Chapter 256: Myriad Heavens: Person in Zhe Tian, Refining Treasures to Become Emperor Chapter 256 Medicinal Bath

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Protagonist:

Jiang Xuan

Bone Texts were born in the Ancient Era; they are the Human Race's fearless inquiry into the dao patterns on the precious bones of ferocious beast remnant species.

In the years when ignorance first opened, the Human Race's seniors explored precious bones, undergoing countless deductions and transmissions.

Bone Texts were born from chaos, becoming the cornerstone of the cultivation system.

Compared to the runic marks on precious bones, Bone Texts may appear simple, yet they contain the operating rules of all things in the universe; they are the basic Hongmeng element for constructing powerful strength.

Precious bone runes — one glimpse reveals the profound mysteries of heaven and earth; once a cultivator fully comprehends them, they can grasp the power to reach the heavens, possessing the strength to change heaven and earth.

As the foundation of precious techniques, Bone Texts are the key to the path of transcendence.

In heaven and earth, not all ferocious beasts can possess precious bones that carry precious techniques; only ancient remnant species with pure bloodlines and powerful strength can have precious technique runes inscribed on their precious bones.

Shi Yunfeng passed on the most fundamental Bone Texts to the young generation.

Among this group of children, apart from Boy, the rest had not yet grasped a single thread of Bone Text.

In such a situation, even if a world-shaking precious technique were placed before them, they could only gaze at the ocean and sigh.

"Senior! Shi Cun's inheritance is desolate; we have only these most basic Bone Texts. We hope Senior will not be stingy with your teaching, and will guide the children."

Shi Yunfeng bent his body, his expression full of earnestness.

He also had no way; their old generation was just like this for a lifetime, but the children were still young, they should not spend their days in such mediocrity and futility.

Just now, Shi Yunfeng noticed that when Jiang Xuan listened to the explanation about Bone Texts at the side, he would sometimes nod slightly, as if resonating with some mysterious power between heaven and earth;

sometimes he would shake his head lightly, as if pondering and discriminating certain cognitions.

Shi Yunfeng was certain in his heart that this mysterious senior who called himself "Hongmeng" was definitely a great expert in the Bone Text domain.

And before the Shi Cun people, Jiang Xuan had always appeared with the identity of "Hongmeng"; his real name, he had only told to Boy.

Jiang Xuan heard this, and the aura around his body paused slightly.

He truly had not expected Shi Yunfeng to ask the Dao of him at this moment.

This is a respectable "old man"!

If it were someone else, this would undoubtedly be an excellent opportunity to shine brilliantly before the crowd and fully display a strong man's bearing; one would only need to casually display a bit of comprehension regarding Bone Texts to draw endless exclamations of surprise from the crowd, harvesting boundless reverence and awe.

However, Jiang Xuan had experienced the baptism of long years, shuttled through countless timespaces, witnessed countless rises and falls, glories and humiliations, and had long since realized that true strength does not lie in surface display and grandstanding.

"Very well."

Jiang Xuan's expression was calm, his tone unwavering.

As of today, he had no need for modesty; in these Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, there were not many things he could not do.

With his own Quasi-Immortal King realm, in this world, who else could compare with him in this domain?

But if these world-shaking experiences and insights were spoken, Shi Yunfeng would probably only be lost in clouds and mist; after all, that vast, boundless, mysterious existence of the Boundary Sea was, for the people before him, truly too distant, too illusory.

Boy opened his big eyes, full of curiosity and admiration, looking at Jiang Xuan.

"Uncle Jiang also understands Bone Texts? Uncle Jiang is so amazing!"

Listening to this innocent praise, Jiang Xuan's heart couldn't help but ripple with a trace of warmth, while also feeling myriad emotions.

In this era, Bone Texts, as the key knowledge for cultivators on the road to power, their preciousness goes without saying.

In every village of the Great Wilderness, learning Bone Texts requires cultivators to possess extremely high talent; those who can achieve something in Bone Text cultivation are even more existences as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

"Boy, are you willing to take me as master?"

