Betrayal

Sometimes even Ning Ye felt that his way of doing things was far too complicated.

For a single trial of the Heavenly Dao, Ning Ye could be said to have exhausted every conceivable method.

The secret realm affair was the first step, Jiang Xiaofan the second. After that, there would be a third and a fourth.

Breaking one superlatively difficult problem into countless small ones, then solving them one by one—this was precisely what Ning Ye excelled at.

It was only that since his rebirth, he had relied on his talent and potential to charge ahead unimpeded, and had rarely encountered a situation like this.

Now, this counted as him taking up his old trade once more.

Naturally, once it succeeded, the harvest would surely be abundant.

From that day onward, aside from cultivating himself, Ning Ye devoted all his attention to nurturing Jiang Xiaofan.

The cultivators of Aurora Island gained another task as well: capturing demonic beasts everywhere, extracting their Primordial Spirits, and supplying them for Jiang Xiaofan's cultivation.

Jiang Xiaofan's spirit-communing body was like a battlefield of souls, enduring countless battles for the soul every day.

When it came to experience in such battles for the soul, perhaps no one was more adept than Jiang Xiaofan.

Time passed swiftly like this. All the Heaven Silkworm cultivators went into hiding and devoted themselves to arduous cultivation. As time went on, many of them received news of the encounter with Seven Nights and learned that the main body had run into grave difficulties, driving them to work even harder.

Though Ning Ye had never said so, everyone seemed to realize that the key to breaking the deadlock in this challenge might lie here.

It was a matter of hearts understanding each other without words.

And after learning that Ning Ye