Chapter 86

Kunpeng retracted his gaze and slowly closed his eyes. Suddenly, his body began to tremble violently, writhing from back to front. Finally, Kunpeng opened his mouth and, with great difficulty, spat out a completely transparent liquid bead.

He gestured for Xu Ziyun to take the bead. Xu Ziyun hurriedly held the little Kunpeng with one hand and extended the other to receive the liquid-like bead, looking at the opposite Kunpeng in confusion. She knew that this bead must be very important to Kunpeng; otherwise, he wouldn't have been so strained. Moreover, after Xu Ziyun took the bead, Kunpeng's spirit clearly weakened.

"Xu Ziyun!" Kunpeng took a deep breath and said, "This is my life essence. It is different from the inner core. The inner core exists within my body; as long as you cut open my body, you will find it. However, the life essence is different. Although it also exists within my body, it is intangible. If I don't condense it, it will dissipate with my death. And it is the most precious thing for us Kunpeng, far more valuable than the inner core. Losing the inner core, we just drop in rank, and with cultivation, we can still cultivate a new inner core. But if we lose our life essence, we will only perish."

"Swallow it. It will be much more effective for you humans than the inner core."

"Swallow it? But... you will..."

"I can't make it. I won't see tomorrow's sunrise. If I wait until I die, the life essence will dissipate into the world, which would be a waste."

Saying this, he glanced at Xu Ziyun, who showed concern rather than greed, and said with satisfaction:

"Xu Ziyun, there is another benefit to you swallowing my life essence. Your body will carry my aura, and my daughter will recognize you as me, allowing you to raise her."

"How long do you have left?" Xu Ziyun was still hesitant.

"Don't worry, I have left some life essence in my body, so I can hold on for a while," Kunpeng said weakly.

Xu Ziyun nodded silently, looking at Kunpeng's urging gaze and the little Kunpeng in her arms, which was still pecking at her hand. Finally, she brought the life essence to her mouth.

The life essence was large, about the size of Xu Ziyun's head. As soon as it touched her lips, it flowed into her mouth on its own. Xu Ziyun drank it in large gulps while sinking her consciousness into her body to observe the life essence.

As the life essence flowed into Xu Ziyun's body, it dispersed into her meridians, surging through them. When all the life essence had completely entered her body, Xu Ziyun's body suddenly swelled, and her clothes burst, leaving her naked in the air.

Her skin continuously expelled impurities and dark red blood, and her body continued to swell, more terrifying than the last time the spirit spring power exploded, almost to the point of bursting.

Kunpeng, who had been watching Xu Ziyun, suddenly opened his mouth, and a light curtain formed from life essence emerged, tightly enveloping Xu Ziyun in a transparent cocoon.

Xu Ziyun's nearly collapsing consciousness immediately cleared, and she tried to guide the power of the life essence but found she couldn't control it. She could only watch as it surged through her body. Suddenly, a surge of spirit spring power emerged from her acupoints, intertwining with the life essence and gradually merging, bursting with even greater and more powerful spiritual energy.

After the 365 acupoints in Xu Ziyun's body expelled the spirit spring power and merged with the life essence, they suddenly emitted a strong suction, absorbing the merged spirit spring power and life essence again.

One-third of the liquid was absorbed by the acupoints, and Xu Ziyun immediately felt much lighter. The remaining two-thirds of the liquid rushed directly into Xu Ziyun's dantian, and with a loud "boom," it echoed like a sound from ancient times, continuously vibrating in her dantian.

Xu Ziyun felt her dantian suddenly expand. At the center of the dantian was a continuously rotating vortex, but now it was liquid instead of gas. Around the vortex was a gray, sticky, semi-liquid, semi-solid substance, the result of the spirit spring power and the life essence that Xu Ziyun had not yet absorbed.

At this moment, Xu Ziyun's body had completely calmed down. She slowly opened her eyes, unable to hide her excitement. She never expected that, without taking the foundation-building pill, she would, with Kunpeng's help, directly break through from the 11th level of the Qi Cultivation stage to the 1st level of the Foundation Building stage.

Seeing Xu Ziyun open her eyes, Kunpeng retracted the light curtain covering her and took it back into his mouth. Xu Ziyun looked at Kunpeng with gratitude, knowing that she had received boundless benefits from him. The liquid stored in her dantian and acupoints would bring her immeasurable benefits in the future. Thinking of this, Xu Ziyun suddenly remembered the phoenix behind her and turned to point at it, saying:

"Senior, that phoenix..."

"It is already dead, and its life essence has dissipated. Even if it were alive, you couldn't get its life essence unless it was willing."

"Oh~~" Xu Ziyun felt embarrassed, scratching the back of her head and blushing, no longer speaking.

"I have one more thing to give you!" Kunpeng said calmly.

"Oh?"

Xu Ziyun was taken aback, not knowing what else Kunpeng would give her. But she was sure that whatever Kunpeng gave would be extraordinary, and her heart began to beat rapidly.

Suddenly, a flash of light appeared between Kunpeng's eyes, and a miniature version of a little Kunpeng floated out from his brow, flying toward Xu Ziyun. It circled around her body and finally flew into her right arm, transforming into a Kunpeng-shaped tattoo on her right arm.

Seeing Xu Ziyun's puzzled expression, Kunpeng, whose spirit was already extremely weak, forced himself to say:

"This is called the Kunpeng Heart! It is not the heart of Kunpeng but a storage space formed within our bodies. Don't be fooled by its small size; the space inside is many times larger than my body. And my daughter can also live inside it."

As he spoke, Kunpeng's body began to tremble, and the light of life in him gradually faded. He struggled to lift his head and pleaded with Xu Ziyun:

"Xu Ziyun, please take good care of my daughter!"

"I will, you can rest assured. I will treat your daughter as my own family!"

Kunpeng took one last, lingering look at the little Kunpeng in Xu Ziyun's arms and finally closed his eyes...

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