Chapter 305 A Love Tribulation That's Hard to Overcome (Part 2)
That was after Hongchen went into seclusion, following Lingyin's birthday banquet.
After sending away that stupid and crybaby little filth, he went straight to the Demon Forest. His original intention was to train on his own and see what Tiaoxu wanted Changning to do. Of course, besides these reasons, there was also the fact that he always felt that his master, father and mother were hiding something from him. If he was alone, he might encounter some opportunities.
The edge of the Demon Forest is inhabited by low-level demons, which Yao Yan killed with ease. These demons have been absorbing immortal energy for a long time to expel filth, and they often hunt and kill some low-level immortal children. Immortals usually eliminate them when they encounter them, just like eliminating filth. It is a very common thing for them.
Where these demons gather, there is some filth. Those filth were injured by his sword energy and dissipated into a cloud of filth before even half a breath had passed.
He keenly heard an unusual noise, and with a swift movement, he plunged his sword into the tree trunk, barely grazing his opponent.
The tiny, black, filthy creature trembled violently, curling up into a ball. It looked miserable, emanating a strange, burnt smell, and its once bright black eyes were tightly shut.
It was struck by lightning.
Yao Yan frowned slightly, not understanding why a lump of filth would attract tribulation lightning, but the next moment a bolt of lightning struck straight down at it.
He casually opened the white umbrella he had brought with him, but because it hadn't been used for years, the vines on the umbrella handle had come back to life, with green vines climbing all over the umbrella surface. After being struck by lightning, they even developed a trace of consciousness.
The little creature curled up in the mud, twitched its nose, and must have recognized him.
"...Haven't you had enough of the suffering yet? You still dare to follow me into the Demon Forest?" He scolded the little filth, feeling that it was somewhat disobedient.
Forty-four years have passed since the last banquet, and this little filth has not grown at all.
"I'm hungry..." the little creature pleaded with him. Yao Yan frowned even more and, mimicking the tone Hong Chen used when scolding him, gave it a good scolding.
But this little filth has a very low tolerance for pain, and he actually cried because of what he said, and even asked him to kill himself.
It looks very uncomfortable.
Her crying is also annoying.
"This umbrella can block lightning strikes." Yao Yan handed the rattan umbrella to it, saying with disdain, "You look even uglier when you cry."
Then he ignored it and went straight into the Demon Forest.
He was training and searching for Changning at the same time, but he underestimated the danger of the Demon Forest. While chasing a high-level demon, he was injured.
The demon had horns and a fox's face, with two white pupils. He had read about it in the ancient records of gods and demons. This demon was named Shaoyang. If one took its inner elixir, one's lifespan could be increased by ten thousand years. Its eyes could sense people's emotions and prevent memories from being altered. The first two things were nothing to him, but he always felt that there was something wrong with his memories, so he was determined to get this thing.
But he didn't expect that the thing's saliva was highly poisonous, and there was no record of it in ancient books. By the time he realized what was happening, half of his body was already paralyzed.
He was nearly crushed in the chest by the Shaoyang beast. He rolled over and hid in the bushes nearby, but the beast, with its keen sense of smell, silently climbed down from the treetop. A chill ran down his spine. He tried to grab his sword, but his hands and feet wouldn't obey him. The Shaoyang beast opened its blood-red maw and pounced on him.
The powerful blessing sent the opponent flying.
Yao Yan was also knocked to the ground by the force of the impact, rolling several times and getting mud on his cheeks. He tried to calm himself down and expel the toxins, but the Shao Yang was still unwilling to give up and pounced on him again.
He had never experienced such a disadvantage before. The mud on his body only fueled his anger. He was willing to damage his very foundation to summon his Dharma form. In the next instant, a dark, filthy thing suddenly flew out from mid-air. The lightning bolts behind him crackled and struck the Shaoyang, leaving the enormous creature half-dead and unconscious.
The little filth fell into his arms like a mushy mess.
He was unable to move his hands and feet, leaning against a tree, his sleeves covered in mud. It was the first time he had ever been so disheveled since birth, and compared to that, the filth on his body was not so unbearable.
"The umbrella... was stolen and thrown away." The little creature cried uncontrollably.
Yao Yan looked down at it, wanting to speak, but he couldn't make a sound or move.
The little creature lay on his chest and cried its heart out. After a long while, it realized something was wrong and raised its head: "Little Immortal Lord, why aren't you saying anything?"
Yao Yan: "..."
The little creature wiped away its tears and stared blankly at him: "You don't even mind that I'm dirty anymore?"
Yao Yan: "..."
He still dislikes it; if he could move, he would have already thrown it eight thousand feet away.
The little creature stared at him, swallowing hard. "Little Immortal Lord, I'm so hungry. Can you give me a bite of immortal spirit?"
Yao Yan frowned, and then saw the little filthy creature sniffing his neck hard: "I really want to eat you."
He sneered inwardly, thinking that filth is filth, and even if it gains intelligence, its nature is hard to change. He had let it go many times because of their past connection, but now that he was in trouble, this little beast actually wanted to eat him.
