Apocalypse: Why did you provoke her? She's a cultivator.

Chapter 164 Upgrade
"Aren't you infuriating?!" The ball of light shrank back, its voice muffled. "I specially gave her luck to help her grow quickly, but you made a mistake and it was all for nothing!"
Later, I chose another psychic, thinking they could inherit Zheng Shuxue's luck, but you killed them too.

Ye Qiumian frowned as she listened. She knew that He had chosen the chosen one later.

It should be Hu Wan; barring any unforeseen circumstances, she should be playing the role of the lucky star.

Before he could even grow up, she killed him.

Tiandao continued to ramble on, "I tolerated that too, and then I chose a wind-type ability user, but that guy was only interested in talking about love."

He was severely injured a while ago, and now, forget about breaking through to godhood, he's lucky if he can even maintain his level nine superpower. He's completely useless!

The ball of light became more and more aggrieved as it spoke, and its halo trembled.

"Is it easy for me to be the Heavenly Dao? I have to keep an eye on the world's upgrade and worry about the direction of fate. And what is the result?"
"You've squandered promising talents, and the new ones are hopeless cases, yet you're still holding onto them like this..."

It paused, as if remembering something, then suddenly raised its voice, with a hint of despair and resentment: "Have you ever seen a Heavenly Dao in any world as aggrieved as mine?"

Other celestial laws are absolute and unchangeable, capable of turning clouds into rain with a flick of the wrist.

And me? I can't even protect the chosen one of destiny I selected myself, and now I'm being held hostage and threatened by some outsider cultivator! I can't live like this anymore!

That's what it said, but it didn't even dare to struggle too hard, and just rolled around pitifully inside the spiritual energy shield.

No matter how deep that resentment was, it couldn't compare to the spiritual energy that Ye Qiu Mian's fingertips could tighten at any moment.

Listening to its rambling, Ye Qiumian casually tapped the spiritual energy shield with her fingertips, her voice flat and unwavering: "The chosen one is just an ordinary person who has borrowed some of the world's fortune."

If you can't help someone, it just means you have poor judgment.

The ball of light choked, its resentment growing stronger, but it could only hold it in, cursing Ye Qiu Mian a hundred times in its heart.

That damned foreign monk!

Once I'm free, I'll make you taste what it's like to be crushed by the laws of heaven!

Of course, it only dared to think these words in its heart.

Ye Qiu Mian pretended not to see His resentment and asked in a calm tone, "Then who is the chosen one of destiny that you have your eye on now?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the previously listless ball of light suddenly brightened up, as if a fuse had been lit, and the halo of light became lighter.

He excitedly spun around twice inside the spiritual energy shield, his voice brimming with undisguised smugness: "Hmph, this time I'm absolutely certain I won't be wrong!"

“Ahem… I lacked experience before.” It cleared its throat and deliberately raised its voice. “But this is different. I observed for three whole years before deciding on this one.”

While I can't directly interfere with her path of growth, I can still subtly bestow a wisp of fortune upon her.

The ball of light paused, a hint of boasting in its voice. "This girl has had a hard life since she was little. Her family favored boys over girls, and none of her parents or brothers cared for her. She always had the worst food, clothing, and daily necessities."

When the apocalypse arrived, she became the family's cash cow, forced to venture into hordes of zombies every day to kill them and mine crystal cores. All the cores she found were taken by her family, leaving her often hungry. Any slight disobedience resulted in beatings and verbal abuse.

"If it were anyone else, they would probably have died in the mouth of the zombies long ago, but she is different. She survived by sheer grit."

Later, she found an opportunity and decisively escaped, venturing out on her own. Guess how she is now?

The ball of light kept Ye Qiu Mian in suspense, but seeing that she didn't react, it had to continue on its own, "Now she's a level nine ability user, much more reliable than the previous ones. She's both resilient and ruthless, definitely capable of taking on a major responsibility!"

Ye Qiu Mian didn't even lift her eyelids after hearing this, she just glanced at it sideways, her tone carrying a hint of impatience: "Stop talking nonsense, just tell me what the current Chosen One is called."

The light orb felt awkward under her gaze. It had originally wanted to regain some face by praising Yi Yan, but the other party didn't respond at all. It choked for a moment, and seeing that it couldn't fool her, it could only say reluctantly, "Her name is Yi Yan."

"Hmm." Ye Qiumian responded indifferently, taking it as a note.

With a flick of his fingertips, the spiritual energy shield that had trapped the ball of light vanished instantly.

The ball of light, now free, paused for a moment, but the instant the aura shield disappeared, it transformed into a streak of light and shot into the sky, breaking through the clouds in the blink of an eye and vanishing without a trace.

Just before it completely disappeared, a clear voice reached Ye Qiumian's ears from afar, "If you want to leave this world smoothly, you must never interfere with the development of zombies and humans! Otherwise... you know the consequences."

After he finished speaking, silence returned to the surroundings.

Ye Qiumian stood still, gazing in the direction where the ball of light had disappeared, her eyes slightly darkening.

Where the ball of light disappeared, a faint trace of the rules still lingered, subtly suppressing her cultivation.

"Could it be because of the world upgrade?" she whispered.

My fingertips brushed against the hem of my sleeve, where the slight coolness from when the aura barrier had dissipated still lingered.

The moment she broke through to the Mahayana stage, she felt a suppression that seemed to come from the very origin of heaven and earth.

At first she thought it was a demon in her heart, but now she felt it wasn't. She could sense that it was just suppressing her cultivation level, not preventing her from using spiritual energy.

It seems that the rules of this world are being reshaped, like an expanding container.

The highest cultivation level that can be accommodated right now is precisely her current Mahayana stage.

It is precisely because of this that she was able to clearly perceive the existence of the rules, and even easily extract the smooth, solid form of the Heavenly Dao.

It seems that before the world upgrade is complete, I will neither be able to leave nor break through in my cultivation.

This path of cultivation has come to an end for now.

Ye Qiumian's lips curled slightly, revealing a hint of almost imperceptible helplessness.

Well, since we can't leave anyway, we might as well see how the struggle between zombies and humans will eventually reach a balance.

Humans and zombies, the chosen ones of destiny, and this world that is constantly evolving.

It's more interesting than sitting in meditation all day.

Ye Qiumian took out a flying magic artifact from her spatial storage, and with a light touch of her toes, she landed steadily on it.

The aircraft steadily took off and slowly flew towards the state capital base.

Looking down at the desolate land, the broken walls and ruins, and the occasional swift zombie flitting by.
Ye Qiumian keenly sensed that besides the stench, there seemed to be a faint trace of life in the air.

Some of the cracks even sprouted a few wild grasses with tender buds.

The world is just one step away from a successful upgrade.

She sat down against the hull, letting the aircraft carry her steadily forward.

The wind brushed against my hair, carrying with it the faint roar of the distant mountains.