My Beasts Grind Proficiency For Me

Si Taizhen looked at her father, the last flame in her eyes extinguished.

From her father’s behavior today, it was clear he had been plotting against her for a long time. The father-daughter affection he’d shown in the past was merely a ruse to lower her guard.

’It seems Father’s past affection was just to keep me obediently caged within the Jade Poison Kingdom.’

After condensing her Golden Core, she had no desire to be confined to the Jade Poison Kingdom. She once thought of leaving to travel the world, but her father flatly refused. To placate her, he even handed over a portion of the kingdom’s authority to her.

Si Taizhen had once believed her father was simply worried she would face danger on her travels. Now, she realized he was only afraid of losing the secret treasure she carried.

"My life is a gift from you and Mother, and my Cultivation was granted by you, Father. Since you want it, then take it all."

Having already resolved to die, Si Taizhen spoke to the Jade Poison Great Saint.

A sinister glint flashed in the Jade Poison Great Saint’s eyes. Had Si Taizhen struggled desperately for her life, her ugliness on full display, it would have been one thing. But her willingness to face death so gallantly stirred a hint of guilt within him.

But the matter of the Innate Chaotic Qi concerned his ascension to the Divinity Transformation realm. Such a monumental opportunity allowed for no mercy.

With a flick of his sleeve, a scorching Demon Qi surged forth. It transformed into a glossy, jade-green serpent shadow that bored into Si Taizhen’s body, instantly sealing her Magical Power.

Even though Si Taizhen appeared to be seeking death, the Jade Poison Great Saint didn’t dare let his guard down for a moment, lest his prize slip through his fingers.

Because of the Qi Cultivation Technique Si Taizhen practiced, the Demon Power entering her felt like molten iron being poured into her veins. Her face instantly turned deathly pale, drained of all color.

She was confident that she had few rivals among Golden Core Cultivators, but in the face of her father, a Demon Saint, she was utterly powerless.

Danxia True Monarch had already prepared the Pill Furnace.

It was an Alchemy Furnace as large as a small hill, standing a full thirty feet high with a chamber as spacious as a small room. The furnace was called the Purple Qi Spirit-Birth Furnace, a Tier Four Top Level Alchemy Furnace.

This Alchemy Furnace was one of Danxia True Monarch’s most prized treasures. Gathering the materials alone had taken sixty years and consumed immeasurable resources and manpower. Once all the materials were collected, he had gone through the Purple Mist Sect to commission a renowned Artifact Refining Master to forge it.

Even for Danxia True Monarch, an Alchemy Master whose wealth far surpassed that of an ordinary Nascent Soul True Monarch, forging such a Pill Furnace had been a staggering expense.

For Danxia True Monarch’s level of Alchemy, the Tier Four Lower Grade Alchemy Furnace provided by the Purple Mist Sect was more than sufficient. He had gone to such great lengths to forge the Purple Qi Spirit-Birth Furnace for the sole purpose of better extracting the Innate Chaotic Qi from Si Taizhen’s Divine Soul.

Escorted by several generals, Si Taizhen was thrown into the Alchemy Furnace.

A Spiritual Light flared on the Purple Qi Spirit-Birth Furnace as it sealed completely, shutting out all light and sound. The chamber was instantly plunged into a profound darkness, devoid of any light. It was as if she had returned to the primordial chaos—dark and silent.

Having cultivated to her current Realm, seeing in the dark was child’s play for Si Taizhen. But trapped in this furnace, it was as if her eyes had been bewitched. Even when she pushed her Eye Power to its absolute limit, her vision remained a field of pitch-black, so dark she couldn’t see her own hand in front of her face.

The Demon Power binding her body suddenly loosened. It rose from her like clouds of mist, then was siphoned away by the Alchemy Furnace’s Restriction and drawn outside.

"The Innate Chaotic Qi is of an exceptionally high order. During the refining process, we can’t allow the Sovereign’s Demon Power to contaminate it."

Danxia True Monarch’s voice drifted eerily from outside the Pill Furnace:

"My dear nephew... no, I should call you my dear niece now. For a mere Golden Core, you’re quite clever. I don’t know how you learned of my plan with your father, but to think you’d develop feelings for a lowly Snake Demon and almost ruin everything for me."

Si Taizhen felt a gaze filled with greed and malice land upon her.

Remembering how Danxia True Monarch had always acted like a kind and benevolent elder in her presence, Si Taizhen’s heart sank.

Recalling the first half of her life, she had always been so proud, never giving her brothers a second thought. She never imagined she was nothing but a puppet in the hands of her father and Danxia True Monarch, cultivated like some Celestial and Earthly Treasure.

"Heh, did you really think you could convert all the Innate Chaotic Qi into Innate Pure Yin Qi in just two days? My dear niece, all the trouble you went to... I’m afraid the consequences will be something you regret for the rest of your life."

Danxia True Monarch’s sinister voice echoed from outside the Pill Furnace.

Si Taizhen had been prepared to calmly await her fate of being refined into a Pill, but Danxia True Monarch’s words instantly put her on high alert.

Though she couldn’t see the world outside, she lifted her head, her eyes burning as if trying to pierce through the thick walls of the furnace and stare directly at Danxia True Monarch.

She had already made peace with being refined into a Pill and dying. The only thing that could make her regret this to her very core involved the handful of people she cared about.

Her relationship with Eunuch Gui and the soldiers of the Crown Prince’s Mansion was close, and while their deaths would sadden her, it wouldn’t be enough to make her regret her choices for the rest of her life.

In the entire Jade Poison Kingdom, there were now only two people she truly cared for: one was Si Bing, whose whereabouts were unknown, and the other was her mother.

Thinking back, Si Bing’s identity was rather mysterious, especially after he had used the Tiger Talisman to warn her.

Si Taizhen suspected he was the very thief who had stolen the Xuyu Coral, throwing the Three Great Demon Realms and the Jade Poison Kingdom into turmoil. If it was truly him, then given the cunning it took to steal the Xuyu Coral and plunder the Moon Demon King’s Treasure Vault, her father and Danxia True Monarch would not have an easy time capturing him.

In that case, the matter Danxia True Monarch spoke of—the one that would make her regret her actions for the rest of her life—was painfully obvious.

Si Taizhen shot to her feet.

"If you dare lay a hand on my mother, I’ll haunt you even as a ghost!"

"Such a clever niece. If you didn’t possess the Innate Chaotic Qi, I would truly be reluctant to refine you to death."

Danxia True Monarch said, feigning regret for wasting such talent.

Inside the Pill Furnace, Si Taizhen ignored him completely. She threw herself headfirst at the furnace wall, intending to smash her own skull open. She would make sure Danxia True Monarch and her father’s efforts came to nothing, and in doing so, save her mother’s life.

The next moment, the Divine Light of countless Restrictions flared to life within the Pill Furnace. A Power of Restriction as heavy as a mountain pressed down on her, pinning her in place.

"Such a fiery niece. But this Purple Qi Spirit-Birth Furnace of mine was specifically designed to refine Demons. Even a Nascent Soul Demon Saint would have no choice but to wait obediently to be refined into a Pill inside here. You should stop struggling."

Many High Tier Elixirs use Demons as the primary ingredient, refining them alive with True Fire to form a Pill. To prevent the Demons from resisting violently and causing the furnace to explode, special Pill Furnaces designed for refining Demons were created.

Danxia True Monarch declared triumphantly,

"My two disciples, what are you waiting for? Throw Lady Si into the furnace as well."