Rumble!
The deafening thunder seemed to still be ringing in her ears, and Muyan woke up from a trance.
She couldn't help groaning bitterly due to the burning pain.
Then she slowly opened her eyes and found herself lying in a small, dark, enclosed space.
The faint smell of medicine drifted up to the tip of her nose.
Where is this place?
Muyan tried to run the Mystic Qi in her body.
As a Born Warrior, she could even see in the dark.
Suddenly, however, a piercing pain hit her.
All of her meridians seemed to be torn by some hot force and felt as if they could break at any moment.
"Ahh!"
Muyan fell down with a cry of pain, and the intense pain soaked her in a cold sweat.
What happened?
She remembered that she had just reached the Connate Great Completeness.
Gong Qianxue, her best friend, found her a Body-Forging Pill and helped her goal of advancing to the first realm of immortality cultivation, the Forged Body Realm.
Qianxue accompanied her to the Thundering Peak. Under the circulating of the Mystic aura, the thunderbolt kalpa came down from the Nine Sky.
Muyan clearly remembered that she had undertaken eighth sky thunderbolts.
All she needed to do was to block the ninth sky thunderbolt and she'd be able to enter the Forged Body Realm.
But then she felt a sharp pain all over her body and fainted.
Did I fail to pass the trial?
As Muyan was in fear, a dazzling light suddenly shone from above.
She barely opened her eyes to look upward, and after recognizing the beautiful face above, she became pleasantly surprised and called out immediately, "Qianxue!"
However, instead of greeting her with her usual smile, Gong Qianxue looked down at her disdainfully.
Muyan felt something was wrong. She looked around and found herself in an Elixir-Refining Furnace.
Gong Qianxue showed her face from the hole above the furnace.
"Qianxue, what's going on? Did I fail to complete trial transcendence? Are you trying to heal me?"
Gong Qianxue was stunned at first then couldn't help laughing aloud. "Jun Muyan, you're really a stupid pig! You still think I helped you for your own good up till now?"
"You… what do you mean by that?"
"What do I mean? Hehe, you think I gave you the Body-Forging Pill to get you through the thunderbolt kalpa? Idiot! To tell you the truth, Body-Forging Pills really can help you through the thunderbolt kalpa, but mine was mixed with strong poison. When you were going through the ninth sky thunderbolts and began to forge your body and refine your soul, the poison showed its effect."
"Stop joking." Muyan struggled to try to get up, her voice hoarse and urgent. "Qianxue, I know you like to play tricks on me. This isn't true, right? Didn't you say I was your best friend?"
"Best friend? You? A low and degrading woman from an inferior country; do you think you deserve that?" Gong Qianxue sneered at her. "Why do you think I tried so hard to make you reach the Connate Great Completeness with the best Mystic medicine? That's because there was a trace of immortal Origin in your body, and immortal Origin can only be drawn out after going through the Ninth Thunderbolt Kalpa. Hahahaha, the way you are now, you've become the best material for my pill-refining."
"Pill-refining material?" Muyan was cold all over and felt her world was collapsing at this moment.
She hadn't believed in anyone since the accident.
But she had viewed Gong Qianxue as her best friend and family.
For Gong Qianxue, she learned to compound medicine and learned medical skills.
For Gong Qianxue, she risked her life to break into the dangerous Mystic Realm, just because Gong Qianxue said what she wanted was there.
But now, Gong Qianxue told her that their friendship was false!
Gong Qianxue was kind to her only because she wanted to use her body to refine pills?!
Just then, a man's gentle voice came from outside.
"Junior Martial Sister, the Mystic medicine has all been prepared."
"Thank you, Senior Martial Brother!" Gong Qianxue's voice immediately changed from bitterly sarcastic to gentle and joyful with gratitude.
Jun Muyan saw a young man from the hole.
She knew this man!
He was Gong Qianxue's Senior Martial Brother from Heavenly Dao Sect; his name was Jianfeng, a talented Pill-refining Master.
Jianfeng threw the Mystic medicine into the Elixir-Refining Furnace while giving her a cold and pitiful look.
"Senior Martial Brother, will this elixir refining attempt be similar to when we refined an immortal fetus ten years ago? Too much immortal power caused the furnace to break at that time, and in the end, I could only absorb one ten-thousandth of the immortal fetus's immortal power."
"Hehe, rest assured, Junior Martial Sister. We won't fail again like last time. Besides, she's only the parent body of the immortal fetus, and the power of immortal Origin in her is no match for an immortal fetus."
Listening to the pair's conversation, Muyan widened her bloodshot pupils bit by bit.
Immortal fetus, ten years ago, parent body…
No, it couldn't be what she thought. The immortal fetus that was used to refine elixirs—it couldn't be her child!
But there was a voice inside her head, clamoring wildly to tell her that…
It was her child. Her child was refined into an elixir by Gong Qianxue!
"Gong Qianxue—!" Muyan suddenly stood up from the furnace and kept struggling to escape like crazy. "Gong Qianxue, the immortal fetus you mentioned—where did you get it?!"
Gong Qianxue swept her malicious eyes over Jun Muyan's sad and beautiful face, her heart almost overflowing with jealousy.
She didn't understand why Jun Muyan, a low and degrading woman from an inferior country, got pregnant with an immortal fetus?
The immortal fetus was so powerful that she could tell how supreme its father was.
Why was it Jun Muyan?!
But it didn't matter!
She had eaten the immortal fetus anyway, and now, even Jun Muyan herself was going to become her stepping stone.
Gong Qianxue revealed a malicious smile and approached Muyan's ears, saying in a low voice, "The immortal fetus? Of course it was the one you bore in your belly ten years ago. I accidentally refined it into an elixir, hahahahaha!"
Muyan listened to her dully, as if the child's heart-wrenching screams were ringing in her ears.
A piercing pain spread from her heart to every meridian of her body.
Her child, whom she thought was killed by some extreme relative, was actually murdered by Gong Qianxue!
Soon, a penetrative and crazy hatred burned in her body. "Gong Qianxue! Gong Qianxue! I'll kill you—! I'll cut you to pieces!"
"When I refine you into an elixir and swallow it, I'll achieve a body of immortal ascension. You want to kill me? Hahahaha, maybe in the next life!"
The lid of the Elixir-Refining Furnace was put into place, and a raging red fire rose up from below.
Gong Qianxue turned to look at Jianfeng with anticipatory eyes. "Senior Martial Brother, please!"
"Rest assured, Junior Martial Sister." A deep affection flashed across Jianfeng's eyes and disappeared quickly. "I'll make sure you get what you want."
Just then, a loud "bang" came from the furnace.
Gong Qianxue let out a scream. She felt pain all over then was thrown out with a strong force.
She seemed to vaguely hear Muyan's screams of grief and madness. "Gong Qianxue, I'll never let you go even if I become a ghost! I'll hunt you down!"
Flames burst, and the whole Elixir-Refining Room shook violently then collapsed.
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