Mo Yaoqing was a proud person. She didn't want to perform Dual Cultivation with others because of her self-esteem, not because of her so-called chastity.
Her growing age and the increasing number of enemies forced her to make a decision. She was decisive and did what she had to, so she quickly made a decision.
In any case, she didn't value chastity and Zhong Muling was someone she had a good impression of, so why not?
Thus, she plotted against Zhong Muling and used the Plucking Technique to rush into the Nascent Soul realm in one fell swoop.
After she entered the Nascent Soul realm, Mo Yaoqing went to Danxia Sect to cause trouble.
She was alone, so she naturally couldn't oppose the entire Danxia Sect, so she secretly killed many descendants of that Grand Supreme Elder.
This method was indeed a bit ruthless, but Mo Tiange only sighed when she thought of her previous experience.
With Mo Yaoqing's qualifications, she formed her Gold Core when she was a hundred years old. If her cultivation went smoothly, she would probably form her Nascent Soul when she was three hundred years old. However, she spent two hundred years and suffered unspeakable hardships.
If she wasn't smart enough back then, she probably wouldn't have been able to escape the fate of being forced.
Of course, Danxia Sect still had cultivators in the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm. Mo Yaoqing, who had just formed her Nascent Soul, couldn't afford to offend any of them.
Moreover, she had many other enemies. Therefore, after venting her anger, Mo Yaoqing made a prompt decision to flee far away. Later, due to a strange combination of factors, she arrived in the Celestial Pole.
When she arrived in the Celestial Pole, she settled in Linhai Town on the coast of the Eastern Sea. Mo Tiange knew what happened next. She established Bixuan Court and temporarily took shelter in Linhai.
However, right at that moment, she discovered she was pregnant!
By that time, five years had passed since she and Zhong Muling became husband and wife.
According to common sense, if a woman was pregnant, she would give birth after ten months of pregnancy. However, Mo Yaoqing was a cultivator, so there was a very small chance of a hidden fetus.
The so-called hidden fetus was when the fetus was wrapped in spiritual aura before it developed, so there were no signs of pregnancy.
After Mo Yaoqing and Zhong Muling became husband and wife, she entered Closed Door Meditation to form her Nascent Soul. During soul-formation, spiritual aura intertwined, so the possibility of this happening was very high.
Because of this, Zhong Muling never knew about this child. It wasn't until many years later that he discovered Mo Yaoqing left him a bloodline.
In the end, Mo Yaoqing couldn't bear to part with this child. In consideration of his father, Zhong Muling, who was a kind person, she finally decided to give birth to this child.
Unfortunately, although this child had two Nascent Soul cultivators as his parents, he didn't have spiritual roots. Mo Yaoqing had no choice but to go to the secular world. She pretended to be a mortal for several decades and raised this child.
It was only after the child grew up, married, and had children that Mo Yaoqing pretended to die of old age, escaped, and returned to Linhai.
After reading up to this point, Mo Tiange had a different view of this ancestor.
Apart from having a firm and decisive personality, she was also a woman and a mother.
Many cultivators disdained children without spiritual roots, but she was willing to pretend to be a mortal for decades for this child.
From this account, Mo Tiange could sense the sorrow revealed between the lines.
She had been pregnant for several years and gave birth to a child who was connected to her flesh and blood. However, he didn't have a spiritual root, so she could only watch him grow old and die of illness.
Therefore, she would rather leave the child in the secular world and cut off their relationship.
Giving birth was a cruel thing for cultivators. Even if both parents were Nascent Soul cultivators, there was no guarantee that their children would have spiritual roots.
She couldn't help but think of herself.
After she and Qin Xi became husband and wife, neither of them mentioned this problem. She vaguely thought about it, but she didn't think too much about it. Compared to mortals, it was harder for cultivators to get pregnant.
Only now did she realize how cruel this problem was.
She and Qin Xi were both people with firm Dao Hearts. Ascetic cultivators weren't suitable to have children, let alone such a problem …
What if he didn't have spiritual roots?
How cruel would it be if he learned about the cultivation world but didn't have the fate to cultivate?
She could only leave him in the secular world, but it would be difficult to continue their relationship.
After thinking for a while, Mo Tiange sighed and threw this problem to the back of her mind.
Since it wasn't suitable, it was better not to. In any case, Qin Xi was in Closed Door Meditation and wouldn't come out for at least ten or twenty years.
After returning to Linhai, Mo Yaoqing continued to cultivate. Although the Celestial Pole was smaller than Yunzhong, there were so many cultivators in Kunwu that it was no less prosperous than Yunzhong. In such an environment, she lived in seclusion in Linhai without enemies and smoothly advanced to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul realm.
During this period, she also returned to Yunzhong. Relying on her many magic weapons and powerful strength, she wanted to take revenge, but she found that the Grand Supreme Elder who forced her in the past had already passed away.
When she learned this news, Mo Yaoqing was stunned for a long time. In the end, she sighed and let go of her hatred.
It wasn't until now that she saw through it. No matter what kind of hatred, it couldn't overcome time.
Nascent Soul cultivators had a lifespan of more than a thousand years, but so what?
One day, they would fall and pass away. At that time, they would be nothing more than a pile of dirt.
After returning to the Celestial Pole, Mo Yaoqing concentrated on cultivating, but she couldn't make a realm-breakthrough again.
The sequelae of having her cultivation abolished were very serious. She couldn't overcome that hurdle and wasted hundreds of years in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul realm. In the end, she couldn't advance to the late stage and finally passed away in the Celestial Pole.
Before passing away, Mo Yaoqing recorded her life and looked back on her life.
She fought against fate all her life until the end without any regrets.
Mo Tiange put down the Jade Slip and sat for a long time. Then she exhaled and looked up at the sky.
