Gou's Liver Experience in the World of Demons and Demons

"can."

Gu Sheng nodded in agreement.

Tantai Xuefei bowed solemnly to Gu Sheng before turning around and walking out of the side hall with slightly unsteady steps.

Only after she walked out of the palace gates and was out of Gu Sheng's sight did she lean against a pillar, let out a long sigh of relief, pat her chest with her small hand, her face still showing shock and excitement.

"The Northern Star Pill Emperor... My God... He's actually the reincarnation of the Northern Star Pill Emperor?! Or... did he obtain the complete inheritance of the Northern Star Pill Emperor?"

Her mind was in turmoil.

"This news is amazing! Sister Bingtang, Sister Xueli, you would never have guessed, right? Haha, right now only I know!"

Thinking of this, she felt a strange sense of pride, as if she had the secret to herself.

Then, she remembered Gu Sheng's promise to use his soul power to cleanse her physical body. "A soul at the Emperor Realm helping to cleanse the physical body..."

She smacked her lips, her eyes growing brighter and brighter.

"This kind of treatment is probably something even the holy sons and daughters of the top holy lands in Zhongzhou might not have enjoyed. Tsk tsk, we've really hit the jackpot this time!"

The frustration and anxiety that had been building up due to the inability to quickly recover their strength had long been replaced by immense joy and anticipation.

She clenched her small fist, determined to seize this opportunity! At the same time, she buried the words "Beichen Dandi" deep in her heart, not daring to reveal them even slightly.

Tantai Xuefei practically skipped away from the side hall, her fiery red figure brimming with joy and anticipation.

About the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, she hurriedly returned. Unlike her light and graceful departure, when she came back, her ten fingers were covered with all kinds of storage rings that shimmered with spiritual light. At a glance, there were more than a dozen, and she even held a few extra ones in her small palms.

She walked up to Gu Sheng, stretched out her hands, and spoke with a mix of pride and embarrassment.

"Here, this is all my possessions! There's a lot of random stuff in here, all accumulated over the years, plus some resources from my family. Take a look, see if there's anything you can use? If there is, please use it, don't be shy!"

She was clearly worried that Gu Sheng would be too exhausted from washing her body, and wanted to do her part.

Gu Sheng chuckled at her expression of wanting to support him even at the cost of his entire fortune, but still accepted the large handful of storage rings.

His powerful spiritual energy surged into the storage space like a tidal wave, quickly sweeping through each compartment. The contents were indeed dazzling, ranging from cultivation spirit stones to various pills, materials, weapons, armor, and even some pretty accessories and strange trinkets that girls would like. It was clear that although Tantai Xuefei appeared to be a child, she still retained the heart of a young girl.

Soon, Gu Sheng's mental energy locked onto six or seven rare and precious materials that were emitting special soul fluctuations.

With a thought, he took them out. They were a small handful of "Styx Sand" that shimmered with a dark luster, seemingly capable of absorbing souls; and a section of "Frost Blossom Tree Branch" that was crystal clear and exuded an extreme chill.
Several "Soul-warming Jade" that can nourish the soul fire; and several other relatively rare spiritual items that have a nourishing or stabilizing effect on the power of the soul.

"These items will be of some help in restoring my soul power later, so I will accept them."

Gu Sheng said.

Upon seeing this, Tantai Xuefei's big eyes immediately curved into crescents, and she quickly and generously waved her hand.

"Take it all! Take it all! As long as you can use it!"

Gu Sheng didn't stand on ceremony and put all the selected rare and precious materials into his storage ring for future use.

Then, his expression turned serious, and he spoke to Tantai Xuefei.

"Ready? Let's begin."

Tantai Xuefei immediately suppressed her smile, obediently walked to the center of the room, found a futon and sat down cross-legged. Her small body was straight, her hands were placed on her knees in a mudra, her eyes were closed, and she tried to adjust her breathing to be steady and long.

Gu Sheng walked up to her, extended his right hand, and gently covered the top of her head with soft red hair.

The next moment, deep within Gu Sheng's sea of ​​consciousness, the vast, star-like, and abyss-like power of the Emperor Realm soul began to be activated.

A pure, powerful, and profound spiritual force, like a gentle yet unstoppable ocean wave, slowly surged from his palm, flowing gently and firmly into Tantai Xuefei's body through the Baihui acupoint on the top of her head.

