649: 207_5 649: 207_5 By the shore, Li Lingwei emerged from the water, wringing the moisture from her clothes as she spoke, “I feel the same way as you, I feel as if I’ve become a mortal who has started to age.
Not very old, of course, just slightly older.”
Cao Zhen frowned slightly and turned to ask Ling Xi and the others, “What about you?”
“Master, we can’t feel the spiritual energy either, and it seems our bodies are just like those of ordinary people.”
“Hm, I don’t know what the strength and endurance of ordinary people are like, but right now, I feel like an ordinary person, no different from mortals.”
Cao Zhen then looked towards Little Beiyan.
With a pinched face, Little Beiyan whined, “I suppose I’m the same as a normal person, that is, a mortal child who hasn’t grown up yet.”
After saying this, he turned to call out to Xiang Ziyu, “Third senior brother, you’ve been weak since the end of the Immortals Martial Contest.
Are you now just an exceptionally weak mortal?”
“Weak?
I, your senior brother, am the protagonist, how could I be weak?” Xiang Ziyu lifted his arm and exclaimed, “My current strength, my body, must be at least a bit stronger than that of an ordinary mortal, right?”
“So, we’re all practically indistinguishable from mortals now,” Cao Zhen vaguely understood.
Beichen Ying and Li Lingwei must feel like they are aging mortals because the two of them are already of considerable age.
They had both practiced cultivation for over a thousand years, while the rest of them hadn’t even reached a hundred years old, which made the absence of spiritual energy affect them differently.
As for himself, feeling stronger than the average mortal probably lay in the fact that his physical strength had been too immense before.
Since everyone now lacked spiritual energy and the Heavenly Gang Disha Beads had also fallen, unable to lead the way anymore, the group could only choose a direction and continue walking ahead.
They had long been accustomed to flying; even when flight was previously impossible, with spiritual energy and cultivation base at hand, they could travel for a day and a night without tiring.
But now, as they had lost their cultivation bases and their bodies were no different from those of ordinary mortals, the group began to feel tired after less than half an hour’s walk.
Little Beiyan, in particular, had a look of utter misery on his face, glancing with envy at Yi Sheng’s long legs while pleading, “I’m still a child, why must I walk such a long distance.
Slow down, slow down…”
Leading the way, Cao Zhen responded somewhat speechless to Little Beiyan’s complaints from behind, “Little Beiyan, you know you’re a child; aren’t children supposed to not feel tired?
Besides, children recover quickly, no one else has complained of being tired yet, and here you are, the first one.”
“Can it be the same?” Little Beiyan protested dejectedly, “Look at your legs, especially junior sister’s.
She takes one step, and I have to take two.
How could I not be tired!
I really don’t understand.
Why would the Heaven Illusion Sword Monarch create a place like Zheng E’s, with no spiritual energy and such weak bodies?
What’s the point of doing this?”
“His purpose is probably to train our minds…
or rather, this is a test, a trial for our minds,” Li Ke said.
Though she had also become like an ordinary person, sweating as she walked, she still persisted behind Cao Zhen, her face resolute.
She was certainly a genius, but that did not mean that geniuses could achieve their current status with just a bit of cultivation.
How many geniuses, initially praised as such, slowly fell behind because they took their talents for granted and became complacent in their cultivation?
She, unlike other disciples from different peaks, didn’t know; she had always been the most diligent and hardest-working disciple of Vermilion Bird Peak!
Compared to the hardships she endured during her previous cultivation, this suffering was nothing!
She truly felt this hardship was insignificant, but gradually, as they walked more and as her legs grew wearier, she began to understand the hardships of a mortal’s life.
Even walking empty-handed, they felt tired, feeling the soreness in their legs.
But what about those farmers laboring in the fields?
What about the merchants?
Pushing heavy loads, they must cover so much ground.
Before they knew it, the sky had gradually darkened.
Last night, they still had their cultivation bases, and though they were unable to fly, they could still travel.
But now, with nightfall upon them, they could hardly continue their journey, and they managed to find a few large trees to lean against and spend the night.
The next day, Cao Zhen woke up only to find everyone looking utterly exhausted.
Yet, no matter how weary, they had to keep moving.
“Let’s go, we can’t stop.
We must leave this place as soon as possible and return to the Hundred Peaks Sect.
Two more days have passed since we arrived here, and the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth is drawing nearer.
If we can’t return before the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth begins, I’m afraid the Hundred Peaks Sect will truly be in trouble.”
This time, the strongest Golden Core-stage combatants of the Hundred Peaks Sect had nearly all left!