Chapter 57: Divine Ability — Burning Silence

Burned into a sorry state by the flames spat out by the giant snake, Hua Changxi knew that if she returned to the dormitory like this, it would definitely cause discussion. After thinking for a while, she looked at the one-armed man.

"How is Master You?"

Speaking of this, the one-armed man became anxious: "Master went into seclusion as soon as he came back. Where did you go, and why was my master injured?"

Hua Changxi: "Where we went, you go ask Master You yourself. Now, I want to make a deal with you."

The one-armed man frowned: "What deal?"

Hua Changxi: "Think of a way to let me continue to stay here in the Herb Valley. In exchange, I will heal the injuries on Master You."

The one-armed man was silent and didn't speak.

It was not difficult to let Hua Changxi stay in the Herb Valley. The Herb Valley also needed people to guard it. Adding her was a matter of one sentence, but where did Master's injury need her to intervene!

Hua Changxi smiled: "The injuries on Master You are not ordinary. They cannot be healed by ordinary healing methods. If you don't believe it, you can go back and see Master You immediately."

Seeing her so certain, the one-armed man couldn't help but frown.

Master went into the stone room as soon as he came back, and he didn't know what the situation of Master's injury was.

Seeing him not moving, Hua Changxi continued: "Why don't we go up and see together? After seeing Master You's situation, it won't be too late for you to make a decision."

Hearing this, the one-armed man didn't remain silent anymore, turned around and went up the Xishan, and Hua Changxi followed immediately.

Soon, the two arrived at the stone cliff on the mountainside.

As soon as they approached the stone cave, both of them heard suppressed painful groans coming from inside.

The one-armed man's expression changed greatly and he rushed into the stone cave rapidly.

The inside of the stone cave was not spacious, only more than one hundred square meters. In the middle was the living room, and two stone rooms were built on the left and right sides.

The one-armed man rushed directly into the stone room on the upper left.

"Master!"

Hua Changxi followed in and saw Master You curled up on the stone bed, his burned limbs continuously flowing with blood, his face flushed red, as if he had swallowed charcoal fire. His mouth was continuously spitting out smoke with 'Ha, Ha, Ha', and he was deaf to the one-armed man's calls.

Seeing this, Hua Changxi let the one-armed man step aside and went up to check Master You's situation.

The one-armed man had no other better way now and could only let Hua Changxi diagnose and treat him.

【Looking, Listening, Asking, and Pulse-taking Technique (Introductory): Diagnosis 2/10】

When checking Master You's physical condition, a line of words jumped out in Hua Changxi's line of sight.

This Looking, Listening, Asking, and Pulse-taking Technique appeared for the first time during the New Year, when she was checking Xu Ling's situation at Pharmacist Xu's house. It had been so long, and she actually forgot to improve this.

Hua Changxi roughly understood Master You's situation and looked at the one-armed man: "How about it? Do you want to make a deal with me?"

The flames spat out by the red eagle carried fire spiritual energy. After Master You was burned, the fire spiritual energy entered his body along the wound and was now wantonly destroying his body.

Master You's feeling at this moment was about the same as roasted meat on a grill. When the fire spiritual energy completely swept his body, he would be roasted.

Seeing Master You in such pain, the one-armed man didn't dare to hesitate: "Okay, I agree. Tomorrow I will go tell the steward of the Herb Valley to let you stay and look after the herb fields in the Herb Valley."

The goal was achieved, and Hua Changxi didn't dawdle: "I'll go pick a few herbs at the bottom of the cliff." After saying that, she walked out of the stone cave quickly and jumped off the stone cliff.

A quarter of an hour later, Hua Changxi came up with six spiritual plants and ten unripe green fruits.

Although the green fruit was not ripe, it also had a certain healing and repairing effect, which was enough to treat Master You.

There were tools for refining medicine in the stone cave, and they were very complete.

Guarding the Herb Valley and facing so many medicinal herbs, Master You naturally wouldn't be selfless and not take any. When he was idle on weekdays, he would also refine medicine.

Although his level was not very high, he could refine some medicines commonly used by martial artists.

The one-armed man watched Master You anxiously while also paying attention to Hua Changxi.

Seeing that Hua Changxi actually picked green fruits and looked like she was going to use green fruits to refine medicine, he was somewhat worried.

Master had told him that senior brother died from eating green fruits.

The one-armed man wanted to get up to stop Hua Changxi, but found that his clothes were tightly pulled by Master You.

Master You was indeed tortured to the point of being delirious, but he still knew that the one-armed man and Hua Changxi had entered the stone cave, and said with difficulty: "Don't doubt the person you use."

The one-armed man immediately understood Master's meaning. Although he was still a bit worried in his heart, thinking that Hua Changxi wanted to stay in the Herb Valley and had to rely on him, he felt a little relieved.

Soon, the fragrance of medicine floated in the stone cave.

Just smelling this fragrance, Master You felt that his body was not so painful.

"Master Guo, take this bowl of medicinal soup to Master You to drink."

