Chapter 121
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Chapter 121: The One Hundredth Body Tempering
Fang Yu stood in front of Qin Yimo, throwing the nearly burnt-out barrier talisman to the ground.
Now, he had severed the connection between the Gu master and the Gu worms, meaning the other party could no longer control the Gu worms and thus could not threaten the Qin family.
However, cutting off the connection did not mean that Qin Yimo was safe.
Once the Gu worms lost contact with their master, they would become uncontrollable and could erupt with Gu poison at any moment.
Therefore, to ensure Qin Yimo’s safety, the Gu worms had to be killed as soon as possible.
While Fang Yu was still contemplating, Qin Yimo, with her eyes closed, showed a pained expression.
It seemed the Gu worms were becoming restless after losing contact with their master.
“I can only force it,” Fang Yu decided in his heart.
He instructed Qin Yimo’s servant to bring a set of silver needles and began acupuncture on her.
The purpose of this acupuncture was to strengthen and expand Qin Yimo’s meridians.
Fang Yu inserted the silver needles into several key acupoints, forcibly breaking the blockage of Gu poison in her meridians, and then infused his true energy into Qin Yimo’s meridians.
Qin Yimo had not practiced before, and her meridians were quite weak and narrow. Fang Yu could only use his true energy with extreme precision, slowly expanding and strengthening her meridians…
An hour later, Fang Yu finally stopped infusing true energy.
At this point, many impurities had been expelled from Qin Yimo’s pores.
Fang Yu had essentially helped Qin Yimo refine her body once, and now her meridians were strong enough to withstand a stronger infusion of true energy.
Fang Yu placed his hand on Qin Yimo’s abdomen, and a faint red true energy emanated from his palm.
After a moment, Fang Yu helped Qin Yimo sit up and patted her back.
“Poof!”
Qin Yimo spat out a large mouthful of blood.
A pool of blood splattered on the ground, appearing pure black.
In this pool of blood, there was a wriggling black worm.
This was the Gu worm.
Fang Yu narrowed his eyes slightly and pointed at the Gu worm.
“Whoosh!”
A red light flashed, and the Gu worm turned to ashes.
After a while, Qin Yimo, lying on the bed, slowly opened her eyes.
Her complexion was still very pale, but her lips gradually regained their original color.
Seeing Fang Yu in front of her, Qin Yimo’s expression changed slightly as she weakly asked, “What happened?”
“You were poisoned by Gu,” Fang Yu replied.
Then, Qin Yimo slowly recalled what had happened earlier.
“Are you saying that person put the Gu worm in that cup of boiled water?” Qin Yimo asked.
“Not necessarily. There are many ways to poison someone with Gu. Perhaps he had already done it while we were talking,” Fang Yu said.
“While we were talking…” Qin Yimo tried to remember the appearance of the waiter but couldn’t recall it no matter how hard she tried.
But she had clearly looked at that face; why couldn’t she remember it?
“There’s no need to think about it. After you were poisoned, he had a thousand ways to erase your memory. Besides, I’ve left a mark on his soul, so I can find him anytime,” Fang Yu said.
“…Then I should immediately notify my grandfather and have him send someone…” Qin Yimo said.
“Don’t rush. To catch a big fish, you need to let the line out longer. This person is definitely panicking now and will quickly leave Xiang City to return to his base. We can act then to catch the big fish,” Fang Yu said.
Qin Yimo looked at Fang Yu, her eyes flickering.
After spending some time with Fang Yu, she realized that her previous views of him were completely wrong.
Fang Yu was indeed worthy of her grandfather’s trust. The strength and wisdom he displayed… in every aspect, far exceeded Qin Yimo’s imagination.
But Fang Yu looked like just a young kid!
“Who exactly are you?” Qin Yimo thought as she looked at Fang Yu.
After a moment of silence, Qin Yimo sat up and suddenly realized she was only wearing a thin white shirt, and there was a layer of dirt on her.
“In order to force the Gu worm out of your body, I also helped you refine your body. If you are willing, you can start practicing; your starting point is much higher than others,” Fang Yu said.
Qin Yimo shook her head and said, “My grandfather doesn’t allow me to practice.”
Fang Yu was taken aback for a moment, then recalled something that had happened years ago.
