Chapter 321: Ten Pulls, Activating Once More! Yao Bikuni’s【 Transaction】, Four Of The Five Elements, Supreme Human Elixir!
Lightning clouds flickered in the dome, with an increasing number of Flame Seeds hiding within. Below, the vast Four-Colored Qi Sea was clearly divided, and even though there were some initial conflicts, they dissipated under the mediation of the visible giant hand.
Within the Void Qi Sea, a scene of thriving vitality and exuberant life unfolded.
And today, an uninvited guest intruded into the calm Qi Sea.
—A half-heart that was entirely emerald green.
After the heart fell into it, the overwhelming thunderclouds voluntarily dispersed, and their numbers rapidly increased. The ten Flame Seeds, which had just reached that count, suffered no loss and charged straight toward it.
But before they could get close, they sporadically plummeted into the Four-Colored Qi Sea.
That half of Yao Bikuni’s Heart paused in place for a moment, then began circling along the Qi Sea.
One lap, two laps, three laps…
Uguisudori’s Feather, which used to clamor at the sight of a “newcomer,” fell silent; Sea Strange Light Scale Armor, which was working hard to expand the Qi Sea, remained completely quiet, sinking to the bottom along with the Four-Tailed Fox Card; the scraps of Totsuka-no-Tsurugi attached to Red Hannya’s frame flashed dazzling light but did not act rashly.
Finally, when Yao Bikuni’s Heart reached its fourth lap, the Hundred-Eyed Demon Card, which had long been unable to hold back, blocked its path, emanating a chilling aura.
Strange…
Shangshan Che, who was internally viewing the Qi Sea, felt puzzled. This was the first time he had encountered such a situation.
The Five Elements Defining Object did not fuse with the Qi Sea, nor did it conflict with the natives. Instead, it seemed to have self-awareness and was searching for an “exit.”
Shangshan Che looked at the two floating in the air, extended a tangible giant hand, and tossed the unprepared Heart of Yaso no Katsuya directly into the Qi Sea.
Then, under his clear gaze.
That half of Yao Bikuni’s Heart actually ignored the constraints of the Void Qi Sea and floated back up, returning to its original position.
“Not buying this trick, huh.”
Shangshan Che thought for a moment and began applying all sorts of methods to this half-heart.
But whether it was influencing it with Qi Barrier, controlling it with Spiritual Power, or using various techniques from Spirit Control Technique and Life River Breathing Technique, there was no obvious effect.
This half-heart was impervious to everything!
Utterly ridiculous.
Silently pressing the Hundred-Eyed Demon Card back, Shangshan Che stared at the heart that had resumed circling and fell into deep thought.
Could it be…
He took this half-heart out of the Qi Sea and placed it back in the outside world.
Whoosh!
The emerald green heart immediately darted in one direction, confirming Shangshan Che’s guess.
Grabbing the heart, Shangshan Che put it back into the Qi Sea.
In, out, in, out…
After dozens of repeated trials, Shangshan Che discovered that no matter which direction he faced when releasing this half-heart, it always darted in the same direction.
Once again placing Heart of Yaso no Katsuya back into the Qi Sea, Shangshan Che nodded at it as it continued circling.
I see.
He roughly understood.
—This half of Yao Bikuni’s Heart had something it desperately wanted to do in the direction it flew toward.
—That’s why it couldn’t become a Defining Object for his Qi Sea.
Realizing this truth, Shangshan Che wasn’t particularly surprised.
After all, this was the heart of “Yao Bikuni,” likely the key part of the “immortal body” from the legend.
The vitality it contained was unimaginable.
Not to mention just half; even if only a quarter remained, Shangshan Che believed it could still do this.
So Shangshan Che spoke,
“Do you still have something you want to do?”
The heart didn’t react and continued circling.
“You can be specific; maybe I can help you.”
The heart still showed no reaction.
It just silently continued circling, even making Shangshan Che doubt if he had guessed wrong.
Shangshan Che pondered for a while, then smiled as if remembering something and spoke to the half-heart,
“Yao Bikuni, let’s make a【 Transaction】.”
