Chapter 213: New Title: Medicine Jar Sick Body

Thousands of steps!

The steps disappeared, and the road suddenly opened up!

When Lin Chen felt his body could no longer bear this cold, the clouds and mist dispersed, and the steps under his feet also turned into flat ground.

The frozen blood operated once again with Lin Chen's thought. In just a few breaths, his body became warm again.

Passed?

Lin Chen had a bright light in his eyes. The clouds and mist disappeared, and the cold dissipated. So he had passed the test and had the opportunity to obtain this body-tempering fortune?

No wonder Grand-Teacher said that no one in the Huang family had been able to obtain this fortune for so many years. He, with such thick blood energy, had almost failed to persist. And among the Organ Cultivation powerhouses under twenty, there shouldn't be many whose blood energy could compare to his.

Not many, but there certainly were!

But they also had to meet the requirement of cultivating the Zhenyue Manual, and the Huang family had to be able to give them this opportunity. After these screening conditions, there were very few who met the requirements.

More accurately, he was highly likely the only one in Daliang who met these conditions.

Looking forward, what entered his eyes was a mountain valley. The clouds and mist surged above, but strangely, the whole valley didn't give Lin Chen a feeling of darkness and damp cold. The daylight poured down as if filtered by soft gauze, giving people a warm and sunny feeling.

On the contrary, looking at those green pines standing tall, the green vines hanging from the high rock walls, and the babbling streams gathered from the mountain streams and rock crevices in many places on the rock walls, it was as light and lively as a musical movement.

The whole valley was filled with the scent of grass and trees, and even breathing seemed to have fresh air seeping into his lungs, making Lin Chen's whole person refreshed.

The next moment, Lin Chen's gaze fell on a stone tablet on the front left. It was covered by vines, but he could vaguely see some handwriting through the gaps in the vines.

Lin Chen stepped forward, tore off the vines, and all the handwriting on the stone tablet was revealed.

"This place is where the local energy of Mount Huang gathers, pregnant with strange stones. I sat cross-legged on the strange stone for several years, comprehended the body-tempering technique Zhenyue Manual, and carved it on the strange stone. If there are later comers, you can sit on the strange stone. If you can draw the local energy into your body, you can open the body-tempering path... Huang Xiong left!"

After reading the whole thing, Lin Chen's gaze looked toward a huge bright yellow jade stone in the middle of the whole valley.

At the moment he stepped into the valley earlier, he had already noticed this giant stone, which was the size of a bed and a zhang high.

"This strange stone is the fortune Grand-Teacher mentioned."

Lin Chen pondered with his chin in his hand. The words on this stone tablet were left by the Huang family ancestor, and Huang Xiong was the name of that Huang family ancestor.

According to the Huang family ancestor, this strange stone could only gestate a wisp of local energy every twenty years, and it could only retain one wisp of local energy. Once you stepped on the strange stone, if you failed to absorb this wisp of local energy, the local energy would also dissipate.

This was the reason Grand-Teacher said they could only enter the ancestral land once every twenty years.

What was local energy?

Lin Chen didn't know local energy, but after entering the Organ Cultivation Stage, his teacher had mentioned the theory of the Five Elements to him.

The five internal organs correspond to the Five Elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth.

And the reason the nine countries established the United Wu Yuan was also related to the five internal organs corresponding to the Five Elements.

The elixirs and resources of the Organ Cultivation Stage mostly had Five Elements distinctions. For example, the heart corresponds to fire. If you want to refine the heart, Daliang's Heart-Tempering Elixir has the best effect. This is because one of the main ingredients of the Heart-Tempering Elixir, Dragon Breath Grass, is only available in Daliang.

Similarly, other countries also had their own Five Elements medicines. This was the reason the nine countries chose to establish the United Wu Yuan.

Let the martial arts geniuses of each country be able to use the best elixirs. Only in this way could they reach perfection in the Organ Cultivation Stage.

Most Organ Cultivation martial artists who hadn't been to the Wu Yuan only possessed local elixirs, and they could also go from Organ Cultivation to the Ranked Tier, but such Organ Cultivation martial artists were called ordinary Organ Cultivation martial artists and couldn't develop their body potential to the limit.

The first two barriers of the Martial Way are to lay the foundation.

The more solid the foundation, the stronger the martial arts potential after entering the Ranked Tier, not to mention that the strength in the same stage is far beyond those ordinary martial artists.

With doubts, Lin Chen walked to the strange stone and also saw the true third-layer formula of the Zhenyue Manual carved on the side of the strange stone.

