A Hundred Years, a Dream

The instant the Talisman Seed entered her.

"Ugh!"

Bi Qiong let out a muffled groan. Her body jolted violently, all color draining from her face in an instant. Fine threads of blood even seeped from her seven orifices.

Xu Yuan did not withdraw his left hand, continuing to use pure, gentle Wood True Essence to protect Bi Qiong's spirit channels and sea of consciousness, stabilizing her condition. At the same time, with a beckoning motion of his right hand, the emerald jade bottle the old woman had given him flew into his grasp.

He pulled out the stopper and flicked a finger. A drop of Jade Marrow Vitality Dew, crystalline as jade and radiating dense life force, landed precisely in Bi Qiong's slightly parted lips.

The vast life force spread through her, swiftly steadying the surging blood and qi within Bi Qiong's body and soothing the turmoil in her soul.

Only after doing all this did Xu Yuan slowly withdraw his hands and let out a long breath of turbid air. The most dangerous stage had passed. What remained depended on whether Bi Qiong herself could endure the fusion process.

He stepped back two paces and sat down cross-legged, circulating his cultivation technique to restore his greatly depleted divine sense and spiritual power. His gaze quietly swept over the old woman lying on the ground with only a thread of breath left, then Bi Qiong, whose face was contorted in pain as she struggled to fuse with the Talisman Seed.

Time passed in silence.

As the east gradually paled with the light of dawn, the chaotic aura around Bi Qiong finally began to settle. The pain on her face lessened somewhat, replaced by deep exhaustion.

At her brow, a clear glow of the same origin as the Mysterious Female Talisman