"What? What did you say?" The Buddha statue seemed not to have heard Ye Liang clearly and asked again.
"I said! You're an extraterrestrial, right?"
Ye Liang repeated casually.
The Evil God statue fell silent again. After a while, the metallic Buddha suddenly stood up. He grabbed a nearby broken arm bone and pressed it against Ye Liang's throat.
"You know far too much!"
"..."
This time, it was Ye Liang's turn to feel awkward.
Still, from this conversation, Ye Liang had roughly guessed at a sliver of truth.
This Buddha statue wasn't divine at all—it was an outworld intelligence, like his System. Both hailed from beyond this realm!
Advanced civilization!
"I'll grant you another chance. Choose your words more carefully this time!" The Buddha pressed forward, though this time he put down the bone in his hand and sat back into his original position.
"Don't play games. I'm not a native resident either; I also crossed over from another world. So, there's no way you can hide your situation from me!" Ye Liang revealed his own secret.
It's part of the old island code—show your face before you ask about theirs.
Of course, he left out the exact details of where he came from.
The Buddha statue went silent again.
After a while, he seemed to accept Ye Liang's identity and spoke again.
"Never thought I'd run into someone from my world in this tiny place. But why aren't you affected by plane suppression? You should've entered here with your physical body!" Without waiting for Ye Liang's response, he quickly realized something else.
"I understand now—you have low cultivation. You must be just an ordinary person! Then that's strange—whoever heard of an ordinary human breaking through space and crossing over? How exactly did you do it?"
The Buddha questioned further.
Ye Liang remained silent, at a loss for words.
How was he supposed to answer?
I came here with a System?
After dying suddenly, I ended up here directly?
"I arrived through a spatial teleportation device." Ye Liang finally answered.
"A spatial teleportation device? Oh! I get it now. Your world must be a technological civilization then! Technology's great—it's far more advanced than our cultivators!" The Evil God Buddha replied.
Suddenly, he became excited.
"Oh right! Since you used a space transporter, then you must belong to the Third Civilization! Our Curse Sect also belonged to the Third Civilization—we were just destroyed by our enemies. Could you possibly help us restore our sect's former strength? Please, we beg you!"
The Third Civilization?
Restore our sect's former strength?
What in the world was all this?
Ye Liang hadn't expected that his offhand lie would reveal so much. It left him momentarily unsure where to begin responding.
"Eh...my teleportation device is broken. I can't even return myself—how could I help you?"
"Broken?!"
Upon hearing Ye Liang's words, the Buddha statue began thinking deeply.
After quite a while, he suddenly spoke solemnly, "Without mechanical devices, your technological civilization is no different from mortals—and I can't help you fix that. Still, I can lend you part of my cultivation techniques. They may be weak, but they're better than nothing. Enough to get by in this backwater world."
His eyes suddenly narrowed—a thin beam of black light shot from the statue directly toward Ye Liang.
"Strange, there's actually golden spiritual energy inside you? Have you cultivated any cultivation techniques?"
"No, it's native energy." Ye Liang realized the Evil God idol must be referring to his Sage Chakra, left behind by a powerful cultivator.
"I see. That explains why I couldn't sense your cultivation level. However, it doesn't matter at all. My Undying Evil Technique can embrace everything. Such a small amount of spiritual energy won't make any difference." As he spoke, black light radiated intensely from the Evil God idol's body!
Ye Liang only felt his meridians becoming increasingly swollen, just like an inflated balloon about to burst!
"No way—if this continues, I'll die!" Ye Liang sensed something was wrong!
It wasn't that the Evil God idol had gone back on his word, but rather Ye Liang's body itself was extremely weak.
Just like the "innate talent" mentioned in previous life cultivation novels, Ye Liang's body hadn't even undergone basic foundation building stages. The reason he could endure until now was because he'd previously practiced Sage Arts and undergone Transcendent Body Transformation.
As he prepared to speak out and interrupt the Evil God idol,
Suddenly, the system's voice echoed within his mind.
[Warning: Excessive energy detected! System automatically absorbs excess energy to repair body. Repair progress: 1%]
Instantly, Ye Liang's pressure dropped!
The previous bloated feeling gradually diminished along with the system notification.
"Didn't expect your spiritual roots to be so strong!" The Evil God idol looked at Ye Liang in surprise.
He originally thought Ye Liang had basically reached his limit.
After all, Ye Liang was just a mortal body.
However, suddenly the dark energy flowing from his hand seemed to enter an endless abyss. Not only did the input speed increase, but he vaguely felt some of his energy being stolen by Ye Liang!
"What the hell is going on!"
In no time, the Evil God idol felt like his body was being drained dry. His cultivation base was actually showing signs of weakening!
Not ascending—regressing!
Damn it!
I'm practically a half-step Sage, yet I got drained an entire major cultivation level by this ordinary human kid!
This is total crap!
The Evil God idol silently cursed. Losing one major cultivation level would probably take thousands of years to recover!
At this moment, Ye Liang's system completed its repairs. Just as he intended to ask the Evil God idol to stop, the Time-Space Turtle in his spatial dimension lit up again.
"..."
What the hell!
Are you treating me like an endless supply of spiritual energy to suck dry?
The Evil God idol originally thought Ye Liang had nearly filled up and that's why he endured till now.
But suddenly, a chill ran down his spine.
That sensation of being mercilessly sucked dry returned once more!
"I think you're deceiving me! You're not from a technological civilization at all! You're also someone from a cultivation civilization, and you're trying to steal my cultivation!"
"..."
Ye Liang also felt speechless. Naturally, he understood that something had happened to the Evil God idol.
Just ten seconds ago, when that infinite dark energy barely touched him, he already felt his body become full. However, the system still managed to suck for half an hour straight!
And now the turtle started again...
"Sorry, this really isn't my fault. It's one of my artifacts. It seems to really enjoy your dark energy."
"Artifact?" The Evil God idol was taken aback. Then he saw Ye Liang retrieve the Time-Space Turtle from his spatial dimension. His dark energy was flowing into the Time-Space Turtle like water.
Taking out the time-space turtle had been Ye Liang's plan all along.
Granted, this might bring disaster — after all, possessing something precious turns an innocent man into a target.
But this Evil God idol was a powerful presence!
If he didn't take out the time-space turtle, it would easily raise its suspicion! After all, the System had absorbed so much dark energy! If he didn't find a scapegoat, he might get exposed!
"So that's a time artifact! No wonder it could suck up all that dark energy — you actually had this thing on you!" Ye Liang clearly saw the Buddha statue revealing greedy eyes, though only for a fleeting moment.
"How about it? Want me to just hand it over to you?"
Ye Liang feigned politeness, but the Buddha statue hurriedly waved its hands.
"No thanks. Compared to a mere time-space treasure, I'd rather not provoke someone from the Third Civilization." It declined with a shake of its head, then helped Ye Liang replenish the time-space turtle.
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