Chapter 818: You Must Leave!
Han Qingjue didn’t know what her fate would be, but right now, it didn’t matter to her anymore.
Perhaps from the moment she mysteriously followed Xia Ji to the Xia Clan, she was doomed to have no good ending. She knew full well that Xia Ji intended to use her, and yet she willingly allowed herself to be used.
Because even if it wasn’t her, it might have been someone else, and at least she had a chance of deceiving Xia Ji.
After all, in Xia Ji’s eyes, she was already someone who would stop at nothing to achieve her goals, wasn’t she?
So she had no regrets, because since the day she made a mistake long ago, to now, she had no more choices left.
Han Qingjue saw Xia Ji getting ready to make her move, so she took a few steps to the side, leaned against a tree near the Tianqing Pool, then slowly sat down, quietly watching the activity in the direction of the Tianqing Pool.
The area was already surrounded by a barrier set up by Xia Ji; right now, she didn’t have the power to leave this place.
She even nearly lacked the strength to keep her eyes open; her body had lost too much blood, reaching its limit, and she could hardly sit upright.
But before Xia Ji started refining the Shengxue Pearl, she absolutely couldn’t let anything slip.
She didn’t know what consequences swapping the blood Xia Ji wanted to refine the Shengxue Pearl with would have, but she didn’t care anymore. She just hoped Han Jing and the others would be smart enough to heed her words and leave the Xia Clan; that way, even if, as they said, destroying the Shengxue Pearl would cause the entire space to collapse, it wouldn’t matter anymore.
Go, you must go!
Xia Ji was already prepared, placing the Shengxue Pearl at the center of the array she had set up, then slowly dripping the blood from the silver needle into the Shengxue Pearl. Xia Ji had also sat down cross-legged, using the power of the array to transfer the energy of the Shengxue Pearl into her body, merging it with her Spirit Core.
A Spirit Cultivator absorbs spiritual energy to cultivate, forming the Spirit Cultivation Flame; the resulting flame core is known as the Spirit Core. The level of cultivation is determined by the strength of the Spirit Core. Right now, Xia Ji’s Spirit Core was only a shallow white, nearly transparent. With the continuous infusion of the Shengxue Pearl’s power, the color of her Spirit Core began to subtly change, something Xia Ji could clearly see in her meditative void.
However, as the power of the Shengxue Pearl was infused, her Spirit Core felt an unspeakable burning sensation, unbearably painful, as if a fire continuously scorched her.
Xia Ji was no stranger to suffering, so this pain was not something she couldn’t endure. Still, she felt that something seemed a little off. The more power the Shengxue Pearl infused, the more intense the pain burning her Spirit Core grew, as if it was about to incinerate her to ashes.
The Shengxue Pearl was refined from the essence blood of a Divine level Expert and had overwhelming fiery energy, so if it was to be refined, it required the infusion of yin-type blood to achieve a balance of yin and yang for successful refinement. Otherwise, not only would the Shengxue Pearl fail to be refined, but it might also incinerate the Spirit Core into ashes, leading to the Spirit Core’s destruction and the person’s demise from explosion.
The intense burning pain in her Spirit Core made it increasingly difficult for Xia Ji to bear, her complexion growing paler, with large beads of sweat dripping down her forehead, and more and more kept falling.