Reincarnation Girl Becomes Immortal

As the sword pierced through, it unleashed a powerful force, snapping his neck and separating his head from his body.

Amidst the splattering of blood, another sword pierced her waist from behind.

Xi Heng easily turned around and dodged, then sliced ​​off another head.

She seemed to have returned to the time when she was alone in Yan Mengjun's battle formation. She had just managed to break through and kill one person when she would be met with an even stronger attack.

He retreated to dodge a straight slash from a large sword, then suddenly spun around, unleashing a wave of blood-red sword energy from his blade that swept across the area, cleaving five demons in half at the waist.

But the next moment, those upper bodies that had been cut in half could still summon spells, causing themselves to float up and attack again.

"Tsk."

Out of the corner of Xi Heng's eye, he saw several more charred zombies in the distance, seemingly drawn by the sounds of battle.

She wanted to resolve the matter quickly and not hold back any longer.

He pushed his left hand forward, releasing black energy, from which resentful fire emerged and rapidly expanded.

These eerie zombies, which could still float and attack even when only a limb remained, would immediately collapse to the ground and stop moving once they touched the vengeful fire, as if all their strength had been drained away.

As the crimson flames of resentment enveloped all the vengeful spirits, the chaotic scene and sounds finally fell silent.

Xi Heng let out a soft breath, looking at the many charred monsters lying paralyzed, and suddenly thought:

"These things are puppets created by the vengeful flames... Perhaps my vengeful flames can also be manipulated?"

She hesitated for a moment, then drew her sword and slashed most of the charred flesh monsters vertically, leaving only one that was not so badly charred and still looked human, which she then infused with her own large amount of resentful fire.

The resentment that originally existed within the zombie was slowly erased by Xi Heng and replaced by her flames.

The girl slightly raised her hand, urging the flames of resentment to move, but it only caused the zombie's forearm to twitch.

“The resentment fire has no physical form, so it cannot be used to control the puppet by pouring it in. It should affect the remaining spirituality within its body…” Xi Heng changed his approach to manipulate the resentment fire, using his sword heart to help it seep into the opponent’s remaining empty mind.

She carefully manipulated the flames of resentment, leaving a wisp in the enemy's heart.

The zombie immediately opened its eyes, and with the command of the resentment burning in its heart, stood up its stiff body.

The girl nodded and casually observed the puppet for a while.

He then extended his fingers to manipulate the flames of resentment, issuing an attack command.

The puppet immediately chanted a twisted and bizarre incantation, releasing a flame that rushed to the side.

"This thing seems to still have a lot of spiritual energy inside it?" She tilted her head.

A few seconds later, Xi Heng remembered that this place was within the Spirit Locking Array, where spiritual energy would not dissipate and could remain in the world.

She has stayed in the land devoid of spiritual energy for so long, yet she still retains the common sense that spiritual energy is scarce.

But in reality, everything in this place possesses spiritual energy.

"So... I can now cultivate Qi and cultivate immortality?"

After testing the vengeful fire puppet, Xi Heng immediately returned to the stone altar, sat down cross-legged, and tried to circulate the "Great Zhou Tian Pei Yuan Na Ling Key Technique," which he had tried many times in Da Zhao.

Sit quietly and calm your mind.

She easily traversed these already familiar stages: regulating her breath, absorbing qi, circulating qi...

The expanded mind retracts from the outside world, focusing on the sensations within the body, observing the nose with the eyes, and the heart with the nose.

With the help of her sword heart and dantian qi, she was able to clearly control the circulation of her internal energy.

In the spiritless Chonghai realm, this kind of operation can at most allow the internal energy to flow and maintain the body's healthy functioning, serving only a minor purpose for health preservation.

Here, Xi Heng could easily sense wisps of spiritual energy flowing in with his breathing.

She suppressed the slight excitement in her heart and continued to circulate her internal energy, returning the spiritual energy to her dantian.

The practice of embracing the dantian (lower abdomen) seems to also slightly aid in attracting spiritual energy.

With each breath, more and more spiritual energy accumulates in the dantian and meridians.

