"Shi Yi's persuasion was very effective. It was like a stabilizing stone, calming the chaotic thoughts in Qin Yining's mind and gradually stabilizing her emotions.
As a widow, Qin Yining desperately needed a man.
To be precise, she desperately needed a man to take charge, as she felt like a headless fly on her own.
"Yi'er, I only have you now, don't disappear overnight," Qin Yining bit her lip, her slender, fair arms embracing Shi Yi tightly. Ignoring his struggles, she forced him into her ample bosom.
Since Shi Ziling's departure, she had been searching for someone to rely on, and at this moment, Shi Yi suddenly returned, becoming the true authority in King Wu's Mansion.
She had thought that Shi Yi, her nephew whom she hadn't seen in a long time and with whom she had grown estranged, would be like his mother, Yu Yuexian, and dislike Shi Hao, considering him a harbinger of misfortune, and also dislike her, considering her an extra burden, thus driving away herself and her orphaned son.
But he didn't. Instead, he stood up for his orphaned aunt and cousin, allowing her to stay put and not worry about where to go. She wouldn't have to return to the Undying Mountain in a humble plea for them to take in her and Shi Hao.
"Aunt, don't worry, I won't suddenly disappear."
Shi Yi was having trouble breathing. He wanted to push Qin Yining away, but he was concerned about her losing control of her emotions. His hands were at a loss, and finally settled on her shoulders.
Her shoulders are so smooth.
That was Shi Yi's first thought, but he wasn't in the mood to think about that now. He just wanted to comfort his aunt and then go back to check on his own body.
Just now.
Shi Yi discovered that he had already broken through the Transformation Realm. Even though he had only broken through the realm in the Virtual Spirit Realm, that virtual world, the synchronization had actually happened in the real world.
This was not right. If the Virtual Spirit Realm had the ability to synchronize realms like this, then the Virtual Spirit Realm would be the true sacred place for cultivation. Why would others risk their lives to fight for opportunities elsewhere?
Even if something seemed impossible, it was happening to him.
Seriously.
Shi Yi hadn't reacted at first, not realizing the changes in his body.
Having just returned to the real world from the Virtual Spirit Realm's second domain, Shi Yi only wanted to ask the Willow Deity about the doubts in his heart, and hadn't had time to feel the changes within him.
After all, he had already broken through the Spirit Transformation Realm in the Virtual Spirit Realm, completing his Spirit Transformation Heavenly Cave. He hadn't realized that his body in the real world had also simultaneously completed its Spirit Transformation Heavenly Cave.
Synchronized realm!
Shi Yi understood very well what this meant. If synchronizing realms was truly possible, it meant he could break through in the Virtual Spirit Realm first, and then synchronize it in the real world for subsequent realms.
It also meant having the ability to make unlimited mistakes.
But why him? Why not the others?
Shi Yi didn't understand the answer, but he felt it was related to the Script of Salvation and the other twelve Daoist Scriptures that hadn't yet revealed their true meaning.
Everything was as natural as water flowing to the canal.
Everything seemed to follow the will of heaven.
The Dao follows nature.
Follow nature.
"Yi'er."
Qin Yining held Shi Yi, feeling incredibly at ease. She had made Shi Yi her pillar of support, and also considered him the only man in the family.
Especially after what happened in King Wu's Mansion's back garden last time, when she learned that Shi Yi had taken a liking to a woman much older than him, she even subconsciously put herself in that woman's shoes.
"Aunt, how long has my little brother been gone?"
"Almost ten days."
"So long?"
"Hao'er said he wanted to cultivate and told me not to disturb him. If it weren't for me worrying about Hao'er..."
"Qin Yining, you shameless woman, you're actually trying to seduce your own nephew!"
"Mother, why did you wake up?"
It has to be said.
Women are troublesome.
Qin Yining is even more troublesome.
Yu Yuexian is the most troublesome of all.
When Shi Yi was trying to soothe Qin Yining's emotions, Yu Yuexian somehow woke up. Heaven help him, Shi Yi didn't know how much effort it took to appease these two troublesome women.
One was his mother, bound by blood.
