Stellar Transformation

Silence, oppressively silence.

The main hall of Qingyu Immortal Mansion was terrifyingly quiet. Elder Qian Xu was disheveled, his face dripping with blood, and his Taoist robe torn to shreds. True Master Shui Rou had even had an arm violently torn off, and she did not wish to waste energy regenerating it.

The resentment in True Master Shui Rou was unmistakably clear, and her gaze was enough to send shivers down one’s spine. Her counterpart, True Master Yue Yan, grew increasingly enraged due to True Master Shui Rou’s serious injury, and his eyes turned as crimson as if blood-filled.

"Hmph, three juniors, today I, Yan Ji, must kill all three of you. This battle will not end until death," Lady Yan Ji declared, devoid of her usual charm. Her hair whipped about, each strand sharp as a silver needle, and her face was pale as bone.

"Shut your mouth, you witch," Elder Qian Xu suddenly bellowed.

Up to now, in the battle against Lady Yan Ji, True Masters Shui Rou and Yue Yan had not suffered much damage. But Elder Qian Xu had lost two junior brothers in succession, and even the coldest of hearts develop attachments over thousands of years.

Moreover, with the death of his two junior brothers, Elder Qian Xu was even more at a disadvantage.

"Qian Xu, you’re still so arrogant? Since I’ve killed your two junior brothers, the next one must be you," Lady Yan Ji’s eyes gleamed with a red light, and in an instant, what appeared to be a white bone claw was before Elder Qian Xu—instantaneous movement!

Since the Independent Immortals had all ceased fighting momentarily, the space had stabilized, naturally allowing the technique of Heavenly Immortals and Heavenly Demons—Instantaneous Movement.

Elder Qian Xu’s face paled as the moment of crisis approached, but instead of retreating, he charged forward into the embrace of Lady Yan Ji, her bosom heaving tumultuously. Elder Qian Xu’s move was indeed shameless.

With a squelching sound, flesh was torn apart, and bone gleamed stark white.

Lady Yan Ji’s claw, due to Elder Qian Xu’s advance rather than retreat, failed to hit the dantian and struck only the chest area instead, revealing with clarity his breastbone. However, Lady Yan Ji’s claw of bone swiftly reached down.

Ripping open the belly.

"The Nascent Soul’s not here!" Lady Yan Ji’s face changed.

Not a trace of pain showed on Elder Qian Xu’s face as if the flesh and blood were not his own. His mouth opened, and a tiny Nascent Soul, controlling a low-grade Immortal Device level flying sword, shot directly at Lady Yan Ji. At such close range, she couldn’t dodge and the sword pierced right into her face.

Straight down!

Leaving a huge hole in her face, Elder Qian Xu’s Nascent Soul with a fierce expression, continued to steer the flying sword straight down through the brain, targeting her Nascent Soul within.

"Ahh~~~" A piercingly shrill and high-pitched scream erupted from within Lady Yan Ji.

Relentless as water and fire!

True Masters Yue Yan and Shui Rou’s eyes gleamed, dazzling rays bursting forth from their bodies. They didn’t care about the life or death of Elder Qian Xu at this moment. The two of them used their ultimate move once more, directing it straight at Lady Yan Ji’s body.

Inside Lady Yan Ji, the enraged Lady Yan Ji controlled her Lower Grade Spiritual Artifact, the Black Wind Belt, engaging in a fierce fight with Elder Qian Xu.

"You two thieves."

Lady Yan Ji’s complexion shifted. Having reigned across the Tenglong Continent for thousands of years, she had gained enormous experience. Even though she was currently in a rage, fighting Elder Qian Xu with her Nascent Soul, she kept a watchful eye on True Masters Yue Yan and Shui Rou.

The two were joining forces in a Joint Attack Formation, and if she were careless, she would end up with no place to bury her body.

Even as a Fourth Tribulation Independent Demon, she wouldn’t dare to let two Third Tribulation Independent Immortals attack her unguarded.