"But if I eat you, I'll never see you again," the little filth muttered to itself. "You are my only friend."
Yao Yan couldn't refute it and could only watch it coldly.
The little filth stared at him with drooling desire, stepped on his chest, stood on tiptoe, and licked his chin. The veins on his forehead bulged instantly, but he couldn't move. The little filth reluctantly climbed down and went to the young yang. It opened its mouth, and its fine teeth instantly pierced the beast's flesh and bones.
Before long, all that remained of this Shaoyang was a bloody skeleton.
"I'm still so hungry." The little creature must have realized that it wouldn't get struck by lightning if it was near him, so it crawled into his front and chattered on and on.
"I ate the fairy spirit you gave me, and after taking a nap, I felt much stronger. Then I came here and ate a lot of things. After taking a nap, I kept getting struck by lightning." The little filth said aggrievedly, "It only strikes me, but I didn't bully it."
Yao Yan pondered to himself, perhaps this little filth had eaten something it shouldn't have, or perhaps his immortal spirit was too strong, causing the filth's internal spirit to become imbalanced...
"It hurts and I'm hungry, I feel so bad," the little creature cried. "My box was also smashed, little immortal, can you give me another one?"
It portrayed greed to the fullest extent, even finding a new handkerchief in his arms and keeping it for itself. It lay in his arms and talked about how many flowers were on the Seven Killings Tree before finally falling into a deep sleep.
After a long while, he regained consciousness. The first thing he did was wash the blood and mud off his body, but the stench in his chest was extremely difficult to clean. The culprit was thrown to the ground, looking completely dazed.
This little filthy creature had saved his life by sheer coincidence. Yao Yan tossed it a large piece of immortal spirit and a pair of phoenix wings, saying, "These can also block lightning. Thank you for saving me this time."
The little creature, its wings folded, looked at him blankly and said, "But I came here to eat you."
"...Judging by actions, not intentions." He gave it the item and continued deeper into the Demon Forest.
But the little filth was still not satisfied with the fairy spirit and wings, and still followed him relentlessly. Perhaps it was bored to train alone, or perhaps it simply found it interesting. When he killed the demons, he deliberately left some corpses, and the filth would eagerly pounce on them to eat them.
The scene was hardly aesthetically pleasing. He would usually leave with his sword on his back after killing the creature, and the filthy thing would follow behind him, dragging the enormous creature that had been bitten a few times. Sometimes, you wouldn't even notice where it was unless you looked closely.
Later, he simply waited for the little filth to finish eating before continuing his journey.
"Little Immortal Lord, the immortal spirit is finished." It must have recognized him as its long-term meal ticket, as he could not only eat a variety of flavors to satisfy its hunger but also avoid the tribulation lightning. It only dared to eat a small bite of immortal spirit each day, but the immortal spirit was quickly gone. "Give me another piece."
“Greedy.” He looked at the filth that had swelled up a little.
"Please." The little creature tried to tug at his sleeve, but he dodged it.
"Don't think about it anymore," he said. "If you go any further, you'll reach the center of the Demon Forest, which is too dangerous. You should go back."
The little filth said, "I don't know the way, and I can help you eat these monsters."
It turned out that it had always thought it was helping, and Yao Yan didn't expose it, only saying, "I'll use my immortal power to send you back—"
Before he finished speaking, his expression suddenly changed, and he swept the little filth up with his sleeve and hid behind a tree.
"Shh." He raised his index finger to his lips to signal it to be quiet.
"Shh?" The filth raised its round little hand and put it to its mouth, mimicking his action. However, it smelled the remaining fairy spirit on its hand and put it in its mouth to lick it.
"..." He ignored the idiot and looked at the two people outside, who were Tiaoxu and Changning.
"Further in, you'll find the seal of the Chaos Core," Tiaoxu said to Changning. "This seal was reinforced by your father back then. You only need a little bit of your bloodline power to pry it open. Leave the rest to me."
“But Master, this is a forbidden area. Ordinary immortals will die from the decay of their immortal bones once they come into contact with the chaotic energy. I—” Changning hesitated.
"With me protecting you, what are you afraid of?" Tiao Xu laughed.
"Master, why did we put the Chaos Core into the lower realm? Wouldn't it be better if it were sealed here?" Changning asked.
“What do you know? The Chaos Core is always a hidden danger in the Upper Realm. If the seal were to loosen one day, it would be a disaster for the entire Upper Realm. It’s different in the Lower Realm. There are no immortals in the Lower Realm, only mortals and cultivators. They don’t have immortal power, only spiritual power, so the Chaos Core won’t cause them much harm,” Tiao Xu said. “Moreover, my cultivation has now reached a bottleneck. I only need to borrow a little bit of luck from the Lower Realm to break through the bottleneck and no longer be suppressed by Shi Ye and Yao Shuo and the others. Your life won’t have to be so difficult.”
“Master…” Changning looked conflicted.
"Alright, stop hesitating. Are you really willing to always be inferior to Yao Yan?" Tiao Xu said sternly. "Once the Chaos Core descends to the lower realm, it can suppress the Heavenly Dao of that small world. The fortune of that world will then belong to you and me. What is there to hesitate about?"
