It's widely believed in the cultivation world that tempering the body with spiritual energy can grant immortality. But I discovered that spiritual energy is alive, parasitizing cultivators and feeding on their flesh and blood. On the day I reached Foundation Establishment, I watched my master's Nascent Soul burst out of his body and ascend as a hideous monster.
To keep my own parasite from turning on me, I decided to find another path. While everyone else diligently cultivated spiritual energy, I hid in the abandoned pill room, sneaking discarded poison pills. “This stuff is way purer than spiritual energy!” I smacked my lips.
Then one day, the parasite inside me grew ravenous and took control, making me swallow an entire furnace of deadly pills. When the immortal sects surrounded me to exterminate this “demon,” I was burping my way through a breakthrough to the Deity Transformation stage. “Burp... That demonic energy you mentioned? It's just the waste gas I expelled.”
