The last Great Dao Gold Thunder vanished, and Xia Ningxue, sword in hand, stood on the vast sea, surrounded by glaciers destroyed by the Chaos Heavenly Thunder and the Great Dao Gold Thunder.
Xia Ningxue faced seventy-two strikes of the Great Dao Gold Thunder during her Tribulation.
After weathering this tribulation, Xia Ningxue’s aura underwent earth-shattering changes, and she officially became an Immortal Emperor.
From out of nowhere, the Ancestor from Guanghan appeared, “Very good, my time is less than ten thousand years from its end. At last, I can find a suitable successor before my end arrives. Next, I will seal my lifelong cultivation within your body.”
Her palm rested on Xia Ningxue’s Heavenly Spirit, “Circulate the thirteenth layer of the Supreme Forgetting Emotion Art and receive my power transfer.”
“Yes.”
Following the Ancestor’s command, Xia Ningxue circulated the Supreme Forgetting Emotion Art.
A frigid aura spread as the Supreme Forgetting Emotion Art was activated, and Xia Ningxue’s expression gradually turned indifferent, forgetting all emotions and desires.
The Ancestor’s cultivation gradually transferred over, her lifelong power vast and boundless.
This Ancestor was the most powerful from Guanghan Holy Land. The transfer of power lasted for forty-nine days.
To avoid her body bursting from the excessive spiritual energy, the Ancestor from Guanghan used various formations and secret techniques to seal her strength within Xia Ningxue. Only as Xia Ningxue’s realm advanced would the sealed power gradually be unleashed.
Xia Ningxue felt the enormous power sealed inside her, and just as the power transfer was about to end, her Divine Sense suddenly stung with pain. The old woman’s figure appeared within her Sea of Consciousness, “Ancestor, what is this?”
With crazed eyes, the old woman’s calm visage twisted into something ferocious, “Your body is a one-in-a-billion Lingwa Holy Body, perfectly suited as a vessel for me.”
Xia Ningxue’s expression changed. Lu Changsheng had warned her to be cautious in all matters, particularly because this Ancestor, though granting her power, insisted she practiced the Supreme Forgetting Love Art, which made her forget emotions, and limited her from leaving the Guanghan Holy Land, likely harboring ulterior motives.
It turned out Lu Changsheng’s intuition was right.
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Xia Ningxue said coldly, “It seems that you bestowed your cultivation on me, depleting your own, just to ensure that before your time arrives, I would reach the Immortal Emperor Realm, so you could seize my body.”
The Guanghan Ancestor replied with sinister satisfaction, “Every man for himself; those who don’t act for themselves will be destroyed. You were able to attract the Great Dao Gold Thunder at the Quasi-Emperor level; your talent is excellent. I won’t waste your body. Once I take possession, I will live as long as the heaven and earth—it’s your honor.”
“Could it be that even this body of yours is not the original?”
“That’s right. I have changed who knows how many bodies, but none satisfied me as much as yours. I have lived from the ancient times to the present, continually seizing new bodies, making me somewhat immortal. The original target for possession was supposed to be your master, but her talent was inferior to yours, so you became my target.”
The old woman’s words sent a chill down Xia Ningxue’s spine.
This highly respected Ancestor had clung to life since the ancient era, achieving immortality through repeated body seizures.
How long this Ancestor had actually lived was unknown to anyone.
“Who exactly are you?”
Xia Ningxue stalled for time while secretly operating her cultivation technique, attempting to eradicate the other’s Divine Sense.
“I am one of the great experts who founded the Guanghan Holy Land. If this body hadn’t been so inadequate, preventing me from recovering my cultivation from the past, would my end have come so swiftly? You wish to delay time, using your True Qi to expel my Divine Sense?”
The old woman caught onto Xia Ningxue’s actions.
Xia Ningxue felt a shock of alarm, having not expected to escape the observation of the Ancestor’s Dharma Eye.
“It’s futile. When I sealed my lifelong cultivation within you, it was already marked with my imprint. This power will only heed my commands. Just merge obediently with me!”
“The Supreme Forgetting Emotion Art’s primary purpose is for seizing bodies!”
The old woman operated the Supreme Forgetting Emotion Art, and a chilling aura invaded Xia Ningxue’s body, incessantly devouring her soul.
The lifetime of cultivation that the old woman had sealed inside Xia Ningxue became an accomplice, summoned by her to take over the Zodiac Meridians.
With the old woman’s Divine Sense and cultivation pouring into Xia Ningxue’s body, the old woman’s own form lost its life force and plummeted into the endless depths of the sea.
Within Xia Ningxue’s body, two Divine Senses fought for control, as sweat dripped from her brow.
Xia Ningxue felt she was losing control of her body, as if an endless darkness was engulfing her. She knew that if the world seen from her eyes turned entirely dark, then her Divine Sense would be completely obliterated, leaving no trace of her existence.
Meanwhile, the Ancestor’s Divine Sense would take her place and continue living using her identity.
“I can’t just die like this, I can’t let this person replace me, otherwise she may harm Lu and master…”
Xia Ningxue struggled with all her might.
But compared to the Guanghan Ancestor, Xia Ningxue’s cultivation was like an ant trying to shake a tree, and her resistance increasingly crumbled.
The Ancestor, having frequently seized bodies of geniuses from the Guanghan Holy Land, was expertly experienced; to her, Xia Ningxue’s resistance was a mere animal fighting in desperation.
“Your cultivation is far from adequate in my eyes; even if I successfully seize your body, it will take time to recover to my current level. However, the upside is a higher potential in the future.”
Slowly invading Xia Ningxue’s Sea of Consciousness, the Ancestor forced Xia Ningxue’s Divine Sense into a corner.
In a critical moment, Xia Ningxue recalled the Yin Yang Dual Cultivation Skills she once practiced, and thus began to execute this cultivation technique.