She circulated the remaining Ji Dao blood qi in her body, beginning to grind it through her meridians and bones.
The gray deathly energy and decaying corpse qi that had invaded her body during the battle were currently entrenched deep within her bone marrow, corroding her vitality.
“Cultivators like to talk about laws and purification, but physics only cares about purging.”
Su Yueli sneered in her heart.
She restricted the circulation of her blood qi, squeezing the deathly energy outward bit by bit.
Sizzle—
A few minutes later, black sweat began to seep out from her pores.
The moment the sweat contacted the air, it made a harsh, screeching sound like sulfuric acid, corroding fist-sized holes into the stone floor.
Every time a trace of deathly energy was expelled, the golden bones inside her body would flicker slightly, and dark-gold bone marrow would slowly begin to nourish the cracks.
This process was extremely slow and accompanied by torment unimaginable to ordinary people.
But to Su Yueli, this was merely another test of slow, painstaking effort on her cultivation path.
For an immortal, the one thing they feared least was wasting time.
“Woo...”
Resting on Su Yueli's shoulder, Xiaohei—who had already shrunk back into a mass of shadow—gently nudged its body.
It opened its eyes weakly, then, with a look of utter disgust, opened its mouth and spat onto the ground.
Buzz.
A fist-sized soul radiating a piercing blue divine light was instantly spat onto the stone floor.
The features of this immortal soul were exceptionally clear. It was none other than Zhao Chengfeng, the peak Eleventh Realm late stage Grand Elder of the Cangyun Sect, who had been swallowed by Xiaohei earlier but had not yet been fully digested.
Currently, this towering figure who had once shaken the Great Li Dynasty possessed a dim and lusterless immortal soul. Cowering in a dead corner of the stone cave, his face was filled with sheer terror.
“Who... Who on earth are you?!”
Zhao Chengfeng's immortal soul trembled as he stared at Su Yueli, his voice carrying a sob.
“As long as you let my immortal soul reincarnate, I will take you to retrieve the private treasury I hid in my Imperial City estate! There are thirty thousand high-grade spirit stones inside! There are also two ten-thousand-year-old medicinal kings! As long as you agree, all of that will be yours!”
Su Yueli leaned against the stone wall, not even raising her eyelids.
“It's been hundreds of years, yet you cultivators' pre-death rhetoric hasn't changed a single bit.”
“Private treasury?”
“Once I recover from my injuries, I'll go take it myself. As for you, you're better off in the trash bin.”
With a slight nudge of Su Yueli's mind...
Boom!
The mutated Martial Soul that had been hiding in the shadow of her blood qi, which had self-detonated half of its body, slowly materialized.
Currently, it looked incredibly pitiful.
The dark jade armor, which was originally human-sized and majestically imposing, had almost completely vanished on its left side. The white flames of the immortal artifact's burning aurora still flickered on the severed edges.
But when it saw Zhao Chengfeng's immortal soul, a hint of greed suddenly lit up within its black-hole eyes.
“No! I am the Grand Elder of Great Li's Cangyun Sect! You cannot...”
Zhao Chengfeng shrieked.
The Martial Soul took a step forward, and its sole remaining black-gold right hand grabbed Zhao Chengfeng's immortal soul in its palm.
Its five fingers clenched, grinding down with force.
Bang.
A cracking sound echoed, and Zhao Chengfeng's immortal soul was instantly crushed into a cloud of blue energy mist.
The Martial Soul bodyguard opened its mouth and took a deep breath, swallowing the cloud of mist in a single gulp.
Boom!
Pure soul source power exploded within the Martial Soul, beginning to nourish its fragmented body.
The broken black armor began to regrow, and dark-gold patterns were imprinted once more upon the ruined parts.
Although it could not instantly recover to its peak state, the forcefield that had weakened earlier finally stabilized once again.
“Even after swallowing a peak Eleventh Realm immortal soul, it barely restored twenty percent of my injuries.”
“It seems the quality of these cultivators is still not high enough.”
Su Yueli closed her eyes, calmly calculating in her mind.
Although she had indeed suffered severe injuries this time, being able to completely wipe out the entire Lu family along with the legacy of the Cangyun Sect physically made this deal well worth it.
Just as Su Yueli prepared to continue refining her golden bones...
Suddenly, her brow furrowed slightly.
In the void outside, a series of chills had appeared at some point.
Divine senses—and more than one.
After the news of Mount Cangyun's collapse and the loss of the immortal artifact spread, the cultivators of both dynasties within a ten-thousand-mile radius fell into complete madness.
A heavily injured, dying Ji Dao Thirteenth Realm martial artist.
In the eyes of those old monsters whose lifespans were nearing their ends, she was nothing short of a walking, peerless immortal elixir of longevity.
“Search!”
“This person self-detonated her Martial Soul and burned centuries of her lifespan. She is absolutely powerless to resist right now. Find her, and this seat will reward you handsomely!”
In the sky above the wilderness, several hundred-foot-long flying boats that blotted out the sky, controlled by Tenth Realm grand cultivators, rumbled past.
Strands of massive divine sense transformed into golden divine light that filled the sky, sweeping back and forth across the earth.
Even the soil and rock layers buried tens of thousands of feet deep were physically churned up under the repeated scrutiny of these divine senses.
The owner of one divine sense was so powerful that their cultivation had even reached the threshold of the Twelfth Realm.
When that divine sense swept across the nameless desolate mountain, the void was directly shaken with visible ripples, and the surrounding vegetation withered and turned to sand in an instant.
Buzz—
At this moment, that domineering divine sense swept toward the dilapidated stone cave where Su Yueli was located.
Life and death hung by a single thread.
If she were a cultivator, the only way to face such a terrifying search would be to use high-grade concealment talismans or force a confrontation with a vital magic treasure.
But the moment she used spiritual energy, under this blind-spot-free investigation spanning ten thousand miles, she would instantly be exposed like a torch in the dark night.
However, Su Yueli was not a cultivator.
She was a pure, non-magical Myriad Tribulations Realm martial artist.
“Cultivators search for people by scanning for spiritual energy fluctuations and soul ripples.”
“As long as I remain undisturbed, they are the ones who will die.”
Su Yueli's expression was indifferent as she muttered to herself in her heart.
She completely contracted her mental will in an instant.
The Ji Dao forcefield of her Imperishable Realm was fully withdrawn at this moment.
She forced all of the surging dark-gold blood qi in her body back into the deepest parts of her golden bone marrow.
Immediately after, she stopped her heart and ceased her breathing.
She extinguished the last spark of mental fire in her Niwan Palace.
At this moment, her body temperature plummeted from over a hundred degrees to the freezing point within a thousandth of a second.
Her skin, which had originally been as translucent white as jade, instantly became like the dark iron rock outside—devoid of any elasticity or luster, shriveled and sallow.
Absolute suspended animation.
This was the ultimate physical control that only a Thirteenth Realm martial path expert could master.
She did not seek union with heaven and earth, nor did she borrow the laws of heaven and earth to hide; she merely used a purely physical method to transform herself into a completely lifeless rock within a microsecond.
Buzz.
That massive divine sense belonging to the Twelfth Realm grand cultivator finally landed inside the stone cave.
The divine sense transformed into golden flowing light, repeatedly sweeping through and penetrating every single corner of the stone cave...
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