Isn't This a Game? Why Are You All Cultivating for Real!

Chapter 128: Chapter 128: Liu Yao

THUMP—

THUMP—

THUMP—

Song Jiulai heard only three loud thumps.

They sounded like a beating heart.

She tried to open her eyes, but it was as if something was holding them shut.

She was immersed in darkness, her body feeling weary.

A strange sense of worry came over Song Jiulai.

She subconsciously called out, "System?"

System: "Daddy’s here. You’re fine."

The tears of gratitude welling up in Song Jiulai’s eyes immediately stopped. "..."

When she first arrived, she hadn’t been used to having a system in her head.

But now, she would probably feel unsafe going anywhere without it.

This silent, suffocating feeling lasted for about ten seconds.

Finally, a blinding light pierced through Song Jiulai’s eyelids.

She tentatively opened her eyes.

She found herself in what looked like a vast field.

The sun ahead was dazzling, and there seemed to be a person in the middle of the field.

She could only vaguely make out the figure of a woman.

Song Jiulai instinctively raised a hand to block the light. With her current cultivation, she wasn’t particularly afraid of the sun, but this light still felt blinding.

She tried to see the woman’s figure clearly, but the harsh light made her eyes water uncontrollably.

"You..."

She heard a woman’s voice—ethereal and faint, as if from another world.

There was a hint of surprise in it.

"So that’s how it is..."

After that murmured whisper reached her...

The scene before Song Jiulai’s eyes changed.

This was a majestic mountain peak, even more magnificent and beautiful than Feique Mountain.

A celestial ladder descended from the peak. At the foot of the mountain, a young girl knelt before the steps, kowtowing as she spoke in a tearful, trembling voice: "Disciple Liu Yao wishes to enter... the Sect and walk the path of eternal life."

Another scene flashed by.

The once-young girl, now a budding beauty, was holding a blood-drenched longsword.

Before her lay several equally bloody corpses.

A furious, thunderous voice boomed, "Liu Yao, you are a Cultivator! How could you commit such wanton slaughter!"

"It wasn’t wanton!"

The girl lifted her head. Thunder cracked and lightning flashed, illuminating the rain that streamed down her body.

She was soaked to the bone but refused to bow her head. "They killed my parents! I was avenging them! I did nothing wrong! Just because they were the Eldest Brother’s family, does that mean I couldn’t kill them? There’s no such logic in this world!"

"If the Eldest Brother is not satisfied, then let him come and kill me for revenge himself!"

"I, Liu Yao, will never admit I was wrong!!"

The thunderous voice boomed again: "They were mere mortals! Birth, old age, sickness, and death are all part of a mortal’s Heavenly Destiny! If they committed murder, Heaven itself would pass judgment, it was not for you to take their lives! They were only your mortal parents. From the moment you stepped through the Immortal Gate, you should have severed all your mortal attachments!"

A ludicrous smile appeared on Liu Yao’s face. "What kind of bullshit Heavenly Destiny is that? All I know is that my parents are dead! If this great path to the heavens means abandoning one’s own family, then what’s the point of this Cultivation? I don’t believe it! I don’t believe that gods are truly heartless!"

CRACK—

Another bolt of lightning struck.

The entire scene suddenly crumbled.

Song Jiulai jolted, finding herself back in the desolate field from the beginning.

Before her was still the same figure she could not see clearly.

Song Jiulai ventured, "Are you Senior Liu Yao?"

At the same time, she was frantically chattering with her system in her mind. ’Is this her life story? So the book was really about her! Holy shit, that’s so inhumane! Why couldn’t she get revenge for her parents’ murder? Isn’t this the Cultivation World, where the strong devour the weak? That’s the ultimate reality!’

"Correct," the system agreed. "I’ve never heard of such a thing either."

The figure wavered.

The light was so intense that it shimmered, forcing Song Jiulai to close her eyes again.

’Senior, the special effects are a bit too blinding. Could you please turn them down?’

A low chuckle seemed to echo. "Tell me, if it were you, would you have done the same?"

"Of course!" Song Jiulai said solemnly. "You did nothing wrong!"

Avenging one’s parents was a matter of course, a natural law.

Another low chuckle was heard.

But to her surprise, Song Jiulai heard the voice say, "No. I was wrong."

Song Jiulai: "Huh?!"

’Where did you go wrong?’

’What’s wrong with avenging your parents?’

’Don’t tell me you were actually brainwashed by those last few sentences!!’

’Wait, the vision didn’t show what happened to Liu Yao afterward.’

"I did indeed leave something in the Secret Realm. Help me take good care of Da Hu. It once mistakenly consumed some Medicine Pills and can live for a very long time. Don’t let anyone discover its secret."

"Also, as you are now, you are still too weak."

As soon as those two sentences were spoken, with a "BANG," it felt as if Song Jiulai was shoved out by something.

BOOM!

She felt something enter her body directly.

Just as she thought that, she suddenly felt her Spiritual Energy surge and roil. She saw a stream of vapor shoot out from the bead on the yellow dog’s collar and enter her body.

At that moment, her Spiritual Energy began to churn and transform.

It continuously battered against her already stable Late-stage Qi Refining Realm.

"I..."

Song Jiulai suddenly felt her entire body begin to burn.

It was an uncomfortable, indescribable sensation.

Like she was nauseous and wanted to throw up.

"Holy shit, you’re about to have your Foundation Establishment!" The system hadn’t expected Liu Yao to leave behind something this good in the Secret Realm. "Strengthen your defenses! This is probably going to cause a big stir. Don’t let any players break in."

Hearing this, Song Jiulai immediately cast a stabilizing spell on the surrounding door panels.

Meanwhile, outside the Sect, Su Daqiang could see a large, distinct mass of Spiritual Energy gathering in the sky above the Sect Master’s small house in the Longevity Sect.

All the surrounding nature’s spiritual energy was being drawn into that little house.

Su Daqiang was dumbfounded. "What’s going on?"

His system suddenly replied: "It’s nothing, just a small matter."

Su Daqiang: "Really?"

System: "Really."

Su Daqiang just felt that the Sect Master was causing quite a commotion.

And this time, there was also a stir over at the Feique Sect.

"She’s reached Foundation Establishment?"

Several Mid-stage Foundation Establishment disciples in the Feique Sect sensed the fluctuation of Spiritual Energy coming from the mountainside.

From the mountainside area... that new Sect Master of the Longevity Sect?

But wasn’t she at the Early Stage of Qi Refining just a short while ago?

She reached Foundation Establishment this quickly?

The Feique Sect disciples were shocked and suspicious, but they couldn’t guess the reason.

This Foundation Establishment was completely unexpected, so Song Jiulai had no time to find a safe place. The Sect would have to do.

She didn’t know what kind of treasure Liu Yao had given her; she only felt that something had forced its way into her mind.

But since the system hadn’t said anything, it was probably fine.

The first Foundation Establishment isn’t a Crossing Tribulation, but a reconstruction of the body.

The feeling of having the meridians in your body completely shattered and reformed was simply outrageous!

The pain wasn’t just physical; her brain felt like it was about to split open.