All the people in the country gathered in Lishui City, and the natural order changed as well.
The sorcerers, though protecting the ordinary people, would not provide them with various living necessities.
If they wanted food, they had to go outside the city to collect spirit monster corpses; if they wanted water, they had to go to the natural river to the west to fetch it.
Money was no longer useful, but those wealthy individuals still held many cultivation resources, which was why some sorcerers were willing to work for them.
Of course, some would question why not simply rob the wealthy, as they were just ordinary people.
The association had set rules; otherwise, order would descend into chaos, and sorcerers were forbidden from targeting ordinary people.
Of course, if no one knew about it, it wouldn’t matter, but if it were found out, the consequences would be severe.
Moreover, those wealthy families still had some backing; otherwise, they wouldn’t possess the resources needed by sorcerers.
In the past, sorcerers and ordinary people had complex relationships, and even though the world had been overturned, some of those ties remained.
Zhou Jinyun had to help with the siege, and upon returning to the lodgings provided by the wealthy, she had to help gather food and water.
However, she received a fair amount of resources and felt her cultivation had improved considerably recently.
On this day, monsters attacked the city again, and on the city wall, Zhou Jinyun saw a spirit monster’s claw about to grip her head, and she was stunned.
Wang Qingyun had been watching her and rushed over to pull Zhou Jinyun away before attacking the spirit monster.
Wang Qingyun was already dealing with two spirit monsters, and now with a third added, he found himself attacked from all sides.
Zhou Jinyun, however, hid in the back, trembling.
At that moment, another spirit monster lunged, and Zhou Jinyun leaped up, jumping behind Wang Qingyun, causing the spirit monster to claw Wang Qingyun directly in the chest.
Although Zhou Jinyun was not weak, her actions caused harm to Wang Qingyun, and he spat out blood, looking at her with disbelief, while Zhou Jinyun showed no regret and ran off into the distance.
Seeing an opportunity, the other spirit monsters charged at Wang Qingyun.
Just then, a stream of sword qi swept through, taking down all the spirit monsters.
Li Shuning descended from her flying sword, administered a healing pill to Wang Qingyun, and had him helped away to rest.
Many people witnessed Zhou Jinyun’s actions.
From that day on, no one wanted to be with Zhou Jinyun anymore; everyone wanted someone trustworthy to guard their back in danger, not someone like Zhou Jinyun, who would use others as a shield.
Slowly, even the wealthy man who hired Zhou Jinyun heard the news, worrying she might one day harm him.
Zhou Jinyun was cast out.
Originally, sorcerers had communal dormitories.
But that day, Zhou Jinyun, seeking comfort, became a guest of a wealthy man in East City, so the dormitory was reclaimed.
Now, after this incident, Zhou Jinyun wanted to return to the dormitory, but someone blocked her path, preventing her entrance.
At this moment, Zhou Jinyun truly felt abandoned by the whole world.
Why did it come to this?
Clearly, she had lived another life, so why was it still so miserable?
Ah, it was all Li Shuning’s fault; if only she had been harmed by the little ghosts back then, there wouldn’t be so many problems today.
Zhou Jinyun was utterly consumed by obsession.
Every time monsters attacked, she thought of targeting Li Shuning.
Once, she really did strike at Li Shuning when she was fighting a formidable spirit monster.
Zhou Jinyun struck from behind her.
Although her move was subtle, there were many people on the city wall, and someone saw it.
Zhou Jinyun was expelled from Lishui City.
Lacking Li Shuning’s strength, she was devoured by spirit monsters as soon as she left Lishui City.
As she was being expelled, Zhou Jinyun plainly saw the ridicule in Li Shuning’s eyes. Chapters fırst released on NovelHub(.)net
In the instant of being devoured, she remembered when Li Shuning was young, she came to her and said not to harm her parents.
That moment, Zhou Jinyun laughed; so she had lost from the start?
Li Shuning found nothing to pity in such a person.
In Zhou Jinyun’s eyes, there was only ever herself, never recognizing her own faults.
In the storyline, Li Shuning’s tragic life meant nothing to Zhou Jinyun, even if in the end, Zhou Jinyun still died at the spirit monsters’ hands.
Li Shuning’s strength grew rapidly, but with that strength came greater responsibility.
Gradually, Li Shuning realized there seemed to be magical nodes in the world with especially dense spiritual energy.
And on those nodes resided various monsters.
Initially, monsters were willing to hibernate and hide because the monsters at the nodes were growing stronger, sensing benefits.
Those nodes were useless to humans, though humans had their unique advantages.
The spiritual energy in the world was limited; how could humans share it?
When the world had no spiritual energy, many of their kind would occasionally become food for humans.
This was why monsters tried desperately to kill humans.
In this world, Li Shuning’s life was devoted to humanity, earning their heartfelt respect and admiration.
Li Shuning, with her own power, killed many monsters and directly destroyed those special nodes.
Slowly, the monsters’ rate of growth slowed down; coupled with the stronger ones killed by Li Shuning, humans finally had time to breathe.
Although order changed as humanity made a strong return, with Li Shuning around, some things wouldn’t change significantly.
When Li Shuning returned, her parents had long since passed, and those familiar from the storyline no longer existed.
In the late stages, Li Shuning continually focused on cultivation.
Upon returning to the real world, Li Shuning sighed in relief.
She was afraid of losing herself because in that world, she was the strongest, almost becoming its ruler.
Such a feeling was so wonderful.
Fortunately, Li Shuning persevered through it all.
Having experienced a Cultivation World and modern society cultivation, Li Shuning initially thought she could cultivate upon returning to the real world, but she found she still couldn’t.
explained to her that without spiritual energy in the real world, cultivation was impossible.
However, the benefits from this task were many, as Li Shuning obtained an elixir pill in that world.
The pill could extend life; even if the body was severely injured, consuming it could heal the wounds.
Li Shuning secretly placed the elixir in the water, letting her parents drink it.
Yet the biggest surprise wasn’t this.