The Despairing Truth!

["The moment you reach Foundation Establishment, if you have not awakened, you will be directly subjected to Body Seizure. Your soul will scatter, and an Alien Insect will occupy your body!"]

[After hearing Ye Chuxue's explanation, you could hardly believe any of it.]

[This Cultivation World was completely different from what you had imagined. It was a thoroughly twisted Cultivation World, and human cultivation was nothing more than a colossal scam.]

[Amid your shock, you asked, "Why didn't you die when you broke through to Foundation Establishment? And what exactly is this so-called awakening?"]

[Knowing that you, who had awakened during the Qi Refining Stage, knew almost nothing, Ye Chuxue simply took you back to her Cave Mansion.]

[Upon entering the Cave Mansion, you sensed the dense spiritual energy within it, and your eyes immediately filled with envy.]

[Noticing your reaction, Ye Chuxue calmly said, "You don't need to envy it. The spiritual energy of the present-day Canglan Realm is poison to people like us, the so-called Demonic Cultivators!"]

[You were deeply puzzled by this explanation. How could perfectly good spiritual energy become poison?]

[After setting up an array to isolate the entire Cave Mansion, Ye Chuxue began explaining the whole story.]

[Since ancient times, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth in the Canglan Realm seemed to have undergone some unknown change.]

[Back then, the Canglan Realm still had many demonic factions. Righteous sects and Devil Dao Sects were evenly matched, neither able to do anything to the other.]

[Gradually, near the end of the ancient era, a Supreme suddenly began slaughtering people across the Canglan Realm!]

[And that Supreme killed only cultivators above the Qi Refining Stage in every sect, leaving behind words that made everyone unable to understand what had happened.]

["What words did he leave behind?" Hearing this, you asked Ye Chuxue curiously.]

[That Supreme had said: This world is false. Never reach Foundation Establishment!]

[But at the time, all the sect disciples believed that this Supreme had gone astray while breaking through a realm, which was what had caused the massacre.]

[It was then that the sects of the Five Continents—the Qingzhou, Youzhou, Xuanzhou, Huangzhou, and the strongest of them all, Zhongzhou—sent out their Supreme experts to join forces and suppress that Supreme.]

[Yet that Supreme exceeded everyone's expectations, killing the other Supreme experts who had come to besiege him one after another.]

[From then on, every force in the Canglan Realm began to unite. Whether righteous or demonic, they joined hands, and only after losing around ninety percent of their Supremes did they finally manage to kill him!]

[Later, people called that Supreme expert the Chaos Devil Heavenly Venerate!]

[It was also the Chaos Devil Heavenly Venerate's actions that brought unprecedented changes to the state of the Canglan Realm, completely ending the ancient era.]

[From then on, fewer than one in ten Supreme experts remained in the Canglan Realm, and its overall strength suffered a severe decline!]

[Over the next several thousand years, cultivators like the Chaos Devil Heavenly Venerate appeared one after another, all speaking strange and inexplicable words.]

[From then on, the Canglan Realm officially classified such cultivators who had gone astray as Demonic Cultivators, while the original Demonic Cultivators became normal righteous cultivators.]

[At this point, Ye Chuxue's emotions began to stir. She shouted at the top of her lungs.]

["Why do you think we are called Demonic Cultivators? We are merely the first clear-minded people to discover the Insect Eggs!!!"]

[Looking at Ye Chuxue's savage expression, you felt somewhat surprised. You had not expected her reaction to be so intense.]

[You asked her, "So you still haven't explained why spiritual energy is poison to us now?"]

[After calming herself, Ye Chuxue continued her explanation.]

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["When Awakened Ones like us break through to Foundation Establishment, we rely on our own will to forcibly suppress the Insect Eggs inside our bodies, temporarily preventing them from seizing our bodies."]

["But this only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. As long as you continue cultivating with spiritual energy, the stronger you become, the stronger the Alien Insect inside you will become!"]

[You found it difficult to accept such a fact. If what Ye Chuxue said was true, then the path of cultivation in this world was a dead end!]

"Truly a false world!"

After seeing what Ye Chuxue said in the Simulator, Su Ming finally understood why he had died every time he broke through to Foundation Establishment before.

He could also understand why the Chaos Devil Heavenly Venerate had declared that this world was false, fallen into despair, and begun indiscriminately slaughtering cultivators above the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Those cultivators who looked like ordinary people on the surface were, in truth, nothing but shells parasitized by Alien Insects.

Thinking of this, Su Ming turned his gaze back to the Simulator. He wanted to find a way to break through to Foundation Establishment without dying.

[After learning such a despairing truth, you said to Ye Chuxue.]

["So in the end, none of us can escape the fate of being subjected to Body Seizure by Alien Insects?"]

[Hearing this, Ye Chuxue nodded, then immediately shook her head.]

[You did not understand. She had nodded and shaken her head—what exactly did that mean?]

[At that moment, Ye Chuxue said, "If the earliest batch of Awakened Ones faced this situation, then indeed, they could not change the final outcome."]

["Like the Chaos Devil Heavenly Venerate, they could only launch attacks against the Canglan Realm's high-level combat forces at the final moment of their lives, while they still retained their sanity."]

[At this point, Ye Chuxue looked at you and asked.]

["Do you know why, ever since the ancient era, whenever Awakened Ones like us reveal ourselves before the world, we always slaughter cultivators?"]

[You shook your head to show that you did not know.]

["It is because those senior experts sought to win more time for the Awakened Ones of later generations."]

["Only by continuously killing these Sinister Worms did we gain the somewhat peaceful lives we have today."]

["Although we are still despised by the Canglan Realm, things are far better than during that dark age after the Chaos Devil Heavenly Venerate's death."]

["After the Chaos Devil Heavenly Venerate died, the upper echelons of the major sects finally realized that a few powerful humans had suppressed their Body Seizure."]

["To prevent another Chaos Devil Heavenly Venerate from appearing, all the sects across the Five Continents joined forces to launch demon-extermination campaigns!"]

[After learning the full story, you could not help asking, "So what is the situation now? Has a new turning point appeared?"]

[Ye Chuxue nodded and admitted, "That's right! A turning point has appeared!"]

["Two thousand years ago, someone among us Demonic Cultivators discovered a sealed Ancient Ruins. That ruin contained vast amounts of spiritual energy."]

[At this point, Ye Chuxue gave you a mysterious smile and continued.]

["Do you know what the spiritual energy there is like?"]

[You shook your head, indicating that you did not know.]

["The spiritual energy there is more comfortable than anything ever known. What astonished that senior even more was that cultivating with the spiritual energy inside the ruins could actually suppress the Sinister Worms within one's body!"]