Chapter 206: I Want You to Assist My Cultivation

Perhaps this powerful Cultivator was also a native of Nanzhou, just someone who kept a low profile and wasn't very famous.

He immediately pulled a long face and said, "Fairy, don't even mention it! You don't know that Yunyang City is currently a place of deep water and scorching fire; small cultivators like us simply cannot survive there!"

"What happened?" Ruan Xing asked in surprise.

Under the jurisdiction of the Fengling Yueying Sect, Yunyang City and Huayang City hadn't seen any trouble for three years, not until she was about to leave and handed the position of City Lord over to Ruan Taohu.

It was impossible that she had only been gone for a year and the Fengling Yueying Sect was already unable to survive, right? She hadn't received any Transmission Talisman sent from there either...

Wait, could it be that the Demon Lord Xie Feng had come out to throw his weight around again while she was away?

Ruan Xing's expression turned serious.

Seeing a chance, the Foundation Establishment Cultivator hurriedly added oil and vinegar to his story: "A few years ago, an Evil Cultivator sect called the Fengling Yueying Sect arrived. That Sect Master is ruthless and vicious; not only did she slaughter the previously peaceful Six Suns Study, but she also stirred up trouble in Yunyang City, making life miserable for the cultivators and mortals in the city. The new City Lord who came later was even worse, forbidding us Loose Cultivators from entering the city and threatening to kill anyone she saw. How could we, such rootless Loose Cultivators, afford to provoke them? To find a way to survive and hoping to find a sect to advance further, I came to the Central Province."

Ruan Xing couldn't help but want to laugh; it turned out that her own sister had been the one to force people into a corner.

What this person said was half-true and half-false; Ruan Tao was not the type to kill without blinking.

It was likely that she had previously followed Ruan Xing's instructions to take disciples out to exterminate Monster Beasts, and she had accidentally encountered those Loose Cultivators who killed and robbed. Finding them an eyesore and feeling disgusted, she had driven them all out of the city.

Although these Loose Cultivators usually hung around outside the city, they still had to enter to resupply, right? They had to sell the things they robbed in exchange for Spirit Stones, and once they had Spirit Stones and Pills, they had to spend time cultivating.

If they entered deep meditation in the wilderness, not to mention their fear of past victims seeking revenge, they were even more afraid that their partners would suddenly turn on them and strike from the shadows.

Perhaps Ruan Tao had even killed a few examples to teach them a lesson, which was what scared this person into running so far away.

Not to mention Ruan Tao, even if Ruan Xing herself encountered them, she would kill them too.

It was just that too many people had killed her in the Simulator, and since no one had particularly annoyed her, she was too lazy to spend time looking for them.

Since this person had delivered himself to her door, Ruan Xing would not be polite.

She continued to ask, "Then what are you doing now?"

The Foundation Establishment Cultivator had originally intended to exaggerate a bit to ensure this powerful figure didn't have a good impression of the Fengling Yueying Sect; if she possessed a sense of justice, she might even be incited by him to go and cause trouble for the Fengling Yueying Sect.

However, the more he spoke, the more relaxed this powerful figure's expression became; it seemed unlikely she would believe his one-sided story.

The Foundation Establishment Cultivator dared not mention it further, fearing he might displease the powerful figure, so he answered honestly: "I am currently attached to the Chen Family in Zhongyue City, serving as a guest elder. This trip to the Central Province is just to run errands for the family head."

A small Clan in Zhongyue City of Xizhou.

Such Clans lacked the strength and assets to cultivate protectors like Cang Lin, so they would recruit guest elders, using Foundation Establishment Pills and resources to exchange for a stable cultivator to help the clan with work.

After all, Qi Refining stage cultivators were really not much different from mortals, and it took time to cultivate them, so it was better to recruit some Loose Cultivators who already had a foundation in cultivation.

This Foundation Establishment Cultivator had gone there precisely for the cultivation techniques and the Foundation Establishment Pill.

"Then it seems you cultivate quite quickly," Ruan Xing said.

The Foundation Establishment Cultivator chuckled dryly: "It is merely a case of slow accumulation leading to a sudden breakthrough, just that. I spent quite a long time at the Qi Refining stage."

Ruan Xing didn't bother with him anymore and instead began to set up the formation within the Cave Abode.

She felt that this behavior seemed somewhat familiar... had she done this in some Simulation?

The Foundation Establishment Cultivator waited for a while, and seeing that Ruan Xing hadn't let him leave, he asked cautiously: "Does the Fairy have any other instructions?"

"There is nothing else."

"Then, can this lowly one... leave?"

Ruan Xing looked at him with a smile that wasn't quite a smile, "Do you know who I am?"

He swallowed nervously, "I, I do not know."

"I am the Sect Master of the Fengling Yueying Sect, the one you described as being full of evil," Ruan Xing blinked at him, "You haven't done much to smear my name while outside these past few years, have you?"

