Chapter 5264: Fusion
Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
His words reached her ears and echoed in her mind. It was as if scenes were flashing before her eyes; the stirrings in her soul, the pain radiating through her body, and the excruciating agony in her head—as if it were about to explode—filled her entire being.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!"
She clenched her fists tightly and cried out in agony, blood seeping from her knuckles. Suddenly, she fell silent. The crimson lotus between her brows faintly took the shape of a flame. She closed her eyes, and the scenes in her mind grew clearer...
A soul that did not originally belong to this world or this realm had, by a twist of fate, found its way here, inhabiting the body of a small child. Yet, on a day of heavy snow, the child was abandoned and left in the snow.
Just as the child lay on the snowy ground, freezing to the point of death, a celestial-like immortal in azure robes passed by, picked her up, brushed the snow and ice from her body, and carried her back to Yunxiao Mountain. He named her Yun Qi, and from then on, she became the disciple of the Azure Emperor, showered with every conceivable form of affection...
At the mountain’s peak, he personally taught her the ways of immortality and guided her in cultivation. Month after month, year after year, master and disciple lived together, secluded in Yunxiao Mountain, untouched by the ways of the world...
Yet, while the Azure Emperor was in seclusion, Yun Qi faced the Lightning Tribulation during her advancement. Struck by lightning, her body perished and her soul scattered into nothingness, drifting through the heavens and earth until her spirit finally coalesced once more and entered the cycle of reincarnation...
Each memory, each scene, felt as though it were yesterday; yet time flies, and in the blink of an eye, who knows how many years have passed.
Yue’er opened her eyes. In that moment, the radiance in her eyes seemed different from usual, as if an innocent young girl had suddenly grown up.
"Master... your disciple has returned."
She spoke softly, gazing into his narrowed eyes, and a smile blossomed on her lips: "It was your disciple who caused you worry, Master."
As she spoke, a layer of crimson flame surged from her body. With a whoosh, the flames instantly incinerated the barrier the Azure Emperor had cast over her. She sat up, supported her master with both hands, and guided him toward Shen Shiqi.
"Take good care of my Master."
Shen Shiqi caught the Azure Emperor who was being passed to him. Supporting her, he stumbled backward more than ten meters. The Azure Emperor seemed to freeze, staring blankly at the figure shrouded in flames, momentarily unable to recover.
Yue’er soared upward, her entire body engulfed in flames. Unseen by others, the Karma Flame Red Lotus surged through her body, reshaping her mind and repairing her dantian.
Only she could sense it: as her blood flowed and the fluctuations of her spiritual essence rippled, the powerful aura of the Primordial Red Lotus, which had previously raged chaotically within her, had now entirely transformed into crimson flames, reshaping and tempering every vein and bone in her body. As her meridians expanded, the aura of spirit energy emanating from her grew ever more potent. As if spurred by the Primordial Red Lotus, the Nine-Tailed Sacred Beast—an ancient Sacred Beast that had been in deep meditation for many years—burst forth from her body at that very moment.
"Whoa! The ancient Sacred Beast, the Nine-Tailed Divine Fox? She actually harbors an ancient Sacred Beast within her?"
The cultivators around her couldn’t help but gasp in shock at the sight of the Nine-Tailed Divine Fox bursting from her body, soaring through the air atop a bed of flames, with Yun Qi standing firmly upon its back.
It was a fully grown Ancient Divine Fox. Its nine immense tails danced through the air; its fur was pure white without a single stray hair, the only visible feature being the fiery mark on its forehead.
The overwhelming aura of the Ancient Divine Sacred Beast, combined with the oppressive pressure from the Dao of Heaven, permeated the surrounding area, making the suffocating atmosphere even more intense than before.