When Ling Tian emerged from the cave, he found Su Meier performing a Qingqiu Secret Technique. She gently stroked the qingqiu imperial seal between her brows, and her nine snowy white fox tails gradually transformed into a dark long gown. The charm in her eyes turned into a cold Sword Qi—it was the appearance of "Su Qing."
"Brother Ling ~ Hehe." Su Qing opened her folding fan and smiled at Ling Tian.
"This little girl." Ling Tian tapped her head.
"Jade Dragon, rise!" Ling Tian pulled Su Qing onto the Jade Dragon, and after looking at the intelligence map for a while, said, "The west is the center of the ruins, let's go."
Thirty li west, a sword light streaked across. Below the clouds, a red and green Spiritual Qi explosion suddenly erupted, and the shockwave startled the bells on Su Meier's ankles, ringing out a warning.
On the ground,
In the center of the battlefield, where ancient towering trees were cut in half, a burly man with a thick beard wiped the black blood from the corner of his mouth, and the Blood Fiend Banner in his hand rustled. Behind him, the Three Talents Formation formed by three scar-faced Cultivators was severely damaged, with one of them having a left arm reduced to bare white bone—this was the result of being wounded by the one-eyed Daoist nun's "Resentful Soul Bone-Piercing Nail."
"Yin Sanniang!" The big man's voice, like muffled thunder, shook the remaining leaves from the branches. "Are you, Yin Bone Sect, even willing to trade your sect-founding 'Yin Bone Scripture' for this spirit fruit?"
Thirty feet away, the one-eyed Daoist nun cackled as she tore open her sleeve, revealing an arm covered in curses. Behind her, four dwarven Cultivators were pouring dark green poisonous liquid onto the ground. From the corroded pits, countless white bone arms crawled out: "Xue Kui, do you think I don't know you secretly practice the forbidden techniques of the Blood Fiend Sect? This Nine-Revolutions Mysterious Spirit Fruit can mend the flaws in your Golden Core, can't it?"
"Blood Python Swallows Heaven!"
The Blood Fiend Banner suddenly expanded by ten feet, and viscous blood mist seeped from its surface. The burly man bit off the tip of his tongue and spat out essence blood. From the banner, nine blood pythons shot out, pouncing towards the Yin Bone Sect's camp. Along the way, any vegetation they touched instantly corroded, and even the air emitted a "sizzling" scorching sound.
"Rise!"
Yin Sanniang's single eye glowed with an eerie light, and the white bone arms on the ground instantly formed a bone prison. As she formed hand seals, the curses on her arm actually detached, transforming into nine bone-piercing nails: "Nine Nether Weeping Soul Nails!"
The moment the blood pythons collided with the bone nails, a purplish-black mist suddenly rose from the poisonous liquid pit. The four dwarven Cultivators shrieked in unison, and the poisonous mist condensed into a three-headed, six-armed Rakshasa ghost shadow. As the blood pythons were torn apart by the ghost shadow, Yin Sanniang suddenly burst forth, her bone-piercing nails aiming directly for the big man's Dantian and Nascent Soul.
"Big Brother, be careful!"
One of the scar-faced Cultivators leaped out, blocking the nails with his body, which was instantly devoured into an empty husk by the resentful souls. Xue Kui seized the opportunity to form a hand seal, and the Blood Fiend Banner wrapped around Yin Sanniang's left leg, corroding it until the skin and flesh were torn open.
Yin Sanniang gave a tragic laugh and tore off her left leg. No blood flowed from the severed limb: "Do you think I practiced the 'Yin Bone Scripture' for nothing?" She suddenly plunged the bone-piercing nails into her own crown, and a ghastly green ghost fire erupted around her. The poisonous mist Rakshasa ghost shadow solidified into a Physical Body, and its six arms each held a white bone Magical Artifact.
Xue Kui's pupils contracted, and he fiercely plunged the Blood Fiend Banner into the ground: "Blood Sacrifice Golden Core!" The two scar-faced Cultivators behind him suddenly exploded into a blood mist, their essence blood completely devoured by the banner's surface. The originally damaged Three Talents Formation was re-drawn with human blood, and a ten-foot-tall Blood Fiend Asura rose from within the formation.
The shockwave from the collision of the ghost shadow and the Asura flattened half of the dense forest, and the ancient tree where the Nine-Revolutions Mysterious Spirit Fruit was located snapped. The Dao patterns on the fruit's surface suddenly brightened, spontaneously forming a seven-colored light barrier that floated in mid-air. Yin Sanniang seized the opportunity to throw out a Soul-Binding Ribbon to entangle the spirit fruit, but it was torn apart by a claw from the Blood Fiend Asura.
"Ghost Woman, look behind you!"
Xue Kui grinned savagely and detonated the formation core. Yin Sanniang suddenly turned around, only to find that the four dwarven Cultivators had somehow turned into poisonous corpses—it turned out that the Blood Fiend Asura's sharp claws carried heart-corroding poison!
