I Just Wanted to Live, but I Somehow Became Better Than the Main Character

Chapter 66: Likes Moths to a Flame

When it was her bedtime, Wu Xue looked at Ye Yong discussing art with the 2 painting beauties in the living room and sighed helplessly. She wouldn’t blame Ye Yong for breaking his promise, as it was beyond his control. She only hoped that the 2 painting beauties wouldn’t stay for too long because she really wanted to sleep in Ye Yong’s arms. Back in her own room, Wu Xue tossed and turned for quite a while before finally falling asleep.

Mortals spend almost a third of their day sleeping, so cultivators undoubtedly have the advantage in time allocation. With Ye Yong’s current physique and cultivation, he could go for a month without sleep without any problems. Besides, cultivating was basically resting, and even 2 hours of cultivation was more rejuvenating than 8 hours of sleep. There was nothing mortals had to make up for this difference.

Ye Yong, Hua Ming, and Hua Xin discussed the food Ye Yong had painted until midnight, and none of them felt a hint of sleepiness.

Hua Xin finally got her wish to taste food after Ye Yong had fully recovered his divine soul power.

When people are born, their brains are not yet fully developed, and they can’t remember what happened in their infancy. However, as they grow up, because they have been in contact with food all the time, eating becomes part of their of lives.

Hua Ming and Hua Xin were born with high intelligence. They could be considered adults who had grown up relying on nutrients and supplements and was tasting food for the first time.

That feeling couldn’t be put into words. It could only be said to be a sensory bombardment, inundating them with various novel sensations.

“Didn’t you already eat before? Don’t squeeze in! Get out!” Hua Xin was enjoying the food with chopsticks drawn by Ye Yong in her own scroll when Hua Ming suddenly barged into her scroll and reached for the plate. Hua Xin reacted quickly and dodged, but Hua Ming still managed to grab a small portion of the food in the plate.

Soul couldn’t get sick like ordinary people, and they couldn’t even be contaminated by viruses and bacteria. Hua Ming happily finished the food in her hand and then stuck out her pink tongue, licking her palm in a coquettish manner. “You’re so selfish. When you have something good, you should share it, shouldn’t you?”

“Why didn’t you think of sharing when you were eating?”

“You weren’t here then.” Hua Ming had a point.

Hua Xin was speechless. There was only so much food, and she wanted to savor it properly, so naturally, she didn’t want to share.

Seeing the two painting beauties fight for food in a scroll, Ye Yong smiled. “Big sis, what’s the need for that? I can just paint more.”

“No need.” Hua Ming knew when to stop. Ye Yong would lay down in exhaustion just from drawing one dish, so asking him to paint more would be asking for his life. “I’m just joking with her,” Hua Ming stepped out of Hua Xin’s scroll and came over to Ye Yong. “Sit down. Big sis will massage your shoulders for you.”

“Thank you.” Ye Yong was really exhausted. The consumption of divine soul power was even more exhausting than physical exertion. After sitting down, feeling the gentle massage from Hua Ming’s slender hands, he closed his eyes and began to cultivate.

Ye Yong thought that the high level concealment system could conceal everything, but the moment he cultivated the Chaotic Origin Divine Art, Hua Ming felt that the mysterious energy from Ye Yong suddenly become stronger. It directly rushed toward her soul body through her hands touching Ye Yong, causing her to let out a yelp, take several steps back, and tremble.

“What’s wrong?” Ye Yong was startled by her reaction. Although he had closed his eyes just now and couldn’t see, he could feel that Hua Ming was reacting as if she had been electrocuted, and her response was very intense.

“No- nothing, it’s just… I got lost in thought for a moment and suddenly remembered some terrifying scenes from a book.” Although Hua Ming didn’t need to breathe, she was “breathing rapidly” right now, unable to calm her emotions. When the energy surged toward her, she had a feeling of being swallowed up and annihilated, and at that moment, she felt a terrifying sense of void and chaos. It was extremely frightening.

“I see.” Ye Yong couldn’t possibly know what Hua Ming had just experienced. After all, Hua Ming and Hua Xin had already sacrificed themselves in an ancient ruins to protect Mu Qing Yin by the time Long Tian was able to use the power of chaos. There was no scene of them in the middle and later stages of the novel. But Ye Yong felt that things were not so simple. He asked again, and Hua Ming gave the same answer.

Could it be that when I activated the chaotic divine art, the chaotic energy leaked out? Ye Yong immediately thought of a likely answer. His current progress in the cultivation of the divine art was only 45, and would need to reach 100 to reach the first layer. The Divine Origin Chaotic Physique made him different from Long Tian, who only had a Chaotic Physique. Even if both of them cultivated the same technique, Long Tian would not generate chaotic energy so early on, compared to Ye Yong, who was already starting to generate chaotic energy.

How strong was chaotic energy? Even a tiny bit of it was not something that a Nascent Soul Realm soul could handle.

“Don’t overthink it, lil bro.” Seeing Ye Yong lost in thought, Hua Ming hurriedly said, “Focus on your cultivation. Big sis won’t disturb you anymore. It just so happens that I need to rest and digest after eating divine soul food.”

“Okay.” Both were adults with mature thoughts, so Ye Yong would not force Hua Ming to say it out loud. Besides, he had mostly guessed the reason. When Hua Ming returned to her own scroll, he closed his eyes again and continued to cultivate.

Even if Hua Ming told Mu Qing Yin afterward that there was a strange energy in his body, as long as he didn’t actively cultivate the technique and had the high-level concealment system, Ye Yong believed that Mu Qing Yin wouldn’t be able to detect any problems, no matter how she probed.

Seeing Ye Yong meditating, which was similar to deep sleep, Hua Xin quietly ran into Hua Ming’s scroll and asked her what had happened in a small voice.

Mu Qing Yin had watched Hua Ming eat the food painted by Ye Yong at dinner, had an inspiration, and was thinking about it, so she didn’t pay attention to their movements with her divine senses. Hua Ming told Hua Xin about the incident that had just happened when she was almost swallowed up by the chaotic energy.

“Looks like that energy is very overbearing and aggressive. If you had reacted a little slower, you might have really been swallowed up. But what kind of energy is it? To even affect our Nascent Soul Realm souls?” Hua Xin frowned slightly, looking beautiful as she contemplated.

Hua Ming was the same. Being passionate didn’t mean she was brainless. On the contrary, she was as smart as Hua Xin and loved to think.

In the end, the two painting beauties couldn’t guess the source of the energy, but they came to a conclusion. Whatever that energy was, it was extremely dangerous for them, capable of easily annihilating their soul bodies, but they also needed it to accelerate their spiritualization. It was a double-edged sword. But as long as the sword was used properly, it wouldn’t hurt them.

Hua Ming was almost swallowed up by the energy of chaos when Ye Yong was cultivating and the energy suddenly got stronger. They could absorb it unilaterally without any harm when Ye Yong wasn’t cultivating, so it would be fine as long as they physically contacted Ye Yong when he wasn’t cultivating.

The painting beauties felt both fearful and longing as they looked at Ye Yong.

They were like moths to a flame. Despite knowing that they could be hurt and even killed, they yearned for the light.