Chapter 65: Heavenly Fate Purifies Demons
When An Jiered stillness, a faint glow emerged from the sword mark on the young man’s forehead.
Using An Jing’s sehe Sword Spirit observed the state of the spiritual energy in the Huaixu Realm together with him.
Not much time passed.
Suddenly, An Jing’s expression ged drastically. He opened his eyes in astonishment, and the sword mark on his forehead flickered with a silvery radianough to prove that the Sword Spirit’s emotions were als.
“Demonic Qi!”
An Jing sprang to his feet, staring at his own hands. Then, with an expression of utter disbelief, he looked around at the entire world around him. “It’s… all Demonic Qi?!”
“How could this be…? Demonic Qi has pletely ihe spiritual energy of the entire Huaixu Realm?!”
Iher world, whenever An Jiered stillness and employed his Thought Preservation Teique to refine qi, he could sehat the entire world’s spiritual energy was somewhat murky—akin to a city shrouded in heavy frayish smog.
It was still breathable, but the air tained tless impurities. Breathing it for too long caused harm to the body.
This was the aftereffect of the demonic camity: Heavenly Demons had corroded the entire world, resulting in a near?perma wound that was extremely difficult to heal.
The wastends and acid rain were merely the most superficial signs. At a deeper level, spiritual energy was tainted, making cultivators extremely proo falling into demonic corruption.
Therefore, when the Sword Spirit discovered that the other world still adhered to the Spiritual Root Qi Refining system, He actually found it quite puzzling.
—If the pollution was this bad, yet people in that other world could still refine qi, that was equivalent to bathing in a river full of heavy metal ination.
As for the Huaixu Realm, which looked sht and clear with no hint of inatio was forced to adopt the Heaven?Ordained Fate Martial Path—how severe must its pollution be iy?
The answer: a bck sandstorm!
If the degree of spiritual energy pollution iher world was only parable to grayish smog, then in the Huaixu Realm, it was already a sandstorm so dark you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face!
The entire realm was submerged and permeated by pitch?bck spiritual energy, as though everyone was swimming in an unfathomably dark cesspool!
“Imperial Heaven, Lord above… Fortunately, I held bad didn’t actually attempt Qi Refining, or else my Spiritual Root would have been corrupted!”
Ag out of caution, An Jing had never inteo truly cultivate in the Huaixu Realm using his Spiritual Root.
Had he even briefly sidered abs spiritual energy just now, he would definitely have been caught off guard a Demonic Qi invade his body.
“How is this possible?!”
The Sword Spirit likewise excimed in disbelief, “If the Huaixu Realm’s spiritual energy olluted to this extent, it couldn’t possibly be so lush and thriving. It would be like a living hell, with barren nds, inated rivers, and blood raining from the sky!
“The previous Heavenly Demons would also have been empowered. They wouldn’t have o retreat to the Hidden Realm’s Umbral Sea at all, because the Huaixu Realm would practically be Their sed home!
“I judged the Huaixu Realm’s enviroo be retively fine, so I assumed that the Demonic Qi ination wasn’t that severe… This pletely defies on sense!”
The Sword Spirit simply could not prehend the abnormality of all this.
It was as if no one would ever expect that a seemingly pristine mountain forest with clear, sweet streams brimming with life could be filled everywhere with noxious toxins—one casual breath would be fatal.
It made absolutely no sense.
“In that case, there must be a reason the Huaixu Realm adopted this ‘Heaven?Ordained Fate Martial Path’ as their avenue of cultivation…”
At that moment, An Jing realized something. Frowning, he focused his mind to rouse his Heaven?Ordained Fate. A crimson totem halo appeared behind his head.
Stimuting his Heaven?Ordained Fate, An Jiered stillness in this state, getting into a meditative trance.
Immediately afterward, enlighte dawned on him.
—The Huaixu Realm’s spiritual energy, polluted to a pitch?bck state, was absorbed by the totem of his Heaven?Ordained Fate and then purified, reverting it into the purest form of Spiritbane Qi, only referred to as “Heaven ah spiritual energy”!
