In the dark red glow emanating from the bottom of the lava pool, Ling Tian knelt on the cracked Profound Iron ground. The skin on his right hand, where the Dragon scales had receded, was covered in spiderweb-like scorch marks. Three strands of white hair fell over his blood-stained lapel, trembling slightly with his ragged breathing.
"What kind of Medicinal Pill is this... why go to such lengths...?" Su Meier's trembling fingertips touched the frosty strands at his temples. Her nine fox tails unconsciously encircled him. "You burn your Lifespan just like that? Do you think you're a Phoenix undergoing Nirvana?"
Ling Tian twitched his mouth, wanting to speak, but a metallic sweetness suddenly welled up in his throat. Su Meier frantically cupped his face, only to find that the molten gold in his pupils was eroding the whites of his eyes—this was a sign of backlash from forcibly activating the Flame Dragon's Third Transformation.
"Open your mouth!" She bit her tongue, then, holding the Profound Jade Rejuvenation Dew in her mouth, she kissed him. The extremely cold spiritual power, containing the essence blood of a Nine-tailed Sky Fox, flowed down his throat into Ling Tian's Meridians. Behind Ling Tian, an ice and fire intertwined Tai Chi diagram appeared. When the last trace of violent Dragon Qi was suppressed, Su Meier suddenly trembled all over—a trace of blood appeared on her third fox tail.
The Profound Spirit Shattering Origin Pill was clutched tightly in Ling Tian's palm. Su Meier suddenly realized something. She grabbed Ling Tian's hand, which held the Medicinal Pill, and brought it close to her brow. The unique treasure-鑒寶天賦 of the qingqiu imperial seal instantly analyzed its properties: "Increases the success rate of a Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul by seventy percent..."
"The path of revenge is long and arduous..." Ling Tian wiped the blood from his lips, propped himself up with the jade dragon sword, and stood. "This Medicinal Pill can help you suffer less..." Before he finished speaking, Su Meier suddenly pushed him down beside the broken Pill Furnace. The young girl straddled his waist, her nine fox tails trapping them like a cage, and hot tears splattered on Ling Tian's chest: "Who told you to make decisions for me!"
Ling Tian said nothing, just looked at her quietly. Suddenly, Su Meier grabbed Ling Tian's lapel and kissed his cracked lips again. A unique girlish fragrance filled Ling Tian's nostrils. This time, Ling Tian responded. As their lips and teeth intertwined, Su Meier slowly wrapped her arms around Ling Tian's neck, feeling his thick, masculine breath. Su Meier's pretty face grew hotter and hotter. Time seemed to stand still, and the aroused commotion was drawn out by the silver threads connecting their lips.
"Hoo hoo hoo..." The little fox panted heavily, her peerless face already so red it looked like it was about to drip blood.
Ling Tian held her hand: "Meier, I'll walk this path with you, never to fail you in this life!" The man made a promise to the girl in front of him.
"Mmm... I believe you!" With that, Su Meier leaned on Ling Tian's chest and fell asleep... Su Meier was awakened by the aroma of roasted meat. "Come, try this roasted Ice Plain Bear meat, it's also brushed with honey." She took the roasted bear meat that Ling Tian handed her. The soft bear meat was coated with a golden layer of honey. With one bite, her mouth was bursting with juice! She instantly felt like she had ascended to heaven, it was too delicious!
Watching Su Meier wolf down her food, Ling Tian dotingly patted her head, "Eat slowly, there's still plenty here."
After they had eaten their fill, Ling Tian said, "The ruins are fraught with danger. Just one underground palace almost prevented us from returning. Now that the danger here has been eliminated, it's a rare safe place. I plan to enter the Talisman Ancestor's illusion here and engrave the second life Talisman, which will give me more means. Also, Meier, you should take the Shattering Origin Pill. Now is when its medicinal effect is best."
"Mmm! I know, Ling Tian Gege, I'll be your Protector here." Su Meier nodded upon hearing this, then took the Shattering Origin Pill. The Medicinal Pill melted instantly in her mouth, like a divine nectar, sweet with a hint of bitterness and spiciness, transforming into a warm, gentle current that slid into her stomach in an instant.
Then Ling Tian found a stone platform and sat down. He formed a hand seal with his right hand, and his Natal Talisman Brush appeared. Then Ling Tian suddenly plunged the Talisman Brush into his chest, and a white light exploded, instantly transforming the scene before him.
"Boy, you've come..." The cold voice still had no emotion.
"Are you ready for the Bone Talisman trial?"
"Bring it on!"
"Swoosh!"
The moment the blood-colored Talisman Brush pierced his sternum, eighteen streams of 幽冥鬼火 erupted from the cracks in the chains. The Dragon's roar that burst from Ling Tian's throat was choked into bloody foam by the bone claw reaching out from the abyss before it could even escape—this time, the chains piercing his scapulae were actually covered with three hundred and sixty Talismancer skeletons!
"The rules of the Myriad Tribulation Heart-Lock Abyss..." The Talisman Ancestor's voice, mixed with the booming sound of Ling Tian's bones shattering, said, "For every tribulation a trial-taker breaks, the next tribulation will add ten times the Karma!"
Ling Tian's right arm Dragon scales had not yet solidified when his entire arm was twisted into a bloody mist by the Talisman chains. He watched his flesh and blood fragments scatter in the air, each drop of blood transforming into a vengeful spirit that lunged at his Divine Soul. The Talismancer at the forefront, clad in a star-patterned Daoist robe, was none other than the previous Talisman Ancestor's Personal Disciple!
"Talisman Cave! Open!"
Ling Tian's chest suddenly split open into a Talisman Cave, and thousands of vengeful souls condensed into a heaven-shading Talisman. Ling Tian was suppressed in the center of the Talisman paper, watching helplessly as his Three Ethereal Souls and Seven Corporeal Spirits were drawn out of his body by a cinnabar brush. In the excruciating pain of his left arm "crack"ing, he actually smelled the scent of Su Meier's Nine-tailed Fox Fire—this Bone Talisman could actually extract memories!
The Talisman Ancestor sneered, igniting Ling Tian's spine, "This is the Suppressing Talisman Bone..."
Ling Tian suddenly bit through his tongue, and the ejected essence blood drew a reverse Talisman in the Void Realm!
The Overlord Mansion Dragon Soul, from his shattered spine, soared into the sky, this time actually growing three ferocious Dragon heads! The left Dragon head held the Talismancer Daoist, the central Dragon's pupils shot out sky-burning golden flames, and the right Dragon horn was actually entwined with Su Meier's Qingqiu Ice Flame. The devoured vengeful spirits transformed into blood-colored Talisman sand in the Dragon's belly, reshaping Ling Tian's Physical Body along his Meridians.
When the three hundred and sixtieth skeleton was chewed to pieces by the Dragon Soul, a collapsing sound came from the purgatory at the end of the chains. Ling Tian stepped on the blood Talisman and walked before the Talisman Ancestor.
"Senior, when I reach the Out-of-Body Realm, we shall meet again."
After retreating from the illusion, Ling Tian got up and moved his "new" body, casually twisting his torso, and his bones cracked and popped.
"Ling Tian Gege! Did you succeed?!" Su Meier asked with concern.
"Mmm, it's time to leave!" Ling Tian patted Su Meier's head.