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The ice crystal fragments remaining on the table glimmered with a blood-like hue in the morning light as I tightened my grip on the golden threads seeping from the torn edge of my silk cloak.
Last night, when the Xuanjade tore through the void, it unleashed a chilling aura that now formed fine ice spikes along my spine.
When Zhou Wen pushed the door open, I was rolling up the coagulated blood with the Tip of the Tongue, biting into it to draw out a melting rune within the Beidou patterns.
"Last night, the bridge to Linghuan Xian Pavilion suddenly manifested," she said, tossing a moonflower soaked in dew into the gilded incense burner. A half-formed jade bridge entwined with Blood-Red Frost Marks emerged from the blue smoke. "But Wang Xuan's Fate Rune appeared within Xuan's barrier, I'm afraid..."
I abruptly extinguished the Foxfire, and sparks erupted from the copper furnace, splattering against the Beidou patterns on my wrist.
The burning mark left by Yang Lin three hundred years ago suddenly flared with heat, and those Ice Crystal Runes tangled on the back of Laurel leaves began to drill into my organs along the celestial veins.
Zhou Wen suddenly grasped my trembling wrist. "Why is the spirit butterfly in your Immortal Essence gnawing at Beidou's starlight?"
Outside the window, I heard the panicked footsteps of a sword-wielding attendant; that spirit tree nourished by my heart's blood was rapidly wilting.
Dark red liquid spread from Wang Xuan's Frost Flower footprints across the corridor, crystallizing into the tail feathers of an ice phoenix upon touching the cracks of my Xuanjade sword.
I swallowed down the surging blood in my throat as a scarlet Foxfire unique to the Spirit Illusion Gate ignited at my fingertip. "Tomorrow at dawn, I want to see Xuanyuan Mirror at Star Picking Pavilion on the bridge."
The mist of Linghuan Xian Pavilion was thicker than it had been three hundred years ago.
Zhou Wen exchanged a Jade Tablet with the bridge keeper using a Nine Revolutions Resurrection Pill; it was now absorbing my dripping Golden Blood from my wrist.
The Weak Water beneath the bridge surged with Wang Xuan's lingering ice crystals, and those Blood-Red Frost Marks transformed into a wind that sounded like a baby's cry as they brushed against my skirt hem.
"The divorce decree sent by Xuan has arrived." Zhou Wen tossed the gilded scroll into Weak Water, watching as it was consumed by a whirlpool that formed into the shape of Beidou's seven stars. "Your father used celestial observation techniques to see changes in the spirit tree and asked me last night whether he should activate the Forbidden Seal."
I caressed the spirit fox tail pendant hanging at my waist, a protective charm forged by my mother using half her life’s cultivation.
Within its interior glowed a faint crimson aura, where I could vaguely see Wang Xuan's earring made of Blood Amber resonating with the cracks of my Xuanjade sword.
As Weak Water’s whirlpool condensed into a star map for the seventh time, I suddenly felt an unusual heat radiating from my lower abdomen—like the heart-protecting scales planted by Yang Lin three hundred years ago were burning up.
"Your complexion is frighteningly pale," Zhou Wen suddenly pressed on my pulse point; her medicinal spirit butterfly was frantically colliding against her Liuli Bottle. "Your Immortal Essence is turbulent like a Tide; this isn't just simple spiritual backlash..."
At that moment, the bridge emitted a dragon-like tremor.
I shook off her hand and pressed three drops of Essence Blood into the phoenix eye of Xuanyuan Mirror.
As its surface revealed an instant view of Linghuan Xian Pavilion, seven golden threads suddenly erupted from the Beidou patterns on my wrist.
Those Ice Crystal Runes entangled in Laurel leaves began to dissolve, transforming into a warm current carrying a Blood Taste flowing toward my Dantian.
On the seventh day and night of practicing in the celestial pavilion, I discovered that I had begun to fear moonlight.
Whenever the bridge rose under a moon resembling a jade plate, my lower abdomen felt as if it were stuffed with rolling fire spirit pearls.
The millennium snow ginseng that Zhou Wen dug from Danxia Cave unexpectedly bloomed into a blood-red lotus at the moment I touched it.
