After Lin Hui had been completely slain, Murong Qiuhan's figure once more re-formed from the colorful clouds.
This time, however, her face was already pale as paper. As she drifted down on the wind, she nearly collapsed on the spot.
"Pfft!"
After briefly regulating her breath, Murong Qiuhan opened her mouth and spat out a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of flesh.
At the same time, the black scales covering her body began showing signs of falling away.
Seeing this, Murong Qiuhan hurriedly swallowed three medicinal pills in succession. Only after refining them was she able to maintain the state of her altered body.
"The Central Region's prodigies truly are formidable. Even though I have cultivated this acquired altered body, I am still no match for that supreme treasure."
With that thought, she gathered her Divine Sense and circulated a secret art to examine herself internally.
If another spiritual connection cultivator had been present and used Spiritual Sense to inspect Murong Qiuhan, they would have witnessed a shocking sight within the place where her life soul resided.
That ethereal space, which should have contained only Murong Qiuhan's own life soul, was densely packed with a full hundred foreign life souls.
At present, forty-two of those life souls, fused with Murong Qiuhan's bloodline, had already withered and gone out.
"Killing one prodigy consumed forty-two life souls. It seems my assessment of the Central Region prodigies' combat strength was still too conservative."
Color gradually returned to Murong Qiuhan's face, and she slowly rose to her feet.
Before setting out on this journey, the Tiger Chasing Grand Preceptor had taken her to the Colorful Cloud Blessed Land.
There, they selected one hundred Murong Clan cultivators and used the power of the Dao Laws to refine their life souls, turning them into