After peeling off two layers of human skin, "Li Lieyue" turned and walked back under the eaves, holding out her hand to Si Hong Miaoli.
"Ghk... ghk..."
The sound of flesh being separated rang out for the third time. A moment later, Si Hong Miaoli, too, had been reduced to a bloodied husk, and her entire skin fell into "Li Lieyue's" hands.
Then "Li Lieyue" sliced Si Hong Qingyan and Yan Minghua's skins down the middle, splitting each into two halves.
She kept Si Hong Qingyan's left half and Yan Minghua's right half, sewing them both onto Si Hong Miaoli's husk.
A furnace cauldron with Si Hong Miaoli's personality and the appearances of both Si Hong Qingyan and Yan Minghua was complete!
Next, "Li Lieyue" took out a piece of crimson-gold spirit ore and a handful of assorted gemstones. Fire sprang from her palm as she swiftly melted the ore, then set the gemstones into it as decoration... Before long, a brand-new collar appeared in the flames.
Using her finger as a brush, "Li Lieyue" carved four Cloud Seal Script characters into the collar: "Registered Furnace Cauldron."
She fastened the collar around the neck of Si Hong Miaoli, draped in Si Hong Qingyan and Yan Minghua's skins...
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Chongming Sect.
Chao Na Temporary Palace.
In the six-petaled lotus-shaped bath, milky-white water steamed and churned like a sea of clouds.
Li Lieyue's fragrant shoulders showed above the surface. Her eyes were gently closed, and her three thousand strands of black hair drifted in the pool, rising and sinking like an ink-dark mandala in furious bloom.
A chilly medicinal fragrance slowly spread, seeping ceaselessly into her body.
A moment later, she opened her eyes and began to step out of the pool.
Pure-white medicinal liquid slid from her body. Her exquisite collarbones,