"What time did you last use your spiritual power Tide?" Zhou Wen suddenly bound my hand, which was drawing talismans, with the Immortal-Binding Rope. Her spirit butterfly was weaving a nest in my hair in a strange manner. "Did the crimson glow from the fox tail pendant seep into your Immortal Essence last night?"
I crushed the Ice Spirit Stone I was refining, watching as the cold air took the shape of a child's hand in my palm.
The heart-protecting lotus given to me by my mother suddenly blossomed, and the Golden Dew flowing from its core automatically formed the patterns of a talisman for stabilizing pregnancy.
Without warning, the Weak Water beneath the bridge surged into a Giant Wave, and a phoenix illusion formed from Blood-Red Frost Marks was crashing against the Xuanji Mirror's barrier.
As the light of Beidou Seventh Star pierced through the clouds, the burn mark on my wrist suddenly spread into a complete star map.
Amid Zhou Wen's exclamations, I saw my shadow cast on the Xuanji Mirror—within the floating crimson light at my Dantian, there curled a fetal illusion marked by ice crystals at its Glabella.
The illusion in the Xuanji Mirror continued to magnify under Beidou Starlight as I stumbled to hold onto the icy railing of the bridge.
The burning star map on my wrist suddenly pierced into my Dantian, as if three hundred red-hot silver needles were stirring within my Immortal Essence.
When Zhou Wen's Immortal-Binding Rope shattered into powder, I caught a whiff of Blood Taste seeping from the fox tail pendant—my mother's heart-protecting lotus sealed within was now transforming into golden threads wrapping around my lower abdomen.
"Have you gone mad?" Zhou Wen's cry was swallowed by the surging Weak Water beneath the bridge. Her spirit butterfly exploded into green smoke amidst the blood-colored frost mist. "The Immortal Fetus will devour maternal cultivation; Wang Xuan was drained of her Immortal Marrow after three months of pregnancy..."
I bit my tongue to draw Essence Blood and marked it on Beidou's celestial axis, letting crimson Foxfire burn along the Laurel leaf patterns to incinerate the Ice Crystal Rune.
As the Seventh Cluster of Flames consumed Wang Xuan's residual Frost Flower mark, warmth surged at my Dantian.
Those celestial veins frozen by Xuanjade and Xuan Shuang's cold air unexpectedly revived with new life amidst the Fetal Breath fluctuations.
"It's not about devouring." I wiped away the Golden Blood spilling from my lips, watching as the star map reflected in the Weak Water slowly rotated. "He is helping me repair my Immortal Essence that was shattered by Xuanling energy."
Zhou Wen paused her action of crushing the communication jade slip.
The millennium snow ginseng from Danxia Cave suddenly flew out of my storage pouch, its roots automatically twisting into the shape of an infant swaddling.
The heart-protecting lotus given by my mother radiated an even more dazzling Golden Gleam, and on its petals appeared long-lost incantations for calming fetuses from mystical fairy gates.
"Tomorrow at Mao hour Three Quarters, the guiding bridge will rise under a blood moon." I pressed the fox tail pendant against the pulsing Fetal Breath, revealing cracks in Xuanjade's destined sword within the crimson glow. "I want to use the Xuanji Mirror to illuminate the Fetal Spirit Pool on the ninth level of Linghuan Xian Pavilion."
When I sold the heart-protecting mirror embedded with Liujin Inlaid Jade, sparks suddenly flew from the copper scales of the bridge keeper.
This Immortal Artifact refined with Yang Lin's heart's blood took on the shape of a phoenix egg upon touching Wang Xuan's residual ice crystals.
I watched expressionlessly as the Chisel fell toward the abyss of Weak Water, eighteen high-grade spirit stones leaving red marks of Beidou's seven stars on my palm.
"That's enough to exchange for three drops of Fetal Spirit Liquid." Zhou Wen tossed me a silk bag filled with spirit stones and suddenly grabbed my wrist hidden in my wide sleeves. "Did you pawn your Pisces Pendant too? That was exchanged for half a celestial vein by your mother—a Fate Artifact!"
Fetal Breath trembled violently at that moment. I leaned against the Corridor Pillar, feeling the nascent spiritual energy within Immortal Essence melting away the Xuan Shuang left by Xuan Yu. The Spirit Fox Tail Pendant suddenly became scorching hot, and the Heart Protecting Lotus sealed within it automatically unfolded into a lotus seat, supporting my weakening knees.
