nucmednet Chapter 41 Perhaps Chu Ning has also become his inner demon.
Chapter 41 Perhaps Chu Ning has also become his inner demon.
Cheng Xiao found his idea somewhat ridiculous.
Chu Ning was the female protagonist of the previous instance.
Regardless of whether the worlds in these instances actually exist, even if they do, the world in those instances is merely a lower-level plane.
The most powerful cultivator has only just broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
The Cangling Continent is very different from there, so how could Chu Ning's aura be here?
Cheng Xiao felt like he must be going crazy.
He can only think of one possibility right now: inner demons.
Although his soul is at the Mahayana stage, his current physical body is only at the Foundation Establishment stage.
The body and soul are inherently one; if the difference between them is too great, inner demons may take advantage of the situation.
This game is truly terrifying!
Cheng Xiao stopped thinking about that absurd idea and instead calmed his mind, beginning to absorb the thunderous power transmitted through the iron chains.
His resolve is unwavering and will never waver.
On the cliff top, Long Yingxue was being struck by lightning repeatedly, suffering excruciating pain.
She greatly underestimated the power of the heavenly lightning.
All the suffering I've endured in the past six months combined doesn't even amount to half of what I'm going through now.
Despite the pain, she persevered.
Because she keenly sensed that after her charred old skin and dead flesh were removed, the newly grown scales actually had faint dark golden lightning patterns, and her defensive power was more than doubled!
She struggled to open one eye and looked down along the iron chain.
To her astonishment, Cheng Xiao did not dodge, but sat at the end of the chain, his hands gripping the chain tightly, his body also wrapped in terrifying lightning, just like her!
Long Yingxue thought he had left, but he hadn't.
Not only did it not leave, it even continued to supply her with spiritual energy, enduring the tribulation with her.
Cheng Xiao lost his spiritual bone, and his body was already weak, so he couldn't withstand the heavenly lightning at all.
Long Yingxue wanted him to leave, but she couldn't say a word.
To make her stronger, Cheng Xiao seemed to have given up everything he had, fearless of death.
Long Yingxue suddenly felt that her cowardice just now was somewhat ridiculous.
It was just a bolt of lightning.
She no longer curled up, but instead raised her head and faced the challenge head-on.
"I think there's something wrong with the dragon's head," Hakimi remarked.
He discovered that the favorability rating had increased again, reaching 75 points.
There's no such thing as increasing affection by being abused.
In the end, he could only conclude that dragon heads are different from human heads, and there must be something wrong with dragon heads!
Cheng Xiao heard this, but remained silent.
He silently endured the baptism, steadied his mind, and dared not relax for a moment.
Because he discovered that Chu Ning's aura was even stronger.
In the previous instance, in order to maximize his favorability, he deliberately created a situation that became Chu Ning's lifelong inner demon.
Although it was successful.
But Chu Ning seems to have become his inner demon as well.
Although Cheng Xiao had no experience in dealing with inner demons, he had at least cultivated the Path of Ruthlessness for many years.
After blocking out his thoughts, he forced himself to stop thinking about Chu Ning.
Besides, even if Chu Ning really did ascend to immortality here, so what?
After all, the world is so vast, and there are many things he doesn't know.
Cheng Xiao was just afraid that this dungeon would make him unable to distinguish between reality and illusion.
Three hours later, although Long Yingxue was still gritting her teeth and holding on, she was already at her limit.
Seeing that it was almost time, Cheng Xiao tightened the chains and pulled the dragon back.
Feeling that there were people she trusted by her side, Long Yingxue reverted to her little girl form and immediately fainted in Cheng Xiao's arms.
At this moment, purple lightning appeared on her body, and it looked very effective.
Cheng Xiao took Long Yingxue down the mountain, where he set up a simple campsite.
In the days that followed, the man and the dragon would go up the mountain every day to receive baptism.
The pursuers never appeared again, probably because they assumed that since they hadn't come out for so long, they must have died at Thunderclap Cliff.
Once all of Long Yingxue's scales had grown back, they prepared to leave.
With Cheng Xiao's first stop already so difficult, Long Yingxue dared not imagine how much harder the road ahead would be.
However, it's all worth it for the ultimate revenge.
They traveled through the night and finally arrived at their second stop.
This place is called the Burial Dragon Abyss.
