Chapter 127: Liu Yunxi Must Also Work Hard at Cultivation

As the mark representing Little Bell's power settled, Feng Xue and Sara's agreement was witnessed by the gods; the previously tense atmosphere instantly eased, then Sara went berserk.

Because she suddenly realized there was now a "person" on the ship!

"Not human, not even a primate! Physical strength reaches Standard Upper Tier, yet no nanounit response… what exactly is she?"

Probably due to genuine shock, Sara even made the dog stand up, frantically pointing at Liu Yunxi with its paw while barking.

Hearing this, Feng Xue rolled his eyes and mimicked Sara's mechanical tone:

"Due to privacy regulations, I cannot provide information regarding Individual Liu Yunxi."

"..." Sara fell silent instantly, while Feina, who had been inexplicably dragged into signing the contract, twitched a faint smile—this subtle curve made Feng Xue realize this Miss might truly be a slowly recovering endocrine disorder patient, not an AI disguised as a human.

But compared to the two of them, Liu Yunxi was listless as she finished preparing a table full of ingredients, then stood beside the table like a waitress, not saying a word, only attending to Feng Xue's meal, making him very uncomfortable—

"Uh, did I ever say you couldn't sit at the table to eat? Did I lose my memory?"

"No, it's just that I can't eat these things," Liu Yunxi shook her head, her expression peculiar:

"I discovered while cooking—these ingredients corrode my body. To avoid contamination, I cut myself. But the food produced by the air-synthesizing machine? I can eat it. It's just tasteless."

"Contamination?" Feng Xue raised an eyebrow; beside him, Feina spoke rarely:

"She means nanounit assimilation. This lady isn't human, so nanounits will assimilate her body like a phantom beast. Originally designed to prevent species extinction, but as she said, it truly is contamination for individual organisms."

"In fact, the reason a 98% activation rate is required to be classified as a phantom beast is that organisms reaching this level have their subjective consciousness entirely built upon nanounits—thus, through AI domestication protocols, they can be directly reformatted. This ensures complete avoidance of phantom beast consciousness erosion during host-beast fusion, eliminating the risk of beastification disease."

"Damn!" Feng Xue shuddered, suddenly remembering—he himself wasn't considered human either. That meant, if after his transmigration he hadn't used the ingestion technique but merely ate normally, he might've turned himself into a phantom beast? One that'd be brainwashed and reformatted with a single "Poké Ball" toss?

"Close call! Stuff from other worlds really can't be eaten casually!" Feng Xue felt a chill, ignoring Sara's odd stare, pulled out a small notebook, and began scribbling.

But recording was one thing; before the ingestion technique, nanounits could only become the essence Feng Xue cultivated. With ingestion combined with body forging, the relics of the previous civilization transformed into energy, flowing through his limbs and organs. Relying on recent pillar training and abundant blood-qi, Feng Xue could now faintly sense the defensive qi circulating through his meridians.

…

After the meal, Feng Xue brought Liu Yunxi to the training room and began his long-absent combat drills, but he noticed Liu Yunxi, usually so eager for this activity, was distracted. After hesitating, he asked:

"What are you thinking about?"

"..." Liu Yunxi hesitated, then bit her lip and said:

"Can you make me two jade talismans?"

"Oh, that's fresh!" Feng Xue smiled. "What kind? Don't be so formal!"

"One that uses demonic energy to activate the ingestion technique, and another that converts the qi generated by ingestion into Taiyin demonic energy or moonlight qi," Liu Yunxi said. Though reluctant to ask Feng Xue, she'd been with him in this hellhole for ten days—her cultivation progress had been worse than before she got her mouth sealed. If things continued like this, she'd never repay even the interest!

Hearing her request, Feng Xue immediately understood her intent—but the idea was good, the execution?

"Are you overestimating me?" Feng Xue said, slightly embarrassed:

"I've been cultivating for less than forty days total. You want me to rewrite a spell powered by spiritual energy to run on demonic energy?"

"Didn't you tell me to speak up?" Liu Yunxi knew her request was absurd, but right now, it seemed the only option.

"Fine, I was going to develop it anyway." Feng Xue looked at her guilty little expression and nodded. Though useless now, who knew if he'd someday transmigrate to a resource-poor world? Studying energy conversion in advance might be valuable technical accumulation.

Thinking this, Feng Xue abandoned training, pulled a "Eat" jade talisman from his pocket, and activated his Qi-Viewing Technique:

"Try channeling some demonic energy into it?"

"Okay!" Liu Yunxi immediately guided her demonic energy toward the talisman. Though her hundredfold talent made cultivation difficult without moonlight, her qi recovery speed and control precision were also part of that talent—her command of demonic energy far surpassed Feng Xue's by more than a tier.

But…

"Crack!"

Seeing the cracked talisman, Liu Yunxi's face turned deathly pale; Feng Xue frowned slightly, then pulled out a compressed biscuit and handed it to her:

"This is regular food, no nanounits. Hold it. I'll activate the ingestion technique—you eat. But pay attention: if you feel your body being corroded by the ingestion technique, tell me immediately!"

Liu Yunxi understood the stakes, snapped out of her despair, cradled the biscuit like a treasure. When Feng Xue enveloped it in ingestion technique qi, she slipped it into her mouth, using her serpent-like advantage—no chewing, just swallowed whole.

Under Feng Xue's Qi-Viewing Technique, the ingestion technique qi began breaking down the biscuit in tandem with Liu Yunxi's "humanized" digestive system; nutrients flowed into her blood, permeating her limbs and organs—but the problem lay right here.

Liu Yunxi cultivated demonic qi; the ingestion technique produced defensive and nutritive qi.

Feng Xue frowned beside her; Liu Yunxi, however, was attempting to absorb this defensive and nutritive qi for cultivation. She'd seen his Cultivation Techniques; now desperate, she even tried human cultivation strategies.

"It works! But demonic beings' spiritual souls are too weak! Absorption efficiency is terrible!" Liu Yunxi felt disappointment, yet more relief—however slow, this was still a path to cultivation…

Wait, why'd it stop?

Liu Yunxi opened her eyes to see Feng Xue staring at the "Eat" talisman in thought. Her earlier relief twisted into unease—

"If I cultivate using his technique qi, isn't that the same as directly absorbing primal qi?"

(End of Chapter)