novelraw Chapter 40 : Did My Cultivation Go a Little Off?
Chapter 40 : Did My Cultivation Go a Little Off?
Chapter 40: Did My Cultivation Go a Little Off?
Crack...
Li Tianwei gathered all his strength, and finally, at the last moment, comprehended the answer he had been seeking.
Countless densely packed words surged toward the depths of Li Tianwei’s consciousness in a form he could not comprehend.
“Prison... Heaven.”
Seeing the two characters branded into his consciousness, a trace of confusion flashed across Li Tianwei’s eyes.
At that moment, the resentment that had invaded his mind slowly dissipated, and the scenes he had just experienced began to fade away.
Suddenly, Li Tianwei opened his eyes once more.
The resentment and sinister aura filling the cave residence gradually dispersed, yet strangely, the crimson in Li Tianwei’s eyes did not fade.
Behind him, countless hideous, twisted shadows began to emerge.
Under the thick evil aura, Li Tianwei slightly raised his hand—not losing his reason in the slightest despite the overwhelming resentment and malevolence surrounding him—but instead maintaining perfect control over this power.
“This time, what I comprehended... is Evil Intent.”
Li Tianwei carefully savored the new Dao Intent he had grasped after exiting his state of “enlightenment.”
“It’s a pity it’s only one kind... And what is this ‘Prison Heaven’ supposed to mean?”
He pondered over the two golden characters deeply imprinted in his mind.
That was the answer he had glimpsed by crossing through the depths of heaven and earth’s resentment—yet Li Tianwei couldn’t perceive its purpose.
“Forget it. Since I’ve already connected to the resentment of heaven and earth, that means I’ve succeeded.”
He could feel the surging power within his body as the resentment energy around him continuously merged into him.
Strangely, this resentment could be transformed into cultivation power just like spiritual energy.
The only difference was that within his consciousness, strange visions appeared from time to time—visions he had long since grown accustomed to.
“System, System, can you sense the two words within my consciousness?”
It was rare for Li Tianwei to encounter something he didn’t understand, and against his usual nature, he decided to ask someone else for once.
The System, which had just regained consciousness from utter despair, saw Li Tianwei’s body surrounded by the fusion of Evil, Resentment, Death, and Killing Dao Intents.
Combined with the Fission Qi-Guiding Method, the resentment energy stirred violently, causing his body to erupt with a force far beyond his physical limits.
The System was utterly dumbfounded.
【You... you’re okay...?】
The System asked in disbelief, seemingly not even registering what Li Tianwei had just said.
“Of course I’m fine. It was just another moment of enlightenment—what could possibly happen?”
Li Tianwei replied in a tone of complete nonchalance.
Seeing Li Tianwei treat his own life so casually, the System nearly exploded with anger.
【Do you even know what that is? It’s the resentment of heaven and earth! You just went and absorbed it? If it could be absorbed safely, don’t you think others would’ve done it already?!】
【That resentment will rob you of reason! You’ll become a puppet driven only by instinct! Even the Undying Body of the Sacrificial Dao wouldn’t be able to save you!】
The System roared in frustration.
“Ah, System, your vision is still too narrow. You’re too quick to generalize.”
“You can’t deny something just because a small number of people can’t do it. Everything in this world has two sides—it’s always changing.”
“If others can’t do it, that’s because they’re incompetent. I’m different—I was born different.”
Seeing the System’s reaction, Li Tianwei sighed deeply and spoke with a tone of elder-like patience, as if he were the one lecturing the System instead.
The System wanted to refute him—but deep down, it couldn’t deny that Li Tianwei made sense.
Others might not be able to absorb the resentment of heaven and earth—but that didn’t mean Li Tianwei couldn’t.
After all, he had truly done it.
“What exactly do these two words mean?”
Seeing that the System wasn’t responding, Li Tianwei pressed on.
【That... looks like a Heavenly Inscription...】
【You probably don’t understand, but it has another name—Divine Ability.】
Hearing that term, Li Tianwei froze for a moment.
As the name sank into his mind, information about the Prison Heaven Divine Ability surged into his consciousness all at once.
“Divine Ability...”
“To think that this enlightenment not only granted me a Dao Intent, but even bestowed a Divine Ability.”
Li Tianwei couldn’t help but sigh emotionally.
A Divine Ability was no trivial matter—it required no spiritual energy to use, as it was engraved into the very origin of a cultivator’s being.
A true Divine Ability could shake heaven and earth, granting an ordinary cultivator the strength to contend with immortals.
Of course, with his current Foundation Establishment cultivation, Li Tianwei could not yet fully unleash its power.
Still, this was an enormous gain for him.
One Dao Intent.
One Divine Ability.
And on top of that, he had learned to use the resentment of heaven and earth as a fuse to trigger the fission power within his body, unleashing a might that far surpassed his normal limits.
“It’s just a pity... that during my battle with Yuan Xixiao, I didn’t have a breakthrough mid-fight. That essential skill never activated! I guess Yuan Xixiao was simply too weak.”
Li Tianwei sighed again in mock regret.
Meanwhile, the System, upon realizing that Li Tianwei had gained a Divine Ability, was completely thrown into chaos.
It immediately began scanning him repeatedly, refusing to leave a single part unchecked, desperate to understand how this man had survived within heaven and earth’s resentment—and how that Divine Ability had emerged.
【False Spiritual Root confirmed.
Comprehension ability—average.
Constitution—nothing special.】
After multiple scans, Li Tianwei’s condition was still the same as before—no changes in his False Spiritual Root, no exceptional talent, nothing unusual at all.
Yet, despite all that, he had accomplished something that no ordinary person could even dream of.
What the System did notice, however, was that Li Tianwei’s spiritual energy had fused endlessly with resentment energy.
Coupled with the Dao Intents of Death, Resentment, Killing, and Evil, Li Tianwei had become utterly yin and sinister.
Whenever he unleashed a technique, demonic energy would surge, evil thoughts would fill the air—he looked every bit like a living devil.
Furthermore, every spell Li Tianwei cultivated seemed tailored perfectly for these dark Dao Intents.
【Heaven’s Descent Art, Soul-Devouring Curse, Extreme Yin Technique, Resentful Spirit and Evil Shadow Spell...】
Seeing these results, the System felt it could almost shut itself down.
Most alarming of all, Li Tianwei seemed to be walking deeper and deeper down a path of demonic cultivation.
After some hesitation, the System couldn’t hold itself back any longer and finally asked:
【Host... have you noticed that your cultivation might’ve gone a little crooked?】
The moment it spoke, the System regretted it.
At that instant, Li Tianwei’s expression changed, filled with disbelief, as though asking: System, are you out of your mind?
In the next breath, the combined forces of Death, Resentment, Killing, and Evil Dao Intents, along with the merged power of resentment and spiritual energy, exploded from his body.
Li Tianwei’s entire figure radiated with an aura of utmost yin and wickedness.
Countless shadows entwined around him, and heaven and earth’s resentment surged as if countless evil spirits were wailing in despair.
“You say my cultivation’s gone crooked? How could that be possible? Look at my spiritual energy, my Dao Intents—they all come from heaven and earth, from the Sacred Land of Lingxu, the righteous leader among the great sects! Crooked? Impossible! I think you’re the one who’s crooked!”