dripped blood from her fingertip.

Ye Li looked suspicious. "If that's the case, why didn't you escape the Chaos Realm with my soul back then, but instead came back?"

Xie Sixing stared at Ye Li for a few seconds, then shrugged. "Who told me to be influenced by the Daoist principles and decide to do good?"

Ye Li frowned, feeling that something was off.

Before she could ask any more questions, Xie Sixing had already raised his hand and cut his fingertip, drawing something on the Soul Nourishing Mirror with his blood.

The next second, the two Soul-Nourishing Mirrors floated up, spinning continuously, getting closer and closer.

At the moment they merged into one, a golden halo erupted.

The light was too dazzling, so Ye Li closed her eyes.

The light lingered between the two of them, and ancient runes were faintly visible within the halo.

Soon, golden light surged into her and Xie Sixing's arms like a tide.

With a burning pain in his arm, Xie Sixing said, "Alright, Daoist, from now on, we will live and die together."

Ye Li did not answer; she was staring intently at her arm.

The golden light entered her burn scar.

Now that the scar has faded, what remains... is a moon totem.