154: Soul Eater

Chapter 153 Spirit Eating Art

White Jade Capital.

Beneath the profound darkness, Zheng Yi slowly opened his eyes.

His breathing changed from its original calmness to hurried, appearing extremely clear within this empty, quiet room.

Immediately after, he snapped his eyes open, full of shock.

It was only after seeing the familiar quiet room that his expression calmed down.

Earlier, when checking the three thousand worlds function of the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror, fearing that some accident might happen, he had already warned Old Chen and Liu Chengen that he was in seclusion and no one was allowed to approach.

"That... was it a dream?"

"Or could it be... the true three thousand worlds?"

Zheng Yi forced himself to calm down, but that scene from just now kept lingering in his mind.

His corpse was bitten and swallowed clean, bite by bite, by Liu Linger!

His Soul was burned to ashes by Liu Yiner using demonic fire!

With all these various sensations of pain and despair, at this moment he could still feel that suffering on his body.

"What on earth... happened?"

"The Yin Yang Treasure Mirror, the Spirit Pool World..."

"Did the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror take me to a real world, or could it be... just a mirror image?"

"A mirror image of some real world?"

"Illusion-Reality Talent?"

His heart stirred, and he once again delved deep into the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror.

The fog dissipated, and lines of handwriting appeared on the mirror surface once again.

[World Illusion-Reality has ended.]

[You survived a mere twelve years in this world, and your short life has already ended. Your greatest achievement was startling a certain demon into tears when she made you her after-meal dessert, with no other accomplishments whatsoever.]

[Illusion-Reality Progress: 18%]

[Consumed Lifespan: 12 years.]

[Illusion-Reality Object: None.]

"What does this mean?"

"Dungeon statistics?"

"How is this like playing a game?"

Zheng Yi was filled with doubts, but he still guessed something based on the current situation.

"An Illusion-Reality World? In other words, what I just experienced was not a real world? But an illusion?"

"An illusion realm that infinitely approaches the real world!"

"Illusion-Reality Progress? Eighteen percent? That is... eighteen percent?"

"And Illusion-Reality Objects?"

"Can I bring things out from the Illusion-Reality World?"

"I should be able to bring out valuable things..."

Based on the existing intelligence, Zheng Yi quickly guessed something.

"And lifespan... twelve years were consumed?"

He quickly checked his own lifespan, and sure enough, it had decreased from the previous 5,112 to 5,100, a full reduction of twelve years!

His lifespan only had five thousand one hundred years left!

"Damn it!"

Zheng Yi checked the handwriting on the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror once more, yet his mind kept recalling all his experiences within the Illusion-Reality World.

A span of twelve years of life, yet in a single morning, he was devoured by demons, and even his Soul was destroyed by them.

At present, he was still engulfed in the resentment and anger of his previous life.

Without personally experiencing it, how could one possibly understand the misery within?

After being born, he was raised precisely as food for demons.

Furthermore, to make the meat more tender and delicious and to enhance the pleasure of tearing into it, people were even arranged to teach him Daoist cultivation and martial arts, absorbing Spiritual Qi and tempering his Physical Body.

What difference did doing this have from massaging pigs and dogs while raising them in the wild?

Thinking back to his past life, certain people would massage livestock, feed them refined feed, and have dedicated personnel play music and treat illnesses for them just to make the livestock's meat more delicious.

When the demons did this in the previous life, what difference was there from those beasts?

He was a human, not a beast!

Beasts are ignorant and muddle-headed, unable to attain sentience, so eating them is just eating them.

But the Human Race...

They were intelligent creatures possessing wisdom, emotions, and convictions.

Raised for twelve years, only to be devoured in a single moment?

This kind of anger and grievance was enough to transform a person's Soul into a fierce ghost demanding a life!

It took a full quarter of an hour before Zheng Yi finally eased up.

The Illusion-Reality World had already ended; no matter how much he fussed over it, it would be of no avail.

What he needed to do now was to properly organize the intelligence obtained from the Illusion-Reality World and prepare for the next entry.

Indeed!

He could enter again.

