NOVEL NEXT Chapter 2
Chapter 2: Following Heaven is Easy, Defying Heaven is Hard
Go up, or not go up, that was a troubling question.
However, very soon, Lü Yang was no longer troubled.
Because he had no right to refuse at all, under the bright daylight and clear sky, Yu Suzhen directly laid her hands on him, tore off his clothes, and took a bite.
“Hiss!” Lü Yang’s teeth trembled, and he struggled, saying, “Senior Sister, wait, at least let’s change to another place.”
“No need, just here!”
Lü Yang found himself utterly unable to refuse, and thinking of the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes as his backup, he simply lay down and stopped resisting.
In an instant, a fierce battle unfolded.
One was a true demonic witch of the Demon Sect, the other was a transmigrator dog hanging on for dear life.
After the time of one incense stick.
Yu Suzhen frowned discontentedly.
“Just this?”
“Truly useless.”
Yu Suzhen cursed angrily when she saw the situation: “You clearly have such a good-looking face, yet you hardly have any primal yang, and you can’t even last a moment.”
“A pretty but useless small fry, small fry!”
Almost at the same time, Lü Yang’s face turned pale.
Immediately after, he discovered that his remaining vital energy had all flowed into Yu Suzhen’s body, and his already thin body became even more withered.
“Ode of Yin-Yang Great Bliss?”
In his mind flashed the cultivation method distributed during assignment, and Lü Yang suddenly understood: the so-called test of the Pleasure Hall was probably to have registered disciples mutually harvest and supplement each other through the Ode of Yin-Yang Great Bliss, like raising gu worms, with only the last survivor being able to ascend to a formal disciple.
“Congratulations, Senior Sister Yu!”
At the same time, several registered disciples around them walked over with fawning faces: “After harvesting this last person, Senior Sister should be able to reach the Qi Refining stage.”
“Once reaching Qi Refining, no longer a mere mortal!”
“We hope Senior Sister will take care of us in the future, we are willing to serve at your beck and call.”
Watching this scene, Lü Yang suddenly laughed.
“Hehe.”
A wasted medicinal dreg suddenly laughing instantly attracted everyone’s attention, and Yu Suzhen also glanced at Lü Yang before saying blandly:
“Junior Brother, why are you laughing?”
“I am laughing for Senior Sister.” Lü Yang said sincerely: “I was initially worried about Senior Sister’s health, but now it seems I was overthinking.”
“Worried about my health?” Yu Suzhen was stunned.
“Yes.” Speaking of this, Lü Yang sighed with emotion: “Before entering the sect, I lingered too long at the Entertainment Department and caught syphilis. Senior Sister acted too hastily just now, I didn’t have time to mention it. But since Senior Sister is about to reach Qi Refining, a mere syphilis shouldn’t be a problem, right?”
Yu Suzhen: “...”
【An enraged Yu Suzhen beat you to death.】
【Current remaining pages of the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes: 99】
【Restarting a lifetime, you may choose one of the following gains from the previous life:
One: Treasure.
Two: Cultivation.
Three: Lifespan.
Four: Give up all gains and randomly awaken a talent based on your previous life’s experience.】
“Those whose names are called, step forward to me.”
Lü Yang opened his eyes and saw the black-robed Taoist on the platform, only then realizing he had returned to the square where newcomers were assigned upon first entering the Primordial Saint Sect.
Clearly, the previous experience was real, the taste of the demonic witch still vivid in his mind, yet now it had all restarted, the past events like a fleeting dream.
Such a huge contrast left Lü Yang stunned for quite a while before he came back to his senses.
Feeling both emotional and secretly delighted, he thought, his Book of a Hundred Lifetimes was indeed a wondrous treasure!
Steadying his mind, Lü Yang lowered his head to look at the options in the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes.
He skipped the first three options directly.
After all, he had not even formally started cultivating before being harvested to death by Yu Suzhen, so the only real choice was the fourth one.
