novelraw Chapter 34 : The Heaven-Mending Pill Appears
Chapter 34 : The Heaven-Mending Pill Appears
Chapter 34: The Heaven-Mending Pill Appears
Lu Changyuan held the pill, examining it up and down.
Su Wu Xiang said: “Hurry and eat it, don’t dawdle, I don’t have much time left.”
The pill countless people had risked their lives to obtain now lay quietly in Lu Changyuan’s hand.
Every inch of Lu Changyuan’s skin greedily breathed in the pill’s fragrance.
It was a craving that radiated from the deepest part of his body.
Eat it.
Eat it and his body would be restored, his path of cultivation rebuilt.
“Why don’t you eat it?”
Lu Changyuan let out a sigh and said: “Thank you.”
Su Wu Xiang smiled warmly: “What’s the point of saying thanks between you and me?”
“I should thank you. Humans are creatures who live in memories. You made me recall many, many… good times of the past.”
So Lu Changyuan raised Severed Thought and thrust his sword into Su Wu Xiang’s heart.
Clang!
“I really haven’t drunk with Wu Xiang for a long time.”
Lu Changyuan released his suppression of the Supreme Pure-Spirit Forget-Immortal Technique.
The technique automatically circulated, and in his eyes, Su Wu Xiang—pierced by the sword—transformed.
What appeared was a demon, half-human, half-magic body, with a gaping bloody mouth, fond of devouring human hearts and livers.
This was also the very first appearance Lu Changyuan had seen upon entering this space.
He had deliberately suppressed the technique, just to deceive himself into drinking one more time with Su Wu Xiang.
The demon roared: “You truly don’t care at all about the memories of the past?”
Su Wu Xiang’s body slowly dissipated.
The demon still tried to stretch out its sharp claws to wound Lu Changyuan, but in the end, it only faded away into a handful of yellow earth.
On the broken cliffs where yellow cranes once flew, old friends were gone.
Lu Changyuan silently watched all of this.
Daoist Chang’an was the title he bore when he entered Jade Radiance.
Before that, he was only the Right Guardian of the Sun-Moon Palace.
Then what was his Seven Realms cultivation method of Jade Radiance?
It was the Supreme Pure-Spirit Forget-Immortal Technique.
On that rainy night, Lu Changyuan himself suppressed Su Wu Xiang with his sword.
From then on, he began searching for a way to eradicate demons, and at the moment of proving his Dao, he created the Supreme Pure-Spirit Forget-Immortal Technique.
From then on, ten thousand demons could not invade.
“To think he even forged a Heaven-Mending Pill to fool me.”
Lu Changyuan gave a helpless smile.
Yet the medicinal fragrance still lingered.
Lu Changyuan looked at the pill in his hand—the Heaven-Mending Pill had not vanished.
The rich vitality rushed into his nose.
【The Heaven-Mending Pill Has Emerged】
This Heaven-Mending Pill was real!?
The demon was dead.
If the pill had only been an illusory fabrication, it should have disappeared. Yet it hadn’t. Coupled with the words he saw, this was actually a genuine Heaven-Mending Pill.
“Hm?”
Because Lu Changyuan had suppressed his technique earlier, he hadn’t felt it.
Now that he released the restriction, the Supreme Pure-Spirit Forget-Immortal Technique even trembled.
The aura of karma.
This pill was forged by the great demon from a thousand years of resentment and flesh of living beings.
Though it could mend the heavens, who knew what consequences might come from swallowing it?
Perhaps karmic entanglements would follow.
That great demon had harbored precisely such an intention—wanting Lu Changyuan to consume this pill.
It had even disguised itself as Su Wu Xiang to deceive him.
Unfortunately, from the very beginning, Lu Changyuan had never believed the pill was real, and so was not tricked.
Lu Changyuan raised his hand, Severed Thought in his grip, and slashed at the Heaven-Mending Pill.
The fragrant outer layers peeled away, finally revealing a black inner core.
That outer fragrance had been countless human flesh and blood.
Heaven-Mending Pill—mending the heavens by taking human lives to forge it.
Lu Changyuan used Severed Thought to transcend the thousand-year resentment, leaving behind only the pill’s remnant: the medicinal embryo forged by the great demon from the spiritual objects at the bottom of the Lake of Retained Affection, combined with treasures from the Glazed Dynasty’s treasury.
This was still an incomparably precious medicine—just not one that could repair the Body of Five Deficiencies.
“Master!”
Xia Lianxue hurried over, her face full of worry as she looked at Lu Changyuan.
The illusory scene shattered.
What lay before Lu Changyuan’s eyes was the devastated Lake of Retained Affection.
The once-beautiful landscape of the lake was now ruined, unbearable to look upon.
Lu Changyuan remained silent for a long time, then suddenly smiled. Turning, he looked at Xia Lianxue: “It’s nothing. Come, come here.”
