Volume 1: Questioning the Past Chapter 25 Bone Refining
Why was Bai Xiangtian so shocked when he saw Gu Xiaoxing taking out his spiritual marrow?
Let's put it this way, one hundred ordinary spirit stones are equivalent to one mid-grade spirit stone, and one hundred mid-grade spirit stones are equivalent to one top-grade spirit stone. However, the value of spiritual marrow is even higher than that of top-grade spirit stones. How can this not be shocking? All the spirit stones in Bai Xiangtian's storage bag combined are not as good as this small piece of spiritual marrow.
He is not from a grassroots background. His father is the second generation elder of the sect, and his great uncle is the great elder of the sect. But now he is not as rich as an ordinary outer disciple. Before, he didn't even care about the little bit of money in the inner kitchen. But now, he is jealous!
Gu Xiaoxing pondered for a moment, then his expression soon became focused, with a look of determination in his eyes. He tightly grasped his spiritual marrow and practiced his skills. Suddenly, a huge amount of spiritual power poured in. The soul-eating insect between his eyebrows trembled, and it devoured frantically like a hangrier. While replenishing the consumption, his cultivation level also began to slowly rise.
In fact, the spiritual power contained in a piece of spiritual marrow is almost the same as that of a top-grade spirit stone. The only difference is that the spiritual power is much purer than the top-grade one, as if it has been tempered a thousand times without any impurities. At this moment, it seems to have been tempered again in the alchemy furnace and has become more condensed. The soul-eating insect seems to be tasting such a "delicious" thing for the first time. It trembles constantly and is very excited.
One hour, three hours, five hours passed, Gu Xiaoxing was still immersed in cultivation. Inside this alchemy furnace, the improvement of his cultivation seemed to become extremely slow, but each step was very solid. It was not like the last time when he absorbed the spiritual marrow, where his foundation became weak due to his cultivation improving too quickly. This alchemy furnace was very magical. It could constantly temper his body under the scorching heat, and it seemed to be condensing his cultivation as well.
Time slowly came to the seventh day. It was on this day that the fifth elder returned, and with him came another person, who was Du Siyu.
The fifth elder swept his spiritual sense around the furnace and showed a hint of surprise. He then said something to Du Siyu beside him. Du Siyu's expression relaxed slightly, and after a little hesitation, he bowed and left.
The fifth elder stayed in the cave and tinkered with it for a while, and finally made some medicinal powder. The powder was strange, with each particle as fine as dust, transparent and colorless, almost invisible to the naked eye. He then went out with the powder, as if to continue catching thieves, and ignored Bai Xiangtian's shouting.
Gu Xiaoxing knew nothing about all this and was at a critical moment in his practice. Until the sun rose on the eighth day, as the whole alchemy furnace shook slightly, his eyes suddenly opened, and there seemed to be a hint of depth in his eyes. He focused his eyes slightly, and the power he exuded returned to his body.
The seventh level of Qi Condensation!
He is not just an ordinary Qi Condensation Stage 7. After several days of tempering in the alchemy furnace, Gu Xiaoxing's cultivation is more powerful and his foundation is more solid compared to ordinary soul-devouring bodies. Even compared to orthodox cultivators, he is slightly stronger. If he adds the green smoke in his body, he has the confidence to fight against a cultivator at the 8th Stage of Qi Condensation!
However, Gu Xiaoxing was not excited at all, because his cultivation reached the seventh level of Qi Condensation, which meant that he could not avoid the outer sect competition. Thinking of another round of fighting, he felt very tired, and the more he thought about it, the angrier he became. Suddenly, he glared at Bai Xiangtian fiercely and said angrily: "Nephew, what are you looking at!"
Hearing this, Bai Xiangtian also got angry, and subconsciously wanted to say: What are you doing? But then he thought, wouldn't that be equivalent to admitting that he was his nephew? He sneered and said, "Your spiritual essence is also used up. I don't know how long you can hold on. I really want to see whether your mouth is hard or your bones are harder!"
"Anyway, I'm better than you... um? Bone?" Gu Xiaoxing wanted to retort, but suddenly he thought of something. His eyes rolled around and he shouted, "Elder, Fifth Elder... are you here? I have something to say..."
After eight days of continuous roasting, coupled with the significant improvement in his cultivation and physical body, the heat generated by the alchemy furnace no longer made Gu Xiaoxing suffer as much as it did at the beginning, and he could now speak.
Bai Xiangtian had a mocking look on his face, as if he was looking at a clown, but he did not stop the other party and let him shout.
Gu Xiaoxing ignored the other party's ridicule and kept shouting. After a long time, a crisp voice with a hint of impatience came from outside the furnace.
"Don't shout, Master is not here."
"I wonder when the elder will come back?"
There was silence outside the furnace. Gu Xiaoxing continued to call out, and after much persuasion, Lu Yatou was still too young. Finally, she couldn't help but said, "Master said that he is going to catch a thief and will not be back home for a few days!"
Catch a thief?
