“Have you ever wondered why I would unreservedly teach you the Blood Sea Other Shore Skill, help you become a Blood Arts cultivator, and even help you Cultivate the Earth Palace Viscera?”
In the darkness, Changqing heard a familiar female voice.
It was Dan Ji’s voice.
The world in his eyes gradually regained clarity, and within his vision, there was only a pure white void.
Dan Ji was sitting in front of him.
She had returned to her high and mighty queen-like posture, seated on a throne constructed from flesh and bones, looking down at him.
Changqing suddenly stood up, looking at her warily.
The two were in a pure white world. Dan Ji gently stomped her foot, and beneath them, a projection appeared, showing Luo Hongyan talking to Changqing in the Hundred Flowers Cave.
Seeing this scene, even Changqing, with his extraordinary calm mind, couldn't help but show a look of shock.
“What method is this of yours?”
He vaguely had an answer in his heart, but he still wanted to confirm it.
“Don’t be nervous. This is your Spiritual Realm.”
Dan Ji, seated on the throne, lazily waved her hand.
“The Soul Exchange and Body Seizure method is real, you were lying to me from the start?” Changqing asked.
At these words, Dan Ji seemed slightly surprised.
“I didn’t expect your mind to work so quickly. Yes, the fact that I can enter your Spiritual Realm proves that I have taken Possession of you.”
“The so-called Blood Oath Spirit only being usable on Blood Arts cultivators was a pretext. Your true purpose was to make me Cultivate the Blood Law with you so you could take Possession of me, because a necessary condition for Possession is that both parties must Cultivate the same Cultivation Technique,” Changqing said coldly.
“Not bad, not bad, you got it all,” Dan Ji clapped her hands, not stinting on her praise.
“Possession of you was just my last resort. Originally, this step wasn’t in my plan. Making you Cultivate the Blood Law was just a backup for me.”
Dan Ji smiled wickedly and spread her hands.
“After all, who would be willing to abandon a hundred years of Cultivation accumulated with such hardship? Am I right?”
Changqing was silent for a long time, lowering his head to look at his hands.
“Then am I dead? What am I now?”
“To be precise, you’re not dead yet. I’m just temporarily borrowing your Physical Body within your Spiritual Realm. The ‘you’ you see now is the real ‘you’.”
Changqing nodded, understanding.
From a philosophical perspective, the self he saw now was his true self.
But what was the point of that?
“In the end… it still failed.”
He sighed, suddenly realizing a terrifying problem.
Why hadn’t he had a Rebirth?
“Don’t be discouraged. I quite admire you. I still need to borrow your Innate Spiritual Body for a while. It would be too much of a pity if I were to eliminate you now and cause your Innate Spiritual Body to become ineffective.”
She stepped down from the throne and approached Changqing, lightly lifting his chin with her fingertip, speaking playfully.
“You just stay by my side, offering me advice. Later, I will find you a good Physical Body, and then you’ll have overcome your difficulties.”
“You wish.”
“Hahaha, I didn’t expect such righteous words to come out of your mouth. It’s actually quite cute.”
Dan Ji smiled and snapped her fingers. Changqing’s body immediately fell to the ground, unable to move.
“It seems you haven’t understood your current situation. Right now, I am the master of your Spiritual Realm. To be precise, you should be imprisoned and controlled by me. The scene you see now is just for my convenience in communicating with you.”
“Whatever I want you to do, you must do. If I don’t let you die, you can’t even die.”
With that, Dan Ji squatted beside Changqing, grabbed his hair, and forcefully pressed his face to the ground, forcing him to look at the projection beneath them.
On the pure white ground, a scene was projected, showing Changqing holding Luo Hongyan’s hand and searching for the Hundred Flowers Token at that very moment.
“Do you know? This little girl has already fallen in love with you. I can tell at a glance. Don’t worry, I’ve been a man for more than ten years. Wooing her heart is a piece of cake. I’ll definitely do better than you.”
“Do you know why I had to make you Cultivate the six organs and eight viscera?”
