Chapter 145: Light Spiritual Energy

Yunqing performed an internal inspection and immediately felt a sense of foreboding.

Inside her body, countless black substances existed. These black substances closely resembled the contamination found on tainted flora and fauna, and they were also the dark toxins the giant eagle had mentioned.

She attempted to cast purification on herself, but it failed. Her purification spell could only target inanimate objects, not living beings, let alone herself.

Having fallen from the Dark Sea and subsequently transformed into a soul corpse, the original owner was undoubtedly severely poisoned. Her current bodily condition was well within her expectations.

"Liuliu, my body is poisoned this severely; why doesn't the system display any negative status effects for poisoning?"

"Then do you feel any discomfort?" Liuliu rolled its eyes. What kind of person was this, exploiting its preset of answering every question? It was only a minute ago that she had told it not to disturb her.

Yunqing shook her head and said, "No."

"Then are you losing any HP?"

"No."

"Then has any aspect of your functioning been affected?"

Yunqing shook her head, appearing completely unaffected. No, wait—she nodded emphatically and said, "There is an impact. My appearance has been affected. Look at my skin, it's patchy black and white. Whenever people develop affection toward me, they have to spend some time interacting with me, and it's entirely thanks to my good character that I win them over."

Liuliu rolled its eyes in disdain and retorted, "Leveling up relies on your gathering, crafting, and combat abilities, not your looks. This is not a vase system. Of course, if you don't like your current skin, you can just spend spiritual stones to change it."

"Changing my skin... does that mean I can also buy pretty outfits?"

"Cultivation is what truly matters. With your current two low-grade spiritual stones, don't even think about it."

How piercing to the heart! Why did it have to keep bringing up the fact that she only had two low-grade spiritual stones? Yunqing countered, "Hmph! I never planned to rely on my looks anyway."

In her mind, Weiwei's face surfaced with a retort: *People with no looks to rely on always say that. You're ugly in such a unique way that all you have left is stubbornness and self-comfort. Look at me, exquisitely beautiful, beloved by everyone, adored by drivers, and causing flowers to bloom upon sight...*

Yunqing shook her head to cast aside the chaotic thoughts in her mind, focusing her spiritual awareness on a single point of spiritual energy drifting closer to her. It approached the skin of her hand, touched the white patch on her skin, slipped through the gaps between cells, and moved toward her meridians.

Just as it neared the meridians, it collided with the dark toxins residing within her body.

Spiritual energy and dark toxins met like two opposing factions charging directly at one another.

The dark toxins sought to corrupt the spiritual energy into toxic energy, while the spiritual energy sought to purify the dark toxins. Neither would yield, and using Yunqing's body as a battlefield, the two sides engaged in combat.

The dark toxins pervaded Yunqing's body, having taken root long ago, and possessed a massive force. Although the initial influx of spiritual energy was small, backed by Yunqing's Wuji Technique, it appeared isolated yet continuously absorbed fresh spiritual energy from the outside world into her body.

Spiritual energy and dark toxins devoured each other, each attempting to annihilate the other. After a speck of spiritual energy devoured a tiny bit of dark toxin, it intended to convert the consumed toxin into spiritual energy. However, before it could do so, it was swallowed by the wave of dark toxins surging up from behind. The dark toxins that consumed the spiritual energy could not use it for themselves and could only destroy it.

As spiritual energy was drawn in bit by bit, what awaited them was an army of billions of dark toxins inside Yunqing's body. The moment they detected the approach of spiritual energy, they would recklessly shatter all of it.

Before the spiritual energy could even be guided into her meridians by the Wuji Technique, such battles were erupting everywhere within Yunqing's body. This caused intense, bizarre itching all over her, making it difficult for her to even maintain her meditative posture. Observing with her inner spiritual awareness the spiritual energy fighting selflessly for her, she clenched her teeth secretly, resolving to endure no matter how difficult it became.

In the air, a speck of spiritual energy, distinct from all the others, entered Yunqing's body. It was smaller, whiter, and brighter.

The moment it approached her, Yunqing locked her attention onto it, sensing a connection between them. She felt an overwhelming sense of familiarity and warmth toward it.

Could this be light-attribute spiritual energy?

Yunqing watched it fly in through her left hand. As soon as the light spiritual energy entered, it immediately detected the anomaly within. In an instant, it transformed from white to black. It drifted through the battlefield of spiritual energy and dark toxins, comprehending the nature of the dark toxins from the conflict, and gradually, it took on the exact appearance of the dark toxins.

Yunqing, who had been watching it the entire time, was entirely certain it had not actually turned into a dark toxin; she could trust it implicitly.

Disguised as a dark toxin, the light spiritual energy tore apart a larger clump of dark toxins and integrated itself within them. It did not intend to merely devour them; rather, it wanted to understand their structure and dismantle them from the inside.

Using its own power, it modified the composition of the dark toxins, controlled the corrupted mass it had blended into, and infiltrated the army of dark toxins. Silently, a program of replication and self-destruction spread among the dark toxin army, waiting to infect even more of the viral horde.

Yunqing did not know what it was doing. Though she had previously been able to perceive it clearly, her sensation of it gradually faded. It seemed to have vanished, yet it also seemed omnipresent.

The modification of the most critical parts required the core power of the light spiritual energy. By embedding the power of light deep within the dark toxins, it disrupted their normal functioning.

Suddenly, a patch of the dark toxin army in her left hand simultaneously self-destructed. The clustered dark toxins, which were visible during inner inspection, shattered into dust and drifted out of Yunqing's body like black smoke.

As for her, she could no longer feel where that familiar light spiritual energy had gone.

Like all the other spiritual energy, it had sacrificed itself, solely to help her purge more of the dark toxins.

If spiritual energy was desperately fighting to cleanse her of toxins, what excuse did she have not to strive in her cultivation?

The cleansing effect of a single speck of light spiritual energy was a thousand times better than ordinary spiritual energy. A single speck could clear away a small patch, so Yunqing continued searching the air for more light spiritual energy.

At that moment, the indignant voice of the young black-feathered eagle echoed in her mind: "You're so dirty and smelly, go cultivate somewhere further away."

Yunqing had not yet entered deep meditation; the spiritual energy had not been guided into her meridians to circulate through her pathways, so she could stop at any time.

Hearing this, she opened her eyes and saw her left hand wreathed in black smoke, exuding a foul stench—a smell that could rival a soul corpse.

This pool belonged to the young black-feathered eagle. Wherever it told her to cultivate, she would cultivate. Picking up her spiritual gathering cushion, Yunqing walked downstream along the river flowing from the pool.

After walking for a distance, she spotted what appeared to be an eagle perched on a large tree by the waterfall in the distance.

Yunqing called out, "Great Eagle, do you think this spot is suitable?"

The young black-feathered eagle was also afraid that Yunqing would walk too far away. It had just enjoyed a full meal, and having its cook run off would not be ideal. Feigning indifference, it replied, "Just stay there!"

Lacking spiritual energy and unable to use cleansing spells yet, Yunqing first washed her smoke-veiled hand in the river water.

She noticed that a patch of skin on her hand that had previously remained persistently black could now be easily washed clean. The skin in that area had now matched the fair tone of the rest of her skin.

A faint wave of joy stirred in Yunqing's heart. It turned out cultivation could also restore her appearance.

Finding a clean spot, she placed her cushion down. With Liuliu keeping watch, she calmly resumed circulating the Wuji Technique to absorb spiritual energy.