Special physical condition
As the phoenix that suddenly appeared above the Xuantian Sect burned itself out and vanished into the heavens and earth, a shooting star suddenly appeared and blazed brightly in the northernmost part of Dingzhou.
Then, together with the flames of the phoenix, they vanished into the world.
In the darkness, two indomitable souls met and became entangled, thus entering a new cycle of reincarnation.
In the territory of Yuzhou, there is a bustling town called Immortal City.
Because cultivation sects often came to select disciples, and many outstanding disciples were selected and returned to their families, this place was gradually renamed Immortal City.
This means that the land is blessed by immortals, which is why many exceptionally talented disciples appear every year. As a result, the families here are happy to cultivate young disciples.
If even one of them succeeds, everyone in the family will rise to prominence, and resources will be poured into them for a century.
However, many disciples can have their aptitude thoroughly tested around the age of sixteen. If there is no spiritual resonance at all, they will be sent away to fend for themselves or left in the clan to do odd jobs.
When Ruan Qingyu opened her eyes again, she almost thought it was all an illusion. Only after touching her warm cheeks with her hands could she confirm that she had returned to the past.
It was a month before the Ruan family's disciple aptitude test. Because of her superior aptitude, she entered the Xuantian Sect as an inner disciple.
They were incredibly successful back then. They were convinced that as long as they cultivated diligently, they would one day attain immortality.
However, he never expected that because his origins were deduced by the clan elders, he would become an item in resource exchanges and completely lose his freedom.
Recalling those days of excruciating pain and bleeding, Ruan Qingyu shivered and hugged herself tightly, trying to draw as much warmth as possible.
However, his eyes, which were hidden by his loose bangs, were filled with a scarlet color, making people think he had been possessed by a demon.
Ruan Qingyu seemed completely immersed in her memories. If it weren't for the increasingly hot necklace on her collarbone awakening her senses, she might have fallen into demonic possession despite her mortal body.
Yes, she clearly heard those people call her Phoenix before she died? And then she thought of that elder from the Xuan Tian Sect, who captured her and treated her like livestock, draining her blood and removing her bones.
It must have been for her phoenix bloodline, but no one expected that the Xuan Tian Sect elder would reap what he sowed. Unable to withstand the erosion of the phoenix bones, he was ultimately burned to ashes by the phoenix fire, leaving not even ashes behind.
Her collarbone was still burning, but when Ruan Qingyu reached out to touch it, she found nothing. Looking around, she realized she was in her bedroom.
She walked slowly toward the bronze mirror, and as her reflection became clearer, Ruan Qingyu raised her chin, wanting her collarbone to be more prominent.
A moment later, she finally saw what was on her collarbone—a mysterious pattern. The rune seemed to grow deep within her skin, rising and falling with her breath, yet proclaiming its presence through its undiminished temperature.
"What is this picture and text?" Ruan Qingyu murmured to herself. Just as she was pondering this, the picture and text suddenly lit up.
A drop of bright red blood flew out, circled around Ruan Qingyu, and finally rushed towards her brow.
A sharp pain shot through her, and Ruan Qingyu felt everything go black before she instantly lost consciousness. During her unconsciousness, her body began to change, as if her bones had grown all over again.
Ruan Qingyu's figure continued to grow longer. Her body, which was originally somewhat thin due to malnutrition, gradually transformed into the figure that a sixteen-year-old girl should have.
Aside from the physical changes, Ruan Qingyu's body was also covered in numerous black stains on the floor. Some looked like blood, others like skin flakes.
Instantly, the entire room was filled with an indescribable smell, like rotting flesh or boiling blood.
Ruan Qingyu was not awakened until midnight by the unpleasant smell and the cold, hard ground. By then, the moon was high in the sky, and apart from the Golden Core stage patriarch, the Ruan family was still cultivating in the forbidden area.
The others had all fallen asleep as night deepened. That's why the changes in Ruan Qingyu's situation went unnoticed by the others.
Waking up in a daze, she remembered the drop of blood from earlier that day. It turned out to be the last drop of phoenix essence blood extracted by the elder of the Xuan Tian Sect when she died in her previous life, which had completely activated Ruan Qingyu's innate phoenix body.
In the future, unless someone touches Ruan Qingyu's soul, no one will be able to discover her special constitution. In the past, Ruan Qingyu attracted the attention of the clan elders because of the abnormal change in her spiritual fire during her aptitude test.
Even after this drop of essence blood activated her innate phoenix body, the entire inheritance of the phoenix lineage also entered her mind.
However, because Ruan Qingyu is still a mortal, these tens of thousands of inheritances are sealed within her sea of consciousness.
In order to avoid the overwhelming and turbulent thoughts that would burst her sea of consciousness.
Ruan Qingyu frowned as she looked at the stains on her body and quickly opened the door. It was already past midnight, and it wasn't a good time to boil water so as not to wake the others.
She simply drew several buckets of cold water from the stone well and repeatedly washed away the almost unbearable filth from her body. It wasn't until dawn that Ruan Qingyu finally cleaned herself and the things on the ground.
Looking at her transformed appearance in the mirror, Ruan Qingyu was momentarily stunned.