Jiang Xuan revealed a touch of gentleness, and said softly to Boy.

Shi Yunfeng was wildly overjoyed.

He keenly captured Jiang Xuan's uniquely different care for Boy.

"Child, quick, quick, kowtow to Master!"

Shi Yunfeng hurriedly pulled Boy to kowtow toward Jiang Xuan.

"Disciple greets Master!"

"Since you have already become my disciple, as Master I shall naturally protect you completely."

To Jiang Xuan, this was merely an ordinary small village, yet he rather enjoyed the present tranquility and simplicity.

Time flies like a white colt through a crevice; half a day passed in the blink of an eye.

Boy seemed to have inexhaustible energy; one moment chasing flying birds, the next teasing a little dog, playing to his heart's content.

When tired from playing, he would plop down on the ground for a brief rest; not long after, he would be lively as a dragon and vigorous as a tiger again, continuing to frolic.

Jiang Xuan, meanwhile, paced about Shi Cun; occasionally he would pull Boy over, dotingly stroke his head, or pinch his cheek, then continue examining the village's scenery and objects.

Though it appeared ordinary here, it hid quite a few things with unique charm and distinctive character.

The sun sank in the west, its afterglow sprinkling over Shi Cun.

At this moment, the hunting party that had gone out returned in triumph; the people waiting in the village burst into a wave of enthusiastic cheers.

These cheers were not simply because the hunting party brought back abundant prey, but more because this hunt, the entire party returned unscathed!

In a village like this, every hunting party member is of utmost importance.

They carry the hope of the entire village's survival and development; at the same time, they are the sons, husbands, fathers of their families, the pillars of one household after another.

And this hunt's harvest could be called astonishing; those usually ferocious beyond measure bloodline ferocious beasts that the hunting party might encounter and face total annihilation, were actually successfully captured and dragged back to the village.

The news of ferocious beasts being dragged back to the village instantly threw the entire village into a boil.

People clustered around the prey, cheering loudly.

Though these ferocious beasts were already dead, the killing intent still emanating from their bodies made one's heart chill; it was not hard to imagine how ferocious and brutal they were in life.

Shi Yunfeng and Shi Linhu and others quickly came before Jiang Xuan, unable to hide their excitement.

"Thank you, Hongmeng Teacher!" Shi Linfeng said with deep gratitude.

For this mountain expedition, if not for Jiang Xuan's secret assistance, Shi Yunfeng would never believe it.

This made them completely convinced of Jiang Xuan's knowledge and ability, regarding Hongmeng Teacher as a rare extraordinary person in the world.

"Eating and living in the village for free, I feel uneasy about it." Jiang Xuan smiled in response.

Afterwards, Shi Yunfeng and others carried all the game from this hunt onto a huge stone platform.

This stone platform is Shi Village's sacrificial altar, specifically used for sacrificing to the Sacrificial Spirit. One fierce beast corpse after another was piled layer upon layer on the giant stone altar, numerous in quantity, fully dozens of corpses, and all were exceptionally ferocious fierce beasts.

Under Shi Yunfeng's leadership, all the villagers of Shi Village prayed devoutly, their words mostly expressing gratitude to the Willow God for its protection.

After the sacrifice ended, the Willow God had no reaction at all, and the villagers had long been accustomed to this; in their view, the Willow God having no reaction was normal, except when Hongmeng Teacher first descended, at all other times the Willow God had no reaction.

The sturdy men dragged the beast corpses off the altar, and the villagers began cutting up the beast corpses and drawing blood, with every part of each beast corpse being fully utilized.

Shi Yunfeng came to Jiang Xuan's side. "A Sacrificial Spirit worthy of respect." Jiang Xuan gazed at the Willow God and sighed emotionally.

"Yes, thanks to the Willow God's protection, the village can have the peace it has today."

Shi Yunfeng quickly echoed him.

Some young people in the village were full of doubt about the Willow God's existence, feeling this Sacrificial Spirit's presence was too weak.

