Chapter 138 That guy deserves a beating... I didn't mean you deserved a beating before...
Shen Zhengyuan pursed his lips, as if he could still feel the lingering warmth on them. After a long while, he finally said, "No..."
"I'll tell you everything you want to know..."
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According to Shen Zhengyuan, ordinary methods cannot save someone whose spiritual veins have been completely severed. Even if the spiritual veins are reconnected, they are very likely to break again when circulating spiritual energy, and their cultivation will be difficult to improve.
Therefore, after discussing it with him, the monk Mingcun decided to take a different approach and instead of repairing the spiritual vein, reshape it.
However, the rare and precious materials that can help people rebuild their spiritual veins are not something that can be obtained just by chance. They searched through ancient books but could not find anything suitable. Instead, they found some stories left by their predecessors about rebuilding spiritual veins.
The story mentions that there was once a person in the cultivation world who, for some unknown reason, also had his spiritual veins broken. After trying various methods to repair them and finding them all ineffective, he captured some people, extracted their spiritual veins, and replaced them with his own.
That person even left behind a method for changing spiritual veins, for future generations to learn.
However, it was clear that Monk Mingcun would never do such a wicked thing, and he certainly wouldn't let Shen Zhengyuan do it.
Although Shen Zhengyuan was initially tempted, he thought again that even if he extracted other people's spiritual veins for her, if they were all ordinary cultivators, it would probably be better to connect her spiritual veins himself.
After all, the spiritual veins of ordinary cultivators simply cannot withstand the circulation of spiritual power within her body. It is possible that if she uses her cultivation even slightly, those spiritual veins will break again.
Therefore, even if a replacement is to be made, it must be someone whose cultivation level is comparable to hers.
But in this world, there are very few who can compare to her. The only ones who are known to be her are Zen Master Mingcun and herself.
Coincidentally, Li Xianghuan had a habit back then: after killing some monsters that he thought were good, he liked to cut off their heads and pile them up in a cave behind Wanshanmen.
In order to prevent those heads from decaying, Li Xianghuan went to great lengths, specially studying some spells from the cultivation world and setting up a magic array in the cave to use the spiritual energy of the mountain to protect those heads from decaying.
And inside that cave was the head of the dragon she had slain years ago.
Although that dragon was a wicked dragon that had committed many evils, it was about to undergo tribulation and ascend to immortality at that time, and it could be considered to have cultivated a half-immortal body, which just happened to be suitable for Li Chenjin now.
After Zen Master Mingcun instructed Shen Zhengyuan to send someone to the Dharma Cultivation Realm, he and several powerful figures from the Weapon Cultivation Realm dealt with the dragon's head together.
They extracted some spiritual veins from the evil dragon's head and used them to replace Li Chenjin's body. This step was extremely mentally taxing, and even though they worked without sleep, it still took them nearly a month.
With the spiritual vein issue resolved, the injuries in her body were naturally much simpler to treat. She simply asked some powerful figures in the alchemy world to replace her somewhat shattered internal organs with intact ones.
so……
The body Li Chen is currently in is basically pieced together from various parts...
But I have to say, it's actually quite useful...
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“Hey old monk, you know we’re here, so stop pretending you didn’t hear us, okay?” Li Chenjin said, pouring himself some tea while looking in the direction of Zen Master Mingcun.
Zen Master Mingcun, who was meditating on the futon, slowly opened his eyes and looked at Li Chenjin, who had finished drinking the tea in one gulp and was looking at him with dissatisfaction. He smiled slightly, picked up the teapot, and poured a cup of tea for her and Shen Zhengyuan. "Sect Leader Li is in much better health now and has some of the vigor he used to have."
Li Chen picked up his teacup, glanced at him with slight displeasure, and said, "Old monk, you can't eat or sleep well if you don't tease me every day, can you?"
Zen Master Mingcun smiled and said, "Master Li's face no longer shows any signs of worry."
“Actually, I wasn’t particularly melancholy before,” Li Chen said. “It’s just that there are some things that I’ve forgotten myself, but my primordial spirit still remembers, so my mind is always inexplicably chaotic.”
"But now that I understand things I didn't understand before, I naturally don't need to worry anymore."
Zen Master Mingcun smiled again, his gaze falling gently on her.
Upon seeing the look in Zen Master Mingcun's eyes, Li Chenjin sensed something was amiss. Just as he was about to change the subject, Zen Master Mingcun spoke first: "Since Sect Leader Li is now in much better health and his inner knots have been cleared up, why not help others untie their knots as well?"
Li Chenjin: "..."
Li Chen sighed. "I knew it. Every time you look at me, you have to find something for me to do. So, what is it this time?"
"It is to prevent the retreat of the alchemy world hundreds of years ago from happening again," Zen Master Mingcun said. "After retreating more than seven hundred years ago, the alchemy world lived in seclusion for more than five hundred years before reappearing in the world. During the retreat, countless people died due to the lack of spiritual herbs and medicines."
"Although there shouldn't be another calamity like that right now, it wouldn't be a good thing for any of the worlds if the alchemy world were to retreat into seclusion again."