Xia Lianxue obediently stood before Lu Changyuan.
She softly spoke, her brows slightly furrowed as though she was worried about his condition: “Master?”
“Open your mouth.”
“Master?”
“Open your mouth.”
Though she didn’t quite understand what Lu Changyuan meant, the immortal fairy still obediently opened her delicate mouth. Her thin lips glowed faintly pink. Inside her fragrant mouth, neat white teeth were like shells.
Lu Changyuan could clearly see the tender red flesh and her tiny lilac tongue.
He paused for a moment, then pushed the Heaven-Mending Pill inside.
The medicinal embryo was perfect for Xia Lianxue.
Her slender neck moved slightly as she swallowed, and the pill entered her belly. The fairy frowned: “Master, what did you just make me eat?”
“Poison. If you disobey me in the future, your body will explode.”
“Master, don’t lie to me. What exactly was that…” Xia Lianxue hadn’t finished her words before she suddenly couldn’t speak. Her cheeks flushed red, her breath fragrant.
“Mas…ter, what exactly… did you feed me?”
She nearly collapsed to the ground, her face flushed like the glow of a setting sun.
Lu Changyuan stepped forward to catch her. She leaned softly into his arms. He whispered: “Guard your true heart. Don’t waste the medicinal power. And don’t wriggle around.”
The fairy writhed like a butterfly in a cloud of red mist, twisting in Lu Changyuan’s embrace, stirring his heart.
Hearing his words, she then settled, regulating her breath, guiding that pure medicinal force through her body.
Very soon, Xia Lianxue sat cross-legged on the spot. Her cultivation was slowly recovering.
The circulation of the Five Qi around her body was profound, making the fairy’s beauty breathtaking.
The red flush also slowly faded.
About the time it took for one incense stick to burn.
“What are you two doing?”
Li Qingcao had arrived as well.
Lu Changyuan didn’t turn back: “She is entering the Dao, about to break into the Fifth Realm.”
From the Lower Four Realms to the Upper Three Realms—many spent their whole lives unable to make this step, so there was no room for negligence.
Xia Lianxue had already broken her inner heart-devil, so naturally she could advance into the Fifth Realm steadily.
But shortcuts and seizing opportunities were also part of cultivation.
Xia Lianxue had to seize this chance—the medicinal embryo repairing her body—to step into the Dao at once.
At some point, Su Youwan was already standing beside Lu Changyuan, watching Xia Lianxue’s breakthrough.
She herself had not yet entered the Fifth Realm, so observing another’s experience was also useful to her.
She glanced at Lu Changyuan: “Then let the sword remain with you, Master. It seems fate has no bond between it and me.”
When she saw Lu Changyuan slash out that sword, she had understood.
Whether the sword was brought back or not no longer mattered.
What she truly needed to do was return and report to her master that someone had wielded this sword and unleashed ‘One Sword from the West’.
Li Qingcao spoke: “Don’t you all feel something strange?”
Lu Changyuan tilted his head, looking towards the Lake of Retained Affection’s edge.
The other two followed his gaze.
Due to the devastation earlier, the grass at the lake’s shore was already in ruins, the brown earth overturned.
But now, upon that scarred earth, new buds were sprouting—tiny green shoots breaking through the soil.
Li Qingcao was a little dazed: “This is…?”
Su Youwan said: “Most likely the Dao that Lady Xia has comprehended. It’s just unclear which Dao it is.”
Even Lu Changyuan couldn’t discern what Dao Xia Lianxue had understood.
Many Dao could bring forth sprouting grass—it was hard to identify.
Li Qingcao muttered: “The poplars are blooming?! What month is it now?”
The last surviving poplar by the lakeshore had actually blossomed again.
Fluffy catkins drifted in the wind, their destination unknown.
Lu Changyuan said: “The end of the eighth month.”
The searing summer heat was ending, autumn was near. Yet the poplars, which should bloom in spring, were flowering now.
Li Qingcao crouched, brushing the tender sprouts with his fingers, whispering thanks. Then he turned his head: “Brother Lu, these are genuine shoots.”
Lu Changyuan gave a quiet acknowledgment, though his gaze never left the meditating fairy.
A wind came from afar, carrying the scent of spring.
At a certain moment, Xia Lianxue suddenly opened her eyes.
In that instant, she seemed like a goddess above the Ninth Heaven, floating into immortality. But that aura lasted only a moment.
Lu Changyuan asked: “Fifth Realm?”
Xia Lianxue had never felt so radiant before.
Even her tone became lighter and warmer: “Mm! Fifth Realm.”
A disciple of the Feather Moon Immortal Palace, Xia Lianxue, cultivated for more than twenty years in this life, disciplined herself in the Dao, guarded her true heart.
Today.
She re-entered the Dao Realm.