Before long, a warm, lifting sensation spread throughout her body.

Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes.

Then you can see that the two characters 'Read File' are clearly visible.

.........

Volume 1: Chapter 252, The Divergence of the Two Formations

In the gray loading screen, Xi Heng sat on the soft ground, his hands resting on his knees, his upper body leaning forward and his head tilted back slightly.

With this casual posture, I quietly read the many lines of small text on the side.

She skipped the first few lines and saw that her spiritual cultivation level had changed to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, and her mental age had increased by sixty years compared to before.

Now, her mental age is 72, and the upper limit is 1692... which seems like a very long time.

I wonder what this nearly 1,700-year-old time will look like?

she thinks.

"After mastering the method of creating a pseudo-elixir, there will definitely be another significant improvement."

"Perhaps it could reach two thousand years old? Or even more?"

I recalled the days when I was the emperor of the Great Zhao Dynasty, and was addressed as "Long Live the Emperor."

Perhaps at a certain level, the tens of thousands of years of lifespan originally contained in the blessing will become a reality...

Xi Heng continued to look down.

The number of save opportunities remained unchanged. Reaching the middle stage from the early stage of Foundation Establishment did not seem to be considered an improvement in 'realm' in the system's eyes.

Save opportunities: 1

The single, upright number stood before her, causing her to subconsciously recall what she had heard the Great Vengeance Demon Lord say about the realm of the Great Vengeance during her battle with the vengeful demon.

If I were to follow that path and advance in a future life, would I be able to get another chance to save my progress?

"Although spiritual cultivation seems to be the most mainstream method of cultivation at present, other types are also worth trying..."

If you choose to pursue the path of spiritual cultivation alone, obtaining save points will be extremely difficult.

But if you add other things, it won't be so troublesome.

"However, there's no shortage of save opportunities now, so we can take our time." She wasn't in a hurry.

Scroll down further to find the section for saving items.

Xi Heng had already decided what to keep, and simply pointed to it.

Slender fingertips landed on the square-shaped save slot, causing ripples of light to spread across it.

Before long, the white, fake pill pattern, still stained with traces of blood, appeared in the save slot.

Xi Heng waited for a while, and after a few seconds there was no other reaction, he tilted his head:

"This fake Pure Fire Pill doesn't even contain any divine consciousness?"

There's something strange about her.

After a while, he realized what was going on and murmured, "It's probably because the divine consciousness of the Resentful Heaven Demon Fire is completely contained within the Pure Fire's body. It can use the Pure Fire's fake core to regain its body and be reborn. Therefore, a certain connection is established between the Pure Fire and the fake core... rather than placing the divine consciousness inside the fake core."

"In that case, you can just save it."

Just as Xi Heng was about to confirm, something else suddenly came to mind.

Before she died in her dragon form, it seems she swallowed the true form of the Pure Fire.

"Can I... preserve the Pure Fire directly?"

Tap again, and your mind will shift—

The original blood-stained white fake pill gradually disappeared, and was replaced by a bright white flame shape.

Before she could even manage a smile, another message appeared below the save bar.

[Note: This is an object without roots or origin; it may dissipate after being removed.]

It's some brand new text again.

Xi Heng blinked. In the few times she reloaded her save file, she encountered two new system reactions in a row.

This was not possible before.

It seems that as long as one's own level is high enough and one comes into contact with more and more things, this ability to save and load will reveal more and more details.

She carefully examined the short passage of text.

“Without roots or origin…” she thought, “Could it be that what I have preserved is only the appearance of the Pure Fire, and I have failed to preserve the white phoenix feather that is the essence of the Pure Fire?”

Xi Heng knew long ago that the white phoenix feathers, suppressed at the very bottom by the heavy death aura, were the core of the Pure Fire.

Other than death energy, great resentment, and even the large amount of spiritual energy obtained from sacrifices, they are all just mixed and mixed substances.

"Just like when I saved the space rings of the seven sect leaders before, I was unable to save the contents inside... This save field seems to only be able to save the appearances I select."

