69novels Chapter 209 One Life, A Cycle of Suffering
Chapter 209 One Life, A Cycle of Suffering
Chapter 209 A Lifetime of Suffering and Reincarnation
"And who are you? What brings you here?" Ye Yang asked directly. The man in black chuckled twice more and said, "Little brat, would you be willing to become my disciple and seek immortality?"
"Hmm? You're a cultivator?" Ye Yang frowned. If there are cultivators here, why can't I sense any spiritual energy in this illusion?
Do we really need to have this ridiculous setting of cultivating spiritual roots?
"You little brat, you've got quite a bit of knowledge. Are you willing or not?" The black-robed man's voice remained sinister.
Ye Yang shook his head: "I have my own plans. Thank you for your kindness."
The man in black robes chuckled, as if he had remembered something pleasant.
With a flick of his black sleeve, Qian Tong's figure appeared, but her eyes were dull and numb, as if she were under some kind of evil spell.
"I just came here to find some supplies when I saw this woman outside calling out, 'Yang'er, Yang'er, where are you?' Hehehehe. Perhaps her child went missing in the middle of the night?"
"Where is her child?"
Ye Yang hardened his fist. He glanced at the 'mother' in the illusion who looked exactly like her in reality, then ignored the man in black robes and quickly returned home.
The man in black robes watched Ye Yang's departing figure and smiled, "Interesting, very interesting."
Upon returning home, Ye Yang confirmed by observing the traces that his mother in the illusion had indeed left.
The man in black robes had unknowingly brought Qian Tong to his doorstep: "Well? Are you sure it's real?"
Ye Yang sighed helplessly, "Very good, really great."
These words were spoken to his inner demons. Although it was an illusion, he remembered this grudge.
I've heard that many people can overcome their inner demons, but very few can defeat their own inner demons.
Ye Yang is determined to be one of them!
"Let's go, old man, quickly teach me how to cultivate immortality, and I'll beat you to death after I've mastered it," Ye Yang sneered.
He's not afraid of death at all; he's practically courting it.
If you can't break free from this game directly, the only way to overturn the board is to die!
However, suicide is not an option, as it would only give one's inner demons a chance.
This illusion was constructed by Ye Yang and his inner demon under certain rules, with both sides contributing their share.
Whoever wins this "game" will be able to swallow and digest the other's share.
Under the "rules of the game," one can only commit suicide if one of two conditions is met: utter despair and collapse, or self-sacrifice and spiritual sublimation.
The first scenario is, of course, a loss. The second scenario is, a chance to win in one fell swoop.
If he commits suicide in any of these two situations, it's equivalent to "breaking the rules of the game," and Ye Yang won't be able to get back his share.
This will increase the power of inner demons and weaken one's own power.
The illusion has more than one layer!
The man in black robes was not angry or embarrassed; instead, he was even happier: "Good, good! Quick, disciple, come with me now!" With a flick of his black sleeve, Ye Yang felt dizzy and disoriented, not knowing where he had arrived.
It turned out that the man in black robes was a junior elder of the demonic sect "Blood Spring Sect," with the second realm of "Refining Qi into Spirit" cultivation. He directly captured Ye Yang to become his disciple.
Of course, there must be another purpose behind it.
Ye Yang also realized that the body he possessed in the illusion was a "blood spirit root," which made it impossible for him to cultivate normally or absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth; he could only cultivate demonic arts.
He accepted all comers and practiced without hesitation. As a result, after the first trace of "blood spirit power" was refined, all sorts of negative emotions welled up in his heart.
At the same time, the inner demons attacked again.
Ye Yang continued to cultivate in the Blood Spring Sect, breaking through one small barrier after another.
Even though cultivating this demonic art requires slaughtering living beings and refining blood spiritual power, he showed no mercy because he secretly killed his fellow disciples to practice the art.
Since they're all demonic cultivators anyway, let's not waste them.
