CHAPTER 726: CHAPTER 593: POISONOUS SCHEME (BONUS CHAPTER FOR MONTHLY TICKETS)

The Dan Palace was heavily guarded, and it was no easy task for ordinary people to break in, but this woman and her several maids, however, came in with ease.

Looking at the woman’s manner, it was clear she was quite familiar with the Dan Palace.

Upon seeing the visitor, Xue Pianran was in unbearable pain, clutching the beautiful woman in palace dress.

"Pian Ran, what happened to your face?" The woman had not seen Xue Pianran for a long time and, hearing of her great misfortune in Beiqing, she was frantic with worry.

It had been with great difficulty that she seized this opportunity to undertake a mission for the sect and came to the Dan Palace, only to find Xue Pianran looking like this.

Looking closely, the beautiful woman bore a five or six points resemblance to Xue Pianran. The aloofness, the radiant beauty, clearly indicated a significant relationship between the two.

"Mother, it was Ye Lingyue, that wretched woman used poison to frame me," Xue Pianran seethed with hate.

"Who is Ye Lingyue? Chen Hongru, what exactly is going on? I entrusted my daughter to you in good faith, and this is how you treat her?" The beautiful woman, rising in anger, her beautiful face, twisted into a knot.

It turned out that this woman was none other than Xue Pianran’s birth mother.

"Elder Ying, I beg you to calm your anger. This matter is a long story," said Chen Hongru. He had known all along that he wouldn’t be able to keep Xue Pianran’s situation a secret for much longer.

Now that this female terror had come knocking, he had no choice but to come clean.

Xue Pianran was in a daze; she heard Chen Hongru say that not only had Ye Lingyue left herself, but she had also taken Feng Xun with her.

Feng Xun, for her sake, had broken ties with the Feng Residence.

The thought that Feng Xun would never return, and that she herself had become this ghostly figure, made Xue Pianran’s eyes burn with a hatred that was almost bleeding.

"Daughter, having become this inhuman, ghostly figure, I don’t want to live anymore."

Xue Pianran, once a beauty transformed into an ugliness near disfigurement, felt total despair and wished for nothing but death.

She pushed away the beautiful woman and was about to throw herself at the wall nearby.

"Pian Ran, what are you doing!" The beautiful woman, called Elder Ying, was heartbroken and quickly stopped Xue Pianran. "Mother has ways to restore your beauty, my child, don’t be rash."

Elder Ying’s words jolted Xue Pianran back to reality.

She hugged Elder Ying impatiently.

"Mother, are you telling the truth? But my face, not even the Nirvana Heart Lotus could cure it."

She had thought she would have to live her entire life with this hideous face.

"My child, the reason your face cannot be cured is because of the corrosive poison. As long as we give you a new face, you can be restored," said the beautiful woman in palace dress, gently comforting her as she patted her back, for fear her daughter would despair.

Xue Pianran still couldn’t believe it.

"My child, don’t you even believe what your mother says? Just wait," the beautiful woman in palace dress raised her eyelids a bit and called out softly, "Little Huan, come here."

One of the beautiful maids who had accompanied the beautiful woman in palace dress stepped forward.

These women were handpicked by the beautiful woman in palace dress from various places, beautiful women without cultivation.

Responsible for the beautiful woman’s daily needs.

Without waiting for Little Huan to ask, the eyes of the beautiful woman in palace dress suddenly sharpened, her right hand opened, transforming into a claw, and it landed on the face of the beautiful maidservant.

The innocent maid let out a piercing scream as her face was completely torn off by the beautiful woman.

The woman whose face was torn off, with her features blurred by blood and flesh, wailed for a while before actually dying from the pain.

The three maids waiting outside trembled in fear.

But the beautiful woman appeared nonchalant, waved her hand, and ordered them to throw the body out.

Throughout the process, it was bloody and brutal, which even made Chen Hongru wince.

Soon after, the beautiful woman muttered an incantation and carefully grafted the face onto Xue Pianran’s.

In just a moment, Xue Pianran’s face had taken on the appearance of "Little Huan."

Little Huan’s appearance was naturally not as beautiful as Xue Pianran’s original face, but she was nonetheless a standout beauty among hundreds.

Xue Pianran hurriedly grabbed a mirror to look. Although she found it somewhat pleasing, she was ultimately a bit disappointed.

"Mother, why do I have the face of that maid? I wanted my original face back."

"Pian Ran, this is the most mother can do for you. Your bone structure is damaged, even with a freshly flayed human skin and my Planting Face Technique, it could only last about a month. After a month, you will need to replace it with a new face," sighed the beautiful woman.

"What! This face has to be changed again! Mother, this method is utterly impractical."

Xue Pianran was close to fainting with frustration. To change her face every month, would that not mean she had to face the world with a different woman’s face each time?

In such a case, could she still be considered human?

She was a Dan Palace Heavenly Maiden, meant to be admired; facing the public with a different appearance every time, how could she go on in the future?

"Pian Ran, do not act recklessly. This Planting Face Technique is one of the Forbidden Techniques of the Yaochi Immortal Pavilion. Mother only resorted to this for your sake. Do not rant foolishly, otherwise, should trouble arise, it won’t just be you suffering, but your mother as well."

It turned out that this beautiful woman was none other than Elder Ying, whom Wu Zhong and Ye Lingyue had encountered while sneaking into the Yaochi Immortal Pavilion to steal the Phoenix Breath.

The Yaochi Immortal Pavilion, one of the Three Sects, was different from the other major sects because it was the only one that accepted only female disciples.

Not only did they accept only female disciples, but the Yaochi Immortal Pavilion also forbade its disciples from marrying.

Elder Ying had a secret love affair with a male disciple from another sect during a trip in her youth and became pregnant, resulting in Xue Pianran.

Concerned about the strict sect rules, she sent Xue Pianran to be fostered with her distant relatives in the noble family of Beiqing—the Xue Family.

At that time, the Dan Palace was selecting a Heavenly Maiden, and Xue Pianran was found capable of cultivating Star Power, so she was chosen to join the Dan Palace.

More than a decade passed, Elder Ying had hoped her daughter would continue to live a life above others, but who could have known that such disaster would befall them.

Thinking of this, Elder Ying was both angry and heartbroken, and she gave Xue Pianran a stern look, telling her not to speak carelessly again.

The Planting Face Technique, a Forbidden Technique, was something the beautiful woman had stumbled upon by chance in the sect’s Book Collection Pavilion.

The Planting Face Technique was originally capable of preserving the host’s original appearance for a long time, but only on the condition that the facial features were not damaged.

Xue Pianran’s facial features had been corroded by Ice Frost Dew, eaten away to the bone, and the woman was helpless to do anything but temporarily give her another’s face.

However, lacking skeletal support, after a month, the skin would become soft and would rupture with the slightest touch.

Thus, Xue Pianran would have to undergo face changes in the future.

"No, mother, you’re an elder of the Yaochi Immortal Pavilion, there must be another way, to restore my appearance. At least, to free me from constantly changing faces," Pian Ran felt on the verge of madness.

"Pian Ran, mother really has done everything she could," the woman was also at her wits’ end, but what could she do when her only daughter, Xue Pianran, was so insistent? Elder Ying had no choice but to speak up. "There is one more method, that is, to completely eliminate future troubles—find someone and perform Soul Transfer directly."