300: Chapter 298 The Body of a Half-Immortal

Immortal Qi surged within their bodies, each cycle elevating their strength by a notch.

From initial exhaustion to gradual replenishment, and finally, breaking through the shackles of the Lower Realm's Laws, they entered a completely new level of life.

Time passed, though they knew not how long.

When the grayish-white mist circulating in the surrounding air was completely absorbed by the two, the tree hollow returned to its previous silence.

Su Lin slowly opened his eyes, a brilliant starlight flashing through his deep pupils.

He could feel that the power within his body had undergone a qualitative leap.

"Half-Immortal Body."

Su Lin murmured to himself, feeling the immortal essence within his body, which was purer and denser than Spiritual Qi.

He lowered his head and looked at the person in his arms.

Chu Weiwei was curled up on his chest like a lazy kitten, her breathing even and long.

Her face was flushed with satisfaction, and her skin exuded a lustrous glow. She had clearly benefited greatly from this Dual Cultivation, successfully forging an Immortal Foundation.

However, the purple-gold bloodline on both their wrists had grown thicker and more vivid, as if deeply rooted in each other's flesh and blood.

Su Lin gave a wry smile. He knew he had completely fallen into the gentle trap woven by this Yandere disciple.

From now on, he and Chu Weiwei were truly bound by fate, inseparable.

"If you're awake, get up."

Su Lin reached out and gently patted Chu Weiwei's smooth back.

Chu Weiwei's long eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her hazy purple eyes.

Instead of getting up, she clung to Su Lin even tighter like an octopus, tilting her head back to softly kiss his jaw.

"Revered Master, now, will we truly never be separated?"

Her voice carried a morbid sense of satisfaction, and a heart-shaped mark seemed to be etched deep within her purple pupils. The purple-gold bloodline of the [Life-and-Death Fate-Binding Gu] on her wrist flickered with their shared heartbeat.

Su Lin lowered his gaze, looking at the delicate, unclothed body in his arms that now radiated a lustrous Immortal glow.

After the intense Yin and Yang convergence that was akin to a life-and-death struggle, Chu Weiwei not only helped him filter out the violent Laws of Destruction from the Upper Realm's Immortal Qi, but she also used the Chaos Power fed back from his [world tree] to completely cleanse her mortal body of impurities, forging an Immortal Foundation.

At this moment, her skin was almost transparently white, with faint Immortal Dao runes flowing beneath it. Her originally sweet medicinal scent had also transformed into a clear, ethereal fragrance of Immortal Plants.

But no matter how her appearance changed, the madness in this girl's bones had not diminished in the slightest.

"As long as you don't think about turning your Revered Master into a specimen, or constantly trying new ways to give me aphrodisiacs, we naturally won't be separated."

Su Lin unhappily pinched her cheek. The smooth, slippery sensation under his fingertips caused a slight ripple in his heart, but he forcefully suppressed the ambiguous thoughts.

"Oh, Revered Master, how can you say that about Weiwei?"

Chu Weiwei pouted aggrievedly, rubbing her cheek against Su Lin's palm, much like a cat trying to please its owner. "What Weiwei gives is medicine, how can it be called an aphrodisiac? It's to assist Revered Master in Cultivation."

"Besides..." Her eyes darted around, lingering on Su Lin's equally exposed, muscular chest. "Revered Master, you clearly enjoyed Weiwei's treatment just now... Your body is much more honest than your mouth."

"Shut up. Put on your clothes."

Su Lin's old face flushed, and he no longer gave her a chance to climb further up the pole.

With a thought, the freshly condensed "Half-Immortal Essence" flowed within him, and a green robe, formed from pure Star Power, covered his body.

Chu Weiwei knew when to stop; she understood her Revered Master's bottom line. Although she was extremely reluctant to leave this small tree hollow filled with her Revered Master's aura, she also knew that their current situation did not allow for further intimacy.

She reluctantly climbed off Su Lin, waved her fair hand, and a moon-white wide-sleeved Immortal gown settled on her body, once again enveloping her breathtaking curves.

However, as the two stood up, that heavy, suffocating sense of oppression surged back like a tide.

"Hoo..."

Chu Weiwei stumbled, almost falling, but Su Lin quickly reached out and steadied her waist.

"The Law suppression here is terrifying."

Chu Weiwei's face turned slightly pale, and she gasped for air. "We've already shed our mortal bodies and achieved Half-Immortal Bodies, so why does it still feel so heavy?"

Su Lin helped her to the edge of the tree hollow, reached out to push aside the thick vines covering the entrance, and looked out at the gloomy, towering forest, which seemed to be cast from metal, his expression grave.

