The villain also has spring 2

Chapter 2.7, 2009: Fog is not fog, flower is not flower

"Could it be that even the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top can occasionally stumble?" To dare ask such a question takes considerable audacity. Aren't you afraid of being silenced in the crossfire?

The reason for this is that ever since the appearance of the demonic Li Xiaocui, who is ten feet tall, her every move has been at a disadvantage. With the balance of power shifting, the fear of being spared has lessened compared to before.

“That is natural,” the man replied.

Upon hearing this, those upstairs who wanted to spare his life had different thoughts and said no more.

Hold your breath and concentrate, and see who will emerge victorious.

Rekindling her fighting spirit, the enchanting sorcerer Li Xiaocui unleashes a new level of divine power. She employs the eighth move of the *Secret Techniques of the Blood Gu Substitute*, "Substituting a Plum for a Peach." In dire situations, she can instantly swap positions with her substitute, allowing the substitute to suffer a fatal blow. Following closely is the eighth move of the *Five Poisons Escape: Spider Shadow Steps*, "Sky Spider Soaring Through the Air." She can glide freely through the air using the Inextricable Heart Silk, like a soaring spider. Secretly channeling her inner energy, she unleashes the eighth move of the *Hundred Flowers Kill: Burning Heart Gu Finger*, "Ten Thousand Beauties Grieve Together." Wherever her finger strikes, all things grieve, the poison erupting like ten thousand poisonous flowers blooming simultaneously, annihilating heaven and earth.

By channeling the power of the eighth level of internal energy and unleashing three ultimate techniques simultaneously, he was approaching the limits of the "Spider Flower Manual." Ordinary people simply couldn't withstand such power; forcing such attacks would inevitably shatter their meridians, causing them to explode and die. Or, like Hong Xiaocui, the leader of the Toad Hall, they might suffer a qi deviation, transforming into a half-human, half-demon monster.

This is why the sorcerer Li Xiaocui went to great lengths to boil the spider flower into a "pot of meat soup" and mold it into a ten-zhang-tall avatar. It was precisely because of her exceptionally strong body, far surpassing that of ordinary people, that she was able to simultaneously wield all three divine techniques of the "Spider Flower Manual" without suffering any backlash.

The saying goes, "The essence remains the same despite countless variations." The Demonic Phantom Li Xiaocui's attacks will undoubtedly utilize the entire "Spider Flower Manual" technique. First, she'll use a Blood Gu substitute to protect herself, then employ the Five Poisons Escape Technique to track him, and finally deliver a fatal blow with the Burning Heart Gu Finger. Moreover, Li Xiaocui believes that with each level of the "Spider Flower Manual," its power will increase dramatically. The Medicine King Sect Master, Cheng Lingsu, will find it difficult to cope. A slight opening will allow her to turn the tide. With patience, her opponent will inevitably reveal a weakness.

Everything you thought was correct.

Cheng Lingsu, the sect leader of the Medicine King Sect, remained unmoved, changing her hand seals to: "Shadowless Ointment."

A drop of seemingly pitch-black ointment, yet also appearing nonexistent, spurted from the tip of the withered hairpin. The ointment transformed into a vapor, causing the victim's five senses to gradually fade, their soul to vanish into nothingness, and their consciousness to be completely erased. Even more bizarrely, this drop of pitch-black ointment seemed to truly not exist. It passed directly through the brow of the blood gu substitute, relentlessly pursuing the ten-zhang avatar of the illusory demonic Daoist Li Xiaocui, who moved with the speed of a spider escaping the heavens. No matter how she tried to escape through the five elements—heaven and earth—she could not shake off the drop of pitch-black ointment behind her.

The sacred poison used on the sorcerer Li Xiaocui this time is called "Silent Shadowless Ointment". It is recorded in Chapter 6 of "Medicine King's Divine Chapter: Secret Scroll of Poisoning Techniques: Nine Abyss": it is a strange ointment that combines the poisons of the five elements to create a drug that can strip away the "six senses (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind)".

"Perhaps the outcome is already decided, and there is no need to continue." Seeing the ten-zhang avatar of the Illusionary Demoness Li Xiaocui, who could fly and disappear into the ground, being struck in the back by a fleeting ointment, Wu Chen couldn't help but sigh.

Visibly, the ten-zhang-tall avatar of the Illusionary Demoness Li Xiaocui resembled a faded color photograph, instantly losing all color. Accompanied by wisps of smoke seemingly rising from her abdomen, she crashed to the ground. The ten-zhang-tall behemoth landed silently. Engulfed by the smoke from the burning Annihilation Shadowless Ointment, the ten-zhang-tall avatar of the Illusionary Demoness Li Xiaocui seemed to have fallen into her own personal prison, utterly isolated from the world.

