The Long Journey to Immortality

The Mysterious Pearl was nurtured in Feng Bailu's stomach for about half an incense stick's time before revealing its sharp claws.

After the internal spiritual energy, guided by the cultivation technique, broke the original balance, the Mysterious Female Pearl unleashed the water-attribute spiritual energy it contained with lightning speed.

Although Feng Bailu had made preparations long ago, he did not expect that the Xuanpin Pearl would act so recklessly inside his body, as if it wanted to tear him apart from the inside out.

Water-attribute spiritual power raged within Feng Bailu's body.

Guided by the cultivation technique, the spiritual power of the Mysterious Female Pearl split into two paths: one path was responsible for destruction, destroying Feng Bailu's physical foundation, while the other path was responsible for construction, using the gentle aspect of water-attribute spiritual power to reconstruct the body.

The excruciating pain contorted Feng Bailu's expression, and he became somewhat delirious, with only a sliver of clarity remaining to guard his mind and allow him to continue circulating his cultivation technique.

Although the Mysterious Pearl had already established a connection within Feng Bailu's body before taking action, Feng Bailu's body still inevitably experienced some stress reactions during this painful process of being repeatedly injured to the brink of death and then healed by the Mysterious Pearl.

The intense pain made Feng Bailu's body instinctively try to lose consciousness to reduce unnecessary suffering.

Fortunately, Feng Bailu had prepared himself mentally well in advance, and his desire to seek the Dao was more steadfast than that of ordinary cultivators. Otherwise, he would have already fainted by now, all his previous efforts would have been in vain, and he would have ended up like the two senior cultivators.

This step was not carried out in the previous second stone chamber, and Feng Bailu did not know when it would end. All he could do was be patient and wait.

The Mysterious Female Pearl started from the stomach and rampaged through Feng Bailu's body.

They cause destruction wherever they go, and then do some simple repairs to prevent Feng Bailu from dying from serious injuries.

After going around in circles, the Xuanpin Pearl, which was only the size of an adult's middle fingernail, finally arrived in front of Fengbai Road's dantian.

It still used violence to break through the dantian wall in the blink of an eye, and the Xuanpin Pearl entered the Qi Sea.

There was no dragon playing with the pearl in the Qi Sea, but the Mysterious Female Pearl still tumbled happily in the Qi Sea composed of spiritual energy.

The Mysterious Pearl was happy, but the spiritual energy within Feng Bailu's Qi Sea lost its home.

Forced by the Mysterious Pearl, the spiritual beings fled their homes and went into exile.

Some escaped through the gap that appeared when the Mysterious Female Pearl entered, returning to the world.

The other part followed a spiritual vein connected to the dantian and qi sea, and fled to 128 of the 311 acupoints in Feng Bailu's body that had been opened, becoming immigrants and temporarily settling down in various acupoints.

This simple action completely destroyed Feng Bailu's foundation, reducing his cultivation, which he had painstakingly worked for over thirty years, to its original state.

His cultivation level regressed from the early Foundation Establishment stage to the tenth level of Qi Refining stage, a full major realm decline.

However, even so, the Mysterious Pearl showed no sign of stopping.

After all the spiritual energy in her dantian had disappeared, the Xuanpin Pearl, guided by the cultivation technique, repaired her dantian and barely managed to seal the hole that had just invaded it.

The cave was blocked not because the second phase of the mission was completed, but because the Mysterious Pearl had its eye on the remaining spiritual energy in the ten spiritual veins and 128 acupoints in Feng Bailu's body, and it was playing a game of trapping the dog by closing the door.

The Mysterious Pearl was placed in Feng Bailu's dantian in a form similar to a fake dantian. While emitting spiritual energy to help repair the dantian, it also took away the spiritual power originally used to maintain the spiritual veins and devoted it to the repair work.

Without the support of spiritual energy, the ten spiritual veins that Fengbai Road had spent twelve years building during the Foundation Establishment stage broke off and disappeared one by one.

Qi Refining Level 10, Qi Refining Level 9...

Every few minutes, Feng Bailu's cultivation level would regress by a fraction, and the major acupoints that had been opened during the Qi Refining stage would close again after losing the connection and maintenance of spiritual veins and spiritual power.

When the last spiritual vein was also destroyed by the spiritual energy in the Mysterious Female Pearl, and the spiritual energy was extracted to thicken Feng Bailu's dantian wall, Feng Bailu completely lost control of the "Mysterious Female Reincarnation" technique.

