Nan Xian lay inside a huge ellipsoidal machine, wearing only a sterile gown, staring intently at the small pale blue light on top of the machine.
An hour ago, Situ Ting brought her to the hospital.
Lu Anna's condition suddenly worsened last night, and she was immediately admitted to the intensive care unit.
When Nan Xian saw her face on the monitor, her heart trembled violently.
In just one night, Lu Anna became as if she had been seriously ill for many years—
Her face was sallow and bloodless, her cheekbones protruding like small mountains on her thin face, her eyes were closed limply, and her breathing was very weak.
Situ Ting told Nan Xian that Lu Anna had been bitten on the back of the neck, and an extremely sinister poison was found in the wound.
The demonic poison wouldn't kill immediately, but would gradually cause a person to become thin and weak over several months, eventually exhausting their strength and dying.
However, Lu Anna's constitution is different from ordinary people. She was born on an extremely yin day and at an extremely yin time, and she was born in the humid and rainy Shu region.
In the language of the underworld, her constitution is considered an excellent "vessel" for naturally nurturing evil and yin substances.
The demonic poison entered her body like a nurturing cradle for seedlings, spreading without hindrance and simultaneously plundering her energy and nutrients like a locust plague.
The hospital couldn't find the cause of her sudden extreme weakness, so they could only keep injecting life-sustaining drugs into her veins. In just one night, they had already spent nearly 100,000 yuan.
When Situ Ting and the others rushed to the scene after hearing the news, Lu Anna was on the verge of death. Fortunately, Situ Ting used a talisman to suppress the evil poison in time, pulling her back from the brink of death.
Nevertheless, the demonic poison remained in her body and continued to try to break free of its restraints, attempting to devour her soul completely.
Therefore, Situ Ting could only temporarily remove her soul and place it in Nan Xian's body.
On her way here, Nan Xian finally learned what the Hundred Fusion Body was.
The Body of All Harmony can be roughly divided into three stages: containment, attraction, and integration.
"Accommodation" - The body of Bai Rong is the most favored child of heaven and earth. From birth, they automatically absorb the spiritual energy of all things and transform it into nourishment to fill themselves.
Millions of years ago, those with the Hundred Fusion Body were born as immortal cultivation prodigies. While others might not be able to even begin Qi cultivation for several years or even more than a decade, they were born at the Foundation Establishment stage.
However, the spiritual energy in the current world is extremely thin, and even with the Hundred Fusion Body, it is not possible to fully utilize it, so Nan Xian has never realized her special abilities.
To enter the next stage of the Hundred Fusion Body, "Attraction," one needs to go through a process similar to "Activation."
Although there is an insurmountable gap between the surface world and the inner world, it does not mean that the two have no intersection. Just like the "mop spirit" and the moving tree that Nan Xian encountered, they are strong evidence that creatures from the inner world live hidden in the surface world.
Once the Hundred Fusion Body comes into contact with the creatures of the Inner World, the exchange of energy between them will "activate" their characteristic of actively "attracting" them.
This characteristic, however, is a double-edged sword.
The cultivation of the Hundred Fusion Body is much easier than that of ordinary people, which inevitably causes dissatisfaction. Therefore, in order to maintain balance, the Heavenly Dao has set stricter conditions for advancement.
Once the spiritual energy within them accumulates to a certain level, it will attract powerful and ferocious creatures from the underworld—usually known as evil beasts or ferocious beasts.
The Hundred Fusion Body is a great tonic for ferocious beasts, no less than the flesh of Tang Sanzang. Once they encounter it, they will try every means to devour it.
The advancement of the Hundred Fusion Body is their most vulnerable and difficult-to-defend opportunity, so how could they possibly let this chance slip by?
Therefore, each advancement of the Hundred Fusion Body is a tribulation, and the slightest carelessness will result in the complete annihilation of the body.
They typically need to spend hundreds of years honing their skills.
Once this hurdle is overcome, the Hundred Fusion Body will enter the final stage – “Fusion”.
Everything in the world that possesses spiritual energy can be used by them.
Millions of years later, in modern times, intelligent humans have combined technology with metaphysics, using the power of technology to solve many metaphysical problems.
The instrument Nan Xian is currently in can simulate a state of abundant spiritual energy. Under the constant and strong stimulation of spiritual energy, she will enter a brief "fusion" phase, during which Situ Ting will take the opportunity to integrate Lu Anna's soul into her body.
Because Nan Xian herself has not received professional cultivation training, she will not absorb Lu Anna's soul for her own use, but will properly preserve it.
"Thump thump—thump thump—"
The room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop; all Nan Xian could hear was her own heartbeat getting faster and faster.
The tension made her body tremble slightly involuntarily. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled.
At that moment, the door was pushed open, and Situ Ting walked in.
"Can we begin?" Nan Xian asked her.
Situ Ting felt her pulse, a relieved smile appearing on her serious face, and said in a low voice, "You might feel a little uncomfortable later, just bear with it, it will pass quickly."
Nan Xian nodded, about to speak, when she suddenly felt an extremely painful electric current shooting through the spot where she had been touched, from her wrist straight up to her brain and slamming into her temple.
She felt like her head was about to explode. Before she could even struggle, her brain started to spin. Sometimes the Situ Ting in front of her would appear as a whole row of many, and sometimes as just one.
"Nan Xian—can you hear me—"
Situ Ting's voice seemed to come from a distant place. Nan Xian tried to open her eyes wide to see her clearly, but everything went black before her eyes, and her consciousness sank into an abyss of darkness.
When Nan Xian opened her eyes, she was almost startled by the sight before her—
She was still lying in the machine, but she didn't know when her hands and feet had been tied up, but that wasn't the most surprising thing.
She saw tiny golden specks of light, the size of sesame seeds, floating in the air. These specks were gathering into wisps and strands, slowly seeping into her limbs and bones.
She moved her fingers, and the light spots at her fingertips scattered and then quickly gathered again.
Nan Xian looked at it with great curiosity for a while, and then suddenly had an idea. She opened her palm and made a pinching motion.
The light spots inside the instrument stopped simultaneously, and in what seemed like the blink of an eye, they flew swiftly toward her right hand, disappearing into her palm like mud oxen sinking into the sea.
Situ Ting rubbed her face hard to force herself to wake up. She had been on a mission when she suddenly received news about Lu Anna, and she hadn't slept for three days and two nights.
Just as she was thinking about whether to speed up the flow of spiritual energy to save some time so she could rest earlier, she glanced at the monitor screen and was so shocked that her jaw almost dropped.
Nan Xian is actually here, practicing Qi cultivation!
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