But Shi Yunfeng felt only reverence for the Willow God in his heart; he still clearly remembered a rainy night from his youth, when a sky-reaching divine willow contended with lightning among the cloud layers, engaged in a heaven-shaking, earth-rending battle, as if heaven and earth would be destroyed in this struggle.

In the end, the divine willow was defeated, destroyed, and fell onto Shi Village, leaving only a charred tree stump.

At the same time, the Willow God's descent caused Shi Village's original Sacrificial Spirit—a stone that each sacrifice would absorb half of the offerings' essence blood—to leave Shi Village.

And the Willow God only regained vitality ten years ago, sprouting new buds. In Shi Yunfeng's heart, this new Sacrificial Spirit never consumed offerings and silently protected the village, making him truly grateful beyond measure.

"To receive the Willow God's protection is Shi Village's greatest fortune."

Shi Yunfeng sighed with countless emotions; this was absolutely not flattery, but words from the bottom of his heart.

The Willow God did not fall onto Shi Village by chance; Shi Village had deep foundation, and the Willow God had long perceived this, which was why it descended here to recover.

Jiang Xuan glanced at Shi Yunfeng, secretly thinking: one day perhaps you, this old patriarch, will feel that Shi Village producing a Boy is the luckiest thing; moreover, Shi Village meeting me is also a great opportunity.

Fierce beasts are treasures from head to toe; the people of Shi Village were busy for a long time before properly processing them.

As the setting sun's afterglow was about to fade, Shi Village lit bonfires and held a special gathering.

It was called special because this was not an ordinary evening party; in the Great Wilderness at night, crises lurked everywhere, and no one dared rashly light bonfires, sing, and dance.

Blazing bonfires illuminated the night sky; fierce beast meat was roasted over the fire, making crackling sounds, with grease dripping into the flames, sending up sparks.

Men, women, old and young of Shi Village sat around the bonfire; everyone's face was beaming with happy smiles, their joy evident.

"Boy, you're drinking milk again!"

Jiang Xuan discovered the Boy sitting by the bonfire, using a wooden spoon to scoop up milk to eat.

The bonfire's light shone on his little face, rosy red; the Boy narrowed his big eyes, looking very much enjoying himself. "Ah! Master, do you want to drink too?"

The Boy raised his head and asked Jiang Xuan innocently.

Jiang Xuan's expression was calm and composed: "I won't drink!" "Oh." The Boy responded, then turned his attention back to the stone bowl in his hands; others were eating meat in big mouthfuls, but he was drinking milk in big mouthfuls.

Jiang Xuan watched the Boy drink spoonful after spoonful of milk; with every sip he narrowed his eyes contentedly, and couldn't help sighing: "You're cuter now."

Saying this, he reached out and gently patted the Boy's head. The Boy comfortably rubbed against Jiang Xuan's hand.

Not long after, this lively gathering came to an end.

All the children in the village were summoned to the open space, where several large bronze cauldrons were placed.

Fierce fires burned beneath the cauldrons, and the water inside went "gudong gudong" as it boiled, already at a rolling boil. The village elders kept throwing medicinal herbs into the cauldrons, and even tossed in poisonous creatures like centipedes over a foot long and black spiders the size of fists from time to time.

In an instant, the originally clear boiling water in the cauldrons turned into churning black water, a sight so terrifying that the children's faces turned pale, and they shouted one after another that they wanted to run away, but unfortunately they were all pressed down by the elders with one hand, unable to move.

Afterwards, the elders took out several earthenware jars and poured out a little red true blood into the bronze cauldrons.

This was true blood from the fierce beasts hunted today; for Shi Village, it was incomparably precious, and whether adults or children used it, it could strengthen their constitutions.

However, usually these true bloods were mostly used on the children, after all parents all hoped their children would become dragons, wishing their children could have a better future.

Now the scene inside the cauldrons became even more terrifying. The children wailed loudly, shouting "No, no, it will break, it will cook."

In a moment, they would be thrown into these cauldrons to be "boiled." Actually, this was a medicinal bath.

