I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 541 Awakening from the Dream (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Two months later, near Black Point Island.

The sea breeze caressed Ji Ning's face, and the sound of waves crashing against the rocks, along with a sharp ringing in his ears, filled his mind.

She raised her hand to shield her eyes from the blinding sunlight, slowly opened them, her consciousness still immersed in the glory of being a genius talisman master, revered by all.

"senior……"

Ji Ning murmured unconsciously. She remembered that she was only one step away from becoming a Nascent Soul cultivator. She had made a name for herself in the Floating Light Sea. With each stroke of her talisman brush, all kinds of laws followed her. How spirited she was!

She was finally qualified to return to that small island and pay homage to the white-robed senior who had changed her life...

The moment the thought crossed Ji Ning's mind, a tearing pain shot through his heart, and his body felt heavy and weak.

She sat up and habitually spread her divine sense to explore her surroundings, when suddenly a sharp pain shot through her head.

Ji Ning frowned in pain, his spiritual sense range was tightly compressed to a few feet around him, and he was as weak as a candle in the wind.

What terrified her even more was that the once surging magical power within her body... had all vanished!

"Early stage of Golden Core? This is impossible! This...?!"

Ji Ning suddenly looked down at his hands, which were no longer the hands that held a pen all year round, but hands covered with old wounds and dirt, the hands of a low-level rogue cultivator struggling to survive.

The more dazzling the dream, the more bleak and cruel the reality at this moment.

Ji Ning, the genius talisman cultivator who achieved a top-grade golden core at the age of one hundred in his dream, received meticulous guidance from his seniors, roamed the seas with the "Mysterious Ink Scripture," and was revered and followed by countless people...

is fake!
It's all a pipe dream!

In reality, she was just a rogue cultivator with blood on her hands, struggling to survive like a rat in a sewer at the bottom of the Floating Light Sea, living a precarious life with no dignity whatsoever.

She didn't have that enviable destiny to become an immortal, she wasn't taken away from the fishing village by an immortal master when she was young, and she didn't have those decades of peaceful cultivation and profound accumulation.

All that remains is the humiliation of being betrayed by one's closest relatives, the torment of endless suffering, the insane revenge with hands covered in blood, and the despicable act of robbing resources and cheating like wild dogs!
"No! This is impossible!"

The enormous drop felt like a blunt knife, repeatedly cutting and churning in her heart.

"senior……"

Ji Ning clutched her head, trying hard to recall. The white figure of her senior, exuding a lazy and lofty aura, grew fainter and farther away as she desperately tried to grasp it and see it clearly.

The more she tried to recall the voice, smile, and earnest teachings of her predecessors, the more ethereal their figures became, until finally only a hazy white mist remained.

What made her even more desperate was that the "Mysterious Ink Classic," which had consumed hundreds of years of her dreams and which she was so proud of, had all become blurred.

She could only remember one name; she couldn't recall the specific incantation or the form of the talisman.

In her dreams, she is a phoenix soaring through the heavens; in reality, she is a filthy worm mired in the mud.

Why? !

Why should she have to wake up to a reality that's even worse than a nightmare, when that dream was so beautiful?!
Why should she, who has experienced such a heavenly path, be trapped in this filthy and weak body?!

"What is this? My retribution? Why didn't you just kill me? Why?!"

Ji Ning's painful roar startled a flock of seabirds, which soared through the air and swept past the merchant ship that was about to dock at Yulong Island.

In the cabin.

"Why not kill her?"

While tidying up the processed refining materials, Hong Li asked Jiang Yi a question. Jiang Yi opened the tightly closed hatch, letting the sea breeze in.

"The weather is perfect, and I'm in a good mood."

Living is actually more painful than dying.

She took a drop of Ji Ning's essence blood; if she wanted Ji Ning dead, she could do it at any time.

