"Kid, are you confused?" Seeing that Zeng Mingliang was talking nonsense, Chen Yuzhu couldn't help but reach out to touch Zeng Mingliang's forehead.
In Chen Yuzhu's eyes, Zhou Yuanyuan was just a prettier girl. How could she possibly possess any "master" demeanor? Chen Yuzhu even suspected Zeng Mingliang was possessed by an evil spirit! After all, he was an evil cultivator and possessed spiritual energy. Uncertain whether it was real or not made Chen Yuzhu's heart pound.
"Mom, this little girl is very capable. She can save Xiaona." Zeng Mingliang turned his face to the side and avoided Chen Yuzhu's hand that was about to touch his forehead.
Zeng Mingliang stared at Zhou Yuanyuan with hope in his eyes and said, "Miss Yuanyuan, please save Xiaona! As long as it can save Xiaona, I will do anything you ask me to do."
Wang Xiaona was in this state, barely breathing. Although Zhou Yuanyuan's medical skills were good, she wasn't so arrogant as to think she could bring the dead back to life.
After hearing Zeng Mingliang's request, Zhou Yuanyuan shook her head and said, "Zeng Mingliang, I'm sorry, I can't save Wang Xiaona."
"Master, you can't agree. Wang Xiaona cannot be saved." At the same time, Xiaoyu's voice sounded hurriedly in Zhou Yuanyuan's sea of consciousness.
"Xiao Yu, I don't have the ability to save Wang Xiaona!" Zhou Yuanyuan hadn't seen Xiao Yu so impatient for a long time, and she couldn't help but be stunned.
"Yes, Master, I'm glad you can make a choice." Xiaoyu's voice was filled with relief. Xiaoyu was really afraid that Zhou Yuanyuan would get carried away and agree to Zeng Mingliang's request.
Xiaoyu told Zhou Yuanyuan that there were many girls like Wang Xiaona in the world of cultivation. Although practicing with a furnace was frowned upon by righteous cultivators, some cultivators still neglected their own cultivation and relied solely on plundering others' skills to quickly advance.
The fate of those cauldrons was far more tragic than Wang Xiaona's. Zhou Yuanyuan had to save them all, but how many could she possibly save? After Wang Xiaona's death, she could enter the cycle of reincarnation. However, the female cultivators who were used as cauldrons had their cultivation plundered and, after death, turned to ash, with no chance of reincarnation.
Everyone has their own destiny, and monks place even greater emphasis on the cycle of cause and effect. Wang Xiaona's rescue by Zhou Yuanyuan ten years ago had already exhausted all her good luck in this life. Wang Xiaona's current fate can also be considered a destiny.
If Zhou Yuanyuan insisted on rescuing Wang Xiaona, she would be colliding with the laws of nature. For a cultivator, "defying the will of heaven and changing fate" involves not only karma but also destiny. If Zhou Yuanyuan used the juice from the "Tree of Life" to save Wang Xiaona, the misfortune that was meant for Wang Xiaona would backfire on her.
Zhou Yuanyuan was unaware of these twists and turns. She refused Zeng Mingliang's request, not because she was reluctant to part with the sap of the Tree of Life, but because she simply didn't understand the extraordinary power of the "Tree of Life." If she had known, Zhou Yuanyuan might not have been so blunt in her refusal. She couldn't be so frank about whether to save the child or not.
"Really... can't do it anymore?" Zeng Mingliang saw Zhou Yuanyuan shaking her head, and the light in his eyes gradually dimmed.
When Zhou Yuanyuan left the Shilitun Public Security Bureau, she was very depressed, for Wang Xiaona and for Wen Ziqing.
Wang Xiaona's incident triggered Xiaoyu's memory and reminded her of a long-forgotten event.
There once existed a sect of cultivators in the Lingxiao Realm called the Hehuan Sect. The founder of the Hehuan Sect was a formidable figure known as the Hehuan Patriarch. By the time Xiaoyu met the Hehuan Patriarch, he had already established himself in the Divine Realm and was on par with Xiaoyu's master.