Yin Sanniang's single eye burst, and her bones around her body made "kaka" sounds: "Then let's all Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering!" A Golden Core appeared in her Dantian, and the resentful souls entwined on its surface suddenly self-destructed. The poisonous mist Rakshasa and the Blood Fiend Asura exploded simultaneously. In the sky full of blood rain, the Nine Nether Weeping Soul Nails transformed into a bone Dragon and pounced towards Xue Kui.
Xue Kui roared, plunging the Blood Fiend Banner into his own chest, and his entire being transformed into a blood rainbow, crashing into Yin Sanniang. The two figures tangled and fell into the poisonous liquid pit. The sound of corrosion and screams lasted for a full ten breaths. When the poisonous mist dissipated, only half of a damaged banner and a bone nail embedded with a single eye remained in the pit.
"Now!"
Ling Tian and Su Meier, who had used an invisibility talisman, were hiding in the nearby grass. When the snipe and clam fight, the fisherman profits!
Ling Tian's sword-finger lightly flicked, and the jade dragon sword transformed into a streak of light, piercing through the spirit fruit's light barrier. Su Meier's nine tails wrapped around the falling fruit, and with all nine tails unfurled, she set up a triple illusion formation. The two's escape light vanished into the sky.
"Meier, see what this fruit does, to make two Major Achievement Golden Core Cultivators not hesitate to self-destruct." Ling Tian handed the fruit to Su Meier.
"Brother Ling ~ I am Su Qing ~" Su Meier took the Nine-Revolutions Mysterious Spirit Fruit, not forgetting to tease Ling Tian. Su Meier brought the fruit close to the emperor seal between her brows: "Eating it can cleanse the Impurities from the Golden Core, allowing the Golden Core to undergo nine revolutions and become a Heavenly Dao Core Body!"
"Brother Ling Tian, eat this! Eating it will elevate your strength to a higher level!" Su Meier handed the fruit back to Ling Tian.
Ling Tian looked at her dotingly, but did not take it. "Silly girl, your Brother Ling Tian doesn't need this. If you eat it and become stronger, our team's overall strength will increase. Be obedient."
Seeing Ling Tian's gentle gaze, Su Meier didn't act coy. The two found a cave, Ling Tian acted as her Protector, and Su Meier found a stone platform and sat down cross-legged, dispelling her illusion to reveal her true form as a Nine-tailed Sky Fox.
The Nine-Revolutions Mysterious Spirit Fruit glowed with a warm, jade-like luster in her palm. The moonlight reflected on the crystal-clear fruit surface suddenly gathered into silver threads, wrapping around the fruit one by one. The fruit peel, like melting spring snow, dissolved into her Meridians, leaving only a lingering sweet aftertaste that permeated the cave for a long time.
When the first wisp of fruit fragrance permeated her Dantian, the Golden Core spontaneously floated out of her body. The Qingqiu Fox Fire flowing on its surface merged with the moonlight, gradually condensing into a translucent, amber-colored light cocoon. The originally hidden flaws in the Core patterns, now like ice touched by a spring breeze, were quietly repaired by some kind of Heavenly Dao rhythm.
The Core patterns seemed to be breathing! Su Meier lowered her gaze to see the Golden Core's surface flickering with her breathing, each contraction swallowing tiny starlight, each expansion exhaling a moon-white mist. The faint Nine-tailed Fox shadow emerging in the mist resonated and swayed with the blooming Night-blooming Cereus in the cave... When the third round of moonlight swept over the mountain ridge, the Golden Core had spontaneously completed its seventh revolution. The light cocoon transformed into tassel-like Spiritual Qi threads, intertwining with Su Meier's hair as they danced. She unconsciously dipped her fingertip into the spring water by the stone platform. The moment ripples spread, the entire pool of spring water actually reflected the myriad stars in the sky—each star precisely corresponding to a newly formed Heavenly Dao rune within her Dantian.
The ninth revolution arrived without warning. The Night-blooming Cereus suddenly bloomed completely, and pale golden pollen condensed into nine spirals, gently enveloping the suspended Golden Core. Su Meier vaguely heard the whispers of the ancient Qingqiu tribe; those Qingqiu Secret Techniques once thought lost, now naturally flowed into her Sea of Consciousness like an unsealed stream.
At dawn, the Golden Core had transformed into a pigeon-egg-sized greenish-gold crystal. Nine naturally formed patterns on its surface seemed to be engraved with the Heavenly Dao imageries of flowers, birds, wind, and moon. Su Meier reached out to gently touch the crystal, and her fingertip actually passed through the solid and entered the Void Realm—this Heavenly Dao Core Body was inherently a Law made manifest, existing between reality and the Void Realm.
"It's like all the moonlight of Qingqiu has been put into it." Ling Tian smiled as he picked up a strand of her dark hair with his hand, and gently kissed Su Meier's brow. As the dark hair fell, the moonlight illuminated her exquisitely beautiful face. Su Meier, with slightly reddened ear tips, gathered her flowing long hair and left a small kiss mark on Ling Tian's face as well.
"Brother Ling ~ Let's go out." As soon as she finished speaking, Su Meier had already transformed into Su Qing.