Like a rainbow flash, Elder Qian Xu’s Nascent Soul paid no heed to the fight, escaping directly from Lady Yan Ji’s physical body. In the process of fleeing, he deliberately released Qi Force, wreaking havoc with her upper body as if he was gutting her, and then he broke free.

Lady Yan Ji, with an instantaneous movement, controlled her own body to immediately dodge away.

A thunderous roar shook the heavens.

Lady Yan Ji’s back was smashed, her skin ripped and flesh burst open.

In the beginning, Elder Qian Xu’s soul merged into his Nascent Soul and he maneuvered the Flying Sword to pierce through Lady Yan Ji’s body, entering her and then exiting her, tearing her open. The combined attacks from True Master Yue Yan and True Master Shui Rou not only depleted Lady Yan Ji’s energy but also greatly damaged her physical body.

Lady Yan Ji now seemed like a corpse.

However, she was reluctant to abandon this body. Although Independent Immortals could form a new body as long as their Nascent Soul survived, the energy required to form a new body was so immense that even Lady Yan Ji was loath to waste her damaged physical form.

"Ahhh~~~~" A sharp and piercing cry shot out from Lady Yan Ji’s throat, filled with extreme anger and madness.

At all costs!

"Not good, the devil’s going berserk, Shui Rou, be careful." True Master Yue Yan’s face changed, turning very unsightly.

True Master Shui Rou also looked serious: "Yue Yan, this Lady Yan Ji keeps changing and her strength is unfathomable. There aren’t many in the Tenglong Continent who know her true strength. We must not hold back now."

At this moment, neither True Master Yue Yan nor True Master Shui Rou was attacking.

A violent energy raged, quickly swirling towards the center, right where Lady Yan Ji was standing. In a moment... the terrifying massive energy completely restored Lady Yan Ji’s physical body. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Lady Yan Ji regained her seductive appearance almost instantaneously, but now her eyes were cold.

"Haha... Yan Ji, your body was mostly destroyed, and you consumed your strength to repair your body. However, you were already seriously injured before and used up so much energy to heal your body. How much strength do you have left? Just accept your death obediently." Elder Qian Xu had also reformed his physical body.

"How much strength I have, why don’t you try and find out? Don’t you know there’s something in the world called— ’pills’?" At that moment, Lady Yan Ji was incredibly alluring, with a trace of rouge still on her face.

"Pills, you’ve consumed so much energy, and after taking the combined attack from True Master Yue Yan, with such severe injuries, just pills would be enough? Not to mention whether there’s a Spirit Pill with great enough effect. Yan Ji, you’re just bluffing." Elder Qian Xu sneered.

"She has an Adam’s apple." True Master Shui Rou suddenly spoke.

True Master Yue Yan and Elder Qian Xu immediately looked at Lady Yan Ji’s throat area, and indeed there was a protruding Adam’s apple, which shocked them both.

Do women have an Adam’s apple?

If it was an Independent Demon, intentionally shaping a physical body like this wasn’t impossible. But would a female Independent Demon let herself have an Adam’s apple?

"Are you a man or a woman?" True Master Yue Yan felt a tingling sensation in his heart.

Lady Yan Ji cast a coquettish glance: "If you call me a man, then I’m a man, if you call me a woman, then I’m a woman." As she spoke the first part, Lady Yan Ji’s voice became rough like a man’s; but as she said the second part, her voice turned soft again.

The Thousand-Changing Witch, always transforming into various appearances, her true appearance was unknown to all. Although she used the guise of this enchanting woman most frequently, could it be truly her real one?

"Don’t waste time with her, she’s taking the opportunity to recover her strength," Elder Qian Xu suddenly shouted.

At the same time, Elder Qian Xu transformed into a streak of green light and charged at Lady Yan Ji.

Man or woman, kill first then ask.

Lady Yan Ji’s eyes burst with a cold light, and she too transformed into a streak of black light. The speeds of the Independent Demon and Independent Immortal were incredibly fast, and to outsiders, they could only see two streaks of afterimages constantly flashing and clashing in the hall.

