novelraw Chapter 73 : Your Past... Really Isn’t Bad at All!
Chapter 73 : Your Past... Really Isn’t Bad at All!
Chapter 73: Your Past... Really Isn’t Bad at All!
Cui Wenxi’s cultivation had returned.
Fourth Realm Sitting in Forgetfulness—
and even considerably stronger than before.
However, it was no longer of the Grand Void Path.
But rather the methods of the Five Turbid Path.
There was quite a lot of turbid qi within the Fire Element Treasure Seal, though only a limited amount could be utilized. At this point, this was already the limit.
Fang Chang looked once more at the Corpse Refinement Path Class System.
He nodded in satisfaction.
【Bound Target: Cheng Hua (Second Realm · Spirit Preservation)】
【Soul-Linked Corpse Puppet: Zhao Yuntong】
【Current Cultivation Feedback Available: 143↑】
...
【Bound Target: Lü Muxue (First Realm · Qi Absorption)】
【Soul-Linked Corpse Puppet: Zhang Su】
【Current Cultivation Feedback Available: 95↑】
...
【Bound Target: Cui Wenxi (Fourth Realm · Sitting in Forgetfulness)】
【Soul-Linked Corpse Puppet: ???】
【Current Cultivation Feedback Available: 2782↑】
...
【Current Corpse Refinement Path Cultivation: 9/500 (First Realm · Qi Absorption)】
【Current Pure Yang Path Cultivation: 7/500 (First Realm · Qi Absorption)】
...
Among them, Cui Wenxi’s 2782 points of experience were actually far fewer than expected.
After all, she had once already been a Fourth Realm cultivator. The bottlenecks within her body had long since been broken through, allowing the turbid qi to flow unimpeded, thus reducing the amount of cultivation required.
If she had cultivated normally from the ground up, the numbers would likely have been much higher.
Still, Fang Chang was already satisfied.
As the number of Yin Corpses increased,
his advancement speed would only grow faster and faster.
“Counting Cheng Hua and Lü Muxue’s contributions as well, that makes three thousand experience points.”
Fang Chang pondered for a moment.
First, he poured five hundred points into the Pure Yang Path to advance it to the Second Realm.
As for the rest—
he invested all of it into his Corpse Refinement Path cultivation.
In an instant—
his bones became like iron thrown into a furnace, inch by inch tempered and reforged. The Pure Yang qi of the Great Sun True Fire surged violently through his body, while Yin Energy arose from deep within his marrow in response. Under the effects of the twin-headed pig Bìngfēng, sinister yin and pure yang echoed against each other.
Like twin fish biting one another’s tails,
they circulated endlessly through his body, never ceasing.
Fang Chang slowly exhaled.
The Yin Energy within him had become deeper than before.
The blazing yang qi within his body penetrated into his very marrow, forging his flesh even more thoroughly.
【Current Corpse Refinement Path Cultivation: 29/6000 (Third Realm · Guarding the One)】
【Current Pure Yang Path Cultivation: 7/2000 (Second Realm · Spirit Preservation)】
The Second Realm, Spirit Preservation—
was the realm where the inner spirit first took shape, where the Sea of Consciousness first manifested and one could observe inwardly as though illuminated.
The Third Realm, Guarding the One—
was the realm where authority accompanied one’s words and one’s qi naturally stabilized itself.
These were abilities of cultivation realms themselves. They existed across different Paths as well, merely differing in strength and emphasis.
“Not bad, not bad…”
Now that he had personally experienced the exhilaration of this realm, Fang Chang could not help curling his lips upward.
He glanced toward the distant battle where Zhao Yuntong and Zhang Su were entangled in combat with Zhong Ling.
Relying on the Twin-Dragon Grass Talisman Treasure imbued with yang-aspected heavenly thunder, they firmly suppressed the enormous Yin Corpse.
Zhang Su’s Guanyin Path possessed extremely powerful defenses, while Zhao Yuntong’s movements were eerie and ghostlike.
Zhong Ling could only control the Yin Corpse while constantly dodging and raging helplessly, shouting for Fang Chang to fight her one-on-one.
Fang Chang completely ignored her.
Instead, he gave Zhao Yuntong an approving look.
Tongzi had performed well. Her fighting style was still savage, but she was no longer an irrational mad dog.
And with the existence of 【Slaughter Dao Embryo (Purple)】—
as time passed, she would only become fiercer and more brutal in battle.
As expected of the future Holy Maiden of the Obsession Path.
“Rip—”
The sharp sound of a blade tearing through flesh and clothing suddenly echoed through the air.
The Red Lotus Sword in Cui Wenxi’s hand swept through the air, scattering a spray of blood.
She paid no attention to Cui Shuyu collapsing to the ground.
Instead, she turned around, her face blooming with a smile as radiant as warm sunlight.
Within her sunny eyes lingered a vortex-like shade of violet-black.
