Thinking this, Changqing dragged his heavy body towards Dan Ji on the ground, grabbed her foot, and slowly dragged her into the cave.
He didn't have much time, as he wasn't sure how long the poison in the Qingxin Pill would last, so he had to hurry and reseal Dan Ji in the Blood Pool.
He had to obtain the Hundred Flowers Legacy and inherit the Imperial Spirit that Liu Lu once used on Dan Ji, after all, he couldn't, like Liu Lu back then, re-inject Dan Ji with poison every so often to strengthen her Seal.
So Dan Ji was still a hidden danger; the effect of the Qingxin Pill couldn't be maintained indefinitely. He had to re-refine the poison of the Soul-Separating Beauty to reinforce the Seal before the Qingxin Pill completely lost its effectiveness.
Otherwise, it would be a slow death, and the Evil Lord's retaliation was something he couldn't bear now.
Dan Ji, being dragged by him, did not resist. She had completely lost all strength; the Red Blood Boiling Spirit had long since become ineffective, and her last desperate trump card had also been lost.
Looking at the piles of corpses in the cave, Dan Ji instantly understood Changqing's intention and couldn't help but sigh.
“Even when you were fighting me with all your might just now, you could still use these corpses behind you to supply the Blood Demon Spirit. It turns out I lost so completely…”
Changqing glanced at her, somewhat puzzled by her composure.
“You're about to be sealed again, perhaps for decades or even a hundred years. You're not panicked, nor are you angry. Have you accepted your fate?”
Dan Ji was dragged across the ground by him, her eyes vacant as she looked at the dark ceiling of the cave, replying indifferently.
“I've lived for over three hundred years. The Evil Lord's lifespan is much longer than you imagine. Being sealed for a few decades isn't as terrifying as you think…”
She smiled, a very candid smile.
“My provocations and insults towards you just now were merely tactics. I lost my composure a bit, you don’t need to mind it.”
Changqing was surprised that she would say such a thing.
“You… don’t hate me?”
Dan Ji shook her head, an indescribable sense of vicissitudes of life appearing on her youthful, maiden-like face.
“Kid, you don't understand. This world is cruel and merciless, where the strong prey on the weak. There are no eternal friends, no eternal enemies, only eternal interests. Since I haven't reached a dead end, I'm still considering how to maximize my own interests.”
Even though she was his opponent, Changqing still carefully pondered the meaning of her words.
“What you said makes a lot of sense, but I really didn’t expect you to be so calm. As expected of an Evil Lord with over three hundred years of experience, I can’t help but admire you.”
Dan Ji smiled faintly. Changqing was right; she was indeed very calm. At this Moment, she was indeed thinking about how to maximize her “interests.”
“Should I use that… I’m still unwilling…” She weighed the pros and cons in her heart.
She looked at Changqing, only seeing his somewhat slender back, as he dragged her back into the depths of the cave with a slight effort.
Actually, she had also lied; there had been a clear fluctuation in her heart.
In the battle just now, she had felt an emotion called fear, which had not appeared for a long time, in the young man before her.
“Will he be on guard? Will he have already anticipated it? Is he just testing me?”
She shook her head internally, dispelling this groundless and ridiculous doubt.
“Even if he is incredibly talented, he is still just a kid who has lived for a little over ten years, at the Second Level of the Moment Realm. What exactly am I worried about…”
Changqing's calmness and decisiveness had even caused a deep psychological shadow in her, an old monster of several centuries.
Just then, Changqing spoke.
“However, Master, don’t think about stalling for time. If you want to negotiate terms with me, it won’t be too late to talk after I’ve resealed you in the Blood Pool.”
“Aren’t you curious about what’s going on with your Innate Spiritual Body?”
“No, I’m not.” Changqing placed Dan Ji in the center of the Blood Pool, then found over ten long nails from the cave and nailed them into Dan Ji’s wrists.
“The Innate Spiritual Body has a huge drawback. If you don’t know about it, you’ll suffer greatly in the future.”
“Not interested.”
