6: The despairing truth!

"At the moment you achieve Foundation Establishment, if you haven't had your awakening, you will be directly subjected to Possession, your Soul will scatter, and your body will be occupied by alien bugs!"

After hearing Ye Chuxue's explanation, you simply couldn't believe all of this.

This world of cultivation is completely different from what you imagined. This is a completely distorted world of cultivation, and human cultivation is a huge scam.

Amidst your shock, you began to ask her: "Why didn't you die when you made a Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment, and what on earth is this so-called awakening?"

Knowing that you, having awakened in the Qi Training Stage, knew almost nothing yet, Ye Chuxue simply brought you back to her Immortal Cave.

Upon arriving at the Immortal Cave, you felt the dense Spiritual Qi within her Immortal Cave, and your eyes instantly filled with envy.

After noticing your abnormality, Ye Chuxue said to you very calmly: "You don't need to envy this. The Spiritual Qi of the present Canglan Realm is poison to us so-called people of the Demonic Path!"

After hearing this explanation, you were very puzzled as to why fine Spiritual Qi had turned into poison.

After setting up a Formation to isolate the entire Immortal Cave, Ye Chuxue began to explain the whole story of everything to you.

Since the ancient times of the Canglan Realm, the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth seemed to have undergone some unknown change.

At that time, there were still many Demonic Path forces in the Canglan Realm. Basically, the Righteous Path Sects and Demonic Path Sects were evenly matched, and neither could do anything to the other.

Gradually, until the end of the ancient era, a Supreme suddenly began slaughtering everywhere in the Canglan Realm!

Furthermore, that Supreme only killed Cultivators above the Qi Training Stage in each Sect, and the words left behind left everyone unable to understand what had happened.

"What words were left behind?" Hearing this, you curiously asked Ye Chuxue.

Back then, that Supreme said: This world is false, absolutely do not perform Foundation Establishment!

However, the Disciples of all Sects at that time all believed that this Supreme suffered from Qi Deviation during a Realm Breakthrough, which led to this massacre.

It was also at that time that various Sects in the five continents of the Canglan Realm—Qingzhou, Youzhou, Xuanzhou, Huangzhou, and the strongest Zhongzhou—successively dispatched their own Supreme powerhouses to crusade against this Supreme powerhouse together.

Then, this Supreme powerhouse exceeded everyone's expectations; he slaughtered all the other Supreme powerhouses who came to encircle and suppress him.

Since then, all factions in the Canglan Realm began to unite. Whether it was the Righteous Path or the Demonic Path, they joined forces and finally killed him after losing about ninety percent of their Supremes!

Later, people called this Supreme powerhouse the Demon Quelling Celestial Venerable!

It was precisely because of the actions of this Demon Quelling Celestial Venerable that the layout of the Canglan Realm underwent unprecedented changes, completely ending the ancient era.

Since then, fewer than one in ten Supreme powerhouses remained in the Canglan Realm, and the overall strength suffered a severe regression!

In the following thousands of years, Cultivators similar to the Demon Quelling Celestial Venerable appeared one after another, and they all uttered some inexplicable words.

Ever since, the Canglan Realm officially classified this type of Cultivator suffering from Qi Deviation as people of the Demonic Path, while the original people of the Demonic Path became normal Righteous Path Cultivators.

Speaking up to this point, Ye Chuxue's emotions began to become somewhat agitated, and she shouted at the top of her lungs.

"Why do you think we are called the Demonic Path? We are merely the first batch of conscious ones who discovered the insect eggs!!!"

Looking at Ye Chuxue with a ferocious expression before you, you felt somewhat surprised, not expecting her emotions to be so intense.

You opened your mouth and asked her: "So you haven't explained yet why the current Spiritual Qi is poison to us?"

After calming her emotions, Ye Chuxue continued to explain.

"When we Awakened Ones make a Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment, we rely on our own willpower to forcibly suppress the insect eggs within our bodies, temporarily preventing them from executing Possession upon us."

"However, this method treats the symptoms rather than the root cause. As long as you continue to Cultivate through Spiritual Qi, the stronger your strength becomes, the stronger the alien insects within your body will be!"

You found it a bit hard to accept such a fact. If it was truly as Ye Chuxue said, then the path of cultivation in this world was a dead end!

"What a truly false world!"

After seeing what Ye Chuxue said in the simulator, Su Ming finally completely understood why he would die every time he broke through to Foundation Establishment before.

He could also understand why the Demon Quelling Celestial Venerable would utter the phrase that this world was false, thus falling into despair and starting an indiscriminate slaughter of Cultivators above the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Those Cultivators who looked like normal people on the surface were actually just shells parasitized by alien insects.

Thinking of this, Su Ming continued to cast his gaze toward the simulator, wanting to find a way to Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment without dying.

After learning such a despairing truth, you said to Ye Chuxue.

"So our ultimate outcome cannot escape the fate of being subjected to Possession by alien insects?"

Hearing this, Ye Chuxue nodded, and then shook her head immediately afterwards.

You were somewhat uncomprehending of this; nodding and shaking her head at the same time—what on earth did that mean?

At this time, Ye Chuxue spoke up: "If it were the first batch of Awakened Ones facing this situation, they truly could not change the ultimate outcome."

"They could only, like the Demon Quelling Celestial Venerable, launch attacks against the high-end combat power of the Canglan Realm at the very last moment of their lives while their sanity still existed."

Speaking of this, Ye Chuxue looked at you and asked.

"Do you know why, ever since the ancient era, every time we Awakened Ones reveal ourselves before the world, we go to slaughter those who Cultivate?"

You shook your head to indicate that you didn't know.

"That is because these Senior powerhouses wanted to strive for more time for the Awakened Ones of later generations."

"Only by continuously killing these Weird Insects could we have our current slightly stable lives."

"Although we are still spurned by the Canglan Realm now, it is much better than the dark era after the death of the Demon Quelling Celestial Venerable."

"After the death of the Demon Quelling Celestial Venerable, the upper echelons of various major Sects only then realized that individual powerhouses among humans had suppressed their Possession."

"To prevent another Demon Quelling Celestial Venerable from appearing, all Sects across the five continents united to launch demon-suppression activities!"

Understanding the cause and effect, you couldn't help asking: "So what is the current situation? Is there a new turning point?"

Ye Chuxue nodded and admitted: "That's right! A turning point has appeared!"

"Two thousand years ago, someone among our Demonic Path discovered a sealed ancient ruin, and a massive amount of Spiritual Qi existed within that ruin."

Speaking up to this point, Ye Chuxue showed you a mysterious smile and continued speaking.

"Do you know what the Spiritual Qi there is like?"

You shook your head to indicate ignorance.

"The Spiritual Qi there is unprecedentedly comfortable, and what surprised that Senior even more is that Cultivating using the Spiritual Qi in the ruins can actually suppress the Weird Insects within the body!"