The surgery was successful, and Heitu is now a girl.

As soon as they arrived at the area enveloped by the primordial energy tides, an incredibly pure surge of innate spiritual energy rushed toward them!

Just how pure was it?

To put it simply, there was no need for refinement or purification—just a single breath was enough to convert this innate spiritual energy into personal cultivation energy!

Moreover, the energy level of this innate spiritual energy was exceptionally high, surpassing even the immortal energy contained within standard immortal essence stones by several tiers. After a quick comparison, Chen Yi arrived at a startling conclusion:

A single breath of this innate spiritual energy was roughly equivalent to the total energy extracted from refining and purifying ten thousand immortal essence stones!

But that wasn’t all—this innate spiritual energy also carried a purifying force. Not only could it cleanse the physical body of all negative states, but it could also purify the soul within the sea of consciousness, erasing the traces left by time and keeping the soul in its purest, most agile peak condition!

"Hss—ugh—!"

Black Earth also took a deep breath to test it out, but the moment it entered, he started dry-heaving. The green fur on his body slowly shed, his withered, blackened skin began to fill out, and his pale eyes gradually regained color.

These were signs of a corpse on the verge of gaining life!

Chen Yi’s clone was pure by nature, so it wasn’t affected by the purifying force of this innate spiritual energy.

But Black Earth was different. His body was that of a demonic abomination, a mutated remnant of a divine realm expert’s corpse after death, brimming with negative energy. Like a magnet, his attraction to the innate spiritual energy was maxed out!

"Wait, why is my divine sense being treated like filth?! This purifying force is too strong... I can’t take it—Chen Yi, help me out here!"

Black Earth hurriedly sealed his body, trying to block the invasion of the innate spiritual energy, but it was useless. The energy clung to him like a dog drawn to excrement, relentlessly scouring his cursed corpse, roasting him like ice over a fire!

Chen Yi: "..."

Help him?

How?

Do I look like someone who specializes in mechanics?

"Hold on, let me figure this out..."

After much effort, Chen Yi finally found a way to block the innate spiritual energy.

The operation was a success.

Black Earth was now a girl.

The reason the innate spiritual energy had been so attracted to him before was entirely due to the overwhelming deathly yin energy from his post-mortem mutation. Placing such energy in a heavily yang male body created too much contrast, amplifying the negative effects and making him a magnet for the innate spiritual energy.

To solve this, Chen Yi had only come up with two methods on the spot:

First, wrap him in the same material as the cloaking cloak.

Second, make the deathly yin energy reasonable.

The first option was out of the question—the cloaking cloak material was top-secret, not even the Ziwei Seniors were allowed to examine it, let alone a divine realm outsider.

So, the second method it was—making the deathly yin energy reasonable. Thus, Chen Yi removed his yang root and made some minor adjustments, presenting him as a body of utmost yin purity.

Sure enough, the innate spiritual energy no longer clung to her!

"I fcking thank you!" Black Earth (now sister) twitched at the corners of her mouth, feeling the weight on her chest and suddenly wanting to beat Chen Yi to death.

"Tch, don’t mention it—seriously, don’t." Chen Yi waved her off, not in the mood for chatter, and took two steps forward. With a sweep of his hand, he dispersed the dense spiritual energy tides, revealing a hidden spirit garden behind them.

Radiant light shimmered, and dazzling Dao patterns spread through the air. The spirit garden was enclosed by a massive wall of indestructible material, stretching beyond sight. Yet Chen Yi could tell at a glance—this wall was a naturally formed spirit treasure, and its grade was anything but low!

At the entrance stood an imposing gate, also a high-grade spirit treasure!

Outside the gate was a stone tablet, inscribed with four characters exuding profound Dao essence:

"Spirit Treasure Paradise!"

Black Earth sister read it aloud, her murky eyes burning with desire. But as her gaze drifted downward to a line of small, concealed text in the corner of the tablet, her expression abruptly changed.

"Wait, this was carved by someone... These characters—I’ve never seen anything like them. Neither their form nor structure follows any logic. It’s as if they were scribbled in chaos, impossible to decipher. Interesting... Did someone get here before us? Let me deduce what these characters might mean—Hey! What are you doing?!"

Before she could finish, she watched in shock as Chen Yi wiped away the small text at the bottom of the tablet.

"Just some territorial claims and private property declarations. Nothing worth noting." Chen Yi calmly explained before stepping into the Spirit Treasure Paradise without another word.

In truth, his outward calm masked inner turmoil.

Why?

Because those illogical, chaotic symbols...

Were the encrypted official script of the Zi Wei Immortal Court!

As all cultivators knew, those with high cultivation possessed formidable deduction abilities. Even if they didn’t understand a script’s meaning, obtaining just ten characters was usually enough to reverse-engineer the entire writing system!

The higher one’s cultivation, the stronger their deduction skills—and in turn, scripts required layers of encryption to prevent outsiders from uncovering secrets.

Take the Zi Wei Immortal Court’s top-secret documents, for example. With the ever-changing world and the unstoppable march of progress, every development project held immeasurable value. To prevent leaks and ensuing chaos, the Heavenly Pivot’s presiding deity, Fang Zheng, had collaborated with other departments to develop this encrypted script.

The design was ingenious—ordinary cultivators couldn’t crack it. Even Xu Jinghong, the highest-ranking official in the Zi Wei Immortal Court and Marshal of the Central Altar, once admitted that spending years trying to decipher it would be less efficient than holding a sword to the writer’s throat and demanding answers.

Of course, a peak Mystic Immortal needing years to crack it was due to insufficient ability. But for those beyond the Mystic Immortal realm? That was a different story.

This Black Earth was at least at the Great Luo level. If she wanted to decipher it, she’d need no more than an incense stick’s worth of time to find logic in the chaotic script and reconstruct the entire encryption system!

Chen Yi wasn’t about to give her that chance. The moment he saw the Zi Wei Immortal Court’s encrypted script on the tablet, he had already begun tampering with it—keeping most of the structure intact while distorting minor details.

Even if Black Earth cracked this corrupted version, the result would be meaningless. Hell, Chen Yi himself wouldn’t even know what she’d decipher!

So, he had deliberately let her glimpse it, leaving a deep impression before "realizing" his mistake and erasing it.

Such an unusual move was bound to pique Black Earth's curiosity. If she diverted her attention to deciphering it, she would fall right into Chen Yi's trap. But even if she chose not to dwell on it, it didn’t matter—after all, the curiosity was hers to bear, not Chen Yi’s!

So, the question remained: what exactly was written in that encrypted document that made Chen Yi go so far as to scheme against Black Earth?

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