Reincarnation Girl Becomes Immortal

"By swallowing this pill, one can transform into a dragon at will."

Whether one returns to being an ordinary person or transforms into a dragon, it only takes a single thought.

However, there is a limitation—it may only be fully effective if Xi Heng himself consumes it.

"Let's call it the Dragon Transformation Pill."

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Chapter 135, Blood Obtained from the Flood Dragon

The tiny platinum pill landed in the girl's thin left palm, like a small boat on a lake, moving steadily.

The elixir was no bigger than the tip of a ring finger, and it had no mysterious light or strange patterns; it was plain in appearance.

It is unlikely that anyone would have imagined that it contains the power to transform into a dragon.

Xi Heng gently sniffed the pill.

After spending a long time in contact with the dragon's heart and blood, she came to understand that the taste of a dragon is an ancient and warm sensation.

Currently, the best elixir in the entire Tianzhao Kingdom is probably this.

The lead-mercury elixirs refined by the Taoist officials in the Great Zhao Palace were no match for the Dragon Transformation Elixir she personally refined.

"This contains lifespan essence... Perhaps swallowing it could extend one's lifespan?"

Although she was the one who made the pill, she didn't know whether taking this pill would allow her to return her lifespan to her acupoints... This point was never mentioned in the Life-Taking Technique either.

"It must be difficult to do, right?" Xi Heng thought.

Otherwise, people could simply take lifespan from other people to extend their own lifespan.

If that were the case, there would have been many long-lived people in the world long ago.

The theory is so simple, yet even now, having become a martial artist of the Transformation Realm and possessing supreme power in this world, she has never encountered a truly long-lived person.

She therefore didn't take the matter of lifespan too seriously.

If your lifespan runs out, so be it; after all, you'll return to normal after reloading your save file.

"But I'll still give it a try after loading the save file."

Store your lifespan in your inventory as a Dragon Transformation Pill or Inner Elixir... After consuming it in your next life, perhaps you can turn your white hair back to black.

Changing your hair color from time to time is also a good idea.

The girl slowly closed her left hand.

As for why we waited until after loading the save file...

The reason is that her body is becoming increasingly weak, and her vitality is about to wither away.

Just like when he practiced the Life-Stealing Technique and used up all his lifespan.

Her hair turned white and dry, her once tender body became increasingly dry and rough, and her figure gradually became thinner.

Layers of darkness piled up before my eyes, and my consciousness gradually faded.

In order to refine the Dragon Transformation Pill, Xi Heng relentlessly extracted life force from his Mingmen acupoint until his body reached its limit.

It took such a long lifespan to condense a pill the size of a fingernail.

"The Dragon Transformation Pill contains forty to fifty years of my lifespan," Xi Heng thought. "Even a true cultivator wouldn't so recklessly use their lifespan to refine pills..."

Ancient books say that people seek immortality and cultivate the Tao, and indeed part of the reason is to understand the principles of heaven and to glimpse the way of heaven.

But most of them were after magical powers, a high and mighty status, and most importantly—immortality.

Cultivators would certainly not dare to squander their lifespan as recklessly as she does, just to refine a single pill.

Even compared to those who cultivate immortality, she possesses an invincible advantage.

As I meditated, a feeling of being lifted by warm water spread throughout my body, which was becoming increasingly stable.

The words "read the file" were displayed before my eyes.

This time, she didn't hesitate as before, and directly raised her hand to select the Dragon Transformation Pill and save it.

Then click on "Load File" and select the file.

I opened my eyes and found myself back before the Locked Dragon Well.

"hold head high--!"

The dragon's roar was just like the opening music that kept repeating when watching short videos, exactly the same tone as I remembered.

Above the dark and deep Locking Dragon Well, inside the karst cave.

Hearing the dragon's roar below, Xi Heng rubbed his ears.

"If I do it a few more times, I might be able to perfectly imitate that sound..."

She no longer let the monster below distract her. She turned around and ordered the tense and determined Ever Victorious Army soldiers to retreat. She found a flat spot on the ground and sat down cross-legged.

His empty left hand slowly turned, magically grasping a slightly warm platinum pill, and brought it to his lips.

After swallowing a dragon pill, his body experienced a violent fluctuation of energy.

The Dragon Transformation Elixir transforms into dragon energy within the lifespan, manifesting in the chest.

The sudden surge of internal energy caused a momentary disturbance in the body's energy sensation, and the whole body trembled slightly for a few seconds.

However, when she quickly activated her internal energy and calmed her qi, everything returned to a stable state.

Then, she first wrapped a small portion of her lifespan in her qi and blood and let it swim out of her inner elixir.

Although the dragon energy intertwined with lifespan will accompany you, as long as you consciously bring the dragon energy close to your flesh and blood, you can slowly separate it and transform it into a purer lifespan.

A few strands of pure life force returned to the meridians.

At the same time, the separated dragon energy merged with the flesh and blood, and a few scales grew on her chest... It was slightly itchy.

"This time, I didn't use the Heavenly Demon Transformation to isolate these negative sensations, but I clearly sensed the changes in my body..." Xi Heng ignored the itching sensation and focused all his attention on manipulating his lifespan, gathering it towards where it should be.

The Life-Taking Technique was activated, drawing blood and qi to open acupoints, but it did not extract anything from them as it had done before.

