Mortal Transformation into Immortal

"Help."

"Can anyone hear me? I've fallen off a cliff and can't get back up."

"Is anyone there...?"

Yu Ling was searching for medicinal herbs in a dangerous mountain when he suddenly heard a panicked and helpless girl's cry.

"There's someone there."

Yu Ling stopped and listened carefully, discovering that the sound was coming from the other side of the mountain.

"It seems that the herb-gathering apprentice fell off the cliff."

After pinpointing the location, Yu Ling headed towards the direction from which the sound came.

Before long, he arrived at the other side of the mountain, where there was an almost vertical cliff. Yu Ling peered down and saw a girl who looked about thirteen years old squatting on a slightly protruding rock, her knees drawn up to her chest, about three zhang below.

A little further ahead is a canyon that is more than ten feet deep.

There were many climbing marks on the cliff face, indicating that the girl had tried to save herself many times, but failed to climb up due to the soft grass and rocks.

"Hey, are you alright?"

Yu Ling shouted.

Hearing that someone was up there, the girl was overjoyed and quickly replied, "Senior brother, I'm fine."

"How did you fall down?"

Yu Ling asked, "The terrain here is treacherous; it's difficult to rescue them."

"I came here looking for medicinal herbs, but a large green python was chasing me. I had nowhere to run, so I hid here, but after coming down, I couldn't climb back up," the girl replied.

"Big green python!"

Yu Ling was startled; there was something dangerous in this mountain. She quickly looked around warily.

"Senior brother, I encountered it the day before yesterday. It hid here for a day and a night, so it should have gone somewhere else by now," the girl reminded him.

She was afraid the snake was still nearby, so she didn't dare to make a sound all day until she realized she couldn't climb up, at which point she started calling for help.

"Wait here, I'll go find a vine."

Yu Ling breathed a sigh of relief, but still dared not be careless, gripping his machete as he searched for vines around him.

He quickly found a vine about the thickness of a thumb and dragged it over.

Be careful when you climb.

Yu Ling tied one end to the tree and let the other end down.

"Okay, senior brother."

The girl gripped the vines and carefully climbed upwards.

"Is she an ordinary person?" Yu Ling wondered, looking at her clumsy and laborious movements.

Even if one only reaches the first level of Qi Refining, with the tempering of immortal blood, their physical fitness will be much better than that of ordinary people.

Below was a sheer cliff several meters high, and Yu Ling felt a chill run down her spine for her.

Fortunately, she made it up safely without any serious injury.

"Thank you for saving me, senior brother."

The girl bowed gratefully, her face and arms covered in marks from the stones.

"It's nothing, just a small favor."

"You haven't entered the Qi Refining stage yet, have you?" Yu Ling asked.

"Um."

The girl nodded and whispered, "I'm not good at it. I've been practicing for four months and I still haven't sensed any spiritual energy."

Disciples who join a sect have two months to cultivate. If they do not embark on the path to immortality, they will have to start doing menial tasks after two months.

"Was assigning him to gather herbs because he offended someone?" Yu Ling wondered, because gathering herbs was a dangerous job, and it was basically only assigned to menial disciples who had embarked on the path of immortality.

"Let's go down the mountain first."

Yu Ling led her down the mountain.

"Senior brother, we must be careful. I'm afraid that big green python is still nearby."

The girl looked around in fear.

Yu Ling also looked around warily.

"Click, click, click..."

When we reached the halfway point of the mountain, we suddenly heard the faint sound of dry branches breaking.

"That's it!"

Chu Tao's face turned deathly pale; she remembered that voice vividly.

"It shouldn't be a demon."

Yu Ling's expression was solemn. He gripped the woodcutter's knife tightly in his right hand, while his left hand emitted waves of magical power, ready to unleash the Cold Nether Force at any moment.

Under this intense psychological pressure, he felt his spiritual bones begin to heat up again.

The heart rate also increased rapidly.

"Whoosh!"

Without a second thought, a huge green snake's head suddenly burst out from the nearby haystack and lunged at him.

As if by instinct, Yu Ling reacted quickly, swinging his right hand forcefully at the snake's head.

The machete struck the green python precisely on the head.

"hiss!"

The green python, in pain, thrashed about in the forest.

Yu Ling was knocked to the ground, and the knife, which was still stuck on the green python's head, slipped from his hand.

"Run!" Yu Ling shouted as he saw that the knife had only cut his mouth and had not hit any vital organs.

Blood dripped from the python's mouth, and it lunged at him again, brandishing a wood-chopping knife.

Faced with this danger, Yu Ling's spine became burning hot, and his eyes showed no fear, only fighting spirit, and even revealed a kind of "ferocity".

This made him forget about running away and decide to fight head-on.

"Frosty Nether Force!"

He let out a low growl and punched the green python in the throat.

In an instant, both streams of magical power in his dantian were exhausted. His fist slammed into the green python, unleashing all the icy aura within, which pierced through its scales.

"Snapped!"

In an instant, numerous tiny, frozen icicles of blood pierced out of the green python's throat.

Yu Ling was knocked to the ground by its impact.

After rolling several times on the ground, he quickly stood up, his eyes fixed on the green python.

After taking that punch, the green python completely lost its ability to attack, its eyes were lifeless, and its body was only left with instinctive struggle.

It was just an ordinary wild beast, without demonic blood, and could not resist magical attacks. Its throat had actually been frozen into ice by the cold aura.

"Is he/she dead?"

Yu Ling was still unsettled and breathing rapidly.

The struggles of the blue python gradually subsided until it finally came to a complete stop.

"Senior brother, you're amazing! You killed the giant green python."

Chu Tao stared at him in shock. When Yu Ling shouted to run, she had only run a few steps when she looked back and saw the green python already struggling in pain.

"What just happened?"

The danger was over, the heat sensation in his spine slowly disappeared, and the "ferocity" in his eyes also vanished.

Yu Ling came to her senses. Her state of mind was very strange. It was the first time she had faced such danger, yet she had not felt any fear.

"Um?"

"Wasn't it all used up? How come there are still two left?"

Feeling her body, Yu Ling was surprised to find that there were two more streams of magical power in her dantian.

He remembered that he had already used up this energy when he fully activated the Cold Nether Force.

The next moment, a deep sense of fatigue washed over me.

Yu Ling sat on the ground.

"I see."

He understood where this magical power came from. In that critical situation just now, after exhausting his magical power, his body urgently used his essence and spirit to create two more streams.

"Senior brother, are you alright?"

Chu Tao quickly stepped forward to inquire.

"It's alright, I'll practice for a while first."

Yu Ling sat cross-legged on the ground, absorbing spiritual energy to replenish his essence and spirit.

The spirit bone also heated up again.

As spiritual energy enters the body, the feeling of fatigue gradually subsides.

Chu Tao glanced at him, then went to the side of the green python's corpse, laboriously pulled out the wood-chopping knife that was stuck on its head, and disemboweled the green python.

At that moment, two young men were watching this scene in astonishment from the treetops in the distance.

"I never expected that this lowly servant, who is only at the first level of Qi Refining, could actually kill that green python." The young man in black was surprised.

"Yes, that's quite courageous. Most menial servants of this age would have been scared out of their wits and run away by now," the young man next to him said in surprise.

They saw what just happened clearly.

The two people happened to be flying overhead when they heard the cries for help and came to investigate.

This green python was just an ordinary wild beast; any servant who knew a little magic could handle it, but there were very few servants with the courage.

Seeing that they were out of danger, the two flew away.