Reincarnation Girl Becomes Immortal

Xi Heng returned to the boat, connected the array patterns to control the direction of the vehicle, and activated the spiritual light to gain power.

With a few soft humming sounds, the light accompanied the rotation of the flywheel, causing the boat to gradually accelerate.

In the blink of an eye, it transformed into a streak of blue light, carrying away the dust that followed.

Almost an hour later, Xi Heng finally found an abandoned town at the far end of the road, its color faded by the sand and dust.

At the town's entrance, the withered trees that make up the buildings and inns are cracked and dry, the signboards on the doors are broken, and the remaining half is illegible.

The town is mostly comprised of small, collapsed mud and stone houses, with most of the objects inside buried by sand and dust.

Xi Heng drove in and found a tall tree that was not completely withered next to a building that looked like a gas station. Although the bark was cracked, a few golden leaves were still growing on it, and a faint golden light emanated from the cracks on the surface.

"This is the best-condition tree I've seen along the way."

The girl disembarked from the boat and approached.

Several streaks of light emanated from the shoulder, piercing directly into the golden light within the cracks of the tree.

Open the personal interface again and try to connect to the wide area network. The navigation page will quickly take shape in a few seconds.

Xi Heng pressed a button in the air and randomly clicked on a visual effect; the playback was fairly smooth.

There's a slight delay, but it's usable.

She nodded slightly and directly opened the deep-water domain link commonly used by bounty hunters in Xiping City.

Information about the wasteland is hard to find in public links; all you can find are eye-catching but ultimately useless news articles posted by marketing accounts.

Real survival guides can either be bought directly or found slowly in the deep waters of the internet.

After a month of study, Xi Heng's knowledge of array formations was comparable to that of a third or fourth-level black array master. In no time, he found many links and forums related to the dark domain of the wasteland and began to read them from the beginning.

Most forums start with basic tutorials at the top, which are about how to avoid the supernatural, find water and food, and how to grow mushrooms and fungi, etc.

There were quite a few replies, and the forum was relatively active.

"As expected, there are quite a few living people in the wasteland..." Xi Heng silently flipped through a few more pages and found a public map.

The location of Xiping City was not marked on the map, and she did not know if her current location was also on the map.

The map shows areas with lower negative values, where small tissues have already taken root, while areas with higher negative values ​​remain empty.

"There's very little information or countermeasures about the supernatural in this forum. Basically, it's about collecting more yang materials like yang iron and thunderwood. The more you collect, the safer you'll be." Xi Heng flipped through many pages and found that most of the strategies related to the supernatural were avoidance methods, but there were no ways to confront them directly.

"Perhaps it's because this forum is only used by survivors trapped in the wasteland, not a place for communication with people who truly coexist with the supernatural." She clicked her tongue and closed the window.

"What are you looking at?" A sinister voice suddenly came from behind my ear.

It sounded like a girl's voice, but it also had a strange, aged, and eerie quality to it.

"Find some information about the strange things," Xi Heng replied casually, continuing to circulate his spiritual light as he browsed more pages in the deep-water web domain.

During this period, they would occasionally target specific users related to the wasteland in certain domains, using the techniques of a black array master to find out their actual identities and extract some of their browsing history.

After searching deeper and deeper for several dozen breaths, they finally found an old link that was not yet closed.

It contains many files related to the wasteland, which can be downloaded freely.

"No need to look anymore..." the voice whispered again from behind her ear, "I can tell you."

"Hmm?" Xi Heng opened the file and extracted a few of the most common and bizarre pieces of information, namely the Ear Spirit, the Heart-Strangling Demon, and the Living Hair Ghost.

The spirit behind the ear often speaks behind a person's back, and every sound is as clear as if it comes from behind the ear, hence the name.

When encountering such a strange situation, no matter what the other party says about not turning back, it is best not to respond to any of their words.

Just pretend you didn't hear anything and continue doing your own thing. The spirit behind you will only bother you for a day at most before leaving.

If you accidentally respond with a comment, you should immediately protect yourself with positive materials and flee the area where you encountered the spirit behind you.

Otherwise, Yin energy will gradually accumulate on your body. Even if you don't turn back, once the Yin energy reaches a certain level, it will still erupt and devour you.

