Chapter 14 Diarrhea During Mid-Qi Refining Stage Awakens the Pure Spirit Body
Stop messing around! Since she came to the sect to cultivate immortality, she hasn't even been sick once!
Song Yin rushed into the house to resolve this major life event.
Song Yin originally thought that having diarrhea once would be the end of it, but she ended up having diarrhea for a whole day.
The next day, when she was supposed to go to school, she wanted to go, but the diarrhea was coming on quickly. Having no other option, she told Shi Heming at the door that she wouldn't be going to school that day.
"I have some things to do today, so I won't go to school now. I'll go tomorrow."
Shi Heming: "Are you in trouble? I can help you."
Song Yin: "It's a small problem, but only I can solve it. Don't worry, I can go to school tomorrow."
Shi Heming believed Song Yin's words and went to the school alone, looking back every few steps.
Zhou Xinren was quite surprised to see that only Shi Heming was absent from class, as the two of them were always together and would skip class at the same time.
The next day, Song Yin still did not go to school.
Shi Heming was somewhat worried because Song Yin sounded very weak.
Song Yin: "It's okay, you go to school first. If I can't solve the problem by tomorrow, I'll ask you for help."
Shi Heming: "Really? How about I help you today?"
Song Yin: "No, no, no, I can hold on for another day."
On this day, Shi Heming was frequently distracted in class.
It wasn't until the third day that Song Yin's diarrhea symptoms subsided, but she was completely exhausted.
Shi Heming came to see Song Yin again, and this time Song Yin opened the door and let Shi Heming in.
Seeing Song Yin's pale face, Shi Heming was startled: "What's wrong with you? Are you sick? Let's go to Lingdan Peak!"
Song Yin thought that the diarrhea that lasted for three days might be due to that tasteless pill. The whole bottle was sweet and sour, but that one pill was tasteless. Maybe it was a pill for treating constipation.
She briefly recounted the events of the past three days and her guesses, then weakly said, "I'm fine now, I haven't had diarrhea again today. I must go to Wanbaolou to complain, they actually sold fake pills!"
Shi Heming still felt that Song Yin was not in a good state. "I'll go call Grandpa Qi. He's older and more experienced. Let him take a look first."
Song Yin: "Don't mention his age in front of him, or he might hit you with a ladle."
Shi Heming: "Hmm." Although he didn't know why the other person would hit someone with a ladle.
Shi Heming knocked on the gate of Qi Zibo's courtyard. After a while, the gate opened and Qi Zibo was surprised to see that it was Shi Heming. "I thought it was Song Tian coming to see me again. What do you want?"
Shi Heming: "Grandpa Qi, please go and check on Song Yin. She took the wrong medicine and has had diarrhea for three days. She looks very weak."
Qi Zibo's expression changed drastically, and he strode into Song Yin's courtyard.
Seeing Song Yin sitting listlessly on the stone bench and slumped over the stone table, he immediately went over, grabbed Song Yin's wrist to take her pulse, and then used his spiritual power to examine Song Yin's body again. His expression kept changing, from worry and anxiety to strange speechlessness.
Qi Zibo: "Your cultivation has advanced; you're now in the mid-stage of Qi Refining. Shi Heming said you took the wrong pill. What exactly did you take?"
Song Yin gets angry just thinking about it: "I'm going to sue Wanbaolou for selling constipation-curing pills as fasting pills! A bottle contains ten pills, and one of them isn't a fasting pill!"
Qi Zibo: "I gave you a lot of fasting pills, why did you go to Wanbaolou to buy fasting pills again?"
Song Yin grumbled, "Your fasting pills don't taste good. I specifically went to buy strawberry-flavored fasting pills, but I got diarrhea. That problematic pill had no taste at all, and I started having stomach problems shortly after eating it."
Qi Zibo, hearing that there was no taste, suddenly grasped the key point. He took out a pill bottle, poured out a pill, and placed it in front of Song Yin. "Is this the pill you're talking about?"
Song Yin observed carefully, "They do look the same on the outside. Let me try it again."
