35. Murong Yun’s Truth
The moment she sensed the girl’s aura, Murong Yun couldn’t help but frown.
If she were as she appeared, a peak Soul Origin cultivator at such a young age, she would be a core disciple in any sect, even the demonic ones. The disciples of the Grand Elders were probably at this level.
With her cultivation and the key in her hand, her identity should be confirmed.
Thinking of this, Murong Yun couldn’t help but speak.
“Just a joke. Why so serious, miss?”
“Serious?” Miss Gong smiled. “What’s there to be serious about? If I were serious, Your Highness wouldn’t have had the chance to say that.”
With a clear snap of her fingers, the nascent soul energy dissipated.
Gong Yiling, while speaking, took back the key on the table and made a “please” gesture to Murong Yun.
“You want to know what my brother and I are looking for?”
“Mmm-hmm.”
Murong Yun pursed her lips and thought for a long time, then sighed. “These things were originally not for others to know, but Miss Hua does have the right to know the details.”
“Before I say that, I’ll answer the question Miss Yan asked me before.”
The one Chuyue asked before?
Before she could explain, Gong Yiling replayed their recent conversations in her mind and finally locked onto one thing.
“The reason you’re still alive is related to the things in the underground palace?”
Hearing this, Murong Yun’s expression was complicated, but she still nodded silently.
“To be precise, I am the only surviving royal disciple from that batch of experiments.” Murong Yun smiled wryly. “The rumors about that underground divine palace and that legendary ancient empire, these are all things recorded in the royal secret scrolls.”
“Because the legend of that ancient empire is too distant, the royal family members generally just listen to this rumor as a story.”
“However, later, someone discovered that the royal secret scrolls hid the location of a secret room. When they opened the secret room, there was only a bottle of pills and a sheepskin scroll inside.”
“The pills in this bottle were of a type no one had ever seen before. Even the court’s Heaven-grade alchemists couldn’t tell what it was, until they read the sheepskin scroll and deciphered the secret text.”
Why does this feel like tomb raiding and treasure hunting?
Gong Yiling scratched her head curiously, and then heard Murong Yun say something that made her speechless.
“According to the description on the secret text, these pills are called ‘Death-Severing Pills,’ and they have only one effect: to prevent the dead from dying.”
Not dying… this effect is really concise.
Similar pills, like the Nine Revolutions Divine Heaven Pill, but that divine medicine could only bring you back as long as you had a breath left.
As for whether the Nine Revolutions Divine Heaven Pill could reverse the curse of the Twin Gu, Miss Gong, although she hadn’t tried it, instinctively felt it couldn’t.
A certain death was not something that could be reversed by pills. Otherwise, the existence of this Twin Gu would be meaningless.
And this Death-Severing Pill…
“You must have taken this, right?” Gong Yiling asked, “But if this is effective, why are you the only one who survived from that batch of experimenters?”
“Although this is called the Death-Severing Pill, the secret text records that this pill is not effective on everyone.” Murong Yun said, “Although they found the secret of the pill back then, they also discovered its limitations.”
“According to the secret text, the Death-Severing Pill must be taken when the user is on the verge of certain death to be effective, and the user’s desire to live must swell to a certain extent to reverse life and death.”
“But the second condition is not a very clear one.”
What the hell is this?
This thing sounded unreliable. If it didn’t succeed, wouldn’t it just be sending people to their deaths? Or was it given to the royal death squads, and whoever died in the line of duty would take one, their survival depending on the heavens’ blessing and their ancestors’ virtue?
“Since Your Highness succeeded, why did you become in this state of being neither dead nor alive?”
Murong Yun smiled wryly. “I don’t know if this is because the effect of the pill didn’t fully work, or if this is what the pill was originally like.”
Logically, this kind of pill should only have two options: a miraculous effect or no effect. There shouldn’t be a choice of being neither alive nor dead, leaving a person completely in the middle.
“That pill, do you have the original here?” Gong Yiling asked.
Murong Yun nodded and took out a dark red pill from her Universe Ring.
The moment she took the pill, its effects and name automatically appeared in Miss Gong’s mind.
Speaking of which, this system was really sick.
This thing, which came from an unknown place, she could check its information, but she couldn’t check the information about this unknown place. Was this arrogance, a double standard, or a setting? Who knew?
“Name: Death-Severing Pill
Item Grade: Unable to determine the pill’s grade
Effect: Can only be activated at the critical point of near-death and when under a fatal curse (i.e., Nine Revolutions Divine Heaven Pill-type pills are ineffective), transforming the user into an immortal (monster) who is eternally undying. After the pill takes effect, the user’s internal state will be no different from death, and they will be unable to perform conventional cultivation, but will obtain the Heaven-Severing Saintly Body. See remarks for details.
Heaven-Severing Saintly Body: A rare cultivation body obtained after the Death-Severing Pill takes effect. Although it cannot be cultivated, it can absorb true essence and nascent soul from nature, and can use true essence and nascent soul power like a cultivator. The amount of power the body can hold is the upper limit of this cultivation body’s strength.
Remark 1: Even if the conditions for taking it are met, the Death-Severing Pill will not be 100% effective. The success rate of this effect may be related to the host’s mental state (doubtful).
Remark 2: Although the Heaven-Severing Saintly Body is an immortal cultivation body, conventional attacks and curses cannot cause fatal damage to a person who is already dead, and they will even have an extremely long lifespan. However, if the user suffers the same fatal injury as before when their spiritual energy is exhausted, they will lose the Heaven-Severing Saintly Body and die immediately.
Remark 3: Taking the Death-Severing Pill again will have no effect, but if the situation in Remark 2 occurs and it is taken again, the Heaven-Severing Saintly Body can be regained.
Remark 4: A cultivator with the Heavenly Saint Technique of the Myriad Paths will not have any effect when taking the Death-Severing Pill at any time—meaning it will not have its original effect. As for whether it will cause diarrhea, an early period, a headache, or other negative effects, this varies from person to person.”
