Chapter 224 - Unity of Nature and Human (2/2)

He took large, gasping breaths as he nailed everything he had seen earlier into his memory. It felt so wonderfully vivid that it was as if he was truly physically there.

“Brother Xiao Chen? What’s wrong? I’ve been trying to wake you up for ages! Did you have a nightmare?”

He didn’t notice when Murong Xian’er had come to his side. She blinked her large eyes as she stared at him.

“I fell asleep? Nightmare?”

Xiao Chen looked up at the sky. Four hours must have passed since, and yet that state seemed to have lasted just moments. Had he truly just fallen asleep earlier?

That didn’t seem right. That state earlier was anything but a dream. It felt like the “Unity of Nature and Human” state that his Master had once told him about. It was the most mysterious realm in cultivation. Not even Grand Completion Realm cultivators were able to achieve this without a fortuitous chance.

These were all beside the point. If everything that he saw was real, didn’t that mean that the Great Devil imprisoned under the Mystic Cyan Mountain truly existed?

The fact that a Great Devil was subdued under the Mystic Cyan Mountain was too shocking for him to accept. Did this have something to do with the downfall of the Mystic Cyan Sect thousands of years ago?

He recalled what he saw of Huangfu Xin’er earlier. She was an absolute fright to look at, looking as if she had taken up the Devil’s Practice. She was no longer the person he once knew.

He couldn’t help remembering the times they spent as “master-disciple” in the Skygale Sect of the Human World. Suddenly, he felt pain piercing his heart. The Heartless Curse that Huashang inflicted him with was acting up.

He shook his head, unwilling to pursue this line of thought. Gradually, he began to retrace that mysterious feeling earlier. However, try as he might, he couldn’t recreate it.

Reaching Unity of Nature and Human Realm meant that he could unlock the Nascent Soul of the Violet Manor and cultivate his personal world. Even though he couldn’t understand why he could experience the Unity of Nature and Human despite being in the Core Forming Realm, he was certain that he could immediately cultivate his Nascent Soul of the Violet Manor upon entering the Nascent Soul Realm. Compared to others, he was far luckier.

Another pleasant surprise was discovering a huge leap in his cultivation after entering that mysterious state. His perception of the world around him seemed to have sharpened; every stalk of flower and blade of grass became impossibly clear to him.

This came as a great joy to him as this improved his chances in winning against his powerful enemies.

That night, he went very late to bed. He kept circulating large amounts of energy into the meridians all over his body in an attempt to break out of the Core Forming Realm and enter the quasi-Nascent Soul Realm. After all, the Annihilation Times were close and powerful cultivators were everywhere. It was only by strengthening himself that he could carve out a spot for himself in this world and not end up as cannon fodder.

However, cultivation wasn’t that simple. Even with his fortuitous chance during the day, it was still a herculean task to break out of the Core Forming Realm at such short notice.

He had a strange dream that night. In his dream, he saw the Great Devil imprisoned under the Mystic Cyan Mountain telling him something strange. When he woke up, he was covered in cold sweat. Unfortunately, he couldn’t remember what the Devil told him.

This put him at great unease. He had the feeling that something major would happen soon.

He got off the bed and washed up. He decided that he would meet Xiaoyue at the Elegant Fragrance Pavilion. After all, enemies had him cornered on all sides right now. Like what Xiaoyue said, the power of one was nonetheless limited.

The Elegant Fragrance Pavilion was located west of Xianyong City. It wasn’t a restaurant or brothel, but a secret meeting ground for VIPs.

Outside the pavilion, Xiao Chen was about to step in when his expression suddenly turned somber. He stopped in his tracks.