Is the cultivation world now only populated by demonesses?

Chapter 83. The Spirits of the Underworld
"Third Prince, would you like to go and steal the fruit?"

Su Youwan glanced at the crowd and saw that quite a few cultivators had already rushed forward. She shook her head and said, "Youwan doesn't need it. Let them have it."

Lu Changyuan smiled and said, "Let's go to the palace."

The battles in the sky are none of their concern.

Su Youwan looked at the spirits around her: "What are these spirits waiting for?"

Ling Zheng stared blankly at the sky.

Lu Changyuan did not answer directly: "Does Your Highness know how the Three Lives Fruit is formed?"

The silver-haired girl was about to say that Young Master Lu liked to answer questions with questions, but after thinking about it, she simply shook her head.

"The spirits in the underworld were originally created by the King of the Underworld from the spirits and resentments of the dead. These spirits can be said to be the last obsession of the dead, or their last hatred."

Lu Changyuan pointed to the fruit on the tree: "The three lives that the Three Lives Fruit gives people are not out of thin air. They are all the memories of these dead spirits before they were alive."

Su Youwan stared blankly at the group of spirits.

Lu Changyuan continued, “Gaining something means giving something in return. Competing for the fruit will inevitably lead to injury. In the Underworld, being injured means losing a part of one’s spirit. Those spirits are waiting for the blood and flesh of cultivators to devour them. In the special place of the Underworld, these spirits have the opportunity to stop being confused and become new life again.”

Su Youwan asked in confusion, "Resurrected from the dead?"

"Not really, it's more like becoming a new life."

New life arises from rotting flesh.

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Accompanied by vast, dark clouds, the Three Lives Tree solidified completely.

black.

Endless desire slowly took shape, causing the entire underworld to tremble violently.

The cultivators in the Underworld have almost all gone mad.

"Quick, go and grab the Three-Life Fruit!"

They ran towards the Three Lives Tree like madmen.

The tree seemed to possess some kind of magic, emanating an aura of the Dao within the ethereal energy, an aura that attracted everyone.

As long as you get close to the tree, you can eat the fruit.

Then one can enter the path.

You can get everything you want!
Mei Zhaozhao calmed herself down, circulated her inner energy, and suppressed the turmoil in her heart.

She murmured, "Such a powerful temptation."

This tree is enticing everyone and stirring up people's emotions.

Once everyone goes mad, they will kill each other. For the Underworld Kingdom, it would be best if all these cultivators died here, but they are forced to refrain from taking direct action due to the Underworld King's decree, so they have no choice but to resort to this inferior strategy.

The fruit of the Three Lives Tree comes from the spirits of the underworld.

Practitioners must eat the fruit of three lifetimes.

The spirits of the underworld want to devour cultivators.

You eat me, I eat you—this is the unchanging principle of the cultivation world.

Mei Zhaozhao took a deep breath and completely regained her clarity.

As the progenitor of all temptations, the Hehuan Sect's mental cultivation methods have achieved remarkable success in resisting temptations.

This achievement reached its peak more than a thousand years ago.

At that time, the Taoist priest of Chang'an beat up the leader of the Hehuan Sect and taught the Hehuan Sect to keep themselves pure. This prompted the Hehuan Sect to change its cultivation method and split into two factions.

One is to extinguish desire, and the other is to release desire.

The Hehuan School, which focuses on eliminating desires, cultivates the Yin-Yang Dao and emphasizes the harmony of Yin and Yang. It is a newly emerging branch, and its mental techniques are stronger than those of the School of Desire Release.

The Hehuan Sect, which focuses on releasing desires, specializes in deceiving people to absorb their magical power. Although their mental techniques are slightly weaker, they are extremely accomplished in transforming people's magical power.

Mei Zhaozhao followed the path of eliminating desires.

Unlike ordinary people, her desires were extinguished more thoroughly because of the previous sect leader's orders.

"Saint."

Wang Lian looked at the trees in the sky with longing eyes.

Mei Zhaozhao said calmly, "Go if you want, but if you die in the Underworld, I can't save you."

"I know." Wang Lian received permission and transformed into a stream of light, darting into the Three Lives Tree.

Mei Zhaozhao still did not leave the room. She looked at the three incense sticks in the room, which were now mostly burned.

Xiao Hai shrank back as he walked out and looked up at the sky.

"What are you looking at? You want to go too? You won't even know how you died."

Xiao Hai had no choice but to retreat back into the room.

Mei Zhaozhao found a clean spot, closed her eyes, and began to regulate her breathing.

She has not yet entered the fifth realm.

However, they do not intend to seek anything else to break through their limitations.

Xiao Hai suddenly asked, "My lord, is my ancestor still alive?"

"Yes."

Mei Zhaozhao didn't even glance at Xiao Hai.

Her purpose in coming here was to find Xiao Hai's ancestor, Xiao Qingfeng.

This person had some connection with the Hehuan Sect. He had once formed a Daoist partnership with an elder within the sect. However, for some unknown reason, Xiao Qingfeng, despite being at the sixth realm, entered the Underworld and was never heard from again.

The person is probably not dead.

I just don't know where it's hidden.

Shouts of battle echoed from afar.

Wang Lian rushed forward. Although she was a disciple of the Nine Gates and Twelve Palaces, she still could not resist the temptation of the Three Lives Fruit.

Unlike the exceptionally talented Mei Zhaozhao, she is only at the third realm, and the fifth realm is still a long way off. However, if she takes the fruit, she can determine her future path in advance.

"The Three-Life Fruit is mine!"

A voice boomed from the sky as someone snatched the fruit and beheaded the man who was trying to steal it, revealing a smug grin.

Crimson blood dripped down, staining the entire underworld crimson.

The cultivators fought fiercely in the sky, and every now and then, severed limbs and broken pieces fell to the ground. Blood mixed with the limbs eventually became food for the spirits.

A red light flashed in the eyes of the person who snatched the fruit, filled with madness, before he turned into a streak of light and flew away elsewhere.

Wang Lian hid in the darkness, following the person who had stolen the fruit.

half an hour.

After rounding several corners, the person's figure was finally revealed again. Upon seeing this, Wang Lian hurriedly approached him, saying, "Good brother."

Before she could finish speaking, a jumble of lights suddenly rushed towards her.

That's how the cultivation world is. You never know how many people are secretly watching you, waiting for you to relax and then tear you apart and eat you alive.

Wang Lian had no choice but to retreat.

"kill!"

Suddenly, a fourth-realm cultivator appeared behind Wang Lian; he was the same person who had sold spirits and rented a room last night.

It was unclear what had happened, but the cultivator's face was pale, his eyes were lifeless, and he could only mutter, "Kill!"

Accompanied by the Netherworld Qi, two arms suddenly regenerated from the flesh of the cultivators of the four realms, and then transformed into a blood-red wind that shot straight into the sky.

Wang Lian's pupils contracted to pinpoints.

She suddenly came to her senses.

That cultivator from the fourth realm wasn't after the fruit; he wanted to slaughter everyone!
Why would someone like that exist?!

The bloodshed and chaos reignited, and in the midst of the confusion, the Three Lives Fruit was strangely ignored, even falling from afar and landing in a corner.

chaos.

kill.

On the scarlet street, people walked slowly.

"Why is no one picking up the fruit?"

Lu Changyuan squatted down and picked up the Three Lives Fruit from the blood-red floor tiles: "I thought this fruit was unwanted, Your Highness, we're quite lucky."

(End of this chapter)