Fantasy: I Am the Villain.

Chapter Thirty-Six: The Snake Swallows the Elephant (Part Two)

In fact, this is also a cognitive bias that Bai Ke has fallen into. He always thinks of ways to persuade Sikong Xuan by appealing to his emotions and reasoning with him.

Little did he know that seasoned veterans like Sikong Xuan, who had been navigating the martial world for a long time, were all masters of not acting without first securing their gains.

No matter how much he boasted beforehand, about the sect's secret medicine and Wuliang Mountain handing it over, Sikong Xuan still wouldn't agree unless there were real, tangible benefits involved.

Now that a small antidote pill can accomplish the task, and considering Bai Ke's previous actions, it's simply a huge joke.

Fortunately, he doesn't know yet, so ignorance is bliss, and fearlessness is simply happiness.

Bai Ke completely abandoned his plan to subdue the Shennong Gang, while Sikong Xuan, because of an antidote pill, became filled with longing for the sect behind him.

It can be said that every bite and sip is preordained by fate, and this incident, while regrettable, also makes one sigh at the cruel twists of destiny.

Soon, Sikong Xuan, who had broken through to the Innate Realm, did not hesitate any longer. He immediately ordered people to select quick-witted and loyal disciples, and then followed Bai Ke to Wuliang Mountain.

Before setting off, Bai Ke was still wondering why Sikong Xuan agreed so readily; he had thought Sikong Xuan would drag it out for ten days or half a month.

As a result, Sikong Xuan released his innate realm aura without any hesitation, which surprised Bai Ke at first.

"What's this idiot doing? Why is he glaring at me for no reason?" Bai Ke then widened his eyes again.

"Damn, a single antidote pill can allow him to break through to the Innate Realm? That's too illogical... I remember there weren't many people in the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils who reached the Innate Realm."

Here, it needs some explanation. After all, the spiritual energy in the Mountain and Sea Realm is abundant, and even ordinary spiritual herbs contain a vast amount of essence that people here can't even imagine.

That's right, it's spiritual energy. As mentioned earlier, although there is spiritual energy in the world of Tian Long Ba Bu, it seeps in from the spatial rift behind Wuliang Mountain.

That's why Xiaoyaozi and his beloved junior sister lived in seclusion in a cave below the Sword Lake Palace in Wuliang Mountain, leaving behind the legend of the Wuliang Jade Wall.

The martial arts practitioners in the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils do not have a method to absorb spiritual energy; they can only use a simple secondary absorption method.

In other words, they would eat plants and animals that unknowingly absorb some spiritual energy, thereby absorbing a small amount of spiritual energy into their bodies, which they called the essence of heaven and earth.

This is why most martial arts practitioners have a huge appetite; some can even eat the equivalent of several cows in one meal.

Because they practice martial arts and their bodies are very physically exhausted, they can only maintain normal energy levels by consuming large amounts of food rich in the essence of heaven and earth.

There are often stories circulating in the martial arts world about people who have picked some kind of Tianshan snow lotus and suddenly become martial arts masters.

In reality, it's the massive influx of vital energy that forcibly opens up their internal meridians, instantly transforming them from ordinary people into innate beings.

Of course, this is only the case in a low-level martial arts world. In the Mountain and Sea Realm, no matter how much spiritual power one accumulates in their body, without proper guidance, they are nothing more than a human-shaped spirit stone.

The antidote pill that Bai Ke brought from Tian Ce Palace was made from spiritual herbs from the Mountain and Sea Realm. For Sikong Xuan, it was also a supreme secret medicine to enhance his cultivation.

He even had to thank Bai Ke for not giving him a pill specifically designed to boost his cultivation; otherwise, the massive amount of spiritual energy accumulating in his body, unable to be consumed, could have caused him to burst.

This is the difference between the higher and lower worlds. In the use of spiritual energy, there is a difference between direct and indirect access, not to mention other differences.

The fact that even an ordinary detoxifying pill from the Mountain and Sea Realm is a miraculous elixir that helps people break through to higher realms speaks volumes.

Seeing that Sikong Xuan had broken through with the help of an antidote pill, Bai Ke quickly understood the hurdle. He then chuckled and cupped his hands in congratulations to Sikong Xuan.

Sikong Xuan was shocked to find that his powerful aura seemed to have no effect on Bai Ke.

He thought that with his breakthrough in cultivation, he would have a good chance of defeating Bai Ke, but the more he wanted to know, the more unfathomable Bai Ke seemed.

Despite his frustration, Sikong Xuan became increasingly curious about Bai Ke's sect. He had never heard of a sect that could teach such disciples.

However, he was also very fortunate that he had a good relationship with the disciples of such sects, and even, judging from the tone of Tian Ce Gongzi's words, he seemed to be interested in contacting his Shennong Gang more often.

Sikong Xuan then remembered what Bai Ke had mentioned a while ago: a group of his sect's junior brothers and sisters would be going down the mountain for training soon, and he asked him to help them out.

Thinking of this, Sikong Xuan felt extremely excited. Not everyone in such a large sect was as monstrous as this Young Master Tian Ce.

If I feign flattery, how could those young men resist the temptation of fine wine and beautiful women? I might even be able to extract some of their secrets from them.

Look at how effective the antidote pill that Young Master Tian Ce casually took out is; those from his sect are truly treasures from head to toe.

They traveled in silence, with Bai Ke following the emotionally charged Sikong Xuan towards Wuliang Mountain. Last time, he had traveled from the back of Wuliang Mountain to Shennong Gang with Duan Yu.

As for the front of Wuliang Mountain and the location of the Wuliang Sword Sect, he had never been there before and could only go there with the Shennong Gang.

Bai Ke scanned the area with his divine sense along the way, helping Sikong Xuan and the others avoid some of the activity areas of wild animals and hunters. After all, they had come secretly, so it was best to avoid any disputes.

Bai Ke was still pondering the differences and connections between this world and the realm of mountains and seas.

"If there are differences in the absorption and application of spiritual energy, then there should be no one who has not broken through to the Qi Condensation stage. After all, Qi Condensation is just the accumulation of spiritual energy."

Even if they are still in the primitive stage of absorbing spiritual energy and can only accumulate essence by relying on plants and animals that have unintentionally absorbed some spiritual energy, it is not like there is not a single one who has broken through to the Qi Condensation stage.

It's as if, as if the innate potential is already the limit, as if this world is restricting the cultivation of the people in this realm.

How can I return to Earth? Bai Ke also knows that this world of Tian Long Ba Bu has nothing to do with Earth; it is merely a system constructed by the villains of the myriad worlds.

Bai Ke doesn't know exactly how this world connects with the real world, but existence is its own justification, and Bai Ke can only leave what he can't figure out for the future.

The cultivation system on Earth is quite strange, and the myths and legends of various regions indicate that there must have been a golden age of cultivation in ancient times on Earth.

But later, cultivation gradually disappeared, and even the sense of Qi became difficult to condense. Could it be that the spatial rifts on Earth were completely sealed off, and spiritual energy disappeared?