# Chapter 1037: Buddha Heart Divine Meridian
Lan Ji Star, Huan Yao Realm.
"Linger, hurry... hurry! Little Aunt has fainted again!"
Tianxia Diqi's anxious voice came through the Sound Transmission Jade. Su Linger immediately put down the medicine she was about to prepare and replied urgently, "I'm coming right away."
Tian Xuan Continent, Liu Yun City, Xiao Sect. Xiao Lingxi lay quietly on her familiar soft bed. She had already woken up, but a layer of weakness covered her face. Su Linger's small hand held her wrist, then placed her fingers on her heart area, her brow slightly furrowed.
"Linger, I'm fine. It's probably just that Xiaoche isn't here, and I'm a bit unaccustomed to it."
Around them, Xiao Lie and the others all had tense expressions, but Xiao Lingxi smiled faintly, half-jokingly comforting them.
Su Linger withdrew her hand, then turned and smiled at Xiao Lie and the others: "Don't worry, Lingxi's condition isn't serious. It's just some simple weakness."
"Lingxi does possess profound force, and she never does anything that would harm her vitality. How could she keep collapsing like this..." Xiao Lie's expression carried a trace of anxiety. Su Linger's words did not ease his tension.
"Hehe, I used to not believe in lovesickness, but now seeing Lingxi's condition, I have to believe it. After all, Lingxi and Brother Yun Che grew up together. Their bond is so deep it makes others jealous." Compared to Xiao Lie's worried expression, Su Linger was grinning. "Lingxi, rest assured. Brother Yun Che won't need five years. Maybe he'll suddenly return tomorrow. If he saw you like this, he'd be heartbroken."
"Grandfather, since Linger says so, don't worry. I've always felt that Little Aunt is suffering from lovesickness. If my Yun gege abandoned me and our child for so long, I might end up the same as Little Aunt."
After Tianxia Diqi finished speaking, she muttered a complaint she had repeated hundreds of times: "Brother Yun is really heartless. To actually stay away for so long. He must have found that place called... Divine Realm full of fairies everywhere and doesn't want to come back."
"Big Brother isn't like that," Xiao Yun defended Yun Che quietly.
"I'll sleep a little. Really, don't worry. And don't tell Xue'er and the others." As Xiao Lingxi spoke, her complexion had already improved compared to before.
Xiao Lie's expression finally relaxed a bit: "Alright, rest well. It's getting cold, so don't go out recently. Che'er's courtyard..."
"I'll take care of the cleaning," Su Linger immediately chimed in.
"Mm." Xiao Lingxi softly agreed and quietly closed her eyes.
Walking out of Xiao Lingxi's room, the smile on Su Linger's face immediately vanished, replaced by deep worry. She left Liu Yun City through the teleportation array, returned to Huan Yao Realm, and went straight to the Yun Family's side courtyard. As soon as she entered, she saw Yun Gu walking toward her.
Seeing Su Linger's expression, Yun Gu stopped: "That girl fainted again?"
"Mm." Su Linger nodded lightly. "Her pulse is the same as before. During the coma, it becomes abnormally fast—dozens of times faster than normal—but then quickly calms down. This is already the ninth time in the past half year. Master, do you have any clue at all?"
Yun Gu shook his head: "I don't know the cause, but there's no harmful effect, so it's fortunate."
Su Linger had been Yun Gu's disciple for half a year. She had heard him say that for a hundred years, there was no pulse he couldn't read—except for Xiao Lingxi's.
"Her first abnormal coma was on the day Brother Yun Che left. Maybe it really is related to him. If he comes back, maybe it will be fine..."
Su Linger murmured, then looked up at the boundless sky, as if hoping to see the figure she longed for: "Both of you, stay safe. Don't let anything happen."
In Liu Yun City, Xiao Lingxi had fallen asleep on the bed, but her sleep was restless. In her dream, she once again saw the black jade from Yun Che, and the strange characters reflected from that black jade—characters she had never seen but somehow recognized...
After every coma, she had the same dream.
She vaguely felt that her repeated abnormal comas were not because of Yun Che's departure, but because she had seen that black jade.
Because of that black jade, something deep within her body, or perhaps in the depths of her soul, seemed to be quietly awakening...
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Cang Yun Continent, beneath Jueyun Cliff.
