Chapter 12 Cultivators
There were once nine provinces, with myriad races scattered throughout them. These beings of myriad races relied heavily on their bloodline talents when cultivating.
When their cultivation level is low, their strength is actually unpredictable. After all, you can't expect a rabbit that has just gained some intelligence and is only slightly smarter to kill a maned wolf that is still a mortal beast.
Therefore, the prerequisite for all living beings to cultivate is to gain wisdom.
Although those unintelligent beings occasionally follow their instincts, absorb spiritual energy, and learn some techniques from their bloodline, these beings act entirely on instinct and their strength is not very high.
However, sentient beings are often able to activate their racial bloodline talents, like Ji Zhuang.
Once they gained spiritual insight and could speak, most of these cultivators from various races were willing to call themselves spiritual cultivators and address each other as fellow Daoists.
However, now that the divine path is strong and all races are weak, the great gods are too lazy to classify these creatures of the lower realm. They only slightly defined their cultivation levels in the ancient era and then collectively called them the demon race.
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In the days that followed, Ji Rong and Ji Zhuang studied under Huang Pinjie.
Huang Pinjie not only taught them to absorb the spiritual energy imbued with vitality in the morning light to temper their bodies, but also popularized basic common sense in them.
Through her studies, Ji Rong learned that once living beings gain intelligence, consuming more spiritual delicacies will allow most of them to naturally reach the Spiritual Realm.
Above the Spirit Realm are the Illusion Realm, the Dissolution Realm, the Mortal Demon Realm, the Profound Spirit Realm, and the Demon Venerable, Demon King, Demon Emperor, and Demon Saint.
There might be even higher levels, but Huang Pinjie didn't know.
Starting from the Profound Spirit Realm, these cultivators can undergo the baptism of heaven and earth to transform into a celestial body that retains their own advantages, which can be considered a true transformation from mortal to immortality, and can be called a great cultivator.
When these cultivators at the Profound Spirit Realm and above fight each other, even if they are restrained by their race, they can transform into celestial beings and use their supernatural powers to control and escape, thus achieving immortality.
Huang Pinjie possesses the body of a five-tailed beast and is at the Profound Spirit Realm. She has cultivated from a wild beast to this level, which is already considered to be exceptionally talented, one in ten thousand.
However, Huang Pinjie's injuries were severe, and she was no longer able to transform into a celestial body, which required strict control over magical power.
However, she possesses the body of a five-tailed fox and is proficient in several techniques of the Fire Fox Clan. If she were to engage in a life-or-death battle, she would still be terrifying to those of the same realm.
After a living being gains intelligence, it will automatically absorb the vital energy of heaven and earth, tempering its muscles and bones, guided by its bloodline. If it has a predecessor to guide it, it will be incomparable to the state before it gains intelligence.
Therefore, this difference was quickly reflected in Ji Rong and Ji Zhuang. During this period, Ji Zhuang grew very fast, his muscles bulging; his feather color remained unchanged, but the stiffness of his fur had increased.
The confusion in his eyes gradually faded. Although he still couldn't speak, he began to pay attention to the conversations of the other beasts, and seemed to understand them more and more.
Ji Rong's situation was quite unique. A year passed, and Ji Rong tried to imitate the method of absorbing and exhaling spiritual energy, but she still couldn't grasp the essence.
Her mind was clearer, but her body had not been tempered in any way.
She knew she had no talent, but she remained calm and focused, and never slacked off.
Huang Pinjie felt something was wrong. She couldn't understand why Ji Rong, who had followed the steps meticulously, didn't demonstrate the common Qi-absorbing technique used by the demon race.
Thinking of Ji Rong's strange behavior, Huang Pinjie decided to use the illusion technique "Bewitching Mind" to bewitch Ji Rong and enter her mental illusion to find the reason.
"Bewitching the Mind" is an advanced illusion technique used against enemies. The target will be drawn into the things they care about most by the caster, so those targets often become addicted to the illusion and cannot escape.
To escape, the victim must either recognize the illusion and let go of their obsession, or the caster must carefully manipulate and guide them through the illusion.
During this process, the practitioner cannot forcibly pull the subject out, otherwise the subject is likely to suffer damage to their soul and become mentally impaired.
