H. Chapter 05
City Lord's Mansion, Blazing Parasol City:
Inside a large room with luxurious and impressive decorations, the city lord Yao Shi is in a sulky mood after listening to his assistant's report.
He is a tall and muscular man in his mid-twenties with a long face and a crooked nose. He became the city lord of the blazing parasol city with a strong support from his family.
Yao Shi lusted for and pestered Su Meifeng to marry him. When she refused, he made it difficult for Su family, he pushed them to the edge. He made his followers spread Su Meifeng name as his fiancée and future wife. No men in the city dared to look at Su Meifeng from then on.
Who knew, when everything was going his way, he faced a big setback. A month and a half ago, Lan Yue, a Core disciple of Phoenix Jade palace, showed up in his city.
And with her involvement, the situation is in a deadlock.
With Lan Yue as backing, Su Meifeng proclaimed that she would never marry him.
And now rumours are spreading around the city that she is in a relationship with an ordinary person who is not even a cultivator. Although those rumours fell silent. It was true that Su Meifeng met with a person secretly.
He felt it as a great humiliation.
"You are saying, Su Meifeng met with a man once again?", Yao Shi narrowed his brows and asked. His tone was full of anger.
"Yes, city lord. The secret guard saw her talking to a man in the forest." The assistant replied quickly. He didn't want to anger the city lord with the news he received, but he had to deliver the news to avoid any punishment.
"Did Su Meifeng really fall in love with that guy? Or is she putting on a show? Are the rumours valid? What did the guard see?" Yao Shi asked him through gritted teeth.
"The man was covering his face when the guard was observing them. When he followed him, he saw her going towards the place where Miss Lan was staying." The assistant said.
"Is he follower of Miss Lan? Don't deal with him. The next the guards encounter them meeting, let him be careful to not be discovered. I can't deal with that bitch, and now I can't deal with her lover." Yao Shi said with anger and humiliation flashing in his eyes. "Try to find all the information about that man. Everything! I don't believe Miss Lan can save him all the time."
"Yes, city lord." The assistant immediately left to follow the orders of the city lord.
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At this moment:
After dinner, rather than dozing off straight away as usual, Liu Ye started cultivating.
Usually he would continue reading till midnight or right after dinner, he would climb onto the bed and fall into a deep slumber.
But today he is cultivating to get familiar with the changes taking place in his body and to break into a higher stage in the Body Tempering realm. Due to his body constitution transforming into Pure Jade body, his body is acting on its own and slowly starting to absorb qi from the surroundings involuntarily. The Qi in the surrounding is constantly strengthening his meridians, bones, flesh, internal and external organs.
Pure Jade body is a formidable physique with its unique way in the path of cultivation. To maintain a flawless state, his cultivation requires him to absorb a large amount of qi and consume many resources. The resources he requires are generally higher than other ordinary cultivators of the same realm.
He sat down to cultivate inside a small spirit gathering formation. He took a low grade pill to improve his health from his storage space. The Qi absorbed helped him to improve his health along with the medicinal pill. The spirit gathering formation on the floor on the ground was formed using high-grade spirit crystals. This small formation assists him through gathering a large amount of Qi and this helps in speeding up the process of changes in his body.
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These pills and spirit crystals he gathered are all from his past life. The system makes the pills. They are of better quality than the one's made by the alchemists.
After more than an hour, the paleness of his skin decreased and his skin started to look a lot better.
He drank a body tempering potion and, held a high-grade spirit crystal in his hands and started focusing on his cultivation.
"Is he going to use all of his high-grade spirit crystals at once?" Qin Jia, who was about to start cultivating, was surprised when she saw this scene.
Liu Ye sat inside a small spirit gathering formation made of high-grade spirit crystals. The spiritual energy around Liu Ye is highly concentrated. It is clearly visible inside the small formation. And Liu Ye's body is absorbing the spiritual energy in large amounts.
Although this amount is nothing in Qin Jia's eyes, but he knew about Liu Ye's health condition, he can't cultivate because of his weak body condition. He has Death Qi within his body that obstructs his progress in cultivation. With several rare resources, his family could only manage to maintain his life.
But now Qin Jia saw Liu Ye in an obvious healthier shape different from an hour ago. He saw him cultivating Qi, absorbing the Qi enthusiastically using a high-grade spirit crystal.
What is more confusing is where he got those many high-grade spirit crystals.
All the medicinal herbs, pills, and spirit crystals belonging to them are with him, in his space ring.
And those high-grade spirit crystals around him, she has only tens of them with her.
That's a precious resource for cultivation. Only rich people can have the chance to use them for cultivation. Ordinary cultivators might not even get a chance to see them in their lifetime. He subconsciously checked her space ring and everything is in there according to her memory.
What's more, Liu Ye's personal storage bag to store all the spiritual herbs were with him for safekeeping.
Liu Ye can't carry these high-grade spirit crystals with him in his herbs sack. With the energy from the spirit crystals constantly affecting its surroundings, cultivators around him could easily perceive the aura, and then he would be in trouble.
He put down the thought of meditation and continued to observe him. He was curious about the situation.
"Huh!" Qin Jia was shocked. He could see the transformation of Liu Ye's body and feel his body strength increasing gradually.
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Liu Ye's body is absorbing the Qi from the surroundings and high-grade spirit crystals. His physique is undergoing changes, transforming, becoming stronger every second.
As this process continued, Liu Ye was stepping towards Body Tempering realm. From then, he can truly take a step into cultivation.
Liu Ye is immersed in cultivation, and he is constantly checking the changes in his body.
He could feel his weak and thin meridians enlarging in size and getting sturdier. His bones slowly became harder and firmer. His organs and muscles become healthier and stronger.
With the absorption of Qi, the speed of body constitution transforming into the Pure Jade body physique became faster.
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After just half an hour, Liu Ye's physique completely changed and his body transformation completed. His skin had a soft radiance and within his body, changes took place to his skeleton, dantian and meridians. He had a healthy and youthful look.
He took out another body tempering potion and drank it.
And then he started to feel extreme pain all over his body.
With Qi flowing into his body, his meridians and dantian became tough, bones became harder and the surface of his bones became smooth.
His muscles slightly grew in size, and they seemed to be filled with energy.
Body tempering realm 1st layer!
With the transformation of his physique and Qi constantly strengthening his body, Liu Ye entered into the first layer of the Body tempering realm.