"Just get closer... and you'll know." The eerie voice carried a seductive undertone.

Xi Heng turned around to look.

The next instant, a distorted face covered in black spots appeared before my eyes.

His blood-stained lips parted in a wide grin, revealing black teeth, and tiny mosquitoes swarmed from his throat, staring directly into her eyes.

When it came close, the creature slowly curled up the corners of its mouth, splitting all the way to its ears.

The mosquitoes dispersed, but for some reason, they did not approach Xi Heng, who showed no fear.

The strange creature remained frozen in place, offering no attack.

"Boring." Xi Heng raised his hand and grabbed, five wisps of resentful fire emerged from his fingertips and directly gripped the head of the vengeful ghost.

His tangled hair was burned bald by the deep red flames of resentment, and his originally distorted face seemed to melt away like a candle, revealing the pure resentment within.

The fire suddenly expanded, enveloping the gray-black aura before shrinking back and being drawn into her hand, transforming into a small, pure black bead.

The ghosts disappeared, and the noises around them also vanished.

On the nearby interface, information about the strange phenomenon was still slowly downloading.

However, because the location is so remote and the tree light signal is generally weak, the preservation speed is quite slow.

Xi Heng then sat down on the single-person flying boat to the side and quietly observed the resentment bead in his hand, which was only the size of a fingertip.

"This thing seems to be helpful to those who harbor resentment..."

She recalled the early cultivation steps of the resentment cultivation technique "Strange and Unusual Changes". The initial "Qi Devouring Stage" mainly involved cultivating by absorbing Yin Qi and resentment.

The essence of resentment cultivation is to integrate resentment into oneself, causing the cultivator to wander between humanity and the supernatural, struggling to survive and progress.

Therefore, every step taken when practicing this technique carries a risk.

One moment everything might be going smoothly, but the next step could plunge you into an abyss.

Because of the resentment, cultivators must maintain a balance between being human and being a monster. If they are too human, they will suffer backlash from the monster, while if they are too monster, they will lose themselves and become a true monster, which is several times more powerful and insane than ordinary monsters of the same realm.

This practice is far more dangerous than spiritual cultivation.

At most, spiritual cultivation might lead to demonic possession during a breakthrough, causing meridian disorder and regression in cultivation level, resulting in stagnation throughout life, but it generally doesn't lead to death.

However, despite the danger, there is one advantage: it allows cultivators to progress faster – this is clearly stated in the cultivation manual.

"I just don't know how fast it will be... Let's give it a try."

Xi Heng entered the building that resembled a gas station, found a clean spot, sat cross-legged, and placed the beads of resentment in his palm.

Close your eyes and feel the resentment surrounding you, its corrosive energy seeping into your skin and mind.

Xi Heng stood guard before Jin You's unconscious consciousness, using his own consciousness to absorb the resentment.

Following the instructions of the cultivation method, she began to let the gray-black resentment flow through her consciousness, so that it would be tainted by her own aura and not be rejected by her physical body. If this process were to be carried out directly by an ordinary person who had never cultivated, they would suffer great torment and might even suffer a mental breakdown on the spot.

But for Xi Heng, who not only possessed the power of resentment fire and had already reached the Golden Core realm, but also had the support of martial arts intent, it was nothing more than a gentle breeze.

Her current mental strength is sufficient to create martial arts external forces at will, transforming them into solid forms. This little bit of resentment will not have any effect at all.

Furthermore, with such dedication, the speed at which resentment is refined is much faster than the speed at which the cultivation technique is explained.

In just two or three minutes, the resentful black energy flowing through his consciousness surrounded him, making his skin appear as transparent as white jade, and gradually increasing the strength of his ordinary skin.

The black bead in his palm shrank to a tiny size. At this rate, it might only take a day to completely refine the strange energy within it—this speed is already extremely fast.

However, Xi Heng was still not satisfied. After circulating his energy throughout his body for over ten minutes according to the instructions of the cultivation method, he pondered for a moment, then directly raised his hand and put the black bead containing the strange resentment into his mouth, swallowing it whole.

Immediately, a dense aura of resentment spread from within his body.

Xi Heng drew the intense resentment towards his mind, quickly gathering and absorbing it.

