Chapter 5: Furnace and Cauldron It turns out that Senior Brother Chu is so good at budgeting.
Forcing spiritual power into the meridians is a very painful thing, especially when this spiritual power is scorching pure fire spiritual power.
The two spiritual energies ironed into my skin, initially feeling only heat. Soon, the heat gradually turned into the stinging pain of a branding iron on my skin.
Mu Fuyun felt as if countless silver needles, burning red in fire, appeared between the two branding irons on her back, piercing into her body little by little, and moving slowly and forcefully along her meridians.
As time passed, the pain gradually increased, but she always kept her back straight and maintained a meditative posture, without crying out in pain.
Chu Ye just watched her reaction coldly.
He could feel the stagnant resistance in her body, making it increasingly difficult for the spiritual power he was releasing from his palms to move forward.
She must be in pain.
He waited quietly, wanting to see her weak appearance due to the pain, so as to vent his anger.
But after waiting for a long time, her forehead and neck were covered with fine beads of sweat, and her originally pale skin was steamed red, but she kept her eyes closed, gritted her teeth and said nothing.
He became more and more angry as he watched, and he couldn't help but want to use more pure spiritual power.
She was too weak, and no matter how much she could endure the pain, she couldn't hold on for that long.
Sure enough, under the forceful impact, the spiritual power penetrated another half inch without any warning, and the weak Mu Fuyun was unable to bear the pressure. His whole body shook and he groaned.
A trickle of bright blood overflowed from the corner of his tightly pursed lips, flowing along his smooth skin to the edge of his chin.
She had to open her eyes, bend down slightly, and support herself with one hand in front of her to prevent herself from collapsing.
"You keep saying you want to practice, but it turns out you only have this much."
Chu Ye withdrew his spiritual power, straightened his clothes, looked at Mu Fuyun's embarrassed appearance coldly, and finally felt better.
Mu Fuyun took a breath and paused for a moment before coming to his senses. Just as he was about to raise his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his lips, he caught a glimpse of his cold and sarcastic face and suddenly changed his mind.
She sneered, raised her eyes to meet Chu Ye's cold gaze, and said in a hoarse voice: "My blood is very precious now. You wasted so much, so I can only deduct it from that half cup of blood."
As she spoke, she casually picked up a crystal ornament that had been polished to a brilliant shine from the table and used it as a bronze mirror to reflect her face.
“That’s a lot.”
Chu Ye's eyes froze, and he said coldly, "Since you want to practice, are you afraid of bleeding? If you want to use this as an excuse to shirk your responsibility, I will never allow it."
Mu Fuyun wiped the blood on his chin with his fingertips and said calmly, "I'm not afraid of getting hurt and bleeding, but I'm afraid of sinister villains who deliberately do bad things."
Seeing that Chu Ye's expression was getting uglier and uglier, Mu Fuyun raised a smile at the corner of his lips.
"If it's a normal injury during training, even if I'm left with only one breath left, I won't deny it. But if someone did it intentionally to vent personal anger, I certainly can't let him succeed."
Chu Ye felt that the darkness in his heart had nowhere to hide.
He looked at Mu Fuyun gloomily as she wiped the blood, and suddenly grabbed her wrist to prevent her from wiping it anymore. At the same time, he quickly took out a white jade porcelain bottle and pinched her cheek hard.
He scraped the mouth of the bottle upwards along the bloodstain on his chin that had not yet dried, and put the blood into it.
"It turns out that Senior Brother Chu is so good at budgeting." Mu Fuyun looked at his actions and found it a little funny.
"There's no need to be too generous to you."
After Chu Ye collected the blood, he quickly took two steps back, moved away from her, and carefully put the cork back in the bottle.
"The next time will be half a month from now." After being released by him, Mu Fuyun half leaned against the door frame, covered his lips and coughed twice, slowly steadied himself, and before Chu Ye could raise any objections, he continued, "Thanks to Senior Brother Chu, I have to rest for two days and recover before I can continue, right?"
On her first attempt, even though the spiritual power only penetrated an inch into her meridians, she could already feel the turbidity in her body slightly reduced. Now, she should go back to meditate and regulate her breathing to consolidate the effect.
Chu Ye was blocked from speaking. After a moment's silence, he could only utter: "Don't call me Big Brother. You are not a disciple of Tianyan Sect, so you are not qualified to be my Junior Sister."
"Soon."
Mu Fuyun straightened his sweat-soaked, wrinkled robe and walked out, saying, "I'm going to join the outer sect class. I'll leave this matter to Senior Brother Chu. As the senior brother of the Tianyan Sect, you should be able to handle this little thing, right?"
"Don't push your luck." Chu Ye paused as he held the porcelain bottle, unable to believe she would be so brazen. "Tian Yan Sect is one of the three major sects. Even outer disciples have to pass the assessment before they can enter. You—"
He looked her up and down and said sarcastically, "Even if you practice for another ten years, you won't be able to enter the outer sect."
Mu Fuyun raised his eyebrows: "Why, Senior Brother Chu can't help?"
Chu Ye knew this was a provocation, but he couldn't hold back his anger. He gritted his teeth and said, "Outer disciples who fail the assessment will be expelled. I'm just trying to persuade you not to go in and ask for trouble. Since you have no shame, there's no need for me to consider you."
