"Heart demon, clear," Ye Tian whispered, his voice filled with newfound resolve.
As he came back to his senses, a flood of information surged through his mind. The dissolving of the demonic bead seemed to have unleashed a torrent of knowledge.
So… that was what was going on? he thought. Thankfully, things worked out in the end, or else I would have been standing in an actual sea of blood.
A shiver ran down his spine at the thought, and he quickly processed the information he had received. It turned out that everything stemmed from the demonic bead.
Unlike other cultivators who trained for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, Ye Tian had used the demonic bead to become an existence that stood more than half a step above the Immortal Emperor.
His unprecedented rise had stirred jealousy and curiosity among the other Immortal Emperors; a clash between them had always felt inevitable.
After all, who wouldn't want to advance further in their practice, especially those old monsters who had been stuck at the Immortal Emperor stage for millennia? Ye Tian's sudden appearance gave them hope for a higher level.
"If I hear the Dao in the morning, then I can die in the evening," he murmured, recalling the famous quote.
"But what they didn't know," he continued to himself, "is that even if they got the demonic bead, they wouldn't be able to fully control it."
"After all, even I who used it to grow so far, am only just fully refining it now."
He sighed with relief. To fully refine the demonic bead, one needed to pass a test: face a heart demon condensed from all the people they had killed on their path of cultivation.
Only by maintaining a firm will and breaking through could they succeed.
Otherwise, the bead would erode their mind and control their body, turning them into a killing machine, doomed to slaughter endlessly until all life was extinguished or they were killed.
Thinking about it, Ye Tian shivered. "Fortunately, it chose to erupt while I was with my family. Otherwise, I would have surely failed the test and ended up killing everyone on the Blue Star."
With a sigh of exasperation, he felt thankful for one thing: by passing the test, the demonic bead had completely merged with him, becoming an innate ability just as he had told his family.
"Not only that, but since it's now an innate ability, it can grow as I become stronger."
"The amount of life energy I need in the future will drastically reduce, and enlightenment and deduction will become easier," he murmured, his lips curling into a smile as he looked forward to his future.
In his previous life, he had no hope, but now, in this life, he saw the possibility of breaking through past the Immortal Emperor.
"Hey, brother? Are you alright?" Ye Ling's voice suddenly broke through his thoughts.
"You've been standing there motionless for a while now with a weird smile on your face."
Snapping back to reality, Ye Tian quickly replied, "Tch… Who has a weird smile? And I'm okay. Don't worry,"
"Also Mum, Dad, I'm fine. I was just lost in my thoughts for a bit."
He reassured them, "I don't regret anything, and I'm glad to be here."
Hearing this, they all smiled in relief, slowly going back to their original positions
Only after they had all calmed down did he continue his earlier explanation.
"Alright, so where was I? Oh, yes… After fighting against the heavens and the world for hundreds of years and killing billions of lives, I finally recovered enough energy to make it back to the Blue Star. And here I am!"
Hearing this, A heavy silence fell over the room. Ye Sheng and Li Mei found it hard to believe; that their son had become some kind of Heavenly Demon who had slaughtered his way back home.
While they were glad to have him back, they were worried about the toll it might take on his mind, especially after the recent incident that required all of them to comfort him.
Thinking of this, they exchanged a glance and nodded slightly.
Silently, they had both decided to pay extra attention to his mental health and make sure nothing like that ever happened again.
Ye Ling, however, was still bursting with excitement.
"Wait a minute, brother. Since you sacrificed all your power to come here, how come you were still strong enough to defeat Chen Fan back at the hospital?"
"Also, your body looks so much better than before—just like the cultivators in the novels!"
"Does that mean you've already started cultivating again? And if that's true, does it mean there's aura on the Blue Star, and we can cultivate too?"
Struggling to contain her excitement, Ye Ling imagined herself flying on a sword against thousands of enemies.
"I, Ye Ling, do not need an army! With one sword, I alone am enough!"
She pictured herself, with thousands of swords, defending the Blue Star alone. Her heart raced, and her face flushed red at the thought.
Seeing her like this, Ye Tian gave her a familiar knock on the head. Knock!
"What are you talking about? Better snap out of it. There's no way I would allow you to fight against an army," he said with a serious face.
"At least, not while I'm around."
Suddenly, his expression turned even more serious as he remembered something.
"Also, about there being aura on the Blue Star… In fact, there is. But this is not a good thing."
He glanced out the window with a frown, clenching his fists.
"At first, in the hospital, the aura levels were so minimal that perhaps only I, with high-level techniques, would be able to utilize it."
"But this was normal, considering that the Blue Star universe is a technological world, not a supernatural one."
He paused for a moment before continuing,
"However, all that might change soon. Ever since I stepped into this house, the aura levels have been increasing ever so slightly—a situation that shouldn't happen unless…"
Li Mei, sensing the tension, spoke up, "What is it, son? And how would it affect all of us?"
Although she couldn't fully understand what he and Ye Ling had been discussing, she sensed something was wrong.
From his pause, she feared that something needed to separate him from them was about to happen.
And sure enough, Ye Tian's next words made their faces turn pale.
"World fusion… or world invasion."
"This situation only happens when a world with aura tries to invade a world without aura," he explained, his voice grim.
"And judging by the speed of things, the aura levels should be suitable for the invasion to begin in a year from now."