CHAPTER 554.5: BLOOD BLADE TRUE ONE

Chapter 554.5: Blood Blade True One

"Yes, senior's words are correct." Wang Shouyi patted his thigh and said to Hua Jin, "Her Eminence, the most important thing right now is to find a cultivation technique to practice! To maintain your dwindling lifespan."

"I understand the principle perfectly..." Hua Jin forced a bitter smile. "But which technique doesn't require a cultivator's talent? At the very least, it needs a dantian. Yet now, I don't even have a dantian anymore."

As she spoke, tears welled up in her eyes.

How could she not know that if she stopped cultivating, she would age rapidly and her lifespan would drain away quickly?

Wang Shouyi looked at Hua Jin with pain in his heart but felt it inappropriate to comfort her in front of Chen Huaian.

"Her Eminence, why don't you try the Divine Body Tempering Technique?"

Seizing the moment, Chen Huaian immediately brought up the Heavenly Demon Art.

"Exactly!" Wang Shouyi slapped his thigh again excitedly. "Her Eminence, I almost forgot! Isn't there Elder Zhang's Divine Body Tempering Technique? Elder Zhang said this physical cultivation method does not require any talent and can be practiced regardless of whether one has a dantian!"

Hua Jin's eyes flickered with interest at these words.

But then she hesitated, "But... won't that physical cultivation technique cause severe changes to one's body shape?"

Just thinking about Zhang Yibai's suffocatingly muscular physique gave her goosebumps.

If she ended up as a muscular lump like that, she felt it would be better to die.

"That won't be an issue." Chen Huaian had prepared a reason long ago and coaxed her, "True One, you might not know, but last time I visited Elder Zhang's sect, there were several female disciples there. Each of those women was lively and alluring. I asked and found out it was because they practiced the Divine Body Tempering Technique.

This technique has different effects for men and women. It doesn't make women develop bulky muscles like men. It even seems to enhance a woman's charm... If Her Eminence doesn't believe me, I can call Elder Zhang right now."

After hearing this, Chen Huaian could tell that Hua Jin was completely tempted.

Everything was going according to plan.

At present, inside the Kunlun Immortal Palace, it was needless to say that a fierce succession battle was still raging.

And with the end of this succession battle, whoever succeeded would inevitably come to trouble Hua Jin.

They would force her to hand over some of the Kunlun Immortal Palace's secrets.

His mission was to completely bind Hua Jin to his own warship before that happened.

To make Hua Jin a thorn piercing the Kunlun Immortal Palace!

Practicing the Heavenly Demon Art was the first step!

"Who dares look for me?!"

The room door was forcefully pushed open, and Zhang Yibai entered, his tendons bulging, making him wider than the door.

His fierce gaze swept the room, finally landing on True One Hua Jin.

True One Hua Jin was so terrified by the pressure that she shivered, transforming from a proud and aloof phoenix into a little chick.

Chen Huaian was momentarily stunned upon seeing Zhang Yibai arrive so quickly but immediately continued, "Old Zhang, you came just in time. Quickly tell True One Hua Jin what changes female cultivators experience when practicing the Divine Body Tempering Technique."

"Changes?" Zhang Yibai grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth, chuckling, "Women's skin becomes whiter and smoother, like you could squeeze water out just by pinching. Their figures become more enchanting, with curves that make you want to grab and ravage them... Most importantly, their temperament becomes like opium—irresistible. You'd hate to be apart from them even for a moment."

With Zhang Yibai's seriously lecherous expression, the truth of his words was greatly enhanced.

"I'll practice it! I'll start right now!" True One Hua Jin decided without hesitation.

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Meanwhile, inside the Kunlun Immortal Palace.

Deep within the Immortal Palace, the once solemn and majestic council hall was now strewn with corpses.

Two days ago, with True One Hua Jin's "defection," the entire Kunlun Immortal Palace plunged into unprecedented chaos.

More than a dozen elders split into three factions and entered the forbidden grounds to awaken three Void Fusion Realm True Ones sealed by True One Hua Jin.

Thus, finally shedding the last pretense, they began a bloody struggle for power.

Boom—!

A deafening explosion came from the deepest part of the Immortal Palace, shaking the entire Kunlun Mountain.

In the ruins of the hall, blood flowed like rivers.

The once lofty palace elders were now mostly cold corpses.

As the dust settled, a hunched figure slowly stood up.

It was an old woman with white hair.

Her eyes were tightly shut, sunken like black holes, and the wrinkles on her face were as deep and fierce as knife carvings.

Most bizarrely, faint blood streaks seeped from the narrow slits of her closed eyes, as if her eyeballs had been gouged out alive.

