Mortal: Li Feiyu, who came from the realm of a supreme being

With the Double Saints Festival on Kui Xing Island still a few days away, Han Li expressed interest in the Dust-Subduing Pill and decided to participate in the Demon-Suppressing Ceremony.

Li Feiyu also plans to form his core, so he should theoretically participate in the Demon Suppression Ceremony. However, he knows that the Dust-Subduing Pill is with Elder Gu and is not among the prizes.

Therefore, all they need to do is hunt down Elder Gu with Han Li at that time; there's no need to fight the demonic beasts at all.

Of course, the Demon Suppression Ceremony was no challenge for him. Even the Infant Carp Beast was no problem for him. He went all out and wasn't afraid of these things.

However, with so many people watching, he found it difficult to enjoy himself. After much thought, he decided to take Yuan Yao and Yanli away first.

According to the anime version, the two senior sisters were separated during the Kui Xing Island incident, which led to the subsequent tragedy.

Both Yanli and Yuanyao are good women who value loyalty and righteousness. Since we have already accepted them, we cannot let them suffer any more tragedy. That is why we need to take them away from this place of trouble in advance.

Li Feiyu dropped the two off on a deserted island hundreds of miles away and gave them some cultivation pills, along with Foundation Establishment Pills and spirit stones.

"So much..." Both women were surprised. Although they had been concubines for three months in name only, Li Feiyu had never touched them. Now, on their parting, he was giving them such a generous gift, which left them somewhat at a loss.

"A storm is approaching on Kuixing Island. You should cultivate here for now. I will come to find you after the storm has passed." As Li Feiyu spoke, he raised his hand, and several beams of spiritual light silently disappeared into the surroundings, setting up defensive and concealment formations.

Yanli looked at the heavy storage bag in her hand, then at Li Feiyu who was busy setting things up. After hesitating for a long time, she finally asked softly, "Young Master... we haven't known each other for very long. Aren't you afraid that we might take this wealth and run away?"

Li Feiyu finished the last hand gesture of the array before turning around. His gaze swept over the two women, but instead of answering immediately, he asked, "So, will you two leave?"

This sudden question caught both Yanli and Yuanyao off guard.

"...Of course not." Yanli answered subconsciously, but after saying it, she herself felt that her answer seemed somewhat pale in the face of the mountain of spiritual stones.

"That's it." Li Feiyu smiled. "I asked because I wanted to know your answer. If you hadn't asked, you could have just taken the things and left. Since you asked, it means you take this matter seriously. That's enough."

Yuan Yao frowned slightly as she looked at him, seemingly trying to find a hint of probing or hypocrisy on his face, but she only saw a calm expression.

"Young master, aren't you afraid...? Our answer right now is just to put your mind at ease?" she asked softly, her voice carrying a hint of inquiry that she herself didn't even realize.

"Afraid?" Li Feiyu seemed to have heard something interesting and shook his head. "Ladies, I left home at the age of ten and survived by fighting with life-threatening pills in mortal gangs. Later, I was fortunate enough to be granted a chance to become an immortal and have come this far. If I were afraid of everything, the grass on my grave would probably be three feet high by now."

His tone was calm, as if he were talking about a trivial past event, but the weight in his words made the two women's hearts tremble slightly.

"Giving you these today is less about trust and more about giving you a choice." He looked at Yuan Yao with a frank expression. "You can choose to stay and go further with me, or you can choose to leave and use these pills to fight for your own future."

"What if you leave?" Yuan Yao pressed.

"Then we are not destined to be together." Li Feiyu answered quickly, without any threat or reluctance in his tone. "If we meet again in the future, whether we are enemies or friends, it will depend on our own abilities."

A sea breeze blew by, and the three of them fell silent for a moment.

Yanli took a deep breath, curtsied deeply, and said, "Your words, sir, are like a wake-up call. My sister and I have been narrow-minded. We will remember this gift today and will never let you down."

Yuan Yao hesitated for a moment, then bowed as well. Although she did not speak, her eyes were much calmer than before.

"Let's leave it at that for now. If I don't return in fifteen days, you can go to Thorn Island near Sangxing Island and find a man named Li Xuan." After saying this, Li Feiyu didn't linger. He rode the wind and disappeared into the horizon in a moment.

Only after the gale subsided did Yanli withdraw her gaze, toying with the storage bag in her hand, a playful smile curling at the corner of her lips: "Three months, and we've come out unscathed. And with a windfall of money."

Yuan Yao didn't speak, but just looked at the pill in her hand with a slight frown.

"What are you thinking about, junior sister?"

"I was thinking about his last question." Yuan Yao looked up. "Senior sister, why do you think he gave us the choice?"

"Because he doesn't care," Yanli answered quickly, her smile fading slightly. "Or rather, he's not afraid we'll run away. Would someone who fought his way out of a mortal gang be naive enough to believe in the loyalty of strangers he's met by chance? He's just filtering. Like he said, if we take the stuff and run, it's just a lesson for him. Only if we stay is it worth his continued investment."

"But we really lack these resources," Yuan Yao said softly. "He gave us too much, enough for the two of us in the early stages of Foundation Establishment to settle down and make a living elsewhere."

"So?" Yanli looked at her.

"So I was just thinking, if someone else had given me these things, would I have run away?" Yuan Yao's gaze fell on the distant sea. "I probably would. I would have thought it was a trap, or that they had ulterior motives. But his..."

Before she could finish, Yanli continued, "But his attitude made it impossible for him to run away. It wasn't charity, it wasn't intimidation, but... he made you feel that running away would be doing yourself a disservice?"

