Chapter 12 Born Evil

Chapter 12: Naturally Evil

“Just how many dangers and horrors are lurking in this city? A dead person is mingling among the crowd like this. I just happened to know Liu Yan, which is why I recognized her, but there are many more people I don’t know. How many of them have problems?”

“That Liu Yan doesn’t seem to have targeted me. It was too dangerous just now. If I were targeted by such a strange thing in my current state, I would definitely die.”

With this chilling thought, Li Yi quickly walked towards his home. He planned to hide at home for a while, using the qi objects in his hand to accelerate his cultivation progress in a short time, gaining some self-preservation power.

As for whether cultivating too fast would bring trouble, he couldn’t care less.

He closed the door and locked it immediately.

After replacing the nutrient solution in his parents’ medical pods, Li Yi turned off his phone to avoid disturbances, then came to the living room, sat down with his eyes closed, adjusted his breathing, and quickly entered a meditative state.

As soon as he entered meditation,

Li Yi sensed the energy field emanating from the dao coin. He began to guide the pure Cosmic Energy from that energy field into his body and then absorb it.

At first, he was a bit clumsy, but as time passed, his speed in guiding the energy became faster and faster, and his absorption success rate also continuously increased.

Similar to Lin Yue’s assessment, Li Yi still had potential to be tapped.

In just half a day, his cultivation value reached sixty percent.

This value meant that for every ten parts of Cosmic Energy, six could be successfully absorbed by him, while only four would be wasted.

Such rapid progress was due to the half-dao coin in his hand. Because with this incomplete qi object, Li Yi didn’t need to spend time and effort capturing the Cosmic Energy overflowing from wormholes.

When one can focus on a single task without distraction, one can naturally perform that task better.

“Grumble!”

Li Yi was woken up by hunger again. He opened his eyes helplessly, “Indeed, hunger greatly affects cultivation. I’ve been woken up three times by hunger in the past half-day. If I cultivate for a whole day, wouldn’t I be woken up six times? And I’d still have to spend time cooking and eating. It’s too time-consuming.”

“Oh, right. This time, let’s try the effects of Nutrient Solution No. 2.”

Li Yi took out Nutrient Solution No. 2 and glanced at the instructions. He found that it was forbidden for ordinary people to consume, and even cultivators should not drink too much at once, otherwise it would put a burden on their internal organs, causing side effects similar to food poisoning.

He carefully poured a cup with a measuring cup and drank it in one gulp as instructed.

“Sweet, and it tastes like apple.” Li Yi licked the cup. This stuff wasn’t cheap, so he couldn’t waste it.

Although he only drank a small cup, the hunger in his body quickly disappeared.

It was incredible.

One must know that when Li Yi got hungry, he would have to eat several packets of instant noodles, as well as sugar water, milk, eggs, fruits, and other things to feel full.

“Indeed, expensive things are expensive for a reason. Nutrient solution is so convenient, I don’t even want to cook and eat anymore. It wastes too much time and energy.”

Li Yi thought to himself, then he started cultivating again.

In the subsequent cultivation process, he found that drinking nutrient solution was more filling than eating. Previously, he had to eat every four hours, but now he only felt hungry after eight hours of cultivation.

Calculated this way, he only needed to drink three cups of nutrient solution a day.

However, one bottle of Nutrient Solution No. 2 only contained ten cups, which would be consumed in three days. This made Li Yi feel that cultivation was truly expensive.

But he wasn’t considering these things right now.

A day of cultivation quickly ended.

Li Yi rested for a while, took a shower, cleaned the dirt excreted through his pores after his body’s evolution, and then began a new round of cultivation.

He could now clearly feel that his physical fitness had undergone a leap-forward improvement.

Only his ears began to hum, as if he was experiencing auditory hallucinations.

Li Yi understood that this was not a hallucination, but his senses transforming, his hearing strengthening, and his body just needed time to adapt during this process.

Soon.

Cultivation reached the third day.

During this period, Li Yi’s cultivation value increased again. This time, his cultivation value directly went from sixty percent to seventy-five percent, and this value was still slowly increasing, though not as obviously as before. This indicated that his potential was almost fully tapped.

“My cultivation value will at most reach around eighty-five percent. This is still under the condition that I don’t need to be distracted. If I didn’t have the help of this incomplete qi object, my cultivation value would probably drop to around sixty-five percent. Lin Yue’s assessment of me was very accurate.”

Li Yi pondered, “However, I am already very satisfied with reaching eighty percent. At the very least, this value is already considered excellent among cultivators and won’t be too bad.”

Slowly closing his eyes, he entered meditation again.

“What’s going on? The energy field of that incomplete dao coin is a bit off today.”

Suddenly.