Within the profound dark Universe on the mirror surface of the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror, the starlight representing the Spirit Pool World, although faint, was still twinkling.

In other words... he could enter once more!

The moment his spirit made contact, he felt a sense of obstruction, much like wanting to open a door, but something was blocking it from the other side, though it wasn't locked.

As long as he used force, he could forcefully break in.

But he could feel that his spirit had consumed too much right now, so forcefully breaking in was not a good idea.

Sensing it once more, lines of handwriting appeared on the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror again.

[Every time you enter the Illusion-Reality World, lifespan must be consumed. The time spent living in the Illusion-Reality World will consume a corresponding amount of lifespan.]

[Current spirit is fatigued, unsuitable for entering.]

[Note: The time flow rate between the Illusion-Reality World and the real world is different; please take note, Master.]

"Hmm?"

"How many years I live in the Illusion-Reality World will consume that many years of lifespan?"

"The time flow rate is also different?"

"I wonder what time it is now?"

Zheng Yi muttered strangely: "I stayed in the Illusion-Reality World for twelve years; although I was muddled the whole time and it felt like a dream, I truly experienced twelve years."

"In Great Yu time, how long has passed?"

In his previous life, he survived for twelve years, yet he had always been kept in captivity within the Spirit Pool World, having no idea what the outside world was like at all.

The only time he left the Spirit Pool was when he was transported as food into the room of the snake demon Liu Linger.

Swallowed in a single bite!

No...

Zheng Yi frowned, recalling that when he was ten years old, due to breaking through the fifth layer of the Spirit Eating Art and gaining the opportunity to tour the Spirit Pool, he had once reached a place of dense fog.

Thinking back now, that tall dark shadow was not any city wall at all, but rather a demon!

A demon guarding the Spirit Pool!

Zheng Yi thought: "The Spirit Pool is a place where demons keep the Human Race in captivity. Aside from the matrons looking after the children, there must be powerful demons guarding it!"

Zheng Yi thought: "I cultivated for twelve years before managing to Cultivate the Spirit Eating Art to the seventh level, and I am simply no match for these demons!"

"Thinking back now, no wonder the Spirit Eating Art only recorded the great dharma gates of how to absorb Spiritual Qi and transform magical power, with absolutely no records regarding Spells and the like."

"After all, demons only wanted food filled with Spiritual Qi that was tender and delicious, not a grasshopper that could resist and attack with Spells!"

The anger in Zheng Yi's eyes grew even more intense.

"What methods are there to clear this Illusion-Reality World?"

"Could it be escaping the Spirit Pool? Or... wait a minute!"

Zheng Yi's eyes suddenly lit up.

His gaze looked toward the progress of the Illusion-Reality World.

Eighteen percent!

In the previous Illusion-Reality World, aside from cultivating, he basically did nothing else.

How could it have such a high world completion rate?

Nearly one-fifth!

Looking again at the evaluation of the Illusion-Reality World.

[You survived a mere twelve years in this world, and your short life has already ended. Your greatest achievement was startling a certain demon into tears when she made you her after-meal dessert; please keep up the good work.]

"Your greatest achievement was startling a certain demon into tears when she made you her after-meal dessert..."

"Startling her into tears..."

Zheng Yi murmured: "Could it be that the condition for clearing this Illusion-Reality World lies with Liu Linger? As long as I kill her, can I clear it?!"

"Although Liu Linger is a demon, her strength is clearly not strong; she should have been born not long ago."

"But by her side, there exists a powerful demon named Liu Miaoer."

"With a casual wave of her hand, she could make me, already transformed into a fierce ghost, suffer total annihilation of both body and Soul! Her strength is definitely very formidable..."

"Or... try slaying other demons?"

Zheng Yi recalled those dozen or so figures who came along with Liu Linger when his Spirit Eating Art broke through to the seventh level.

"Liu Linger's status was clearly higher than the other boys and girls, which is why I, this 'fake immortal seedling,' was assigned to her."

"If I enter the Illusion-Reality World next time and intentionally do not Cultivate, I suppose I will be snatched away by other demons."

"Or rather..."

"What consequences would there be if I find a way to leave the Spirit Pool before the age of twelve?"

