Chapter 66: Like a moth to a flame - Heavenly Luo Sect

When it was time for mortals to sleep, Wu Xue sighed helplessly as she looked at the young master discussing painting techniques with two painting souls in the hall. She didn't blame Ye Yong for his slip of the tongue, as it was beyond his control. She just hoped that the two painting souls wouldn't stay too long, because she really wanted to be held by the young master as she slept.

Back in her own room, Wu Xue tossed and turned for a while before finally falling asleep. Mortals spend almost one-third of their day sleeping, but cultivators have an advantage in time management and allocation. With Ye Yong's current physique and cultivation, he could go a month without sleeping and it wouldn't be a problem.

Moreover, cultivators' meditation is equivalent to rest, and even two hours of meditation can provide more substantial mental energy than eight hours of sleep. How can mortals compare to cultivators?

Ye Yong and Hua Ming explored the food they had painted until late at night, not feeling the slightest bit of fatigue. Hua Xin finally got her wish when Ye Yong regained all his spiritual power and she was able to taste the food.

When humans are born, their brains are not yet fully developed, so they can't remember what happened in their infancy. As they grow up, they are constantly exposed to food, so eating becomes a natural part of life.

Hua Ming and Hua Xin were born with high spiritual intelligence and could be seen as adults who had been raised on nutrient supplements and were eating food for the first time. The feeling was indescribable; it could only be said that their senses were bombarded with all sorts of new sensations.

"You've already eaten it before! Don't squeeze in! Get out of here!" Hua Xin was enjoying the food in her own scroll with chopsticks drawn by Ye Yong when Hua Ming suddenly appeared in her scroll and reached for the plate. Hua Xin reacted quickly and dodged, but Hua Ming still managed to grab a small portion of the food.

Spirit bodies cannot get sick like ordinary people, and they don't even come into contact with so-called viruses and bacteria. Hua Ming happily finished the food in her hand and then stuck out her pink tongue, coquettishly licking her palm. "You're so selfish. If you have something good, you should share it, shouldn't you?"

"When you were eating, why didn't you think about sharing?"

"You weren't here at the time." Hua Ming's words made some sense.

Hua Xin was a little speechless. The food was limited and she wanted to savour it, so she didn't want to share.

Seeing the two beautiful sisters 'fighting' over food, Ye Yong laughed and said, "Why bother like this, sister? I'll just paint some more."

"No need." Hua Ming knew her limits. One plate was already the maximum Ye Yong could paint, and he was almost exhausted. Asking him to paint more would be asking for his life.

"I'm just joking with her." Hua Ming walked out of Hua Xin's scroll and came to Ye Yong's side. "Sit down, sister will massage your shoulders."

"Thank you." Ye Yong was really tired. The consumption of his spiritual power was even more exhausting than physical exertion. After he sat down, feeling Hua Ming's delicate hands kneading his shoulders, he closed his eyes and started to practice his cultivation method.

Ye Yong thought that Heaven-Grade Qi-Concealing could block everything, but at the moment he activated his Returning to Chaos Divine Art, Hua Ming felt a strange energy surge from him and directly through the contact of her hands, rushing towards her spirit body. She let out a cry, took several steps back, and trembled all over.

"What's wrong!?" Ye Yong was startled by her reaction. Although he couldn't see with his eyes closed, he could feel that Hua Ming's reaction was very intense as if she had been electrocuted.

"Nothing, I just lost my focus and suddenly remembered some of the horror elements in the book." Hua Ming didn't need to breathe, but she was 'breathing' rapidly at the moment, and her emotions were difficult to calm.

When the energy rushed towards her, she had a sense of being swallowed up and annihilated, feeling the immense void and chaos, which was very frightening.

"I see." Ye Yong could never know about Hua Ming's experience just now. After all, in the novel, the protagonist Long Tian was able to use the power of chaos, and Hua Ming and Hua Xin had already sacrificed themselves to protect Mu Qing Yin in an ancient ruin during the middle and later periods, so they didn't have much of a role. But Ye Yong felt that things weren't that simple, so he asked again, but Hua Ming still gave the same answer.

Could it be that when I use my divine art, the aura of chaos leaks out? Ye Yong immediately thought of the most likely answer. Although his progress in cultivating his divine art was only at 45%, and he had to reach 100% to reach the first level, the Returning to Chaos Divine Art was destined to make him different from the current protagonist Long Tian, who doesn't have a chaos body. Even if they cultivated the same technique, there was no chaos energy generated within Long Tian's body. But Ye Yong had a divine chaos body, and he had already started generating it.

How powerful was the aura of chaos? Even if it was just a tiny bit, it was not something that a soul body with only the strength of a Nascent Soul could withstand. 

"Don't worry about it, little brother," Hua Ming said when she saw Ye Yong thinking. 

"Just focus on cultivating. Sister won't disturb you. I happen to have eaten the spiritual food, so I need to rest and digest."

"Okay." They were both adults with mature thoughts, and Ye Yong would never force Hua Ming to speak out, and he could guess the reason to some extent. After Hua Ming returned to her scroll, Ye Yong closed his eyes and continued to cultivate.

Even if Hua Ming told Mu Qing Yin afterwards that there was a strange aura in Ye Yong's body, as long as Ye Yong didn't use his technique and had Heaven -Grade Qi - Concealing, Ye Yong believed that even if Mu Qing Yin tried to investigate, she wouldn't be able to detect any problems.

Seeing Ye Yong meditating, which was similar to a deep sleep, Hua Xin quietly ran into Hua Ming's scroll and asked her softly what had happened. Mu Qing Yin was in the middle of contemplating something she had seen earlier at dinner and didn't pay attention to their movements, so Hua Ming told Hua Xin about the incident where she had almost been swallowed up by the aura of chaos.

"So, it seems that the aura is very powerful. If you react slowly, you might really be swallowed up. But what kind of aura is it that can affect us soul bodies at the Nascent Soul level?" Hua Xin frowned slightly and thought beautifully.

Hua Ming was the same way. Her fiery personality did not mean she was brainless. On the contrary, she was very smart and loved to think. In the end, the two beautiful beauties couldn't guess the source of the aura, but they came to a conclusion.

Whatever the aura was, it was a very dangerous presence that could easily destroy their soul bodies, but they needed it to accelerate their spiritualization. This was a double-edged sword.

But as long as they used it properly, it wouldn't hurt them. Hua Ming almost got swallowed up when Ye Yong was cultivating and the aura became stronger, but they wouldn't be harmed if they absorbed it unilaterally when Ye Yong wasn't practicing. So, as they looked at Ye Yong, they felt both fearful and longing.

Just like a moth to a flame, they knew they could be hurt or even killed, but they still yearned for the light.