She had been wondering—because she was worried that her act of destroying the Six Suns Study would be hard to explain, she and the entire Fengling Yueying Sect had always kept a low profile—why would Wanbao Tower send an invitation to the Fengling Yueying Sect in the Simulation?

It turned out that someone outside had been carrying the burden for her all along.

She wondered how long he had been helping her spread her reputation.

Likely, as soon as anyone asked him, he would pour out his grievances with full resentment.

Upon hearing this, the Foundation Establishment Cultivator's legs went weak, and he knelt on the ground.

His mind went blank; Heaven is going to destroy me!

"This, Sect Master, please let me explain..." He was covered in cold sweat, stuttering, but unable to say anything coherent.

Turning his head to look, he saw that the isolation formation within the Cave Abode had already been set up.

The Sumeru Mirror hung in mid-air; within the barrier, not even an ant could hope to crawl out.

Let alone letting a sound escape.

"I won't kill you for now; I need you to do me a favor," Ruan Xing said.

Hope reignited in the Foundation Establishment Cultivator's eyes, "Sect Master, please speak!"

Ruan Xing gave a mysterious smile, "I want you to assist me in my cultivation!"

Of course, it was just to practice her Magic Art.

Ever since she discovered that her Puppetry had reached the third level, a whimsical idea had sprouted in her mind.

Since a Divine Ability could be combined with Puppetry to become a technique for controlling living people, why couldn't the Tongxuan Scripture be combined with the former two?

She didn't need to struggle with the correct chapters of the incomplete Tongxuan Scripture in her hand; instead, she would fuse the Divine Ability and Puppetry into it.

If Shen Lingyun could improve the Mysterious Grade Sect's cultivation techniques, she certainly could too.

Moreover, she had one advantage over Shen Lingyun: Shen Lingyun's physical body had already died, so when she created the new technique, she could only work backward from the result, using her own Divine Soul to sense the new technique without being able to truly cultivate Spiritual Power.

But she was different; although she would bear the risk of the technique being wrong, causing a Qi deviation and exploding to death, she had the Simulator, and these risks were all replaced by the Simulator.

She only needed to provide a line of thought.

Looking at the Foundation Establishment Cultivator before her, who still didn't know what he was about to experience, Ruan Xing curled her lips and brought her palms together in a grasping gesture.

The threads on the Foundation Establishment Cultivator were easily found by her.

After becoming slightly familiar with the feel, she began to attempt control methods other than grasping.

Her current control methods were still very crude, having only two effects: binding and movement.

Moreover, she had always felt that the Puppetry recorded in the Nether Ghost Record was extremely rigid.

One had to issue commands to the Puppet one by one through a mental link, and only then would the Puppet follow them according to instinct.

Those Puppets lacked their own consciousness and could not be given overly complex commands, otherwise they could not understand them.

It was precisely because of this that a Puppet of the same cultivation realm only possessed seventy to eighty percent of the strength of a normal Cultivator; if it were even dumber, and was kited by a Cultivator who knew tactics, it might not even be able to exert fifty percent of its power.

That was why she had a sudden inspiration to refine Self-destruct Puppets.

This way, the Puppet's cultivation realm could be maximized. Fighting? What kind of fighting; if it can't fight, can't use Magic Art, and can't use a Dharma Artifact, it just relies purely on its realm to blow you up.

If this idea could succeed this time.

Then not only could she discard the disadvantage that Puppets required refining to be used, but she could also improve the problem of the realm's strength not being fully exerted as mentioned above.

Because she could directly control others through her Divine Ability.

This was simply too convenient.

Ruan Xing, while using her Divine Ability to control the Foundation Establishment Cultivator to try more methods, integrated the gained experience into the Tongxuan Scripture, using the Simulator to test whether the improved cultivation method was feasible, as well as its cultivation effects.

She had to improve the cultivation methods for the next two realms all at once.

Otherwise, if there were any conflicts between the Return to Ruins Stage and the Transformation Stage, it would be difficult to change the parts that had already been practiced.

Moreover, once she reached the Transformation Stage, she would no longer be able to spend Spirit Stones and points like this.

Just imagine, a single Simulation now costs ten thousand points, equivalent to one thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.

The Transformation Stage would mean ten thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones for one Simulation.

The Return to Ruins Stage would be one hundred thousand.

This was almost an astronomical figure.

The annual net profit of Wanbao Tower would not exceed ten million Spirit Stones, not even enough for her to simulate one hundred times at the Return to Ruins Stage.

If she were to unify the world of Cultivation and treat all Cultivators as black slaves to earn Spirit Stones for her...

Good heavens, this idea was even more terrifying than the Dark Lord.

Cultivators already struggle against Heaven for their lives, seeking longevity, freedom, power, and status; if she really did this, she would definitely be even more detested than the Demon Lord who shattered the Path to Heaven five thousand years ago, and at that time, Cultivators would stop distinguishing between righteous and demonic, all uniting to crusade against her, the true great demon.

It could also be considered an outstanding contribution to the peace and unification of the Cultivation world.

Ruan Xing hurriedly stopped the thoughts drifting in her mind.

