Reincarnation Girl Becomes Immortal

Her life instincts demanded that she retreat immediately, and her heart rate increased rapidly.

Just now, if it weren't for the Qi and Blood Core within her body absorbing the death energy, she would have been poisoned to death by the death energy.

Although it is still alive, it is in a weak state.

If we encounter it again... there's a very high chance we'll die.

But death was not the price she paid.

So even though he knew the consequences, Xi Heng still grabbed it with one hand.

The moment the slender, fair fingers touched the crystal core, they were instantly coated with a layer of gray-black.

The gray-black color spread rapidly, climbing back up her shoulders and cheeks.

The next instant, an attack from the outside world came.

The deathly monster gripped the Corpse Greatsword tightly with its upper arms behind its back, making a seppuku-like motion.

After a strange buzzing sound, the sharp blade slashed down and struck Chao Xiheng.

Amidst the loud shattering of glass, the monster sliced ​​open its abdomen, and the greatsword of corpses burst through its body, engulfing the figure hidden within before emerging from its back.

As the deathly aura swept over her, the girl silently closed her already dilated pupils.

……

After a slight feeling of floating, Xi Heng opened his eyes again and found himself back in the gray save file space.

Neither the wailing of the vengeful ghosts, the oppressive aura of death, nor the powerful aura emanating from the monster could reach this place with her.

As the sound subsided, her hazy consciousness quickly returned to clarity.

Without thinking much about it or paying attention to the unchanged text and numbers in front of him, he directly reached out and clicked on the save button.

After a few seconds, she nodded when she saw a shiny black crystal appear in the item storage section.

"Sure enough, it can be saved."

Even if the item is inside a still-active enemy, it can be stored in her inventory once she gets her hands on it.

"With this, there's no need to worry about insufficient death energy during future refining and martial arts cultivation," she murmured to herself.

To reach a higher level in martial arts, one must have a fixed source of death energy.

Although there should be many other places besides this crystal where death energy exists.

But since it can be obtained so easily, why bother to search for it?

After saving the image, Xi Heng sat down cross-legged and recalled the appearance of the monster from earlier.

"My current strength is insufficient. No matter how many times I start over, it will be difficult to defeat that monster. I should focus on training and increasing my strength first... To defeat it, I need not only a protective ability against death energy, but also a sufficient amount of resentful fire."

The opponent was a monster tens of meters tall, as huge as a skyscraper.

Even if she squeezed out all the resentment in her body, it could only form a fireball a few meters wide, which could at most cover one of the monster's arms.

Xi Heng estimated that if he wanted to deal considerable damage to the monster in one move, the amount of resentful fire would need to be increased by at least three or four times.

"During the refining of death energy, the number of resentful flames also needs to be increased..."

The fire of resentment is mainly composed of great resentment; smaller and weaker resentments are not enough to ignite, and even if forcibly gathered, they will not produce much.

It is necessary to gather up great grievances in order to increase the fire of resentment.

Coincidentally, the crystal in front of her was a 'monster core' formed from the combination of great resentment and death energy.

"This one should be enough for me to cultivate for a while."

"It's a pity that resentment cannot be repeatedly contained and refined, otherwise I could just crush it dozens of times over..."

She clicked her tongue, snapping out of her reverie and back to reality.

"The monster has nine cores inside, which contain roughly nine different piles of great resentment. After refining this one, you can go and get the other one."

Then, Xi Heng tapped the words "Load Save" floating beside him.

Looking at the multiple archives on it, he pondered again—when should he go to cultivate?

"Um……"

After hesitating for a moment, he looked at the first village at the foot of Medicine King Mountain and muttered to himself:

"Speaking of which, martial arts and the cultivation of great grudges shouldn't require spiritual power, right?"

Although she could travel to the Pure Fire Realm by flying boat at any time, and her knowledge of array formations was enough for her to enter the Fire Hell silently and find a small place to cultivate peacefully.

However, the Fire Prison is too small, and there are many powerful beings within it. Cultivating death energy and resentment might be detected, leading to trouble and wasting time.

Furthermore, she preferred staying in the Chonghai Realm, her old haunt, to the Pure Fire Realm.

The strongest person in the Chonghai Realm is only the vengeful ghost Zhao Qianqiu, so it doesn't matter if we don't hide it.

A moment later she nodded, her finger then landing on the archive section of the cabin at the foot of the mountain.

A sense of distortion and scouring then arose, enveloping her.

My vision first blurred, then cleared up again.

The familiar ceiling came into view, revealing jagged, decaying beams, cobwebs, and dust everywhere.

Birds chirped, cicadas sang in the distance, and the warm early summer breeze blew in through the dilapidated window, blowing against her long black hair that clung to her cheek.

Xi Heng lay calmly on the simple bed, casually picking up a strand of his hair and gently curling it in front of him.

His thin lips parted slightly, and he whispered, "You're back..."

Every time she returns to this little wooden house, she feels as if she has lived through another world.

The surrounding old wooden furniture, covered in dust, also felt particularly welcoming.

After letting out a long sigh, Xi Heng slowly got up and changed his coarse clothes into fine dresses stored in his inventory in a small side room.

Then, pushing open the wooden door, a familiar, clear view came into view.

The towering Yaowang Mountain still sits majestically in front, with countless flowers, grasses, and trees painting the entire mountain forest with vibrant greenery.

The girl withdrew her gaze, and with a slight turn of her wrist, a heavy gold ingot appeared in her palm.

After turning it again, it was already added to the inventory and disappeared.

These simple supplies she uses daily were mostly obtained when she killed the underground gray dragon. Now her inventory even has all the camping equipment for outdoor use.