Before long, the resentment clung to its own aura and was absorbed by its physical flesh and blood during the circulation of Qi.

Outside, the wind howled across the desolate wilderness, blowing endless sand and dust into the distance, only to return in the next turn.

On the tall, withered, black tree next to them, a few dozen scattered golden leaves rustled softly.

Apart from that, only a few eerie sounds remained in the ruined town.

Such as cries for help from a child claiming to be trapped in a basement, or the rustling footsteps that stop and start intermittently, or strange, incoherent laughter, etc.

These eerie sounds, seemingly real yet unreal, added a lively atmosphere to the long-abandoned town.

An hour later, Xi Heng finished his cultivation and slowly exhaled.

It was probably because during the time he was absorbing resentment to cultivate, his own yin value had already become close to the bizarre, so no other bizarre things came near.

But after she finished her cultivation and stored the strange energy within her body, no longer letting it show outwards, she soon heard rustling footsteps outside.

And it's getting closer and closer.

Xi Heng glanced around, and suddenly there was a knock on the door of the shop that was already open.

Knock knock,

"Is anyone home?" A normally emotionless male voice rang out from the doorway.

"My spiritual energy for navigation has run out; I hope to replenish it here."

"..." There was a moment of silence outside.

"Is nobody here?" Footsteps entered the store.

The girl looked curiously at the source of the footsteps, but there was nothing there.

She enhanced her perception with her divine sense and then activated Jin You's Yin value detection plugin, only to see a cloud of red Yin value mist approaching her.

"The Yin value is only three hundred, but it has spread widely." Xi Heng casually opened some documents related to the supernatural that he had just downloaded.

It is clearly written above that when faced with the bizarre, one must not reveal one's fear.

The greater the fear, the stronger the eeriness becomes.

This didn't matter to her at all; she just glanced at it and moved on to the next item.

At the doorway, the inexplicable footsteps were still slowly approaching.

“The strange behaviors and characteristics vary, but the pattern before launching an attack is mostly similar: first, it arouses fear and terror in people's hearts, and then it slowly approaches, causing the yin energy in people's bodies to increase rapidly.”

"The moment the eerie attack truly begins, the scattered Yin energy will rapidly gather into a demonic form, the Yin energy will surge wildly, revealing its true form..."

“Ordinary weapons are only somewhat effective at this moment… but now we are in a desperate situation, and most people will die on the spot, with no power to fight back.” Xi Heng muttered, looking at the invisible footsteps that were getting closer and closer to his side.

Da, da,

The footsteps left no trace on the dusty ground, only their sounds.

Ten meters, five meters, three meters.

The footsteps became clearer, and Xi Heng was enveloped by more than 300 Yin energy.

When the distance was only one meter, the footsteps suddenly stopped.

Two seconds later, just a fist's distance from the girl, came a cold breath.

At the same time, a strange voice spoke:

"Excuse me, is there anyone?"

"Nobody's here," Xi Heng replied calmly.

"You...aren't you human?" The eerie figure seemed to hesitate for a moment.

"I've noticed that you weirdos are all pretty brainless," the girl said simply. "I just slightly reduced the Yin energy, and you all popped up on your own, like game monsters that only follow the program."

"why."

"Ok?"

"There are people here! There are people here!" The eerie, emotionless voice gradually twisted into anger and hatred: "There are people here! Why didn't they come to save me!"

Xi Heng's lips twitched. She thought this guy might have some sense, but it turned out he was just as she had said.

The next instant, thick Yin energy rapidly gathered, revealing a blood-soaked, beast-headed, human-bodied demon before her.

Its face protruded forward, its teeth were like those of a wolf, revealing ferocious fangs, its eyes were one black and one white, its blue clothes were stained deep red with blood, and its throat had been torn open, exposing its carotid artery and spine.

Crimson blood was still spraying out, falling onto the ground to the side as if watering flowers.

The moment it appeared, its enormous claws, resembling both a human and a beast, reached out to grab Xi Heng's neck.

Xi Heng merely raised a finger, and three sword energies appeared out of thin air, instantly cleaving the monster in front of him into four pieces.

After a soft whooshing sound, the gray-haired girl took half a step back, and the body of the strange beast split into several pieces, which fell to the ground one by one.