Changes in the Body

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An elegant and subtle fragrance wafts gently in the air, while warm sunlight streams into the room through the window lattice.

After staring at the wooden ceiling for a few breaths, Xu Yuan's dazed eyes gradually regained their clarity. However, as memories from before he lost consciousness began to flood his mind, his gaze immediately became somewhat wary.

But as he gradually shifted his gaze from the familiar ceiling to the elegant and tidy room beside him, and saw the familiar furnishings, the unease in his heart completely dissipated.

There is probably no safer place in the world than here.

Because he went home, to a home where his father was.

"Call"

After lying motionless on the soft, warm bed for a while, Xu Yuan let out a soft breath, propped himself up, and slowly sat up. He then chuckled softly.

He seemed a bit like a lunatic, but he was naturally happy to have survived that kind of assassination attempt.

Although he didn't know how he survived, or what happened after he fell into a coma, he quite liked the feeling.

With a blink of an eye, I was back in this safe and cozy bedroom, having left the chaotic and dangerous Huizhou County.

After laughing enough, Xu Yuan's expression gradually calmed down, and he needed to check his physical condition.

and,

In that dark space, Tianye's words did take him somewhat to heart.

"I'll know what it means when I wake up."

Xu Yuan murmured in confusion, then tried to circulate his Cultivation Method, but as soon as the thought arose, a sensation like a sharp needle piercing his brain suddenly exploded in his mind.

Having endured so much hellish pain, Xu Yuan's current pain tolerance meant that this slight pain in his mind couldn't even affect the speed of his thinking.

However, the sensation of a sharp needle piercing the brain brings not only pain, but also memory.

As these memories flooded in, Xu Yuan's relaxed brows furrowed instantly, and a feeling of nausea and vomiting rose instinctively from his heart.

Because these memories are his—no, they are his memories of Huizhou County after he became that monster.

Having his forehead pierced, his upper body nearly severed at the waist, and his head blasted to pieces by a beam of light were nothing compared to what Xu Yuan had experienced to varying degrees when he became Strange Ghost.

What he couldn't accept was that this included the process of him devouring the flesh and blood of all the common people in Huizhou County.

This memory is extremely vivid.

The gurgling sounds of those mangled corpses shriveling and sinking in the black mist, and the feeling of fullness as the flesh merged into his body, were clearly etched into his mind.

One body after another, and among them, there were even those who had miraculously survived.

He ate them all.

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The light filtering through the window was somewhat dazzling at this moment, Xu Yuan's breathing gradually became rapid. He subconsciously waved his hand.

The array engraved inside the bedroom began to operate, the light-transmitting window frames quickly dimmed, and eventually the entire room was plunged into darkness.

In this dim environment,

Xu Yuan felt a sense of peace for no apparent reason. He lowered his eyes to look at his palm, a complex emotion flickering in his eyes.

He was somewhat reluctant to examine his current physical condition.

Because they wanted to escape.

He feared that his body still harbored the same instinctive craving for flesh and blood as he remembered.

Having transmigrated to this world, in this not-so-peaceful supernatural realm, taking the lives of others isn't taboo for Xu Yuan, but if he were to be forced to eat people...

Xu Yuan rubbed his temples hard, suppressing the complex emotions in his heart, and gave a strange, low laugh.

What vampire setting?

It's an invasion by ghosts from out of town, right?

With these thoughts in mind, Xu Yuan suppressed his unease and began to examine his body by circulating his internal Cultivation Method.

To his surprise, everything inside his body returned to normal.

Moreover, he broke through to a higher realm.

The Source Qi flowing through his body, and the feeling of fullness he experienced without needing to eat, all told him that he was already a cultivator at the Fusion Realm.

He can now climb out of the floor tiles of the Prime Minister's Estate's residence and walk.

Before the joy could spread in his heart, a strange look flashed in Xu Yuan's eyes. He discovered that the Source Qi flowing in his meridians was somewhat strange.

The Source Qi within a cultivator's Dantian is a flawless white, only revealing other colors after being circulated through various Cultivation Method.

At this moment, the Source Qi in his Dantian turned black.

A color as black as ink.

With doubts in his heart, Xu Yuan channeled a wisp of Source Qi from his Dantian, which appeared in his palm.

This wisp of black Source Qi almost blended into the surrounding dim environment.