Having lost all trace of his own spiritual power, Feng Bailu had now degenerated into a mortal, a severely injured one at that.

Without the power to sustain him, even with his unwavering will, Feng Bailu could no longer remain conscious.

Fortunately, this point was already explained in the cultivation method.

Feng Bailu felt he had done his best, a smile on his face, before falling into a coma.

Now that we've reached this point, whether or not we succeed in reincarnation is up to fate.

After Feng Bailu fell into a coma, "The Reincarnation of the Mysterious Female" finally reached its third step.

Faced with the already broken body, after completely eliminating the heretical spiritual power, the noble Xuanpin Pearl finally felt pity.

The water elemental energy demonstrates its ability to heal and repair.

A deep blue light emanated from Feng Bailu's body.

He was originally sitting on the throne, but now he is lying on the ground unconscious, completely unaware of this.

Seeing this, Xiaoyaozi looked relaxed and leisurely returned to the Soul-Nourishing Wood.

In his view, the overall situation was already settled, and all he needed to do was wait for time to pass before he could witness a cultivator with a top-grade water spiritual root being reborn before his eyes.

He had absolutely no interest in observing how the Mysterious Female Pearl helped Feng Bailu "reshape his body".

After all, he had already seen two Xuanpin Pearls help cultivators "reconstruct their corpses" within the past century, so it was nothing new.

The spiritual energy within the Mysterious Pearl first drew upon the captured spiritual power, thickening Feng Bailu's dantian wall by a full twofold, before beginning its true transformation within Feng Bailu's body.

In the first step, the spiritual energy of the Mysterious Female Pearl, which resided in the 311 acupoints, began to activate under the command of the Mysterious Female Pearl.

Destroying something is easy, but rebuilding it is difficult, let alone destroying a bungalow and rebuilding a magnificent palace.

This process is slow, and even outsiders can only see a few clues from the surface of Feng Bailu's body.

Feng Bailu's muscles and skin, which had been necrotic due to severe internal injuries and external cold, were revitalized under the nourishment of the Xuanpin Pearl's abundant water-attribute spiritual power.

After approximately twelve hours, the "Mysterious Female Reincarnation" technique was completed.

The Xuanpin Pearl, which was originally the size of a thumbnail and was floating in Feng Bailu's dantian, is now only the size of a little fingernail, and its light has dimmed.

In the future, only when Feng Bailu cultivates to the Golden Core stage and forms his core will this Mysterious Female Pearl function similar to a pseudo-core, providing additional support to cultivators who successfully perform the "Mysterious Female Rebirth" technique when they form their core.

Feng Bailu, lying on the ground, was breathing evenly.

She seemed to be asleep.

[Author's Note] If you think this book is passable and would like to recommend it, please add it to your reading list and help promote it. I've been writing 6000 words a day lately, so don't even mention extra chapters; it's already quite a lot.

What bothers me most about cultivation novels is the description of units, like Celsius? How could that possibly exist in a cultivation world?

Chapter Eight: New Life

At the last moment inside the cave, the Mysterious Female Pearl was consumed along with Feng Bailu's incredibly successful "Mysterious Female Reincarnation" secret technique, and completely merged into Feng Bailu's body.

Without the Mysterious Pearl, the temperature inside the cave gradually rose.

What was once an extremely cold climate rarely seen in the world has become the winter temperature of the northern region of Wei.

I'm afraid that in a few more days, the temperature inside the cave will become no different from the outside.

The ice structures in the third stone chamber will also completely melt and disappear as the temperature returns to normal.

Xiaoyaozi, who resided in the Soul-Nourishing Wood, showed no intention of activating the magic array to maintain stability within the cave.

The mission of the cave dwelling has come to an end. All he needs to do now is wait patiently for Feng Bailu, who is lying on the ground in a deep sleep, to wake up.

To avoid interference from unrelated individuals, the restrictions outside the cave remained unchanged. In fact, Xiaoyaozi deliberately created the illusion that Feng Bailu had been destroyed inside the cave, reopening it to the public and allowing unsuspecting cultivators to continue their attempts at the first checkpoint for the sake of the lineage that had fallen into the hands of others.

Xiaoyaozi's arrangement was absolutely correct, and it did indeed confuse many cultivators who had been waiting outside the cave for the past few days to reopen and seek opportunities. However, it also turned the four fellow disciples waiting for Feng Bailu outside the cave into ants on a hot pan.

