After hearing this news, a look of shock appeared on your face. You had never expected spiritual energy to be able to suppress Sinister Worms.
At that moment, you suddenly realized that this indirectly proved there was something wrong with the spiritual energy in the Canglan Realm!
Ye Chuxue continued, "So that senior suspected that the spiritual energy of the entire Canglan Realm had developed a problem and been infected by something unknown."
"Later, that senior discovered that the ruins had been left behind from the Ancient Era, which was already a hundred thousand years ago."
"Based on later discoveries within the ruins, he learned that the spiritual energy there was the Canglan Realm's original spiritual energy, while the spiritual energy we cultivate now is the product of contamination!"
"Even now, as long as we enter the ruins during a breakthrough and use its spiritual energy to suppress the Alien Insects within our bodies, we can remain conscious!"
Hearing this, you were somewhat puzzled as to why Ye Chuxue had suffered such grave injuries and why she had not gone into the ruins to recover.
Ye Chuxue seemed to see through the question in your eyes and continued explaining.
"I know what you want to ask. You're wondering why I was still injured when I could clearly go to the ruins."
"First, the spiritual energy reserves in the ruins are limited. Only cultivators with high cultivation have the right to enter and use them."
"If everyone could use it, the spiritual energy inside would have dried up long ago after all these years."
By then, you had completely understood the whole story, and you asked the final question in your heart.
"Where are those ruins?"
Ye Chuxue did not hide anything and told you directly.
"The ruins are within Sky Abyss, the Forbidden Zone between Green Prefecture and You Prefecture!"
Sky Abyss! You silently committed that place to memory.
Although you had been in the Cultivation World for many years, you had never properly learned about the Canglan Realm. You only knew that the Canglan Realm was divided into the Five Continents, and that you were currently in Green Prefecture.
After leaving Ye Chuxue's Cave Mansion, your mood was clearly terrible.
From your conversation with her just now, you had completely understood the truth of this Cultivation World.
In your eyes, what kind of Cultivation World was this? It was simply hell, filled with monsters that devoured people everywhere.
More importantly, when you asked her how you could safely break through to Foundation Establishment, Ye Chuxue had actually advised you to give up that idea.
She told you that your talent was too poor. During a breakthrough, you would be unable to detect the existence of the Sinister Worms. Only those with exceptionally high talent or an Innate Divine Body could sense them.
It was precisely because Ye Chuxue possessed the Taiyin Body that she could detect the Sinister Worm's Body Seizure, ultimately using the Extreme Yin Power of the full-moon night to suppress the Sinister Worm within her body.
For a moment, you found it difficult to accept such a fact, so you decided to begin with alchemy.
In your view, since the Sinister Worm would devour your soul, perhaps you could enhance your Soul Power through alchemy. Once your Soul Power became strong enough, there might still be a sliver of hope in breaking through.
The next day, you went to the Academy as usual. You stepped forward to greet Ye Chuxue, only to find that she completely ignored you, as though you were strangers.
At that moment, the man who had targeted you last time once again walked up before you. Looking down at you from above, he began threatening you.
"Kid! I remember warning you last time to stay away from Ye Chuxue. You dare lay your hands on a woman Young Master Bai has taken a fancy to?"
Seeing that he had come with ill intent, and that Ye Chuxue clearly did not wish to acknowledge you in such a setting, you turned and left.
Not long after you left, Liu Hao stared viciously at your departing back and beckoned to several people beside him.
That night, while cultivating, you sensed several auras approaching your Cave Mansion. You guessed they were most likely Liu Hao and his group.
You walked out of the Cave Mansion and said calmly, "Since you're already here, stop skulking around!"
Liu Hao emerged from the shadows. "Kid, you dared lay your hands on Ye Chuxue. You've already chosen the path to death. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for provoking someone you can't afford to provoke."
The moment his words fell, Liu Hao raised a finger and fired a strand of Sword Qi at you.
You immediately struck back, feigned an injury and staggered backward, then turned and ran.
A Qi Refining Stage cultivator had absolutely no chance against someone at Foundation Establishment. Even if you were proficient in every kind of spell, the gap in realm was simply too vast!
After realizing he had been played by you, Liu Hao flew into a rage and led two people in a relentless pursuit.
Before coming here, Liu Hao had investigated your background. You had no father or mother, and had recently been accepted as a disciple by Mo Chen, an elder of the Alchemy Hall.
At that moment, a familiar voice sounded in your mind.
"Come to the Back Mountain!"
Upon hearing that voice, you immediately sprinted toward the Back Mountain without hesitation!
When Liu Hao and the others saw you suddenly change direction and run toward the Back Mountain, they began mocking you from behind.
"Trash! Do you know you can't escape, so you're starting to find yourself a grave?"
Soon, you led Liu Hao and the other two to the place where you had met Ye Chuxue yesterday. Yet after arriving, you could not see where she was.
Before long, Liu Hao caught up to you and looked at you with a teasing expression.
"Trash, don't worry. I'll make this quick!"
However, just as Liu Hao finished speaking, he heard a sound behind him. When he turned around, he discovered that the two people who had followed him had somehow already fallen in pools of blood.
"Who's there?"
Only then did Liu Hao realize that he had fallen into your trap.
"Trash, you dare kill me? You should know I'm Young Master Bai's man! Young Master Bai is a core disciple of our Azure Cloud Sect. If you kill me, Young Master Bai will never let you go!"
You did not care about such a threat in the slightest. Forget that so-called Young Master Bai—even the entire Azure Cloud Sect, you would kill them all.
In your eyes, they were no longer human. They were hosts parasitized by Sinister Worms!
You had never wanted to change this world of despair, but since this world blocked your path of cultivation, you would stab a hole straight through it!
Liu Hao suddenly sensed killing intent behind him. He turned to counterattack, only to find a familiar figure appear before his eyes.
"Ye... Chuxue?"
At that moment, Ye Chuxue sealed his throat with a single sword strike. Liu Hao fell into a pool of blood, staring at Ye Chuxue's face with despair-filled eyes.
Until his death, he could not understand why Ye Chuxue had appeared in this place, why she had come to kill him, or why she was walking together with trash like you.
Soon, Liu Hao lay on the ground, his life extinguished. Ye Chuxue walked to your side and spoke coldly.
"Try not to speak to me during the day. If anything comes up, come to my Cave Mansion at night."
After saying that, Ye Chuxue turned and left without looking back.
As you watched her departing figure, you suddenly felt somewhat awkward, unsure whether you should go to her Cave Mansion and ask the questions in your heart.
After thinking it over, you decided to abandon the idea. In your view, your guess was most likely correct.
Over the course of that year, you constantly refined pills, and your alchemy skills rose at a breathtaking pace.
This made Elder Mo Chen look at you in a new light. He even spared no expense in giving you all kinds of Spiritual Herbs that nourished spiritual power.
"Su Ming! These are treasures your master has cherished for many years. Today, I'm giving them to you in hopes that you'll soon break through to become a Second-grade Alchemist!"
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