novelraw Chapter 729 228: Better to Be Honest with Each Other_2
Chapter 729 228: Better to Be Honest with Each Other_2
This was the Wa God True Body, naturally carrying Divine Power; every frown and movement was filled with supreme majesty.
Wang Mu didn't speak, instead walking straight over and taking Miss You's hands.
"Don't touch me!" Miss You struggled briefly. "I told you, things are not the same as before. Even if you achieve Ascension, you may not be able to lift my curse. Just go! Go and roam the skies with your Yan Sword Immortal!"
Wang Mu did not let go, and the Infinite Demon Body inside him began to operate automatically.
He wrapped his arms around her slender waist, as supple as a delicate water snake. The soft sensation subconsciously made Wang Mu draw a comparison.
Hers was more slender, more delicate.
Heroine Yan's was firmer, smoother.
"What exactly are you..."
His other hand gently unbuttoned her padded jacket.
Through the glass-like surface of the water, Wang Mu saw an expanse of crystal-clear, fair jade, gleaming softly.
"What are you doing?" Miss You rebuked angrily. "Who allowed you to do this?"
Though her words were fierce, her tail coiled tightly around him.
The Infinite Demon Body was very excited.
Wang Mu wasted no words. He tilted up Miss You's rounded chin, his fingers giving it a gentle squeeze.
Miss You's eyes widened. She was about to shout in anger, but her lips were sealed.
The next second, the mystic black patterns on her body began to shift and flow, slowly migrating onto Wang Mu.
The Infinite Demon Body, which had been extremely excited just moments before, instantly grew listless as the curse entered him.
The Infinite Demon Body couldn't transform everything.
Moreover, Wang Mu had not yet cultivated to that Realm.
And this curse was a punishment from the Heavenly Dao, a true Heaven's Punishment.
It was a Heaven's Punishment directed at Miss You's entire clan.
It was not easy to remove.
The last time, Wang Mu had consumed his own essence; merely a kiss had left him utterly depleted.
That depletion wasn't just physical; his very soul felt hollowed out, as if something essential had been siphoned away.
Destiny.
What was consumed was not just Cultivation.
This time, however, Wang Mu did not break the kiss.
He could feel the Spiritual Power within his body rapidly vanishing.
Miss You's eyelids fluttered slightly as she slowly closed her eyes.
The disappearance of the curse was, in fact, a tremendous pleasure for her.
Every time a bit of the curse vanished, her body would feel immense joy.
Naturally, she began to enjoy it.
Even under Wang Mu's extremely skillful touch, she gradually began to relax and give herself over to the sensations.
Her thick padded jacket slipped off, sending ripples across the water's surface.
Before long, the weakness coursing through his body made Wang Mu realize that even though his Cultivation was countless times stronger than before, it had barely diminished the curse at all.
This curse... Don't tell me it consumes Life Force as a percentage? Wang Mu had figured it out.
It had nothing to do with Cultivation; it was an overdraft of Life Force, a price paid to counteract the Heaven's Punishment brought by the curse.
Without great Qi Fortune, it simply could not be eliminated.
It wasn't truly related to destiny. If anyone else, man or woman, were in this situation with Miss You, the outcome would be identical.
Even achieving Ascension might not be enough.
Miss You had likely realized this during her recent closed-door cultivation.
She hadn't noticed it last time because that was her first experience using this method to alleviate the curse's power. She had never attempted it before and didn't fully understand the curse.
It's just Life Force, isn't it...
Wang Mu sensed for a moment and found his hair beginning to turn white.
The Infinite Demon Body couldn't hold on anymore.
It even triggered an instinctual rejection response, trying to resist these cursed energies.
However, when it came to repelling this kind of curse, the Infinite Demon Body was powerless.
Life Force... I'm not short on that...
Wang Mu gazed at Miss You, her cheeks flushed and eyes closed as if lost in indulgence. He then focused his divine sense on his Immortal Infant, activating the Primordial Wood Longevity Skill. The Immortal Infant turned a pale green, radiating a vast wellspring of Life Force.
Life with Heaven.
The Immortal Infant formed intricate hand seals, its countenance like that of a descended deity, unleashing an unparalleled radiance within Wang Mu's Sea of Consciousness.
That's right. The Primordial Wood Longevity Skill was a Cultivation Secret Method he had obtained from the Ice Blue Ancient Tree within the Immortal Mansion.
It was one of the Five Elements Skills Wang Mu practiced.
All along, Wang Mu had never neglected it.
Every month, he allocated Action Points to cultivate these skills.
Although he hadn't yet managed to make the Realms of all his Five Elements Skills identical, they were mostly at similar levels.
And now, the Primordial Wood Longevity Skill had reached the Fifth Layer.