"But I once descended upon that small world with Yao Yan. It's rich in spiritual energy and resources, and countless cultivators have ascended to immortality there. If we were to seize their fortune—"
"How can we seize it? We're just temporarily letting them help the Upper Realm absorb the chaotic energy within the Chaos Core," Tiaoxu interrupted him. "Besides, this is just a small world. Changning, you're destined for great things, how can you be so hesitant?"
Changning opened her mouth, but dared not argue any further.
As the master and disciple talked, they entered the depths of the Demon Forest.
Yao Yan, hiding behind a tree, frowned: "A Chaos Core?"
"Is it delicious?" the little filth asked.
“This object is a relic left behind by the ancient divine realm, sealed in the center of the Demon Forest. Although it has great power, immortals cannot absorb it and it will even corrode their immortal bones. Therefore, they all avoid it and rarely even set foot here,” Yao Yan said. “Last time, when the seal of the Chaos Core loosened, my master was injured because of it.”
The little creature was completely confused: "That means it doesn't taste good."
He said, "Since Tiaoxu has come up with this idea, if he succeeds, the fortune of that small world below will be cut off."
"It's not good to break it," said the little filth.
He followed and nodded, saying, "Of course it's not good, but since he dared to touch the Chaos Core, he must have a magical treasure that can evade the Chaos Qi. If we snatch that treasure, he will fail at the last minute."
"What does it mean to fail at the last hurdle?" the little filth asked.
"It's just not going to work out," he said succinctly. "Are you still going to stay with me?"
"Yes!" the little creature exclaimed happily. "This is the first time someone has played with me."
"This isn't—never mind." He looked down at the little creature that had somehow ended up sitting on his wristband and warned, "Don't touch my hands."
"Okay." The little creature sat upright on his beautiful wristband. "When do you think I can become like you?"
"You want to transform into a human?" He was taken aback.
The little creature nodded: "If I become human, I can wear nice clothes. I like your clothes."
"At your current cultivation speed, it might take hundreds of thousands of years," he said.
"How long is hundreds of thousands of years?"
"Many tens of thousands of years, we're only ten thousand years old now," he explained to the little creature. "When I'm hundreds of thousands of years old—"
He suddenly paused, something flashed through his mind, and his mood inexplicably sank.
"What's wrong?" The little creature tentatively poked his hand.
“I always felt… I shouldn’t live to be hundreds of thousands of years old.” He frowned. “It’s strange, maybe not even a hundred thousand years old.”
But the immortals in the upper realm are often hundreds of thousands of years old, so how could he not even live past 100,000 years old?
"Perhaps he will only live for twenty or thirty thousand years." He looked at the small filth squatting on his wrist.
"If you die, can I devour all your spirit essence?" the little filth asked. "Maybe I can then become human."
“When the immortal spirit dies, it is gone too.” He followed Changning and Tiaoxu at a distance, speaking to them with his attention.
"Never mind then." The little creature cautiously poked the back of his hand. "You'd better not die."
"This isn't something I can decide myself." He was somewhat distracted and didn't notice its little movements. Suddenly, Tiaoxu and Changning in front of him disappeared.
He knew something was wrong and retreated quickly. A wisp of dust flew past, smashing the giant tree where they were hiding into pieces.
"I thought it was some mischievous little fairy boy, but it turns out to be His Highness Yaoyan." Tiaoxu draped the whisk over his arm and smiled slightly. "Little Immortal Lord, what are you doing in a place like this?"
Changning's expression changed drastically, and he quickly stepped in front of Yaoyan, saying, "Master, he must be lost."
Yao Yan pushed him away without changing his expression: "I came here with my master for training, and just happened to be passing by."
This time it was Tiao Xu's turn to be uneasy. He withdrew his killing intent and chuckled dryly, "Wasn't Immortal Venerable Hong Chen in seclusion? Why is he in the Demon Forest?"
"It's because I kept pestering Master for the inner core of the Shaoyang Beast." Yao Yan casually tossed away the small filth on his wrist, as if it had been accidentally picked up. "He had no choice but to come with me."
The little filth was quick-witted at this moment, and darted into the bushes and disappeared in a flash.
"Oh? Is that so?" Tiaoxu glanced around, then slowly narrowed his eyes. "I wonder where the Immortal Venerable is? I can't see him at all!"
He suddenly made his move. Yao Yan pretended to draw his sword, but in the next instant, he turned into a wisp of golden light and disappeared.
"Chase him," Tiaoxu said to Changning. "If he tells Hongchen and the others, we'll both be dead."
Changning had no choice but to follow him into the depths of the Demon Forest.
Yao Yan quickly hid in the woods, trying to shake off the person behind him. The little filthy thing clung to his shoulder, startling him so much that tears streamed down his face.
"Why did you come back?" he asked, puzzled.
"I still want to eat fairy spirits," the little filth raised its voice, "You absolutely can't die!"
He was moving so fast that the little filth was almost thrown off, but Yao Yan grabbed it and stuffed it into his arms: "I'll try my best."
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