Upon receiving the news, the four immediately arrived outside Xiaoyaozi's cave, where they witnessed once again an unfamiliar cultivator failing in the first trial and being thrown out of the cave.

"What's going on? Could it be that Senior Brother Feng has already...?" Yuan Fei reacted quickly, immediately connecting Feng Bailu with the other two cultivators who had disappeared in the cave.

Yuan Xin's expression was not good. Among the four, he was the closest to Feng Bailu. "Perhaps. Why don't we inquire further about what changes occurred in the cave after those two cultivators disappeared? Is it exactly the same as it is now?"

"Perhaps Senior Brother Feng has already come out? But we don't know which inn we're staying at; we've lost our way for a while?"

Yuan Xin's words were merely an attempt to preserve a sliver of hope for himself.

Bai Chi pointed this out without hesitation, “Senior Brother Yuan, stop fooling yourself. Judging from the current situation, there is a 99% chance that Senior Brother Feng has died in the cave. What we should do now is to quickly return to our sect, report to our superiors, and explain the situation to avoid causing trouble and getting burned.”

Bai Chi's words make a lot of sense.

Although an older cultivator like Feng Bailu is not considered an important figure in the sect, he is still an outstanding disciple who has cultivated to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Five people went, and four returned. If this matter is not clearly explained to the sect, Yuan Xin, as the leader of this training expedition, will inevitably be punished.

Returning to the sect sooner, whether it's smoothing things over, explaining the situation, or seeking help from the sect's higher-ups regarding Fengbai Road, would be far more useful than wasting time in Moyu City.

To maintain his image, Bai Chi pretended to be kind and added at the end, "Perhaps Senior Brother Feng is still trapped in the cave's restrictions. Hurry back to the sect for help; there might still be hope."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Xin was about to say a few more words when Long Qian spoke up.

“This is the cave of a Nascent Soul cultivator. If we want to force our way in, the sect would have to arrange at least a Nascent Soul elder who is somewhat knowledgeable in formations to have any chance of rescuing Senior Brother Feng, whose life is hanging in the balance,” Long Qian analyzed rationally. “How could the sect go to such lengths to ignore the unspoken rules of the cultivation world for older cultivators like us who have no future?”

After saying that, Long Qian sighed, "Ah, what a pity, what a pity."

It's unclear whether Long Qian was lamenting the departure of a fellow disciple she knew, or lamenting the great opportunity that was about to slip away.

However, these words completely dispelled Yuan Xin's idea of ​​seeking help from the sect.

“That’s true, Junior Brother Long is right. How about this…” Yuan Xin suggested, “Let’s wait another half day. If we can’t find Senior Brother Feng, we’ll return to our sect and report everything that happened here so the sect can make a decision.”

This approach was appropriate and reasonable, and Bai Chi did not object.

Unfortunately, Feng Bailu, who was fast asleep in his cave, ruined Yuan Xin's good intentions.

Half a day later, the four of them went to the cave again to investigate. Seeing that there was still no news of Feng Bailu, they gave up hope completely.

The four returned to their sect aboard a spirit boat, ending their training trip in an unpleasant manner.

Whether by coincidence or not, just as the four of them set off to return to their sect and before they had even left the territory of Moyu City, Feng Bailu, who was lying in the third stone chamber, woke up.

Feng Bailu lay on the ground in a rather unseemly position.

When she woke up, she felt a strange sensation when her chest touched the ground of the platform.

Before she could react to what was happening, she sprang to her feet and sat cross-legged on the ice platform covered in water, instinctively reaching for her chest.

"So soft."

Even through her soaked clothes, Feng Bailu's hands gently caressed the beautiful things that originally only existed on her senior and junior sisters but were now on her own body.

Only then did she recall everything that had happened after she arrived at the third stone chamber, and remember what Xiaoyaozi had mentioned to her at the last moment.

"The Mysterious Yin Body? This must be the Mysterious Yin Body."

She turned her head to look at the melting ice on the wall, which could still be used as a mirror.

The newborn girl in the ice mirror looked to be only about sixteen years old, with long, jet-black hair and delicate features, bearing a striking resemblance to the fairy imagined by mortals.

The girl's wet men's clothing accentuated her graceful figure, and the slightly protruding chest under this outfit gave people endless room for imagination.

Looking at the girl in the mirror, Feng Bailu, who had devoted himself to cultivation for over forty years, was momentarily stunned before reluctantly withdrawing his gaze.

"There will be plenty of opportunities to see it in the future."