Chapter 75
Chapter 75
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 75
Chapter Title: The Favored Daughter of Heaven, Yu Suzhen!
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"Hiss!"
Following a violent convulsion, Yu Suzhen sighed and then stood up from the body of the youth she had drained dry, who was now lifeless.
"Hehe... I've finally succeeded!"
Feeling the true Qi flowing within her, Yu Suzhen almost cried out. After enduring countless hardships in the Harmonious Union Hall, she had finally broken through to the first level of the Qi Refining Realm today.
After a brief loss of emotional control, Yu Suzhen composed her expression again. Her features relaxed, and her once charming face suddenly turned cold and aloof. A determined light shone in her beautiful eyes. They say that youth is fleeting and beauty fades, but she never wanted to see the day she grew old.
"I will cultivate! I will live forever!"
At this moment, the desire to cultivate in Yu Suzhen's heart was stronger than ever before. She was determined to climb to the very top of the Primal Saint Sect, step by step by step!
What she didn't notice was that there was a second person in the cave dwelling.
Right beside the youth she had just drained dry, an illusory figure, invisible to the mortal eye, stood with his hands behind his back, watching her with great interest.
"Stealing Heavenly Secrets, the first step is complete."
"Senior Sister Yu is quite impressive. She already had the will to cultivate in her heart, so I didn't even need to deliberately provoke it. Everything came from her own volition."
This was for the best.
After all, Lu Yang was not yet at Foundation Establishment. He was far from being able to act as naturally as a Foundation Establishment Perfected Being. Deliberately influencing another's thoughts would too easily reveal flaws.
Next, Lu Yang examined himself. His physical body was now dead, having entered the 'shedding after death' state of the Grand Yin Corpse Liberation and Form Shedding True Art. His soul, however, had been preserved using the Yin Spirit Ghost Immortal Art he had devised in his previous life, transforming into a yin spirit to maintain his life force.
"Shedding after death, so this is what it means..."
Lu Yang thought to himself.
At this very moment, his physical body was like a pill furnace, and the three supreme divine abilities he had mastered in life had become the medicinal ingredients within it.
The body is the furnace, the divine abilities are the ingredients, and creation is the process.
The result would be the smelting of the three supreme divine abilities into the status of a 'Corpse-Liberated Immortal'. Only then would the Grand Yin Corpse Liberation and Form Shedding True Art be considered successfully cultivated.
"This process will likely be very long."
"And it's not something that can be achieved just by spending time. The body is the furnace, but the fire for refining the pill is fueled by my merits and fate."
Burning one's merits and fate to create the pill fire and feed it into the body is an act of seeking life from death. If one fails to refine the status of a 'Corpse-Liberated Immortal' before they are completely burned away, then one is truly dead. Worse, with one's fate and merits exhausted, one cannot even be reborn as a human in the next life, but can only enter the path of beasts.
"No wonder I've never heard of anyone else in the Saint Sect cultivating this great divine ability."
The reward and the risk were completely disproportionate.
One could only imagine the determination of the cultivator who created this great divine ability. It was truly staking everything on a single lifetime, leaving no room for retreat.
This was cultivation.
Walking the Great Dao alone, there is only advance and no retreat. One must risk everything for a single chance. To win is one thing, but to lose... what despair that would be?
Thinking of this, Lu Yang couldn't help but feel a wave of emotion and shed tears.
It was only when he saw the panel of the Book of a Hundred Lives beside him that he came to his senses. He slapped his head, "I almost forgot, I can just restart. Never mind then."
"When the soul loses the protection of the body, the mind is hard to guard. My emotions got the better of me..."
Lu Yang quickly collected his thoughts and turned to look at Yu Suzhen.
Although Yu Suzhen appeared no different on the surface, internally she was no longer herself. She had been dyed in Lu Yang's hue.
The Stealing Heavenly Secrets art had directly transformed her into a human cauldron.
From now on, no matter what level Yu Suzhen cultivated to, Lu Yang could drain her cultivation and fate with a single thought, then use it to nourish himself.
