Reincarnation Girl Becomes Immortal

The girl stopped in front of a courtyard gate that shimmered with a bluish light.

A spiritual light surrounded the surface of the wooden door, completely sealing it off.

To enter through legitimate means, a key is needed to unlock this seal.

She put down the bundle she had been carrying all the way, letting it fall onto the clean white stone floor.

The unsupported package opened naturally, revealing the various treasures inside.

These were mostly gifts that Xi Heng had received while shopping in Zhongcheng with Yin Wanluan.

Among them are standard spirit stones used as money in the Hellfire, some simple everyday talismans, tools for drawing talismans, and common utensils such as carving brushes and spirit powder used in array formations.

This package should be sufficient to meet her daily needs.

“Spirit rice, meat... the two cultivation manuals I got from Wanbaoge before, convenient spellbooks for cultivators to use in daily life…” Xi Heng muttered to himself as he pushed these things aside one by one.

From beneath the pile of miscellaneous items, a Pure Fire Emblem was extracted.

The coat of arms was the size of her palm, with a fire pattern and an inverted cross resembling an anchor engraved on its surface. The two patterns overlapped, making it look rather peculiar and complex.

This emblem serves as proof of her identity in the Pure Fire Realm.

At the same time, Yin Wanluan also channeled a bit of spiritual light and flame into this object, which also served as the key to open the courtyard gate in front of them.

The girl grabbed the emblem and turned around to press it against the surface of the courtyard gate in front of her.

The azure light emanating from the closed courtyard gate dissipated, and the pale yellow, thick wooden door, studded with rows of nails, slowly opened, revealing the scene behind it.

"...Didn't you say it was a small courtyard?"

The front yard revealed behind the gate is a hundred meters wide and long, with various white trees and flowers on both sides, and a stone pool in the middle... This, along with the long row of elegant white-walled and gold-tiled houses behind, makes the space seem even more spacious.

At first glance, this place was even larger than the courtyard in Jiangning City where she had lived with her senior sister.

Previously, I lived with my senior sister and several maids... but now I will be living here alone, which makes the space feel even more spacious and lonely.

In short, it's not small at all.

"From now on, I'll be living on my own," Xi Heng muttered to himself, packing his bag and walking into the courtyard.

The courtyard has been completely given to Xi Heng, while Yin Wanluan has another place to live. He only said that he would visit from time to time, but they do not live together.

"It's really not used to not having any companions..."

The girl's brocade shoes stepped on the smooth white stone ground, and she arrived between the two flower beds.

We bypassed the pond where golden carp were kept, and fish would occasionally leap out of the water.

They walked to the central hall of the row of rooms at the front, found a white wooden table, placed the package on it, and slowly began to organize the items inside.

She hadn't done this kind of work herself for a long time.

Whether she was living with her senior sister or in the palace, she always had maids and palace servants to take care of her daily chores.

Although spirit stones can be used to recruit servants here, the recruits are generally cultivators in the early or middle stages of Qi Refining, and the price is not low.

She hasn't even reached the first level of Qi Refining yet.

Recruiting a maid whose cultivation level is higher than one's own feels a bit awkward.

Better take your time.

The girl took out a talisman from the gifted talisman box, flicked it while chanting an incantation, and activated the simple cleaning method on it.

He held the yellow talisman between his index and middle fingers and waved it gently. It then burned in the air and transformed into a wisp of light that slowly traveled throughout the entire house.

Most of the dust and debris, along with the musty smell of long disuse, were swept away by the spiritual light and carried away from the room.

"It works quite well."

Xi Heng nodded, picked up a stack of talismans from the box, and slowly flipped through them like shuffling cards.

"House Cleansing Talisman, Qi Purification Talisman, Wind Stopping Talisman, Body Cleansing Talisman, Impurity Removal Talisman, Water Generating Talisman, and Fire Ignition Talisman..."

She sorted the small magical talismans by category and went to the rooms with different uses to place the required talismans securely.

"Use these talismans for now. Once you've mastered Qi cultivation, you can directly learn these everyday spells and activate them with your own spiritual energy."

