Xi Heng then took out a washed, fresh fruit from his inventory and took a bite.

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The tender fruit flesh enters the mouth, accompanied by sweet and sour juice, and goes down the throat, bringing a refreshing sensation.

Chewing slowly and gently, the nausea that had been like motion sickness immediately subsided a bit.

Jin You, who had shared the taste with her, paused for a moment before asking in a daze, "What...is this?"

“Pears,” Xi Heng said simply.

"Pears? Fruit? How could there be fruit in the wilderness... Only the rich in the city center should have the opportunity to taste it."

"It exists, so don't ask." Xi Heng took a big bite and savored it slowly.

Subsequently, Jin You's condition gradually returned to normal, and she let out a breath and began to get down to business:

"Although you seem to be strange too... I hope you won't help them."

"Okay."

"That great resentment, sealed within the divine tree, must be an extremely dangerous entity. Even a slight damage to it back then turned Xiping into a ghostly realm. If it were truly released, this place would surely cease to exist," Jin You said earnestly.

“I do not believe that the supernatural can set mortals free. Such unclean forces from the outside should never be trusted. No matter how much we want to resist the oppression of the heavens, we should not seek their help. I have a feeling that if we let the supernatural manage mortals, it will only make things worse.”

“I think so too.” Xi Heng nodded: “I had a friend who was a very good person when he was alive, but after he became a vengeful ghost, he wanted to burn everything to ashes.”

Feeling that the two were of one mind and shared the same opinion, Jin You slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's good that you don't object."

“But what about you? Although you have improved your cultivation to enhance your mind, it still cannot prevent your consciousness from being slowly corrupted,” Xi Heng said. “You have to find a way to survive.”

"Perhaps a solution will emerge later, but in any case, please do not cooperate with the supernatural."

"Um……"

Xi Heng took out the strange crystal used to awaken the Great Grudge from his storage ring and twirled it lightly in his hand.

Silently sensing its aura, watching the reflection on it, my thoughts raced.

With a flick of his finger, the item was put back into the ring and disappeared.

"Then let's continue our cultivation." She pinched out a black bead of resentment: "Perhaps when this body's cultivation is high enough, we can find a way ourselves."

Jin You sensed the eerie energy within the pearl and sighed softly, "So, he has indeed embarked on the path of vengeful cultivation."

"Just bear with it for the sake of your own life." Xi Heng put the black resentment bead directly into his mouth.

Immediately, a strange aura surged from within him, enveloping his entire body.

Xi Heng used his mind to slowly refine it and then circulate it throughout his meridians.

The black vengeful pearls that Xi Heng had just taken from the wandering ghost contained a great deal of strange energy. Just one of them was equivalent to the previous five. Xi Heng focused on refining them so that they did not leak out from his body.

"It feels so strange," Jin You said after circulating her internal energy for a while.

"I'll adapt slowly; I still have a long time to cultivate afterward." Xi Heng planned to break through to the first stage of the Vengeful Cultivation, the Qi Devouring Realm, in one fell swoop. He sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and slowly began to circulate the Vengeful Cultivation technique.

The strange energy was sent into the meridians, quickly flowing and merging into the body, rapidly replenishing the strange energy that had been lost, and continuing to increase one's cultivation.

Once he entered the cultivation state, Jin You did not disturb him, but silently sensed the changes in his body, engraving the feeling of the tranquil cultivation state into his heart.

As time went by, she gradually adapted to her new body.

The cultivation time passed in the blink of an eye, and five days had gone by again.

Xi Heng swallowed the last black bead of resentment and refined it to near perfection. His chest and dantian trembled for a moment.

As a sound like a stone falling into water rang out, a chilling aura instantly spread from his chest to his entire body.

The girl's body trembled slightly for a moment, then calmed down.

A thick black mist rose from the body, making the flesh transparent like a ghost.

First the feet, then the waist and hips, then the chest and neck.

In just a few seconds, the figure turned into a transparent outline, drifting slowly in the air like smoke.

