With her back facing him, Yun Wuji placed both palms on Ling Xian's back, and a strand of Light Profound Energy slipped into her body without a sound.
The problem Ling Xian suffered from lay in her bloodline. Her father was the Vermillion Bird God, and her mother the Thunder Cloud Immortal Bird. Because of this, she was born with three elemental divine powers of fire, thunder, and wind. Those same gifts also became her curse. The energies never truly harmonized, constantly clashing within her body. At times, the chaos of wind and thunder surged through her meridians, while blazing flames gnawed at her heart, leaving her in endless torment.
It was exceedingly rare for a single person to cultivate three elements at the same time. Aside from Yun Wuji, the only individual capable of such a feat in the entire Primal Chaos was his dead sissy stepson, Luo Changsheng.
He cultivated the Wind, Lightning, and Earth elements.
To cultivate three elemental divine powers was countless times more difficult than cultivating ordinary elements. Even during the ancient Primordial Era, people capable of achieving such a feat were rarely seen.
After a quick inspection, Yun Wuji discovered two ways to resolve her problem. The first was to purify her bloodline, purging her mother's side entirely and leaving behind only the pure Vermillion Bird bloodline.
The second was to slowly tame the fire element within her. There was no need to do the same for the other two elements, as they were far weaker than the fire element, and Ling Xian herself could handle them.
This method was quite similar to what Ling Xian did through the Primal Flame Crystal. The difference was that the effect of the Primal Flame Crystal only lasted for around a thousand years.
In any case, neither method was particularly complicated for him. Even setting aside the cheat that was the Law of Nothingness, control over the elemental powers alone was more than enough to resolve her condition. Hell, even without those advantages, his frightening genius would allow him to create a cultivation technique tailored specifically for her, one capable of eliminating the problem at its root.
Perhaps he could strengthen her physique instead. He did possess his most beloved Body Thickening Technique, one he always passed on to his women. Unfortunately, it would not work on Ling Xian. Her bloodline was already excessively mixed, and adding the Dragon God's bloodline into the equation would only make things worse for her rather than better.
"Fortunately, senior, it seems that I can help you." Retracting his hand, Yun Wuji smiled gently and conveyed the results of his examination. "Which of the two methods would you prefer to use?"
'He is trying to scam someone else again.' Hei Xiaolian saw that smile and reached her conclusion with absolute certainty. When it came to understanding Yun Wuji, no one understood him better than her.
"The second one." Ling Xian remained silent for a very long time. She seemed to be reminiscing about her past. If it were her younger self, before she left her clan, she might have chosen to give up her mother's bloodline, the very bloodline that caused her clansmen to look down on her and treat her with scorn. But now, she no longer cared about any of that.
Despite the pain and harm it brought her, this bloodline was the only thing her mother left behind. She was not willing to give it up.
"Very well, senior. The process will not take long, only three to four years." Yun Wuji nodded. This outcome did not surprise him. From his interactions with her, he already grasped Ling Xian's character fairly well. What remained was to dig a little deeper into her past, just enough to fully align it with his plans.
"Really?!" This time it was Su Shang who spoke. She stared at Yun Wuji, her eyes wide, and asked, "Are you speaking the truth?!" For millions of years, even before her ancestors were born, her master had suffered under the chaotic elements within her, elements that constantly erupted, bringing calamities and immense pain.
If Yun Wuji could truly solve this problem in just a few short years, it would be nothing less than a literal miracle.
"Of course I can. Who do you think I am?" Yun Wuji gave her a confident smile. "I am me. Doing something like this is nothing for me."
He didn't need more than a few hours to fix the problem, but as always, he chose to take his time. After all, helping Ling Xian wasn't his main goal. His real aim was to follow the request of the Golden Crow, the Phoenix, and the Ice Phoenix and take her down.
If he failed, they would bother him endlessly, probably bringing it up for thousands of years to come.
"As expected of Lord Ni Xuan's inheritor, you have even exceeded my expectations." Ling Xian stood up and held Yun Wuji's hands with her old, withered ones. Like a grandma being helped across the road, she thanked him with a gentle smile full of gratitude. "Thank you, young Wuji. This old woman will not forget this favor."
She had some hope that Yun Wuji could help her, but even so, she had expected that success would take thousands, if not tens of thousands, of years. After all, during her three million years in the Abyss, she had tried every method imaginable and failed. The only thing that had offered her even temporary relief was the Primal Flame Crystal.
