Killing God - Chapter 34

Chapter 34 Backlash
Sun You, who was sitting beside Shen Shi, looked much better than him at this moment. Although he was somewhat exhausted, his expression still seemed to be much more excited. However, at this moment, he looked at Shen Shi with a bit of concern and could not take his eyes off him.

Shen Shi smiled bitterly and shook his head. He stroked his forehead with one hand and whispered to him,

“Unlucky …”

Fellow Sun frowned. He glanced at Shen Shi’s pale face and sweat-soaked hair on his forehead. “Do you have any signs of a physical backlash?” He whispered.

Shen Shi nodded silently. There was a hint of sympathy in Sun You’s eyes. At this time, many of the youths in the surroundings had already stood up and walked out of the hall. Sun You also stood up and patted Shen Shi’s shoulder lightly. He comforted him, “This isn’t too big of a deal. It’s just that you have to suffer some hardships. It’s only a few days’ delay in cultivating. Don’t worry.”

Shen Shi nodded and said, “I understand. Thank you.”

Sun You smiled and got up to leave. After some thought, he turned to Shen Shi and said, “I’ll wait for you outside.”

Shen Shi was stunned for a moment, and then he didn’t hold back. “Oh,” he said, “Alright.”

Young Friend Sun nodded at him and turned around to walk out.

There were more than 400 rookie disciples in the hall. More than half of them left this time. Soon, in the huge hall, there were still teenagers sitting on mats on the ground, scattered one by one in the east and dozens more in the west.

Shen Shi blinked his eyes and looked around. He secretly calculated in his heart. Including himself, there were a total of twenty-nine teenagers left in the Morning Star Hall at this moment. He gritted his teeth and felt that his body seemed to have recovered a little bit of strength during this period of time. However, at the same time, his mood was still much lower. His mind was filled with the intense pain and the word “physical backlash” from earlier. At the same time, he secretly sighed in his heart for his bad luck.

The so-called fleshly body backlash was actually a peculiar phenomenon that a few humans would encounter when they absorbed spiritual energy from spirit crystals into their bodies and cultivated, causing their bodies to suddenly suffer intense pain, causing them to be unable to cultivate. This kind of strange situation wasn’t common, but it wasn’t particularly rare. Generally speaking, about one or two of the dozens of people would encounter this kind of situation.

This kind of anomaly would only appear on humans. Even during the Heavenly Yao Royal Court 10,000 years ago, when many outsiders, including Demon race, were cultivating their respective races’ divine abilities with the Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth, no such anomaly had ever occurred. After tens of thousands of years of exploration and development of the Immortal Dao, the human race had roughly figured out the reason for this backlash.

The reason for this was probably because the human body didn’t seem to be in harmony with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

In the past, the Demon Race was known as the Heavenly Election Race. The descendants of gods and spirits didn’t need any medium to directly absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into their bodies and cultivate all sorts of divine abilities and demonic techniques. Their aptitude was utterly terrible. No matter how well they coordinated with the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth, it was precisely because of this that the Heavenly Demon Royal Court had achieved a glorious era of tens of thousands of years. Apart from the demons, the other races had different degrees of harmony with the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy that filled the Primordial Chaos Realms. There were high and low levels of harmony. The high were strong and the low were weak, but needless to say, they were stronger than humans that were completely isolated from the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy …

However, none of the living beings in the Primordial Chaos World, including perhaps the humans themselves, had expected that one day, a small crystal stone would actually change the fate of all races.

The humans strangely discovered the secret of the spirit crystal and in an even more bizarre way, With incredible speed, he quickly found a way to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from spirit crystals and cultivate it. Then, relying on the incomparably large population of the human race, after a hundred years of bloody and fierce warfare, from weak to strong, he finally forcefully overthrew and annihilated all the outsiders that had once been suppressing him, becoming the ruler of this world.

It was unknown how many powerful outsider elites had died in grief, but they still couldn’t figure out why those humans who once looked incomparably weak were able to possess such terrifying power.

After the glory, it was the era of humanity. However, under the brilliance, there were still a few small flaws wrapped around the human race, not dissipating.

The physical backlash was such an inconspicuous but annoying thing.

The human body was very weak from the very beginning. Compared to other outsiders, it was almost incomparable. From birth until the age of twelve, the human child’s body was unable to withstand even the slightest bit of Spiritual Energy. It could be seen just how weak the human race itself was.

Once it was time to start cultivating, Many people would be stuck at this checkpoint where they could sense the Spiritual Energy within the Spiritual Crystal. Many people held the Spiritual Crystal in their hands at the beginning, and they could sense the darkness. They could not see the faint light that represented Spiritual Energy at all. However, this checkpoint had already found many ways to assist them in their cultivation. Today, the Morning Star Temple in Lingxiao Sect was like this. It could help these youths overcome an extremely important obstacle. This was also one of the many advantages that the big sects had over the small sects that looked inconspicuous, but were actually extremely practical.

After sensing the Spiritual Energy, it was the key to absorbing the Spiritual Energy into one’s body. The abnormal backlash of the physical body mentioned earlier happened at this time. As that human youth absorb the spiritual energy within the spirit crystal into his body, Very few people would react to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth because their physical bodies were slightly different from ordinary people. Once the spiritual energy entered their bodies, their physical bodies would feel as if they were facing a great enemy. They would suffer so much that they would be unable to continue cultivating. It was as if their physical bodies would reject this kind of foreign spiritual energy, so they were commonly referred to as “physical backlash.”

