Chapter 15
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After soaking in the medicinal soup, one must use the method of breathing exercises to drive the medicinal power.
After getting used to the temperature of the medicinal soup, Xu Taiping began to practice breathing techniques in the way taught by the “Canxia Gong”. Soon, he felt a burning sensation in his lower abdomen and dantian.
The steps of breathing and exhaling were all taught by True Monarch Ziyang when he was giving lectures. Xu Taiping had tried many times in the past few days. Although he couldn’t refine the spiritual energy into his body at once, he was already familiar with the steps.
“Hiss…”
Just as Xu Taiping was wondering why the medicinal power hadn’t taken effect yet, a sharp pain suddenly came from the back of his heart, as if a nail was being pounded in little by little.
“If it’s this kind of pain, it seems that I can still… uh！”
Xu Taiping had just wanted to say that he could still hold on, but unexpectedly, an identical pain also came from his chest, making him completely unable to speak.
Even more terrifying was that this was just the beginning.
After the pain occurred in those two parts, the various acupoints on his body began to experience intense pain, not giving him any chance to catch his breath.
Normally, under this kind of pain, a person would faint, but for some reason, Xu Taiping, who was soaked in this medicinal soup, no matter what kind of pain he felt, just wouldn’t faint and could only endure it.
The pain lasted for a full hour.
Midway through, Xu Taiping countless times wanted to climb out of the bathtub. Every time this thought occurred to him, the scene of his grandfather on his deathbed would appear in his mind, and he would see his grandfather looking at him with wide-open eyes and saying：
“Fight for your dignity. Taiping, you must fight for your dignity, for yourself and for all the ordinary bones in the world！”
“Huff, huff, huff…”
Leaning against the bathtub, Xu Taiping, who was breathing heavily, was extremely tired. After his breath had calmed down, he slightly raised the corners of his mouth and asked muttering proudly:
“Grandpa, did your grandson not disgrace you？”
However, although there was no longer severe pain in his body at this time, there was still slight pain.
The feeling this body gave him now was as if countless cracks had opened up. Just a slight movement could tear these wounds and bring excruciating pain.
“Once every seven days. This Bone Washing and Marrow Refining Soup still has to be soaked six more times, and there cannot be a single day of interruption in the middle, otherwise all previous efforts will be in vain.”
Just thinking about having to endure this kind of pain six more times in a row, even someone as firm of heart as him couldn’t help but start to doubt whether he could ultimately hold on.
……
Six days later.
“This is the last time.”
Looking at the steaming medicinal soup in front of him, Xu Taiping suddenly had a sense of déjà vu.
The six days that had just passed were much longer than the ten years he had spent before.
After soaking in the Bone Washing and Marrow Cleansing Soup for six consecutive days, he has reached the limit both mentally and physically.
He, who didn’t even sound when soaking in the medicinal soup on the first day Youdaoplaceholder0 didn’t expect that in the next few days, he would howl in pain, cry in pain, and keep Shouting his father, mother. and grandfather.
Xu Taiping never thought that he would be so fragile.
It can be seen how intense the pain brought by this Bone Washing and Marrow Cleansing Soup is.
But even so, even though crying and shouting, Xu Taiping finally still persisted until this seventh day.
Even in these seven days, he also translated over the entire three mu of medicinal field and planted all the seeds of the nine-leaf white perilla.
“Be proud, Xu Taiping. you have to be proud.”
Xu Taiping, who hesitated in front of the bathtub for a long time, kept warning himself in his mouth.
At this time, his face was ashen, without a trace of blood, and his body was as thin as a stick. In just six days, he had lost at least ten catties, and the whole person had reached the brink of collapse.
“Pu！”
Finally, Xu Taiping still stepped into the bathtub with one foot, and his body was quickly swallowed up by the white slurry.
“E ah！…”
Although he wanted to be patient very much the intense pain still made him scream. If it weren’t for the fact that there was no one within a radius of a hundred miles, I’m afraid that curious people would have been attracted long ago.
Of course, this shrill cry was not completely unheard by anyone.
For example, at this moment, Fairy Lingyue, who was floating like a wisp of green smoke outside Xu Taiping’s window.
Little Taiping, it’s the last day. Hold on. Whether you embark on the path to heaven from now on or muddle through the rest of your life like a wandering duckweed depends entirely on your will.
Fairy Lingyue listened to the painful moans in the room and finally couldn’t help but murmur to herself.
You make it sound so easy. The pain of washing the essence and cutting the marrow gets worse every day. By the seventh day, it’s exactly seven times that of the first day. Without another prescription, who can hold on？
However, as soon as these words came out, she smiled bitterly and self-mocked, and at the same time, she felt self-reproach for so hastily giving that prescription to Xu Taiping.
……
One hour later.
Actually… he really endured it？
When she saw wisps of pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathering towards the small courtyard like a tide, Fairy Lingyue showed an expression of disbelief on her face.
This was exactly the sign of a successful bone-washing and marrow-cutting.
Previously, she had not dared to look into the room at all, but at this time, she couldn’t help but look through the crack of the window.
In the bedroom, Xu Taiping, who had fainted, half lying in the bathtub. The medicinal soup he was soaked in had long turned from jade white to black. and what dyed it black was the filth constantly seeping out of Xu Taiping’s body.
At the same time, those strands of heaven and earth spiritual energy that only Fairy Lingyue could see were like a gentle hand constantly brushing over Xu Taiping’s body and then drilling into his body.
Fairy Lingyue looked at Xu Taiping in the house and then at the newly renovated medicinal garden at the back of the yard, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth：
“Originally, I just thought that there was not much time left and I would take a gamble. Now it seems that this deity did not misjudge.”
After saying these words, her figure dissipated in place, leaving only one sentence faintly echoing in the small courtyard：
“Little fellow, this deity has to refine the spiritual crystal with peace of mind to prolong my life for a few years. See you again after a while.”
……
The next morning.
When the first ray of sunlight in the morning shone in through the window, Xu Taiping, whose body was still soaked in the bathtub, just opened his eyes.
He had the sweetest sleep in his life.
“Am I… successful？”
Noticing the black slurry with a strong fishy smell in the bathtub, instead of being scared, Xu Taiping’s face showed joy.
Because according to the instructions of the Marrow-Cleansing Decoction, this is exactly the sign of a successful washing of the meridians and cleansing of the marrow, representing that the filthy substances in the cultivator’s body have been forced out, and he has truly obtained the qualifications for cultivation.
“Hua la la…”
In excitement, Xu Taiping suddenly stood up from the bathtub, and then, without putting on clothes, ran naked to the well in the backyard.
First, he fetched a bucket of water and washed away all the filthy substances on his body, and then sat cross-legged on the spot and immediately circulated the qi-refining mental method of the “Canxia Gong”.
