Chapter 26 Drug Testing
If the glass mirror was a breath of clean air, then the Bodhi Pill was a seed that fell into the body. Luo Xuanyi felt that it was double-layered, with the outer layer wrapping a small round ball inside, as if using her stomach as soil to absorb nutrients. The dissolved medicine liquid gradually contaminated the entire stomach, and the blood turned into medicine liquid that shuttled through the meridians. The meridians also gradually became soft and could only barely maintain their original configuration and become part of the medicine.
At first, her organs felt a suffocating pain, as if being submerged in water again, but soon the sensation faded—their organs, too, transformed into a liquid that simulated their functions. Strangely, the properties of the liquids seemed to differ for each organ, dozens in total. The sphere, passing through the liquid flesh, slowly descended, hovering at her dantian, trembling gently with her breathing.
The liquefaction of her muscles made even the slightest movement extremely difficult. Luo Xuanyi suspected she would melt into a pool of liquid and dissolve on the ground. Her human instincts began to struggle, but as the liquid filled her brain, any fear diminished. Luo Xuanyi felt unusually calm. She began to shake off her panic and try to control the drug in her body.
The pen suspended in the air above the book was writing furiously, and the pages were turning. Taoist Hua Shen looked very satisfied. He hurriedly urged, "First, try to use the liquid medicine as spiritual power and the eight extraordinary meridians as physical training."
Luo Xuanyi followed his advice, adjusting her senses and slowly exhaling. The spiritual energy between heaven and earth began to flow in and out, just like a natural practice, except that what was expelled was poisonous water vapor. Luo Xuanyi recalled Taoist Hua Shen's suggestion that spiritual energy could be transformed and stored within the body. With a subtle shift in her mind, she tried a few times and surprisingly, she actually compressed the spiritual energy she had absorbed into her body, transforming it into spiritual fluid and absorbing it without adding any burden.
Seeing that Luo Xuanyi had mastered how to prevent her body from collapsing and barely maintaining the structure of her skin, Taoist Hua Shen explained in detail, fearing that if she made a wrong move, she would die and turn into a pool of liquid medicine. Luo Xuanyi listened attentively, finally understanding why the Bodhi Pill was so valued by Taoist Hua Shen.
The Bodhi Pill is actually a twin pill, which also contains a poison pill called the Life of All Things. When the two pills are used together, the user can use the body as a converter to convert the spiritual energy between heaven and earth into medicinal liquids with corresponding properties for refining the Life of All Things, and store them in various parts of the human body. Using the essence of the medicinal pill in the Dantian as a guide, the user can refine an endless supply of the Life of All Things!
However, the Bodhi Pill's benefits extend far beyond this. Taoist Hua Shen's careful selection of Wanwusheng for the inner elixir was clearly the best outcome. First, Wanwusheng possesses a potent medicinal effect. While ordinary poisons would be useless against those with advanced cultivation, Wanwusheng is an exception—its toxicity increases with the cultivator's cultivation level. If the cultivator is at the Jindan stage, even a Yuanying stage monster would be poisoned, and the slightest misstep would result in death.
If poison cultivators could refine Wanwu Sheng in large quantities, how could they decline? It was just that the Wanwu Sheng pill recipe was difficult to find, and the requirements for materials and refining were extremely demanding.
What's even more remarkable about this Bodhi Pill is that it's a supremely difficult elixir to create. Its herbal ingredients are incredibly complex, encompassing all forty-one medicinal properties in the universe! Ordinary elixirs consist of little more than a single herbal elixir, a few main ingredients, and one or two auxiliary ingredients. The terrifying thing about being poisoned by the Wanwu Sheng elixir lies in its complex nature. Removing one layer of poison only creates a new one, a constant and terrifying flow. To overcome this, one must constantly remove the poison within their body for 9981 days, waiting until the effects are exhausted. Taoist Hua Shen, drawn to its comprehensiveness, painstakingly created and then separated the Wanwu Sheng elixir, undergoing countless trials and errors before successfully storing all the properties separately. In theory, possessing all the properties allows a user to endlessly create any elixir within their body!
Only a genius like Taoist Hua Shen could truly realize this theory.
