lcionline Chapter 171 Three Old Foxes and One Show
Chapter 171 Three Old Foxes and One Show
With Xuan He's help, Ye Ling continuously comprehended the magic array. Sometimes, one has to admit that talent is the key to a person's success. Under the guidance of a master, one can easily grasp its profound meaning!
Ye Ling is such a genius. In just three days, she went from a complete novice to someone who had achieved some success. Of course, this was inseparable from the personal guidance of the big shot Xuan He, but it was also thanks to her high level of comprehension. It can be said that she has a unique talent in the field of formations.
Aside from being mocked by the old ghost Xuanhe for not knowing the basics of formations at the beginning, the talent and abilities she displayed afterwards amazed Xuanhe, who had lived for thousands of years!
With Ye Ling’s efforts, she continuously studied the magic array in Fu Ning’s memory. Whenever she encountered something she didn’t understand, she would immediately ask the expert next to her. The two of them sat facing each other outside the array’s core. Xuan He taught her while Ye Ling learned and pondered the operation of the array. In this way, the two of them explored and figured out the array quite well!
Xuanhe stared intently at the array's core, which was visibly absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy. The array's inscriptions were also constantly rotating and contracting!
Xuanhe was overjoyed and murmured softly, "It's the year 2000! I've been imprisoned for a full 2000 years! I can finally get out! Hahaha..."
Ye Ling gave him a cold look, then focused her attention on the formation, continuously releasing spiritual power into Zheng Yan to guide the inscriptions. She could understand his feelings, but this was a critical moment, and she didn't have the time to care about others!
Finally, most of the inscriptions were collected into the array's core, and the massive array's protective shield became increasingly transparent, nearing collapse. Ye Ling suddenly stopped injecting spiritual power into it!
Xuanhe stared at the scene for a moment, then asked in a deep voice, "Continue! Why did you stop? Don't you want to get out of here?!"
Ye Ling glanced at him, too lazy to answer his question, and directly took out the gray bead he had given her not long ago, saying to the bead, "Let's go see them one last time! There will never be another chance!"
A cold voice rang out from within the bead, "Ha! What's the point of looking at a fake? It's all just a pretense of kindness! Just do it! In the end, everything will turn to ashes and vanish into nothingness!"
Ye Ling didn't waste any words. She had given him the chance, but he didn't want it. Ye Ling pointed directly and injected a stream of spiritual power into the eye. The formation shattered, and the village disappeared. The surrounding area returned to its original state. Ancient trees and dense forests, even at noon, could not let in any light. Apart from the occasional beast cry, the whole forest had a gloomy feeling!
Ye Ling also planned to target the bead, erasing the remnant soul's consciousness and locking it inside his body, intending to turn it into a human king!
Ye Ling hesitated for a moment, not out of kindness, but simply out of curiosity, and asked him, "Don't you regret it?"
A mocking voice rang out from the bead, "Regret? Hahahaha... Regret? No... I will never regret it!"
Ye Ling continued to ask, "Why? You destroyed your sect and betrayed the Dao, disregarding human ethics. In order to refine your evil magic, you first sacrificed your family, then your sect, and those innocent mortals! They were all very good to you. Did you ever feel even a little bit of remorse?"
"Unable to bear it? Hmm! That's only for a moment. Throughout history, the path of the strong has always been destined to involve sacrifices! Good people? Heh heh! Where are there any good people in this world? There is only a distinction between the strong and the weak, not between good and bad!"
"Since that's the case, then I have no choice but to be strong, by any means necessary! In this world, the strong take from those who demand, while the weak are like ants, trampled upon at will, without even the right to resist! I am on the path to becoming stronger, and these are the prices I must pay. I want to become stronger, is there anything wrong with that?"
"Why? Why are you born with people paving the way for you? You were born standing at our finish line, and how much do we have to pay to reach your starting point! You are of noble birth, with people planning for you, and the entire organization showing you the utmost favoritism. Just by waving your hand, resources will be delivered to you. Just by speaking, anyone who offends you will be torn to pieces."
"That's why you look down on us and criticize us! But where do you get your cultivation resources from? You plunder them from people like us, who have no background or power, and you think you're so noble! How are you any better than me?"
"Yes, to become stronger, I sacrificed my lover, family, fellow disciples, friends, and even those ants! But so what? As long as I become stronger, any price is acceptable! In this world of cultivation, weakness is the original sin. Morality, conscience—what are those? Can they make me stronger?"
"You say they love me, are good to me, and have been kind to me, and that's a fact I can't deny. But none of that will make me stronger, none of that will free me from the fate of being cannon fodder under the feet of you privileged kids. I'm not reconciled. Why? Just because I don't have your background, I don't have the favor of fate, I don't have the protection of heaven, we can only be insignificant ants, and eventually disappear from this world! I refuse to accept this!"
"That's why I'm willing to do anything, that's why I want to become stronger. I don't want to be an ant, I don't want to be your mobile resource pool, and I don't want to live my life in obscurity, with no one remembering me when I die! What did I do wrong?"
"Hahaha! It's a pity that my luck was bad. I was just one step away from reaching the pinnacle of immortality, but in the end, I was tricked by those hypocrites. In the end, I can only eke out a living and be sealed here with my body!"
"Hahaha...hahaha...I, Pei Fuqing, have no regrets! If I had to do it all over again, I would still make the same choice!"
"Little girl, my fate has been sealed by your hand today! Destiny truly favors you! May you ascend to immortality and live as long as heaven and earth. I bless you, and I curse you!"
"Your remnant soul will dissipate into the world, not entering the cycle of reincarnation, so there's no need for you to lift a finger. Little girl, one day you will understand me and become me! I'll leave this body to you as a gift. Ye Ling, farewell forever!"
The sound gradually faded into the distance. Ye Ling frowned and examined the bead in her hand again. The gray color dissipated, and she could see clearly that there were many impurities floating in the bead, but she couldn't see them clearly upon closer inspection!
Ye Ling asked doubtfully, "Is this old man really dead?"
At this moment, Ye Ling did not notice the dark glint that flashed in Xuan He's eyes beside her, as if he had guessed something.
It's normal for Ye Ling to be suspicious. Such a ruthless evil cultivator, who has lived for thousands of years, doesn't seem like the kind of person who would truly want to die. Rather than willingly dying, Ye Ling believes he would do anything to survive, even if it's just a wisp of a soul. Moreover, she feels that he's putting on a show for her, which gives her a strange feeling.
A glint of cunning flashed in Ye Ling's eyes as she thought to herself, "Since that's the case, then you'd better stay away! Don't let me run into you again! Otherwise, don't blame me!"