Being a Cultivator still requires a bottom line; one cannot do this.

She had a premonition that after reaching the Return to Ruins Stage, the importance of the Simulator would drop sharply; at that time, it could only be used to test fortune when about to do something dangerous, and could no longer be used so casually as a consumable for improving cultivation and practicing skills.

Spirit Stones and points were decreasing day by day.

The Foundation Establishment Cultivator was already mentally dazed.

Every day, his body felt as if it were not his own.

Sometimes he would hold a sharp blade and carve patterns on his own body.

Sometimes he would twist his arms and legs into incredible arcs like a twist.

Sometimes he would act like a mortal, holding an embroidery frame and silver needles, pinching his fingers into an orchid gesture to embroider.

Although the body was not his own, the five senses were!

He had suffered fractures and injuries more times than he could count, and even wanted to just be tortured to death so he wouldn't have to suffer anymore, yet every time he opened his eyes in despair, he saw Ruan Xing feeding him high-quality Healing Pill, her face full of gentle smiles, "Good pills refined by myself, zero additives, sugar-free, one pill restores you to as good as new, two pills and you'll be jumping around."

"Sect Master, I know I was wrong, please just give me a quick death..." He wept bitterly, weakly begging for mercy.

But he was cruelly rejected by Ruan Xing, "That won't do, you promised to help; before my cultivation method improvement is finished, you are not allowed to die."

She had no sympathy at all for the Foundation Establishment Cultivator who wailed every day; back in the Simulation, he could lay a killing hand on her, a naive, kind, and simple little girl, so how could he be a good person?

Anyway, the sound couldn't get out, so let him scream if he wanted to.

The cold-hearted Ruan Xing just spent her days experimenting with Magic Art and her nights simulating cultivation methods like this.

The Foundation Establishment Cultivator had been missing for ten days, and the Chen Family in Zhongyue City had not sent anyone to look for him.

Perhaps they thought he had run away after getting the cultivation method and Foundation Establishment Pill for free, but it didn't matter; the cultivation methods of the various Clans in Xizhou all had flaws for Cultivators who were not members of their own family, and once he suffered, he would naturally crawl back.

If he didn't come back, then it could only be considered his bad luck that he was dead.

On the twentieth day, the cultivation method simulation made a breakthrough; she successfully reached the Transformation Stage in the Simulation!

It was just that she did not rashly choose the cultivation realm, but chose memory, continuing to absorb experience from the memory in preparation for the next Simulation.

However, the low-grade Healing Pill used for the Foundation Establishment Cultivator had run out.

With her stingy nature, it was impossible for her to use high-grade Healing Pill for the Foundation Establishment Cultivator, and she couldn't use the low-grade ones herself, so she had left them all to Ruan Tao when she left, and there wasn't much stock left.

She was just planning to go to Wanbao Tower in the city to buy some materials for alchemy, but found that Wanbao Tower had already closed its doors.

The gates were tightly shut, and the figures were desolate.

Only then did she remember that the commercial giant of the Cultivation world, Wanbao Tower, was about to welcome its twilight.

If Wanbao Tower really disappeared, then knowledge-based things like cultivation methods, pills, and pill formulas in the Cultivation world would truly be monopolized by major forces, and there would never be legends of Loose Cultivators ascending again.

Sighing, Ruan Xing turned and went to the Cultivator market, bought dozens of Spirit Stones worth of low-grade Healing Pill materials, and came back to refine a furnace.

Two months later, the Foundation Establishment Cultivator happily faced the end of his life.

Ruan Xing also perfected her method of using the Divine Ability, understanding it even better.

First, at the very beginning, Ruan Xing could only grab objects.

In her eyes, the Divine Ability was like a phantom hand, and she almost developed herself into Shen Shou.

Only now did Ruan Xing know that grabbing objects instantly into her hand utilized the power of the laws of space.

This was the most suitable adjective she could find at the moment.

And the death of the Foundation Establishment Cultivator was not something she had intentionally caused.

It was a sudden inspiration Ruan Xing had one time: what would happen if that invisible thread were cut?

She thought of it, and so she did it.

That thread was actually very tough, and apart from her Divine Soul power containing a Divine Ability, no other Dharma Artifact could touch it.

So she wrapped her Divine Soul power around A Jiao's White Jade Sword and struck with difficulty toward that thread.

This was extremely difficult for her, because while the Divine Ability was quite handy inside her body, it felt inadequate when brought out to wrap around a sword with a sword spirit.

This method only lasted for a few seconds; the moment she swung that sword, the Divine Ability automatically returned into her body, and she sat on the ground, weak as if she had collapsed.

Fine sweat emerged on her forehead, yet her eyes watched the Foundation Establishment Cultivator without blinking.

The instant the thread snapped.

The Foundation Establishment Cultivator fell down without warning, as if his entire person had been disconnected.

The injuries on his body had long since been healed by the Healing Pill she fed him; there was not a single scar on his dantian, Soul Sea, or body now.

Yet the person was thoroughly dead.

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