Chapter 507 - 505: The Poisoned Wine is Finished

Chapter 507: Chapter 505: The Poisoned Wine is Finished

The living beings on this Star.

Su Qing only ensured their souls wouldn’t be corroded and dispersed by the Poisoned Wine.

As for the rest, if they died, they died.

It was a mercy he didn’t use his Devouring Dao Path to consume them.

They could reincarnate anyway.

All that mattered was that they didn’t encroach on his place of Cultivation.

’Something feels off about my state.’

Su Qing suddenly furrowed his brow.

Then, he began to perform an Inference with his fingers.

He was performing an Inference to determine if his current actions were truly his own choices.

Or if some hidden entity was manipulating him.

Because Su Qing truly had his doubts.

Sometimes, his actions were impulsive, born from a single, fleeting thought.

For Su Qing, the realization only ever came in hindsight.

Looking back, it was a little frightening.

Thus, Su Qing had no choice but to rely on Inference to assess his current situation.

After performing the Inference for a long time,

Su Qing’s brows furrowed.

But he continued the Inference.

The more he inferred,

the more displeased he became.

He gradually discovered something.

His destiny was indeed being controlled by certain, even more powerful, entities.

Well, not ’controlled,’ exactly.

More like... influenced.

They never intended to control the fates of others.

But their very power, their every action, affected the destinies of all living beings.

They were the most powerful existences within the Desire Dao Path, within the Star Sea.

’So my emotions have been affected after all?’ Su Qing murmured to himself.

His body had been continuously absorbing the Poisoned Wine.

’It seems the Cosmic Immortal Transformation Visualization Map isn’t omnipotent.’

’No, that’s not right.’

’It’s because I can’t stay within the Cosmic Immortal Transformation Visualization Map at all times that I’m being slightly influenced.’

Su Qing assessed his current condition.

His Cosmic Immortal Transformation Visualization Map possessed Standardization.

It couldn’t possibly be useless.

This meant the power of emotion had been influencing him all along, subtly and gradually.

He too could be exploited, or rather, the surrounding environment had perfectly triggered the emotions within his heart.

By resonating with the minute external influences, it could sway Su Qing’s true thoughts.

"Emotion is king."

Su Qing finally said, a bit bitterly.

He never expected that this would be the first time he discovered that, in the face of emotion, destiny was like the future, and emotion was the present.

To control the emotions of the present is to control your future.

And destiny, in turn, is defeated.

But that wasn’t quite it. It was simply that the power of emotion was stronger than that of destiny.

’Then the choice I made here should be my own rational choice.’

’Leaving the Taichu Daoist Palace, however, probably wasn’t.’

Because Su Qing knew that when he chose to land on this Star,

it was after leaving a large part of the Eastern Domain and arriving in the Eastern Desolate Realm.

He had simply chosen to cultivate in the first human-inhabited world he encountered.

A choice like that had nothing to do with emotion.

And destiny couldn’t control the current Su Qing either.

So, as long as it was his own choice, it was fine.

’Then there are no more worries. I’ll cultivate first and deal with the rest later.’

Without overthinking it, Su Qing ate a leaf and closed his eyes.

His mind sank into the Visualization Map.

This was simply to make himself less susceptible to emotional influence.

The entire Star Sea was being influenced by this power of emotion.

Moreover, bits of emotional power were being absorbed from across the entire Star Sea.

It was almost imperceptible,

yet utterly terrifying.

To feed on the emotions of all living beings in the Great Thousand Worlds...

The sheer quantity of it...

was almost comparable to the Immortal Stones and Spirit Stones from the Great Thousand World inside his body that Su Qing was absorbing.

It was simply horrifying.

And the absorption was constant.

These entities...

...lived on the Star Sea Tree.

They were also in the Thirteenth Realm.

But they were far more powerful than the Thirteenth Realm cultivators who could only linger in the Forbidden Lands outside the Star Sea Tree.

...

...

「Several years later.」

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Host: Su Qing

Realm: Dao Fruit Realm [Great Dao Cultivation Method: Dao Fruit (153,214/360,000)]

—

Su Qing awoke.

He hadn’t wanted to.

But he had finished drinking all the Poisoned Wine.

