Chapter 112: Temptation Something is wrong! Very wrong! ...
This is wrong! Very wrong!
Since when did Xu Hui become the kind of person who would try to snatch something away by force if she couldn't get it?
She stared at the woman's receding back, unable to move her eyes away. Her hands and feet seemed to have their own will, wanting to rush forward and draw her weapon.
"What's wrong?" Wei Mubai noticed that something was wrong with her and gently pressed her shoulder.
"I really want that wooden comb. I'm so hungry that I want to kill someone," Xu Hui replied in a low voice.
Wei Mubai's face changed, and he immediately cast a spell to probe into her sea of consciousness, but found nothing.
"Try this," Lei Xiao handed over a jar of wine.
Wei Mubai turned to look at him. Lei Xiao smiled. "This is a wine made by Mo Xiao that can calm your mind and reduce desires. Drinking it will make you lose all desires for a short period of time."
"What about the side effects?" Wei Mubai frowned and looked at the wine uncertainly.
"Grow two fox ears," Wan Moxiao grinned, her teeth showing. She gave this thing to Lei Xiao because she thought it was very cute to have ears growing on his head.
Xu Hui is also very cute. She would be even cuter if she grew a pair of furry ears. She stared at Xu Hui with shining eyes, expecting her to drink it.
Wei Mubai did not answer, but just looked at Xu Hui and let her make the decision herself.
Xu Hui took it and took a sip without hesitation. The taste of the wine was not strong, but light with a fruity aroma, but it made her feel cool all over.
The urge to get it and to kill someone just now disappeared in an instant, and instead, there was an itchy feeling on the head and a cool feeling.
She touched it and found that ears had really grown. She pinched it and found... it was quite comfortable.
I couldn't wait to take out the mirror, take a look, and then take another look. Wow!
Family members, who understands!
She is the kind of smoldering girl who envies others for being cute but is too embarrassed to cosplay!
Now she had a legitimate excuse to grow a pair of beautiful and cute fox ears. Her face turned red instantly, but she couldn't help moving them. She saw her ears twitching up and down, and she couldn't help but feel secretly happy.
I secretly glanced at Wei Mubai, and a strange light flashed in his eyes. He actually...silently stuffed the remaining wine into the storage space.
Xu Hui's face turned even redder, this time out of excitement.
She wanted to see Wei Mubai grow fox ears, more than she wanted the wooden comb just now!
When I think of Wei Mubai’s stunningly beautiful face with a pair of cute ears, the male vixen becomes a fox. Oh, she’s dead!
The male vixen had indeed committed a sin. Even after she drank the wine of tranquility and abstinence, she couldn't resist it!
Xu Hui, who was thinking about all sorts of things, turned around silently with a flushed face, and walked faster and faster, almost jogging.
The others thought she was shy, so they smiled kindly and quickly followed her.
Wei Mu rolled his eyes with a smile and coughed lightly. "It's normal to have a desire for a treasure when it chooses its owner, but it's usually just a fleeting premonition. The so-called opportunity requires both chance and fate. If you have an opportunity but miss it, there will be no second chance. Like you just now, you have a strong and even violent desire..."
"Is it an evil practice?" Xu Hui continued.
"Not necessarily," Lei Xiao continued, explaining, "some treasures that carry inherently evil spirits have the innate ability to confuse people's minds."
Evil spirit is a kind of negative energy that is not very common in the world of cultivation, but often appears in the realm of nothingness. Only when the resentment of living beings accumulates to a certain level, can evil spirit be bred.
It can captivate people, control their minds, and make them fall into negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, confusion, and dissatisfaction.
When these emotions accumulate, inner demons are generated. After a person dies, the inner demons leave the body and turn into more intense negative energy, which is evil spirits.
That’s right, only living beings can produce it, and they must be living beings with a certain degree of intelligence.
Low-level demons like those have only the instinctive desire to survive and kill, and don't even have self-awareness. It is even less likely that negative energy such as resentment and disasters will accumulate and gather into evil spirits.
The world of cultivation has abundant spiritual power, which can easily offset the evil spirit. Only certain treasures can store this evil energy forever.
When the evil spirit condenses into enough energy, it becomes the legendary Tai Sui!
It is immortal and indestructible. Wherever it goes, disasters and diseases occur, and there is widespread suffering. Even monks are not immune to it, and there is no way to eliminate it.
Therefore, once Tai Sui is formed, it will not only bring disaster to one place or one city, but the entire world of cultivation will be in turmoil!
"But doesn't the Holy Soul Tree have the function of purity and freshness?" Xu Hui was puzzled.
"Maybe it's the Soul-Breaking Tree," Wei Muyan thought for a moment and said.
The Holy Soul Wood and the Soul-Breaking Wood are only one character apart, but their functions are completely opposite!
In reality, the Holy Soul Tree and the Soul-Breaking Tree were originally the same plant, both the root of the Soul Tree. The Soul Tree is a spiritual plant that can grow in both the living and the dead. Born in the world of the living, it becomes the Holy Soul Tree. It absorbs the first rays of morning light and, after a thousand years, is struck by lightning, becoming the Holy Soul Tree.
The Soul Tree is born in the underworld, which is the legendary realm of nothingness. It absorbs the only moonlight therein. It only takes a hundred years and, when struck by lightning, it can become a Soul-Breaking Tree.
The Holy Soul Wood can be obtained occasionally, but the Broken Soul Wood is extremely rare, because the Void Realm is the only place where no thunder tribulation falls. It is the place of death opened up by the Heaven for souls, and it is also the habitat of the unique race of spirits.
The soul is most afraid of being struck by lightning. Once it is touched, its soul will be shattered into ashes.
