The Golden Elixir is A Star, and You Call This Cultivation?
Chapter 508 - 130: No Food_1

Chapter 508: Chapter 130: No Food_1

The rumble of thunder echoed, dark clouds blocking out the sun.

Within Little Jiang Mountain, continual curses and shouts filled the air.

Streaks of light flew by, igniting a vast fire that consumed the mountain.

Even a downpour couldn’t extinguish the frightening blaze.

The endless fire continued burning for ten days.

The entirety of Little Jiang Mountain was reduced to ruins.

Several streaks of light flew over the mountain, seemingly searching for something.

"Did you find it?"

"No."

"What a bunch of incompetents, a group of elites can’t even catch a mortal?"

"Before the fire started, she was in Little Jiang Mountain. She has a unique destiny and isn’t even a qi cultivator, she should have died in the fire."

"Little Jiang Mountain spans three hundred li, she must be... dead."

"Damn it, our time of descent is limited, and there are too many powerful ones in this world, otherwise..."

"Innate body, Devourer body, the convergence of the two strongest physiques in one person, if we obtained one of them..."

"No matter, since she’s already dead, our mission is completed."

"Even if she hadn’t died in the fire, she would starve or overeat and die anyway."

"To kill this little bastard, we actually wasted a precious descending talisman."

The voices gradually faded and the lights disappeared.

The 300 li of Little Jiang Mountain had become a ruin, traces of the great fire everywhere.

After an unknown amount of time, a petite figure crawled out from beneath the ground.

A young girl of around 11 or 12, with scorched yellow hair bearing traces of being burnt at the ends.

Her clothes in tatters, looking like a beggar, yet upon closer look, one would notice that it used to be a princess’s dress, delicately made.

She raised her head to the sky, seeing the vast expanse of stars but none that she recognized.

A profound sense of solitude arose within her.

She was born weak and sickly, nearly dying at birth.

However, her parents discovered that she was born with an Innate Body.

An Innate Body, one of the most powerful among the ten discovered physiques.

This kind of body is pure and flawless, akin to a celestial crystal, pure enough to be detached from the mundanities of the world.

To her, everyone in the family invariably showered her with affection.

However, in addition to the Innate Body, her body also harbored a Devourer Body, another of the top ten physiques.

While an Innate Body is untainted and abstinent from worldly desires, the Devourer Body, on the contrary, devours everything in the world.

Both physiques conflict inherently.

This led her to remain as fragile as a mortal at the age of twelve.

Every day, her clan would spend a massive cost to procure unpalatable nutrient solutions for her.

She was very grateful, to both her father and mother.

Especially her mother, the only person who genuinely cared and indulged her.

Although she knew that her parents were raising her for a big business deal.

Her parents always hid this fact from her, as did everyone else in the clan.

The family appeared harmonious; everyone was good to her on the surface, treating her like a princess and cradling her in their palms.

She was capricious, very spoilt, basking in everyone’s love.

But she knew it was all pretense.

While people seemingly adored her, deep down, she could hear their inner thoughts.

In other words, she could hear the voices of their hearts.

Her father’s gaze held fondness, but more than that, it held greed for a prized possession.

Her mother was torn, often holding her during the night, her heart filled with guilt, seemingly repeating an apology to her over and over.

But, the little girl couldn’t see any wrong in her mother’s deeds. Her mother never owed her anything, provided her with food and clothes, and tolerated her whims.

Even if selling her was part of the plan... it seemed only normal.

The little girl had observed various kinds of people.

In their hearts, she had heard all kinds of filthy language.

The revered holy father, who particularly liked older men.

The lofty officials with their striving ambitions, always intent on staging a rebellion.

This was her life until she turned eleven.

One day, her father excitedly told her that he had found a cure for her illness and took her to seek treatment.

But she heard her father’s inner voice, knowing that he had found a buyer.

She happily rode the flying vessel with her mother.

Throughout the journey, her mother looked troubled.

She was delighted because she heard her mother pondering about leaving with her three times.

Though, more often than not... the price offered by the buyer was too much to resist.

However, on the journey, an accident occurred.

A group of mysterious strangers attacked their flying vessel.

The vessel fell, and at that moment, her Innate Body suddenly activated, transporting her to the closest heavenly world.

Some of the mysterious people used descending talismans to follow her to this world, intent on killing her.

After the fire had died down, she crawled out from the ruins, not reborn from the ashes but quietly awaiting death.

She curled up on the ground, her eyes lifeless.

"So... hungry..."

An insatiable hunger seized her, and she bore it.

"Starvation... feels terrible."

She stared at the dirt on the ground, tempted to take a bite.

But she knew, if she bit into it, as an Innate Body holder, the pain she’d experience would be ten, hundred times worse than hunger.

The Devourer Body devours everything.

The Innate Body rejects everything.

Two conflicting physiques, gave birth to her.

All she could do was to wait for the inevitable death.

After an indeterminate amount of time, suddenly, a voice echoed in her mind.

"Is this... the Saint Mother of Starvation?"