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Chapter 713 - 446: Changes in the Body [Please Support with Basic Monthly Votes]

Chapter 713: Chapter 446: Changes in the Body [Please Support with Basic Monthly Votes]

"...."

The elegant and faint scent of incense drifted gently through the air, the warm sunlight filtering through the window lattice and into the room.

After staring at the wooden ceiling for several breaths, Xu Yuan’s dull gaze gradually regained clarity. However, as the memories from before his fainting slowly surfaced in his mind, his eyes immediately took on a hint of wariness.

But when he shifted his gaze from the familiar ceiling to the elegant and tidy room beside him, and saw the familiar furnishings within it, the unease in his heart completely dissipated.

There probably wasn’t a safer place in the world than here.

Because he was home, at the home where his father was.

"Huff..."

Continuing to lie on the soft, warm bed for a while, Xu Yuan let out a gentle breath, propped himself up slowly, and sat up from the bed. Then he let out a low chuckle.

It might seem a bit like a mental illness, but being able to survive such an assassination, he naturally had to be happy about it.

Although he didn’t know how he had survived, and even less about what had happened during his unconsciousness, he quite liked this feeling.

With a blink of an eye, he went from the chaotic and dangerous Huizhou County to this secure and cozy bedroom.

After having his laugh, Xu Yuan’s expression gradually calmed down. He needed to check the condition of his body.

And,

The words spoken by Tian Ye in that dark space had indeed captured his interest.

"After waking up, you will know what it means....."

Xu Yuan murmured in confusion, then attempted to activate his cultivation technique. But just as the thought arose, a sensation like needles piercing into his brain exploded violently in his mind.

Having endured many hellish torments, Xu Yuan’s tolerance for pain was such that the current pain in his mind couldn’t even affect the speed of his thoughts.

However, the sensation of needles in the brain brought not only pain but also memories.

As these memories flooded in, Xu Yuan’s recently relaxed brows furrowed instantly, and a wave of nausea involuntarily rose from his heart.

Because these memories were of him... no, of him after he had transformed into that monster in Huizhou County.

Having his forehead pierced, upper body nearly cleaved in half at the waist, head blasted into fragments by a beam of light—none of these mattered, as he had experienced such things to some extent when he first became a ghoul.

What he couldn’t accept was among these memories were the processes of devouring the flesh and blood of the entire population within Huizhou County.

These memories were extremely vivid.

The "gurgling" sound of those indistinct corpses drying up in the black fog and the feeling of satiety as their flesh and blood melded into his body were clearly etched in his mind.

One after another, there were even some fortunate survivors among them.

They were all devoured by him.

"...."

The light filtering through the window now seemed a bit dazzling. Xu Yuan’s breathing became increasingly rapid, and he waved his hand without thinking.

The formation engraved in the bedroom began to operate, the translucent window lattice quickly dimmed, and eventually, the entire room was engulfed in darkness.

In this dim environment,

Xu Yuan oddly felt a touch of comfort. He looked down at his palm with a complex gleam in his eyes.

He was somewhat reluctant to check his current physical condition.

Because he wanted to escape.

He feared that his body still craved blood and flesh instinctively, just as in his memories.

In this extraordinary world that was not entirely peaceful, taking the lives of others wasn’t taboo for Xu Yuan, but the thought of cannibalizing...

Xu Yuan rubbed his brow forcefully, suppressing the complex emotions in his heart, and let out a weird low chuckle.

What kind of vampire setting?

An invasion by foreign ghosts, right?

With these thoughts in mind, Xu Yuan pushed aside his unease, began to circulate his cultivation technique, and started examining his body.

To his surprise, everything inside him had returned to its original state.

Moreover, he had broken through.

The Origin Qi flowing within his body and the pronounced feeling of fullness without needing to eat were both telling him that he had now become a Cultivator at the Integration Body level.

He could rise from the floor of the Prime Minister’s Mansion and start walking.

Before the joy could spread in his heart, Xu Yuan’s eyes flashed with curiosity. He found the Origin Qi flowing through his meridians to be somewhat peculiar.

In a cultivator’s Dantian, Origin Qi is flawless white and only takes on other colors after being processed through various cultivation techniques.

Right now, the color of Origin Qi in his Dantian had turned black.

Black as ink.

With doubt in his heart, Xu Yuan pulled out a thread of Origin Qi from his Dantian and let it emerge in the center of his palm.

