Saint Emperor Devourer of Heaven

Mu Ciyin watched Jun Wuxie and Lan Lan in the midst of the Primeval Venomous Bees, feeling the venom spreading up her arm. She sighed inwardly, sat down cross-legged, and began to force the poison out.

She wanted to help him, but she knew he wouldn't allow it.

Right now, the venom was slowly spreading. If she didn't force it out in time, the situation would worsen, and it would distract him from dealing with the bees. Afterward, he might even get angry.

In the center of the swamp, near that large tree, the ground was covered with the corpses of Primeval Venomous Bees, but even more bees were surging towards Jun Wuxie and Lan Lan, blanketing the sky.

Their bodies were stung all over. Lan Lan's nose was swollen, black, and huge, like a pig's snout. She was in pain and furious, dodging and weaving while slashing at the bees with her claws, yelling "Ee-yah-yah!"

Jun Wuxie was in the same state, covered in welts, his face swollen beyond recognition.

What frustrated him most was that the Millstone of Annihilation didn't react to this venom.

The Millstone of Annihilation gave him the feeling that it disdained to deal with such venom and wouldn't even turn.

He could only use his powerful life essence to control the venom's flow, sealing it near the wounds.

His body, which was originally golden and gleaming in battle, was now covered in black and green, like a corpse that had been lying in a coffin for ten and a half days before crawling out.

The pain from the stings was terrifying, each one feeling like a knife was twisting in his flesh.

Secret techniques were unusable, and divine abilities were difficult to manifest.

He could only use his fists and palms, and he had to hit the bees solidly to kill them.

If it were anyone else, they would have been unable to hold on. Resisting the venom consumed a massive amount of life essence.

After several hours, Lan Lan was nearing her limit, her movements sluggish from exhaustion, froth at her mouth, and finally collapsed on the ground.

The moment Lan Lan fell, the Primeval Venomous Bees swarmed her.

Jun Wuxie rushed forward, enduring the stings of the dense swarm, and took Lan Lan back into his body.

Along the way, many Primeval creatures passed by this swamp. Seeing such a scene, they all detoured, keeping a wide distance.

Those Primeval creatures looked at the Primeval Venomous Bees with deep dread in their eyes, not daring to linger for a moment.

Clearly, they were very afraid of the Primeval Venomous Bees, showing that these bees were definitely a swamp tyrant.

The battle continued until dusk. Jun Wuxie was also very tired. He frantically devoured high-quality life essence in the inner world to replenish his body's consumption and maintain his condition.

The Primeval Venomous Bee swarm suffered heavy losses, with more than half of them dying. The ground was covered with a thick layer of bee corpses.

At this moment, a strange sound came from the beehive on the tree. A queen bee crawled out, and all the bees attacking Jun Wuxie stopped and flew back near the hive.

"They're not coming anymore?"

Jun Wuxie looked at the queen bee emerging from the hive.

The queen bee did not respond. The other Primeval Venomous Bees buzzed around the hive, protecting it.

Clearly, after weighing the pros and cons, the queen bee decided to end the battle.

If it continued like this, even if they could kill this human, they would suffer heavy losses. After their numbers were drastically reduced, it would be difficult for them to deter strong enemies as they had in the past, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

Jun Wuxie didn't want to continue either. He needed to heal as soon as possible and force out the venom.

He knew he must look incredibly ugly right now, so disheveled.

With a wave of his sleeve, he swept all the bee corpses on the ground into his inner world.

This scene enraged the Primeval Venomous Bee swarm, and they buzzed and surged forward again.

"Wait!" Jun Wuxie didn't want to fight anymore and immediately took out a large number of bee corpses. "I'll take half. Anyway, they're already dead. Consider it compensation for ruining my looks."

The queen bee made a sound, and the charging bees immediately flew back, but they still stared at Jun Wuxie intently.

"Don't attack blindly again in the future, lest your clan be destroyed."

Jun Wuxie left these words and turned to leave. The Primeval Venomous Bees did not pursue him.

Mu Ciyin came to meet him. Seeing his face and body covered in green welts, she was initially worried and wanted to ask about his injuries, but she couldn't help but laugh.

"Has Teacher Ciyin never seen a tumorous Jun with such high looks?"

