Chapter 409: Not Giving Up

Confirming that the Wutong Forest barrier had been regenerated, Hua Changxi's mind relaxed slightly, and only then did she cast her gaze towards her body, which was bloodied by the impact of the fire Phoenix.

Blood mixed with scorched flesh accumulated into a pool of dark red, almost black, blood stains beneath her. Her Dharma robe was also burned to pieces, revealing deep wounds that reached the bone underneath.

The wounds were hideous and rolled up, and the edges still retained the lingering heat after being licked by the flames.

If it were an ordinary cultivator, being pierced through by the fire Phoenix like this, they would have long since exploded and died, or their meridians would have been broken and they would have become useless people.

But she could still move freely, and even her breathing had a steady rhythm.

This is the mystery of the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art"—at the beginning of body refining, it is to polish the physical body layer by layer with the method of "Nine Revolutions," from skin and membrane to muscles, from bones to internal organs, every step must experience extreme tempering that ordinary people cannot imagine.

Because of this, when the fire Phoenix pierced through, the violent impact force it erupted was enough to shatter gold and stone, but her physical body remained strong.

From the outside, although the body was bloodied, it was only the skin and membrane and the surface muscles that bore the most direct impact. Those split wounds looked terrifying, but they actually avoided all key meridians and acupoints.

In the cultivation of the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art," her physical body had long been cast with an "indestructible foundation" far exceeding ordinary people in thousands of tempers.

This impact of the fire Phoenix was a test of her physical body for Hua Changxi, and the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art" finally revealed its true value at this moment.

The number one body refining technique, it lives up to its name.

Blood was still seeping out from the scorched wounds. Hua Changxi stabilized her mind, closed her eyes, and performed the "Ten Thousand Fires Worship the Ancestor" divine ability.

In an instant, the fire spiritual power sleeping in the Wutong Forest was like a lava torrent awakened, frantically surging towards her broken body.

All the red leaves in the forest moved without wind, fine sparks seeped out from the cracks in the bark, and the whole forest seemed to turn into a huge fire spirit furnace, and she was the only suction core in the center of the furnace.

At this moment, Hua Changxi was like a black hole, frantically swallowing the fire spiritual power in the forest. These spiritual powers quickly turned into warm currents that nourished and repaired her body.

Under the nourishment of the warm currents, the exposed wounds squirmed and scabbed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the scorched skin fell off, revealing the newborn skin as white as jade underneath.

At the same time, with the injection of pure fire spiritual energy, the Qi sea in the Dantian, which was on the verge of drying up, also filled up rapidly.

When the last bit of scorched skin fell off, revealing the skin that was as good as new underneath, Hua Changxi finished her work and opened her eyes, with bright light flashing in them.

The "Ten Thousand Fires Worship the Ancestor" divine ability is not only a powerful divine ability to defeat the enemy, but also an amazing healing divine ability.

Her injuries were healed, and Hua Changxi was completely relieved, and finally had the mood to look at this blessed land of the Wutong Forest.

After the Nine Heavens Phoenix Singing Zither recognized its master, she had an omniscient perspective of the Wutong Forest.

The Wutong Forest was also divided into three areas, layer by layer, just like the Zhu Rong Tomb.

Periphery of Wutong Forest: washing marrow and cutting veins, purifying bloodline; Middle zone of Wutong Forest: igniting potential, questioning the original heart; Hinterland of Wutong Forest: comprehending the Great Dao, Nirvana rebirth.

Hua Changxi hung high above the Nirvana Dao Wutong, her mind moved slightly, and the residual fire spiritual power in the forest converged like a receding tide. The field of vision suddenly opened up, and the entire Wutong Forest was in full view.

"Hmm?"

Hua Changxi captured a trace of extremely subtle spiritual energy fluctuation, her figure flashed and disappeared in the air. When she appeared again, she was standing in front of a Wutong tree with a diameter of several meters in the middle zone of the Wutong Forest.

The trunk needed several people to embrace, and a large cocoon with flowing red light hung on a horizontal branch several feet above the ground.

"This is..."

Hua Changxi focused her mind and opened her eyes of truth, her gaze penetrating the cocoon shell, only to see a fire butterfly prototype frantically flapping inside.

The red-gold wings wrapped around the slender body, and every flap caused the fire spiritual power in the cocoon to boil, pushing the shell wall into spiderweb-like cracks.

It was clearly on the verge of breaking the cocoon, but it was stuck at the last step because of the exhaustion of spiritual power. If no one helped, it would probably be trapped to death in the cocoon.

