Chapter 92: You Can Only Like Me (18)
Jiang Zhiyan went to a town, flew in the air, and looked down. The mortals all looked like they were nearing the end of their lives, and the spirits also looked like they were about to disappear at any moment. Looking closely, she noticed a strange mark on each of them.
“I feel like the mortal realm is nurturing a monster,” Jiang Zhiyan paused, then continued, “Someone wants to become a god and is absorbing their life force.”
This method didn’t even trigger a heavenly tribulation, because heavenly tribulations couldn’t occur in the mortal realm.
She landed again, casually grabbed a spirit, and examined it carefully: “Does this mark exist in this world?”
“I don’t think so,” the System said.
“But it looks familiar.”
System: …
“Don’t tell me it’s related to you again?” the System said, feeling a headache coming on. “Why do so many unexpected things happen to you?”
“I don’t think it’s related to me,” Jiang Zhiyan released the spirit. “I’ve been very well-behaved this time.”
The spirit she had just grabbed, its eyes clouded and dull, walked forward listlessly.
Jiang Zhiyan started searching for the location of the underworld’s mechanism. Interestingly, she couldn’t find it, such a large underworld, and it had actually disappeared, no wonder this place had lost its order, had the cultivation world not noticed?
Or had they noticed but not said anything? After all, only a few people were qualified to know about such things.
If the mortal realm completely lost its order, it would definitely affect the cultivation world and the Demon Realm, and the entire world would collapse. But she wasn’t interested in saving this world, she just wanted to find Xie Liaoyi quickly and take her away. She felt like informing them was already a great deed.
“That person is almost a demigod now, can’t they sense my presence?” Jiang Zhiyan frowned, the difference in their cultivation levels was too great, they should be able to sense her. She completely released her aura, no longer concealing it.
The surrounding environment suddenly darkened.
“They’re here,” Jiang Zhiyan said to the System.
The System was a bit nervous.
Jiang Zhiyan frowned in confusion, she felt like something was off, the next second, she felt her spirit being pulled away, the other party didn’t use much force, just guiding her.
“I’m truly speechless,” the System sighed. “What is going on?”
Jiang Zhiyan didn’t speak, she felt something enveloping her, but she couldn’t see it, she could use cheat methods, but she didn’t sense any danger, so she didn’t do anything.
She was brought to a residence, not very large, but comfortable, clearly someone had lived here for a long time.
Jiang Zhiyan didn’t see anyone, but she could sense their presence. A gentle breeze brushed against her neck, then she felt something enter her body, the sudden pain almost making her lose her balance.
“Host, you’re so pitiful,” the System sighed.
Jiang Zhiyan immediately sat down on the ground and adjusted her breathing. This energy belonged to her, it was like water flowing into the sea, almost impossible to extract.
The book didn’t mention this part, so it was probably related to her divine ancestry.
She braced herself on the ground, leaving finger marks in the earth. This pain lasted for several hours, she didn’t faint from the pain, her mind was exceptionally clear, sweat soaking her clothes, but she couldn’t tell if she was hot or cold.
When the pain subsided, a soul fragment appeared in front of her.
Jiang Zhiyan was stunned for two seconds, and the System was also silent.
She picked up the soul fragment, it was definitely Xie Liaoyi’s aura, but… why?
There were few things she couldn’t explain, but she couldn’t quite grasp this.
“Was I the one causing trouble here? To find Xie Liaoyi’s soul fragment?” The logic seemed sound, but Jiang Zhiyan had no memory of this.
But no matter the reason, finding a soul fragment was good. This fragment seemed incomplete, which was probably why Song Jin’yue hadn’t awakened yet.
“I was causing chaos, why don’t I have any memory of it?” Jiang Zhiyan looked down at her hands. “What happened?”
“I don’t know…”
“Every time I face a heavenly tribulation, it’s like it’s trying to kill me, is it possible that it’s because of this other me?” Jiang Zhiyan’s expression was hard to describe, if another part of her had indeed caused chaos in the mortal realm, then it was perfectly normal for the heavenly tribulation to want to kill her, she frowned and speculated, “This other me probably doesn’t have any consciousness, so no memories, just instinctively searching for Xie Liaoyi.”
Jiang Zhiyan looked around the courtyard: “Did she live here before? Why did she become a fragment again?”
“Help me find out what exactly happened in the mortal realm, if anyone recorded it,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
“I’m looking, I’m looking,” the System sighed. “The incidents in the mortal realm will definitely be blamed on you now, if the cultivation world finds out… I feel like even the Demon Realm might become your enemy. I thought you were using others, but it turns out you’re the biggest victim.”
“It’s fine, we’ll just leave sooner,” Jiang Zhiyan said slowly. “I believe in the world’s self-correcting ability, I believe in those people in the cultivation world.”
“Host, I’ve truly done so much for you, I hacked into the Tianyan Pavilion’s library and found descriptions of gods, Host, I’ll make it short,” the System spoke rapidly. “It is said that tens of thousands of years ago, there were only gods and humans on this continent, no human cultivators or demon cultivators. Humans envied the gods’ immortality, so they attacked them.”
“Clichéd story,” Jiang Zhiyan commented.
