Asura Mad Emperor

"What is a little pain? As a cultivator, what kind of hardship can I not withstand, what kind of pain can I not endure?"

"Xi'er, though a woman, has a will of steel. What does a bit of minor pain amount to?"

Seeing that Zhou Xi was unharmed, Gu Chuan relaxed, but upon hearing Qinchuan's reminder, he couldn't help sneering, unconcerned.

Zhou Xi couldn't help but open her beautiful eyes to glance at Qinchuan, her eyebrows slightly knit together. How little did this man think of her?

As a cultivator, how could she be overwhelmed by such trivial pain?

That he would even come to specifically remind her, in her view, was nothing short of belittlement, and she couldn't help feeling a surge of frustration in her heart as she said, "Thank you for the reminder, but it's just a little pain. I can take it!"

She increased the speed at which her True Qi circulated, hastening the refining of the Chi Yang Pill.

Shortly after, the medicinal power of the Chi Yang Pill fully dissolved, and a scorching aura merged with the chill poison in her body, resulting in an unprecedented agony. It felt like all of her eight extraordinary meridians were about to burst, as if her entire body were being torn into fragments.

"Ah..."

She began with deeply furrowed brows, followed by a twisted face, and finally, unable to bear it any longer, she screamed out loud, nearly fainting from the pain.

Beads of sweat broke out on her forehead as two opposing forces, Taiyin and Chi Yang, struggled within her body, turning it into a battlefield, rampaging and leaping wildly. The pain she experienced was more excruciating than having her bones scraped and heart pierced.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"Xi'er, Xi'er..."

Witnessing this, Elder Gu Chuan's expression drastically changed as he saw Zhou Xi writhing in pain, her head dripping with cold sweat, her eyes losing their luster, looking like she was about to faint.

"Qinchuan, didn't you say it was just a bit of pain?!"

Gu Chuan looked at Qinchuan with reddened eyes.

Qinchuan frowned slightly, "Is it that painful? I thought it was just a bit sore. After all, I am not the one with the Taiyin True Meridian. I can't feel such pain anyway. It's really a relief."

"..."

Hearing Qinchuan's words, Gu Chuan's veins bulged with irritation.

Zhou Xi, upon hearing this, almost fainted on the spot. Damn this bastard!

Staring at him with wide-open eyes, she couldn't understand why, but a strong urge welled up within her, an urge to go up and bite this bastard!

"Come on, hang in there. As cultivators, we should be able to endure pain that ordinary people cannot bear, to suffer hardships that ordinary people cannot stand, to possess an unyielding will. What is a little pain, after all?"

Qinchuan said with a teasing smile.

"You... Bastard!"

Zhou Xi's face turned red with rage as she spoke.

This bastard was clearly mocking her.

After enduring for half an hour, Zhou Xi finally felt the pain inside her subside.

The place where she had been sitting cross-legged was thoroughly soaked, and there was a puddle on the ground. Well, it should just be sweat.

When the pain had completely vanished, Zhou Xi felt as if she was about to collapse from exhaustion.

"Xi'er, how are you?"

Gu Chuan hurried over, asking anxiously.

After taking a low-grade Spirit Revitalizing Pill and recovering some True Qi, Zhou Xi sensed carefully and her phoenix eyes brightened, "My meridians have recovered, and circulating True Qi no longer causes any pain!"

She was overjoyed.

The accumulated chill poison inside her body had been dispersed by the medicinal power of the Chi Yang Pill.

She stood up, her skirt stained wet, but she was oblivious as she said to Qinchuan, "Thank you."

Qinchuan looked indifferent, "Your internal illness has been removed. However, if you do not transform your Taiyin True Meridian into a true Taiyin Treasured Body, as your Cultivation Realm improves in the future, the previous illness will recur."

"I, Qinchuan, am a man of my word. Since I promised to help you completely resolve the issue with your Taiyin True Meridian and aid you in transforming it into a Taiyin Treasured Body, I will not go back on my word."

"However, to transform the Taiyin True Meridian into a complete Taiyin Treasured Body, it is necessary to replenish the Innate Qi."

"Some medicinal ingredients are needed as support. Here is the list."

Qinchuan snapped his fingers, and a list shot into mid-air.

Gu Chuan quickly captured it in his hand and scanned it thoroughly.

"Innate Ganoderma, Xuanyin Spirit Wood, Silkworm Leaves..."

The extensive list of medicinal ingredients slightly furrowed Gu Chuan's brows, and he looked up at Qinchuan, saying, "Qinchuan, aside from the Innate Ganoderma and the Xuanyin Spirit Wood being high-rank spiritual medicines, the rest are quite common ingredients and low-rank spiritual medicines. Are you certain that these can help Xi'er replenish her Innate Qi?"

Gu Chuan felt somewhat skeptical.

Because replenishing the Innate Qi was something he had only ever heard of.

In his view, helping Zhou Xi replenish her Innate Qi and completing the transformation of her Taiyin True Meridian into a Taiyin Treasured Body must be an incredibly grand endeavor. How could it be simple?

Even if it required the consumption of exceedingly precious Heavenly Treasures Materials, he would not find it excessive.

But now, the most valuable ingredients on the list were merely two high-rank spiritual medicines, and they were not even the particularly prized and rare kind.

The other ingredients were even more ordinary, common medicines that were nothing like Heavenly Treasures Materials.

Could such simple, ordinary ingredients truly have the effect of replenishing Innate Qi?

Elder Liu snatched the list of ingredients from Gu Chuan, gave it a glance, and also furrowed his brow, his gaze towards Qinchuan filled with similar doubt.

After that, he lowered his head to seriously correlate the ingredients, attempting to deduce something from them, but his frown deepened still further.

Because, as far as he could see, many of these ingredients had little to no connection with each other, and some of them simply couldn't be used together in a mixture.

"Just prepare these ingredients for now, and I will return to you a Taiyin Treasured Body," said Qinchuan, yawning, too lazy to waste words with them.

"You..." Elder Liu still wanted to say something, but suddenly, his expression froze, and his gaze fixated on Qin Xiaoyu by Qinchuan's side.

Qin Xiaoyu appeared to be coveting a treat, and while everyone was talking, she surreptitiously opened the cork of the porcelain pill bottle in her hand, one size larger than the others.

In an instant, a round and lustrous Spirit Pill emanating wavering glows rose slowly from the pill bottle and landed in Qin Xiaoyu's hand.

The rich fragrance of the pill immediately filled the entire side hall.

Qin Xiaoyu hastily tossed the Elixir into her mouth like a piece of candy, then quickly replaced the cork, preventing the few Spirit Pills that had risen behind it from escaping back into the bottle.

"..."

Everyone in the hall had a dazed expression, with all eyes falling on Qin Xiaoyu.

Feeling the sudden silence in the hall, with the Spirit Pill puffing out one side of her face, Qin Xiaoyu's bright and lively eyes darted around at the various elders and Wu Tian. She quickly crunched the pill in her mouth and swallowed it as if indeed munching on a sweet.

She hadn't yet begun to cultivate and couldn't refine the pill's efficacy with True Qi, so she had to wait for the effects to manifest on their own.

Wu Tian and the elders, witnessing this, all twitched in unison.

Spirit Pill!

That was definitely a Spirit Pill!

That little girl, what she just ate was definitely a Spirit Pill!

And it was a top-grade Spirit Pill!

The corner of everyone's eyes started twitching uncontrollably.