Chapter 75: Daughter of Destiny, Yu Suzhen!

Yu Suzhen sighed, then stood up from the body of the youth whose Primal Qi she had plundered and who had already lost his breath.

“Hehe… finally succeeded!”

Feeling the True Qi flowing in her body, Yu Suzhen almost cried out loud. After enduring countless hardships in the Joyous Union Hall, today she finally broke through to the First Layer of Qi Refining.

After a brief loss of emotional control, Yu Suzhen restrained her expression. Her brows relaxed, and her originally charming and seductive face suddenly became cold and aloof. Her beautiful eyes revealed determination. They say youth is fleeting and beauty fades easily, but she didn’t want to see herself grow old one day.

“I want to cultivate immortality; I want eternal life.”

At this moment, the thought of cultivating immortality in Yu Suzhen’s heart was stronger than ever. She wanted to walk step by step to the highest point in this Primordial Saint Sect!

What she didn’t notice was that there was a second person in the Cave Abode.

Right beside the youth she had just drained dry, an illusory figure invisible to the naked eye stood with hands clasped behind his back, looking at her with interest.

“Stealing Heaven’s Mystery, the first step is considered successful.”

“Senior Sister Yu is quite good. She already had the ambition to cultivate immortality in her heart; I didn’t even need to deliberately trigger it. Everything came from her own heart.”

This was best.

After all, Lu Yang wasn’t at Foundation Establishment yet. He was far from achieving the natural seamlessness of a Foundation Establishment Perfected One. Deliberately influencing someone’s mind was too easy to spot as a flaw.

Immediately after, Lu Yang sized up himself. Now that his physical body was dead, he had entered the ‘Death and then Transformation’ state of the Grand Yin Corpse Liberation Transformation True Method. His soul was preserved using the Yin Spirit Ghost Immortal Method deduced in his previous life, transforming into a Yin Spirit to maintain his own vitality.

“Death and then Transformation… so this is what it means…”

Lu Yang pondered in his heart.

At this moment, his physical body was like a pill furnace, and the three superior divine abilities he mastered in life became the medicinal ingredients within the furnace.

The physical body as the furnace, divine abilities as the medicine, creation as the craftsman.

The result would be smelting the three superior divine abilities into a [Corpse Liberation Immortal] stature. Only then would the Grand Yin Corpse Liberation Transformation True Method be considered mastered.

“This process will probably be very long.”

“And it’s not something that can be achieved just by spending time. The body is the furnace, but the fire used for alchemy uses my merit and Qi destiny as firewood.”

Burning merit and Qi destiny to transform into pill fire invested into the physical body—this act was inherently seeking life in death. If he couldn’t refine the [Corpse Liberation Immortal] stature before burning out, he would truly die. Moreover, because his Qi destiny and merit were exhausted, he wouldn’t even be able to be human in the next life, only able to enter the Animal Path.

“No wonder I haven’t heard of anyone else in the Saint Sect cultivating this Great Divine Ability.”

The gain and the cost were completely unequal.

One could imagine the determination of the cultivator who originally created this Great Divine Ability. It was simply staking everything on one lifetime, leaving no retreat for oneself.

This is cultivation.

The Great Dao is walked alone; there is only advance, no retreat. Risking everything just to gamble on a chance. Winning is fine, but losing… what despair that would be.

Thinking of this, Lu Yang couldn’t help but feel emotional, tears flowing down his face.

Only when he saw the interface of [The Book of a Hundred Lifetimes] beside him did he snap back to reality, slapping his forehead: “Almost forgot, I can restart. Then it’s fine.”

“Without the physical body protecting the soul, the mind is hard to guard; emotions got the better of me…”

Lu Yang hurriedly restrained his thoughts and turned to look at Yu Suzhen.

Although the current Yu Suzhen appeared no different, inside she was no longer herself; she had been dyed with Lu Yang’s color.

The art of Stealing Heaven’s Mystery directly transformed her into a puppet.