"Okay, please, Senior Brother Chu, please hurry up. If you can get it done, I don't mind paying a little more 'price'."
Chu Ye no longer wanted to look at her, so he turned around and said coldly, "Go back and wait for news."
Mu Fuyun smiled, said goodbye to him politely, turned around and left Xizhao Pavilion in a leisurely manner, and walked down the mountain road he came from, step by step.
I stayed at Chu Ye's place for more than an hour, and when I came out, it was already dusk.
A thick veil hung between the mountains and forests, making everything hazy. The dew that had evaporated during the day seemed to be slowly returning, and a damp, cool air quietly spread around.
But Mu Fuyun didn't feel cold at all.
She didn't know whether it was because she was too weak, too tired from going down the mountain, or because Chu Ye's pure fire spiritual power was too effective, but after walking for a while on the mountain road, she felt that the heat in her body not only did not go away, but was getting more and more intense.
At first she could still bear it, but as she was halfway through the journey, she began to feel something strange.
There seemed to be an invisible furnace in the Dantian, with dry firewood underneath. It started from a spark and burned rapidly until it turned into a raging flame.
It was too hot, as if countless ants had just emerged from molten iron, crawling onto her body and biting her skin.
She guessed that she must look very strange.
This mountain road was the only way for ordinary disciples to go up and down the mountain. Several inner disciples passed by on flying swords. When they saw her, they slowed down and looked down at her from above.
Naturally, no one would greet her.
However, she could see clearly that in addition to curiosity, ridicule, and contempt, there was also a hint of surprise in their eyes.
Even if she was slow-witted, she figured it out—this body was born with the constitution of a furnace, which made it easy to be aroused. In addition, during the years in the Hehuan Sect, although she was not taken seriously due to her eccentric personality and had never practiced dual cultivation with anyone inside or outside the sect, she was still fed all kinds of despicable pills.
At this moment, the furnace cauldron constitution should have broken out.
Her steps became heavier and heavier, her head was in a mess, she didn't know how to relieve the pain, and she just instinctively wanted to find a cool place to cool down.
The mustard seed bag around her waist swayed, and she pulled out a piece of talisman paper given by Chu Ye from it and hastily stuck it on her body. Only then did she have the strength to move forward.
In a daze, she took a very inconspicuous fork in the road, and she didn't know where she was going. She stopped only when there was no way to go anymore.
Before my eyes was a tranquil expanse of water. In the still dark night, the emerald green water surface was illuminated by the bright moonlight, and the cool luster looked very comfortable.
There was no one around, and there were no buildings to be seen except for dense vegetation and huge round rocks of various shapes.
It should be a place where few people come on weekdays.
Mu Fuyun felt as if her whole body was burning and she couldn't breathe. This was a torture more unbearable than pain. She could no longer bear it, so she took off her clothes in a hurry and stepped into the water barefoot.
The cool water gradually covered her ankles, calves, thighs, waist and hips, until it covered her chest, leaving only her snow-white and round shoulders exposed.
Mu Fuyun took a deep breath, looked up at the lonely moon that had risen to the horizon, slowly closed his eyes, and felt the temperature of the water.
The furnace in his body seemed to be poured with a basin of cold water, and with a sizzling sound, it was extinguished a lot.
She couldn't help but let out a low moan following the sound in her heart.
However, before she could feel completely relaxed, the heat in the furnace seemed to come back again.
A basin of cold water is too little to extinguish a raging fire.
She couldn't help but hold on to a round boulder by the water and twisted her body in the water.
Circles of ripples spread out from her body, as if she were a mermaid from the South China Sea, naked and immersed in the water, slapping her beautiful tail.
Although the scenery was beautiful, Mu Fuyun's heart was tormented to the extreme.
She doubted that this ordinary pool of water could relieve her anxiety at all.
Thinking of the meaningful look that Sect Leader Jieyou gave her when she left Hehuan Sect last night, she couldn't help but grit her teeth.
He must have known her situation, but deliberately didn't tell Chu Ye. Chu Ye came from a well-known and upright family. Although he had a bad character, he really didn't understand these unorthodox methods.
Even if he understood, he probably wouldn't help her find a solution.
In the original book, he did not use pure fire aura, and her furnace constitution took a long time to break out. Every time she was in unbearable pain, she had to beg him for help.
He always watched her coldly as she twisted and rolled on the couch with her clothes disheveled and her hair loose, and only when she could no longer bear it did he reluctantly use his hands to relieve her.
He liked looking at her confused face, simply because this face was 70% similar to Mu Fuyue's.
He didn't allow her to make any sound, because if she made any sound, she would no longer be like Mu Fuyue.
Later, besides him, even Song Xinghe discovered her secret and joined in torturing her.
Thinking of these unbearable things, Mu Fuyun couldn't help but bite his lower lip tightly, causing blood to flow, and tried his best to stay awake.
She didn't want to fall into that situation and didn't want to bow down in front of those scumbags.
However, the slight pain on the lips was not enough to withstand the raging fire in the dantian.
Her hands clinging to the boulder became weaker and weaker, her mind became more and more distracted, and she realized through her blurred fingertips that she was about to sink into the water.
At this moment, a hand colder than the water in the pond firmly grasped her wrist and lifted her half an inch out of the water. Then, another cold hand forced a pill into her mouth.
The cool and slightly bitter taste melts between the lips and teeth, spreading down the throat into the stomach.
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