Xi Heng kept in mind the method of absorbing spiritual energy, and guided his mind and spirit with the spiritual energy, inducing fetal breathing to circulate the spiritual energy throughout the body, from the mysterious to the fetal, leisurely and gracefully.

"So absorbing spiritual energy is such a simple thing..." she couldn't help but think.

Or is it that she actually has quite a good talent for Qi cultivation?

Alternatively, long-term martial arts training may also have significant benefits for the absorption and exhalation of spiritual energy.

In short, her first attempt at Qi cultivation was much easier and simpler than what was recorded in the Taoist books.

The steps such as opening and closing of the vital energy channels, the intercourse of Kan and Li to listen to the breath, the unity of spirit and essence, inducing fetal breathing, and emerging from the mysterious and entering the female without leakage, as recorded in Taoist books, all require a long period of practice to achieve.

However, she had already gone through these multiple steps in her first Qi practice and had perfectly absorbed the spiritual energy into her body.

Although it's not yet at the 'first level of Qi Refining' stage, it's already considered to have stepped into the threshold of Qi Refining.

Xi Heng slightly curled the corners of his mouth, withdrew his gaze, and continued his breathing exercises.

But this time, during my breathing exercises, I felt that the efficiency of absorbing spiritual energy was rapidly decreasing.

"Hmm?" She immediately used her sword heart to sense her surroundings.

Where is my spiritual energy?

However, they discovered that the spiritual energy seemed to have been ordered to leave this place, and was rapidly dissipating into the distance.

The girl blinked, her initial joy immediately dampened.

This place is within a spirit-locking array, where spiritual energy will not spontaneously dissipate.

Only the Spirit-Locking Array itself can manipulate spiritual energy, and the current master of this Spirit-Locking Array in the cultivation world is—

"The Demonic Flame of Resentment..." Xi Heng's voice grew colder.

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Volume 1: Chapter 172 (Chapter 165) - Resolving Disputes and Overcoming Difficulties

Xi Heng sat beside the deep red flames on the stone altar, coldly watching the spiritual energy around him recede.

The more she tried to absorb spiritual energy for cultivation, the more the spiritual energy seemed to flee away as quickly as a butterfly being chased by humans in a garden.

Whenever I try to cultivate, the spiritual energy begins to avoid me.

On the contrary, after she stops cultivating, the spiritual energy will stop and dodge as if it thinks she has lost her threat, and will surround her again.

This feeling of being so close yet unable to reach her stirred a slight unease within her steadfast and resolute swordsmanship.

Especially when the spiritual energy returns, and you reach out to break free from the touch right before your eyes.

This frustration fueled her hatred for the Lord of the Immortal Cultivation Realm, the Demonic Flame.

"In that case, I can use my own spiritual energy to practice, right?" Xi Heng clicked his tongue and silently checked his inventory.

With a clenched left hand, he magically produced a blue spirit stone.

Continue sitting cross-legged, placing the spirit stone in the palm of your outstretched hand facing upwards.

As the five fingers clenched, the spirit stone emitted a pure blue spiritual energy.

Xi Heng began to use the method of absorbing spiritual energy, focusing his eyes on his nose and his nose on his heart, circulating the energy through his meridians in his dantian, and trying to slowly absorb the blue spiritual energy that permeated his body with each breath.

After several breaths, she frowned again.

She once again clearly sensed that both the spiritual energy inherent in this world and the spiritual energy she had extracted from the spirit stone were beginning to recede and disperse.

Soon, it became unreachable again.

The girl took a deep breath, and then her voice became a little muffled.

"Too much."

The opponent dispersed the spiritual energy that was already present in the Spirit Locking Array, so she didn't feel the urge to kill.

Now that she possesses the spiritual energy of the spirit stones, she can only borrow the characteristic of the spirit-locking array itself that prevents the spiritual energy from dissipating, and she cannot cultivate.

Naturally, a strong killing intent arose within him.

Whenever she has the chance, she will definitely chop up the vengeful demon fire and use all sorts of methods to truly kill that spirit fire, whose life is unknown.

However, right now... her strength might be somewhat insufficient.

