Chapter 407: Xi Yingchen (1/2)

Palatial!

This was Lu Yun and Qing Han’s instinctive assessment of Jadeite Manor. The very ambience of the place oozed immortality. Every rock, pebble, leaf, and flower in the garden was intricately sculpted from exotic and expensive ores and spirit herbs.

“I… think this ten billion was well spent!” Qing Han gasped in amazement with every turn she made.

Lu Yun wasn’t as engrossed by the surroundings. Tossing out a few formation disks to cloister off the space, he summarily put his Formation Orb atop the disguised girl’s head.

“We’re doing it here?” Qing Han blinked.

“Yes, here,” Lu Yun nodded. “This manor belonged to someone else, I’m not about to trust it so easily.”

Although there were quiet rooms and cultivation formations elsewhere in the manor, he wasn’t particularly interested in testing their safety or reliability. He hadn’t bought the manor for the environment, but for the protection of the manor’s former owner.

The young man produced a blood-red pill from his pockets.

As soon as the pill was revealed, the air filled with an exotic fragrance. A heady mixture of every herbal essence and floral aroma imaginable, it was strangely free of blood. Aside from its color, the Blood Restoration Pill certainly didn’t look the part.

“Is this the Blood Restoration Pill?” Qing Han was a little hesitant.

When Chen Xiao and Qing Buyi had proposed shoring up her vitality via refining an origin sphere from millions of lives, she’d refused them on threat of suicide. Because the Blood Ganoderma came from similar origins, she wasn’t sure whether this was the right thing to do.

In the end, her desire for good health overcame her reservations. A few seconds later, she took the pill.

Hum—

An aura of crimson light blossomed from her body, then contracted itself into a large cocoon.

The Blood Ganoderma’s real food wasn’t only blood, but its victims’ talents and essence as well. The pill was born out of the condensation and refinement of the Ganoderma’s nutrients. Long ago, the shamanic tribe had cultivated many a Blood Ganoderma for their use in the pill.

Of course, there was another use for them as well. A Blood Ganoderma could be refined into a replica outside one’s body, a second spirit. It would retain its ability to feed off of the essence of others, allowing the cultivator to benefit from its ill-gotten gains.

At least one shamanic expert had perfected their constitution by doing exactly that.

Lu Yun wasn’t interested in that, though. A pure soul had already been born within the spirit herb, a true spirit that had three ethereal and seven corporal soul-parts. If it took physical form, it would directly receive a dao fruit and become a connate dao immortal.

After all, the most crucial component of achieving dao immortal realm was forming a true spirit. Only when spirit and soul coexisted in a body could it harbor dao fruits.

He wasn’t at the point where he could benefit from something like that yet, so using the ganoderma right now would be a waste. Meanwhile, refining the Blood Restoration Pill had only taken a portion of the herb; its core remained intact.

……

Fwoom!

A huge pillar of light erupted into the sky and natural energies rushed in like the eddies of a frenzied vortex. This was a sign of Qing Han’s void realm.