The consequence of doing this is that the cultivation techniques developed will be more complex and more ferocious and terrifying.
Just as heavy metal ions accumulate in the food chain, the higher up the food chain an organism is, the more heavy metal ions accumulate in its body, and the more serious the pollution becomes.
Ye Yang was just like that. After slaughtering and refining a large number of his fellow demonic cultivators, he had completely honed his demonic skills to the point of being even more insane than the demonic cultivators themselves.
Its impact on consciousness and will is incredibly terrifying, occurring every month, every day, every hour. But this erosion and impact is nothing. Ye Yang's mind remains focused, still himself, unmoved.
Finally—he broke through the first realm, "Refining Essence into Qi," and entered the second realm of cultivation!
Before he could consolidate his cultivation, the black-robed "master" who never showed his face suddenly emerged from the cultivation chamber.
"Hehehehe! My good disciple, I've been waiting for so long. Now it's finally time to reap the rewards, and of course, it's your only chance."
"How about it? Come and kill me? Hahahaha!"
With a wave of his hand, the man in black robes released Ye Yang's mother from the illusion.
"Yang'er, run!" she shouted hoarsely.
Faced with this unbridled "master," Ye Yang revealed a cold smile.
The battle began immediately, but the man in black robes had already laid out numerous traps, and with Qian Tong in his grasp, he repeatedly provoked Ye Yang and stirred up his emotions.
If it were an ordinary young man who also practiced demonic arts, he would definitely be enraged and go crazy after being provoked like this, and would no longer be able to maintain his rationality.
But Ye Yang was neither angry nor annoyed. His eyes were cold as he looked at the layers of arrays and restrictions around him, as well as the countless killing moves. He then threw a punch without any expression.
boom!
An incomparably violent surge of blood demon energy erupted, even possessing extreme corrosiveness and the mournful cries of countless wronged souls, giving this blood demon energy terrifying characteristics that normal cultivation methods could not achieve!
It instantly wiped out all the surrounding structures!
"What? This isn't the Blood Spring Spiritual Child Technique!"
The man in black robes uttered a sound of surprise for the first time, but he quickly shook his head:
"No, that's not right! It's the Spiritual Particle Technique, but it's full of impurities and resentment—you're a complete madman! Doesn't the technique say you absolutely mustn't attack your fellow disciples?"
"Moreover, you devoured so much blood spirit without refining or purifying it. Instead, it was like raising a poisonous insect. The resulting blood demon energy was so potent that even a demonic cultivator like me, who cultivates the 'Blood Spring Spirit Mother Technique,' would be extremely toxic!"
The man in black robes was getting increasingly angry: "Good lad, you haven't gone mad yet, you're something else!"
He left the stunned Qian Tong behind and vanished without a trace.
Ye Yang remained expressionless. With a sweep of his spiritual sense, he knew that the mother in this illusion was just an empty shell, turned into a puppet.
The vivid expressions he made just now were merely a performance manipulated by the man in black robes to disturb Ye Yang's state of mind.
"What a disgusting person." Ye Yang's gaze darkened further, and he added another mark to his mental list against this inner demon.
He went straight ahead and chased after the man in black!
Unfortunately, this was inside the Blood Spring Sect's territory, and the chase had already caused a commotion before they could get very far. Realizing the danger, Ye Yang immediately returned to retrieve his mother's body and some of the items he had accumulated over the years, and left using the escape route he had prepared.
He betrayed the Blood Spring Sect, but kept a close eye on the Blood Spring Sect disciples, hunting them down relentlessly!
These demonic cultivators devoured mortals, so he devoured these demonic cultivators.
Thus, through repeated clashes, encirclements, and captures, they rapidly grew in strength and influence.
If you don't have cultivation techniques, just rob them; if you don't have resources, just kill them. There are so many demonic cultivators, they're all resources!