"Wang Xuan's Frostflower Seal is devouring the fetal spirit." I pulled open my waist sash to reveal my abdomen, where the icy crystal patterns on my skin were being pushed back by the crimson Foxfire. "The Gui Water Power from the Double Fish Pendant can temporarily suppress her charm technique."
As the last spirit stone disappeared into the Crimson Acolyte's Qian Kun Bag, the Xuanyuan Mirror suddenly projected a blood-red beam of light. The phantom of the Fetal Spirit Pool emerged within the light, revealing the lingering soul of an elder from Three Hundred Years Ago who had fallen from the Ling Huan Immortal Sect.
I removed the veil adorned with shark pearls and tossed it into the Weak Water, watching as the resulting Fetal Spirit Pill formed a lotus shape in my palm. "Is it worth it?" Zhou Wen asked, replacing the Immortal-Binding Rope with soft silk refined from medicinal butterflies, tying it around my wrist where Fetal Breath had burned me. "Even if you give birth to Immortal Fetus, Xuanyuan will not acknowledge it..."
I crushed the Fetal Spirit Pill and sealed it in my Dantian, feeling the intertwining golden and crimson patterns of the pill flow through my immortal veins. Suddenly, a rain of blood fell from the connecting bridge; amidst the clouds split by Xuan Yu's sword energy, I faintly heard my mother's bell-like voice transmitted through her celestial observation technique.
In the crimson glow erupting from the Spirit Fox Tail Pendant, I saw the fetal spirit phantom raise its hand to grasp Wang Xuan's Ice Crystal Dagger. As the morning mist of the hour enveloped me and an Ice Shard struck my face, I was using Phoenix Fire to melt down the ninth pawned Immortal Artifact.
The hairpin refined from Qing Luan's tail feathers wailed in the flames, transforming into three wisps of blue smoke to repair the fetal spirit. Zhou Wen, with red-rimmed eyes, strung together spirit stones into a calming talisman and suddenly pointed at the Xuanyuan Mirror in shock: "The barrier of the Fetal Spirit Pool is devouring your original Fate Star brilliance!"
Fetal Breath responded with a surge of spiritual power. I stumbled into the blood-red frost mist as the calming talisman around my wrist suddenly tightened against my flesh. My mother's voice pierced through from within the Spirit Fox Tail Pendant: "Yao'er, the fetal spirit is absorbing a millennium's worth of spiritual energy from Linghuan Xian Pavilion..."
I spat out Golden Blood, watching as a Blood Pearl formed a complete Beidou star map in Weak Water. The spirit stones obtained from pawning the Immortal Artifact flew automatically toward the Xuanyuan Mirror, laying down a staircase of spirit stones leading to the ninth layer.
When the last piece of Azure Jadeite was embedded in the formation eye, the fetal spirit phantom suddenly opened its Glabella ice crystal and crushed Wang Xuan's remaining Frostflower Seal trapped within the mirror. "That’s enough to buy ten Gu Yuan Grasses," I counted the jingling spirit stones in my Qian Kun Bag, feeling Fetal Breath transform Xuan Shuang's remnants into spiritual mist.
Amidst Zhou Wen's exclamations, the Xuanyuan Mirror suddenly reflected Linghuan Xian Pavilion's ninth layer—on a Jade Tablet beside the Fetal Spirit Pool was inscribed my mother’s Incantation for Calming the Fetus that had dissipated when she fell Three Hundred Years Ago.
I embedded the last spirit stone refined from Qing Luan's tail feather into the formation eye; suddenly, the Xuanyuan Mirror reflected my mother's lingering soul touching the Jade Tablet's phantom. Those flowing Incantations for Calming the Fetus imbued with Golden Gleam seeped into my Dantian through the blood-red frost mist, and to my surprise, an ice crystal formed on Glabella of the fetal spirit phantom—a unique nine-petal lotus mark of Ling Huan Immortal Sect.