True Master Shui Rou and True Master Yue Yan stood together, constantly vigilant of the battle, occasionally launching surprise attacks.

"Ahhh~~~~" Furious and aggrieved screams echoed, sometimes in a male voice, sometimes in a female voice. Lady Yan Ji was really aggrieved to death. From the very start, she was heavily wounded by the combined Formation attacks of the two great Independent Immortals, then clashed with Elder Qian Xu, resulting in great damage to her body and depleting a vast amount of her strength to recover it. Although she had Spirit Pills, how much could they really replenish?

During the fight with Elder Qian Xu using their Nascent Souls, Lady Yan Ji ended up being ambushed by True Master Yue Yan and one other.

Repeatedly, Lady Yan Ji now had less than half of her original strength left, luckily Elder Qian Xu also suffered great losses. However... although Lady Yan Ji was overpowering Elder Qian Xu, True Master Yue Yan and his accomplice kept launching sneak attacks.

Just as Yan Ji was about to unleash a killing move, she was ambushed by True Masters Yue Yan and Shui Rou, two great Independent Immortals.

Frustration, rage!

******

Inside a bedroom of the Qingyu Immortal Mansion, Qin Yu and Li’er were sitting on the edge of the bed, while not far away a clean, mirrored surface showed images. It was the scene of Lady Yan Ji and others fighting in the main hall. Qin Yu had refined the Primordial Spirit Essence, bringing the entire Immortal Mansion under his control.

"Big Brother Qin Yu, is this Lady Yan Ji a man or a woman? I can’t quite figure it out," Li’er said with a smile to Qin Yu.

Qin Yu looked carefully and shook his head with a wry smile, "Who knows if Lady Yan Ji is a man or a woman? But since she’s known as the Thousand-Changing Witch, she should be a woman. If not a woman, why wouldn’t she be called the Thousand-Changing Wizard?"

"Thousand-Changing Wizard," Li’er couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

As Li’er laughed, Qin Yu’s gaze returned to the pristine mirror surface, his expression turning colder.

"The combat really is intense. It seems that True Masters Yue Yan and Shui Rou must have some secrets. No wonder they arrived at the Nine Sword Immortal Mansion nearly at the same time. Lady Yan Ji miscalculated one step, however... The difference between a Third Tribulation Independent Immortal and a Fourth Tribulation Independent Immortal isn’t the same as going from Fourth to Fifth Tribulation. The leap from Third to Fourth represents a fundamental difference, whether it’s Instantaneous Movement or other abilities, the gap is much larger."

Watching the fight, Qin Yu kept note of the attack moves and abilities of the various experts.

However, Qin Yu still believed that Lady Yan Ji had a good chance of winning.

...

Three Poison Tail Needles pierced Elder Qian Xu’s body.

A final palm strike hit Elder Qian Xu in the chest area.

Just as his Nascent Soul had fled there, despite being only a Third Tribulation Independent Immortal, his Spiritual Sense was not a match for that of Fourth Tribulation Independent Demon Lady Yan Ji. Those three needles were precisely aimed to set up for that final palm strike, calculated with exquisite precision.

Even True Masters Yue Yan and Shui Rou were too late to render aid.

One palm strike!

Elder Qian Xu’s body flew up limp, blood spilling on the steps of the main hall, and then he heavily fell to the ground. His body curled up, his right hand trembling as he reached for a Jade Bottle to pour Spirit Pills into his mouth.

But his right hand was too weak, and dozens of Spirit Pills scattered all over, with more than half falling out of the bottle.

He wasn’t dead, but it wasn’t much different from being dead.

"To have such a severe injury to your Nascent Soul without much damage to your soul, you are quite fortunate," Lady Yan Ji said as she shot out another Poison Tail Needle.

A tiny Poison Tail Needle that Elder Qian Xu would not have cared about in the past, but now he had no strength to resist.

"Just the time for a cup of tea, I only need the time for a cup of tea," Elder Qian Xu moaned in his mind.

His currently feeble Nascent Soul urgently needed recovery, but the Demon Essence Power infused by the Heavenly Demon was really too troublesome.