Qi Zibo slapped Song Yin on the back, angrily saying, "What nonsense are you talking about! If it were really this pill, do you know you almost lost your life!"
Shi Heming: "So what should we do now?"
Qi Zibo: "Hmph, who knows what happened? She actually survived the ordeal and even advanced in cultivation."
Song Yin nearly fainted upon hearing this, then regained her senses and asked Qi Zibo, "What exactly is this thing?"
Qi Zibo: "There is a kind of pill called the Marrow Cleansing Pill, which can remove impurities from the body and make cultivation more effective. The more potent pill is the Spirit Cleansing Pill, but the conditions for taking the Spirit Cleansing Pill are very strict. The person taking it must be at least at the Foundation Establishment stage, otherwise their body will not be able to withstand it and they will explode and die."
"The Diling Pill is plain in color and odorless, making it easy to mix with other pills."
"One of the most basic common sense principles of alchemy is that one must not mix up or mispackage pills. I don't know where Wanbaolou got this batch of pills from, they actually mixed in the Spirit Cleansing Pill, humph!"
He said this, but Qi Zibo knew perfectly well what was going on. Wanbaolou regularly went to Lingdan Peak to purchase pills, because there were many alchemy disciples on Lingdan Peak, and those disciples were perfectly capable of refining basic pills.
"Let me check you again to see if there are any residual effects from the Cleansing Spirit Pill." Qi Zibo put his index and middle fingers together, about an inch away from Song Yin's forehead, and released spiritual energy to begin a comprehensive examination of Song Yin's health.
Song Yin felt the spiritual energy was very warm, flowing through her body's meridians.
Qi Zibo's eyes gradually widened in surprise. How could this be?
"Next, you will feel a burning sensation in your meridians. Please bear with it."
The spiritual energy that Song Yin had initially found warm began to scorch and burn. Sweat instantly poured from her forehead and body, and the sweat on her face slid down her chin before finally falling to the ground.
It was very uncomfortable, but thankfully the burning sensation only lasted for about ten seconds.
Qi Zibo stroked his beard and said incredulously, "The Cleansing Spirit Pill didn't kill you; instead, it brought you an incredible stroke of luck. After the impurities in your body were expelled, the remaining medicinal effects stimulated your body's potential. Now, your constitution is an acquired spiritual body—the Cleansing Spirit Body!"
Song Yin slumped back onto the table, asking weakly, "What is a Pure Spirit Body?"
Shi Heming was equally puzzled, because the school had not taught this kind of knowledge.
Qi Zibo: "There are innate spiritual bodies and acquired spiritual bodies. Innate spiritual bodies are those that are present at birth, such as innate sword bodies and innate Dao bodies. Acquired spiritual bodies are those that are acquired unexpectedly after birth, such as pure spiritual bodies. Spiritual bodies can make cultivation smoother for cultivators, and it can be said that cultivators who possess spiritual bodies are geniuses among geniuses. You really turned misfortune into blessing this time. The conditions for awakening a pure spiritual body have never been fixed, but in your case, it became obtaining it by having diarrhea for three days."
His tone inevitably carried a hint of jealousy. What kind of good person could acquire a spirit after having diarrhea for three days? If that were true, others would be willing to have diarrhea for months just to obtain a spirit.
Qi Zibo said, "With a spiritual body, you won't need to meditate and absorb spiritual energy anymore, because the pure spiritual body will allow you to automatically absorb spiritual energy every second. This is what's called being able to cultivate and advance even while sleeping." He glanced sideways at Shi Heming, "Kid, are you envious?"
Shi Heming: "I'm not envious at all."
Qi Zibo: "Oh?"
Shi Heming pursed his lips: "The Pure Spirit Body is very good, but Song Yin almost died." He almost lost a loved one again.
Having shared similar experiences and spent a long time together in an unfamiliar place, Shi Heming had already placed Song Yin in his heart as family; she was both his best friend and his only family.
It's fair to say that without Song Yin, he would likely have continued to isolate himself. Because of Song Yin, he found solace and was willing to let go and bravely pursue life.
He still feels sad when he thinks about his parents, but he doesn't cry incessantly like he used to, nor does he lose any interest in the future. He will look forward after feeling sad.
