My cultivation is too warm

Xu Mo looked at Ji Cangsheng, who seemed a bit strange, and asked hesitantly, "In that case, Uncle-Master, did you understand the reason for this trip home?"

Ji Cangsheng stood with his hands behind his back, raised his head and looked up at the sky, his gaze complex, and let out a long sigh:
"Yes, over the years, I have walked through the world and seen all kinds of people, the hustle and bustle of life. It was a scene I had never seen before."

"So this is what life is like in the human world: ordinary yet warm, with smiles and noise. In short, it was a feeling I had never experienced before, which was particularly wonderful and made me yearn for it."

As he spoke, his face suddenly darkened, he shook his head, and said in a somewhat stiff tone, "However, while I was immersed in the beauty of life, another thought suddenly arose deep within my heart."

"A truly terrifying and chilling thought."

Xu Mo was slightly taken aback upon hearing this, and then couldn't help but ask curiously, "What are you thinking?"

Ji Cangsheng fell silent, not answering his question. After staring blankly at the sky for a long time, he turned around stiffly, stared at Xu Mo, and asked, "Junior Nephew, what do you think of my name 'Ji Cangsheng'?"

Xu Mo was slightly taken aback. Although he didn't understand why she would ask that, he still honestly replied, "I think it's great. It helps people and benefits all living beings."

Upon hearing this, Ji Cangsheng did not show a happy expression. Instead, he murmured somewhat woodenly, "Does it mean to help the world and benefit all living beings?"

He then shook his head with a self-deprecating smile. "But what if this season is a different kind of festival?"

"Another season?" Xu Mo was stunned for a moment, completely bewildered. After a long while, he stared at Ji Cangsheng with wide eyes incredulously and asked, "Sacrifice?"

Ji Cangsheng nodded, then grinned menacingly, looking somewhat deranged. "Hehehe, yes, it's ironic, isn't it? Everyone, including myself, thought my Ji meant 'to save the world,' but no one ever thought that the real Ji meant 'to sacrifice.'"

"This..." Xu Mo was stunned by Ji Cangsheng's frenzied appearance.

He then took a deep breath and asked incredulously, "Uncle-Master, are you mistaken? You're someone who has comprehended the Righteous Qi, how could you possibly be the 'sacrifice' in 'sacrifice'?"

Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Ji Cangsheng immediately clutched his head and roared, "Because every time I see those heartwarming and beautiful scenes in the human world, I feel an urge deep inside me. I want to destroy everything I see before my eyes, even..."

"When I saw them, I felt an overwhelming urge to swallow them whole."

"Do you know how scared I was when I realized I had this thought?"

"Isn't this terrifying? My greatest wish has always been to do something for all people and to make their lives happy and fulfilling."

"But in the end, I found out that it was all a lie, and that all my persistence had been wrong. How ironic and tragic is that?"

Xu Mo was stunned when he heard this. Although he could not truly understand Ji Cangsheng's feelings, just from the other party's description, he could not help but feel his hair stand on end.

That's really terrifying.

How could such a kind person have such a terrifying thought as to devour every life they see?

Or anyone, their Dao heart would collapse, right?

This is understandable. Ji Cangsheng, who has always been a polite and gentle person, has become so crazy.

He then asked with some doubt, "Uncle-Master, have you been subjected to illusionary magic or had your mind affected? Such Taoist magic is not uncommon in the cultivation world."

Ji Cangsheng shook his head, sighed with melancholy, and replied, "At first, I also suspected the same thing. I carefully checked and found that I didn't find anything wrong with myself. However, I still think that my thinking has been affected. After all, it is normal for such Taoist techniques to go undetected."

He suddenly gave a self-deprecating laugh and said, "But later I realized that I was overthinking things. The reason I had such cruel and tyrannical thoughts had nothing to do with anyone else."

He paused for a moment, then emphasized as he continued, "Because this is actually what I was originally like."

"Hmm?" Xu Mo stared at the other person with surprise and doubt, and asked with a puzzled expression, "What do you mean by that? Why does Martial Uncle say that?"

