Volume 1, Chapter 312 – Fusion

The blazing fire poison that had once been unbearable was now something Shi Lan could barely endure.

Shi Lan completely relaxed her body and lay in the middle of the blood pool, allowing the overbearing essence to pour into her limbs and bones and merge with her bloodline.

As if stimulated, the Phoenix Blood Pool faintly began to boil, its color growing ever more vivid. Dark red blood and qi essence condensed into one ribbon after another, completely wrapping around Shi Lan, and in the end formed a giant blood-colored cocoon.

Tianbai secretly looked back into the blood pool. Seeing this scene, he could not help feeling somewhat worried.

Inside the cocoon, Shi Lan’s eyes were shut tight. Thread after thread of blood-red mist flowed in and out through her nose and mouth, entering and leaving her body with her long, steady breathing.

Shi Lan’s body began transforming once again. The Innate Spiritual Body possessed tremendous compatibility, gently accepting the overbearing phoenix blood and drawing it deep into her body.

The origin of this entire pool of phoenix blood was unknown. According to Lunhui’s judgment back then, it had at the very least been left behind by a being above the Emperor level. The energy it contained was almost impossible to measure, and within it were even fragments of Emperor laws.

Faced with such a vast amount of energy, Shi Lan simply could not absorb it. Most of the essence piled up in her flesh and blood, smoothing and refining her meridians.

Shi Lan had already lost control of her body. She seemed to have become a bystander, watching her own flesh gradually undergo transformation.

The scale of this transformation far exceeded Shi Lan’s expectations. It was not something that could be completed in a short time.

After observing carefully for several days and confirming that no accidents would arise during the transformation, Shi Lan opened the system panel and took out the Space Law Fragment rewarded from her earlier main mission.

The Space Law Fragment was an irregular transparent crystal. It seemed to contain countless layers of folded space gathered into one place. It was somewhat like a storage-type magical artifact, yet also somewhat different.

After looking it over for a few moments, Shi Lan directly drew the Space Law Fragment into her soul and began comprehending the law of space.

Once the Space Law Fragment entered her soul, the surrounding space instantly became transparent in Shi Lan’s eyes, filled with spatial nodes like a spiderweb.

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Shi Lan’s comprehension of the law of space began to advance by leaps and bounds, and her cultivation rose along with it, rapidly approaching the middle stage of the Myriad Phenomena Realm.

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Chengtian Domain, in an unnamed valley.

This place had originally been a mountain range. On the day the Illusory Star Domain merged into Lingyang Realm, it had borne the enormous pressure of a falling star. The entire range was crushed apart and pressed into the earth, forming a low valley.

The valley floor was jagged with strange rocks and looked extremely desolate, without a trace of life.

In a dark corner lay a young man. It was Bai Weiyang, who had long been missing from the battlefield.

At this moment, his face was pale and his aura weak. He had clearly suffered grievous injuries, his bloodline was nearly exhausted, and he was almost half-crippled.

A woman in a green dress crouched beside Bai Weiyang, cursing under her breath. Her face was also somewhat pale, and her aura was unsteady, sometimes strong and sometimes weak. Clearly, she too was injured.

That day, after Zhu Xiyang took Bai Weiyang away from the battlefield, she had originally wanted to return at once to the Boundless Demon Domain. But just then the Taishi Emperor returned and carried out a terrifying purge across Chengtian Domain.

Even though she was a Heaven Demon, she could not withstand Imperial might. Swept by the aftershocks of the Taishi Emperor’s Heaven-Spanning Treasure Record, she was instantly crippled, and even her own small world had nearly been shattered.

Afterward, with the border sealed off, she became trapped in Chengtian Domain, with no way forward or back, and still had to evade the hunting efforts of a host of Demon-Suppressing Marshals, wandering in constant hardship.