He picked up a piece of shattered rock from nearby and emotionlessly hammered the nails into Dan Ji’s wrists, one by one.
Dan Ji sighed, mumbling.
“Innate Spiritual Body… it really is a convenient ability. If I also had this power, I wouldn’t have so many scruples.”
“It seems I have no choice but to use this move…”
Changqing suddenly felt an immense chill. He instinctively retreated a few steps, creating distance between himself and Dan Ji on the ground, and stared at her warily.
“Blood Sea Other Shore Blood Law, All Blood Returns to Origin.”
A wave of sound emanated from Dan Ji’s mouth, and a complex and bizarre string of runes rushed into Changqing’s mind. He only felt the world spin and a splitting headache.
“What did you do!”
The intense pain made him fall to his knees, gasping for air.
“You are truly formidable; you even forced me to use this move.”
Dan Ji sat up, emotionlessly pulling out the nails from her arms, with such strength that it completely belied her earlier state of exhaustion.
Changqing thought, “This is bad.” He hadn’t expected her to still have reserves of strength. He quickly endured the pain and activated the Blood Demon Spirit.
But the Blood Demon Spirit had no reaction. Instead, the sensation of the world spinning and a splitting headache grew even stronger.
Immediately following, a strange scene unfolded: several light clusters emerged from his body, which were actually the Imperial Spirits within him, flying out uncontrollably.
Upon closer inspection, not only the Bone Spike Spirit, Blood Healing Spirit, and Blood Filament Spirit, but even the Blood Demon Spirit and Blood Storage Spirit within the Earth Palace Viscera and Blood Sea Organ all flew out, rapidly drifting towards Dan Ji's direction and entering her body.
In an instant, all of Changqing’s Blood Law Spirits, except for the only remaining Equipment Spiritual Flying Whirlwind Spirit, were absorbed by Dan Ji.
He was like a fish out of water, no longer able to exert the power he had just Moments ago, and painfully collapsed to the ground.
But his voice remained as calm as ever, only carrying a slight tremor under the intense pain.
“If you truly possessed such a method, you wouldn’t have saved it until now. The cost must be considerable, I presume.”
Dan Ji stood up, a large hole still remaining on her wrist, with blood dripping down, not healing. Clearly, her self-healing ability had also reached its limit.
“The Innate Spiritual Body is naturally intimate with all kinds of Imperial Spirits. It can directly use Imperial Spirits without needing to refine them, but the drawback is that the Imperial Spirits you use still carry the will and spiritual power of their original owner and can be recalled by the original owner at any time.”
“Originally, I didn’t intend to use this move. Your Blood Storage Spirit and Blood Healing Spirit are both mine, and I can use them directly after recalling them. However, the Blood Demon Spirit carries Liu Lu’s will and spiritual power, so even I would have to refine it again.”
As she spoke, a dense, scarlet tentacle wriggled out from her eye socket, and her voice became hoarse, a sign of impending distortion after being parasitized by the Blood Demon Spirit.
“This move, All Blood Returns to Origin, is an ability of my Natal Imperial Spirit, the Blood Sea Other Shore Spirit. It can forcefully draw all Blood Law Spirits within range into the body and, by consuming Qi, quickly subdue and refine them. It has a similar effect to your Innate Spiritual Body.”
She looked at the blood hole on her wrist, which was now being filled by the Blood Demon Spirit's dense, scarlet tentacles, slowly recovering, like a red sweater being mended.
“However, my Qi is already running low, so I can only manage to draw them into my body, not refine them. This Blood Demon Spirit has a parasitic nature, so even if I forcefully draw it into my body, without extra Qi, I will eventually be consumed by it, becoming an empty shell.”
“It’s a pity. You used up the Qi in the Blood Storage Spirit before I could react. Otherwise, if I had activated All Blood Returns to Origin earlier, the Qi in the Blood Storage Spirit would have been enough to refine the Blood Demon Spirit.”
She reached out and pointed at the piles of corpses in the cave, smiling.
“Changqing, you were too clever for your own good. The Moment I saw the corpses you prepared, I knew I had already won.”