“See? I told you I could protect you.”
“I saw. You did very well.”
Fang Chang praised her.
Cui Wenxi’s smile became even brighter. Her eyes sparkled, while a drunken flush drifted across her cheeks.
As though remembering something, she tilted her head slightly.
“Come to think of it, Mother isn’t completely dead yet. Should I stab her again to finish the job?”
As she spoke,
she seemed entirely emotionless, merely discussing something utterly ordinary.
Had Cui Wenxi gone mad?
No.
Fang Chang had entered her soul through spiritual projection and engraved marks within it. At this moment, she would strictly follow those marks.
This resembled a hypnotic state that altered cognition more than anything else.
Implanting such marks would never normally be a simple process.
Unless the other party willingly accepted them...
Cui Wenxi herself had not changed.
She still had not become truly strong. At her core, she remained deeply cowardly.
It was simply that when faced with impossible dilemmas, she had shifted from “tormenting herself between what should and should not be done” into a devout believer of the phrase:
‘Think about what Fang Chang would do.’
So then—
had the process of manipulating Senior Sister finally ended?
No.
It had not.
But at the very least, her current state would continue for some time.
Under these circumstances,
Cui Wenxi’s death from the original storyline could likely be delayed by quite a long period.
Fang Chang smiled.
His mood grew a little more pleasant.
He asked in return:
“Is the turbid qi surging into your Violet Palace causing trouble?”
“Shuyu’s heart-blood can suppress most of it. But if I extract Mother’s heart-blood as well, the remaining portion can also be suppressed.”
“Then what do you think should be done?”
Cui Wenxi smiled along with him.
She raised the Red Lotus Sword and stabbed directly toward Perfected Yue Su’s heart.
“Clang—”
The white jade sword suddenly rose, colliding against the Red Lotus Sword in an eruption of sparks.
Perfected Yue Su used the force of the clash to retreat. Upon landing, she stumbled awkwardly and crashed to the ground, dragging a long trail of blood behind her.
Half of her still-charming mature face was smeared with a mixture of dirt and blood.
Her eyes stared fixedly at Fang Chang.
“Who! Exactly! Are! You?! How do you know the weaknesses of this sect’s mountain-protecting grand formation?!”
“Actually, you could try caring about what happened to your two daughters instead.”
Yue Su coughed up a mouthful of blood, her eyes cold beyond measure.
“Cui Wenxi willingly degenerated into a lackey of a Corpse Refinement Path fiend like you. Why should I care about her?! Cui Shuyu repeatedly refused correction and even dared cultivate evil arts within the mountain gate. Her death is entirely deserved! I shall simply regard it as though I never gave birth to either of them!”
“But you!” Yue Su glared viciously at Fang Chang. “A wicked being like you absolutely cannot be allowed to remain within the Cui Family’s Canglan Mountain!”
Fang Chang shook his head.
The two of them were both deeply flawed, and much of the blame lay with you.
Perfected Yue Su actually had her own storyline.
There were quite a few appearance-obsessed players, so naturally she had fans. The process for digging into her history and successfully triggering her storyline had circulated on the forums.
Back then, Fang Chang had never joined Canglan Mountain and had little interest in Yue Su.
So he had never clicked into it...
Suddenly—
a sword light erupted with violet flames.
It illuminated the astonished face of Perfected Yue Su.
She desperately circulated a movement technique, causing her entire body to tremble ever so slightly.
The sword light descended.
She still stood where she was, but sharp wounds and flames remained upon her body.
Yue Su immediately coughed up an even larger mouthful of blood.
Clearly, she had used some sort of life-saving method.
She had already been heavily injured by Zhong Ling’s Yin Corpse, then pierced through by Cui Shuyu’s sword. Now her entire aura had become completely withered.
Cui Wenxi stepped forward and shielded Fang Chang behind her.
Her expression was clear and composed, while violet-black vortices writhed within her eyes as she declared loudly:
“Mother, back then you were dissatisfied with your marriage to Father. One year after giving birth to Shuyu, you secretly slept with Yin An of the Desire Path and became pregnant.”
“You thought he truly loved you deeply, only to discover that you were merely one of his playthings. Once he learned of the pregnancy, he fled in panic.”
“After such disgrace to the sect’s reputation, you should have been grateful that the Cui Family merely aborted the child instead of crippling your cultivation. Yet you continued wagging your tail around the Cui Family like a dog.”
“...A person like that—”
“—I don’t particularly want to be your daughter either.”
Fang Chang poked his head out from behind Cui Wenxi’s shoulder.
He looked at the mature beauty in Daoist robes lying on the ground with pleasant surprise.
——Your past...
Really isn’t bad at all!
Perfected Yue Su’s veins bulged violently. Her beautiful face twisted inch by inch into something resembling a vicious ghost.
“CUI WENXI!!!”