Chapter 41 Yanghua Cloud Sea (Twenty-Eight)
Jiang Gu healed himself very quickly.
Although Wei Feng posed no real threat to him, the guy's presence was too strong, especially his scrutinizing gaze, which even his primordial spirit in his sea of consciousness could feel.
After quickly treating the damage to his primordial spirit, he opened his eyes.
Wei Feng was sitting on the footstool in a daze when he saw him open his eyes. He suddenly jumped up and took several steps back, as if he had been greatly frightened.
"Come here," Jiang Gu said coldly.
Wei Feng looked at the pale-faced person lying on the bed, and walked over with a stiff upper lip. "What are you doing?"
Jiang Gu propped himself up on the bed and sat up. A crimson Yuan Dan appeared in his palm. He looked up at Wei Feng and said, "This Yuan Dan has a blood pact restriction on it. I can't refine it if I use it alone."
Wei Feng looked at him warily, "Don't even think about taking me as a spirit pet! I would rather die than be someone else's pet!"
“I don’t like birdfish either,” Jiang Gu said expressionlessly.
"..." Wei Feng's face flushed red with anger. "You're the birdfish! I am—"
"Enough with the nonsense." Jiang Gu coldly interrupted him. "If you're willing to act as a medium to help me refine this pill, I'll use the remaining Yuan Pill to help you temper your body and cleanse your marrow, washing away one of your spiritual roots."
Wei Feng was stunned.
“You are only at the fifth level of Qi Refining now. If you were to temper your body and cleanse your marrow on your own, you would easily die from a ruptured dantian,” Jiang Gu said. “This is a very fair deal.”
Wei Feng frowned. "I don't believe you would be so kind."
"You're still useful." Jiang Gu glanced at him indifferently. "I'm not giving you a choice."
Wei Feng finally calmed down. The old pervert was right. Things had come to this point. Yuan Dan was already in his hands, and the Dragon-Locking Chain was no longer under his control. Fighting to the death would not do him any good. It was better to be pragmatic, seize some immediate benefits, and then wait for an opportunity to act.
“Okay.” Wei Feng nodded. “I can help you, but you have to return the Dragon-Locking Chain to me.”
“Okay.” Jiang Gu readily agreed to his request.
Although he could briefly control the Dragon-Locking Chain through the mark he left on Wei Feng's primordial spirit, the connection between this magic weapon and Wei Feng was too deep, and forcibly leaving it behind would be useless.
The two of them reached a rare consensus, and the entire room fell into an eerie silence.
Wei Feng awkwardly touched his nose. "Is your injury any better?"
Jiang Gu glanced at him, puzzled.
"I was just asking." Wei Feng pointed to the strips of cloth on his body that were once again soaked with blood, and asked with concern, "Can you really cleanse your marrow and temper your body like this?"
“No problem,” Jiang Gu said.
Half an hour later.
Steam rose from the hot spring, which could accommodate two or three people. Wei Feng stood on the shore, hesitating whether to go into the water, when Jiang Gu picked him up and threw him in.
"No, I'll turn into a mermaid—" Before Wei Feng could even defend himself, he was submerged in the warm spring water. But when he floated up again, he didn't show any mermaid characteristics. He looked at his palms with some curiosity and touched his wet face.
“Your meridians were blocked before.” Jiang Gu stood on the shore with his hands behind his back. “Take off your clothes.”
Wei Feng hesitated for a moment, then, under his indifferent gaze, gritted his teeth and took off the wet clothes clinging to his body.
The boy's figure was still somewhat thin. Perhaps because of the Divine Kite Shark, his skin was delicate and smooth, so white that it seemed to glow. He was vaguely hidden underwater, with only his smooth shoulders and neck and his handsome face showing. His slightly drooping eyes were reddened by the heat, but he still raised his chin unruly and looked over, looking utterly irritating.
Jiang Gu gently rubbed his hands behind his back twice, "Guide your Qi to your Dantian."
Wei Feng frowned and did as instructed. The crimson Yuan Dan slowly floated above his head. Jiang Gu formed hand seals and continuously channeled spiritual energy into the Yuan Dan. Countless tiny streams of spiritual energy poured out of the Yuan Dan like water, and the blood pact left by Wei Mingzhou slowly appeared on Wei Feng's body.
The blood pacts were a strange dark red, densely covering Wei Feng's entire body, even his face. The eerie and bizarre patterns roamed and wrapped around his skin like living things. Soon, Wei Feng felt uncomfortable, and his breathing became more and more rapid.
