Chapter 38 She can touch real objects now
It was late at night.
Ye Li planned to go during the day, so she returned to her nameless cottage.
She died a little over a month ago, and there's a desolate feeling of emptiness here.
The searched yard was littered with things lying haphazardly, and the inner rooms were also ransacked.
Large swaths of herbs planted on the ground were trampled down, and drying grains were overturned. The ropes used to dry talismans broke, and the talismans were soaked in sewage, their original forms no longer recognizable.
Ye Li stood amidst the chaos, trying to find some evidence to make her life seem less tragic.
Nothing was gained.
She walked to the backyard, where there was a tiny pond that she had dug herself, lining the inner walls and planting a few aquatic plants.
Inside was an ordinary-looking black fish.
It was the one Mo Hannian gave her.
No, it was the ingredient he made her take from the kitchen.
Because his spirit fish is not given to "outsiders".
Ye Li lowered her head to stroke the black fish.
It was just an ordinary fish, and it looked listless because no one had fed it for so long.
The fish could no longer stand upright, and its belly turned white.
"Erhei".
Her hand slipped through the fish's head, and she whispered, "I'm sorry, I wanted to take good care of you."
Erhei seemed to sense something. It moved with difficulty, turned around, and rubbed its head against her palm.
Ye Li was stunned, "Erhei..."
It is not a spirit fish; it is inhuman and cannot see her.
But the look it gave her clearly contained an emotion that even a spirit fish didn't possess.
The next second, it turned white without causing a ripple.
"No."
Ye Li, at a loss, tried to stop him, "Erhei, wake up."
"I'll be able to break through to the Golden Core stage soon, and I'll be able to feed you right away."
"Please don't die...please..."
"You're all I have left here..."
Ye Li knelt on the ground, curled up in a ball, her voice growing softer and softer.
My heart aches terribly, yet I can't shed a single tear.
Erhei left.
At that very moment, there was no trace of her left at the Lotus Gate.
Everything here is completely irrelevant to her now.
At the same time, spiritual energy enters the body and fills the entire body.
She broke through.
Golden Core Stage.
Ye Li faintly felt a heartbeat in her otherwise lifeless chest.
Hallucination?
The Lingxu Soul Control Technique records that upon breaking through to the Golden Core stage, the soul cultivator will grow a heart and regain their five senses.
Once you reach the Nascent Soul stage, your body's spiritual meridians will return.
When one reaches the Mahayana stage, one's appearance becomes no different from that of an ordinary person.
Ye Li immediately went to check on Erhei's condition. This time, she felt the coolness of the water on her fingertips, and then she touched Erhei's scales.
She used her spiritual power to investigate, and found that Erhei was no longer breathing.
Ye Li's heart turned cold.
She used to wonder if her concern made Mo Hannian feel pressured, or if she was too eager to detoxify him, thus hurting his self-esteem.
Now, she will no longer make excuses for Mo Hannian.
Even Erhei knew to be grateful and said goodbye to her. As a human being, shouldn't Mo Hannian understand this?
Suddenly, footsteps sounded behind me.
...
This was the first time Mo Hannian had set foot in the nameless cottage since Ye Li left.
In his memory, he didn't come to Ye Li's place very often.
Even when Ye Li went to see him, she could only see him five out of ten times, let alone when he came to her on his own initiative.
But for some reason, ever since he heard Wen Yao say that he saw Ye Li's ghost, he has been uneasy.
Although he didn't believe Ye Li was dead, he still couldn't help but come and see.
Upon seeing the messy environment inside the small building, Mo Hannian, who preferred cleanliness, frowned.
"He's supposed to be a direct disciple, how come his room is such a mess?"
Noticing the messy medicinal herb field and the stone mill, his annoyance intensified.
"How petty! Why not just buy these things elsewhere?"
Halfway through his sentence, Mo Hannian remembered something.
Ten high-grade spirit stones are not enough to buy it.
He previously thought that Ye Li's "hands-on" approach was just to get praise from others, and that even what she did for him was more of an act than a genuine concern.
At this moment, the prejudice that had been weighing on his chest began to soften slightly.
Did she really do all this from the bottom of her heart?
He dismissed the idea as soon as it came to him.
No, the fact that she could just leave shows that she didn't care about them at all.
Moreover, over the years, she has taken care of him in public, searched for medicine for him, and made every disciple of the Tianmen Sect know that he was a cripple and a burden to the Lotus Sect.
This pain, this torment, far outweighed everything she had done for him.
What he needs is the care and interaction that Ying'er shows him as a normal person, not the charity that Ye Li provides.
Yes, charity!
For so many years, she has been condescendingly giving him handouts. Don't think he doesn't know what she's thinking!
Mo Hannian said angrily, "Ye Li! What gives you the right to look down on me!"
"If I hadn't been poisoned by Gu, my cultivation level would definitely not be lower than yours!"
To vent his anger, he tore down all of Ye Li's favorite flowers from the backyard.
They destroyed this only pure land.
Ye Li watched coldly as Mo Hannian went mad.
She finally understood what Mo Hannian hated—it wasn't that he hated her for not curing his poison.
Instead, she resented his inability to help, while she was making rapid progress.
What he hated was that she was perfectly fine, while he was afflicted with a Gu poison.
He was clearly the one with a narrow mind, yet he insisted on blaming her for everything.
Such a person is not worth her wasting her energy on.
Suddenly, Mo Hannian stopped.
His gaze fell upon the small pond.
Hesitantly stepped forward, frowned, and stared at the fish for a long time…
He was the one who made Ye Li take that one.
Memories were stirred.
It was Ye Li's birthday that day, and she invited him to eat longevity noodles together. She smiled and said, "Junior brother, today is my birthday, so I'm treating you to noodles."
He said impatiently, "It's not my birthday, why would I eat noodles?"
“If you eat my longevity noodles, you can share in my lifespan.” She eagerly picked up a mouthful of noodles. “Here, you eat first.”
"I don't need it!"
He flipped the table over and said coldly, "If you like longevity, then go live a long life. I'm going to live a short one!"
Ye Li stared blankly at the overturned noodles for a long time, her face full of disappointment and her eyes hurt.
But she took a deep breath and tried to speak in a relaxed tone, "It's okay, I'm fasting anyway, so it's fine if I don't eat."
To break the ice, she tried to joke with him, "Today is my birthday, how about you give me a spirit fish?"
"I don't give away my spirit fish. If you want it, you can take the black fish from the kitchen."
"..."
He said those words on purpose to disgust Ye Li.
Giving a blackfish that's not even worthy of being used as food as a gift to someone with her Nascent Soul cultivation level is an insult.
He thought Ye Li must have lost it as soon as she went out, but to his surprise, Ye Li actually brought it back to the nameless cottage and even built this small pond for it.
Mo Hannian slowly squatted down and murmured to the black fish, "This kind of useless trash should be gutted and put into the kitchen. How can it be worthy of living in the immortal sect?"
"Why keep it? Besides wasting time and energy, what can you get out of it?"
Looking at Erhei's white belly, Mo Hannian said in a sinister tone, "You think she's keeping you because she really likes you? You're wrong! She's doing it to humiliate you!"
"You don't deserve it! Trash like you doesn't deserve to live!"
Erhei was held in Mo Hannian's hand. He took out a dagger and disemboweled it.
A burst of spiritual energy suddenly knocked his dagger away.
Erhei also disappeared.
Mo Hannian was stunned. "Who?!"
Who's there!
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