The Huang family ancestor carved the third layer of the body-tempering version of the Zhenyue Manual on the front of the strange stone, and the fourth layer on the other side of the strange stone. As for the fifth and sixth layers, they weren't there. The body-tempering version of the Zhenyue Manual only had four layers. According to what the Huang family ancestor said on the stone tablet, he only comprehended the fourth layer, and the later ones needed later comers to explore by themselves.

【The fifth layer must exist. Whether it can still be cultivated to the sixth layer, I dare not be sure. I comprehended the Zhenyue body-tempering technique after my youth, and my bones and blood energy had long been formed, so I could only vaguely touch the fifth layer. If later comers can cultivate to the sixth layer, seventh layer, or even higher, if you are not a descendant of my Huang family, I hope you leave a copy of the technique to my Huang family to repay this debt of passing on the technique. If you are a descendant of my Huang family who arrives here, seeing the tablet is like seeing me.】

This was the original text of the Huang family ancestor on the stone tablet.

Lin Chen was also moved. The Huang family ancestor was really a very realistic person, but this request was not excessive.

If it were him, if he were to talk about people of other clans, at the very least he would have to let the later comer kowtow and worship him as a teacher. If his Lin family declined, he would send his Lin family a fortune. If the Lin family was still a martial arts family, he would choose a talented descendant of the Lin family and accept him as a disciple.

Accept a disciple... kowtow and worship as a teacher...

A thought flashed through Lin Chen's mind, and the next moment he returned to the stone tablet.

【Repay this debt of passing on the technique. If you are a descendant of my Huang family who arrives here, seeing the tablet is like seeing me.】

His gaze fixed tightly on this last line of words on the stone tablet. Lin Chen thought of something. The next moment, he reached out and pulled away the weeds at the bottom of the stone tablet, then dug up some mud, exposing the stone tablet buried under the mud, and discovered several more lines of handwriting.

"Sure enough, it's like this..."

Lin Chen's mouth twitched. He had just had a flash of inspiration, thinking of a certain novel he had read in his previous life where a senior expert buried his true technique inheritance in the soil under his own corpse, while just casually placing a technique secret manual in the treasure vault of the cave dwelling.

Doing this was to see if the person who entered the cave later would sincerely worship him as a teacher. If they wanted to worship as a teacher, they would inevitably have to kowtow. As long as they kowtowed in front of his corpse, they would be able to detect the true secret manual buried in the ground.

This was a test of the character of the successor.

This senior Huang's operation also had the same effect.

Huang family descendants arrive here, seeing the tablet is like seeing the person.

If they were Huang family descendants, seeing the ancestor, they would inevitably have to kowtow and pay respects, and naturally they would be able to discover some clues.

If they were outsiders, acknowledging this debt of passing on the technique and acknowledging him as a teacher, they would also kowtow and pay respects.

【The local energy is my nonsense. The strange stone absorbing local energy is also a story I fabricated from reading children's books when I was young. The true magical place here is in the mountain stream cliff wall, where there is a six-leaf green fruit. It bears one fruit every twenty years. It must be taken immediately after picking, otherwise it will turn into fruit water after three breaths.】

【After taking this fruit, the clouds and mist will fall two hours later. When the clouds and mist fill the valley, there will be earth evil energy. The earth evil energy contains extreme cold poison. You need to take this fruit to block it. This fruit can only be maintained for six hours.】

【The earth evil energy is a cycle of three hours, with a total of seven times. You can use the earth evil energy to temper your body, but you must also act according to your ability. If your body cannot persist, you should retreat immediately. Do not try to be brave.】

【If you can withstand the tempering of the earth evil energy seven times, your body can be immune to the cold poison of the earth evil energy. After that, you can continue to temper your body with the earth evil energy every day... until seven days, tempering forty-nine times, only then can it be considered the initial success of body-tempering.】

【The magical fortune of Heaven and Earth is astonishing. I also discovered this magic by accident.】

……

After reading these few lines, Lin Chen's expression was very colorful. Did those three Huang family ancestors fail to survive the first seven times of earth evil energy tempering after taking the strange fruit, or did they not discover these few lines?

As for why the Huang family ancestor didn't tell his family descendants about this matter secretly, Lin Chen estimated that in the eyes of the Huang family ancestor, if his family descendants arrived at this place and didn't even kowtow to him, the ancestor, then they were unfilial descendants and didn't have the qualification to obtain this true method of absorbing local energy.

If any of those three people discovered their ancestor's operation, why didn't they tell their family descendants? Was it because their concept was the same as the ancestor's, that unfilial descendants didn't have the qualification to cultivate?