The one-armed man took the refreshing medicinal soup, his heart shocked.

It was clearly a medicinal soup boiled with a big fire, but there was not a trace of heat, instead, it was emitting cold air. Taking a breath into his nose, he couldn't help but shiver, just like taking a cold bath in the middle of winter, bone-chillingly cold.

Not daring to delay, the one-armed man carefully fed the medicinal soup to Master You, and then saw his master's complexion improve visibly to the naked eye.

After drinking the medicine, Master You's complexion relaxed, he stopped spitting smoke from his mouth, and after a while, he fell asleep peacefully.

Seeing Master You's breathing was steady and his pulse was strong, the one-armed man heaved a heavy sigh of relief.

"Master Guo, come and take these medicinal powders to sprinkle on Master You's wounds."

The one-armed man walked over and took the small half bowl of green medicinal powder handed over by Hua Changxi.

Afterward, the one-armed man focused on applying medicine to Master You, and Hua Changxi was fine, so she went out of the stone cave.

After being busy for a while, it was already late at night. Expecting that the people in the Herb Valley were asleep, Hua Changxi returned to the dormitory quietly, took clean clothes to change into, and used the Cleansing Technique to clean her body.

This time being burned by the giant snake's flames made Hua Changxi realize that she was not afraid of fire.

However, looking at the clothes burned to tatters, Hua Changxi had a headache. She was not afraid of fire, but the clothes were afraid. In the future, she should avoid fire; she didn't want to run naked.

"Should there be clothes that are invulnerable to swords and spears, and water and fire?"

Thinking of today's harvest, especially the Flowing Light lotus seeds she ate, Hua Changxi didn't stay in the dormitory but went out to find a remote place, sat cross-legged, and then 'looked inside' her dantian Qi Sea.

The Qi Sea was no longer surging and boiling, and it didn't surge out red lotus flowers one after another like before, only occasionally popping out one or two.

Eating atavistic spiritual fruits would inherit atavistic divine abilities.

Hua Changxi raised her right hand, "Boom", and a thirty-six-petal fire lotus condensed in her palm.

Burning Silence!

This was the fire-attribute divine ability she obtained after eating the Flowing Light lotus seeds.

Before, the fireballs and fire blades Hua Changxi condensed could also hurt people, but the lethality was not great. But now, if she threw out a fire lotus, as long as that person's cultivation was below hers, it was highly probable that they would be burned to ashes by the fire lotus.

In order to test the power of the fire lotus, Hua Changxi took out the red eagle she had collected before.

"Boom~"

Hua Changxi threw out the fire lotus, the fire lotus expanded instantly, wrapped around the red eagle, and in less than a breath, the red eagle was burned to ashes.

Watching this scene, Hua Changxi's expression was excited.

From the spiritual energy fluctuation emitted by the red eagle, it could be known that it should be a Qi Refining Realm monster beast.

The Qi Refining Realm monster beast caught fire as soon as it encountered the fire lotus, without any resistance.

Hua Changxi took out the giant snake again.

This giant snake was fiery red all over. In the fire spirit mine, if its eyes hadn't been glowing, she wouldn't have been able to capture its figure at all.

Feeling the abundant spiritual energy in the giant snake's body, Hua Changxi hesitated for a moment, didn't burn it with the fire lotus, and planned to keep it to make snake soup.

Especially, she also thought of Xu Ling.

I don't know if Xu Ling eats snake soup?

If Xu Ling hadn't eaten spiritual fruits or the like, and was spontaneously atavistic, I don't know if she inherited any divine abilities?

This fire snake could spray fire. After Xu Ling ate it, maybe she could inherit the fire snake's ability and could also spray fire, who knows.

After letting her imagination run wild for a while, Hua Changxi took out eight top-grade spirit stones and, according to what the Shennong Planting Technique taught, set up a Spirit Gathering Array.

Then, she sat cross-legged in the center of the array, bathed in the rich fire spiritual energy, and began to close her eyes and cultivate.

The next day, when the morning light was just revealed, Hua Changxi opened her eyes and put away the top-grade fire spirit stones whose color hadn't changed much.

【Realm: Qi Sea Realm/】

The realm points broke through, and the Qi Sea expanded by another double.

However, Hua Changxi's mood was not very high. From night until now, she had absorbed 3500 points of spiritual energy.

She calculated that she could absorb at most 1000 points of spiritual energy in one hour.

If she had known she could only absorb so little spiritual energy, why would she set up a Spirit Gathering Array? She couldn't even absorb one top-grade fire spirit stone.

Before, she lacked resources, so it didn't matter if the realm couldn't improve. Now that she didn't lack resources, the cultivation speed was stuck again.

Hearing the sound of talking in the direction of the dormitory, Hua Changxi waved her spiritual energy, wiped away some traces on the ground, and walked back quickly.

The planting task in the Herb Valley had been completed. Regardless of the laborers who came from the beginning or those who came with Hua Changxi, except for a few who stayed to guard the Herb Valley, the others were all going back to the Three-Fork Herb Farm today.