A moment of silence,

Xu Yuan began to circulate the Blood Origin Heart-Fall Technique. The black Source Qi circulated through specific meridians and, when it reappeared in his palm, it had turned blood-red, just like before.

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Xu Yuan stared at the wisp of blood-red light in his hand for several breaths, then clenched his fist and extinguished it. He then activated the Lotus Sword Art that Ran Qingmo had initially taught him.

soon,

A sliver of blue light illuminated the dimly lit room.

Upon seeing this ray of light, a strange look was evident in Xu Yuan's eyes.

The black Source Qi within his body seemed to have the same effect as the white Source Qi he had previously possessed, both changing depending on the Cultivation Method used.

If that's the case, why does it turn black?

There has to be something special about it, right?

However, Xu Yuan did not continue the experiment.

It's just my personality; being more easygoing makes life much better.

If you can't figure it out, then don't think about it.

If there's anything special about it, it will definitely be discovered in the future. For now, it's enough to know that this black Source Qi is harmless to me.

With these thoughts in mind, Xu Yuan waved his hand, deactivating the 'light-avoiding array' that had just been activated, and the warm sunlight once again filled the room.

He didn't get up immediately, after all, the Source Qi check was over, and there Will Soul.

The moment Xu Yuan immersed his consciousness into his sea of consciousness, he immediately understood the meaning of what Tianye had said in that dark space.

Lock of Shared Life.

That woman, Tianye, has once again bound her life and his together!

Moreover, this time the two people's Lock of Shared Life was different from the one in the illusion. When Xu Yuan scanned it with his Will Soul, he could even vaguely sense the location of Tianye's true body.

What does this witch mean?

The condition for rescuing him from that dark space is to reconnect their lives?

Xu Yuan didn't quite understand what Tianye wanted to do.

Keep in mind that he is currently only a Nascent Body Fusion, while his opponent is the world's strongest "Tianyan" Saint.

The Lock of Shared Life together is like Tianye putting a dog leash on herself and handing it to him.

A two-way dog leash.

Unable to figure it out, Xu Yuan chose to put it aside for the time being.

The changes within the sea of consciousness are not limited to the Lock of Shared Life.

Just as Xu Yuan had predicted,

The once pure and flawless Will Soul within his consciousness had transformed into a pitch-black mass.

A faint smile returned to Xu Yuan's lips as he expertly extended it outside his body, but his smile immediately froze.

As his Will Soul swept across the entire bedroom, a thick black mist instantly enveloped the room!

"." Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan swallowed hard, his throat bobbing, and silently withdrew his Will Soul back into his body. The black mist that filled the room instantly dissipated.

It turns out that the black fog that enveloped the entire Huizhou County in that instant in my memory was actually "his" Will Soul!

Xu Yuan, who possessed memories, was aware of the power of this fog.

Within its coverage area, the perception of cultivators of the same level will be almost completely blocked.

The reason why the black mist was so easily dispersed by the middle-aged beauty and Luo Bingli in my memory was entirely because "he" at that time was just a monster acting on instinct, and there was no manipulation of him at all; he simply spread the black mist outwards.

As for Feng Jiuxuan

Xu Yuan's body shuddered involuntarily, and he shook his head.

That uncle doesn't count; he's just a Saint-level cultivator bullying people based on his cultivation level.

After checking his body, Xu Yuan felt calm and composed, even somewhat excited.

Although I almost died, all things considered, this trip was a blessing in disguise.

The hardware facilities are already maxed out; only the cultivation level is lacking.

I got out of bed, straightened up, stretched, and prepared to go out and take a look.

Judging from the thin blanket on his bed, it must still be late summer or early autumn.

His coma shouldn't have lasted too long.

unless,

He slept soundly for over a year.

"Squeak--"

The door was pushed open, and before Xu Yuan could even take a deep breath, two pairs of eyes fell on him.

The old man and his maternal uncle appeared in the courtyard almost instantly.

And soon,

A third gaze fell upon Xu Yuan, who was already frozen in place.

Xu Changge also came.

However, he was standing on the courtyard wall.

I drank too much coffee yesterday to stay awake and didn't fall asleep until after 4 a. m., so I've been feeling groggy all day today.

I'm begging for monthly votes, I'm begging on my knees!