["If you fail to achieve Awakening at the moment you reach Foundation Establishment, you will be directly possessed. Your soul will disperse, and your body will be taken over by the alien insect!"]
[After hearing Ye Chuxue's explanation, you could hardly believe any of it.]
[This cultivation world was completely different from what you had imagined. It was a thoroughly twisted cultivation world. Human cultivation itself was nothing more than a massive deception.]
[Still shaken, you asked her, "Then why did you not die when you broke through to Foundation Establishment? And what exactly is this so-called Awakening?"]
[Ye Chuxue knew that someone who had just achieved Awakening during the Qi Refining stage like you still understood almost nothing. Without hesitation, she brought you back to her Cave Dwelling.]
[Upon arriving, you immediately sensed the dense Spiritual Energy filling the Cave Dwelling, and your eyes were filled with envy.]
[Noticing your reaction, Ye Chuxue calmly said, "You do not need to envy it. The Spiritual Energy in the Canglan Realm is actually poison to people like us who are labeled as demonic cultivators."]
[Hearing this explanation left you puzzled. How could ordinary Spiritual Energy have become poison?]
[After setting up a formation that isolated the entire Cave Dwelling, Ye Chuxue finally began explaining the entire sequence of events.]
[Since the ancient era, the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth within the Canglan Realm seemed to have undergone some unknown change.]
[At that time, many Demonic Sect forces still existed in the Canglan Realm. The righteous sects and the demonic sects were evenly matched, and neither side could truly suppress the other.]
[Gradually, near the end of the ancient era, a Supreme suddenly began massacring cultivators across the entire Canglan Realm.]
[That Supreme only killed cultivators above the Qi Refining stage in every sect, leaving behind a message that no one could understand.]
["What message did he leave?" you asked Ye Chuxue curiously after hearing this.]
[Back then, that Supreme said: This world is false. Never reach Foundation Establishment!]
[However, at the time, the disciples of every sect believed that the Supreme had suffered a cultivation deviation while breaking through his realm, which caused the slaughter.]
[It was during that period that the various sects of the five great continents of the Canglan Realm—Qingzhou, Youzhou, Xuanzhou, Huangzhou, and the strongest of them all, Zhongzhou—sent out their own Supreme experts to jointly hunt down that Supreme.]
[But what happened next shocked everyone. That Supreme single-handedly killed all the other Supremes who had come to surround him.]
[After that, every force within the Canglan Realm united. Whether righteous or demonic, they joined forces. In the end, they only managed to kill him after losing nearly ninety percent of their own Supremes.]
[Later generations came to call that Supreme expert the Luanmo Heavenly Venerable.]
[It was precisely the actions of the Luanmo Heavenly Venerable that caused an unprecedented upheaval in the Canglan Realm and completely ended the ancient era.]
[From that point onward, fewer than one in ten Supreme experts remained in the Canglan Realm, and the overall strength of the world suffered a severe decline.]
[Over the following several thousand years, cultivators similar to the Luanmo Heavenly Venerable began appearing one after another. Each of them spoke strange and incomprehensible words.]
[From that moment on, the Canglan Realm officially classified such cultivators who had supposedly suffered cultivation deviation as members of the Demonic Sect. Meanwhile, those who had once been labeled demonic cultivators became the so-called righteous cultivators.]
[At this point, Ye Chuxue's emotions began to grow agitated. She suddenly shouted loudly.]
["Do you think there is a reason we are called demonic cultivators? We are merely the first group of awakened people who discovered the insect eggs!"]
[Looking at Ye Chuxue, whose expression had turned ferocious, you felt somewhat surprised. You had not expected her reaction to be so intense.]
[You then asked, "But you still have not explained why the Spiritual Energy is poison to us now."]
[After calming herself, Ye Chuxue continued her explanation.]
["Those of us who have achieved Awakening suppress the insect eggs inside our bodies with our own will when we break through to Foundation Establishment, preventing them from possessing us temporarily."]
["But this method only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. As long as you continue cultivating with Spiritual Energy, the stronger you become, the stronger the alien insect inside your body will also grow!"]
[You found it difficult to accept such a reality. If what Ye Chuxue said was true, then the path of cultivation in this world was nothing more than a dead end.]
"What a false world..."
After reading what Ye Chuxue said in the simulator, Su Ming finally understood why he had died every time he previously broke through to Foundation Establishment.
He could also understand why the Luanmo Heavenly Venerable had declared that the world was false and then, in despair, began indiscriminately slaughtering cultivators above the Foundation Establishment stage.
Those cultivators who appeared to be normal humans were, in truth, nothing more than empty shells already parasitized by alien insects.
With that thought in mind, Su Ming continued staring at the simulator. He wanted to find a way to break through to Foundation Establishment without dying.
[After learning this despairing truth, you said to Ye Chuxue:]
["So in the end, none of us can escape the fate of being possessed by those alien insects?"]
[Hearing this, Ye Chuxue first nodded, then immediately shook her head.]
[You did not understand. What did it mean to both nod and shake her head?]
[At that moment, Ye Chuxue said, "If the earliest group of awakened people had faced this situation, then yes—there would have been no way to change the final outcome."]
["They could only do what the Luanmo Heavenly Venerable did: in the final moments of their lives, while they still retained their sanity, they launched attacks against the high-level combat forces of the Canglan Realm."]
[After saying this, Ye Chuxue looked at you and asked:]
["Do you know why, ever since the ancient era, whenever awakened people like us reveal ourselves to the world, we slaughter cultivators?"]
[You shook your head, indicating that you did not know.]
["It is because those senior experts are buying more time for future awakened people."]
["Only by constantly killing these bizarre insects have we managed to obtain the relatively stable life we have now."]
["Although we are still despised by the Canglan Realm, it is far better than the dark era after the death of the Luanmo Heavenly Venerable."]
["After the Luanmo Heavenly Venerable died, the upper ranks of the various sects finally realized that a few powerful humans had managed to suppress their possession."]
["To prevent another Luanmo Heavenly Venerable from appearing, all the sects of the five continents united and launched a campaign to eradicate demons!"]
[After understanding the cause of all this, you could not help but ask, "So what is the situation now? Has a new turning point appeared?"]
[Ye Chuxue nodded.]
["That is correct. A turning point has appeared."]
["Two thousand years ago, someone from our Demonic Sect discovered a sealed ancient ruin. Within that ruin exists a massive amount of Spiritual Energy."]
[At this point, Ye Chuxue revealed a mysterious smile and continued:]
["Do you know what the Spiritual Energy there feels like?"]
[You shook your head.]
["The Spiritual Energy there feels incomparably comfortable. What shocked that senior even more was that cultivating with the Spiritual Energy inside the ruin could actually suppress the bizarre insect within the body!"]
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