Hua Changxi watched for a while, stretched out her right hand, and transported spiritual power to the red cocoon.

The fire spiritual power seeped into the red cocoon like a fine stream. In an instant, the fire patterns on the cocoon shell of the red cocoon lit up suddenly.

First, dense cracks spread like lightning, and then with a crisp "clack" sound, the top of the cocoon broke open, and a fire butterfly flashing with red light drilled out!

The cocoon breaking was successful, and the fire butterfly seemed very excited, flying and dancing, with glazed flame patterns flowing on the red-gold background, and the fire feathers on the edge trembling gently like living things, each flap bringing up tiny sparks, drawing golden-red trajectories in the air.

The fire butterfly flew towards Hua Changxi and hovered in front of her.

Then, the red light of the fire butterfly flourished, and the butterfly wings, antennae, and fire feathers dissipated one by one, replaced by a light cocoon wrapping a young girl.

"Bang!"

The light cocoon shattered, and a young girl of fifteen or sixteen, petite in stature and with skin as white as jade, appeared in Hua Changxi's sight.

Before Hua Changxi could react, the young girl knelt down very smoothly and kowtowed to Hua Changxi: "Butterfly Dance pays respects to the master, thank you master for the grace of saving my life."

Hua Changxi quickly took out a set of Dharma robes: "You put on your clothes first."

The young girl's face was happy. She picked up the clothes, did a spin, and put them on. Then she knelt down again: "Thank you, master."

Hua Changxi was still very curious about this demon race who appeared suddenly and had just entered the Spirit Platform stage: "Why call me master?"

The young girl replied seriously: "Master is the master of the Wutong Forest, and Butterfly Dance was transformed in the Wutong Forest, so naturally, I should serve the master as the master."

"Moreover, if it weren't for the master's appearance, repeatedly invoking the fire spiritual power in the Wutong Forest to gather, and just now transporting fire spiritual power to Butterfly Dance, I would never have been able to break the cocoon and become a butterfly, and I would have been suffocated to death in the cocoon sooner or later."

After hearing this, Hua Changxi asked again: "How did you enter the Wutong Forest?"

Butterfly Dance: "After the Wutong Forest barrier was broken, many human cultivators and demon races rushed into the Wutong Forest. I was brought in by my mother at that time."

Speaking of this, Butterfly Dance lowered her head, and a sorrowful aura radiated from her body.

"Mother was fast and could avoid the space cracks, so she successfully brought me into the Wutong Forest."

"But not long after entering, mother died in the aftermath of a battle between a human cultivator and several fire phoenixes."

"Butterfly Dance was able to survive because after entering, I cocooned, and mother hid me on this Wutong tree."

"I tried to break the cocoon several times, but all failed."

Butterfly Dance looked at Hua Changxi, her eyes shining: "Fortunately, master came, the spiritual energy in the Wutong Forest soared, and injected vitality into me."

Hua Changxi looked at Butterfly Dance noncommittally and condensed a soul-chasing seal in her palm: "If you want to follow me, you must brand this soul-chasing seal in your sea of consciousness."

Butterfly Dance looked at Hua Changxi and let go of her sea of consciousness without saying a word.

Hua Changxi glanced at Butterfly Dance and threw the soul-chasing seal into her brow.

"In the future, you will help me guard the Wutong Forest."

Butterfly Dance hurriedly agreed: "Butterfly Dance obeys."

Having collected a Spirit Platform stage butterfly to guard the gate, Hua Changxi went to set up the teleportation array at the entrance and exit of the Wutong Forest in a good mood.

Once the teleportation array was set up, she left the Wutong Forest.

Hua Changxi returned to Lingguang Hall. Just as she finished setting up the other side of the teleportation array to the Wutong Forest, she received a distress message from Yu Fu.

"Master, Princess Lingyuan slandered the disciples of Pill Origin Peak for stealing her spirit pet, and brought a group of cultivators to break into Pill Origin Peak, wanting to go up to Pill Origin Peak to search."

"Wan Feng went to find the Pavilion Master of Qihuang Pavilion and the Pavilion Master of Spirit Realm Pavilion, asking them to come forward to stop Princess Lingyuan, but they did nothing and let Princess Lingyuan make trouble."

"There are Spirit Platform stage cultivators among the cultivators brought by Princess Lingyuan. Jia Lu and the others and I might not be able to block them for too long."

After reading the message, Hua Changxi's eyes flashed with annoyance.

The imperial family is really not giving up until they completely verify her identity. ===== CHAPTER 410 =====