Chapter 153: Life Goes On.

  The blood that spilled to the ground from Jing's death formed into a small puddle. Everything continued on as normal within the Immortal Forest. Once the Earthly Immortal vanished, the beasts came back out to graze, frolic, and hunt. One such spirit beast was hopping along without a single care in the world. It resembled a rabbit but with rows of sharp teeth like a shark along with a drill-shaped tail that it sometimes bounced on instead of its legs. As the Drill Bunny was hopping, it managed to land directly in the blood puddle and slipped.

  This slippage caused it to roll around and be covered in blood that was very tasty to the bunny. It was so delicious that it couldn't help itself from taking several licks of the blood. During this licking, several changes began to happen to the 1st stage Qi Gathering Drill Bunny. The blood it was drinking wasn't the blood of any random beast. But the blood of a refined cultivator that has long passed abnormality. An abnormal freak with unbelievable power!

  It squeaked out in horrific pain as its body began to forcibly transform. The first change to happen was to its drill-shaped fluffy tail. Normally when a Drill Bunny climbs through the cultivation realms, its tail would become sharper, harder, and be used as another appendage to defend itself against predators or tear its prey apart to feast. But with this Drill Bunny, it skipped that evolutionary path entirely as its tail was strong enough to contend with Core Preparation stage spirit beasts already and far bigger and longer! Right now, its tail was more than three times its own body weight in size!

  A golden paint started to spread on its fur that made it a very shiny bunny as it began the next phase of its mutation. The muscles in its legs began to build into incredibly powerful weapons just like its tail but outwardly no difference could be seen. If it tried jumping with all its strength, it could definitely fly past the clouds. For any hungry predators looking to feast on this bunny then they wouldn't even have known why their heads were sent flying off their shoulders.

  The last of the changes were the internal organs that unconsciously mutated in a way to eliminate all the weaknesses that it previously had. Essentially altering the Drill Bunny into an ultimate lifeform that only two others on the planet could claim. After its transformation was over, the Drill Bunny sought to hoard this valuable treasure for itself by burying it in the ground and scaring any beasts that dared come near it.

  It stood on its two hind legs like a human and crossed its arms with a particularly nasty look on its face. An act that it wouldn't have done at all if the transformation didn't also transfigure its brain as well. Now it had a brain superior than humans! But at the end of the day, a bunny was still a bunny. All it did for hours on end was stand over that buried blood as the landscape underneath it began to transform just as it did.

  Small insignificant insects, regular green grass, the great giant trees in the Immortal Forest, flowers, and fruits all transformed in unbelievably outstanding ways! Just like the Drill Bunny! The insects grew to the size of elephants and tigers only to be killed and devoured by the Drill Bunny before they could complete their transformations. Grass turned a golden glint just like the rabbit and gave off an exceptional amount of qi along with the trees that began to suddenly grow even taller and higher while sprouting strange blue fruits that held concentrated amounts of water qi inside them. There were too many flowers to count about how many of them changed from blood being buried into the soil.

"Grrr...." Drill Rabbit growled at the incoming 1st stage Qi Consolidation Spiked Bear sniffing around its territory.

  It paid no mind to the small creature and continued to sniff around. This only angered the small shiny bunny. The Drill Bunny strolled right over to the bear and starting squeaking in its face, telling it to leave its territory immediately or else. As an apex predator, of course the Spiked Bear wouldn't listen to the crazed mumbling of a snack that just presented itself to it. It struck with deceptive quickness and attempted to tear the animal to pieces with its teeth.

  Unfortunately, this wasn't how things played out at all. The Drill Bunny drove both of its hind legs into the bear's face and nearly took its head off from the power contained in those legs. For daring to act so confident in its territory, the Drill Bunny felt that this intruder got off too lenient. He hopped over and began feasting on the disabled spirit beast that couldn't even wiggle its front paw. It could only softly growl and murmur as it was eaten alive.

