After being reborn, all I want to do is run away.

Chapter 350 Drinking poison to quench thirst

"Shen Xu, come with me. I want to ask you a question alone," Li Xiaoyi said suddenly before Shen Xu could answer.

Hearing Li Xiaoyi's words, Shen Xu couldn't help but feel a little confused, but he still put down his chopsticks and followed Li Xiaoyi to his attic.

"What exactly happened to the ancient forest? I feel that its spirituality has declined so much."

"I didn't want this either, but don't worry, it's just a little weak, it's really nothing serious," Shen Xu explained, forcing a smile.

"You don't need to hide anything from me. I'm asking you, did you devour those spiritual entities?"

Shen Xu frowned and looked at Li Xiaoyi, while pondering why he knew about this. Logically, whether it was the emptiness in his soul or the black seed, only Li Xiaoyi should know about it.

"Could it be that Yun Yao has noticed something?"

“I won’t force you to talk about it if you don’t want to, but you need to know that you must not let anyone else know about the problems in your soul, otherwise it will be a disaster for you.”

"What do you know?" Shen Xu asked with a serious expression.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Xiaoyi asked, "Do you know about Soul Devourers?"

Upon hearing this question, Shen Xu shook his head in confusion.

"There is an unfillable void within the souls of Soul Devourers. They must keep trying to fill it, or they will be devoured by the void itself. They are a terrifying group in the void..."

"What should we use to fill it in?" Shen Xu immediately asked.

“Various spiritualities, including the spiritualities in other people’s souls.”

Hearing this, Shen Xu finally understood why Li Xiaoyi didn't want him to expose his soul. The ultimate fate of a Soul Devourer is most likely to fall into the demonic path, and prevention is something no one would mind doing.

"How did you know?"

At this moment, a phantom spirit with long blue hair appeared among Li Xiaoyi's hair and then floated in front of Li Xiaoyi.

"Rumor has it that the most powerful Soul Devourer in the Void will find newly born Soul Devourers in the Void and present them with carefully prepared gifts. No one knows what its purpose is in doing this, but with its help, newly born Soul Devourers in the Void have almost disappeared."

"And you not only survived by chance, but you also got all three boxes. I'm very curious about how you did it." A clear and pleasant voice echoed in his ears.

"Yun Yao?" Shen Xu asked, somewhat puzzled.

"If you can't call me 'sir,' you should at least call me 'sister'!" Yun Yao's voice held a hint of dissatisfaction.

Hearing this, Shen Xu was somewhat surprised. In the past, Yun Yao would have already taught him a lesson, but this time she simply made him change his words.

But then he realized that Yun Yao was probably a little afraid of him.

"I'm sorry, Sister Yun Yao," Shen Xu apologized sincerely. He knew that Yun Yao's willingness to come out and see him was already a great sign of her trust in him.

"To be honest, I don't remember how I got those three boxes either; it's as if they suddenly appeared in my storage ring."

Shen Xu frowned and racked his brains, but he still couldn't recall how he got those three boxes.

This feeling of having no memory of what he had clearly done caused him some pain.

"That's normal. The Soul Devourers currently existing in the Void are all masters of manipulating souls, so erasing your memories is not a difficult thing."

"I heard from Tu Shan Chuchu that only I can open that box. Is it possible that the person behind the box opened it without my permission?"

"I don't think so. Big shots at its level generally don't easily break the rules they set for themselves. You've already chosen one box, so it shouldn't let you open a second one," Yun Yao replied after a moment's hesitation.

Upon hearing Yun Yao's answer, Shen Xu was filled with deep doubt.

He vaguely remembered a voice telling him to choose a box, and the final result seemed to prove that the voice was not a hallucination.

"Can I throw it away?" Shen Xu asked tentatively.

He still has one last box in his ring, and who knows when it might suddenly open like it did today.

Although he didn't remember what happened after opening the box, he knew from the True Blood Heavenly Palace that it was definitely not a good thing.

"Throwing away a gift from someone is not a polite thing to do," Yun Yao said quietly.

"However, you don't need to worry too much. Most of what I know about Soul Devourers is hearsay. What will happen in the future depends on you."

"Besides, once a Soul Devourer grows up, they almost always become influential figures. I believe you can too," Yun Yao comforted her.

Shen Xu was well aware of the power of the emptiness in his soul; the ability to absorb attacks aimed at his soul alone was a top-tier talent.

But the question now is how long can he hold on?

Although his soul has now returned to normal thanks to the replenishment of the ancient forest's spiritual energy, the fundamental problem remains unresolved; the void within his soul continues to devour the gray mist of his soul.

Most importantly, without the replenishment of the azure aura, the spiritual energy provided to him by the ancient forest will eventually be exhausted, and the ancient forest probably cannot provide him with spiritual energy again for the first time in a short period of time.

Once he leaves the ancient forest, where will he find other spirits to absorb spiritual energy from?

At this moment, Shen Xu suddenly realized that when he broke through to the Qi Condensation Realm, the void in his soul seemed to have shrunk considerably. If it wasn't a coincidence, then it meant that breaking through to a higher realm could help him shrink the void in his soul.

Moreover, since meeting Han Yue, he had never felt his soul as normal as it did today.

This period is absolutely the best time to break through to the Qi Sea Realm. If he misses this opportunity, his chances of breaking through to the Qi Sea Realm will be greatly reduced once his soul returns to its weakened state.

Thinking of this, Shen Xu asked Li Xiaoyi, "Xiaoyi, do you have any way to help me break through to the Qi Sea Realm as soon as possible?"

"Break through to the Qi Sea Realm? Why the rush?"

"Because of the spirituality of the ancient forest, my soul is normal now, but that may not be the case after a while. Moreover, I suspect that breaking through to the Qi Sea Realm will greatly help with my soul problem."

Seeing Shen Xu's serious expression, Li Xiaoyi pondered and said, "The process from Qi Condensation Realm to Qi Sea Realm is a natural one, with few shortcuts. How about we try the Sword Alliance's five-times-fast cultivation meditation room?"

"Too slow! I'm already at the late stage of Qi Condensation Realm. Is there any possibility of breaking through to the Qi Sea Realm directly?" Shen Xu asked Yun Yao.

"Being too hasty is a major taboo on the path of cultivation. Your cultivation speed is already fast enough! Moreover, cultivation must follow the basic laws of cultivation. Forcing a breakthrough to the Qi Sea Realm before reaching the peak of the Qi Condensation Realm will only ruin your cultivation future."

"Even if you manage to survive this period thanks to your Qi Sea Realm cultivation, what will you do after that?" Yun Yao rebuked sternly.

“Sister Yunyao is right. Drinking poison to quench thirst is not advisable. Moreover, with your current mindset, I don’t think you are suitable to break through to the Qi Sea Realm,” Li Xiaoyi also advised.