However, this head sounded a little scary, but generally is not a particularly serious problem, When Sun You was talking to Shen Shi just now, There was only sympathy in his eyes but no particular worry. It was also because everyone knew that, Although the physical backlash was painful, However, it was just that the human body had overreacted to this Spiritual Energy, Generally speaking, as long as a youth with a physical backlash clenched his teeth and endured more of this pain, his physical body would slowly get accustomed to the spiritual power of heaven and earth as time went on and the number of times he came into contact with the spiritual power of heaven and earth would increase. The number and degree of pain of the backlash would gradually decrease until it disappeared and he would be able to cultivate normally.

All the facts in the past had already explained this problem. The backlash of the physical body was just delaying cultivation for a period of time and enduring some additional pain and torment compared to others.

On the high platform of the hall, Wang Gen’s expression was the same as usual. He didn’t look anxious either. He only waved his hand, signaling the youths who were still in the Morning Star Hall to move closer to him and sit in front of him.

Shen Shi stood up and walked forward. He sat down on a futon not far from Wang Gen. At the same time, he looked around. Most of the youths beside him were unfamiliar faces, and their faces were filled with indifference and misfortune. Obviously, everyone knew a little about this common sense of cultivation and did not have a worried expression. However, compared to most of their companions who had started cultivating smoothly before, they were naturally not in a good mood.

Wang Gen’s gaze circled around the twenty-nine youths. For some reason, he paused on Shen Shi in the crowd. However, other than that, he did not express anything unusual about me. After a moment of silence, he said calmly as usual,

“All of you have signs of physical backlash. I think you all understand the origin of this. I won’t say anything else. I want to leave you here to explain a few things to you.”

“The path to immortality is long and long. It does not lie in the gains and losses of a single day. The backlash of your physical body cannot be considered a trivial matter. You can only treat it as an ordinary training. In the future, you will cultivate diligently and improve your cultivation. You don’t need to care about the hardships of the next few days.”

The twenty-nine youths nodded their heads slightly, and their expressions seemed to be somewhat better.

Wang Gen said, “But there is a backlash, “It’s useless for you to come back to the Morning Star Hall. In the next few days, you will only need to cultivate in your own caves. You just need to remember that if the backlash is too painful, then you can release the spirit crystal to relieve your mind. Naturally, it won’t be a problem for you to repeat it for a few days. Once your physical body gets used to the spiritual energy, the backlash will naturally fade away. At that time, you can start cultivating again.”

When these words were spoken, the faces of many youths became somewhat ugly. However, everyone knew that Senior Brother Wang Gen was telling the truth. Strangers could only blame their own fleshly bodies for their lack of confidence, so no one said anything.

At this point, Wang Gen pondered for a moment before his eyes lit up and he slowly said, “There is something else that you might not normally know. I will tell you as well. Actually, this backlash of the flesh isn’t always a bad thing.”

Including Shen Shi, when they first heard Wang Gen’s words, all of them revealed expressions of surprise. They were unable to react for a moment. Could this physical backlash still be a good thing?

Wang Gen looked at the expressions of these youths. Although there was no smile on their faces, their eyes were still slightly gentler. “Ordinary people, including many rogue cultivators, only regard the backlash of their bodies as suffering, but I don’t know the difference between them.” After careful investigation of the ancestors’ inheritance over the generations, “Even today, I thought that although the abnormal backlash of the physical body was due to the discomfort of the spiritual energy entering the physical body and causing the pain of the physical body, more than half of them might indeed be like this. However, some others might be more sensitive to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth than ordinary people, and at the same time, they had exceeded the limits of the physical body and caused similar suffering.”

Hearing this, the gazes of many of the youths below the stage lit up. Wang Gen cut their expressions into his eyes and revealed a faint smile for the first time. He said, “Forget about the former. After the bitter backlash, we will continue to cultivate, no different from ordinary people.” As for the latter, they were usually sensitive to Spiritual Energy. After experiencing the initial pain, they were able to advance faster than ordinary disciples in terms of cultivation. “In our sect, there were several geniuses and heroes that surged out in the past. In fact, when they started cultivating back then, they all suffered from the backlash of their physical bodies.”

At this moment, the eyes of the youths below the stage no longer lit up. Instead, they looked as if they were starting to get excited. They completely ignored the fact that Wang Gen had said before that there should still be a small number of people who possessed keen senses towards spiritual energy. Perhaps all of them felt that they were unique, or perhaps they all felt that they must be the most special one.

Wang Gen calmly said, “I’m telling you all this so that you don’t have to be discouraged by the backlash of your physical bodies. The road ahead is still long. No one knows what their achievements will be in the future. Do you understand?”

“Yes, thank you for your guidance, Senior Brother!”

This time, all of the youths shouted in unison loudly and neatly.

Not long after, the remaining youths left the Morning Star Hall. As Shen Shi walked through the crowd, he felt that his mood had suddenly become much better. Actually, after thinking about it carefully, Senior Brother Wang Gen didn’t seem to have said anything to them explicitly. He only mentioned a possibility. However, looking at the youths around him, they all seemed to feel that they would have a bright future in the future. They were full of confidence in the future. Even the backlash that they had just suffered from their physical bodies had long since been forgotten.

Shen Shi also smiled bitterly in his heart, but the moment he walked out of the Morning Star Palace, he couldn’t help but fantasize about the future. Perhaps … he really was one of those rare people who were sensitive to Spiritual Energy.

However, what kind of person would those genius disciples that Senior Brother Wang Gen spoke of in the past, even though they had abnormal physical backlash, be extremely sensitive to Spiritual Energy, be?

As this thought flashed through Shen Shi’s mind, he was walking out of the Morning Star Hall and back into the light. Behind him, in the shadow of the Morning Star Palace, Wang Gen was still sitting on the same spot, as if he was lost in thought.

After a while, he frowned slightly. A strange expression appeared on his face, as if he felt his teeth hurt. After grinding his teeth, he snorted and muttered to himself,

“That pervert …”