The risk is acceptable now. You can enter, I tell the two of them and the door opens.
This is the first ti that they have been allowed into Yun Feis room. Before now, the toxicity within the room has always been enough to seriously injure, cripple or outright kill the two, depending on how long they stayed. For the most part, Lan Xiaohui would open the door and float to Yun Feis side, where I would perform the work necessary to keep Yun Fei alive.
Though I told them that I can keep her alive for six to twelve months, the reality is a bit different. I can keep her alive for two to three weeks, and induce a change in her Physique that would allow her to endure another treatnt, extending her life another two to three weeks.
Eventually, her Physique will outgrow my ability to improve it and the balance in her spiritual veins will collapse and she will die.
The thod of inducing this change in her Physique is to refine her body with my refining fla as if she was an inanimate object of high grade. The residual energy and fus of this thod are so toxic that I almost regret being unable to collect it and store it for my own use.
I dont consider it that great of a loss because I already possess an infinite source of extrely powerful poison the sa poison I am using to treat Yun Fei.
Though they had seen Yun Fei before, it was only through the curtains. Now that they could approach and see her countenance once more, it leaves them deeply shocked and disturbed.
Yun Feis skin is so pale that her black veins are visible through the myriad scars left behind by the refining process. Each ti her body expels the impurities of her previous, weaker Physique, it cos up through her skin, cutting and burning its way through.
Her skin is so delicate that it is see-through, almost like sheer silk.
Lan Xiaohuis eyes tear up imdiately and even Wu Yulan, who has no ties to this girl, cannot help but try her best to suppress sorrow and pity in her heart.
Yun Fei Lan Xiaohui says, her fingers reaching out to touch the girls cheek.
She is no longer dangerous to the touch, so I do not stop Lan Xiaohui.
Can can she hear ? Lan Xiaohui asks, gently brushing her fingers against Yun Feis cheek.
No, I tell her.
Yun Fei has not been awake for two months. She will remain in a coma for a long ti to co. At the mont, the pain she is enduring is so great, that if she were to regain consciousness, she would die from shock.
Why is she like this? Wu Yulan asks, her voice low.
She is beyond the point where dicine can help her, I tell them. Since she is already so, the only option left is to refine her like an object.
At my words, Wu Yulans eyes widen a mix of shock and anger. Lan Xiaohuis eyes close, desperately trying to hold back her tears.
This is too cruel Wu Yulan mutters under her breath.
It depends on her luck and will, but like this, it might even be possible to treat her completely.
What?! Wu Yulan exclaims.
Is is that really true, Yaoyue? Lan Xiaohui asks.
The possibility is so small, it is barely worth ntioning. But it exists.
This ti, they focus on Yun Fei. Though Lan Xiaohui squeezes Yun Feis hand, while also stroking her cheek, neither of them feels happy about the news.
Deep in their hearts, they understand that if Yun Fei is cured like this, she will experience only hell and pain for the rest of her considerably shortened lifespan. These scars, broken cultivation, a frail Physique the flaws are too many to enurate.
How how do we beco stronger, Yaoyue? Lan Xiaohui asks. We have to go deeper into the Forbidden Lands.
You have to comprehend Empty Moon Prana, I tell them.
Wu Yulan frowns. We tried already. We spent day and night reading that tablet and ditating on it. It is too fragnted and incomprehensible.
Lan Xiaohui nods. And even if we comprehend it, how is it going to help? It is a cultivation thod, not a martial art style.
You are correct, I tell them. It is a cultivation thod, but there are two reasons why it is useful to you.
Lan Xiaohuis eyebrows rise at my words. What are these reasons?
First: It is likely related to your Emptiness Prana cultivation thod. Since you have practiced your Sword Domain alongside this breathing thod, if this Empty Moon Prana turns out to be related to Emptiness Prana, it could directly improve your Sword Domain.
I do not co to this conclusion frivolously. [Transient Sword] was related to [Fractured Sword]. Lady Yue also seems to have connections with the Galaxy Sword sect. She said that Emptiness Prana was sothing she found and never had the opportunity to cultivate in her earlier years. If Lady Yue has a background with the Galaxy Sword sect, it could be that her Emptiness Prana directly ca from the sect perhaps it is even the missing fragnts of Empty Moon Prana.
Lan Xiaohui is lost in thought, likely considering the sa reasoning that delivered to my conclusion.
I dont practice this breathing thod, but perhaps it can help as well, Wu Yulan says. What is the second reason?
The Empty Moon Prana fundantally improves the mind and the soul, then the body, then the cultivation, I tell them. To sword cultivators, it is the best possible thod to practice.
Huh!? Lan Xiaohui is ripped from her thoughts, and her head swivels in my direction.
Wu Yulan is equally surprised by my words. What do you an?
Do you still not understand the fundantals of the sword? No matter how hard you cultivate, only the violent power of your energy will improve. The true force and sharpness of sword thods co from the refinent of your sword intent; your mind and your soul.
A single mote of pure sword energy appears in the air between the three of us, and its stable existence is nothing like the trembling speck that the two of them can summon.
Yet its appearance drives deep fear into their bones. Their pupils narrow to tiny points, and cold sweat begins to slide down their foreheads.
Wu Yulan swallows. I you are right, she says. But is it really this big of a difference?
The mote of sword energy disappears. It is the most important factor, I tell them. Having a weak soul and mind, but deep cultivation, is like wielding a very large, but blunt sword or even a club. But with a mind and soul that can fuse into a peerless sword, even a blade of grass can beco a weapon to kill thousands.
But how do we learn sothing that is impossible to comprehend? That Empty Moon Prana it might take months or even years to gain an enlightennt, Lan Xiaohui says, with a heavy sigh in her tone.
Wu Yulan nods. Xuelian is right. You have seen it too, Yaoyue. It is too fragnted.
They are not wrong. Even if I had my [Critical Analysis] available, I doubt it would be possible for to learn the thod to any degree of mastery. It truly is garbage left over from an ancient era. Even though the latter parts of the thod are barely legible, it would take an imnse amount of reverse engineering to understand the most important fundantals.
There is an entity that I observe in my Inner World that has taught sothing important in recent tis, I explain to them. Whenever it visits this Secret Sword Realm Nexus, it returns with knowledge of new thods and a deeper understanding of the laws of the universe.
Wu Yulan looks confused, but my words strike a chord with Lan Xiaohui. The Second Layer reward
Correct, I tell them.
What is this Secret Sword Realm Nexus? Wu Yulan asks.
I do not have that information. It is most likely a formation that induces forced enlightennt like that Ancient Sword Graveyard.
When I ntion the three words Ancient Sword Graveyard, their eyes co to life full of hope. They have personally witnessed and felt the power of this forced enlightennt and the thod they have learned and managed to fuse with their own martial arts was incomparably powerful.
When is the next Cycle? Lan Xiaohui asks.
Tomorrow at dusk.
Lan Xiaohui smiles and strokes Yun Feis hair. You will be fine, Yun Fei, she says. I will save you.
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