The other was his aunt, with no blood relation. Logically speaking.
With Shi Yi's personality, he should have been biased towards his mother, Yu Yuexian, and shouldn't have spoken up for Qin Yining, this aunt with no blood relation.
But, considering Shi Hao...
He was entrusted with his aunt, so how could he just stand by and watch her be driven away?
What if he returned?
He really wouldn't be able to explain!
Fortunately.
In King Wu's Mansion, and in Yu Yuexian's heart, Shi Yi still held a high position. Although she was dissatisfied with Qin Yining's presence, she didn't want to upset her son because of this woman.
Half a day passed.
After dealing with the trivial matters between Yu Yuexian and Qin Yining, Shi Yi began to seriously inspect his own body.
His body was crystal clear, with skin like ice and bones like jade. He had reversed the process from postnatal to innate, with not a trace of impurity.
Most importantly,
His body was constantly undergoing automatic spiritual transformation. The power within his Heavenly Cave was nourishing his body, and with every moment, his flesh was evolving towards greater strength and perfection.
This special feeling was both magical and mysterious, exceeding the understanding of cultivators in this world.
They could only fight to the death, and it was through the trials of life and death, blood and fire, that they grasped the opportunity for breakthroughs.
As for Shi Yi,
Although he was also cultivating the [Primal True Understanding], a method of this world, it was merely a superficial imitation. In essence, he was using the [Primal True Understanding] of this world to tread his own path.
Except for the Blood Refining Realm, the stage of tempering the body, which was almost identical.
He had already forged a path different from this world's in the Heavenly Cave Realm.
His Heavenly Cave wasn't a virtual, illusory volcano, but a small, real world, a microcosm. It was filled with endless earth, water, fire, wind, yin and yang, and chaos.
Although there were many coincidences, if it weren't for the Willow Deity's promise, Shi Yi wouldn't have thought to use the thirteen Daoist Scriptures to evolve the tenth Heavenly Cave, thus embarking on a path into an unknown future.
But the reality was that Shi Yi had successfully embarked on a brand new path.
He would also have to keep walking down this path in the future.
Then.
Would this muddled path, with an uncertain future, be a bright one?
Shi Yi himself wasn't sure, but he could be certain that it was better than constant fighting and killing.
It wasn't that he was averse to fighting and killing, but he felt that the laws of this world were too extreme. Besides fighting and killing, there was basically no other path to follow.
Either to be sublimated in the tempering of life and death, blood and fire.
Or to die in the process, becoming the food of the strong.
The wild lands were primitive, the world like a prison, and living beings like Gu worms.
Only by becoming the Gu King could one break free from the prison.
Shi Yi's path was uncertain. Although he had a way to protect himself through killing, he emphasized following the natural way of the Dao, and would not be forced to do things he didn't want to do.
"Shaping the true spirit self, transforming the spirit's Heavenly Cave foundation, body and soul, undergoing transformation and sublimation, turning acquired into innate. Now, I only need to wait for the Heavenly Cave Realm to reach perfection before I can attempt to break through to the Inscription Realm, and even the Array Formation Realm. But when I break through the Inscription Realm and the Array Formation Realm, will it be possible for those four great killing arrays to be inscribed within my body?" Shi Yi pondered.
The Inscription Realm and the Array Formation Realm.
These two realms were essentially similar, with the Inscription Realm drawing inspiration from the runes of ferocious beasts and raptors, inscribing specific runes within the body.
The Array Formation Realm involves using these runes to initially deduce array formations, allowing one to inscribe various killing arrays within their body, significantly boosting their combat power.
Regarding these two realms.
What Shi Yi was currently contemplating was.
Could he inscribe the legendary Four Great Killing Arrays of the primordial era within his body? If he succeeded in doing so, putting aside everything else, he could effortlessly slaughter a mature Pixiu.
Although this was a very dangerous act, with the risk of exploding his body at any moment, with the Virtual Spirit Realm as a place for infinite trials and errors, it didn't seem entirely impossible.
Just as Shi Yi was pondering this.
A slender figure walked in from outside the door, followed by a pleasant voice.
"Cousin Shi, Emperor Shi wants to see you."
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