The poison techniques employed by the Medicine King's disciples are indeed unparalleled in the martial arts world.

"According to the lord, her soul has entered the void, and her spirit has returned to oblivion." How could the renowned martial arts master, Master Kumei, the head of the Huashan Sword Sect, not realize this?

“That’s only right.” Wu Chen’s words carried a deeper meaning. Since the “six senses” have been stripped away, they have become nothing more than walking corpses. It’s equivalent to “brain death.” Without even self-awareness, how could they possibly perform the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top technique to turn back time?

Princess's strategist, Li Huixin, discerned the unspoken meaning: "It seems that the lord has something left unsaid."

"Hmm." Wu Chen didn't hide anything: "Unless she is not her."

"She is not her?" After a moment's thought, Princess's strategist Li Huixin immediately understood: "The ten-zhang avatar is not Li Xiaocui herself." "That's right." With the help of the Demon Hunting Sect's "eyes and ears," Wu Chen's fleeting True Sight Eye had already seen through the clues: "Ah, indeed 'the mist is not the mist, the flower is not the flower.'"

Before Wu Chen could finish speaking, the ten-zhang avatar, which had been sitting lifelessly on the ground, had already dissipated with wisps of smoke. Just when everyone thought it was completely dead, a thread descended from the sky, like a reconnected harpoon, and suddenly pulled the ten-zhang avatar up.

"The thread of the heart is pulled!" someone upstairs cried out in alarm, urging someone to spare the life.

The crowd followed the shimmering, translucent threads of the heart-shaped pendant and looked up.

That's exactly the deadly scorpion tail that keeps returning!

"Hehehe..." This was the genuine Illusionary Demoness Li Xiaocui: "Thank you all. Please help me achieve perfect merit and become an immortal on the spot!"

"You are Li Xiaocui." Princess's strategist Li Huixin held up the Ruyi Pearl and shone it on the venomous scorpion lurking on the rooftop.

"Strategist, you are wise." The genuine Phantom Maiden, Li Xiaocui, poked out half a scorpion head and smiled wickedly at the crowd below: "I am Li Xiaocui, the most beautiful courtesan of the Thirteen Palaces of Pleasure."

Chang Le Fang was originally one of the "Twelve Brothels". It was only because Li Xiaocui was allowed to hang the sign that a thirteenth room was created. The special device in the room is the "Extreme Bliss Scorpion Chair", which is as famous as the "Carefree Rooster Bed" that made "Sexy Persian Cat" Xiao Huaiya famous.

It is also a matter of misinformation that explains the origin of the great demon of Beibao, the "Scorpion Demon".

"The ten-foot avatar is nothing more than a puppet you cooked with a pot of broth." Through Princess Li Huixin's words, Wu Chen revealed the secret: "And you yourself are hidden inside the shell of the Blissful Mother Scorpion. If nothing unexpected happens, the 'Blissful Mother Scorpion shell' is actually your coffin."

It's like the lich's phylactery—a special item created by the lich during the transformation process. When creating the phylactery, the lich imprisons its own soul within it. In this way, even if the lich's physical body is destroyed, as long as the phylactery remains intact, the lich's soul can escape back into the phylactery and, after a period of time, reconstruct a new undead body.

However, if the phylactery is discovered and destroyed by an enemy, the lich will completely lose the chance to be resurrected. Therefore, many liches choose to hide the phylactery in extremely difficult-to-find places, or to place powerful curses and magical protection on it.

Similarly, in the original storyline, after being drained of her true essence by the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra and dying from being pierced through the heart by the Wild Goose Blade, the demonic Taoist Li Xiaocui, whose three souls and seven spirits resided in the "Blissful Mother Scorpion's Body," is how she has managed to survive until now.

Under heaven, there is only one thing in the martial arts world that can help her rise from the dead, defy fate, and ascend to immortality.

Inner alchemy.

However, "great greed knows no bounds."

Previously, she had schemed and plotted, using the lifelong cultivation of Hong Xiaocui, the Toad Hall Master who shared her "misfortune," to refine the Infinite Golden Elixir, but that was not enough. Now, she has created a ten-foot-tall incarnation, intending to refine the legendary Nine-Turn Immortal Elixir.

The threads of the heart, twisted and turned a thousand times, tore the faded ten-foot-tall incarnation to dust.

Amidst the avalanche-like collapse of ashes, a colorless and odorless (beyond the senses) Nine-Turn Immortal Pill is slowly rising.