Chapter 23: Xuanyin Phoenix Transformation Scripture, True Phoenix Successor
“Ah!”
Luo Xue stumbled backward. The last few times this had happened, it was because of Daoist Ziyang.
But this time, after she regained her composure, Daoist Ziyang wasn’t there.
Luo Xue looked around, remaining vigilant for a while before finally relaxing.
It seemed to be just a hallucination caused by her nervousness.
However, when Luo Xue looked at the coffin in the inner room again, shock filled her eyes.
“It’s gone?”
The incredibly beautiful woman who had been sitting on the coffin had vanished.
Not only that, but Luo Xue’s vision also felt strangely off.
She took a few steps forward, nervously observing her surroundings, wary of the beautiful woman’s reappearance.
However, despite her vigilance, nothing happened.
“What… is going on?”
Lost in thought, Luo Xue naturally sat down on the coffin.
She inadvertently looked up and saw the beautiful woman again—in the bronze mirror on the dressing table!
Luo Xue was startled again and quickly stood up.
The woman in the mirror also looked surprised and stood up as well.
…Wait?
Luo Xue extended her hand, looking down at it, then looked up at the reflection in the mirror.
“I… have become her?”
Indeed, these slender, delicate fingers weren’t something a ten-year-old girl should have.
And at this moment, Luo Xue finally understood why her vision felt so strange.
Because she was too tall.
Luo Xue herself was only about 1.3 meters tall, but the beautiful woman, presumably True Person Phoenix Yin, was a full 1.7 meters.
So what was going on?
“Did I possess her?”
“No, that’s not right… Did she possess me?”
“That’s not right either…”
This didn’t make sense…
Luo Xue tried to summon the system panel, but nothing appeared.
This was the first time since she came to this world that she couldn’t bring up the panel.
It seemed she had truly replaced the beautiful woman… or perhaps, the beautiful woman had replaced her.
Luo Xue took a deep breath and looked at the coffin below.
In this situation… what would be inside the coffin?
It couldn’t be any stranger than her current situation. Luo Xue didn’t hesitate for long and made up her mind.
Perhaps it was due to the strength of this body, or perhaps the coffin lid wasn’t properly secured, but with a slight effort, Luo Xue lifted the lid.
…Just as Luo Xue had expected.
A small girl, whose appearance resembled someone badly burned, lay inside the coffin, her hands resting on her abdomen, her expression peaceful.
The only difference from Luo Xue’s memory was that the little girl’s hair was a dull grayish-white.
“Seeing myself lying in a coffin… isn’t this a bit early for me?”
Luo Xue’s heart trembled, but her hand reached out uncontrollably.
But before she could touch her, the girl in the coffin suddenly opened her eyes.
…A pair of eerie vertical pupils.
The girl stared intently at Luo Xue, a hint of amusement appearing on her lips.
“A good child.”
…
Luo Xue abruptly opened her eyes, only to find her back soaked in cold sweat.
She looked up and found that her vision had returned to its normal height, and her position was the same as when she had bowed earlier.
But the beautiful woman was still gone from the coffin.
Luo Xue hurriedly approached the dressing table mirror. The reflection she saw was the same as the little girl in the coffin.
She summoned the system, and this time, the red text easily appeared before her.
However…
[Survival Points: 120]
How did she get 50 more points?
Luo Xue immediately checked the record and was instantly covered in cold sweat again.
[Experienced Dangerous Event: Trapped in Soul Transformation Cultivator’s Illusion Formation]
What the hell, a Soul Transformation expert?
True Person Phoenix Yin was at the Soul Transformation stage?
Wasn’t this a bit too much?
And… wasn’t her disciple only at Foundation Establishment?
After Foundation Establishment, one had to go through Core Formation and Nascent Soul before reaching Soul Transformation!
Even in top immortal sects, Soul Transformation experts were at the level of Grand Elders, all of them old monsters in secluded cultivation.
Knowing that the heart-stopping experience just now was caused by a formation left by a Soul Transformation expert…
Luo Xue could only be thankful that the other party had no ill intentions. If it had been some kind of test, she would probably be dead.
Who would have thought that a mortal could reach this place?
But… why would a Soul Transformation cultivator have a disciple who couldn’t even break through to Foundation Establishment?
And then be refined into a Xuanyin Gu Seed by that disciple after death?
There were too many suspicious points.
But now, Luo Xue could only bury all of this in her heart.
“Right, if I hadn’t entered the coffin, what would be inside now?”
Luo Xue slapped her forehead and looked at the coffin below.
Although she had opened it once before, seeing herself lying inside still gave her some psychological trauma.
After overcoming it slightly, Luo Xue lifted the coffin lid again.
…Now she was sure the coffin wasn’t nailed shut.
Luo Xue looked inside the coffin and breathed a sigh of relief.
“Phew… I’m definitely not in there.”
This time, what replaced Luo Xue inside the coffin was a purple jade slip.
Luo Xue picked up the jade slip. Although she didn’t have any cultivation, she knew how to access the information within.
With a thought, everything imprinted within the jade slip flowed into Luo Xue’s mind.
“It seems to be the inheritance of the Xuanyin Phoenix Transformation Scripture?” A strange expression appeared on Luo Xue’s face. “So that’s how it is…”
Daoist Ziyang was wrong, completely wrong.
The Xuanyin Phoenix Transformation Scripture could indeed only be cultivated by a pure Yin constitution, meaning men were absolutely impossible.
But besides “Xuanyin,” the more important part was “Phoenix Transformation.”
…It required the blood essence of an Ancient True Phoenix.
According to the jade slip, Ancient True Phoenixes were already extinct, and their blood essence was incredibly rare.
The reason this purple jade slip could be called an inheritance was because it contained a drop of Ancient True Phoenix blood essence.
And it was very likely the last drop in the world.
“Should I… give it to Xiao Yao?”
This thought crossed Luo Xue’s mind.
She wasn’t interested in this scripture anyway.
But soon, Luo Xue discovered that the jade slip cracked after being accessed.
“This…”
Before Luo Xue could react, a drop of purple glowing blood slowly floated out from the cracked jade slip, entwined with formation runes, seemingly sealed.
The True Phoenix blood essence drifted and directly entered Luo Xue’s skin.
“Damn! So impatient!”
Luo Xue felt a chill emanating from her bones and shuddered.
She stumbled back and sat down on the floor, a feeling of bursting spreading through her body.
“I don’t even have a bit of cultivation… How can I withstand this…”
Luo Xue wanted to cry, but then she remembered that she now had enough survival points to upgrade her cultivation aptitude.
At this critical moment, Luo Xue immediately opened the panel and added the points to her cultivation aptitude.
Instantly, the words “Almost None” disappeared, and the red text began to slowly change.
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