Volume 4 Peach Blossom Chapter 39 Black and White (Part 1)
Lu Qingshan's sword-holding hand was shaking constantly and his forehead was covered in cold sweat.
There was a burning sensation in the meridians all over the body, the pain was unbearable, and the spiritual energy in the dantian was almost drained away.
The buzzing sound still echoed from the Dragon Sparrow Sword.
Zhentian had three swords in total, but just slashing out with one sword consumed ninety-nine percent of his spiritual power, and his physical body was already on the verge of collapse.
This is the load one needs to bear when performing the Zhentian technique.
He was breathing slightly.
The smoke dissipated, the flames disappeared, and everything returned to calm.
Rustling.
In the calm, an unusual sound came from above his head, and Lu Qingshan couldn't help but look up.
On the branches of the peach tree that almost covered the sky, the flower buds that had been hidden all this time suddenly twitched and grew.
Suddenly, a spring breeze came overnight.
The flower buds quickly enlarge and bloom.
In just a moment, pink peach blossoms are everywhere, as if you are in a sea of flowers, filled with fragrance.
But the person in the peach tree will never come back.
Mimi staggered to the bottom of the peach tree, tears constantly falling from her eyes.
It curled up into a ball, its body trembling, and muttered absentmindedly, "I was wrong, I was wrong, I was wrong... Come back, I will never run around again..."
Mimi cried like a child.
The price it had to pay for running away out of play this time was too heavy for it.
The self-blame and guilt in its heart made it unbearable and it was in excruciating pain.
Yaoyao's eyes were also red, with tears welling up in them, but she was trying hard to hold back the tears.
Yaoyao walked to Mimi and carefully touched her antlers with her deer antlers to comfort her. It seemed that this could slightly ease the pain in Mimi's heart.
The King of the Western Rat and Dahan felt very upset when they saw this scene, and they were silent.
Gululu——
A round storage ring with a metallic luster rolled all the way to the front of the King of Western Rat.
That was the storage ring of the Golden Snake Granny. As the Golden Snake Granny's body was torn into pieces, it flew out.
The King of Western Rat picked it up consciously and subconsciously checked the specific objects inside.
In addition to a wide variety of spiritual materials and poisons, there are also many jade slips.
The King of Western Rat flipped through it casually, and suddenly seemed to have discovered something, and his whole body trembled.
It held a slightly old jade slip in its claws, its expression was unclear, and its voice was trembling, "Lu Qingshan, look at this..."
When Lu Qingshan saw the expression on the face of the Western Rat King, he was stunned. He took the jade slip and probed his spiritual sense into it.
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In the 30th year of Yin Kui, the beginning of spring, the seventh day of the lunar month, this is my fifth year as a wizard. Today I finally broke through to the second level of Qi Refining.
The village chief said that my spiritual roots are ordinary and my aptitude for cultivation is average.
In this life, it is already very rare to be able to cultivate to the tenth level of Qi Refining like him.
I was a little depressed. Was it because my spiritual roots were not good enough that it would be useless no matter how hard I tried?
In the 30th year of Yin Kui's reign, at the beginning of spring, the moon was eighteen years old. I thought about this question for a long time and finally figured it out.
If one's spiritual roots are ordinary, hard work may not necessarily change anything, but without hard work, nothing will change.
From today on, I must practice hard to become the most powerful wizard the village has ever seen.
...even, the most powerful wizard in the history of the entire Spirit Snake Tribe!
In the thirtieth year of Yin Kui, the beginning of spring, the second year of the Buddhist monastic life, I found the village chief and asked him if he had any skills that did not value spiritual roots and could allow cultivators to quickly improve their cultivation.
The village chief said no, but his behavior was not right and he was secretive.
I know, there must be such a method!
I must ask the village chief for this technique.
In the 30th year of Yin Kui's reign, at the beginning of spring, Nian San asked the village chief for the technique, but to no avail.
In the 30th year of Yin Kui's reign, at the beginning of spring, Nian Si was thinking of seeking the method of cultivation, but to no avail.
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In the 30th year of Yin Kui's reign, at the beginning of spring, Nian Jiu sought to learn the martial arts method, but to no avail.
In the 30th year of Yin Kui's reign, at the beginning of spring, he recited the tenth sutra and sought to acquire the method of cultivation, but to no avail.
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In the 30th year of Yin Kui, the second day of the second lunar month, this technique may not really exist? The village chief is so kind to me and is not stingy with resources. If there really is such a technique, why would he not give it to me?
