Chapter 193: My Dao Companion Is A Demon
Ming Zhaoshuang immediately asked, “It’s not that I don’t understand, I’m just very curious. How did Xie Yanning’s Dao Companion end up under the command of the Fifth Prince of the Demon Realm?”
Could it be that Xie Yanning’s Dao Companion is a demon?
Xie Yanning nodded slightly, confirming her thought: “My Dao Companion is a demon.”
Saying that, she opened her hand, and with a slight movement of spiritual energy, she took out a snow-white and cute rabbit from her Cosmic Bag.
Xie Yanning always brought her rabbit with her, no matter the time or place; Ming Zhaoshuang was aware of this, but didn’t understand why she kept a white rabbit with no cultivation.
It would be better to just roast and eat it directly.
But now she understood a little: “This is your Dao Companion?”
She thought it was strange that the Xie Yanning in the original book paid more attention to this rabbit than Qin Feilong, but it turned out she actually liked the rabbit.
Xie Yanning said: “Yes, his mother was a rabbit demon, and his father was a leopard demon. In the Demon Realm, bloodlines often fuse, and most offspring choose to follow the strong. But for some reason, he inherited his mother’s bloodline and became an extremely weak rabbit demon in the Demon Realm.”
“Therefore, he wasn’t always likable when he was young. Only his older sister, Si Fang, treated him very well. So when I decided to form a marriage contract with him, he wanted to invite Si Fang to be a witness. However, he learned that Si Fang had already been taken into the Fifth Prince of the Demon Race’s manor and became one of his concubines.”
“And she was personally killed by the Fifth Prince ten years ago.”
“When Ah Zhou heard this, he was very sad. But within his clan, no one dared to stand up for Si Fang. So he specifically went to question the Fifth Prince, but was killed by the Fifth Prince with a single palm strike, his divine soul scattered and his corpse bones annihilated.”
The cultivation of that Fifth Prince of the Demon Realm had already reached the Integration Mid Stage, while her Ah Zhou’s cultivation had only barely reached the Spirit Transformation Stage.
Naturally, he couldn’t withstand a single blow from him.
Speaking of this, Xie Yanning’s body trembled slightly, and her fingers curled up.
“I have a heart-to-heart bond with him. When his soul scattered, I could feel it. At the very last moment, I was even able to reach his side and gather his last remaining remnants.”
Although the remnants were there, they had become an ordinary rabbit.
Not even a trace of his divine soul remained.
Even if she searched all the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in the Nine Provinces, she couldn’t find any information that could revive Ah Zhou.
Xie Yanning’s eyes turned cold: “He killed my Ah Zhou, killed Ah Zhou’s sister Si Fang, so what if I kill him?”
That Fifth Prince even owed her a life.
Ming Zhaoshuang said, “In that case, this Fifth Prince indeed deserves to die.”
Xie Yanning lowered her eyes, showing a hint of loss, and Ming Zhaoshuang also said she had just healed, and Xie Yanning’s surrounding spiritual energy quickly began to recede.
“It’s just a pity. He is, after all, of the Demon Royal Family. I couldn’t escape from his hands without leaving a trace.”
Her cultivation had regressed from the Early Mahayana Stage to her original Early Integration Stage.
It was even continuously declining, until it reached the Early Void Refinement Stage.
The System said, “The forbidden technique she used was the Golden Jade Rotten Cotton Technique, which could temporarily increase her cultivation by one major realm. However, after it ended, her cultivation would rapidly decline by one major realm, and it would be irreversible.”
In other words, Xie Yanning’s own cultivation was at the Early Integration Stage, but her current cultivation had dropped to the Early Void Refinement Stage.
A full major realm, and a high-level major realm at that.
After the Spirit Transformation Stage, basically every realm breakthrough requires hundreds or even thousands of years.
The gap between Void Refining and Body Integration goes without saying.
To kill that Second Prince, she actually paid such a great price, burning a hundred years of her cultivation, which was truly lamentable.
It’s no wonder the original book wrote that she was at the Early Void Refinement Stage.
After all, she did it to herself!
This made Ming Zhaoshuang sigh, “Did you consider the consequences when you used this forbidden technique?”