After a moment of silence, Ji Cangsheng clenched his fist, lowered his head slightly, and said with some resentment, "Because later I suddenly realized that I was just a clone that a powerful being had cut off from himself."

"Huh?" Xu Mo was startled and said in disbelief, "A clone?"

He pondered for a moment and said, "But Uncle-Master, don't you have parents and grew up in the Ancient World from childhood? Everything is traceable, isn't it? How could you be someone else's clone?"

Ji Cangsheng shook his head and replied with a somewhat helpless tone, "Because that powerful being is somewhat special. When he cut me down, I was not a living being. Therefore, he needed me to be born from a human's womb for ten months so that I could become a real living being."

“This…” Xu Mo was suddenly stunned. For some reason, he suddenly felt that the script Ji Cangsheng mentioned was somewhat familiar to him.

He then slapped his forehead, stared at Ji Cangsheng with a hesitant expression, and said in a somewhat incredulous tone, "Uncle-Master, the powerful figure you mentioned, could it be...?"

After seeing his reaction, Ji Cangsheng suddenly smiled and said, "I'll call him now, and you'll know then."

As he spoke, he suddenly closed his eyes, and then a strange aura spread out from his body.

This aura was like a specially encrypted signal; even if others sensed it, they couldn't decipher it, and only the person experiencing it could understand its meaning.

Not long after, a ripple suddenly appeared in the surrounding void, and then a figure abruptly appeared beside the two.

Upon recognizing the person, Xu Mo froze, then gasped, and said with a hint of helplessness, "It really is him."

The person in front of him was none other than his good senior brother, Shisheng.

This left him speechless. No wonder he felt a strange sense of familiarity when Ji Cangsheng recounted those events.

How could he not be familiar with this? Because he had seen this script in the knife his senior sister used before.

He even watched the script unfold firsthand.

Back then, in order to reform Shisheng, my senior sister deliberately unleashed a strike imbued with her own Dao of caring for all living beings, all to change Shisheng's cultivation level and make him her backup plan.

Even these strikes imbued with her own Dao were merely superficial means; the true source was the seed of the "Supreme Love Record" cultivation technique, meticulously deduced by her senior sister. It would subtly and imperceptibly alter a person's thinking without their awareness.

After imprinting the seed of the "Supreme Love Record" technique onto Shi Sheng's body, Senior Sister erased all traces of the technique's existence.

Xu Mo suddenly remembered that Shi Sheng had previously deduced this cultivation technique, seemingly with the aim of changing his senior sister's mind.

This made him suddenly feel like laughing for no reason; he realized that all of Emotional Devouring's actions had already been anticipated by his senior sister.

Shi Sheng thought that the "Supreme Love Record" was a technique he had deduced from the previous version, but he didn't know that it was specially prepared for him by his senior sister. His so-called deduction was actually a hidden trick left by his senior sister. The moment he deduced it, the seed of the technique that had been imprinted before would be completely activated, affecting his thinking.

Moreover, because the seed of the cultivation technique had been imprinted for countless years, it had been subtly and imperceptibly transforming his thinking without his awareness.

Once he has fully activated the technique, it will rapidly change his mindset without him even realizing it, and he will believe that this change is reasonable and will not resist it.

…………

After Shi Sheng appeared, he stared at Ji Cang Sheng with a puzzled look, looking him up and down before asking, "Was it you who called me? What do you want with me?"

Upon hearing this, Ji Cangsheng appeared even more puzzled than Shisheng. He stared wide-eyed at Shisheng incredulously and asked, "You don't know?"

Shisheng frowned, looking somewhat impatient, and said, "Didn't you call me?"

He then waved his hand as if shooing away a fly, urging, "Speak quickly if you have something to say, I'm still busy."

"This..." Ji Cangsheng suddenly froze, then looked at Shisheng with some confusion and asked, "Do you know who I am?"

Shisheng nodded and replied calmly, "I know, aren't you the part I once cut off? I discovered it not long after I came to the Canggu World."

As he spoke, he looked at Ji Cangsheng and continued, "So, what do you want? Hurry up and say it. I'm still in the race. If it weren't for the fact that you were a part of me that I once cut off, just for interrupting me while I was racing and calling me over, I would have killed you long ago."

