Insufficient balance

  As expected by Tang Hao, something must have happened outside. Tang Hao didn't even take off his clothes and directly put on his shoes to rush outside.

  Tang Hao followed the sound to a cozy room and found that it was where the foundation-building cultivator and a courtesan were resting. The foundation-building cultivator in the room had become as thin as a skeleton, his face pale and bloodless, and he seemed to have stopped breathing. Next to him, the courtesan was naked, staring at her hand in shock, and didn't even try to cover herself when Tang Hao suddenly entered the room.

  Tang Hao's first reaction was that the spiritual energy of this Foundation Building cultivator had been completely absorbed by this dusty woman. Qing Shiqi and Hong Zhen also rushed over, thinking that the woman had sucked dry the Foundation Building cultivator, so they looked at the naked woman with a vigilant expression and asked: "What did you do to Qian Shixiong?" Although the Foundation Building cultivator was one major realm higher than Qing Shiqi, Qing Shiqi's status was noble, so she wouldn't call him senior. She simply called him Qian Shixiong.

  The dusty woman touched her jade rabbit in shock and said to Qing Shi Qi with some difficulty: "I am your Senior Brother Qian."

  Qing Shi Qi found it hard to believe, but the woman in front of her was almost indistinguishable from Qian Xiu Shi in both tone and expression.

  "What are our names?" Qing Shi Qi ventured, after all, they used pseudonyms when they went out, only they themselves knew their real names.

  "You are Qing Shi Qi, you are Hong Zhen." The words of the woman in the wind and dust made Qing Shi Qi take a breath of cold air, it seemed that this woman in the wind and dust was indeed her senior sister Qian.

  "Ah!" The next three rooms also heard a scream, the door was forced open, and the situation inside was no different from that of Qian Shixiong. One of the women pointed at her own corpse in horror and said, "I... I'm dead."

  At this time, Guo Jing and Xu Renxia also arrived. Guo Jing heaved a sigh of relief: "Fortunately we held on in the end, no one turned into a woman, did they?"

  "Yes!" A familiar fragrance accompanied by a silvery bell-like sound wafted over, and everyone looked around to find Qi Tong wearing the same clothes as yesterday, walking towards Tang Huang and others with a wild gait.

  "You... are... Rulan?" Tang Hao's mouth was wide open, but at this moment, apart from this result, Tang Hao couldn't think of any other possibility.

  QiTong nodded helplessly, and TangHuang felt a hint of helplessness in his heart, although there was also some schadenfreude. Finally, someone was like him too. "Didn't I tell you to be on your guard?"

  "Listen, you all know that I'm a 24-year-old virgin, and just yesterday my desire was stirred up again, but you guys stopped me. I went back to my room and masturbated a few times, but it didn't have any effect. When I saw that you were all asleep, I snuck into Qitian's room. Originally, I just wanted to chat with her, but I couldn't control myself, and now my 'second brother' can't be used." Although Ruran looked very honest and rarely spoke during university, Tang Huan also knew he wasn't a good guy. His computer hard drive had the largest capacity, and he even bought a bunch of mobile hard drives. Some people would look for him when they were bored to ask for some resources. It's worth mentioning that he had a special fondness for little girls.

  Guo Jing swallowed his saliva and asked somewhat puzzled: "Why are they all naked, but you're wearing clothes? Have you reached a spiritual level?"

  "Actually, I felt something strange in my chest a long time ago and woke up. After waking up, I found myself transformed into this state, but I didn't dare to make a sound, fearing that you would laugh at me. I wanted to find a way to reverse it, but it was useless. I didn't dare to come out, so I could only wear Qitian's clothes when no one was paying attention, otherwise these two pieces of meat would be quite conspicuous."

  "Then won't you become a puppet?" Tang Huang asked.

  Rou Ran shook her head and said: "I've checked, my dantian is still there, but my own body has become a puppet."

  "Are you all getting used to your new bodies?" A slender, elegant woman slowly descended from the upper floor. Her appearance was on par with Qīng Tóng's, but her temperament was different from Qīng Tóng's cold and proud demeanor, instead exuding a refined and cultured air, seemingly that of a Confucian scholar. Tang Huan also remembered her appearance, she was indeed the Transcendent cultivator who had brought them into this Grand Cold Palace.

  "Why did you do this?" Qing Shi Qi asked.