The System ignored Jiang Zhiyan and continued: “The gods died and turned into spiritual energy, they could have lived, but they couldn’t bear to fight back, and some other things happened that weakened them.”
Jiang Zhiyan twitched the corner of her mouth.
“But one god fought back, and their appearance led to the emergence of demon cultivators. They wanted revenge, but were destroyed by the Heavenly Dao, leaving behind only a divine descendant. The place where they died became the Demon Realm,” the System paused. “But the book didn’t mention the whereabouts of the divine descendant, the people in the cultivation world searched for a long time, and later, because they couldn’t find them, the matter was forgotten.”
“The books available now all say that the gods naturally perished, leading to the emergence of spiritual energy,” the System added. “The original owner was found by the Wei family by the roadside.”
“The Wei family is that kind-hearted?” Jiang Zhiyan raised an eyebrow. “There must be something more to it.”
“There is, the Wei family’s ancestors participated in the siege against the gods tens of thousands of years ago, so they might know your identity, but I don’t know why they raised you,” the System speculated. “As for what happened in the mortal realm, I looked into it, they don’t know themselves, they only feel that their average lifespan is decreasing, and they’re more susceptible to diseases.”
“Now everyone is praying to gods and Buddhas, the cycle of reincarnation is broken, so many children born now are wandering souls who accidentally entered a womb, I estimate that the mortal realm can only last for ten more years at most.”
“So I might really be struck to death when I go back,” Jiang Zhiyan raised her hand. “I can now glimpse the essence of this world without cheating, the fact that the cycle of reincarnation is broken means that the one in charge of reincarnation before wasn’t a true god? Yes, the gods are already dead… then what was in charge of reincarnation before? A clone of the Heavenly Dao consciousness?”
There were no heavenly tribulations here, but the Heavenly Dao was everywhere, she could faintly sense an uncomfortable gaze on her.
“The Heavenly Dao and the world consciousness don’t seem to be the same in this world,” Jiang Zhiyan narrowed her eyes. “It can’t just kill me and the female lead, the world consciousness has higher authority than the Heavenly Dao in this world… World consciousness, I’m counting on you.”
“Even if you’re a big victim, you can still find a bigger victim,” the System commented.
“What does it have to do with me? The problems here are caused by the world’s settings, it’s normal for the world consciousness to be responsible,” Jiang Zhiyan said, refusing to take the blame for this inexplicable mess.
Now that she had found the item, she could go back.
Before leaving, Jiang Zhiyan erased all traces of her presence and severed all clues that could lead back to her, she didn’t do anything unnecessary.
After returning, she went to Tianyan Pavilion, found the Sect Master, who was standing in front of Tianyan Pavilion’s most treasured artifact, his face pale, his hand on the table, supporting his shaky body, he seemed to have been here for a long time.
She glanced at him and activated the artifact.
His eyes widened, the words “mortal realm” appearing in the air.
After doing all this, she left Tianyan Pavilion.
Judging by his expression, he didn’t know about the situation in the mortal realm. It made sense, these people always talked about “all living beings under heaven,” but this “heaven” wasn’t the true “heaven,” just the cultivation world, and these “living beings” weren’t all living beings, just “cultivators.” Of course, there were also many people with noble ideals, but judging from the current situation, there weren’t many among these powerful cultivators.
Internal strife among the top cultivators was common, and now that the mortal realm was endangering the cultivation world, she was curious about what they would do, would they stop fighting amongst themselves? Would they make peace with the Demon Realm?
Jiang Zhiyan had originally planned to return directly to the Demon Realm, but thinking about what the System had said earlier, she made a detour to the Wei Estate.
The Wei family was a powerful clan in the cultivation world, occupying an entire city, the city backed by a spirit vein, the main branch of the Wei family lived directly on the spirit vein, and the Wei family ancestor lived in the deepest part of the spirit vein, cultivating right next to it.
She located him and raised an eyebrow.
“Neither human nor ghost, I think I can piece together this story now,” Jiang Zhiyan said, crossing her arms. After all, the ancient legends were all there, humans gained the ability to cultivate by killing gods, she was a divine descendant, and the Wei family was probably planning to sacrifice her to help the Wei family and their ancestor reach a higher level.
Jiang Zhiyan raised her hand, wanting to dig up the entire spirit vein, but thinking about the situation in the mortal realm, she put her hand down.
There was no rush, if she acted now, she would expose herself, it was better to let the Wei family do something for her, and then deal with them after they were no longer useful.
“If you’re going to target the Wei family, then what about the male lead?”
“As long as he doesn’t die, it’s fine, I’m not going to kill him, neither the world consciousness nor I want him to die, he won’t die even if he wants to,” Jiang Zhiyan said coldly. “I hope he cultivates the Path of Emotionlessness diligently and doesn’t let this affect his state of mind.”
When returning to the Demon Realm, Jiang Zhiyan deliberately passed by Song Jin’yue and watched her quietly. Her cultivation level didn’t seem to have changed, but her realm had stabilized considerably, and her combat skills had significantly improved, the training was clearly effective.
She originally wanted to sneak a kiss on Song Jin’yue, but seeing the foul-smelling demonic beast blood on her face, she decided against it.
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