Once Xi Heng calmed his mind, the black energy around his body gathered back into his chest, and his form and color reappeared.

Unlike before, a small, slowly rotating black vortex appeared in the center of the chest area of ​​the clothing, gathering the eerie energy within it.

She glanced down and felt that the black vortex was not very attractive, so she tried to concentrate and draw it into her chest.

The vortex gradually seeps into the skin, becoming difficult to detect from the outside.

Only then did Xi Heng sense the changes in his cultivation level following the recent sudden change.

"My cultivation aura is approaching the early Foundation Establishment stage, and my physical attributes have also greatly improved... Could this be considered an advancement?" Xi Heng silently guessed.

"Unlike spiritual cultivation, which requires a special breakthrough, it only requires the strange energy to reach a certain level to automatically advance?"

She exited her cultivation state and sensed the peculiar vortex that had just been drawn into her chest.

A large amount of eerie energy condensed within, resembling a vortex of spiritual energy in spiritual cultivation.

However, unlike the spiritual cultivation vortex that can only preserve the spiritual energy within the body, this black energy vortex can slowly absorb external evil energy to strengthen itself.

Although the speed is slow, only one-tenth of that of proper cultivation, it is always possible and much less troublesome than spiritual cultivation.

Xi Heng tried to transform into a black shadow and teleport several times, consuming a small amount of his eerie energy.

When there is room in the physical body, the vortex of strange energy in the chest will rotate faster, absorbing the surrounding strange energy to fill the gap.

She thought for a moment, then randomly grabbed a small knife from her inventory and slashed her palm.

As soon as a little blood appeared on his hand, the surging eerie energy quickly healed the injury.

"So this is the Gold Devouring Realm?"

At this moment, Yoru also woke up with a slight pain and remained silent for a long time upon seeing this.

It's unclear what she was thinking during her silence, but for some reason, she suddenly uttered her last words: "If I really die after this, please let a part of this body return to the divine tree."

Xi Heng didn't pay much attention, only saying, "Your cultivation level is getting higher and higher. I think it won't be long before we can separate and you can be reborn."

"Perhaps..." Jin You seemed somewhat pessimistic.

The girl turned to look outside the inn and saw that the sky was darkening as the sun set.

She got up and left the abandoned building. As soon as she opened the door, she saw a procession of ghosts faintly appearing outside.

The darker the sky, the clearer the shapes of these wandering spirits became.

An eerie atmosphere rippled through the town, and soon after, the scattered ghosts began to appear in shadowy forms.

Armored soldiers, towering giant golems, and all sorts of bizarre monsters marched in a serpentine formation, silently heading westward.

After watching for a while, Xi Heng turned to look in the direction they had just entered.

"That... seems to be the location of Xiping City?"

As her thoughts raced, she turned her gaze back to the myriad ghosts roaming the road ahead, amplifying her eyes with eerie energy to see the wandering spirits even more clearly.

She gradually realized that the armored soldiers marching among them looked no different from the guards she had seen in front of the castle in the eerie realm.

Then, Xi Heng recalled that when he had talked to Bai Nie earlier, the other party had said that he would soon be attacking Xiping Gaotian.

The word "recently" seems to refer to today.

……

Volume 1: Do I need to take a day off?

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Volume 1: Chapter 279, Another Intention

On the way back to Xiping City.

The single-person spirit boat's wooden wheels rolled, swirling up dust that spread backward.

As they sped along, the dry, turbulent winds of the wasteland constantly tousled the girl's short gray hair, and her simple clothes fluttered in the breeze.

Drops of gray-black mist clung to his body, preventing the eerie approach of the wasteland. Thus, in this wasteland, which was considered extremely dangerous by ordinary people, Xi Heng traveled for half a day without encountering any obstacles.

Along the road covered in dust and sand, there were many iconic dead trees, their trunks slightly bent to one side as if guiding the way, pointing towards the direction of Xiping City.

