An emperor in his later years is summoned by his sister to save the nation's fate.

[National Prophecy Announcement: Lu Xueyao, the Chosen One of the Dragon Kingdom, has successfully collected a single Millennium Dragon Blood Fruit, a special resource!]

[Triggering a critical strike that manifests a thousandfold increase in national fortune!]

[Reward for Manifestation: 1000 Millennium Dragon Blood Fruits! Successfully manifested into the treasury of the 749th Bureau of the Dragon Kingdom.]

After picking the fruit, Lu Xueyao looked around and quickly found a secluded corner of a rock at the edge of the depression to sit cross-legged.

Without the slightest hesitation, she popped the bright red fruit into her mouth.

The dragon blood fruit melted instantly in her mouth, turning into a torrent of blood that rushed into her stomach.

In an instant, the hunger caused by the long journey vanished, replaced by an unprecedented feeling of fullness.

But this was only the beginning. The pure yang energy contained within the dragon blood fruit suddenly erupted, like a river bursting its banks, rampaging through her delicate meridians.

"Ugh!" Lu Xueyao let out a painful groan. She didn't dare to delay and immediately closed her eyes tightly, frantically circulating the Blood Nerve Technique to guide the violent medicinal power throughout her body.

As the medicinal properties were continuously refined, fine beads of sweat began to seep from Lu Xueyao's body, some of which even contained traces of black, foul-smelling impurities.

And beneath her skin, a faint golden light began to emanate.

The path of cultivation has a strict hierarchy.

From lowest to highest, they are: Body Tempering Realm, Mortal Transformation Realm, Life Spring Realm, Dao Palace Realm, Divine Power Realm, Feather Transformation Realm, Dao Severing Realm, Saint, Saint King, Great Saint, Quasi-Emperor, and Great Emperor.

In this basic body tempering realm, if one can temper the physical body and blood to the point where there is no further progress, one can step into the legendary extreme body tempering realm. Until the medicinal power is completely refined, Lu Xueyao slowly opened her eyes.

At this moment, her skin was crystal clear, with a faint golden glow flowing across its surface, and even her bones radiated a jade-like luster.

This is the golden skin and jade bones sculpted after entering the ultimate realm of body tempering!

Taking this step brought about a qualitative leap in her physical body.

Ordinary swords and weapons could no longer harm her in the slightest, and even ordinary water and fire could not corrode her body.

Although this is only a defense at the mortal level and cannot completely protect against high-level, bizarre rules, her survival ability has increased exponentially in this wasteland full of strange occurrences.

Meanwhile, in the Dragon Kingdom, at the headquarters of the 749 Bureau in Kyoto.

Director Shen Xingzhou watched the entire process of Lu Xueyao's transformation on the big screen, his eyes gleaming.

He immediately pressed the communicator in front of him, his voice excited: "Chen Yan! A thousand Dragon Blood Fruits have just materialized in the treasure vault. Go and retrieve ten immediately!"

Chen Yan is an A-level Ghost Hunter specializing in logistics and research, primarily responsible for analyzing the supernatural components of various strange items.

"Chief, I'm already in the treasure vault." Chen Yan's slightly trembling voice came from the other end of the communicator: "The vitality contained in this fruit is terrifying. I will immediately arrange for lab rats and several volunteer low-level demon tamers to take it for testing to see if this Dragon Blood Fruit will have any effect on the physique of our native demon tamers!"

The eternal night wasteland.

A wisp of Lu Li's divine consciousness resided in Lu Xueyao's sea of ​​consciousness, spreading outwards like an invisible net.

After some investigation, Lu Li finally discovered the obsidian urgently needed for the construction of the lord's mansion in a valley dozens of miles away from Lu Xueyao's current location.

However, that mine was not unclaimed land; some dangerous alien creatures were lurking nearby.

"Xueyao, proceed thirty miles due north." Lu Li's voice rang directly in her mind.

Lu Xueyao stood up, stretched her powerful body, and immediately set off.

When she arrived at the valley at great speed, the sight before her startled her slightly.

There were indeed large amounts of obsidian exposed on the mountainside, but directly below the obsidian vein, several ancient trees, entirely black and exuding a chilling aura, grew.

White spider webs hung from the branches of these ancient trees and on the nearby rocks.

In the center of the spider web, several terrifying spiders, each the size of an off-road vehicle, were coiled.

On the backs of these spiders were grotesquely twisted, pale human faces!

This is the Human-Faced Spider. In the Eternal Night Wasteland, they are considered a kind of "monster." Although they have not yet mastered the unreasonable "rules of killing" and cannot be considered truly bizarre, their strength, thanks to their size, highly venomous spider silk, and powerful bodies, may not be much weaker than a D-level monster.

Just as Lu Xueyao was about to walk around him, Lu Li's voice rang out with a hint of excitement.

"That's really good luck."

Lu Li's divine sense immediately saw through the illusion and reality of the place.

He could clearly see that those ancient trees emanating a chilling aura were not ordinary wood, but rather the extremely rare Xuan Yin Wood in the cultivation world!

This is one of the best main materials for refining the Demonic Treasure, the Myriad Souls Banner. In the eyes of Emperor Lu Li, the spider silk containing extremely yin energy spit out by the Human-Faced Ghost Spider is also one of the main materials for refining the surface of the Myriad Souls Banner.

"As the younger sister of the Eternal Night Demon Emperor, if I, who have cultivated demonic arts, do not even possess a Myriad Soul Banner, how can I be worthy of the title of a demonic cultivator?"

Lu Li immediately said in his mind, "Xueyao, don't retreat. Go and kill the Human-Faced Spider, seize its silk, and then gather those few Xuan Yin Woods. Once you have both, I can refine the Myriad Soul Banner for you."

Upon hearing this, a fighting spirit flashed in Lu Xueyao's eyes.

Since the Human-Faced Spider had not mastered the rules, Lu Li judged that Lu Xueyao could easily deal with it with her newly forged Golden Skin and Jade Bones alone.

After all, the Blood Scripture he taught contained not only cultivation techniques, but also deadly blood-based moves.

Although Lu Xueyao is currently only in the Body Tempering Realm and has not yet generated magical power within her body, she is more than capable of mobilizing the vast power of blood and qi within her body to launch attacks.

"hiss--"

Sensing the presence of a living person, several human-faced spiders let out piercing hisses, their eight long legs tearing through the ground like sharp blades as they pounced on Lu Xueyao.

In mid-air, several strands of highly venomous spider silk shot towards her face like sharp arrows.

Instead of retreating, Lu Xueyao advanced, and the golden muscles and jade bones within her body instantly erupted with a booming sound.

Her blood nerves were working frantically, and she suddenly gathered all the blood and energy in her body into her right palm.

"Blood Shadow Assassin!"

With a low shout, the viscous blood energy burst forth from her body, condensing in mid-air into several translucent, dark red blood-red spikes.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The Blood Shadow Thrust suddenly shot out, as fast as lightning, even creating a sharp sonic boom in the air.

In just one exchange, with a few muffled "thuds," those seemingly indestructible human-faced spiders, their proud carapaces, were pierced through like thin paper by the Blood Shadow Thorn.

The Blood Shadow Thorn shredded their hearts, pinning them firmly to the rock wall behind them.

After easily resolving the battle, Lu Xueyao stepped forward and gathered all the scattered spider silk on the ground into her system inventory.