The Way of The Dao

Ling Tian twisted his lip when he saw the remaining immortal healing pills in his spatial ring. There were less than ten pills.

In fact, Ling Tian would have thousands of spiritual and immortal pills of all kinds, but he passed them on to his disciple before saving her and sending her out of the abyss. If he was going to die at that time, why would he keep all the things for himself? It was better to leave them to his disciple.

Ling Tian managed after much effort, to sit in a cultivation position. Once done, he took out a healing pill, cut off a piece about the size of a third and swallowed it. He did not know whether his body could resist the powerful medicinal force, now that he had no basis in cultivation.

Slowly he began to absorb the medicinal effects of the pill, but after almost a minute, it had no effect on his body.

What's going on?

He took the remaining two-thirds of the pill again. Several minutes later, nothing happened.

Why is there no effect?!

Ling Tian took another healing pill, and tried desperately to absorb the nutrients, but ended up with the same result.

Ling Tian was getting desperate. If he couldn't heal his body, did that mean he would have to wait several weeks before he could regain some of his strength?

Ling Tian released his spiritual sense into his meridians, realizing that they were in very bad shape, almost to the point of being totally destroyed.

'Haaa. It must have been the impact of divine damnation.' Ling Tian thought as he tried to calm his anger.

He put aside the recovery of his body with the healing pills and tried to run his cultivation technique to cure his meridians.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

Ling Tian could not even absorb one thousandth of the spirit Chi around him. Although it was very little energy, he was sure he could still feel it once it entered his body. But after cultivating several times, he couldn't extract anything.

Ling Tian found an immortal crystal in his storage ring. He only had less than 50 immortal crystals left. He also managed to pass most of his immortal crystals to his disciple.

He took the Immortal Crystal in his hands and began to absorb its immortal essence.

Fwoosh

The immortal energy came out of the immortal crystal and began to circulate slowly through its meridians, healing them little by little. Ling Tian preferred to start with this, because, if his meridians got worse or were completely destroyed, he would be no different than a cripple, from someone who could not cultivate.

Although the Immortal Crystal had its immortal essence within it, it only provided the energy to restore the spent power of a cultivator, or to accumulate enough energy to break the barrier to the next greater or lesser realm. So it was little ineffective in healing his broken meridians, unless it was used in conjunction with a wonderful medicine pill.

But Ling Tian knew that, for some strange reason, the healing pill did not affect his body. There seemed to be something blocking its medicinal effects.

So he had no choice but to spend ten immortal crystals to heal his meridians.

Besides, even with the help of the immortal crystal he could not accumulate immortal strength, much less accumulate his cultivation essence. It seemed that the immortal essence, upon entering his body, mysteriously disappeared, without leaving even a little bit to Ling Tian.

It took him almost an hour to repair just over 60% of his broken meridians in bad condition.

Feeling that it was enough for now, he directed his spiritual sense to his Dantian.

Without a doubt, his immortal strength was completely sealed in his Dantian. Ling Tian knew that his immortal force was sealed by the Heavenly Dao. It didn't even let out a little trace so that he could recover!

He checked that heavenly seal again, and realized he could unlock it, but he wasn't going to do that. He already unlocked it once and only allowed it to restore a minimum of its strength, not even a millionth, and if he unlocked it again, it would be no different than when he faced the Wrath of the Heavenly Dao again. That divine damnation was not a simple thing.

'It seems that only at some urgent moment I could unlock the heavenly seal, but I would rather not... I have to find a way to permanently undo the heavenly seal.' Ling Tian was wondering how to get rid of that heavenly seal.

While thinking of some way to get rid of that heavenly seal, Ling Tian kept checking the condition of his body.

Even his whole body, his cells, his muscles, even his bones, had a restriction of a layer that sealed their strength and hardness, which made them normal muscles and bones of an ordinary mortal. Even a kitchen knife could easily hurt him, when before it was difficult that even an immortal sword could hurt him thanks to the technique of refining the body that he cultivated.

Finally, he directed his spiritual sense to his heart.

His heart had a seal just like the one that resided in his Dantian. The World Tree inside his heart could not help him to heal his wounds. But still, the powerful vitality of the World Tree was so amazing, that it even managed to escape from the heavenly seal, thus sending a slight vitality that slowly healed his whole body. Thanks to that, his body would recover in 3-4 months at most. If there were no such vitality, he would be sure that it would take him up to a year to recover, even much longer.

Ling Tian sighed as he understood the exact state of his body.

Silence reigned for a long time in the room where Ling Tian stood, before a piercing roar was heard from within:

"AAAAHHHHH! DAMN IT! DAMN HEAVENLY DAO! Why are you doing this to me! Since you couldn't kill me before now you punish me like this! What do you want from me!? It's not enough for you to make me lose my cultivation! You turn me into a cripple! And you don't even let my body recover! Do you want to see me suffer even more?!"

Ling Tian couldn't take it anymore and took out everything he had. He got angry, became furious and started screaming and cursing the Heavenly Dao. He knew that this was really a punishment from the Heavenly Dao. But, this was too much...

"How the fuck am I supposed to recover?! I'm no different than someone who's already got one foot in the grave! Did you want to kill me that badly?! You want me to die alone and abandoned! No one to be by my side?! Hey! Fuck you!"

Ling Tian continued to scream at the top of his lungs, drawing all the air out of his lungs, even tearing his vocal cords apart, severely injuring his throat.

"Now I'm stuck here in a lower world where there's no spirit Chi! Tell me! What do you want from me?! You really wanted me to die, didn't you?! What a pity! Hahaha! You couldn't make it, so you plan to punish me this way!"

Even in a gravely hoarse voice, Ling Tian continued to roar to release all his hatred.

"You sent me to this lost world! You even took me away from my loved ones! From my family! They were the only family I had and you took me away from them! I don't even know if I can go back to them! AAHHHHH DAMN IT!"

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"Haaa... Haaa... Haaa..."

After a long time of taking out all his frustrations, anger, and accumulated rage, Ling Tian began to gasp for breath. Now, he was so weak that he lay down on the bed and began to breathe deeply to take in as much air as possible to stabilize himself.

He didn't even care that anyone could hear his yells. Anyway, what could be worse than the Heavenly Dao's own punishment and losing his cultivation?

Ling Tian released his spiritual sense and noticed that Mu Shen was outside his door. Even Mu Shuiruo was nearby as well, her eyes looking slightly red, as if she had cried.

He knew that Mu Shen had been out of the room for some time. It seemed he had not decided to enter. Most likely he was waiting for Ling Tian to vent everything he had. Ling Tian was grateful to Mu Shen not only for helping him and trying to heal his wounds, but for how understanding he was at this point when Ling Tian wanted to vent his anger and not interrupt him.

It seemed that Mu Shen was preparing to leave, as he carried a suitcase. Apparently, he was going to get those medicinal plants to help Ling Tian.

Half an hour later, Mu Shen no longer heard any noise, so he thought Ling Tian fell asleep and then notified Mu Shuiruo and left.

Ling Tian saw this and smiled weakly.

Now, he was going to check that bright sphere that resided in his Dantian, apart from his sealed cultivation. His little pocket world was gone, so it had to be related to that.