Originally, one should not disclose the use of this technique to the other party, but after thinking for a while, Huang Pinjie decided to tell Ji Rong about the drawbacks of this technique.
After listening for a moment, Ji Rong whispered in Huang Pinjie's ear, "Aunt Huang, if I become obsessed, just tell me I'm dreaming."
If I still don't wake up after you say it a few more times, then hit me. Just don't kill me, and I'll eventually wake up.
Huang Pinjie's eyes lit up, "...It can be solved like this?"
The next day, Huang Pinjie gave Ji Zhuang a day off so that he could perform the technique on Ji Rong in a quiet room.
As soon as Huang Pinjie entered Ji Rong's inner world of illusion, she knew where the problem lay.
Ji Rong was not lying. It was true that she was a "person" in her previous life, but this "person" was definitely not like those ugly monkeys in Hezhou who covered themselves with leaves and had hunched backs.
She had long, slender hands and feet, a straight back, distinct nails, and fair skin, resembling an ancient deity, and was very similar to the Celestial Race.
The godlike Ji Rong stood upright like a colorful rooster, her mouth wide open, swallowing and exhaling at the illusory heaven and earth. The scene was utterly insane.
Having figured out the problem, Huang Pinjie was about to leave; with a thought, he transformed into a celestial being and said to Ji Rong, "Little brat, are you dreaming again?"
"Dreaming?" Looking at the ethereal beauty before her, Ji Rong thought to herself, "I'm really diligent; even a god-like figure is attracted to me."
Huang Pinjie carefully observed her expression and said, "Wake up quickly, your mother Ji Er is calling you."
"Oh, but who is Ji Er?"
"It looks like a chicken?"
"But...it seems...no! There should be a gentle hand holding my little self all the time."
Ji Rong was confused. She suddenly didn't understand why she was there, and she couldn't remember many things.
Huang Pinjie looked at Ji Rong, who was in a daze, and was at a loss. She had only used this move to subdue enemies in the past, and had no experience in using it to draw the opponent's attention.
So Huang Pinjie immediately obeyed and started hitting Ji Rong, saying as she did so, "You're dreaming, you're dreaming. You won't have to be hit when you wake up."
Thus, Ji Rong entered a cycle of being beaten dozens of times, escaping only to be caught and beaten again. Her thoughts shifted from constantly hoping it was all a dream to being certain that it was a dream.
"Yes, this is a dream. I want to wake up, I want to wake up..."
What should we do when we wake up?
"You must open your eyes when you wake up."
"Open your eyes! I need to open my eyes! Open your eyes quickly!"
Ji Rong's eyelids felt incredibly heavy, but through repeated trials of her will, she finally opened her eyes.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she found that the fur on her body was soaked with water. She immediately hugged Huang Pinjie next to her and cried, "Waaah, Auntie, I had a nightmare. A woman almost beat me to death. If I don't open my eyes, I'll be beaten to death."
"..." The woman who was being held and was about to kill her...
After carefully examining Ji Rong's physical condition, Huang Pinjie found that Ji Rong really seemed to have had a nightmare; apart from being mentally exhausted, she was not injured at all.
We're going to get rich!
Huang Pinjie let Ji Rong hold her, thinking to herself that this method of breaking the "bewitching mind" technique was unheard of before. Should she take it back to the Fire Fox Clan to exchange for resources, or sell it to the Chishu Clan, which had always been oppressed, or the Red Hare Clan?
The Fire Fox Clan's rivals, the "hao" Wolf Clan and the White Tiger Clan, are also worth considering.
"What if I sell them all?" Huang Pinjie couldn't help but think; so Huang Pinjie sent Ji Rong home and called Ji Er over to discuss it.
After listening, Ji Er looked at Huang Pinjie with pity and said, "Sister, I'm afraid we don't have the life to spend all this treasure."
"I don't have many days left to live, but I'm not afraid!"
"But by then, not only you, but I'm afraid all the children will be beaten into mincemeat by various tribes."
Upon hearing this, Huang Pinjie immediately felt the enormous treasure in her hands slip away. She cried out in anguish, saying bitterly, "You worthless little chick, if it weren't for you, I would have been rich."
Ji Er wasn't going to tolerate her. She sneered, "Hmph, if you're so capable, then don't pick me up."
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