The Cool and Aloof Immortal Master Has Fallen to the Demonic Path (Transmigration) - Chapter 25

Chapter 25

The Immortal Spirit Sect, as the former number one major sect in the world, possessed many forbidden secret arts. The Life-Borrowing Technique was one of the secret arts of the Immortal Spirit Sect.

It was extremely difficult to learn.

Even within the Immortal Spirit Sect, it was more heard of than practiced.

She used to live in the Sutra Repository day and night, so she naturally knew some obscure techniques, and the Life-Borrowing Technique was one of them. However, Shen Yin had never tried it before, so she didn’t know if it would work.

But this butterfly saved her and gave Yi Hu so many spiritual essences. She ought to repay the kindness.

However, even if she was willing to help with this Life-Borrowing Technique, the conditions were somewhat demanding.

First, the spiritual essence must be intact, and the flesh and blood must still exist.

Fortunately, before her death, she gave the spiritual essence to Yi Hu and broke her finger to help Yi Hu enter the dream. The broken finger was also part of her flesh and blood. However, it had been some time since it was severed, and not much blood remained, which was a headache.

Next, they needed to retrieve her soul. She saw clearly just now that the Spider Demon had not had time to swallow the Butterfly Demon’s soul. The souls of cultivators and advanced demons do not enter the cycle of reincarnation. The soul that had not dissipated would drift to the Blood Sea Forbidden Land, becoming a wandering wraith in the human world. The Blood Sea is filled with heavy malevolent energy. If it unfortunately transforms into an Evil Spirit, the soul would be useless.

Therefore, the immediate priority was to go to the Blood Sea Forbidden Land to find the Butterfly Demon’s soul.

After finding the soul, they also needed the assistance of two powerful beings who practiced the same cultivation method as her. Since she was a Butterfly Demon, they naturally needed the help of Butterfly Demons. Furthermore, they needed to find a body. The body was easy to find. Since she was a Butterfly Demon, a butterfly’s lifespan is not long, and finding a butterfly carcass would be easy. However, finding the two powerful Butterfly Demons would be difficult.

Finally, they needed to find a being with multiple lives and exchange a life for hers using precious spiritual treasures.

This was also not easy to find. To her knowledge, there were only three types of multi-life beings: the Seven-Tailed Spirit Cat, the Qiu Kui, and the Phoenix Feather Divine Bird. The Divine Bird had disappeared for thousands of years. The Seven-Tailed Spirit Cat was constantly hunted by various forces, and she hadn’t heard any news of the Seven-Tailed Spirit Cat for a long time. The Qiu Kui was skilled in earth evasion and lived in seclusion underground, making it even harder to find. Moreover, without cultivation below a thousand years, even if found, they would not have the ability to borrow a life.

But there was still hope, after all.

If all the elements could be gathered, and then a Soul Gathering Array was set up and the Immortal Spirit Sect’s secret technique was applied to reshape the spiritual body, she could be resurrected.

The conditions were demanding, the hope was slim, and it was especially coveted, which was why almost no one in the Immortal Spirit Sect studied this technique.

She was somewhat curious why Zi Ying knew about the Immortal Spirit Sect’s secret technique of Life-Borrowing. For many years, the secret technique had vanished from the human world. Only some old demons who had lived long enough should know about it. Looking at the nearly ten thousand years of Immortal Spirit Sect’s history, there was only one recorded successful resurrection.

How many years had Zi Ying truly lived in this world?

“How do you know the Immortal Spirit Sect’s secret technique?”

“Heh.” Zi Ying sneered: “You, a dignified Elder of the Immortal Spirit Sect, actually want to borrow a life for a demon?”

Shen Yin gently shook her head in disagreement. She hid her injured wrist behind her back and said calmly: “The Old Sect Master once said that all things are living beings and should be treated equally. She saved me today, and even though she is a demon, I should seek a method of resurrection for her. Even if I fail, I will have peace of mind.”

Yi Hu stood beside Shen Yin, secretly looking at her, feeling as if a radiant light was shining from her.

She is a divine being, saving all sentient beings.

She even had a momentary impulse to call Shen Yin a Bodhisattva in the future, but feeling offended by the thought, she lightly bit her tongue to force herself to regain some clarity.

“Immortal Master, I still have Miss A’Ruan’s blood here.” Speaking of which, she had to thank Zi Ying. It was thanks to her reminder that Yi Hu took the blood from the blood pool.

She originally just thought it shouldn’t benefit Ku Mu, but she didn’t expect it to become A’Ruan’s lifesaver.

This meant that the flesh and blood were sufficient for now.