"Adding in thirty high-grade spirit stones obtained from pawning Double Fish Pendant is enough to buy ten Gu Yuan Grasses," I counted again those jingling spirit jades in my Qian Kun Bag. My fingertip brushed over my wrist where Fetal Breath had burned red marks. "The pair of engagement rings sent by Xuan Yu is indeed valuable; if melted down another day, they could exchange for half a Fetal Spirit Pool."
Zhou Wen paused as she bound the Snow Ginseng with the Immortal-Binding Rope. The Spirit Butterfly fell from her hairpin into the Weak Water. "That is a Heart-Linked Bracelet refined from a treasure of the Xuanjie. Are you truly...?"
"Saving it for the Spirit Fetus to play with like a rattle?" I tore open the cloak, which had cracked from the Frostflower Seal, revealing the newly formed crimson lotus pattern on my abdomen. The spiritual energy from the Maternal Spirit Pool was forcing out the residual ice crystals left by Wang Xuan, condensing them into sparkling grains at my feet.
Suddenly, my mother's lingering soul pointed toward the southwest corner of the Xuanyan Mirror, where an illusion transmitted by my father using his sky-gazing technique appeared. In the courtyard of the Immortal Gate, the spiritual wood had surprisingly sprouted twin Flower Buds, and the Heart-Guarding Lotus planted by my mother bloomed into blood-colored twin lotuses in the pool.
In the illusion, my father's white hair glimmered silver under the moonlight as he used his life sword to carve away a Jade Tablet inscribed with my birth date. "Your mother shattered the sky-gazing mirror in tears last night," his voice thundered through the illusion. "But with the blooming twin flowers of the spiritual wood, heaven has acknowledged this child's fate."
As I crushed the communication jade slip,胎靈 suddenly stirred up a surge of spiritual power. The Xuanyan Mirror reflected my mother's fading soul; her final traces of spiritual energy transformed into golden threads that wrapped around the Beidou pattern on my wrist.
When the blood-colored frost mist completely dissipated, I found a Jade Tablet engraved with twin lotuses in my palm—this was the token of inheritance for the Linghuan Immortal Gate. Zhou Wen suddenly pulled me back three steps, and just as the barrier of the Maternal Spirit Pool thunderously closed, Wang Xuan's Frostflower Seal exploded in ice crystals on the mirror's surface.
Among those fragments reflecting Blood Light, I could vaguely see my life sword hanging above the Xuanjie altar. Upon returning to the Immortal Gate, that withered spiritual wood surprisingly sprouted an Emerald New Sprout. The Heart-Guarding Lotus planted by my mother automatically floated to the surface, supporting my weakened body.
My father stood in the Corridor, polishing his life sword, its blade reflecting the crimson halo swirling around my abdomen. "The Heart-Guarding Scale left by Yang Lin has become nourishment for胎靈," he suddenly snapped his fingers, shattering ice crystals on the Corridor Pillar. "Tomorrow let Zhou Wen accompany you to Lingbao Pavilion to pawn an item from page seven of the pawn list..."
"Aside from the Twin Fish Pendant, you may dispose of everything else as you wish." I caressed the newly sprouted branches of the spiritual wood; shadows of胎靈 absorbing spiritual energy emerged on its bark.
Suddenly, my mother's Jade Tablet grew hot, revealing a complete view of the ninth layer of Linghuan Xian Pavilion's Maternal Spirit Pool—three hundred lingering souls at the bottom were now bowing to胎靈's shadow.
As night fell, I rummaged through the bottom layer of my makeup box and found that pair of Heart-Linked Bracelets refined from Xuan Bing. The memories sealed within their Frost Flower patterns suddenly awakened; when New Wedding Night adorned me with a jade bracelet, he had inscribed a Heart-Guarding Incantation in a hidden compartment using sword energy.
胎靈 unexpectedly reached out to grasp the jade bracelet and absorbed Wang Xuan's residual Frostflower Seal into its palm for refinement. The Window Lattice suddenly bore Blood Crystals—a sign that urgent news was coming from Xuanjie.
I took off the jade bracelet and tossed it into the very bottom of my makeup box; its metallic clink startled the sleeping Spirit Butterfly awake. As moonlight spilled over the Seventh Pillar, the Heart-Guarding Incantation in the hidden compartment of the Heart-Linked Bracelet began to flicker as if sensing vibrations from a life sword miles away.
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