BVAHEDLA[W Chapter 104

Chapter 104: Cultivation 5 “That child… let him live for another ten years…”

【For some unknown reason, the protagonist of the previous life did not follow the path arranged for him by the Heavenly Dao.】

【After breaking through to the Great Ascension stage, he destroyed the world.】

This was the system’s response to Chu Li-fei’s question.

When they were in the Abyss of Demons, Chu Li-fei had already broken the system free from the control of the Heavenly Dao, so the system wasn’t clear about details beyond what could be accessed through basic permissions.

At this time, it became a disadvantage.

However, one gains something only by losing something. Chu Li-fei had always been clear about this, so he wouldn’t feel regretful about it.

But why did Lu Mo-chen destroy the world?

Chu Li-fei didn’t understand.

He was chosen by the Heavenly Dao, favored by the Heavenly Dao, his enemies would be defeated before him, and the world would belong to him.

So why? In the storyline he didn’t know, what had Lu Mo-chen experienced?

But due to the lack of clues, no matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t come up with an answer, so Chu Li-fei simply put this question aside and looked at another point that caught his attention.

——The forbidden area in the back mountain.

In the storyline, Lu Mo-chen merely stumbled into it by mistake, and the Sect Leader and elders disregarded their past affections, and this happened shortly after Lu Mo-chen had made a contribution and had been thrown into the Abyss of Demons.

What exactly was hidden there?

What was the lost treasure?

And what exactly was the mysterious power that Lu Mo-chen absorbed?

These three questions swirled tightly in Chu Li-fei’s mind, and at the same time, a distant memory slowly appeared in Chu Li-fei’s mind.

Especially after hearing the storyline given by the system, a truth that he had never dared to believe before was about to emerge.

That was a rainy night.

Since Chu Li-fei entered the Wuji Sect, the forbidden area in the back mountain had been a taboo-like existence.

Everyone warned him not to break into it, and not to ask any questions about the forbidden area.

That day, he went back to Wu You-dao Ren’s cave because he had left something behind, but he accidentally heard the Wuji Sect Leader and Wu You-dao Ren talking about the back mountain.

Perhaps the heavy rain covered his footsteps, or perhaps the two were so engrossed in their conversation that they had no time to spare and ignored his presence.

Chu Li-fei heard a conversation about the forbidden area in the back mountain.

“He’s not going to make it.” This was Wu You-dao Ren’s voice.

Chu Li-fei didn’t know who the “he” here was, so he temporarily used “he” to refer to him.

“…How much longer?” This voice was somewhat unfamiliar to Chu Li-fei, but he seemed to have heard it when he became a disciple, so it should be the Sect Leader.

“If there is the Deep Sea Pearl, it can last for another ten years.” Wu You-dao Ren paused, “Otherwise, at most five years.”

The Deep Sea Pearl was a top-level spiritual treasure in the cultivation world, only found in the hands of the merfolk in the depths of the South Sea, and it had the effect of bringing the dead back to life and restoring flesh to bones. However, the relationship between the merfolk and the human race was not good, and obtaining a spiritual pearl from them was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Moreover, the deep sea was the merfolk’s home field, and their combat power was roughly equal to that of a human cultivator in the mid-Nascent Soul stage.

A long silence.

…

Chu Li-fei, who was standing at the door, had only entered the sect for two years at that time, and was only ten years old. The young him was standing at the door, struggling with whether or not to remind the Sect Leader and master of his presence.

His little hands were twisted together, circling around.

After a moment, he hesitantly raised his hand to knock on the door.

Just then, the next conversation between the two stopped his movements.

Wuji Sect Leader: “By the way, how is your disciple doing?”

“His talent and comprehension are excellent, I estimate… he will be able to establish his foundation this month.”

Chu Li-fei was very happy when he heard this, after all, his master always nitpicked at him when he saw him, and he thought his master disliked him.

Now it seemed that his master was just afraid that he would become proud and complacent, so he never praised him in front of him.

A smile bloomed on Chu Li-fei’s chubby little face, curving into a round arc.

He would definitely keep it in mind and work harder in his cultivation afterward.

Chu Li-fei continued to stand at the door and listen with some pride in his heart.

“Establishing the foundation in two years, truly terrifying. There hasn’t been such a good seedling in the sect for a hundred years, right?”

“Yes, it’s such a pity.”

Hearing this, even the young Chu Li-fei sensed something was wrong.

A pity?

Why a pity?

His talent was good, and his cultivation was fast, wasn’t it a good thing for the sect?

Then what were the Sect Leader and master regretting?

Little Chu Li-fei tilted his head.

“Such a small child, I can’t bear to see it.” Wuji Sect Leader made a final decision, “Send someone to find the Deep Sea Pearl.”

“That child… let him live for another ten years.”

Chu Li-fei’s smile instantly froze on his face, and he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

What did he hear?

Ten years…

Were they talking about him?

Chu Li-fei felt as if his heart was about to stop.

The candles in the room were burning quietly, reflecting the figures of the two people inside the door onto the carved wooden door. The huge black shadows became twisted and strange as the breeze blew, like man-eating demons.

He wanted to escape this terrifying place, but he couldn’t move, his legs were as heavy as if they were filled with lead, and he struggled with all his might to move only a little bit.

What to do…

What should he do…

Bean-sized beads of sweat slid down from his forehead, down his cheeks to his jaw, and then re-condensed into water droplets, hanging on his jawline, looking precarious.

“Drip—”

The sweat dripped on the ground, clearly mixed with the sound of rain, but it still sounded so clear.

