Harboring a stray thought, Li Qingshan closed his eyes and slowly sank into the hot spring. Even the scorching hot spring water could not cover the warmth of the delicate body in his arms. A warm current surged in his heart, far surpassing that insignificant little desire. Sleeping with their necks intertwined, time seemed to freeze at this moment, and they were indeed looking forward to it.
Until a sudden clap of thunder passed through the thick earth and rocks, Li Qingshan suddenly opened his eyes. This was no ordinary thunder, but someone was going through a tribulation. The thunder contained the power of heaven, and he reckoned that it was the second tribulation. Could it be Ru Xin?
"Let's go out and take a look!"
With a splash, Li Qingshan carried Little Ann and jumped out of the spring. With one hand, he picked up the clothes on the ground, and with the other, he lifted her long hair. Without the long hair and water covering her, her beautiful figure was fully revealed. Li Qingshan's breath paused for a moment, and he did not shy away from admiring her for a while before continuing to dress her.
Little Ann stretched her arms and put her hands into her sleeves, enjoying his care.
The moment Li Qingshan helped her put on her clothes and fastened her belt, he actually felt a hint of reluctance. It was like covering a pearl with a piece of cloth, covering up this alluring beauty. However, when he thought about it again, the pearl belonged to him, so he came to an understanding.
"And shoes." Little Ann lifted her slender feet and shook them, a smile on her face.
"You really know how to enjoy yourself!" Li Qingshan squatted down and held one of her slender feet. They were so full that they could not bear to be held in one hand, and the light pink cardamom dot on her feet was unexpectedly beautiful. He could not help but play with it, and a bell-like laughter rang in his ears. He then helped her put on her shoes and socks.
"This should be fine, right?" Li Qingshan was about to put on his clothes, but Little Ann stopped him, and said with a smile, "I'll let you enjoy yourself too."
Instead, she turned around and began to serve him, but her actions were indescribably gentle and delicate, tidying up his clothes meticulously. Looking at her serious expression, Li Qingshan also felt at peace. While putting on his shoes, she secretly tickled the soles of his feet. Before he could laugh, she laughed first.
When they returned to Ba Huang Palace, Little Ann did not follow Li Qingshan out to watch the Heavenly Tribulation. Instead, he stayed behind to cultivate. Li Qingshan had already sensed that the person undergoing the tribulation was not Ru Xin. He went out to take a look, but it was the matriarch of a certain clan of night roamers. After so many years of arduous cultivation, she had finally made it to this step.
Bolts of heavenly lightning shuttled through the void and bombarded a dark shadow. Although the process was rather thrilling, with the advantage of being a mutant and the many years of accumulation, he managed to survive the second heavenly tribulation without any mishaps.
As a result, Li Qingshan gave her a dwelling on the main peak of Savage Mountain, as well as some pills. With Ye Mingzhu as an example, the mistress was very respectful. After thanking Li Qingshan for his reward, she returned to her cave abode to recuperate.
"Looks like I'll still need some time!" Li Qingshan glanced at Ru Xin's dwelling. He did not disturb her. He gave some instructions to Ye Liusu before returning to the Ba Huang Palace.
Several months later, the Myriad Poison Ancestor arrived before the Ba Huang Palace and reported to Li Qingshan. Ru Xin's plan to refine viruses had already reached a certain level, but she still needed to undergo the second heavenly tribulation and raise her plague ghost to another realm before she could actually carry it out. As a result, she entered secluded cultivation.
"She told me to pass this bottle of medicine to the king." The Myriad Poison Ancestor offered up a small jade bottle.
"What's the medicine in here made of?"
Li Qingshan held the small jade bottle. It was all thanks to Ru Xin's medicine that balanced water and fire that he could comprehend the second innate ability of the phoenix at a critical moment this time. Otherwise, he would have taken a very long time to be reborn, and he would not have been able to merge with the demon heart.
"There are many materials used in this medicine. They're not particularly precious, but in my opinion, the most important ingredient is her heart blood."
"Heart blood!"
Li Qingshan seemed surprised, but he also seemed to understand.
The heart blood the Myriad Poison Ancestor mentioned obviously did not mean she had spent her heart blood, nor was it simply the blood of her heart.
The heart was the dwelling of the soul, the master of the blood, the master of the meridians. It was extremely important to cultivators. Heart blood was also known as essence blood. During critical moments in battle, they would often bite the tip of their tongue and spray a mouthful of essence blood onto an arcane treasure or arcane artifact, which would greatly increase their power and turn the tables. However, it would also take quite a lot of damage to their cultivation. It could even lead to death.
If he had guessed correctly, her talent was even greater than regular otherfolk's, and she practised a supreme cultivation method like the Heavenly Tome of Cloud Furnace, yet she still could not undergo the tribulation until now. Li Qingshan could not help but sigh inside. Although I've provided her with a lot of assistance in her cultivation, I've also dragged down her cultivation before I knew it. She clearly harbors a deep grievance that she can't let go of, but she'd rather fall out with me than let me take the risk with her. Why must she do this?
After getting the Myriad Poison Ancestor to continue practising the Scripture of the Poison Assimilating Ghost King, Li Qingshan returned to the hall.
The Samādhi Flames of White Bone that were as transparent as glass basically filled the entire hall. There were twisted faces of Bone Eating shamans in there, but at a closer glance, there were only transparent, white flames. It seemed like it was all an illusion.
Little Ann sat in the flames. Her flesh and blood had become transparent too, almost to the point of nothingness. A set of shiny, white bones was clearly visible. Skeleton Demons danced around him, clanging their teeth together like they were singing a terrifying ballad, but it was vaguely filled with zen.