【Settling the experiences of your previous life.】
【After harvesting you, Yu Suzhen had indeed broken through to the Qi Refining stage, but unfortunately contracted syphilis, her true qi unable to expel it, bedridden for several months, and ultimately died from the illness.】
【Since ancient times, following Heaven is easy, defying Heaven is hard.】
【Martial arts are no match for divine abilities, and the gap between mortals and cultivators is greater than that between Heaven and Earth.】
【Yet you stepped into the game with your mortal body, cleverly using dual cultivation techniques, slaying a cultivator while being a mere mortal, an act worthy of defying Heaven — such defiance is no more than this!】
【You have awakened the white talent · Dual Cultivation Prodigy.】
【Dual Cultivation Prodigy: Your comprehension of dual cultivation techniques is extremely high, no cultivator of the same realm can harvest you, and any forced harvesting will only be reversed onto them.】
Immediately after, the glowing text on the panel changed again.
【Name: Lü Yang】
【Age: 18】
【Cultivation: None】
【Talent: Dual Cultivation Prodigy (White)】
【Cultivation Method: Ode of Yin-Yang Great Bliss (Introductory)】
【Divine Abilities: None】
【Treasure: None】
【Pages of the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes: 99】
Lü Yang exhaled deeply, only feeling a surge of blood and qi rushing into his dantian, instantly replenishing his strength, vigorous as a dragon and fierce as a tiger, and his previously frail body gradually restored.
“Syphilis... it seems not yet healed, only that I can last longer now.”
Lü Yang carefully sensed his condition.
Aside from the physical recovery brought by the talent, Lü Yang had also gained much deeper insights into the dual cultivation method issued by the Pleasure Hall, the "Ode of Yin-Yang Great Bliss."
After all, compared to pure theory, practical experience was far more important, not to mention the bonus from his talent.
After that, everything developed as before.
Because of his naturally handsome face, Lü Yang was once again assigned to the Pleasure Hall, and once again encountered Yu Suzhen at the entrance, who picked him at first glance.
“What a marvelous Ode of Yin-Yang Great Bliss!”
This evil harvesting technique not only allowed harvesting of primal yin and yang but also could harvest knowledge — even experience from cultivation methods and divine abilities could be extracted!
Thinking of this, Lü Yang became even more diligent.
One day, two days, three days...
As time passed, Yu Suzhen’s expression gradually shifted from enjoyment to terror, and her previously flat lower abdomen slowly began to swell.
“Enough, enough! Stop for now!”
“I, I really can't, ah!”
“I'm sorry, it's my fault, please wait a moment...”
Turning a deaf ear to Yu Suzhen’s pleas, Lü Yang continued tirelessly to operate the Ode of Yin-Yang Great Bliss, his mind completely immersed in the joy brought by cultivation.
And during this process, he felt the existence of “Qi” for the first time.
This “Qi” was inside Yu Suzhen’s body, and if not for their closeness at this moment, Lü Yang might not even have sensed it.
“This thing should belong to me!”
Thinking of this, Lü Yang did not hesitate at all, immediately operating the Ode of Yin-Yang Great Bliss to forcibly extract all of the “Qi” from Yu Suzhen’s body.
“No!!!”
Almost at the same time, Yu Suzhen let out a miserable scream, then tilted her head to the side.
In the next second, Lü Yang only felt his spirit, energy, and essence merge with that “Qi,” and then a tremendous shock occurred, as if an invisible gate had been flung open.
Lü Yang instantly experienced a flash of enlightenment: “I have broken through!”
The union of spirit and qi was called “Qi Refining”!
Yu Suzhen, as an old registered disciple of the Pleasure Hall, had been just one step away from reaching Qi Refining.
In the previous life, she had harvested him and completed the final step, successfully reaching Qi Refining.
In this life, however, she was counter-harvested by him, and her accumulated resources ended up benefiting Lü Yang.
From this day forth, he was a cultivator at the first layer of Qi Refining!
One breakthrough, ascending to a formal disciple, was akin to reaching the heavens in a single leap.
It sounded simple, yet had blocked countless registered disciples over the ages.
“How delightful. Senior Sister Yu, I will probably never forget you for the rest of my life.”
Lü Yang stood up, looking at the now lifeless Yu Suzhen lying on the ground, and could not help but sigh with emotion.