Reincarnation Girl Becomes Immortal

After standing still for a while, you can slowly distinguish that most of the scattered skeletons, large and small, covering the ground, are just fish and birds. There are also some small animals that are not easily distinguishable by looking at the skulls alone, including several sizable shark skeletons.

The girl continued forward, glancing left and right at the pale skeletons around her, and whispered her guesses:

"Did the people who built this house leave these as leftovers? But there's so much of it... And why is it being left in front of the yard?"

Although these bones are now almost dried out and have lost their smell, if the residents had placed the remains directly in front of their homes in the past, they would have certainly rotted and smelled terrible.

"If it wasn't leftovers, then perhaps it was the work of magic..." Xi Heng thought.

She was also able to transform large amounts of flesh and blood into spiritual energy, leaving behind a pile of broken, dried corpses.

Simply pile up a large number of corpses here, and use the Blood Sea Technique to transform the flesh and blood into spiritual energy.

As time goes by, the remaining flesh and blood gradually decay and disappear, leaving behind a large pile of bones.

"Who used the Blood Sea Technique or a similar spell to create this remnant?"

Seeing the bones blocking his view, Xi Heng drew his sword and easily cut a path through them.

Countless bone fragments fell to the ground, and the girl stepped on the small pieces of bone as she approached step by step.

He gripped the longsword firmly, ready to face any enemy who might launch a surprise attack.

After all, this place is too eerie, so it's necessary to take extra precautions.

But after walking slowly for half the distance, there was still no sound from the surroundings.

"Is nobody here?" she asked softly.

She walked to the front of the house and stepped onto the somewhat rotten and fragile wooden steps.

A few gusts of sea breeze blew in, and Xi Heng walked into the room with a little nervousness.

The wooden planks on the indoor floor were broken in many places, and you could hear the squeaking of small animals inside.

As soon as I went inside, an animal that looked like a weasel suddenly darted out.

Xi Heng paid no attention to anything else, because an oval stone tablet resembling a tombstone stood in the room, firmly attracting her gaze.

Outside, the bright sunlight streamed through the dilapidated roof of the house, casting dappled patterns of light onto the stone tablet covered in cobwebs.

The surface of the stone tablet is engraved with many characters.

Xi Heng quickly read through the inscription, but found that although she recognized most of the characters, she couldn't understand them.

Compared to the neat and orderly words in books, the characters carved on the stone in front of me look more like distorted characters drawn on talismans or incantations.

Many words and phrases were stretched out, with various stripes added to the top, bottom, left, and right, or a line with an unclear meaning was drawn in the middle...

The inscriptions were deliberately written in an extremely complex manner, with some characters written in cursive script and the order of the words reversed.

In short, the inscription on the stone tablet in front of us seems to be encrypted with layers of encryption, and we can't understand what it is writing.

"What is this?"

Xi Heng tilted his head.

Even if you don't recognize the simplified or traditional Chinese characters above, you can still guess their meaning based on your sense of language.

But when these oddly shaped words are arranged in a strange way, they become completely incomprehensible.

"Red, Sea, Blood, Ascension, Cultivation, Golden Core?"

She read out the few words that were relatively neat and legible.

"Cultivation of immortality? Golden Core?"

Xi Heng had seen the words "Golden Elixir" in the Taoist books he had searched.

In some alchemical books, the so-called golden elixir is a refined elixir that, once ingested, can directly make one an immortal and grant them eternal life.

There is also the concept of inner alchemy and golden elixir, which involves using the essence, energy, and spirit within the body as medicine to refine and form a sacred embryo, thereby achieving a complete transformation and becoming an immortal.

The golden elixir is firm, eternal, and indestructible; it is perfectly pure and without flaw.

In some biographies about immortals and gods, mortals who obtain the elixir of immortality can attain immortality.

Xi Heng then realized that what was recorded on the stone tablet in front of him might be some stories or techniques related to cultivating immortality.

"If only it were a cultivation technique..."

Unfortunately, she also knew that this world could no longer retain spiritual energy, so even if she obtained cultivation techniques, they would be of little use.

"We need to find a place where we can store spiritual energy first."

Xi Heng pulled out the last perfect Blood Spirit Stone from his inventory.

He gently released a bit of spiritual energy from the spirit stone in his right hand, attempting to absorb it into his body using the breathing technique he had learned.

But the result was the same; the spiritual energy floated upwards without any hindrance.

"Tsk." Xi Heng shook his head.

He took back the spirit stones and then tried to carefully observe and decipher the characters in front of him.

I've been reading for almost five minutes, but I still can't understand it.

"The inscription looks like a talisman, and there must be many meanings hidden in the various lines around it. Unfortunately, I don't know how to make talismans, so I can't understand what these patterns are trying to express."

She finally turned her gaze away from the stone tablet and looked around at the other things in the house.

Having stayed for so long, Xi Heng was certain that no one was in the house.

The room was quite empty; apart from the stone tablet in front of it, there was almost nothing else that could attract attention.

There was a rotten wooden table on the side, with a broken palm-leaf fan on it. Next to it stood two white candles covered in dust. On the ground was a pile of scraps of paper, which had been chewed by something.

There were a few blurry footprints on the wooden floor, but they looked like they were from a long time ago.

Xi Heng wandered around the room for a while, then returned to the stone tablet and read it over and over again.

Ultimately, it could only be roughly discerned that what was written on the stone tablet was not a cultivation technique for immortality.