"Because this is the Upper Realm."

Su Lin's voice was low. "Our so-called Half-Immortal Bodies might be invincible in the Lower Realm, capable of shattering the Void Realm and roaming countless worlds. But here... our bodies at most have just gained the qualification to breathe in this land."

He stretched out his hand, extending it beyond the tree hollow.

Chii!

The mere naturally flowing wind in the air, scraping against Su Lin's hand, actually produced a friction sound similar to metal clashing, leaving a faint white mark on his skin.

"In the Lower Realm, Spiritual Qi is nourishment for people to absorb. But here, although Immortal Qi is thousands of times richer, its quality and density are also thousands of times heavier."

Su Lin withdrew his hand, looking at the slowly healing white mark on the back of his finger, his eyes growing deeper.

"It's like a fish accustomed to swimming in shallow water suddenly being thrown into a ten-thousand-foot deep sea. If it doesn't quickly adapt its bones and scales to this terrifying water pressure, it won't just be unable to swim, it will be crushed alive."

Chu Weiwei followed Su Lin's gaze.

The unknown giant beast that had let out terrifying roars earlier had already departed, but on the ground less than five hundred zhang from their tree hollow, it had left behind massive footprints several zhang deep.

The footprints were strangely three-toed. The metal trees around them, casually brushed by its passing, were cut as smoothly as tofu by a sharp blade.

"Gulp." Chu Weiwei swallowed with difficulty. "Revered Master, what level was that thing that just passed by...?"

"At least Heavenly Immortal, or even higher."

Su Lin gave a despairing assessment.

The Immortal Dao is difficult, every step fraught with peril.

In the Lower Realm, after Mahayana Perfection comes Undergoing Tribulation. After passing the Lightning Tribulation and shedding the mortal body, one becomes a "Half-Immortal."

And after Half-Immortal, that is truly the first step into the threshold of the Immortal Dao: Earth Immortal!

Above Earth Immortal, then is Heavenly Immortal!

"We aren't even Earth Immortals yet; we can only be considered Half-Immortals."

Su Lin turned his head and looked at Chu Weiwei. "In this Upper Realm, or rather, this cursed place called [Taihuang Immortal Domain], Earth Immortals are probably just the lowest-level laborers, or perhaps even just food for those beasts from earlier."

Chu Weiwei gasped.

In the Lower Realm, she was the revered Medicine Immortal, able to poison Body Integration Stage cultivators like slaughtering dogs, and even Mahayana Stage old monsters would avoid her.

But now, Revered Master was telling her that she barely qualified as food for the beasts here?

"What about... Senior Sisters and Junior Sisters?" Chu Weiwei recalled the other six Junior Sisters whom Su Lin had forcefully sent away in the Void Storm, a flicker of worry in her eyes.

"They have the Star Shield I gave them. As long as their luck isn't too bad and they don't fall directly into a deadly forbidden zone, their lives should be safe."

Su Lin looked around.

This metal forest was extremely remote and desolate. Besides the heavy, leaden Immortal Qi, the air was filled with a faint scent of decay and ruin.

There were no Immortal Cranes flying together, no auspicious clouds swirling. This so-called Upper Realm felt more like an abandoned ancient battlefield.

"The most urgent task is to quickly raise our cultivation."

Su Lin stated decisively, "Without reaching Earth Immortal, we won't even have the right to leave this forest. If we encounter a Vicious Beast of the level we saw just now, we won't even have a chance to escape."

"But Revered Master, the Immortal Qi here is too violent."

Chu Weiwei frowned in distress. "Just now, it was only because we had the Life-and-Death Fate-Binding Gu as a medium, and I forcefully filtered it with my Medicine Immortal Origin, that I could barely help you absorb some. If we directly Cultivate in meditation, this Immortal Qi entering the body is like swallowing knives; the efficiency is too low."

"If we can't absorb it directly, then we'll use external forces."

Su Lin's gaze fell on the strange plants outside the tree hollow, those growing at the roots of the metal ancient trees, emitting an eerie, faint glow.

"You are a Medicine Immortal. Although this forest is desolate, aren't these Immortal Realm plants all over the ground the best treasure trove for you?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Weiwei's eyes instantly lit up.

That's right!

The plants of this Upper Realm absorb high-dimensional Immortal Qi to grow. Even a weed here might have medicinal power surpassing a ten-thousand-year-old ganoderma from the Lower Realm!

"Revered Master is right! Weiwei will go take a look now!"

Chu Weiwei's Yandere tendencies were temporarily replaced by professional fanaticism. Like a cat seeing a new toy, she cautiously crawled out of the tree hollow.