  The goddess smiled calmly, "It's just a matter of taking what we need. After the fusion, our bodies will be the main ones, and then the two of you will automatically combine your better spiritual roots, higher cultivation, and stronger physique into a new person. Then, you'll enter that body, and we'll only have the leftover inferior products. And by using your inferior bodies to die, our souls can attain liberation. Isn't this good? Think about it, you cultivators at the Qi Refining stage need to spend so much time building your foundation. Now, you can easily build your foundation. Isn't this good?"

  After listening to Ruolan, he indeed discovered that his current cultivation was at the peak of foundation building. Even Tang Hao couldn't be his opponent, and the other three Qi-refining cultivators had also reached the foundation-building stage.

  "Why die in someone else's body?" Aike asked.

  The goddess sighed and said, "After we were captured by the master of the pavilion, he refined us into puppets, and our souls were sealed within. Although we didn't die or disappear, our bodies couldn't move on their own, and we could only act according to the master's orders. For the souls sealed in the flesh, this was undoubtedly a form of torture. Although it was our own doing, how many people can endure this kind of forced servitude? Later, the master said he would go to a very far place and never come back, so he gave us another chance at reincarnation, giving our bodies to others and dying in someone else's body."

  Rou Yan said with some difficulty: "I'm already dead, it's just that I can't be restored."

  The goddess smiled lightly, "You should be very satisfied, your body was one of the four great beauties of Guanghan Pavilion in those years. Moreover, you and we are not the same, you are not a puppet, you are not controlled by this Guanghan Palace, that is to say, your cultivation will also be no different from ordinary people."

  "But I'm a man!" Rouran roared.

  Guo Jing rubbed Ruo Yan's chest and let her take a few steps back. Guo Jing comforted, "You'll get used to this thing slowly, it can even be self-sufficient, don't believe me? Ask her." Guo Jing glanced at Tang Huang beside him.

  "I still don't know what to call the fairy." Rouran asked somewhat helplessly.

  After being together for so long, Tang Hao still hadn't told them his name, but in fact it wasn't that he didn't want to tell, it was just that she really didn't have a name.

  "Call me Tang Xiner, actually I am Tang Wanner's sister." Tang Huan said with a bitter smile, knowing that Rouran and himself were different, he could change back at any time, but Rouran would have to follow this body for the rest of her life. Tang Huan was worried about why Guo Jing didn't transform instead, otherwise his oath would have been fulfilled.

  "Can we leave now?" Qing Shiqi felt that this place was too eerie and didn't want to stay a moment longer.

  The demoness smiled eerily and said, "It's not often that we get to come here, it wouldn't be enough just to leave without bringing back some souvenirs."

  "What are you going to do?" Qing Shiqi secretly cried out in alarm.

  The lady in the divine dress said: "Don't worry, the master has given orders, we can't use force on our guests, but if you take the initiative, don't blame us." A pink fragrance began to waft out of the pavilion, which didn't seem like anything decent.

  Everyone held their breath, and Ruru suddenly shouted in her new voice: "I heard from Qiting that the exit is on the top floor when we were chatting." It seems that Ruru was indeed just trying to chat at first.

  Most of the women in the palace had inhaled the powder and were entranced, while a few somewhat rational women asked the transformed woman: "Ancestress, they have escaped, what should we do?"

  The demoness smiled eerily and said, "Let them go up then. Without my command, the rooftop door won't open anyway. Besides, once they reach the rooftop, it's my territory. Although those who suddenly advance from Qi Refining stage to Demon God stage will definitely have their souls shattered and dispersed, I don't care about that anymore. I also want to be free."

  With the order of Huashen Women, the women in the Condensation Period and the Yuan Infancy Period did not block Tang Hao and others. Tang Hao and others quickly arrived at the fifth floor. In the center of the fifth floor, there was a transmission array, but it was sealed by a colorless light cover.

  "Look! A Spiritual Treasure!" The Foundation Building male, who shouldn't be called a Foundation Building male anymore as he had transformed into a woman, pointed at a small light curtain inside the large one and exclaimed in shock. Even many Divine Transformation cultivators in the Lower Realm couldn't refine this Spiritual Treasure, except for some extraordinary individuals. This Spiritual Treasure seemed to be the central core of the entire Guang Han Palace, but although the light curtain was strong, its intensity was hundreds of times stronger than the outer light curtain, which made these people who were already helpless against the outer light curtain not even dare to think about it.

  "Even if I wanted to, there's nothing I can do about the restrictions inside. Unless the master himself comes, but that's impossible now. Since you're all here, why not take a seat and discuss the Way with Lan'er over some tea?" The woman in white changed into a more fitting attire and bowed to everyone.