A useless person with five spiritual roots? I sacrificed the proud daughter of heaven.

The system floated in mid-air, pondering for a long time.

Ultimately, he chose to revive Zhao Yanran rather than risk being destroyed if he failed to complete the mission, or exhausting his own hidden reserves of energy.

There's nothing I can do; this is the host I chose.

Their fates are intertwined; if Zhao Yanran truly dies here, it too will be destroyed.

Looking at Zhao Yanran's completely shattered corpse inside the belly of the Azure-Eyed Serpent, the system reluctantly floated over and extracted Zhao Yanran's soul from her body.

"Host, your current score is 1,762 points. I will reshape a body for you. You can use all your points to exchange for a resurrection item. After using the item, you can be resurrected in this body."

Zhao Yanran, who had been in a daze, suddenly snapped out of it upon hearing the word "resurrection." Without a moment's hesitation, she quickly said, "I'll switch! I'll switch!"

Immediately afterward, under Zhao Yanran's anxious gaze, the ball of light floating beside her suddenly brightened, and after the dazzling white light, the ball of light gradually dimmed.

A weary voice came from within: "Done."

Zhao Yanran frowned and looked over. There was a body made of clay on the ground. The body was made very roughly. Not only were the facial features unclear, but even the limbs were not the same length.

Perhaps feeling that with the system backing them up, their resurrection was a sure thing.

Zhao Yanran looked at the ugly body and pouted in dissatisfaction: "You went through so much trouble to create such an ugly thing? And it cost me all my points. You're so useless."

The system felt as if a fire was raging within it. It had exhausted all its energy to give Zhao Yanran a chance to revive, but instead of being grateful, she was showing disdain.

What right does she have to look down on it?

"Take it or leave it. If you hadn't been so stupid as to awaken Tengshe, I wouldn't have had to go through so much trouble to revive you!"

"That's because someone ambushed me back then. Besides, if you had saved me just now, I wouldn't need you to revive me at all!"

The system's voice suddenly turned cold: "In that case, you can continue to stay inside Tengshe's belly!"

The next instant, Zhao Yanran's soul felt as if it were being torn apart, plummeting downwards. She screamed in terror, about to fall through the serpent's gaping maw and into its belly once more. Finally, Zhao Yanran panicked and cried out repeatedly:

"No! I'm willing! I'm willing to have any kind of body!"

As her soul stopped falling, Zhao Yanran looked at the Teng Snake so close to her with lingering fear, and patted her chest as if she had survived a disaster.

Realizing that the system was no longer as agreeable as before, Zhao Yanran obsequiously approached the ball of light in the air.

"I like this body very much. As long as I can be resurrected, I can accept any body."

"System, what do I need to do to revive?"

"There are 23 Qingyun Sect disciples who entered the Pure Moon Secret Realm this time, and seven of them have a favorability rating of over 90 for you."

"After you exchange for the Reincarnation item, you will be automatically matched with the disciple closest to you. You will then know what to do."

"Before entering your new body, your soul cannot stray too far from your original form. You'd better listen to me this time, or you'll be waiting to die inside the Teng Snake's belly!"

After the system finished speaking, it disappeared with a "bang!"

The Teng Snake had already calmed down. In order to heal its injuries, it had almost squandered all the spiritual herbs and the small patch of green vines near the swamp. At this moment, it was coiled up in the swamp to heal.

After hearing the system's words, Zhao Yanran floated in mid-air without daring to move. She didn't know where the system had gone, so she could only wait here as the system had instructed.

At this moment, her only consolation was that Tengshe couldn't see her, but even so, she dared not get close to Tengshe, nor dared to go too far away from Tengshe. It was very uncomfortable to float in the air with her body stiff.

Sheng He was originally squatting on the tree counting spirit stones out of boredom. Two days had passed, and she had counted the spirit stones in her storage bag more than ten times.

Nothing changed in the swamp, and the Green-Eyed Serpent seemed normal, coiled up as it healed its wounds.

Sheng He thought that he must have lost his mind. Zhao Yanran's cultivation level was not high. How could she possibly have a chance to survive after being eaten by the Jade-Eyed Serpent?

She must have died long ago inside the Teng Snake's belly.

Sheng He felt relieved and was about to leave when a strange sound suddenly came from the woods.

The voice didn't sound like an animal, nor did it sound like a monk.

Instead, they seemed like ordinary people without any cultivation.

Sheng He stared intently in the direction from which the sound came. This was a secret realm; there was absolutely no way that ordinary people could appear here.

There's always something strange behind anything that doesn't make sense.

The sound grew closer, and after a while, a figure slowly emerged from the woods.

Sheng He looked closely and was surprised to find that the person was actually an old acquaintance of hers.

The person who arrived was none other than Xu Qingqing, the personal disciple of the Qingyun Sect Master.

Sheng He instantly lost the will to leave and returned to the tree.

Xu Qingqing had always been on good terms with Zhao Yanran, and she had openly and secretly helped Zhao Yanran to put her down quite a bit.

Moreover, not long after Zhao Yanran's accident, Xu Qingqing arrived here. Xu Qingqing is not a wood spirit root, so it is impossible that she came for the Green Wood Vine.

Sheng He absolutely refused to believe that Zhao Yanran had nothing to do with this.

Most importantly, Xu Qingqing's behavior was very strange.

From the moment Sheng He saw Xu Qingqing, he sensed that something was off.

Xu Qingqing's footsteps seemed too heavy and too rhythmic.

Because of the circulation of spiritual energy within their bodies, cultivators usually make very light footsteps, while only mortals make such heavy footsteps.

Moreover, Xu Qingqing's limbs were stiff, and every move she made was like a puppet being pulled by strings. Not only did her facial expression not change at all, but even her breathing frequency was the same.

Not right.

How could she hear Xu Qingqing's breathing?

Logically speaking, the higher one's cultivation level, the more sensitive one's five senses become, and the harder it is for others to discover one's true nature.

In other words, Sheng He is currently in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, while Xu Qingqing is in the early Golden Core stage. It is only possible that Xu Qingqing could hear her breathing, but it is absolutely impossible for her to hear Xu Qingqing's breathing.

Sheng He felt uneasy and subconsciously looked at the green-eyed Teng Snake. The Teng Snake seemed not to have noticed Xu Qingqing's approach and was still healing with its eyes closed.

Xu Qingqing approached the swamp step by step until finally, she stopped at the shore, just a step away from the swamp.

Sheng He frowned as he looked at the mud figure at Xu Qingqing's feet, and slowly raised his right hand to grip the Frostbite Sword on his back.

She remembered clearly that the shore had been deserted for the past two days, and no mud figures had ever appeared.