"Heh, such touching affection between neighbors."
Hua Luoqi stood amid the sky full of blood blossoms, her red lips curving into a mocking smile. She studied the young man who had emerged from beneath the shadow of the collapsed eaves, looking him up and down.
Aside from a somewhat handsome face, he looked like an ordinary man in every way.
"Don't be afraid." Her voice was sweet as honey, but its lingering cadence carried a sinister chill. "You'll soon be reunited inside this True Person's Soul Banner."
Yet the very next moment, her smile froze.
All because of the enormous eye that suddenly opened overhead.
It blotted out the sun and sky, bearing down upon all living beings.
Two overlapping pupils hung in the heavens, indifferent and unfathomable, as though they had opened before Ten Thousand Ages and witnessed the birth of mountains and rivers, the rise and fall of the Great Dao.
Beneath the gaze of the Double Pupils Dharma Aspect, so-called prodigies and demonic fiends were nothing but ants and dust.
In an instant, the surging blood blossoms froze in midair.
A chill welled up from the depths of her divine soul, climbing inch by inch along her spine into Hua Luoqi's heart.
"R-refining the spirit and returning to the void?!"
Her expression changed drastically, and her voice shot up into a shrill, breaking pitch.
"Impossible! How could a dump like this have a Void Refinement Stage-"
An explosion thundered through Hua Luoqi's mind.
Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Void Refinement, Body Integration, Mahayana.
For cultivators of the Human World, every step meant ascending to another heaven. What separated Spirit Transformation from Void Refinement was not a single realm, but an entire heavenly chasm.
Hua Luoqi had run rampant for half her life.