"Cornered, cunning human."
"I won't give you any more chances."
The emaciated Antlered Demon spoke in a bone-chilling tone, enraged to the absolute extreme.
He was originally the very first plum-blossom deer born between heaven and earth.
His natural foundation wasn't bad, to begin with.
Yet, he had ultimately been a step too late.
He did not belong to the first batch of Innate Lifeforms.
As long as one was not among the first batch of Innate Lifeforms, subsequent destinies naturally would not be too favorable.
He happened to be that unlucky soul.
He was encountered by Daoist Burning Lamp, who was still Daoist Burning Lamp back then.
And so,
he began a career of three hundred and sixty-five days of endless clock-punching labor.
He was responsible for serving as Daoist Burning Lamp's mount.
Initially, he hadn't resisted this treatment all that much.
Because Daoist Burning Lamp was truly formidable.
Following him seemed to promise a bright future.
Only,
during the Investiture of the Gods,
he accompanied Daoist Burning Lamp to challenge Zhao Gongming.
During the battle, he was struck down on the spot when Zhao Gongming wielded the magical treasure, the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors.
Though he was later saved by the Spirit Lantern.
However...
His path forward was basically severed.
What the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors had sliced apart was his foundation and aptitude as an Innate Lifeform.
The Spirit Lantern merely saved his soul.
Reduced to nothing more than a soul, he could only specialize in the path of ghostly cultivation.
Yet,
no matter the cultivation method in heaven and earth,
every single one of them required a foundation.
Without the foundation of an Innate Lifeform, no matter how many years he cultivated, his upper limit was permanently locked away.
It could be said that
the plum-blossom