The small black bird’s bean-sized eyes flashed with understanding, the black feathers hiding the bitterness on his face as he said in a low voice: “I’m afraid we’ve become the nourishment between these two heavenly and earthly spiritual objects fighting for autonomy!”

Liu Changning remained silent. Both of their spiritual energy was nearly depleted. The small black bird had just undergone the tribulation, and the heavenly and earthly spiritual energy hadn’t had time to be fully refined after the tribulation thunder.

Now facing the confrontation of two spiritual objects, the two of them feared… Looking at the current situation, they could only stake their lives on it.

The person and the bird were still sinking, and as they got closer to the bottom of the pool, the speed of falling accelerated. They were about to break through the water curtain light circle and enter the bottom of the pool.

At this moment, the scene at the bottom of the pool was fully exposed to both of their eyes.

The Profound Ice Pearl was suspended above, with the underground fire magma constantly scorching below. Within the misty haze, the white icy air and the fire-red steamy air intertwined and fought against each other.

The Profound Ice Pearl was clearly at a disadvantage. Its body emitted light, and suddenly the waves surged greatly.

Liu Changning’s divine sense had just bounced out when it was dragged by a pulling force deeper into the bottom of the pool.

The small black bird made anxious chirping sounds: “Hey, come back quickly… This thing wants to devour your divine sense!”

Liu Changning soothingly stroked its tail feathers and used her last bit of strength to say: “Fortune favors the bold. If we want to survive today, there’s only one way – either it devours me or I devour it. You still have strength, right? Protect me, and by no means let that underground fire magma suck our physical bodies into the mist.”

After she finished speaking, she sat cross-legged to adjust her breath, her eyes tightly closed.

Her thin lips were tightly pressed together, her divine sense had already entered the mist where the two spiritual objects were confronting each other. Liu Changning only felt ice and fire fusing around her divine sense. Her divine sense gradually weakened, and it looked like it was about to be refined by the Profound Ice Pearl.

Suddenly, the controlled divine sense turned into a wisp of flying smoke, and before the Profound Ice Pearl could react, it quickly darted into the pearl’s body.

Liu Changning’s divine sense had been tempered by the ascension tribulation thunder and was no longer comparable to ordinary Tribulation Transcendence stage ancestors. Even if a Dalo Golden Immortal were here, they wouldn’t be able to gain the upper hand in a battle of divine sense with her.

Let alone a heavenly and earthly spiritual object. If it weren’t for the low cultivation of this body at the moment, she wouldn’t have to be so狼狈, relying on entering the pearl’s body to be able to refine the ice soul inside.

The Profound Ice Pearl was a heavenly and earthly spiritual object, with abundant innate water spiritual energy inside. As the divine sense imprinted on the pearl’s body, the spiritual energy inside the pearl quickly flowed out.

The overflowing spiritual energy seemed to be controlled, all surging towards the outside of the light screen, directly entering Liu Changning’s physical body.

The small black bird’s bean-sized eyes were half-lowered, staring at the spiritual energy overflowing outside the water screen, his heart shocked for a long time.

This woman might not be some junior, her divine sense could devour heavenly and earthly spiritual objects. Could she be some old monster who had reincarnated to cultivate again…

Ancestor Pei, who had been in closed cultivation for more than ten years, did not know about Cloud Ancestor’s prophecy ten years ago. Otherwise, if he had thought about it, he might have recognized the identity of the Heaven’s Chosen Girl that the outside world had been searching for for ten years.

Speaking of the bottom of the pool, the Profound Ice Pearl and the underground fire magma originally accompanied and nurtured each other. Unless one side devoured the other and merged into one, if one side dispersed, the other would also dissipate.

Seeing the Profound Ice Pearl getting smaller and smaller, its halo dimming, the underground fire magma rolled and made angry, uncontrollable tumbling sounds.

The waves became bigger and bigger, the bottom of the pool was in chaos, with waves surging.

The small black bird summoned its natal whip to resist the towering waves, buying time for Liu Changning to refine the Profound Ice Pearl.