That was probably the most regrettable and painful memory for Qin Wudao in his lifetime.
“It seems you still hold some resentment towards me, Wudao,” Fang Yu sighed inwardly.
Seeing Fang Yu staring at her, Qin Yimo suddenly sighed and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing,” Fang Yu replied.
“Then why did you sigh?” Qin Yimo asked, puzzled.
“I suggest you take a shower; you have quite a strong odor… Also, your shirt is soaked, which is not very presentable,” Fang Yu said.
Qin Yimo was taken aback, and when she looked down, she found that, as Fang Yu said, her white shirt was soaked with sweat, revealing her underwear…
Qin Yimo’s cheeks immediately flushed red. When she looked up, she found that Fang Yu had already turned to leave.
…
After leaving Qin Yimo’s home, Fang Yu did not return to Lijiang Community but went to the vegetable garden.
After simply watering the vegetables in the garden, he went to a large tree beside the garden and took out the massive inner core of the Sky-Swallowing Whale.
The inner core of the Sky-Swallowing Whale still glowed with golden light, emitting waves of pure spiritual energy.
Fang Yu truly did not expect that in this current world where spiritual energy was so thin, a ninth-tier demon beast could still survive.
Demon beasts’ dependence on spiritual energy is akin to humans’ dependence on oxygen.
After the spiritual energy became thin, most demon beasts could not adapt, leading to mass extinction.
The higher the tier of the demon beast, the greater its dependence on spiritual energy.
And for the Sky-Swallowing Whale, a ninth-tier demon beast, to still be alive today was incredibly rare.
“Could it be that the Sky-Swallowing Whale does not need to rely on spiritual energy to survive? Or does it have a special way of living?” Fang Yu pondered as he stared at the inner core.
After a moment, Fang Yu stopped thinking too much and focused on the task at hand.
Such a large inner core could not be swallowed in one bite.
Fang Yu could only slowly refine it and absorb it into his dantian.
A stream of pure spiritual energy surged into Fang Yu’s dantian.
Fang Yu’s cultivation level rose steadily.
One layer, two layers, three layers, four layers, five layers…
Ten layers!
Fang Yu broke through to the 9,870th layer of the Qi Refining Stage!
Not only was there an improvement in realm.
After absorbing the inner core of the Sky-Swallowing Whale, Fang Yu felt a heat rising in his meridians.
Gradually, he even felt a slight numbness in his body.
“What’s going on? Could it be that the inner core of the Sky-Swallowing Whale cannot be directly refined? Am I poisoned?” Fang Yu’s expression turned serious as he looked down at his hands.
The heat in his meridians continued to rise, and he felt as if his blood was about to ignite!
He began to feel pain!
“This feeling… could it be…” Fang Yu’s expression changed slightly, and his eyes lit up.
This was the sensation of body refinement!
Could it be that he was going to undergo body refinement again!?
In the first two thousand years after Fang Yu embarked on the path of cultivation, he had undergone body refinement ninety-nine times.
After that, his physical body reached its limit and could no longer undergo refinement.
Long before Fang Yu reached his fortieth body refinement, his master had warned him not to blindly continue refining.
Generally, cultivators undergo body refinement at most once; some who specialize in physical cultivation might refine five or six times, but no more than ten.
But Fang Yu had already undergone body refinement over forty times, as if he had fallen into a trance, unable to stop.
“If this continues, one day you will destroy your body due to excessive refinement!” his master warned Fang Yu.
But Fang Yu did not stop because after each body refinement, he always felt that his physical body had not yet reached its peak.
Thus, he continued on the path of physical cultivation until he reached ninety-nine refinements and finally stopped.
He could no longer refine his body; he felt that his physical body had reached its limit.
But now, after swallowing the inner core of the Sky-Swallowing Whale, his body was actively undergoing refinement again!
The hundredth body refinement!
Although waves of extreme pain coursed through his body, Fang Yu’s face was filled with ecstasy!
According to the theories of some great physical cultivators, each body refinement could make the body twice as strong as the previous one.
So, after undergoing the hundredth body refinement, what level would Fang Yu’s physical body reach?
Even Fang Yu could not imagine.
His body was still burning, and his pores had completely opened, releasing waves of white vapor.
After a moment, a dazzling golden light enveloped Fang Yu’s body!