From now on, no matter what level Yu Suzhen cultivated to, with just a thought, Lu Yang could instantly drain her cultivation base and Qi destiny to feed back to himself.

“But no rush.”

“Next, think of a way to reasonably pass the art of Stealing Heaven’s Mystery to her. Then let her plunder others’ cultivation bases, fatten her up, and then slaughter.”

Thinking of this, Lu Yang shifted his gaze to Liu Xin, who was waiting outside the Cave Abode.

Saint Sect, Joyous Union Hall.

Yu Suzhen followed behind Liu Xin, her steps light and graceful, her figure lithe and graceful to the extreme of seduction. Yet her face wore a coldness that rejected people from a thousand miles away.

This intense contrast gathered in one body, coupled with Yu Suzhen’s exquisite appearance, almost immediately attracted the gazes of many disciples. Even Liu Xin couldn’t help but glance at her, a hint of evil fire revealing itself deep in his eyes, though he quickly suppressed it.

Proper business was important.

“Junior Sister Yu, this is the technique for formal disciples of my Saint Sect, the Primordial Dao Scripture. Take it back and study it well; do not neglect your cultivation.”

“Many thanks, Senior Brother.”

Yu Suzhen curtsied. From Liu Xin’s perspective, he could look down and see a large expanse of snow-white skin, and a faint fragrance wafted to his nose.

Liu Xin swallowed his saliva. Suddenly, he wrapped his arm around her, and instantly the beauty was in his embrace. That cold face showed just the right amount of panic, her cry crisp and pleasant: “Ah~! Senior Brother, what are you doing? Let… let go…”

Saying this, Yu Suzhen pushed at Liu Xin.

However, those small hands, white as jade, pressing on Liu Xin’s chest… let alone using force, they were soft and limp, simply like she was giving him a massage.

Seeing this, the evil fire in Liu Xin grew stronger, and he couldn’t help but let out a Jie Jie laugh: “Junior Sister misunderstands; it is merely discussing the Dao…”

Thinking of this, Liu Xin ignored Yu Suzhen’s ‘resistance’ and carried her directly into the Cave Abode.

One day later.

The languor that had just ended completely paralyzed Liu Xin’s mind, making him drop all defenses.

By the time he came back to his senses, he found his body collapsing weakly onto the bed, unable to use even a speck of True Qi throughout his body!

Immediately after, he saw Yu Suzhen rise leisurely.

Only then did Liu Xin discover that he smelled of decay. His expression changed drastically in an instant, and he looked at Yu Suzhen with shock and rage:

“You poisoned me!?”

“What else?” Yu Suzhen was expressionless; the allure just now seemed fake: “You want to harm me; am I not allowed to fight back?”

“How is this possible… Slut! How did you discover it!?”

Liu Xin gritted his steel teeth, desperately trying to circulate his True Qi to contain the poison, but to no avail. He could only watch helplessly as his body grew weaker and weaker.

Seeing this, Yu Suzhen sneered: “At first, of course, I didn’t know. I just felt suspicious. After all, I was promoted from the Joyous Union Hall. Logically, you should have taught me a Dual Cultivation technique, but you gave me an inexplicable Primordial Dao Scripture. Clearly, you harbored bad intentions.”

Liu Xin’s face was full of disbelief: “Based on this, you want to kill me?”

“Why not?” Yu Suzhen grinned: “A woman’s intuition is very sharp. Besides, even if I was wrong, I wouldn’t lose anything.”

Liu Xin was instantly enraged upon hearing this: “You…”

“Relax, I won’t kill you so quickly.” Yu Suzhen continued: “You are at the Middle Stage of Qi Refining; presumably, you know many powerful divine abilities and techniques.”

“These are precious resources and cannot be wasted.”

“Wait until I learn a real technique and come back to drain you dry. That saves your life’s work from flowing away in vain after you die.”

“…Pfft!”

Before her voice could fall, Liu Xin, already attacked by anxiety and anger, could endure no longer. He spat out a mouthful of hot blood on the spot, then his vision went black, and he fainted.

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