It just so happens that I don't want to at this moment. I can't explain what my feelings are. Maybe it's out of compassion, or gratitude for her contributing a dream that allowed me to verify many things and enabled Zhu Xin to successfully improve Hua Gu's talisman technique.

It could also be for the sake of those innocent people who died at Ji Ning's hands, so they didn't want Ji Ning to die too easily, and wanted her to live a life of suffering.

On one hand, there is kindness; on the other, there is malice.

There are contradictions, but there's no need to determine right or wrong. At this moment, just act spontaneously and let your thoughts flow freely.

If she encounters Ji Ning again and dislikes him, she'll just kill him again.

"Ji Ning is also a pitiful person. If her parents hadn't treated her like that, she wouldn't have become the person she is now."

After hearing Zhu Xin recount Ji Ning's story, Hua Gu couldn't help but sigh.

Jiang Yi turned to look at Hua Gu, and the look in her eyes made Hua Gu's scalp tingle.

"Hua Gu, don't pity someone who chooses to do evil. Instead, admire those who, even in adversity, do not vent their hatred out of weakness or innocence."

Hua Gu nodded hurriedly, "I remember, but if you become a big bad person, I will definitely follow you and become a bad Hua Gu. I don't care about anything else."

Hua Gu's favoritism towards Jiang Yi has always been so straightforward.

Jiang Yi affectionately ruffled Hua Gu's hair. "Let's go back to Youxian Ferry."

Jiang Yi took Hong Li and Hua Gu back to Youxian Ferry, continued to control Xi Bing Hong Li, had Zhen Shan act as a guard, and took the processed weapon-refining materials off the ship.

Fish Dragon Island is near Black Horn Island, which is currently occupied by the evil cultivators of Ten Thousand Poisons Island. The people recruited by Jubao Group are resting and gathering strength on Fish Dragon Island, ready to launch a general offensive at any time to take back Black Horn Island in one fell swoop.

Jiang Yi was assigned by Jubaohang to stay on the outskirts of Yulong Island, in a separate tent. As soon as she entered, many damaged magical artifacts were brought to her for her to repair.

Jiang Yi signed a piece-rate contract with Jubaohang. The more she repaired, the more she earned. Jubaohang did not require her to go to the front line to participate in the battle. After Black Horn Island was recaptured, they would give her priority to purchase Illusionary Algae.

Blackhorn Island was still some distance from Golden Kite Island, where she was headed. Behind it lay the waters where evil cultivators from Ten Thousand Poisons Island roamed, and few merchant ships passed through. Jiang Yi had to travel on her own.

Jiang Yi patiently helped repair the magical artifacts in the camp. The broken artifacts could still be used after being repaired, which was more time-saving and labor-saving than refining them from scratch. In the process, Jiang Yi controlled Xi Bing Hong Li and gradually integrated Hong Li's knowledge of artifact refining into his own.

This also helped her continue to refine her mahjong magic weapon later.

Jiang Yi used to be too lazy to learn or do anything herself, leaving everything to Hong Li and the others.

Now, thanks to her ability to steal dreams and transform into butterflies, she has easily mastered all these skills and will soon become someone who can do everything, but is just too lazy to put in the effort.

That's great! Although she's no longer lazy, she seems to have become even lazier!

I learned alchemy and weapon crafting from Hong Li. As for talismans, I have Ji Ning's clone. Next time, I'll bring back a cultivator who is proficient in array formations, and then I'll have all the alchemy, weapon crafting, talisman, and array skills I need.

After a few days, the cultivators from Fish Dragon Island, together with those from several other islands, launched a general offensive against Black Horn Island. However, the cultivators from Ten Thousand Poisons Island were all extremely skilled in poison techniques, and the cultivators from Fish Dragon Island suffered a crushing defeat.

That night, while both sides were resting, Jiang Yi quietly left Fish Dragon Island and sailed underwater to the coral mine area behind Black Horn Island, intending to steal some Illusionary Algae and leave.

(End of this chapter)