"I am doing this because I want to. I, Yun Wuji, never cared about favors." Yun Wuji patted her hand gently and spoke with arrogant confidence. "During this time, you will stay in the Eternal Light Divine Kingdom. I will provide treatment once a week. If all goes well, in a few years, senior will no longer have to worry about your elements falling into chaos."
"You are still as smooth as ever, Wuji! You also need to quickly convince her to revert to her younger look. Watching you try to seduce an old woman is just… weird!" Hei Xiaolian laughed at the scene. Her man really was the nemesis of all women.
"You are older than her," Li Suo remarked from the side.
"You are the freaking old one! I am always eighteen!" Hei Xiaolian shot back coldly.
Ling Xian gazed deeply into Yun Wuji's face, then suddenly said, "If he were here to see you, perhaps he would smile once again."
She couldn't help but think of Mo Su. Since coming to this world and becoming the Abyssal Monarch, his soul seemed to have withered. He was neither angry, nor surprised, nor resentful, nor melancholy. His rare smiles were nothing more than a twitch of his face, devoid of any true joy.
Perhaps, if he were to meet Yun Wuji, who carried the power of Ni Xuan, he might smile once more, even if only a little.
"Senior, are you talking about Mo Su?" Yun Wuji sat down beside her and asked. He didn't know the details of her love story with Mo Su, but from the way she was acting now, he could guess that she still held feelings for him.
Ling Xian smiled, a faint mist forming in her cloudy eyes. "That was a very long time ago." She didn't look surprised that he knew the Abyssal Monarch's true identity. As Ni Xuan's inheritor, perhaps he had left him some memories, or maybe even told him personally.
For some reason, speaking to him made her want to share more. She slowly began to recount her past with Mo Su.
It wasn't much to tell, only her one-sided love for him. Just as he had been unwaveringly devoted to Pan Xiaodie, there had been another person behind him who had been equally devoted to him.
'Hehehe, how interesting would it be to steal both of them from him? Shit. Since when did I become an NTR fan?!' Hearing her story, Yun Wuji did not feel discouraged in the slightest. On the contrary, a strange sense of excitement stirred within him. Perhaps Hei Xiaolian's hobbies had rubbed off on him, or maybe he had been the one to infect Hei Xiaolian in the first place. 'How can this even be called NTR? I am just helping Ling Xian break free from such a fruitless love and showing her that there is still a reason to live.'
'Like me!'
"Then I won't bother you anymore, senior. I'll come to start the treatment tomorrow. Make yourself comfortable, and if you need anything, don't hesitate to contact me." Yun Wuji felt it was time to retreat. He glanced at both Ling Xian and Su Shang and caught the latter staring at him intently, her eyes misty.
'Hmm? Is she really into spanking, or did I awaken something in her last time?' Walking out, Yun Wuji scratched his cheek, recalling the way Su Shang had been staring at him. It seemed she hadn't even realized how she had been looking at him.
"Unchanging devotion to someone for three million years… how are you going to make her change her mind and fall for you so easily?" Li Suo asked suddenly on the way back.
"Stupid, ignorant, hypocritical woman. What's so hard about it?!" Before Yun Wuji could answer, Hei Xiaolian, the self-proclaimed expert in love, spoke first. "Wuji just has to act the way he normally does and add a few little tricks, and he'll succeed easily."
"How can it be that easy? If Ling Xian's feelings could be swayed so simply, she wouldn't have stayed devoted to Mo Su for three whole million years." Li Suo couldn't understand where Hei Xiaolian's confidence was coming from.
"Hmph! What's so great about that? You said it yourself! Three freaking million years. Do you even know how long that is? It's fucking long!" Hei Xiaolian snorted disdainfully at Li Suo, looking at her as if she were mentally challenged. "That woman is already exhausted, so tired that she no longer cares about anything in life. The clearest sign of that is that she allowed herself to grow old."
"For someone like her, if she paid even a little attention to her appearance, she could easily maintain her youthful looks with the power of a True God."
"This in itself means that even though she still loved Mo Su, she has grown tired of everything. She is barely clinging to life, just going through the motions, perhaps only to witness his success or failure." Hei Xiaolian watched Li Suo's expression change to one of surprise and, feeling smug, continued speaking.
"I am fairly certain that even if Mo Su were to accept Ling Xian's feelings right now, she wouldn't reciprocate them. She has already grown old, and even if she were to accept him and be with him, she would probably die shortly after."
Hei Xiaolian may have been just a Heavenly Spirit and someone who spent most of her life sealed away, but she was also the person who had spent the most time with Yun Wuji in this world. She literally never left his side for longer than necessary. Watching him scam people and seduce women for so long, she had learned many things from him.
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