She was able to deal with the vengeful ghost in the Heavenly Zhao Imperial City because the vengeful fire inside the ghost was only the size of a palace, which her dragon body could withstand.

The original form of the vengeful demonic fire in this place burned the entire cultivation world; if expanded, it might be the size of an entire city.

Shao Xi once said that even the Foundation Establishment cultivators of this world could not stop the vengeful demonic fire from devouring them.

The opponent was able to defeat many Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, so they might already have the strength of the legendary Golden Core stage.

It's better not to act on impulse and confront the raging flames of resentment.

Xi Heng shifted his focus, put the spirit stone back into his inventory, and also left the state of cultivation.

As a result, the surrounding spiritual energy returns in a regular pattern.

She casually exhaled, and the spiritual energy quickly evaded her.

After repeating this several times, Xi Heng realized that this phenomenon was not caused by the control of the Resentful Heaven Demon Fire.

That guy probably wouldn't be interested in using his spiritual energy to play around with her.

"This kind of phenomenon is more like a predetermined pattern..."

"But why can I absorb spiritual energy in the first half hour?" A question arose in her mind.

After that, a guess quickly came to mind.

"Could it be... that I was detected for absorbing the spiritual energy of this world without authorization, and thus automatically blacklisted?"

It's like being caught cheating by the system and having your account banned.

"If that's the case... is there any way to undo it?"

Xi Heng then turned to look at the resentful fire beside him.

The originally yellowish flames of resentment in this realm were shrouded and eroded by her deep red flames. In this way, the fluctuations of the flames could be detected and affected.

For example, just like before, destroy the illusion created by the yellow flames and the spirit-locking array inside.

"Could we remove the blacklist... or simply break the logic that 'once I start cultivating, spiritual energy will leave me'?"

"There should be a way... After all, the resentful fire is the core of the spirit-locking array in this area. As long as we can find the location where this logic exists, we can delete or destroy it."

"but……"

The problem is, she can't find it.

She couldn't decipher the language of the fiery resentment, nor could she see the logic hidden within it.

The illusion, which was floating on the surface and clearly visible, could only end, just like before.

Without sufficient knowledge, she could not effectively disrupt the more concealed inner workings of the resentful fire and the spirit-locking array.

Xi Heng stared at the resentful fire for a long time, then gradually began to control his red flames to seep into the yellow flames.

Numerous fluctuations, some subtle and some obvious, constantly surfaced and subsided. She tried to memorize the regular patterns within them and forcefully decipher their operational logic.

But the result was—it couldn't be done.

There was simply too much information contained in the fluctuations of the flames for humans to discern from the chaotic and dense fluctuations the hidden wave they sought to see.

Next, she tried breathing in spiritual energy, while simultaneously observing the yellow flames to see if they would show any unusual fluctuations.

But the result was still not as desired. The logic had been established, and the only time when the resentment would show fluctuations was the moment she was blacklisted.

"Hmm..." Xi Heng relaxed, gently tapping his cheek with the tip of his right finger, thinking of a solution.

“Other areas in the cultivation world should also have other resentful fire fragments as array eyes and array points. The flames are separate and independent of each other. Although this one has rejected me, the resentful fire in other locations may not be like this.”

If these blacklists are shared, then other information should also be shared.

Therefore, the vengeful demonic fire, as its true form, should have taken some action against her long ago.

She also possesses resentment and fire, capable of disrupting this realm. Even if the Resentful Heavenly Demon Fire doesn't come in person, it should still send some powerful figures to surround and kill her.

Xi Heng used this as a reason to convince himself and prepared to try it out in other areas of the cultivation world later.

Try to forcibly suppress and erase the fluctuations of resentment that occurred the moment she blacklisted her, rendering it ineffective.

"Luckily, I came here because I learned the Resentful Flame, otherwise I probably wouldn't have been able to do anything this time... I can only go back to the first save file and try to find some opportunities before the Resentful Flame destroys the realm."

After muttering to herself, she turned and looked at the many pilgrims from the mortal world huddled in a corner in the distance, trembling and unsure of what to do.