Instead, it pushes away the wisps of lifespan from within.

During introspection, one can clearly perceive the white aura of longevity flowing past.

But the next moment, Shouyuan was easily brushed aside, just like a willow leaf sticking to the wall.

No matter what, I can't swim in.

"..." Xi Heng blinked.

Then, she gathered even more vital energy and blood, wrapped it around her lifespan, and charged in—

However, Shouyuan, as always, avoided the acupoints.

I tried many times, but all attempts failed.

It's like trying to thread a needle, but the eye of the needle is sealed shut.

No matter how delicate and patient the person threading the needle is, it still won't work if they can't.

"I see." She exited the state of introspection, rubbing her forehead.

"When life force flows out of the acupoints, the upper limit of life force within it will also decrease..."

"The lifespan within the Mingmen acupoint is the upper limit... and the amount of lifespan lost will result in a loss of that upper limit."

The relationship between these two things made her realize that it would be extremely difficult to return her lifespan.

No wonder there are so few people in the world who live forever; it turns out that the human body itself has such a limitation.

While the vital essence inside an acupoint can be extracted, it is extremely difficult to reinsert it.

"This is the upper limit of a mortal's lifespan."

Xi Heng realized that he had encountered a dead end.

It seems that such a limitation has existed since the birth of humankind, as if it were an insurmountable destiny.

In any case, the lifespan within her Dragon Transformation Pill could not return to her body to support her physiological age.

Xi Heng pouted, no longer caring about his lifespan, and turned his attention to the dragon energy within his body.

Now, the area where scales have grown from the fusion with the dragon's energy is experiencing a persistent itching sensation.

Although small, it has always existed.

She tried to use her internal energy to suppress the itching, but it seemed to have little effect on the flesh of the dragon-transformed body.

Therefore, he retrieved the loose life force that had just flowed out of the inner elixir and separated the dragon energy from his flesh and blood.

Only in this way will it be effective; once the dragon energy dissipates, the itching will suddenly disappear.

Ke Xiheng was dissatisfied.

"If the itch cannot be relieved directly, it will be difficult to maintain the dragon state for a long time... unless it takes a long time to get used to it."

It seems that Yan Qingshi endured it all back then.

But Xi Heng wanted to try other methods.

She exhaled, then released the dragon energy within her body, which flowed down her arm.

He tore open the cuffs of his clothes and drew his sword to slash at the gaps between the newly grown dragon scales.

The pain suppressed the itching for a moment, but it would soon reappear.

"Ordinary scratching is ineffective, and worldly medicines should also be unable to cure it..."

She played tricks on her lifespan for a while, and the final result was that as long as she transformed into a dragon, she would inevitably experience itching.

This will be true regardless of where the dragon transformation takes place.

"This might be a result of the human body's rejection of dragonification," Xi Heng speculated.

"If the process of dragonification is accelerated further, and the person becomes a dragon instead of a human, it might be able to weaken or even make it disappear."

While meditating, she drew upon most of the dragon energy and directed it toward her left hand.

As a result, his left hand became covered with more and more dragon features.

The fingers grew longer, the nails rapidly grew from thin pieces into beast-like claws, the distance between the five fingers widened, the skin was stained with a dark red layer, and many fine lines appeared on the surface.

"After the dragon energy gathered, it has taken another step forward compared to the previous dragon transformation..."

Just as she had expected, as the dragonification process progressed, the itching sensation in her left hand reached a certain peak and then quickly subsided.

But, there are still some.

Even though the flesh and blood on his entire hand were filled with dragon energy, he still retained the characteristics of a 'human'.

The human hand did not actually transform into a 'dragon claw', but rather remained between the two, becoming the 'dragon-man's hand'.

It seems that relying solely on the blood and flesh of a dragon can at most transform one into a half-dragon, but not into a true dragon.

At the same time, as more and more dragon energy merged with his flesh and blood, Xi Heng suddenly felt thirsty in his throat and a strange feeling of hunger arose.

But what she wanted to drink was not water, but dragon's blood.

What they wanted to eat was naturally dragon meat.

Undistracted by his desires, Xi Heng continued his analysis: "As the dragonification intensifies, the craving for dragon flesh and blood will become increasingly fierce."

"If we just let it run rampant, it might end up like the people in that story... endlessly devouring dragon meat. Even if it becomes a monster after eating it all, it will always be hungry, lose its humanity and devour people, and eventually choke to death."

"And then, at the end of the story," Xi Heng slowly recalled, looking up, "that person transformed into a gigantic and hideous dragon, unable to fly, forced to crawl on the ground..."

"If you only eat dragon heart meat, it seems you'll only become a humanoid monster with dragon features, not actually become that kind of creature..."

She always felt that her transformation into a dragon was missing something.

The dragon's heart and flesh are too singular; they need to be combined with other parts to truly possess the power of a dragon and become a complete dragon.

After merging with the dragon's energy, waves of desire suddenly arose from the depths of one's heart.

The largest of these is to become a complete true dragon.

The dragon's aura seemed to be whispering in her heart: "But this form is not enough... it must be complete."

Xi Heng was unaffected by it; her willpower, having experienced hundreds of life-and-death reincarnations, could not be easily shaken by this thing.

Instead, she used her desires to see clearly what she longed for in her heart.