Chapter 93: Stepping into the Mid-Stage of the Embracing the Pill Realm

The next day, early morning.

Jin Chen Peak.

"Hoo... hoo..."

Xu Qinghuan panted slightly and walked out after pushing open the door.

She first looked at the courtyard cautiously, and after discovering that Jin Hai was not there, she breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, her fair face was flushed with an indescribable rosy hue—not from rouge, but a crimson glow emanating from deep within her skin.

Fine beads of fragrant sweat kept seeping from her forehead, and a few strands of broken hair were stuck to her cheeks by sweat, making that already charming face even more seductive.

Her usually bright beautiful eyes revealed a trace of obvious satisfaction and lethargy.

The bags under her eyes were slightly dark.

Not sleeping all night, it was hard for the bags under her eyes not to be dark.

The first half of the night was insomnia as usual, difficult to fall asleep.

The second half of the night was simply no time for her to sleep.

If it weren't for the daylight, she wouldn't have been able to get out of bed now.

"This old thing is going to kill me..."

Xu Qinghuan panted, gritting her silver teeth, and cursed in a low voice with a flushed face, "How can he be so powerful..."

Although she was cursing in her mouth, there was no trace of annoyance in her tone; instead... there was a hint of self-satisfaction that even she herself hadn't noticed.

She raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead, took a few deep breaths, and tried to make herself look normal.

Afterwards, dragging her exhausted yet inexplicably light body, she walked toward the direction of the outer gate.

Outer Gate Martial Arts Arena.

As soon as Xu Qinghuan's figure appeared, a sharp-eyed female disciple greeted her.

The female disciple was full of smiles, and her eyes were full of envy and flattery:

"Xu Xu Shijie Qinghuan, your complexion is really good! Did Xu Xu Shijie Brother Jin Hai buy you nourishing herbs again!"

Xu Qinghuan's footsteps paused, and she squeezed out an unnatural smile on her face.

That smile looked a bit subtle on her overly flushed face:

"Yeah... I'm almost nourished to death..."

Her tone was light, carrying a bit of meaning that even she couldn't explain clearly.

As soon as she finished speaking, her gaze shifted slightly, and she happened to see a cold figure not far away.

Liu Yiyi was standing alone at the edge of the martial arts arena, her cold eyes looking this way, her eyes full of undisguised disdain.

"This bitch!!! What is she pretending to be again!!!"

A nameless fire suddenly surged in Xu Qinghuan's heart. The anger came suddenly but burned vigorously.

What she couldn't stand the most was Liu Yiyi's appearance of being high and aloof, as if she didn't eat the food of mortals.

She stared at Liu Yiyi's cold-as-snow face, and an extremely absurd thought suddenly flashed through her mind—I wonder if this cold-faced Liu Yiyi would still be able to pretend like this if she were... by that old thing...

Thinking about it, she couldn't help but "pfft" and laughed out loud.

The laughter drifted on the martial arts arena, attracting several surprised gazes from around.

Tianyangfeng, inside the Heavenly Sunflower herb garden.

The morning light fell through the gaps in the branches and leaves, plating a layer of warm gold on Jiang Ye. He sat cross-legged on the blue stone he had sat on countless times, bathing in the sunlight, but his aged eyes were full of thought.

He had just tried to fuse the fire-element True Qi and water-element True Qi together, wanting to see what changes would occur.

As a result, he failed several times.

Once the two types of True Qi began to fuse, the water-element True Qi would be evaporated like water droplets falling into a scorching hot iron pot with a "hiss." Currently, it seems that these two types of True Qi can only be used separately and cannot coexist in the same meridian.

Why would this happen?

Jiang Ye pondered for a long time and finally had some ideas.

This might be related to the mutual generation and restraint between the five elements.

Water and fire restrain each other; this is the natural law.

To make them coexist peacefully, or even fuse into one, I am afraid it requires the mediation of the other three elements of True Qi.

"It seems that only after cultivating all five elements of True Qi will it be possible to use the True Qi together."

He nodded secretly, having a plan in his heart.

Meals must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be walked one step at a time.

At present, the two types of True Qi have already started, which is a good beginning.

Afterwards, he didn't think much more, shook off the complex thoughts in his mind, and began to enter the cultivation state.

