"Kill."
As this thought surfaced, Killing Intent filled Li Tianwei's eyes.
Especially after hearing Bai Muxu's words and learning for certain that cultivators killed for treasures, killed to refine artifacts, and regarded all living things beneath heaven as ants.
Li Tianwei had not felt much about it before. After all, that was how the novels he had read described things.
He had never experienced it himself, so it had seemed irrelevant.
But at the moment when he cultivated in the cave abode and comprehended the Death-Grievance Dao Intent, he experienced it firsthand. Blood relatives dying, himself suffering countless torments—amid all those strange, tearing sensations, Li Tianwei's mindset changed.
It could be said that all things beneath heaven raised countless cultivators, yet cultivators gave nothing back in return.
"Kill, kill..."
If he had been someone of this world, he probably would not have regarded those countless ordinary people as people at all. From the moment he began cultivating, he would naturally have drawn a line between himself and mortals.
But Li Tianwei's way of thinking was abnormal, and he was someone from the modern world. He would thoroughly put himself in the shoes of the most ordinary people.
Thus, in his eyes, the ugliness of cultivators was directed entirely at him, so he wanted to kill.
His resolve became incomparably firm. He had crossed over not merely to eliminate Evil Demons, but to utterly overturn all this ugliness.
Dense Killing Intent and conviction continuously surged from Li Tianwei's body.
Scarlet blood qi descended around him. Li Tianwei, who had been listening attentively, had already begun to change.
Bai Muxu sensed that dense Killing Intent, along with the various auras rising from Li Tianwei's body.
"This is..."
Bai Muxu's expression immediately changed. Thinking something had happened to Li Tianwei, he swept him with his divine sense.
A murderous aura rose from Li Tianwei's body, as though mountains of corpses and seas of blood were surging forth, like a sharp blade pressed against one's throat.
"Dao Intent—Killing Dao Intent."
Sensing that familiar Dao Intent, Bai Muxu immediately recognized it.
After all, he had once fought a demonic cultivator who had comprehended Killing Dao Intent. In order to comprehend it, that man had massacred millions, only grasping the Dao Intent of killing through ceaseless slaughter.
That demonic cultivator had also been the only cultivator Bai Muxu had encountered who could fight him at the same realm.
And now, merely from Bai Muxu's words, Li Tianwei had begun comprehending an entirely new Dao Intent.
At that thought, Bai Muxu could not help swallowing. For a moment, he did not know whether he had taught well—or whether Li Tianwei was simply too monstrous.
"But I was teaching him to be cautious, to recognize the darkness of the Cultivation World. How did it turn into helping him comprehend Dao Intent? And Killing Intent at that."
Bai Muxu was utterly baffled, but his hands did not delay in the slightest as he cast a spell to conceal the disturbance for him.
Meanwhile, the system inside Li Tianwei's mind watched as Li Tianwei continuously imagined within his consciousness how he would overturn everything and slaughter the entire Cultivation World.
Under such childish delusions and constant self-hypnosis, he truly came to believe that he had endured everything within mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
It was just like when he tested his spirit root and kept hypnotizing himself into believing he possessed a Heavenly Spirit Root.
Shameless.
Knowing Li Tianwei's arrogance and self-indulgent fantasies, the system still had to praise him for taking it this far. His skin was truly thick.
At this moment, the system finally understood why chuunibyou was a sickness. Being so idealistic that one could even deceive oneself was also a kind of ability.
As for Li Tianwei, he had no idea what the system was babbling about.
In any case, he had only one thought now: he had comprehended something again. That was right, again.
"Sure enough, I crossed over to change all of this."
"Kill. Only killing can stop it."
Relying solely on imagination, without killing a single person, Li Tianwei comprehended an entirely new Dao Intent through his intensely idealistic self-hypnosis.
"Kill."
Li Tianwei abruptly opened his eyes. Endless Killing Intent spilled from those black pupils, making Bai Muxu's heart tremble.
At that moment, Bai Muxu believed Li Tianwei had fallen to demonic corruption and was just about to help him suppress the demons in his heart.
Before he could act, the Killing Intent and aura in Li Tianwei's eyes completely dissipated.
Where was there any Killing Intent left? It was as though everything before had been an illusion. The dense Killing Intent in Li Tianwei's eyes vanished in an instant, returning to its former purity.
Seeing Li Tianwei suppress the Killing Intent in his heart in an instant rather than being coerced by the Killing Dao Intent,
Bai Muxu could not help nodding lightly. He secretly thought that he had taken in an extraordinary disciple. It seemed Li Tianwei possessed the heart of a child.
If the system in Li Tianwei's mind knew what Bai Muxu was thinking, it would probably want to spit in his face.
Li Tianwei, a child's heart? A child's stone heart more like it. Shameless bastard.
"Thank you for your guidance, Master."
Looking at Bai Muxu before him and recalling the feeling from earlier, Li Tianwei could not help thanking him.
In his eyes, he had taken a rather good master—at least one who could help him comprehend Dao Intent.
Master and disciple each had their own thoughts.
Li Tianwei did feel that the Dao Intents he had comprehended were rather strange: death, grievance, and killing.
But after thinking it over carefully, Li Tianwei understood. Death-grievance came from the thoughts of Sentient Beings within heaven and earth, filled with death and sorrowful resentment. As for killing, it came from his steadfast Dao Heart to reverse everything.
Li Tianwei believed there was not much wrong with his interpretation. After all, ever since elementary school, he had always received full marks on reading comprehension in Chinese class.
Bullshit.
At this moment, the system had finally reached the limit of its endurance. Li Tianwei's thoughts were truly suffocating it.
The system simply could not imagine that someone like Li Tianwei existed in this world. Yet this person happened to be its host, and it could do nothing about him.
Li Tianwei had long since blocked the system out, so he could not hear its voice at all.
When Bai Muxu heard Li Tianwei say this, he too looked bewildered. He had no idea where exactly he had guided him.
He had clearly only explained the cruelty of the Cultivation World.
"Ahem. Being able to comprehend Dao Intent is due to your extraordinary talent and aptitude."
Even so, Bai Muxu did not reveal the slightest hint of it. He gave a light cough, then nodded gently, wearing an inscrutable expression.
Hearing Bai Muxu say that, Li Tianwei was extremely satisfied. Unlike the Book Spirit and the system, Bai Muxu could recognize his aptitude.
As expected of the strongest elder of Lingxu Sacred Land.
"I'll first conceal the Dao Intent on your body."
"As I told you, the Cultivation World is dark at present. With your aptitude, you will certainly draw the envy of other forces. They may even refine you."
Bai Muxu swept Li Tianwei with his divine sense. Sensing traces of three Dao Intents on his body, he immediately spoke.
"I'll trouble you, Master."
Li Tianwei nodded lightly.
Bai Muxu immediately began to act.
A phantom appeared behind Bai Muxu, radiating golden light from head to toe. It resembled an enlarged Bai Muxu, yet the divinity upon that phantom made others dare not look directly at it.
It was filled with a vast and boundless aura.
Then, the phantom formed a hand seal.
A stream of light pierced heaven and earth as countless dharma inscriptions swirled around it.
"Heaven and earth, conceal the aura. Divine Ability, Slow Heaven..."
Bai Muxu chanted an incantation. Countless dharma spells transformed into streams of light and poured into Li Tianwei's body in an instant.