Tantai Xuefei's delicate body trembled slightly, but she remembered Gu Sheng's instructions and forcibly suppressed her body's instinctive vigilance and resistance. She completely released all defenses in her mind and body, allowing that unfamiliar and powerful soul force to rush in, washing over every corner of her body, every inch of her meridians, and even penetrating deep into her bone marrow and the origin of her soul like sweet rain.

At first, the feeling was like soaking in a hot spring, warm and comfortable, and you could even feel the pleasure and desire coming from deep within your body.

However, as Gu Sheng gradually increased the speed and intensity of the soul power's cleansing, the gentle "spring water" seemed to gradually turn into a raging torrent, or like countless fine yet extremely sharp steel needles, simultaneously piercing into her flesh, meridians, bones, and even the depths of her soul!
"Ugh—!"

Intense pain swept over her like a tidal wave, far exceeding her previous expectations! Tantai Xuefei couldn't help but let out a suppressed cry of pain, her small body trembling violently, her forehead instantly covered with fine cold sweat.

"Hold it in."

Gu Sheng's voice rang out coldly, devoid of any emotion.

"This is just the beginning. The pain that follows will be ten or a hundred times more intense than this. If you can't even endure this, how can you talk about recovering your strength?"

Before he finished speaking, he swiftly pressed his fingers against Tantai Xuefei's acupoint, completely silencing any potential screams she might make, so as not to alert the outside world.

Tantai Xuefei gritted her teeth, her tender face contorted with extreme pain, but her tightly closed eyes revealed a stubbornness and unyielding spirit.

She forcefully circulated her inner energy, striving to guide the raging soul power in conjunction with its cleansing and transformation of her physical body.

As the power of her soul continued to wash over her, strange changes began to appear on her body.

Her body, which was originally only the size of a seven or eight-year-old child, began to grow and grow taller at a visible rate! Her limbs became slender, and her figure gradually changed from the roundness of a child to the slenderness of a young woman.

The potential of this "innate body" was being forcibly stimulated to adapt to her long-suppressed powerful soul. Moments later, centered on Tantai Xuefei's body, a terrifying surge of true energy erupted without warning!
The violent energy surge spread like ripples, striking the hidden arrays already activated on the walls of the meditation room, producing a muffled hum. If not for the special arrays protecting the room, this sudden burst of energy alone would have been enough to reduce the buildings within a radius of dozens of feet to dust!
Gu Sheng glanced at her and sensed the surging, almost out-of-control power within her body. Instead of slowing down, it accelerated the speed and intensity of the soul cleansing!
"Well……!"

Tantai Xuefei let out a painful groan. With her speech acupoints sealed, she could not shout and could only stubbornly endure the pain with her strong will.

She felt as if her physical body was about to be burst by that vast power of the soul, or as if she were being thrown into a furnace and tempered a thousand times, every moment like being in purgatory.

She struggled to concentrate her remaining thoughts and sent a vague message to Gu Sheng.

"I...I will try my best to control it..."

Gu Sheng did not respond, focusing intently on manipulating his soul power.

His goal was not only to cleanse the physical body, but also to enhance its adaptability and capacity to bear the original soul of Tantai Xuefei.

He could clearly sense that Tantai Xuefei's physical strength was rapidly increasing, and it was soon approaching a critical point.

Once she breaks through this bottleneck, she will be able to break free from the shackles of her physical body and unleash some of the power of the Venerable Realm!
"Note that I am about to increase the strength of my soul power once again."

Gu Sheng's voice rang out directly in her mind.

Tantai Xuefei's mind sharpened, and she immediately cleared her mind of all distractions, focusing her attention on her body to deal with the situation.

The next moment, the soul power surging into her body suddenly became even more violent and ferocious! Like a bursting dam or a roaring prehistoric beast, it fiercely swept over every inch of her body with even greater intensity and ferocity!
"Click——"

It was as if the sound of an invisible barrier being forcibly shattered came clearly from Tantai Xuefei's body!
Immediately afterwards, a dazzling light suddenly erupted from her body! That light was not the color of true energy, but the primordial light produced when the potential of her physical body was stimulated to the extreme and the soul and body were initially perfectly integrated!

In the light, her body underwent a dramatic transformation! Her original childlike figure was gone, replaced by a slender, graceful, and exquisitely beautiful young woman's body, who looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old, and had also grown much taller.