The morning sun was rising, which was the perfect time to nourish fire Qi during the day.

In the following days, Jiang Ye lived a very regular life.

During the day, he bathed in the sunlight, operated the "Great Sun Heavenly Flame Qi-Nourishing Method," inhaled the sun fire Qi sprinkled by the scorching sun into his body wisp by wisp, and nourished the red-gold pill in his dantian.

After nightfall, he would boil secret medicine, apply the scorching hot medicinal paste all over his body, and polish his physical body and temper his muscles and bones according to the method of the "Jin Gang Body-Refining Art."

In the second half of the night, he would sneak into Profound Water Peak silently, come to that hidden cold pool, immerse his body in the icy pool water, and operate the "Canglan True Water Qi-Nourishing Method" to nourish water Qi.

What surprised him a bit was that in the following days, he never encountered the True Transmission sisters coming to the cold pool to take a bath again.

That hidden cold pool seemed to have become his exclusive cultivation place.

Time passed quickly, and seven days passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, inside the Heavenly Sunflower herb garden.

Jiang Ye was sitting cross-legged on the blue stone nourishing fire Qi, and the aura around his body suddenly began to vibrate violently.

The vibration spread outward like water ripples, and the snakes, insects, ants, and beasts within a hundred meters seemed to feel something, fleeing in panic, and even the chirping of insects in the grass stopped abruptly.

Hiss—!!!

Only the fire centipede that Jiang Ye kept, Little Fire, keenly felt that its master's aura was soaring.

"Elder Jiang, Hui and I... actually come from the Great City of Linzhou."

A moment later.

The aura around Jiang Ye's body gradually stabilized, like a surging tide slowly receding, returning to silence.

Afterwards, he opened his eyes abruptly.

In those aged eyes, red-gold and water-blue lights flashed simultaneously, left and right, distinct, and then quickly hidden.

He stood up slowly, feeling the increasingly surging and majestic True Qi in his body, and the corners of his mouth slowly lifted an arc.

The meridians in the human body mainly consist of twelve regular meridians and eight extraordinary meridians.

The cultivation of the Embracing the Pill Realm is to use True Qi to open up these twelve regular meridians.

For every one opened, the circulation of True Qi becomes smoother, and the strength improves one step further.

After these seven days of hard cultivation, he finally used True Qi to open up four of the regular meridians.

This meant that he had already stepped into the mid-stage of the Embracing the Pill Realm.

Host: Jiang Ye

Lifespan: 70/170

Strength: Embracing the Pill Realm (Mid-Stage)

Destiny: Ladder to Divinity 【Effect 1: Superb Comprehension!】

Mastered Qi-Nourishing Methods: Great Sun Heavenly Flame Qi-Nourishing Method (Minor Success, 188/5000), Canglan True Water Qi-Nourishing Method (Minor Success, 386/3000)

Mastered Martial Arts: Five-Bird Fist (Perfect), Blood Moon Blade (Perfect), Jin Gang Body-Refining Art (Minor Success, 1222/5000), True Fire Eye-Refining Art (69/1000)

Mastered True Intents: Tiger-Form Like Illness, Spirit Ape Thousand Changes, Startled Deer Without Trace, Riding Wind Soaring Sky, Blood Moon Illusory Kill

Looking at the system panel, Jiang Ye nodded with satisfaction.

After stepping into the mid-stage of the Embracing the Pill Realm, his lifespan increased by another twenty years.

If calculated by the lifespan of an ordinary person, he was equivalent to living a second life.

The "Great Sun Heavenly Flame Qi-Nourishing Method" and "Canglan True Water Qi-Nourishing Method" had both reached minor success, and the two types of True Qi coexisted peacefully in the dantian without interfering with each other.

With sufficient herbs, the progress of the "Jin Gang Body-Refining Art" was also advancing by leaps and bounds, one step closer to major success.

Only that "True Fire Eye-Refining Art," because of the lack of assistance from the Profound Heaven Spirit Liquid, the cultivation speed could not keep up.

Without that cool liquid to protect the eyes, every cultivation was like dancing on the tip of a knife; a slight carelessness would result in eye burns. In these seven days, he only dared to cultivate carefully a few times, and the proficiency increased extremely slowly.