The Poison Tail Needle, breaking through the air, came shooting towards him. Elder Qian Xu’s eyes widened as he watched the needle approach, completely powerless to defend.

Clang!

A flying sword blocked the poison tail needle.

"Witch, don’t even think about killing anyone," True Master Yue Yan shouted. Beside him, True Master Shui Rou also looked coldly at Lady Yan Ji.

Lady Yan Ji glanced at the two of them.

Until now, True Masters Yue Yan and Shui Rou had been watching the fight, occasionally launching surprise attacks. They weren’t seriously injured; although True Master Shui Rou had lost an arm, she hadn’t wasted energy to regenerate it, indicating that she had plenty of energy to spare.

On the contrary, Lady Yan Ji had suffered several serious injuries, repeatedly regenerated her body, and had been fighting Elder Qian Xu up to this point—her condition was the exact opposite.

"Ha-ha, I never expected that the two of you were so well acquainted, and even had a Joint Attack Formation. I miscalculated, terribly miscalculated," Lady Yan Ji sighed.

True Master Yue Yan looked tenderly at True Master Shui Rou, then with a faint smile said to Lady Yan Ji, "The relationship between Shui Rou and me is unknown to most of the Tenglong Continent. How could you have known? You can’t blame your demise on ignorance; you can only blame fate for sealing your end."

Together, the two were skilled in Formation attacks, their power no less than that of three Third Tribulation Independent Immortals. And at this moment, Lady Yan Ji would have been fortunate to retain even half of her attack power.

"Alas, is fate truly sealing my end?" Lady Yan Ji sighed.

However—

"Ahh~~~~" All of a sudden, Lady Yan Ji seemed to go mad, her long hair that reached her hips suddenly standing on end like taut strings. In just a moment, every strand of her hair began to elongate—

Blood-red flames ignited upon Lady Yan Ji’s body, enveloping her completely.

True Masters Yue Yan and Shui Rou, upon seeing this scene, had their eyes widen in shock.

"I never thought that dealing with the three of you would come to this, but now, you must die," said Lady Yan Ji, wrapped in blood-red flames, looking down upon True Masters Yue Yan and Shui Rou with a leisurely smile.

"Heavenly Demon Blood Cloud!"

The faces of True Masters Yue Yan and Shui Rou changed drastically. This Heavenly Demon Blood Cloud Cultivation Technique could only be used by those who had reached the Heavenly Demon Realm, and it was also a closely guarded secret, not known to all those above the rank of Fourth Tribulation Independent Demon.

Heavenly Demon Blood Cloud, burning half the body’s flesh and half the Nascent Soul’s energy.

The main hall was too small to allow True Masters Yue Yan and Shui Rou to escape, and blood-red clouds of mist invaded them completely.

"Ah, don’t touch it!" As soon as True Master Yue Yan’s right fingertip touched a blood-red cloud, it began to decay starting from his fingertip, rapidly spreading toward his arm and even his entire body. Yue Yan amputated his own arm, but he knew that things were not looking good.

In the blink of an eye, the blood cloud completely shrouded both of the powerful Independent Immortals.

No access to heaven, no door into the earth.

"Ha-ha, I’ll kill Elder Qian Xu first, let you taste the Nascent Soul erosion of the blood cloud," said Lady Yan Ji after consuming a Spirit Pill and turned, laughing loudly as she walked unsteadily toward Elder Qian Xu. Her face was pale, and her walk trembled.

Losing half the energy of one’s Nascent Soul, it’s known there’s a baseline amount of energy needed to sustain the existence of the Nascent Soul; this loss of half had nearly reached that baseline.

"Once the three of you are dead, once I refine the Township Stele, the whole Immortal Mansion, ha-ha... countless Primordial Spirit Stones, countless treasures, this entire Immortal Mansion will be mine, ha-ha..." Lady Yan Ji was overcome with triumph, seemingly envisioning her future in control of the entire Immortal Mansion.

(End of Chapter One~~~~ There will be a second Chapter today, but it will be quite late.)

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