Of course, because of Ye Yang's rapid rise, he had no time to refine the impurities and chaotic power in his body, so the backlash became more and more severe.
But with sheer willpower, they managed to suppress it.
Even after experiencing countless trials, his will and the Great Way remained unmoved, untouched by any dust.
The saying "Though battered a thousand times, it remains firm and strong, unmoved by winds from east, west, north, or south" perfectly describes this state of being.
The righteous sects nearby also noticed this, and as Ye Yang's strength grew, they began to use him to restrain those demonic sects.
Two hundred years passed quickly. Ye Yang never expected that this illusion of inner demons could last for so long.
After two hundred years of battles and successes, he finally reached the pinnacle of the human realm, the fourth realm, "Refining Emptiness and Merging with the Dao"!
Of course, the realm of this world is ultimately different from the immortal system of the Immortal Alliance Leader; this Dao Integration is not the same as that Dao Integration.
However, after two hundred years of Ye Yang's continuous killing and plundering of the major demonic sects, coupled with the attacks from the righteous sects, these demonic sects finally collapsed one after another.
Those great villains are either dead or have fled overseas.
Now, the only remaining great demon in the world is Ye Yang!
"Just as I thought." Ye Yang did not choose to flee overseas, but stayed here, waiting for this day.
A dozen or so of the world's top fourth-realm cultivators had already surrounded him.
In this illusory life, he had a clear conscience about everything he did. But the problem lay in his terrifyingly powerful demonic arts, which were themselves an incredibly frightening sealing device, sealing countless demonic thoughts and evil spirits within Ye Yang's body.
These chaotic things are all Gu Kings, which have been devoured, compressed, and weeded out time and time again.
It was Ye Yang's reliance on being invincible throughout the human realm.
If a normal person practiced martial arts in such a crazy way, they would have long since gone mad, either dying or going insane.
However, Ye Yang, relying on his extraordinary will and the power of the Great Dao that grew stronger with his cultivation, managed to suppress this evil spirit.
Even within this illusion, the immortals of the heavens still possess immense vitality!
It was also Ye Yang's reliance on making his inner demons helpless.
Willpower, Dao heart, and the Great Dao—a trinity—acted like an anchor, firmly anchoring Ye Yang's self. It was not of his own volition.
They couldn't budge him even a fraction!
However, the others in the illusion did not think so. In their eyes, Ye Yang's overwhelming demonic power must have been obtained by slaughtering countless innocent people!
As for him killing so many demonic cultivators, can that be called justice? That's just dogs fighting!
Ye Yang didn't want to explain anything, because the power of speech was in the hands of others, and explaining would be a waste of time.
Moreover, he doesn't need these people's approval.
"Anyone who blocks my way shall die." After saying this, he strode away.
"How arrogant!"
"Arrogant!"
More than a dozen top-tier experts made their moves, but Ye Yang, after two hundred years of slaughter and devouring, had absorbed a significant portion of the essence of the entire demonic cultivation system.
Facing these powerful figures, he was not afraid at all, and fought against ten of them single-handedly.
After a great battle, more than ten righteous powerful figures perished, leaving only two survivors.
Ye Yang also fought to the point of exhaustion, and countless evil spirits within his body flew out uncontrollably, transforming into sources of disaster and chaos, scattering across the world.
At this moment, before his death, Ye Yang actually saw countless people affected by this demonic calamity.
It took more than two hundred years to finally wipe out all those demonic sects, but on the eve of this victory, such a terrible disaster broke out.
The cries of countless people, filled with resentment and anguish, echoed in his ears.
He saw a boy whose leg was broken in the earthquake and who had lost his mother.
A young man is possessed by an evil spirit.
The possessed youth abducted the boy, thus beginning a new cycle of reincarnation.
It hurts, it hurts, it hurts to be alive!
Life is so bitter!
Countless scenes converge, transforming into endless negative emotions, evil thoughts, delusions, and demonic thoughts, which surge forth.