A-Wu suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.
It was a cultivator’s instinctive sense of danger.
Knowing something was wrong, A-Wu immediately ignored the rule forbidding her from flying on a sword. She summoned her flying sword from her storage artifact and prepared to leave this dangerous place.
The moment her foot touched the sword, an overwhelming force suddenly descended from the sky.
Under the crushing pressure, A-Wu was instantly slammed into the ground. For a moment, it felt as though all her internal organs had been shaken out of place.
She had no time to check her injuries. After coughing up a mouthful of blood, she immediately tried to run for her life, hoping to escape before she became an innocent victim caught in the crossfire.
Unfortunately, the difference in cultivation was simply too great.
The moment the thought crossed her mind, a terrifying wave of sword energy swept through the air.
It sliced straight through a mountain peak in front of her before passing over her body in the blink of an eye.
It was so fast and so brutal that A-Wu did not even feel any pain.
But she knew very clearly what had happened.
She had definitely been torn apart, just as that powerful cultivator had threatened.
Even her soul was on the verge of shattering.
With only the faintest trace of consciousness remaining, A-Wu felt deeply unwilling to accept this.
She had only just reached Foundation Establishment!
She had only just officially stepped onto the path of immortality!
She had not even explored the entire Cultivation Continent!
There were still so many pill formulas she had yet to learn!
She…
She did not want to die yet!
But A-Wu knew very well that she could not survive.
When she felt something inside her shatter, her consciousness slowly faded away in despair.
Before everything went dark, she screamed silently in her heart:
If I get another life… If I get another life, I swear I’ll become a shut-in cultivator!
A-Wu had thought she was absolutely doomed.
Yet, in the middle of the chaos, she suddenly opened her eyes.
Once she regained consciousness, she was confused.
Hadn’t cultivators supposedly escaped the cycle of the Five Elements and reincarnation?
Wasn’t a cultivator’s death supposed to mean complete destruction of both body and soul?
Then what was happening to her?
Could someone secretly be in love with her and willing to pay an enormous price to preserve a fragment of her soul and rebuild her body?
A-Wu’s imagination had only gotten halfway through that thought before she mentally strangled it herself.
How was that possible?
She wasn’t even ranked on the sect’s beauty list!
A-Wu lay weakly on the bed, struggling to adjust.
Ever since she had transmigrated into the cultivation world, she had never been this weak.
She could barely even sit up.
She tried circulating her spiritual energy.
There was nothing.
Not even a trace of spiritual energy remained in her dantian.
!!!!!
A-Wu immediately became frantic.
For more than fifty years, she had been accustomed to using spiritual energy constantly. Suddenly discovering that she had once again become a completely ordinary mortal nearly made her burst into tears.
Whatever was happening to her now, it truly felt like she had been sent straight back to square one.
She looked around.
She was lying on a bed inside a room.
The furnishings around her gave her such a shock that she almost jumped.
This style…
This was definitely not the Cultivation Continent!
Her heart skipped a beat.
Had she transmigrated again?!
After surviving death twice in a row, could she actually be the illegitimate daughter of the Heavenly Dao?
Once A-Wu realized that she might have transmigrated again, her imagination immediately ran wild.
She looked around carefully.
The room’s design was somewhat similar to the world she had lived in before entering the cultivation world, but the technology was clearly far more advanced.
The entire room was filled with a cold, metallic feel.
After forming a few guesses, A-Wu finally calmed down.
She lay weakly on the bed and began sensing the spiritual energy of the world around her.
An hour passed.
That was two whole hours.
A-Wu finally opened her eyes, covered in cold sweat.
She had spent an entire hour circulating her cultivation technique and trying to sense the spiritual energy around her.
But she had only detected the faintest trace.
There wasn’t nearly enough spiritual energy to draw into her body.
Question:
What does a cultivator feel like when she suddenly arrives in a world without spiritual energy?
A-Wu could answer that for you.
It was like suddenly going from being a normal person to being both blind and deaf.
She couldn’t draw spiritual energy into her body.
Her new body was incredibly weak, and there wasn’t a trace of spiritual energy inside her.
For a while, A-Wu didn’t even know what to do with her hands and feet.
After using every ounce of strength she had to crawl out of bed, she leaned against it and stared blankly into space.
She knew something about her body felt terribly wrong, but she couldn’t figure out what.
Just as A-Wu was thinking about it, the door suddenly opened.
The sound was almost completely silent, but with the spiritual sense of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, A-Wu noticed it immediately.
Years of living cautiously had trained her to stay alert.
She instantly looked toward the doorway, her entire body tensing.
Her gaze shot toward the person entering like a sharp blade.
Even without her cultivation, the presence of a Foundation Establishment cultivator was intimidating enough that any ordinary person would probably have been frightened.
Then A-Wu saw the “person” who had entered.
No.
To be precise…
It rolled in.
It was an egg-shaped robot standing more than a meter tall.
Two little wheels rolled it toward A-Wu’s bed.
Where its head should have been was a glowing blue screen.
On either side were two mechanical arms, each with only three fingers.
The entire robot was silver-white and looked rather old.
Although its surface had been polished until it gleamed, there were many places where the paint had already chipped away.
In its right hand, it held something resembling a test tube.
When the egg-shaped robot rolled to about half a meter from A-Wu’s bed, its screen began flashing.
Then it suddenly spoke in an incredibly cute voice.
“Master, it’s time for lunch. You didn’t eat breakfast, so you definitely can’t skip lunch too, okay~?”