“Who’s there?”

It was Wu You-dao Ren’s voice.

Chu Li-fei subconsciously held his breath, trying to reduce his sense of presence, but it was too late.

The black shadow shrank little by little, but changed from illusion to reality.

Wu You-dao Ren pushed the door open.

He was wearing a white robe, coming against the light, and the crisscrossing ravines on his face, and he looked down at Chu Li-fei from above.

He asked, “What did you hear?”

Chu Li-fei tried his best not to reveal any flaws, he opened his mouth, but found that his throat was as dry as if he had lost his voice.

He endured the pain as if a blade was scraping and said, “Nothing…”

“I didn’t hear anything…”

But these words did not dispel Wu You-dao Ren’s doubts.

His eagle-like eyes stared at Chu Li-fei as if he were staring at prey: “Get out, kneel.”

Wu You-dao Ren raised his chin and pointed to the center of the courtyard outside the cave, his eyes as cold as if he were looking at a stranger.

Chu Li-fei followed Wu You-dao Ren’s movements and looked back. The center of the courtyard was paved with hard stone slabs. He had practiced his sword on the stone slabs many times, but no sword energy could leave a trace on them, and the degree of hardness was evident.

Moreover, it was raining outside now…

The stone slabs were soaked by the rain, the color became darker, and there were small puddles, if he knelt on them…

But Chu Li-fei didn’t dare to resist, so he had to move his feet with difficulty and walk towards the center of the courtyard.

His knees hit the hard stone slabs, and the cold air drilled into his bones, but the bean-sized raindrops hitting him made him feel at ease.

He was still alive.

He developed a fever that night.

He woke up three days later.

Since then, his memory of that night had been hazy, vaguely remembering that he seemed to have caught a fever and fainted because he had been caught in the rain on the way back.

But he had already learned the Water Avoidance Technique, so how could he be caught in the rain?

But later, whenever he wanted to recall what happened that night, he always felt as if there was a thick fog, and he couldn’t see clearly, until this time when he remembered again.

In this case, all the doubts now fall on the forbidden area in the back mountain.

In this life, he must go to the forbidden area to see what’s going on.

As for the “treasure” in the forbidden area in the back mountain, Chu Li-fei already had a rough guess in his mind.

It was estimated that it was not a thing—

But a person.

Through the conversations of the Wuji Sect Leader and Wu You-dao Ren in his previous life, and the storyline of Lu Mo-chen given by the system, he learned that both of them were candidates for the treasure.

In that case, the treasure in the forbidden area should mostly be a person.

And Chu Li-fei also thought of the two clues: “the treasure released energy and was absorbed by Lu Mo-chen” and “Wu You-dao Ren knew a kind of evil technique that could use cultivators as containers to seize their cultivation.”

It seemed that everything was colluding.

I’m afraid that the forbidden area in the back mountain of the Wuji Sect was using this or a similar evil technique to use cultivators as containers…

That was why a large amount of energy erupted when Lu Mo-chen accidentally broke into the forbidden area. As for why this energy was absorbed by Lu Mo-chen, Chu Li-fei had no clue for the time being. He didn’t know if the other party triggered some mechanism, or met some requirement, or because Lu Mo-chen was the protagonist appointed by the Heavenly Dao, so he got all the benefits?

Chu Li-fei thought: he still had to make complete preparations.

Now that he wasn’t dead, he was naturally the first candidate to inherit the “treasure,” and the ten years that the Wuji Sect Leader and Wu You-dao Ren mentioned back then…

He was ten years old that year, and now he was eighteen.

There were still two years left.

His current cultivation was in the late Nascent Soul stage, so he still had to cultivate to the Transformation God stage as soon as possible.

But in the end, these were just his guesses, and he still had to go to the forbidden area in the back mountain to see for himself whether they were true or false.

But increasing his own strength was always not a problem.

So Chu Li-fei immediately applied to go out for training, and when Wu You-dao Ren asked about the reason, Chu Li-fei said:

“Disciple feels that his cultivation has entered a bottleneck period and wants to go down the mountain to find an opportunity to break through.”

When they reached the Golden Core stage, cultivators already had a weak connection with the laws of heaven and earth, so the “feeling” they spoke of at this time was no longer a simple feeling, but the guidance of the laws of heaven and earth for cultivators.

So Wu You-dao Ren agreed after a moment of deliberation.

When he left the sect, Chu Li-fei was followed by a little tail.

He didn’t know until he went down the mountain that Lu Mo-chen had also applied to go down the mountain for training and insisted on pestering him, and the important thing was that Wu You-dao Ren actually agreed.

What did he agree to!

Chu Li-fei was furious.

Lu Mo-chen, this guy who had just refined Qi, could going down the mountain be called training?

And he still had to take care of him, did he look like a nanny?

Chu, who had raised many junior brothers and sisters, Li, who was both a father and a mother, Fei: clenched his fists.

A year later, Chu Li-fei successfully broke through to the Transformation God stage, and he spent another half a year to stabilize his realm before returning to the Wuji Sect.

It had to be said that Lu Mo-chen was a bit useful.

With Lu Mo-chen by his side, opportunities came one after another, as if they didn’t cost money, this was probably the favor of the Heavenly Dao.

But—

Just as Lu Mo-chen was about to step into a trap, Chu Li-fei picked him up.

emmm, danger and opportunity coexist, he could understand.

However, he only wanted opportunities now, not danger.

As for the guy who was rescued and climbed all over him, it was hard to say whether he was a new danger.

Chu Li-fei made a “Tsk” sound.