Night lay deep, and rippling light rose across the lake's surface, like countless silver scales turning over.
Jiang Ning sat cross-legged atop the Water Pavilion. Behind him, the palace maids and guards in the island's traveling palace had already withdrawn one after another, and the entire island gradually sank into silence.
He raised his hand and beckoned, and a palm-sized jade box appeared before him. The box was translucent, with faint Cloud Patterns flowing across it.
The moment it opened, an exotic fragrance that refreshed the heart and pleased the spirit spread out.
With a light flick of his fingertip, an Elixir Pill the size of a longan fell into his palm.
The pill was green, purple, and gold, three colors flowing with radiant light, like a miniature star.
Before the medicinal power had even entered his body, merely holding it in his palm allowed him to sense a majestic vitality spreading out from within the pill.
With his current vision, one glance was enough for him to see that the purity and vastness of the energy contained within this pill surpassed every Elixir Pill he had seen so far.
"The Nine-Turn Life and Death Pill... truly lives up to its reputation," he murmured, his gaze deep and steady.
Then he no longer hesitated. He opened his mouth and swallowed the Elixir Pill into his stomach.
The effects of this pill held little meaning for him as he was now.
Reversing life and death—since he possessed the complete Flesh Authority, he already had an Immortal Body.
To kill him as he was now, one would either have to wipe out all his flesh and blood on the physical level, down to the microscopic level.
Otherwise, as the Flesh Authority originated from this heaven and earth, he was undying and indestructible.