The moment the words rippled through the Qi Sea, the half-heart that seemed like it would circle forever stopped and flickered.
That’s right.
This is it.
Shangshan Che thought to himself.
There were many legends about Yao Bikuni, but this heart undoubtedly came from her Transaction with some “Deity.”
Or rather, “Yao Bikuni” was born after the【 Transaction】.
Seeing the words worked, Shangshan Che continued, “I want this half-heart of yours to become the Defining Object of the Qi Sea, bound to me from then on. What do you want me to do?”
The emerald green heart was silent for a long time, then flickered again.
What followed was an extremely vague murmur echoing in Shangshan Che’s ears—
【Let “him/her” be freed】
【Let “him/her” be freed】
……
Shangshan Che had never heard this eerie murmur before, but he understood its meaning.
—Let something be “freed.”
Hmm, no other information beyond that.
Completely out of the blue.
So Shangshan Che continued asking,
“Who is ‘him’?”
The heart didn’t react.
“How should ‘freedom’ be achieved? By killing? Or by saving?”
The heart remained still, like a rock silent for millennia.
Shangshan Che glanced at his peripheral vision several times, but no task Prompt popped up.
He was speechless.
This inexplicable task was dumped on him with no idea how to complete it, no hints, and the only clue perhaps being one of the four cardinal directions.
Only a god could complete this.
So he sighed,
“Change the request; this one might take me a very, very long time.”
Unexpectedly, the heart flickered this time.
The vague murmur sounded again.
【No… harm…】
No harm?
Shangshan Che realized.
—Even if the request was vague, it had already given a direction!
His “very, very long time” was at most a few years or a dozen, which was indeed unimaginably long for Shangshan Che and the current Mortal Realm.
But for Yao Bikuni, a dozen years?
Even decades meant nothing!
In the mindset of a Longevity species, this amount of time was trivial!
And in a few years… Shangshan Che wasn’t joking; afterward, ten Yao Bikuni tied together probably couldn’t beat one of his hands.
If it kept playing riddles, he’d just beat it until it talked.
Thinking of this, Shangshan Che nodded satisfiedly: “Then, the【 Transaction】 is made.”
The moment he said this, the entire Void Qi Sea was instantly enveloped in blooming emerald green light!
That half emerald green heart slowly descended, becoming increasingly crystalline and transparent, finally sinking into the Qi Sea!
In an instant, the entire Qi Sea boiled over.
【Due to your Void Qi Sea being defined by “Yao Bikuni’s Heart（1/2）”, all your attributes +5!】
Gurglegurgle…
Amid infinite rising bubbles and a brand-new emerald green Qi Sea, Shangshan Che felt himself elevated across the board.
Not just Physique and Spiritual Arts, even the hardest-to-improve “Charm” attribute rose by 5 points!
Adding the Charm from the Four-Tailed Fox Incarnation… without exaggeration, Shangshan Che was a walking humanoid succubus.
If beings below Ghost God saw the undisguised Four-Tailed Fox, few could resist.
“A one-time 20-point attribute boost, as expected of the Legendary Grade material even Katsumi praises.”
This was almost equivalent to a low-star Incarnation without Talent…
Like the Myriad Spirit Furnace Core, this half of Yao Bikuni’s Heart could fundamentally transform a person.
Ordinary people finding one could lord over all.
So the effects of Yao Bikuni’s Heart were certainly more than this.
【Due to your Void Qi Sea being defined by “Yao Bikuni’s Heart（1/2）”, your Wood Attribute resistance greatly increases! Your Vitality is greatly enhanced!】
Wood Attribute resistance was secondary.
Even after gathering the Earth Attribute Defining Object, Five Elements damage would just be a scratch; there weren’t many Onmyoji specializing in Five Elements Onmyōdō these days.
The key was Vitality.
“Vitality.”
Shangshan Che murmured softly, realizing this was why his intuition urgently wanted Yao Bikuni’s Heart.
