Who Brought Him into the Cultivation World?

”If you don’t go and do some good deeds soon, you might really die here.”

”How amusing!”

The Great Elder suddenly burst into laughter, clapping his hands. Asking a leader of the Demonic Path to do good deeds—why hadn’t he thought of such an amusing thing before?

Qi Bai’s expression changed as he quickly locked onto a spot and vanished instantly.

As for where he went, there’s no need to guess.

Besides Dongling City, where else could he go to perform good deeds?

It’s just unclear whether others would give him the chance to do so…

”Why do I feel like your mindset is a bit off?”

At this moment, an Elder of Piaomiao City regarded the Great Elder with an oddly enigmatic look.

”Since when did your fiery temper become humorous?”

Once you pay attention, you can’t help but notice the subtle changes in the Great Elder that these people couldn’t ignore.

”You’ve aged a bit, what’s going on?”

”It’s not just aging; your vitality is declining!”

”Your vitality isn’t what it used to be, old ghost, you only have a few years left to live...”

Everyone spoke at once, and the Great Elder urgently examined himself, his expression instantly became as still as water.

”Kid, how dare you deceive me!”

”This is the effect of the Pill—guess why it’s called the Mayfly Pill.”

Han Yu’s face was extremely strange; it was exactly as he had thought.

A mayfly is something short-lived, and since it’s called the Mayfly Pill, how could it escape such a state?

”Are you saying I’m like a mayfly now?”

The Great Elder seemed to realize the nature of a mayfly, and his whole face darkened immediately.

Time ticked by; people from the Eight Sects gathered together, gradually recording the state of the Great Elder.

”You damn well should record, but don’t sigh after every entry—I’m not terminally ill.”

The Great Elder’s attitude grew increasingly explosive, suddenly grabbing an Elder from Langya Mountain, unleashing a torrent of insults.

After another whole two-hour period, the Great Elder’s hair and teeth began to fall out.

In an instant, an aura of impending death spread out from him.

”I... I...”

The Great Elder stared intently at Han Yu, his chest heaving.

He regretted it!

When the crescent moon hung high in the sky.

The Great Elder died!

”Bury him!”

The Langya Mountain Elder, who had just been berated, wore a stony expression as he prepared to dig a pit.

”Don’t!”

The people nearby hurriedly grabbed him.

”This is a state, not actual death.”

The Elder of Nanli Sword Studio squinted and sensed the faint energy on the Great Elder, which still gathered without dispersing, seemingly keeping his last breath going.

”But from some perspective, the person is truly dead.”

The Piaomiao City Elder checked the Great Elder’s breath; indeed, it was gone, and even his body had cooled.

Yet there was a peculiar energy lingering in him, confirming to them that he was still alive.

About another two-hour period passed, and the Great Elder’s already stooped figure gradually began to shrink.

Another two-hour period later, the lingering energy suddenly immersed into his body and then began to dissipate.

”Crap! Really dead?”

The crowd was startled; moments before, there was still some energy sustaining him, but now there was none to perceive.

”No, look at his ’corpse’!”

At this moment, as the Great Elder’s body shrunk into a ball, his skin began to peel off, revealing a flesh cocoon.

”Doesn’t it look like a placenta?”

The Elder from Nanli Sword Studio frowned before suddenly speaking up.

”Pop!”

At the stroke of midnight, the flesh cocoon suddenly burst open, followed by a cry.

”Waaaah! Scared the heck out of me, scared the heck out of me...”

After the Great Elder cried as he was born anew, he started cursing angrily.

He had truly experienced death, even the disintegration of the physical body; the horrifying terror within that death almost made him never come back.

A group of people stared, dumbfounded, at the tiny infant inside the flesh cocoon, their mouths twitching uncontrollably.

After some frantic fussing, it was the Mo Family Elder who finally used his cousin’s coat to cobble together a makeshift swaddling cloth.

Then everyone took turns holding him for a while, marveling in awe.

”Why the damn hell are you pinching me there?”

When it was Langya Mountain Elder’s turn, he couldn’t resist glancing at the Great Elder’s tiny little appendage, and with a playful spirit, he gave it a tug, which promptly sparked a torrent of curses.

”From today, I’ve changed your diapers—show some respect.”

Yet he wasn’t upset at all, instead, he guffawed mischievously.

Eventually, the infuriated Great Elder aimed at his face and let loose a stream of urine.

The mayfly’s nature wouldn’t allow him to stay in this state forever; not long, and the Great Elder was able to run around in the nude.

Then he matured gradually, eventually becoming a young man.

Again, when the group reconvened, they wore very peculiar expressions.

”The Twelve States of the Heavenly Dao!”

It was the Piaomiao City Elder who spoke, looking at Han Yu with an extremely strange expression, clicking his tongue in disbelief.

”This Pill follows the twelve states of the Heavenly Dao.”

The Divination Path once devised a concept to summarize the rules of the Heavenly Dao.

Longevity, Bathing, Crown Belt, Coming of Age, Full Prosperity, Decline, Illness, Death, Tomb, End, Womb, Nurturing!

These twelve states are part of a cycle that all things in the world go through repeatedly.

Longevity signifies the birth of a thing; Bathing is when a thing is at its weakest, akin to an infant in a diaper or a sprout just emerging, the Crown Belt is for youth or early development, Coming of Age and Full Prosperity signify the pinnacle states of people or things.

But starting from Decline, a state of gradual decay is represented.

Illness represents problems that inevitably arise after decline.

Death is where all things meet their end.

The Tomb stage is the grave for a person, or the end for a thing.

End marks the depletion of energy, where both entities and energies have dissipated back into the cosmos at this stage.

Womb represents a nascent or embryonic phase, a new beginning—old things die away, new ones embrace rebirth.

Nurturing signifies the gathering of nutrients or energy, providing support for the germination of new things.

When initially discovered by the Divination Path, these twelve states nearly caused a frenzy; it was only through repeated validation that their existence was confirmed.

They were the nearest encounter with the Heavenly Dao by that group of fanatics.

Although unable to offer tangible benefits, it undoubtedly served as a robust conceptual reinforcement for their ideas.

And thus, it began to slowly circulate outward.

”So what will happen to me going forward?”

The Great Elder was deeply concerned about his future days; would every day henceforth involve reliving this repetitive process of rebirth and death?

Having once experienced the terror of death, he cried uncontrollably upon ”being born” again.

In response to the Great Elder’s question, everyone could only look at him with strange expressions, shaking their heads with sympathy.

In the course of a single life span, he would experience around twenty thousand cycles of birth and death.

Just thinking about such days made one feel like crying...

”Remember to bring your own nappies when you travel far, just don’t keep bothering others.”

The Langya Mountain Elder quipped with schadenfreude…