Su Qing had absorbed all the surrounding poisonous mist.

Most importantly,

a large group of humans wanted to enter the inner area.

They wanted to see if there was some kind of treasure.

After all, the appearance of the poisonous mist was too strange.

"Sigh..."

’There’s no more Poisoned Wine.’

’If I keep cultivating here, I’m afraid the humans will find me.’

Su Qing was adept at hiding himself.

So,

with a flash of Escape Light,

he vanished from the spot.

He arrived in a human town.

Dressed in luxurious attire,

he found a brokerage and rented a small, remote courtyard.

for Su Qing to use for his Cultivation.

It was the safest place.

Hidden among the crowd.

He would likely have no trouble for several years.

He just needed his clone to pretend to live a normal life.

Unless a problem arose in the town,

Su Qing wouldn’t run into any issues.

’Now I can only resort to taking poisons.’

’It’s fine, anyway.’

After concocting several Tier Twelve poisons,

he consumed them all at once.

Then, he split off a clone of himself that looked like an ordinary person.

It was a cover to show that he was truly living here.

...

’I’m cultivating.’

’I need an identity, at the very least, to cover for my main body’s Cultivation.’

Su Qing’s clone was thinking.

’A doctor, perhaps?’

The place Su Qing had landed was very similar to the mortal plane in the Spirit Realm.

So Su Qing had the ability to treat illnesses.

’Then I’ll be a Physician.’

Su Qing decided.

He took out a bit of silver and rented a small courtyard next to his own.

to serve as a medical clinic.

"Qingsu Medical Clinic"

Su Qing silently wrote out a sign for himself and hung it up.

Because of its remote location, even after he changed its appearance a little, no one came by for several days.

Su Qing’s mortal body was happy for the peace and quiet.

’If I were truly a mortal, this would probably be agonizing.’

’Starving between meals... who could stand that?’

Su Qing thought as he sat in a wicker chair.

This quaint and simple place,

reminded him of his life in the Spirit Realm.

After a long while,

a mother and son arrived.

The mother was very old and was being supported by the man.

The man asked cautiously, "Is this a medical clinic?"

"That’s right, it is," Su Qing nodded.

"Excuse me, is the consultation expensive?"

"If it’s expensive, you won’t get your mother treated?" Su Qing asked, puzzled.

Then he looked at the elderly woman.

"We’ll get her treated. It’s just... you look so young. Can you really treat illnesses? Where’s your master?" the man inquired.

Su Qing was perfectly calm. "It’s just me. I don’t have a master."

"If you want treatment, get it. If not, go to a famous clinic in the city."

The man got angry. "Why is your tone so aggressive?"

"..." Su Qing remained silent, not even glancing at the two.

To him,

it didn’t matter whether he treated them or not.

He was accustomed to the life and death of mortals and didn’t care at all.

Even if he cured her now,

she would only live for another dozen years or so.

To Su Qing,

it was the blink of an eye before she would turn to a pile of dust.

The man was furious, but the old woman said nothing.

But her gaze, as if taking in Su Qing’s contemptuous expression, revealed the helplessness of an honest person.

She followed her son and left the clinic.

’She even held back from expressing her dissatisfaction.’

"Sigh..."

Su Qing sighed.

He paid it no mind.

Until another man walked in.

He was a cripple, and the stench of blood was thick on him.

"Physician, quick, get me some medicine to stop the bleeding."

Su Qing glanced at the wound on the man’s leg.

The blood had already turned black.

It was a claw mark.

"Coming."

Su Qing took out some ordinary medicine and applied it. After about fifteen minutes, the bleeding gradually stopped.

The man let out a breath of relief.

"That was close. I just got bitten by a big cat."

"Luckily, the wound isn’t too serious."

"How much?"

"Ten copper coins for the styptic."

"That’s pretty cheap. Give me three more doses. Do you have anything to prevent inflammation?"

"I do."

"The anti-inflammatory is more expensive. It’s an exclusive recipe. Thirty copper coins."

"Fine. It’s not safe outside the city lately. Be careful." The man took out some copper coins from his clothes, counted them, and handed them to Su Qing.

Without a glance, Su Qing gave him the packets of medicine.

...