The children were thrown into the large cauldrons one batch after another; for a while, the sounds of crying for father and mother rose and fell.

The Boy naturally could not escape this "medicinal bath" segment, and moreover received special treatment.

Other children's medicinal bath water was mostly clear water with only a tiny bit of true blood added, while the Boy's dedicated cauldron contained mostly fierce beast true blood, crushed bones, and other precious materials, with very little clear water.

Just looking at the medicinal liquid in this cauldron made the other children tremble with fear. Shi Yunfeng also added the most essential true blood of the fierce beasts into it.

Jiang Xuan walked up to this cauldron, tapped it here and there, and looked at the medicinal liquid inside, praising: "Not a bad recipe." "This has been passed down in the village; there's no better choice, so it has been used until now."

Shi Yunfeng answered truthfully; these recipes were indeed passed down through generations in Shi Village. In the Great Wilderness, every village had some recipes passed down for a long time.

"But adding some potent medicine would be better."

After speaking, a drop of blood seeped out from between Jiang Xuan's fingers.

No, strictly speaking it was a wisp of blood mist, not even one ten-millionth of a drop of blood.

The blood mist drifted into the cauldron; instantly the medicinal liquid inside radiated divine light, with hundreds and thousands of rays interweaving crisscross.

"This..." The people of Shi Village were shocked.

"Go in, you." Jiang Xuan threw the Boy out with one hand.

The Boy stepped into the medicinal cauldron and began to struggle desperately.

He was still young; if he sat still in the cauldron, the steaming medicinal liquid would completely submerge him.

However, the more he struggled, the more the medicinal liquid surged and churned, making "gudong gudong" sounds, and the Boy actually swallowed several big mouthfuls of medicinal liquid in succession.

"Ha ha ha ha."

Jiang Xuan and the people around, seeing this, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

The crowd was not worried about Boy's condition, after all, the villagers had long grown accustomed to it and were no longer surprised.

For Boy, drinking some of the medicinal liquid would actually bring better results.

Boy's physique far surpassed that of other children; he could withstand the potency of the medicinal liquid, thereby bringing its effects to the utmost.

Jiang Xuan was simply amused by this scene.

The other children had successively finished their medicinal baths. The treatment they received was not as good as Boy's, and they persisted for a shorter time. The children who finished their medicinal baths were carried back one by one, their bodies numb and their consciousness already muddled; presumably they would sleep soundly tonight.

Gradually, only Boy remained on the open ground.

The sun had already set, and the Moon slowly rose. The moonlight today made Shi Yunfeng and the others quite surprised, because for several nights prior, it had been pitch black.

At this moment, only a few people lingered on the open ground.

The nights of the Great Wilderness always inspired fear.

However, Shi Yunfeng and the others were on an open ground within the village, so they need not worry about safety issues.

Boy was in the cauldron, his large eyes rolling about, his small face flushed red from the medicinal potency.

"How do you feel?"

Jiang Xuan leaned over the mouth of the cauldron and asked Boy.

"I'm full, and my body is warm." Boy answered, and even let out a satisfied burp. During the process of soaking in the medicinal bath, this little fellow would occasionally open his mouth to swallow a few mouthfuls of medicinal liquid.

"Ha Ha Ha." Jiang Xuan and the others laughed loudly again.

Afterwards, Jiang Xuan lifted Boy out of the cauldron.

Boy's body was also flushed red, and he kept flopping about in Jiang Xuan's hands, using hands and feet together, as if wanting to spread his wings and soar.

Jiang Xuan simply put him down.

After Boy landed on the ground, his steps were unsteady, and his whole body was red like a ripe fruit; his small hand moved unconsciously. In Jiang Xuan's eyes, Boy at this moment was like a red duckling.

Only to see Boy naked, slowly pacing around the medicine cauldron, his silhouette swaying, as if drunk.

Immediately after, Boy seemed to want to vent the medicinal power surging within his body, and began running around the entire village, from the east of the village to the west of the village.

Moonlight fell, illuminating his running figure.

(Chapter End)