allendalepharm Chapter 6 The Ruthless Rich Woman's Fleece is Really Sweet
Chapter 6 The Ruthless Rich Woman's Fleece is Really Sweet
"Crack!"
Juice splashed everywhere, and the moment the fruit melted in his mouth, Pang Bo's eyes widened suddenly. A warm sensation rose from his abdomen, running up his limbs and straight to the top of his head.
"Wow! This...this is even more potent than the best ginseng soup from the great tombs of the Warring States period!"
Pang Bo's body was enveloped in a faint red glow, his joints cracked, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
In less than three minutes, the sweat turned into a grayish-black filth that emitted a pungent, fishy stench.
Seeing this, Ye Fan no longer hesitated and put the sacred fruit into his mouth.
His reaction was more intense than Pompeo's.
A golden light flashed across the body and disappeared in an instant, so fast that it was almost impossible to catch.
At the same time, a strange light flashed deep within his eyes—as if something that had been dormant for a long time had turned over.
Li Xian witnessed all of this.
The ancient sacred body begins to awaken, and the path to becoming the Heavenly Emperor begins from here.
"Alright, you two stay here and keep watch."
Li Xian got up, clapped his hands, picked the remaining eleven sacred fruits, carefully wrapped them in a plastic bag, and stuffed them into his satchel:
"I'll keep the fruit for now and distribute it to you tomorrow."
"I'm tired now, I'm going to take a bath."
"Aren't you going to eat one?" Pang Bo asked, wiping the filth off his body, his eyes wide.
"No rush, I have other uses for it."
Li Xian turned and walked inside.
Small trees surround a one-meter square spring, from which the water gurgles.
The sacred mountain and divine spring in the desolate forbidden land are the source of the elixir of immortality, a rare sight throughout history, and only a ruthless rich woman like herself could be so wealthy and generous.
Spring water gushes out from inside the mountain, crystal clear, and every drop contains a spiritual energy.
Without hesitation, Li Xian took off her coat and shoes and lay down directly in the spring water.
The cool spring water washes over my waist and abdomen, and spiritual energy seeps into my body through my pores, silently yet powerfully.
The sea of bitterness, the size of a sesame seed, began to expand under the influence of spiritual energy.
Slow, but steady.
Li Xian closed his eyes and sensed the life essence surging within, further extracting impurities from his mortal body.
He took the broken monk's knife from his satchel and sank the whole thing into the sea of suffering.
The Heaven-Mending Immortal Scripture, consisting of several hundred characters, circulated within his sea of consciousness.
A faint, ethereal aura emanated from the depths of the Sea of Bitterness, enveloping the dagger and beginning to repair the cracked lines and curled edges.
The repair speed is extremely slow.
The fragments of the immortal scripture were ultimately just a record of the method to repair the immortal realm. The power it could mobilize was limited. The damaged blade was not fully restored, and the Buddhist energy did not reappear. Instead, it gained a layer of dark purple light.
Half an hour later.
Li Xian opened his eyes and looked down into his body.
The sea of bitterness swelled from the size of a sesame seed to the size of a grain of rice.
enough.
It's not that the sea of suffering can't be bigger, but that the mortal body has reached its limit.
Continuing to feed him is not spiritual practice, it's self-destruction.
The sea of suffering, the size of a grain of rice, represents the upper limit for ordinary cultivators in the Big Dipper realm.
Only those exceptionally talented individuals, like holy sons and holy daughters, can reach the size of a bowl in the Sea of Bitterness.
To expand further, besides continuing to break through realms and gradually evolve the body, the only option is to use rare medicines as fuel to attempt a transformation and open the hidden 'doors' within the body.
After leaving the Divine Spring, Li Xian took out the Bodhi branch and the ashes of the Bodhi Calamity one by one and stored them in the Sea of Bitterness.
After the ashes and branches entered the Sea of Bitterness, they sank to the bottom of the sea, where a faint green hue flowed, intertwining with the essence of life to form a strange balance.
Then came the eleven red sacred fruits and the spring water that filled the room.
Finally, Li Xian walked to a branch of the Nine Wonders Immortal Medicine, squatted down, observed for a moment, and then reached out and folded off a branch about the thickness of a thumb.
