A spirit beast soul tract with strength equivalent to that of a Cultivator in the Gazing Abyss Realm is naturally tempting.

  But Taiping is not the kind of person who would fet everything for immediate bes. What really made him start to waver was Baiyu's determination to abandon her freedom in order to see her mother.

  He couldn't bear to trample on this determination.

  "I'll think of a way."

  Finally, Xu Taiping nodded.

  ...

  Late at night.

  "Sister Lingyue, should I be more ruthless?"

  In the bedroom, under a flickering dlelight, Xu Taiping asked Lingyue Fairy with a hint of self-mockery.

  "Taiping, having a passionate heart is not a bad thing. Otherwise, how are we different from demons? Just remember, when showing passion to others, never do anything against your ow."

  "If you feel that helping Baiyu see her mother does not go against your heart, then go ahead with fidence."

  "We Cultivators seek survival within the Great Dao, not to steal life. Cultivation is like sailing in the vast sea in the dark night. Your true self is like the moon and stars in the sky. If you lose it, you will be lost in the vast sea."

  "To abandon your true self in the cultivation of the Great Dao is to abandohing."

  Lingyue Fairy spoke persuasively as she sat side by side with Xu Taiping.

  Upon hearing this, Xu Taiping, who was inally a little fused, suddenly became clear-eyed.

  "Seeking survival, not stealing life. Abandoning your true self means abandoning everything."

  He murmured to himself with a clear determination in his eyes.

  "Taiping, in my lifetime, I have met many Cultivators, some of whom have bee so powerful that they peek into the secrets of the heavens. But evehey see the dangers ahead and the end of their lives approag, they still choose not to abandon their Dao heart. Instead, they wield their swords and fists, fag the challenges head-on."

  "They do this because they uand that ohey choose to abandon their Dao heart, their cultivation path will e to an end."

  "If you live a cowardly and parasitic life, what's the point of living for a thousand years? The heavens will still see you as insignifit. Only by fag death we truly live. This is the only way for us Cultivators on the long path of cultivation."

  Lingyue Fairy suddenly lifted Xu Taiping's fad said solemnly.

  "I uand, Sister Lingyue."

  Xu Taiping's eyes became resolute once again.

  "Of course, if you agree to help Baiyu avehe Peacock King, then fet what I just said."

  Lingyue Fairy tinued with a smile.

  Killing the Peacock King and helping Baiyu see her mother for the st time are not on the same level of difficulty.

  "I'm not a fool, Sister Lingyue. Why would I do something that leads to my own demise?"

  Xu Taiping naturally uood the meaning behind Lingyue Fairy's words.

  "Alright, let's start preparing to break through to the Gazing Abyss Realm. If you 't break through tonight, I won't let you take the risk."

  Lingyue Fairy's expression became serious once again.

  "Okay."

  Xu Taiping nodded firmly.

  The reason he didn't immediately agree to help Baiyu was because he was waiting to see if he could successfully break through to the Gazing Abyss Realm tonight. If he could, he believed that he would at least have a ce to escape in front of the Peacock King, who was aware of his iions.

  Lingyue Fairy had the same thought.

  "Little Taiping, that kind of loy achieved by sitting in a cave for a thousand years is the most fragile. The day of assion is the day of death. Not to mention the Qingxua, even this world is just a er of the vast cultivation world, and the road ahead is still long."

  Lingyue Fairy murmured to herself as she looked at Xu Taiping, who was sitting with his eyes closed.

  She didn't want Xu Taiping to take risks before because he hadn't even reached the Opening Realm. But now that he was on the verge of the Gazing Abyss Realm, she had to let him know the difficulties ahead.

  "Boom!"

  After taking the Foundatioablishment Pill, Xu Taiping's aura suddenly soared, and he was enveloped in a green vortex, emitting an invisible coer.

  Then his divine sense sehe true qi mass floating like clouds and mist in his dantian, gradually densing into raindrops.

  After a moment, he saw the "heavy rain" in his dantian, which eventually gathered into streams, and the streams verged into rivers, making his inally dry dantian look like a work of waterways.

  This was the process of f the qi sea, as described in the Su Glow Teique.

  The difficulty of this step y in the fact that ohe "spiritual rain" above his head stopped, the rivers gathered in his dantian would quickly evaporate and turn into scattered true qi, resulting in a failed breakthrough in Foundatioablishment.

  As time passed, the spiritual energy gathered around Xu Taiping became more and more trated, to the point where the entire small courtyard was enveloped in rich spiritual energy.

  Everything seemed to be developing in a positive dire.

  However, Lingyue Fairy's expression did not rex in the slightest.

  In her opinion, with the Foundatioablishment Pill and Xu Taiping's unwavering fidence, breaking through to Foundatioablishment was only a matter of time. Even if it didn't happen this time, it would definitely happeime.

  What truly worried Lingyue Fairy was the extraterritorial demons.

  "Failure in Foundatioablishment be tried again, but ohe extraterritorial demons devour the soul, everything will be truly lost."

  "Boom!"Just then, Xu Taiping's aura suddenly exploded, his clothes shattered into pieces, and a stream of impure energy began te out from his pores, while a five-colored radiance flowed across his skin.

  "The final step."

  At this moment, Fairy Lingyue felt not relief but growing tension, for she khat if an Evil Spirit from beyond this realm were to appear, it would be now.

  "Whoosh whoosh..."

  As she had anticipated, a bone-chilling wind blew in through the cracks of the window, followed by the violent wind smming the window with a "bang bang" sound.

  But in the instant, all became eerily silent, and an arm, dark as the void and exuding a chilling cold, reached in through the window.

  Wherever the arm passed, be it the window or the wall, a yer of ice crystals began to form.

  At that moment, Fairy Lingyue formed a hand seal and shouted:

  "Divine might and golden armor, a Yellow Turban servant with an iron whip."

  "Red robes and green boots, eyes fierce as a tiger's beh the fluttering wind."

  "Bound by the dragon's cord on and, the Three Pure Ones pursue and capture the Evil Spirit."

  "Bind swiftly and present the unyielding, I and thee to be cut to dust. Hasten as if by divine decree."

  As her voice fell, the array she had previously set up around the room lit up, and soon after, the phantom of a warrior golden armor appeared before her.

  "Zha!"

  The golden-armored warrior bellowed like thunder, wielding a whip in one hand and a bde iher, sshing and shing towards the arm of the Evil Spirit from beyond.

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