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Just Wanting to Live Well, But Surpassing the Protagonist – 66 Like Moths to a Flame
When it was time for mortals to sleep, Wu Xue looked at the young master in the hall discussing painting with the two painting spirit seniors and sighed helplessly. She wouldn’t blame Ye Yong for his gaffe, because it was beyond his control. She only hoped that the two painting spirit seniors wouldn’t stay here for too long, because she really wanted the young master to hold her as she fell asleep.
Returning to her own room, Wu Xue tossed and turned for a long time before finally falling asleep.
Mortals spent almost a third of their day sleeping. Cultivators undoubtedly had an advantage in terms of time management. With Ye Yong’s current divine body constitution and cultivation, he could go a month without sleeping. Moreover, a cultivator’s meditation was equivalent to resting. Two hours of meditation could provide more energy than eight hours of sleep for mortals. How could mortals compare to cultivators?
Ye Yong discussed the food he had painted with Hua Ming and Hua Xin until the middle of the night, and he didn’t feel sleepy at all.
Hua Xin finally got her wish. After Ye Yong recovered all of his soul power, she tasted the flavor of food.
When a person is first born, their brain is not yet developed, so they can’t remember what happened in their early childhood. When they grow up, because they are constantly in contact with food, they take eating for granted.
Hua Ming and Hua Xin were born with extremely high intelligence. They could be seen as people who had grown up on nutrient solution and were eating food for the first time.
That feeling was truly indescribable. It was as if their senses had been bombarded with all sorts of novel sensations.
“Didn’t you already eat some before!? Don’t squeeze in here! Get out!” Hua Xin was using the chopsticks that Ye Yong had painted to enjoy the food in her own painting scroll when Hua Ming suddenly squeezed into her painting scroll and reached out to grab the plate. Hua Xin reacted quickly and immediately dodged, but Hua Ming still managed to grab a small portion of the food on the plate.
Souls couldn’t get sick like ordinary people, and as souls, they couldn’t be infected by viruses or bacteria. Hua Ming happily finished the food in her hand, then stuck out her pink tongue and licked her palm seductively. “You’ re so selfish. If you have something good, shouldn’t you share it?”
“Why didn’t you think about sharing when you were eating?”
“You weren’t here at the time.” Hua Ming’s words actually made some sense.
Hua Xin was a little speechless. There was only a limited amount of food, and she naturally didn’t want to share it.
Seeing the two painting beauties ‘fighting’ over food, Ye Yong laughed. “Why bother, Sister? I’ll just paint some more.”
“No need.” Hua Ming wasn’t unreasonable. Ye Yong had already reached his limit by painting one plate. If he painted any more, wouldn’t he be killing himself?
“I was just joking with her.” Hua Ming emerged from Hua Xin’s painting scroll and came to Ye Yong’s side. “Sit down. Sister will massage your shoulders.”
“Thank you.” Ye Yong was also truly tired. The consumption of soul power was even more tiring than the consumption of physical strength. After sitting down, he felt Hua Ming’s slender hands kneading and massaging him. He simply closed his eyes and began to cultivate, circulate his divine technique.
Ye Yong thought that his advanced shielding could block everything, but the moment he circulated the Primordial Chaos Divine Technique, Hua Ming felt the strange aura on Ye Yong’s body suddenly grow stronger. It rushed directly into her soul body through her hands that were in contact with Ye Yong. She let out a jiaohu and took several steps back, her whole body trembling.
“What’s wrong!?” Ye Yong was startled by her. Although he had closed his eyes just now and couldn’t see, he could sense that Hua Ming’s reaction was as strong as if she had been electrocuted.
“No, nothing. I, I was just a little absent-minded and suddenly remembered some of the more terrifying parts of the book.” Hua Ming clearly didn’t need to breathe, but at this moment, she was ‘breathing rapidly’ and her mood was difficult to calm down.
When the aura surged towards her, she had a death wish to be devoured. At that moment, she felt a vast and boundless nothingness. It was extremely terrifying.
“Is that so?” Ye Yong couldn’t possibly know what Hua Ming had just experienced. After all, by the time the protagonist, Long Tian, was able to use the power of chaos, Hua Ming and Hua Xin had already sacrificed themselves to protect Mu Qingyin in the ancient ruins. They didn’t have any scenes in the later stages of the story.
But Ye Yong felt that things weren’t that simple, so he asked again. Hua Ming still answered in the same way.
Could it be that when I circulate my divine technique, the aura of chaos leaks out?
Ye Yong immediately thought of the most likely answer. Although his current progress in cultivating the divine technique was only 45, and he needed to reach 100 to reach the first level, the Primordial Chaos Divine Body destined him to be different from the current protagonist, Long Tian. Because Long Tian was now a Chaos Body, even if the two of them cultivated the same Heart Technique, there was no trace of Chaos Qi in their bodies.
Ye Yong was a Divine Body, and he had already begun to generate it.
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How powerful was Chaos Qi? Even if there was only a tiny bit, it was not something that a soul with only the strength of a Nascent Soul could withstand.
“Little brother, don’t think too much.” Seeing Ye Yong pondering, Hua Ming hurriedly said, “Cultivate well, sister won’t bother you anymore. It just so happens that sister ate divine soul food and needs to rest and digest it.”
“Mm.” They were all living beings with mature thoughts, and Ye Yong would not force Hua Ming to speak. Furthermore, he had more or less guessed the reason. Seeing Hua Ming return to her own painting, he closed his eyes and continued to cultivate.
Even if Hua Ming told Mu Qingyin afterward that there was a strange aura in his body, as long as Ye Yong did not circulate his Heart Technique, with the advanced shielding device, Ye Yong believed that no matter how much Mu Qingyin probed, she would not be able to find out the problem.
Seeing that Ye Yong had entered a state of meditation, which was similar to deep sleep, Hua Xin quietly ran to Hua Ming’s painting and asked her in a low voice what had happened.
Mu Qingyin happened to have seen Hua Ming eating the food drawn from the painting during dinner earlier. She was inspired and was in the midst of enlightenment, so she did not pay attention to their movements. Therefore, Hua Ming told Hua Xin about how she had almost been Devoured by Chaos Qi earlier.
“From the looks of it, that aura is very overbearing. If you had reacted a little slower, you might have really been devoured. But what exactly is that aura? Even our Nascent Soul-level souls can be affected by it?” Hua Xin frowned slightly, her beautiful appearance thoughtful.
Hua Ming was the same. Her fiery personality did not mean that she was brainless. On the contrary, she was as clever as Hua Xin and also liked to think.
In the end, the two painting beauties were unable to guess the source of the aura, but they came to a conclusion.
No matter what the aura was, it was very dangerous to them and could easily destroy their souls. However, they needed it to quickly become corporeal.
This was a double-edged sword.
As long as a double-edged sword was used properly, it would not harm oneself.
Hua Ming was almost devoured when Ye Yong was cultivating, and the aura became stronger. When Ye Yong was not cultivating, they could absorb it unilaterally without being harmed. Therefore, as long as they only came into contact with him when Ye Yong was not cultivating, it would be fine.
The two painting beauties looked at Ye Yong. They were afraid, but they also yearned for him.
It was like a moth to a flame. Even though it knew it would be injured or even die, it still crved the light.