I Can Only Cultivate In A Game-Chapter 363: Now You Understand

The corrupt entity’s corruption surged explosively.

"You dare lecture me?" it roared. "You, who walked away? You, who hesitated while they begged for salvation?"

Shouts erupted from the Kahr’uun warriors.

"Great Iruhun, stop talking to it!" "Kill it before it kills us all!" "End it!"

Rhozan who was bloodied and barely standing, forced himself upright with the help of his staff. His voice was weak but desperate.

"Iruhun..." he rasped. "Please. Remember the other one. Bai Feng. He tried to reason. He tried to show mercy. And look what became of him."

Victor did not look back.

"I won’t make the mistake of lowering my guard," Victor replied calmly. "But I won’t stop trying to prevent needless slaughter either."

The corrupt entity’s form began to change.

Its towering humanoid silhouette collapsed inward as corruption folded and compressed violently. Bones cracked. Flesh warped. The sound of something monstrous being reshaped echoed across the battlefield.

In seconds, it became a beast once more.

Its massive quadrupedal form resembled a fusion of nightmare creatures with thick, armored limbs, spiky protrusions of corrupted bone and a gaping maw filled with serrated darkness. Its aura spiked violently, sending pressure crashing outward like a tidal wave.

"Enough," it growled. "Your words are meaningless."

The beast shot forward.

The ground shattered as it charged past Victor, straight toward the Kahr’uun ranks.

Victor moved instantly.

A sharp gesture of his hand sent a telekinetic wave snapping into place, intercepting the beast mid-charge. The impact detonated outward causing ice to explode nto the air as the corrupt entity skidded sideways, carving a trench across the frozen plain.

<[ Shadow Blink Activated ]>

Victor vanished and reappeared above the battlefield, slashing downward with his legacy sword. A crescent of void-infused qi tore through the air, forcing the corrupt entity to rear back as the attack carved deep into its armored hide.

Black ichor splashed onto the ice.

It burned.

The Kahr’uun warriors stared in awe.

But Victor didn’t let them linger.

"Fall back!" he commanded sharply. "Do not cluster. Spread out!"

They obeyed instinctively, retreating and repositioning as Victor placed himself between them and the entity.

The corrupt entity roared in fury.

"You interfere again," it thundered, "and I will destroy you."

Victor’s eyes hardened.

"No," he replied coldly. "You won’t."

The corrupt entity attacked with unrestrained ferocity, tearing across the battlefield in a blur of corrupted mass. Each strike carried enough force to obliterate mountains, sending shockwaves rippling outward with every movement.

Victor met it head-on.

Telekinetic Qi Control flared as he caught a descending limb mid-swing, stopping it inches from the ground. The sheer force cracked the ice beneath his feet, but Victor held firm with veins glowing faintly as he redirected the momentum and hurled the massive beast sideways.

It crashed through an ice ridge, pulverizing it.

Victor didn’t pause.

Wind surged around him as he activated Wind Dash, appearing before the entity in a violent burst of compressed air. His sword slashed in rapid succession, carving glowing scars into the corrupted flesh.

The corrupt entity adapted quickly.

Its hide thickened. Its movements shifted. Limbs elongated unnaturally, striking from impossible angles.

Victor Shadow Blinked repeatedly, dodging lethal blows by inches, reappearing only to counterattack with Void Severing Threads that sliced invisibly through space itself.

Despite everything—

The corrupt entity laughed.

"You see?" it snarled mid-clash. "Even you cannot stop me without killing me. And if you kill me, I return. Stronger. Angrier."

Victor gritted his teeth.

He deflected a crushing blow with Wind Barrier to absorb the impact before releasing it outward in a controlled detonation.

"I’m not trying to stop you yet," Victor stated while breathing steadily. "I’m buying time."

"For what?" the entity hissed.

"For you to realize something."

The corrupt entity lunged again. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Victor intercepted, slamming a telekinetic wave into its body and forcing it to stumble.

"You’re trapped," Victor continued. "Bound to a single purpose. You’re not seeking justice anymore—you’re just perpetuating suffering because it’s all you know."

"Silence!" the entity roared.

Although Victor words struck a chord in the depths of its being, the corrupted entity was unwilling to listen.

The battlefield descended into absolute chaos.

Victor was everywhere at once with his white hair flashing through the frozen air as his presence tore through space like a living anomaly. Yet even with his overwhelming strength, he was stretched thin.

The corrupt entity kept slaughtering.