This strand of black Origin Qi nearly blended into the surrounding dim environment.

After a moment of silence,

Xu Yuan began to operate the Blood Essence Meteoring Art. The black Origin Qi, after flowing through specific channels, reappeared in the center of his palm and transformed into the familiar crimson color.

"....."

Xu Yuan stared at the strand of blood-colored light in his hand for several breaths before clenching his palm to extinguish it, and then he circulated the Lotus Sword Art, the very first sword technique Ran Qingmo had taught him.

Soon,

a wisp of blue light lit up in the dim chamber.

Seeing this light, the puzzlement in Xu Yuan’s eyes was evident beyond words.

The black Origin Qi within him seemed to be no different in effect from the white Origin Qi from before, both transforming with the change of the cultivation technique.

If that was the case, why had it turned black?

There must be something special about it, right?

However, Xu Yuan decided not to continue experimenting.

His nature dictated that life would be much easier if he simply went with the flow.

If he couldn’t figure it out, he wouldn’t dwell on it.

If there was anything special, it would definitely be discovered in the future. For now, it was enough to know that this black Origin Qi was harmless to him.

With these thoughts in mind, Xu Yuan waved his hand and deactivated the "Light-Evasion Formation" he had just activated, allowing the warm sunlight to once again fill the room.

He didn’t get up right away since, after checking the Origin Qi, he still had to check his Will-spirit.

And the instant Xu Yuan’s consciousness plunged into his Sea of Consciousness, he immediately understood the meaning behind Tian Ye’s words in that dark space.

Existential Bond.

That woman, Tian Ye, had once again locked her life with his!

Moreover, the Existential Bond connecting the two of them was different from the one in the Illusionary Realm. When Xu Yuan scanned it with his Will-spirit, he could even vaguely sense the location of Tian Ye’s physical body.

What is this enchantress trying to do?

Was saving him from that dark space contingent on re-linking their lives together?

Xu Yuan found it hard to understand what Tian Ye was trying to accomplish.

After all, he was currently just an... Integration Body, while on the other hand, she was a Saint, the strongest "Tianyan" in the world.

By connecting the Existential Bond, wasn’t Tian Ye essentially attaching a dog leash to herself and handing the other end over to him?

Unable to figure it out, Xu Yuan still chose to set the matter aside for the time being.

The changes within the Sea of Consciousness weren’t limited to the Existential Bond, either.

As Xu Yuan had anticipated,

the originally pure and flawless Will-spirit within his Sea of Consciousness had also turned into a pitch-black mass, like ink.

With a hint of an imperceptible smile playing at the corners of his mouth, Xu Yuan expertly extended it outside his body, and then the smile on his face stiffened.

As his Will-spirit probed out towards the entire bedroom, a dense black fog instantly shrouded the entire room!

"...." Xu Yuan.

Swallowing hard, he silently retracted his Will-spirit back into his body, and the black mist filling the room immediately dissipated.

So it turned out that the black fog that had instantly enveloped Huizhou County in his memory was his own Will-spirit!

Xu Yuan knew the strength of this fog well from his memories.

Within its reach, the senses of cultivators of the same level would be almost completely blocked.

As for why it had been so easily dispersed by the middle-aged beautiful woman and Luo Bingli back then; it was simply because "he" at the time had been a creature acting on instinct alone, without any control over it, just blindly spreading the fog outwards.

And as for Feng Jiuxuan...

Xu Yuan’s body shuddered subconsciously and he shook his head.

His uncle didn’t count, being a Saint Level cultivator who was simply bullying others with his cultivation level.

Having checked his physical state, Xu Yuan’s mind returned to its usual calm composure, even feeling a bit of excitement.

Although he had almost died, no matter how you looked at it, this trip could be considered a blessing in disguise.

The hardware was now top-notch, only cultivation level was lacking.

Standing up from the bed and stretching languidly, he prepared to step outside and take a look around.

Given the thin blanket on his bed, the season should still be around late summer to early autumn.

His period of unconsciousness must not have been too long,

unless,

he had slept through a whole year or more.

"Creak—"

The door was pushed open, and before Xu Yuan could take a deep breath, two gazes fell upon him.

The figures of his father and uncle appeared almost instantaneously in the courtyard ahead.

And soon,

a third gaze also landed on Xu Yuan, who was now frozen in place.

Xu Changge had also arrived,

but he was standing on top of the courtyard wall.