Forget it, I'll go see the village chief one last time. If there is still no result, I'll think of another way.
In the 30th year of Yin Kui, on the third day of the second lunar month, the martial arts technique really existed.
Yesterday, the village chief finally gave me the skills.
He also said that this technique was circulated in all the major villages in the five tribes, but few people practiced it.
Because this technique is called "The Poison Sutra", and it does not require hard practice. One only needs to take a deadly poison, which can be refined into spiritual power to quickly improve one's strength. Naturally, the level of one's spiritual roots is no longer important.
However, when practicing this technique, toxins in the body will continue to accumulate, and when they reach a certain critical point, they will instantly burst out.
According to the village chief, most of the cultivators who practice this technique can hardly survive for more than ten years. He told me not to act impulsively and to weigh the pros and cons carefully.
I am very hesitant and I need to think about it carefully.
In the thirtieth year of Yin Kui, the middle of spring, the sixth day of the first lunar month, my father passed away today.
Daddy is only thirty-seven years old this year, but because of the accumulation of toxins from the poisonous spirit flower, his body has decayed and his life span has declined prematurely.
Every villager in the village is like my father, few can live beyond the age of forty. The village chief said that beyond the three thousand mountains, there is a wider world.
There, humans can survive without taking the poisonous water soaked in the poisonous spirit flowers, so humans in the outside world can generally live to be over 60 years old.
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I figured it out. Instead of lingering on for twenty or thirty years and then dying from illness and poison, it is better to fight for ten years!
In the thirtieth year of Yin Kui, on the eighth day of the second lunar month, he began to delve into the art of poison and body cultivation.
Only a body that is strong enough can withstand more toxins, and only those who are well versed in poison techniques can refine highly poisonous substances and take them, and... only then can they expel the toxins accumulated from practicing the "Evil Poison Sutra".
In the thirtieth year of Yin Kui's reign, in late spring, on the fifth day of his fifteenth month, he formally began to practice the "Evil Poison Sutra" and took the first poison: peacock gall.
Peacock gall, also known as blister beetle, will cause muscle ulcers if it comes into contact with humans. It is very toxic.
It was very painful. After taking the peacock gall, my body felt like it was on fire and being cut by a knife. Countless red bumps appeared on my body. I felt a little regretful.
But after refining these poisons, I actually broke through to the third level of Qi Refining.
It's all worth it!
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In the 30th year of Yin Kui, in the middle of autumn, on the 7th day of the twelfth month, he broke through the fourth level of Qi Refining...
In the 30th year of Yin Kui, in late autumn, Nian San, ... broke through the fifth level of Qi Refining...
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In the 30th year of Yin Kui, on the third day of the winter month, after practicing the Evil Poison Sutra, in just eight months, I broke through five levels in a row and reached the sixth level of Qi Refining.
The village chief advised me that even those few monks who had tried to practice the Evil Poison Sutra would wait at least two or three months between taking poisons. Few were like me, who took poison continuously as if I was risking my life.
If this goes on, we won’t be able to survive even three years, let alone ten years.
In fact, I have already noticed something. Now, every midnight, I will feel a sharp . I must find a way to expel the toxins accumulated in my body.
In the thirty-first year of Yin Kui's reign, at the beginning of spring, it was the sixth lunar month. By refining elixirs, he was indeed able to expel some toxins, but at the same time he had to stop practicing the Evil Poison Sutra, and his progress in practice had been stuck in a bottleneck for a long time.
I will leave the village tomorrow and go to the mountains to see if I can find some suitable elixirs to make more powerful elixirs.
It’s the thirty-first year of Yin Kui’s reign, the beginning of spring, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. I still can’t believe what happened today.
Today I went into the mountains to look for elixirs to make pills, but the toxins accumulated in my body suddenly erupted unexpectedly.
The price of practicing the Evil Poison Sutra seemed to be coming. The severe pain from my dantian made me faint on the spot. Before I lost the last bit of consciousness, I even thought that I would never wake up.
But I finally woke up, and when I woke up, a silver-white deer demon was standing next to me.
Her golden antlers were sparkling, and a strong vitality was surging towards me from the antlers. The toxins that had been accumulated in my body for a long time and were difficult to expel were all melted away by this vitality. Even the poison from the poisonous spirit flower dissipated!
The deer demon took one last look at me, then quickly turned and left, disappearing into the mountains and forests, and could never be found again.