Qi Zibo: "Alright, I know you two are good friends. Song Yin, you should continue to rest. Don't go to school for the next few days. Shi Heming, when you go to school, remember to tell your teacher that she is not feeling well and needs to rest for a few days."
Shi Heming: "Okay."
Qi Zibo then looked at Song Yin and said, "Be careful before taking the pills, and remember to come find me quickly if you have any problems in the future."
Song Yin: "Okay."
Qi Zibo left the bamboo hut as soon as he stepped out; he was going to Lingdan Peak.
Only Song Yin and Shi Heming remained in the courtyard.
After she knew that Qi Zibo had gone far away, she asked Shi Heming to close the door tightly, and then sat up straight.
Song Yin: "Have you noticed that Grandpa Qi knows a lot?"
Shi Heming: "We discovered it before."
Song Yin: "Me too. He had me plant flowers before, but actually he was teaching me a better cultivation method, which Senior Almond didn't even know. But that's understandable. Grandpa Qi isn't a sword cultivator, but Senior Almond is, so it's normal for their cultivation methods to be different."
"He knows too much about the Cleansing Spirit Pill and the Purifying Spirit Body this time. He can immediately distinguish between the Cleansing Spirit Pill and the Bigu Pill, inject pure and huge spiritual energy into my body, and even detect my awakened spirit body... Most importantly, that pure and huge spiritual energy is something that cannot be possessed by someone in the late stage of Qi Refining. I think his spiritual energy is probably even more powerful than Senior Almond's."
So, who exactly is Qi Zibo? Why does he live in the bamboo hut with most of the outer disciples in the Refinement and Foundation Establishment stages?
Shi Heming thought for a moment and said, "I won't go to the school today. Let's go to the affairs hall and check if there is anyone named Qi Zibo among the Qi Refining disciples."
Song Yin stood up, supporting herself on the table. "Let's go now."
Shi Heming immediately helped support his arm, saying, "Let's wait until you've recovered a bit more before you go."
Song Yin said firmly, "No, we have to go now."
There are fewer people in the administrative office than in the mission office.
After Song Yin and Shi Heming were teleported to the Affairs Hall, they asked a senior brother in the Affairs Hall and then went to the office in charge of managing the disciple roster.
"Hello, senior, we'd like to ask someone a question." Song Yin was still weak, so Shi Heming took the initiative to start a conversation.
"Who are you asking?" Manager Hu continued fiddling with the walnuts in his hand, not even glancing at the two children.
Shi Heming: "We want to know if there is anyone named Qi Zibo in the Qi Refining stage."
The walnut in Steward Hu's hand suddenly flew out. He quickly caught it with his spiritual energy, then looked at the two younger ones and asked, "Who did you say? Qi Zibo?"
Shi Heming nodded.
Manager Hu picked up his teacup, took a sip to calm himself, and said, "Let me check for you. Are you sure it's the Qi Refining stage?"
Shi Heming: "Confirmed."
Could someone share the same name as that person? Manager Hu became interested and immediately checked the sect's list of Qi Refining stage disciples. After a while, he looked up at Shi Heming and Song Yin and said, "Among the Qi Refining stage disciples, there are only people named Qi* and Qi**, but no one named Qi Zibo."
Manager Hu was pretty sure that the person they had encountered was that person.
Manager Hu asked curiously, "What is your relationship with this man named Qi Zibo? How did you meet him?"
Shi Heming was about to speak when Song Yin tugged at his sleeve. "Let's go back."
Manager Hu then noticed that Song Yin's voice sounded weak. "What's wrong, little girl? Should I take you to Lingdan Peak?"
Song Yin: "Thank you, senior. We have to head back now."
She wanted to ask him face-to-face who he really was.
A note from the author:
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Song Yin: I'll open a shop someday, specializing in refining and selling this pill, not for anything else, but just to bring good news to people suffering from constipation. [Clown]
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No cyber begging today [empty bowl]
Yesterday, a kind person filled my bowl with rice; today, all I get is plain rice. [rice][rice][rice]
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