Chapter 176
After spitting out another mouthful of blood, Tao Zhiyuan answered the Divine Transformation Ancestor’s question.
He was now crazed and deranged, on the verge of qi deviation. Even in the presence of the Divine Transformation Ancestor, he was brazenly defiant. “So what if I did? Pills are meant to increase one’s cultivation. Why can’t I take them?”
The Divine Transformation Ancestor was about to cough up blood from his brazen attitude. “Did this venerable one not tell you that taking too many pills is bad, and that a foundation built through your own hard work is the best?”
Tao Zhiyuan remained defiant. “You did say that, but is what you say necessarily right? That dandy from Dan Peak only has a three-spirit root, yet he relied on pills to pile his way up to the Golden Core stage. Isn’t he perfectly fine now? I think his cultivation speed is very fast.”
“You…”
If not for the fact that he saw Tao Zhiyuan as the hope for ascension, the Divine Transformation Ancestor truly wanted to kill him right now.
After watching the drama from the side for a while, Qiu Chi spoke up. “Since you’re all here, don’t leave. And stop arguing. Just take a beating, and I’ll send you all on your way together.”
“You impu—” dent!
Before the word “impudent” could leave his lips, Qiu Chi’s whip lashed out.
Everyone present wore mocking expressions, thinking Qiu Chi was overestimating her abilities and courting death.
The Divine Transformation Ancestor thought the same. Seeing Qiu Chi’s seemingly light whip strike, he didn’t even move. He snorted coldly and reached out, intending to snatch the whip from her hand.
His mouth opened slightly, as if to say something.
However, events unfolded in a way that was completely different from what they had imagined.
As if it had eyes of its own, Qiu Chi’s whip easily dodged the Divine Transformation cultivator’s hand and then struck his body.
It had looked like a light, flimsy strike, but only when it landed did he realize how painful it was.
At this, everyone present was stunned.
Tao Zhiyuan, who had been on the verge of a mental breakdown, was also dumbfounded.
“How is this possible?”
The first to speak was the Divine Transformation cultivator. He could endure the physical pain, but he couldn’t believe that the whip had struck him so easily.
Although he was only in the early stage of Divine Transformation, he was the only Divine Transformation cultivator in this small world. He was the strongest here.
But now, he had been easily struck by a junior who had just formed her Golden Core?
He refused to believe Qiu Chi could be that powerful. His gaze fell upon the whip in her hand. “This whip of yours, where did you get it?”
Following his words, all the cultivators present fixed their gazes on the whip in Qiu Chi’s hand.
Clearly, none of them thought Qiu Chi was particularly formidable. They believed her strength came from an external object.
Like the whip in her hand.
Faced with these people who refused to accept reality, Qiu Chi felt rather helpless.
“This whip? I just picked it up randomly in the mortal realm. I have plenty more of them.”
Qiu Chi spoke earnestly, but no one believed her.
The Divine Transformation cultivator was even more determined to step forward and snatch the whip from her hand.
Qiu Chi whipped him twice, leaving him severely injured, before using the whip to pull him next to Tao Zhiyuan. Then she said, somewhat speechlessly, “Seeing you all doubt my strength makes me very unhappy. Besides, this whip is stained with your blood, and I find it quite disgusting.”
With that, Qiu Chi tossed the whip to Tao Zhiyuan and pointed at the Divine Transformation cultivator. “Here, you whip him a few times and let him see.”
Tao Zhiyuan glared at Qiu Chi without a word.
Qiu Chi said, “If you don’t whip him, I’ll whip you. Didn’t you say I insulted you? Why don’t you give it a try?”
Tao Zhiyuan didn’t want to try. He picked up the whip, lowered his gaze to the Divine Transformation cultivator, and said, “My apologies.”
Then, under the ancestor’s watchful eyes, he raised his hand…
However, the first person he tried to whip was not the Divine Transformation cultivator, but Qiu Chi.
Qiu Chi clicked her tongue in disgust and whipped back with a new whip she had just produced.
In the end, Tao Zhiyuan’s attempt to whip Qiu Chi missed, while Qiu Chi’s whip landed squarely on him.
“You’ve got some nerve, trying to hit me? Don’t you know your own worth? You piece of trash!”
Tao Zhiyuan gripped the whip tightly, remaining silent.
Qiu Chi spoke again. “Either I whip you, or you whip him. Your choice.”
With the force Tao Zhiyuan used, even if he channeled all his spiritual energy, it wouldn’t cause any real harm to the Divine Transformation cultivator.
But even so, the ancestor would still find it insulting.
Qiu Chi’s intention was precisely to have Tao Zhiyuan whip him for the sake of humiliation.
Tao Zhiyuan was not a man of strong principles. He chose to whip the Divine Transformation cultivator.
As he whipped him, he said, “Don’t blame me. I don’t want to do this. She’s forcing me. If you’re going to blame someone, blame her. It has nothing to do with me.”
Although what Tao Zhiyuan said was true, the Divine Transformation cultivator still developed a killing intent toward the man whipping him.
It wasn’t just Tao Zhiyuan whose ego had been inflated by praise. As the most powerful cultivator in a small world, how could the Divine Transformation cultivator not be arrogant?
If not for the limited lifespan of a Divine Transformation cultivator, he wouldn’t have been so eager to ascend. After all, in this world, he was the strongest, and anyone who defied him had to die.
But now, he had been beaten by a Golden Core cultivator. This was an utter humiliation!
The Divine Transformation cultivator was powerless against Qiu Chi, but that wasn’t necessarily the case with Tao Zhiyuan.
Even though he was severely injured, a Divine Transformation cultivator was still a Divine Transformation cultivator, not someone a Golden Core or Nascent Soul cultivator could compare to.
Qiu Chi watched the show from the side, not at all surprised to see the two turn against each other.
Tao Zhiyuan, that scumbag, naturally couldn’t last more than a few rounds against the Divine Transformation cultivator and was about to be finished.
The moment Tao Zhiyuan was finished, Qiu Chi also killed the Divine Transformation cultivator. And then, the world reset.
After killing Tao Zhiyuan a few times, Qiu Chi gave up on the idea of summoning the Divine Transformation cultivator to make him turn against Tao Zhiyuan.
Tao Zhiyuan was so useless that the Divine Transformation cultivator could easily kill him. Although Tao Zhiyuan was the hope for ascension, if they truly became enemies, given the ancestor’s petty nature, he might not tolerate him anyway.
However, just because they couldn’t become mortal enemies didn’t mean a rift couldn’t be created between them.
After Qiu Chi beat Tao Zhiyuan to within an inch of his life, the Divine Transformation cultivator arrived.
Then Qiu Chi exposed the fact that Tao Zhiyuan had been secretly taking pills.
The conversation from before repeated itself. After beating up the Divine Transformation cultivator as well, Qiu Chi departed gracefully.
As for whether the onlooking cultivators would face retaliation from the petty Divine Transformation cultivator, that was none of her business and had nothing to do with her.
In the cultivation world, Qiu Chi naturally did as she pleased.
Although she could break the seal right now, she wouldn’t. She was just playing.
Of course, playing alone was no fun.
Wasn’t the Tianyuan Sect the sole dominant power?
Qiu Chi would make sure they couldn’t remain dominant.
A Divine Transformation cultivator—who said only the Tianyuan Sect could have one?
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