CHAPTER 1201: CHAPTER 1198: SUPREME EMOTIONLESS REALM

"These people staying on Earth, they probably have ulterior motives." After Yang Fei learned that dozens of people from the six major powers of the Southern Domain wanted to stay on Earth, he discussed with Qin Yanyang about whether to agree.

Qin Yanyang said, "Actually, for us, even if they have ulterior motives staying on Earth, the impact isn’t that great. Those Foundation Establishment Cultivators from the Southern Domain have been here for over five years without changing much, let alone those Qi Refining Cultivators?"

Yang Fei thought about it and agreed, smiling wryly, "I was overthinking it."

Qin Yanyang said, "Moreover, we can’t protect Earth for a lifetime."

Yang Fei fell silent.

After a moment, he said, "Yes, we can’t protect Earth for a lifetime, and we don’t even have the strength to do so. Not to mention the faraway Central Great World, it’s extremely difficult for us to even leave the Southern Domain Cultivation World. Beyond Core Formation there’s the Nascent Soul, and beyond the Nascent Soul, there’s Divinity Transformation."

Just in the Southern Domain Cultivation World alone, there are at least three in the Divinity Transformation Stage. We don’t know how many years it will take for us to cultivate to that Realm. Moreover, without elixirs to assist advancement and those Heavenly Materials and Treasures, breaking the Realm will be very difficult for us in the future. So, if we want to continue growing, heading to the Southern Domain, and even the Central Great World, is a necessary path."

Qin Yanyang nodded, "So, we should try to maintain good relations with all parties in the Southern Domain as best as we can."

Yang Fei said, "I also want to have good relations with them, but in their eyes, we are ants, to be trampled at will, and all of Earth’s resources are there for them to plunder. It’s really frustrating."

Qin Yanyang sighed, "I’m frustrated too. But throughout history, human history has already shown us the truth of human society. Weakness is prey to the strong, and plundering. Earth, as the weaker side compared to the entire Cultivation World, and having a lot of cultivation resources, is bound to be a place of plunder."

Yang Fei said, "There must be a way."

Qin Yanyang looked at him empathetically, "But it will be very tiring, and in the end, when you look back, you might find that everything you did was in vain."

She once went all out to protect the Divine Continent, for its development, she never hesitated, recklessly.

That sense of mission felt like an invisible and heavy shackle, pressing her until she could hardly breathe.

Now, with the great upheaval in the world, Earth’s humans suffering massive disasters, along with the advent of the Cultivation World, Qin Yanyang’s mindset began to change, realizing how insignificant an individual’s power is in such an era.

Whether it’s a nation or a race, in the vast Cultivation World, what do they amount to?

She once carried too much and now she has let go.

Yang Fei looked at Qin Yanyang in surprise.

Since the calamity began, he saw the changes in Qin Yanyang and could feel them, but he didn’t expect her changes to be so big, so fast.

He looked at Qin Yanyang, "Dear, don’t you want the Divine Continent to continue to be strong?"

Qin Yanyang smiled slightly, "With us here, isn’t the Divine Continent the strongest race on Earth?"

Yang Fei paused, thought for a moment, then shook his head, "That’s not the kind of strength I imagined."

Qin Yanyang laughed, "What does the strength of the Divine Continent you imagine look like?"

"Where the four corners submit, striking wherever pointed." Yang Fei said.

Qin Yanyang chuckled, "That’s not child’s play. The strength of a race isn’t about conquest, but in other races genuinely respecting, envying, and even worshipping it when they hear its name."

Yang Fei said, "That’s all fought for."

Qin Yanyang was silent for a while, nodded, "Yes, fought for. But the current Earth has a population of just over a billion. According to the data collected by the high-levels of the Divine Continent when we last returned to Yunwu Mountain’s Base, our population is less than 200 million."

Although that great catastrophe brought devastating losses to Earth’s humans, relative to the remaining technology and productivity level, it is enough to sustain the current Earth’s population. Having just experienced such a destructive disaster, Earth’s humans require a long time to recover, and can’t afford a large-scale war. Furthermore, now that the Outer Domain Cultivation World has arrived, the main contradiction of Earth has shifted from internal to external."

Yang Fei nodded, "Exactly. So, as long as we lead Earth’s cultivators to become stronger, even breaking out of the Southern Domain, towards a broader Cultivation World, then our Divine Land lineage would be the strongest race on Earth, with no nation or race daring to challenge us."

Qin Yanyang laughed slightly, looking at Yang Fei, "Isn’t it exhausting?"

Yang Fei paused, then laughed, "It’s alright. People always need something to do. Without goals and directions, living doesn’t mean much. Don’t you think?"

Qin Yanyang was shaken internally.

She suddenly realized that she had become increasingly indifferent to her past dreams and ambitions, losing that strong sense of ambition and responsibility she once had, and even her basic sense of mission was continuously fading.

The old her, she often needed to remind Yang Fei, encouraging and guiding him to walk her path.

How come now Yang Fei is persisting, yet she instead feels his persistence is meaningless, even trying to persuade him not to live so exhausting?

What happened to her?

Thinking about this, Qin Yanyang felt a cold sweat down her back.

She felt her mindset had changed too quickly, to the point where she isn’t like herself.

Yang Fei stood before her, sensing the creepy feeling from Qin Yanyang’s body and couldn’t help but ask curiously, "What’s wrong?"

He grabbed Qin Yanyang’s hand.

And in that instant, their thoughts connected.

Yang Fei sensed Qin Yanyang’s fright, felt her horror and fear of this significant change in her own mindset, also sensed that innermost desire for being ambitionless, just pursuing the purity of a free-spirited mind.

’Non-action!’

Yang Fei’s mind suddenly flashed with this term.

His inner being was filled with mixed surprises and an inexplicable fear.

He took a deep breath, looking at Qin Yanyang, "Yanyang, do you have any special insights in your recent cultivation?"

Qin Yanyang, at this point with significant emotional fluctuation, heard Yang Fei’s inquiry, gradually calmed down, thought for a bit, then shook her head, "It seems like I don’t. I’m just been diligently cultivating, trying not to be left too far behind by you."

Yang Fei held her hand tighter, and the indescribable fear in his heart dissipated a lot.

Just sensing Qin Yanyang’s Non-action State of Mind really scared Yang Fei.

He worried that once Qin Yanyang truly understood the state of mind with no action, no desire, and no demands, even himself won’t be needed, achieving the true Taoist No Love realm, having no love, no reliance on him, seeing everyone with no distinction, even viewing humans, animals, plants as the same concept as her.

That’s the Supreme Emotionless Realm countless cultivators dream and yearn to reach.

But in Yang Fei’s eyes, this is not a person with flesh and blood anymore.

Such a person is terrifying.

Having such a wife would make one despair.

Imagine, the person you’ve loved and known suddenly reaches Supreme Emotionless, no longer loves you, views you the same as a gust of wind, a speck of dust in the air, an ant on the ground, how would you feel?

Yang Fei took a deep breath, holding Qin Yanyang’s hand tighter, saying, "Diligent cultivation is good, but don’t overthink those random things, especially remember, we are people with flesh and blood, just as humans must have emotions. Animals without emotions are walking corpses, better dead than alive."

Qin Yanyang, seeing him like this, smiled slightly and looked at him, "Are you worrying about something?"