Once I enter the pass, great Confucian scholars will surely debate the classics for me.

After returning to Sword Tower City, Zhou Qingfeng stayed in his residence to rest.

Every day, he would spend two fixed hours in the training room, using pills as an aid, absorbing malevolent energy, refining his magical power, and storing it in his life palace.

It is not suitable for people to cultivate when they are in the wilderness.

Because they are very susceptible to external interference, they may suffer from qi deviation and backfire.

The Life Palace is the core lifeline of a cultivator in the Devouring Fiend Realm.

Upon reaching the Devouring Fiend realm, all of one's magical power is stored in the Life Palace.

Once the Life Palace is damaged, at best one's cultivation level will drop, and at worst one's magical power will be completely lost. If the Life Palace is injured, one's cultivation will regress or stagnate. Unless one finds a way to repair the Life Palace, one's magical power will continue to flow away, and the magical power cultivated every day will undoubtedly be a drop in the ocean.

Therefore, the Life Palace is extremely important for cultivators in the Devouring Fiend Realm.

I am not afraid of physical death.

Even if my soul is scattered, I'm not afraid.

As long as the soul remains in the Palace of Destiny, it can rely on the Palace of Destiny to cast spells to seize the physical body and then repair the soul.

If the life palace is destroyed and the life soul survives by chance, it will be at its wit's end. Because it will have no magic power and no supernatural abilities, it will only have a remnant life soul left. It will be impossible for it to possess the body of a low-level cultivator with the life soul.

If everything goes smoothly, the only option is to possess a mortal's body.

Moreover, it can only possess those with weak willpower, mild intellectual disability, or those who are on the verge of death.

For cultivators at the Devouring Fiend Realm, cultivating their Life Palace is essentially cultivating themselves.

This process involves continuously tempering the Life Palace with magical power, making it more solid and powerful, increasing the upper limit of magical power it can contain, and enabling it to transform between the real and the virtual, while constantly circulating within the physical body and the two souls and seven spirits, ensuring that the Life Palace cannot be shattered by a single blow.

Strong combat power, high durability, and extremely difficult to kill are the characteristics of cultivators in the Devouring Fiend Realm.

In reality, the Life Palace itself is extraordinary; it can be considered the natal magic weapon of a cultivator in the Devouring Fiend Realm. It can kill enemies just as easily when unleashed. However, no one is that arrogant. To dare to unleash the Life Palace to fight someone is not just playing with one's life, but courting death.

Some ruthless individuals have mastered the secret technique of self-destruction of their life palace. When all else fails, they will detonate their life palace to take their enemies with them. This kind of self-destruction technique is purely a matter of killing eight hundred enemies while losing a thousand of your own, a life-for-life exchange that everyone fears.

However, such secret techniques are mostly held by powerful families and clans, and are used to secretly train assassins; very few of them have been passed down to outsiders.

This is because it is a forbidden technique, and it is forbidden for lay practitioners to practice it. Anyone who violates this rule will have their entire family executed.

Even the powerful and wealthy are afraid of those ruthless, independent cultivators in the common world. They might not want to live anymore, and they might go crazy everywhere, choosing crowded places to self-destruct their life palace, causing catastrophic damage. Or they might lie in wait on the road when the powerful and wealthy go out, and then self-destruct. It's terrifying.

If this technique of self-destruction of the Life Palace is not strictly controlled and allowed to circulate among the common people, many powerful and wealthy people will probably have sleepless nights. Even if many powerful and wealthy people are not afraid of the technique of self-destruction of the Life Palace, what about their parents, brothers, sisters, spouses and children at home?

We are all born of parents; no one was born from a crack in a rock.

The powerful and wealthy are also human beings; they also have families.

To put it bluntly, anything that is harmful to the powerful and wealthy must be prohibited, and anything that is beneficial to them must be supported.

While it may seem that many city residents have gained a sense of security as a result, it is actually just a side effect and not for the safety of the city residents. Of course, it cannot be denied that many city residents have also benefited from this, since the probability of being taken away by some crazy people has become infinitely lower.

Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

Shadow Blade Night Owl returned, but instead of beating up his apprentice Ye Tingxiu, he gave him a rare hug.

That night, Ye Tingxiu wailed and cried, a heart-wrenching cry, like a baby in swaddling clothes: "Master, Master~~~"

Although his master was not good with words and would beat him at the drop of a hat, and his methods of educating his disciples were somewhat "unique" and "unusual", his master never mistreated him. He taught him, imparted knowledge, and resolved his doubts, and tried to pave the way for him. He would give him cultivation resources whenever he could, and if he couldn't give them, he would give him opportunities to compete for them.

It was thanks to Ye Xiao's years of careful teaching and training, and Ye Tingxiu's own hard work, that he was able to keep up with the pace.

Night Owl showed a rare gentleness, offering no blame, praise, or beating. He also remained silent, simply sitting quietly by the bedside, letting his disciple wail with his head on his lap, and gently patting his back as if soothing a child.

After weeks of despair and a night of cathartic sobbing, Ye Tingxiu finally accepted reality and decided to stop dwelling on the pain of the past.

Initially, Ye Tingxiu felt a mixture of awe and fear towards the False World True Soul Prediction Demon Lord, but he gradually realized that it was this powerful being who gave Lan Yue her short life, even though the False World True Soul Prediction Demon Lord's actions might be for some ulterior motive.

But the warmth and joy that Lan Yue brings are undeniable facts.

He understood that although Lan Yue's existence might not be what he initially imagined, every emotion and memory she brought him was real and precious. In order not to waste those beautiful moments, he resolved to rediscover his direction in life.

I must learn more knowledge, cultivate stronger magic, and get closer to the false world's true soul to seize the Demon Lord.

In this way, at least some questions about Lan Yue can be asked.

Therefore, Ye Tingxiu developed a complex feeling towards the Demon Lord who sought to seize the true soul from the false world.

I felt a mix of gratitude and confusion, and even a touch of curiosity occasionally.

In the end, Ye Tingxiu chose to turn everything from the past into motivation to move forward.

He believed that regardless of Lan Yue's origins, her image and feelings in his heart were real.

He decided to carry these beautiful memories with him and move forward, searching for his own path.

He hopes that one day he will be able to face the Demon Lord, the one who altered his fate, with a more mature mindset.

Ye Tingxiu: "Master, do you think I'm useless?"

Night Owl: "No, no matter what others say about you, in my eyes you are the best and the most promising. I am proud of you."

Ye Tingxiu: "Master, don't try to comfort me. I am not as wise as Xiao Hongyun, nor as strategic as Zhou Qingfeng."

Night Owl: "I'm not trying to comfort you. This is the truth. The hardships and difficulties you've experienced would have made anyone else give up long ago, but you haven't. No matter how many times you fall, you will eventually get back up. In my eyes, you are stronger than anyone else."

Ye Tingxiu: "Master, thank you for believing in me and recognizing me. Besides Lan Yue, you are the second person to believe in me and recognize me."

Night Owl: "Disciple, you must remember, anyone can look down on you, but you must respect yourself. Anyone can say you are no good, but you cannot doubt yourself. You must tell yourself that you are the best, you are the best, you are the most capable, no one is better than you. Your master believes in you. One day, you will become the number one in the world and dominate the heavens."

Ye Tingxiu: "Master, what you said has really gotten me excited! I knew I was the best!"

Night Owl: "Very good, let's go. Let's go to the arena first. I haven't fought you recently, and my hands are itching."