I have changed my destiny and become an unparalleled immortal.

"That place is where the sect dumps the waste residue from refining discarded pills. It's in a rather remote location with heavy yin energy, so no one wants to go there. However, one advantage of that place is that it's relatively quiet; all you have to do each day is sweep the ashes. Most importantly..."

Han Rou paused.

"The spiritual energy there is chaotic, but it is a place where elixirs gather. The medicinal energy might be able to sustain you and allow you to live for another six months."

After throwing out a new waist tag and finishing his speech, he turned to leave.

Before leaving, she paused.

"Gu Yun, Qian Yan is like a cloud in the sky, and you are like the soil in the ground. She helped you out of old friendship, which is a blessing you have accumulated over many lifetimes. But one should know one's own limitations. If you really can't continue, end your life sooner rather than later, so as not to die a horrible death and damage her reputation."

Han Rou is gone.

Gu Yun picked up the waist token with trembling hands, but his face did not show any anger.

He knew Han Rou was right.

At this moment, he was a useless person, a useless person who could die at any moment.

But how many difficult situations did Gu Yun experience in his life?

"Ahem... that abandoned alchemy room... it really is a very good place..."

However, he possessed the "Heaven and Earth Qi-Eating Mysterious Scripture" given to him by Mo Qianyan.

As long as qi can enter the body, even if only a very small amount of spiritual energy is converted into life force, it can sustain life.

Here stands an abandoned alchemy room, where countless medicinal powers are contained within the discarded elixir residue.

However, the medicinal properties are mixed and impure.

"As long as...as long as I don't die..."

Gu Yun slowly dragged his two legs, moving step by step towards the back mountain.

Behind the Purple Void Sect, in an abandoned alchemy room.

It doesn't resemble a house; rather, it's more like a large grotto built against the mountain.

"Cough cough cough..."

Gu Yun covered his mouth and nose with his tattered sleeve.

Everywhere you look, there's a mess.

A burnt smell filled the air.

Gu Yun slowly sat down against the stone wall, his chest heaving violently.

He had used up all his last bit of strength walking this way.

Han Rou believes that the occasional smell of medicine wafting through the air might be able to sustain life.

But... it's too slow.

He could freeze to death in this cave tonight.

Waste pills.

Items obtained from failed crafting processes contain fire poison and unknown medicinal effects.

To ordinary people, this is arsenic.

"But I have a choice?"

Gu Yun's hands were trembling slightly as he selected a seemingly decent but ultimately worthless pill.

The discarded pill was dark red in color, and dark red patterns could be vaguely seen flowing on its surface.

If you eat it, you'll have a very low chance of survival.

If you don't eat it, you will surely die.

A ruthless glint flashed in Gu Yun's cloudy eyes.

"Mo Qianyan gave me a copy of the 'Heaven and Earth Qi Absorption Mystic Scripture.' This scripture allows one to absorb the Qi of heaven and earth. What is that little bit of pill poison compared to that!"

Without further hesitation, he swallowed the pill, which was covered in impurities, whole.

Gu Yun is gambling.

boom!

The moment the waste pill entered the stomach, there was no need for digestion; an extremely violent heat surge immediately erupted.

"Uh... Ah!"

Gu Yun let out a roar like a wild beast on its deathbed, and then immediately curled up into a ball, just like a boiled shrimp.

pain!

It hurts so much!

The heat flowed down the esophagus, and there was a burning sensation in the abdomen, as if the fire toxins were rampaging through the meridians.

"puff!"

Gu Yun opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of black blood.

His skin immediately turned bright red, and his veins bulged like earthworms, turning his originally pale face into a purplish-red.

"Give it to me... to refine!"

Gu Yun gripped the stone slabs on the ground so tightly that his fingernails broke off and blood kept flowing out.

He endured excruciating pain, struggling to maintain a sliver of consciousness.

The mantra of the "Heaven and Earth Qi-Eating Mysterious Scripture" was running wildly in his mind.

"The vapor transforms heaven and earth, the body is like a furnace..."

"Turbid air descends, pure air ascends..."

In the world of cultivation, this cultivation method can be considered to be at the top level.

Under the guidance of the cultivation technique, Gu Yun's meridians, which were originally blocked and aged, were forcibly opened.

The deadly fire poison was forcibly pulled into the meridians.

The area it passed through felt like it was being cut by a knife.

But even in this devastating process, a trace of pure medicinal power was actually squeezed out.

But for Gu Yun, who was like a withered tree, it was like encountering rain during a long drought.

Gu Yun experienced spasms throughout her body due to pain, and black, dirty substances emerged from her skin.

I don't know how much time passed.

It was completely dark outside, and a cold wind was howling inside the cave.

Gu Yun stopped trembling.

He collapsed to the ground, like a lifeless lump of mud.

The stone slab beneath him was completely soaked with sweat and black blood.

"hehe……"

He was breathing heavily, the sound like a broken bellows.

Gu Yun struggled to support himself and then leaned against the wall.

He is still in a weak state, but his heartbeat is slightly stronger than before.

"I...I survived."

Gu Yun opened his mouth, and you could see his teeth stained with blood.

He won his bet.

Although the price paid was damage to the meridians, the first priority was to survive.

Eat as much as you can, as long as it doesn't kill you.

Gu Yun closed his eyes and entered a state of deep meditation for the first time.

……

Winter goes and spring comes, the ice and snow melt away.

After the snow melted on the back mountain of Zixu Sect, it formed a thin stream, and the withered trees sprouted new buds.

The outer disciples donned light spring clothes and began to warm up their hands and feet for the new year's sect competition, showing an eagerness to try.

In Han Rou's view.

That ordinary old prince is probably already badly frozen by the wind and snow, and his bones should have already decomposed.

Deep within the abandoned alchemy room and grotto.

It was still dark and damp, and the strange smell in the air was even stronger than it had been three months ago.

In the corner, where there used to be a mountain of waste pill residue, now one corner is missing.

"call……"

From that dark place came a long, drawn-out breathing sound.

Then I saw a figure, so thin it looked like a ghost.