"But there's no hurry."
"Next, I need to find a way to reasonably pass the Stealing Heavenly Secrets art to her, then have her go use it on others. Fatten her up, and then it's time for the slaughter."
Thinking of this, Lu Yang's gaze shifted to Liu Xin, who was waiting outside the cave dwelling.
Primal Saint Sect, Harmonious Union Hall.
Yu Suzhen followed behind Liu Xin, her steps graceful as a lotus, her figure willowy and utterly enchanting. Yet, her face held a coldness that kept others at a thousand miles' distance.
This strong contrast, combined with Yu Suzhen's already exquisite features, immediately drew the gazes of many disciples. Even Liu Xin couldn't help but glance at her, a flicker of wicked fire in the depths of his eyes, though he quickly suppressed it.
Business first.
"Junior Sister Yu, this is the cultivation method for formal disciples of our Saint Sect, the Innate Dao Scripture. Take it back and study it well. Do not neglect your cultivation."
"Thank you, Senior Brother."
Yu Suzhen curtsied, and from Liu Xin's high vantage point, he could just see a vast expanse of snowy white. A faint, pure fragrance also drifted to his nose.
Liu Xin swallowed hard. He suddenly reached out and pulled her, and in an instant, the beauty was in his arms. A perfectly timed hint of panic appeared on her cold face, and her cry was crisp and pleasant, "Ah~! Senior Brother, what are you doing? Quick, let me go... I... I don't plan to dual cultivate with anyone anymore..."
As she spoke, Yu Suzhen began to push against Liu Xin.
However, her small, jade-white hands pressed against his chest, not with any force, but so softly it was more like a massage.
Seeing this, the wicked fire in Liu Xin grew even stronger, and he couldn't help but let out a sinister laugh:
"Junior Sister misunderstands. We are not dual cultivating, merely discussing the Dao..."
With that thought, Liu Xin ignored Yu Suzhen's 'resistance', swept her into his arms, and walked into the cave dwelling, planning to have some fun before getting down to business.
A day later.
The post-coital languor completely numbed Liu Xin's mind, causing him to let down all his defenses.
By the time he came to his senses, he found his body lying limply on the bed, unable to muster even a sliver of his true Qi!
Then, he saw Yu Suzhen rise leisurely.
Only then did Liu Xin realize that his 'long spear' had turned black and was even giving off a rotten smell. His expression changed drastically in an instant, and he looked at Yu Suzhen with shock and rage:
"You poisoned me!?"
"What else?"
Yu Suzhen's face was emotionless, as if her earlier allure had been a complete fabrication.
"You were going to harm me, so am I not allowed to fight back?"
"How is that possible... Bitch! How did you find out!?"
Liu Xin gritted his teeth, desperately trying to circulate his true Qi to suppress the poison, but it was useless. He could only watch helplessly as his body grew weaker and weaker.
Seeing his state, Yu Suzhen sneered, "Of course I didn't know at first. I just found it a bit suspicious. After all, I was promoted from the Harmonious Union Hall. Logically, I should have been given a dual cultivation technique, but you gave me this strange Innate Dao Scripture. Your intentions were clearly malicious."
Liu Xin's face was full of disbelief.
"And for that, you're going to kill me?"
"And why not?"
Yu Suzhen smiled, baring her teeth.
"A woman's intuition is very sharp. Besides, even if I was wrong, what have I lost?"
Hearing this, Liu Xin was choked with anger.
"You..."
"Don't worry, I won't kill you so quickly," Yu Suzhen continued. "You're at the mid-stage of Qi Refining. You must know quite a few powerful divine abilities and cultivation methods."
"These are all precious resources that can't be wasted."
"After I return from learning a real cultivation method, I'll drain you dry. That way, when you die, your life's work won't have gone to waste."
"...Pfft!"
Before her words had even faded, Liu Xin, already seething with rage, could no longer bear it. He spat out a mouthful of hot blood, his vision went black, and he fainted.