Oh…
The robot was a boy!
A-Wu wasn’t particularly surprised by the robot’s human-like voice.
After all, artificial intelligence had already reached its early stages in the world she had lived in before transmigrating to the Cultivation Continent.
And the cultivation world itself had all kinds of puppets.
The most advanced puppets could do far more than simply talk.
They could even be used as dual-cultivation partners!
A senior female disciple A-Wu once knew had secretly collected a fan-made dual-cultivation puppet modeled after a powerful demonic cultivator.
Of course, it was a low-quality version, basically like an inflatable doll.
It could talk, move, and make sounds, but it had no spiritual energy.
Still, that demonic cultivator was unbelievably handsome.
Even A-Wu had been a little tempted.
But she valued her life more.
By now, no one even knew how many pieces the cultivator who had made that doll had been chopped into by the real demonic cultivator.
A-Wu certainly wasn’t foolish enough to take that risk.
When she heard the word “lunch,” A-Wu suddenly understood.
So that’s what was wrong!
She was hungry!
Ever since she had learned how to survive without food, A-Wu hadn’t experienced hunger in years.
She twitched the corner of her mouth, feeling somewhat speechless, and accepted the lunch from the robot.
She pulled the stopper from the test tube and smelled the liquid inside.
It had a slightly sour scent.
The egg-shaped robot saw A-Wu holding the nutrient solution without drinking it.
Its screen flashed repeatedly.
“Master, this is the only fruit-flavored nutrient solution left in the house.”
A-Wu looked up at the robot.
For some reason, she felt as though she could see a hint of grievance, worry, and pleading in that glowing screen.
The intelligence of robots had really advanced this far?
Her stomach was also painfully hungry, so she raised the test tube and drank the entire thing in one go.
Hmm…
It tasted like spoiled fruit.
Having grown accustomed to spiritual fruits and spiritual rice, A-Wu instinctively gagged.
But once the nutrient solution reached her stomach, the hunger disappeared immediately.
Her body finally felt a little better.
After resting for a while and regaining a little strength, A-Wu sat cross-legged on the bed.
She once again circulated her cultivation technique and tried to sense the spiritual energy of the world.
Her spiritual sense swept outward.
Suddenly, A-Wu noticed a small concentration of spiritual energy nearby.
Her eyes snapped open.
She looked toward the source.
It was coming from the egg-shaped robot.
A-Wu waved for the robot to come closer.
She could clearly sense that the spiritual energy was coming from inside it.
She ran her hands over the robot’s surface, searching for an opening so she could inspect the source of the spiritual energy inside.
As A-Wu moved her hands around, the robot’s screen began flashing rapidly.
Its adorable mechanical voice sounded slightly flustered.
“Master, why are you touching my chest? I’m not a companion-type robot. I only have housekeeping functions.”
Several invisible black lines seemed to appear across A-Wu’s forehead.
How could a round, egg-shaped robot even tell the difference between its chest and stomach?
Once again, A-Wu had to revise her estimate of the robot’s intelligence.
She stopped wasting her time searching manually and simply ordered:
“Open your outer casing. I want to see your internal structure.”
Fortunately, although the egg-shaped robot was highly intelligent, it followed A-Wu’s commands completely.
It automatically opened its casing, revealing a complicated internal structure.
But A-Wu didn’t even notice the tangled wires.
Her entire attention was focused on a metal block embedded in a slot.
In A-Wu’s eyes…
That was a spiritual stone!
And not just any spiritual stone.
It was the lowest-grade spiritual stone—the exact kind she was most familiar with.
A-Wu was so excited she could barely contain herself.
She had just been worrying about what to do in a world without spiritual energy.
And now spiritual stones had practically delivered themselves to her doorstep!
I really am the Heavenly Dao’s illegitimate daughter, aren’t I?!
A-Wu reached out, intending to pull the spiritual stone out of the robot and absorb its energy.
But just as her hand touched the stone, a sudden sharp pain shot through her head.
“Hiss!”
A-Wu sucked in a breath and quickly pulled her hand back, pressing it against her throbbing temple.
Fortunately, the pain lasted only an instant.
A-Wu soon recovered.
She had only just awakened inside this new body, and the body was extremely weak.
She didn’t think much of the pain.
Once it passed, she reached out again to remove the spiritual stone.
The robot’s screen flashed.
Its cute mechanical voice sounded nervous.
“Master, do you want an energy block? There are several more at home. I’ll go get them for you.”
After saying that, the robot closed its casing and quickly rolled away.
The egg-shaped robot was secretly panicking.
Its master had just tried to remove its energy block.
Without an energy block, it would shut down.
And its master’s illness was getting worse and worse.
It was afraid that if it shut down, its master might become desperate and do something foolish.
A-Wu, of course, had no idea what the robot was thinking.
She didn’t know enough about robots to understand its concerns.
At that moment, she was simply delighted.
She was eagerly waiting to find out exactly how many spiritual stones the robot meant by “several.”
The egg-shaped robot returned very quickly.
It was holding a palm-sized box in both hands.
A-Wu was a little disappointed.
A box this small probably couldn’t contain many spiritual stones.
Even so, she eagerly took it from the robot.
She opened the box and counted.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
There weren’t many, but A-Wu was already extremely satisfied.
When she had first transmigrated to the Cultivation Continent, she could only earn one or two low-grade spiritual stones in an entire month!
Sure enough, happiness really came from comparison.
A-Wu decided that she was truly the perfect example of someone who knew how to be content with what she had.