Therefore, it is almost impossible for the soul tree growing in the void realm to withstand the lightning strike and transform, so the soul-breaking tree has become a legendary existence.
"This is even more sinister than the evil cultivators causing trouble," Xu Hui concluded.
"Whether it is true or not, we'll know if we follow them and take a look," Wan Moxiao said excitedly, pulling them to quietly follow behind the female cultivator.
No matter if it is an evil cultivator, or the Soul-Breaking Tree or the evil spirit itself, once you have encountered it, you cannot let it go easily.
They had no objection, hid their bodies, concealed their breath, and followed her slowly.
The female cultivator walked very fast at first. After looking back several times and finding that no one was catching up with her, she stopped proudly and picked up the wooden comb to admire it carefully.
She looked again and again, her eyes gradually revealing an obsession. Regardless of the many people coming and going, she found a corner, did not cover herself at all, and did not set up a barrier for herself, and just sat cross-legged to practice.
The people around her seemed not to notice her unusual movements and ignored her.
This looks very abnormal!
Several people stood in the distance and witnessed with their own eyes the whole process of how the female cultivator was deceived and forced to bleed from her heart in order to sacrifice a treasure, but was outmaneuvered by the treasure and her mind was gradually taken over.
"That's not right. Treasures with evil spirits will automatically hide until they grow and the evil spirit can no longer be removed. Only then will they dare to reveal themselves. There must be a reason why it's so impatient."
As mentioned before, evil spirits are different from other negative energies. They are a collection of negative emotions born from conscious creatures. Therefore, they are born with a certain consciousness and are not without any feeling. They are like an unformed spiritual consciousness.
They will instinctively choose the method that is most beneficial to themselves. The evil spirit on the wooden comb is still very weak. If it is not hidden and grows secretly, it will be eager to control the female cultivator and will be easily exposed.
It must have other purposes!
Sure enough, after a look of confusion appeared in the female cultivator's eyes, she gradually regained her senses and everything seemed so natural.
The wooden comb flashed, returned to its original shape, and remained quietly in her hand.
"I feel the attraction again," Xu Hui's eyes darkened, "but this time it's not as strong as before. I just want it, but when I don't get it, I feel lost."
"Me too!" Wan Moxiao nodded impatiently.
Wei Mubai, Wei Muyan, and Lei Xiao all nodded.
"This time it has learned its lesson. It knows how to cast a wide net and reduce its desires, only giving the cultivator a faint premonition," Lei Xiao sneered.
Yes, for cultivators, overly strong emotions are abnormal. Although they do not practice the ruthless way of "not being happy with things or sad with oneself", they also cultivate their character!
What kind of great treasure could attract so many cultivators?
Even if you ascend to heaven, you still have to be cautious.
After all, there are so many tests in the world of cultivation. There are all kinds of illusions, inner demons, etc. at any time, which use the temptation of ascension to test them.
Therefore, that kind of strong emotion will only arouse suspicion, rather than really thinking that you are favored by the treasure!
What's more, those it chooses to seduce are all chosen ones by heaven. It's not an exaggeration to say that they are people of good fortune, right?
At their level, they have seen all kinds of heavenly treasures, so why would they be so surprised by a piece of Holy Soul Wood?
Not to mention them, even Xu Hui, who considered herself to be narrow-minded and greedy for money, suppressed the impulse as soon as she was tempted and reached out her hand to the other side.
Xu Hui didn't doubt that she had been tricked at the time. She just believed in thinking rationally and delaying gratification when making decisions.
Originally, buying a comb worth 100,000 spirit stones was not a big deal, and she came here to satisfy her shopping desire.
But the overly strong desire made her feel a little strange.
She instinctively suppressed herself.
Just like during her growing up years, Fang Tiantian had everything: beautiful looks, excellent grades, a comfortable life, and being admired by everyone.
Xu Hui was also envious. What was the point of studying so hard?
She couldn't catch up with him in terms of appearance and family background, so she could only try her best in terms of academic performance.
However, reality gave her nothing but blows!
Fang Tiantian is easily the best in the school. She can easily get various certificates by attending cram schools, such as piano, dance, calligraphy... As long as she wants to learn, she can crush everyone and overshadow others.
Xu Hui works very hard, but the final result often makes her feel powerless. So, besides changing her mindset, what else can she do?
Let's admit it, some people are born with talent, while others often fall short.
In this situation, only by rationally suppressing desires, focusing on your own future rather than others, and learning to delay gratification can you live a good life.
During her growing up years, Xu Hui had many things that were not satisfied, and she had become accustomed to them. The stronger the desire, the more she had to suppress it. Otherwise, apart from a mental breakdown, what else could she do?
Now she knew that it was not that Fang Tiantian was so talented, but that she and the people around her were just cannon fodder and passers-by to set off Fang Tiantian, and they were not allowed to be more talented than her.
Even such an infuriating fact did not turn her into a dark and resentful person. This shows how strong her character had been tempered over the years.
It has been only five years since she traveled through time, and her mentality has not changed. In fact, under Wei Mubai's protection and indulgence, she is still the same as before and has not integrated into the values of the cultivation society at all.
Therefore, she still did not have the mentality of "the treasure should belong to me", but if she got it, it was her fate, and if she lost it, it was her luck.
So, if the evil spirit wanted to seduce her, it really chose the wrong person.
However, it grew fast enough and immediately realized that tempting a monk should be an unintentional, elusive opportunity.
That female cultivator was obviously not its chosen host, but merely a parasite.
I wonder who will be the next to be infected?
Xu Hui thought about it and decided that it might be an acquaintance!
After all, it looks down on people who lack luck. Xu Hui has more advantages than Wan Moxiao, and she was tempted by it, perhaps because of the merits she gained from killing the Tao Hun in the Abyss of the Demonic Sea.
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