Chapter 83: Beneath the Starry Sky
Si Er was now a cultivator, and his stamina was far better than before.
He and Yu Beixuan played for three whole hours without feeling tired or bored in the slightest.
It wasn’t until Si Er happened to look up that he realized night had already fallen. The sky was filled with brilliant stars, so beautiful that he could hardly tear his eyes away.
Suddenly, he felt that such an environment was perfect for cultivation. He could absorb all the light in the world—including the starlight blanketing the sky.
Thinking of cultivation, Si Er took out the spirit stone Si Yi had given him earlier.
Yu Beixuan looked curious. “What’s that?”
Si Er smiled. “It’s a spirit stone. I heard that cultivators on the Cang Beast Continent use this to cultivate.”
“Big Brother happened to obtain quite a lot of them, but they’ve all been contaminated by baleful energy, so he can’t absorb them directly.”
Yu Beixuan immediately volunteered, “I can absorb baleful energy!”
“Baleful energy is useful to me, and spiritual energy is useful to you. We can make double use of these spirit stones.”
That had originally been Si Er’s thought too. But now Yu Beixuan had demonic spirit stones.
“Compared to baleful energy, wouldn’t it be better for you to absorb demonic spirit stones?”
Yu Beixuan smiled. “But there’s only a limited number of demonic spirit stones. I can’t rely solely on them.”
“Besides, they’re with me—they won’t run away. Absorbing baleful energy first is the same.”
Si Er still felt embarrassed. “Won’t that delay your time?”
Yu Beixuan laughed. “Of course not. When I absorb baleful energy, I can directly convert it into cultivation.”
As he spoke, he reached out and touched the spirit stone in Si Er’s hand, casually absorbing the baleful energy within.
“There isn’t much baleful energy in this stone anyway. It won’t affect me.”
Si Er shook his head. “But there are many, many more like this.”
Si Er was sitting on a swing chair. Yu Beixuan simply moved closer and sat beside him.
Si Er even shifted over a little to make room.
The swing chair wasn’t very wide. With two people sitting on it, it felt cramped, and they were almost pressed against each other.
Neither of them felt the distance was inappropriate, though their cheeks inexplicably warmed. Fortunately, the cool night breeze dispersed the heat.
“Er’er, the baleful energy in spirit stones really isn’t that hard to deal with. Leave it to me.”
“In the past, I might not have dared absorb too much baleful energy. But now, don’t I have you?”
“You can help me digest it, right?”
Si Er nodded.
Yu Beixuan immediately beamed, his little tiger teeth faintly visible.
“In that case, pour out more spirit stones.”
“Once I finish absorbing the baleful energy, you can directly absorb the spiritual energy inside.”
“Let’s compete and see who absorbs faster.”
Si Er couldn’t help laughing. “Why does everything have to be a competition? Don’t you think that’s a bit childish?”
Yu Beixuan disagreed. “How can cultivation be called childish?”
After thinking for a moment, Si Er asked curiously, “You can cultivate normally too, right?”
Yu Beixuan shook his head. “I’m not sure if it counts as normal. Ever since I was very young, I’ve been able to absorb a lot of negative energy.”
“One time, Father spent a huge sum to buy me a top-grade exotic beast egg. Anyone who examined it said it was top-grade.”
Si Er couldn’t help asking, “Then what hatched from it?”
Yu Beixuan said calmly, “A black spider. The aura it emitted was indeed similar to a top-grade exotic beast, but my instincts told me it wasn’t.”
“So I resisted forming a contract with it. When it saw I refused, it actually tried to possess me.”
“What? Possession?!” Si Er jumped to his feet. “Was it the insect race?”
“The insect race?” Though Yu Beixuan already understood the term somewhat, he still played dumb. “What’s that?”
Si Er realized he had gotten excited, but since the words were already out and no restriction stopped him, he simply explained.
“A race that likes to absorb baleful energy for cultivation. They’re born evil.”
“Of course, that’s from my perspective. From theirs, they might think they were born to rule the world.”
“And then squeeze this world dry before invading others.”
He sneered inwardly. “They’ve been spoiled by that outsider Heavenly Dao that favors the insect race, thinking every world should treat them like parents and indulge their destruction.”
They’re so evil—how could they even lay a hand on Xuanxuan when he was just a little dumpling?
At that thought, Si Er grew tense again.
“Xuanxuan, are you really okay? How old were you then? How did you avoid being possessed? There weren’t any aftereffects, right?”
Faced with Si Er’s concern, Yu Beixuan felt thoroughly pleased.
He smiled faintly. “Of course I’m fine. If something had happened, would I be sitting here perfectly well?”
“It was strange. Before my mind could react, my divine soul had already devoured the spider’s soul.”
“Right after that, all the power in its body was absorbed by mine.”
“My parents and brothers suspected I had a special constitution that allowed me to counter-kill it unexpectedly.”
“But it sounded too shocking, so they kept it strictly secret and didn’t dare let anyone else know.”
Si Er’s eyes sparkled. “Xuanxuan is amazing!”
Yu Beixuan raised a brow. “Amazing? You don’t find it scary?”
“But the insect race isn’t anything good. They deserve to die. Being counter-killed by Xuanxuan just serves them right.”
“After something like that, I’d only feel satisfied. How could I find it scary?”
“If your constitution could succeed every time, and you were like…”
He trailed off in thought.
Like Tang Monk’s flesh—so irresistible that those insects would swarm toward you one after another, only to be counter-killed and absorbed…
Tsk, if things developed that way, it would save so much trouble! Xuanxuan alone could wipe out the insect race’s thousands of troops!
Yu Beixuan was speechless. Even though he didn’t know what “Tang Monk’s flesh” was, the context made it clear enough.
He had no desire for such a terrifying constitution—nor did he want a swarm of insects rushing at him!
He believed that given enough time and space to grow, he alone could wipe out the insect race’s army. And if that wasn’t enough, he could have his soul pets help.
Being “Tang Monk’s flesh” was absolutely unnecessary.
Interrupting Si Er’s imagination, Yu Beixuan smiled. “The starlight is perfect tonight. Why don’t we cultivate here?”
“Sure.” Si Er nodded. “That was what I was thinking too.”
I don’t know why my thoughts always wander and waste time.
Good thing our Xuanxuan is such a hard worker—he even reminds me.
But speaking of cultivation…
His thoughts became lively again.
“Xuanxuan, do you cultivate purely by instinct, or do you have some kind of cultivation technique?”

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