Seeing Bai Weiyang’s aura grow weaker and weaker, Zhu Xiyang cursed a few more times in a low voice, then raised her hand and squeezed out a drop of crystalline green liquid from her pale fingertip, dripping it between Bai Weiyang’s cracked lips.

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This was her natal essence. She had already repeated this act many times. Bai Weiyang had overdrawn himself too severely, and without this, it would be difficult to keep him alive.

Bai Weiyang’s eyelids twitched, and he slowly opened his eyes, focus quickly returning to them.

When he saw Zhu Xiyang crouching beside him, he unexpectedly curled his lips into a smile.

“You’d best leave me in the wilderness and go on alone. You might still preserve your life that way. If you keep dragging me along, you’ll die sooner or later.”

Zhu Xiyang was furious. She raised her hand as if to strike him, but after lifting it halfway, she slowly lowered it again and said in a low voice,

“Before I die, I’ll kill you first!”

Rumble—

Before her words had fully fallen, several powerful auras swept across the sky, and several Heaven-Men arrived together, their divine sense sweeping across heaven and earth.

Bai Weiyang raised his brows at Zhu Xiyang, as if reminding her.

Zhu Xiyang cursed again under her breath, hoisted Bai Weiyang onto her back, and fled into the distance.

She also knew in her heart that she could avoid it for a while, but not forever. If this continued, sooner or later she would have to hand Bai Weiyang back to the human race to avoid a fatal calamity.

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Day after day passed. It had already been nearly two months since Shi Lan entered the Phoenix Blood Pool.

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Aboveground, those people’s movements were growing bigger and bigger. On several occasions, they had nearly dug into the secret chamber, making Tianbai pace around the blood pool anxiously, yet he still did not dare disturb Shi Lan.

In nearly two months’ time, Shi Lan had fully refined the Space Law Fragment. Her understanding of the law of space was already close to the late stage of the Myriad Phenomena Realm, and her cultivation had steadily stepped into the middle stage of the Myriad Phenomena Realm, advancing greatly in strength.

Compared with the changes in cultivation, the transformation of Shi Lan’s body was even more astonishing. The entire pool of phoenix blood had already dried up, completely absorbed by that layer of giant cocoon.

Innate Spiritual Blood and Divine Phoenix blood had fused completely, becoming a kind of dark violet spiritual blood that spread throughout her whole body, as though she had been reborn.

Rustle…

The sound of earth and stone shifting gradually drew near the secret chamber from above. Tianbai’s fur stood slightly on end, and threads of lightning condensed atop his twin horns.

“We’ve reached it!”

A shout filled with delight rang out, and the rock wall above the chamber began to crack faintly.

Crack—

A thread of light shone into the secret chamber. The crack in the rock wall rapidly widened, and before long a breach the size of a water vat had been torn open.

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Over this period of time, the entire City Lord’s Manor had nearly been hollowed out. Directly above the stone chamber, a pit dozens of zhang deep had already been dug open.

Several martial artists stood by the opening, faces full of excitement, then leaped down together.

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Boom!

The moment they jumped in, several flashes of lightning crackled. Their bodies were charred black as they were blasted back out by bolts of thunder.

“Hurry and invite the elders over! There’s a demon beast here!” one of them shouted loudly.

Before his words had even finished, several figures descended from the sky. Divine light surged in the eyes of one of them like the blazing sun. He was clearly a great cultivator of the Nascent Soul Realm.

The group entered the stone chamber one after another. This time, no lightning flashed at all.

Tianbai did not attack again. He crouched beside the blood-red cocoon as though facing a great enemy.

The few who came down merely glanced at Tianbai once, then ignored him completely, all of their attention focused on the blood-red cocoon.

The cocoon was wrapped in incomplete Emperor laws, and that left the group somewhat alarmed.

Thump… thump…

All of a sudden, a succession of loud booms like war drums rang through the stone chamber.

The divine light in the eyes of that Nascent Soul Realm great cultivator dimmed, and a trace of shock appeared.

That was a heartbeat?!

Crack—