The dust and smoke dissipated.
Only a pale green phantom frantically scurried out from the blood mist.
It let out a shrill shriek, transformed into a streak of light, and fled desperately toward the depths of the Spiritual Mountain.
Although it couldn't understand why the girl would suddenly turn against it...
How could there be time to overthink it now?
As long as its Primordial Spirit remained, there was still a chance to survive!
But in the next moment...
The afterglow of the red moon, which should have vanished, did not dissipate.
Instead, it reconsolidated.
"Slay."
Shuuu—!!!
The blood blade sliced through the sky, covering a thousand miles in an instant.
In the blink of an eye, it had already caught up to that green streak of light.
"No—!!!"
Puchi.
After a soft sound...
The streak of light vanished.
[Killed a Denglou Realm Demon Emperor, gained 856,400 years of Dao Cultivation]
A cold notification sounded in her mind.
Jiang Yuechu's expression was calm as she slowly raised her palm.
The Demon Emperor's essence blood scattering across the sky and the fragments of the Primordial Spirit that had just collapsed...
At this moment, they were all drawn in, turning into a surging torrent that rushed toward the girl.
Even more massive clouds of black mist surged out, carrying the Demon Emperor's remnant soul and forcibly dragging the demon soul into her body.
In just a moment...
Her cultivation, which was already at a Bottleneck, broke through like a hot knife through butter under the wash of this massive energy.
Her aura climbed steadily.
Until—
Seventh Level of Tower Ascent!
The girl slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.
Feeling the changes within her body, a hint of satisfaction finally flashed in her cold eyes.
As for the Old Fox's confusion before his death...
Jiang Yuechu gave a light scoff and muttered, "I don't even have enough Dao Cultivation to use; how could I have the mind to play double agent with you..."
Within a glimmer of green light falling from mid-air, an object lost its support and was about to fall into the dust.
Jiang Yuechu was quick-eyed and nimble-handed, reaching out with two fingers.
Sou—
A warm Jade Slip was steadily caught between her fingers.
The girl's expression was indifferent as a sliver of Divine Sense from her fingertip probed into it.
After only a brief moment...
Her brow furrowed slightly, and a hint of disdain flashed in her eyes.
"What is this junk?"
She tossed it aside.
The Jade Slip was thrown carelessly behind her like a pebble on the side of the road.
Zhou Xuan was staring blankly at the blood mist in the sky when he suddenly saw an object flying toward him and instinctively reached out to catch it.
Upon seeing the object in his hand, he was momentarily stunned.
"This is..."
He didn't dare to be negligent and quickly sent a thread of Divine Sense to investigate.
In just a moment...
Zhou Xuan's body shook violently, and his previously calm face now showed a look of horror.
He snapped his head up, his voice even changing pitch.
"It's actually... the Pill Formula for the exquisite dream flower pill?!"
Hearing this name...
A look of clarity flashed in Jiang Yuechu's eyes.
"exquisite dream flower pill..."
She smacked her lips as if tasting the name.
Then she asked...
"What is it? Is it very powerful?"
Zhou Xuan took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the agitation in his heart.
He was already used to Your Highness's lack of common knowledge.
He patiently explained...
"Your Highness might not know."
"This pill is a legendary supreme Divine Pill, possessing the power to seize the creation of heaven and earth and the mystery of the sun and moon."
"Those who take this pill can enter a great dream, experiencing a lifetime of Reincarnation within it to recultivate the Great Dao. When they wake up, the cultivation of two lifetimes will be superimposed..."
At this point, Zhou Xuan looked at the Jade Slip in his hand, his brow furrowing deeper and deeper.
"Only..."
"Reasonably speaking, for such a Heaven-Defying Pill Formula, even the most prosperous Lanshan Pill Sect of the past had only a few vague records about it."
"The Chunyang Lineage, though a Dao Lineage of the five luminaries Imperial Throne, is not skilled in the art of Medicinal Pills at all... How could they possibly possess a complete Pill Formula?"
Zhou Xuan was completely puzzled.
However...
Before he could figure it out.
"Reincarnation and recultivation?"
Jiang Yuechu's eyes, which had held some curiosity, instantly dimmed.
Why the hell did she need Reincarnation and recultivation?
She hadn't even figured out how to live this life properly yet, and she was supposed to go live another life in a dream?
Besides...
If she really entered a dream and reincarnated...
Who knew if her Golden Finger would follow her in?
If she lost this cheat for adding points to her cultivation...
Forget one or two lifetimes...
Even if she cultivated for ten or a hundred lifetimes, she would just be destined to be a background character in that dream.
What use would that be.
Jiang Yuechu waved her hand, looking completely uninterested.
Since she no longer had any desire for this thing, she didn't bother wasting any more words.
"Running Ox."
"Moo! Here!"
"Accompany Zhou Xuan to look around the mountain. If you encounter any tough nuts you can't handle, just call me."
Hearing this, Running Ox asked in confusion, "Then what about you?"
Jiang Yuechu didn't explain much; her figure flickered, transforming into a streak of light and plunging straight down... In the massive crater, the red-robed female cultivator, Junior Sister Xu, was gasping for breath with difficulty.
Her hair was disheveled, her golden hairpins were askew, and her originally clear and proud face was now swollen on one side, with traces of blood at the corner of her mouth, looking quite miserable.
Just as she was in a daze, trying to struggle to her feet...
A shadow suddenly fell before her.
Junior Sister Xu trembled all over and instinctively looked up.
She saw that the Girl in Black Robes had landed by the edge of the pit at some unknown time.
She was looking down at her expressionlessly.
"You..."
Junior Sister Xu was terrified, shrinking back as her voice trembled.
"What... what are you going to do?"
Jiang Yuechu didn't respond.
She just leaned down slightly and began to search the other woman's body.
Her movements were practiced and smooth.
In the blink of an eye...
Storage Pouch, hairpins, jade pendants, dharma robes, inner layers... anything on her body that carried a bit of Spiritual Qi was stripped clean by her in one go.
Leaving only a shivering body, barely covered, curled up in the dirt.
Jiang Yuechu straightened her back, her gaze inadvertently glancing at the woman curled on the ground.
A pink base with two mandarin ducks playing in the water embroidered on it; the stitching was fine and quite exquisite.
Only... Jiang Yuechu curled her lip, a hint of disdain flashing in her eyes.
She couldn't help but mutter, "How old are you, still wearing pink... how childish..."
Hearing this...
Junior Sister Xu, who was already dying of shame and indignation, now trembled with rage.
She snapped her head up and stared fixedly at Jiang Yuechu.
Gritting her teeth, she squeezed a sentence out from between them: "If you want to kill me, then kill me! Why... why must you humiliate me like this?!"
While sorting the items and stuffing them into her own Storage Pouch, Jiang Yuechu replied nonchalantly:
"Who said I wasn't going to kill you?"
"..."
It's just that she wanted to collect the items first to avoid having to pick them out from a pile of mangled meat every time... although she wasn't that picky, it was still a bit disgusting.
Seeing the girl's matter-of-fact look...
Junior Sister Xu closed her eyes tremblingly, two lines of clear tears sliding down her cheeks.
But even so...
That mouth still wouldn't stop, still trembling as she spat out harsh words: "You... don't be so smug... You've killed me now... killed someone from the Chunyang Lineage... my Senior Brother... my Senior Brother will definitely not let you off!"