"But if we want to truly preserve the Pure Fire, do we need to get our hands on that feather?"

She thought about it and realized it wasn't too difficult.

I had extracted it once before, and it wouldn't take much effort to preserve it after it had formed a false core.

After nodding slightly, Xi Heng replaced the stored item with the fake pill.

Then, I turned my attention to the most conspicuous 'load' button in the entire gray space.

The finger reached out and paused in mid-air.

"Let's rest for a bit first." She relaxed her whole body and lay on her side, crossing her arms and letting her head rest on them, which was quite comfortable.

With his eyes closed, Xi Heng silently recited how he should cultivate in his next life.

After reloading the save file, the drug resistance and toxicity accumulated in the body due to the use of various elixirs will be cleared, and the elixirs used before can be taken again.

Therefore, the cultivation speed should be similar to that of the previous life.

Generally speaking, although the cultivation time varies between each stage of Foundation Establishment, it is not significant.

In my next life, I should be able to advance to the late Foundation Establishment stage, and in the life after that, I should reach the peak.

The girl whispered, "After my next two lifetimes of cultivation, should I fight the Resentful Heaven Demon Flame a few more times?"

Although she was able to imprison the vengeful demonic fire after transforming into a dragon and devour the pure fire to fly far away into the void beyond the realm, it was not a complete victory. Instead, she desperately dragged her opponent away.

Xi Heng wanted to truly defeat his opponent once.

"...But even a peak Foundation Establishment cultivator might not be able to win. It's better to wait until after the False Core stage."

At that time, she could load the save file she had set when she was in Da Zhao and facing the vengeful ghost Zhao Qianqiu, and go directly to the Fire Hell to challenge the vengeful demon fire that had instantly killed her.

"From now on, I'll just focus on cultivating in peace." She made the decision casually.

There is no need to introduce the method of creating fake elixirs anymore, as it is already perfect enough.

She only needs to condense a false core during the period when the great resentment has not yet formed and the pure fire is still pure, so that she will not be affected by the backlash of the resentment fire and can truly advance.

The road ahead seemed smooth sailing no matter how you looked at it, so Xi Heng had no other thoughts. He just needed to continue along the path he had set in mind.

As I closed my eyes, drowsiness enveloped me.

……

After a long while, Xi Heng slowly woke up, groggily propped himself up, and looked at the words "read the save file".

He rubbed his face until he gradually came to his senses before reaching out and clicking.

A touch of fingertips causes the air to ripple.

The blue light first expanded, then reformed into columns, displaying multiple images.

She pointed to the first picture, and her vision immediately became distorted.

When you close your eyes and open them again, you see the mottled appearance of the wooden houses in the village.

The cicadas chirped softly, accompanied by the sound of a gentle breeze.

Xi Heng exhaled, lowered her legs off the bed, and changed out of her clothes into a more comfortable casual dress.

He simply pushed open the door, and in the blink of an eye, his figure vanished into the distance.

Then came the almost formulaic process of cutting open the dragon meat, boarding the flying boat, activating the magic array on board, and soaring high into the sky.

After breaking through to the outer void, the flying boat rushed towards the direction of a wisp of resentful fire at its maximum speed.

The trail of light behind it trembled violently, drawing a rather conspicuous straight line in the boundless, dim void.

……

Passing through the rift between worlds, we arrived at the Pure Fire Realm.

This time, the flying boat was propelled at full speed, arriving just as the spirit-locking formation showed a flaw.

Xi Heng calculated the location of the entrance with his fingers, then retracted the flying boat in mid-air and rushed in with his physical body.

Then, concealing himself, he arrived at the outer edge of the Ishigaya town hills and opened up a new cave.

Having learned from the previous experience, this time it took less time to develop the cave dwelling, and the planning was more complete.

Each room was clearly distinguished by its specific purpose, and the furniture made using simple woodworking techniques was also much more refined.

That was the end of it; daylight arrived.

Xi Heng clapped his hands, took out the Pure Fire Emblem, put on a white robe commonly seen in the Fire Hell, and went to the market to buy fasting pills and other daily necessities needed for cultivation.