Or were those three Huang family people also unfilial descendants?

Forget it, don't guess about things that have already passed.

Lin Chen dug another half a foot deep, his hand suddenly paused, and he looked at the stone tablet:

【No need to dig anymore. There are no more words below. What should be explained has been explained. If you dig more, the stone tablet will loosen. Remember to fill the mud back. There is no need to tell the family descendants about this matter.】

Lin Chen:...

He dug another half a foot, confirmed that he had dug to the bottom of the stone tablet, and glanced at the back of the stone tablet, confirming that there were no words on the back of the stone tablet either. Only then did Lin Chen fill the mud back to the original height and slowly restore it.

Scanning the cliff wall, Lin Chen also discovered the strange fruit mentioned by the Huang family ancestor.

Six leaves, green fruit.

Pick it, swallow it.

Lin Chen didn't feel any special changes in his body. He wasn't in a hurry either, quietly waiting for the clouds and mist above to start falling.

One hour later, the clouds and mist above started to surge toward the valley, continuously going down.

Two hours later, those towering green pines had been mostly covered by the clouds and mist, and Lin Chen also felt the strangeness of the whole valley.

The temperature dropped suddenly, accompanied by the drop in temperature was the whistling of strong winds.

Above, the clouds and mist surged, completely covering the light, as if it were the darkness before a storm. The whole valley gave people a feeling of oppression and suffocation. Whoosh!

A terrifying sound of wind tore through the air, echoing in the whole valley, as if blowing the horn of a charge. The clouds and mist that were originally a zhang above Lin Chen's head suddenly smashed down at this moment.

Smashed down, not drifted down.

Lin Chen's pupils shrank. The first time, he operated the blood energy in his body, and his whole body emitted a faint blood-colored fluorescence.

But even so, at the moment the clouds and mist smashed down, his clothes shattered instantly, and tens of thousands of tiny blood marks appeared on his skin surface. The air in the whole valley turned into endless sword energy at this moment, splitting his body.

The copper skin he had cultivated was easily cut open like tofu under these sword energies.

Lin Chen's whole body trembled violently, every inch of his skin feeling as if it were being repeatedly scraped by thousands of ice blades. The earth evil energy wrapped in biting cold wind poured into the valley, and the whistling sound was mixed with the clanging sound of metal and stone colliding.

The Earthly Sha Qi did not dissipate after piercing through the muscles and tissues; instead, it transformed into wisps of ink-colored swimming snakes that coiled around the bones, slithering along the spine into the internal organs.

Cold all over!

Lin Chen truly experienced for the first time what it meant to be cold all over, the coldness from the bone marrow.

At the same time, a strange warm current surged from the dantian, surging toward Lin Chen's head, blocking the upward surge of this earth evil energy.

The warm current surged up, and Lin Chen's head regained clarity.

He understood in his heart that this warm current should be the effect of that strange fruit, which could keep his brain clear and not affected by the earth evil energy.

He gritted his teeth and operated the Zhenyue Manual third-layer mental method. His whole body's blood energy surged in the meridians like lava, starting to resist and wash away the earth evil energy attached to the bone marrow and rushing toward the five internal organs.

The ulna of his right arm was the first to show cracks, and the periosteum only persisted for less than three breaths under the erosion of the earth evil energy.

Fortunately, after several painful experiences with medicinal liquid, Lin Chen had a high tolerance for pain and didn't feel afraid because the ulna showed cracks. He still remained calm, drew the Zhenyue Manual mental method, and let the blood energy continue to wash the meridians with the earth evil energy in his body.

Long illness makes a good doctor.

He now also had a set of countermeasures. As long as he wasn't crippled, it didn't count as a matter.

One hour later!

The clouds and mist dispersed, and Lin Chen breathed a sigh of relief, starting to pant heavily. But the earth evil energy raging in his body didn't disappear, but still filled his body.

Lin Chen started to slow down the rhythm of blood energy operation, letting his own blood energy wrap these earth evil energies, flowing through his whole body bit by bit. It was like an electric shock flowing through his whole body. Wherever the earth evil energy passed, the acupoints all over his body vibrated.

Once, twice, three times...

After cycling like this nearly a hundred times, the earth evil energy in his body was finally absorbed.

At the same time, the warm current in his mind also started to flow to his whole body, just like an iron, smoothing out the injuries all over his body. The broken meridians in his body were quickly reorganized, and even the blood marks on the skin surface cut open by the earth evil energy were slowly fading.

However, just as Lin Chen's body recovered a bit, the clouds and mist above the valley surged down again. In less than a cup of tea's time, it filled the whole valley again.