He recalled that during the twelve years of his previous life, quite a few children were sent out of the Spirit Pool prematurely for various reasons.

Where did they go?

"Hoo..."

Another quarter of an hour later, Zheng Yi let out a long breath.

After finishing organizing all the intelligence from the previous life, he already had a preliminary plan in mind.

Recalling once again every flower, every grass, every person, and every object in the Illusion-Reality World, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Hmm? That's not right!"

"The Yin Yang Treasure Mirror shows that I did not obtain any Illusion-Reality Objects, but... my memories are still here!"

Zheng Yi said in pleasant surprise: "Not just the memories in the Illusion-Reality World, but... the Spirit Eating Art!"

"That Spirit Eating Art passed down by demons and universally used within all Spirit Pools, a revised Cultivation Technique!"

"Within the Illusion-Reality World, being able to Cultivate to the seventh layer of Qi Condensation in a mere ten years was not only related to my own Spiritual Root Aptitude, bone structure, and Comprehension Ability, but also connected to this Spirit Eating Art!"

"It is precisely because of the power of the Spirit Eating Art that my cultivation speed was so fast!"

"I just don't know... whether the Spirit Eating Art will work in this world?"

Zheng Yi immediately sat cross-legged, carefully recalling the entire contents of the Spirit Eating Art.

"Heaven and earth are the lodging place of all things; time is the passing guest of a hundred generations. Spiritual Qi is the very root of all things..."

Spanning over three thousand words, all of them were recorded within his mind.

After all, ten years of uninterrupted cultivation had caused Zheng Yi to firmly engrave these three thousand-odd words into his mind long ago.

At this moment, Zheng Yi quickly entered a state of Cultivation.

The dense Spiritual Qi around him began to circulate along with the operation of his cultivation method.

Before long, wisps of faint Spiritual Qi slowly seeped out from the surrounding air, wandering within his body like little snakes.

Accompanied by the operation of the Cultivation Technique, Zheng Yi felt as if he were placed in a warm hot spring, with warm Qi seemingly flowing through all the acupoints and limbs and bones of his entire body.

The magical power mist inside his Dantian also began to rotate slowly, and it kept increasing continuously.

Time gradually passed, and wisps of sunlight filtered through the glazed windows, penetrating inside.

At this moment, Zheng Yi also slowly opened his eyes, attempting to breathe out a breath of Qi.

Two fine white Dragons emerged from his nostrils, slowly wandering before disappearing into the air.

Zheng Yi carefully perceived the magical power vortex within his body, and sure enough, it had grown by a trace.

Moreover, after a night of Cultivation, he genuinely felt refreshed, and his spirit was incomparably excited.

A true immortal Cultivation Technique!

This Spirit Eating Art was indeed a true immortal Cultivation Technique!

Unexpectedly, the immortal Cultivation Technique he had painstakingly searched for in the Great Yu world for several years was actually obtained so easily right now?!

Then... was there still any need to excavate his ancestors' mausoleum?

This thought only spun around in his mind for a moment before he quickly made a decision.

Excavate!

Definitely have to excavate!

The Spirit Eating Art was the same as his Dual Cultivation in terms of enhancing his Cultivation Technique; it only had the method, but lacked Spells.

In other words, Zheng Yi currently only had the Dao-achieving method, but lacked Dao-protecting Spells!

"Hoo..."

He let out a long breath of Qi and slowly stood up.

"Gurgle..."

Right at this moment, his stomach actually transmitted a wave of intense hunger, as if he hadn't eaten anything for three days and three nights.

His expression changed slightly: "The Yin Yang Treasure Mirror reminded me that the time flow rate of the Illusion-Reality World and the real world are different. Twelve years have passed for me in the Illusion-Reality World, so how long has passed in the real world?"

"It shouldn't be twelve years, right!"

Startled, he quickly opened the door of the quiet room.

"Someone come!"

Soon, a wave of panic came from afar, and two Shadow Guards appeared and quickly ran over.

"Your Majesty? You have come out of seclusion!"

Zheng Yi frowned and said: "Why are you in such a panic? Right, how much time has passed since this seclusion of mine?"

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