"Although it's a place devoid of spirits, I don't feel uncomfortable. I'll find a place to cultivate next..." With that, she left the village.

As she walked, her light red skirt swayed slightly, and the jade pendant at her waist dangled.

Her extraordinary appearance, nurtured by spiritual energy, and her naturally exceptional temperament attracted a lot of attention when she left.

Xi Heng was unaffected by this. He decided on his destination along the way and then used his lightness skill to speed up his flight.

She was used to cultivating in a courtyard, so naturally she would go to find a city to live in.

The nearest city to this village at the foot of the mountain is Jinshi City.

Although Jinshi City was said to be in chaos due to war in a few years, she felt that she might not be able to cultivate until then.

Even if they arrive, it's alright; a single action will quell the situation peacefully.

Xi Heng urged his spiritual power to accelerate, his figure almost turning into a streak of light.

She traversed the mountain paths that would normally take two or three hours by carriage, crossing them in a straight line in just a quarter of an hour.

After scaling the city wall and having her overly heavy gold ingots broken into smaller pieces at a money exchange, she entered the central city and found a business. There, a broker contacted several inner city families with vacant courtyards at a high price. After inspecting them, she bought one directly.

The layout of this courtyard was similar to the one she had shared with her senior sister in Jiangning City, with bluestone paving and glazed tile roofs.

Even in a dynasty with complex rituals, as long as you have enough money, many troublesome things can be easily accomplished without much effort.

She now possesses an ethereal grace and demeanor, and will not encounter any obstacles or disrespect.

Even if someone is blind, just a few wisps of murderous intent are enough for an ordinary person to remember for a lifetime.

The purchase of the courtyard was completed in just one afternoon.

Just after the house purification ritual was performed, the seller sent over seven servants as a bonus.

Xi Heng left only three maids to help manage the affairs, telling them not to disturb him, and then went to the backyard to set up a partition array that consumed less spiritual energy.

As he walked, he used his spiritual light as a brush to quickly draw the magic circle pattern.

A few spirit stones buried will enable it to operate for a whole year.

Xi Heng grabbed another futon and sat cross-legged in the pavilion inside the formation.

Afterwards, she used the resentful fire for protection and then deployed a spiritual light shield. Once everything was ready, she tapped the black crystal in her inventory with one finger.

Then, the crystal core formed by the great resentment and death energy fell into the cage of resentment fire as if laying an egg.

The resentment surrounding the crystal core was quickly swept away by the resentful fire, purifying the object and revealing its clear form.

The crystal core resembles a dragon fruit-shaped obsidian, with multiple bract-like sharp points on its surface.

She extended her fingertip and touched it slightly, and a wisp of death energy immediately flowed into her meridians along her finger.

Before losing power due to the death energy, Xi Heng quickly stopped and immediately adopted a cultivation posture, focusing his eyes on his nose and his mind, controlling the black energy in his body to circulate through his body and send it into his dantian.

The Qi and Blood Core seems to have a special attraction, causing the death energy to flow away automatically.

The vital energy, representing strong vitality, intertwines with the death energy, flowing into new vitality.

She didn't know what this strength was called, nor could she find any books or books about it.

In both the Chonghai and Jinghuo realms, she is probably the only one who can refine it.

All she knew was that this kind of unguided cultivation could easily lead to demonic possession, damage to the meridians, and cause great harm to the body.

But Xi Heng ignored this and, once he started cultivating, he forged ahead without hesitation.

With each touch of the death energy crystal core, more and more death energy flowed into the dantian and merged with the blood and qi.

The Qi and Blood Core, originally composed of life force, has become tainted by things that are the opposite of life.

But she did not feel her life force weakening; as she merged with the death energy, both her life force and the will to die were increasing.

It is as if life contains death, and death contains rebirth; the two forces evolve together while supporting and opposing each other.

Xi Heng thought of the Tai Chi symbol, which also represents the interdependence of life and death, with the intermingling of vital energy and death energy just like the Yin and Yang of Tai Chi, mutually generating and restraining each other.

……

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

Xi Heng sat cross-legged in the courtyard for two days and nights like a statue, absorbing enough death energy, and the special power she gathered was enough for her to launch an attack.

"Try it."

After saying that, the girl got up and stepped forward, facing a rock in the courtyard that looked like a peach.

Although his martial arts realm has not yet broken through, at least in the next move, there is already the attribute of death energy.

He nimbly assumed a stance, gathered his energy, and unleashed a palm strike.

When the palm stopped, it was still ten centimeters away from the rocks.

However, with a loud bang, large spiderweb-shaped cracks appeared on the surface of the boulder amidst the tremors.

The next instant, the rocks shattered, as if explosives had detonated inside, sending countless fragments of rock flying everywhere.

The sound of thunder was like a bolt from the blue.

Looking at the backyard now a scene of devastation, Xi Heng muttered to himself:

"It's just that the power has doubled... In that case, it's not very useful."

"Maybe it's because we were only hitting an inanimate object, so it didn't produce any special effect... Should we try hitting something alive?"

Looking at the scattered scene of broken stones in front of her, she suddenly remembered something and tried to circulate the special energy in her body.

As she focused her energy into her pupils, her vision gradually turned blackish-gray—as if a monochrome filter had been applied.

She had used this vision to peer into the various points of the Great Grudge Monster, and now, looking at the flowers and plants in this mortal backyard, she only felt their simplicity.

The view distinguishes vitality by light and color; flowers and plants are more eye-catching and bright, while lifeless bluestone pavement looks dull.

The shattered stones were scattered with a dark black hue, the color of death.

“It seems that this special force can strike people with death energy…” Xi Heng observed: “It might be somewhat effective against enemy cultivators.”