Her clothes were already soaked red with blood, clinging wetly to her shriveled body, exuding a heavy metallic stench.

"Heh heh heh..." The old woman emitted a sinister laugh like a night owl, her hoarse voice chilling to the bone, "Unexpected... so unexpected. The last one alive is this 'waste' old body."

She slowly raised her right hand, thin as a chicken claw, veins bulging, gripping a rusty ancient blade.

Fresh blood dripped from the blade drop by drop, each drip hitting the ground with a distinct "tap" sound, piercing the deathly silence of the hall.

Just moments ago, this blade had severed two other True Ones of the same realm!

Those awakened Void Fusion Realm True Ones were now beheaded.

"Wang Haisheng's 'Myriad Sword Technique,' and that slut Zi Qing's 'Soul Shattering Needle'... truly powerful!"

The Blood Blade True One licked her cracked lips and pulled out the countless steel needles embedded in her arm and chest one by one, revealing a cruel smile on her wrinkled face: "But the expression they wore when dying, tsk tsk, really left this old body savoring it...

Begging for mercy, saying they were willing to be my slaves...

What a pity, the thing I enjoy most is despair!"

She stuck out her tongue, licking the blood on the blade, a sick pleasure flashing in her eyes.

She was the last True One awakened by the three major factions of the Kunlun Immortal Palace—the Blood Blade True One.

She had no name, no surname, but three thousand years ago, she was unparalleled with her strange and unpredictable blade technique.

It was said her blade was so fast that even shadows couldn't follow.

Enemies could only see their own blood when they saw her blade, hence the name "Shadowless Blood Blade."

If not for being forced to seal herself after falling into demonic madness back then,

As the first awakened leader of the Kunlun Immortal Palace, what business would Hua Jin have?

Later, with the Spiritual Revival, her injuries healed, and just as she wanted to come out, True One Hua Jin deliberately suppressed her to keep her sealed.

Fortunately, fate was on her side.

In the end, she was out!

"Ancestor... Ancestor, spare my life!"

In a corner, the only remaining elder from another faction trembled, kneeling on the ground, not daring to raise his head.

He never imagined that the three True Ones awakened by the three factions would end up slaughtering each other.

Originally, they intended to awaken leaders to openly negotiate and divide territories.

What shocked him more was that the seemingly weakest and oldest Blood Blade True One was the final victor.

"I am willing to hand over all cultivation resources, willing to be your beast of burden..."

Bang bang bang!

The elder trembled on his knees, his forehead battered until bloody and flesh torn, yet he still dared not lift his head.

His pants were already soaked, fear rendering him completely incontinent.

"Spare your life? Be a beast of burden?"

The Blood Blade Granny stepped slowly on the blood-soaked ground toward the elder, each step like stepping on his heart.

"I slept for a thousand years and woke to find the Kunlun Immortal Palace ruined by you unfilial descendants...

Tell me, do you deserve to live?"

"No, no, Old Ancestor," the elder shook his head, trying to explain, "We all obey True One Hua Jin. Whatever she orders, we do..."

The Blood Blade Granny seemed to ignore his words.

She just slowly approached and stopped before him, tilting her head to scrutinize him as if admiring some interesting toy.

"I'm in a good mood. I'll give you a chance." Her voice was cold as a snake's hiss, "Gouge out your eyeballs yourself, and I'll let you live for one more tea session."

"W-what?!" The elder raised his head in terror.

"Unwilling? Then I'll do it myself."

The Blood Blade Granny sneered fiercely.

Swish—!

The ancient blade slithered in her hand like a venomous snake.

The elder saw a flash before his eyes and felt excruciating pain—the two bloody eyeballs dropped onto the floor.

"Ahhhh!" The elder screamed, clutching his bleeding eye sockets and rolling on the ground.

"Annoying." A cold snort exploded in the hall.

The next second, the elder's head flew off.

The hall fell into dead silence, only the sound of a severed head hitting the ground echoed.

The Blood Blade Granny stepped over the corpse-filled floor to the center of the hall.

Looking at the terrified and trembling faces around her, a satisfied expression finally appeared on her shriveled face.

"That little slut Hua Jin is clever, knowing to run early." She laughed sinisterly, playing with an eyeball she picked up from the ground with the blade tip, "But you can run from the monk, not the temple. I'll settle accounts with her slowly.

And those traitors who went after True One Hua Jin...

Heh heh heh, I'll let them know what it means to wish they were dead."

She suddenly howled to the sky, her voice piercing like a vengeful ghost's wail, "From today on, the Kunlun Immortal Palace will bow to my every command!

Anyone who dares defy me—I will skin them inch by inch and make human skin lanterns to hang at the mountain gate!

Let everyone see the fate of those who resist me!"

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