Chapter 106

This earth-core tempering body milk is extremely difficult to form; if it is all taken away, this stalactite that took ten thousand years to form will likely gradually crack.

Therefore, we still need to leave a little nourishment so that it can continue to grow.

After reattaching the broken half of the stalactite to its original place, the strong light gradually faded, and the stalactite returned to its previous calm appearance.

Seeing this, Lin Feng let out a breath of relief, lowered his head to look at the liquid inside the jade box, which still flowed automatically like a living thing.

He gently closed the lid, put it into his storage ring, and then flew back the way he came.

Since he already knew the route, Lin Feng quickly flew out of the cave.

Arriving above the small valley, he darted toward the battlefield over there...

At this moment, the valley entrance had almost been destroyed beyond recognition.

The originally flat ground was also covered with huge pits and potholes, and boulders shaken loose from the cliff walls were scattered everywhere.

The forests on both sides were also heavily damaged, with trees lying across, blocking half of the passage into the valley.

"Zi Yan, we've got the stuff, let's go!"

Having arrived not far from the battle, Lin Feng let out a shout, then shot toward the distant forest at high speed.

"Great, big guy, bye-bye."

Upon hearing this, Zi Yan's face instantly lit up with delight; she punched back the Snow Demon Heavenly Ape, then hurriedly chased after Lin Feng's departing direction.

"Roar! Cunning humans, actually using the 'lure the ape away from the mountain' trick! Roar!"

Seeing their exchange, the Snow Demon Heavenly Ape knew it had been tricked; gazing at the two retreating figures, it could only emit bursts of angry roars from its spot, echoing long in the valley...

"Lin Feng, what about my share?"

After flying for several dozen minutes, Zi Yan could no longer hold back and demanded from Lin Feng.

"These are diluted; first quench your thirst with them. The true earth-core tempering body milk will be given to you when we return to Ling Shan City."

Lin Feng threw out two jade bottles without looking back, then said.

After receiving the jade bottles, Zi Yan eagerly pulled out the stoppers and gulped them down in big mouthfuls.

"Ha~ delicious, this time it wasn't for nothing."

After drinking the tempering body milk in the jade bottles in one go, Zi Yan casually tossed the bottles into her storage ring and laughed happily.

Hearing the laughter behind him, Lin Feng's eye twitched slightly, and he no longer paid attention to that girl.

Instead, he continued to use his soul perception to scan the vicinity, searching for the location of the inner courtyard.

Soon after, a certain thread of his soul perception was suddenly twisted by a force, and then he lost contact with that strand of perception.

"This is... spatial power?!"

Feeling that twisting force, Lin Feng exclaimed in his heart.

Turning his head to look toward the seemingly empty depths of the forest, Lin Feng silently noted the location, then continued flying forward.

Returning to Ling Shan City, the two immediately began dividing the spoils... distributing the loot.

Lin Feng took out the jade box containing the true earth-core tempering body milk and immediately opened the lid.

Immediately, a faint jade-colored mist drifted out, finally condensing above it and lingering for a long time.

"Wow, it smells great!"

Seeing this, Zi Yan instantly leaned in, her eyes shining as she gazed at the jade-green liquid in the box.

"Hey hey, step back, don't let your saliva drip in."

Seeing her greedy look, Lin Feng hurriedly pushed her away to avoid contaminating the earth-core milk.

Then he filled three jade bottles from it and threw them to Zi Yan, saying at the same time: "This half is yours; after you finish it, don't come looking for me."

"Tch, I don't even want yours."

Holding the jade bottles carefully, Zi Yan muttered dissatisfiedly.

Afterwards, as if recalling something, she said to Lin Feng: "After I finish these earth-core tempering body milks, I might need to sleep for ten days or half a month to digest them; when I wake up, I'll come find you again."

Having said that, Zi Yan immediately summoned her purple wings and shot up into the sky.

"Got it."

Lin Feng nodded and said, then quietly watched her direction of departure.

In his mind, he recalled the place he had sensed earlier; comparing the two, he found that the direction Zi Yan flew toward remarkably matched the direction he had sensed.

"Hehe, it seems I have already found the address of the inner courtyard of Canaan Academy."

Having obtained the answer, Lin Feng thought to himself, then immediately turned and walked toward the alchemy room.

After sitting down, he took out the alchemical cauldron, again took out the earth-core milk, took a small portion, flicked his finger, causing that mass of jade-green liquid to fly into the cauldron.

Then he skillfully lit the fire, tossed in incense grass, waited for the medicinal essence to be extracted, and used soul power to control this mass of red liquid to merge with the earth-core milk into one.

Seeing the fusion complete, he then took out green lotus fruit, snake-shed flower, Buddha-flame root, and various other medicinal ingredients to neutralize the violent nature of the earth-core milk...

After an hour of refinement, he obtained a mass of multicolored earth-core milk.