The Butterfly Demons who practiced the same cultivation method were also easy to find. Yi Hu took out two spiritual essences belonging to A’Ruan’s parents: “Immortal Master, do you think A’Ruan’s parents’ cultivation is strong enough?”

This didn’t require much investigation. The bright luster and the rounded spiritual essences all declared the power of the demons who owned them.

According to A’Ruan, her parents loved her deeply, so as long as they found A’Ruan’s parents, they would have the willing assistance of the Butterfly Demons.

As for borrowing a life…

She hadn’t heard of the Seven-Tailed Spirit Cat or the Qiu Kui, but she knew where the Phoenix Feather Divine Bird, which had disappeared for thousands of years, was. And it was very close, right next to the Immortal Spirit Sect in the Medicine Sect.

The book mentioned that the Medicine Sect had two great secret treasures: the divine object Ten Thousand Year Buddha Lotus and the Phoenix Feather Divine Bird.

The foundation of the Medicine Sect relied on these two great secret treasures.

This was a secret of the Medicine Sect. She only found out about it halfway through reading the book.

It was revealed by the main female lead’s official partner, that Ten Thousand Year Buddha Lotus.

The Medicine Sect, although a renowned major sect, was a cruel place.

Perhaps it seemed harmonious and wealthy to outsiders, but to those within the Medicine Sect, it was a nightmare.

The Medicine Sect was the only sect that did not recruit disciples from outside. Most of their disciples had ancestors who belonged to the Medicine Sect. A small number were adopted orphans from the Medicine Sect territory who had no one to raise them.

It takes specific talent to practice alchemy and artifact refining, but half of the people in the Medicine Sect could practice alchemy and artifact refining.

The first step in alchemy and artifact refining is to establish a connection with fire, which is not something ordinary people can do. Only a few people in the vast Immortal Spirit Sect had this talent, yet the Medicine Sect could produce batches of alchemy and artifact refining geniuses. This was all due to the Phoenix Feather Divine Bird and the Ten Thousand Year Buddha Lotus.

The original Medicine Sect was not known for elixirs, and its ranking was relatively low.

It was the old Sect Master of the Medicine Sect who found an injured Phoenix Feather Divine Bird and accidentally discovered that the Divine Bird’s fire could be drawn into the body, forcefully establishing a connection with fire. However, it required a very strong body. The Divine Bird only liked children and disliked adults. Except for the old Sect Master who saved her life, anyone else who approached would die instantly. But children who hadn’t cultivated didn’t have strong bodies until they met a Buddha Lotus that became sentient. It was truly his good fortune that all these good things happened.

The Buddha Lotus was a blessing and a gift.

A Buddha Lotus that hadn’t become sentient would not bloom. Legend has it that wherever a Buddha Lotus blooms, spiritual herbs and flowers will flourish.

The old Sect Master planted the sentient Buddha Lotus in a forbidden area. Sure enough, the spiritual flowers and exotic herbs grew wildly. Those spiritual herbs and exotic herbs could be boiled into medicinal decoctions to temper the muscles and bones. The old Sect Master then thought of a way to create a large number of alchemists.

From then on, the Medicine Sect no longer recruited external disciples, and those who left the Medicine Sect also had to take a Heaven’s Punishment Oath to keep the Medicine Sect’s secret.

Children born in the Medicine Sect were forcibly tempered from a young age with various spiritual medicines to strengthen their bodies.

However, many children had weak bodies and died from absorbing too much spiritual medicine and having their bodies explode.

Children who survived the spiritual medicine tempering would be sent to the forbidden area before the age of ten. After the age of ten, they could no longer become inner disciples of the Medicine Sect and could only become outer disciples. Outer disciples had limited talent, and their greater purpose was to procreate.

Disciples sent to the forbidden area to accompany the Divine Bird had to try to draw the Divine Fire into their bodies again and again in that place where growth was stunted, year after year, day after day.

Most of them were swallowed and burned by the flames, and only a few succeeded in drawing the Divine Fire into their bodies.

Of course, there was also a remarkably talented person who was born with a connection to the Divine Fire. That was their Young Sect Master, Liu Changxi. Not only could Liu Changxi draw the Divine Fire into her body from birth, but she was also the only person who could still approach the Divine Bird after adulthood. Not only could she draw the Divine Bird’s fire into her body, but she could also freely use the Divine Bird’s fire. She was also naturally linked to the Buddha Lotus and was recognized as the master of the sect’s secret treasure, the Buddha Lotus, allowing her to freely use the Buddha Lotus’s Sacred Fire.

She brought the Buddha Lotus out for fun and casually picked up the extremely rare Ancient Spirit Twin Flower—one of the two flowers, the Spirit Cultivating Flower—to take home as a wife.