After breakfast, the steward gathered everyone together and began to call names one by one.

Before the names were finished, the one-armed man came.

The one-armed man called the steward aside, and then Hua Changxi saw the two looking at her from time to time.

A few minutes later, the one-armed man returned to the Xishan.

The steward finished calling the names, dismissed the crowd, but called Hua Changxi to his side: "You have entered Master You's eyes. He asked you to stay and guard the Herb Valley. You don't have to go back to the herb farm today."

Hua Changxi immediately expressed: "Steward, rest assured, I will definitely guard the Herb Valley well."

The steward asked curiously: "Master You rarely pays attention to us laborers on weekdays. How did you enter his eyes?"

Hua Changxi: "....... I am quite capable of planting herbs?"

Seeing that she was also confused, the steward only thought she had good luck, so he didn't continue to pursue: "Alright, go do your work."

Including Hua Changxi, five people stayed in the Herb Valley.

Their job was to patrol the herb fields every day, water where there was a lack of water, apply fertilizer where there was a lack of fertilizer, and replant where there were pests.

Among the five, Hua Changxi was the only woman.

As a result, Hua Changxi directly occupied an entire room.

Knowing that Hua Changxi was left by Master You, the other four didn't dare to say anything more and fairly divided the herb fields they were responsible for guarding with her.

On the stone cliff on the mountainside of the Xishan, as soon as the one-armed man returned, he saw Master You actually came out, and hurriedly stepped forward: "Master, why did you come out?"

Master You comforted: "I am already fine."

Hearing this, the one-armed man couldn't persuade him much. It wasn't that he didn't want to, but the medicine Hua Changxi gave was too effective.

Master was full of burns. After applying the medicinal powder refined by Hua Changxi, a night passed, and the wounds not only scabbed but also grew new skin.

"Master, the disciple has already told the steward to keep Hua Changxi in the Herb Valley."

"You did the right thing...... In the future, you can have more contact with that little girl, but don't be too deliberate."

The one-armed man endured and endured, but still couldn't help it: "Master, where did you take Hua Changxi yesterday?"

Master You thought of the red eagle encountered yesterday and felt that he should tell Guo Yu, so he told about taking Hua Changxi to the hinterland of the South Mountain.

"Fire-spraying eagle?"

The one-armed man was somewhat tongue-tied. Master encountered such a fierce beast and was covered in injuries. If it were him, would he still have a life to live?

Master You's expression was solemn: "In the future, when encountering fierce beasts, you must be extra careful."

Thinking of what Hua Changxi said about taking the power of heaven and earth for one's own use, Master You added: "I am going out for a few days in two days. You look after the Herb Valley more."

He had to go see a few old friends to see if they knew that the current world was undergoing a huge change.

On the Three-Fork Herb Farm side, after the laborers returned, Mao Yong learned that Hua Changxi was valued by Master You and was specifically left in the Herb Valley. His heart tightened, and he regretted offending Hua Changxi before.

However, thinking that he had helped Guo Yu, Mao Yong's complexion improved a bit. For Guo Yu's sake, Master You shouldn't blame him.

In the future, when he meets Hua Changxi, he will take his brother to apologize and admit his mistake, and this matter should be over.

After thinking it through, Mao Yong went to find the bearded Zhu Yu.

Zhu Yu was the team leader of the Laborer Hall this time. Hua Changxi was left in the Herb Valley, so he had to be informed.

Zhu Yu learned that Hua Changxi was valued by Master You and was also very surprised: "The work on the herb farm side won't take long to finish. Is Hua Changxi still coming back to the Laborer Hall with me?"

Mao Yong smiled: "Valued by a Grandmaster, even a fool knows how to choose. She must be staying in the Herb Valley."

Zhu Yu: "I know." When the Grandmaster spoke, he couldn't stop Hua Changxi from staying in the Herb Valley.

After Hua Changxi stayed in the Herb Valley, every day after quickly patrolling the herb fields she was responsible for, she would look for a remote place nearby, hold the top-grade spirit stone, and begin to cultivate.

Twelve hours a day, excluding the time she had to appear in front of people, she used all other time to cultivate.

As a result, she could absorb more than ten thousand points of spiritual energy a day, and the realm growth was exceptionally rapid.

On the seventh of April, Hua Changxi's realm points broke through one hundred thousand.

【Realm: Qi Sea Realm/】

Like the Qi Refining Realm, after the realm points broke through one hundred thousand, the realm did not improve.

Hua Changxi looked inside her dantian Qi Sea at this time, and she really had a feeling of vastness like the sea.

Looking at this scene, she thought: "Do I need to continue to increase spiritual energy into the Qi Sea?"

Thinking that after the Qi Refining Realm broke through 1000 points, it continued to improve until 10,000 points before advancing to the Qi Sea Realm, Hua Changxi had a bad premonition.

"Above the Qi Sea Realm, shouldn't it need to break through 1 million spiritual energy points?" ===== CHAPTER 58 =====