Chapter 305: I Need You to Help Me Cultivate!

Unlike Feng Xue’s expectation, at this moment, besides surprise and curiosity, the strongest emotion in Dailisi ’s heart was fear.

If you ask why—

“There are demon gods in this world!”

Demon god sounds much more terrifying than demon king, but in reality, a demon god is just a demon king—only because they primarily wield divine power, they are given the title “god.” Yet the world’s power systems are wildly diverse, and only demon gods have been singled out, which naturally has its reason.

After all, most demon kings wield power systems intrinsically tied to their native worlds; stripped from that environment, their strength plummets—this is the fundamental logic behind the Exile Lands.

But demon gods are different: divine power exists widely across worlds inhabited by sentient beings. Loosely speaking, wherever sentient life exists, divine power is produced.

Thus, while a demon king can only disrupt one world, an uncontrolled demon god often spreads devastation across neighboring worlds, especially once they develop interworld travel capabilities, causing entire realms to fall.

Before the Exile Lands system was established, whenever a powerful demon god emerged, gods would descend to hunt it down—even at the risk of world destruction and cosmic backlash.

This once caused massive vacancies among combat-oriented divine offices, leading to the creation of military positions filled by examination. But with the development of the Exile Lands, the gods’ employment gap shrank drastically; today, they only descend when a large number of demon gods are about to return from the Exile Lands and no sufficiently strong heroes remain to confront them.

And now, the Exile Lands—which should never produce divine power—have begun producing it!

Doesn’t that mean this Exile Lands can no longer contain a demon god?

Thinking of this, Dailisi felt her skin crawl, a chill racing from her soles to the crown of her head. Feng Xue immediately noticed her emotional shift and asked:

“What’s wrong? Are there hidden dangers with this devotional energy?”

“This isn’t about hidden dangers—it’s about the survival of the world. But if the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up. We just deal with the dragon; the rest will be handled by specialists after we’re done.”

Dailisi shook off the unnecessary sense of responsibility. Put bluntly, even if a demon god truly existed, it had little to do with her, a mere monitor operator. The same action, with different timing, yields vastly different outcomes: if she reported this immediately, she might be blamed for “negligence leading to a bug in the Exile Lands.” But if she first eliminated the dragon, it became “discovering a powerful hero while uncovering a flaw in the Exile Lands”—a merit.

“Is that so?” Although Feng Xue suspected Dailisi was hiding something, a moment’s thought revealed this was no different from the joke about the terrible sniper.

If you’ve got a bad shot holding a position, don’t try to remove him—what if the next one’s even worse?

Dailisi hadn’t realized she’d revealed too much; she nodded firmly:

“Exactly. Divine power itself isn’t problematic—its consequences won’t manifest for a long time. Let’s finish the dragon first, then I can report the issue.”

“Alright.” Feng Xue nodded, then said:

“I’ve already planned the method to seal the dragon, but as I said earlier, we’ve hit a bottleneck. The sooner you help me resolve it, the sooner we can defeat the dragon.”

“Got it, got it!”

Dailisi had initially only viewed Feng Xue as an upper-world show-off, but now the urgency of the demon god made her take this seriously.

Sensing her shift in attitude, Feng Xue immediately brought her to the library and placed a towering stack of spellbooks before her.

Feng Xue didn’t care about leaks. To him, unless a power system was like “Mystery”—one that weakened the more users it had—he had no qualms about sharing. After all, the more people who master a knowledge, the more likely innovation will emerge; if everyone hoards their lineage in isolation, it only grows weaker.

Dailisi stared at the ever-growing pile of books and suddenly felt the same overwhelming sensation as her university days spent frantically studying in the library. Though she’d been a top student, she had no nostalgia for that time.

But now, with her life and livelihood at stake, she summoned the same determination she’d had during her civil service exam prep, activated her auxiliary module, and began frantically drilling.

Feng Xue watched as Dailisi speed-read like a student cramming the night before an exam, momentarily doubting whether she could absorb any of it—but soon, her insightful questions dispelled his doubts.

Though she seemed unintelligent, she was certainly no ornament.

Soon, the library’s atmosphere shifted: from Dailisi listening to Feng Xue, to Dailisi asking and Feng Xue answering; by afternoon, they were debating as equals.

Though Dailisi lacked deep understanding of Eastern philosophical thinking, spells, stripped of their Guinazongjie methods, were fundamentally arrangements and combinations of power. With her divine realm knowledge, Dailisi clearly held superior insight; where Feng Xue and Xiao Lingdang had to rely on brute-force enumeration, Dailisi often pinpointed a general direction at a glance.

But Dailisi wasn’t omnipotent. Her expertise was limited to the Hunter, Knight, and Noble spell systems; everything else was purely theoretical. When Feng Xue narrowed questions to practical application, she reverted to relying solely on her equipment’s auxiliary system for calculations.

Yet as their exchange continued, Dailisi gradually noticed something odd—

“How are these spells you’re studying related to defeating the dragon?”

“Of course they’re related!” Feng Xue bluffed, though inwardly startled—he’d grown careless. He quickly added:

“This spell system was derived from the power sources we extracted from the dragon. By studying it, we can analyze the dragon’s ability mechanics. The dragon now retains only the Wood element, and at most controls Wind and Thunder. Using the Five Elements’ mutual generation and Kezhi , we can suppress him—but this requires us to first deduce the corresponding elemental spell blueprints and transformation processes, which is exactly what we’re calculating now. Once we finalize the formulas, we can set up a grand array to ambush the dragon.”

But Dailisi wasn’t truly foolish. Her gaze swept over the spell structures, and she frowned:

“Then how will you lure the dragon into your ambush? Such an array won’t fool anyone with even basic spiritual perception.”

“That’s simple. Give him a reason he can’t refuse.”

(End of Chapter)