It is named this because a dragon with the cultivation level of Nascent Soul once died here.
This time, the information is no longer just a legend, because the dragon's remains are still there.
Over the years, countless cultivators have come here to search for treasures, but they have found nothing. It seems that nothing was left behind after the dragon died. Even the dragon bones were placed under a restriction and could not be moved.
"So this is it." Long Yingxue recognized it as she got closer.
"Have you been here before?" Cheng Xiao asked.
"It's not just that they've been here before; everyone in the Dragon Clan knows about this place. The one who died was the previous Dragon King. It's said that he was just one step away from ascending to the Upper Realm, but he was killed by a human cultivator. The Dragon Clan wanted to take the old Dragon King back for burial, but they found that they couldn't even move his dragon bones, so they left them here." Long Yingxue's tone was somewhat wistful.
She wasn't even born when that earth-shattering battle took place; she could only hear about it vaguely from her elders.
"Did you bring me here to sweep the tombs?" Long Yingxue asked curiously.
For nearly a thousand years, the dragons have come here countless times, but they have not only failed to bring back the old dragon king's remains, but they have also failed to find even his relics.
She simply couldn't understand what training value there was in this place.
"You'll know when we get there," Cheng Xiao said without adding anything more.
Long Yingxue didn't ask any questions; all she needed to do was follow behind.
After leaving Thunderclap Cliff, Cheng Xiao led Long Yingxue northwards and finally arrived at Burial Dragon Abyss.
Before even getting close to the edge, a terrifying, suffocating pressure swept over us.
Even though the old Dragon King has been dead for so many years, the oppressive aura emanating from his dragon bones still remains.
This is not a natural abyss at all.
The Burial Dragon Abyss has a huge rift valley that stretches for hundreds of miles, with edges as smooth as a mirror.
It was as if the earth had been cleaved in two by an extremely domineering sword strike.
A fierce wind howled at the bottom of the abyss, carrying with it sharp sword intent and a faint, mournful dragon's roar.
Long Yingxue stood on the edge of the abyss, her face pale and her body trembling uncontrollably.
It wasn't fear, but a resonance and sorrow that came from the depths of one's blood.
"That's the previous Dragon King." Her tone revealed a hint of sadness.
Since arriving here, her mood has been constantly affected by this atmosphere.
Cheng Xiao followed her gaze.
At the bottom of the pitch-black abyss, there lay a colossal skeleton, resembling a continuous mountain range.
Even though it had been dead for countless years, the dragon bones still exuded a terrifying aura.
"The elders of the dragon clan once said that this dragon king offended a human sword cultivator here. Most people on the Cangling Continent are used to fighting alongside spirit beasts, and very few use swords. Top-notch sword cultivators are almost non-existent."
Long Yingxue slowly recounted the story she knew.
"It is said that the swordsman was alone with only his sword and no spirit beasts by his side. The old dragon king and the swordsman fought a world-destroying battle here. In the end, the swordsman cut the old dragon king's body in half with one sword. The swordsman's sword intent cleaved this land into the Dragon Burial Abyss."
"Later, the old dragon king's remains were left here. The sword intent left by that sword cultivator lingered for a long time, suppressing the dragon bones like a cage, making it impossible to collect the body."
Cheng Xiao listened silently, but his heart had already sank completely.
He found that his symptoms seemed to be getting worse, and he was increasingly unable to distinguish between reality and illusion.
As Long Yingxue recounted her story, Cheng Xiao discovered that the sword intent was extremely familiar.
It was the sword manual he had taught Chu Ning.
However, at that time she was not strong enough to unleash such a stunning sword strike.
What suppressed the dragon bone was not some terrifying sword intent at all, but the extreme evil energy contained within that sword intent!
This malevolent energy was extremely tyrannical; it not only locked the dragon's bones but also the old dragon king's soul, trapping him here forever.
If he now possessed the strength and soul of a Mahayana cultivator, he could directly conclude that it was Chu Ning who appeared here a thousand years ago and killed the old Dragon King.
But right now, his physical strength is only at the Foundation Establishment stage.
He feared that the inner demons created by this "Fairy Conquest System" were influencing him, and what he saw and felt might be completely different from what others experienced.
Everything you see before you is an illusion.
Cheng Xiao steadied himself and asked Long Yingxue, "Do you know why the old Dragon King and that sword cultivator started fighting?"