After strolling around the courtyard, Xi Heng returned to the main hall and finally decided to grab the spirit rice and meat he had bought and head to the kitchen.

……

After a while, the flames slowly died down under the kitchen counter.

The girl put down the bowls and chopsticks she had just used, then took out a talisman and used magic to wash the pots, pans, and tableware together.

Watching the water splash and wash over the tableware on its own, she pouted and muttered to herself:

"It's not as delicious as I imagined."

The spirit rice from the Fire Hell is indeed excellent. Its fresh and fragrant aroma is better than that of rice from the outside world. It is also crystal clear, soft and chewy, with each grain distinct, possessing a texture and delicacy that is hard to find elsewhere.

However, the meat and vegetables sold in the shop were really just average.

In short, it's not as delicious as tequila...

After all, dragons are special spiritual beasts. Even if ordinary beasts are raised in the fiery hell and absorb a little spiritual energy, their meat will not be better than that of real spiritual beasts.

The girl shook her head slightly, turned and left, returning to the hall to look at the various utensils displayed on the table.

There were talismans for drawing symbols, arrays for carving, and ordinary small magical artifacts with some commonly used spells carved on them, as well as two small array plates for her to study array techniques.

The array inscribed above is the simplest of all, a small partition array.

During her long break, Xi Heng played with the small array plate and then took out the empty array plate that Shao Xi had given her...

He seemed to be in a daze, or perhaps he was intently studying something for a long time.

By the time I came to my senses, it was already completely night outside.

I glanced at the clock that Yin Wanluan had given me; it was almost 10 p.m.

Time flies!

I arrived at this place at dusk, and two hours passed without me realizing it.

I felt like I hadn't done anything at all... Could it be that time passes faster inside Hellfire than outside?

"It's just because I'm too idle," she answered herself softly. "It was the same when I was piloting the airship before..."

"Let's be a little more urgent; it's time to start training."

She abandoned her plan to eat and drink her fill and then go to sleep, instead grabbing the red-covered "Red Phoenix Heavenly Sword Manual" from the table and opening it.

The pages of the book slowly unfolded, beginning with an introductory text.

The girl read it softly:

"The Crimson Phoenix flies, its feathers fluttering, soaring to the heavens. It never stops at the phoenix tree, it will not eat anything but the fruit of the phoenix, nor will it drink anything but the sweet spring. It is the essence of fire, the sun of the Yan Emperor, a symbol of destiny, auspiciousness, and eternity... This Crimson Phoenix Heavenly Sword Scripture was created by a true Daoist cultivator who saw the Crimson Phoenix of destiny, depicted its form and spirit, and integrated it into his own swordsmanship."

"Taking the essence of the Crimson Phoenix, I've incorporated it into my own sharp sword..."

Turning the page again, what you see first is a sword technique manual that looks more like a martial arts manual than a cultivation method for practicing qi and immortality.

Next to each instruction sheet for the sword moves is an illustration of a woman practicing swordsmanship and dancing, with the faint image of a crimson phoenix of destiny soaring through the air.

The human's sword posture and the red phoenix's dance posture overlapped and transformed into the same shape.

All the actions behind were of this kind.

The girl possessed a photographic memory, allowing her to memorize all these sword techniques.

After reading it, I closed my eyes and continued to recall it.

Numerous patterns flickered in my mind, changing rapidly.

Gradually, the images transformed into an animated form.

The missing movements in the images were quickly filled in by Xi Heng using his martial arts skills.

The animation in his mind became increasingly smooth and coherent, as if a real person was standing in front of Xi Heng, displaying the 'Crimson Phoenix Heaven-Bearing Sword'.

Xi Heng quietly extended his consciousness into his mental space, opened his eyes, and saw the training ground of the Red Thread Sword Academy once again.

The figure of the woman dancing with a sword in front was also transformed into the appearance of Senior Sister Hongmiao.

After watching my senior sister perform the sword dance dozens of times in my mental space.

She also drew a sword and began to dance.

Through continuous practice, she mastered all sorts of moves with ease.