Gu Xiaoxing stopped talking, swallowed guiltily, hesitated and struggled, as if there was a struggle between himself and others in his heart, finally he gritted his teeth and made a decision.
"As long as the Fifth Elder doesn't come back, there's nothing to be afraid of!"
With a wave of his hand, countless fish bones flew out of the storage bag and instantly turned into a large bone cocoon that covered Gu Xiaoxing and isolated him from the heat.
At this moment, far above the Spirit Servant Peak, the Fifth Elder was secretly making arrangements in the Spirit Pond, sprinkling some medicinal powder and sneering in his heart: "This medicine is colorless, tasteless and spiritual. Even if you are at the Foundation Establishment stage, the slightest touch of it will surely cause sores on your head and pus to flow from your feet. At the same time, it will plant a secret seed, so you can't escape even if you have wings!"
If the persistent Fifth Elder knew that the fish thief he had been obsessed with was using leftover fish bones to ward off disaster in the alchemy furnace in his cave, he would probably spit out blood.
Bai Xiangtian stared blankly at the scene in front of him, then laughed, "Haha... Although I don't know where you got so many fish bones, you are not naive enough to think that a few broken bones can block the heat generated by the divine pattern on the inner wall of the alchemy furnace, right?"
But gradually, Bai Xiangtian was stunned again. He found something wrong. If it was an ordinary bone, it should have been burned into slag quickly. But after a while, the fish bones wrapped around Gu Xiaoxing turned red, but that was all. It seemed that they could really withstand the heat.
In the bone cocoon, Gu Xiaoxing's pressure was greatly reduced. Although he still felt very hot, he felt much more relaxed than before. These were of course not ordinary bones, but all the bones of spiritual fish. He still had a lot of such fish bones in his storage bag. After all, almost every one of the sixteen spiritual fish that were roasted was half a foot tall, so he had accumulated quite a lot.
"I've always wanted to get rid of it but never had the chance. I didn't expect it to be of great use here." Looking at the red-burned fish bones all around, Gu Xiaoxing sighed, feeling that he was a genius who made the best use of everything.
Suddenly, Gu Xiaoxing discovered that some dense milky white liquid beads rose from the red fish bones. Curious, he raised his hand and touched it lightly. The liquid beads actually merged into his fingers, and a cool feeling entered his fingers. Gu Xiaoxing suddenly felt that the finger seemed... a little stronger.
I was stunned and tried again. It turned out that those milky white liquid beads overflowing from the fish bones actually had the ability to strengthen the body!
However, Gu Xiaoxing did not know that the essence of the entire spirit fish was actually in the fish bones, especially the bone marrow in the spine, which was the essence of the essence and was a great medicine.
This was also the reason why the Fifth Elder was so angry. He had spent a huge amount of money to get these spirit fish, and they had been nourished with green lotus since the fry. Each one was a treasure, and he would only be willing to kill one when he was refining some extremely precious elixirs. Now that more than a dozen fish were gone, the Fifth Elder's heart was bleeding. Even at this moment, he was still thinking about catching the thief!
More and more liquid beads overflowed from the bones. These were the essences refined by the alchemy furnace. Gu Xiaoxing pulled them into himself, and it was like drinking nectar, bringing waves of coolness.
However, looking from the outside, the fish bones were burned red, like a fireball enveloping the lonely little star.
"So what is the use of the fish bone?" Bai Xiangtian curled his lips, looking puzzled. Wouldn't it be hotter being wrapped in such a big fireball?
Several more hours passed, and the fish bones floating around Gu Xiaoxing had been completely refined into dregs. The overflowing essence was completely absorbed. Then, with a wave of his hand, several more spirit fish corpses emerged...
"Are you crazy?" Bai Xiangtian was speechless. He was not feeling well at the moment because his spirit stones were about to be exhausted. He just hoped that when the second 49 hours passed, everything would be over.
But he was disappointed...
When the ninth day was about to end, the fifth elder had not returned. Finally, Bai Xiangtian's spirit stones were completely used up. When the tenth day passed quickly and the eleventh day arrived, his cultivation level was less than 10%.
At this moment, as the last fish bone beside him turned into residue, Gu Xiaoxing slowly opened his eyes. He no longer had the feeling of being in a sea of fire. It seemed that his body had undergone some qualitative change. He raised his hand and dissipated , using only his body to resist the heat. The horrifying heat passed through his palm, like the bright sun in July. It was no longer stinging, but instead hot and itchy. After adapting to it, he actually felt somewhat comfortable.
The next moment, Gu Xiaoxing concealed all his cultivation, and his clothes turned into ashes in an instant, but his skin was only slightly red, and he did not feel too uncomfortable. With a thought, he used his spiritual power to make clothes, which turned into a long robe. He shook his sleeves and said, "You are just a pill furnace, but you dare to think of refining me, Gu Xiaoxing!"
In this way, you can use your physical body alone to resist the heat once and for all, and you don't have to worry about the problem of exhausting your cultivation.
