258: Chapter 258 White Wings Enter the Third Rank

The clothes on her body silently split open when the Buddha's light touched her shoulders.

The fabric spread out along the seams, and her body was supported by the Buddha's light, not sinking to the bottom of the pool, but floating flat above the water surface and slowly moving toward the edge of the pool as the pool water flowed.

The Buddha's light continued to climb upward, covering her neck, jaw, and cheeks, wrapping her entire person in a golden layer of light and blending as one with the pool water.

The originally calm surface of the pool began to show fine ripples, spreading outward from the position where she stood. After crashing against the pool walls, they bounced back, intersecting with the surging Buddha's light around her to form layers of crossed, fragmented light and shadows.

Bai Chi stood in the center of the pool with her eyes closed, not moving, resembling a stone statue being slowly soaked, waiting for the pool water to completely engulf her.

On the stone slabs by the pool, the dark red light of the blood pearl continued to shine, contrasting with the surging Buddha's light around her and forming a clear boundary at the edge of the pool water.

Wu Li stood by the pool, his gaze falling upon that layer of fluctuating golden water surface.

The surging speed of the pool water was accelerating.

Golden Buddha's light continued to gush out from the bottom of the pool, climbing upward along her Meridians, as if actively filling the yet-unfilled gaps within her body.

Bai Chi's aura was rising slowly, and the flow rate of her Demon Power was accelerating, continuously operating along her Meridians. The golden Buddha's light around her body was slowly undergoing Fusion with her own Demon Power, forming a continuously expanding golden halo.

At the same time, subtle vibrations began to emerge from beneath the water surface, and the light gushing from the bottom of the pool began to be mixed with intermittent Sanskrit chants.

The sound was extremely faint, as if coming from a very distant place, with every syllable continuously growing thicker.

"Mi... Hum..."

The Sanskrit chants spread along the water surface, climbing upward against Bai Chi's skin and infiltrating inward along her Meridians, as if rearranging her breathing and heartbeat with the rhythm of scriptures.

Bai Chi's brows began to furrow slightly, her fingers subconsciously tightening, her consciousness putting up a subconscious resistance.

"Almost there."

Wu Li stood by the pool, his gaze not moving away from her.

He raised his right hand, bringing his sword fingers together, and pointed into the Void Realm.

"Blood Eye Pagoda, Myriad Laws Return to Ruins, with blood as the guide and soul as the foundation, Three Changes to Peep into the Profound, Nine Revolutions to Communicate with the Nether, the Pagoda is Indestructible, the Blood Seal Endures Forever."

"Hum~"

After the scriptures of the Blood Eye Pagoda Sutra were uttered from Wu Li's mouth, they did not dissipate. Instead, they extended forward along the direction of his sword fingers, passed through the Buddha's light, landed between Bai Chi's eyebrows, and sank into her body against her skin.

In an instant.

The Blood Seal Pagoda within Bai Chi's body was triggered. Dark red blood light surged out from her Dantian, climbing upward in reverse along her Meridians, intercepting layer by layer the Sanskrit chants that had already seeped into her Meridians, and beginning to refine them in reverse.

"Hoo..."

After the empowerment of Wu Li's Blood Seal Pagoda, the degree to which Bai Chi's brows were furrowed gradually lessened, and her breathing returned to stability.

Those Sanskrit chants wrapped in blood light were continuously being refined, stripped away from her Meridians, flowing into her Dantian along the direction of the blood light's flow, and transformed by the Blood Seal Pagoda into her own Demon Power.

The surging Buddha's light around Bai Chi's body faded of its original scorching heat, becoming gentle, like a thin film whose temperature had been readjusted, flowing slowly across the surface of her skin.

She stood in the center of the pool with her eyes closed and her breathing steady. The dark golden patterns on her palms re-emerged after being covered by the blood light, their color growing a shade deeper than before, changing from dark gold to a deeper bronze color.

The pool water began to surge at an accelerated pace.

Golden Buddha's light continued to gush out from the bottom of the pool, climbing upward along Bai Chi's Meridians, intertwining and operating in parallel with the dark red light of the Blood Seal Pagoda, occupying different Meridian branches, and converging and undergoing Fusion at the Dantian.

Her surrounding aura continued to climb, and the speed at which her Demon Power flowed became faster and faster.

A layer of dense bubbles floated on the surface of the pool, rising from beneath her feet and sliding upward along the layer of Buddha's light on her body's surface. When approaching the water surface, they burst, releasing a continuous halo of light, only to be swallowed by the subsequent rushing Buddha's light.

The color of the pool water was slowly fading, transitioning from dense gold to pale gold. The spiritual energy was drained and poured into Bai Chi's Meridians, and the Demon Power within her body gradually approached saturation.

An hour later.

Bai Chi's breathing was undergoing subtle changes, with the interval after each inhalation and exhalation shortening.

The speed at which her Demon Power circulated in her Meridians had reached the current upper limit of her cultivation, and was being pushed to even greater heights by the continuously accumulating power.

Those Buddha's lights gushing from the pool water climbed upward along her Meridians, being converted layer by layer into Demon Power by the Blood Seal Pagoda.

"Mmph!"

Bai Chi frowned, and a layer of dark golden light emerged on the edges of her feathers, spreading from the wing tips and extending upward along the wing bones. Every single feather was slowly changing color, shifting from grayish-white to grayish-gold, with a very faint dark red luster on the edges.

The Buddha's light formed a continuously surging light barrier around her, wrapping her in the center, and a layer of circulating scriptures emerged on the surface of the barrier.

The light barrier gradually thinned amidst continuous rotation and was continuously absorbed. Fragments peeled off from its surface fell into the pool water, stirring up splashes, only to be swallowed by the pool water.

Wu Li stood by the pool with his Blood Pupil open. The scarlet light swept across the surging layer of light around her, confirming the endurance of the Meridians inside her body and confirming that the Blood Seal Pagoda was still operating.

Soon.

Bai Chi's aura finally reached the critical point.

As the very last trace of Buddha's light within her body was completely refined by the Blood Seal Pagoda, a deep hum emanated from the position of her Dantian, spreading outward along her bones and feathers, forming a layer of continuous low-frequency vibration in the air.

The Demon Power within Bai Chi's body stopped surging and smoothly continued to circulate along her Meridians, re-aggregating at a faster speed in her Dantian and lingering at a new height.

The last layer of pale golden Buddha's light on the surface of Bai Chi's skin was fading, revealing a layer of feathers beneath that exuded a bronze luster, each one bearing a very faint dark red pattern.

Her eyes slowly opened from a closed state, and the color of her pupils had changed from gray to dark gold, with a layer of slowly fading dark red halo on the edges.

"This is..."

Bai Chi lowered her head to take a look at her own hands. The nails at her fingertips were slightly longer than before, and the tips of her claws carried a very faint dark golden luster. She raised her head to look at Wu Li by the pool: "I've made a Breakthrough."

Wu Li stood by the pool, his gaze falling upon her, confirming that the aura around her body was stable and her Demon Power was circulating normally: "Early Stage Third Stage."

"Thank you, Old Ancestor!"

Bai Chi walked out of the pool water. The color of the pool water had already faded, shifting from dark gold to almost transparent.

She reached out and picked up the blood pearl placed on the stone slab. When the dark red light re-contacted the dark golden patterns on her palm, the two lights formed a very faint transitional color at the edge of her palm.

"There's no need to be happy so early either."

"Your Opportunity might be accompanied by no small crisis."