[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-nothing-is-taboo":3,"chapter-nothing-is-taboo-nothing-is-taboo-chapter-30":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Nothing Is Taboo",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2310415,4514,"Chapter 30: Skin Pill, Sinew Pill","nothing-is-taboo-chapter-30",30,"\u003Cp>Xu Yuan pressed his body against the door, bracing against the relentless impacts, swaying but holding firm, then quickly shoved the bolt into place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This violent assault clearly enraged some presence—above, a golden iron whip swiftly coalesced, far more tangible than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRASH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The iron whip crashed down, but the corpse-infant had already retreated the moment it formed, swiftly retracting its blood river and rolling its fat body like a tumbling ball, vanishing beyond the town in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its motto: no pride, only adaptability!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whip struck the street, shaking the surrounding houses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan peered through the door crack, took one look outside, and finally relaxed completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’ve made it through this ordeal.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan slumped against the door; the medicinal pill inside him dissolved, its power spreading through his limbs and bones, repairing his wounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More than half an hour later, after stabilizing his injuries, a fierce hunger surged—he patted himself down, but found nothing edible except gold and silver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he rose to ransack the entire Zhao Family Leather Shop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind the kitchen lay a hidden cellar, holding seventeen or eighteen ordinary weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan devoured them all; now a Level Eight Cultivator, these common iron items were swiftly transmuted into a new golden pill within moments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the hunger hadn’t lessened much—he pried open the storage room on the shop’s top floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside were over a hundred animal hides and a dozen bundles of sinew; Xu Yuan tore them apart and ate them all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, he felt faintly hungry—looked up, and spotted oddly shaped chunks of dried meat hanging above, seemingly aged for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan was too hungry to examine them closely; he took them down and swallowed them whole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, he let out a burp and exhaled a long, relieved breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Xu Yuan collapsed onto a bed; fire blazed in his belly, transmuting the ingested food. Drowsy, he didn’t even know when he fell asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next morning, the rooster’s crowing couldn’t wake him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By midday, a narrow strip of bright sunlight—two fingers wide—slipped through the window crack and landed on Xu Yuan’s eyes; his eyelids twitched a few times before he finally awoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan sat up, still shaken by last night: “Nights are too dangerous.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His arms bore deep gashes; a large chunk of skin and flesh had been sliced from his back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The inner pill’s special ability had been used again—only one use left!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A devastating loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the cost of a single “night journey.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thankfully, we didn’t cross the Lin River yesterday—if we’d added that prohibition… I wouldn’t have escaped the corpse-infant and the river alive.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan rubbed his face and began inspecting himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wounds on his back had healed considerably; new flesh had grown over the arm cuts—the medicinal pill was still powerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The animal hides and sinew he’d eaten last night had been transmuted into outer pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surprisingly, he felt unusually vigorous this morning; given how much blood he’d lost, he’d expected to feel weak and drained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan looked up, staring at the ceiling beams—those last pieces of meat… what were they?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t help but suspect something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The unexpected gain: the hides and sinew had produced two outer pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan spat them out—both pills transformed in his palm; one became a thin cord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It resembled the iron worms that crawled out of crushed mantises when he was a child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But much longer—about one zhang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan willed it—and the cord sprang to life in his palm, writhing like a living iron worm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exquisitely agile, as if an extension of his own limbs!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This cord was forged from sinew—elastic and extraordinarily resilient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan willed again—and the sinew cord shifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It shortened, thickened, then transformed in his hand into a short rod of unimaginable toughness and elasticity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan muttered to himself: “It can change size and length at will… but what use is this thing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t think of any.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he turned his attention to the other outer pill—it rapidly “melted” in his palm, enveloping his entire hand and spreading up to an inch past his wrist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He now wore a “leather glove,” yet it didn’t dull any sensation—unbelievably thin, like wearing nothing at all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when he tested it, the glove’s defense was astonishing—equal to… the iron armor of the Huangming Army!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It couldn’t be cut by blades or pierced by spears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, it only covered one hand—but if he kept consuming animal hides, eventually it would cover his whole body!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan hadn’t expected such a windfall in the Zhao Family Leather Shop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d wasted one inner pill ability last night, expecting to lose a crucial card in today’s pursuit of the Holy Nun—yet he’d gained another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, Xu Yuan had no intention of returning home yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Holy Nun and her maid had both been severely wounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He himself had two character scrolls enhancing him, yet still hadn’t reached the town before nightfall—the two women certainly hadn’t either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They spent last night in the mountains—if lucky, the mountain’s malevolent entities had already dealt with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if they survived, they’d be worse off than before; even three-tenths of their original strength would be generous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind them stood the Pingtian Society; letting them return alive would bring endless trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When there was no chance, Xu Yuan ran faster than a rabbit. But now that an opportunity had appeared, he resolved without hesitation to strike and eliminate the threat forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for how to find them…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan found a servant’s coarse cloth outfit in the Zhao Family Leather Shop and put it on—his own clothes were nearly too torn to cover his buttocks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he slipped out the back door, head down, hurrying along, avoiding all attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before leaving, Xu Yuan glanced at the almanac: today’s prohibitions—Lin River, Shouting the Mountain, Raising the Beam, Formalizing an Alliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan avoided “Beauty Dam,” leaving town from another direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet someone saw him at the last moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Rongkui sat on the back of a caravan cart, a thick felt hat covering most of his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xu Yuan!” Zheng Rongkui muttered in surprise: “Why is he going back into the mountains? He returned to town—no one stopped him—he should’ve rushed straight back to the county seat.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Rongkui mused for a while, then jumped off the cart, dared not follow, but slipped into a roadside teahouse to wait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After entering the mountains, Xu Yuan climbed the nearest peak at top speed, then looked out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Somewhere in the mountains, a trace resembling “fate” rose like smoke—faint yet unceasing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Xu Yuan could see it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two traces: one thicker, one much finer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The burned-off skin he’d shed last time had this effect: anything he’d touched could be tracked by him through this near-“seeing fate” method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Provided they were still alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan was surprised: “After spending a night in Ghost Witch Mountain, both of them are still alive!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thicker trace belonged to the Holy Nun—she’d crushed the charred skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yuan estimated their direction, plotted a route avoiding the mountain’s strongest anomalies, then descended and raced toward them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ladies and gentlemen, please vote for monthly ranking—I’m too low…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1207,"2026-06-20T12:07:23.516Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","f395b9e61f002df6914829f18586e6fff27b9813c63139f894b86f727041b08c","nothing-is-taboo-chapter-31","nothing-is-taboo-chapter-29",413,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fnothing-is-taboo-cover.jpg"]