In the bathroom, Qiao Yuli was lying stiffly by the pool, hunched over his body, the blue veins on his skin were like small snakes, entangling him, and waves of demonic energy engulfed his body. Like churning. A cobweb-like crack was abruptly poked by his fingers in the marble bath.
He only felt that the world was cold, and his heart was filled with negative emotions, which made him almost collapse.
Just when he was about to be unable to hold on, there was a sudden sound of small footsteps in his ears, as if stepping on the lake in his heart, making waves and bringing his sanity back from the edge of danger.
Qiao Yuli raised his head, and a familiar figure appeared in his hazy vision.
It's him…
"No, don't... come here..." He struggled to spit out the words between his teeth, with suppressed pain.
However, the other party ignored it and continued to approach him.
Joey Li couldn't move, he could only watch as he walked towards him, then crouched down beside him, holding his wrist.
At this moment, Qiao Yuli felt as if his body suddenly broke away from the cold, and all the fear and confusion disappeared.
He slowly closed his eyes, relaxed his whole body, and gave everything to him.
The icy aura in the body, accompanied by severe pain, was carried away little by little until his body lightened, and Qiao Yuli slipped into the water with a collapse. When he was about to sink into the water, he was firmly supported by one hand.
An Xian raised Qiao Yuli's arm, pulled him out of the bathtub, grabbed a bath towel, wrapped his naked body, helped him out of the bathroom, and put him on the bed to lie down.
Dozens of minutes later, Qiao Yuli woke up from the coma and saw An Xian standing by the bed at a glance.
"What's going on?" An Xian asked sternly.
"I'm sorry." Qiao Yuli looked at her melancholy, although he only said three words, but in his eyes was written "I have a big secret in my heart but I just can't tell you".
"I just cured you, and you tossed yourself into such a ghost again. Do you think life is too boring, or do you think your life is too long?" An Xian rebuked rudely.
"I'm sorry." Joey said the same thing.
"Okay." An Xian stood up and said coldly, "If you don't want to say it, I won't force it, but today is the last time I will treat you. Next time, whether you live or die, I won't care anymore. ."
With that, she turned around and was about to leave.
"Don't go!" Qiao Yuli held her hand tightly and said eagerly, "There are some things I really can't say. If I say it, it may cause you trouble."
An Xian sat back again and said, "For me, your repeated illnesses are the biggest trouble. When I decided to come to treat you, I was involved with the Qiao family. There are some things you don't want to do. Say, I can't stay out of it anymore."
Joey was silent, hesitant.
An Xian chose a comfortable position to sit on the sofa chair, and said lightly, "If you don't know where to start, then let me start? Are you practising some kind of exercise?"
Qiao Yuli looked at her sharply: "You know?"
"I'm a therapist, and I found out when I checked your body for the first time. The reason why I didn't say it at that time was because I thought you knew that your physical condition was related to wrong practice. I didn't expect that after your condition was under control, I started cultivating indiscriminately again." An Xian stared at him sharply, "Tell me, what is the reason for you to seek death so impatiently?"
Qiao Yuli looked at the ceiling and said after a long while, "Do you remember that I told you before that the 'Heaven' recorded in ancient documents has far more miraculous powers than spiritual power enhancers? That's not My guess is real, because the ancestors found a lot of exercises in some ruins."
"Oh?" An Xian didn't interrupt, sitting up straight and listening.
"As far as I know, as early as hundreds of years ago, some people have already tried to practice these exercises, but they have basically ended in failure." Qiao Yuli said slowly, "There is only one exception, and that is my ancestors. Grandpa, relying on this method of cultivation, lived to the age of 320. Because of this precedent, the Qiao family and several other families who knew the inside story have never stopped researching these exercises."
An Xian frowned. From Qiao Yuli's description, it can be inferred that these families with cultivation techniques have not been fully inherited, and their ancestors are likely to be ordinary mortals. So the question is, since ordinary people can survive part of the catastrophe, why are there no cultivators left
As long as the cultivator breaks through the Nascent Soul stage, even if the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is exhausted, they can live for a thousand years by relying on the spiritual stone. No matter how bad the living environment is and how cruel the competition is, at least a few thousand cultivators can be left, right
But now, let alone the cultivators from a thousand years ago, even the contemporary people who have practiced the orthodox cultivation method have not found one.
The top powerhouses of this era are all focused on cultivating spiritual power. A person like Qiao Yuli who cultivates indiscriminately, unless he is very lucky, he will either go into trouble or lose his life. The ancestor of the Qiao family who lived to be 320 years old is definitely an exception among exceptions.
