432: Chapter 432 The Medicine Spirit Saves His Life, Advancing to Nine Stars

She happened to see Hun Tiandi, covered in blood, falling down the cliff.

With a casual wave of her hand, Hun Tiandi's figure froze in mid-air and flew toward the woman as she whispered, "It's actually you!"

"Such heavy injuries!" As an Alchemist, she could tell at a glance how severe the injuries on Hun Tiandi's body were.

With a flick of her sleeve, she took Hun Tiandi and left the mountain stream.

"Hmph, consider yourself lucky to die at my hands, kid. If we were back at the Starfall Pavilion, the Pavillion Master would surely make you wish for death to avenge his son!"

Elder Hui looked at the collapsing cliff and couldn't help but sigh, coughing violently and spitting out several mouthfuls of blood.

Clearly, he was also seriously injured; his previous pursuit of Hun Tiandi had been done while forcibly suppressing his wounds.

In a rare valley, a waterfall cascaded down amidst the fragrance of flowers and the singing of birds. Bamboo houses were clustered together—a true paradise on earth.

When Hun Tiandi woke up from his coma, he immediately saw that he was inside a bamboo house, the air filled with fragrance.

"This is..."

He looked down to find himself naked, soaking in a wooden tub for a medicinal bath. A stinging pain came from his chest; his originally shattered skeleton had already been reset.

However, the scars remained. It would take time to recuperate before he could be as good as new.

He finally felt a sense of relief; it was good enough that he wasn't dead. He sank his mind into his body and sensed that the Fighting Qi within him had recovered by about thirty percent.

Slowly standing up, he stepped out of the tub, dried himself, and took out a cyan robe to put on.

He walked weakly out of the bamboo house. The sunlight was warm, giving him a feeling of having survived a disaster.

Outside the valley's bamboo house.

Looking closely, he saw a graceful figure busy at work. The flames in a medicinal cauldron were raging as if she were refining pills.

Hun Tiandi did not disturb her, sitting down on a bamboo chair and watching her master-level refining techniques.

"This person is an Alchemist, and by the looks of it, her rank isn't low!"

An hour passed, and the woman slowly withdrew the flames from the cauldron. A suction force erupted from her palm, and a longan-sized pill with golden patterns appeared.

It landed gently in her palm. She casually grabbed a high-quality jade bottle nearby and placed the pill inside.

"You're awake!"

Suddenly, a cold voice rang out, like that of an ice beauty, as her gaze fell upon Hun Tiandi.

"Yes. Thank you, Miss Yao Ling, for saving my life. If you have any needs in the future, I will surely repay you!"

Hun Tiandi nodded slightly and gave a small bow. If Yao Ling hadn't acted and had let him fall down the cliff, he would have likely turned into a pile of mush.

"Take this pill; it will be good for your injuries." Yao Ling walked toward Hun Tiandi and placed the pill she had just refined on the bamboo chair.

"Thank you!" Hun Tiandi thanked her and picked up the pill bottle.

"What is your name?" Yao Ling asked indifferently.

"Hun Tiandi!" After saying it, Hun Tiandi regretted it. The name 'Hun Tiandi' was synonymous with a demon on the Fighting Qi Continent; it was a taboo.

Back then, he had performed a blood sacrifice on the Central Plains and slaughtered living beings. Among the Ancient Eight Clans, the Shi Clan and the Ling Clan were both annihilated.

"As expected... after giving the name!"

A bone-chilling killing intent erupted from Yao Ling, pouring down toward Hun Tiandi.

Puchi!

His figure was sent flying backward, blood spraying out. His originally stabilized injuries became severe once again.

"Miss Yao Ling, don't misunderstand. My name is Hun Tiandi, but I am not that demon Hun Tiandi of the continent. It's just a common name!"

Hun Tiandi didn't dare tell the truth. If he dared to reveal today that he was indeed the Hun Tiandi of old and had even broken out of the seal...

In the next moment, Yao Ling would tear him apart alive!

"True. That demon was sealed by the Flame Emperor. With your mere Dou Wang strength, it's impossible for you to be him!"

Yao Ling restrained her aura, appearing as cold as the moon. She showed no apology for the act of injuring Hun Tiandi.

Hun Tiandi didn't mind and returned to the bamboo house.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, he planned in his heart: "Right now, the most important thing is to recover from my injuries. Also, I don't know how Liu Ling and Qing Yue are doing."