This made Luo Xuanyi, who was gradually gaining control of her body, feel a surge of excitement. Her enthusiastic reaction couldn't be hidden beneath the glazed mirror. Taoist Hua Shen was pleased that she had appreciated the greatness of the Bodhi Pill instead of dwelling on a body that threatened to collapse into a pool of blood at any moment. However, he was also concerned. Third Sister Yi's body was collapsing too quickly, requiring her to constantly devote her energy to controlling it. This was clearly a drawback that needed improvement. Even considering her enthusiastic attitude towards the drug trial, he couldn't bear to see her die so soon.
Thinking of this, Hua Shen Daoist waved his hand, and a pure white bandage lay in his palm. The bandage was only about the length of an adult man's arm, and it swayed automatically in his hand without any wind. Luo Xuanyi actually saw a layer of flattery in his hand.
Taoist Hua Shen casually tossed a bandage onto Luo Xuanyi. Like a spirit snake, it cautiously probed her at first, then, as if in delight, nuzzled her wrist and began to wrap around her. The bandage unexpectedly grew longer as it wound. Luo Xuanyi knew Taoist Hua Shen wouldn't waste his disciples beyond testing medicine, so she simply wrapped the bandage around her entire body, leaving only her face exposed. A hint of confusion crossed her face.
"This is a magical treasure I accidentally found in the ruins of an ancient temple. It's called Buzhou. It was originally a supremely fine magical weapon, but it was downgraded to a top-grade after being damaged during the great war between good and evil ten thousand years ago. However, it's a top-grade defensive armor-type magical weapon. Wearing Buzhou will invulnerable to any external or internal forces. To kill you, you must simultaneously destroy every ounce of flesh and blood in your body. Any escape will be repaired by its terrifying recovery power. Of course, you will die at the end of your lifespan."
"But when I found Buzhou, it had already split into three. I gave the remaining part to your senior brother. Buzhou's power is naturally greatly weakened after being split into three. You only have one chance to revive it, so you should be careful."
Such a precious magic weapon was casually given to a medicine boy like Luo Xuanyi who was testing medicine. She was shocked and finally confirmed that Taoist Hua Shen really cherished them. However, he also thought that she would not live for many years and not many people in Zang Yao Sect dared to take advantage of her, but Luo Xuanyi was still very grateful and excited.
With this magical weapon, she finally no longer needed to worry about maintaining her body, and could instead focus on familiarizing herself with the forty-one medicinal properties within her body. Although Taoist Hua Shen longed to see her use her body to refine a pill on the spot, he knew that Luo Xuanyi, who knew nothing about the medicinal properties of herbs, was simply unable to do so. He picked up the book that recorded Luo Xuanyi's entire physical and mental reactions after taking the medicine, and his attitude towards her was extremely gentle.
"Xuan Yi, from now on, you should study alchemy and other matters in Zhaojian Palace. You can learn other things if you want, or you can rest for a while if you are tired. The important thing is not to break your body. The main hall that Xiao Yang brought you to just now has a side hall on each side. The main hall and the left side hall are filled with all the books I collected. You can read and study them. I usually make alchemy in the right side hall. If you have any questions about your studies, you can come to me."
After thinking for a moment, he continued, "If there's anything you need, go to the front hall. There's a study there that's used to contact outsiders. You don't have to go out. Just tell them to do it. If it's not something too hard to get, they'll get it for you. Just focus on your cultivation and study."
After respectfully bidding farewell to Taoist Hua Shen, Luo Xuanyi finally breathed a sigh of relief and let out a wry smile. The feeling of being invisible was too much to bear, and one of Hua Shen's drug trials had nearly killed her. If she hadn't died, she'd become the half-human, half-living cauldron she is today. But she clenched her fists, her eyes blazing. She could feel the liquid medicine pushing through her mimic skin, flowing beneath the bandages and then being suppressed. She knew this opportunity, bought with her life, was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! She had to seize it, and at the very least, she had to find the herbal medicine texts and memorize them thoroughly!
Sensing the fighting spirit of its new owner, the bandage also became happy, making a slight rustling sound as if in response.
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