"No, stop!" Excruciating pain shot through his limbs and bones, and Wei Feng felt he couldn't hold on any longer.
"It hasn't even started yet," Jiang Gu said coldly. "Bear with it."
Wei Feng clung tightly to the rocks on the shore, the veins on the back of his hands bulging with pain. Jiang Gu guided the blood pacts to establish a connection with the Yuan Dan, allowing spiritual energy to enter the Yuan Dan through Wei Feng, and then channeling the spiritual energy from the Yuan Dan into the hot spring water, soaking Wei Feng's entire body.
"Ah—" Wei Feng screamed in agony. He had never experienced such intense pain before, and immediately tried to climb ashore without thinking.
Upon seeing this, Jiang Gu jumped directly into the hot spring water. The moment the water containing the spiritual power of the Yuan Dan touched his body, a sharp pain surged towards his dantian and spiritual root. Jiang Gu frowned slightly, then raised his hand with a normal expression, grabbed Wei Feng's shoulder, and pressed him back into place.
Wei Feng's screams were really annoying. He held down the unruly boy and said coldly, "This is just the beginning. Tempering the body and washing the marrow is like being reborn. If you can't even endure this kind of suffering, how can you talk about cultivation?"
"Let me go!" Wei Feng struggled desperately, his forehead covered in cold sweat, his eyes bloodshot from the pain, and the splashing water soaking his hair. He roared, "I quit! Whoever wants to quench me can quench me! Let me up there!!"
Jiang Gu frowned even more deeply, but the strength in his hand did not loosen at all. "It's too late to back out now."
"Let me go—" Wei Feng's eyes were bloodshot as he grabbed Jiang Gu's collar and cursed angrily, "You perverted bastard! I gave you the Yuan Dan! I said I'm not washing my spiritual root anymore!"
Jiang Gu remained unmoved, standing still no matter how much he struggled and pushed. Wei Feng was in so much pain that his voice became hoarse from cursing. Finally, in his anxiety and anger, he forcibly broke through the seal in his dantian and transformed into a mermaid, revealing sharp fangs at the corners of his mouth, and bit down on Jiang Gu's shoulder.
The blood seeped into the hot spring water along the fabric and slowly spread.
The pain of body tempering and marrow cleansing is indeed unbearable for ordinary people. Even Jiang Gu didn't have much strength left at this time. He grabbed Wei Feng's neck and couldn't push him away. He just kept his voice steady and said, "Guide the spiritual power in your Yuan Dan to your Wind Spirit Root."
Wei Feng smelled the scent of blood on his body, his lips and teeth filled with the metallic taste of blood. He maintained his last shred of rationality and did as he was told, but he was in so much pain that he was about to lose consciousness, and his movements became extremely slow.
Jiang Gu didn't have the patience to wait for him, so he simply used the mark he had branded on Wei Feng's primordial spirit to guide his spiritual power to directly envelop Wei Feng's wind spirit root. The powerful force caused the spirit root to begin to dissolve instantly. Wei Feng roared and his nails dug fiercely into Jiang Gu's shoulder.
Jiang Gu frowned, preparing to dislocate his wrist, when the boy leaning on his shoulder suddenly sobbed weakly, "Master...Master..."
Jiang Gu paused slightly, then said coldly, "What did you call me?"
Wei Feng was already losing consciousness. A string of tiny luminous pearls slid down his cheeks and landed in Jiang Gu's collar. He curled up in pain and grievance, trying to burrow into Jiang Gu's arms. "Master...it hurts so much...save me..."
Jiang Gu's cold, hard expression froze for a moment.
Wei Feng cried as he hugged his neck, pressing his blood-stained face against his neck, calling out "Master" in a daze, and finally bursting into tears as if he had suffered some great injustice.
"..." Jiang Gu recalled carefully with a blank face, trying to find any suspicious points that might have given him away, but he rejected them one by one.
With Wei Feng's limited intelligence, there was absolutely no way he could have discovered the clues.
Perhaps he was delirious from the pain.
That was the only conclusion he could reach in the end.
Hearing the repeated calls of "Master" around him, Jiang Gu ignored the strange feeling welling up inside him and warned him in a harsh tone, "Shut up."
Wei Feng let out a confused sob and lay motionless on him.