Who knows how long it supported, the small black bird was already covered in blood, its spiritual energy exhausted. When it closed its eyes, it only saw the underground fire magma pouring into its body, the pool collapsing.

The woman who had been meditating all along had her eyes tightly closed, her white clothes had been dyed bright red. She forced open her eyelids, covered his eyes, and said with difficulty: “Don’t worry! Go to sleep.”

Whether it was her reassuring words that were steady and calming, or because the body was extremely weak at this time, Ancestor Pei closed his eyelids along with her cold palm.

At the moment of closing his eyes, he felt a bit dazed, strangely feeling that this person’s palm was somewhat warm. Huh? Why would it be warm?

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As the pool collapsed, Liu Changning protected the small black bird as they clumsily searched for an exit, flowing down with the waves.

When the person and the bird emerged from the water, they were no longer at Wujun Mountain, but in what appeared to be a valley.

Liu Changning dragged the small black bird ashore, found a nearby cave, set up a formation, spat out large mouthfuls of fresh blood from the corner of her mouth, and supported herself with the last bit of strength. After discovering that this mountain valley was uninhabited, she finally sat cross-legged to meditate.

Since returning to the Ancient Cultivation World three years ago, Liu Changning had been cultivating continuously. She originally thought that entering the Foundation Establishment stage was already extremely fast progress, and planned to reach Core Formation in another five years.

Who knew that this accidental absorption of the Profound Ice Pearl in the hot spring would cause her internal spiritual energy to surge. Her body at the Foundation Establishment stage could no longer contain the abundant spiritual energy.

With no other choice, she had to advance.

She closed her eyes. The small black bird seemed to be in the same situation as her. Just now, the underground fire magma had merged into its body, which was another transformation.

There was no time to carefully inspect its situation. The meridians in her body were almost about to be burst open by the dense spiritual energy. As soon as she entered meditation, Liu Changning discovered that her meridians were widening.

Under the tempering of the abundant and pure innate water spiritual energy from the Profound Ice Pearl, in her dantian, the originally scattered spiritual energy began to gather. As the Path of No Emotions circulated within her body, the spiritual energy gathered into a spherical shape. With the addition of the Major and Minor Celestial Cycles, it quickly condensed into a golden, shimmering Golden Core.

Because Liu Changning’s divine sense had already reached the level of Tribulation Transcendence Great Perfection, she wasn’t worried about thunder tribulation descending every time she crossed a major realm.

She originally planned to withdraw her cultivation method, but unexpectedly, the spiritual energy in her body was still circulating.

Liu Changning was shocked internally. Was the Profound Ice Pearl in this Ancient Cultivation World so powerful? Could the absorbed spiritual energy be helping her form a Nascent Soul? Even though she was shocked internally, she couldn’t investigate the root cause at this moment. The arrow was on the string, she could only refine the spiritual energy in her dantian, bracing herself to temper the internal spiritual energy.

Liu Changning didn’t know that the Profound Ice Pearl and the underground fire magma accompanied and nurtured each other. Now that the underground fire magma had merged into Pei Yuanshao’s body, and she had formed a karmic contract with him, the spiritual energy they were refining at this moment was almost shared.

The circulation of Ancestor Pei’s Tribulation Transcendence stage spiritual energy was of course infinitely beneficial to Liu Changning.

Such incredibly fortunate destiny, Liu Changning was unaware of at this moment.

As time passed, the dense spiritual energy in Liu Changning’s body strengthened. With each cycle of her cultivation method, her meridians expanded a bit. Large amounts of true qi merged into her body, clearing all the previously unreachable meridians. As the true qi massively fused and was stored in the dantian.

The Golden Core’s radiance greatly increased, while the true qi mutually fused, continuously increasing in density. It began to stretch and deform within the dantian, finally condensing into a small human figure.

Nascent Soul formation!

Liu Changning, being an old monster who had cultivated for several lifetimes, naturally knew what this meant. She had directly crossed two major realms, showing signs of Nascent Soul transformation.