I have changed my destiny and become an unparalleled immortal.

Mo Shan was furious and felt deeply distressed. He had raised this wolf for five years and had put a lot of effort into it.

"I'll tear you to pieces!"

A barbed bone whip appeared in Mo Shan's hand, and his spiritual power suddenly surged dramatically—this was the pressure generated by reaching the eighth level of Qi Refining!

Snapped!

The bone whip was pulled out like a venomous snake and lashed hard across Gu Yun's back.

The skin was torn open, and the bone was visible!

Gu Yun was whipped and lay sprawled in the mud. His left arm hung limply, held together only by a thin layer of skin.

pain.

The pain was so intense I wanted to die immediately.

But he did not die.

He slowly raised his head, revealing a ferocious smile on his blood-stained, aged face.

The interior of the Purple Mansion originally contained only pink auspicious beads and blue contemplative beads. Now, the wind is blowing and the clouds are surging.

There is a crimson current, and this crimson current is continuously gathering together.

That's anger!

This is the anger of being looked down upon, the anger of being toyed with by fate, the fury of an ordinary person like an ant struggling desperately.

You... many of you cultivators who hold high positions...

Gu Yun trembled as he took out a pill from his pocket. It was a low-quality Blood Burning Pill that he had obtained with all his savings before leaving.

He swallowed it in one gulp.

boom!

The previously parched dantian instantly began to burn. Lifespan was rapidly diminished, but in return, spiritual power experienced a brief but dramatic surge!

Peak of the sixth level of Qi Refining... Seventh level of Qi Refining!

"ah!!"

Gu Yun let out a roar that didn't sound human, like a demon crawling out of hell, and sprang up from the ground, bracing himself against Mo Shan's whip.

"court death!"

Seeing this, Mo Shan wielded his bone whip with incredible speed and precision, leaving no gaps in his movements. At the same time, he conjured an earthen-yellow spirit shield, protecting himself in front of it.

In his mind, he believed that there was an old man who didn't have much strength left and had no way to break through his defense.

However, he underestimated Gu Yun's ruthlessness.

Gu Yun did not dodge the whip at all.

puff!puff!

The knife suddenly pierced the flesh, pulling out a large chunk of blood and flesh. Gu Yun didn't even flinch. Using the momentum, Gu Yun immediately moved closer to Mo Shan.

No ritual implements?

Then use your body!

Boom! !

Gu Yun slammed his head against the spirit shield with all his might.

The sound of a skull cracking could be heard, and blood flowed down from the forehead, obscuring the eyes.

However, the spirit shield also developed a crack due to this reckless impact.

"you……"

Mo Shan was scared.

He looked at Gu Yun, whose face was covered in blood and who looked like a vengeful ghost. Fear gripped him, and a chill ran down his spine.

This isn't a cultivator; it's a mad dog!

Just that one moment of hesitation.

Gu Yun's remaining right hand reached through the gap in the spirit shield and grabbed Mo Shan's collar.

Then, open your mouth.

It revealed its broken, incomplete yellow teeth, which were stained with wolf blood.

It bit down hard on Mo Shan's throat!

"No!!"

Mo Shan screamed in terror, punching Gu Yun hard in the back and even pulling out a dagger and stabbing it into Gu Yun's stomach.

puff!

The blade pierced his abdomen.

Gu Yun's whole body convulsed due to the pain, but the red light in his eyes became even brighter.

He bit down hard on the piece of cartilage, his jawbone making a cracking sound as he strained against the weight.

Tear!

A piece of blood-stained flesh, along with half a trachea, was forcibly torn off from its original position.

His blood surged, splashing all over Gu Yun's face.

Mo Shan's struggling movements stopped immediately, his hands fell limply to his sides, and his eyes were filled with disbelief and despair.

He was a respectable elite of the outer sect, and a master at the eighth level of Qi Refining. Yet he was actually bitten to death by an old man at the sixth level of Qi Refining?

……

The rain gradually stopped.

In that rocky forest, it was very quiet, without any movement. Only two corpses and a person breathing rapidly could be seen.

Gu Yun opened her mouth and spat out the piece of flesh, then slid weakly off Mo Shan's body.

He lay face down in the mud, a dagger stuck in his stomach, his left arm was useless, and his head was covered in blood. He looked more like a corpse than the body itself.

"Heh...hehe..."

He looked at the pitch-black night sky and then let out a laugh that sounded like a broken bellows.

"We won."

He was at the sixth level of Qi Refining, and he defeated an opponent at the eighth level of Qi Refining, as well as a demon wolf at the seventh level.

The price paid is that half of one's life is damaged, and lifespan is reduced by one year.

hum.

A pool of blood on the ground.

The rain was still falling, washing away the blood that covered the ground.

Gu Yun lay on top of Mo Shan's corpse. A piece of flesh torn from Mo Shan's neck was stuck in his throat.

His abdomen was pierced, and his intestines were almost spilling out. His left arm was shattered into pieces. His life was like a flickering candle, on the verge of being extinguished at any moment.

"Cough...cough cough..."

Gu Yun tried to move, to turn over, but he realized he couldn't move.

"Am I really going to die here?"

"Winned the battle, but lost to injuries?"

"No... I can't die..."

Gu Yun's pupils, which had been gradually becoming unfocused, suddenly contracted.

hum! !

The Purple Mansion was shaken, and the demonic passive ability of the Thirteen Pearls of the Purple Mansion was fully activated to its highest level when Gu Yun was about to die.

Gu Yun sensed a vast energy within the gradually cooling corpse beneath him, an energy that held immense attraction for him. It was the lingering, pure spiritual power and vigorous blood energy of a Qi Refining Level 8 cultivator.