“Because only by Cultivating the six organs and eight viscera can I preserve my Natal Imperial Spirit. Other Imperial Spirits are not worth keeping, but this Natal Imperial Spirit is extremely precious. If I were to lose it, I would be very heartbroken.”
“I didn’t expect you to give me so many surprises. Not only did you Cultivate the Earth Palace, but you also Cultivated the Human Sea. Now, not only the Blood Sea Other Shore, but also the Blood Demon Spirit is preserved. Good, good.”
Changqing clenched his fists tightly, experiencing such a helpless sense of defeat for the first time.
He hadn't expected that all his schemes and plans, based on his Cultivation of the Blood Law, were merely her traps.
Succeeded by Rebirth, failed by Rebirth.
Like a cunning rabbit with three burrows, he lost due to being too confident, relying on Rebirth as his trump card, and never leaving himself a way out.
Therefore, he hadn’t thought that Dan Ji, a Blood Arts cultivator, would use a Soul Law Possession method, and subconsciously hadn’t considered that Dan Ji would leave such a fallback as Possession.
He only felt that his Cultivation was low, like a chicken rib to Dan Ji. Since she could escape the Seal, how could she possibly want to take Possession of him?
He lost due to insufficient caution and carelessness.
“There’s still a chance. There’s more than a month left until the forced Rebirth. I can try again. With precautions, I can surely turn the tables.”
After a brief moment of dejection, he immediately regained his spirits.
Ever since his first Rebirth after Transmigration to this world, he had never thought of giving up. It was just a matter of starting over a few times. No amount of hardship or setbacks had ever made him waver in the slightest.
Seeing Changqing’s clenched fists, Dan Ji seemed very satisfied.
Rather than enjoying the joy of victory, she was deliberately tormenting Changqing’s mind to erase the shadow and humiliation this young man had left in her heart.
“I have become the master of this Physical Body’s Spiritual Realm. I can torment you however I want, but since you could endure the pain of Cultivating the six organs and eight viscera, I think only torment that strikes directly at the Soul can completely destroy your Soul.”
She stepped on Changqing, her voice filled with cruelty and madness.
“Do you know why I made that little girl destroy all her Imperial Spirits?”
“Because this way, she will be like a lamb to the slaughter by my side. I can completely control her, leaving her with no power to resist.”
“This fool actually still wants to take you back to her Family, hahahaha, excellent, let’s go with her.”
“If it’s a prominent Family, I will rely on her affection for you to slowly drain her of all her value, and then make you watch as I toy with her, finally turning her into my blood meal.”
“This can also be considered becoming one with her beloved, hahahaha, I’m sure she’ll like it.”
Her voice was filled with ecstasy.
“Your Innate Spiritual Body, and that little girl’s Refining Law Saint Body, as well as the Hundred Flowers Legacy, after obtaining these, my future Cultivation path will surely be smooth sailing, reaching new heights.”
“Oh?”
Feeling Changqing tremble beneath her feet, Dan Ji became even more delighted.
The young man beneath her pounded the ground with his fists, but he didn’t let out the angry wails Dan Ji had expected. Instead, he burst into peals of laughter.
He laughed, tears streaming down his face.
“What are you laughing at?”
Dan Ji stopped smiling. She frowned and said coldly.
“I’m laughing at how miserably you’ve lost.”
Changqing looked at the scene below. The entire cave was burned into a vast scorched earth. Under “Changqing’s” teasing, Luo Hongyan’s pretty face occasionally flushed, and she sometimes raised her hand in feigned anger. The two were searching the ground for the buried Hundred Flowers Token.
This girl probably really fell in love with him.
Otherwise, with her clever mind, why couldn’t she react to the Hundred Flowers Token that Changqing himself had buried, yet he couldn’t find it? Didn’t it seem suspicious?
“Heh… silly girl.”
Should he wait for the forced Rebirth?
He had thought so just now, but now he had changed his mind.
To watch this girl suffer harm, powerless to do anything, and then return with this humiliation through Rebirth, he couldn’t do it.
“This Possession is your last resort, isn’t it, Dan Ji?”