Chapter 307 - 300: Since You’re Here, Qi Over Five Jin

In that split second, the stunned Second Young Master turned to flee.

However, now that he was here, Song Ciwan had no intention of letting him escape again.

Within her Sea of Consciousness, the divine figure within Song Ciwan opened its eyes.

A ray of divine light shot out, its pure power washing over him like a heavenly cleansing, instantly enveloping the Second Young Master’s Blood Shadow form.

Then, the Heart Sutra Fire and the Bright God Fire lunged forward in pursuit.

After that, the seated divine figure, using its palm as a blade, delivered a chop within the Sea of Consciousness.

This blade was called Illusion Breaker!

The Illusion-Breaking Blade Technique and the Void Illusion Demon Sword were like two sides of the same coin. The Void Illusion Demon Sword stirred demonic thoughts, while the Illusion-Breaking Blade Technique specialized in severing the delusions of living beings.

A single strike was enough to obliterate all thought.

Be they obsessions or demonic thoughts, positive or negative—when the Illusion-Breaking Saber struck, all were annihilated.

And once a living being lost all thought, no matter who they were, they would perhaps lose their very reason for being.

This was another form of death. In Song Ciwan’s view, the Illusion-Breaking Blade Technique was potentially even more terrifying than the Void Illusion Demon Sword.

This was her trump card, a finishing blow she would never use lightly!

The Illusion-Breaking Saber struck the Second Young Master. Weakened time and again, he was clearly unable to withstand this blow. He only had time to gasp, "Spare me! You can’t kill me, or you will surely die..."

The light of the blade descended, and the Second Young Master, in his Blood Shadow form, froze on the spot.

Throughout her fierce battle with the Second Young Master—from the moment his blood mist was broken to when he later dove into her Sea of Consciousness—the Heaven and Earth Scale had been floating and swaying by Song Ciwan’s side, never once put away.

This was because the Second Young Master’s intense emotions were countless and practically unending.

[Mutated Human Desire and Demon Heart. The resentment, fury, and killing intent of a Demonized Mid-Stage Divinity Transformation Cultivator. Two jin, one tael. Tradable.]

[Mutated Human Desire and Demon Heart. The resentment, fury, and killing intent of a Demonized Mid-Stage Divinity Transformation Cultivator. One jin, nine taels. Tradable.]

[Mutated Human Desire and Demon Heart. The resentment, fury, and killing intent of a Demonized Mid-Stage Divinity Transformation Cultivator. One jin, three taels. Tradable.]

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All manner of resentment and hatred streamed into the Heaven and Earth Scale.

The Second Young Master’s emotions poured out of him, completely unlike a normal Divinity Transformation Cultivator. He had become a prime, long-fleeced sheep. If his identity weren’t so dangerous and uncontrollable, Song Ciwan would have found it a pity to kill him.

’An enemy with such high Cultivation yet such unstable emotions—wasn’t he the perfect target to fleece?’

Of course, no matter how fine the wool, Song Ciwan’s resolve to kill him never wavered.

’Some people simply cannot be allowed to live. When their time is up, one must be like the Illusion-Breaking Saber—decisive, clean, and ending it all.’

And so, after the Illusion-Breaking Saber struck, the Second Young Master’s Blood Shadow froze, stunned.

All of his delusions vanished. Naturally, the Heaven and Earth Scale no longer received any clusters of emotional energy from him.

While the Blood Shadow stood stunned, the Heart Sutra Fire and the Bright God Fire enveloped it, burning it meticulously until no trace of life remained. All that was left was a mass of primal blood qi, bobbing in Song Ciwan’s Sea of Consciousness, threatening to dye its vast, star-filled expanse completely red...

[Death Qi. The death of a Demonized Mid-Stage Divinity Transformation Cultivator. Five jin, six taels. Tradable.]

Qi Over Five Jin!

Receiving the Death Qi was proof that the Second Young Master was well and truly dead.

