Soon after.
A rather sinister and terrifying evil figure, with a maggot-like face, emerged from the lake.
The coldness emitted by this creature made her extremely afraid. She could clearly feel that her soul was being contaminated by this thing.
She felt fear, not because of its strength, but rather because of how potentially dangerous it was to her soul. Inwardly, she screamed.
‘What is it?’
‘Why is it so ugly and so disgusting?!’
Fortunately, Yu Shengyun was powerful enough to resist its corrosive effects, and would not go crazy just because she had encountered this ancient being.
However, her keen sense of danger kept sending warning signals to her. Unlike her, Yuchi had not had this kind of perception ability back then.
It was the right choice to escape.
There was no benefit to fighting against such a thing, even if she won in the end. The damage to her soul would make it a pyrrhic victory.
While she was in a state of deep thought, Yuchi spoke up from behind her, ” Can you try to fight it?”
Yu Shengyun did not answer Yuchi’s question immediately.
She first returned to Yuchi’s side. After she was sure that the thing in front of her was suppressed by Yuchi, she carefully said, “Could it be that you were not fishing before, but fighting these sorts of things?”
She finally understood!
She connected the dots between Yuchi’s fishing rod and the subtle changes in the surroundings. Yuchi looked like he was fishing casually, but in fact, he was performing a rather evil ritual with his fishing rod. He was summoning a very ghostly and terrifying thing from the dead!
After getting Yuchi’s confirmation, Yu Shengyun looked at the calm man beside her in disbelief. “Why? Why would you mess with this sort of thing? I can sense its ability to contaminate the soul, and you definitely can too. It’s very ferocious!”
“That’s right.”
“Then why?”
“In order to increase my strength. If I defeat them, they will bless me,” Yuchi said.
Yu Shengyun exclaimed, “Blessing? You call this a blessing?”
“I can feel it! This is definitely not a blessing! You could even call this a type of possession! If your soul wavers even a little, these things would immediately contaminate you, seeping into your heart!”
Yu Shengyun was not exaggerating at all.
Yuchi smiled.
“Let’s put that matter aside for now. Do you want to fight it and learn from it?”
Yu Shengyun wanted to refuse.
However, when she saw Yuchi standing beside her, she thought about it and chose to agree.
“Alright, I still want to experience it a little,” she said.
Yu Shengyun tried to stabilize her mind and calm herself down. Then, she stood on the lake.
When the thing in the lake slowly floated up, Yu Shengyun felt a chill run down her spine. This was definitely a normal fight. Even if the myriad races were cruel, none of them could display such a terrifying aura.
This aura this thing exuded wanted to take her for itself, eat her soul, and then control her body.
It felt both terrifying and disgusting at the same time.
The result of the battle, though, was very straightforward. With Yu Shengyun’s current strength, she could easily deal with an ancient being of this level. She just used a technique casually and killed the ancient being.
However, internally, she was fighting against something that was quite ugly in her soul.
After she had fought with it, it kept trying to enter her sea of consciousness.
She was so frightened that her face turned pale. She frantically guarded her sea of consciousness, trying her best to keep her sea of consciousness from being contaminated by it.
If she was alone, she definitely would not be able to block these ancient “blessings”, but with Yuchi by her side, it was different.
It was as if Yuchi had inhaled a mouthful of torturous hot smoke. His body trembled slightly and he shivered. Then, he returned to normal.
Yu Shengyun was stunned!
She looked at Yuchi’s performance in a daze!
This man…
What was going on!
Is this even possible? Could he really suppress such a dirty thing?
Yu Shengyun was sure that if she really accepted the so-called ancient blessing, her sea of consciousness would become impure. This would be very dangerous, and in the future, she would have to be on guard against the attack of this thing every day and night. Over a prolonged period, would she not go crazy?
Yuchi acted as if nothing had happened.
Every day, he could pull a completely different thing out of this cold and gloomy lake, and then destroy it with relative ease.
Yu Shengyun stood at the side and shivered.
So Yuchi’s target was not the ordinary myriad races, but rather these demons and ghosts?
After killing these demons and ghosts, their aura of resentment or other things directly entered Yuchi’s body. Yu Shengyun felt fear just by looking at the scene of the evil aura entering his body.
‘Doesn’t that harm him?’
‘If that evil aura entered my body, I’m sure that my sea of consciousness would become unstable.’
‘Furthermore, it’s not just one or two evil auras. There are different evil auras entering his body every day, all of which are quite terrifying. How is Yuchi able to deal with it all so easily?’
Yu Shengyun thought in amazement.
Then…
She was enlightened.
It was not because he was ten times, a hundred times, or even a thousand times stronger than she was, but because he was completely used to it!
Moreover, this was not a form of resistance, but a form of suffering!
Yu Shengyun walked over to Yuchi’s with an unusually solemn expression. Her hand grasped Yuchi’s right hand, and her eyes were pleading. Then, she asked Yuchi, who was slightly puzzled, “Can I take a look at your sea of consciousness?”
After one’s cultivation reached the Dao realm, if one obtained the other party’s permission, the cultivator could enter the other party’s sea of consciousness.
In essence, it was like entering someone else’s dream. It required the other person’s consent, though, especially if the other person’s strength was much stronger.
Yu Shengyun wanted to take a look at Yuchi’s sea of consciousness!
She was extremely curious as to how it looked.