The Hehuan Sect emphasizes the harmony of yin and yang. All disciples of this sect cultivate through dual cultivation. This dual cultivation method, established by the Hehuan Patriarch, allows disciples to progress together, achieving twice the result with half the effort.
When Xiaoyu heard Patriarch Hehuan complaining, it was because the Hehuan Sect, which was founded by Patriarch Hehuan, had become the public enemy of all cultivators in the world of cultivation, and was finally destroyed by a joint force.
Logically speaking, since the Hehuan Sect's dual cultivation skills had been verified by the Hehuan Patriarch, practicing accordingly would surely lead to ascension. Even if the Hehuan Sect weren't overcrowded with high-level cultivators, it should still be thriving.
The problem stemmed from this dual cultivation technique. The Hehuan Patriarch's dual cultivation technique emphasized the balance of yin and yang. When a man and a woman practiced together, they both received an equal amount of spiritual energy each day. They progressed together, neither falling behind. The Hehuan Sect had indeed flourished for tens of thousands of years, once rising to become the foremost sect in the world of cultivation.
Many years after the Hehuan Patriarch ascended to heaven, the Hehuan Sect accepted a talented disciple named Wang Yuanchao.
Wang Yuanchao possessed exceptional talent, possessing a single-attribute spiritual root. He was also quite intelligent. He joined the Hehuan Sect not out of admiration for the Hehuan Patriarch, but out of revenge.
Wang Yuanchao was burdened with a deep blood feud. When he was eight years old, the entire Wang family was killed by a passing Nascent Soul cultivator, all for a sixth-level spiritual herb collected by Wang Yuanchao's family.
This Nascent Soul cultivator had no hope of achieving Divine Transformation, with less than a hundred years remaining to live. He seized the spiritual herbs in order to find an alchemist to create a "longevity elixir." In the world of cultivation, the strongest reign supreme, and it's not uncommon for Nascent Soul cultivators to seize spiritual herbs. What's more deplorable is that this cultivator, after taking the herbs, also exterminated the entire family. Wang Yuanchao escaped this fate because he was away playing around.
Wang Yuanchao joined the Hehuan Sect because he was attracted by the speed of cultivation. If Wang Yuanchao joined another sect, no matter how good his aptitude was or how hard he practiced, it would take at least two hundred years to achieve the fetus.
Wang Yuanchao's enemy only had a few decades left to live. Wang Yuanchao was an ambitious man, and he wanted to kill his enemy with his own hands.
In order to prevent his enemy from dying of old age, Wang Yuanchao had to find a quick way to practice.
If Wang Yuanchao practices according to the normal method of the Hehuan Sect and nothing unexpected happens, he should be able to conceive a baby in more than a hundred years.
Over a hundred years later, by the time Wang Yuanchao reached the Nascent Soul stage, the Nascent Soul cultivator had already turned to dust. He couldn't wait that long. He secretly modified the Hehuan Sect's techniques, turning dual cultivation into one-sided plunder.
Fifty years later, Wang Yuanchao sacrificed countless furnaces and cauldrons to give birth to his Nascent Soul cultivation.
At this time, Wang Yuanchao's enemy monk was about to die two years before his death. Wang Yuanchao challenged his enemy to a decisive battle, and in the end, both of them died.
After Wang Yuanchao's death, the Hehuan Sect's reputation soared. Its dual cultivation technique, which allowed one to reach the Nascent Soul stage in just fifty years, was coveted by many cultivators. For a time, the Hehuan Sect was flooded with cultivators seeking to become its disciples.
The Hehuan Sect's leaders therefore took notice of Wang Yuanchao. After some investigation, the Hehuan Sect's leaders were stunned. The technique Wang Yuanchao practiced was not the Hehuan Sect's standard dual cultivation technique, but rather a modified, plundering technique.
Seeing this "shortcut" to cultivation, the leaders of the Hehuan Sect began to secretly practice Wang Yuanchao's technique. For a time, female disciples from various sects disappeared one after another.
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