Chapter 354

Chapter 354: The Ultimate Monster

“Can cultivation bring Grandpa back to life?”

Xixi clutched the torn hem of her clothes, her eyes gleaming with hope.

Resurrection?

Ye Xu’s eyebrows twitched. He had never attempted to revive the dead. Theoretically, when a person dies, their spirit scatters. Someone newly deceased might still be saved.

But after too long… the spirit merged with heaven and earth long ago. Bringing them back would likely require an immense effort.

“Yes.” Ye Xu nodded with a smile. Few things in the world were truly impossible. It only depended on whether you were strong enough.

“Can it make me full?”

Xixi licked her lips.

Ye Xu chuckled. He shook his empty right hand, and a hamburger materialized in his palm. He handed it to Xixi. “Once your cultivation succeeds, you can have whatever you want whenever you want it.”

Xixi stared at the hamburger, swallowing hard. She carefully took it, then devoured it ravenously, polishing it off in mere seconds.

“Brother, is there more?”

Ye Xu immediately invoked the Great Dao of creation again to conjure more food.

“How old are you?” He crouched down, sitting beside her.

“Fourteen.” Xixi looked at him. “Brother, how old are you? I heard cultivators are ever-youthful. Someone as powerful as you must be thousands of years old.”

Ye Xu was momentarily speechless. The girl’s line of thinking was truly bizarre.

“Eighteen,” Ye Xu said, grinning. “Forever eighteen.”

“No one stays eighteen forever!” Xixi declared, thoroughly unconvinced.

“Halt time, and you stay eighteen forever,” Ye Xu countered. “Want to learn?”

Xixi nodded so rapidly she resembled a pecking chick.

“Then let’s go.”

Ye Xu released his mana, enveloping Xixi. Both vanished instantly from Yanyang City. Outside the city, he casually pointed his finger. A streak of sword light shot into the heart of the vast desert.

In that instant, the terrifying black dragon-like sandstorm brewing there was instantly severed and extinguished by the sword slash. Heaven and earth returned to clarity, the scorching sun blazing over the land while a cool breeze whispered through the void.

Sometime later, people finally noticed the change in the sky, astonished, believing it a divine miracle.

The two exited the Cloud Realm and entered the Sea of All Realms.

After she’d tidied herself, Xixi’s true appearance was revealed.

She had a round little face, shoulder-length hair that was faintly yellowish, and large, deep black eyes sparkling with innocent, agile light. Every movement radiated spirited liveliness.

However, suffering long-term malnutrition, her skin had a sallow tinge. She looked extraordinarily thin and fragile, as if a breeze could topple her.

Ye Xu circulated his mana, sensing the nature of Xixi’s Body of Disaster.

Within her body lurked a terrifying source of disaster, full of aggression. The moment Ye Xu’s magic power brushed against this source, the power of disaster surged into his physical body.

Bang!

Abruptly, Ye Xu’s magic flow stalled, his qi and blood blocked—his power nearly reversed course.

“……” Ye Xu stared in shock.

He was in the Immortal King realm. That he could suffer backlash just from touching the source of disaster… That clump of calamity was truly terrifying.

Consider this: Xixi was only fourteen, yet her source of disaster was already this powerful. Once she grasped cultivation methods and could wield that source, she would likely obliterate Immortal Kings—perhaps even Immortal Venerables—with ease. None beneath the proof of the First Primordial Spirit could withstand it.

“She’s Heaven’s favored child, no doubt.”

Ye Xu couldn’t help feeling envious.

Those born with the Body of Disaster—celestial calamity stars—doomed not themselves, but those bound by fate to them. Their own lives were remarkably resilient. Plagued by perpetual bad fortune, they still slipped peril after peril.

Yet, the raw power within Xixi’s source of disaster shocked even Ye Xu.

“For now, I can only seal her power temporarily. Stay near her too long, and I too risk falling beneath its shadow.”

A bitter smile touched Ye Xu’s lips.

Of course, one other path remained: take her back to Heaven’s Secret Pavilion. Let his true form suppress the source directly, making her an ordinary girl.

The thought crossed his mind. Slowly, he shook his head.

Born as the Body of Disaster, not cultivating would be squandering her nature itself.

Boom!

Ye Xu channeled his magic power, invoking the Great Sealing Technique. A seal pulsed from his hand, woven with the laws of space, creation, and sealing, anchoring onto Xixi’s body to shackle the source of disaster.

A full day passed before the sealing wrapped.

