# 1053
Chapter 1053
Si Xiaonan recalled Loki's description of the Kunlun secret treasure. It seemed he had never mentioned what exactly this pill was, nor how many pieces there were. He only said to bring the Immortal Pill back to Asgard.
But if the Immortal Pill from the Kunlun secret treasure was composed of the Pill of Immortality and the Pill of Eternity, and the Pill of Immortality was still in the vessel... then where was the Pill of Eternity?
Si Xiaonan looked up at Lin Qiye.
"Don't look at me. It was empty when I got it." Lin Qiye shook his head.
Si Xiaonan was stunned. A bold idea flashed through her mind!
The vessel for the Pill of Eternity was empty. That meant perhaps...
A gleam flashed in Si Xiaonan's eyes. She gripped both pill vessels and flew out of the Pill Hall in an instant. Lin Qiye transformed into a streak of night and followed closely behind.
Two streaks of light darted between the thousands of suspended pill vessels in the Hall.
"Xiaonan, leave the Pill of Immortality behind." Lin Qiye spoke quietly.
"Sorry."
Si Xiaonan showed no intention of stopping. Her speed increased more and more. In a turn, she passed through most of the Pill Hall. The wide entrance gate appeared before her eyes.
Lin Qiye frowned. "Then don't blame me for being too heavy-handed."
Lin Qiye stepped forward. Brilliant magic radiance bloomed beneath his feet. The strange liquid from the Black Eye instantly adhered to Lin Qiye's physical body, beginning to control him.
At the same time, a soul phantom flew out from within Lin Qiye. The surrounding spiritual energy immediately surged backward!
The Soul Form Lin Qiye掐诀 and施展 esoteric Taoist techniques. A crack faintly appeared between the brows of the soul form.
As this crack appeared, the surrounding churning spiritual energy rapidly poured into Lin Qiye's soul through the crack. His form inflated like a balloon, expanding rapidly!
A pale blue eye slowly opened between the brows of the soul form.
Si Xiaonan, who was already near the Hall's entrance, felt the terrifying aura emanating from behind her. Her expression immediately became grave.
She looked back. A blue giant shadow had already shattered the top of the Pill Hall, and it continued to rise rapidly. Clouds of dust and debris fell like a curtain, obscuring her vision.
"What is that thing..." she murmured.
Boom—!
A sharp blue three-pronged double-edged blade pierced the ground directly before Si Xiaonan.
Si Xiaonan's body froze. Before her stood a sky-obscuring divine shadow, clad in silver robes and armor, both hands gripping the three-pronged double-edged blade, standing like a mountain at the Hall's entrance.
Gale-force winds swept from beneath this divine mountain's feet. On its blurred face, a vertical eye had opened. Its gaze carried endless authority, coldly fixed on Si Xiaonan below.
This was the other Divine Manifestation Yang Jian had taught Lin Qiye—the [Qingyuan Divine Avatar].
The three-pronged double-edged blade thrust before Si Xiaonan sliced across the Hall's floor. Flying stone fragments scattered as it slashed rapidly toward Si Xiaonan.
Si Xiaonan's expression hardened. She extended her right hand, index and middle fingers together. A wisp of black light intertwined at her fingertips, quickly forming a strange talisman.
She raised her two fingers and pointed to the sky.
Heavenly Manifestation: "Trick."
CRACK—!!
A bolt of black lightning, like a winding giant serpent, cleaved down from the clear sky. It struck precisely on the body of the three-pronged double-edged blade, shattering parts of the spiritual energy-formed blade.
She seized both pill vessels, slipped past the blade's gap, and darted outside the Hall.
But before she could take another step, a gaze fell upon her. An invisible force bound her body, as if a giant hand gripped her tightly, lifting her directly off the ground and suspending her in mid-air.
Si Xiaonan sharply raised her head. Only to see a vertical eye in the center of that divine shadow's forehead, emitting a faint blue glow.
As that vertical eye's gaze focused, Si Xiaonan felt an invisible hand slam into her chest. Her entire body fell like a meteor, crashing into the Pill Hall. She shattered dozens of pill vessels on the way down. Dust clouds billowed outward.
Si Xiaonan grunted. She stumbled up from the deep crater, but before the faintest wisp of black light could form in her palm, a deep crimson figure appeared mysteriously behind her.
"It seems even you need time to weave 'Tricks' to alter reality..."
The Lin Qiye controlled by the Black Eye spoke indifferently. "As long as I don't give you time, you can't heal your wounds, nor can you change history."
The moment these words landed, Si Xiaonan's eyes constricted. A short blade slid from her sleeve into her palm. She pivoted and slashed toward Lin Qiye's body!
The crimson eye on Lin Qiye's forehead seemed to have foreseen Si Xiaonan's trajectory. He raised his hand preemptively, blocking Si Xiaonan's wrist that held the blade. His other fist punched heavily into her chest.
Having been tempered by the Power of Faith and having eaten a Peach of Immortality, Lin Qiye's physical body was far beyond what Si Xiaonan could compare to. This single blow sent her flying hundreds of meters. She collided with countless pill vessels, creating a clattering symphony, before crashing into a wall and shattering it like a spiderweb.
Si Xiaonan lay in the dust and rubble, breathing heavily, her face deathly pale.
Though grievously wounded, her expression held not a trace of panic. Her gaze swept rapidly across her surroundings, as if searching for something.
Finally, her eyes landed on a teal-green pill vessel at her feet. A barely perceptible gleam flickered through her pupils.
Found it...
Her left hand still gripping the empty white vessel, she stumbled to her feet. Using the swirling dust as cover, her hand containing the vessel casually bumped against that teal-green vessel. A wisp of black light flickered in her palm.
Glug.
A tiny sound echoed. A single pill诡异的crawled from the teal-green vessel into the empty white one.
On the bottom of that teal-green vessel, carved in cinnabar, was the name of another pill:
—Soul-Devouring Poison Pill.
Si Xiaonan held one black and one white pill vessel. She slowly straightened her body, using her wrist to wipe away the blood at the corner of her mouth.
Outside the Pill Hall, the towering [Qingyuan Divine Avatar] gradually dissipated. The soul phantom returned to flesh. Lin Qiye opened his eyes, gripping the [White Slash], and walked calmly toward the gravely wounded Si Xiaonan.
"Xiaonan, put down the Pill of Immortality."
"Lin Qiye, you can't stop me." Si Xiaonan met his gaze. A profound meaning flickered in her eyes. "The green spider lily shall bloom. Even the harshest winter cannot bury it."
Green spider lily?
At these five words, Lin Qiye froze in place.
In his mind, the scene from before the Cangnan catastrophe reappeared—the banter and laughter of Squad 136 during their team-building outing.
...
"Oh, what's this flower? I've never seen it before?"
"This is a manjusaka, also known as a spider lily."
"Aren't spider lilies supposed to be red? But this one is green!"
"Who says spider lilies can't be green? They come in many colors. For example, red spider lilies symbolize 'longing,' blue means..."
"What about green?"
"Green..." Wu Xiangnan thought for a moment.
"Its meaning should be, 'Everlasting Hope.'"