Her previously dull complexion had transformed into a radiant white. Or rather, Ruan Qingyu now resembled a pear blossom on a spring branch, pure white as snow, with flawless, jade-like skin, and a delicate, dewy beauty.
This effect was even better than the body-tempering effect she had when she entered the Foundation Establishment stage in her previous life. Lowering her hand that had been unconsciously stroking her face, Ruan Qingyu thought about the family test that would be held in a month.
When the time comes, her drastic change in appearance will certainly not be able to be hidden from the elders of those families. Now she is just a mortal with a relatively good physique, and the steward of the ninth level of Qi Refining, who is only testing physique, can easily crush her.
The only way to make a reasonable excuse is to quickly draw qi into the body. I have heard that some disciples with good aptitude can be reborn if they draw qi into their bodies.
The Qi-guiding technique was freely available in the Ruan family, but few disciples learned it before their aptitude was tested.
The sun had already risen, clearly indicating that she hadn't slept all night. However, Ruan Qingyu was still full of energy as she headed to the Ruan family's library. She would then use the excuse of browsing the library to openly and legitimately draw qi into her body.
As the foundation of the Ruan family, the library is only accessible to ordinary clan disciples three times a month. Although Ruan Qingyu's physical appearance has changed considerably, her facial features remain the same.
The steward on duty today compared the photographic jade token with Ruan Qingyu's image repeatedly before waving his hand and letting her in.
"Girls really do change a lot as they grow up. I remember this girl was just a little girl when she came to register. It seems we'll have to ask the elders to carve some new runes on her photo plaque this year." The steward on duty at the library muttered to himself as he watched Ruan Qingyu's disappearing figure.
The Ruan family's library houses a vast collection of books, including their own family heirlooms. Now that she has inherited the Phoenix bloodline, cultivation techniques are not among Ruan Qingyu's search areas.
So, as soon as he entered, he went to the Ruan family genealogy to look through the records. After searching through more than a dozen genealogies, he finally found something that matched his speculation in a biography of a family whose refining materials were different from those in the other genealogies.
It turns out that ten thousand years ago, there were ancestors in the Ruan family who had combined with the bloodline of the phoenix. Most of them inherited the fire spirit root of the phoenix, but it gradually faded away as the bloodline became thinner.
Even the Immortal City in this Yuzhou region is just a branch of the Ruan family. It is said that the main branch died a thousand years ago due to grudges with other sects and forces.
In the chaos of war, the clan was gradually depleted and fell into neglect. However, the branch clans survived because of their distance and less close relationship with the outside world.
As Ruan Qingyu closed the family genealogy book, her expression turned solemn. The elder in the genealogy book wasn't even a direct descendant of the Ruan family, but rather a guest elder.
They dared to rely on their cultivation level to sell their clan's disciples to the elders of the Xuantian Sect. The guest elder deserved to die, but the Xuantian Sect elder deserved to die even more.
However, she is still weak now. Once she has accumulated enough strength, she must kill these two people to quell the hatred in her heart.
Seeing that she had spent enough time in the library, Ruan Qingyu finally withdrew, ready to try guiding Qi into her body.
But should she continue to enter the Xuantian Sect this time? Ruan Qingyu hesitated in her heart. After all, apart from capturing disciples like her who possessed fire spiritual roots, the elders of the Xuantian Sect spent the rest of their time cultivating in the sect's basement.
Therefore, Ruan Qingyu hesitated for only a moment before reaffirming her determination to continue joining the Xuantian Sect.
Not to mention that his physique and identity are now well hidden, he will be able to enter as an ordinary family disciple without being discovered.
That evening, Ruan Qingyu attempted to draw qi into her body, closing her eyes. She sat cross-legged on the soft couch, perhaps because she was re-entering the cycle of reincarnation with her soul.
Ruan Qingyu felt that her divine sense was still in the same state as before when she was in the Foundation Establishment stage, and even stronger than before. She quickly sensed the active fire spiritual energy in the air.
She originally thought it would take some time for her to communicate with the fire elemental energy, but unexpectedly, as soon as Ruan Qingyu's divine sense came into contact with the fire elemental energy, all the surrounding fire elemental energy gathered around her instantly.
The spiritual energy surged into Ruan Qingyu's body relentlessly, vaguely coalescing into a stream at the crown of her head. It continuously washed over her body, and in an instant, the familiar sensation of her meridians being opened returned.
Ruan Qingyu's face lit up with joy; she had successfully drawn the Qi into her body! Thinking this, she focused intently once again on absorbing more fire spiritual energy into her body.
With her innate Phoenix Body, absorbing this fire elemental energy was as easy as returning to her origin. It effortlessly entered her dantian, warming Ruan Qingyu comfortably.
She absorbed the energy in circles until her dantian felt a slight sense of satisfaction. Only then did Ruan Qingyu clasp her hands together, expelling the remaining fire spiritual energy outside her body.
She wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but she felt a sense of regret and grievance that the fire elemental energy hadn't been able to enter her body.
He couldn't help but whisper, "When I become stronger, I'll be able to absorb even more spiritual energy."
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