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Chapter 960: Chapter 949: Misfortune and Blessing
There are rewards, and naturally, there are punishments!
Demon Cultivators, who produced and widely spread the black filth, all tainted themselves with Karmic Force, the only difference being the extent.
If merits are synonymous with beauty, then Karmic Force is its exact opposite, carrying it makes one despised by the Heavenly Dao and shunned by the world.
Even the unconstrained Demon Cultivators, who slaughter mortals and kill Cultivators using various evil materials for Cultivation and refining Spiritual Objects, would not incur Karmic Force as long as they do not disrupt the natural order!
As they say, "Heaven and Earth are heartless, treating all creatures as disposable."
To put it bluntly, the Heavenly Dao is not benevolent and treats all beings as lifeless offerings.
And the punishment for this by the Heavenly Dao is far beyond just these!
The most severe is the reduction of Demonic Tao’s Qi Fortune by the Heavenly Dao by a whole ten percent!
No matter if you have achieved the Immortal Realm or just stepped into the Demonic Tao, Qi Fortune is reduced, the extent of the reduction varies based on the level of involvement.
One day, while he was cultivating, Zhirui was startled awake by Da Qing’s Soul Voice Transmission and hurriedly flew outside.
When he saw Cheng Shuo, sealed by Nether Ice and on the brink of death, his eyes moistened with tears which he forcibly held back to prevent himself from crying in front of everyone. With a hoarse voice, he asked, "Shuo, what happened to her?"
"Shuo and I were training on the Ten Thousand Miles Plain in the south, thanks to the presence of people like Yang, our strength was not weak, and we were very cautious, never provoking any formidable Devil Beasts."
Cheng Sheng choked up and said, "Everything was normal until an accident happened half a month ago. Shuo found a freshly laid egg of a fifth-order Taiyin Cold Toad and, with everyone’s strength, easily killed it."
"We were about to collect the toad egg when suddenly a Lianxu Cultivator appeared and attacked us without a word; although we used every means to escape, Shuo was severely injured and would have perished on the way back to the family if it weren’t for a piece of Nether Ice we had serendipitously obtained earlier."
Nether Ice’s greatest use is to freeze the physical body; even after a hundred years, the body remains in the state it was first preserved, allowing Cheng Shuo to survive and return to the family.
Understandably, Zhirui was furious, but he did not forget the urgency and proceeded to examine Cheng Shuo’s injuries.
After a thorough investigation, Zhirui found out the extent of Cheng Shuo’s injuries, which were extremely severe!
Her meridians were severely damaged with hardly any intact, and there were insidious injuries everywhere.
Most critically, her body harbored a dominant Yang Qi which firmly suppressed Cheng Shuo’s Taiyin Spiritual Energy, causing constant explosive conflicts between Yin and Yang inside her body.
Fortunately, the Yang Qi was frozen by the Nether Ice, or else it would continue to wreak havoc, potentially rupturing all of Cheng Shuo’s meridians.
Though her injuries were exceptionally severe at the moment, healing was not impossible, but it would require a very lengthy period.
While Zhirui was intently discussing Cheng Shuo’s treatment plan with Li Minghua and other Spirit Doctors, Cheng Sheng suddenly fainted beside him.
"Jiu, Sheng has also not escaped light injuries," Da Qing, quick to react, supported him and, after examining with his Divine Sense, frowned and said.
If Cheng Shuo almost perished at that Lianxu Cultivator’s hands, how could Cheng Sheng be completely unharmed?
It was simply due to his Cultivation of the Tao of the Sun, being unaffected by Yang Qi, and his will as sturdy as a rock, which allowed him to endure till now.
Zhirui sighed inwardly, ’Why does everyone return with injuries?’
Da Qing and the others were so, even Jiang Fengwu who returned years earlier was not lightly injured, and Cheng Shuo’s case was even worse, nearly fatal!
This caused Zhirui to reflect on his decision to bring all family members to the dangerous Primal Spirit Realm without consulting their opinions, wondering if it was indeed the right decision.
"Alas!"
Zhirui sighed and said, "Take them all to Spirit Realm for healing."
What’s done is done, thinking more about it was useless, better to focus on quickly enhancing Cultivation to provide them better life-saving Spiritual Objects.
Zhirui used Mana to gently drag the Cheng siblings, with Da Qing behind him while he sent other family members away.
Though both their injuries were extremely serious, they were still alive; there was no need for such upheaval.
Zhirui exercised Divine Power, first cleansing the foreign Mana within Cheng Shuo, then nurturing her nearly completely damaged meridians and treating external injuries.
Cheng Sheng’s injuries were easier to handle and didn’t take much effort to reach completion; now, it was just a matter of time for the injuries to heal slowly.
Their Spirit Beasts also had varying degrees of injuries.
"Do you need anything else?" Zhirui turned to Da Qing, who was still lingering.
"Jiu, I wanted to ask about the Red Date Spirit Root’s growth."
Da Qing’s bloodline was currently only fifth rank, and though the Li family could now procure plenty of Sixth-Order Spiritual Objects for him to advance his bloodline, Da Qing preferred to achieve bloodline transition through consuming Red Date.
The reason was that Red Date provided a fundamental purification, making one’s own bloodline purer, while using Spiritual Objects only increased the bloodline quantity.
Simply put, the former was a qualitative change whereas the latter at best constituted a quantitative change.
Compared to Xiaoqing and Cang’s sixth-order bloodline, Shen didn’t need to worry about her bloodline, and Mu’s bloodline was as high as eighth rank, it’s no wonder Da Qing was most concerned about Red Date.
