Dual cultivation makes you stronger, everyone else is a prodigy, and I'm the only one slacking

"Let's peel off the outermost layer first. At least that will prove that I'm not going to practice the technique. If I don't practice the technique, I'm not the successor, and they have no reason to cause me any trouble."

Choi Soo-wei frowned and said, "You don't need to go to this extent..."

Yu Luoning, however, was determined. "This thing has been in my mind for so long, and I haven't even dared to read the first page. Who knows if the legacy left by that Ancestor of the Myriad Emotions Path was really to find a successor, or if he dug a pit just for me to fall into?"

Cui Xiu's eyes darkened slightly. He had also suspected this before. An old monster who had lived for countless years would not give away his entire inheritance to a stranger for no reason.

"When can we separate them?" Yu Luoning asked.

"We need to set up a soul-stabilizing array to stabilize your soul first."

Yu Luoning nodded.

……

On the seventh day, deep within the ice palace of Zhexue Peak, the Soul-Stabilizing Array had been completed.

Yu Luoning sat cross-legged in the center of the formation, with Cui Xiu standing behind her, a hint of worry in her eyes.

"When the inheritance is separated, your soul will be torn apart. If you cannot bear it, tell me immediately."

Yu Luoning took a deep breath and slowly closed her eyes. "Come on, I can handle it."

Cui Xiu placed his palm on the top of her head, and a wisp of divine sense slowly probed into Yu Luoning's sea of ​​consciousness.

He searched slowly and soon discovered a golden jade slip.

Cui Xiu mobilized her spiritual power, attempting to extract the jade slip from Yu Luoning's sea of ​​consciousness.

Just then, Yu Luoning's face suddenly turned pale.

This was no ordinary physical pain; it felt as if someone was stabbing her brain with needles, causing her unbearable agony.

Yu Luoning clenched her teeth and remained silent.

Just as the golden jade slip flew out of her soul sea, her originally calm sea of ​​consciousness was suddenly stirred up by turbulent waves.

From the deepest part of the golden jade slip, a red thread, as light as gauze, suddenly emerged and merged tightly with Yu Luoning's sea of ​​consciousness.

Cui Xiu's expression hardened, and he said sternly, "There really is something hidden here."

He intensified the spiritual energy at his fingertips and demanded, "Get out here!"

At the same time, Yu Luoning seemed to hear a very soft sigh.

"Kid, you really have absolutely no interest in my Path of Ten Thousand Emotions?"

Yu Luoning was startled. The next moment, her consciousness was pulled into a hazy, pink illusion.

In the mist, a figure in red slowly materialized. The woman, with her alluring beauty and captivating peach blossom eyes, was mesmerizing.

Yu Luoning stared at her, her eyes wide open. "It's you, Lian Fei?"

Lianfei chuckled softly, her tone tinged with resentment, "I've waited so long, and you haven't even opened my inheritance jade slip or uttered a single word."

She sighed, "It's truly heartbreaking that they look down on my cultivation techniques so much."

Yu Luoning rolled her eyes without any politeness.

"Don't give me that. There's no such thing as a free lunch. A cultivator as strong as you might have left some hidden tricks in your inheritance. If I actually cultivated your techniques, I'm afraid you'd possess me on the spot."

Yu Luoning thought this to herself, but her heart was in turmoil.

To be honest, she had considered cultivating the Path of Ten Thousand Emotions before. After all, this technique could enhance the cultivation of both parties, making it much faster than struggling to cultivate on her own.

But those short dramas about cultivating immortality that she watched in her previous life weren't for nothing; as expected, she guessed right by sheer luck.

Seeing that her thoughts had been exposed, Lianfei was not angry at all. Instead, she shook her head and said, "You're not stupid. If I want to possess someone, I need you to recite the first chapter of the Heart Mantra to open the Soul Gate. It's just a pity that you have good willpower and have never had any greedy thoughts from beginning to end."

Yu Luoning snorted coldly, "So now it's even less likely that I'll cultivate your technique. Since you failed to possess my body, then hurry up and get out of my sea of ​​consciousness. Don't force me to find someone to destroy you."

Lianfei, however, remained unfazed, smiling as she said, "You little brat, you've got quite the temper. Fine, you can kick me out, but first, get that aggressive young lover outside to stop. Otherwise, I'll drag your consciousness down with me!"

???

Yu Luoning's eyes widened, and she said angrily, "Your body is almost transparent, and you still want to drag me down with you?"

"It's not difficult. Either way, I'm going to die. I'll just drag my genius successor down with me. I won't lose out."

However, with my current power, I'm not enough to kill you, but I can turn you into a drooling little fool... hahaha.

Yu Luoning got goosebumps just thinking about that scene.

Frustrated: "...Can't people be a little nicer to each other?"

"I am not human now, but just a wisp of a soul, and a wisp of a soul that is about to dissipate." Lianfei blinked, speaking with righteous indignation.

Yu Luoning gritted her teeth. She finally understood that this old hag was completely unreasonable.

If she were to truly separate the inheritance jade slip, the other party would perish along with her. If she didn't separate it, this time bomb would be constantly on her mind, causing her to live in fear and anxiety, and she would eventually go insane.

The two sides were temporarily deadlocked, and Yu Luoning kept thinking about each other's trump cards.

The truth is, both sides now have almost equal cards to play.

"Just how many romantic entanglements have you had outside?" Yu Luoning asked irritably.

"I get the feeling that most of the cultivation world wants to kill you. They've been hunting you down for ten thousand years; they must hate you to the core."

Lianfei tilted her head, a hint of confusion in her alluring eyes, and then she seriously started counting on her fingers, "One, two, three, four, five, six... Oh dear, I can't count them all. Back in the Nine Realms and Eight Desolations, my suitors stretched from Dongbao to the Divine Realm."

Yu Luoning "..."

"If they loved you, why do their descendants now wish they could grind you to dust?"

Lianfei pouted and said, "You don't understand. Emotional debts are the easiest to turn into karmic entanglements. As the saying goes, the deeper the love, the deeper the hate."

"So... now I have to pay off your debts?"

"Hey, don't say that. You are the successor of the original, and if you want to receive this inheritance, you must naturally bear the consequences."

Yu Luoning spat, "Then take it. I don't want your inheritance at all."

"Look at you, saying such hurtful things again! You know how wonderful my technique is."

Just as the two souls were bickering in the sea of ​​consciousness, Cui Xiu outside suddenly groaned and his expression changed drastically.

He sensed the dangerous turmoil emanating from Yu Luoning's sea of ​​consciousness. This jade slip containing the inheritance of the Dao of Ten Thousand Emotions had taken deep root. If it were forcibly separated, Yu Luoning's soul would suffer irreversible damage.

Cui Xiu acted decisively, withdrawing his divine sense and forcibly severing the formation.

At this moment, the light from the array inside the ice palace dissipated.

Yu Luoning suddenly opened her eyes, her body went limp, and she almost fell to the ground.

Cui Xiu rushed forward and quickly supported her, "Ningning, what's wrong?"

It took Yu Luoning a long time to recover before she spoke, "That old hag is stuck in my mind and won't leave."

A murderous glint flashed in Cui Xiu's eyes. "How dare you court death!"

Yu Luoning smiled bitterly, "It's no use. She's bound to my soul now. If I forcibly separate her, she'll pull me down with her. I don't want to become an idiot, but I also don't feel at ease having her stay in my mind like an ancestor."

The ice palace fell silent instantly. The two looked at each other, and a moment of silence ensued.