In fact, after condensing the Five Elements Mixed Yuan Immortal Infant, his cultivation speed for all five techniques had increased significantly.
Especially after consuming the Pan Yang Peach and engaging in Dual Cultivation with Heroine Yan, which helped balance the Five Elements within his body with the aid of Mixed Element Power, his cultivation speed had become even faster.
Of course, the more advanced these Wonderful Methods became, the more difficult they were to cultivate.
Wang Mu was already considered fast.
The Primordial Wood Longevity Skill itself had no offensive attributes; its strongest aspect was its ability to grant a virtually endless Life Span, verging on immortality.
With each layer, the Life Span doubled.
The First Layer granted a thousand years of Life Span, then two thousand, four thousand, eight thousand, and sixteen thousand years.
This wasn't an addition to his existing Life Span, but the total Life Span he possessed at that level.
Cultivating to the Fifth Layer meant possessing 16,000 years of Life Span.
In other words, if Wang Mu found a secluded place to hide and cultivate secretly, as long as he didn't incur any karma, he could live for at least 16,000 years.
It was terrifying. The Primordial Wood Longevity Skill lacked significant offensive or defensive capabilities; its sole, remarkable effect was longevity.
Yet this alone was enough to rival other Immortal Taoist Miao Skills.
What Wang Mu was employing now was the Life with Heaven aspect of the Primordial Wood Longevity Skill.
This was one of the few Divine Skills of the Primordial Wood Longevity Skill.
It could consume one's own Life Span to resist any Heaven's Punishment and even negate Heavenly Tribulation.
This Divine Skill was indeed a perfect match for this Cultivation Technique.
The essence of a Cultivator's Life Force was their Life Span.
The sheer amount deducted by this percentage-based curse was beyond Wang Mu's imagination.
It was the curse accumulated upon Miss You over her thousand years of cultivation.
I wonder how much it will consume... he thought. It can't possibly consume everything, can it?
Upon using the Divine Skill, his originally snow-white hair gradually began to regain its color.
But as more of the curse flowed into him, his hair kept cycling between its natural color and white, his Life Span being consumed at an incredibly rapid rate.
Simultaneously, the curse on Miss You's body was also diminishing.
Faintly, Wang Mu could feel his Life Span rapidly reducing...
At this rate...
Wang Mu kept observing the changes in Miss You. Even if my Life Span is completely exhausted, her curse might not be fully eliminated... I need to break through... If I could reach the Sixth Layer...
What if... I use Mixed Element Power to convert the power of the other Five Elements into the Primordial Wood Longevity Skill... and forcefully break through to the Sixth Layer...
An idea sparked in Wang Mu's mind. The rotation of the Five Elements was an inherent ability of the Primordial Immortal Infant.
This ability was a continuation from the Primordial Golden Pill.
After cultivating into an Immortal Infant, this ability had naturally grown stronger.
Forcefully breaking through in one of the Five Elements Skills this way wasn't difficult.
The Sixth Layer grants 32,000 years of Life Span...
That should be enough...
His Immortal Infant trembled. Wang Mu had it temporarily convert the power of the other Five Elements, elevating his Primordial Wood Longevity Skill to the Sixth Layer.
Afterward, his other major Five Elements Cultivation Methods might temporarily regress, but that was of no consequence right now.
After reaching the Sixth Layer, an even more formidable surge of Life Force erupted from Wang Mu, forming a green, luminous cocoon that enveloped them both.
The curse on Miss You's body visibly diminished at a rapid rate.
The mystic black patterns on her face vanished completely, followed by those on her upper body, then her lower body, and finally her tail...
Yet, Wang Mu's body began to age rapidly...
More than 32,000 years of Life Span...
Wang Mu was truly astounded. It barely managed to eliminate most of it... and it's still not completely gone...
Feeling his aged body, Wang Mu pushed Miss You away.
With most of the curse gone, her body was now truly the Wa God True Body. Every part of her emanated the imposing, ancient aura of a deity. Wang Mu even sensed a primordial and mysterious majesty from her, as if she had transcended time and space...
She was likely still immersed in the joy of the curse's disappearance, or perhaps she was still regaining control over her Wa God True Body. Miss You hadn't awakened; her face was merely flushed, wearing a blissful expression...
Wang Mu, however, walked to one side. Looking at his reflection in the water, he saw a head full of white hair and a face that resembled that of a middle-aged, or even an elderly, man...
I probably don't have many years left to live, do I?
Wang Mu's mouth twitched at the sight. This thing called Life Span... only a major breakthrough in cultivation could replenish it.
A Cultivation Technique like the Primordial Wood Longevity Skill, which could grant such a substantial amount of Life Span on its own, was likely unique in all the Nine Provinces.