Every time Victor intercepted one of its charges, the entity redirected its fury elsewhere. Massive corrupted limbs swept through the battlefield, crushing ice and bodies alike. Kahr’uun warriors were torn apart mid-incantation with their spells detonating harmlessly against its hide—or worse, rebounding into their own ranks.

"Hold formation!" someone shouted.

Another scream cut the voice short.

Victor twisted midair, slamming his palm forward as a telekinetic burst crushed downward, pinning the corrupt entity briefly into the ice. Before he could follow up, three Kahr’uun spellcasters unleashed a coordinated barrage.

Spears of condensed frost, lightning-veined runes, and explosive mana orbs streaked toward the immobilized monster.

"No—!"

Victor’s hand snapped open.

The spells halted mid-flight, trembling violently as the Void Emperor Bloodline asserted its authority. Victor grimaced as he twisted his wrist, forcibly bending space and sweeping the attacks sideways.

They detonated harmlessly against a distant glacier instead, sending shards of ice raining into the snowstorm.

"Back down!" Victor roared. "All of you—stand down!"

Some of the warriors hesitated.

Others didn’t.

"We can’t!" one of them shouted in desperation. "If we stop attacking, it will kill us all!"

"He’s right!" another yelled. "That thing can’t be reasoned with!"

The corrupt entity laughed.

"You see?" it snarled, ripping itself free from the frozen ground. "Even they understand. Survival demands violence."

It charged again at the warriors but Victor reacted instantly.

His legacy sword swept forward as he unleashed Gale Strike.

Compressed wind shot forward as it formed a massive crescent wave. The attack slammed into the corrupt entity mid-air, blasting it backward with explosive force and carving a deep trench across the battlefield.

The ground shook.

Victor landed heavily before it.

"Stop!" he shouted again. "You’re only making it worse!"

The corrupt entity rose slowly from the shattered ice with its corrupted hide steaming as wounds knitted together unnaturally fast.

Its rage had reached a boiling point.

"Enough," it thundered as it suddenly unleashed a burst of darkness from its form.

Black energy erupted from the entity’s core, expanding in every direction like an unseen tide. Victor barely had time to raise his defenses before it washed over him—and everyone else on the battlefield.

The world transformed and the battlefield vanished.

The ice, the corpses, the storm—all dissolved into shadow.

Victor’s vision blurred.

And then—

He was no longer standing in the present.

Instead he had travelled in time to Forty years ago.

The air was warmer. The ice city was alive... bustling, vibrant, untouched by corruption. Kahr’uun citizens moved through crystalline halls, laughter echoing faintly.

Victor felt it instantly.

The wrongness beneath it all.

He was pulled forward, unable to resist, forced to witness.

A ritual chamber.

Ten Kahr’uun women knelt at its center.

They were visibly pregnant.

Some cried quietly. Others stared ahead, eyes hollow with terror. Their hands were bound, their bodies trembling.

Victor’s chest tightened.

"No..." he whispered.

Elders stood in a circle around them, robed and chanting softly. Rhozan’s father was among them. So were leaders whose descendants now lay dead on the battlefield.

"We have no choice," one elder voiced shakily. "This world is dying."

"The ritual life," another replied. "Ten lives, unborn and pure, to anchor our survival."

One of the women screamed.

"I beg you!" she cried. "My child—he hasn’t even seen the sky!"

Silence followed.

The chant resumed.

Victor felt his fists clench uncontrollably.

The ritual began.

Light twisted.

Mana warped violently.

And then—

Pain.

Agony so profound it transcended flesh and time. Victor staggered as the memories slammed into him. He felt the terror, the betrayal, the helplessness.

The unborn lives were torn away.

The mothers died screaming.

And from that convergence of injustice, sacrifice, and despair—

It was born.

The corrupt entity.

Not a monster.

Not at first.

A consciousness forged from agony.

A being whose first sensation was betrayal by the very people it was meant to save.

The vision shifted again.

Victor saw the aftermath.

The Kahr’uun transported into this realm.

The elders justifying their actions.

"They were necessary losses." "They saved us all." "Their suffering had purpose."

...

The battlefield reformed back into existence around them.

Victor dropped to one knee, breathing heavily with his eyes widened.

Around him, Kahr’uun warriors collapsed. Some screamed, others sobbed uncontrollably. Rhozan stared at the ground, shaking with tears freezing on his face.

The corrupt entity stood tall as its form throbbed violently.

"Now you understand," its voice qas layered with ancient grief. "Now you feel it."

Victor slowly stood.

"I do," he said quietly.

His voice trembled with emotion.

"What they did was unforgivable."

The entity leaned closer.

"Then you agree."

Victor met its gaze.

"But that doesn’t give you the right to do the same."