Could it be that there are actually other cultivators on this planet, but they are all hidden
An Xian thinks this is not very likely. He conducts live broadcasts online every month, so high-profile and so ostentatious, if there are people who are cultivating truth, they should have noticed her long ago, and there is no reason to ignore her. Moreover, those ruins, after more than a thousand years, should have been excavated by those cultivators who survived, so where can they get her
Therefore, Anxian is more inclined to the speculation that there are no orthodox cultivators today.
Thinking of this, I just heard Qiao Yuli continue: "Unfortunately, the exercises obtained by several families are incomplete fragments and cannot be cultivated. So they set up a secret research society, and every once in a while, they will learn from A few children with excellent aptitude are selected from all over the world, and they will be used as experiments in the practice of exercises, trying to find ways to improve the incomplete parts."
An Xian said in surprise: "They use children to do experiments? How many children are practicing these incomplete exercises?"
"I don't know either." Qiao Yuli shook his head, clutching the quilt tightly in both hands, a trace of disgust flashing in his eyes.
Anxian watched him quietly for a while and asked, "As a Qiao family member, you should be well aware of the dangers involved, so why do you also participate in cultivation?"
A trace of coldness flashed in Qiao Yuli's eyes, and he said indifferently: "This was decided by my father, when I was 5 years old."
What kind of father would experiment with his own child
An Xian immediately thought of another question: "You couldn't be the master when you were young, but now that you are grown up, why do you continue to cultivate those messy things?"
Qiao Yuli said indifferently: "If I don't do what he says, he will attack my brother."
Anxian: "… "
Threatening one son with another son, this kind of father really refreshed her understanding of human nature.
"Does your brother know about this?" An Xian asked again.
Qiao Yuli shook his head: "I promised to be my father's test product, but I didn't want to involve him. My father's strength not only came from his own strength, but also from the families who cooperated with him. I was powerless to fight alone. The only thing I can do is make him happy."
An Xian couldn't imagine that this man could sacrifice to such a level for his younger brother. He suffered silently for more than 20 years, and forced himself to look like a ghost.
An Xian originally wanted to ask which families they were, but after hesitating for a moment, he still didn't ask.
The room was quiet, and after a while, An Xian said, "Can you show me the exercises you've cultivated? I may be able to help you find a relatively safe cultivation method."
Qiao Yuli looked at him and said seriously: "You should leave this matter alone. The reason why I tell you this is that I just don't want to lose you as a friend." Finally, he finally had a friend who sincerely treated him. Knowing that it might bring him danger, he still selfishly told him this in secret.
"I know what to worry about." An Xian said slowly, "You dare not disobey your father for Qiao Gusi, but I can't let you continue to cultivate like this, so you can continue to cultivate, but you must cultivate. The exercises I have improved for you. As long as you don't tell me, your father won't know about it, and I'm naturally not in any danger."
Qiao Yuli was stunned for a moment, and then showed a happy smile: "Okay, listen to you."
He didn't ask him, even a few families failed to improve the successful exercises, how could he successfully change them? In fact, he didn't care about the outcome at all, and even if he failed, he wouldn't be worse off than he is now. If it can be exchanged for the company of this person, he is willing to suffer any pain.
This life is too lonely, at least let him be self-willed once before he dies...
Qiao Yuli took out a handwritten scroll from the hidden compartment and handed it to An Xian.
An Xian took it, but after a few glances, his face suddenly changed, and he asked incredulously, "This is your practice?"
Joey nodded.
An Xian had the urge to curse for the first time, and the scroll in his hand recorded at least five different exercises. In the era of self-cultivation, let alone five, even cultivating two completely different systems of exercises at the same time will lead to confusion. And Qiao Yuli has practiced the five kinds of cultivation alone, how did he survive until now? !
Seemingly puzzled by Anxian's sudden anger, Qiao Yuli said: "These are all the exercises I have practiced in the past few years, and they are all here, without any omissions. However, the previous ones have all proved to be failures, and my father has already helped me to abolish them. , the last one was the one I started cultivating a few months ago."
An Xian didn't dare to believe: "You mean that every time you fail one, your father will abolish all your skills, and then let you practice another practice?"
"Yes." Qiao Yuli's face was calm, and he didn't feel how cruel and inhumane this practice was!
Abolishing other people's skills is definitely a taboo in the world of self-cultivation, and it is generally only used to punish traitors or deal with demons. This man has not only been deprived of his skills, but also deactivated four times!
So, how did he survive until now? !
An Xian looked at Qiao Yuli's eyes at this time, as if he was looking at a Xiaoqiang who couldn't be beaten to death.