  This situation played out the same way over time until one day, everything changed. The blood puddle buried in Drill's den started to rapidly expand on its own. Drill hurriedly ran out of his home and looked at the situation from afar in curiosity and slight fear. He was seemingly dressed in human-like clothes and holding a small sharpened stick with his front paw while watching. His home was completely flooded out as the blood began to shape itself upward. Watching in its entirety, Drill didn't miss a thing as his treasured blood pool suddenly turned itself into a naked human!

  Once their bones, flesh, hair, and organs all formed, he sniffed at their feet. Realizing that the blood he coveted like a long-lost lover was now inside this human, he was conflicted on what to do. This human was far stronger than him. He wouldn't stand a chance against them even with his transformed body. Maybe they wouldn't mind if he followed them around for a little while... For a taste of their blood every now and then.

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  Jing took in her surroundings and remembered what happened as her memories came flowing in from her soul. Her new brain filled with completely different brain cells from her old ones were being flooded with memories since she's woken up in this world. An intense uncontrollable rage and fury screamed within her heart at remembering her death. If she didn't refine herself to be able to regenerate from a single drop of blood then it would've been all over! Just like that!

  She wanted to shout, yell, and curse at the heavens but calmed herself. Her revenge has already taken place. Jing didn't just give Jig's younger brother to the immortal for free. She added along a few trillion little friends along with him that just so happened to pass on to the man that tried to kill her. The next few months, he would find his vitality continually being drained day by day without any explanation or cure to save him. Except for Jing, the only person in the world capable of dealing with those viral agents made for the sole purpose of causing unrepairable damage to beings that cultivate. Maybe in the next few months, Jing would suddenly pop in to explain his situation to him in a way that no famous doctor could. And maybe she would request a few things from him before saving his life at the cost of his eternal servitude.

"I wonder just how far I'll be able to raise Empress of Pain's Tome by torturing an Earthly Immortal?" A lustful blush painted her face with an aura of undeniable coldness radiating around her.

"Squeak..." Jing looked down and noticed a funny looking rabbit below her.

  It was shivering in fright while looking up at her. This spirit beast... Why did she feel a connection to it? No, wait... Why did she feel connected to this entire part of the forest? Did something happen while she was recovering? Jing only knew that suddenly everything went dark and then she was taken to that mysterious place and wasn't able to leave for quite some time. That place she was taken to after refining herself for the first time and when that parasite tried to take over her.

"You did something to my remains, didn't you?" Jing crouched down and asked the Drill Bunny.

  It nodded its head while looking incredibly guilty and afraid.

"Tell me." Its intelligence didn't match its realm. She needed to know why this was and if she was the sole cause of it.

  It bit into its hand and had its blood drip down onto the dirt. Then it pointed at her and the blood before licking it up.

"So that's how you turned into this. What about all of this?" She gestured to the abundant greenery around them.

  The bunny let its blood flow to the ground once more but instead of licking it this time, it began to drill into the ground with its rotating tail and buried it with its feet afterwards.

"I see... I can feel that you wish to come with me but what use would you bring to me?" She grinned.

  Jing watched as the silly little rabbit started striking out with his stick spear. It was amusing to watch seeing it try so hard to impress her. She shrugged and gave the little rabbit permission to follow her by her side. It happily bounced around after she gave her approval and stuck to her like a child that dearly missed their parents who were away all day.

  Before she returned to the Golden Serpent Sect, Jing placed several formations around the area. She planned to return at a later date. This was an interesting discovery that she never would've found out on her own. Jing knew of what she could and couldn't do with her refined body but she did not know that her refined body had uses in other ways. Perhaps she was a treasure on her own even without SCP-914.

[Mission Completed!]

[You have survived against an opponent because he underestimated you!]

[Rewards: SCP-999, Infinite supply of a random brand of candy, 1 legendary ticket]

[Host has received SCP-871!]

  A squishy orange blob plopped down in front of her with a large smile on its face along with a wedding cake that reached up to her height. An unlimited number of Geeks, small spherical multi-colored pieces of candy that were around the size of a bead, were stored in her inventory. As Jing clutched her head from the information flowing into it about SCP-999 and SCP-871, she thought about how in the world was she going to use these SCP's efficiently... They didn't seem very useful at first but maybe she just needs more time to think on it.