Liu Changxi was a cheat character through and through.

She was simply the ideal body for a transmigration character.

In contrast, she was a transmigrator, yet she didn’t have any cheats at all.

However, the overall plot in the second half of the book collapsed. Shen Yin was demonized, Feng Lingyuan died, Shen Yuehua died tragically, the Buddha Lotus was severely injured, and Liu Changxi’s wife was on the verge of death… She didn’t read beyond that.

But she couldn’t directly tell Shen Yin that the Phoenix Feather Divine Bird was in the Medicine Sect. The Medicine Sect might come and kill her to silence her, and Shen Yin might not believe her.

Moreover, even if Shen Yin believed her, what could they do to make the Medicine Sect lend them the secret treasure Phoenix Feather? That was the foundation of the Medicine Sect.

As Yi Hu was thinking, she couldn’t help but remember that Buddha Lotus. According to the timeline, that Buddha Lotus should now have the idea of cultivating into a human form, and might already be on its way to the Blood Sea to meet the female lead.

They also had to go to the Blood Sea to find A’Ruan’s soul. At that time, they could conveniently save the female lead and get acquainted with the Buddha Lotus. Maybe that Buddha Lotus could persuade the Phoenix Feather Divine Bird to lend them a life. Yi Hu was seriously considering the feasibility.

Zi Ying’s smile grew colder, but it was tinged with a tragic desolation that wasn’t there before: “Blood Sea is such a place. By the time you find her, she will already be an Evil Spirit, even if you want to…”

The rest of the sentence was left unsaid. She suppressed her smile and actually showed a ferocious look.

Her neck slowly broke, and the sinew connecting her head to her body shattered before their eyes. In the end, only a thin layer of skin connected her head. Because it lacked support, her head hung from the skin, swinging back and forth, as if it would snap the thin skin and fall off at any moment.

Zi Ying’s dress was completely shredded, covered with knife marks. Her skin was bloody with cuts, densely packed and uneven. Some were from long swords, others from cleavers, and some even looked like they were from an axe. Some pieces of shredded flesh hung from her waist.

Her body was held together by a thin layer of skin and a few unbroken bones. Yi Hu slightly bent over and made a retching sound.

Zi Ying deliberately leaned closer to her. Her head, barely hanging by the skin, looked at her upside down, her round eyes rolling and weeping blood: “Yi Hu, are you scared? It actually doesn’t hurt. Why don’t you try it?”

Her voice was as cold as the extreme cold of ice and snow. Yi Hu only felt a chill in her ears, which spread little by little to her entire body.

Cold. So cold that her heart felt like it was about to stop.

“Zi Ying.” Shen Yin still stood in front of Yi Hu, stopping Zi Ying from scaring Yi Hu.

“It’s also your fault that she’s scared. Who told you to burn me with the Karma Fire?”

This was Zi Ying’s appearance before she died. Her spiritual consciousness was damaged by the Golden Phoenix Karma Fire, and she couldn’t maintain her original spiritual consciousness form, revealing her ferocious Evil Spirit appearance. It couldn’t be helped, but seeing the frightened Yi Hu was somewhat amusing.

In a trance, she also remembered the Shen Yin she had scared into crying a thousand years ago. Looking at her own ghoulish appearance in the mirror, she herself felt uneasy.

She pushed the blame onto Shen Yin.

She truly hadn’t done anything wrong this time. Shen Yin took out two fruits from her sleeve and threw them to Zi Ying.

Zi Ying looked at the blood-red fruits and froze for a moment: “What are those?”

“Xin Fruits.” Zi Ying’s eyes lit up. Fearing that Shen Yin would change her mind, she quickly swallowed the fruits.

After swallowing the fruits, she transformed into the shape of a purple whip and moved closer to the jade token. Shen Yin didn’t move, so she tapped the jade token with the tip of her whip. Shen Yin then put her into the jade token. After entering the jade token, Zi Ying finally shouted: “You gave me Xin Fruits to eat. Aren’t you afraid that my cultivation will increase greatly, break the seal, and steal your Golden Phoenix Karma Fire?”

Shen Yin put the jade token back into her sleeve: “You can try.”

She wasn’t afraid of Zi Ying breaking the seal. The Shen Yin of today was no longer the Shen Yin who would be scared into crying by Zi Ying a thousand years ago. Today, she was an Elder of the Immortal Spirit Sect and the Master of the Southeast Region.

She could protect a region, and naturally, she could also protect herself and the demon she wanted to protect.

Shen Yin’s gaze returned, landing on Yi Hu…