—This refined spiritual energy was transmitted into his body via the medium of his Heaven?Ordained Fate, permeating and nourishing his entire being!
A Heaven?Ordained Fate is effectively a filter for Demonic Qi!
In the Huaixu Realm, if you ck a Heaven?Ordained Fate to filter out the near?ubiquitous Demonic Qi, there’s no way to absorb the Heaven ah spiritual energy!
“I see now. No wonder only those who possess a Heaven?Ordained Fate cultivate!”
At this moment, An Jing fully grasped the essence of the Heaven?Ordained Fate Martial Path.
In the Huaixu Realm, only those who hold a Heaven?Ordained Fate could utilize Heaven ah spiritual energy.
Even someone like him, who had simultaneously awakened both a Heaven?Ordained Fate and a Spiritual Root, could only cultivate the Heaven?Ordained Fate Martial Path here.
Because ohe spiritual energy was absorbed and verted by his Heaven?Ordained Fate, it spread throughout his body, soaking into flesh and bothen them—essentially returning him straight to a Fetal Breathing state.
Meanwhile, the Spiritual Root system was another approach: a cultivator absorbed spiritual energy into their body via the Spiritual Root, stored it in the dantian, and eled it through the meridians—parable to breathing through the nose and mouth, distributing it via the lungs.
In theory, using one’s lungs for respiration was more natural, less plicated, and more effit.
But at present, although An Jing’s skin had a protective membrane capable of sing Demonic Qi, his mouth, nose, and lungs did not.
As long as he breathed, he risked ination.
He was best not to breathe—only Fetal Breathing.
Enlighte dawned on An Jing.
No wonder! Despite the Huaixu Realm appearing far better thaher world enviroally, in the end, it still had to abandon the well?established Spiritual Root Qi Refining and pioneer airely new Heaven?Ordained Fate Martial Path!
All of that is because the Huaixu Realm’s enviro is so thhly polluted that Qi Refining is impossible!
“This makes no sense!”
In his Sea of sciousness, the Sword Spirit was still wrestling with fusion. “Ba those days… we should have wht? Although I withdrew halfway through, in the end, I was still able to be enshrined in ritual. Humanity flourished; that should have meant victory!”
“But judging by the severity of this Demonic Qi pollution… could it be that we actually lost? But, if we lost, the Huaixu Realm would have beeroyed by Heavenly Demons long ago, and humankind would have been wiped out!”
“And what about the final oute of that demonic camity back then… Why don’t I remember any of it?!”
At that moment, the broken sword in An Jing’s Sea of sciousness was trembling nonstop, clearly indig the Sword Spirit’s extreme agitation.
“Calm down, Fuxie.” An Jing pondered for a moment, then spoke slowly, “I think you actually do know.”
“It’s just that those memories are the ones you’ve lost.”
“Someone—perhaps the Heavenly Demons or possibly your former rades—took those memories away, leaving you pletely in the dark about the current state of affairs.”
That, too, ossibility.
“…Indeed. Rather than Heavenly Demons, it’s more likely that my panions—and I, back then—made that decision.”
The Fuxie Sword Spirit fell silent for a moment, the out a weary sigh. “If that’s really the case, should I even try to recover those memories?”
“It’s all so plicated. I’m just a sword, you know—why do I have to get dragged into all this?”
But soon, He became spirited again. “Oh well. It doesn’t matter, because you’re the Swordbearer now!”
“Wheime es, you decide whether I should retrieve those memories, An Jing.”
After all, He was just a sword. It erfectly natural for the Subduing Evil Sword Spirit to toss aside such burdens of thought—He was only a sword and couldn’t make that decision.
He was even quite pleased with his own fht. “Fortunately, I anticipated something like this beforehand. That’s why your 《Radiant White Spirit Diviri》 doesn’t require drawing iernal spiritual energy; as long as you have enough Five Metal Baleful Qi, you tinue cultivating.”
(End of Chapter)