Jiang Gu carefully examined Wei Feng's meridians, dantian, and spiritual root. The meridians, which had been repaired but still showed some signs of damage, had been restored to their original state and were even more than half the size of before. The dantian had also become thicker and stronger. The original wind spiritual root had been completely dissolved and transformed into nutrients to replenish the fire spiritual root. The impurities in Wei Feng's body and the dirt in his meridians had also been washed away, and his bones and muscles had become stronger. In a short moment, the spiritual power accumulated in his sea of consciousness showed a faint tendency to break through.
Jiang Gu didn't have time to wash away the impurities expelled from his body. He formed a magic circle with one hand and threw it ashore, forcibly awakening his mind. "Wei Feng, prepare to break through."
Wei Feng's eyelids were covered in grime, and before he could make out what was happening, the surging spiritual energy within him instantly cleared his head, and he quickly sat cross-legged and entered a meditative state.
Seeing this, Jiang Gu stopped paying attention to him. Wei Mingzhou still had most of his Yuan Dan left. He decisively dissolved the fire spirit root among the remaining three spiritual roots, and then began to use the Yuan Dan to temper his body and cleanse his marrow.
This wasn't his first time undergoing body tempering and marrow cleansing, but it was the first time he had done it under such severe injury. Pain was commonplace for him. His chest, which was mostly just bones, began to grow flesh and skin rapidly. The hidden injuries and old ailments in his meridians also began to heal at an incredible speed. The surrounding spiritual energy began to surge into his body wildly. His meridians, dantian, spiritual root, sea of consciousness, and even purple mansion expanded by more than two times.
This was the first time Jiang Gu had experienced the feeling of having inexhaustible spiritual energy after so many years of cultivation.
The spiritual energy in his sea of consciousness surged wildly, and he heard faint thunder in his ears. Jiang Gu quickly realized that he was about to undergo tribulation and break through to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, but he was currently in the Purple Mansion in Weiming Prefecture, which was not the best place to undergo tribulation.
Moreover, he hasn't yet obtained the spiritual vein and mansion he's eyeing.
So he immediately suppressed the spiritual power within his body and slowly opened his eyes.
On the shore, Wei Feng was charred black by the lightning tribulation and was unconscious, clearly having completed his breakthrough.
Jiang Gu walked ashore, picked up the boy's wrist to examine it, and sure enough, the boy had successfully established his foundation at the fifth level of Qi Refining. His dantian was smooth and round, and his sea of consciousness had grown from the size of a palm to the size of a lake.
Wei Feng convulsed unconsciously, gripping his hand tightly, "Master..."
Jiang Gu expressionlessly withdrew his hand, kicked him into the hot spring water, and disappeared from the spot.
Several hours later, the little mermaid that had sunk to the bottom slowly released a string of bubbles.
"Cough cough cough!" Wei Feng was choked awake by the water and hurriedly scrambled to the shore.
He, a shark, almost drowned!
Wei Feng, still shaken, wiped the water from his face and cautiously looked around.
Ever since that old pervert threw him into the hot spring, he'd been in so much pain that he was practically delirious. He couldn't remember anything that had happened, only that the pervert had his neck gripped tightly so he couldn't move, and he think he bit him. In his hazy state, he seemed to be dreaming about his master...
This is probably the only consolation amidst the overwhelming pain.
Wei Feng rubbed his face vigorously, and only after confirming that the old pervert was gone did he jump out of the water, only to be startled by his own light movements.
He was pleasantly surprised to feel the abundant spiritual power in his body, the expanded meridians and dantian, and the fire spiritual root that had grown more than twice as thick. He belatedly realized that he must have gone through a tribulation.
"I've reached the Foundation Establishment stage? I've reached the Foundation Establishment stage!" He jumped up excitedly.
"Master, I've reached the Foundation Establishment stage!" he shouted, and couldn't wait to run outside.
However, when passing through his father's Purple Mansion, several superior secret realms had been brutally dug away, and the most luxurious mansion in the entire Purple Mansion had been directly uprooted, leaving several empty holes in the place.
“…” Wei Feng was stunned for a moment.
It's obvious who did it.
"Old bastard." Wei Feng gritted his teeth and glared at the empty holes, his face full of pain. What his father left behind was naturally all good stuff, but this old pervert dug up the best of the best, top-grade spiritual veins and cave dwellings, which he had never been willing to open.
There's no such thing as a free lunch; this is the price the old pervert paid for helping him cleanse his spiritual roots.
He'll have to find a way to take it back sooner or later!
Wei Feng left the Purple Mansion after a long while, and after flying out of the sea of clouds on his sword, he headed straight for Qingping Peak.
Now Master can no longer accept Mo Daojin as his disciple!
He will be Jiang Gu's only disciple from now on!
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