A day had passed, and the sky was full of rosy clouds.
Soon, night would fall, but so what?
There were still beautiful stars in the sky and dawn to look forward to.
She smiled, put away Mo Yaoqing's Jade Slip and sat cross-legged in meditation.
Although she didn't have Mo Yaoqing's astonishing wisdom, she had luck that she didn't have.
She met a Master who treated her sincerely and had a lover who was in love with her.
Although she also lost something, she gained more.
As soon as she entered meditation, her state of mind easily entered a peaceful and empty state. The world seemed to merge into one, becoming ethereal and tranquil.
The Origin inside her body began to operate. The five elements generated each other, Yin and Yang circulated, growing and multiplying endlessly …
Mo Tiange felt that she had entered a very mysterious state. She had never experienced this state before. She felt that her whole body had melted into it and gradually, she didn't have herself anymore …
The wind was blowing, she could smell the fragrance of flowers and plants, and she could hear the sound of waves.
She seemed to have fallen asleep and woke up again.
When she opened her eyes again, it was still night. Mo Tiange didn't know how long she had been cultivating, but she felt refreshed and full of energy.
She operated her spiritual aura and felt that there was something unusual in her dantian, as if it was ready to move.
She felt that she really wanted to continue cultivating, to let the spiritual aura operate, to absorb spiritual aura from the outside, and to let it flow through her meridians to her dantian.
Her cultivation level was now at the peak of the early stage of the Core Formation realm. She had stopped absorbing spiritual aura for some time, and during this period of time, she only cultivated in meditation. Could it be that her body wanted to advance?
Thinking of this, she felt happy.
She was only a dozen years away from successfully forming her Gold Core, so she didn't expect to advance so soon.
She was talented and didn't lack medicinal pills, so her cultivation level increased quickly. However, because of this, the cultivation of her state of mind would be delayed. She often had to stay at the peak of a certain stage for a while before she could make a breakthrough.
Just like when she was building her foundation, she deliberately suppressed her cultivation speed for a long time to let her state of mind keep up with her cultivation level.
She didn't expect that this time, she could advance so quickly. In just a dozen years, she could already advance!
Thinking about it carefully, perhaps it had something to do with her reading Mo Yaoqing's life records?
Mo Yaoqing remembered everything in detail. During that half a day, she followed Mo Yaoqing in the Jade Slip, experiencing happiness, sadness, and anger. It was almost equivalent to experiencing Mo Yaoqing's life.
During this process, she experienced a lot and also comprehended a lot. Perhaps it was because of this that her state of mind advanced by leaps and bounds, giving her the impulse to advance.
Logically speaking, if she wanted to advance, she should enter the Virtual Sky World. But for some reason, she suddenly wanted to sit here and feel everything Mo Yaoqing had experienced.
She did as she said.
Mo Tiange laid a simple defensive Spirit Gathering Formation around her, took out several kinds of medicinal pills, sat cross-legged, and began to enter Closed Door Meditation on the spot.
Advancing to a small realm like this was much easier than advancing to the Foundation Building and Core Formation realms. Moreover, she was in the depths of the uninhabited Eastern Sea, so Mo Tiange only took a Clear Sky Pill and a Constitution-Enhancing Pill then closed her eyes and began to absorb spiritual aura.
The sun rose and the moon set. The tides rose and fell. Amidst the sound of the waves, time passed day by day.
Listening to the rise and fall of the waves, Mo Tiange felt as if she had returned to five thousand years ago, to the era where that proud and determined woman lived.
Nothing was eternal, only time.
Mortals would grow old and die, and cultivators would advance and fall. With the passage of time, even the most amazing genius would eventually be submerged in time. They would be covered by the Desolate Smoke Creepers and disappear without a trace.
Unless one cultivated to become a true immortal and jumped out of Samsara.
Only then could one grasp time, grasp eternity, become one with heaven and earth, and never be annihilated.
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Four months later, Mo Tiange opened her eyes.
She looked down at herself. Nothing had changed, but the abundance of spiritual aura in her body was far more abundant than before she entered Closed Door Meditation.
In the past four months, she had successfully advanced to the middle stage of the Core Formation realm.
Thinking of this, she smiled slightly.
Although she didn't advance to the Core Formation realm earlier than Qin Xi, she advanced to the middle stage of the Core Formation realm at a younger age than him.
She remembered Qin Xi said he went to Demonic Mountain not long after he advanced to the middle stage of the Core Formation realm. At that time, he was already 116 years old.
It wasn't that she wanted to compete with Qin Xi, but the gap between their cultivation levels was too big. She needed to catch up to him as soon as possible so they could advance side by side.
Thinking of Qin Xi, Mo Tiange's thoughts drifted far away.
It had been half a year since she left Xuanqing School. After being separated for half a year, she really missed him a bit. She didn't know how he was now. If he knew she advanced to the middle stage of the Core Formation realm, he would definitely be very happy, right?
"Maybe … I should go back …" she muttered to herself.
Although Qin Xi would still be in Closed Door Meditation when she went back, she could still see him occasionally.
After thinking for a while, she shook her head again.
This wouldn't do. How many Closed Door Meditation did a cultivator have to go through in their thousand-plus years of life?
It was only half a year. If she kept thinking about him, how could she concentrate on her Closed Door Meditation?
He could do it, so she should also do it.
But what should she do next?
She found Mo Yaoqing's Immortal's Cave and achieved her goal. If she followed her original plan, she should carefully comprehend the cultivation experience Mo Yaoqing left behind.
Right, this was the Eastern Sea. Maybe she could comprehend here while hunting some sea beasts?
If she could get some beast cores that Kunwu didn't have, they might be useful in the future. Moreover, she could also train her ability in fights of magical powers.
Thinking up to this point, Mo Tiange clapped her hands. That's settled then.