
can someone explain the cultivation arc...

Okay so long story short, Wang Yi is now a disciple of Qin Xian.
-Both of them had sealed memories. They did this because the master system that controls all the transmigrators and their stories noticed that all the worlds with WY and QX had some sort of a bug/malfunction. By erasing their memories, they evaded the master system and the protag/uke of this arc was blamed as the bug. (because of the white cat, but we still don't know who that is or what its role is - probs to rebel against the master system)
-Wang Yi is half human-half demon (snake to be specific) cultivator because of his parents (they are not known in this arc) and he is a genius cultivator (bcs he has 1/heavenly core and his type is mutant ice//the more cores u have the weaker u are, and there are 5 types and obv mutant is a rare one).
-Qin Xian is one of the cultivators with the highest cultivation stage and needs only 1 (since chap 127) more stage to become immortal (which is the goal with any cultivation type story - immortality and power). He has taken WY to be his disciple since WY was a child.
-Because of the og protag/uke of the story, the timeline has been fucked and QX found out about the demon blood/linage of WY sooner than planned. Now, most sects don't usually allow demons/half demons to be a part of their sect, because they fight against demons and view halflings as more demon than human and more unpredictable/dangerous. QX of this world is the same, but he really loves his disciple WY. I think at first he wanted to keep him in the sect by his side and just hide the fact WY is half demon, but after reading WYs mind he understood that WY knows something about their world and the fate of it and that if he keeps him by his side, WY will die by his hand. So he decides for WYs safety to expel him from the sect and put a protective shield on him, cause he knows WY is strong and can survive on his own. From that moment, he started researching ways to separate the demon blood from halflings in hopes of helping WY.
-After WY was expelled from the sect, he decided to become stronger (and he did, because before chap 127 he was just 1 level below his master, but now he is 2 levels below lol). Now because of that mark on his forehead, he cannot enter the sect, even tho he STILL IS the disciple of QX. So he decides to wear a wig (that is not a simple wig as we remember from the 1st arc, he actually conceals his existence) and enter the sect as a totally new disciple. Because that wig is not from this arc, his cultivation specs are now shit, but I guess that is what he needs cause he just wants to be able to serve QX, so he can give him the un-dumbing antidote.
-Also, when cultivator need to ascend, aka progress to the next cultivation stage, they need to survive tribulation, which is essentially being struck by lightning a lot of times (different number for different stages). That is what we saw in the last few chapters and what WY has helped him with by creating ice crystals that absorbed some of the thunder power. Now I'm not sure, but I think cultivators can control when they are gonna break thru to the next stage and can summon the tribulation themselfs. However, QX saw wig WY and I think that caused some imbalance in his Qi (power of cultivators basically) and caused the tribulation 10 years earlier than in the story. I mean, he did say he felt sudden rise in his power. I think that is because some sort of emotion or slight memory from 1st arc returned.
-Now that he found out that the new protag is actually Bai Mo, he will complete his villain missions as himself, and his self-given side quests as the wig (i fr don't know the name of the girl with the same hair, its easier to just call her wig lol)
-We still don't know what SO and QX have cooked and what are they planning, but probably to first try to return WYs FULL memories, from when he was QXs system and so he can remember their promise.
Lol sorry for the long post, I hope I explained it well and ask if there are any questions. (β'β‘'β)οΎ
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