Xie Yanning looked at her gradually fading cultivation, and couldn’t help but show a look of regret, but there was no trace of regret in her eyes:
“I was being pursued by two Mahayana Stage cultivators and was in a desperate situation, so I had no choice but to choose that path. There was simply no time to consider the consequences. As for regret, if losing nearly a hundred years of cultivation allowed me to successfully avenge Ah Zhou, I think it was very worth it, and there’s nothing to regret.”
Besides, her talent was so high that relearning it wouldn’t be a big deal.
Speaking of which, Xie Yanning suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood, staining her long robes, like dappled peach blossoms.
She said, “The forbidden technique has backfired. Could you, young friend, take me to a quiet place where I can rest and recuperate for a few days?”
They were now further and further away from the two Mahayana Stage cultivators, so Ming Zhaoshuang pondered for a moment and agreed, driving Sang Biao to rest in a mountain forest.
To prevent others from finding them, Ming Zhaoshuang spent several hours drawing an illusion formation.
Bai Bai jumped out and set up a soul power barrier here, ensuring that no great experts could detect them through their spiritual consciousness.
Xie Yanning took two pills and began to quietly recuperate.
Meanwhile, Ming Zhaoshuang was cultivating her Innate Lightning Spirit Root.
Indeed, as the System had said, Lightning Spirit Roots and Ice Spirit Roots were extremely incompatible, especially since her Ice Spirit Root had already reached the Nascent Soul Stage, while her Lightning Spirit Root was just beginning. Under the pressure of the Ice Spirit Root, let alone cultivating the Lightning Spirit Root like she cultivated the Ice Spirit Root, she couldn’t even do it smoothly.
She could only frown and guide the Lightning Spirit Root’s operation bit by bit.
Allowing it to extend with great difficulty under the control of the extremely powerful Ice Spirit Root.
At the same time, Ming Zhaoshuang couldn’t help but sigh. Fortunately, she had unsealed it when she was at the Nascent Soul Stage. If her cultivation had been higher, she probably would have had no chance to coexist with both the Ice Spirit Root and the Lightning Spirit Root, and would have had to choose to cultivate only the Ice Spirit Root.
However, operating it was extremely difficult, and Ming Zhaoshuang couldn’t help but seek advice from the System:
“How did Feng He cultivate two Innate Spirit Roots back then? How was she able to make them coexist?”
The System said, “Feng He’s spirit roots are symbiotic spirit roots. There’s very little conflict between them. Even if Feng He cultivated two spirit roots simultaneously, there wouldn’t be any problems; at most, her cultivation speed would be a little slower.”
However, the Wind Spirit Root and Wood Spirit Root are symbiotic, but the Ice Spirit Root and Lightning Spirit Root are not.
Most importantly, it is very difficult for anyone to cultivate two spirit roots simultaneously.
If there is the slightest distraction, it will inevitably be counterproductive. Either one spirit root cannot be cultivated, or both spirit roots will be wasted. Therefore, cultivators in the cultivation world generally choose to cultivate only one.
Who knows if Ming Zhaoshuang can succeed.
Ming Zhaoshuang, however, fell into thought.
Cultivating two spirit roots simultaneously was not impossible. After all, the Ice Spirit Root was too oppressive to the Lightning Spirit Root, making it too difficult to cultivate the Lightning Spirit Root alone. If both were cultivated simultaneously, the Ice Spirit Root, which had nothing else to do, probably wouldn’t suppress the Lightning Spirit Root so fiercely, and might even achieve miraculous results.
Most importantly, the level of her current Ice Spirit Root and Lightning Spirit Root were not consistent.
When cultivating, the Ice Spirit Root could only advance a small step, but for the Lightning Spirit Root, it would be a big step. When the gap between the two gradually narrowed, perhaps she would be able to cultivate the Ice Spirit Root independently.
With this thought, Ming Zhaoshuang simply guided the operation of both spiritual flows.
But soon, the intense conflict between the two spiritual flows caused a sharp pain in her chest, and she spat out a mouthful of blood.
Ming Zhaoshuang broke out of her meditative state and stared blankly at her palm.
A sentence suddenly flashed in her mind.
These two spirit roots, contending and fighting, could not coexist.