Yuan Yao nodded.

That's the strangest part. Li Feiyu didn't say "You must be loyal," nor did he say "I will treat you well," and he didn't even show any expectation.

He simply put the things down, handed over the choice, and then turned and left. This attitude, ironically, makes the act of "walking away" seem ridiculous—as if taking the resources he gave you and running away isn't taking advantage of him, but rather actively proving that you're only worth that much.

"You actually believed that kind of talk?" Yanli raised an eyebrow. "What 'if fate allows us to meet again'—if we really ran away, would he let us go?"

"No," Yuan Yao shook her head, "but that's not what I believe in."

"Then what do you believe in?"

Yuan Yao was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "He gave us these today not to bribe us. He genuinely... believes we are worth it."

She herself found it somewhat absurd to say this.

In the world of cultivation, it's all about the exchange of benefits and the supremacy of strength. The word "worth it" is never something that comes out of thin air.

But Li Feiyu's attitude contained precisely this quality. The way he looked at them was without scrutiny, without calculation, and without even that condescending sense of charity—it was like seeing two nice spiritual herbs by the roadside, casually watering them, and then continuing on his way.

"So we're going to stay and prove him right?" Yanli's tone was slightly teasing.

"Senior sister, do you think something's wrong?"

"Yes." Yanli suddenly laughed, "It's precisely because it's so true that I find him...a little scary."

"horrible?"

"Can't you see?" Yanli put away the storage bag, her gaze turning deep. "He didn't ask us to give anything, yet he made us start thinking about 'whether he'll disappoint him.' That's the most powerful tactic. More powerful than any restriction or oath."

Yuan Yao paused for a moment, then understood what Yan Li meant.

Li Feiyu didn't put any shackles on them; instead, she gave them a choice—a choice that made them start thinking about "how I can live up to this trust."

The choice itself becomes an invisible constraint.

"So..." Yuan Yao hesitated, "we've been tricked?"

"I don't know," Yanli shook her head. "I feel most likely he didn't think that much about it. After all, for such a scheme to succeed, it's very selective... This cultivation world is full of opportunists, cowards, and treacherous people who betray their principles for personal gain. They claim cheating and swindling are due to chance, and murder and robbery are due to merit; how many people care about trust and loyalty?"

A subtle, indescribable ripple spread across the depths of Yuan Yao's clear, water-like eyes.

She cared about these things, and she believed that her senior sister Yanli cared about them too.

To put it bluntly, Li Feiyu's behavior might be humorous or laughable if it happened to others, but when it happens to them, it is a rare form of recognition.

A sea breeze began to rise, and dark clouds gathered on the horizon. Lightning began to flash across the sky in the direction of Kui Xing Island, where a storm was approaching. On this remote, deserted island, two figures disappeared into a formation and fell silent.

……

The Wind Riding Technique is a minor spell that Li Feiyu found on Kui Xing Island in the last three months. While Foundation Establishment cultivators cannot fly on their own, this Wind Riding Technique, combined with sufficient mana and skillful control, can achieve a similar effect.

It took a lot of effort to find wind-attribute spiritual power, and in the end it was derived from the fusion of wood and fire-attribute spiritual power. It is very difficult for ordinary cultivators to learn.

When they returned to Kuixing City, the seventh round of the Demon Suppression Ceremony had already begun.

When Li Feiyu entered the arena, he glanced at the figures nearby who were covered up tightly, and they must be the cultivators from Jiyin Island who had been hiding.

Tsk, it feels like they're deliberately walking into the lion's den.

However, he has a simple teleportation array made by Xin Ruyin, so even if Han Li's escape route fails, he can still escape on his own.

The other end of this teleportation array was located on a nearby island, but no one knows its exact location.

Only in this way can he enjoy this good show without worry.

Before long, the seventh group of cultivators began to enter. They were all Foundation Establishment stage cultivators; this grouping clearly indicated something was amiss.

As expected, their opponent was a young baby carp beast.

Han Li continued to perform steadily, hiding behind the crowd and becoming an invisible man. This style of doing things was the guarantee that he was able to survive to the end.

However, in Li Feiyu's view, this can be considered a favor from the heavens. In his previous life, Li Feiyu had experienced several secret realms that had a rigid requirement for the number of people.

If Han Li were to follow his style of concealing his true abilities and attempt to enter those secret realms, he would inevitably face certain death, because there simply wouldn't be enough people in those realms, making it a death trap without any exceptions.

Li Feiyu even considered creating such a secret realm to teach Xiao Han a lesson, so that he wouldn't hide his true abilities when they went into dungeons together in the future.

……

In the arena, Han Li had already sensed that something was wrong, but for now, he could only deal with the level-five demonic beast first.

The purpose of this trip to Kuixing Island was to find some medicinal formulas and elixirs that would help with the formation of the Golden Core, but this Demon Suppression Ceremony seems to have something else going on, and the Dust-Subduing Pill may not be available anymore.

"This is troublesome... Oh right, Feiyu likes excitement, he should be in the stands right now. If anything unexpected happens later, finding him will be helpful."

Han Li didn't dare to focus on looking for people in the stands yet, so he immediately discussed the plan to kill the demon beast with Feng Sanniang and the others.

In the end, with Feng San Niang and others setting up a formation to delay the enemy, Han Li and Qu Hun finished them off, finally managing to kill the Infant Carp Beast with great difficulty.

Then, Wu Chou made his appearance.