He had spent eighty percent of his strength.

“For merit points,” Ye Xu consoled himself.

Sealed away, the source felt… distant. Xixi eyed Ye Xu. “Big Brother, I feel… lighter somehow.”

He stroked her silken hair. “That’s because I laid a foundation for your cultivation.”

“So you can live normally… and finally begin to cultivate.”

Xixi half-understood.

“Xixi, I will teach you a cultivation method now.”

Ye Xu sat cross-legged. She mirrored him, copying his posture just so. They faced each other.

“This technique is called the Creation Heart Sutra. I shall impart its first, most fundamental chant. Remember it within your heart,” Ye Xu solemnly said.

This technique counted among the rarest imperial scriptures, the very method Ye Xu himself had cultivated from the start. For him, it held weight beyond mere power.

Through long years, he’d gathered its teachings—complete up to the transcendent realm. Beyond that lay darkness, places even he couldn’t reach.

Quietly, patiently, Ye Xu conveyed the first scroll’s lessons to her.

“Big Brother, I’ve memorized it.”

After Ye Xu finished reciting the first time, Xixi immediately spoke up.

“That quickly?” Ye Xu remarked in surprise.

He then realized—how could the innate talents of the Destiny Girl possessing the source of disaster be ordinary? Photographic memory was merely a basic skill for every genius.

Xixi sat in lotus position, activating the first volume method of the Creation Heart Sutra.

As her cultivation began, spiritual energy flooded toward her with every breath, converging into a spiritual tide. Three flowers manifested atop her head, and the phenomenon of five energies gathering at their source became visible.

“Another monstrous genius,” Ye Xu mused with a slight curl of his lips.

This level of talent was perhaps not inferior to Nangong Zhandao’s, maybe even superior.

After all, Nangong Zhandao carried the blessing of fate.

Xixi’s source of disaster was sealed, making her equivalent to an ordinary person.

Comparing the two, the difference was stark.

Spiritual energy entered her body, circulating through her great celestial orbit without cease. Impurities and filth were expelled from her flesh. With the aid of the spiritual energy, she began refining her own body.

Without relying on any pills.

Refining one’s body solely through spiritual energy was truly extraordinary.

Her cultivation level soared visibly. Within one quarter-hour, she broke through to the Cauldron Realm. By the time two incense sticks had burned, she reached perfection in the Cauldron Realm. Half a day later, she ascended to the extreme stage.

Ye Xu marveled.

He was now completely certain that Xixi had the strongest innate talent of any genius he had ever witnessed.

From nothing to the extreme stage in a single day—ask anyone in the world who else could achieve that?

“Mmm… that smells awful.”

Suddenly, she halted her cultivation, wrinkling her elegant nose and frowning deeply.

“This is normal,” Ye Xu said with a smile. “All regular cultivators undergo this step of refining their bodies. But others rely on external aids, while you achieved it solely through your own effort.”

Ye Xu waved his long sleeve, and a force enveloped Xixi, cleansing her of all filth.

“Brother, am I a cultivator now?” Xixi asked cheerfully.

Ye Xu nodded, then shook his head.

Xixi looked puzzled.

“You’re barely a cultivator now. But to become a true cultivator, you must reach the True Spirit realm and cultivate a True Spirit. Only then will you have officially begun.”

“True Spirit?” Xixi didn’t understand.

Regarding cultivation, she was a blank slate.

“The path of cultivation in this world was created by the human ancestor and perfected by the Heavenly Emperor, divided into distinct realms. Your current stage is called the Cauldron Realm.”

“Above the Cauldron Realm are the True Spirit realm, Divine Spring realm, Dharma Image realm, Nine Stars of the Dao Palace realm, Divine Catastrophe realm…” Ye Xu slowly explained the cultivation realms.

He paced himself deliberately, thoroughly dissecting the mysteries of each realm below the divine realm.

As for the realms above the divine realm, since Xixi had not reached that stage, knowing too much would not benefit her cultivation.

After listening to Ye Xu’s explanation, Xixi’s bright eyes sparkled. She had fully comprehended the principles he conveyed.

“During this time, travel with me across all realms,” Ye Xu said with a smile. “Cultivate while gaining broader horizons.”

“Mm-hmm!” Xixi nodded firmly.

She had already tasted the joy of cultivation.

“Next stop, the Azure Realm.”

Ye Xu’s thought transmitted into Tai Sui’s consciousness.

Whoosh!

Tai Sui swallowed them whole and headed west.