Chapter 4572 — Staying On
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"Er... so that's what happened. Then you really can't go up through that exit." The Five-Bane Dragon was somewhat astonished at this and looked Wei Zhao over again, never having imagined that Wei Zhao had crossed paths with the likes of Vermilion Bird. To have escaped unscathed with his meager strength—that was sheer dumb luck, plain and simple.
"Ah. Looks like Heaven means for me to stay here and cultivate a while longer. Well, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. With both ends blocked, there's nowhere to run anyway. Let's just cultivate together, the two of us—at least we'll have company." Since there was truly no road left to take, Wei Zhao could only accept reality with good grace.
"That's about all we can do." The Five-Bane Dragon nodded. Originally the vast space had held only itself—boring and depressing. Now that its old friend Wei Zhao was here for company, that was a good thing in its eyes.
"By the way, how do you usually cultivate?" Wei Zhao suddenly asked. The other was a top-tier spirit beast at the Earth-Opening stage, and he was genuinely very interested in the question—all the more since the Five-Bane Dragon, like him, possessed all five elements. Perhaps there was something in it worth learning from.
"Me? My cultivation is sleeping. Before I met you people, I was still asleep—slept over a year at a stretch." The Five-Bane Dragon's answer nearly made Wei Zhao's jaw drop. Sleeping is cultivation—was there any justice left in this world?
Wei Zhao instinctively turned to glance at the spirit bird beside him. He had never once seen the creature cultivate either; it just hopped and skipped about playing all day, and yet had broken through from the late Foundation Establishment stage all the way to its current Nascent Soul stage. And the Five-Bane Dragon, an existence at the Earth-Opening stage, simply buried its head and slept—one good sleep and it leveled up. If all spirit beasts of the clan were like these two, then they were absolutely, positively Heaven's favorites!
By comparison, Wei Zhao himself, a human cultivator, could barely claw his way up a few levels despite all his bitter toil. Set beside these two, he was utterly pathetic! And if that was true of Wei Zhao, it went without saying for other human cultivators—speak of it and it was nothing but tears.
"You kid really don't need to envy them. Cultivating in dreams is an innate gift of the vast majority of dragon-clan spirit beasts. Dragons, after all, are terribly fond of sleep. If you expected them to cultivate only while awake, they'd probably wear themselves out to death over a lifetime and still not gain a few levels—in which case the dragon clan would have been wiped out long ago." The Ghost Thing explained with a smile from the side: "Don't forget, wasn't I myself recovering in deep slumber this whole time? Besides, the Five-Bane inherited the Five-Venom Flood Dragon's powerful legacy—if it didn't sleep long enough, it couldn't possibly digest all that strength."
"Still, that's just absurd, all right? A casual nap and you level up—if human cultivators who fight tooth and nail, who can't level up even by swallowing pills, heard about this, wouldn't they just spew a mouthful of old blood..." Wei Zhao said, at a loss for words.