Late at night, a blood-red figure drifted silently, gradually spreading like smoke and undergoing an inexplicable change.
Li Ling had suffered sleep paralysis many times before and had long since grown accustomed to the Ghost Spirit Bride's presence. Nor did he sense any threat to himself, so he failed to stop her in time.
By the time he abruptly woke, a fruit in the pouch at his waist was already enveloped in red light.
It rapidly dried and shriveled, collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye, while the red light suddenly seemed to blaze countless times brighter, radiating a dazzling brilliance.
Startled, Li Ling hurriedly took out the fruit along with the Ghost Spirit Bride, only to discover that she had secretly eaten it.
The Ghost Spirit Bride emerged from within it once more, suffused with a strange aura. Her formerly sinister, insubstantial presence seemed to have gained a measure of solidity.
Then he saw strands of flesh and blood winding around her nearly transparent spirit body, rapidly growing.
"Flesh and blood regeneration!"
Li Ling was utterly astonished.
The Ghost Spirit Bride had stolen the fruit borne by the copper flower. It therefore brought changes to her blood essence, and even her intangible spirit body had begun to grow a physical body out of thin air.
Bones, muscles, and skin manifested one after another in a strange structure resembling a human body, yet not quite human, much like the changes Li Ling and the others had undergone when transforming their Dao bodies.
Unlike those pure yang Dao bodies and pure yin bodies, however, this body possessed even stronger yin baleful qi, with bloody light coiling around it.
Combined with Lin Rouniang's innate blood soul Dao body, perhaps she could be called a blood god.
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