Su Lin followed closely behind, ready to respond to any potential dangers.

The gravity here was immense. Even with their Half-Immortal Power circulating, walking felt as if their legs were filled with lead. Every step left a shallow imprint on the hard ground.

Chu Weiwei walked up to a plant emitting a ghostly blue light.

This plant resembled an enlarged mushroom, its cap covered with dense pores. As the breeze blew, these pores actually sprayed out visible wisps of blue ice sand.

"Such rich extreme cold Immortal Spirit Qi..."

Chu Weiwei did not rashly touch it with her hand. Instead, she took out a poison-testing needle made of Nine Nether Dark Jade from her storage ring and gently pricked the mushroom's cap.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle..."

That Dark Jade needle, hailed as invulnerable to all poisons and indestructible in the Lower Realm, instantly became brittle upon contact with the mushroom's sap, and then shattered into powder with a "snap"!

"Hiss!" Chu Weiwei gasped. "What a domineering cold poison! If this thing were eaten directly, even one's Primordial Spirit would probably be instantly frozen into an ice sculpture!"

But her eyes erupted with an unprecedented fanaticism.

"However... this is an excellent Material! If its cold poison can be neutralized with extremely Yang objects to extract pure Immortal Spirit Qi, this would absolutely be a great tonic!"

She turned her head, looking at a shrub not far away that was entirely crimson and had leaves like barbs.

The air around the shrub was slightly distorted, radiating astonishing high temperatures.

"Revered Master, please protect me here."

Chu Weiwei excitedly licked her lips. "Weiwei is going to start working!"

Over the next half a day.

Su Lin witnessed what true "Medicine Immortal methods" entailed.

Chu Weiwei, like a tireless tea picker, moved through the edge of this dangerous metal forest, carefully collecting various Immortal Realm plants that emitted deadly auras.

She had no Pill Furnace.

The top-grade Pill Furnaces she brought from the Lower Realm simply couldn't withstand the terrifying medicinal power of these Upper Realm Immortal Plants. As soon as she took one out to try refining a fire-attribute Immortal Plant, the Pill Furnace, which was said to be able to resist Samadhi True Fire, exploded into fragments.

"No Pill Furnace, then I will use my body as a furnace!"

The madness in Chu Weiwei's bones was completely ignited.

She returned to the tree hollow, sat cross-legged opposite Su Lin, and used both hands.

In her left hand, she held the blue mushroom emitting extreme cold poison, and in her right hand, she held the crimson shrub leaf, which was scalding hot like a branding iron.

"She's going to swallow them raw?!"

Su Lin's pupils contracted. Just as he was about to stop her, he saw Chu Weiwei close her eyes and, without hesitation, simultaneously stuff both deadly poisonous plants into her mouth!

"Mmm!!!"

The moment they entered her mouth, Chu Weiwei let out an extremely painful muffled groan.

Her left half of her face instantly formed a layer of ghostly blue ice, even her eyelashes were covered in frost; while her right half of her face turned crimson like blood, and faint flames even seemed to emanate from her skin!

Extreme cold and extreme heat, two completely opposite and terrifying medicinal powers, both containing violent Immortal Realm Laws, violently collided within her body!

"Pfft!"

Chu Weiwei spat out a mouthful of blood. Half of the blood was ice shards, and the other half was boiling blood, which landed on the ground and directly created a deep pit.

"Weiwei!" Su Lin's expression changed drastically, and he was about to step forward to forcibly interrupt her.

"Revered Master... don't come over!"

Chu Weiwei struggled to open one eye, that purple eye filled with madness and determination.

"Weiwei can do it... This medicinal power... is amazing..."

She rapidly formed hand seals, pushing her Medicine Immortal Origin Power to its limit.

She was actually using her own body as an Alchemy furnace, using her flesh, blood, and Meridians to forcibly act as a neutralizing agent for that violent medicinal power!

What was even more critical was that...

They were still connected by that [Life-and-Death Fate-Binding Gu] bloodline!

"Buzz!"

Su Lin felt a sharp pain in his wrist.

The next second, a terrifying pain, impossible to describe in words, was transmitted without reservation into his body through the connection of the Life-and-Death Fate-Binding Gu!

It was the ultimate torture of having half one's body thrown into an abyss of absolute zero, while the other half was roasted on the surface of the sun!

"Hiss..."

Su Lin gritted his teeth, veins throbbing on his forehead, and large drops of cold sweat instantly soaked his back.

He finally understood what Chu Weiwei meant earlier by "pain will also be doubled."

This mad girl was refining poison within her own body, and all the pain sensations were synchronized to his Divine Soul, not missing a single bit!