The sapling emitted a soft yet clear hum.
A few drops of golden sap seeped from the broken branch, carrying an extremely strong medicinal fragrance.
Li Xian sent the branch into the sea of suffering.
The moment the branch entered the sea, the tiny sea of bitterness trembled violently, then returned to calm.
"Using the sea of suffering as a warehouse, it's the first of its kind in the world of 'Covering the Sky'."
Li Xian clapped his hands in satisfaction.
Storage jade bottles and boxes were beyond the reach of a mortal cultivator who had just entered the Sea of Wheels realm. However, the Sea of Bitterness itself was an independent space within a cultivator's body, and with precise control, it was more than enough to store a few items.
The cost is that the more you stuff into the sea of suffering, the lower your cultivation efficiency, because a portion of your vital energy must be used to maintain and store it.
It doesn't matter.
These are all top-tier, non-renewable resources; it would be a crime not to save them.
After finishing packing, Li Xian straightened her bag and looked at Ye Fan and Pang Bo.
Pang Bo was full of energy and twirled the bronze plaque above his head twice.
Ye Fan sat quietly on the edge of the stone platform, gazing at the distant mountains, lost in thought.
"Old Ye, do you feel something inside your body right now?"
Li Xian walked over and sat down next to him:
"Like a sea, small, but definitely there."
Ye Fan turned to look at him, his gaze changing slightly.
"good."
That's called the Sea of Bitterness.
Li Xian raised one finger:
"The first step in cultivation is the Sea of Wheels Secret Realm. Simply put, it is to open up the Sea of Suffering in the body and pour in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. When it is full, the quantitative change leads to the qualitative change, and the life spring will be born at the bottom of the sea—that is the source of the cultivator's power."
"Beyond the Spring of Life is the Divine Bridge, which crosses the sea to reach the other shore. Only after passing through the four realms of the Sea of Wheels can one be considered to have entered the gate. Above that are the Dao Palace, the Four Extremes, the Dragon Transformation, and the Immortal Platform—five great secret realms, each of which is further divided into several levels—"
"Wait a minute," Pang Bo interjected, "Is everything you're saying written in your 'guide'?"
"right."
Pang Bo opened his mouth, as if to say something, but in the end only three words came out:
"That's awesome."
Ye Fan remained silent, lowering his gaze to sense the faint yet real sea of suffering within his body.
After a moment, he looked up and said, word by word:
"Immortal, who exactly are you?"
Li Xian tilted her head.
"Your best and closest buddy, who else could it be?"
Ye Fan stared at him for three seconds, exhaled, shook his head, and didn't ask any further questions.
Li Xian stood up and gestured for the two to fetch some divine spring water, which would speed up the opening of the Sea of Bitterness.
"What? Use the old immortal's bathwater?"
Pang Bo shouted, "I can't accept this!"
"Listen to the immortals, you can't go wrong!"
Ye Fan is very pragmatic, able to take things on and let them go, and not very skilled at using the Bitter Sea to store divine spring water.
The two had just opened up a sea of suffering, and the spring water they drew was less than one percent of Li Xian's, but it was a rare and great opportunity, far exceeding the opportunities that should have been in the original story.
"I'm gone."
"Where to?" Pang Bo asked.
"go out."
Li Xian rummaged through her bag and filled a mineral water bottle with some spring water:
"We can't stay in this forbidden area for long. There are some unreasonable things inside, especially at night—"
Before he could finish speaking...
A very low tremor came from the ground beneath my feet.
It's not the loosening of the land, but a kind of rhythmic pulsation.
Once, twice, three times.
Like a heartbeat.
But the frequency was too slow and the force too strong, causing the entire sacred mountain to sway slightly with each strike.
Ye Fan suddenly stood up, his expression changing drastically. He sensed a shared aura that made him feel close, yet he still couldn't help but tremble.
Pang Bo's smile froze; this was a difference in their levels of life.
The source of that pulsation—comes from beneath our feet, from the abyss surrounded by nine sacred mountains.
At the bottom of the abyss, something has awakened.