Chapter 42 The Contract Arrives
Upon returning to Zhaojian Palace, Luo Xuanyi immediately rushed into her room, took out the Wind-Chasing Golden Flame, and began to observe the fire. Su Yang hesitated, circling outside the door for a moment before finally leaving. Luo Xuanyi pretended not to notice, focusing all her attention on the Dan Fire before her.
As soon as the Wind-Chasing Golden Fire was taken out, a slight breeze immediately rose in the room, swirling through every corner. Fortunately, Luo Xuanyi did not place any light and easy-to-fly objects in the room, and the paper pages were weighed down with paperweights.
In the gentle breeze, the Wind-Chasing Golden Flame swayed quite comfortably, even seeming to grow even more imposing. Its flames swayed left and right with the chaotic wind, and transparent sparks emanating from its source blurred its true form. The more one looked at it, the more it seemed to be floating in the wind, but Luo Xuanyi knew it was just an illusion.
To simulate the Dan fire, one does not simply simulate its shape, but rather simulates its source and achieves the goal of generating the fire by oneself.
Luo Xuanyi sat cross-legged, sensing the medicinal liquid within her body and beginning to circulate it. After mobilizing all her spiritual energy, she chose to use the essence of the medicinal pill as the source of fire, and the medicinal liquid accumulated in her dantian as the outlet for wind. Initially, the medicinal liquid was manipulated regularly by Luo Xuanyi, but slowly began to swirl disorderly within a small area.
Luo Xuanyi comprehended the Chasing Wind Golden Fire, slowly adjusting the flow of her spiritual energy. After four months of meditation, Luo Xuanyi once again circulated her Qi. Suddenly, she felt a surge of lightness from her Dantian to the veins of her limbs. Every part of her body felt relaxed, and a flicker of joy flashed in her eyes. She stood up and reached out, and a nearly transparent pale golden flame, eighty to ninety percent similar to the Chasing Wind Golden Fire, danced in her palm. A gentle breeze like late spring blew, and the wind force of the two flames unexpectedly merged, causing the Chasing Wind Golden Fire to blaze brightly. Luo Xuanyi also felt her simulated Dan Fire interact with each other, finally erupting into a hurricane. The flames surged, transforming into the true Chasing Wind Golden Fire.
A hurricane ripped through the room, but Zhao Jiangong easily dispelled it. Luo Xuanyi paid no attention to this. Instead, she put away the Wind-Chasing Golden Flame and lit the Human Furnace, watching the Taoist master refining the elixir within once more. All the while, she tried to cultivate the Star-Swallowing Pill within her body once again. This time, the medicinal properties separated into three clusters without being destroyed. The internalized elixir fire ignited the impurities, and three Star-Swallowing Pills took shape within the flames. She had succeeded!
In order to extract the Star-Swallowing Pill, Luo Xuanyi had to liquefy the surface of her skin and then use her spiritual energy to wrap the pill to prevent it from being corroded by the liquid. Luo Xuanyi ultimately decided that it would be more convenient to remove it from her palm, lest others discover that she could produce pills from her body and cause unnecessary trouble.
The next step was to test whether this Star-Swallowing Pill had any difference in medicinal properties from the one refined from the Human Furnace. This time, Luo Xuanyi didn't hesitate like she had during the previous flag test. Instead, she stood up and went to the rooms in the back hall to pick up a string of five people and prepare to return to her room. She deliberately avoided the room suspected of holding a Tiandao undercover agent, but Su Yang still saw her leaving.
Su Yang looked at the five people tied up in a chain behind her with the Immortal Binding Rope, his expression very complicated. He hadn't expected Luo Xuanyi to adapt to the concept of using people as materials so quickly. Of course, he couldn't blame her. Su Yang's own ideas had also changed a lot since he came here.
However, his original plan was slightly altered by Luo Xuanyi's shifting perspectives. He had to prepare for this escape before Luo Xuanyi fully adapted to Zang Yaozong's values, otherwise she might struggle to integrate into Xuanchengzhou, a completely different place from the one ruled by Zang Yaozong. Su Yang didn't think he and Luo Xuanyi would survive much longer, but at least in his final moments, he wanted to return to a peaceful, bloodless place. The fact that he was an undercover agent of the Heavenly Dao needed to deliver information fueled his efforts, and Luo Xuanyi was merely an excuse to hypnotize himself and overcome his fears. He hadn't realized that he was no longer the selfless cultivator from Baicheng who risked his life for the greater good. He feared that even after returning, the beautiful scenery he dreamed of would not materialize.