A dragon's cry swam through the flames. Clearly, Little Ann had also integrated the Chant of Deva-Nāga into her cultivation of the Path of White Bone and Great Beauty.
Li Qingshan stared at her for a very long time before shrugging helplessly in the end. He sat down and watched over her.
It was said that the sight of great beauty reduced to white bones could make ordinary people understand that beneath the beautiful skin was terrifying white bones, and that all forms of beauty were nothing but an illusion.
Unfortunately, when he looked at her white bones, he felt a sense of familiarity and fondness from the bottom of his heart. He did not feel any fear at all. He felt like every single bone gave off a different sense of beauty.
It had to be mentioned that his sense of beauty had always been very problematic. He had always felt like his original form as a daemon was even more domineering and cool than the handsome North Moon or the robust Li Qingshan. He was tempted to maintain his original form as a daemon and run around the land, between the mountains, naked!
He had thought about it seriously before. Once he no longer had to hide his identity and settle all his grievances, he would set off from the coast of the South sea, pass through the nine provinces, and rush to the Frost province!
Haha, everyone in the world will be dumbfounded if that happens! Am I a freak? No, rather than calling it a freak, you might as well call it a feeling of realising myself. Don't tell me I'm a freak? Forget it, I don't care what it is, as long as it's me.
Li Qingshan agreed with Qiong Qi in some aspects. Calculating the pros and cons with pure rationality and constantly seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages would certainly lead to long-term success. But if everyone did the same, then what difference would there be between him and others?
Punishing evil and promoting good would also allow him to receive kindness from kind-hearted people and obtain a good reputation, forming a real trend. But what could he get by punishing good and promoting evil? Since evil people were evil people, they certainly did not know how to repay kindness. This was completely a kind of behaviorism without the slightest benefit. It was just to satisfy one's interests and challenge the conventions. It was simply like a naughty and willful child, but it contained a free and unrestrained self.
In the "Water Margin" that he had read in his previous life, the opening chapter named the true nature of the one hundred and eight heroes — the one hundred and eight Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends suppressed in the Demon Subduing Hall. Among them, there were those who killed people and ate their hearts, and there were also those who used violence to fight violence. They seemed to be very different, but there was no difference in essence. Whether it was good or evil, the wanton acts that had transcended rationality were just the word "demon".
The reason why it could be passed down and praised by the people was because it portrayed the demonic nature in great detail. It allowed people to bring a hero into the book to do things that they normally couldn't do and didn't dare to do. They could say that they were happy!
"The" demonic and divine "in the" Nine Transformations of the Demonic and Divine "are not just good and evil! The spirit turtle focuses on longevity and does not get involved in right and wrong, while the phoenix cherishes its feathers. Even if it doesn't do evil intentionally, it won't have the heroic spirit to stand up for injustice. "
Various thoughts flashed through Li Qingshan's head. He gained a deeper understanding of the "Nine Transformations of the Demonic and Divine".
At the same time, Ru Xin removed all her clothes and sat in the Jade Melting cauldron. Her entire body shone with the lustre of jade. After ingesting a precious ten-year Virtue Accumulation pill, she powered the Jade Melting cauldron and refined herself like a pill. Then she used the Heavenly Tome of Cloud Furnace to form a cloud furnace in her body to refine the Virtue Accumulation pill.
Alchemy focused on fire and water complementing each other. The Jade Melting cauldron spewed out water and fire. With a twist of her hands, she drew the water and fire into her palms. They actually fused together in a wondrous manner, turning into a cloud of fire that gradually spread over and swallowed her body.
The power of water and fire actually surged out from the cloud furnace in her body as well, and it was much purer than the water and fire from the Jade Melting cauldron. They fused together naturally, rapidly refining the Virtue Accumulation pill.
Let alone regular cultivators, even if they could, they could not do it like this. The violent effects of the pill immediately filled her limbs and bones. Even her body, which had turned into tough jade, almost exploded from the overload.
There was no doubt that such a method of cultivation would require great pain. However, it was as if she had truly become an unconscious jade. Her expression did not change at all, and only her eyelashes trembled slightly.
She was multitasking, controlling the Jade Melting cauldron to suppress the effects of the pill from the outside. At the same time, she used the Heavenly Tome of Cloud Furnace to refine her body while refining the Virtue Accumulation pill. At the same time, she had to balance the power of water and fire inside her body. She did not hesitate to push the speed of her cultivation to the extreme.
If she was not careful, there would be the danger of the cauldron exploding. If that happened, it would not only be the Jade Melting cauldron that would explode, but the cloud furnace in her body would also explode. This was not because she was in a hurry to break through the second heavenly tribulation, but because she had to take a risk to cultivate the Heavenly Tome of Cloud Furnace.
The history of the Nine States was vast. The Heavenly Tome of Cloud Furnace was not the only high-level cultivation method that had been passed down from beyond the heavens. The reason why it had not been passed down was that cultivators treated it like a treasure and refused to pass it on to others. It was also because the difficulty of cultivating it was not just ordinarily high, but also because the requirements for talent were not just ordinarily high. Even if one's talent was lucky enough to meet the requirements and overcome all difficulties, it was still extremely risky. It was unknown how many geniuses had died on this path.
She did not know if Chu Tian had noticed something when she was saving him, but the Heavenly Tome of Cloud Furnace was extremely compatible with her. Her progress in cultivation was very fast. Of course, it was also thanks to the vast amount of resources that Li Qingshan had provided. Just the ten-year Virtue Accumulation pill that she had obtained from the Ten Thousand Poison Order was something that could only be encountered by chance.
There was no time in the cave. The sun and moon shuttled back and forth, and time flew by. She did not know how much time had passed.
A thunderous sound came from the distant horizon. She opened her eyes.
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