Yelena.

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After seeing Yelena sigh in relief, Tian Xing just shook his head, knowing that his mindset regarding cultivation levels is uncommon, as most people tend to judge power by cultivation level alone. After watching Ying Yue administer treatment to expel the toxin, restoring Yelena to the fourth stage but leaving her unable to move for the foreseeable future due to her previous injuries from fighting a group of a dozen people, Tian Xing's thoughts returned to how he was able to temporarily reduce everyone four stages below him to mere mortals.

His Origin Return Domain, which seemed powerful, was no more than a petty trick. If a cultivator practiced Spirit Awakening or a soul-based cultivation technique, they would be able to see through and break it. Essentially, what he did was infuse his Shen energy to give a spirit to the area, creating a mini Heavenly Dao that imposed a new mandate: everyone had to restart their cultivation from zero. This rendered their cultivated energy useless, as the Domain was a new world similar to how the Dao creates a new world where everyone must start from zero, leaving only punches and kicks as means of defense.

Once again, this trick was only effective because of his Tianming or Predetermination Dao, which could simulate a new world. Practitioners of Spirit Awakening, who could see through the illusion, would be able to break it easily and regain their previous cultivation levels. This would leave him no more than a first-stage cultivator, easily wiped off the face of the earth with a single swat from such a practitioner. His Domain, therefore, was both effective against those who couldn't see through the illusion and useless against those who could. But to Tian Xing, whether it was a trick or not, the fact that he could kill them with ease was all that mattered. Turning toward the scholarly, elegant youth who had called him an ant, Tian Xing just shook his head, grabbed their hair, and began the walk back to the cave for another two months.

To him, if that ant was enlightened enough to bring a knife to the ceiling and drop it using the force of gravity to kill an unsuspecting person, it was more than enough. Whether or not the force used to kill the person belonged to that ant mattered little to him since the one who wins is still the ant in the end. Because of this, the ant could do whatever they wanted to that unsuspecting person, just like Tian Xing could conduct his little experiments on them to improve his calculations regarding human behavior. After all, at the end of the day, it was Tian Xing who had grabbed these two devils by the hair, not the other way around.

So after two months of walking back to the cave to continue his comprehension of the holomorphic dynamics pattern of Taiji, while on the way testing various things on these two Soul Refining devil cultivators—who thought he was more like a devil than they were, not knowing that the first two months were just the beginning as there was more to learn from their psychology—Tian Xing returned to the cave once again. Turning toward Yelena, who was still unable to walk properly due to her severe injuries, and Ying Yue, who was currently administering her health, he then said, "Yelena, you can rest in our cave for a while until you're back to normal. Just tell me if you need anything."

Shaking her head, fearing that she might offend this esteemed expert just like 170,000 years ago when they became slaves to cultivators for simply looking at them the wrong way, Yelena replied, "No, elder, this junior doesn't dare to live in the same place as the esteemed venerable. Just let Yelena sleep outside your cave until this junior's health is improved, so as not to disturb your cultivation." Especially after witnessing what this expert had done to her former fellow disciple, she questioned whether the saintly merit aura this expert gave off was truly an illusion created by the Dao just for fun.

Seeing her master look at her as if to say there was no need to act like a servant anymore since the maximum effect of drawing in her potential sister had already been accomplished, Ying Yue then looked at Yelena, saying, "You don't need to be uptight in front of my master, Senior Yelena. He is only cold and cruel to those who deserve it, while compassionate to those who don't cross the line. Even with his enemies, as long as they don't truly become devils, my master only gives them a swift death or just lets them go for the sake of benefit. So, Senior Yelena, there's no need to be uptight."

Noticing that Yelena was still skeptical, Ying Yue let go of her hands, which had been supporting Yelena, to allow her to break free for a moment. Walking toward her master, Ying Yue then kissed him deeply before turning back to Yelena and asking, "See?"

Stunned by the unusual scene between servant and master—something only truly righteous clans like the Wang family, responsible for the largest and wealthiest Blessed Land, would exhibit—Yelena just nodded absentmindedly, unable to reconcile how the most evil person in terms of methods of torture could be present in this patient and gentle expert. Even when being tickled by his servant, he merely laughed and gave her a look to stop, knowing that a guest was still present.

Not understanding these duality extremes of personality, Yelena decided to recuperate here, trusting the words of this servant named Ying Yue. However, she knew she still needed to keep her guard up, as the exhausting experience of betrayal over the past hundred thousand years had taught her that nothing comes for free. Even the kind and righteous Wang family still acted for their own benefit, unlike in her previous world, where there were many genuinely kind people who performed compassionate deeds without expecting anything in return, often driven by a satisfaction that was far greater than the philosophy of kindness for mutual benefit.

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