He then curled his lip and muttered under his breath, "You're a human being, yet you have absolutely no manners. Don't you know that calling someone over during a competition is incredibly impolite and disrespectful?"

After he finished speaking, he suddenly looked up at the sky and sighed, "Indeed, it was the right choice for me to cut you off back then. Otherwise, with someone like you who doesn't understand etiquette, how embarrassing would it have been for me to go out like this?"

He raised his head and puffed out his chest with a hint of pride. "I'm not like you. I'm a real human being, and I'm very polite."

Ji Cangsheng was taken aback, then became confused and at a loss for what to do.

Why is this development somewhat different from what I imagined? According to normal development, shouldn't Shisheng have devoured me at this point to complete its own Dao?

He knew that his current life-devouring state was not good, because he had cut himself off, leaving him incomplete and making recovery extremely difficult.

Therefore, if the Life-Eating Beast wants to return to its full strength, the only option should be to devour itself to replenish itself.

But why didn't the other party make a move after seeing me?
Then he voiced the question that had been lingering in his mind: "Don't you intend to devour me?"

Upon hearing this, Shi Sheng suddenly showed a disgusted expression, looked Ji Cang Sheng up and down, and said in a somewhat nauseating tone:
"Huh? What are you talking about? I'm human now, and you're human too. Cannibalism is not allowed. I've seen educational videos; it'll make you go crazy."

"what?"

These words shocked not only Ji Cangsheng, but also Xu Mo, who had been standing silently to the side.

They stared at Shisheng in disbelief, seemingly unable to comprehend that such words could come from the other party.

Then Ji Cangsheng hesitated for a moment and said, "But wasn't your favorite thing to do before to devour living beings? And you devoured world after world, one bite and trillions or even more, so many living beings were devoured by you. Wasn't that your favorite thing to do every day?"

Upon hearing this, Shisheng nodded and, instead of refuting, readily admitted, "That's right. My favorite thing used to be devouring living beings. The taste of that bite was truly wonderful and unforgettable."

“But you also said that was in the past. The past is the past, and the present is the present. In the past, I was an aggregate of the rules of heaven and earth, the Dao of Heaven, not life.”

“Things are different now. Now I’m human too. Back when I was the Heavenly Dao, I could devour other Heavenly Daos to strengthen myself. After all, there was no rule that Heavenly Daos couldn’t devour other Heavenly Daos. And I wouldn’t get sick after devouring other Heavenly Daos of the same kind.”

"But humans can't. Humans can't devour their own kind. So how could I possibly devour you?"

Then, after staring at Ji Cangsheng for a while, he suddenly waved his hand, revealing a look of disgust:

"And it's not that I'm criticizing you, but even though you're the part I cut off, I have to say that compared to me, you're really too ugly. Unlike me, even after becoming human, I'm still so perfect. In human terms, I'm too handsome."

“This…” Ji Cangsheng was stunned again, his eyes somewhat blank and helpless. He felt that the Devouring Life in front of him was too different from the original body in his memory, and he could not connect them at all.

Is this still my original self?

Meanwhile, Xu Mo stroked his chin, seriously considering what Shi Sheng had said earlier. He looked at Shi Sheng and Ji Cang Sheng for a moment, then nodded.

He agreed with Shi Sheng's words. It has to be said that although Ji Cang Sheng was exceptionally handsome compared to others, he paled in comparison to Shi Sheng.

Just as Shisheng himself said, he was too perfect in appearance.

While Ji Cangsheng was in a daze, Shisheng glanced at him and said somewhat impatiently, "Alright, are you alright? If you're alright, I'm going back to the competition."

Upon hearing this, Ji Cangsheng snapped out of his daze and quickly reached out to stop the other person, asking, "But if you don't devour me, how can you restore yourself to full strength?"

Shisheng scoffed, "That's my business. You don't need to worry about it. You're just a part of me that I cut off and didn't want. Don't overstep your bounds."

After saying that, he disappeared without waiting for Ji Cangsheng to react.

(End of this chapter)