Chapter 86

Chapter 86: Waiting for a Chance to Seize a Body

Yun Xi rarely took pills. If they weren’t top-grade, she didn’t dare eat them, afraid toxins would build up inside her. As for talismans, she picked out anything Third Rank and above to keep, and planned to sell the rest. In any case, she could draw First Rank and Second Rank talismans herself.

As for the things she didn’t recognize, she planned to take them to the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion. There would always be someone who knew what they were.

The last thing Yun Xi checked was the storage ring the senior had given her. The storage ring was just an ordinary white jade band, extremely unremarkable.

After Yun Xi poured everything inside out, she discovered there wasn’t a single spirit stone. There were only a few jade slips, plus a black lump, neither stone nor metal. She couldn’t tell what it was.

There were also several pill bottles. When Yun Xi opened them, they were all empty. Clearly, the pills inside had already been taken by that senior. In the end, only the meditation cushion she had collected remained.

This cushion gave off a faint scent of fresh grass. After smelling it, she felt as if her soul had lightened. She thought there must be materials inside that helped condense the soul, but she couldn’t identify them yet.

“This is a good thing. I can keep it for myself.”

After muttering to herself, Yun Xi set the cushion aside.

In the end, she still picked up the jade slip containing the cultivation method [Peerless Sword Thunder Art]. Her heart was pounding hard. Earlier, she had deliberately ignored the jade slip because she wanted to look at it only after her mood had settled.

This was the lightning cultivation method she had wanted for a long time. In the novel, this method had been found by the sect specifically for the female supporting character after she joined the Hao Ran Sect and was prioritized for training. It was only given to her after she established her foundation.

The text had only mentioned it in passing, saying a sect disciple had found it by accident in a demon beast nest while completing a mission in the Bao Hua Mountain Range. Because the method didn’t match the disciple’s spirit root, it was handed over to the sect in exchange for another earth-tier method suitable for their own spirit root.

That was why, when Yun Xi could no longer suppress her cultivation, she had come to the Bao Hua Mountain Range to try her luck. Aside from helping the immortal spirit grass find a spirit vein and avoiding the pill hall disciples and Wei Yun Qing who were targeting her, she had come for this cultivation method.

She believed she could achieve the first two goals, but she had no confidence about the last one. She could only say it depended on luck.

She also hadn’t expected that coming to the Bao Hua Mountain Range for a mission would make her meet Sheng Yu Hong. It was as if something in the shadows was still pushing the plot forward, or as if it was trying hard to pull her back onto the female supporting character’s fate track.

Even though what had happened was already very different from before, Yun Xi still didn’t relax her guard. But opportunities that belonged to her were something she had to seize.

And as for the phenomenon deep in the Bao Hua Mountain Range this time, she didn’t remember the novel mentioning it at all. Yet the commotion was this big, and Sheng Yu Hong, the male lead, was right there. There was no reason the novel would not mention it even once.

For a moment, she couldn’t tell what was going on. That was why she didn’t choose to leave the male lead immediately. Instead, she stayed at the Hao Ran Sect outpost to wait for what came next.

These thoughts flashed through Yun Xi’s mind, and she returned her attention to the jade slip in her hand. In truth, it had only taken about three breaths.

Yun Xi did not rashly press the jade slip to her forehead. She was afraid a remnant soul would jump out and try to seize her body. After five years in the cultivation world, she still had that much caution.

Only after confirming there were no special restrictions on the jade slip did she carefully extend a strand of divine sense and test the jade slip.

When Yun Xi’s divine sense touched the jade slip, it lit up with a gentle glow. She read the method recorded inside. Unfortunately, she could only see the part for Foundation Establishment. Beyond that, she couldn’t see anything. The jade slip had restrictions – only a lightning spirit root cultivator could read it.

After confirming the method was real and had no hidden tricks, Yun Xi followed the instructions in the jade slip. She raised a hand, injected lightning spiritual power into the jade slip, and even pricked her fingertip and flicked a drop of blood essence onto it.

With both methods at once, the glow on the jade slip grew brighter and brighter. At the end, it turned into a streak of light and entered Yun Xi’s forehead. In that instant, the [Peerless Sword Thunder Art] had been branded into Yun Xi’s sea of consciousness.

Even though she still could only see the Foundation Establishment part, she understood clearly that as long as she broke through, she would be able to see the later parts.

Her grin nearly reached her ears. Then, at that moment, something went wrong. From the cushion she had placed aside, a light orb suddenly shot out and plunged into Yun Xi’s sea of consciousness through her forehead. She didn’t even have a chance to react.

“Hahahaha! It came without any effort! It was worth spending such a huge price. What a clever little girl – you even disguised your spirit roots. This really benefits me!”

Yun Xi thought, [This is bad.] In the next instant, her soul followed that light orb into her sea of consciousness. Staring at the orb darting around inside her sea of consciousness, she gritted her teeth and said, “Get out of my sea of consciousness!”

“No. Now it’s my sea of consciousness!”

With that, the football-sized light orb shot straight at Yun Xi.

Yun Xi was not stupid. She knew the other party was trying to seize her body. She only had Foundation Establishment cultivation. Even though her divine sense was stronger than most cultivators because of her transmigration, compared to a powerhouse like this, she was pitifully small. Her own soul orb was only the size of a duck egg, while the other person’s soul orb was a massive monster to her.

So Yun Xi instinctively chose to dodge. This was her own sea of consciousness. Even if she couldn’t beat him, she could at least run. But the other party was fast. He had already torn off a strand of her divine sense.

“Ah!”

Yun Xi screamed. It felt like someone was cutting into her head.

The other party swallowed that strand of Yun Xi’s soul in an instant, smacked his lips, and then cried out in wild joy. “Hahahaha! Heaven truly helps me! I was going to have to lie low for a while longer before I could find a suitable body to seize, but you’re actually a top-grade wind, lightning, and ice triple spirit root. You’re a body tailor-made for me by the Heavenly Dao!”

Then he lunged at Yun Xi again.

Yun Xi had just endured that dull, crushing pain, and her soul orb was trembling. But hearing his words lit her ferocity. Instead of retreating, she rushed forward and, catching him off guard, bit down hard on the light orb.

“Ugh!”

The other party hadn’t expected this little shrimp Yun Xi to dare resist. After a chunk of his soul was bitten off, he let out a muffled groan. Then he reacted quickly, wrapped around Yun Xi’s soul orb, and bit down on her in return.

The two soul orbs tore at each other brutally inside Yun Xi’s sea of consciousness, both looking like they would not stop until one of them died.

Unfortunately, after ten breaths, Yun Xi’s soul orb had shrunk by another ring. It wasn’t that she hadn’t tried. Her strength was simply limited.

But Yun Xi didn’t give up. She even encouraged herself. “Yun Xi, keep going! Don’t admit defeat until the very end!”

“Little girl, if you obediently become part of my soul, you’ll suffer less. Stop resisting!”

“Spit! This is my sea of consciousness, my body. The trash that should get out is you!”

Just as Yun Xi bared her teeth and charged again, a gentle beam of light poured into her shrunken soul orb. In the next moment, Yun Xi’s soul orb burst with white light, illuminating her entire sea of consciousness and freezing the restless soul in place.

“Ah! How is that possible! You actually have…”

He didn’t even finish the sentence before Yun Xi viciously bit off another chunk.