Earth evil energy attacked again!

The warm current returned to Lin Chen's head again, keeping Lin Chen clear.

This time, the earth evil energy was even more violent than last time!

In three breaths of time, Lin Chen turned into a bloody man. This time, the earth evil energy was no longer splitting his body surface, but pricking through his pores like cold needles.

Lin Chen's body was like a balloon filled with water, now pricked with needle holes by many fine needles, and the water inside splashed out from the needle holes. The difference was that what splashed out from Lin Chen was not water but blood.

Ten thousand needles pricking the body!

In just a few breaths, Lin Chen's face turned pale, but he still gritted his teeth and operated the Zhenyue Manual mental method, letting the twenty-four acupoints all over his body vibrate continuously. Each vibration would form a tiny air vortex, and these air vortices would divide and wrap the earth evil energy that had pierced into his body at their respective acupoints, letting it continuously stimulate the acupoints.

Under the stimulation of the earth evil energy, the seventy-two small acupoints around the twenty-four acupoints all over Lin Chen's body also started to vibrate at this moment, and were also slowly absorbing these earth evil energies.

A cup of tea's time passed, and the clouds and mist dispersed.

Lin Chen looked inside his body, feeling the earth evil energy at the acupoints all over his body, and started to slowly absorb these earth evil energies as before. And with the absorption of the earth evil energy, those seventy-two accompanying acupoints were also continuously expanding outward.

Bang bang bang!

His body made a drum-like vibration sound.

Each vibration, the acupoints all over his body were like dough, kneaded into a ball by a huge force, and then the huge force dissipated, and the dough instantly scattered, having a bit more toughness and elasticity than before.

Lin Chen could clearly feel that his body strength had been improved. However, the next moment, his body staggered.

Blood energy, lost too much.

With his current degree of blood energy and age, his blood energy vitality was extremely vigorous, but this didn't mean his blood energy couldn't be exhausted. Just this one time, at least thirty percent of the blood energy in his body had been lost, plus the loss of blood energy caused by drawing blood energy to absorb earth evil energy to temper the acupoints.

This was the first time Lin Chen had noticed that the blood energy in his body was insufficient.

"It's not just the reason for bleeding. When I was taking medicinal baths back then, it wasn't less than this bleeding, so it is that the earth evil energy has a great loss to blood energy."

Thinking this through, Lin Chen understood why those three Huang family ancestors hadn't succeeded. With his blood energy, he still couldn't withstand it. If this earth evil energy came a few more times, I'm afraid he would be sucked into a human dry.

Rumble!

Before Lin Chen could recover, the clouds and mist above were like thunderclouds, actually starting to surge down again. And this time, the whistling strong wind tore through the valley, hitting the rock wall and actually making a thunderous sound.

Boom!

The clouds and mist fell, and the earth evil energy reappeared.

Pfft!

Pfft!

Pfft!

Lin Chen vomited blood several times in a row, his whole person's expression became listless, and his footsteps retreated continuously.

This time, the earth evil energy was like a heavy hammer, hitting his bones.

Each strike fell, the bones vibrated!

Different from the heavy hammer of the Thousand Hammer Diagram, the heavy hammer of the earth evil energy attacked, and also sucked away the blood energy in his body.

This pain was something no human could bear.

Fifteen breaths later, Lin Chen retreated to the edge of the valley.

Retreating a few more steps, he wouldn't have to bear this earth evil energy, but this also meant that he would lose this opportunity.

That strange fruit only bore one every twenty years. Once he gave up, he would have to wait another twenty years.

Should he give up?

There was a look of unwillingness in Lin Chen's eyes. A fortune once every twenty years, he was unwilling to give up just like that.

And just at this time, a piece of information suddenly appeared in Lin Chen's mind.

【Panel update complete!】

Lin Chen's thought moved, but before he could check the panel, he suddenly found that the pain of the earth evil energy invading his whole body had decreased.

?

This sudden change made Lin Chen stunned for a moment, then overjoyed. It must be that this update of the panel had some changes.

"Panel!"

Lin Chen whispered, the panel appeared before his eyes, and he quickly scanned the updated content on the panel. There was a glimmer of light in his eyes, and he finally understood where the body change came from.

【Title: Medicine Jar Sick Body (When absorbing energy, pain is reduced, but pain will not disappear, only delayed. After absorption is complete, feel double the pain)】

(Note: This title is settled based on the host's performance of multiple medicinal baths and swallowing and refining Flood Dragon True Blood in the previous martial arts cultivation stage.)

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