Jun Wuxie mocked himself. He knew what he looked like now, as if his face and body were covered with huge tumors, and they were black and green. It looked like the tumors were about to burst, simply too ugly to bear.

"Oh, Wuxie, where are your eyes? This teacher can't see your eyes."

Mu Ciyin suppressed her laughter, but there was a teasing tone in her words.

She didn't know why, but at this moment, seeing him like this, she just wanted to tease him a little. She really wanted to laugh.

She was originally worried about his injuries, but seeing that he was still in the mood to mock himself, it meant that he should be out of danger, so she was no longer worried.

"If Teacher Ciyin had continued to stay, you would be in this state right now."

Jun Wuxie sat down cross-legged and began to circulate his life essence to force out the venom.

Hearing this, Mu Ciyin couldn't help but imagine herself being stung like this, and her body trembled slightly. She said, "If this teacher were stung like this and seen by you, this teacher might as well die."

"So, Teacher should listen to me in the future, and don't be stubborn."

Jun Wuxie said.

"Shouldn't it be you, the disciple, who listens to the teacher?"

Mu Ciyin's eyes, seemingly containing ice and snow, trembled slightly. She said, "Do you understand respecting your teacher and valuing the Way? Everything is this teacher listening to you, but you never listen to this teacher."

"Teacher, that's just sophistry. Whoever is right, we listen to them. It's not like you always listen to me. Sometimes, when you're stubborn, you're more stubborn than a donkey."

"You dare compare this teacher to a donkey?"

Mu Ciyin was taken aback, then angrily wanted to pinch his ear, but found that she couldn't. There were several large "tumors" swollen on his ears.

"Stubborn donkey Teacher."

Jun Wuxie chuckled.

"You bad egg, you're making this teacher angry."

Mu Ciyin gritted her teeth in anger, wanting to hit him.

"Teacher is only human this way."

Jun Wuxie looked at Mu Ciyin at this moment. This kind of her made him feel more real. The former her was too aloof, like a person living in a painting, not in the mortal world.

"A cultivator like this teacher should stay away from the mortal world. What need is there for the atmosphere of the mortal world?"

Jun Wuxie shook his head. "Staying away from the mortal world doesn't mean breaking away from the mortal world. No matter what, no one can truly and completely break away from the mortal world, even an Heavenly Emperor like Aunt You. Throughout the myriad realms, anywhere, as long as there is life, there will be all aspects of the mortal world. We were born in the mortal world, so why stubbornly want to break away from it?"

He indicated that it didn't matter where they were. They shouldn't think about whether they wanted to break away from the mortal world, otherwise it would be detrimental to the cultivation of their Dao hearts.

"In cultivation, this teacher listens to you. Sometimes this teacher feels that you are actually the teacher, and this teacher is the disciple..."

Mu Ciyin's expression was somewhat dazed when she said this, and her eyes were a little blurred. These were her heartfelt words.

Throughout the myriad realms and endless universes, who is qualified to guide the cultivation of the 'Beginning'?

No one!

Because his past life was the ceiling of realm for countless cultivators in the heavens and universes.

He was the one who walked the furthest on the path of cultivation.

Even if he hasn't fully recovered the memories of his previous life, his understanding of cultivation is far beyond what others can compare.

"Teacher or disciple, these are just titles. The essence is still the person themselves, so these are not important. What's important is you, Mu Ciyin, and me, Jun Wuxie. To give a simple example, if one day, I'm no longer your disciple, would I become unimportant in your heart?"

"Of course not!"

Mu Ciyin denied it without even thinking, then looked at him in surprise. "What do you mean? Why would you make such a hypothesis?"

"A hypothesis is just a hypothesis. It's because it won't happen that we hypothesize."

"Isn't it because you have such thoughts in your heart?"

"Of course not. Teacher, why do you always like to overthink things?"

"This teacher is not overthinking. Look at you, your tone has changed. You're impatient with this teacher, right? Don't you want to be this teacher's disciple anymore?"

The muscles on Jun Wuxie's face twitched a few times. The tumors on his face trembled along with it. He said helplessly, "I misspoke, I misspoke, okay? I was wrong. Great Teacher Ciyin, please be magnanimous and don't hold it against me, okay?"