Not far away was the body of a demon wolf that had just died not long ago... It was the body of a demon beast at the seventh level of Qi Refining!

"What a waste... such a waste..."

Gu Yun's eyes lit up like a starving ghost seeing food.

His still-functioning right hand, with nails as black as ink, instantly pierced Mo Shan's dantian.

At the same time, his blood-stained mouth was once again pressed heavily against Mo Shan's mangled neck wound.

"Suck it for me!!!"

boom!

It was as if the floodwaters had found an outlet after the dam had burst.

The spiritual power, essence blood, and the intense fear and regret that Mo Shan had been losing in his body before his death were frantically poured back into Gu Yun's body through his mouth and hands.

"Ugh, so good!!"

Gu Yun let out a hoarse and strange roar.

This energy is enormous!

It immediately filled Gu Yun's depleted dantian. At the same time, it seemed like a pair of invisible hands, frantically mending Gu Yun's broken body.

The surgical wound on his abdomen was rapidly scabbing over and healing. The broken ribs were forcibly set with a crackling sound. Even his useless left arm, nourished by the blood of the demon wolf (absorbed through the connection with the blood on the ground), regained sensation.

Ten breaths.

In just ten breaths.

Mo Shan beneath him quickly withered away before his eyes, eventually becoming a dried corpse that looked like it had been dried for a hundred years, its skin clinging tightly to its bones, its eye sockets sunken deep, a truly tragic death.

Gu Yun obtained the essence of the cultivation method at the eighth level of Qi Refining.

"But that's not enough!"

Gu Yun pushed Mo Shan's dried corpse hard, then crawled like a wild dog, using both hands and feet, toward the huge demon wolf corpse not far away.

"The flesh and blood of demonic beasts...that's incredibly nourishing..."

Gu Yun lunged at the wolf's carcass and then plunged his hands into its abdomen.

Zizizi!

The wolf's enormous body began to shrink rapidly, and its pure demonic power and blood energy transformed into streams of heat that washed over Gu Yun's aging meridians.

The body, which had been as lifeless as withered wood, now possessed a strange, rosy glow under the nourishment of this vital energy. The muscles became firmer, and the veins beneath the skin bulged out like writhing dragons.

Click!

It felt like some kind of barrier inside my body had been forcefully broken through.

Peak of the sixth level of Qi Refining... Seventh level of Qi Refining!

It's not just a breakthrough, it's a new beginning!

By harnessing the essence of both humans and wolves, Gu Yun not only recovered from most of his injuries, but also advanced his cultivation to a new level.

……

Half an hour later.

The rain stopped.

In that rocky forest, only two withered corpses remained, and they did not look normal at all.

Gu Yun stood up and stretched her newly reattached left arm. Her left arm was still a little sore, but it didn't affect her walking.

He took a deep breath. The air still carried a faint smell of blood, a scent that intoxicated him—a feeling he had never experienced before.

Have I become a demon? Was that old beggar lying to me?

He looked down at his hands, where the warmth from when he had just devoured something still lingered on his fingertips.

Within his consciousness, the Book of Changes and Destiny was being turned:

[By devouring an eighth-level Qi Refining cultivator and a seventh-level Qi Refining demon beast, he reversed life and death.]

Current Realm: Qi Refining Level 7 (Early Stage)

Lifespan: 95 (12 years remaining)

[New Pearl of the Purple Mansion: Wrath (Crimson, Fully Formed)]

"Hehe... Hahahaha..."

Gu Yun covered his face, and through his fingers, one could see his eyes. In those eyes was the relief of surviving a disaster, along with greed and obsession with that power.

"Eating people...it turns out it's addictive."

"Mo Shan, thank you for your hospitality."

He skillfully stole Mo Shan's storage bag. Then he kicked the two mummified corpses into a crevice among the rocks. Immediately afterwards, he casually sprinkled some corpse-dissolving powder.

Having completely drained his blood, it was necessary to destroy the evidence so that no one could find out how he had won.

People might think that the two unfortunate people died together, or that they encountered a powerful demonic cultivator.

But Old Ghost is still that low-ranking assassin in the shadows, skilled at picking up scraps.

It was late at night on the third day after the mission ended.

A light drizzle fell over the abandoned alchemy room on the back mountain of the Zixu Sect.

This place has now become a lifeless wasteland. A solitary new grave stands beside the grotto. The tombstone was erected by Han Rou, and it is inscribed with information about the grave of Gu Yunzhi, a servant disciple.

Dressed in night clothes and wearing the bronze mask that represented the old ghost, Gu Yun hung upside down on an ancient tree in the distance like a ghost, silently watching the scene.

In front of the grave, a tiny figure dressed in pink was kneeling.

Luo Ling'er didn't use an umbrella, and the rain soaked her exquisite dress. In her hand, she held a quirky wooden carving, which Gu Yun had carved. She burned paper money while sobbing intermittently.

"Old man... I want to eat candied hawthorn..."

"Sister Han said you went to a very far place. But I know you must be cold and hungry down there. Take this money, don't be stingy."

Gu Yun's eyes, hidden behind the mask, were slightly red.

Within the purple mansion between his brows, the blue "Thought" bead spun wildly, emanating a bittersweet emotion. Several times he wanted to rush down and embrace her, to tell her that his grandfather was not dead.

But he can't.

His hands were covered in blood, making him look like a sinister old man. Getting close to her would only bring her disaster.

Just then, several arrogant laughs broke the silence.

"Which junior sister is this? Why is she crying in this wretched place in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?"