Chapter 265: Demon in the Heart
"Good medicine tastes bitter, what do you know?"
Lily Jiang snorted coldly, then sat back down, lazily crossing her legs, her bare jade feet swaying gently.
"So? How did you do this?"
"It's a long story," Li Yanmo sat down with a big smile, "but we can also make it short. Which version do you like?"
Lily Jiang raised her eyes, “Do you want to lick my feet yourself, or do you want me to put my feet in your mouth?”
"Well, actually I have mastered an ancient method," Li Yanmo's eyes suddenly became clear, "I can take away the golden elixir in the other person's body without damaging the other person's foundation."
“I don’t believe it… Although I really want to say so, but you look at the person in the foundation-building platform who is eager to show it, it seems to be true,” Lily Jiang raised her eyebrows, “In other words, those strange golden elixirs in your spiritual energy vortex are all the golden elixirs that you have robbed?”
"How can something that is consensual be considered robbery? They even paid for it!" Li Yanmo rolled his eyes.
Lily Jiang was stunned, and after thinking for a while, her expression became strange. "Could it be that you are using this method to help people form high-quality golden elixirs? The person in Meizhou who specifically targets Dayu Jindan stage is you?"
"That's right——" Li Yanmo gave a thumbs up.
Lily Jiang realized the horror of Li Yanmo's method, and couldn't help but take a breath, "Next, are you going to do the sect's business?"
"Of course, but the charge will be a little higher," Li Yanmo pinched his fingers.
"Okay, starting today I will also charge, and it will be much more expensive," Lily Jiang immediately resumed her elegant sitting posture, with her hands neatly folded on her thighs, "Did you see the sign outside? I don't need to explain the value of the two words 'Shennong'."
"Sister, if you really want the spirit stones, just ask me directly," Li Yanmo said with a strange expression.
Although Jiang Baili seems unreliable, she saved Li Yanmo's life. Li Yanmo is able to live until now thanks to Jiang Baili's help. If Jiang Baili needs spirit stones, he will never be stingy.
“You… don’t understand any fun at all. It’s very refreshing to kill a rich man,” Lily Jiang smacked her tongue unhappily, and returned to her previous lazy look, “There’s nothing wrong with the seal, but your injury is not getting better.”
Li Yanmo scratched his face, but did not feel disappointed.
If the wounds of the Chi Che world that lasted for nearly a thousand years could be healed so easily, Emperor Yu would not have resorted to such methods as Nan Ke's Dream, but would have cured him directly.
Lily Jiang took out the pipe and slowly filled it with herbs, “Also, recently…it’s better for you not to go to Baidi City.”
"Why?"
"The princes and princesses returned to Baidi City not long ago. They have killed countless demons in the past few years. Logically, they should be rewarded according to their merits, but guess what? Emperor Yu not only did not reward them, but also put all the princes and princesses in confinement."
Li Yanmo was stunned and couldn't help complaining, "Could it be that these princes and princesses agreed to run away together, and then were discovered by Emperor Yu?"
Lily Jiang rolled her eyes at Li Yanmo and said, "I think you have a deep prejudice against Dayu. After all, Dayu is an ancient dynasty that has existed for hundreds of thousands of years, and that emperor is the most powerful emperor in history. It's not unheard of for the princes and princesses to agree to run away together. Just for this reason, there is no need for Emperor Yu to confine the princes and princesses at this time."
"Is this true...So how did Emperor Yu solve the problem of the prince and princess running away together?" Li Yanmo vaguely felt a sense of crisis and urgency, but still couldn't help asking out of curiosity.
"There are many ways. They catch the one who runs the fastest and make him the emperor. They use alienation tactics to make the princes and princesses confess the mastermind to be the emperor. They also simply draw lots to choose the emperor. There is also the one who reports others' desire to run away the latest and makes him the emperor," Lily Jiang puffed out smoke carelessly. "There are so many cases, and the princes and princesses have learned a lesson."
"What's the reason?"
"The imperial family has always been the most ruthless. Don't even think about cooperating with your brothers and sisters. The best way is to kill them."
Li Yanmo felt that his prejudice against Dayu was definitely not his own problem.
The kettle whirred on the stove.
Li Yanmo stood up, picked up the kettle, poured himself a cup of hot water, and after thinking for a while, he asked tentatively, "Will the demon star affect the sanity of the cultivators?"
Lily Jiang, who was inhaling and exhaling smoke, changed her expression slightly, “Who… is this the case? This is a bit troublesome to explain.”
“I have plenty of time.”
Lily Jiang held the pipe and gently rubbed it with her thumb and index finger, “As a rule of thumb, the higher the cultivation level, the stronger the will, and it is almost impossible to be unconscious and not know what you are doing.”
"But there is another special situation. The higher the cultivation level, the easier it is to be affected. After the fusion, the influence will be so great that the cultivator himself can directly realize that he is being affected."
Li Yanmo's eyes jumped, "Is that the demon star?"
"Yes and no. I think you should have guessed it. This world is made up of many small worlds nurtured by immortals. Once a problem occurs in one world that affects other worlds, Emperor Yu will take action to pull out that world and return it to the small world that has not yet had any problems, so as to maintain the balance," Lily Jiang said after careful consideration.
"Those small worlds that were pulled out have been operating as part of the greater universe for a long time. They cannot be destroyed at all. We can only move them as far away from the ground as possible in the form of stars."
"But they are, after all, part of this universe. Even if they are far away from the ground, they still function as part of this world and affect it."
"When a cultivator reaches the fusion stage, both his body and soul are integrated into this vast world..."
Li Yanmo, who had already learned the specific principles of the cultivator's cultivation from Nuyao, immediately understood the danger. "After reaching the fusion stage, the cultivator is directly exposed to the corruption of the monster star. If you want to nurture a small world in the tribulation stage, you must first draw the power of the world from the universe itself, and in this process you will inevitably absorb the corruption from the monster star."
Jiang Baili glanced at Li Yanmo's foundation-building platform. "What the fusion stage cultivators compete with each other is the depth of their integration with the rules of heaven and earth. The closer they are with the rules of heaven and earth, the more handy they will be when mobilizing the rules of heaven and earth. What the cross-tribulation stage compares is the strength of the small world. The stronger the small world that is nurtured, the more thunder tribulations it will suffer, and the stronger the power of the world it will exert."
"Good and evil are always in balance. Whenever Emperor Yu removes a world for the sake of peace in the universe, an evil star will appear in the sky."
“There’s no going back now.”
"Even if you are extremely careful when nurturing a small world, you cannot prevent monsters from being born in it."
"If there is a demon in your heart... you will inevitably move closer to the demon."
(End of this chapter)
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