"I wonder if those monster armies have arrived yet..." Jin You's voice slowly echoed in the girl's heart.

“Whether they arrive or not doesn’t matter. They can’t possibly win in such a short time.” Xi Heng, who was steering the boat, replied, “You said that Gao Tian has three Nascent Soul cultivators, while the strange creatures can only win by having an endless supply of them. They might have to exhaust the spiritual power of all three of them to do that.”

This could take a considerable amount of time.

"Even so, one of them is already old and frail, and the other was forcibly upgraded using a Dao artifact... Although their combat power is equal to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator, it won't last long." After witnessing the strange advance, Jin You had been worried about the safety of Xiping City: "If they have other ways to awaken the resentment within the Divine Tree, Xiping City could indeed be breached in a short time."

Although Yoru disliked the cannibalistic and tyrannical rule of the Takatenjin, he was unwilling to let vengeful spirits with unknown motives occupy the city.

The reason for this journey was that she requested Xi Heng to return to Xiping City and leave a message at a secret location, informing the several people from Gaotian who had once accompanied her and helped to reverse the bad governance of Xiping, so that Gaotian would take precautions to protect the divine tree.

Perhaps the celestial beings knew that something strange was about to happen, and they understood that the celestial beings wanted to destroy the divine tree.

But she still wanted to tell them, thinking it might be helpful.

She gazed into the distance and murmured:

"I wonder how many people will die in Xiping this time."

"Life and death are matters of fate for everyone; there's no need to worry too much about them," Xi Heng said casually.

"..." Jin You fell into thought and remained silent for a long time without saying anything more.

In the end, he could only sigh:

"maybe."

……

After another hour or two, the outline of Xiping City appeared in the distance at the edge of the horizon.

A cluster of brightly lit high-rise buildings stand side by side, their surfaces projecting giant human figures with a magical light. The outer area is a low-rise residential area, while the towering skyscrapers in the inner city stand like steel giants, radiating colorful brilliance from the dark sky.

Flying boats of all shapes and sizes moved like mosquitoes beneath the towering golden tree, flowing through the narrow spaces between skyscrapers.

The city continued to function smoothly, but the familiar sounds of gunfire and fighting could be heard getting closer from the outside.

"Looks alright?" Xi Heng glanced at it.

“There are some fluctuations in the distance…” Jin You observed more details: “There seem to be black spots with golden light on the right rear side of the city.”

Looking into the distance, Xi Heng simply said, "It's so far."

There seemed to be a tiny black dot flickering at the spot the other party was pointing to, but it was pitifully faint amidst the dazzling neon lights and golden glow of the surrounding trees.

As for the golden light the other party mentioned, they didn't see it at all.

"It seems the war has already begun," Jin You whispered.

"I can't tell." Xi Heng approached the nearby city gate on his own.

In her opinion, it doesn't really matter whether Xiping City is destroyed or not.

Regardless of which side wins the current battle, it will not be a good ending for the people of Xiping.

As long as it doesn't affect my ability to retrieve the white phoenix feather containing Yin Wanluan's divine consciousness, it doesn't matter which side wins.

The best outcome would be for her to take advantage of this crisis to obtain information about Bai Fenglingyu, or to get her hands on it directly.

Returning to Xiping City wasn't just because of Jin You's request; the main reason was that he believed, with his current strength, he should have a chance to sneak across the high heavens and find Lingyu.

As long as you save your game before heading to the heavens, you won't have to worry about any troubles that come your way.

With repeated attempts, it shouldn't be long before I reunite with Yin Wanluan.

The only thing that worries Xi Heng now is that she still doesn't know whether Yin Wanluan has woken up or not.

If not, how should we awaken it?

I slowly woke up in a company's laboratory, and then my consciousness fully awakened after merging with Jin You's body.

Xi Heng subconsciously looked down at the body.

"Um……"

She thought—why not integrate the white phoenix feathers into a body as well, perhaps that could awaken Yin Wanluan?

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