"Hurry up and heal."

Mu Ciyin smiled lightly. She had laughed more times today than in her entire life combined. Seeing him yield in front of her, she felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction and happiness. It seemed that Wuxie still cared about her a lot, otherwise, with his strong personality, how could he admit his mistake?

Seeing him close his eyes and begin to wholeheartedly force out the poison and heal, Mu Ciyin stared at him blankly, her eyes becoming more and more gentle, even with a hint of apology and guilt.

Did she misunderstand him?

Thinking of that day, the way she spoke to him, saying that he coveted her body, could it have hurt him?

Mu Ciyin suddenly felt very regretful and guilty. He was so good to her, so caring, how could he just want to covet her body?

Should she apologize to him?

She was very conflicted. If she apologized, as a teacher, how could she bring up such a topic?

"Forget it. Let's just pretend it didn't happen. Wuxie shouldn't be angry forever, right?"

She thought to herself, deciding not to mention that day's events again and telling herself not to misunderstand him in the future.

Jun Wuxie, who was currently forcing the venom out of his body, didn't know Mu Ciyin's complex state of mind.

If he knew that she had thought so much while he was healing, he probably couldn't help but sigh at how sensitive women's minds were.

As night fell, Jun Wuxie finally forced all the venom out of his body. The welts on his body turned from black and green to purplish-red, and then began to shrink under the life essence, eventually dissipating.

He returned to his normal appearance, his spirit and energy restored to their peak.

“Are we going to travel all night?”

Mu Ciyin looked into the distance, towards their destination.

“No rush. It's too dangerous to go now. I can use the many Saint Ancestor Realm Desolate Poison Bees we killed today for cultivation. We can go when there are battle fluctuations over there.”

Jun Wuxie knew that when the opportunity fully manifested and could be seized, there would inevitably be fierce fighting between those Desolate creatures.

He dissected the Desolate Poison Bees, taking out the crystal cores from inside.

The crystal cores of the Poison Bees were only the size of pigeon eggs, but the energy inside was very pure.

The crystal cores of Saint Ancestor Realm Desolate Poison Bees were naturally high-quality resources. Coupled with being born on this special island, the crystal cores had a unique effect of rapid conversion, making these resources extremely valuable to cultivators in the Saint Ancestor Realm, a good thing for quickly improving their realm.

Jun Wuxie took out all the Poison Bee crystal cores, nearly two thousand of them.

He activated the devouring power of his Fate Star to the extreme and cultivated in this swamp, frantically absorbing and refining.

This swamp was relatively safe. Passing Desolate creatures generally would not stay here. Even those Supreme Realm creatures would avoid it.

Clearly, the powerful attack power of the Poison Bees made them somewhat fearful, and they didn't want to waste time and expend their cultivation here.

Jun Wuxie continuously absorbed massive amounts of essence, purified it through the Fate Star and the World-Grinding Disc, and then converted it into his own essence of life, flowing through the eight extraordinary meridians to every part of his body, nourishing bones, internal organs, meridians, flesh, and finally converging in the Blessed Land, incorporating into the Star Sea, and condensing into new stars.

His cultivation was improving every moment, the speed of advancement was very fast.

Mu Ciyin guarded him, watching his cultivation continuously improve and break through, feeling happy for him.

Time passed day by day.

Every day, Desolate creatures passed through this swamp, all casting glances at them, but none stopped, just taking a distant look before leaving.

The area with the anomaly was still very calm, and no battle fluctuations had been transmitted.

Jun Wuxie continued to cultivate here with peace of mind. Every few days, he would improve a realm.

His cultivation went from the previous peak of the Lesser Celestial Saint Ancestor Realm, broke through to Perfection, and then entered the Early, Middle, Late, and Peak stages of the Greater Celestial Realm...

More than twenty days passed.

He had now entered the Perfection of the Middle Celestial Saint Ancestor Realm, and was about to step into the Great Celestial Realm.

This kind of cultivation speed would be difficult to achieve even with an excellent environment in the outside world. It could only be done by obtaining opportunities and using special resources and cultivation methods.

This is one of the reasons why cultivators in the world are obsessed with exploring secret realms.