Chapter 910

Xiao Jiu did not meet the woman's gaze; instead, she unexpectedly fired several more bursts of Nirvana fire toward the outskirts of the white bone blood pool.

Each time she shot Nirvana fire, it was accompanied by blood from Xiao Jiu's fingertip, to increase the fire's explosive power.

But… things went against her wishes.

The Nirvana fire did ignite, but unlike the white bone blood pool she had been in before, as soon as the surface caught fire, a chilling blood qi was forced out from inside the pool, instantly extinguishing the flames.

Xiao Jiu felt a twitch between her brows; her intuition warned her something was wrong.

The next moment, she heard a gurgling sound from inside the white bone blood pool; the viscous, foul-smelling blood kept bubbling, and the Five-Colored Earth mark on the woman's brow grew ever more lurid.

Xiao Jiu turned her hand and flung the Jade Ink Ring toward the mark on the woman's brow.

To regain control of the Five-Colored Earth, she had to seize it with the Jade Ink Ring.

When the two were reunited, whether Xiao Jiu could take them back, or whether they would remain in that woman's body, were both unknowns.

But Xiao Jiu knew the Blood-Pupil Dried Corpse would surely fight for that "unknown."

Xiao Jiu intended to use the Jade Ink Ring to restrain the Blood-Pupil Dried Corpse.

The Jade Ink Ring pierced the woman's brow and entered her body; instantly, the Five-Colored Earth mark lit up, the woman let out a pained moan, and Xiao Jiu saw the head in the blood frantically spinning, banging against the wall, emitting wails—it looked utterly agonized.

This was the moment!

Xiao Jiu pushed off the ground with her toes, leapt into the air, formed hand seals and chanted midair, then struck downward with a palm aimed at the woman's crown.

The powerful palm wind struck the woman's head, driving it straight into the blood pool, where the blood's recoil thrust it back out, causing her to gulp several mouthfuls of blood.

Before, Xiao Jiu had dared not act, fearing this and that, simply because she had yet to find any useful clue.

But now Xiao Jiu had found the woman and locked onto the Blood-Pupil Dried Corpse's eye; if she did not strike, she would only be beaten.

After several successive moves, the woman's head suddenly stilled.

Xiao Jiu had already landed before the white bone blood pool, staring dubiously at the woman's head, not daring to relax for a moment.

Under Xiao Jiu's gaze, the woman's body rose bit by bit within the blood water.

The blood pool was quite deep; its surface was roughly level with the chin of the standing woman.

Now the blood was not increasing much, yet the woman's body kept rising—why?

As Xiao Jiu stared at the woman, a shadow was cast from behind her; she whipped her head around, and at that moment she felt a buzzing in her head.

Behind her, at some point, the white bones had quietly gathered together, forming a white bone skeleton over two and a half meters tall…

The entire white bone skeleton looked quite complete, except for an empty space at the chest.

What's more terrifying is that the shadow Xiao Jiu had noticed projecting from above was not solely from this white bone skeleton.

Every bone of the white bone skeleton had an owner.

At that moment, Xiao Jiu saw spirits moving on each bone, dozens of souls stacked together; when they stirred, each bared fangs and claws, wailing like ghosts and wolves.

When they moved, the other resentful spirits in the space seemed to join in their wailing.

Without hesitation, Xiao Jiu struck again, slamming Nirvana fire at the white bone skeleton.

What Xiao Jiu never expected was that this time the white bone skeleton did not dodge; it directly took the Nirvana fire she shot.

Flames licked the skeleton, spreading quickly over its whole frame; Xiao Jiu heard crackling and a chorus of ghostly wails…

Soon Xiao Jiu realized that under the Nirvana fire's scorching, the white bone skeleton did not fall apart or turn to powder; instead, the bleak bones, as if tempered, gradually fused their assembled structure into a single entity!

In other words, Xiao Jiu's Nirvana fire not only failed to destroy the white bone skeleton—it tempered it?

How could this happen?

Xiao Jiu narrowed her eyes, thought briefly, and had an idea.

These bones had been buried in the earth, unseen by sunlight, for who knows how many years.

Especially the bones composing this white bone skeleton were undoubtedly carefully selected by the Blood-Pupil Dried Corpse and forged over many years.

Today, they finally saw the light, successfully entering the next stage of cultivation.

This made Xiao Jiu think of the Undying Bone.

However, the white bone skeleton before her was still some distance from becoming Undying Bone, but after being tempered by Nirvana fire, anything became possible!

One must admit, this fellow has schemed for years, and his luck seems pretty good.

Since Nirvana fire not only failed to restrain it but actually aided its refinement, Xiao Jiu switched to a different attack.

Xiao Jiu transformed her body into a phoenix form; her vast, multicolored wings whipped up a gale and she fanned it toward the white bone skeleton.

The underground space was already cramped; after becoming a phoenix, Xiao Jiu felt her wings were somewhat restricted.

Yet precisely because of this confined space, the gale's explosive force was stronger.

The white bone skeleton was indeed swayed back and forth by the fan.

But at that moment, a bright light flared from within the blood pool, and a woman's voice rang out from inside: "Dodge!"

Xiao Jiu instinctively shifted her body to the side; the next instant, the light grazed her and plunged straight into the white bone skeleton's chest.

The white bone skeleton leapt up and vanished from Xiao Jiu's sight in the blink of an eye.

In that fleeting gap, Xiao Jiu saw a huge half-open eye!

What had just entered the white bone skeleton's chest was the Blood Pupil!

Xiao Jiu landed, resumed human form, and rushed to the edge of the white bone blood pool to check the woman's condition.

As expected, the woman's body, which had been rising continuously, had now settled back into the blood pool.

But the blood in the pool had nearly run dry.

The white bones surrounding the pool had also turned dim and dull, losing their luster.

It was obvious they had lost their mana.

At this point, if Xiao Jiu merely touched it with a fingertip, the entire white bone blood pool would crumble to powder.

Meanwhile, the woman sat slumped in the blood pool, her chest hollow and empty.

Xiao Jiu immediately looked again at the woman's brow, saw that the Five-Colored Earth mark was still there, and let out a small sigh of relief…

Fortunately, the situation isn't too bad…