At this point, the earth-core milk, after being harmonized, not only became much milder in effect.

Moreover, after refinement and fusion with dozens of medicinal ingredients, the energy it contained also became more abundant.

Gazing at this colorful mass before him, Lin Feng did not, like Xiao Yan in the original work, use it for a bath.

Instead, he lightly exhaled, sent it into his mouth, and swallowed it in one gulp.

After all, his current strength and physique far surpass Xiao Yan's when he took the earth-core milk in the original story; he can withstand this violent power, so naturally he chooses oral consumption, which allows the greatest absorption of efficacy.

As the earth-core milk entered his stomach, soon it began to transform into massive streams of colorful energy that drilled into Lin Feng's flesh and blood.

This caused Lin Feng's whole body to feel a tingling itch, as if ants were crawling on his skin.

Enduring this discomfort, Lin Feng focused his mind and fully operated the Heavenly Yang Transforming Flame Technique.

But he discovered that those energies were utterly beyond his control, surging toward every part of his body like headless flies.

However, he soon realized that the multicolored energies flooding into his body were not purposeless; rather, they were extremely targeted, rushing straight to various parts of his bones.

Soon, those energies had already encountered the bones inside Lin Feng's body.

And any bone that they struck would instantly turn into a variegated color.

Under these variegated colors, Lin Feng could clearly feel something invading his bones and mixing with the marrow inside.

In response, he could only stand aside and watch, with no way to do anything.

In less than ten minutes, the bones inside Lin Feng's body were almost completely enveloped by that variegated color.

At a glance, variegated colors permeated everywhere, looking quite eerie.

And after those energies attached to the bones, they began to slowly seep into the bones.

Soon after, Lin Feng felt a certain bone as if being brushed with a brush, and waves of indescribable pain erupted continuously from the marrow within.

Moreover, this pain gradually spread to every bone in his body.

"Damn, as expected, to gain power one must pay a price!"

Because of the pain, Lin Feng kept drawing in cold air, his teeth clenched tightly, constantly making a "ge-ge" sound.

His whole body quickly became covered in cold sweat, soaking his clothes, and his body began to tremble involuntarily.

But he knew this pain was from the Earth Core Tempering Body Milk tempering his body; if he endured it, he would see a surge in all aspects.

As time passed, about a day later, the bones inside Lin Feng's body seemed to have finished tempering.

The pain like a brush scraping the marrow also gradually faded.

However, before he could feel happy, the vast colorful energy that had lost less than two layers began to wander throughout his body.

Whatever they struck—bones, meridians, even cellular organs—without exception, all were transformed into variegated colors.

Seeing this, Lin Feng's spirit hurriedly followed that mass of energy as it wandered.

Gazing at the variegated interior, he gave a bitter laugh, then quickly steadied his mind, knowing that an even more tormenting pain was about to come.

As Lin Feng had expected, when the variegated color had nearly invaded more than half of his body.

A burning pain, more than ten times fiercer than before, suddenly surged out from within his body, spreading through the meridians, cells, muscles, and so on.

Lin Feng could do nothing now but grit his teeth and endure, allowing that pain, like a brush scraping flesh, to spread throughout all his organs.

However, amidst the ordeal, the only thing that gave him some comfort was that he could clearly feel.

As that internal burning pain spread, streams of powerful energy were emanating from those painful spots.

He discovered that after the severe pain, the bone marrow, bones, meridians, cells, muscles, and so on inside his body were almost all undergoing a gradual rebirth.

Obviously, the marrow-washing and bone-refining effect of the Earth Core Tempering Body Milk truly possesses tremendous divine efficacy.

Moreover, he seemed to sense that hidden energies in various parts of his body were emerging, like ice melted by intense heat, finally becoming apparent.

Finally, it turned into a large amount of energy mist mainly blood-red and azure, which slowly drifted onto the meridians and was then quickly absorbed.

"This is... the residual medicinal potency from the pills I took earlier?!"

Feeling his own aura gradually increasing, Lin Feng pondered for a long time, then finally exclaimed in his heart.

Instantly a surge of joy welled up in his heart; he had taken so many pills before but never fully absorbed them, and much of the potency had instead precipitated in his body, which, if left to accumulate, was not good for his health.

Yet this body tempering had unexpectedly forced out the accumulated medicinal potency within him.

As the Earth Core Milk continually tempered his body, more and more of the residual medicinal potency inside Lin Feng was gradually forced out.

After an unknown duration of this situation, the intense pain finally began to subside.

His spirit hastily scanned his interior, only to discover in astonishment that the variegated colors that had once filled his body had completely vanished.

Inside, the bones, meridians, and so on faintly emitted a pale glow, looking like white jade.

This appearance seemed to conceal boundless power within.

However, the energy of the Earth Core Tempering Body Milk had not yet been exhausted.

The remaining energy was still vast, seeking an exit along every part of his body.

Finally, they began to seep inward from the outer walls of the meridians.