Chapter 36 Second Drug Test

Taoist Hua Shen took out a new Bodhi Pill and motioned for Luo Xuanyi to look at it. She resisted her instinct to evade and moved closer, quickly discerning subtle differences from the one she'd previously taken. This one's spiritual energy flowed more slowly, and the golden Bodhi patterns on its surface had a grainy texture visible to the naked eye. It seemed as if one of the auxiliary ingredients had been replaced.

"Look, these people also took the Bodhi Pill, which is obviously much more improved than the one you took, but no one succeeded in condensing the skeleton and skin. You can't see any effect at all." Taoist Hua Shen stretched out his hand. Luo Xuanyi thought he was going to stuff the Bodhi Pill into his mouth, but unexpectedly he took back the porcelain bottle and took out a medicinal herb instead.

As soon as the herb was presented, Luo Xuanyi immediately sensed its immense spiritual energy. This was a one-word Dao fruit, catalyzed by a hundred years of cultivation through initiation by a disciple of Burial Flower Valley. Its entire body was shrouded in spiritual mist, and within it, a dark blue Dao character etched itself like a thunderbolt, striking faintly. The tiny fruit seemed like a small world.

"The slower the spiritual energy flows, the easier it is to form a perfect inner world. However, generally, only those who have reached the Golden Core stage can see into the spiritual sea and control it. That's why this Bodhi Pill can easily liquefy people, because the spiritual energy is rotating too fast, making it impossible for people to build a world and it collapses. This is something I didn't consider when using the Listening to the Rain Purifying Fruit. I have tried many replacement methods and found that the One-Word Dao Fruit is the most effective at the moment."

He clenched his palms and, in an instant, the spiritual energy of the One-Word Dao Fruit was completely condensed and compressed into a ball of fine medicinal liquid, leaving not a trace of residue. He placed his fingers on Luo Xuanyi's spiritual platform, and she felt a shudder. A certain spiritual energy from all over her body was drawn out, flowing out of her ears, nose, and mouth, converging into a ball of spiritual energy. Without this spiritual energy, her delicate body was about to collapse. At this moment, Taoist Hua Shen clapped his hands and poured a new potion into her body.

A stinging pain like a thunderbolt pierced Luo Xuanyi's brain. The Dao Fruit's slow inflow and withdrawal of spiritual energy into the gap created was almost corrosive. The medicinal liquid spiritual energy that had been flowing regularly around the medicinal pill's essence within her body was actually being slowly drawn towards the gap filled by the Dao Fruit. The excessively slow flow caused a blockage in her meridians. Luo Xuanyi felt her meridians violently twisting and twisting, and she felt the next moment her meridians would rupture and die!

As Buzhou shattered, preventing a fatal blow, Luo Xuanyi finally managed to wring a shred of reason from her paralyzed brain. In her desperation, she dismissed all else and snatched the spiritual potion from Taoist Hua Shen. Gritting her teeth, she extracted the potion transformed from the Dao Fruit within her body! Fortunately, her repeated attempts at internalizing the potion had refined the technique to perfection. As most of her spiritual energy was swept away by the Dao Fruit, Luo Xuanyi immediately swallowed it back, barely restoring order to her body's circulation.

However, the Dao Fruit still absorbed too much spiritual energy, leaving her entire body shaky and weak. Luo Xuanyi immediately took out a Star Swallowing Pill and swallowed it, sitting cross-legged and beginning to practice Qigong. Taoist Hua Shen was somewhat disappointed to see the Dao Fruit fail, but he didn't comment on Luo Xuanyi's successful self-rescue. Instead, he saw at a glance that she had taken the Star Swallowing Pill and, waving his robe, cast a spiritual energy filter around her body to remove impurities and investigate why the Dao Fruit had caused such a problem.

Luo Xuanyi naturally had no time to observe what was happening outside. Immediately after taking the Star-Swallowing Pill, she felt the spiritual energy between heaven and earth surge towards her. Every pore in her body relaxed. Luo Xuanyi carefully channeled the spiritual energy into a medicinal liquid to replenish her body's deficiencies. Although she felt regretful that her body could no longer ascend to a higher realm, after several stimulations and transformations, her body could now accommodate an astonishing amount of spiritual energy. Her meridians became even stronger.

The pure spiritual energy she absorbed so quickly made Luo Xuanyi abandon any thought of resisting it. She felt as if she had become one with the universe, even feeling the ripples of its breath. It felt as if the spiritual energy itself was breathing, surging up and down between heaven and earth. When the spiritual energy descended, all things became aware; when it ascended, all things fell silent. Luo Xuanyi entered a strange state of enlightenment. Her eyes no longer merely observed the veins of spiritual energy flowing, but penetrated deeper. She was certain she could reverse engineer the origin of its flow.

Slowly drawing in her breath, Luo Xuanyi opened her eyes only to realize the effects of the Star Swallowing Pill had worn off. Her progress had been so dramatic in just one day. Of course, the most significant factor was the death threat posed by Taoist Hua Shen. But Luo Xuanyi preferred such rapid progress to death. If Bu Zhou hadn't prevented her from dying again, she would have been gone.

Buzhou, which had turned into ashes, was identified as impurity by Taoist Hua Shen's spiritual net and had long been swept out to become dust. Now Luo Xuanyi had to pay attention to controlling her body at all times. Fortunately, she had handled the direction of her body's flow quite well after this time and was no longer as afraid as she was at the beginning.

Taoist Hua Shen glanced at Luo Xuanyi, who had fully recovered. "You should go and rest for now. Xiao Yang can help you with the Dan Fire issue."

Luo Xuanyi bowed and said respectfully, "No need to trouble you, Senior Brother. I'll go by myself."

Taoist Hua Shen naturally didn't care. He thought for a moment, then took out a blank piece of paper and wrote the four characters "Should Take All" with his brush, signing his name at the end. The ink brush looked ordinary, but the words he wrote seemed to flow with the brilliance of gilded gold. Luo Xuanyi took it respectfully, slowly backed out of the left side hall, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The richness of what she gained naturally came at a high price. With a blank expression, she placed the letter close to her body, and seeing the sky was getting light, she got up and headed straight for Feiyan Pavilion.