"Furthermore, was Hao Meili's body possessed by Demon Lord Qiandu? I will save you!"

His fists clenched until they creaked, his eyes filled with a look of determination.

Gulp!

He then directly poured the pill into his mouth, not worried at all that Yao Ling might poison him.

If she wanted to poison him, she wouldn't have bothered to save him in the first place!

He closed his eyes and began to cultivate. The power of the pill dissolved in his stomach, and the Blood Scripture slowly operated, sending surging energy through his meridians.

A numbing and itchy sensation came from his chest, as if ants were gnawing on it.

This was the energy of the pill repairing his sternum. A Dou Zong was truly terrifying; even a Sword Bone tempered by sword intent couldn't withstand a single strike from a Dou Zong.

In the end, it was because Hun Tiandi's strength was too weak.

Additionally, the fact that the Sword Bone had not yet been fully forged was another reason.

After Hun Tiandi went into secluded cultivation, Yao Ling in the valley fell into deep thought. This trip to the Thousand Poison Ruins had yielded no gains.

She sat on the bamboo chair, lost in contemplation.

After seven days of seclusion, Hun Tiandi finally absorbed all the power of the pill. The Fighting Qi in his body had recovered to seventy percent, and the injury to his chest was completely healed.

Then, he took out all the pills from the youhai storage ring.

He swallowed them all with a gulp and continued to refine and absorb them, falling into a deep state of cultivation once more, his body surrounded by surging energy.

Buzz!

Eerie blue flames rose around him, filtering the energy of heaven and earth and turning it into pure energy to pour into his body.

He had a feeling that after this brush with death, the opportunity to advance to a Nine-star Dou Wang had been touched.

Therefore, he took out all the pills and absorbed and refined them frantically.

Inside his body, Fighting Qi roared through his crystal-clear and broad meridians. He was like a monolith, remaining as steady as a mountain despite the impact of thousands of energies.

After an unknown amount of time, his strength returned to its peak. He took out some Spirit Wine and gulped it down.

The pure energy fused into his meridians, and after being converted into Fighting Qi, it dispersed into his four limbs and hundred bones.

He began to charge toward the Nine-star Dou Wang rank!

The energy for the breakthrough trembled. With the support of the Spirit Wine, the speed was extremely fast. After consuming a pile of Spirit Wine...

Buzz!

His body trembled, and a terrifying aura erupted from within Hun Tiandi. The long-dormant aura surged.

In one go, it dispersed the roaring energy of heaven and earth and dissipated the blue flames.

Chi!

He suddenly opened his eyes, and two beams of blood-red light shot out, tearing through the air in front of him.

Successful advancement, Nine-star Dou Wang!

Hun Tiandi showed a look of satisfaction. He had finally recovered his strength and gained a bit of self-preservation power in this strange place.

Then, his expression darkened. He sank his mind into his sea of consciousness. The Soul Sword had become dim and lackluster; the sword-shaped soul that originally radiated a pale green light...

...seemed to have lost its luster.

"Damn Ghost Demon. Next time I fight him, I must not let him injure my soul. There's no helping it; soul injuries are too difficult to treat!"

He opened his eyes and gave a helpless sigh.

He hoped that in these vast Central Plains, he could encounter heavenly treasures that could treat soul injuries.

Due to the existence of the soul injury, he couldn't even open the Nether Small World. Otherwise, when Elder Hui was chasing him that day...

...he would have definitely taken out the Human Puppet and killed him!

Although his Fighting Qi had recovered, black Qi appeared at the center of his brow—a sign of a soul injury.

Although he couldn't use the Soul Technique Soul Weapon Art, he still had the nether demonic zither in his hand as a trump card.

The Purgatory Soul-Suppressing Melody was already at the second chapter of cultivation!

He could also unleash the terrifying power of the demonic melody. With a casual wave, a pitch-black zither landed on his knees.

He frowned slightly. Why hadn't it evolved?

"Could it be that the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Infinite Array and the Shura Myriad Phenomena Origin Array recorded in the demonic melody cannot make the demonic zither advance?"

"But the two arrays can indeed absorb the Qi of Myriad Desires in the world, proving that the arrays are not wrong."

"Only the groove on the nether demonic zither hasn't been figured out yet. It should be for embedding something like a bead!"