Chapter 107: The Return of the Queen

In the heart of the vast desert, danger ran rampant.

Liu Changning’s entire body was swept up into the air like a rag doll.

She had no time to deal with the blood gushing from her right wrist. The storm, containing the might of heaven and earth, gave her no time to react.

Her thin lips were pale without a trace of color, her long hair like a waterfall dancing chaotically in midair.

She had little strength left. Using blood as a sacrifice had drained nearly eighty percent of the blood in her body.

In addition, her body was being rotated and tossed about in the gale like a puppet, with yellow sand constantly beating against her body and face. The warm blood inside her body was draining at an alarming rate.

After several lifetimes as a human, this was the first time she vaguely sensed Death beckoning to her.

Liu Changning’s eyelids were half-closed, every part of her body sending out waves of pain. Her eyelids drooped, as if feeling she should rest.

But in her muddled mind, almost ready to stop functioning in accordance with her body’s instincts, suddenly appeared the face of a person.

His true appearance was hidden in thick fog, only those phoenix eyes were particularly clear.

“Old Daoist Liu, get up! Be good. Would you be content to trade three lifetimes of bitter fruit for one lifetime of perfection?”

“How can you die so easily when trying to change fate and defy destiny?”

“Do you still remember Pei Ziyuan who lost his soul for you in the first life, Chitian who burned out his soul for you in the second life, and Emperor Chang Qing who died before your eyes as a handful of white bones in the third life? If you die, what would it mean for everything to start over? You and I would be separated for all eternity!”

Liu Changning suddenly lifted her eyelids. The face in her mind began to gradually become clear. Although the skin was dark red, the features were the flamboyant and gorgeous ones she was familiar with.

As the illusion began to disappear, his eyes turned crimson red: “You are not allowed to die!”

Liu Changning’s heart stirred. She used all her strength, wanting to touch the phantom before her eyes, but was too weak to even move a finger.

Regret, remorse, powerlessness. This was not what she wanted!

Liu Changning was an orphan, her survival difficult, every step a struggle.

From a very young age, she knew what she wanted.

If she wanted to rise to prominence, without anyone’s help, every step forward required all her effort.

Later, she climbed step by step. In her first life, her path was smooth. If she hadn’t touched the Heartless Dao technique, if she hadn’t met Pei Ziyuan, she might have already ascended to the immortal realm.

Many years had passed. Liu Changning had lived several lifetimes as a human. The scenes of her initially cultivating with all her might had long been forgotten in the deepest corners of her memory.

Now, at this moment when her life was in danger, those fragments of memory of surviving in secret realms and cultivating day and night came flooding back.

Even an ant has a chance to fight against heaven for its fate. The Dao of Heaven, though merciless, still shows mercy. In every moment of life-threatening danger, it leaves a thread of hope for survival.

Only the unyielding can break out of the cocoon; giving up leads only to death!

Liu Changning suddenly opened her eyes. She had yet to see that person’s flamboyant and gorgeous face, had yet to return his companionship through lifetimes.

All her promises remained unfulfilled.

Three lifetimes of bitter fruit. If she died, she would never be able to repay the debt she owed him. How could she be content with that?

They had supported each other, fulfilled each other, only to achieve perfection in the previous world. But this was not enough. If they didn’t change fate and defy destiny, there would be no more chances.

He was waiting for her, and she couldn’t die!

In her originally gray apricot eyes, suddenly burst forth a strong desire to live. Waves of light flowed, overflowing with brilliance.

She struggled to support her body, sitting cross-legged in the gale to meditate, her consciousness sinking into her body.

When she was sacrificing the Heartless Dao technique, suddenly a virtual shadow appeared in her dantian – the Primordial Chaos Technique.

The Primordial Chaos Technique was surrounded by a great golden light. It seemed to have its own consciousness, taking the opportunity to quickly merge into her dantian when Liu Changning sacrificed the Heartless Dao technique.

Liu Changning was surprised to find that in her dantian, there now appeared a scene of two true energies coexisting, golden light and mysterious light intertwined, vying for dominance.

Her own true energy was the color of mystic ice. Now that the shadow of the Primordial Chaos Technique had appeared and quickly merged into her dantian, the two energy flows converged into one.

In the dantian, with the Nascent Soul as the core, the true energy became white and gold in color.

The changes happened extremely quickly. Liu Changning, in meditation, had no time to observe when the Primordial Chaos Technique appeared in her dantian.

The wound on her wrist healed rapidly. After a few breaths, her wrist, as delicate as white jade, was as smooth as a wall, without leaving even the slightest scar. The wounds on her body scratched by sand grains also disappeared without a trace.

Even more surprising was that on the desert, the vortex that had been wildly devouring living things like a fierce beast suddenly stopped. The primordial chaos energy contained in the storm gathered above Liu Changning’s head, orderly merging into her body.

The sudden influx of vast primordial chaos energy into her body left her no spare attention.

She was forced to circulate her mental technique, converting the vast primordial chaos energy for her own use.

It sounds simple, but every step of circulating the mental technique was extremely difficult.

Because she found that simply circulating the Heartless Dao technique couldn’t mobilize the primordial chaos energy in her body. While circulating the Primordial Chaos Technique would result in a scene of two true energies competing for dominance in her body.

So she tried to merge the two mental techniques into one, integrating them into her meridians.

The cultivation world has existed for millions of years, and almost no cultivator has been able to merge two top-tier Dao techniques into one.

But she had no choice now. With the sudden addition of the Primordial Chaos Technique, and being in the primordial chaos space filled with primordial chaos energy but no spiritual energy.

If she couldn’t merge the two mental techniques, complementing each other to achieve balance, not only would she be unable to leave the primordial chaos space, but she might also explode due to the two true energies competing for dominance.