He took a deep breath, walked into the back hall and began to feed them the routine power-dispersing pills.
Luo Xuanyi returned to her room, removed the human furnace and the elixir she had refined. She then enveloped the remaining person with her spiritual energy, leaving a gap to isolate them from external impurities, and sprinkled mineral powder on their clothes. After confirming that everything was ready, she stuffed the elixir from the human furnace into the mouths of the three people, including the one sprinkled with mineral powder, and the elixir she had refined into the mouths of the other two.
Once the Star-Swallowing Pill entered their throats, it transformed into a stream of spiritual fluid, slid down their throats, and permeated their meridians. Spiritual energy from all nearby sources surged frantically into their bodies. Luo Xuanyi examined them carefully, finding with satisfaction that her Star-Swallowing Pill was no different from the one refined by the Human Furnace. She then turned to look at the one who was uniquely enveloped in spiritual energy.
He also devoured spiritual energy frantically, but a closer look at the mineral powder on his body revealed that the once faintly shimmering blue-purple powder had retained its original color, but its glow had gradually dimmed. Only with Luo Xuanyi's keen eyesight could she discern faint, almost imperceptible lines of bluish-purple hues within his meridians. These lines could not flow as rapidly as the spiritual energy within him, but instead moved slowly, clinging to the meridian walls.
Very good. Luo Xuanyi glanced at the five people who were making too much noise, thought for a moment, and immediately had Chen Rong bring over the ingredients for refining Silent Pills. He refined two furnaces of ten pills and had them try to hold them in their mouths. Sure enough, the fluctuations of spiritual energy were immediately masked and silenced. Luo Xuanyi put away the remaining Silent Pills with satisfaction.
The five of them glanced at each other, their cultivation constantly recovering and even skyrocketing. They activated their sect's special cultivation techniques, instantly overdrawing their potential and beginning to surge. If they didn't fight for their lives now, when would they? Yun Ling struggled, and the mass-produced Immortal Binding Ropes immediately shattered into pieces.
kill!
Luo Xuanyi threw the ink-splashed jade bamboo flag backwards without even turning her head. Gorgeous ink paintings splashed across the flag, cutting the five men into pieces at the waist. Not a single drop of blood was wasted, as all of it was absorbed into the flag and fed back to the body.
The five people fell to the ground, instantly dissolving into a pile of dust. Luo Xuanyi summoned the mechanical puppets to clean up, while she herself went into the right side hall to search the classics for records of impurities. After reviewing them, Luo Xuanyi became slightly puzzled by the formation of impurities. It was like extracting spiritual energy from mineral powder, but why didn't it dissolve in ordinary spiritual energy? Why were they called impurities?
Luo Xuanyi glanced at the bookshelf and immediately pulled out the volume containing the impurity from memory, but a wave of doubt suddenly crossed her mind. After carefully examining the bookshelf again, Luo Xuanyi confirmed that she was indeed correct: a volume of the technique was missing. A few missing volumes were normal, as Su Yang liked to take books back to his room, but this one was the kind Luo Xuanyi thought he wouldn't touch.
The remaining pages of "A Hundred Classics of Qionghua Daoyin Techniques of Xiao Du'e" are from an ancient book of evil arts collected by Taoist Hua Shen. This page only records one technique, which is possession of another's body.
Luo Xuanyi had naturally read it, searching for a way to survive, but her cultivation level was limited, preventing her from practicing. This evil technique of body possession required a lower level of cultivation than other techniques, requiring only the Great Perfection of the Golden Core Stage rather than the Nascent Soul Stage. However, it required more materials, especially the pure Yin souls of a thousand women. What did Su Yang want to do with it? Wasn't his wish to simply return home?
Luo Xuanyi's heart slowly cooled. She didn't want to believe that Su Yang, who only wanted to teach her the teachings of a sage, would do this. She must have misunderstood something. She wanted to go find Su Yang immediately, but she received a voice transmission.
"I've got the contract and am now delivering the Soul Locking Curse at Danxin Pavilion. Come quickly."
Luo Xuanyi paused, closed her eyes tightly, then slowly opened them and quickly walked out of Zhaojian Palace.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