Following his exceptionally keen intuition, Shangshan Che used Qi Barrier to cut his finger, squeezing a drop of blood from the fingertip.
Then, he noticed.
Amid the originally scarlet, blazing blood like fire, a faint emerald green tint faintly emerged.
Green blood?
It dyed my blood green this quickly?
Now I’ve become an NPC in a harmonious game—getting hacked would just spill green blood everywhere, telling kids blood is eco-friendly.
Shangshan Che’s mouth twitched, and he couldn’t help laughing.
But immediately after, a grassy, woody fragrance filled the Room.
Very pleasant, exceptionally fragrant.
Two-Foot Adult, who had been chatting happily with Little Jia, immediately lit up and pounced over like a hungry tiger, thinking Shangshan Che had brought out something good.
“Rawr~”
As a result, she bit down on Shangshan Che’s finger with the wound.
That drop of red-green blood was swallowed by her.
Hmm, and she licked it.
Shangshan Che felt it clearly.
“Tasty?” he asked.
“Popo! This is really tasty, Che Adult!”
Two-Foot Adult, who had licked a drop and then vacuum-sucked two more mouthfuls, looked up to see Shangshan Che’s speechless face.
Under her puzzled gaze, Shangshan Che wiggled his finger with faint green bloodstains and asked again,
“Tasty?”
Huh?
The Girl was stunned.
She licked the residual blood beads on her lips, sniffed with her nose, and realized the source of this incredibly pleasant scent was…
Che Adult’s finger!
And she had just—
At this, even Two-Foot Adult blushed slightly.
“Po… I thought it was some spirit pill or wonder drug, and afraid Little Jia would snatch it, so I came first…”
Buzz buzz?
Kaga Kiyomitsu was baffled: “What kind of excuse is that?”
It was a sword; could it slurp blood like that?
Hey! That’s too lame!
Shangshan Che didn’t blame Two-Foot Adult.
From her reaction just now, this was likely an instinctive response.
In other words, this drop of “blood” was extremely attractive to her, and probably the same for other Demons and Monsters.
“In short, I’ve become a humanoid spirit medicine? My blood directly turned into【 Consumable】 and【 Blood Potion】?”
Shangshan Che rubbed his chin, thinking he could experiment more with his Blood’s uses later.
Like using it as Blood Potion normally, or gulping it in battle to recover health!
Glancing at Two-Foot Adult staring intently at him with eyes almost glowing green, Shangshan Che took a deep breath and retracted all the overflowing “Vitality” from inside and outside his Body.
Even becoming an ordinary person’s unremarkable appearance.
—This was one of the new abilities brought by the “Heart.”
After this, Two-Foot Adult’s gaze returned to its usual silly state, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
As expected, he hadn’t guessed wrong.
Everything about Yao Bikuni had extraordinary allure to beings beyond the “ordinary.”
If Two-Foot Adult weren’t his Shikigami with such a deep bond, she might have pounced and gnawed on him wildly by now.
Shangshan Che let the Qi Barrier maintaining the wound on his fingertip dissipate, and the cut vanished in a blink, leaving his skin flawless.
—Traditional vital spots like the heart and head could be completely gone; as long as the Body wasn’t utterly shredded, he could survive, and minor wounds like severed limbs would heal easily.
“Even just a part of the ‘immortal body’ is this powerful.”
Not over yet.
【Affected by the definition of “Yao Bikuni’s Heart（1/2）”, “Sea Strange Light Scale Armor” produces a linkage effect with it!】
【Affected by the definition of “Yao Bikuni’s Heart（1/2）”, “Uguisudori’s Feather” produces a linkage effect with it!】
【Please check the linkage effects yourself!】
After the green light illuminating the sky gradually faded, blue and black lights carried green and instantly lit up, causing unprecedented massive vibrations throughout the Qi Sea.
“Water and Wood generate each other, Wood and Fire generate each other… Now, four of the Five Elements are gathered.”
Shangshan Che looked at the Hundred-Eyed Demon that hadn’t fused with Yao Bikuni’s Heart, knowing it corresponded to the Earth Attribute Defining Object.