With one foot on the ground and his body rising upwards, he delivered a swift and agile sword strike, much like a swallow.

"Phoenix Facing the Sun—"

A sharp blade pierced the sky, faintly emitting a high-pitched, long cry.

Then he spun around and delivered a side slash with a "Phoenix Arrives" technique...

Once his moves were sufficiently refined, Xi Heng sheathed his sword and looked at the person beside him.

As she thought to herself, her senior sister's appearance gradually faded, transforming into a demon cultivator named Asura, wielding two swords, with flowing white hair and bright red eyes.

Xi Heng slowly raised his sword, revealing the posture of the 'Crimson Phoenix Heaven-Bearing Sword Scripture'—facing himself who was using the Bloodline Sword.

……

Outside, under the cover of night, inside the pale golden-tiled houses.

The white-haired girl sat quietly on the futon in the center of the hall, as still and steady as a statue.

In the center of a round table with many items on it, a light-colored pendulum swings gently, its hands turning slowly—like the changing of the sun and moon in the sky.

On the true surface of the sky, countless stars twinkle, and the moonlight is hazy behind the clouds.

The source of the moonlight shifts and recedes with the passage of time, making way for the rising sun of dawn that will rise again.

The dust particles in the indoor air swirled and drifted away with the girl's soft breaths.

On the surface, Xi Heng was simply sitting quietly in place, meditating and resting, or perhaps he had already fallen asleep.

But in reality, she was waging a series of extremely difficult and dangerous battles within her heart.

With a sweeping motion, the sword light transformed into a phoenix's cry as the girl swung her sword and thrust it at the attacker wielding two swords.

The demon-like woman swiftly dodged, skillfully avoiding the Crimson Phoenix Sword's attacks. She then stepped forward and pressed her entire body down, unleashing an unimaginably deadly move during another dodge.

Then, another horizontal slash came hurtling towards his neck.

Xi Heng tried to raise his sword to block, but the sword in front of him was even faster.

The previous strike severed her throat, then he spun around and thrust the sword straight into her brow—

This scene has been repeated hundreds or even thousands of times in Kenshin's mind.

Countless defeats and countless replays deepened her understanding of the Crimson Phoenix Heavenly Sword Manual, and she became increasingly proficient in its various moves.

The demon-like version of himself used the Bloodline Sword Technique, while Xi Heng himself used the Crimson Phoenix Sword Manual he had just learned. In each natural defeat, he tried his best to gain a slight advantage—until he won.

After a long while, accompanied by a long phoenix cry echoing from the mental space, Xi Heng in reality slowly opened his eyes.

After such a long mental battle and a sleepless night, she felt no fatigue whatsoever; instead, her eyes gleamed with a sharp light and intense fighting spirit and killing intent.

She focused her mind for a long time before slowly calming down her overly intense murderous aura and returning to her normal state of mind.

"Finally, I won..." the girl breathed a sigh of relief.

She felt quite pleased to have triumphed over demons in the realm of her mind.

Just now, he had sealed his full strength and used only the moves from the Crimson Phoenix Heavenly Sword Scripture that he had just learned, purely relying on sword skills to defeat the demon Asura who used the Bloodline Sword Technique with two swords.

“The Crimson Phoenix Sword is indeed quite remarkable; otherwise, even if we fought for another half a month, we would still have difficulty winning.” Xi Heng moved around for a while and got off the simple futon he was on.

Returning to the round wooden table, he flipped through the sword manual again.

She had mastered the numerous martial arts moves from the previous chapter overnight and was now qualified to continue reading the Qi cultivation chapter.

Beyond sword techniques lies the method of cultivating internal energy.

She softly recited the mental techniques and methods of qi circulation, slowly reading through them.

"In the early stages of Qi cultivation, the circulation of spiritual energy in this body-cultivating practice seems not much different from the circulation of blood and qi in martial artists..."

Qi and blood, as well as spiritual energy, will flow through the same meridians, permeate the lungs and internal organs, and also return to the dantian.

Although the description of the spiritual energy circulation is more complex, the basic logic is the same.