Incidentally, I also ordered an extra hundred spirit stones worth of lychee-flavored fasting pills from the alchemy shop, which will arrive in a month.

Having given up, she continued to set up the cultivation site, establishing formations and illusions, and also brought in a spiritual energy channel from Shigu Market.

During this time, Xi Heng felt the spiritual energy concentration continuously increasing. After thinking for a moment, he ran to the nearby Seven Sect Alliance and drew another stream of spiritual energy from another Pure Fire Split.

As a result, the concentration of spiritual energy in the cave increased again, reaching the level of the innermost sacred cultivation ground of the Pure Fire Capital.

The girl was quite satisfied with this, and then returned to the Pure Fire Capital to fetch another one.

However, the increase in spiritual energy concentration this time was much smaller, seemingly approaching a certain limit.

Once another connection is established, the improvement becomes almost imperceptible, so Xi Heng stops.

After setting up the cultivation environment, he swallowed a fasting pill and sat cross-legged on the brand-new futon to begin his cultivation.

The spiritual energy gathered in the cultivation room into pale blue wisps, slowly flowing and drifting, occasionally converging on the body's surface.

Time flies.

The spiritual energy circulates hundreds of times throughout the body; a month passes in the blink of an eye.

Xi Heng paused his cultivation, went out to Shigu Market to retrieve the fruit-flavored fasting pills he had ordered, strolled around the market for a short while, and then returned to his cave to continue his cultivation.

In the first year, Hell was peaceful and stable.

In the second year, the higher-ups of the Fire Prison noticed the weakening of spiritual energy concentration even earlier than in the previous life, and even a special grand ceremony could not reverse the trend.

Amidst the chaos outside, Xi Heng remained carefree within the cave, absorbing their spiritual energy for his own cultivation.

The Fire Prison cultivators initially thought that the Spirit Locking Array had a defect that caused the spiritual energy to leak out. They then organized the few array masters in the array to investigate and find the flaws. In the end, they only found a few minor problems, and after repairing them, the spiritual energy still failed to return to its original state.

When repairing the formation proved ineffective, the higher-ups then concluded that the Pure Fire was weakening. After much discussion, they held an even larger sacrificial ceremony, but it was ultimately to no avail.

In the third year, the fact that the Pure Fire was weakening was leaked by someone, and ordinary cultivators knew about it. This caused a great uproar, and all sorts of rumors spread that the Pure Fire was about to be extinguished and the Spirit Locking Array was about to break.

Even now, the higher-ups in the Fire Prison still haven't realized that a great deal of spiritual energy has gathered in one place.

Therefore, no one in the world can compare with Xi Heng in terms of control over the Pure Fire. Since the illusion she casts cannot be erased, no one will notice this.

Perhaps it would be easy to know about the birth of the Heavenly Demon Flame, but at present, she has the highest authority over the Purifying Flame.

In the fifth year, the Pure Fire Sect and the Myriad Treasures Pavilion joined forces, claiming that they would create a "formation within a formation" to resolve the crisis of the Pure Fire Sect's decline.

In the previous life, there were fake alchemy techniques causing chaos in the world, and the decline in spiritual power was not as severe as in this life, so this event did not develop.

Xi Heng heard about this during his free time from cultivation. He became slightly interested and secretly sent the resentful fire to the minds of several array masters to monitor them, while also recording and learning the method of setting up an array within an array.

Two more years passed, and she was only one Qi Condensation Breakthrough away from the late Foundation Establishment stage, so she immediately began a deep seclusion.

At the same time, the array within the array, with the Heavenly Water Array Flag as its core, was further reinforced by a Spirit Gathering Array inside the Spirit Locking Array. This array covered the areas occupied by the Wanbao Pavilion, the Pure Fire Sect, and the Seven Sect Alliance, thus restricting the spiritual energy that Xi Heng could draw from these three locations.

Afterwards, with the conclusion of two consecutive grand festivals, the spiritual energy concentration at these three locations gradually increased.

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