Previously, when Metal and Water generated each other, his self-healing greatly improved, and Qi Barrier recovery and output efficiency rose significantly.
He wondered what this time…
Boom!
Accompanied by a deafening roar that made his consciousness buzz, the five-colored Qi Sea, showing faint signs of fusion, expanded in an instant like an inflated balloon—fully doubling in size and more!
At the same time, it devoured the boundaries of Darkness at an even crazier speed than before.
With his head buzzing from the shock, Shangshan Che eyeballed his five-colored Qi Sea and found it nearly a fifth the size of Tokugawa Yugoro’s【 Star River Qi Sea】.
If he fully gathered the Five Elements Defining Objects, he wouldn’t even need five Incarnation Cards—his Five Elements Qi Sea could surpass the【 Star River Qi Sea】 from one of the Four Extremes Breathing Techniques!
Assembling the Five Elements Qi Sea was difficult, but the rewards were equally astonishing!
【Your Body has been nourished by the Void Qi Sea and Defining Objects, your Physique +10!】
Silently reading this Prompt, Shangshan Che stared at the viscous, water-like five-colored Qi Barrier from his fingertip, turning it back to its original black-red.
Five colors… too flashy.
Might attract unexpected trouble.
Shangshan Che sensed the rumbling like endless thunderstorms from the gaps in his Thunder Bone sword, lowering his gaze—
【Shangshan Che】
【Physique: 100】
【Willpower: 73】
【Charm: 20】
【Spiritual Arts: 82】
If he had defined this heart earlier, even if Fang Xiang Shi decapitated him, he could casually reattach his head.
“Phew…?”
After a deep breath, Shangshan Che, feeling his whole body’s Power at his command and eager to do a Gacha Pull, suddenly paused.
The Human Divine Treasury’s Acupoint had opened?
In one breath?
He lowered his head in disbelief, and sure enough, a Prompt popped up.
【Due to opening the Yang Wheel Acupoint, Human Divine Treasury progress increases!】
【Current Progress: 29/108】
At this moment, even Shangshan Che, who had seen countless “cheats,” was stunned and rubbed his eyes.
Breakthrough just by breathing?
Then couldn’t he breakthrough lying down or sleeping?
Compared to so-called “immortality,” was this the true effect of Yao Bikuni’s Heart?
Even someone with the worst Body Talent could be transformed into a peerless genius?
Because the original Yao Bikuni didn’t cultivate Breathing Techniques or Body Tempering methods, it wasn’t reflected in the myths?
Shangshan Che was shocked, speechless for a long time.
“Wow… Che Adult’s skin suddenly became so smooth and pretty, even tenderer than mine.”
Amid Two-Foot Adult’s slurping admiration, Shangshan Che looked down and saw his skin mirror-smooth, like the purest white jade in the world.
This reminded him.
Now with Yao Bikuni’s Heart, Shangshan Che’s control over his own Body had reached a new height.
With a thought, his eye-catching skin returned to ordinary “good skin.”
Just no visible pores, and no excess Fur on the body surface besides hair and eyebrows.
Two-Foot Adult pouted disappointedly but still sniffed,
“Sniff sniff, Che Adult still smells nice…”
“Smell if you want, just don’t disturb me.”
Faced with Two-Foot Adult’s edging without real action, Shangshan Che really had no way to deal with her and didn’t want to lock her in the Ksitigarbha Statue.
Better do the Gacha Pull first…
Shangshan Che used his finger to bring up the Gacha Pool bubbling with Mud, then glanced at his current Soul Ash reserves.
【Path to Supremacy】
【Summon Ten Times（First Time 30% Off）（Costs 5600 Soul Ash）】
【Soul Ash: 13020】
His Soul Ash reserves were now quite ample.
Just a few hundred short of two consecutive ten-pulls.
So Shangshan Che didn’t delay, didn’t wash hands or perform rituals, and casually tapped【 Summon Ten Times】 with the confidence of a nouveau riche.
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