Song Ciwan immediately deployed the Heaven and Earth Scale again, drawing the viscous mass of blood qi from her Sea of Consciousness and onto the Balance Plate.

Notably, as she collected this mass of blood qi, Song Ciwan felt a heavy, stagnant resistance.

It felt as if the blood qi was an incredibly heavy substance. Having tainted her Sea of Consciousness, it clung to her like a leech, refusing to be removed.

Fortunately, she had the Heaven and Earth Scale. Song Ciwan activated the Magical Treasure, continuously pouring True Qi into it. In the end, she even had to burn ten years of her Lifespan before she could finally use the Scale to strip the mass of blood qi from her Sea of Consciousness, collecting every last bit.

[Blood God Seed. The mark of a Blood God Technique Cultivator. Three jin, nine taels. Tradable.]

The Heaven and Earth Scale then provided an explanation for the Blood God Seed: As long as this mark exists, the Cultivator can use the seed to be resurrected. The Blood God Seed is, in essence, a seed of rebirth.

In other words, if Song Ciwan hadn’t removed the mass of blood qi from her Sea of Consciousness with the Heaven and Earth Scale, then even after killing the Second Young Master, he could have revived himself through her at any moment!

’To call that thing a time bomb would be an insult to time bombs.’

Its degree of strangeness and terror was something Song Ciwan had never before encountered in her life.

She could only think one thing: ’Well, that’s a new one!’

Of course, there was also a lingering fear.

Deep within the tree hollow, Song Ciwan, who lay collapsed on the ground, opened her eyes.

Everything that had just occurred in her Sea of Consciousness was incredibly complex to describe, but in reality, it had all happened in a single instant.

As the saying goes, a single thought can contain a thousand transformations, and a single instant can hold a thousand thoughts.

The cataclysm within her Sea of Consciousness was but a fleeting moment in the physical world.

In the physical world, within the Demon Realm, Song Ciwan opened her eyes and immediately swallowed several Healing Elixirs. Then, struggling to her feet, she cast the Ganlin Spell on herself while clutching the wound in her chest.

Song Ciwan quickly tended to her wounds. She had never been injured so severely; at this moment, she felt as if her life were hanging by a thread.

Then, she quickly searched the Heaven and Earth Scale, wanting to see if the Second Young Master’s Storage Treasure contained any High Level Elixirs she could trade for healing.

’No, that’s not right! It isn’t here!’

’The Second Young Master’s Storage Treasure... His Storage Treasure was never actually absorbed into the Heaven and Earth Scale.’

’Because the rat body from before wasn’t his true, complete form, when it collapsed, it was just an empty vessel.’

’His treasures had all been carried away by the Blood Shadow he transformed into.’

’And that Blood Shadow just dove into my Sea of Consciousness—a Blood Shadow can enter a Sea of Consciousness, but a physical Storage Treasure can’t. So, his Storage Treasure must have been dropped on the floor of this tree hollow.’

’So, where is it now?’

Her heart pounding in her chest, Song Ciwan immediately swept the area with her Spiritual Sense.

But she only perceived the bare walls. The tree hollow was permeated with an indescribable Death Qi, but as for the supposed treasure, she couldn’t sense it at all.

’Was my guess wrong? Was his Storage Treasure never here in the first place? Or is there something strange about this tree hollow?’

In that instant, a thousand thoughts raced through Song Ciwan’s mind.

Then, she quickly did one thing: she activated the Heaven and Earth Scale and traded the Blood God Seed!

’Time to think outside the box. What can I get for trading a Blood God Seed?’

[You have traded the Blood God Seed (mark of a Blood God Technique Cultivator, three jin, nine taels) and obtained one Purple Ribbon Level Pure Foundation Establishment Pill.]

’Purple Ribbon Level... a Pure Foundation Establishment Pill? What does "Pure" even mean?’

’Are there impure ones, then?’

’Besides, how could a Blood God Seed be exchanged for a Foundation Establishment Pill?’

’What was this, if not a case of searching high and low for something, only to find it when I least expected it?’