Chapter 325: Success! Xiao Yixian’s Power Soars!
Chapter 325: Success! Xiao Yixian's Power Soars!
After a moment of hesitation, Xiao Yixian slowly raised her arm, bringing the purple butterfly to a hand's width from her lips.
“Sister Xian'er, are you really going to swallow that thing to refine it?” the Void Beast asked in astonishment upon seeing Xiao Yixian's actions.
“Yes.”
Hearing the Void Beast's question, Xiao Yixian nodded lightly with her lips slightly parted and said, “The most dangerous aspect of this flame is its poison, but I have the Woeful Poison Body, so I'm not afraid of it. Besides, I just advanced to the Dou Emperor realm, so I should be able to handle it!”
Xiao Yixian's words were meant to reassure the Void Beast and bolster her own confidence.
After saying this, Xiao Yixian's previously trembling hand suddenly steadied. She then decisively threw the purple butterfly into her open mouth.
As soon as the purple butterfly entered her mouth, Xiao Yixian closed her lips tightly. Simultaneously, her body convulsed violently as if struck by lightning, and her face turned deathly pale.
“Sister Xian'er…”
Seeing Xiao Yixian's sudden change, the Void Beast became extremely worried but remained silent out of understanding.
Xiao Yixian endured the searing pain within her body and slowly closed her eyes, directing her focus inward.
As her mind sank into her body, a misty, fog-covered sensory interface appeared in Xiao Yixian's consciousness. Within her many meridians, the purple butterfly had disintegrated into tiny streams of purple flames. These flames, filled with terrifying energy, rampaged through her meridians, incinerating anything in their path almost instantly.
Despite the protective blood membrane formed by the Blood Lotus Pill within her meridians, the intense heat still seeped through. Although this residual heat wasn't extremely hot, it was devastating to the body's fragile meridians.
Under the scorching heat, Xiao Yixian's once sturdy meridians twisted like dried twigs, looking extremely grotesque and terrifying.
The excruciating pain caused by the twisted meridians made Xiao Yixian's body twitch intermittently, her face devoid of any color. Fortunately, Gu He had often used high-grade medicinal liquids to temper Xiao Yixian's body, enhancing her physical strength and pain tolerance far beyond that of ordinary people. Despite the agony, Xiao Yixian did not utter a sound.
As the purple flames continued to rampage, Xiao Yixian's body was almost completely destroyed within minutes. Even worse, the Blood Lotus Pill's effects had significantly diminished due to the consumption by the Netherworld Poison Flame.
Despite the blood membrane's protection, Xiao Yixian's body was left in a near-crippled state by the heavenly flame. Without the blood membrane, her internal organs—meridians, bones, heart—would be incinerated to nothing in a short time, leaving Xiao Yixian with only one fate: death.
The blood membrane rapidly thinned under the Netherworld Poison Flame's scorching. However, just as a strand of purple flame penetrated one of the membranes and touched Xiao Yixian's meridians, a piece of good news emerged.
Though the purple flame caused immense pain where it touched, an incredibly potent poison also entered Xiao Yixian's body. This poison's strength far exceeded that of the toxins in the black water, by more than tenfold.
Encountering this fiery poison, Xiao Yixian's body instinctively absorbed and converted it, using the energy to counter the invasion of the purple flames.
After enduring countless instances of such pain, Xiao Yixian's constitution seemed to undergo a transformation. The pain caused by the occasional breakthrough of the purple flames into her body began to lessen.
The resistance of the Netherworld Poison Flame became a unique form of body tempering, rapidly enhancing the internal strength of Xiao Yixian's body. Moreover, the gradually overflowing toxic power started to increase her cultivation level.
Xiao Yixian's expression gradually eased, and the previous look of agony began to disappear. In this state, Xiao Yixian focused her mind on controlling her Dou Qi to actively seek out the purple flames within her body.
After numerous confrontations, the power of the purple flames started to weaken. The Netherworld Poison Flame, with a touch of intelligence, began to coalesce, reforming into the shape of a purple butterfly.
Seeing this, Xiao Yixian realized that the Netherworld Poison Flame still possessed a faint consciousness. To completely refine it, she needed to eradicate this consciousness.
With this in mind, Xiao Yixian started to force the purple butterfly to follow the path of her cultivation technique.
During this process, Xiao Yixian discovered she could extract the poison from the purple butterfly to nourish her body.
“Woo…”
As the extracted poison nourished Xiao Yixian's body, the resisting purple butterfly let out a weak cry, as if begging for mercy.
However, having reached this stage of refinement, Xiao Yixian felt no pity. Ignoring the pleas of the Netherworld Poison Flame, she accelerated the operation of her cultivation technique.
Soon, another day passed. The consciousness of the Netherworld Poison Flame within Xiao Yixian's body had been completely obliterated. It now followed the operation of her cultivation technique, and the terrifying heat began to subside, becoming incredibly docile.
Under this gentle power, Xiao Yixian's previously injured body and meridians started to recover rapidly. Her physical strength greatly surpassed what it had been before devouring the Netherworld Poison Flame.
Having reached this point, the process of refining the Netherworld Poison Flame was 90% complete. The remaining 10% required the use of the advanced Na Ling to fully integrate the flame.
“Sister Xian'er, you did it…”
Seeing this, the Void Beast couldn't help but wipe the sweat from her face with her small arms, relieved after the tense ordeal.
At that moment, Xiao Yixian's eyes snapped open. She raised her hand and absorbed the hovering gray stone into her body.
Immediately, a layer of deep purple flames surged from Xiao Yixian's body, tightly enveloping her entire form.
(End of Chapter)
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