Ning Yunying's face showed a painful struggle. Her willow brows drew tightly together, and blue veins bulged along her neck. She seemed to be suffering even more intensely than when she had been struck by the Kunlun Mirror earlier.
In almost the blink of an eye, the curse of the Great Dao's root laws spread from between her brows across her entire cheeks. Black, twisted, eerie patterns surfaced and writhed like tadpoles.
Caught off guard by the sudden turn of events, Su Jie put away the Immortal Treasure, the Kunlun Mirror, approached Ning Yunying, and pressed his palm against her forehead.
It was icy to the touch. The black runes formed from the dense Great Dao's root laws had already seeped out through her body, radiating an ominous and eerie aura.
This was completely different from Han Ruyan's negative curse. The Great Dao's root laws were simply too powerful for the human body to adapt to, throwing its balance into disarray and harming itself.
"This is bad, sister-in-law. Your body is showing signs of collapse."
Su Jie spoke in a grave tone. After examining Ning Yunying's body, he quickly understood where the problem lay.
Ning Yunying had been absorbing unprocessed raw immortal blood all along, using the Myriad Tribulations Nirvana Technique to resist the curse of the Great Dao's root laws within the immortal blood. By repeatedly undergoing tribulations and transformation, she had allowed her body to gain nirvana evolution through the struggle.
Originally, the human body and the immortal blood had barely reached a balance. However, as the Taotie Dharma Aspect refined the Great Dao Divine Rune, the soul was struck by the Immortal Treasure during the process, becoming fragile and developing countless flaws and cracks.
This had also allowed the immortal blood's curse to silently seep into the