After the Netherworld Brahma Flower blooms, it quickly withers. However, the Netherworld Brahma Flowers blooming here seemed eternal. A vast sea of flowers bathed the dark world in a dense, dreamlike netherworld purple light.
A girl with silvery-white hair stood quietly amidst the sea of netherworld flowers. The thick purple light, too intense to look at directly, could not overshadow the light in her four-colored pupils. In the deep purple world, colorful starlight dotted her eyes.
She stared indifferently into the distance. The brilliance in her eyes was strangely enchanting, yet devoid of any emotional spark.
Her only companions were the eternal netherworld flower sea and the occasional roars of magical beasts from afar.
Eternal solitude is the cruelest torture for living beings—especially for humans, who are richest in emotion. It is no less than the harshest punishment in the world. But she had long been accustomed to it. From the day she gained consciousness and memory, all she faced was darkness, purple light, and loneliness. Perhaps it had been tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of millions of years...
Or maybe... tens of millions of years...
She did not know why she existed. She simply existed...
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Bang!!
Ping!!
The sound of ice shattering shook Yun Che's eardrums. His figure shifted like a phantom. The residual force of the ice power disrupted his body and attack trajectory, but between his tightly furrowed brows, there was no panic, and his body remained balanced. With another flash, a streak of cold light like a meteor grazed past him.
What was tactile sense?
If the pinnacle of spiritual sense was conscious prediction and judgment,
Then the pinnacle of tactile sense was the body's own prediction and judgment.
The subtle flow of air, the opponent's spiritual sense and gaze, the instantaneous changes in their eyes and profound force... at a distance, it relied on spiritual sense. But up close, tactile sense could precede spiritual sense!
It was a wondrous, instinct-like fusion of body and soul that could not be cultivated, nor even explained or described. It could only be comprehended and realized.
When Mu Xuanyin's attacks repeatedly hit the spot he teleported to... after dozens of times, he finally, in a certain moment, vaguely grasped the concept of tactile sense.
On the same day, his Moon-Breaking Shadow Flick successfully reached the "Shadow Anchor" realm.
From then on, he finally escaped being "one-shot" by Mu Xuanyin. Gradually, the number of times Mu Xuanyin struck began to increase: once... twice... three times... four times...
At most, it took six strikes before she knocked Yun Che to his knees.
Yun Che teleported several times, somewhat disheveled, but closed to within five steps of Mu Xuanyin. With a flash in his eyes, the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword suddenly flew out of his hand... But in the same instant, a subtle feeling spread across his left side. Without any thought, his entire body instinctively twisted away.
With a dull thud, a wave of cold air swept past his side. Though it didn't hit directly, it completely unbalanced his body. At the same time, his arms quickly spread.
"Cloud-Sealing Sun-Locking!"
Bang!!
Yun Che, along with his Evil God Barrier, was thrown away. An ice spear pierced through the void behind him, then broke through his Evil God Barrier... At the last moment, Yun Che barely dodged the vital spot, but the spear still deeply pierced his left shoulder.
The ice spear stuck straight into the bone gap, then violently exploded. The rampaging cold air numbed his entire left side instantly. He crashed to the ground sideways, and the sword he had thrown flew back, landing beside him.
Yun Che struggled to his knees. As his left side regained feeling, it brought excruciating pain like a nightmare. He gritted his teeth but managed a satisfied smile amidst the pain: "Disciple... can now... withstand Master's seventh strike."
"Hmph, you still have a long way to go!"
With a stern cold voice, Mu Xuanyin pointed her finger. A tiny blue light exploded on Yun Che's chest—instantly, all his meridians snapped.
Only Mu Xuanyin knew that the profound force she used to shatter Yun Che's meridians was dozens of times greater than the first time.
And the pain from the shattered meridians was also dozens of times greater than before.
Yun Che's pupils contracted sharply. Every blood vessel in his body bulged, and the texture of every inch of his skin twisted completely.
This extreme pain, originating from every part of his body, tempered Yun Che's tactile sense and also honed his mental fortitude. Even though he felt like he was falling into hell, his body curled and trembled madly. But aside from an initial muffled grunt, he didn't let out a single scream... nor did he faint from the pain as before.
A flash of blue light flickered in Mu Xuanyin's eyes, reflecting in Yun Che's fading pupils.