"It seems I have to find a way to get some Profound Heaven Spirit Liquid."

Jiang Ye pondered in his heart.

If he only relied on the one drop of salary from the sect every month, it would be like a drop in the bucket for cultivating the "True Fire Eye-Refining Art."

He was even thinking about whether he could inquire about where this Profound Heaven Spirit Liquid was produced...

To see if he could use the Deer-Form True Intent to sneak over and quietly get some.

This thought turned in his mind and was temporarily suppressed by him.

This matter was not urgent and needed long-term planning.

Afterwards, his gaze turned to the distant Juding Peak, the location of the Scripture Pavilion.

During this time, he had actually been recalling the wisp of killing intent he comprehended when he was slaughtering in the Black Wind Village. That extremely yin, extremely cold, extremely evil, and extremely poisonous aura, although it was only a flash in the pan, made him unforgettable.

He thought that the Scripture Pavilion collected thousands of books, and perhaps there would be information about killing intent.

Jiang Ye's speed was fast, and before long, he came to the Scripture Pavilion familiarly.

The light on the first floor was still dim, and a few oil lamps were struggling to survive in the corner.

But the moment he stepped into the hall, Elder Zhong, who had always kept his head down reading, as if he had merged with this dimness, rarely raised his head and took the initiative to speak: "Yo, the old genius is here!"

"Old genius?!"

Hearing this "seemingly complimentary" title, Jiang Ye was slightly stunned.

No.

Why did this title sound so wrong?

He glanced at Elder Zhong's old face that was smiling but not smiling, and shook his head secretly in his heart.

This Elder Zhong was still as sharp-tongued as ever.

However, Jiang Ye came here today for something, and he was not in the mood to play word games with this old man.

He walked up slowly and said straight to the point: "Elder Zhong, is there any information about killing intent in this Scripture Pavilion? For example, can this killing intent be nourished..."

"Killing intent?!"

Elder Zhong raised his head slightly, his turbid old eyes sizing up Jiang Ye, and he laughed hoarsely, his laughter carrying a bit of mischief and playfulness: "I really can't tell, the old genius is also a killing star."

Jiang Ye coughed lightly, his expression unchanged: "Elder Zhong, Jiang has always been kind to others, not some killing star..."

Elder Zhong ignored his explanation and just waved his hand with a smile:

"Our Profound Heaven Sect is also a sect that is kind to others, how could there be information about killing intent recorded?"

Hearing this, Jiang Ye shook his head secretly in his heart.

It seems that this Scripture Pavilion does not have information about killing intent.

He was about to turn and leave.

Behind him suddenly came Elder Zhong's hoarse laughter:

"Old genius, seeing that you are also an old man, I will give you a little hint."

Jiang Ye's footsteps paused.

"Killing intent, that must be obtained by killing people."

"Think about it, within the Zhou Kingdom, who are the ones who commit the most killing sins!"

Jiang Ye's heart shook violently, and he turned his head abruptly:

"Elder Zhong means... the Qisha Sect?!"

Elder Zhong chuckled, did not respond, and lowered his head again to read the book that he would never finish reading.

Jiang Ye returned to the herb garden on Tianyangfeng, sat cross-legged on the blue stone, his brows furrowed.

He had been thinking about the hint Elder Zhong gave before leaving.

"Could it be that the Qisha Sect has a Qi-nourishing method about killing intent..."

He muttered to himself, his aged eyes full of thought.

If this were true, wouldn't it mean that if he wanted to nourish that wisp of killing intent, he would have to deal with that notorious demonic sect?

Just at this moment, a burst of hurried footsteps came from outside the herb garden, from far to near, making the pebbles on the path "creak."

Jiang Ye looked back and saw the little fatty Lu Ming running over with excitement, his round face full of irrepressible agitation.

Seeing his appearance, Jiang Ye knew that there must be big news in the sect.

Sure enough, as soon as Lu Ming ran to the front, he panted and shouted respectfully:

"Elder Jiang! Big trouble!!!"

He paused, took a deep breath, his voice full of excitement:

"The two Hua sisters from Profound Water Peak..."

"They captured Red Second, who has committed many evils among the 'Six Demons of Yunling', alive!!!" ===== CHAPTER 94 =====