Li Chen frowned. "Why would the alchemy cultivators retreat into seclusion? They were clearly doing well at the previous peace talks, and even helped the sword cultivators quite a bit."
Zen Master Mingcun said, "On the night of the peace talks, it wasn't just Wanshan Sect that suffered. All sects, more or less, were harmed, as were the people in various places. Even though Sect Leader Shen had set up a magic array in advance to prevent the disaster from harming more people, it was still hard to guarantee that no one would be injured."
"If one is injured by a puppet, ordinary herbs can heal; but if one is injured by a demon beast, one must use spiritual herbs to remove the demon poison. Therefore, injured people from all over the world have now come to the alchemy world."
"Hundreds of years ago, before the alchemy world retreated into seclusion, it also experienced this incident. It's hard to guarantee that the alchemy world won't repeat the same mistake. As for the specifics, Sect Leader Li will naturally understand after visiting the alchemy world."
Li Chen clicked her tongue, clearly annoyed by Zen Master Mingcun's habit of only saying half of what he meant. However, she didn't say much more, but instead said, "I understand. But I also have my own matters to attend to. I need to know how to rescue my master's primordial spirit, and also, where is Zeng Shuqing?"
Zen Master Mingcun said, "The time is not right for the first question, and I cannot answer it for Headmaster Li at this moment. As for the second question, Headmaster Shen should know the answer better than I do."
Upon hearing this, Li Chen turned around and looked at Shen Zhengyuan.
Shen Zhengyuan was taken aback, seemingly not expecting Zen Master Mingcun to suddenly turn the conversation to him, but after seeing Li Chenjin's questioning gaze, he still nodded and said, "I do know."
Li Chen sighed helplessly.
She had only been out of touch with the world for a few years, but who would have thought that in just a few years, she would become someone who knew nothing at all.
"Alright, let's take care of the matter in the Pill Cultivation Realm first." Li Chen looked at Shen Zhengyuan and said, "After we resolve the matter in the Pill Cultivation Realm, we can go and get down to business. Don't worry, I will definitely find a way to save your family and fellow disciples."
Shen Zhengyuan: "..."
Shen Zhengyuan stared blankly at Li Chen's determined eyes for half a second before slowly lowering his gaze and softly saying, "Hmm..."
To be honest, Shen Zhengyuan's sudden change to being so understanding made Li Chen feel quite uncomfortable.
With this question in mind, Li Chen pulled the man out of Zen Master Mingcun's meditation room and, after making sure they were far enough away that Zen Master Mingcun wouldn't hear, asked, "Tell me honestly, did the old monk Mingcun hit you?"
Shen Zhengyuan: "..."
Shen Zhengyuan: "...?"
Shen Zhengyuan: "No."
"No?" Li Chen repeated incredulously, "If not, how could you suddenly become..."
You've become so much like a normal person...
Li Chen realized halfway through his sentence that what he was about to say was not appropriate to say.
After she stopped speaking in time, she thought for a long time before continuing, "Well... I think Monk Mingcun really doesn't seem like the type to act rashly."
“When he first brought me back to the meditation community, I was a bit rebellious. I ran around and demolished several of his meditation rooms and collapsed a main hall, but he didn’t say anything. He just asked me to rebuild what he had demolished later.”
After rambling on and on about a bunch of nonsense, Li Chen finally got to the point: "Um... I didn't mean to say you deserved a beating."
Shen Zhengyuan: "..."
Shen Zhengyuan: "If you want to hit me, just do it. Anyway, I'm no match for you now."
Li Chen looked at him strangely and said, "Do I look like someone who likes to hit people?"
She thought Shen Zhengyuan would say "no," but to her surprise, after glancing at her, Shen Zhengyuan fell into an almost eerie silence.
Li Chenjin: "..."
No way?
Does she really look like someone who would act rashly?
She remembered that after she became Li Chenjin, she hadn't really fought with Shen Zhengyuan. At most, she would get so angry that she would beat him until he vomited blood...
But even a rabbit will bite when cornered. So what's wrong with her using a little force when she gets angry?
She always has a reason for taking action; she would never act rashly.
No matter how Li Chen thought about it, she felt that she shouldn't be that kind of person, but seeing Shen Zhengyuan so silent, she was a little unsure.
Could it be...?
Is she really that kind of person?
The two remained silent for a long time before Li Chen finally broke the silence with a dry laugh, "Um... shall we go to the Pill Cultivation Realm first?"
This time, Shen Zhengyuan spoke up, saying, "Okay."
Upon hearing Shen Zhengyuan speak, and recalling Shen Zhengyuan's previous strange silence, Li Chen became even more uncertain.
That shouldn't be the case...
Her temper is clearly much better now...
Li Chen couldn't understand it at all, but soon, after she arrived in the Danxiu Realm through the teleportation array, she immediately put the question out of her mind.
They are currently at the headquarters of the alchemy world.
The main altar of the alchemy world covers a large area, but it is now crowded with countless people. Even though the crowd is already so dense that it is impossible to move, people are still constantly walking up the mountain, and the noise is endless.
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