Weng——
Yun Che's mind roared, then his consciousness collapsed, and he passed out.
"This is the last time. Since you've already understood the meaning of tactile sense, I'll let you suffer less."
Grabbing Yun Che, Mu Xuanyin returned to the center of the sacred hall.
In that pool of water, the Nine Revolutions Buddha Heart Lotus that had proudly bloomed earlier—eighty-one Buddha Heart Lotus petals—now had only one petal left.
She threw Yun Che into the pool. With a delicate flick of her finger, the last Buddha Heart Lotus petal drifted into her hand. On the crystal-clear jade-like stem, only the jade-colored leaves remained.
The next bloom would be in nine thousand years... or perhaps never again.
She placed the last petal on Yun Che's heart. Her palm rested on it, and a trace of complexity flickered in Mu Xuanyin's eyes.
This kid's comprehension was truly unmatched. In just a few months, he had cultivated Moon-Breaking Shadow Flick to its great completion, and the Ice Phoenix God-Sealing Canon had reached the "Ice God Sealing" realm.
A mysterious existence like tactile sense—even those highly talented profound practitioners only gradually comprehended it after passing through divine tribulation, achieving the Divine Spirit Realm, and experiencing the transformation of their spiritual sense. Yet he had grasped it to such a degree in just three months.
Pity he was born in the lower realms. If he were born in Yin Xue Realm, he would have long been famous throughout the divine realms.
Blue radiance filled the sacred hall. Under the power of Mu Xuanyin's Divine Lord power and the Buddha Heart Lotus petal, the final meridian tempering for Yun Che began. The meridians she had forcibly shattered for the eighty-first time were reorganized and fused amidst the intersecting blue light. The process was extremely slow, but the light emitted by each meridian, even through his body, showed astonishing brightness.
The Dragon God's Marrow had made Yun Che's bones extremely tough, and his Dragon God bloodline had been continuously enriched. Today, under Mu Xuanyin's brutal method and the mysterious power of the Nine Revolutions Buddha Heart Lotus, his entire meridian system underwent a complete transformation.
When Yun Che woke up, he was already in the Minghan Heavenly Lake. The first thing he sensed was the enormous change in his meridians.
He quickly focused his mind and looked inward. His meridians were several times thicker than three months ago. Each meridian had completely lost its previous form, becoming crystal clear, like flawless ice crystals carved and spread throughout every corner of his body.
With a thought, profound force circulated. The speed at which it was released was so fast that even he, who was mentally prepared, was greatly surprised.
"These really are... my meridians?" Feeling the profound force flowing through his meridians, Yun Che muttered to himself in disbelief.
Amidst excitement and disbelief, Yun Che grabbed the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword, furrowed his brow, and let out a loud roar:
"Annihilation of Heaven and Earth!"
His profound force boiled and raged. As the third move of the Evil God Art, Annihilation of Heaven and Earth consumed a great deal of power. In his elemental state, even with full concentration, it required nearly two breaths to gather profound force. But this time, in just half a breath, the power of annihilation was ready, bursting forth violently with the swing of the sword.
Boom!!!
The roar shook the Minghan Heavenly Lake, causing waves to rise. But immediately after, a second Annihilation of Heaven and Earth was already unleashed...
Boom!!!
The nearby lake surface directly exploded. Splashing lake water rained down on Yun Che. He held the sword with both hands, suspended in the air, his eyes shaking violently.
Although Annihilation of Heaven and Earth was immensely powerful, he didn't use it often because the long gathering time easily exposed flaws. After unleashing it, there would be a considerable period of power depletion. If it missed or was blocked, the consequences would be severe.
But now, in the time it took to raise his sword, he had already gathered the power. After fully releasing it, profound force surged again almost instantly. The second Annihilation of Heaven and Earth followed immediately, its power no weaker than the first...
This was a feeling and state as magical as a dream—something he had never even imagined before.
His profound force was still at Divine Origin Realm, Level 1, with no progress at all.
But under the transformation of his meridians, he clearly felt that compared to himself three months ago, he now stood in an entirely different realm.
The current him could easily defeat the same-profound-force version of himself from one month ago!
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[Congratulations to pay-to-win player Yun Che for obtaining the external cheat: Balance Pearl.]