At the same time, the aura emanating from her body began to rise rapidly as if she were on a rocket, and an immense pressure unique to the first stage of the Venerable Realm spread out uncontrollably!
The pressure was so strong that even Gu Sheng, who had forged a golden body and possessed an incomparably strong physique, felt a faint stinging sensation on his skin, as if he were about to be torn apart by this invisible force!
Gu Sheng frowned slightly, keenly sensing that Tantai Xuefei's physical body had reached the limit it could withstand in its current state, and there were even faint traces of blood seeping out from under her crystal-clear skin.

If we continue to forcibly wash and rinse, it may cause this hard-won congenital body to completely collapse, at which point all our efforts will be in vain.

He made a decisive move and immediately cut off the output of his soul power. The vast, ocean-like waves of soul power receded like the tide and returned to the depths of his consciousness.

Inside the quiet room, the terrifying pressure and dazzling light slowly dissipated.

Tantai Xuefei sat there quietly, without making a sound for a long time, as if she had turned into a jade sculpture.

Gu Sheng waited for a moment, and seeing that she still did not move, he stepped forward and gently patted her cheeks, which had become fair and delicate and had a girlish blush.

"Hey?"

Tantai Xuefei showed no reaction. Her eyes remained closed, her long eyelashes covering her eyelids like butterfly wings. Her pretty face was expressionless, showing neither pain nor the joy of a breakthrough, as if she had lost all consciousness.

Gu Sheng frowned, a hint of doubt rising in his heart. Normally, after breaking through to the Venerable Realm and achieving initial fusion of spirit and body, she should have immediately regained consciousness. Why was she like this? Could something unexpected have gone wrong during the process?

Just as he was deep in thought, preparing to examine her body again, another unexpected event occurred!

A faint, chaotic light flashed from his chest, and then a petite girl, as if appearing out of thin air, wearing a red jacket and pigtails, and only reaching his waist, stood gracefully beside him. It was Gu Ling'er, who had not shown herself for a long time.

As soon as Gu Ling'er came out, her bright eyes curiously fell on Tantai Xuefei, who was sitting cross-legged. She sniffed the air gently and a look of confusion and realization appeared on her face.

“Brother, there’s a kind of aura about her that Ling’er feels a little familiar to her.”

Gu Ling'er tilted her head and pointed at Tantai Xuefei.

Upon hearing this, Gu Sheng was surprised and turned to look at Gu Ling'er.

"A familiar aura? Ling'er, do you know her? Or do you know the reason for her condition?"

Gu Ling'er blinked her big eyes, seemingly organizing her thoughts, before speaking in her unique, somewhat ethereal, and childlike voice.

"Ling'er doesn't know her either. However, the secret technique she used... to be reborn as a congenital fetus, seems to have evolved from the innate supernatural power of our clan! Although it has become a little different, it is similar in essence."

So, in a strange sense, she's kind of Ling'er's... half-same kind!

"similar?"

Gu Sheng was shocked. Gu Ling'er's origins were mysterious and unpredictable, and she was closely related to the legendary "chaos". If Tantai Xuefei's "spiritual embryo reshaping" secret method was really from the same source, then the water in the Tantai family was probably deeper than he imagined!
He suppressed the turmoil in his heart, pointed at Tantai Xuefei who was still unresponsive, and asked Gu Ling'er.

"Ling'er, can you tell what's wrong with her right now? Why did she lose consciousness after breaking through?"

Gu Ling'er floated forward a few steps, got close to Tantai Xuefei, and almost pressed her face against the other's. She looked at her carefully, and then stretched out her fair little finger and carefully touched Tantai Xuefei's forehead.

She withdrew her finger, turned around, and looked up at Gu Sheng with her small face. In her pure and flawless eyes, there was a hint of cunning and understanding that was not in line with her age. She asked in return.

"Brother, can't you really... tell?"

Looking at Gu Ling'er's confident demeanor and the information revealed in her words, Gu Sheng understood immediately.

Although this little girl is usually playful and sleepy, she has a mysterious background and extraordinary knowledge. Since she was able to figure out the key to Tantai Xuefei's current state, she must also have a solution.

"Ling'er, since you can see the problem, is there any way to help her wake up?"

Gu Sheng asked directly.

With her hands behind her back, Gu Ling'er, like a little adult, circled around the still unconscious Tantai Xuefei before launching into her authoritative explanation. (End of Chapter)