BXBX NOVEL Chapter 263 - 262: I Say, You Do
“Have you ever reached the Nascent Soul Stage?”
“Yes, the first time was just before my two deaths.”
“How did you die?”
“Poor location choice. There were two cultivators battling at the God-transformation stage. I accidentally got caught up in it. I had just reached the Nascent Soul Stage, but my foundation wasn’t firm and I died from the aftermath. If I change my location next time, I can break through the Nascent Soul Stage successfully.”
Just like the previous time, Yu Feng arrived in the small town feeling starving and collapsed on the ground.
The kind old lady appeared again, helping Yu Feng up and feeding him a bun.
Yu Feng refused. A hungry beggar kid volunteered to take the bun, much to the delight of the old lady.
The smell of meat attracted a black cat. Seizing the moment, Yu Feng grabbed the cat by the scruff of its neck and headed into town.
“That old witch isn’t good people. She doesn’t run a bun shop; it’s a human flesh shop. The filling inside the buns is human flesh!”
Thinking of this, Yu Feng looked a little sick. He will never forget that death experience.
Just for eating a bun, he fell into a coma. When he woke up, he was naked, bound hand and foot, and thrown onto a chopping board.
There was another person next to him, who arrived before him.
Like slaughtering a pig, the old lady first slit the man’s throat, and the blood, still steaming, flowed into a barrel below. Then they boiled him to remove the hair and cut open his abdomen…
Yu Feng watched in despair as the man was cut into large pieces. The old lady, beaming, picked up the knife and approached him…
After that, Yu Feng never ate anything offered by others.
“I arrived here penniless, and the first thing I need to solve is money,” Yu Feng said, holding the black cat.
“This black cat belongs to a lady. It often gets lost, and the lady is offering a big reward for its return. Anyone who finds the cat will receive a handsome reward.”
The reward for finding the black cat was Yu Feng’s first source of capital.
Yu Feng pointed to an alley and said, “This town may seem peaceful, but it’s full of death traps. There is a nest of human traffickers in this alley. You mustn’t get close, especially in my shabby clothes, I most easily attract their attention. Once I get close, someone will pounce, cover my mouth and nose and gut me.”
Yu Feng died several times because of this.
Before he reached the Nascent Soul Stage, the details of the beginning were blurry. As he passed the alley, he remembered he shouldn’t get close to it.
In order to find his first source of capital, Yu Feng had already encountered two attempts on his life by the old lady and the traffickers.
Yu Feng returned the black cat to the lady and received his starting capital, ten taels of silver.
“Come in. Look at your rags. I will have my servants give you new clothes,” the lady said in a somewhat commanding tone.
Yu Feng firmly refused.
He knew the lady was a good person, but her servant was petty. If he entered the mansion, he would be marked by the servant, leading to all sorts of schemes, and ultimately dying outside, exposed in the wilderness.
The lady snorted at Yu Feng’s ingratitude and turned to go home.
Instead of leaving immediately, Yu Feng found another black cat near the lady’s house. He picked up the cat and walked away.
After walking some distance, he angrily threw the cat away, “Damned cat, wrong one, had me all excited for nothing.”
The people hiding in the shadows dispersed and left.
“Some people noticed me taking the black cat to the lady’s house and wanted to snatch the money from me, of which I have been robbed several times.”
“They didn’t dare to spy near the lady’s house and couldn’t see me trading with the lady. So, I pretended to have found the wrong cat, didn’t get any money, and their idea was dismissed.”
“Now to cultivate,” said Yu Feng, like a puppet, after avoiding more than a dozen attempts on his life, he finally became a Qi Cultivation stage cultivator.
Watching the whole time, Jiang Li suddenly asked, “Do you want to save your parents?”
Yu Feng didn’t answer.
“Do you want to cultivate?”
Yu Feng didn’t answer.
“Do you have a goal?”
Yu Feng still didn’t answer.
“You…”
“Enough! Do you find these questions amusing?” An expressionless Yu Feng suddenly roared, “Do you think I don’t want to save them? But their death is inevitable. I’ve tried hundreds of times, all failed. How do I save them?”
“I’m just fourteen now, long-term malnourished, how can I fight against hundreds of bandits alone?”
“And what about cultivation? Do you think anyone would want to cultivate that if it’s not for survival?”
“If I don’t cultivate, I face more attempts on my life! If I reach the Foundation Establishment Stage, the attempts on my life would only come from those above the Foundation Establishment Stage. If I reach the Golden Core Stage, the attempts on my life would only come from those above the Golden Core Stage.”
“If I don’t cultivate, the attempts on my life are everywhere. Only cultivation can reduce the number of my deaths!”
“Once, I longed to cultivate. But now, I just want to survive.”
“Why do I face so many deadly trials? Why?”
“Is it so hard to live? Huh!”
Yu Feng broke down and cried, banging his head against a tree, making a thud sound.
A fruit weighing a hundred pounds fell from the tree, hit Yu Feng on the head.
Yu Feng was killed.
Seeing the surrounding scene going backward, Jiang Li sighed softly, Poor kid.
Though Wood Commander was unlucky, he barely survived each time, while Yu Feng died on every occasion.
Yu Feng’s experiences showed that one wrong step could lead to a terrible death.
Yu Feng is the most unfortunate person Jiang Li has met.
Just like in the zombie world, Jiang Li has no direct influence over the Ancient World.
Jiang Li once asked Ji Zhi about time reversal and received a difficult-to-understand theory.
Ji Zhi used Luo Ying’s experience as an example. When the time rewinds ten years, the water of ten years ago still exists in the river of time. The water of ten years later also exists. But ten-year length of water vanishes, revealing the riverbed.
As time progresses, that segment of water will appear out of thin air. As the gap disappears and connects with the water ten years later, time resumes normality.
In this period of disappearing riverwater, other worlds can’t intervene.
This theory doesn’t fit common sense or physical laws, and it took Jiang Li a while to understand it.
If it’s just to complete the system task, not being able to influence the Ancient World isn’t a big deal. Jiang Li wouldn’t even need to care about Yu Feng. He could just wait in Kyushu.
As long as Yu Feng cultivates step by step, he will eventually reach the Nascent Soul Stage.
But Jiang Li is thinking about more than just his tasks.
Watching his parents die without any emotional response, his expression was blank throughout, like a walking corpse.
Yu Feng has reached the brink of collapse.
Repeated deaths have made him lose all hope of living. Rebirth, for him, is torture.
Jiang Li wants to lend this kid a hand.
Sunlight filtered through the paper window onto the boy’s face. His eyelids moved slightly and he used all his strength to open his eyes.
“Who are you? What do you want?”
“Get out, we don’t welcome outsiders here!”
The familiar dialogue made Yu Feng sick to his stomach.
“Are you willing to make some changes?” Jiang Li asked from the side.
Yu Feng nodded instinctively, but he didn’t know what to do.
“I will tell, and you will do.”