"It's more like a record of some deeds... or it could just be a tombstone."

In any case, after wandering overseas for so long, she has finally found the fairy's trail.

Even if you don't understand it for the time being, you should write it down or imprint it, bring it back to Da Zhao or read the file on the spot, and put it in your inventory to study it slowly.

"Surely there's more than just this one trace of immortals on such a large island?"

Xi Heng planned to return to the beach and have the crew search the entire island.

Once the repairman had fixed the damage to the ship, he led his men on a continued eastward voyage.

Xi Heng suddenly thought of something: "The Crimson Goddess might have some knowledge of talismans and spells, so she might be able to understand this kind of thing."

With a quick change of mind, she immediately used her light-footed skill to return to the beach where the fleet had run aground.

The dark red figure swept past layers of white bones, returning to the mountains and forests, regardless of the steepness of the terrain, leaping away like a swallow.

Going uphill is slow, but going downhill is quite brisk.

Within five or six minutes, Xi Heng returned to the beach.

In the half hour or so that she was gone, the boat captain had not yet arranged the personnel affairs. He simply asked people to get off the boat and come to the beach to collect firewood and help the cook start the fire.

The craftsmen have been sent to inspect the breach in the ship, but they are all looking at the crack in the hull, which is stuck in the sand, at a loss, and have not yet been able to discuss how to repair it.

Xi Heng realized that the fleet would likely remain stationary here for quite some time.

"There's no need to rush it."

She walked past the busy people and came to the slightly tilted ship, then pushed open the cabin door.

Chen Fenghuo remained peacefully in his cabin, gazing at the scenery of the island.

Upon hearing that Xi Heng had returned, she couldn't help but ask with a hint of expectation:

"You just went to the island? How was it? Did you find anything?"

After sailing for so long, we finally saw land.

Even though it was just a small island, it gave her a glimmer of hope.

“It’s a bit strange,” Xi Heng replied. “There’s a house high up on the island with some inscriptions that look like talismans. The characters are messy and hard to decipher. I wonder if you can read them?”

"A talisman?" Chen Fenghuo became more serious.

“The talismanic script is a secret script commonly used by cultivators. Although I can read some of it, it is difficult to decipher if the cultivator deliberately encrypts it.”

"It's good that you can recognize it. Give it a try." Xi Heng nodded.

Taking the other person along on their journey to the Far East to seek immortality might actually be of some use.

She then led the other person away from the ship.

The Crimson Goddess also possessed the martial arts realm of internal strength. Although her movements were difficult due to her disordered bones and muscles, she could still barely keep up using her lightness skill.

After disembarking, Xi Heng first ordered the many crew members around him to have a meal and then search the entire island.

Then, somewhat hastily, they took Chen Fenghuo to the place where they had previously discovered the strange house.

A few minutes later, she landed in front of the house on a flat ground covered with many skeletons.

Chen Fenghuo landed and swallowed hard as he looked at the strange skeletons scattered on the ground.

She had never heard of such a strange sight before she came.

"Where did these skeletons come from..." she asked, pursing her lips.

“They should just be some creatures from the island, right?” Xi Heng walked past the skeletons and said, “Don’t worry about them. The important thing is to decipher the stone tablet.”

However, Chen Fenghuo looked around and couldn't feel as relaxed as the other person.

She pointed to the center of the pile of bones:

"There are a few human skeletons over there."

"It's normal to find human bones among the skeletons, right?" Xi Heng wasn't surprised.

This scene resembles the appearance of a corpse after the Blood Sea Technique has been used to absorb the spiritual light of flesh and blood.

It's normal for the spellcaster to grab several enemies and absorb them together; there's no need to make a fuss about it.

Remembering that this person was a demon and didn't care about the lives of mortals, Chen Fenghuo changed the subject and said, "I have a feeling that there is danger here."

She had this premonition when she saw the human skeleton.

"Probably not?"

Xi Heng wasn't entirely sure, but still urged:

“I’ve been in this room for quite a while now, so there shouldn’t be any problem this time. Please come in.”

"..." Chen Fenghuo followed cautiously and slowly.

Although her premonition grew stronger, it was still just a premonition, and she had experienced instances where her premonitions were wrong.

A moment later, she followed Xi Heng as they stepped over the scattered bones covering the ground and entered the room, which reeked of decay.

At first glance, I saw the stone tablet that I had just mentioned.

As Xi Heng said, the surface of the stone tablet was covered with a dense, chaotic, and scribbled mess of characters.

"How is it? Can you understand it?" a voice came from ahead.

Even though Chen Fenghuo knew some talismanic characters, he still found it quite difficult to read the inscription from the beginning.

"Hmm... almost."

She translated it slowly, bit by bit, and read it aloud in her own language:

"What is written on the stone tablet is... at the time of its erection, in the 640th year of what is called Immortal Severance? or Immortal Defeat, there was a cultivator whose name is related to 'blood' who, in order to seek the Great Dao, harmed all living beings and slaughtered countless people..."

"Blood?" Xi Heng asked, "Is there a specific name for it?"

She inexplicably felt that the Blood Sea Technique might be related to this person.

"The characters in the talisman are too ambiguous and difficult to decipher."

Chen Fenghuo already had a headache just reading these words; translating them would be even more troublesome.

"It's probably something like a blood calamity or a blood massacre..."

"Oh." Xi Heng nodded: "Continue, continue."

The blonde girl pressed her temples and continued to decipher the various talismanic characters.