Li Yi, who was cultivating, noticed something unusual. The originally calm Cosmic Energy now seemed to be rippling, and then the movement grew larger and larger, as if it was stirring up a huge storm.

This abnormality even made it impossible for Li Yi to smoothly guide Cosmic Energy into his body.

He wanted to wake up from meditation.

However, Li Yi was surprised to find that his consciousness seemed to be pulled by the incomplete dao coin, trapped and unable to break free, let alone wake up.

This was the first time he had encountered such a change, and at this moment, he felt an inexplicable panic.

“This incomplete dao coin has a problem.” It was at this moment that Li Yi remembered Lin Yue’s words.

Since qi objects are incomplete, there must be some kind of defect or problem.

At this moment, his consciousness was trapped in the energy field of the incomplete dao coin, completely helpless, only able to watch the various changes occurring around him.

Soon.

As the energy fluctuations grew larger and larger, in Li Yi’s perception, something seemed to surge out from the depths of the pure Cosmic Energy field. Then, the surrounding energy frantically converged towards a single point, and in a short while, it formed an incomplete humanoid creature.

Then, the humanoid creature gradually condensed into shape in the energy field, gaining a vague body and facial features, but its lower body remained missing, just like the dao coin, broken into two sections.

“What is that thing?” Li Yi felt an inexplicable fear at this moment.

Just by sensing it with his consciousness, he felt a sharp pain.

As if his soul was being torn apart.

The incomplete person seemed to possess consciousness and immediately discovered Li Yi’s consciousness. Then, it opened its mouth, roared, and lunged over, seemingly wanting to devour his consciousness.

“Naturally evil Earth Prison people, even if this old man only has a wisp of remnant soul left, I will kill you!”

Li Yi was completely defenseless, and then a violent dizziness and blurred vision struck him. His consciousness seemed to have suffered a heavy blow and was quickly enveloped by a mass of darkness.

“It hurts, it hurts so much.”

He fainted directly.

However, as Li Yi fainted, the door to his parents’ bedroom behind him suddenly creaked open slowly.

A figure projected from the room under the light, and that figure stretched rapidly in an incredible way, finally enveloping Li Yi’s body.

The incomplete dao coin next to Li Yi strangely bent, as if affected by a huge unknown force, and then, accompanied by a faint, terrified scream, this dao coin was flung away, deeply embedding itself into the adjacent wall, completely motionless.

Afterward, the black figure projected from the bedroom quickly retracted.

“Bang!”

The door closed, and the living room lights flickered, then completely went out.

Everything in the old house fell into a deathly silence.

As time passed, Li Yi, who had fainted, gradually stabilized his breathing, but blood slowly flowed from his ears, eyes, nose, and mouth.

As time passed minute by minute,

The night outside the window turned into day, and then into deep night.

Li Yi was unconscious for two full days.

He slowly woke up at noon on the third day.

“It hurts, hiss…” Li Yi clutched his head, the intense pain making him gasp.

What happened? How did he faint when he was cultivating so well?

Oh, right, he remembered.

That incomplete dao coin…

He woke up with a start, looking left and right, and finally found the half-dao coin on the wall of his house.

Li Yi didn’t immediately go to get that thing, but he felt lingering fear. He clearly remembered that his consciousness was trapped by the dao coin’s energy field, and then another very powerful and terrifying consciousness emerged from the dao coin, intending to kill him.

“Naturally evil Earth Prison people? How did I, a hardworking young man supporting his family, become naturally evil?”

He suffered such a great loss for no reason, and immediately felt both angry and annoyed.

However, this incident made Li Yi understand that there seemed to be a deceased person’s resentment stored within this incomplete dao coin, or as that person put it, a wisp of a remnant soul.

“Indeed, burial objects from tombs are never good things.” Li Yi stood up, his body swaying, feeling dizzy.

“But why was there nothing wrong when I cultivated with the dao coin before, but this time I was targeted by the remnant soul of resentment stored in the dao coin? Could it be because I cultivated for too long this time?”

His expression changed constantly as he looked at the dao coin embedded in the wall, momentarily unsure how to deal with it.

If he encountered such a thing again during his next cultivation, Li Yi really wasn’t confident he could survive. He didn’t want to experience that feeling again.

But this incomplete qi object was crucial for his cultivation. If he didn’t continue to use it, it would be difficult for him to make further progress.

“This is probably the pros and cons of an incomplete qi object. On one hand, it can accelerate my cultivation, but on the other hand, it hides immense danger. If I want to use it, I must figure out a relatively safe method.” Li Yi thought for a moment. He was still unwilling to abandon this thing and decided to walk on the edge of danger to find a way to use this incomplete qi object.

Cultivating on his own was too slow.

In the past few days of having the qi object, Li Yi could clearly feel his astonishing progress every day.

Having experienced the taste of being a genius, he was naturally unwilling to return to mediocrity.